MiKTeX Manual Revision 4.2 Christian Schenk MiKTeX Manual: Revision 4.2 Christian Schenk Copyright © 2021 Christian Schenk Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. Table of Contents About this Document ........................................................................................................... v I. User Guide ..................................................................................................................... 1 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................ 3 About this Manual .............................................................................................. 3 About MiKTeX .................................................................................................. 3 How to Get MiKTeX ........................................................................................... 3 Give Back .......................................................................................................... 3 The MiKTeX Project Page ................................................................................... 3 Documentation .................................................................................................... 4 2. Installing MiKTeX ................................................................................................... 5 Windows ........................................................................................................... 5 macOS .............................................................................................................. 5 Linux ................................................................................................................ 5 3. Using MiKTeX ....................................................................................................... 6 Getting Started .................................................................................................... 6 Unique TeX features ............................................................................................ 6 Automatic Package Installation ...................................................................... 6 Finding out Package Usages ......................................................................... 6 Specifying Additional Input Directories .......................................................... 7 Specifying the Directory for Auxiliary Files ..................................................... 7 texify: The MiKTeX Compiler Driver .................................................................... 7 Printing ............................................................................................................. 8 Using a Viewer to Print DVI/PDF Files .......................................................... 8 Using mtprint to Print DVI Files .................................................................. 8 4. Maintenance ........................................................................................................... 9 Refreshing the File Name Database ........................................................................ 9 Setting the Preferred Paper Format ......................................................................... 9 Installing Updates ............................................................................................... 9 Automatic Package Installation .............................................................................. 9 Integrating Local Additions ................................................................................... 9 5. Advanced Topics ................................................................................................... 11 Managing Font Map Files ................................................................................... 11 Changing TEXMF run-time parameters ................................................................. 11 II. Reference ..................................................................................................................... 12 6. Programs .............................................................................................................. 14 miktex-bibtex .................................................................................................... 15 miktex-dvicopy ................................................................................................. 17 miktex-dvips ..................................................................................................... 19 findtexmf ......................................................................................................... 25 miktex-gftodvi .................................................................................................. 27 initexmf ........................................................................................................... 29 miktex-luatex .................................................................................................... 32 miktex-mf ........................................................................................................ 36 miktexsetup ...................................................................................................... 40 mpm ................................................................................................................ 44 miktex-mpost .................................................................................................... 48 mthelp ............................................................................................................. 50 mtprint ............................................................................................................. 52 miktex-pdftex .................................................................................................... 53 setupwiz ........................................................................................................... 58 miktex-tex ........................................................................................................ 60 iii MiKTeX Manual texify ............................................................................................................... 65 miktex-xetex ..................................................................................................... 67 7. Files .................................................................................................................... 71 miktex.ini ......................................................................................................... 72 pdftex.cfg ......................................................................................................... 92 updmap.cfg ....................................................................................................... 94 8. Environment variables ............................................................................................ 96 9. Trace Streams ....................................................................................................... 97 10. Run-Time Defaults ............................................................................................... 99 All MiKTeX Programs ....................................................................................... 99 BibTeX .......................................................................................................... 117 All TeXMF Programs ....................................................................................... 118 All TeX Programs ............................................................................................ 119 pdfTeX .......................................................................................................... 119 METAFONT & MetaPost ................................................................................. 119 METAFONT ................................................................................................... 120 MetaPost ........................................................................................................ 120 Index ............................................................................................................................. 121 iv About this Document This is version 4.2 of the MiKTeX manual. It corresponds to MiKTeX 21.8 as of August 6, 2021. v Part I. User Guide Table of Contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 3 About this Manual ...................................................................................................... 3 About MiKTeX .......................................................................................................... 3 How to Get MiKTeX ................................................................................................... 3 Give Back .................................................................................................................