On 2018-01-09, Brian <a...@cityscape.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?
The person who responded directly to David's question quoted above, whose name, exotic in the regions from which I hail, escapes my remembrance. >> 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. I can't account for it. If I feed pdftex a latex file, it whines for every latex command it encounters, but if I press enter on each encountered command error in the interactive console (if that is indeed the term for it) it eventually exits completely (maybe it wants me to '\end') , producing a pdf file (the text of which comprises both the unknown latex commands as plain old text as well as the text as, well, pdf-style text, if you catch my drift). >> All roads lead to Rome, I reckon. > > You always learn something new on this list. I thought it was Grimsby. > -- "Ruling a large nation is like cooking a small fish" - Lao Tzu
