Re: INSTALL.tex

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

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 02:04 AM, Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 05:45:02PM -0800, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > 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?
>
> This is a TeX file, not a LaTeX file.
> You must use tex INSTALL.tex. If you latex I get the same warning as 
> you.
>
> There is a .ltx extension, while almost never used, would allow to 
> distinguish between
> LaTeX and TeX files.

That would help, but as you say, noone uses it.  I need to learn how to 
distinguish them for myself, clearly.

Regards,

Justin

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