MiKTeX News

Christian Schenk

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Table of Contents

MiKTeX 2.2 News
Yap
PdfTeX
Dvips
Omega
JadeTeX
Setting Auxiliary Directory for TeX and Friends
GFtoDVI
Package Repository
Package Manager
Incompatible Changes

MiKTeX 2.2 News

Yap

Continuous View

By popular request, Yap now offers a continuous view of the DVI document.

There are two new page layouts:

Continuous/Single

All pages are arranged in a continuous column. The vertical scroll bar represents the whole document.

Continuous/Double

Like “Continuous/Single”, except that two pages at a time are displayed.

PdfTeX

Update to version 1.00c.

Dvips

Update to version 5.90a.

Omega

Update to version 1.15.

JadeTeX

JadeTeX runs much faster now.

Setting Auxiliary Directory for TeX and Friends

The option -aux-directory=dir sets the directory, where TeX and Friends make, keep and find auxiliary files (i.e. *.aux, *.toc, *.log, ...).

The new option can be combined with -output-directory=dir to keep the output directory clean. For example:

C:\> pdflatex -output-directory=C:\pdfout -aux-directory=C:\temp foo.tex

GFtoDVI

GFtoDVI now accepts various command-line options:

gftodvi [-gray-font=font] [-help] [-include-directory=dir] [-label-font=font] [-overflow-label-offset=real] [-slant-font=font] [-title-font=font] [-trace=traceflags] [-version] gffile

Package Repository

More than 200 packages have been updated during the last 12 months. See ctan:systems/win32/miktex/setup/changelog.html, for more details.

Package Manager

It's now possible to download packages through a proxy server which requires authentication.

The package manager now has it's own GUI (mpm.exe).

Incompatible Changes

TeX

The handling of command-line options has changed:

  • Option names cannot be abbreviated any longer. For example, it is necessary to say --terminal=oem instead of -term=oem.

  • The -src-specials option doesn't anymore expect an optional where argument.