MiKTeX and proTeXt ⇒ Realy basic installation question

[rgd20]

I have the latest versions of MikTeX and WinEdt, and to test the installation I tried to compile the supplied example thesis.

The complier failed on line 8 (the first uncommented line)


\documentclass[12pt]{report}

The error report is:

!Undefined control sequence

1.8 \documentclass
{report}

I have no idea how to separately install document clasess.

This is the third box I have installed this on and I have never got this problem before.

[localghost]

Please post the complete source and log file here as attachment.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[rgd20]

Please post the complete source and log file here as attachment.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

I can't get the log file as an output but in it's entirety (copying from the display)
C:\Documents and Settings\dsgiplc.YOUR-4105E587B6\Application Data\WinEdt\Samples\Thesis\Thesis.log: Sun 23-Mar-2008 21:08

This is TeX version 3.141592 (MikTeK 2.7) (preloaded format=tex 2008.3.23) 23 MAR 2008 21.08
**thesis.tex
(thesis.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
1.8 \documentclass
{report}
?

....and I've appended the source code that I'm trying to compile.

[balf]

Are you sure you didn't compile with plain TeX?

B.A.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

that really looks like plain tex, just compare with my last log:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=pdflatex 2008.3.21) 23 MAR 2008 19:49

If I use latex instead of pdflatex:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=latex 2008.3.21) 24 MAR 2008 01:37

look at the format. Of course plain tex doesn't know the latex document classes.

Stefan

[rgd20]

Thank you for pointing out my idiocy... In my defense it was quite late and i was tired, but really I was a fool.

Thanks!