[texhax] ledmac produces errors

[Peter Wilson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Litchfield" <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>
To: <texhax at tug.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:09 PM
Subject: [texhax] ledmac produces errors


> Hi all,
>
> Sorry about the cross-post, but I thought I might widen the readership for 
> this.
>
> I am trying to typeset a translation of two languages and am using
> ledmac but it is producing errors, such as:
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.29   \l at dpairingfalse
>
> ?
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.52   \pst at rtedLfalse
>
> ?
<snip similar error reports>

>
> and on and on...
>
> So, is it what I am doing that is causing the problem,  or is there
> another package that can be used in its place?
>
> I have used the same file on 'other platforms' and got the same
> result. Note, ledmac does not seem to work with pdftex, only latex.
>

    You did use the ledpar package as well as ledmac, didn't you? If you 
want to use plain TeX then edmac is for you.

Peter W.