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Thanks! That worked perfectly with a little tweaking!!

Hi All,

I'm just finishing up my undergrad, and am relatively new to LaTeX (I've only been using it for a year) so I appologize if this is a silly question.

What I'm trying to do is to create a lower triangular matrix, with the entire upper triangle (all zeros) denoted by one large zero in the ...

Here are the contents of the other file, pdftex.cfg
%% pdftex.cfg: pdfTeX configuration file
%%
%% DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY! It will be overwritten.
%%
%% Run
%%
%% initexmf --edit-config-file pdftex
%%
%% to edit pdfTeX configuration parameters.

compress_level 9
decimal_digits 3
horigin 1 ...

Can you upload one of these PDFs here, along with the .tex code you used to generate it (the more minimal the better) and the log file produced in the process? [Best to add \listfiles in the code to show the versions of the files in the log.]

Sure thing. Here are all of the files you requested. I ...

Do you still get A4 sized paper if you put:

\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}

in the preamble?

Yes. The PDF still displays A4 instead of letter.

Edit: Well, sort of. The PDF still displays the full A4 sized paper, but that restricts the margins to letter. The problem with that is that it ...

Start the MiKTeX Settings (Admin) from the »Start« menu and select letter size paper as seen in the attachment. But you can always set page and paper dimensions by means of the geometry package.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

Hello, and thank you for your reply. I've already set ...

Hi Everyone,

First, I apologize if this is a stupid question, but I am completely new to both TeX and the forum, so please forgive my ignorance.

Basically, I've been using MikTeX with Texniccenter for a few months now, and I've had only one major problem: I CANNOT get MiKTeX to write PDF files in ...