> However, with longer documents which I used to be able > to compile cleanly under Slackware things are not that > rosy. Previewing dvi files, I get misaligned page numbers > in table of contents, screwed up tables and documents > look a mess.
You have to run latex two, three and sometimes even four times with complicated long documents. Debian does not provide any other latex slackware. However, are you using the compatibility mode? Do your latex documents start with \documentstyle? Erick
