Thanks you very much Robin for the reply. At least you have shown a way. I will go by that.. I am using Pentium III PC. Windows 98 is the platform. Prabir On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 Robin Fairbairns wrote : >first, we (the latex project) are really not good people to ask >for >help ... in general. we're here to think about the future, not >the >details of getting things done today. immediate help is best got >via >one of the sources mentioned in > >http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists > > > Would anybody guide me how to install it. Step by step guide >will > > be of great help.I could download directories- base, >contrib, > > exptl, packages, required etc. But little confused how to go > > about? > >second, since you don't tell us which style of computer you're >using, >it's not immediately clear where to start. > >http://www.tug.org/ > >has listings of "distributions" (complete tex and latex systems) >that >are what you need, to start with. get used to the basic system >before >branching out to use of the huge masses of contributed material >or our >experimental stuff. (any distribution will give you base and >required >in total anyway.) > >Robin Fairbairns > >For the LaTeX Team Prabir G. Dastidar Principal Scientific Officer Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS, Department of Ocean Development' Plot No:3 Nandagiri Layout Jubliee Hills Hyderabad-500033 Andhra Pradesh India.