[Blindmath] Physics Lab Report

[Jason White]

Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:
> Firstly TeX, I don't know about protext, but I have used some other
> TeX distributions (eg. miktex on windows). Typically for these you
> run the latex command on the file and get a dvi output. Command
> would be something like:
> latex myfile.tex
> Please note that you may need to run the latex command on a file a
> few times, the reason I was given is that the first run gathers
> certain information and then one of the later runs actually puts the
> correct numbering on automatically number things.

Yes, but only if you have tables of contents or other automatically generated
material.

I prefer to run pdflatex to generate a PDF file directly - I don't think many
people use dvi files anymore, and by going straight to a PDF file you can use
hyperref to control the PDF metadata (author, title etc.) and create links in
the PDF document, etc.