[OS X TeX] Help to make good texts typeset

[Michael Sharpe]

> On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is a request for help, probably a bit unusual.
> 
> Santos, a colleague and friend of mine, who died in 2011, wrote a number of open source texts which at least three people, Dr. Joyner, Dr. Gkioulekas, and myself, found worth preserving:
> 
> 	<http://www.wdjoyner.org/blog/david-santos-opensource-math-texts/>
> 
> 	<http://faculty.utpa.edu/gkioulekase/OGS/santos.html>
> 
> 	<http://freemathtexts.org/Santos/index.php>
> 
> But while the pdf are downloadable, the source does not compile.
> 
> I tried to typeset Arithmetic2008 and the first error that came up is that Santos used a package, "graphs", which I could not find and thus replaced by "graphics". But then I ran into
> 
> ./Arithmetic2008.tex:2582: LaTeX Error: Environment graph undefined.
> 
> So, just to see what other problems would come up, I commented out \begin{graph} ... \end{graph} and it continued to compile until I got
> 
> (./Arithmetic2008.aux
> ./Arithmetic2008.aux:125: Undefined control sequence.
> l.125 \citati
> 
> which referred to Arithmetic2008.aux  which somehow had something to do with Context (???) at the end of which there was the line
> 
> \citati
> 
> When I WentTo Error, I got \citat in the .aux file  (???)
> 
> and, for me, that was the end of the line.
> 
> So, I thought that maybe someone on this list could take a look and give an opinion as to what the situation might be and, perhaps, even some advice.
> 
> Very, very, hopeful regards
> --schremmer
> 

There is no graphs package on CTAN, but here's a link to where to find it.

https://www8.cs.umu.se/~drewes/graphs/

The documentation contains the line "How it works, when it works."

Michael