[OS X TeX] Long Division redux

[Thomas Rike]

On Dec 29, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Dec 29, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Thomas Rike wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply Herb. It didn't work for me though. I got  
>> this error when I tried to Typeset polynom.dtx  ! LaTeX Error:  
>> File `polynom.sty' not found.
>> This is the LaTeX that it was trying to interpret.
>>
>> %<*driver>
>> \documentclass{ltxdoc}
>> \usepackage{hyperref,polynom}
>>
>> \DisableCrossrefs
>> \OnlyDescription
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>     \DocInput{polynom.dtx}
>> \end{document}
>> %</driver>
>>
>> The actual macro is not that important to me. I just want to  
>> understand what to do whenever I get these .ins and .dtx files.
>
> Howdy,
>
> Sigh... Got that backwards... Run latex/pdflatex on the ins file to  
> produce the .sty file(s), etc. Documentation is then produced by  
> running the dtx file through latex/pdflatex.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)

Worked like a charm this time. Thanks Herb,  for all your help. I  
have been reading and saving your replies to this board (for future  
reference)  for several months. They are making the learning curve a  
little less steep.

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