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Re: Anyone use slitex?

#10591
From: Kurt Behnke (TEAM SOS)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:37
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In article <727562829haen.news@veces.stgt.sub.org>,
haen@veces.stgt.sub.org (Herbert Neugebauer) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan14.220908.1191@pacdata.uucp> jimh@pacdata.com (Jim
Harkins) writes:
|> >I'm having some (ok, lots of) trouble trying to make slides via LaTeX.  

|> >
|> >This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (format=lplain 91.11.18)  14 JAN 1993 13:48

|> >[... rest deleted ...]
|> 
|> I didn't have a look at the rest, but the error is caused
|> by the wrong format file, your are using lplain, but you
|> have to use splain. If it is not already installed, you
|> have to run initex but I don't know how, because I'm using ~~~

You run 
	INITEX splain, 
and make sure that the font definition file 
sfonts.tex and latex.tex are in a place where TeX can find them.

(Some implementations differ from this though: Sometimes you run Tex/I;
with Textures on my Mac I just have toopen splain.tex and click Typeset.)

Gruss,
		KB
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