This page allows you to download jPretex Version December 2011.

You can get freely from SUN the adapted Java version  for your computer :

http://java.sun.com

and for MacIntosh

http://support.apple.com/downloads/


Under LINUX (or Unix) you download the compressed file jaPreTeX.zip and you unzip it in your "home" directory. This create a directory jaPreTeX which has, as a sub directory among others, the directory
 "jaPreDocs". You open it and there you double-click on the executable "jarPret". jPreTeX opens now on a new document.

Of course you can create an alias on the desk and put on it the icone "asterix.png" which is in the directory jaPreTeX.

Under WINDOWS, you download the compressed file jaPreTeX.zip and you unzip it in in your "home" directory : "C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name". (Attention NOT in  C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\jaPreTeX even if it is a proposition of the unzipper !)

This create a directory jaPreTeX which has, as a sub directory among others, the directory
 "jaPreDocs". You open it and there you double-click on the executable "jarPret.bat". jPreTeX opens now on a new document.

Of course you can create an alias on the desk and put on it the icone "asterix.ico" which is in the directory jaPreTeX.

  

For MACINTOSH, you download the compressed file  jaPreTeX.zip and you unzip it in your "home".

This create a directory jaPreTeX which has, as a sub directory, among others, the directory
 "jaPreDocs". You open it and there you double-click on the executable "macPre.app". jPreTeX opens now on a new document.

Of course you can create an alias by clicking with the right button of the mouse on "macPre.app" and put the alias on the desk.

Be careful :
    The source directory "jaPreTeX" has to be in your "home" directory in order for jPreTeX to work well. This way BibTeX will work even if, under WINDOWS for instance, the home path contains white spaces.
    If you already have files *.bib, you have to put them in the directory ../jaPreTeX/bibFiles in order for BibTeX to read them.

    You will have to verify that all the fields of the menu FiLes/PreTeX Commands are correctly filled. This windows opens automatically the first time you use jPreTeX.
    In the directory "jaPreTeX" you have a text file "ReadMe" which tells you how to install new dictionnaries for the spell checker used by jPreTeX and how to open directly LaTeX files with jPreTeX.

  The jPreTeX documentation is now contextual. 

Bye-Bye.