Re: hello world runs with fatal error

Clifford Knoll wrote:
> I've installed Miktex 2.9 on a win7 using all defaults. When I try to
> compile the simple
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> Hello
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> 
> i receive the following error:
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: The font size command \normalsize is not defined:
> 
> there is probably something wrong with the class file.

The problem is that you haven't specified one - you need a \documentclass (e.g. \documentclass{article} before \begin{document}). This is not MiKTeX-specific - any TeX would tell you this.

> i assume this is a common error because i've used a fresh miktex installer
> with defaults on a relatively new win7 machine and tried to run the
> simplest program i could think of. unfortunately, i have been unable to
> find anything related to this problem in the mailing list.

That's because LaTeX is working ;o) Do you get this with any of your other LaTeX files?

HTH,


David 


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