Shoutbox

1) I am probably doing something wrong, as I don't know much about command line commands at all... However, even if I try it manually (eg, open cmd.exe) and then use the command "latex C:\Test\file.tex" or with quotes, double quotes, I've tried everything, but for some reason whenever I do this, it keeps looking in some random folder of the latex installation.

The installation I'm using is just MikTex, probably the most used in windows. It comes with the latex and dvipng command line commands. I'm sure there are others out there that allow me to do it in one go however.

But now the question... Why? Does it really matter that much that I use a batch file? Why go through all this trouble of piping etc, if I can just fire up a batch file? I'm not trying to sound like I know it better lol (cause i dont) but I'm just asking, maybe there's an important reason...

And the two commands on one line, didn't know that, I might use that than, thanks!


2) I thought so, as I am now running into the problem. As soon as I show the window that should show the latex png image, it is actually showing the old equation. It seems that the png file is shown before it is created (it already existed from my previous tests of course), so it is showing the old png file. I'll look into timers, thanks.

3) Well, then a big compliment for that. Believe me, I've tried, and failed hehe. Perhaps I can place a feature request? I am really missing the comment/uncomment selection, and possibly the format selection features. The comment/uncomment selection feature would insert (or remove) a comment (//) before each selected line, allowing users to quickly comment out pieces of code.
The format selection is not very hard to implement either I think since the language has a pretty easy construct (not like the language I had to create a parser for... eugh).

Those features would really make it more complete. Of course, more Intellisense would be a real improvement too, but I realize that is probably too much to ask, since it requires parsing the code completely. And if you're going that way, you might as well create your own scripting language hehe...