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From: eln272v@monu1.cc.monash.oz (    r    lang)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Desperately Seeking SliTeX Help!!!!
Message-ID: <1929@monu1.cc.monash.oz>
Date: 9 Apr 90 00:16:06 GMT
References: <271@opusc.CS.SCAROLINA.EDU>
Organization: Dept. Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
Lines: 47

In article <271@opusc.CS.SCAROLINA.EDU>, bert@snuffleupagus.csd.scarolina.edu (Bert Still) writes:
> I have tried to create slides using SliTeX according to Leslie Lamport's
> Appendix A to no avail...  If any kind sould could tell me why I might get
> the following error:
> 
> % latex foo
Here is the problem - use instead
% slitex foo
(The error message was generated because you were trying to use
a SliTeX font that was not defined in LaTeX)

If you don't have slitex prebuilt, you will need to use 
initex to produce splain.fmt from splain.tex (the slitex macros), 
and then use virtex to produce a slitex executable from splain.fmt.
The same happens with plain TeX from plain.tex, and LaTeX from lplain.tex.

> I think I have done things correctly
> in the file foo.tex.  Here's the entire file:
> 
> \documentstyle{slides}
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{slide}{}
> This is a test.
> \end{slide}
> \end{document}
You should have two files, the root file and the slide file.
Try instead:

file: root.tex
\documentstyle{slides}
\begin{document}
This is front matter.
\colors{black}
\colorslides{slide1}
\end{document}

file: slide1.tex
\begin{slide}{blank}
This is a slide.
$y = x^{2}$
\end{slide}

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Russell Lang   Email: rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au   Phone: (03) 565 3460
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Monash University, Australia