<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the explanation. I'll keep my fingers crossed (at least until I have to start typing :-)<div>and wait to see what happens once the download is complete.<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Zbigniew Nitecki</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Department of Mathematics</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Tufts University</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Medford, MA 02155</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">telephones:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Office<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-tab"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>(617)627-3843</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Dept.<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-tab"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>(617)627-3234</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Dept. fax<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-tab"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>(617)627-3966</font></p><a href="http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/">http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/</a></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jan 5, 2009, at 9:44, Herbert Voss wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Zbigniew Nitecki schrieb:<br><blockquote type="cite">OK, but that doesn't explain the "no \begin{document}" error (and the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">fact that my output pdf file consists of the single line of text<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">".23false,false,".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am currently downloading the pst-solides3d package from CTAN in an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">attempt to update, but am not optimistic that this will fix the problem.<br></blockquote><br>it should :-)<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I have also noted that the start of my console output says it is using<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pdfTeXk, even though I have explicitly told the system to use<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">latex+ghostscript. Since the documentation for pst-solides3d says<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">explicitly that it won't work with pdfTeX, this may be the problem. I'm<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">investigating this with the TeXShop helpdesk (aka Richard Koch).<br></blockquote><br>the machine is _always_ pdftex and it can create a dvi _or_<br>pdf output. latex is a synonym for running pdftex in dvi mode<br><br>Herbert<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PSTricks mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org">PSTricks@tug.org</a><br>http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>