Need Some TeX Help

[Quantum Cowboy]

I\'m not very good with computers... especially when it comes to running LaTeX. Actually, I\'m running MiKTeX with the WinEdt 5.3 GUI on Windows XP. Anyway, I want to compile a document that uses the packages \"epsfig\" and \"amssymb\". I can\'t find either of these packages with my built in package manager. Does anyone know where I can get them?

Quantum Cowboy

P.S. I\'m using ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/ as my repository.

[hhegab]

Why dont you try Linux and especially Mandrake 9.2.
It is free, it is very easy, it is full of feaures and above all it has all Latex solutions. You shall be able to find all the help their too.

hhegab

[Fernanda]

I agree...I tried MikTeX and thought it was awkward.

Try this if you must use windows
http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/



[Edited on 2-4-2004 by Fernanda]

[Quantum Cowboy]

Normally, I don\'t have problems when using MiKTeX. I just can\'t figure out how to load a package if it\'s not a package repository.

Seriously, if anyone knows how to manually load the AIP package in MiKTeX, please let me know.

Quantum Cowboy