Preparing and Running L^ATEX on Your Own Files

You must use a text editor to prepare an input file for L^ATEX. The easiest way to start learning about L^ATEX is by examining the file small.tex with your text editor. You can obtain your own copy of this file, in your directory, by typing the command

     copy c:\emtex\texinput\small.tex

After you have prepared your file, whose name should have the extension tex, you must run it through L^ATEX and print the output. Follow the instructions in Section , except substitute the first name of your file for ``sample''. Remember to save disk space by deleting the dvi file after printing the output.

If you want to stop L^ATEX in the middle of its execution, perhaps because it is printing a seemingly unending string of uninformative error messages, type Control-C (press C while holding down the key labeled CTRL). This will make L^ATEX stop as if it had encountered an ordinary error, and you can return to OS/2 or DOS command level by typing X, as described in the manual.