I made a new environment variable in systems advanced settings called 'HOME' and then I tried to put the path for MiKTeX there, and path for the Adobe Reader, both didn't work.
also in TeXmaker, options, configure, I wrote these two above paths, didn't work. The error
Could not start the command.
appears when I try to run or press the arrow key in TeXmaker. What should I do?
Last edited by localghost on Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
sahiti321 wrote:Hi I downloaded TeXmaker, and MiKTeX (complete) […]
And you also installed the latter one?
sahiti321 wrote:[…] I made a new environment variable in systems advanced settings called 'HOME' and then I tried to put the path for MiKTeX there, and path for the Adobe Reader, both didn't work.[…]
The modifications you did are described in the section for Emacs, not for TeXmaker. So, cancel all system modifications you have done so far.
sahiti321 wrote:[…] so how in the world do i use latex? can i just download texmaker, and then miktex (latest versions) and just run it? why doesn't it work?
As someone who does not use Wind0ws I can't tell you directly what has been going wrong. Try to compile your sample document on the command line and see what happens.
I have been a long time user of TeXShop and read a post recommending TexMaker. I have just installed TexLive2012, and installed Texmaker on a Mac running MountainLion.
I created a simple file, one I know compiles in TeXShop. It literally has a documentclass command, a begin document command, a few rods of text, and the end document command.
When I hit run, I get "Error : could not start the command"
QuickBuild is set as PDFLaTex + View PDF
The configuration information which TexMaker put in itself reads
LaTex: "/home/art/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/latex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex"
PdfLaTex:
"/home/art/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex"