Miktex For Mac

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If you are interested in using a Mac, you may find the information at http://guides.macrumors.com/Installing_LaTeX_on_a_Mac useful. Just download the required packages, and use the Latex sources given here, adapting the information for your Mac environment. You may find texMaker (http://texmakerx.sourceforge.net/) a good Latex editor. It is not included in the original Latex-for-Mac package and will have to be downloaded separately.

This document is intended for Windows users, but as stated above, Mac users may find the information and the source files provided useful.

Install MikTex only for me. (This will set up a private TeX installation.) 2. Install MikTex for anyone who used this computer (all users). This will set up a shared TeX installation. It is advised to choose the 'Install MikTex only for me' option. MiKTeX 20.11 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows 10 PCs but also without a hitch on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Compatibility with this tex editor software may vary, but will generally run fine under Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP on either a 32-bit or 64-bit setup.

All you'll need is MikTex, WinEdit, and a skeleton version of the thesis, which you will modify and edit as you write your thesis.

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Installation

  • Download MikTex Portable from miktex.org Download the portable version and extract it in its own folder. After extraction, click on miktex-portable. It will create an icon in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. Right click the icon to start the program.
  • Download WinEdit 5.5 from winedt.com (You could use some other editor instead, such as [emacs for Windows], but this howto will assume you are using WinEdit.)
  • Get a copy of this tgz file (or zip file) and save it to your desktop or to your 'My Documents' area. It contains a thesis skeleton. Unzip the directory once you have downloaded it.
  • Run WinEdit and make it open the file thesis.tex in the directory you just unzipped.
  • Click on the Latex button

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  • You will get a command window that opens up and spits out information about the processing of your file by the latex compiler. If you get question marks every so often, it's because Latex is not sure of what to do, or is missing information. Usually pressing the 'Enter' key is sufficient to make the process continue. If not, figure out the error and fix it!


  • Once this phase is over, click on the DVI Preview button:


  • If you have installed MikTex and WinEdit correctly, the Yap window should appear with a picture of the formatted thesis, as shown below:


Latex has a utility called BibTex for automatically formatting your bibliography. All you have to do is to create a file containing all your references. In your skeleton directory, the file is thesis.bib. Every time you add a new entry to this file, you have to bibtex it, and transform it into its latex equivalent.

  • With WinEdit, all you have to do is to open the file thesis.bib and click on the BibTex button:


  • Then click on the Latex button, twice. It is necessary because Latex needs to read the document twice to figure out where every reference to every article book is located.
  • Use DVI Preview to verify that your references appear correctly in the text, and are listed correctly at the end of the thesis

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Bibtex Example File

You may find this BibTex file a good example for all kinds of references: /nero-9-with-serial-key.html.

Recommendation: use the graphicx package. There is good documentation at these URLs:

Example of how one would include the image paris.png in a latex document:

When you use this option, a dvi file is not rendered any longer, but a pdf file is generated instead. Simply click on the Adobe icon in WinEdit to see the output generated by Latex.

Here is random list of links that might be useful in better understanding how to use WinEdt and Latex. Latex is best used and learned by looking at examples, other documents written in Latex. One of its most frustating features is how to include images, until you figured out a way to do it! :-)

  • A tutorial and TeX and WinEdt. LaTeX is based on TeX, and simpler to use. So this tutorial might be too cryptic, but will highlight some of the features of WinEdt.
  • Another Latex page with some good examples of Latex format.
  • How to insert figures into a Latex document
  • including graphics in a Latex document
  • Importing graphics into Latex documents.
  • A full paper in Latex format, ready for conference proceedings.
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MiKTeX for Mac is distributed as a disk image (.dmg) file. If you double click the disk image file, you will see a Finder window:

To install MiKTeX, simply drag the MiKTeX icon onto the Applications shortcut icon. This will install the MiKTeX Console application and essential support files (executables, frameworks, configuration files).

Finishing the setup

Before you can use MiKTeX, you have to finish the setup. Click the MiKTeX Console icon in Launchpad to start MiKTeX Console:

Now is the time to make a decision:

Do you want to set up a private (for you only) TeX installation, or do you want to set up a shared (system-wide) TeX installation?

You probably want to choose the first option.

The second option makes sense if you are the administrator of a multi-user system. If this is the case and if you expect that some of your users would like to work with MiKTeX, then you should install MiKTeX system-wide.

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Click one of the two buttons if you have made your decision.

Upgrade option

If you have just installed MiKTeX, then you have the option to upgrade your installation to a standard TeX system. Just click the Upgrade button. Please be aware that this starts a ~200MB download.

Alternatively, you can turn on the auto-install feature and let MiKTeX install missing packages on-the-fly. This will help you to keep your TeX installation as minimal as possible (“Just enough TeX”).

Fixing PATH issues

Executables like luatex have been installed in ~/bin. This folder is usually not in the search path for executables, i.e., two additional steps might be necessary:

  1. Add the ~/bin directory to the environment variable PATH (see here, for details).
  2. If you use TeXshop, you have to set some preferences (see here, for details).

Removing MiKTeX

You can remove MiKTeX completely from your system. To do so, open a Terminal window and run these commands:

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  1. run miktexsetup cleanup to remove MiKTeX files which have been created in your home directory
  2. if MiKTeX has been installed system-wide, run sudo miktexsetup --shared=yes cleanup to remove MiKTeX files which have been created outside your home directory
  3. run sudo rm -fr /Applications/MiKTeX Console.app to remove the application files