May 16. 2009 21:29

Hi

Great to see this making a beta as portable versions are so incredibly useful. I use NoteTabPro as my writing environment with TexLips scripts to automate running MiKTeX. Running this on Windows XP SP3, the cmd file worked fine, however when I tried using pdflatex on a tex file it crashed with the last line shown loading a4wide.sty.

Is there a method to feedback problems with the exact information you would like?

Many thanks

mike

Mike

May 30. 2009 22:29

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May 31. 2009 14:30

The miktex bin directory is added to PATH only when a command prompt is launched. Why do not add this when the miktex-portable.cmd is started ? (it may be usefull for using tex editors like texmaker)

MB_MathemaTeX

June 26. 2009 19:49

does anybody know a usefull editor for this version?

normally i use techniccenter, but this has to be installed normally on the hd.

miktex + LATEX-editor for usb: that would be fine

lekrul

June 28. 2009 15:52

A very nice, portable, tex editor is WinShell.

To make it portable you just create a folder named "Settings" in the directory where you unpacked it.

Paul

July 3. 2009 20:06

take LED, it works very good

Ali

July 5. 2009 20:49

Hallo,

wenn ich das Paket "mathptmx" oder "helvet" einbinde, bekomme ich Fehlermeldungen wie die Folgende:

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ptmr8t): Font ptmr8t at 540 not found
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Kann der Profi daraus was ablesen? Ich bin eher LaTeX-Beginner und habe bisher auch immer texlive unter Debian eingesetzt.

Als LaTeX-Editor kann ich im übringen den GNU Emacs nur empfehlen. Den kann man auch portabel einsetzen: at-aka.blogspot.com/.../...emacs-22050-on-usb.html

Beste Grüße!
Karl

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July 13. 2009 21:28

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July 15. 2009 15:30

Hello.
I use Texmaker portable edition, works like a charm.
Bye.
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-.Nicolás.-

Nicolas Conde

July 18. 2009 13:07

Cant wait for the next version

John Smith

July 18. 2009 20:10

This wors vey well. Thanks

John Smith

July 21. 2009 00:45

Hi, I tried miktex portable and when I (un)install packages, I get the following error:

initexmf: warning: The omega executable could not be found.
initexmf: warning: The omega executable could not be found.

Thanks,
David

David

July 24. 2009 10:29

Hi,

Today I have used the "Update" Option and Miktex Portable has stooped working.

It seems this update is a "major" update that has corrupted in some way the portable version of Miktex.

I had updated Miktex portable before with no problems.

Regards

Ramon

July 25. 2009 17:07

First I am very happy to see the portable version be released. You had announced that months ago in the blog, and so, today I remembered that and searched for it. But I'm not really pleased with the portable edition. I think it is not nice to handle the initialization process by launching a command script. Why don't you make an executable from it? Showing a nice window with the progress in percents... Especially for unskilled users, this might be a better option.

Jayk

July 25. 2009 17:14

I cite (Karl's thread):

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!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ptmr8t): Font ptmr8t at 540 not found
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
----

How can one actually register new fonts?

Jayk

July 28. 2009 23:06

After installing Miktex portable and running the commandscript, TexWorks will not start from the context menu, though yap, command propmpt, etc. start just fine.

I therefore installed Texmaker portable, but when I try to run pdflatex I get: "Error: could not start the command"

Any ideas?
(Using win xp)

jolle

August 3. 2009 14:23

I installed mt-28-beta-portable on Vista SP1. There are errors from mkfmt and texworks will not start, although tex and pdftex work for simple files. Trying to run texworks from the command prompt gives:

C:\Users\gwhite\Documents\Testing\MiKTeX-2.8>texworks
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.

The event log has event 78 and refers to a config file that mentions the MSVCRT90 .dll's. "Side-by-Side" is a trick from MS to allow apps to specify a particular .dll (e.g., a workaround for ".dll" version conflicts). I have .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. This is a shared laptop, so who knows what has been installed/uninstalled by others.

George N. White III

September 23. 2009 12:42

Hi,

i am new to Latex systems in general but facing some problems using the portable versions of both texmaker and miktex..

i first extracted miktex portable zip file on usb and then i did the same with Texmaker portable extracting its .zip file to the usb stick.

now i'm getting the error "could not start the command" when trying to compile a (syntactic correct) tex-file into pdf (for example)...

What kind of things do i have to adopt in the Texmaker configuration and how to get it work respectively...

thanks for your help!

Jens

September 29. 2009 11:33

Thanks a lot for the release, the installation and first tests went very well! Such a portable edition is very useful, great job!

Yolin