[texhax] adapting a "vanilla" latex file to tugboat style

Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 10 15:53:58 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:33:02AM -0400, Michael Barnett wrote:

> I just cut and paste the text file with url
> http://tug.org/TUGboat/sampleart.ltx into a Unix window, under the
> name sample.ltx, and issued the command line statement
> 
> latex sample

That doesn't load sample.ltx, but sample.tex that is found
as ConTeXt sample file:

> lxiv.Princeton.EDU% latex sample
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> entering extended mode
> (/usr/psr.oit/rhel432/2006-2.0/share/texmf/tex/context/sample/sample.tex
                                                 ^^^^^^^
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.1 \starttext

Because this is a ConTeXt command.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek


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