General ⇒ outputting .tex file as .pdf/.ps using TexnicCenter??

[carr]

I am a LaTex newbie. I have just installed MiKTeX and TexnicCenter, using Protext. The first thing I'd like to do is to open John Scholes's .tex file of Maths Olympiad questions, which I got from here.

When I open TexNicCenter, open the file, and then try to output the file in .pdf, .ps, or .dvi format, it tells me there are hundreds of errors with the Latex code. It's impossible to believe the code is so bad, so I must be doing something wrong! Any advice would be appreciated! Many thanks, Carrie

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Carrie,

welcome to this forum!

That tex-file is not a complete LaTeX document, commands like \documentclass are missing.
You could create a new tex file in the same directory:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\newcommand*\bye{}
\begin{document}

\include{imo-all}

\end{document}

This file should by compilable by TeXnicCenter.

Stefan

[carr]

Brilliant - done it now - thank you! Carrie