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

I have to admit I have no idea why MikTeX needs to see your .tex file. I simply navigate to that directory using a "Command Prompt" window, and run latex or (more usually) pdflatex. Thus, since I am in the directory, pdflatex finds it:

pdflatex myfile

Of course, I could say:

pdflatex c:\users\myname\documents\mysubdoc\myfile

and run it from anywhere, but that is a lot of extra typing.

If you do want to do that, I would make a batch directory and put a batch command there. The batch command system is, on a ms-dos computer, a primitive version of the shell system. By setting up c:\batch and adding c:\batch to your system path, you can do the following

runmylatex

from anywhere. You need to have c:\batch on the path. Inside c:\batch, you create 

runmylatex.bat

This contains 

pdflatex c:\users\myname\documents\mysubdoc\myfile

I use a scheme like this in other places.

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Subject: [MiKTeX] Advice on WinEdt/MiKTeX on a Windows 7?

Ulrike Fischer wrote 2015-04-04 21:04:11

 >> 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.
 >>
 >> I tried using "maintenance" to refresh FNDB, and still get the same error.

 >> Maintenance/Options/Root shows no directories, unless "Show  >> MiKTeX-maintained root directories" is checked. Then it shows my TeX  >> file directory (that containing the TeX documents I have written).

 >You should'nt put files that you want to compile in a texmf root.
 >That's the wrong place, such files belongs e.g. in your document  >folder. Miktex doesn't add the current folder in a texmf to the  >search path so you will always have problems if you try to compile  >there.

I already have all my TeX files in a separate directory (call it T).

I tried something else:

I used Maintenance (Admin) to refresh FNDB, instead of Maintenance, and now my new file compiles using WinEdt/MiKTeX.

Using Maintenance (Admin)/Options/Root shows
a) only directory T when "Show MiKTeX-maintained root directories" is NOT checked, and
b) diretory T + C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9 and C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9 when it is.

So, I guess I still have the original question: how do I set things up so when I create a new TeX file in my directory T, MiKTeX will see it *without* my having to refresh FNDB (or any other such step).

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