<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Ross,<div><br></div><div>First thing I did. Deleted all the aux, etc. files.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">No file ms.aux.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/pgl/m/n' undefined</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">(Font) using `OT1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 55.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii:140: Missing </div><div 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2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive</div><div>)</div><div>Package color Info: Driver file: pdftex.def on input line 130.</div><div>)</div><div>(./url.sty</div><div>Package: url 1996/10/19 ver 1.2 Verb mode for urls, email addresses, and file</div><div> names</div><div>)</div><div>LaTeX Info: Redefining \TeX on input line 43.</div><div>LaTeX Info: Redefining \LaTeX on input line 48.</div><div>\c@definition=\count101</div><div>\bullbox=\box28</div><div>\enumbox=\box29</div><div>\loutputanglesize=\dimen115</div><div>\loutputangleoffset=\dimen116</div><div>\c@spacerule=\count102</div><div>)</div><div>No file ms.aux.</div><div>\openout1 = `ms.aux'.</div><div><br></div><div>LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: Try loading font information for OT1+pgl on input line 55.</div><div>LaTeX Font Info: No file OT1pgl.fd. on input line 55.</div><div><br></div><div>LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/pgl/m/n' undefined</div><div>(Font) </div></div><div><br></div><div>GG</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 2013-05-01, at 8:55 PM, Ross Moore <<a href="mailto:ross.moore@mq.edu.au">ross.moore@mq.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Chris, and George<br><br>On 02/05/2013, at 10:44 AM, Chris Goedde wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 1, 2013, at 7:05 PM, George Gratzer <<a href="mailto:gratzer@me.com">gratzer@me.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm trying to typeset a book I wrote in 1999. <br><br>I get an error message:<br><br>(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii<br>[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]<br>/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii:140: Missing <br>endcsname inserted.<br></blockquote><br>This is a long shot, but do you have a log file lying around from a successful compilation from 1999?<br></blockquote><br> or the .aux file from back then, when you last compiled it.<br><br>If you did, it may have been overwritten now.<br>But then just try again, so that any incompatibilities may have gone.<br><br>If you do still have an old .aux then *rename it* and run LaTeX again.<br>With any luck, it will compile OK, but without the references, etc.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">It might be constructive to compare that to the current console output.<br><br>One other thought; are you using pdfTeX? Were you using dvips back in 1999? That might account for the difference.<br></blockquote><br>Here's the thinking:<br><br> LaTeX loads supp-pdf.mkii just in case you might need metapost<br>support. It happens soon after the document's existing .aux file<br>has been read. Here's a .log snippet from one of my jobs:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(./237practical8.aux)<br>(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii<br>[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]<br>) <br></blockquote></blockquote><br>Things have changed quite a bit.<br>What worked in 1999, using stuff written into the .log file,<br>may not work now. Different stuff is written there.<br>Certainly hyperref has to do this kind of thing, depending<br>upon the driver being used.<br><br>So kill the old .log file before recompiling<br> --- actually better to keep and rename it, so you can test<br>the theory.<br><br>Renaming an old .log file is a good idea too, so you<br>can check for other differences.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Chris<br></blockquote><br><br>Hope this helps,<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ross<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Ross Moore <a href="mailto:ross.moore@mq.edu.au">ross.moore@mq.edu.au</a> <br>Mathematics Department office: E7A-206 <br>Macquarie University tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955<br>Sydney, Australia 2109 fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>