[comp.text] LaTeX beginner

eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) (10/16/89)

Ok, I decided to move from nroff to LaTeX. I bough Lamport's book. I wrote
this file testit.tex:

\begin{document}
Hi there!
\end{document}

I then typed %latex testit.tex and got the following error log:
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This is TeX, Version 2.3 for Berkeley UNIX (preloaded format=lplain 88.2.1)  15 OCT 1989 18:48
**testit 
(testit.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <15 Sep 1987>
! Undefined control sequence.
\@floatplacement ...global \@toproom \topfraction 
                                                  \@colht \global \@botnum \...

\document ... \hsize \begingroup \@floatplacement 
                                                  \@dblfloatplacement \makea...
l.5 \begin{document}
                    
? x
No pages of output.
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I don't know what's going on and I wish someone would help me. I'm running
on a vax-8700, if that tells anyone anything. 

Sorry to be so boring, thanks for any help.

eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) (10/16/89)

In article <10872@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) writes:
;Ok, I decided to move from nroff to LaTeX. I bough Lamport's book. I wrote
;this file testit.tex:

All straightened out. Thanks for the help.