[texworks] inconsistens because of help-files?

[Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

sigmundv at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 23:54, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de <mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     It can be *much* simpler: in TeX Live latexmk works out-of-the-box
>     on all supported platforms, and thus on Windows too, of course.
> 
> 
> Thank you for the information. It's good to know, should I ever need it.

Well, I was intrigued by all these references to LaTeXMK,
so I tried it.  It failed in a rather strange way :

> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>latexmk
> Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 7 May 2011, version: 4.24.
> **** Report bugs etc to John Collins <collins at phys.psu.edu>. ****
> Latexmk: applying rule 'latex'...
> Rule 'latex': Rules & subrules not known to be previously run:
>    latex
> Rule 'latex': The following rules & subrules became out-of-date:
>       'latex'
> ------------
> Run number 1 of rule 'latex'
> ------------
> ------------
> Running 'latex   "A.tex"'
> ------------
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (Web2C 2010)
> entering extended mode
> (./A.tex
> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
> rman-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
> c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
> h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
> h, french, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian,
>  icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, or
> iya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji,
>  lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, pol
> ish, portuguese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spani
> sh, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
> 
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...
> 
> l.1 p
>      re\input B\relax post\end
> ?

** Phil.