[Blindmath] LaTeX on Windows

[Roopakshi Pathania]

http://miktex.org/portable/


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--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>
> Subject: [Blindmath] LaTeX on Windows
> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 7:16 PM
> Hello,
> I don't know if you remember about the Summer University
> event John Gardner mentioned about, well I will be giving a
> workshop on LaTeX and would like some advice on how to set
> up access to LaTeX for the students.
> 
> From the email I have just received it seems like students
> will be bringing their own laptops and that software will be
> installed on their laptops. My concern is that LaTeX (I know
> of the MikTeX distribution for windows) is quite large and
> depending on space available may take up near enough all
> that remains in some cases (that would be the situation on
> the windows partition of my laptop, I only use LaTeX from
> Linux now). Now as this will be quite an introductory
> workshop I can't imagine using all of LaTeX packages in
> MikTeX (I think other than the core of LaTeX, depending on
> time I will cover inserting images/graphs and possibly also
> cover beamer). So can anyone suggest a smaller LaTeX
> distribution for windows? I would also like to have tex4ht
> available (or another LaTeX to mathml converter) as it will
> mean the students can do a sort of checking of their
> output.
> 
> I can think of a couple of other solutions but these aren't
> so satisfactory as it would be best the students work in the
> computing environment they use and will continue to use.
> Examples of alternatives I am thinking of is either
> providing remote access to my laptop (eg. ssh) or have a
> Linux LiveCD with all software required on it and use USB
> memory sticks for the files they create to be stored on.
> 
> Thanks for any advice. Those telling me I should use
> windows more are probably right in this case, its just Linux
> tends to meet my personal needs so much better.
> 
> Michael Whapples
> 
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