Terry Collins wrote:
>
> Mike Lake wrote:
> >
> > Terry wrote....
> > ! Undefined control sequence.
> > l.4 \documentclass
> > [a4paper,12pt]{report}
> > ?
> >
> > And it repeats for every latex command
>
> Well, at least the first 10.
> >
> > What does it do if you try latex ie not pdflatex ?
>
> Works fine for latex.
Right then we do have a valid LaTeX file not a Tex file.
> By going latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf -> I can get a pdf with fuzzy text. So
> I'm assuming that there is nothing wrong with the document.
Thats a different problem. The fonts in the PDF are
bitmapped and that can be solved easy. We will tackle that
later by embedding the fonts or using PS TYpe 1 fonts
instead.
.
> > Is there anything in the file before \documentclass that might be
> > causing the error?
>
> % This is /home/terryc/latex/terryc/resumes/2002/20020417.tex
> % Updated by Terry Collins on 20020417.
Thats OK.
> That is the $64K question. I can not see anything, but latex
> occcassionally seems to find phantoms. Retyping those lines made no
> difference. Removing those lines made no difference. Guess I just have
> to wait for the wind to change {:-). Following Gus's suggestion, I will
> just start with a simple one pager, then two, etc until I work out what
> it doesn't like.
Yep. Just have one paragraph after the begin{document} and
before the \end{document}. See if it barfs on that.
Mike
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