>Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 21:32:38 +1000 >From: Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I've be playing around with LaTeX, after having successfully avoided it >for years, and I've run up accross a little problem.
To many years inded :) > >I start my document as follows: > >\documentstyle[a4]{article} > \documentstyle is for the LaTeX2.09, the (very) old LaTeX version. >But I get the following: > >! LaTeX Error: File `a4.sty' not found. > Yes the a4.sty was never a standard style file in LaTeX2.09, and does not exist in the new version LaTeX (LaTeX2e). >Anyone know where this file might be and why I don't seem to have it on >my system? > >There seems to be an a4dutch.sty, but I'm not dutch, and don't speak or >write in dutch, so I don't think that's what I want. > If you have installed a (more or less) new TeX system you must do \documentclass[a4paper]{article} Let me point to you some usefull links http://www.latex-project.org/ (The LaTeX Project) http://www.tug.org/ (TeX User Group) http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/LaTeX/Catalogue/catalogue.html (The LaTeX Catalogue online) At\'e breve Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ phone: 351 39 791170