Re: INSTALL.tex

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 11:45 PM, Xavier-François Roblot wrote:

> Justin C. Walker wrote:
>
> > I just checked out the Top-of-tree for pari, and I get this complaint
> > from latex when trying to process INSTALL.tex (this is Mac OS X, both
> > 10.1 and 10.2):
> >
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211 (Web2C 7.3.7)
> > (./INSTALL.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
> > LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> > Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> > ngerman, d
> > utch, nohyphenation, loaded.
> > (./doc/parimacro.tex
> > ! Undefined control sequence.
> > l.26   \magnification
> >                       =\magstephalf
> > ?
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> It's plain TeX. You should be able to compile it using tex and not
> latex:

Thanks for your reply.  I got an off-list response to this effect 
already.  I'm using TeXShop on Mac OS X, and all I do is push 
buttons :-}.  Since LaTeX is the default, that's what I got.  I need to 
learn a little more about this aspect of the package, clearly...

Regards,

Justin

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