>>>>> "Jonas" == Jonas Bofjall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jonas> I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here,
Jonas> but in that case I would appreciate if I am told where it
Jonas> is not. I installed Debian on a computer mainly to run
Jonas> LaTeX, but I don't understand really what I need to do. I
Jonas> installed almost everything on the TeX disks. When I try
Jonas> to run latex it just complains that it can't find the
Jonas> default format files (or something). I found out from
Jonas> reading the man-pages over and over again that if I run
Jonas> amstex instead, it doesn't complain about that. But it
Jonas> still doesn't work. It doesn't recognize most of my
Jonas> commands, for example \documentclass or \usepackage. Why is
Jonas> this and how does this work? There is some information in
Jonas> the doc directory but I can't typeset it! Any help is
Jonas> appreciated..
Maybe you should be using amslatex. I just tried running amstex
on an amslatex file and got the following result.
>This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
>(cross.tex
>
>AmS-TeX- Version 2.1
>COPYRIGHT 1985, 1990, 1991 - AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
>Use of this macro package is not restricted provided
>each use is acknowledged upon publication.
>
>Hyphenation patterns for english, loaded.
>! Undefined control sequence.
>l.1 \documentclass
> {article} \usepackage{amsmath}
>?
Good luck,
Nathan
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