Re: [SL] latex dilemma (more info)

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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Keith Mastin wrote:

> ...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... 

Hmmm, I don't think I explained that well enough.  You
do NOT load/examine/process/... a DVI file with LaTeX.
A DVI file is the result of running LaTeX (or TeX) on
something else (a LaTeX source file).

LaTeX has already been run.  You are running into problems
"downstream" of LaTeX.  If you don't have dvips, I suppose
one option would be to load that appropriate package onto
your system.  However, for the purpose of seeing whether the
DVI file is actually useful, I still think using xdvi to
"view" the DVI file under X11 (which you might know as
KDE, Gnome, IceWM, ...) is the thing to do.  If you don't
have xdvi, there is probably a package you can load.

Is this clearer?

Gord

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