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by msmith25
Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Recognizing packages
Replies: 8
Views: 6974

Recognizing packages

Hi Michael,

MiKTeX claims amslatex is installed, and yet when I use \include{amslatex} in the preamble I get three errors

MiKTeX package names do not not necessarily correspond to sty files. The MiKTeX package amslatex is a bundle, a collection of files, it contains amsmath.sty and many more ...
by msmith25
Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Recognizing packages
Replies: 8
Views: 6974

Recognizing packages

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "doesn't know how to interpret the command". I assume you are getting an error message, but you don't way what. Can you provide some more detail of what goes wrong?

Most bafflingly, I just now tried it again and there's no problem with the amsmath package. It ...
by msmith25
Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: Recognizing packages
Replies: 8
Views: 6974

Recognizing packages

Hello Stefan,

Thank you for your welcome!

Thank you for your suggestion, too. Unfortunately, I already tried using the amsmath package, and TeXnicCenter doesn't know how to interpret the command \usepackage{amsmath} in the preamble either.

Do you have any other suggestions?

~Michael
by msmith25
Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: Recognizing packages
Replies: 8
Views: 6974

Recognizing packages

Hello,

I am having a great deal of difficulty getting TeXnicCenter to recognize a number of packages I thought were basic. It does not know what to do with the command:

\usepackage{amslatex}

in the preamble, instead requiring that I write:

\usepackage{amssymb}

which does not define all the ...