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That is not a short answer, thanks! I will try. So my reply takes a little time.
greetings Herr Kaleun

drdousa, Tomek, accept my thanks for reply!

So I will explain it more clearly.
At first, yes I am new with Latex. And that is caused by the idea to write my diploma with Latex (what else ;) ). So I decided to learn this language. The matter is, at my Institute I didn't have my own PC. I can only ...

:shock: OK, I tried out something, but at least I haven't got any output pdf. there is always the same f.. error: I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
But i searched all of the directories, there is really no *.fmt - file.

Use Winshell and texlife08. that is really boring, so latex becomes ...

Hello,
I have read your explanations. Well, I will try what you described.
But is there something newer information on it?
I want to start using latex, but I have to use a portable drive.
Thanks