Configuring the TeX Live 2004-2006 installation on Windows in 5 steps; $Id: tlpm.winconf 218 2007-01-09 18:21:14Z tlu $ Staszek Wawrykiewicz (staw at gust.org.pl, 13.02.2005) This document tries to describe in short the most important steps to configure TeX Live 2004-2006, installed on Windows using the TLPM program by Pawe{\l} Jackowski (or manually, for bold people). 1. After installation from the TeX Live CD/DVD, the most important thing is to set some environment variables. How to do that depends on the Windows version used, e.g., for Windows 9x it is enough to add the following lines into c:\autoexec.bat file and restart the system REM addapt the next line to YOUR TLroot directory set TLroot=c:\TeXLive set PATH=%TLroot%\bin\win32;%PATH% set TEXMFCNF=%TLroot%\texmf-var\web2c set PERL5LIB=%TLroot%\xemtex\perl\lib;%TLroot%\xemtex\perl\site\lib set GS_LIB=%TLroot%\xemtex\gslib;%TLroot%\xemtex\gsfonts For Windows NT/2K/XP the procedure is somehow less straightforward. Click left on Start->Settings->Control Panel. Now the window with the control panel icons opens. Double click on "System". The "System Properties" window opens. Click on the tab "Environment" or look for a button named "Environment Variables" among the dialog boxes. Now you can change the environment variables for your user account (or system wide variables when you have administrator rights on your machine). Hint: Having opened this readme file in any text editor (like Notepad) you can copy-paste the variable names and their values from the above example. Please adapt first TLroot value to the directory where you installed TeX Live. Windows NT/2K/XP versions for some reasons also need setting of one more variable: TEXMFTEMP=%TLroot%\temp Do not forget to create this subdirectory by hand! 2. As we need the texmf-var directory for (some) configuration files, formats, etc., this is good time to do it right now. Please apply the following batch file (should work for all Windows versions): --- mktexvar.bat --<-- cut here REM addapt the following line to the absolute directory cd %TLroot% md texmf-var cd texmf-var md web2c copy ..\texmf\web2c\texmf.cnf web2c\*.* copy ..\texmf\web2c\fmtutil.cnf web2c\*.* attrib -R web2c\texmf.cnf attrib -R web2c\fmtutil.cnf md tex cd tex md generic cd generic md config cd config copy ..\..\..\..\texmf\tex\generic\config\language.dat . attrib -R language.dat echo PLEASE CHANGE texmf-var\tex\generic\config\language.dat echo (percent out not needed hyphenation patterns) Now you can edit the language.dat file in the texmf-var subtree and unsellect all hyphenation patterns which are not needed (and in fact could be missing). 3. run from the command line: mktexlsr 4. run from the command line: updmap 5. run from the command line: fmtutil --byfmt=latex (or any needed format) More information on how to configure the installation can be found in the TeX Live documentation, see section "Personal configurations" and also "Tips and tricks for Win32".