[OS X TeX] Re: "! LaTeX Error: No counter 'a' defined."

[John B. Thoo]

Thanks Peter D, Ross M, and Herb S for your replies.  I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner; I receive the digest.

On Dec 18, 2010, at 12:00 PM, <macosx-tex-request at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:08:34 +0100
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> 
> 
> Am 17.12.2010 um 21:54 schrieb John B. Thoo:
> 
>> If all the "includeonly" are commented out (like above), compiling
>> does not present any obvious errors.
> 
> Do you know the difference (and restrictions) between \includeonly and
> \include? And \input?

Umm ... I'm not sure, but I do use them all.  This is what I have in "narrowhom.tex" that is the main file:


\documentclass[11pt]{amsbook}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

[...list of \usepackage...]

\input{longdiv}    % use \longdiv{dividend}{divisor} for long division

\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing}  % load tikz decorations library
\usetikzlibrary{calc}  % load the tikz calc library

\hyphenation{Meso-po-ta-mian}


% \includeonly{foo} processes/displays only foo.tex, keeping all refs intact
%
%\includeonly{ch_preface}
%\includeonly{ch_numsys}
%\includeonly{ch_numthry}
%\includeonly{ch_solveeqn}
%\includeonly{ch_geom}

[...path to graphic files,
    list or \renewcommand, \newcommand, \newtheorem, &c....]

%\listfiles
\makeindex
\begin{document}

[...\title, \author, &c....]

\pagenumbering{roman}
\maketitle
\include{ch_preface}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\tableofcontents

% CHAPTERS
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\include{ch_numsys}
\include{ch_numthry}
\include{ch_solveeqn}
\include{ch_geom}

% Bibliography
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{narrowhom}


\printindex
\end{document}


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> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:17:31 +1100
> From: Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au>
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On 18/12/2010, at 7:54 AM, "John B. Thoo" <jthoo at yccd.edu> wrote:
> 
>> %\includeonly{ch.numsys}
>> %\includeonly{ch.numthry}
>> %\includeonly{ch.solveeqn}
>> %\includeonly{ch.geom}
> 
> I think that you are playing with fire by having  '.' in the names of your files.
> Try changing it to a '-' or other benign character.

OK, I replaced '.' in the the chapter filenames to '_' (see my reply to Peter D above).


> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:29:51 -0600
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> 
> 
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 2:54 PM, John B. Thoo wrote:
> 
> Are you saying you are uncommenting more than one \includeonly command?

No, I uncomment only one \includeonly at a time.


> Do you any command definitions in the (un)included files that are used by the other files?

I don't think so.  But here's something else I discovered, viz., if I comment out the line

  \include{ch_numthry}

then I do not get those other errors no matter which \includeonly is uncommented, so there must be something (but I don't know what) about the file "ch_numthry.tex".


> Are the \includeonly commands in the preamble or the body of the document?

They are before the \begin{document}; is that the preamble?


> Could something in the [...] be interfering with things?

I don't know.  What should I be looking for?

Thanks again, y'all.  I really appreciate your time helping.

---John.
(who reads the digest)

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