Note, April 2001: This site is now rather seriously dated. If you are looking for a free TeX/LaTeX installation for Microsoft Windows I recommend trying fpTeX or MiKTeX -- both of these are up to date.

EMTEXGI Home Page

EmTeX itself, I should point out, is an implementation of TeX written by Eberhard Mattes, and primarily designed for OS/2 and DOS. The various add-ons in the emtexgi package are intended to make it work smoothly under Windows.

Development of the 16-bit version of emtexgi is probably at an end with 2.071 Beta. There is a later version, 2.08 Beta, available for 32-bit Windows (the main change being support for the BSR Type 1 fonts). If you want to find out about the program, take a look at the documentation. There are various bits:

• readme.txt is a starting point;
  
• features.txt goes a little further;
  
• install.txt gets into details of setting up emTeX and emtexgi from scratch (and you can also take a look at the installation batch file, emtex.bat);
  
• emtexgi.tex is the user's manual in LaTeX format (or here in HTML).
  
• manifest.txt gives an annotated listing of the files in emtexgi.zip; and
  
• last but not least, a news page contains the lastest information that may supercede some of stuff in the other files, and also a summary record of changes between emtexgi versions.
  

If you are interested in establishing an emTeX system, with emtexgi, from scratch, please follow this link to a hot-linked listing of all the files you will need.

If you have an installation of version 2.0X Beta of EMTEXGI, (with X less than 8) you may wish to take a look at this update page.

If you have had problems installing the LaTeX graphics package, please take a look at this fix page.

If you previously tried unsuccessfully to get emtexgi running under Windows 95, getting the message "Error loading from file", then, besides looking at the update page mentioned above, please take a look at this fix page.

One of the features of emtexgi is a menu item for calling Ghostview to preview postscript files. But I have not attempted to provide instructions for installing Ghostview/Ghostscript within the emtexgi "package". If you are interested, please click here for the Ghostview/Ghostscript homepage.

Further information

There is an electronic mailing list, emtex-user, for emTeX. To get information on how to subscribe and unsubscribe, send a message containing

HELP
INFO EMTEX-USER

in the body to majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de. (Please note that this list is related to emTeX as such, rather than emtexgi, so you won't necessarily find answers to emtexgi-specific questions there.)

There are many useful TeX-related links (FAQ, on-line documentation of various sorts) at www.tug.org.

As a last resort you may email me at cottrell@wfu.edu. I will try to respond to queries, but supporting emtexgi is a "hobby" and I can't always reply as quickly as I'd like to.

Personally, I rarely use Windows these days (since I prefer Linux), and I'm on the lookout for anyone who might be interested in taking over the maintenance of emtexgi. Some experience with MS Visual Basic is, I guess, required. Please let me know if you're interested! While we're at it, here is the source code for emtexgi in case anyone wants to mess with it.