[OS X TeX] strange error going from one to two columns...

Alan Litchfield alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Mon Apr 23 21:45:10 EDT 2007


Insert a \quad before \section{Introduction}

Alan

Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
> Hi, I've been unable to diagnose the following error.  I'd appreciate any
> help.
>
> The problem: When I run pdflatex (which is symbolically linked to
> pdfetex on my system) on a paper I recently submitted, it exits with
> an error... but only in twocolumn mode and not in onecolumn mode.
>
> I've tried: upgrading the hyperref package as recommended on the
> Internets and upgrading tetex to the latest in Fink.
>
> Anyway, here is the file:
> http://josephhall.org/a56c964055533ceed07957590ffab952/draft.tex
>
> Here is the error in the terminal:
>
> ----
>
> prompt> pdflatex draft.tex
>
> [...]
>
> ! pdfTeX error (ext4): \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level
> than \pdfstartlink.
> <to be read again>
>                    \endgroup \set at typeset@protect
> l.223 \begin{quote}
>
> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
>
> ----
>
> and here is version information:
>
> prompt>pdfetex -v
> pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> kpathsea version 3.5.4
> Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
> Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
> covered by the terms of both the pdfeTeX copyright and
> the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the files
> named COPYING and the pdfeTeX source.
> Primary author of pdfeTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
> Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.
>
>
> --
> Joseph Lorenzo Hall
> UC Berkeley School of Information
> <http://josephhall.org/>
>
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