[HOWTO] LaTeX Quickstart Guide

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slartibartfasz · Post by **slartibartfasz** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:21 am

You could use the option 'texcl' or one of the possible escape sequences to typeset LaTeX code inside a listing. Also try to explicitly set 'extendedchars' as an option.

Details about the options can be found in /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/listings/listings.dvi

Welcome to LaTeX

data · Post by **data** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:46 pm

Great it worked, thanks.

I just added this line towards the beginning of my document.

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\lstset{extendedchars=true}

Now all the accents appear normally.

mvikred · Post by **mvikred** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:18 pm

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The LOG file does not exist or you do not have read permission. Maybe you forgot to create the LOG file?

thts the error i get , every time i try to run .... i followed all the steps in the guide for latex , but i still end up getting this result

plzzz help

mvikred

slartibartfasz · Post by **slartibartfasz** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:38 pm

Can you give us some more details? What command did you issue, what did you try already...

karnesky · Post by **karnesky** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:25 pm

Try running latex from an xterm or shell.

IIRC, Kile prints this error when it tried to open a log that doesn't exist. Usually the log doesn't exist because latex didn't make one. Perhaps you didn't save your file and/or didn't save it with an appropriate extension.

mvikred · Post by **mvikred** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:07 am

slartibartfasz wrote:Can you give us some more details? What command did you issue, what did you try already...

i used F2 command , tht is latex command , and the output shud be a dvi file , instaed i get this msg

mvikred

mvikred · Post by **mvikred** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:13 am

karnesky wrote:Try running latex from an xterm or shell.

IIRC, Kile prints this error when it tried to open a log that doesn't exist. Usually the log doesn't exist because latex didn't make one. Perhaps you didn't save your file and/or didn't save it with an appropriate extension.

mvikred@Tamarlane mvikred $ ls
Desktop DjSuketu-BinTereSanam.mp3 Kihim Beach Pics-June 1st MyDownloads Output.avi int.tex int.tex~ temp wordlist
mvikred@Tamarlane mvikred $ latex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
**
Please type the name of your input file.
**int.tex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
mvikred@Tamarlane mvikred $

this is what i get when i do what u say , and i did save the file with .tex extension from kile also

mvikred

karnesky · Post by **karnesky** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:18 pm

See if http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2htm ... ormatstymy helps

mvikred · Post by **mvikred** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:01 pm

karnesky wrote:See if http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2htm ... ormatstymy helps

thanx man this worked

mvikred

arand · Post by **arand** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:02 pm

A little note for the front page of this thread.

dvipdfm now depends on tetex <2 and is blocked by tetex 2*. What this means is if you do a emerge -uD world it will downgrade you to tetex1*. Currently tetex 2* will install its own dvipdfm. I have not tried it out personally to see how it works.

I would recommend at least for the time being removing

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emerge dvipdfm

from the first post.

slartibartfasz · Post by **slartibartfasz** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:45 pm

Thanks, arand, i didnt notice that - the version of dvipdfm works fine for me. I'll remove the line.

karnesky · Post by **karnesky** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:32 am

latex-suite for vim is quite nice.

But I'm having a problem with the Alt Key Macros. I can't seem to use any of the macros in vim on the console or in rxvt.

In gvim, alt-[l,c,b] but alt-i inserts an 'é'

Anyone have any ideas regarding the use of these? Thanks!

EDIT: It appears alt-m has been replaced with alt-b.

slartibartfasz · Post by **slartibartfasz** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:38 am

vim and gvim read different rc files (/etc/vim) maybe thats the reason.

karnesky · Post by **karnesky** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:54 pm

Thanks for the reply. I don't think that is the problem.

gvim reads both .vimrc and .gvimrc. vim just reads the former. I have absolutely nothing in ~/.gvimrc and nothing relevant in /etc/vim/gvimrc.

As a work-around, I've put this into my tex.vim file:

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imap <C-b> <Plug>Tex_MathBF
imap <C-c> <Plug>Tex_MathCal
imap <C-l> <Plug>Tex_LeftRight
imap <C-i> <Plug>Tex_InsertItem
imap <C-k> <Plug>IMAP_JumpBack

discostu · Post by **discostu** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:34 pm

I'm using latex for my English class and we're required to have our name, date, and assignment number in the upper right hand corner. To keep my assignment to 1 page, I'm using the fullpage package. I'm also using the fancyhdr package to do the header. However, because the header is 3 lines, it overlaps the body. When I add \headheight it kind of fixes it, but it seems to move everything down the page and it doesn't look good. What's the best way to fix this?

Thanks,
Stu

arand · Post by **arand** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:39 pm

discostu wrote:\ldots However, because the header is 3 lines, it overlaps the body. When I add \headheight it kind of fixes it, but it seems to move everything down the page and it doesn't look good. What's the best way to fix this?

Thanks,
Stu

A quick fix might be to subtract the same amount from \textheight.

Another soution might be to remove the full page package but I am not sure on that fact.

Hope this is helpful.

dpl · Post by **dpl** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:34 pm

After a professor of mine suggested I learn LaTeX, I did a quick search on the forums for LaTeX and how to use it, and found this. This is friggin' fantastic!
Thanks a ton to slartibartfasz and all others who pitched in. If it were not for these easy to use and follow instructions, I'd still be lost.
- dpl

Pseud · Post by **Pseud** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:32 am

I get this error after I sync'd today:

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# emerge -pvt tetex

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] app-text/tetex (from pkg app-text/ptex-3.1.3)
[blocks B     ] app-text/tetex (from pkg app-text/xdvik-22.40y-r2)
[ebuild  N    ] app-text/xdvik-22.40y-r2  -cjk +libwww 2,203 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  app-text/ptex-3.1.3  +X -debug +doc 1,966 kB
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r3  +X -debug +doc 0 kB

Why the blocking?

tfh · Post by **tfh** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:41 am

Same type of issue here with another latex package :

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[blocks B     ] dev-tex/eurosym (from pkg app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r3)
[blocks B     ] >=app-text/tetex-2 (from pkg dev-tex/eurosym-1.4)

Maybe those packages got included in tetex ? I don't know the solution either .

BlackEdder · Post by **BlackEdder** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:14 pm

From the emerge man page:
[blocks B ] app-text/dos2unix (from pkg app-text/hd2u-0.8.0)
Dos2unix is Blocking hd2u from being emerged. Blockers are
defined when two packages will clobber each others files, or
otherwise cause some form of breakage in your system. How-
ever, blockers usually do not need to be simultaneously
emerged because they usually provide the same functionality.

You will have to unmerge tetex to be able to emerge the others

twam · Post by **twam** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:32 pm

Is there no easy and automatic way of updating the packages like Miktex for Windows? I don't want to download 20 packages by hand and include them.

karnesky · Post by **karnesky** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:18 pm

twam wrote:Is there no easy and automatic way of updating the packages like Miktex for Windows? I don't want to download 20 packages by hand and include them.

I suggest getting the packages you use into portage. However, the main tetex site runs a rsync server.

slartibartfasz · Post by **slartibartfasz** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:56 pm

twam wrote:Is there no easy and automatic way of updating the packages like Miktex for Windows? I don't want to download 20 packages by hand and include them.

There is en eclass for tex packages - just take a look at one of the existing ebuilds - most of them consist of three steps:

inherit eclass
download
run tex and install

If the packages you want to install follow the standards, all you need to do is to save such a basic ebuild under the proper name in /usr/local/portage/dev-tex and emerge it. If it works and you want to be nice you can then submit the ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org for inclusion, next time the package is upgraded someone (not necessarily you) will adjust the ebuild and everyone will be update automatically. Gentoo rocks

erebus · Post by **erebus** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:52 pm

Is there any chance someone could extend this guide to include making truetype fonts available to latex/pdflatex? I can't seem to get it work.

I'm following the guide here and trying to install the genium font;

http://ipe.compgeom.org/pdftex_1.html

But for some reason can't get pdflatex to detect my gentium.map file.

Flandry · Post by **Flandry** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:21 pm

I've tried putting some small caps into my thesis with \textsc (also tried \sc), but apparently small caps aren't in the default install because i get this warning:

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Font shape `OT1/cmr/bx/sc' undefined(Font) using `OT1/cmr/bx/n' instead on input line 1. Font shape `OT1/cmr/bx/sc' undefined(Font) using `OT1/cmr/bx/n' instead
./methods.tex:0: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.

Is that unusual? How can i get the small caps font shapes installed?

[HOWTO] LaTeX Quickstart Guide

vim-latexsuite

latex document with fancyhdr and fullpage

Re: latex document with fancyhdr and fullpage

Truetype fonts

Are small caps not available by default?