General ⇒ Several errors

[isamu]

Yo there Im the new guy around the neighborhood...jeje My name its Al
Im pleased to join this great community, first of all let me say to all if I can lend you a hand in anything feel free to post.
Thanks

Unforunately this first time Im looking for help due a weird error around...
at the point I was trying to get a PDF version of the file
http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/physics.tex [A physics formulary from Johan Webers johanw@xs4all.nl, all the credit relating to this file its to him]
in past times I can compile the file to get my dvi but this one time I get a whole bunch of errors, and cant do a thing (aside of writing me a one page pdf without sense], I look around because as far as I know the structures are well declared, the package its correct and there is no finger error (or at least nothing serious to void the entire compilation, =p)
Im ataching the log, hope someone help me.

Specs Mdv-Linux 2008 , This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5), and the file.
Thanks in advance to all

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Al,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!

This part of the first line of the logfile

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This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=tex 2007.9.13)

shows that plain TeX is used instead of LaTeX. If I compile it using LaTeX I get format=latex.

Stefan

[mayngontay]

Dear Al,

You should compile your file with 'LaTeX' command (not TeX).

Regards,

[localghost]

Though the file is not very old, I wonder why it uses the LaTeX2.09 mode. You should pay special attention to the very first line of the code.

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\documentstyle[twoside]{report}

I would not recommend to use this source. It contains obsolete code and the result could be achieved very much better by including modern packages with LaTeX2e.


Best regards
Thorsten

[isamu]

Thanks for your help, Ill check this one and post the end,=p

Thanks Stefan_K, mayngontay, localghost I hope return the favor sometime.

[isamu]

Hehe It got solved
I compile against latex has sugested, it gives me right files
The only thing I canf solve it that has no index
dunno why.
Thanks to all

[localghost]

[...] The only thing I canf solve it that has no index dunno why. [...]

The answer is very simple. There is neither a single index entry nor the makeidx package is used. That's what you need to create an index.