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Hi,<br>
<br>
Am 2009-12-16 12:35, schrieb Lambas P&eacute;rez Jes&uacute;s:
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  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009">Hi,
  </span></font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009"></span></font>&nbsp;</div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009">I'm
compiling with a MikTex portable&nbsp;the example of 'A short manual for
Texworks' </span></font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009"></span></font>&nbsp;</div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009"><font
 face="Times New Roman" size="3"><em>\documentclass{article}</em></font>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\usepackage{geometry}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\geometry{a4paper}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\usepackage[spanish]{babel}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\title{Primer documento}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\author{Un TeXnicien}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\date{Un T&eacute;Xnico}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\begin{document}</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\maketitle</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>&iexcl;Escrib&iacute; un texto
acentuado en espa&ntilde;ol!</em></p>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>\end{document}</em></p>
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  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009"></span></font>&nbsp;</div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009">and
the next error occurs</span></font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009"></span></font>&nbsp;</div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="759192611-16122009"><font
 face="Times New Roman" size="3"><em><font size="2"><font face="Arial">[...]</font></font></em></font>
  <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><em>("H:\Miktex
portable\tex\latex\base\t1enc.def")miktex-pdftex.exe: Read operation
failed.</em></p>
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<br>
It looks like LaTeX is not finding the file H:\Miktex
portable\tex\latex\base\t1enc.def. So the first question is: does this
file exist? If not, you're probably missing some packages.<br>
In any case, did you succeed in compiling other (simpler) documents? A
minimal example would be:<br>
%---------------&gt;8-------------------------<br>
\documentclass{article}<br>
\begin{document}<br>
Hello World.<br>
\end{document}<br>
%---------------&gt;8-------------------------<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
Stefan<br>
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