Re: [MiKTeX] Installing/using .sty macros? REVISED

[db <db...@at...>]

I guess that was Phillip's reply to my request for info that you are
referring to.  Besides his reference to the manual, which did me no good
because I didn't know enough to even be able to find the macro related stuff
within it (I had already tried looking there...), Phillip did give me some
direction/a clue at the end of his mail that I am just getting ready to
check out ... and I am appreciative for it.  Hopefully it will lead me to my
problem.

Newbies have a tough way to go ... Once you have enough knowledge, to
understand the basics and access the help tools efficiently, you can help
yourself.  Before that you either need a LOT of time ... as in weeks/months
to "learn how to fly" or you need the knowledgeable advice/help of an
experienced person.  Sometimes experienced people get exasperated with
ignorance.

I was sorry to ask such stupid questions but I had the problem of not being
a MikTex or Latex user but having to set a machine up for a user who knows
how to run Miktex/latex but not how to set it up..







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Roddy" <ro...@we...>
To: <mik...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Installing/using .sty macros? REVISED


> Hey Philip,
>
>  and please delete me from the user group folks if I'm out of line.
>
> You're a bit of a jerk.
>
> I've asked one question ever on this user group; and got a similar
response
> from Philip.  And was then way too
> embarassed to ever ask anything else.
>
> Seems to me  you need to know everything before you ask a question.
>
> Now, that would be fine, if us "uncultured" people had some great manual
to
> work from (does it now exist, is it now online? can I buy it in a
> bookstore?).
>
> Or, do I just buy PC Tex ?
>
> Michael Roddy.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <phi...@ti...>
> To: <mik...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:34 PM
> Subject: RE: [MiKTeX] Installing/using .sty macros? REVISED
>
>
> > > I started out at the beginning looking/searching online and now
> > > have looked
> > > again at http://www.tug.org/begin.html   but have been unable to find
> out
> > > as how to setup MikTex for use with pre-existing macros (that
> > > someone other
> > > than myself will actually use).
> >
> > Why not read the MiKTeX manual?  There is an installation chapter (2)
and
> > sections specifically on the directory structure (2.4) and how to manage
> it
> > (3.3).
> >
> > Basically, all you need is a parallel directory structure modelled on
> > \texmf\, usually called \localtexmf\.  You must make this known to
MiKTeX
> > via the Options Wizard, "Roots" tab.
> >
> > Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe
> >
> >
> >
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