[OS X TeX] elsart.cls

[Cris Moore]

Good idea --- but I checked with emacs and there aren't any excess
line breaks.  Besides, I'm not sure this kind of problem in a .cls file
would cause this problem --- TeX is generally fairly tolerant of
whitespace.

- Cris


> I mean, the file may have DOS line-endings:  <cr><lf>
> instead of just unix: \n  = <lf>
> or Macintosh:  \r  = <cr>
>
> If you downloaded the file  elsart.cls  from the web using a web-browser,
> then the .cls  extension was not likely to be known, thereby
> resulting in a binary download, not a text download.
> That will preserve the 2-character line-ending, rather than switch
> automatically to a single character for your mac.
>
> >
> > Oddly, there's no problem when I latex exactly the same file using latex2e
> > on my unix workstation. ...
>
> How did you get  elsart.cls  to the Unix box?
> If it went as text (not binary) then the line-endings will have been corrected,
> so you see no problem.  Is it exactly the same size as on the Mac ?
>
> >  ... So perhaps there's a slight version difference
> > with teTeX?
>
> teTeX itself is not likely to be the cause of the problem.
> If TeX sees 2 line-end characters, this is interpreted as
> requesting a paragraph-break.
>
> I'd expect your .log file to be quite large, with interesting
> messages consistent with this kind of problem.
>
> There are scripts on the mac-tex site to help overcome this kind
> of problem.
> Or you can use Alpha or BBedit to adjust the line-endings.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> 	Ross
> >
> > - Cris
> >
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