LaT<sub>E</sub>X is not natively available to Windows. Fortunately, <ahref="http://miktex.org/"rel="nofollow"class="external text">MiKT<sub>E</sub>X</a> is open-source and distributed under <ahref="http://miktex.org/copying"rel="nofollow"class="external text">Free Software Guidelines</a>.
Navigate to <ahref="http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/setup/"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/setup/</a>
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Download <b>miktex-portable.exe</b>
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Launch the exe. Choose an installation directory of <b>C:\xowa\bin\windows\miktex\</b>. When you are done, you should have a file called <b>C:\xowa\bin\windows\miktex\miktex\bin\latex.exe</b>
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Note that you may receive some prompts along the way
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Paper size should be left to a4, else some images may wrap.
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Under MiKTeX Settings, choose Refresh FNDB, else errors when generating other dvi
The math module uses MathJax by default. You can change it to LaT<sub>E</sub>X by navigating to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Math.html"id="xolnki_2"title="Options/Math"class="xowa-visited">Options/Math</a> and choosing LaTeX
Wait a few seconds. You will get a MikTeX prompt to download another repository. Specifically:
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<code>The package will be installed from: <Random package repository></code>
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<code>The package will be installed for: <your_user_name></code>
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Accept the defaults and press Install
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This should be the only other download request when using MikTeX.
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Note that the first request may take a full minute to process and there will be no progress indicator.
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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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