Re: [Sheflug] LaTeX

[Paul Branston <nospam [at] rannoch.demon.co.uk>]

Hi Richard,

is this under Linux or are you still trying out OpenBSD ?

I have been a fan of latex for some time and done all my docs
in it from letters and invoices to wordy disertations.

I must confess to leaving them in dvi files most of the time and
just printing with dvips but I've just tried
pdflatex invoice132.tex

and got a perfect pdf file which looks great in acroread. Its even
picked up the colors which I use. Since I just use vi (or ed) to write the
tex I can't vouch for output from lyx though.

BTW this is under OpenBSD on my laptop at work. There are some
config files under the pdftex tree although pdflatex.ini has
very little in it.

Paul.

PS my contract at FS has now finished I've moved on.


On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:23:20PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I've been trying a few things out with LaTeX. I'm not really all that
> good with it.  I'd like to learn more.
> 
> I notice that if I use Lyx it will generate the appropriate code for
> me.  After producing the document I'd like to turn it into a PDF
> document with PDFLATEX.
> 
> I've looked into man pdflatex and all I can see is a few vague
> comments that don't make any sense to me or anyone else I've talked
> to.
> 
> If I want to put "testfile.lyx" through pdflatex what command do I use
> ?  Is it something like 'testfile.lyx > pdflatex' or is it something
> else ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
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