Creating a L^ATEX document

L^ATEX files are plain text files having a name of the form Y.tex, e.g. main.tex. A basic L^ATEX file for use with RSL specifications looks like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rslenv}
\begin{document}
%here you can write text and 
%include RSL specifications 
%   in one of two ways as described in the following subsections
\end{document}

The L^ATEX rslenv.sty file can be found at the course cd and under the link ``How to use the RAISE tools'' at http://www.imm.dtu.dk/courses/02262/. You should either put it in the same directory as your L^ATEX file, or you can get L^ATEX to find your local .sty files.

Under Linux the latter can be achieved by doing the following:

1. In $HOME do: mkdir -p texmf/tex/latex/misc/

2. Now put .sty files in $HOME/texmf/tex/latex/misc

3. Add the following line to .bashrc:

      export TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS:$HOME/texmf//
   

4. Close the XTerm window and start a new one

5. Run 'texhash texmf'

You must do step 5 every time you add a .sty file to misc.