[plt-scheme] SLaTeX: getting it to work

I am baffled as to why this might be, so I'm CCing the creator of
SLaTeX in case he has a ready idea.

[And yes, it should run under Scheme; I was trying to eliminate a variable.]

Shriram

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Bas Steunebrink <bass at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> Yes, same problem:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> C:\Program Files\PLT>slatex collects/slatex/quick.tex
> SLaTeX v. 20050609
> typesetting code[quick.tex]done
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.8-alpha-20080323 (MiKTeX 2.7)
> entering extended mode
> (collects/slatex/quick.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8j> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation,
> ge
> rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `slatex.sty' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>
> Enter file name: collects/slatex/slatex.sty
> (collects/slatex/slatex.sty
> *** Check: Are you sure you called SLaTeX 20050609 or later? ***)
> (quick.aux)
> ! I can't find file `.Z0quick.tex'.
> \ZZZZinput #1->\input #1
>                          \relax
> l.4 In Scheme, \scheme
>                       {lambda} creates a function.
> Please type another input file name:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Still no dot in front of "done", in Vista nor Windows 2000. But even if one
> prefers the command line, it should work from within Scheme all the same
> right? It should just work either way.
>
> Quite frustrating... :-S
>
> Bas
>
>
>
> Shriram Krishnamurthi schreef:
>
> I was concerned about this from your previous posting already.  You showed
>
>
>
> typesetting code[quick.tex]done
>
>
> But SLaTeX prints a dot for each Scheme expression it is asked to
> typeset, so this should have shown up as
>
>
>
> typesetting code[quick.tex].done
>
>
> Honestly, I've never, ever in 15 years used SLaTeX from within Scheme
> (nor can I imagine why I'd want to).  Have you tried running the
> command-line version?  Do you get the same problem?
>
> Shriram
>