Re: Unknown format name/engine: latex/TeX, or latex.fmt not found

Am Sun, 3 Feb 2013 06:06:37 -0800 (PST) schrieb John Brown:


>> ...It is an error of the miktex package if additional manual
>> steps, like extracting files, running make or moving files to
>> other locations are needed.
 
> I agree that it is an error in MiKTeX, but does this mean that I
> should have sat on my hands and waited for MiKTeX to fix itself?

Well simply waiting would not have solved the problem as miktex will
not fix itself if nobody makes a bug report. 

But on the other side: running unknown scripts and clicking on all
sort of buttons without real idea what's going on isn't the correct
strategie either. 

To quote Simon Tatham
(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html):

Users like this are like a mongoose backed into a corner: with its
back to the wall and seeing certain death staring it in the face, it
attacks frantically, because doing something has to be better than
doing nothing. This is not well adapted to the type of problems
computers produce. 

Instead of being a mongoose, be an antelope. When an antelope is
confronted with something unexpected or frightening, it freezes. It
stays absolutely still and tries not to attract any attention, while
it stops and thinks and works out the best thing to do. (If
antelopes had a technical support line, it would be telephoning it
at this point.) Then, once it has decided what the safest thing to
do is, it does it. 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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