On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 19:41:35 +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > 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.
I am not playing your games. Exotica is outside my field of interest. Your private life is your own. > >> 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). Oh. pdftex is now being fed a latex file, not a plain text file. Previously: > pdftex will actually create a pdf out of a *text file*.... (The "*"s are mine. Just in case you fail to notice we are talking about different things). Boats. Midstrem. > >> All roads lead to Rome, I reckon. > > > > You always learn something new on this list. I thought it was Grimsby. On second thoughts (everyone can have them), maybe it was Scunthorpe. -- Brian.
