On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 15:29:08 +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to > >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf > >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. > > > > So could you now elaborate on step 1 of this "one-step" process? > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > > > > > Like the other, more knowledgeable guy said.
There are quite a few in this thread. Clue us in? > pdftex will actually create a pdf out of a text file without complaint > if you put '\end' on a newline at the end of the text file (I wouldn't > recommend such a bare-bones approach, though, in my extremely limited > experience, for formatting reasons). Or you can just type '\end' in the > little interactive mode that comes up in the terminal when errors or > omissions are encountered. My pdftex complained madly about this and eventually threw the towel in. > All roads lead to Rome, I reckon. You always learn something new on this list. I thought it was Grimsby. -- Brian.
