Re: Need advice about working offline

On 28 Jun 2013, at 04:06, "Colin McLarty" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to work offline to revise slides for a talk in China.  I have
> limited web access.  I tried to revise a file which was working six weeks
> ago, and it produced the following error message:
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `url.sty' not found.
> 
> It offered to download url.sty but I had no web access at the time.  It is
> easy to give a minimal example.  This single line produces that error
> message:
> 
> \documentclass{beamer}
> 
> Now I have gotten web access and downloaded url.sty. But I need to know if
> this kind of thing is likely to happen again when I work offline. Will
> previously working latex files start to need new downloads?  Is there some
> way around it when I can't get on line?
> 
> Or should I just work in Word when I need to revise documents offline?

Yes: before you go, use the installer to download a full repository (it's routinely how I use MiKTeX, as it guarantees repeatability from one computer to another)


David

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