Thank you all! I've downloaded the latest version of the cygwin setup.exe and reinstalled tetex-beta, texmf, texmf-base and textmf-extra packages. Sorry if someone thought there was a problem with this. At this point it works fine.[ Thanks to Hoenicka, and Hanchrow ]. But i have MikTeX and i thought i could profit it...
Following Benoit instructions it success to work ! Litle drawback: there are two directories with more than 70 MB each, texmf (from MikTeX) and texmf.original (from Cygwin). Regards, Javier --- Javier wrote : > > I want to set up cygwin on Windows 2000. Trying to > > follow M. Hoenicka's excellent tutorial > > (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ntsgml.html) > > up to chapter 7, my question is how could i profit > > MikTeX and use its texmf tree? > > > > I have got a problem when i run latex > > > > ~# latex textest.tex > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.3) > > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt' > > > > Let me say that my MikTeX works well on Windows. > > Sorry, but I'm a novice. > > > > Regards, Javier > --- Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Bonjour, > > MikTeX runs well under DOS: > it is a good idea to use the cygwin tetex package > if you want to tex under cygwin. > In view to use the texmf tree distributed by MikTeX > try (and modify if necessary): > 1] install the cygwin tetex package; > 2] move the /usr/share/texmf directory to /usr/share/texmf.original > [ mv /usr/share/texmf /usr/share/texmf.original ] > 3] link the MikTeX texmf directory to /usr/share/texmf > [ ln -s /foo/MikTeX/texmf /usr/share/texmf ] > 4] and link the original web2c directory: > [ ln -s /usr/share/texmf.original/web2c /usr/share/texmf/web2c ] > 5] check that the *.cnf file in the directory /usr/share/texmf/web2c > are unfrozen (read the cygwin documentation for more information); > 6] run mktexlsr > > Now it should work: > > Let know what happens. > > Good texing, Jerome --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
