Easy-to-use Chinese MTEX Suite
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1. pages cs wisc edu ghost redmon 34 Gnu aspell Online Available http aspell sourceforge net 35 BibEdit SWiK Online Available http swik net bibtex del icio us tag bibtex BibEdit npef 36 gnuplot homepage Online Available http www gnuplot info 37 Rlab Web Site Online Available http rlab sourceforge net 38 IrfanView Official Homepage one of the most popular viewers Online Available http www irfanview com 39 Tth the TEX to html translator Online Available http hutchinson belmont ma us tth 40 LaTeX2rtf Home Online Available http latex2rtf sourceforge net 41 MetaPost TeX Users Group Online Available http www tug org metapost html 42 Design Science TeXaide Online Available http www dessci com features taform stm 43 TpX Project Online Available http tpx sourceforge net 45 44 CTAN web interface Directory listing for support excel2latex Online Available http ctan org tex archive support excel2latex 45 Instanton s Blog Online Available http blog 163 com soft share 126 46 Scintilla and SciTE Online Available http www scintilla org SciTE html 47 scite ru SciTE Ru Online Available http code google com p scite ru 48 The Programming Language Lua Online Available http www lua Org 49 GDB The GNU2. Jab FreeSpell FroSpell LuaWin Fostehazor Rapi dSVH EqaEdi t Web Lout Wink S Demo InstantDeno PPSiraan SR ee ee ee eee ee E ERA ii i Tet aa de FontViewer HET FreeDizt Figure 15 Snapshot of Choosing User Utilities in MTEX Listing 2 Configuration example of utils cfg Utils Editors SclIDE WinEdt EditPlus Scl SciTE ED DviViewers Auto DviWin Yap Dviout WinDvi CCTWin32 41 PsViewers ftAuto GsView RoPS PsV Gs Ps2pdf Open PdfViewers ftAuto SumatraPdf MuPdf Open GsView PsV Gs SpellCheckers 45pell ASpell ISpellw ISpell AmSpell PicUtils IpX MDraw PageDraw TkPaint LatexCAD TexCad32 TeXCad Converters Gconvert GS convert ltx2txt txt21tx DefUserUtils M Timer LyX LatexMac TeXaide BibEdit WBibDB JabRef UserUtils office Office edit Editors draw DrawiSystem bib References eq Equations math Mathematics vcs Subversion demo DemoMaking tv TV media Players arc Archives browser Browsers im Chatting game Games dev Programming emb Embedded DefUserUtils Formats tex etex latex ptex platex pdftex pdflatex xetex jn Menus menu misc MemPad ICalClk M Timer Zoomer Lingoes menu spell FreeSpell ProSpell SpellCheckers menu math Rlab FreeMat MathViews MLAB Jmath Yorick SysQuake jos menu vcs RapidSVN SVN Checkout SVN CVS menu sys Commander
3. Click this button to manually mark selection in the above box as a bib field and reclick it to finish EEL I EE LETT LEE ELE LEELA ELLE DALE EP EEL ELLE LEELA EY Figure 11 Snapshot of BibX one small reference extraction tool MTEX BMP ET EX Bitmap Tool This small tool can help users to generate bitmap image from TEX codes so as to use such image in any Windows application like WinWord or PowerPoint This feature is very useful to embed powerful and beautiful IATEX mathematics typesetting in Windows applications Its principle is to compile the IATEX codes then convert dvi to ps format and then convert ps to bitmap image and put it in the clipboard which will be then sent to the specified application window Note that this tool can not only help to make PowerPoint slides but also help other applications to insert IATEX equations 31 Hi TeX Bitmap mhb Compiled to BIF l Refresh wes XE MGE Dr 1 New T BAF documentelass article page style empty iusepackage latexzym aumzrymb amzmath amzbzy anzopn anztext color Set to new Tel template Nang ree Back ave Opens Vend document 1 Help About Symbols Editor Zhi Eni Om the t Debuggin Color e Resolution Bn Bi teap formo pono Refrass the list of current running applications for you to choose Figure 12 Snapshot of MTeX BMP using LATEX for Windows applications Net Pke File or Package Downloader This
4. 38 6 3 TpXing Support As to TpXers we have some special features for happy TpXing Automatic brace completion e g completing by completing left by right Automatic environment completion e g completing begin xyz by end xyz Automatic ConIEgXT command completion e g completing starttext by stoptext Automatic inserting matching when typing Automatic quote replacement e g typing yielding and in turn Automatic inserting braces for mathematics typesetting when typing or e g typing _ yielding _ with cursor inside the braces Customizable folding support for sectioning commands like Nsection subsection etc environments begin and end code blocks like Vif def etc Two useful sidebar panels for IATEX labels references subfiles commands Easy inserting of label references and citations e g clicking the braces of ref or cite yielding a pop up list of defined labels or found bibitems for selection Integrating support to more TEX engines such as XeIEX Integrating many tools related with LATEX in the Tools menu e g converting IATpX file to HTML or RIF file Smart compilation for TeX files Support for compiling selected text only Switching between TeX file and log file 7 Other Addons of MITEX With MTEX we do not only provide essentially necessary tools for TpXing but also provide many ot
5. Misc utilities for example Zoomer Mempad 81 Qemu 82 Commander 83 More useful utilities of other types Most third party utilities can be accessed by invoking MTEX Main Menu Choose User Utils The utilities in this menu can be customized in configuration file 40 utils cfg which defines possible editors dvi ps pdf viewers spell check ers converters user utilities and so on Note that the menu of User Utilities can also have configured submenus which make hundreds of utilities well organized in simple and elegant way Fe Question IChinsza Ted Suits Main Bara Stet IDE ATeX iiie Manager MT ex Xx Wiel Eitmap Teaplaten ard Sywbals BibX ril Fazit Sal tings Kacai gira Wai Bla Shar icuia Ei ghiMameiTilahiiota Cafi para TIFenta nalall Turkags ar Fant Search ond Download Fpiste Fart Wage Filename Databazs Praviaw Fant Pile ET dacumantr BTaX Haad Ba Chicee Eda tows Chine Spell Checkers Choate Picture Pils Ehre User iila ioira File Viewers Try Tell Pats pou Pea So Po Pee Wpiats HTaX rmporert Jein BTaX Grong Vixit Stet Hesepage Support Bai Bathzhi 2 Xcmagage Batbmhk zr Sime faiho T Fr Question Tt o Gxit Office Edi tors DiWtils PafUtils Postscript Mi sc System References Equations Mathematics Subver sion Dencllaki ng y Archives Browsers Chatting mes aea WathType O Mimer f BibEdit wi
6. Press Cirl N to open a new buffer and press Ctrl S to save it as a TeX file with tex extension Type doc followed by Ctrl B to generate one simple LATEX template Edit the file by adding some basic commands and arbitrary text Compile the file like the above to see the effects Change the document class to ieeetran or other and recompile the file like the above In this step the teacher should highlight the following important points to students Firstly IATEX is to represent what you think rather than what it looks like so we need not focus on the typesetting details of a document instead we need to think over the structure and contents of the document This point is the most critical philosophy which distinguishes TEX from WinWord Secondly learning to use TX is not difficult at all if starting with a simple easy to understand LATEX template This point is of significance for L TEX beginners so that they are not lost at the starting point Thirdly M TEX provides many convenient ways abbreviation expanding sidebar panels templates and macros pad etc to allow the user quickly typeset BIEX commands environment or even a somewhat complex docu ment template This point will help students to gain confidence in writing BIEX codes efficiently Lastly learning LITEX by practice and searching is the most important key to help a BIEX beginner become an expert gradually This point is the most imp
7. China Normal University so as to overcome the difficulties of typesetting Chinese with IATEX using different idea These work make consid erable efforts to address the nature of Chinese itself for example using certain widely used Chinese fonts adopting proper Chinese font sizes carefully coping with the spacing of characters breaking the lines according to Chinese culture and so on Due to the complexities involved in Chinese typesetting in the last decade Chinese TEX users are mainly using CIEX so as to avoid the nontrivial configuration procedure of Chinese typesetting for the Chinese fonts and tools used As a user of CIEX suite gradually I found some disadvantages of CTEX suite despite that it has many benefits First it is a huge software collection which takes hundreds of megabytes which makes it time consuming to download and install Either the instal lation or uninstallation process needs to take a long time Second it is not portable not only because it is very big but also because an installation process is necessary We often need to work on different computers hence a green and portable TEX system without configuration is desirable Third it lacks many features and tools I want Here are some examples TY system is not included and configured in CTEX hope to make IATEX can include graphics files of any commonly used format e g gif tif bmp png png eps pdf graphics files I hope the
8. Project Debugger Online Available http www gnu org s gdb 50 Guide Debugger Mono Online Available http www mono project com Guide Debugger 51 XnView Software Free graphic and photo viewer converter Online Available http www xnview com 52 CTAN web interface package texcad32 Online Available http WWw ctan org pkg texcad32 53 Asymptote Online Available http asymptote sourceforge net 54 Kseg Online Available http www mit edu ibaran kseg html 55 Graphviz Graphviz Graph Visualization Software Online Available http www graphviz org 56 PhotoFiltre Studio Online Available http www photofiltre com 57 CTAN web interface package dviout Online Available http ctan org pkg dviout 58 Pdftk The PDF Toolkit Online Available http www pdflabs com tools pdftk the pdf toolkit 46 59 Xpdf GnuWin32 SourceForge Online Available http gnuwin32 sourceforge net packages xpdf htm 60 BibDB MacKichan Software Inc Online Available http www mackichan com bibdb html 61 JabRef reference manager Online Available http jabref sourceforge net 62 Download Equation Magic Lite Online Available http www micropress inc com eqmlite htm 63 The Yacas computer algebra system Online Available http yacas sourceforge net 64 subversio
9. QEmu UltralISO Everest menu bib BibEdit BibDB WBIbDB JabRef Commands Note that any utility say xyz can be easily invoked via command like util xyz in the V TEX DOS Prompt which will invoke add util btm to start download and install on the fly if the utility is not installed with MTpx 8 Additional Notes Users of MTX may send suggestions comments or bug reports to mtex suite googlegroups com or submit reply posts in MTpxX Suite Googlegroup 84 Users of MIX are suggested to subscribe to MTEX Suite Googlegroup by sending an 42 email to mtex suite subscribe googlegroups com After subscription users will be able to receive latest updates or messages on using MTX and can also post questions or suggestions in using JVITEX or BIEX or XeIEX or any meaningful related things Usually the authors of M TEX or other MTEX users may help to answer the questions soon The official website 1 of MT X is still under construc tion and it will be updated soon with a new release in year 2012 And the users can find more personal information of the author on the author s homepage 85 References 1 H Ma MTeX HomePage Online Available http mtex sf net 2 TeX Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Online Available http en wikipedia org wiki TeX 3 LaleX Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Online Available http en wikipedia org wiki LaleX 4 CIeX HomePage Online A
10. a dialog of MTeX Basic Settings will appear 3 Make necessary customization in the dialog 4 Click button Save if some settings were changed otherwise just click but ton Cancel or button Reset Defaults and then quit To save space here we do not introduce the details of basic settings In current typical installation of V TEX the default TEX editor is Sc1IDE 30 the default dvi viewer is DviWin 31 the default ps viewer is automatically chosen as GsView 26 and the default pdf viewer is SumatraPDF 32 11 Fe Question Chineza BTaZ Suite Main Mara aret Int Tet Mils Manager aret x5 Tal Bitmap Teaplater und Sywbols Bibi urit ES Racenfigura WTar WISI Shortcuts KightMane Filekssecs Coafigara TiPenta astail Package ar Fant Semrch ond Deenlead Ypiata Font Wage Filename Databaza Fraviaw Font Fila Elsi dacumantr BTaX Haad Ba Chaves Eda tors Chipe Spell Checkers Choate Picture ils Dicir Uger Wile Chosza File Viewers Try Tal Fats Saart Open Fila Saw Hit File Clean Unused Files Class Carieia Obja Uninstall Wpedote BTaX Component Jein BTaX Grong Vicia Stet Heaapuags Support BTai Bathahk m XEcmagage Batbmhk zr Sime faiho Corrent 0 w oetLeng for atils Sel IDE DNI Viewer ante FOF Viewer Spell Checker Fieture Waal Windows folder Jara command A C IE fonts s folder D atax gs pos p Pk folder TIC
11. compilation process can be smarter than before so that proper TEX engine TEX eTEX IATEX IATEX209 pdfIATEX XeTpX XelATEX LuaIEpX 11 etc can be invoked with necessary options and proper tools such as bibtex 12 makeindex cct patchdvi ty gbk2uni 13 fixbbl 14 ppower4 15 etc can be invoked automatically to correctly process Chinese typesetting generate references make index list and So on I hope to be able to insert IAIEgX symbols or commands or any code snippets or any document template in any text file editor even notepad in windows with a simple individual tool I hope to be able to conveniently use formulas generated by IEX in any Windows applications like PowerPoint WinWord WPS and So on I hope to be able to support TEX engines dvi viewers ps viewers pdf viewers editors spell checkers in unified ways and the users can have the right to choose from a list of available choices For example besides the commercial Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat we have other possible choices like SumatraPDF PdfXCView Foxit PDF Reader or even GsView hope to be able to switch to proper place in tex files when viewing pdf files just like the inverse search feature of some dvi viewers like YAP or DviWin Furthermore I hope to do all text editing jobs such as TpXing program ming designing web and so on with a powerful customizable yet small editor which does
12. continuously growing understand ing I started to build my own initial MMTEX system on the basis of EmTeX with reorganized directory structure plus a bundle of home made batch scripts run ning with 4DOS O as well as some unique tools and wrappers which are mainly developed with Delphi Tiny C Compiler and MASM32 The rar packed archive of the initial MTX occupies less than 20 Megabytes disk space integrating care fully customized 4DOS 20 O JP Soft EmTeX EditPlus 21 Acrobat Reader 4 Ghost Script 22 CCT TY my own batch scripts and small tools developed to fit my needs Upon the requests of some friends the early version of MT X was re 3 leased in CTEX forum in 2005 From then on according to my growing needs and the users bug reports as well as feature requests I made continuous efforts to improve MT X to make it as modern as other TEX distributions especially since 2007 great changes were introduced into MT X to make it cutting edge with the latest TEX engines utilities macros fonts documents and extendable with a unified mechanism implemented with Take Commander Console 23 batch scripts to manage all the components of V TEX Currently the TEX engines executable files of MT X are mainly taken from W32TEX directly while the fonts and the macros are updated from CTAN with the batch scripts Note that due to the open extendable framework of MITEX any other TEX engines e g MiKTEX DosTP can be
13. examples to demonstrate the basic compilation procedure and the great power of LATEX Use one simple example to illustrate the key philosophy of IATEX focusing on the structure and contents rather than typesetting details i e What You Think Is What You Get rather than What You See Is What You Get Add more elements to the simple example to illustrate more elements of IATEX such as mathematics tables figures references and so on Read the selected documents such as lshort pdf 29 to gain comprehensive understanding to BIEX Learn from continuous practice gradually practice will make perfect In this process users are suggested to learn to search the local macro files and read the documents provided in the MTX servers 8 With M TEX following the above ideas in my graduate courses for those students who never know LI4TEX before I usually just use 20 to 30 minutes to introduce the installation of MT X and basic usage of LATEX by examples then almost all the students can use TEX to complete their assignments and projects in my courses which shows that TpXing with MTE X is not difficult for most students 3 Installation of MTpx 3 1 Fresh Installation We provide two ways to install a fresh VfTEX suite one way is to download an self extraction archive which contains a pre configured typical installation and the other way is to download a tiny installer which allows the user to customize download an
14. it is possible to launch certain program by clicking an icon or it is possible to pop up a color dialog so as to insert RGB values of selected colors Therefore this small tool can also serve as a small floating toolbar and a color picker for all applications BibX Reference Extractor This small tool can help users to extract bibitem in BIBIEX format from some text containing a reference This tool is very useful to generate bibitem from searching references in database like Web of Science and 30 Ei Village This tool is also configurable to add more formats of references Its principle is to compare the text with each format defined in the configuration file and generate the bibitem via the most matchable format k BibX Reference Extraction Tool mhb amp Xx Performance analysis of reassembly and multiplezing queueing with long range dependent input traffic Lin GC Suda T Ishizaki F TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 20 1 2 33 58 MAT JWN 2002 4 Extract Bib Iten SCI lt 13 0 gt Edit Settings Paste Reference Cheoze Sendto gt Simple Help article Marually Mark gt Send Bib Item Append to File oa Barticle LirSudIzh200 title Performanee analysis of reassembly and multiplexing queueing with long range dependent input 7 autharz Lin GL and Suda T and Ishiraki F jeournal TELECONMUNICATION STSTENS volumes 20 nunberz 1 2 pages 33 58 month NMAT TUN year 2002
15. small tool is used to search and down load files from CTAN During the compilation of TeX files if a macro package is missing MT X will launch a script make tex btm which will search the missing macro file in the servers of MT X and then invoke this package downloader if server searching fails 02 CLE agg R24 N1 JR lI DEC DEO t xX texnanes zi Fl 1 fete J amp p cter org nirr Re 0 90 Pn Grease eiusmo 3 Ur A P a iy M TESI EERHBHZTT a5 SALTS E d Wn ETSI iy Figure 13 Snapshot of Net Pkg File or Package Downloader UtilsMan General Utilities Manager This tool is used to help users use various utilities with any text editor Note that not all text editors provide feature of launching external tools or configuration of tools menu hence generally it is very inconvenient to use IEX without a proper text editor To resolve such a problem this tool is invented to provide an external tools menu for all editors even for notepad in windows For example after opening a tex file in UtilsMan we can select Smart Compilation from the drop down menu of this tool to compile the tex file With this tool it is not necessary to configure most text editors and the users can use any editor as the default MT X editor for editing tex files Blt TASER mhb amp qhs STR JEN Run Tool Edit setting Se See aa gm yt rate ea fre Oh Sa ee PY tee T Jlate
16. that the destination path should not contain space or Chinese characters so as to avoid unnecessary troubles of path parsing in the batch scripts Customized Installation This approach is suitable for experts who want to cus tomize the components upon installation Note that this approach is not recom mended since the users can always add new components after a typical installa tion 1 The following steps are needed with this approach Download the tiny installer m setup exe about 80 Kilobytes and all configu ration files m setup from the current folder of any server and save them to a temporary folder say e g e m setup Run the installer and input the destination path of MTX folder the default path is c mtex Click the button Setup network to configure and test the internet connec tion first click the button 1 Test Internet connection the installer will test the network and prompt the users the network status then if the network is okay the users can click the button 2 Download and load config files to download files needed by the installer Close the dialog of Setup network and then the users are able to customize the components needed Description of each component will be shown on the right side if the mouse is put over that component Once the user has chosen the components to install the user can click the button Install now to start the installation The installer wil
17. used by making minor changes to V TEX configuration files where command aliases environment variables searching paths and other settings are defined by text files Now MTgx has been used by many Chinese users and some friends in other countries including Singapore U S U K and so on 2 Main Features of MTpx 2 1 MTpxX Is Free Roughly speaking MTpX kernel itself is released as a freeware for non commercial use and users can use it as is without any fee in their personal studies or work The source codes of MTEX kernel files can be found in http mtex kernel googlecode com We do not plan to make money from this software however we would like to accept donations so as to provide certain financial support to our great efforts in maintaining and enhancing this software As to the detailed licensing description of MTpxX the users may refer to files LICENSE in the folder of METEX The licensing of the components of V TEX should not be affected by the license of MTgxX kernel and we do not provide registration or crack for the sharewares or commercial softwares which are included in MITEX Although theoretically speaking any software can be made as one component of MT X according to the unified packaging rule normally we mainly select and put free small and useful softwares in the repository of MTX servers We need also remark that MIX is virus less and it does not contain any viruses or malwares However some anti virus softw
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19. EE RPO Ee H E E Figure 8 Snapshot of Sc1IDE a fully functional all in one editor Some editing tips will be briefly introduced in Section 6 During the editing users can also click the toolbar button B to launch a tem plate and symbol pad for easy inserting of IATEX commands or symbols 20 c 4 983MSJ CHEM KW D de DO got FY WW FY E ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPORSTUVWAYV 2 ABEeone F 6 57 X RLM NMoOPORSW AU UME YW 3 ABCDEFGHIJIJEKLM NOPQRSTIUSNSXS S abcde t gam k 1m nopmrsidtugwstkxiytf 0123456067885 gt joPpoe cq ngdrae Ruvtipvrpoevru d xy bw All In ne bmp calfrakbbm bmp 13 13 usepackage mathr sfs amsfonts bbm matl Figure 9 Snapshot of V TEX TMac a template and symbol pad 4 3 Smart Compilation JM TEX provides one unique smart compilation script clatex btm for tex files and other files Roughly speaking this script can do some clever jobs to handle files with different extensions and different formats For non TEX files it invokes command openx compile to compile files via the compiler settings given in file openx cfg For TEX files this script can do the following jobs For ctx file make necessary pre processing and post processing needed by CCT system For ty file make necessary pre processing and post processing needed by TY system Do proper actions for all kinds of TEX files so as to make it inverse searc
20. Preview Associate Tpi files Edit Preview M Asseciate Asymptote files Conpilet revier Associate Metapost files Compiletfreview MW Asseciate Gouplet files RuntFrevier iv Azzociate LyX documents EdittPravies OF Figure 5 Snapshot of Associating Files in MTEX Other Possible Configurations Besides the above suggested configurations users can also reconfigure any utilities shipped with MT X in a unified way when necessary We take one example to explain this configuration TEX provides one component RedMon 33 which can be used to create virtual pdf Printer and eps Printer tiny replacements of Adobe Distiller Of course such an utility needs to modify the Windows registry hence if the users want to use such virtual printers the users need to configure it once To this end the users just need to do the following steps 15 1 Invoke MTgxX Main Menu by running mtex MainMenu cmd 2 Click button Reconfigure MTeX and a dialog on License for MTeX will ap pear 3 Click button I agree to accept the license agreement and choose Custom Configuration 4 In the dialog the users can customize some features and utilities in MTEX for example select only RedMon in the right panel and then click button Configure Utils Only to configure RedMon which will install virtual pdf Printer and eps Printer step by step Note that the users can also let MT X to make Default Configuration in th
21. The PracTEX Journal 2012 No 1 Article revision 2012 06 25 Easy to use Chinese MTX Suite Hongbin Ma Email mathmhb bit edu cn Address School of Automation Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing 100081 P R China 1 Motivation of Developing MT X As the main developer of Chinese MTEX Suite or simply MT_X 1 I started to fall in love with TEX 2 and IATEX 3 in 2002 when I was still a graduate student major ing in mathematics and cybernetics at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science Chinese Academy of Sciences At that time recommended by some se nior students I started to use Chinese CTEX Suite or simply CIEX 4 which was maintained by Dr Lingyun Wu 5 a researcher in our academy and is roughly a collection of pre configured MiKTEX system 6 packaged with other tools such as customized WinEdt 7 for Chinese TpXers CIEX brings significant benefits to China TEX users and it helps much to popularize the use of LATEX in China es pecially in the educational and academic areas with large requirement on mathe matics typesetting Furthermore at that time CIEX provides one way to typeset Chinese documents easily with TEX and CCT 8 Chinese Typesetting System which was initially developed by another researcher Prof Linbo Zhang 9 in our academy since 1998 for the purpose of typesetting Chinese with IATEX Besides CCT system another system called TY Tian Yuan system 10 was invented by a group in Eastern
22. abase for MTEX mp2eps btm a script to convert mp file to eps file mp2pdf btm a script to convert mp file to pdf file mproof btm a script to compile mp file and view generated mps file mrun btm a script to run various commands conviniently designed for con figuring tools menu for other editors mtex assoc btm a script to help users to associate files mtexcfg btm a script to configure basic settings of V TEX mtex cfg btm a script to configure utilities in MTEX mtex edit btm a script to invoke text editor mtex env btm a script to generate V TEX environment cache file mtex env 26 mtex font btm a script to help users configure TrueType fonts via graphical user interface mtex guru btm a script to help users search or view macro files useful for finding certain commands mtex Ilfn btm a script to resolve long file name problem in early MT X mtex Ink btm a script to create shortcuts for MTRX mtex pkg btm a script to install or uninstall extra packages mtex reg btm a script to register right menu commands for V TEX newer btm a script to detect whether one file is newer than the other file notfind btm a script to display an error message box when a file is not found openx btm a script capable to open view edit or convert any files according to the settings of configuration file openx cfg pdf2txt btm a script to convert pdf file to text file pdffr
23. ag btm a script to convert eps figures to pdf figures with symbols replaced with IATEX commands specified in a tex file pdfmerge btm a script to merge pdf files into one pdf file pdfnup btm a script to convert pdf file by placing several pages into one page pdfselect btm a script to select or extract certain pages from a pdf file pdfoiew btm a script to view pdf files supporting most pdf viewers such as SumatraPDF PdfXCView GsView Acrobat Reader and so on pdfoiew s btm a script to view pdf files with forward searching feature mainly supporting SumatraPDF pfshow btm a script to view Type 1 fonts i e pfb pfa files picutil btm a script to invoke picture utilities ppower btm a script to post process pdf files to add movie effects generated by pause macro package preview btm a script to preview multiple files ps2pdf btm a script to convert ps file to pdf file zu psmerge btm a script to merge ps files pst2pdf btm a script to produces pdf files for all files of the form fig tex pstex2eps btm a script to convert pstex file to eps file pstex2jpg btm a script to convert pstex file to jpg file pstex2pdf btm a script to convert pstex file to pdf file psview btm a script to view ps eps files supporting most PostScript viewers such as GsView GS RoPS GsV regtool btm a script to operate Windows
24. ares may issue wrong alerts 4 for some tiny or packed exe files in MTEX due to their imperfect or stupid virus detection mechanism Note that we may use upx 24 to pack some big exe files to save disk space and we also use optimized compilers or libraries to gener ate very small exe files for example several useful tools in MTEX are compiled with Delphi compiler DCC32 and KOL 25 which can generate very small exe file In such cases the users need to add the folder of MTpx to the white list or safe area of the anti virus software so that the anti virus software can trust the files in MTpX directly 22 MTEX Is Integrated MTX is a self contained integrated TEX distribution hence by using MTX the users need not install any other TEX distributions like MiKTEX and the users need not install other related softwares such as Adobe Acrobat Reader Ghost Script 22 GsView 26 WinEdt Perl etc since MITEX has provided such utilities or replacements 23 M TgX Is Powerful Exactly speaking MTpX is not only a TEX distribution since it has many unique features and many useful addons organized in unified elegant ways In fact MTX is a powerful software platform which contains a suite of home made and third party selected utilities documentations engines fonts macros aiming at providing an integrated software solution for almost all the jobs in the authors stud ies and work vast from scientific typesetting scient
25. brev panel to show available abbreviations and code completion API Unique Docs panel to show classified help documents or on line documents and even searching engines Unique Ltx Labels panel to show labels bibitems and included filenames in current file Unique Ltx Cmds panel to show insertable IATEX Greek commands environ ments mathematics functions Unique integrated debugging for C C Pascal C and Lua with the help of gdb 49 mdb 50 Unique integrated subversion version control Unique IATEX block compilation Unique customizable F1 keyword help Unique embedded expression calculator Unique E book mode for viewing or reading files Unique preconfigured monofont schemes for programming jobs Unique Hex editing mode for editing arbitrary files Unique word counting for both ASCII files and Chinese files Spell checking by internal or external spell checkers Many additional features provided by lua scripts Among these features we need to remark that the abbreviation expansion is very convenient For example with Sc1IDE typing eq followed by hot key Ctrl B will generate an empty equation environment similarly itm can expand to an empty itemize environment fig can expand to an empty figure environment and so Note that the abbreviation settings can be configured for each file type and the users can arbitrarily add new abbreviations or modify existing abbreviations
26. d install chosen components Both ways essentially unpack some archives to the specified installation folder Note that TEX is green hence the users may also copy an existing JV TEX folder to removable disks or other com puters Existing MITEX Servers With the help of some friends and users of MT X we have set up several TEX servers and a list of them can be found in the offi cial website of MTEX http mtex sf net Among these servers we mainly recommend two servers ftp ftp ctex org pub tex systems mtex ftp mtex mtex010 106 2 170 mtex where the last one is only accessible in the campus of Beijing Institute of Tech nology and it is the recommended server for the students and the researchers of Beijing Institute of Technology due to its fastest download speed of intra net More servers can be added if users would like to provide mirrors in this case please contact the author directly Typical Installation This approach is recommended for most users The following steps are needed with this approach 1 Download self extractor mtex20 exe about 50 Megabytes from any server 9 2 3 Run the downloaded self extractor and input the destination of MTpX folder when prompted Wait one minute until the self extractor finishes extraction and quits In the second step the users are suggested to type c or d V as destination i e the MTpxX suite will be installed to folder c mtex or d mtex Note
27. e Equation Editor for Later similar to ME Equation Edite Reset cfg froa STE iifzhapa Support for tifzhaga macro package iex Another Ted engine xupport ipede TruaT Fonts di h Raganarata format file wf tex Latex poter p laien mptopdf mpozt pian Previ da eae rial ath Sly e Tile ec x radian lt Useful Virtual Fs Printer and P4f Frinter fe Configure to use ald CCT Configura to vsa windows Fonts ROMITPG fen cun akip it i j A A mr ttt AUN 9 Update fent map files Berst default ttfZpk map 9 Genarate cmap filas fer cmap package Ganarata afa for Type fonts az ful for dviwin ata 9 Generate ilanass databaka io speed up MTaX F Create sherteut im micklaunch 9 Create shortouts in Desktop default siapla C Fes sharteuts Fora shorteats WISI folder Create sherteuis falder MTaX im Fregraas v Create Sendilo shorteurts M Register Wal fraaly for astra balp or update info h Bemiaw licenze tearm fer sach zhxwrevara Hatatmathwhh cueikemiras many olila da make i1 zaaller yet working Start Cant poration Euick Update Path Only Figure 6 Snapshot of Reconfiguring of MTpx 4 Teaching TEXing with MT X Since MTE X is easy to install and easy to learn with proper teaching skills usu ally the teacher only needs to spend about half an hour to introduce the installa tion of MT X and basic usage of IATEX 17 4 1 One Demo Here is one simple demo to use MT X 1 Invo
28. e http font dp4 de 80 Typograf font management for OpenType TrueType and Type 1 fonts Online Available http www neuber com typograph 81 MemPad Horst Schaeffer s Software Pages Online Available http www horstmuc de wmem htm 322 QEMU Online Available http qemu org 83 Commander Online Available http logicnet dk Commander 34 H Ma MTeX Suite Google Group Online Available http groups google com group mtex suite hl zh CN US 85 Hongbin Ma s HomePage Online Available http mathmhb sf net 48
29. e third step which will automatically make full configuration for MTEX including creat ing shortcuts associating files font configurations and so on 16 Chineze Tex Seite Wain Mera aret me Tet Yrs Manager aret x6 Wet Pitao Tesplates and Synhols bib eid Basic Settings igue WIGpStents KightMenetPileAssocs Configure Treats nstall Package or Fent Sewch and Dewslead Wpdate Fant Mags Filename Database Preview Font File EII decenante Mok Read et Choose Editors Choose Spell Checkers Choose Picture Wtils Choose User Utils Choose File Viewers Try Tet Pats rbi trary File Cosversid Seart Open File Seset Edit File Clean Unused Files Clean Certain Obja Vaiastell Update BTX Composant Jein BTX Groep Vizit MToX Homepage Support BT eX Mathehi z Konepage Mathahb z Siza Faido Fr Question Pee eee Custom Configuration fb MTeX Configuration Io not edi Er the basic configuration items unless you bare Toa con choose other utils to be configored Ctrltclick configured then well Axy Powerful xczipt baxed rector graphicz Language Fer naiheaat divin Good Dvi Freviewer recommended fart and sary fw Delete fake pk font files ge view Ghostscript Fs pdf Viewer ivies Fowerful picture iaage document viewer amp converter recor v Anto lowd proper lamgaage pack Current 0 Latexia Provide support ta cut datied late 03 format Eeconma Tataid
30. eW Idle2Exe Idle2Exe GUI Idle util idle IdleWz zutil idle idlew Idle2bExe util idle idlec x N exe F Idle2EbExe GUI util idle idlec w c x N exe F File Associations For convenience the users are also suggested to associate cer tain files with MT X so that users can edit tex files by double clicking view dvi ps pdf eps files by double clicking and so on To this end the users just need to do the following steps 1 Invoke MTEX Main Menu by running mtex MainMenu cmd 14 2 Click button RightMenu FileAssocs and a message box will appear 3 Click button Associate MTeX Files and a dialog MTeX Files Association will appear 4 Customize file association and click OK to associate files related with MU EX Note that the users can also restore the file associations at any time by similar operations except that the users need to click button Clear file associations in the third step TAE NTex Files Association zzzPlaeuaza choose file types to azzciate with WIeIz V Associate Tai source files taz ctx ty dix lix Edit with HTeI EUT 4 Associate bib database files bib Edit vith HTeX EBT V Associate various font files pfb pfa m pk gf tf afe Preview with VIEWPORT I Associate Wet batch scripts btm Bom with HNTeI BOS jf Associate dvi Eiles Travis hw Asseciate pdf files Preview v Associate ps files Preview W Asgeciate eps files
31. es over five hundred fonts near one thousand documentations and about two thousand macro packages have been provided to cover various needs of the users With this mechanism we are able to provide V TEX users more ready to use components than existing TEX distributions and this mechanism greatly extends the practical usages of MITEX so that V TEX does not restrict in serving as a TEX distribution only Note that according to this mechanism almost any software can be packed as MTEX com ponents with minor efforts hence the number of MTEX components is gradually growing upon the the requirement of ourselves and the users 2 6 MTpxX Is Green and Portable MTX is green and portable This means that the users can put the MTE X folder into thumb drive or removable disk or even compact disk and use it anywhere anytime without a specific installation process like most Windows applications Many efforts are conducted to make MITBX easy to use without special config uration especially it does not need to modify Windows registry unless certain third party utility requires to do so in which case we use the auto configuration mechanism of MT X designed for all utilities to make every utility portable and re configurable without concerning the actual path of MT X folder Furthermore the portability of MTE X makes JV TEX co existable with other TEX distributions in the same computer although installation of other TEX distributions is completel
32. es of MTX 23 clatex btm a script for smart compilation for all files add doc btm a script to download and install one document from the servers add font btm a script to download and install one font family from the servers or local archives add map btm a script to add one font map file and make necessary changes to map files for dvipdfm dvips and pdftex add_pkg btm a script to download and install one font family from the servers or local archives add util btm a script to download and install one utility from the servers or local archives sk server btm a script to show available VfTEX servers and confirm user s choice for later downloading bit seroer btm a script to determine the MTEX server by detecting whether the user is in the campus of Beijing Institute of Technology chkmsetup btm a script to check local repository if it exists chkproxy btm a script to check the Internet Explorer proxy settings compile btm a script to compile a TeX file especially the TeX file generated by TpX context btm a script to compile ConTEXT file copyfnts btm a script to copy font files to proper font folders from arbitrary font archives containing font files cropbmp btm a script to crop bitmap images automatically cropeps btm a script to crop eps images automatically cropimg btm a script to crop any image files automatically croppdf btm a script to crop pdf images automatically delx btm a script t
33. ex archive systems msdos emtex 19 BakKoMa TeX Site The Home of TeXWord Online Available http www bakoma tex com 20 4DOS Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Online Available http en wikipedia org wiki 4DOS 21 EditPlus Web Site Online Available http www editplus com 22 Ghostscript Ghostscript Online Available http www ghostscript com 23 TCC LE A Better Windows CMD Shell for Free Online Available http jpsoft com tccle cmd replacement html 24 UPX the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables Homepage Online Available http upx sourceforge net 25 KOL and MCK Web page Online Available http kolmck net 26 Gsview Online Available htpp pages cs wisc edu ghost gsview 27 Donald Knuth Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Online Available http en wikipedia org wiki Donald Knuth 44 28 CTAN Online Available http ctan org 29 T Oetiker The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2e Online Available http tobi oetiker ch Ishort lshort pdf 30 SclIDE An All In One IDE Online Available http code google com p scitelatexide 31 DVIWIN Home Page Online Available http dviwin keystone gr 32 K Kowalczyk Free PDF Reader Sumatra PDF Online Available http blog kowalczyk info software sumatrapdf 33 RedMon Redirection Port Monitor Online Available http
34. forward use of TEX BIEX and many macro packages Some selected fonts are shipped with the typical installation while most other fonts which are not likely to be used in daily work are packed and placed on the servers of MMTEX for possible download and install on the fly later For example with the default installation during the compilation of this article the compiler requests for font Imss12 whose tfm file cannot be found hence M TEX will search it in the font database file fonts db cfe and discover this font file belongs to Im Latin Modern font family then VfITEX will try to download and install on the fly Im font family which makes later compilation okay after automatic configuration of Im fonts Note that Im font family is very large and not needed by most LAXIEX files we do not put 34 it in the typical installation although XeIpX and ConIpXT users may highly depend on this font family Main components of Web2C are included in the typical installation so as to provide basic TEX engines tex latex pdftex pdflatex and command line utilities such as metafont dvips Hf2pk gftodvi etc Other TEX engines and utilities are packed and placed on the servers of MIX for possible download and install on the fly later For example when a user tries to do smart comilation for demo file mtex demo xetex example 1 tex MTgX will au tomatically detect that this file needs xelatex to compile it while XeTEX is not shipped wi
35. genpkgdb btm a script to generate package database file pkgs_db cfg htmoiew btm a script to view HTML files via installed or known web browser 12t btm a script to convert IATEX file to pure text file latex dtx btm a script to batchly compile dtx files latex ins btm a script to batchly compile ins files license btm a script to display license dialog main btm a script to show the main menu of MTEX 25 makecmap btm a script to generate cmap files for using package ccmap makefmts btm a script to make various TEX Metafont Metapost formats supporting most known TEX engines makefnt btm a script to make configuration for True Type font makepk btm a script to make pk files from True Type fonts Typel fonts metafont fonts and Chinese fonts maketex btm a script to invoke download and install on the fly for missing macro packages maketfm btm a script to make tfm files from True Type fonts Typel fonts metafont fonts and Chinese fonts supporting automatic download and install on the fly for missing fonts when necessary mchange btm a script to batchly make replacements to files via sed m conv btm a script to simply invoke smart conversion ie openx btm convert mergefiles btm a script to merge text files mergepdf btm a script to merge pdf files mftoeps btm a script to convert mf file to eps file using mftoeps package mktexlsr btm a script to generate file name dat
36. hable for both dvi and pdf output Generate missing pixel fonts before previewing the dvi file 21 Invoke bibtex or bibtex8 automatically to support use of bib reference database Invoke makeindex or cctmkind to support index generating when necessary even for Chinese documents According to file contents automatically determine and invoke proper TEX engine tex latex pdftex pdflatex xetex xelatex etc to compile tex file Automatically determine whether to compile the tex file twice three times or four times Support graphics inclusion of arbitrary image format by automatic image format conversion to required format eps pdf or jpg provided that users do not explicitly give the extension of the graphics file Automatically invoke metapost for the inclusion of metapost figures 1 2 and so on Automatically invoke dvipdfm dvips ps2pdf ppower when necessary Support specific pre processing and post processing for Chinese typesetting for example use fixbbl and gbk2uni to fix possible errors of bbl and out generated Pass proper options to invoked programs so as to be able to embed Type 1 fonts Automatically preview generated dvi or pdf file if the compilation is successful Make necessary processing to support special packages such as psfrag pdftricks mfpic asymptote and so on Pass proper options to invoked programs so as to typeset documents in landscape view or spec
37. her utilities which are unlikely to be included in other TEX 39 distributions All the utilities provided in MTpX were carefully chosen and most of them are less than 2 Megabytes if packed with Rar The utilities provided in MTX can be roughly classified into the following categories Picture viewing and converting for example Irfan View 38 XnView 51 etc Picture drawing and scientific drawing for example TpX 43 TeXCAD32 52 GnuPlot 36 Asymptote 53 Kseg 54 GraphViz 55 JsPlot EDraw PhotoFil tre 56 and so on dvi ps pdf file viewers for example DviOut 57 MuPdf pdf tools for example PdfTk 58 xpdf 59 References management for example BibDB 60 JabRef 61 Equation editing for example LatexMac TeXaide 42 EqmLite 62 Scientific computing for example Rlab 37 Yacas 63 Version control for example SVN 64 RapidSVN 65 CVS 66 Demo making for example Wink 67 InstantDemo 68 Packing and unpacking for example Rar 69 Wim 70 Upx 24 Embedded system compiler for example C51 71 SDCC 72 Arm Gcc Avr GCC Compilers and interpreters for example MinGW 73 Tiny C Compiler 74 Lua 48 Perl 75 Code formators for example Astyle 76 Uncrustify Ctags Spell checkers for example Aspell 34 Ispell 77 4Spell 78 Font utilities for example FontViewer 79 TypoGraf 80
38. ific computation scientific drawing to programming design website design spelling checking file conver sion and so on 2 4 MTpx Is Small Comparing with most other TEX distributions MTE X is very small which is mainly due to careful design selection reduction and refinement of its components A typical MT X installation occupying less than 200 Megabytes disk space whose packed self extractor is only about 50 Megabytes can fit most needs of the users Noting of the famous 80 20 rule we have made the following efforts to make MTX very compact yet functional Reducing unnecessary files which are seldom used in daily work Placing infrequently used components in the MTEX servers Optimizing and customizing important components Stripping comments of macro packages to save space Designing the V TEX kernel elaborately to make it flexible and extendable Selecting many small command line tools and combining them efficiently by using batch scripts Developing our own MTEX tools via outstanding compilers and libraries 25 MTpxX Is Extendable MTX provides one unique download and install on the fly mechanism for the TEX engines editors utilities fonts macros and documentations which means that the users need not install many seldom used components yet the users are able to invoke full functions provided in the MTX servers when necessary On MTEX servers currently dozens of editors hundreds of utiliti
39. ified paper format Invoke certain user specified programs during the compilation process ac cording to the user s clatex setup Clean temporary files generated in the compilation Specify the pdf compatibilty level version for the final pdf file More jobs can be found from the Clatex Options dialog shown in Figure 10 22 Yrs E Clates Options For Current Tex File Landscupd Paper Siza a gt Format fea ww PE versie Recard Filer im fls Ei Rekl KA Li en tt Rated Typel Frate Baxakls Hakelnder Oy Lion D h SunaitraPd formari xsarch via xymciax Wee Hiie istand of bibtex ta precent bib 6 Invarza seirch fer ctx amd ty filaz e Nia fork o oproceii Dil file for Letar CM Disable gre xpaciala SU isverdae daurch yiia leg serip is Ma Auts pasa package apilan Dips bes pL fn pl tax Fiz arera of Ml file when using GHITTI A bat UCCI sp eas praprocaag Wa cckedumd inmates of akeimibeg for chinese QCf eory BE Fanfi peeprocess Option eg zert pimyin streke nized DESEE Disable texscam E Wie chk te peecess 8 oot for chinese apstopdl prapragess lasing sepu with pidflatex Option ag mecikl REM Apescale prepracers Figured im Sia soe P Birle dript Op Li wa Fa rag prepresace pdflatertprfrag M Borable amp ripifu Op ti en MEEEENEN Une package patricks pdElatartpxir i ckx M Barahbla pulpif Op Li ea Matafeni temp mf Filen mtpic feyma
40. ipt to update map files in MTEX upd mtex btm a script to update MTEX components from servers updafm btm a script to update afm files from pfb files in V TEX updpkg btm a script to update the list of installed macro packages updtfm btm a script to update tfm files for fonts in V TEX updof btm a script to update vf cfg from vf files in MTpX userutil btm a script to ask user to choose from user defined user utilities util btm a script to search or download and install on the fly one utility view btm a script to view dvi file using dviscr only for old EmTeX viewfont btm a script to view any font file virfnt btm a script to display real font name of a virtual font w close btm a script to close windows with certain title writable btm a script to check whether a file folder is writable 5 2 Useful MTpx Tools TMac Template and Macro Pad This small tool can help users to insert templates or code snippets to editor This tool is fully configurable by editing the configu ration file tmac ini Once a symbol is clicked its corresponding code will be put into the clipboard and inserted into the active editor window Hence this tool can be used with any editor We have provided many templates and macros in the default configuration file and two groups of HTML codes snippets Besides normal code insertion we have also implemented some unique special features for example
41. ke the default editor ScIIDE by running mtex MTeX IDE cmd or from desktop shortcut 2 Open any demo file e g mtex demo e sample tex then the users will see LATEX codes are syntax highlighted with code folding 3 Click toolbar button W or hot key Ctrl Alt 3 to smartly compile the TeX file with engine pdflatex 4 Click toolbar button M or hot key Ctrl 7 to view the generated pdf file Note that by double clicking anywhere in the pdf view the editor will locate the cursor at corresponding line of the source file mien Bum C HD NET Ee LR XU EE ce SEN THA DALEK T PET Se as hac LE ax rra cm uz B EM FE aan cereum cra d erdaemai cun ormai be E I A F X 4 ararnai tun d rixrwoanm car Dodruane TL a la Dana ala ai eaa came e DHI TS i A a di li hi ay S z im irm ee eed 1 Send dt sp urna ai dera Jeers mpess go mmal rears while eect F rmm d dE TI i l r Figure 7 TpXing in MT EX source view and pdf view In this step it would be much attracting for students if the teacher can compile more interesting examples in the demo folder such as e chess tex e carom tex and so on These fancy examples on Chess Chemistry etc can inspire the students to discover the great power of TEX and BIEX which will motivate them to study IATEX by reading documents and learning by practice 18 4 2 One Example To edit a new TeX file the teacher can do the following steps 1 O1 eA C N
42. l download the components from MTEX servers and then it will extract them to proper sub folders of the destination path Wait until the installer finishes downloading and extraction then the in staller will automatically launch the configuration dialog see 83 3 10 In the second step the users are suggested to type c or d V as destination i e the MTpxX suite will be installed to folder c mtex or d mtex Note that the destination path should not contain space or Chinese characters so as to avoid unnecessary troubles of path parsing in the batch scripts 3 2 Software Updating MTEX users can update MTX suite to latest version directly from MTX Main Menu by running mtex MainMenu cmd Then just click button Update MTeX Component and follow the instructions step by step 3 8 Configuration Basic Settings Most basic settings of V TEX can be customized for example the language interface the default MT EX server the proxy server the default editor the default dvi ps pdf viewer and so on Usually all these settings are not necessary to change since MTX will detect and provide proper defaults For example if the user is running on Simplified Chinese Windows then it will au tomatically use Simplified Chinese interface if the user is running a non Chinese Windows it will use the default English interface 1 Invoke MTEX Main Menu by running mtex MainMenu cmd 2 Click button Basic Settings and
43. n tigris org Online Available http subversion tigris org 65 RapidSVN Online Available http ww w rapidsvn org 66 CVS Open Source Version Control Online Available http cvs nongnu org 67 Wink Homepage Online Available http www debugmode com wink 68 Instant Demo Online Available http www instant demo com 69 WinRAR archiver a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files Online Available http www rarlab com 70 Windows Imaging Format Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Online Available http en wikipedia org wiki Windows_Imaging_ Format 71 C51 Keil Software Inc Online Available http www keil com c51 72 SDCC Small Device C Compiler Online Available http sdcc sourceforge net 73 MinGW Minimalist GNU for Windows Online Available http Www mingw org 47 74 TCC Tiny C Compiler Online Available http tinycc org 5 Ihe Perl Programming Language www perl org Online Available http www perl org 76 Artistic Style Index Online Available http astyle sourceforge net 77 Ispell Online Available http www gnu org software ispell 78 CTAN web interface Directory listing for support 4spell Online Available http ctan org tex archive support 4spell 79 dp4 Font Viewer OpenType und Truelype Schriften verwalten Online Availabl
44. not fit the purpose of TpXing only WinEdt 7 is sim ply too large and not quite powerful for general purpose text editing and customization For example I hope the editor can automatically complete proper right bracket when I type left bracket e g completing right auto matically for Meft I hope to integrate more utilities in the editor for example various compil ers code formatting tool subversion version control and so on Finally the MiKTEX shipped with CTEX looks very complex with thousands of files many files are outdated and many files may never be used difficult to configure Chinese fonts highly dependent of Windows registry very complicated for directory structure Motivated by the above issues and my own long learning experience for TEX I hope to make an easy to learn and easy to use unique TEX distribution with clean directory structure very necessary files small size valuable extra features selected documents and so on To this end I started to investigate various kinds of TEX distributions including fpTEX 16 MiKTEX 6 DosTP 17 EmTeX 18 BakomaTgEX 19 and so on From these existing TEX distributions by studying the whole directory structure the file searching mechanism the complex font processing mechanism the main command line tools the configuration files and even the monitored registry changes it became clearer and clearer to me on how the existing TEX systems work Based on these
45. o clean temporary files dir seroer btm a script to list files in the specified server path doc btm a script to search and view local documents and even server side documents 24 dos2unix btm a script to convert text files from DOS format to Unix format down src btm a script to download and run installer or package according to the settings given in specified utility folder doi2img btm a script to convert dvi file to images supporting frequently used image formats dvicpy btm a script to expand virtual fonts to practical fonts in dvi file dvimerge btm a script to merge two dvi files dvinup btm a script to convert dvi file by putting several pages on one page doiview btm a script to view dvi files supporting most known dvi view ers including DviWin DviOut WinDvi Yap CCTWin32 Dviscr editx btm a script to invoke openx btm edit emf2eps btm a script to convert emf figure to eps figure eps2pdf btm a script to convert eps figure to pdf figure EqnEdit Web btm a script to invoke on line equation editor fast cfg btm fast configuration for MTpx gconvert btm a script to make arbitrary image conversion gen pke list btm a script to batchly generate an Excel file from tpm files genfontdb btm a script to generate font database file fonts db cfg genmakefile btm a script to generate a Makefile template based on files in current folder
46. ortant thing for the students hence the teacher should give enough chances for students to learn by practice In my graduate courses I always ask the students to finish their assignments with TEX by using JV TEX Note that the teacher need not introduce many LAIEX commands to students since the students are suggested to read the classic document shipped with MTE X 19 such as Ishort pdf and all the students will grasp IATEX in continuous exer cises of using IEX xe za imm imm fetid qu PIDE RN b 1 Vibes leant Ieee mel Jiru wr im t AF t oki 1188 cine wiih sarrs cee arb rans riot TIL cop pele s Lilite ie pr a FEF EFS primiera br dhe belp of Ghoptteript for cessed ies Ger mme bn FN BRS files V in gap Sl roe a rl IL Taal rri i m Litem anri feted nt i tasiw L the art nel a ve rai Li M LITT ape aJl I L IN nu rele I z Lenina Ligninel hueit ian Quik Siart Zur Ver ing Vaukecction iaa Dame mis Shen id nite rate pites Invoke ihe dalwulz sdlisr anpi lm IE be raring areal ENTE 1 l Litem Gcee mur demz file 2 arh bn ou beet bar tel urb ba umana teal ier poe 11 E ccm ars evel Mirti Lege mih com fold Tt Set ee altos item Caim FiLe aircclarbon aad oleh DIXI 15 matalas fllan yalkted with Ta SVapdionuaerala TI ESI sima um Exaaj ls Weekes tion Seuri Coapilaticn a Kore dim Sm E PBR Al l In Jur lag V kbotien Brief Datredaztica i r LM HTT esaia im PSR ACACA
47. p jma folder LocalViils foldar ae folder E ADeez im MTaX local repository m setup i baer TMae fer editers Sel IDE Wiskdt Sel TesCatr Te Reset Befault is Figure 1 Basic Settings for MTE X Create Shortcuts The users are suggested to create shortcuts for V TEX for conve nience To do this the users just need to do the following steps 1 Invoke MTgxX Main Menu by running mtex MainMenu cmd 2 Click button MTeX Shortcuts and a message box will appear 3 Click button Create Shortcuts to create some shortcuts The users can also remove the shortcuts at any time by similar operations except that the users need to click button Delete Shortcuts in the last step 12 us F Question Figure 2 Create Shortcuts for MTpx Once shortcuts are created the users can invoke MTpx editor V IgX DOS MTEX Main Menu directly from the desktop and user can access some unique Send To shortcuts for selected file in the explorer Smart Open with MIeX Smartly uses proper utility to open view the se lected file according to its file type Smart Edit with MTeX Smartly uses proper utility to edit the selected file according to its file type Smart Convert with MTeX Smartly uses proper utility to convert the selected file according to its file type MTeX Dos Prompt Provides a unique DOS prompt window which is much more powerful than Microsoft Command Prompt MTeX IDE Edi
48. r interface for non Chinese code pages we have mainly provided language files for Simplified Chinese codepage 936 and Traditional Chinese codepage 950 user interfaces So if the users have interests to translate the language files please contact the author so as to make VfITEX more international 29 MTX Has Special Design for Chinese As mentioned before typesetting Chinese documents may be more complex than typesetting English documents and hence Chinese TEX community has made many efforts and invented number of tools and macro packages to make the Chinese typesetting happier However unfortunately most of them are only re leased in Chinese forums and hence most of them are not available in CTAN 28 or western world As a TEX system mainly for Chinese users MT X integrates most existing tools and macro packages for Chinese typesetting and provides cor responding compilation options in the settings dialog for the main compilation command clatex which is in charge of almost all the smart compilation procedure for various TEX source files 2 10 MTX Has Special Design for Beginners As a LATEX user I know that many people feel that LATEX is very difficult to learn To help V TEX users to learn and practice MTX provides many demo examples templates selected documents as well as some tips for beginners From my own learning experience and teaching experience I think IEX can be easy to learn in the right way Use existing
49. registry res2dll btm a script to convert res file to d11 file via Delphi compiler rtfview btm a script to view rtf file via the associated application run btm a script to run an editable command run edt btm a script to run WinEdt commands runx btm a script to ask for actions for given file whose extension deter mines the possible actions search btm a script to search for an executable file set msg btm a script to set an internal environment variable MSC setclatex btm a script to show a dialog for customize the options of smart compilation setemtex btm a script to set environments for using EmTeX setjava btm a script to search or set the path of java exe setlang btm a script to set up the language interface of V TEX setproxy btm a script to set the proxy server for commands including wget curl and svn setttfpk btm a script to set environment variables for program ttf2pk spell btm a script to detect and invoke available speller shipped with V TEX supporting 4spell aspell ispell amspell Word Spell WPS Spell and WinEdt Spell striptex btm a script to strip line comments in TeX files 28 sun checkout btm a script to emulate son checkout command without installing utility svn t2h btm a script to convert text file to HTML file t2l btm a script to convert text file to IATEX file I2r btm a script to convert tex
50. t file to rtf file Icstart btm a script to be called before any other batch scripts mainly prepar ing necessary environments for JVfTEX testspeed btm a script to test speed of specified servers lex cmd btm a script to determine the proper TEX engine of a tex file texscan btm a script to preprocess figures included in the TEX file by scan ning contents of TEX file tpx2eps btm a script to convert tpx image file to eps image file tpx2jpg btm a script to convert tpx image file to jpg image file tpx2PDF btm a script to convert tpx image file to pdf image file tpxscale btm a script to process tpx file so as to make it scalable by any factor defined in TEX file Ixt2dvi btm a script to convert text file to dvi file txt2eps btm a script to convert text file to eps file txt2img btm a script to convert text file to image file of any format txt2pdf btm a script to convert text file to pdf file txt2ps btm a script to convert text file to ps file un inst btm a script to uninstall MTEX utility if un installer found unbib btm a script to post process bib file generated by BibEdit so as to use Chinese references uninstall btm a script to uninstall MITEX removing temporary folders and changes to the registry unix2dos btm a script to convert Unix text file to DOS text file unknown cmd btm a script to be invoked when unknown command found in the MTEX DOS prompt 29 upd map btm a scr
51. tes most enhancements made by SciTE Ru 47 and it adds more unique features for TpXing and programming jobs We made many efforts to make this small text editor as powerful as other editors and easy to use by providing pre configured settings for TEX files and many programming languages in unified 36 ways In this section due to the page limit we only introduce some features of Sc1IDE by example 6 2 Main Features Briefly speaking Sc1IDE has the following main features Customizable locales Support Unicode encoding Customizable tools menu even submenus Customizable toolbar buttons Customizable keyboard shortcuts Multi buffer editing Row block and column block operations Output buffer for running commands Richful command line arguments Customizable language support Customizable syntax highlight Customizable code folding Customizable code auto completion Customizable code API call tips Customizable abbreviation expansion Built in lua 48 scripting Customizable lua extensions Regular expression searching and replacing Full screen editing Editing macros support Compilation error locating Brace auto matching 37 Block or line commenting Unique Files panel to show files in current folder favorite files and project files Unique Outline panel to show structure and bookmarks of current file Unique Ab
52. th the typical installation hence MT X will download and install XeTEX component on the fly and then use this engine to compile the document successfully A customized Ghost Script as well as GsView are provided in the typical installation The following selected utilities are shipped with the typical installation Aspell 34 the default spell checker which can be used in any text editor Bibedit 35 one simple reference management program to generate bib files Dviwin 31 the default dvi viewer with many features Gnuplot 36 one powerful scientific drawing software by scripts used also by some other MT X utilities such as Rlab 37 IrfanView 38 one small picture viewer and converter providing arbi trary image file conversion 2h 39 one component to convert IATEX to HTML web page 2r 40 one component to convert TEX to rtf file Word docu ment latexmac a tiny tool to insert IATEX commands or symbols metapost 41 a small powerful drawing program to generate PostScript figures ppower 15 a small java application to assist the slides making with macro package pause sty 35 RedMon 33 a small utility to provide free pdf and eps printers by the help of GhostScript for converting any document to pdf or eps files in any Windows applications SumatraPDF 32 the default pdf viewer capable of inverse searching TeXaide 42 a small utili
53. ts the file with the default TEX editor Note that the first three shortcuts are very powerful since they support arbi trary file types and the actions they will do for different file types are completely defined in the configuration file openx cfg which in fact provides one elegant and green way to replace the complex file association mechanism of Windows via the registry For example for a selected file hello idle written in Idle scripting language Smart Open with MIeX will prompt several choices shown in Figure 3 like Idle IdleW Idle2Exe and Idle2Exe GUI then clicking Idle2Exe will result in download and install on the fly shown in Figure 4 of the utility Idle which is a component on the MTEX servers and is not packed into the typical installation and converting this idle script to an exe file by calling command idlec in utitity idle with proper options Related configurations in file openx cfg are shown in Listing 1 which defines the possible actions for idle files and the commands to launch them 13 Ee k Question Ready to download util idle from server Ftp mites mtesi 0 106 2 7 7D mtex current please alie kam IDI E rook a shl desl dod minbir suse kamin ni Please confirm where to put util idle Usually no need to change it D Amtes utils Figure 4 Snapshot of Download and Install on the Fly of utility in MTEX Listing 1 Configuration example of openx cfg idle Idle Idl
54. ty to help IATEX beginners to typeset formulas in the way of Equation Editor like in Microsoft Office TpX 43 a small drawing utility for most drawing jobs x2l 44 a small plugin of Excel to help Excel users to generate IATEX tables from Excel tables 6 ScIIDE All In One IDE Currently the default editor in MTEX is Sc1IDE or All In One IDE which is developed based on free software SciTE and mainly maintained by the author and two another researchers in China 6 1 Brief Introduction SclIDE is released as a free open source software whose source codes can be found from http code google com p scitelatexide The initial name of Sc1IDE was SciteLatexIDE which was coined by Instanton 45 who made some changes and special configurations to enhance the official SciTE so that it can be more suitable for editing and compiling TEX files as well as using some related tools conveniently Later the author and another researcher Hongsheng Qi took over the job of enhancing and maintaining this software We made significant improve ments to previous SciteLatexIDE and rename it to Sc1IDE or All In One IDE to reflect the nature that it aims to be a general purpose text editor and integrated development environment which is suitable for TEXing programming web de sign and so on supporting most file types as well as compilers and tools Roughly speaking Sc1IDE not only keeps all features of SciTE 46 but also incorpora
55. vailable http www ctex org HomePage 5 Aloft Lingyun Wu Online Available Mhttp aloft ctex org wiki LingyunWu 6 MikTeX Project Page Online Available http miktex org 7 WinEdt Web Site Online Available http www winedt com 8 CCT s User Manual Online Available ftp ftp cc ac cn pub cct CCTLaTex pdf 9 Zhang Linbo s home page Online Available lsec cc ac cn zlb 10 Tian Yuan System Web Site Online Available http wims math ecnu edu cn ty index ty html 11 Luatex home page Online Available http www luatex org 12 BibTeX HomePage Online Available http www bibtex org 43 13 TeX applet used to generate correct Chinese PDF bookmarks Online Available http www treebsdsoftware org chinese gbk2uni html 14 The TeX Catalogue OnLine Entry for fixbbl Home Edition Online Available http texcatalogue sarovar org entries fixbbl html 15 PPower4 Manual Online Available http www tex ac uk tex archive support ppower4 manual pdf 16 fpTeX teTeX for Win32 Online Available http www slac stanford edu comp unix package tex fptex fptex html 17 Index of systems e tex v2 1 dostp Online Available http ctan mirrorcatalogs com systems e tex v2 1 dostp 18 CTAN web interface Directory listing for systems msdos emtex On line Available http tug ctan org t
56. x only pdflatex only tex only Emm 1 76 05 dvips Record run cs a Fe Ales running w El Exit after finizhi Type command direc Figure 14 Snapshot of UtilsMan external powerful tools menu for any text editor 33 M Timer Mini Timing Tool This tool is very helpful for timing reminder during rehearsal of slides 5 3 Other Components In the typical MTEX installation besides the MTEX kernel the following compo nents are provided Almost all standard macro packages in CTAN are provided in the compact form Only macro files e g sty cls cfg are included while their docu ments are packed as document archives and put on the servers of MT X for possible download and install on the fly later For example typing doc listings in the MfITEX DOS Prompt will view the document after download and install on the fly for document listings pdf if it is not available in the local documents folder It is also convenient to check all local documents and server documents via the MTEX Main Menu Almost all macro packages made by Chinese TpXers are provided also with brief usage introduction Some selected documents for beginners such as lshort pdf are provided in the doc folder of V IEX All local documents can be accessed directly by invoking MTEX Main Menu M TEX Documents To help users a specific demo folder is provided in MTX so as to provide many simple TeX files for illustrating the straight
57. y not necessary or recommended if the users use MTEX for TpXing 2 MTgxX Is Cutting Edge Some well known TEX distributions e g emTeX and fpTeX have stopped main taince and updating However we know that although the most fundamental TEX engine invented by D E Knuth 27 have been frozed the techniques related with TEX have been changing always in recent years and some new TEX engines macros tools and fonts have emerged As far as I know many people are still us ing the out dated MiKTEX 2 4 To enable the users to try the latest TEX techniques MTEX is very cutting edge in sense that it is often updated with the latest TEX engines macros tools and fonts which are downloaded and processed by our own batch scripts As a small yet featureful TEX distribution MT X allows the users to update to the latest version easily by clicking the button Update MTex Components in the MTEX Main Menu All installed components can be updated automatically or manually 2 8 MTE X Has Multi language Interface MTX supports multiple language user interface and has been configured well for Chinese users to typeset Chinese With MT EX users can easily switch among user interfaces for different code pages provided that corresponding configuration files language files of the requested code page exist in MITEX Currently since the users of MT X are mainly Chinese students or teachers or researchers besides the default English codepage 437 use
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