How can I open a tex file

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I m trying to open a  tex file   I m not sure I ve got to the bottom of the  possibly  surprisingly complex process  I was told I could do it with Notepad    which I proceeded to download  Here is the result    sample file for Modelica 2011 Conference paper   documentclass 11pt a4paper twocolumn  article   usepackage graphicx    uncomment according to your operating system    ------------------------------------------------  usepackage latin1  inputenc        european characters can be used  Windows  old Linux    usepackage utf8  inputenc         european characters can be used  Linux    usepackage applemac  inputenc     european characters can be used  Mac OS    ------------------------------------------------  usepackage T1  fontenc       get hyphenation and accented letters right  usepackage mathptmx          use fitting times fonts also in formulas   do not change these lines   pagestyle empty                    no page numbers   usepackage geometry                please don t change geometry settings   geometry left 20mm  right 20mm  top 25mm  bottom 25mm  noheadfoot      begin the document  begin document   thispagestyle empty    title  textbf Implementation of a Modelica Library     for Simulation of Refrigeration Systems    author Torge Pfafferott  quad Gerhard Schmitz   Technical University Hamburg-Harburg  Department of Technical Thermodynamics   Denickestr  17  21075 Hamburg   date      lt --- leave date empty  maketitle thispagestyle empty      lt -- you need this for the first page   abstract  The physical modelling and transient simulation of refrigeration systems can be useful within the specification  development  integration and optimisation  Therefore  a model library for vapour compression cycles has been implemented  The library is based on the free Modelica library ThermoFluid and contains basic correlations for heat and mass transfer and pressure drop  partial components for control volumes and flow resistances and advanced ready-to-use models for all relevant components of refrigeration systems like pipes  heat exchangers  compressor  expansion devices and accumulator      emph Keywords  refrigeration  compression cycle  simulation  thermofluid  CO2  R134a    section Introduction   The modeling and simulation of refrigeration systems is of interest  for several problems    section Library for refrigeration systems   The aim of the modelling is to implement a library with physical based models of components of refrigeration systems  At the moment the library enables investigations with two refrigerants  CO  2   R134a   But the realised structure allows the extension of the library by other refrigerants    subsection ThermoFluid library   The implemented refrigeration library is based on the free Modelica library ThermoFluid  cite eborn    cite tum    cite thermofluid   The ThermoFluid library  especially its base classes and partial components  offers a good base for the modelling of refrigeration systems with respect to the implementation of the three balance equations and the method of discretisation     section Transient simulation of a CO  2 -system   In the following  results of the transient simulation of the above mentioned CO  2 -system are presented  The results are compared with data of a start up of the system and following step changes in compressor speed as shown in Figure  ref fig5     begin figure  h   uncomment next line to include a graphic file   centerline  includegraphics width 6cm  angle -90  fig5 eps    and comment out next line  centerline  framebox 6cm   rule 0cm  3 5cm  figure example    caption Step changes in compressor speed and run of air inlet temperature at the evaporator in the experiment  set as boundary condition of simulation run   label fig5   end figure    begin thebibliography  00   addcontentsline toc  chapter  References    bibitem eborn  Eborn J  On Model Libraries for Thermo-hydraulic Applications  Lund  Sweden  PhD thesis  Department of Automatic control  Lund Institute of Technology  2001    bibitem tum Tummescheit H  Design and Implementation of Object-Oriented Model Libraries using Modelica  Lund  Sweden  PhD thesis  Department of Automatic control  Lund Institute of Technology  2002    bibitem thermofluid  Tummescheit H  Eborn J  Chemical Reaction Modeling with ThermoFluid MF and MultiFlash  In  Proceedings of the 2th Modelica Conference 2002  Oberpfaffenhofen  Germany  Modelica Association  18-19 March 2002   end thebibliography     end document    It seems to me this is not the correct way to view the document  Can someone please let me know whether or not I m right  and if so  how I can view the document properly

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I don t know what the  tex extension on your file means  If we are saying that it is any file with any extension you have several methods of reading it   I have to assume you are using windows because you have mentioned notepad      Use notepad    Right click on the file and choose  edit with notepad    Use notepad Change the filename extension to  txt and double click the file  Use command prompt  Open the folder that your file is in  Hold down shift and right click   not on the file  but in the folder that the file is in   Choose  open command window here  from the command prompt type   type filename tex    If these don t work  I would need more detail as to how they are not working  Errors that you may be getting or what you may expect to be in the file might help

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A  tex file should be a LaTeX source file    If this is the case  that file contains the source code for a LaTeX document  You can open it with any text editor  notepad  notepad   should work  and you can view the source code  But if you want to view the final formatted document  you need to install a LaTeX distribution and compile the  tex file   Of course  any program can write any file with any extension  so if this is not a LaTeX document  then we can t know what software you need to install to open it  Maybe if you upload the file somewhere and link it in your question we can see the file and provide more help to you     Yes  this is the source code of a LaTeX document  If you were able to paste it here  then you are already viewing it  If you want to view the compiled document  you need to install a LaTeX distribution  You can try to install MiKTeX then you can use that to compile the document to a  pdf file   You can also check out this question and answer for how to do it  How to compile a LaTeX document   Also  there s an online LaTeX editor and you can paste your code in there to preview the document  https   www overleaf com

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