Steve Litt wrote:
But "Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting is built with a document class
based on Memoir, and it's nothing but trouble. First I had to get Memoir from
the web because the Ubuntu one didn't seem to work. Now I need memhfixc or my
book gets the "zero output" error.
The memhfixc and memoir documentations say memhfixc is included in memoir, but I
sure couldn't find it. Yeah, I finally realized I had to run latex
mempatch.ins, but it all took time and it was all a hassle. I had to take
apart the book til I got a small file to reproduce the problem, narrowed it
down to memhfixc, and then had to figure out how to fix it. For all I know, there
will be yet other problems when I put back the original layout file and the
original document.
The 2008 version of TeXLive (which seems to be the preferred LaTeX
distro on Ubuntu) supposedly has a package manager (tlmgr) which might
take care of some of the package installation hassles. Unfortunately,
the official repositories for Ubuntu have a somewhat conservative
adoption rate for new packages (including updates), so the official
release is still TeXLive 2007, with no package manager.
So you might want to manually install the 2008 version. Alternatively
(and this is what I use at the moment), MiKTeX's excellent package
manager has been ported to Linux. It lacks the GUI of the Windows
version, but the command line syntax is not all that complicated, and it
Just Works. I'm not positive whether using it to install memoir would
get mempatch properly installed, but in general there seems to be no
manual futzing required once it installs a package.
HTH,
Paul
