Pdflatex error in Dynare (Windows 10)

Installation and Setup
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Hi, all! I’m new here, but I need help with the Latex PDF tool. I created my DSGE model, now I’m moving on to its implementation in Dynare. I’m watching Willi Mutschler’s video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfsKGzR84hQ&list=PLiN_C6lGtCc8bhPOuE781GTgeOqtMA5Bi) and I don’t understand why when I enter the command

if system(['/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode ’ M_.fname ‘_TeX_binder.tex’])
warning(‘TeX-File did not compile; you need to compile it manually’)
end

on my Windows 10 I have an error like “The system cannot find the specified path.” Moreover, in the left window “Current Folder” Willi Mutschler get more files than me after starting the code, although I enter the appropriate commands

write_latex_definitions;
write_latex_parameter_table;
write_latex_original_model;
write_latex_dynamic_model;
write_latex_static_model;
collect_latex_files;

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If I remove this command, it is not clear where the PDF file is saved:

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You most likely have to adjust your path from

On most Windows machines it should be just

if system(['pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode '  M_.fname ' _TeX_binder.tex'])```
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But in this case I get a new error ““pdflatex” is not an internal or external command, executable program or batch file” :frowning:

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Do you have a \LaTeX distribution like MikTeX installed?

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Yes, MikTex

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Then there is a problem with the path variable. Try opening the _binder.tex file in your \LaTeX editor and compiling it there.

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What does this error mean?

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The only way to know that is to have the file or for yourself to check out the compilation error message when you run the file in your \LaTeX editor.

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I have this problem in MikTeX :frowning:

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Could you please run my code (working on version 5.4) and see if the equations are written in latex or not?
first_variant.mod (15.3 KB)

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You need to define valid \LaTeX names. For example \P is not a valid name as there is no such command. It must be simply P_{SS}.

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Here I just tried to compile the _binder.tex file (generated by Dynare) in Miktex, and I got the following error. I didn’t write anything manually myself.

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Yes, but in your mod-file you set

    PSS       ${\P_{SS}}$              (long_name='Steady-State level of price (DLOG price level)')

The name within the dollar signs is not a correct \LaTeX name as mentioned above. That applies to several others as well.

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Like this? or without {}?

 PSS       {\P_{SS}}              (long_name='Steady-State level of price (DLOG price level)')
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No:

PSS       ${P_{SS}}$              (long_name='Steady-State level of price (DLOG price level)')
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That’s it, I understand that the "" needed for Greek symbols, for example, for lambda, but not for ordinary letters (like P), right?

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Finally everything worked, thank you!) The problem was in the way I wrote down the variables in Latex, and not in Dynare)

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