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[argan]

Hi, everyone.

I'm still a bit new to LaTex and a bit unsure of how it works. I've tried to google for solutions, but haven't really come up with anything worthwhile. My problem is that I wish to use the document class elsarticle, found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/author ... elsarticle. The only installation instructions they give is to unzip it to the local tree of the Tex distribution. What does this mean?

I have MikTex 2.9 and TeXnic Center 1.0 installed. I downloaded the above .zip-file, but decided to see if there was any mention of elsarticle in the MikTex Package Manager instead, and there was so I installed it from there.

However, when I use TexNic-center to try to compile code (using just the templates provided with elsarticle) and view it as a DVI (with Yap), it just says that "Windows API error 2. The system cannot find the file specified."

Do you think there is something missing?

Thanks for any input.

/Björn

[localghost]

[…] "Windows API error 2. The system cannot find the file specified." […]

This error message indicates that there is a more systematical problem that is not really related to LaTeX itself. I suggest to open a command line a try a compilation from there.


Thorsten

[argan]

Thanks.

Doing it with the windows command-line seemed to help. It seemed like there were some packages missing. Strange that I've never had that problem before.

Oh well, thanks for the tip.

/Björn

[localghost]

In the end it could have been the well known issue of TeXnicCenter with MiKTeX [1]. So it will always occur in case that packages have to be installed subsequently. Try the suggested remedy or think about using another editor.

[1] MiKTeX 2.9 Issues