# App/Xtn/Mediawiki/Math/Latex/Windows

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LaTEX is not natively available to Windows. Fortunately, MiKTEX is open-source and distributed under Free Software Guidelines.

## Manual: download

- Navigate to http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/setup/
- Download miktex-portable.exe
- Launch the exe. Choose an installation directory of C:\xowa\bin\windows\miktex\. When you are done, you should have a file called C:\xowa\bin\windows\miktex\miktex\bin\latex.exe

Note that you may receive some prompts along the way

- Paper size should be left to a4, else some images may wrap.
- Under MiKTeX Settings, choose Refresh FNDB, else errors when generating other dvi

## Manual: options

The math module uses MathJax by default. You can change it to LaTEX by navigating to Options/Math and choosing LaTeX

## Testing

- Visit Diagnostics/Math
- Wait a few seconds. You will get a MikTeX prompt to download another repository. Specifically:

    `The package will be installed from: <Random package repository>`
    `The package will be installed for: <your_user_name>`
  Accept the defaults and press Install
  This should be the only other download request when using MikTeX.
  Note that the first request may take a full minute to process and there will be no progress indicator.
  Note also that this message box may disrupt dynamic math updates. You will need to manually refresh the page in order to see the math image. This manual refresh is only needed for the first page; future pages will automatically update images dynamically.

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