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Well, I think it's working now... mostly. I replaced subfigure with subfig and changed all the \subfigure to \subfloat. It now compiles with a single errors \@makecaption undefined. This occurs on a blank line, weirdly. However as far as I can tell the dvi file produced is entirely correct, so I'll ...

Hi,

I'm preparing a 2-column document and some figures have to span the whole page, so I'm using figure* and table*. To prevent Latex numbering the figures in a weird way I'm trying to use fixltx2e. This is numbering them as I want, but also generates errors when compiling : specifically "! Extra ...

Is Kile configured to use pdflatex instead of regular latex, perhaps?

Ahh, many thanks. I would not have thought it would give that error...

As for the garble in the output, that might be a flaw with your DVI viewer. If you're currently using evince or okular, I recommend trying xdvi instead ...

I've been trying to install latex on my laptop running Ubuntu. It's almost working, but there are two problems.

1) If I use Kile to compile, it cannot find any postscript files (error is simply "filename not found"). This is a problem because all my figures are in .ps or .eps format. Without any ...

Thanks for the quick responses - works perfectly. Sorry I did not see the code environment tab, even though it's staring me in the face now !

I changed my thesis title page following an example on the internet somewhere and now latex insists on creating 2 blank pages before the title (even if I change the title page back). I didn't change the header at all, only the title page. The rest of the document is fine. The code is ...