[HOWTO] LaTeX Quickstart Guide

slartibartfasz · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:21 am Post subject:

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

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data · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 17 Location: France

Great it worked, thanks.

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

mvikred · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 33

slartibartfasz · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject:

Can you give us some more details? What command did you issue, what did you try already...
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karnesky · Apprentice Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 218

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 · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 33

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karnesky · Apprentice Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 218

See if http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=formatstymy helps

mvikred · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 33

arand · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 215

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

slartibartfasz · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks, arand, i didnt notice that - the version of dvipdfm works fine for me. I'll remove the line.
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karnesky · Apprentice Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 218

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 · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:38 am Post subject:

vim and gvim read different rc files (/etc/vim) maybe thats the reason.
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karnesky · Apprentice Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 218

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:

discostu · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 333

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,
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arand · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 215

dpl · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject:

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
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Pseud · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:32 am Post subject:

I get this error after I sync'd today:

tfh · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 59 Location: AFAD

Same type of issue here with another latex package :

BlackEdder · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject:

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 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject:

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 · Apprentice Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 218

slartibartfasz · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject:

erebus · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: Truetype fonts

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 · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 52 Location: Boston, MA

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: