Windows XP issues

[sphh]

Hi,

I installed LaTeX It 0.6.2 on Thunderbird 38.1.0 on Windows XP SP 3 with TeX Live 2014.

LaTeX It output is:

LatexIt! run report...

*** Found expression $\LaTeX$

$PATH is C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4;C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\ia32\compiler;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\WinMerge;C:\Program Files\Calibre2\;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB Compiler Runtime\v713\runtime\win32;C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sage SData\;C:\Program Files\Stanford ADL\SU2\bin;C;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Python27\DLLs;C:\texlive\2014\bin\win32;C;

*** Generating LaTeX expression:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
$\LaTeX$ %this is where your LaTeX expression goes
\end{document}

I ran C:\texlive\2014\bin\win32\latex.exe -output-directory=C:\DOCUME~1\Stephan\LOCALS~1\Temp -interaction=batchmode C:\DOCUME~1\Stephan\LOCALS~1\Temp\tblatex-1.tex error code 1
LaTeX process returned 1
Proceeding anyway...
Severe error. Missing package?
We left the .tex file there: C:\DOCUME~1\Stephan\LOCALS~1\Temp\tblatex-1.tex, try to run latex on it by yourself...
--> Failed, not inserting

So I opened the command line and started the command:

> C:\texlive\2014\bin\win32\latex.exe C:\DOCUME~1\Stephan\LOCALS~1\Temp\tblatex-1.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014/W32TeX) (preloaded format=latex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `C:/DOCUME'.
<to be read again>
                   \protect
<*> C:/DOCUME~
              1/Stephan/LOCALS~1/Temp/tblatex-1.tex
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit)
Please type another input file name:

Could you please update the paths for this type of installation. Thanks!

Cheers, Stephan

[SuperGianchi]

Well, I experience exactly the same problem with TeX Live 2014, Windows 8 and Thunderbird 38.2.0. By the way, now TeX Live 2015 is available ;)

I hope you'll fix the problem: the LaTeXit! idea is great!!!

[msprotz]

That's very weird, and I have no idea what's happening. Did you find a way to fix this while you're in the command prompt?

[SuperGianchi]

Hi Jonathan,

Sorry for my late reply.

Well I cannot say that I'm an expert, however this is the LatexIt! error

---

LatexIt! run report...

*\ Found expression $$x$$ LaTeX process returned 1 Proceeding anyway... Severe error. Missing package?

We left the .tex file there: C:\Users\GIANCA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tblatex-1.tex, try to run latex on it by yourself...

and this is the C:\Users\Giancarlo\AppData\Local\Temp\texput.log

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014/W32TeX) (preloaded format=latex 2014.8.28) 1 OCT 2015 21:04 entering extended mode restricted \write18 enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. *_C:/Users/GIANCA~1/AppData/Local/Temp/tblatex-1.tex ! Emergency stop.

\protect <_> C:/Users/GIANCA~ 1/AppData/Local/Temp/tblatex-1.tex **\* (job aborted, file error in nonstop mode) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 5 strings out of 493109 191 string characters out of 6138472 52954 words of memory out of 5000000 3569 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000 1141 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 3i,0n,0p,1b,6s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s ## No pages of output. ## As Stephan, if I write in the TeX Live command-line Microsoft Windows [Versione 6.2.9200](c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. Tutti i diritti riservati. C:\Users\Giancarlo>C:\texlive\2014\bin\win32\latex.exe C:\Users\GIANCA~1\AppData ## \Local\Temp\tblatex-1.tex ## the output is This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014/W32TeX) (preloaded format=latex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode ! I can't find file `C:/Users/GIANCA'. \protect <*> C:/Users/GIANCA~ 1/AppData/Local/Temp/tblatex-1.tex (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit) ## Please type another input file name: ## So I thought to avoid the ~ character. Writing Microsoft Windows [Versione 6.2.9200](c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. Tutti i diritti riservati. ## C:\Users\Giancarlo>C:\texlive\2014\bin\win32\latex.exe C:\Users\Giancarlo\AppData\Local\Temp\tblatex-1.tex ## everything works!!! this is the output: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014/W32TeX) (preloaded format=latex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (c:/Users/Giancarlo/AppData/Local/Temp/tblatex-1.tex LaTeX2e <2014/05/01> Babel <3.9k> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded. (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/utf8x.def)) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/ucs.sty (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-global.def)) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option. (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty)) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty)) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty)) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/jknapltx/mathrsfs.sty) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/palatino.sty) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/mathpazo.sty) (./tblatex-1.aux) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1ppl.fd) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/ucsencs.def) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/omlzplm.fd) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/omszplm.fd) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/omxzplm.fd) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/jknapltx/ursfs.fd) (c:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1zplm.fd) [1](./tblatex-1.aux) ) Output written on tblatex-1.dvi (1 page, 212 bytes). Transcript written on tblatex-1.log. ## C:\Users\Giancarlo> :) If you are interested in, I've attached the output written in C:\Users\Giancarlo\tblatex-1.log (it seems that there are some problem; please, let me know if you need the attachment) Well, I presume that every TeX Live users experiment the same error... Finally, thanks for this useful add and good luck with LatexIt! ;)

[SuperGianchi]

P.S. sorry for the bold: it's the markdown. When there are*characters it writes in bold; I don't know how to avoid this behaviour...

[sphh]

Hi Jonathan,

A quick search brought up this link with some options how to deal with 8.3 file names on Windows: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/183568/using-8-3-path-names-with-pdflatex

But I am sure you have found it yourself already.....

Thanks for looking into this issue again!

Stephan

On 24/09/15 21:20, Jonathan Protzenko wrote:

That's very weird, and I have no idea what's happening. Did you find a way to fix this while you're in the command prompt?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/protz/LatexIt/issues/13#issuecomment-143040482.

[protz]

I guess then the solution is to upgrade to texlive 2015?

~ jonathan

On 10/05/2015 12:54 AM, sphh wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

A quick search brought up this link with some options how to deal with 8.3 file names on Windows: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/183568/using-8-3-path-names-with-pdflatex

But I am sure you have found it yourself already.....

Thanks for looking into this issue again!

Stephan

On 24/09/15 21:20, Jonathan Protzenko wrote:

That's very weird, and I have no idea what's happening. Did you find a way to fix this while you're in the command prompt?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/protz/LatexIt/issues/13#issuecomment-143040482.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/protz/LatexIt/issues/13#issuecomment-145455307.

[SuperGianchi]

Yes it is!! I've just installed TeX Live 2015 and now I can use LatexIt! too :)

[sphh]

I installed TeX Live 2015 over night and after autodetecting the binaries I can confirm that it works.

Jonathan, it might be worth to make a note that you need TeX Live 2015 on Windows.

Stephan.