Am 17.01.2011 um 11:16 schrieb Joost Verburg: > On 1/17/2011 11:07 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >> I don't get it. LyX has no windows command prompt :-) >> E.g. to typeset something LyX executes latex... >> If it's an executable it works obviously. But does it work too, >> if I make a latex.bat and place in path in front of the regular tex path? > > Nope, but "cmd.exe latex.bat" works. > Windows doesn't have a system like UNIX where the first line of the script > contains the location of the shell.
The conclusion is it will not work with batch files. So one should avoid them consequently. I suppose with python scripts we have no problems on windows... Stephan