How do Windows users call texexec etc.
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? -- John Culleton
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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:27 AM, John R. Culleton wrote:
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?
You can also have them set up one of the IDEs, like TeXnicCenter, to do that. See my column for the PracTeX Journal at http://www.tug.org/ pracjourn/2005-2/peter/ for more info. Steve
Dear John, I would suggest, that those beginners would adopt Scite as their editor. I find it an excellent editor for my purposes. The advantage is, that this editor is very well integrated with Context. There is normally no command window necessary! So if you give these people a minimal context with Scite they surely are on the good track. Kind regards Willi 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?
On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:05 pm, Willi Egger wrote:
Dear John,
I would suggest, that those beginners would adopt Scite as their editor. I find it an excellent editor for my purposes. The advantage is, that this editor is very well integrated with Context. There is normally no command window necessary! So if you give these people a minimal context with Scite they surely are on the good track.
Kind regards Willi
Thanks to all who responded. So there seems to be three candidates, Scite, TeXnicenter and texmfstart. Does Scite require that the newbie user also install and configure Ruby? Or is there an exe available that just runs? I am reading the Steve Peter paper which seems to imply that Ruby is required. -- John Culleton The answers to all your publishing questions are found in the excellent books listed in the word-famous shortlist! http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
John R. Culleton wrote:
So there seems to be three candidates, Scite, TeXnicenter and texmfstart. Does Scite require that the newbie user also install and configure Ruby? Or is there an exe available that just runs? I am reading the Steve Peter paper which seems to imply that Ruby is required.
texmfstart is just the start program for anything the texmf tree ruby is indeed needed (in the near future texexec and texutil will be replaced by ruby scripts; the rest of the script si already ruby) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi John, AFAIK you need to install Ruby and Perl. Cheers Willi John R. Culleton wrote:
On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:05 pm, Willi Egger wrote:
Dear John,
I would suggest, that those beginners would adopt Scite as their editor. I find it an excellent editor for my purposes. The advantage is, that this editor is very well integrated with Context. There is normally no command window necessary! So if you give these people a minimal context with Scite they surely are on the good track.
Kind regards Willi
Thanks to all who responded.
So there seems to be three candidates, Scite, TeXnicenter and texmfstart. Does Scite require that the newbie user also install and configure Ruby? Or is there an exe available that just runs? I am reading the Steve Peter paper which seems to imply that Ruby is required.
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