Text Formatting ⇒ Makefile with TeXnicCenter on Windows?

[smith]

Hi, is there a way to use a makefile to compile on TeXnicCenter on Windows XP?

[localghost]

Makefiles are usually for creating output from the command prompt in a single process. If you describe what you want to do there may the possibility to integrate all steps into a special profile.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[smith]

Thanks for the reply.
How do I put the following commands into the profile? Or rather, where to!
(sorry, I'm new to this)

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	latex file.tex
	dvips -o file.ps file.dvi
	ps2pdf "-sPAPERSIZE=a4" file.ps
	rm -f *~ *.aux *.dvi *.log *.ps

[localghost]

The first three lines are in principle part of the "LaTeX => PS => PDF" build profile. The last line consists of a Linux command. You only have to adapt it to DOS commands and add it in the post processing of the build profile.

[pwhitey86]

Is there a way to run a dos command before the latex commands? As in:

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copy "C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\master_copy\refs_master.bib" "refs_master.bib"
latex file.tex
dvips -o file.ps file.dvi
ps2pdf "-sPAPERSIZE=a4" file.ps