[texworks] inconsistens because of help-files?
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Mon Aug 22 15:57:11 CEST 2011
On Aug 21, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
>
>
> Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> I wasn't actually attempting to typeset anything, Herb.
> I assumed that if I typed "LaTeXMK", it would
> either prompt me for the name of the file I wanted
> to process, or give a "usage" report such as
>
> LaTeXMK <input file> <options>
>
> Instead it did neither, and apparently tried to
> process files at random. Every time I entered
> Ctrl-Z, it went on to find another file, which
> again it did not like. Only Ctrl-C would persuade
> it to stop. All very confusing !
>
> ** Phil.
Howdy,
The documentation for latexmk (texdoc latexmk) says
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One or more files can be specified. If no files are specified, latexmk will, by default, run on all files in the current working directory with a ".tex" extension. This behavior can be changed: see the description concerning the @default_files variable in the section "List of configuration vari- ables usable in initialization files".
If a file is specified without an extension, then the ".tex" extension is automatically added, just as LaTeX does. Thus, if you specify:
latexmk foo
then latexmk will operate on the file "foo.tex".
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Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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