General ⇒ Installation PSTricks and MacTeX

[coachbennett1981]

I did not know where to post this. My computer, a mac had to have the OS re-installed this weekend. I have loaded MacTex on, but I tried a PSTRICKS example and got the following errow message:

./pstricks.tex:1: LaTeX Error: Two \documentclass or \documentstyle commands.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.

l.1 \documentclass[12pt]{article}
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I have been reading all night, but I have no idea how I installed PSTRICKS to begin with. Can anyone explain how I can install PSTRICKS for Mactex. Step by step?

Nick

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Nick,

don't give the name pstricks.tex to your own LaTeX document because it's already used by the pstricks package. This can stop the compilation.

Stefan

[CrazyHorse]

I have loaded MacTex on, but I tried a PSTRICKS example and got the following errow message:

./pstricks.tex:1: LaTeX Error: Two \documentclass or \documentstyle commands.

FDE (Frequently Done Errors) no 1 => http://PSTricks.tug.org

Herbert

[coachbennett1981]

Thank you both. I realized this after I first saved this to pstricks, then changed the name to graph, and still nothing. I then just opened a new file called it WORK and it did.

Thank you so much. I know it seems like a dumb question, or an easy fix, but you both saved me on this.


Very appreciated,

Nick