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kam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:01:09PM -0000, Chris Weeks wrote:Does anyone have experience of using TeX or LaTeX on unix or Linux? I have loaded all the recommended packages, but cannot get it to work for me. I guess it's something wrong with the path search or where the files are located, but I am entirely non-expert with linux. ChrisYes, I've got it to work. I had to move something into my working directory and run something or other to create some kind of resource file. I can try to figure out what I did if no one else knows straight off. I've used the PDF-Latex package to create pdf files, which seems quite useful. Also I found a book on Latex in Plymouth which was very useful (but there was only one in the entire shop). Most of the information is there in the info files and other docs, but sometimes it's nice to have an oldfashioned paper book with lots of markers in it. Keith -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
I use TEX on my machine under Mandrake 8.1 The package is tetex. I was brought up on Plain TEX, but for non mathematical use LaTEX might be a better bet. I create a text file Joe.tex using emacs containing the LaTEX instructions. Then latex Joe.tex produces a file Joe.dvi which I can view and/or print using xdvi Joe.dvi -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.