Placeholders

A very powerfull feature of TeXnicCenter are placeholders. They are used on occasions when values or commands need to be specified, that will change dynamically during runtime. This feature allows the user a very flexible configuration of TeXnicCenter, because command line arguments, DDE-commands or other values do not have to be specified statically, but will be dynamically generated by TeXnicCenter when needed.

Placeholders are a kind of variable. The user just specifies the name of the variable and TeXnicCenter sets the variables value dynamically and replaces its name with the current value, when needed.

There a two types of placeholders in TeXnicCenter:

Placeholders for single files
  They are often used to define command line arguments and DDE-commands.
Placeholders for sets of files
  They are used to deal with more than one file at a time.