MiKTeX and proTeXt ⇒ A new member in trouble

[anammari]

Hi,

I've installed ProText on windows vista home premium & I'm very new to Tex/LaTex. I installed all the components exactly as instructed in the interactive PDF guide. When I try to experiment with TeXnicCenter using the sample file small2e.tex by running it I encounter the following problem:
LaTex-Result: 3 Errors(s), 0 Warnings, 0 Bad Box(es), 0 Page(s)

I am setting the output to be LaTex => PDF
When I try to preview the output document my PDF reader cannot display the document, saying that: this file cannot be found

Am I missing something in the installation?
Regards,
Ahmad

[gmedina]

Hi, and welcome to the board!

your LaTeX-related questions should be posted in the corresponding subforum... Anyway, can you please describe the error messages that you are obtaining? If it's not too long, perhaps you could post the complete code that you are compiling...

[anammari]

Sorry for posting the problem in this forum. Next time I'll do it in the relevant one.

The 3 errors are:
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his is pdfTeX, version 3.1415926—1u.40.9 (MiFTeX 2.7)
entering extended mode
!I can’t write on file ‘small2e.log’...
Please type another transcript file name
! Emergency stop
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output POF file produced!
LaTeX—Result: 3 Error(s)', 0 Warning(s)', 0 Bad Box(es)', 0 Page(s)
 
 
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The file I'm trying to build comes with the installation for demo. It's called 'small2e.tex' and it's code is the following:

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\documentclass{article}        % Your input file must contain these two lines 
\begin{document}               % plus the \end{document} command at the end.
\section{Simple Text}          % This command makes a section title.
Words are separated by one or more spaces.  Paragraphs are separated by
one or more blank lines.  The output is not affected by adding extra
spaces or extra blank lines to the input file.
Double quotes are typed like this: ``quoted text''.
Single quotes are typed like this: `single-quoted text'.
Long dashes are typed as three dash characters---like this.
Emphasized text is typed like this: \emph{this is emphasized}.
Bold       text is typed like this: \textbf{this is bold}.
\subsection{A Warning or Two}  % This command makes a subsection title.
If you get too much space after a mid-sentence period---abbreviations
like etc.\ are the common culprits)---then type a backslash followed by
a space after the period, as in this sentence.
Remember, don't type the 10 special characters (such as dollar sign and
backslash) except as directed!  The following seven are printed by
typing a backslash in front of them:  \$  \&  \#  \%  \_  \{  and  \}.  
The manual tells how to make other symbols.
\end{document}                 % The input file ends with this command.
 
 
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Run LaTeX here

[gmedina]

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!I can’t write on file ‘small2e.log’...
 
 
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indicates that probably you don't have writing permission for the current directory.