installingmiktextexlivetexmakerwindows
I'm trying to setup my Windows 7 box with LaTeX. I had installed TexMaker 3.0, but I later found out I had to install a TeX Package (like MikTeX/TeXLive) before installing TexMaker.
My question is very simple – for a normal day-to-day use (writing papers/formatting CVs), which is the best Windows implementation that works with TexMaker on Windows 7?
I found the solution!.
The problem is the colon : in the TEXINPUTS path, used in Unix to separate the various paths, and that utterly confuses Windows. Instead of the colon, to separate elements in the path you should use a semicolon ;.
So setting:
TEXINPUTS=../TeXinputs
as in this image:
it then does works in texmaker. If you need more than one path, you can use
TEXINPUTS=../TeXinputs;C:/Users/MYUSER/Desktop/TeXinputsGlobal
...and it works ok.
The confusion was that the bash shell understands the notation /c/ instead of C:\ but CMD.exe doesn't.
It looks like the .sty file is available here.
http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~kcb/LaTeX.shtml
If you run kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME In terminal, it should give you path to a folder called texmf/.
If you put the .sty file in a subdirectory of that file such as texmf/tex/latex/commonstuff/ then you should be able to run texhash [path to texmf folder] to have latex rescan the folder.
I took the installation instructions from here:
Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files?
Best Answer
MikTeX and TeXLive are not TeX packages but distributions. Both implement basically the same compilers. Both take the packages (the files you include with
\usepackage) from CTAN. These are independent from the distributions. However, some (newer) packages might be not (yet) included in one distribution. But there should not be any difference for "normal day-to-day use".What is different between these two distributions is how they allow you to update packages, i.e. which user interface they give you in addition to the normal (La)TeX compilers. MikTeX for example allows the automatic installation of missing packages on-the-fly. AFAIK it is also more optimized towards Windows users. TeXLive is provided for other OSs as well and is therefor less Windows specific. You might want to use MikTeX on Windows because of that. TeXMaker should work fine with both.