[texhax] MS Word & Mathtype to TeX

[Philipp Stephani]

2011/12/20 Thomas Schneider <schneidt at mail.nih.gov>:
>
> Justin:
>
>> What OS are you using?
>
> Mac OS X Terminal.  I do find pdftex, but there is no 'Start' or 'start'.
>
> However:
>
> % pdftex latexdemo.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./latexdemo.tex
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.1 \documentclass
>                  [12pt]{article}
> ?
>
> I have only used latex previously so maybe this file is not compatible
> ...

Use "pdflatex" instead of "pdftex" and "open" instead of "start".
Linux users: many distributions have "xdg-open" which fulfills roughly
the same purpose as "start" or "open".