Re: [SL] latex dilemma (more info)

[Keith M. <km...@be...>]

...Ahhh... we're actually getting somewhere. :)
Thanks for the directions, they shed some more light on this... it appears I
don't have dvips on this system. Whether or not that has any influence on the
fact that I continuously get a "no /begin{document}" error when loading directly
into LaTex, I dunno... 

So, where to go from here?

Thanks for the input here people.

Quoting gha...@fr... from [04/04/02 19:08 -0700]:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Keith Mastin wrote:
> 
> > I tried directly loading the file into latex to see what happens...
I just loaded the .tex file into latex. See the end of the message to see the
stdout dump of the results...
> 
> A DVI (DeVice Independent) file is the binary output from
> LaTeX (or TeX).  Loading it into LaTeX isn't quite the right
> thing to do.  First, I would run
>  file ....dvi
> to verify that the file is in fact a DVI file (it should be).
> 
It is:
[root@soldier users]# file 1017868610.invoice.dvi  
1017868610.invoice.dvi: TeX DVI file (TeX output 2002.04.03:1616)

> Then, if you just want to see what is in it, you can use
> xdvi under X11 (KDE, Gnome, IceWM, ...) to view it.  If
> you don't have dvipdf (or whatever your binary to convert
> to PDF is), you can try a bunch of other commands.  Doing
> a 
>  ls /usr/bin/dvi* /usr/local/bin/dvi*
> should turn up most of them.  Dvips should work at least
> as good as dvipdf.  Actually better, in so far that DVI
> and PS are page description languages, while PDF is a bit
> more than that (it has more structure than a PS file does).
> 
[root@soldier users]# ls /usr/bin/dvi* /usr/local/bin/dvi*
ls: /usr/local/bin/dvi*: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/dvicopy  /usr/bin/dvihp  /usr/bin/dvipdf  /usr/bin/dvitomp
/usr/bin/dvitype
[root@soldier users]# dvipdf 1017868610.invoice.dvi
/usr/bin/dvipdf: exec: dvips: not found


[root@soldier users]# latex 1017868610.invoice.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(1017868610.invoice.tex
LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, i
talian, portuges, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-script/scrartcl.cls
Document Class: scrartcl 1999/12/29 v2.5h LaTeX2e KOMA document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size11.clo)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-script/typearea.sty
Package: typearea, Copyright (C) Frank Neukam, 1992-1994 
                   Copyright (C) Markus Kohm, 1994-1999
)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xy.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xy.tex Bootstrap'ing: catcodes, docmode,
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xyrecat.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xyidioms.tex)

 Xy-pic version 3.7 <1999/02/16>
 Copyright (c) 1991-1998 by Kristoffer H. Rose <kri...@en...>
 Xy-pic is free software: see the User's Guide for details.

Loading kernel: messages; fonts; allocations: state, direction,
utility macros; pictures: \xy, positions, objects, decorations;
kernel objects: directionals, circles, text; options; algorithms: directions,
edges, connections;  Xy-pic loaded)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xyframe.tex
 Xy-pic option: Frame and Bracket extension v.3.7 loaded))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/tabularx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/array.sty)) (1017868610.invoice.aux

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.2 \@input{\hfill .aux}
                        
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