Pushparaj Shetty wrote:
I have Fedora Core. I tried to run latex.
I used psfig for including figures. It gave the following mesage:
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New documents should use Standard LaTeX conventions and start
with the \documentclass command.
Compatibility mode is UNLIKELY TO WORK with LaTeX 2.09 style
files that change any internal macros, especially not with
those that change the FONT SELECTION or OUTPUT ROUTINES.
Therefore such style files MUST BE UPDATED to use
Current Standard LaTeX: LaTeX2e.
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kindly tell me how do I get the latest version of Latex (2.09) in Fedora
2e *is* the current LaTeX release. 2.09 has been obsolete for
at least a decade. LaTeX is complaining that your .tex file
does not begin with \documentclass{article} (or some other
document class). Check that the very first line of the .tex
file is:
\documentclass{article}
dpn