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[beamer-class] Installation
Alvaro
2016-04-26 23:01:59 UTC
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I am new to beamer. I have unsuccessfully been trying to compile the
example in conference-ornate-20min.en. When I do it, I get the following
message:

MiKTeX Problem Report

Message: Invalid argument

Data:

Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Stream\FileStream.cpp

Line: 76

MiKTeX: 2.9

OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, build 10586

Invokers: non-existing/explorer/TeXnicCenter

SystemAdmin: no

PowerUser: no

Root0: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9

Root1: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9

Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9

UserInstall: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9

UserConfig: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9

UserData: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9

CommonInstall: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9

CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9


I have no idea of how to continue from here. I will appreciate any help.


Thanks,


Alvaro
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Mark Yagnatinsky
2016-04-27 04:21:48 UTC
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This sounds like a miktex issue. Try asking on the miktex list. Or maybe
at tex.stackexchange.com

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
I am new to beamer. I have unsuccessfully been trying to compile the
example in conference-ornate-20min.en. When I do it, I get the following
MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Invalid argument
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Stream\FileStream.cpp
Line: 76
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, build 10586
Invokers: non-existing/explorer/TeXnicCenter
SystemAdmin: no
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
I have no idea of how to continue from here. I will appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Alvaro
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Alvaro
2016-04-27 15:16:41 UTC
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Thank you Mark and Jan.

Mark was right. It was a Miktex issue that I could now solve. I had to
change the repository in mpm to be able to update some files needed for
beamer to work fine. The unpleasent thing about it is that I also had to
turn the windows firewall off to do it!

Beamer now seems to be producing nice pdf files. But I still do not get dvi
files. You may wonder why I want to see the dvi, since users seem to agree
on that nowadays (good pcs capabilities) there is basically no advantage of
dvi over pdf while there are some disadvantages
(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112268/pdf-vs-dvi-vs-postscript?lq=1).
However, I still use dvi because (i) I do not have to close the dvi file to
compile and substitute it while I do have to close a pdf to write it again,
so I have to close the pdf file and open it again each time I want to check
whether my text is working, and (ii) while the dvi output is shown exactly
in the point of my text in which I am working, so it is easy to check that
the last change produces the outcome I was looking for, in the pdf file I
have to open the file and search for the last change. I guess there is a
wiser way of doing things with the pdf outcome and I would very much
appreciate any suggestions.

Regards,

Alvaro
Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
This sounds like a miktex issue. Try asking on the miktex list. Or maybe
at tex.stackexchange.com
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
I am new to beamer. I have unsuccessfully been trying to compile the
example in conference-ornate-20min.en. When I do it, I get the following
MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Invalid argument
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Stream\FileStream.cpp
Line: 76
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, build 10586
Invokers: non-existing/explorer/TeXnicCenter
SystemAdmin: no
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
I have no idea of how to continue from here. I will appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Alvaro
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Mark Yagnatinsky
2016-04-28 03:01:19 UTC
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What previewer are you using? TeXworks, which comes with MikTeX, does not
require closing the pdf. The moment you finish compiling, the changes are
visible.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
Thank you Mark and Jan.
Mark was right. It was a Miktex issue that I could now solve. I had to
change the repository in mpm to be able to update some files needed for
beamer to work fine. The unpleasent thing about it is that I also had to
turn the windows firewall off to do it!
Beamer now seems to be producing nice pdf files. But I still do not get
dvi files. You may wonder why I want to see the dvi, since users seem to
agree on that nowadays (good pcs capabilities) there is basically no
advantage of dvi over pdf while there are some disadvantages (
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112268/pdf-vs-dvi-vs-postscript?lq=1).
However, I still use dvi because (i) I do not have to close the dvi file to
compile and substitute it while I do have to close a pdf to write it again,
so I have to close the pdf file and open it again each time I want to check
whether my text is working, and (ii) while the dvi output is shown exactly
in the point of my text in which I am working, so it is easy to check that
the last change produces the outcome I was looking for, in the pdf file I
have to open the file and search for the last change. I guess there is a
wiser way of doing things with the pdf outcome and I would very much
appreciate any suggestions.
Regards,
Alvaro
Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
This sounds like a miktex issue. Try asking on the miktex list. Or
maybe at tex.stackexchange.com
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
I am new to beamer. I have unsuccessfully been trying to compile the
example in conference-ornate-20min.en. When I do it, I get the following
MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Invalid argument
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Stream\FileStream.cpp
Line: 76
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, build 10586
Invokers: non-existing/explorer/TeXnicCenter
SystemAdmin: no
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
I have no idea of how to continue from here. I will appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Alvaro
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Jan Bredereke
2016-04-28 09:55:50 UTC
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Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
What previewer are you using? TeXworks, which comes with MikTeX, does not
require closing the pdf. The moment you finish compiling, the changes are
visible.
I agree with the original poster Alvaro that it is vital to the
workflow that the viewer reloads automatically.

For Linux users: I use okular, which can do this.

Best regards,
Jan
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Alvaro
2016-04-29 16:49:44 UTC
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Thanks Mark. I must confess I am reluctant to leave texcnic center to move
to teXworks. It is just that I am getting used to it. But following your
hint, I googled the issue and found a solution suggested by Rob Hyndman:
use SumatraPDF. It works nicely! More
at http://superuser.com/questions/337011/windows-pdf-viewer-that-auto-refreshes-pdf-when-compiling-with-pdflatex.
Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
What previewer are you using? TeXworks, which comes with MikTeX, does not
require closing the pdf. The moment you finish compiling, the changes are
visible.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
Thank you Mark and Jan.
Mark was right. It was a Miktex issue that I could now solve. I had to
change the repository in mpm to be able to update some files needed for
beamer to work fine. The unpleasent thing about it is that I also had to
turn the windows firewall off to do it!
Beamer now seems to be producing nice pdf files. But I still do not get
dvi files. You may wonder why I want to see the dvi, since users seem to
agree on that nowadays (good pcs capabilities) there is basically no
advantage of dvi over pdf while there are some disadvantages (
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112268/pdf-vs-dvi-vs-postscript?lq=1).
However, I still use dvi because (i) I do not have to close the dvi file to
compile and substitute it while I do have to close a pdf to write it again,
so I have to close the pdf file and open it again each time I want to check
whether my text is working, and (ii) while the dvi output is shown exactly
in the point of my text in which I am working, so it is easy to check that
the last change produces the outcome I was looking for, in the pdf file I
have to open the file and search for the last change. I guess there is a
wiser way of doing things with the pdf outcome and I would very much
appreciate any suggestions.
Regards,
Alvaro
Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
This sounds like a miktex issue. Try asking on the miktex list. Or
maybe at tex.stackexchange.com
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
I am new to beamer. I have unsuccessfully been trying to compile the
example in conference-ornate-20min.en. When I do it, I get the following
MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Invalid argument
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Stream\FileStream.cpp
Line: 76
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, build 10586
Invokers: non-existing/explorer/TeXnicCenter
SystemAdmin: no
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
I have no idea of how to continue from here. I will appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Alvaro
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Mark Yagnatinsky
2016-04-29 21:35:38 UTC
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I've heard good things about Sumatra. Glad you're able to finally use pdf
instead of dvi :)
One of the nice things about pdf is that you can use a computer without
LaTeX installed to display your presentation, if some emergency required it.
As a bonus, you can use the microtype package now and will probably never
get a badbox warning again!
(Probably not very useful for beamer though.)

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
Thanks Mark. I must confess I am reluctant to leave texcnic center to move
to teXworks. It is just that I am getting used to it. But following your
use SumatraPDF. It works nicely! More at
http://superuser.com/questions/337011/windows-pdf-viewer-that-auto-refreshes-pdf-when-compiling-with-pdflatex
.
Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
What previewer are you using? TeXworks, which comes with MikTeX, does
not require closing the pdf. The moment you finish compiling, the changes
are visible.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
Thank you Mark and Jan.
Mark was right. It was a Miktex issue that I could now solve. I had to
change the repository in mpm to be able to update some files needed for
beamer to work fine. The unpleasent thing about it is that I also had to
turn the windows firewall off to do it!
Beamer now seems to be producing nice pdf files. But I still do not get
dvi files. You may wonder why I want to see the dvi, since users seem to
agree on that nowadays (good pcs capabilities) there is basically no
advantage of dvi over pdf while there are some disadvantages (
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112268/pdf-vs-dvi-vs-postscript?lq=1).
However, I still use dvi because (i) I do not have to close the dvi file to
compile and substitute it while I do have to close a pdf to write it again,
so I have to close the pdf file and open it again each time I want to check
whether my text is working, and (ii) while the dvi output is shown exactly
in the point of my text in which I am working, so it is easy to check that
the last change produces the outcome I was looking for, in the pdf file I
have to open the file and search for the last change. I guess there is a
wiser way of doing things with the pdf outcome and I would very much
appreciate any suggestions.
Regards,
Alvaro
Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
This sounds like a miktex issue. Try asking on the miktex list. Or
maybe at tex.stackexchange.com
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Alvaro <
Post by Alvaro
I am new to beamer. I have unsuccessfully been trying to compile the
example in conference-ornate-20min.en. When I do it, I get the following
MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Invalid argument
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Stream\FileStream.cpp
Line: 76
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, build 10586
Invokers: non-existing/explorer/TeXnicCenter
SystemAdmin: no
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\alvar_000\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
I have no idea of how to continue from here. I will appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Alvaro
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Jan Bredereke
2016-05-06 07:32:40 UTC
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Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
I've heard good things about Sumatra. Glad you're able to finally use pdf
instead of dvi :)
One of the nice things about pdf is that you can use a computer without
LaTeX installed to display your presentation, if some emergency required it.
As a bonus, you can use the microtype package now and will probably never
get a badbox warning again!
(Probably not very useful for beamer though.)
Mark, thanks for the hint to the microtype package, which I didn't
know about. Indeed, it is probably not very useful für beamer. But
for all my other LaTeX documents, it helps to further improve line
breaking and having less "overfull hbox" warnings.

<not serious>
So, I will not have to start using snakes for line justification, as
recently proposed by Randall Munroe:

http://www.xkcd.com/1676/

</not serious>

Regards,
Jan
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Mark Yagnatinsky
2016-05-08 06:07:00 UTC
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Re: snakes.

But you can if you want too!
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307795/how-to-create-nonbreaking-arbitrary-length-snakes-for-full-width-justification
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Jan Bredereke
2016-05-08 14:30:30 UTC
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Post by Mark Yagnatinsky
Re: snakes.
But you can if you want too!
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307795/how-to-create-nonbreaking-arbitrary-length-snakes-for-full-width-justification
ouch! Nothing in typography is impossible for the LaTeX gurus -- I
should have known that one of them would take up that challenge.

Jan
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Mark Yagnatinsky
2016-05-08 17:19:11 UTC
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Post by Jan Bredereke
ouch! Nothing in typography is impossible for the LaTeX gurus -- I
should have known that one of them would take up that challenge.
Or four of them, in this case :)
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Jan Bredereke
2016-04-27 06:52:55 UTC
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Post by Alvaro
I am new to beamer. I have unsuccessfully been trying to compile the
example in conference-ornate-20min.en. When I do it, I get the following
[...]
I have no idea of how to continue from here. I will appreciate any help.
As usual, try divide and conquer:

Does the the most simple LaTeX code compile? If no, then it is a MikTeX
installation problem.

Does the most simple Beamer-LaTeX code compile? If no, then it is a Beamer
installation problem.

Does a radically cut-down version of conference-ornate-20min.en compile?

And so on.

Regards,
Jan
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