<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">>Right. I believe MikTeX is a very popular and well-supported distro on Windows, and it's supposed to be particularly clever about installing necessary packages on the fly. I'm guessing this is not your problem, but I'm not terribly familiar with MikTeX </span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">If I remember well, MiKTeX helps you through the Installation of Packages when the compilation detects that are some package you need.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font>>IIRC, all the commonly used encoding (MacRoman, Latin-1, UTF-8, etc) share the same ASCII table, it's umlauts and accents and diacritics where the fun really starts!</div>
<div><br></div><div>It is a terriffing problem when you are naive in LaTeX... and use to use latin languages....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">>If not "latex" and DVI (which are with what I'm comfortable), then what? All my figures have been converted to EPS and I use graphicx to include them. (I also use vi to edit my files. I suppose that I am in the Dark Ages still.) Any direction would be appreciated. I'm willing to modernize, but I don't know how. Thanks.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">In Other hand If you use DVI script to compile (becouse of .eps files) the typesetting is absolutely slower than if you use Pdflatex script (according to the indications to do right). The comments about this problem were about me (At least I had these kind of problems in this list). I changed all my eps Figures to .pdf and works Good and Faster... And if you have a G4 processor perhaps is cool to use the faster way...;).</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial; ">Salutacions,</span></span></font></div>
<div>Greetings,</div><div>Sludos.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 March 2010 00:10, Gerrit Glabbart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g.glabbart@googlemail.com">g.glabbart@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2010/3/12 John B. Thoo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jthoo@yccd.edu" target="_blank">jthoo@yccd.edu</a>></span><br>
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As for Amy's set up, this is what she's said:<br>
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I am Using MikTex 2.7 on a Dell, windows XP Professional 2002, service pack 3.<br></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Right. I believe MikTeX is a very popular and well-supported distro on Windows, and it's supposed to be particularly clever about installing necessary packages on the fly. I'm guessing this is not your problem, but I'm not terribly familiar with MikTeX -- this *is* the MacTeX list, after all! ;) Again, though, the software in use appears outdated, as their website lists the current version as MikTeX 2.8, with no automatic upgrade path.</div>
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Peter since asked for her available disk space, <br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>If she has massive amounts of available space: TeX Live is available for Windows now...</div><div><br></div><div>Re.: text encoding -- that's often worth looking into, but if both of you are using plain English only, then different text encodings might not cause any problems at all; IIRC, all the commonly used encodings (MacRoman, Latin-1, UTF-8, etc) share the same ASCII table, it's umlauts and accents and diacritics where the fun really starts!</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for eps, pdf, and dvi: what Peter and David said.</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>-- Gerrit.</div></font></div>
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