The *.tex files are like source code, which gets compiled to generate .pdf (or
.dvi or .ps) files. LaTeX is the word processing system that most engineers,
mathematicians, physicists (and some of the SPM co-authors) prefer to use, as
it is good for organising documents and typesetting equations. Unlike other
word-processing tools, it is relatively trivial to automatically generate
LaTeX files automatically (which means that much of the online documentation
in SPM is identical to what is in the manual). It is also free.
Unfortunately, many journals do not accept LaTeX, or deal with it very well.
Anyway, getting back to the point. Try running the following:
cd spm8/man
pdflatex manual.tex
pdflatex manual.tex
The "\begin{document}" and "\end{document}" stuff is in manual.tex, along with
a number of other commands for setting up the document.
Best regards,
-John
On Tuesday 06 January 2009 23:48, Darren Gitelman wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----
> 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
