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isoaga
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 Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:10 am Post subject: Why is /usr/bin/latex a link to pdfetex? I want plain latex! |
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For some reason, perhaps after upgrading my tetex package i'm not sure, when i try to compile a tex file that includes eps figures it fails. This is because it does not like eps figures, even with the graphicx package included. After some further investigation it was revealed that in /usr/bin we have the following...
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david@plasma4:pts/6:51 files 77Mb -> ls -alh /usr/bin/ | grep latex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Dec 12 2003 elatex -> etex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7 Jun 6 08:54 latex -> pdfetex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 967 Mar 17 09:39 latex2html
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7 Dec 12 2003 pdfelatex -> pdfetex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7 Jun 6 08:54 pdflatex -> pdfetex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.3K Jul 27 2004 pod2latex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5K Jun 6 08:51 pslatex
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As you can see latex is just a link to pdfetex as is pdflatex. It was my understanding that if you wanted to make a pdf straight from a tex file you employ pdflatex but your images must not be eps format. I usually go the route of latex -> div > divpdf > pdf or something like that but now i cannot since i cannot find my latex command. Can someone help me find it before i go to the latex site and download it from there?
Thankyou.
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weird, I use latex too (which is a link to pdfetex), but I get a dvi as output ...
try with the command tex
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isoaga
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nope, tex does not work, i suspect tex is the low level compiler that does not know how to handle the latex macros. The weird part is that last week running latex at the command line gave me a dvi too, now it does not...
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:28 am Post subject: Re: Why is /usr/bin/latex a link to pdfetex? I want plain la |
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Hi,
| isoaga wrote: | | For some reason, perhaps after upgrading my tetex package i'm not sure, when i try to compile a tex file that includes eps figures it fails. This is because it does not like eps figures, even with the graphicx package included. After some further investigation it was revealed that in /usr/bin we have the following... |
What version of tetex do you have installed? I'm running 2.0.5-r5 and /usr/bin/latex is pointing to /usr/bin/tex.
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isoaga
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david@plasma4:pts/6:23 files 2.2Mb -> emerge -pv tetex
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild UD] app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r5 [3.0-r2] +X -debug -doc 85,040 kB
Total size of downloads: 85,040 kB
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Looks like I am running version 3, think its masked ~x86, will try downgrading to 2.0.2-r5
Thanx
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| isoaga wrote: | Looks like I am running version 3, think its masked ~x86, will try downgrading to 2.0.2-r5
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You probably don't want to do that; tetex 2 is outdated.
latex is supposed to be linked to pdfetex; I think that's the LaTeX team's recommendation. It has a few features not present in tex. It should produce dvi output by default. So whatever the problem is, it isn't what latex is linked to.
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isoaga
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well then, i don't know what to do then, currently i'm emerging tetex 2 so we will see if that helps, but if pdfetex is supposed to be the new standard how are we to include eps figures?
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After downgrading to tetex 2 the problem is gone and the link is now
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david@plasma4:pts/6:24 files 2.3Mb -> ls -alh /usr/bin/ | grep latex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jun 6 10:18 elatex -> etex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jun 6 10:18 latex -> tex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 967 Mar 17 09:39 latex2html
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7 Jun 6 10:18 pdfelatex -> pdfetex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jun 6 10:18 pdflatex -> pdftex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.3K Jul 27 2004 pod2latex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 980 Jun 6 10:16 pslatex
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Jay Belanger
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| isoaga wrote: | | well then, i don't know what to do then, currently i'm emerging tetex 2 so we will see if that helps, but if pdfetex is supposed to be the new standard how are we to include eps figures? |
It should work same as before. (In your case, it didn't, of course, but it was supposed to.) Were you getting pdf output? By default, latex should still give dvi output, but sometimes there are old config files that result in pdf output, and that could mess up eps files. The new latex should automatically set \pdfoutput to 0; I think some old config files check for undefined \pdfoutput, and perhaps that's what messes things up.
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| This might be happening because you have a \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} in your tex file. Drop the pdftex and it will work. |
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