LyX, LaTeX, PS, PDF

[Michael Costolo]

--- bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> 
>   I believe my problem has already been solved.  However, I wanted to let
> people know how some other ideas played out...
> 
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, at 4:25pm, tom at buskey.name wrote:
> > ... look around the various TeX sites for something called pdfTeX.
> 
>   I have a command on my system (RHL 7.3) called 'pdftex' which appears to
> be that.  If export LaTeX output from LyX, and do "pdftex foo.tex", I get:
> 
> > ! Undefined control sequence.
> > l.3 \documentclass
> >                  [english]{article}
> 

Because you wanted 'pdflatex' which works on LaTeX input rather than 'pdftex' which
works with plain TeX input.  In plain TeX there is no such thing as a
\documentclass{} command which is the source of your problems there.

-Mike-

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