[texworks] message from TeXworks user(MiKTeX)

[Paul A Norman]

You can type texdoc at a command pronmpt if MikTeX is set up properly,
if using portable MikTeX you need to use the shell priovided from the
lower right tool area of your task bar.

texdoctk is not provided yet.

Paul

On 18 July 2010 11:46, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> On 18 July 2010 Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>  > Le 17 juil. 2010 à 20:54, ThomasH a écrit :
>  >
>  > > I cannot find a place to add the path my all macros and styles,
>  > > what is D:\TeXmac.
>  > >
>  > > [...]
>  > >
>  > > When I start MikTeX tool to add "roots" path, in the hope
>  > > that would me used by TeX, system says "Not a TDS-compliant
>  > > root directory."
>  >
>  > I imagine this means the directory you are trying to add to the
>  > path is not organized internally according to the TeX Directory
>  > Structure. For example, in a TDS-compliant texmf tree, LaTeX input
>  > files go to texmf/tex/latex, PostScript fonts in texmf/fonts/type1,
>  > MetaFont sources to texmf/fonts/source, and so forth.
>  >
>  > I'm not a Windows user and am not familiar with MikTeX,
>  > unfortunately. Does texdoc exist on it? If so, then run "texdoc
>  > kpathsea" and look at section 2.4 giving a brief summary of
>  > TDS. Otherwise see
>
>  > <http://mirror.ctan.org/info/doc-k/kpathsea.pdf>.
>
> texdoc doesn't support MikTeX.  I'm not a Windows user either, but
> AFAIK MikTeX provides a similar tool called "mt-help".
>
> And I recommend people who are unfamiliar with TDS to look into the
> TDS documentation first, especially because MikTeX doesn't use
> kpathsea at all.  The author of MikTeX provided his own library though
> AFAIK the user interface is quite compatible with that of kpathsea.
>
> The kpathsea docs describe the internals.  MikTeX users should be
> aware that not everything described there applies to MikTeX.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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