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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Hi Philip,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Okay, 3 hours and Texlive was installed. Now what? I nosed around trying to figure out what to do with it, unsuccessfully. Is there some interface to typeset files? I am clueless here. I see this Texlive shell
page that means nothing to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I thought TeX was an easily accessed program for regular people like myself. I guess I was living in a dream world, with PCTeX as my security blanket. Now ripped from my hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">bob jantzen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@Hellenic-Institute.Uk>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 25, 2021 6:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robert Jantzen <robert.jantzen@villanova.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Dr Alan Litchfield <alan@alphabyte.co.nz>; texhax@tug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: TeX on Windows?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Robert Jantzen wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I am running Windows 10 on a 2 year old Dell Latitude laptop (Villanova University issue). My PCTex6.1 typesets my 836 page text on Differential Geometry in about 10 seconds, but requires 3 passes, then I
export to PDF maybe 20 seconds and I get a beautiful PDF book BUT the cross-links do not work. Earlier in the decade they would work, now I am stuck unable to update my PDF book with working navigation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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OK, do you have administrator access to that machine ? Regardless, try what I did today in order to install TeX Live 2021 afresh —<o:p></o:p></p>
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Download the TeX Collection 2021 ISO file from <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fftp.math.utah.edu%2Fpub%2Ftexlive-utah-2021%2FImages%2Ftexcol2021.iso&data=04%7C01%7Crobert.jantzen%40villanova.edu%7Cdfd9d395c6ef41a4d8e408d91fca1d8a%7C765a8de5cf9444f09cafae5bf8cfa366%7C0%7C0%7C637575775198604095%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ePjP4zPrpTUafIG1IVIqR40yacwctmKiAFTBSmf%2F23o%3D&reserved=0">
http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah-2021/Images/texcol2021.iso</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Extract all files to a new directory (e.g., C:\TeX Collection 2021) on your hard disc<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Navigate (in Windows Explorer) to C:\TeX Collection 2021<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Double-click on files "setup.bat"<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
When the TeX Collection DVD 2021 GUI launches, tell it that you want to "Run TeXLive Setup"; if you have administrator access, then also tell it "... as Administrator".<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Expect a bug report just after the last package has been installed — this should be non-fatal.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Wait for installation to complete (<i>circa</i> 3 hours), then test and report back.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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