[XeTeX] longtable without initial par

[George N. White III]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:59:45 +0200 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
>
>> Am 17.04.2009 um 01:05 schrieb Andy Black:
>>
>>> Maybe MikTex has some kind of a package processor
>>> so that unless it knows about a package, it won't just find it on
>>> the disk??
>>
>> I am glad then that I am no MikTeX user! Could be its documentation
>> has a hint why it stops TeX behaving like TeX.
>
> The reason is the same as on TeXLive or other systems: You have to
> update the filename database first.
>
> Which in miktex means you should call
>  texhash
> or
>  initexmf -u
> or
>  click on the FNDB button in miktex ->settings.

Well, I just used a hacked .sty in MacTeX (e.g., TL2008) by putting it
in the current
directory.  TeX Live's texhash updates the ls-R files in the "system"
directories,
but will search other directories without ls-R files.   You can decide
which directories
require ls-R files in the master configuration.

The I used the same style in MiKTeX 2.7 without running initexmf and
did not get an error.

The OP should provide the canonical minimal example and the actual
error messages.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia