Document Classes ⇒ LaTeX 'memoir' not found error, page a day calender

[3tuxedo]

Hey guys, i'm very new to LaTeX, but i love how thew possibilities are endless. It is very interesting to me and i hope to learn a lot more about it. Anyway, the reason i stumbled across it is because i want to make my own page a day calender. Someone have posted on a blog about how to do this using LaTeX, and it caught my attention. Here is the code he used.

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\documentclass[17pt,oneside,final,showtrims]{memoir}
\usepackage{marvosym}

\setstocksize{11in}{8.5in}

\settrims{0in}{0in}

\settrimmedsize{4in}{6in}{*}
\settypeblocksize{3.5in}{1.75in}{*}
\setlrmargins{0.25in}{*}{*}
\setulmargins{0.05in}{*}{*}
\setheadfoot{0.01in}{0.1in}
\setheaderspaces{*}{*}{*}
\setmarginnotes{0.25in}{3.5in}{0in}

\checkandfixthelayout

\pagestyle{empty}

\usepackage[final]{graphicx}

\pagestyle{empty}

\newcommand{\daypage}[6] {
  \marginpar{\includegraphics[height=3.4in,width=3.4in,keepaspectratio]{imgs/#1.pdf}}
  \begin{center}
    \Large{#2} \\
    \HUGE{\textbf{#3}} \\
    \large{#4}

    \vspace{0.4in}
    \small{#5}

    \vspace{0.2in}
    \scriptsize{\textit{#6}}
  \end{center}
  \newpage
}

\begin{document}
  % Cover page
  %\marginpar{\includegraphics[height=3.4in]{imgs/cover.pdf}}
  %\newpage

  \include{tex-days}
\end{document}

Now when i plug that in, i get 3 errors,
-LaTeX Error, file 'memoir.cls' not found
-Emergency stop
-PDF not created

does anyone have any ideas why this is? It may be something really simple but again, i am new to this, thanks so much.

p.s. here are the links to the websites im using.
http://psung.blogspot.com/2009/06/makin ... endar.html
http://blog.mattj.me/latex-page-a-day-calendar

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

This means, that the memoir class is not installed on your system. Which TeX distribution do you use - TeX Live, MiKTeX, or a Linux repository TeX version? Use the package manager of the teX distribution or Linux system and install memoir.

Stefan

[3tuxedo]

Thank you so much for your reply, I went in to my package manager and installed memoir. Will i also need to install marvosym as well?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It depends on if it's already installed. Just try, the compiler will tell you. And it can be seen in the package manager, if it's tlmgr (TeX Live) or mpm (MiKTeX).

Stefan

[3tuxedo]

Oh ok that makes sense, I installed them, and when i build it, it says no errors or anything, but in the report it says,

(There were 3 error messages)
Couldn't find input index file C:\Users\Dustin\Desktop\MHM\LaTeX3 nor C:\Users\Dustin\Desktop\MHM\LaTeX3.idx

also, when i click F5, my PDF viewer opens, but it is empty. Once again i am very new to this so please excuse my incompetence.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

No problem if you are new to this topic.

It seems that your editor (which one is it?) tries to call makeindex, which produces an index for documents such as books. Find this settings in your editor preferences or in the output profile, and switch it off.

Stefan

[3tuxedo]

I am using MiKTeX 2.9, I will have to do some searching to turn off that option. You said it would be in the preferences?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

In the editor preferences (TeXnicCenter?), not in the MiKTeX preferences. MiKTeX provides the LaTeX environment, but it can be used with a lot of different editor programs.

Stefan

[3tuxedo]

Ohh my bad, yes, TeXnicCenter. sorry about that.

[3tuxedo]

In my project settings, i had checked 'uses BibTeX' before. but the one that says 'uses MakeIndex' is not checked.