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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:45:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        babbleon@mercury.interpath.com (Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TeX & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199604190745.JAA12839@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604190255.WAA15153@mercury.interpath.com>

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> 
> 
> I'm trying to TeX with freebsd.
> 
> I want to pre-load my own macro package, and that doesn't work at all
> 'cause the *.ltx files are missing, which my package needs since it uses
> LaTeX as a base.
> 
> But that *should* be ok anyway, 'cause my package should just work as a
> macro package under LaTeX, but I'm getting the following weird error:
> 
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \GenericError  ...                                
>                                                     #4  \errhelp \@err@     ...
> l.87 ...l do it at the Feast on June~4.}\footnote{
>                                                   Note that
> ? x
> 
> Since TeX is the primary reason I have the machine, this is a serious
> problem, and I can't remember where the "standard" LaTeX distribation
> is to just do it myself from scratch.  (Though I'll try the new & newsgroup.)
> 
> -- 
> Brian T. Schellenberger, the Man from Babble-On.


I strongly recommend to get the teTeX package installed rather than the
'old' one. It has better path finding algorithms and combines
latex and latex2e.

It can be found in ports-current. Should be in 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/teTeX



> 
> "Someday I'll get around to importing all the cool quotes from my other
> account's .sig files."      http://mercury.interpath.com/~babbleon
> sh: Undefined: not found
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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