"Some Postscript specials could not be rendered" error

This is a problem encountered while practicing with MikTex and WinEdt in the windows environment. Solution is simple: Select dvips option from the Render Menu. This should solve the problem.

Metric (TFM) file not found error

While using pifont package and ding expression, I had the following error with the Latex:

! Font U/psy/m/n/12=psyr at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.

<to be read again>

relax

l.64 {\Pifont{psy}

}

?

This is partially solved by dowloading the "symbol" package from the Package manager of the MiKTex

Manually installing a Miktex package

If working behind a company firewall preventing you to download and install the Miktex packages automatically, here is a solution to achieve that.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2063/how-can-i-manually-install-a-package-on-miktex-windows

Including source code in Latex without using "verbatim"

It is a nice feature to have the exact (or close) code formats in the latex documents. The following “listings” package achieves that. Here is a link that illustrates this in a clear and concise manner.

http://texblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/include-source-code-in-latex-with-listings/