Dear Francisco:
The few SPM manuals I checked (under spm5/man or spm8/man) do not
start with \begin{document} and as I mentioned adding that line just
unearths hundreds of other Undefined control sequence errors.
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Darren Gitelman
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Francisco Pereira
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Darren,
>
> For a general latex document you do
>
> latex name.tex (produces name.dvi)
> dvips -f name.dvi > name.ps
> ps2pdf name.ps name.pdf
>
> Your errors do indicate there is something wrong witth the .tex file.
> If you open it, is the first line
>
> \begin{document}
>
> ?
>
> cheers,
> Francisco
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Darren Gitelman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> How does one go about reading the LaTeX manuals in spm? I have not
>> used LaTeX before but from my understanding one must convert the *.tex
>> document to a *.dvi document and then it can be viewed or turned into
>> a pdf, etc.
>>
>> I am trying to do this on a redhat linux workstation.
>>
>> Typing
>> $ latex name_of_manual.tex
>> produces hundreds of errors, such as:
>>
>> [drg@chinook ~]$ latex dartelguide.tex
>> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./dartelguide.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
>> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
>> ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e
>> stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis
>> h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
>> kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.1 \chapter
>> {Using DARTEL \label{Chap:dartelguide}}
>> ?
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>
>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>> Type H <return> for immediate help.
>> ...
>>
>> l.1 \chapter{U
>> sing DARTEL \label{Chap:dartelguide}}
>> ?
>>
>> Overfull \hbox (20.0pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 1--2
>> []
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>
>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>> Type H <return> for immediate help.
>> ...
>>
>> l.3 D
>> ARTEL\footnote{DARTEL stands for ``Diffeomorphic Anatomical Regstration...
>> ?
>>
>> It really seems to want the \begin{document} statement, so I added
>> that to the first line, but then I still get hundreds of undefined
>> control sequence errors, such as
>> \@footnotetext ...}\color@begingroup \@makefntext
>> {\rule \z@ \footnotesep \i...
>> l.5 ...ie Algebra, but the acronym is a nice one.}
>> is a suite of tools for a...
>>
>> ?
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> \@footnotetext ...tins {\reset@font \footnotesize
>> \interlinepenalty \interfo...
>> l.7 ...ating to how to interpret the differences.}
>> and increased sensitivity...
>>
>> ?
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>
>>
>> thanks for any help,
>> -----
>> Darren Gitelman
>>
>
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