[OS X TeX] From LaTeX to TeX again

[David Arnold]

Ewan,

Enter this and save it as junk.tex.

Hello, World1

\bye

Now, in the Typeset menu, select Tex, then again in the Typeset menu, 
select pdftex.

Now your file should compile when you click the Typeset button.

Here is a simple latex file that does the same thing. Save the 
following as junk.tex.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

Now, select Latex on the Typeset menu and then pdftex on the Typeset 
menu. Now, when you click the Typeset button, the file should compile 
and give you the result you want.


On Dec 27, 2004, at 10:23 PM, delanoy at igd.univ-lyon1.fr wrote:

>
>   Hello all,
>
>  and thanks to the many people that answered my e-mail. Now let me 
> explain
> my problems about using TeX more clearly :
>
>  -I downloaded many "plain TeX" tutorials but for a (probably silly)
> reason I don't
> understand yet, all my "plain TeX" files fail to compile.
>
>  -I can't even compile a minimal example.
> If I put
>  "Hello World!" in a file, the TeX console doesn't complain but 
> produces
> no pdf.
> If I put
> "\begin{document}
>  Hello World!
> \end{document}" I get a
> "Undefined control sequence : \begin{document}"  error message.
>
>
>  All that although I can compile fairly complex examples without
> difficulty under LaTeX. Yet
> when I installed TeXShop for LaTeX on my Mac I also automatically
> installed "Plain TeX", didn't I ?
>
>
>        Ewan
>
>
>
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