<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I have this Windows DOS setup for my LaTeX papers<br><br>- - - 03-set-filename.bat - - -<br>set filename=A<br><br>set filename-handout=%filename%-handout<br>set filename-paper=%filename%-paper<br>set filename-ppt=%filename%-ppt<br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">rem note: no space surrounding equal sign in assignment statement<br><br>- - - 01-LaTeX-paper.bat - - -<br>call 03-set-filename<br>call pdfLaTeX  %filename-paper%<br>  <br>- - - 01-LaTeX-ppt.bat - - -<br>call 03-set-filename<br>call pdfLaTeX  %filename-ppt%<br><br>- - - 02-TeX-procs-paper.bat - - -<br>call     03-set-filename<br>call pdfLaTeX  %filename-paper%<br>call   bibTeX  %filename-paper%<br>call makeindex %filename-paper%<br>call pdfLaTeX  %filename-paper%<br>call pdfLaTeX  %filename-paper%<br>call pdfLaTeX  %filename-paper%<br><br>- - - 04-LaTeX-handout.bat - - -<br>call 03-set-filename<br>call pdfLaTeX  %filename-handout%<br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- - - A-paper.tex<br>\documentclass{refart}%Reference Manual: article<br>%etc<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- - - A-paper.ltx<br>\input{\jobname}</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">%nice trick: opens the TeXworks editor<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br>- - - A-ppt.tex<br></span></div></div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">\documentclass{beamer}<br></span><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">%etc</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- - - A-handout.tex - - -<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">\documentclass{beamer}<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">\usepackage{pgfpages}%Beamer User Guide pg 31<br>\pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 1}[letterpaper,border shrink=5mm,landscape]<br></span><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">%etc</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I use the commercial text editor UltraEdit</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><a href="http://www.ultraedit.com/">http://www.ultraedit.com/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">UltraEdit has commands to submit Windows batch programs,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">after which my program, or document, log is updated<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I switched from NotePad --- sometime around the turn of the millennium ---<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">which allows multiple instances</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">to open the same file and will overwrite updates</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">when other instances are closed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">And it does not auto-update a changed (log) file.<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">for the record I still have an XP laptop with TeXlive.2015 on it.<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Ron Fehd  DOS maven<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">          {SAS} programmer and author</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div></div>