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WinEdt setup and default settings have been carefully prepared to make installation and integration with MiKTeX or TeX Live automatic. It is recommended that you install WinEdt and your TeX System as a power user (administrator) in order to allow the programs and their installers to properly update your Windows Registry and/ or PATH, thus making automatic integration with WinEdt possible.
Download and execute the setup file winedt60.exe. The Installer Wizard will guide you through the installation. For most users the default options in the Wizard should be used. However, if you are creating a portable installation you should disable User Profile Creation. After the installation is completed it is recommended that you let the Installer start WinEdt for the first time.
On first opening, WinEdt presents you with its Configuration Wizard where you can perform some further - and important- additional tasks, most notably, filetype associations. If you decide to postpone this for later you may have to start WinEdt with elevated privileges; on Windows Vista or Windows 7 this is done by right-clicking on the icon used to start WinEdt and choosing "Run as Administrator" from the popup menu. With Enabled User Profile Creation WinEdt can be run by restricted users since it stores application data in user-specific folder with write access. However, without elevated privileges WinEdt may not be able to create filetype associations which require write access to Windows Registry.
After these preliminaries, start the Options Interface (from the Options Menu). A Tree Control containing different configuration components will appear above the Navigation Bar:
WinEdt's Help explains how to use this new interface in order to make changes to the default configuration. In particular, you should make any required changes pertaining to your preferred Wrapping and Backup strategy.
IMPORTANT: The default setting for wrapping of TeX Documents uses Soft Wrapping. This was done because many (would-be/ new) users familiar with Notepad-like style of wrapping report as a bug any different behavior. Of course, this may not be everyone's choice! If you are accustomed to work with Smart Wrapping you should remove TeX; or any other unwanted mode from the filter for which Soft Wrapping is enabled:
// If you don't want TeX Documents to be treated in Soft Mode remove TeX; from the filter! // Soft Wrapping (like Notepad): SOFT_WRAPPING=1 SOFT_WRAPPING_FILTER="TeX;HTML;ANSI;Soft|Hard"
This should be done before you start working on your documents!
Not really: WinEdt 6 installs parallel to WinEdt 5 (you can continue to use WinEdt 5 and possibly uninstall WinEdt 6 if you prefer the old version). You should not attempt to install WinEdt 6 over the existing WinEdt 5.x on your system! You cannot import old settings from WinEdt 5: the new version will have to customized manually!
IMPORTANT: You should not be "upgrading" to WinEdt 6, if
If you don't fall in any of the above categories read the rest of the instructions and proceed accordingly...
REGISTRATION: WinEdt 6 series requires a new registration number. You can take advantage of the trial period and see if you want to use this version or you prefer the older WinEdt 5.x series. Should you opt for WinEdt 6 and already have a license for WinEdt 5, you will need to purchase an upgrade license from www.winedt.com (see the Tables at the Registration page: upgrade rates are at the bottom). Exceptions will be made (upon request) to users that have purchased a license or an upgrade within the last year and to users that make contributions to winedt.org, or help with WinEdt project in some other way... This is your chance to get involved!
NOTE: At this stage many components on www.winedt.org will not automatically install into WinEdt 6 unless they have been updated and they state that they are WinEdt 6-compatible. This applies to all components that involve changes to the Menu and/or Toolbar... Advanced users can, of course, install such components manually and make them WinEdt 6-compatible by rewriting the relevant scripts (.ini files) in the new format.
Upgrading WinEdt 6 series from here on will be easy (using the items in Options -> Maintenance Menu) or for more selective users the new Options Interface (see also "Private Settings" section in the Advanced portion of the Options Interface)...
WinEdt is by default configured to run as a front-end for MiKTeX. However, it is quite straightforward to configure WinEdt for a different TeX System (eg. TeX Live), or even define a completely different set of accessories. By default, Options -> Configurations Menu already contains a few alternative configurations!
WinEdt does its best to automatically detect your TeX System and Accessories (such as PDF Viewer). However, should automatic detection fail it is easy to manually configure WinEdt to find your TeX System or any problematic accessory: in the Options Menu, start the Execution Modes Interface. Entering the location of your TeX Root folder is pretty much all that has to be done (no need to modify any macro scripts):
This interface can also be used to diagnose your system, fine-tune the execution of console applications (such as TeX), and more... Help in the Execution Modes Interface explains the details!
If you use the Uninstall Command (eg. from Windows Control Panel) to uninstall WinEdt the folder where you installed WinEdt and WinEdt's Application Data folder (if you created a User Profile) will be removed (as they should!). Thus make sure that you don't place your documents in the same folder. By default the root folder and application data folder are:
{program files}\WinEdt Team\WinEdt 6
{user application data}\WinEdt Team\WinEdt 6
These are certainly no places for your own documents! However, should you decide to specify a custom folder during WinEdt's Installation keep the above warning in mind: uninstall will delete it!
Whatever custom location you might specify it should end with "\WinEdt". In particular, \WinEdt is not automatically appended to the specified location (as one might erroneously assume with possibly serious consequences should WinEdt be uninstalled and thus the destination folder erased)!
WinEdt uses the reliable and reputable INNO Setup (see www.innosetup.com) for its installer:
INNO setup source files for WinEdt installation are included in WinEdt's WinShell\INNO Setup folder. Advanced users can use them to create their own custom installations (e.g. portable or restricted setup). Default Setup requires administrative privileges because without them write access to the "program files" folder on Windows Vista or Windows 7 would be denied (resulting in failed installation attempts).
If you are interested in silent install please read the following information explaining available switches for INNO Setup...
The following relevant information is from INNO Setup Help file:
The Setup program accepts optional command line parameters. These
can be useful to system administrators, and to other programs
calling the Setup program.
/SP- Disables the This will install... Do you wish to continue?
prompt at the beginning of Setup. Of course, this will have no
effect if the DisableStartupPrompt [Setup] section directive was set
to yes.
/SILENT, /VERYSILENT Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent.
When Setup is silent the wizard and the background window are not
displayed but the installation progress window is. When a setup is
very silent this installation progress window is not displayed.
Everything else is normal so for example error messages during
installation are displayed and the startup prompt is (if you haven't
disabled it with DisableStartupPrompt or the '/SP-' command line
option explained above)
If a restart is necessary and the '/NORESTART' command isn't used
(see below) and Setup is silent, it will display a Reboot now?
message box. If it's very silent it will reboot without asking.
/LOG Causes Setup to create a log file in the user's TEMP directory
detailing file installation actions taken during the installation
process. This can be a helpful debugging aid. For example, if you
suspect a file isn't being replaced when you believe it should be
(or vice versa), the log file will tell you if the file was really
skipped, and why.
The log file is created with a unique name based on the current
date. (It will not overwrite or append to existing files.)
Currently, it is not possible to customize the filename.
The information contained in the log file is technical in nature
and therefore not intended to be understandable by end users.
Nor is it designed to be machine-parseable; the format of the
file is subject to change without notice.
/NOCANCEL Prevents the user from cancelling during the installation
process, by disabling the Cancel button and ignoring clicks on the
close button. Useful along with /SILENT.
/NORESTART Instructs Setup not to reboot even if it's necessary.
/LOADINF="filename" Instructs Setup to load the settings from the
specified file after having checked the command line. This file can
be prepared using the '/SAVEINF=' command as explained below.
Don't forget to use quotes if the filename contains spaces.
/SAVEINF="filename" Instructs Setup to save installation settings to
the specified file.
Don't forget to use quotes if the filename contains spaces.
/LANG=language Specifies the language to use. language specifies the
internal name of the language as specified in a [Languages] section
entry.
When a valid /LANG parameter is used, the Select Language dialog
will be suppressed.
/DIR="x:\dirname" Overrides the default directory name displayed on
the Select Destination Location wizard page. A fully qualified
pathname must be specified.
/GROUP="folder name" Overrides the default folder name displayed on
the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. If the [Setup] section
directive DisableProgramGroupPage was set to yes, this command line
parameter is ignored.
/NOICONS Instructs Setup to initially check the Don't create any
icons check box on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page.
/COMPONENTS="comma separated list of component names" Overrides the
default components settings. Using this command line parameter
causes Setup to automatically select a custom type.
WinEdt INNO uninstaller (unins000.exe) allows the following command
line switches:
The uninstaller program (unins???.exe) accepts optional command line
parameters. These can be useful to system administrators, and to
other programs calling the uninstaller program.
/SILENT
When specified, the uninstaller will not ask the user any questions
or display a message stating that uninstall is complete. Shared
files that are no longer in use are deleted automatically without
prompting. Any critical error messages will still be shown on the
screen.
/NORESTART
Instructs the uninstaller not to reboot even if it's necessary.
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