Re: Advice on WinEdt/MiKTeX on a Windows 7?

Jeff Barnett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote on 4/4/2015 10:42 AM:
> David Allsopp wrote:
>   >> I am looking for advice on how to set up WinEdt/MiKTeX on a Windows 7
>   >> system. I have had it running for a while, but there is something peculiar
>   >> about the directory structure.
>
>   > What is peculiar about it?
>
> I have a number of my TeX files in a folder. Any one of these files
> can be compiled by plain TeX with no difficulty.  But if I use WinEdt
> to create and edit a new file in the same folder, when I run the TeX
> compiler via WinEdt, TeX says "I can't find file newfile.tex", even
> though that very file is open in WinEdt.
>
Have you made sure the file in an edit buffer has been saved to disk? I 
think there is an option some place that will force the current buffer 
to be saved when you do a "compile" action.
-- 
Jeff Barnett

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