[OS X TeX] 1999

George Gratzer gratzer at me.com
Wed May 1 21:02:42 EDT 2013


Hi Ross,

First thing I did. Deleted all the aux, etc. files.

No file ms.aux.

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/pgl/m/n' undefined
(Font)              using `OT1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 55.

(/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.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
<inserted text> if
                  done
<argument> ifdone 
                  
@if ...def csname expandafter @gobbletwo string #1
                                                  expandafter @gobbletwo str...

newif ...capechar m at ne let #1iffalse @if #1iftrue 
                                                  @if #1iffalse escapechar c...
l.140 ...pandafter \newif \csname ifdone\endcsname
                                                  
? 

Here is the log file until the typsetting bombs:

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GG

On 2013-05-01, at 8:55 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Chris, and George
> 
> On 02/05/2013, at 10:44 AM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
>   or the .aux  file from back then, when you last compiled it.
> 
> If you did, it may have been overwritten now.
> But then just try again, so that any incompatibilities may have gone.
> 
> If you do still have an old .aux  then *rename it*  and run LaTeX again.
> With any luck, it will compile OK, but without the references, etc.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Here's the thinking:
> 
> LaTeX loads supp-pdf.mkii  just in case you might need  metapost
> support. It happens soon after the document's existing  .aux  file
> has been read. Here's a .log snippet from one of my jobs:
> 
>>> (./237practical8.aux)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii
>>> [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
>>> ) 
> 
> Things have changed quite a bit.
> What worked in 1999, using stuff written into the .log file,
> may not work now. Different stuff is written there.
> Certainly  hyperref  has to do this kind of thing, depending
> upon the driver being used.
> 
> So kill the old  .log  file before recompiling
> --- actually better to keep and rename it, so you can test
> the theory.
> 
> Renaming an old  .log  file is a good idea too, so you
> can check for other differences.
> 
>> 
>> Chris
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 	Ross
> 
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