Re: hello world runs with fatal error

The simplest file also needs documentclass:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello
\end{document}

Ignasi

On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:46:06 +0200, Clifford Knoll <[email protected]>  
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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> thanks for any help,
> cliff
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