Despite the availability of elaborate commercial word processing application, there is no question that when doing technical work that includes mathematics, no existing word processing framework can compete with LaTeX. Miktex is free LaTeX software. To use it, you will need to be able to invoke programs on a command line. If you use Windows, we recommend using Cygwin, a package that offers Unix-like facilities within Windows. You can find instructions for installing Cygwin at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptII4.0/cygwin.htm.
Including figures in LaTeX documents is best done by creating PDF files for the figures and then using pdflatex. Ptolemy II can export PDF files from models and plots. An alternative is EPS. Sample files for the two methods are found below:
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