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I was wondering if there is any way to have a helical structure extend beyond the membrane into the cytoplasm using textopo? Is it possible to show helices in the loops? I was thinking I would just have to enter the helix as is, remove the membrane, and then re-draw it in myself. Please let ...

Update:

I did a search of all files and folders for "textopo.sty" and it turned up quite a few hits (who knows why), so I deleted them all except the one in texlive\2011\texmf-dist\tex\latex\textopo. That seemed to work because when I re-entered the code you gave I ACTUALLY GOT A TOPOLOGY PLOT ...

I redid all of the steps you suggested and this was the output, again:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (Web2C 2011)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./text textopo.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang ...

Ok, So when I enter the code: I get the response:

./textopo.sty

Where does that mean it is?

Thanks

Yes, the file looks just like that when I open it. When I run the script you provided I get the following:

(c:/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(c:/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo ...

Thanks for the reply.

do I need to include a "document class" for textopo? If so, what is the class I should use? I placed the textopo.sty file in C:\texlive\2011\texmf-dist\tex\latex\textopo. I think that's the right place? Anyway, when I try running the script

\documentclass{article ...

So if the textopo.sty file cannot be found, would I get the error message that the "textopo environment is undefined"?

Hello all,

I am such a novice at all of this, and am having trouble installing the Textopo program. The instructions say to "run" textopo.ins, and then "run" textopo.dtx, twice, in Latex.

Can someone please tell me how exactly to do this?

I have downloaded TexLive, and the editor seems to be ...