Installation setup for Windows - rvce-latex/Project-Report-Template GitHub Wiki

Installation Setup:

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The following are files needed for setting up Latex in your Windows machine:

  1. Miktex - It's like a C compiler: Download it from Here
  2. TeXstudio/Texmaker - It's like a Code editor, which provides more functionality than the native editor(TeXworks) that ships with Miktex: Download TeXstudio from Here (or) Texmaker from Here.

Note: In Youtube videos, you might have seen using Texmaker, but I personally realized later TeXstudio is better. But it's upto your preference to choise.

Now that we have done with the basic setup to run a latex document in your system. Next we need to setup some more tools to work with Bibliography and Abbreviations (Acronyms) in your project report.

  1. JabRef - It's a free reference manager: Download it from Here
  2. Strawberry Perl - Tool needed to properly compile your Bibliography: Download Strawberry Perl from Here

Installation

Let's begin with the installation of Miktex, with all default setting. Once done, you can Update your packages using 'MiKTeX Console'.

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Next, install your preferred code editor, with default options during the installation.

Next, you can download the zip file of the Project report from here.

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Now extract the above downloaded zip file(Project-Report-Template-main.zip) in a preferred location of your machine and navigate to the location \Project-Report-Template-main\Project-Report-Template-main, where you will find Main.tex file. Open it with your preferred code editor, in my case it will be "TeXstudio".

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After opening the file, you can click on Play button, as marked in the following image, you end up getting a Pop-up image for the additional package installations, you can either install directly [so that you can see which packages are all getting installed on your machine] (or) you can Uncheck Always show this dialog option at the bottom of the pop-up window [which installs all the necessary packages to run the first latext document, but this might have to be re-enabled to ensure that you aren't installing any 'miscellaneous' package that might tread your data]. This process will take sometime and the 'play head' turns Gray and 'stop' button turns Red, so be patient.

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Once, you see back your play gets back to Green, you can use this image to view the PDF file.

You might notice that your "Abbreviation" page turns blank. This is where you need to install Perl. After your sucessfull installation, you might look into Compiling Abbreviations and List of symbols page for that. Also, go through Compiling Bibliography page for compiling your bibiliography.