[Mediawiki-l] Re: WikiTex: Xymtex install

Alex Trujillo cryptoquick at phyco.org
Tue Dec 6 01:12:10 UTC 2005


> Well, let's ask the obvious questions, then. Does the file it's
> looking for exist? Try altering the paths a little. Can the
> directory/file be written to (if TeX needs to write to it)?

No matter what I did, the package didn't work. Could you tell me how  
or forward me to, step by step directions for installing WikiTeX and  
its respective extensions? I've deleted the installation and removed  
the inclusion from LocalSettings.php until I know what I'm really doing!

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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 23:23:41 -0700
> From: Alex Trujillo <cryptoquick at phyco.org>
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] WikiTex: Xymtex install
> To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <ABD5E6D5-7466-4462-8B11-A46745D1B4D2 at phyco.org>
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> Hello; I've been attempting to install the xymtex package for
> WikiTex. I uploaded the entire 17 megabyte package to my webspace,
> then I pasted an example from Wikisophia into a new page:
>> <chem>\octamethylene{4==S;5==S}{1W==HO;1D==O;8D==O;8W==OH;2SB==H;
>> 7SA==H;2SA==NH$_2$;7SB==NH$_2$}</chem>
>
> The following error was returned:
>> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
>> (./2c67c000747b6ff14054bb48ef81ba6e
>> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
>> Babel  and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
>> ngerman, n
>> ohyphenation, loaded.
>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document  
>> class
>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: File `xymtex/xymtex.sty' not found.
>>
>> Type X to quit or  to proceed,
>> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>>
>> Enter file name:
>> ! Emergency stop.
>>
>> l.3 \usepackage
>>                {chemist}^^M
>> No pages of output.
>> Transcript written on 2c67c000747b6ff14054bb48ef81ba6e.log.
>
> I've been trying to fix this all evening. I've been messing with the
> wikitex.chem.inc.tex file.
> Also of note, the xymtex directory is within wikitex directory.
> That's why I used "xymtex/xymtex.sty".
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
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> On Dec 4, 2005, at 5:03 AM, mediawiki-l-request at Wikimedia.org wrote:
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:56:36 +0000
> From: Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] WikiTex: Xymtex install
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> 	<mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <e92136380512042356n2a584b35g at mail.gmail.com>
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> Well, let's ask the obvious questions, then. Does the file it's
> looking for exist? Try altering the paths a little. Can the
> directory/file be written to (if TeX needs to write to it)?
>
>
> Rob Church
>
> On 05/12/05, Alex Trujillo <cryptoquick at phyco.org> wrote:
>> Hello; I've been attempting to install the xymtex package for
>> WikiTex. I uploaded the entire 17 megabyte package to my webspace,
>> then I pasted an example from Wikisophia into a new page:
>>> <chem>\octamethylene{4==S;5==S}{1W==HO;1D==O;8D==O;8W==OH;2SB==H;
>>> 7SA==H;2SA==NH$_2$;7SB==NH$_2$}</chem>
>>
>> The following error was returned:
>>> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
>>> (./2c67c000747b6ff14054bb48ef81ba6e
>>> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
>>> Babel  and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
>>> ngerman, n
>>> ohyphenation, loaded.
>>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>>> Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document  
>>> class
>>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
>>>
>>> ! LaTeX Error: File `xymtex/xymtex.sty' not found.
>>>
>>> Type X to quit or  to proceed,
>>> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>>>
>>> Enter file name:
>>> ! Emergency stop.
>>>
>>> l.3 \usepackage
>>>                {chemist}^^M
>>> No pages of output.
>>> Transcript written on 2c67c000747b6ff14054bb48ef81ba6e.log.
>>
>> I've been trying to fix this all evening. I've been messing with the
>> wikitex.chem.inc.tex file.
>> Also of note, the xymtex directory is within wikitex directory.
>> That's why I used "xymtex/xymtex.sty".
>>
>> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>>
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>> Phyco.org: For A Phyco Future.
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