John R. Culleton wrote:
I have been using Linux since the days of Win 3.1. So I don't know what goes on in the MSWin world any more.
Specifically I am writing a guide for typesetting beginners. What should I tell them is a good way to execute e.g., texexec from a Windows environment? Many of them are afraid of the command line. My instinct is to describe a Vim command such as :!texexec % or just give them a script to do that, but there may be a better alternative. Thoughts?
given that texmfstart.exe is in you binary path (there is a zip on our website, else you need to install ruby, associate .rb with calling ruby, and use texmfstart.rb) texmfstart texexec ... you can also run texmfstart --make texexec.pl which will give you a stub 'texexec.bat' which you can then put in your path Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------