Re: [AUCTeX] tex386?

[David Kastrup]

Alejandro Jakubi <address@hidden> writes:

> I have installed the precompiled bundle emacs+auctex-w32-2006-03-09.zip on
> Windows XP SP2 (Spanish) with MikTeX 2.4 (and updated ghostscript, etc). Just
> unpacking it, some things work (eg syntax highlighting for tex files), but
> some other do not like running tex. I get this error message:
>
> =======
> Running `LaTeX' on `guia3' with ``latex  "\nonstopmode\input{guia3.tex}"''
> "tex386" no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo,
> programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable.
> "lplain" no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo,
> programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable.
>
> LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Mar 22 23:52:48
> =======
>
> I do not know why Emacs wants to run tex386 (it is not included in
> MikTeX) or use lplain (this is a latex2e file). Is it a built in
> option? or a default stored in a configuration file or the registry?

I'd guess "latex.bat" is a stone-age batch file lying around somewhere
in your PATH.

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