[texhax] MS Word & Mathtype to TeX

[Philipp Stephani]

2011/12/21 Pierre MacKay <pierre.mackay at comcast.net>:
> A new arrival to LaTeX is not going to know that what would be needed is
> something like  'latex "&latex \input whatever.tex" ', and there is no
> reason why he should have to know that.  texsys.config is no use at all, and
> a new user should not have to think about texsys.config anyway.

Have you ever tested what actually happens when you type "latex"? Of
course a simple "latex filename.tex" works as expected.