[OS X TeX] 1999

[Chris Goedde]

On May 1, 2013, at 7:05 PM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to typeset a book I wrote in 1999. 
> 
> I get an error message:
> 
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii
> [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii:140: Missing 
> endcsname inserted.

This is a long shot, but do you have a log file lying around from a successful compilation from 1999? It might be constructive to compare that to the current console output.

One other thought; are you using pdfTeX? Were you using dvips back in 1999? That might account for the difference.

Chris