[OS X TeX] documentclass undefined

[Vince Filby]

Here are the relevent lines from my fmtutil.cnf.  Should I just change
them to be more your like yours or is there a script or something else
I should do?

tex             tex             -               tex.ini
etex            etex            language.def    *etex.ini
latex           etex            language.dat    *latex.ini
pdftex          pdftex          language.dat    pdftex.ini
pdflatex        pdfetex         language.dat    *pdflatex.ini
pdfetex         pdfetex         language.def    *pdfetex.ini
#!omega         omega           language.dat    omega.ini
#!lambda                omega           language.dat    lambda.ini         

Cheers,

Vince

On 8/26/05, Morten Høgholm <morten.hoegholm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:26:32 +0200, Vince Filby <vfilby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > [Tigger:~/thesis] vfilby% latex x
> > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> > output format initialized to PDF
> > entering extended mode
> > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/tools/x.tex
> > [Tigger:~/thesis] vfilby%
> >
> > x.log:
> > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> > (format=pdfetex 2005.8.25)  25 AUG 2005 22:18
> > entering extended mode
> > **x
> > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/tools/x.tex
> > ! .
> > l.33   \batchmode \errmessage{}
> >                                \csname @@end\endcsname \end
> > This error message was generated by an \errmessage
> > command, so I can't give any explicit help.
> > Pretend that you're Hercule Poirot: Examine all clues,
> > and deduce the truth by order and method.
> >
> >  )
> > No pages of output.
> 
> Okay, what your log file should have started with is something like this:
> 
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (format=latex
> 2005.8.9)  26 AUG 2005 12:16
> entering extended mode
> **x
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/tools/x.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, d
> anish, dutch, italian, norsk, portuges, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation,
> loaded
> .
> 
> 
> Clearly your system is set up incorrectly: When you call "latex" you get
> plain pdfetex in pdf mode. I wonder how it got that way?
> 
> On your computer you have a file called fmtutil.cnf, which controls format
> creation. On my computer, the relevant lines are
> 
> # Standard formats (plain, latex) with all engines:
> 
> # Change "tex.ini -> bplain.ini" and "- -> language.dat"
> # if you want babel support in tex. Add -translate-file=cp227.tcx before
> tex.ini
> # if you want to make all characters directly "printable" for
> # any \write (instead of ^^xy).
> tex             tex             -               tex.ini
> 
> #! aleph                aleph           -               *aleph.ini
> latex           pdfetex         language.dat    -translate-file=cp227.tcx
> *latex.ini
> etex            pdfetex         language.def    -translate-file=cp227.tcx
> *etex.ini
> pdftex          pdfetex         -       -translate-file=cp227.tcx
> *pdftex.ini
> pdflatex        pdfetex         language.dat    -translate-file=cp227.tcx
> *pdflatex.ini
> pdfetex         pdfetex         language.def    -translate-file=cp227.tcx
> *pdfetex.ini
> #! omega                omega           -       omega.ini
> #! lambda               aleph           language.dat    lambda.ini
> 
> Check what it says on your computer.
> --
> Morten
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