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Frank Küster wrote:
"A. K. Srikanth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-15
Severity: normal
There are two problems:
1 /usr/bin/latex seems to be a symbolic link to pdfetex and only outputs
pdf files.
That must be because of a buggy test for PDF output in your documents or
a style file. pdfetex is perfectly capable of producing dvi files.
This is usually achieved automatically by setting \pdfoutput=0 if you
call it by the name "latex". Naturally, the old (Knuth's) tex binary
doesn't know \pdfoutput at all. There are some old documents/style
files which check whether \pdfoutput is defined, and unconditionally set
it to 1 if it is defined - that makes it produce PDF even if it was set
to 0 just before.
This seems to be right... removing some packages allows normal latex to
work.
2 When running latex on a simple 'article' with 12pt font and a4paper,
the abstract heading is "Atrat". Nothing else seems to have changed.
I cannot reproduce this here, e.g. with this small document:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{abstract}
foo
\end{abstract}
bar
\end{document}
Please provide a minimal example (see
http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html) that shows your problem.
Regards, Frank
I have attached the test tex file and pdf output of pdflatex. The
problem does not appear in the dvi output of latex. What could be the
problem?
Srikanth
test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\title{Testing Latex}
\author{Srikanth Agaram}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
This is a test
\end{abstract}
\section{Introduction}
\section{Motivation}
\end{document}
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
