[texworks] inconsistens because of help-files?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Aug 20, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

> 
> 
> 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 Rule 'latex': The following rules & subrules became out-of-date: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.


Howdy,

Was that really a LaTeX file you were attempting to typeset or a Plain TeX file? That error is NOT coming from latexmk but rather from latex attempting to process your file.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)