[texworks] texworks Digest, Vol 21, Issue 49

[Alain Delmotte]

Hi!

k_imre Imre a écrit :
> Hi Daniel,
>  
> I did what you suggested.  I  created a test.tex which contains what 
> you wrote.  Running the Command Prompts, when I typed 
> "test.tex <enter>", texworks appeared in a window with test.tex in 
> it.  But there was no display window as indicated it would in the help 
> files, as the same happened with my converted file.
Why do you work with command prompt?
It is better to launch TeXworks as a Windows application and do al the 
work from there.

Alain
>  
> Then I ran "pdflatex test.tex <enter>", again from the Command line, 
> and the test.pdf was generated, which I could  read it with Acrobat 
> Reader.
>  
> Next I ran "test.tex <enter>" again, and this time the display window 
> appeared with the test.ps next to TeXworks with test.tex in it.  
> Apparently the first time running a program, display does not work 
> since there is no pdf file yet.  Am I still missing something?
>  
> Thank you for your reply,
>  
> Kaya
>
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>     Message: 4
>     Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:07:27 -0400
>     From: "k_imre Imre" <k_imre at msn.com <mailto:k_imre at msn.com>>
>     To: <texworks at tug.org <mailto:texworks at tug.org>>
>     Cc: k_imre at msn.com <mailto:k_imre at msn.com>
>     Subject: [texworks] texworks doesn't work
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>     I just installed (twice) miktex on my winXP and installation went
>     on without error.
>     Then I loaded a tex file which was generated by GrindEQ
>     Word-to-LaTeX 2008.
>
>     The program was loaded alright, with Typeset selected as
>     pdfLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibTeX
>     but there were no PDF display.  What am I doing wrong?  Please
>     help.  Thank you.
>
>     Kaya Imre k_imre at msn.com<mailto:k_imre at msn.com
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>     Message: 5
>     Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:05:09 +0400
>     From: Daniel Becker <d.becker at jpberlin.de
>     <mailto:d.becker at jpberlin.de>>
>     To: "Discuss the TeXworks front end." <texworks at tug.org
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>     Subject: Re: [texworks] texworks doesn't work
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>     >  What am I doing wrong?  Please help.  Thank you.
>
>     How can we know that? What you could do is to typeset a very basic
>     file like
>
>     \documentclass{article}
>     \begin{document}
>     hello - I am a test
>     \end{document} 
>
>     and see if you see it as an after pdflatex'ing it. If yes, your
>     installation is most likely ok and your other file is the problem
>     (converters usually make mistakes). There is a log-file that may
>     give you hints about errors .....
>
>     Good luck -
>
>     Daniel
>
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