Re: INSTALL.tex

[Xavier-François Roblot <roblot@euler.univ-lyon1.fr>]

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:

scipion:~/pari > tex INSTALL.tex 
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(INSTALL.tex (doc/parimacro.tex (doc/paricfg.tex)
FIRST PASS
No aux file.) (doc/appa.tex [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]) )
Output written on INSTALL.dvi (7 pages, 22880 bytes).
Transcript written on INSTALL.log.

Xavier Roblot