[OS X TeX] strange behavior

Nitecki, Zbigniew H. Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu
Wed Sep 7 08:04:27 EDT 2016


The space was introduced (repeatedly!) by the spellchecker. The file name has no space nor do the calls to it. 

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> On Sep 7, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Manfred Braun <manfred.braun at uni-due.de> wrote:
> 
> Just to be sure, is it  “format macros”  (with space, as you wrote) or  “formatmacros”  (without)?
> 
> Manfred
> 
>>> On Sep 6, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What should I look for in the following situation?
>>> 
>>> I have a large book project, essentially finished, recently I tweaked one figure and went to typeset the ms. for the final version.
>>> 
>>> I got an error message: undefined control sequence.  The macro in question, called \bookans, inserts a list of exercises whose answers are given in the back of the book.  It is defined in a style file called formatmacros.sty, which was initially called by another style file, calculusmacros.sty, in the form
>>>> \RequirePackage[sectiontheorem,indexdefs]{format macros}
>>> (along with a few other style files).  
>>> The macro has been used successfully in the same project in the past, but I decided maybe the call was buried too deeply so I Commented out \usepackage{calculusmacros} and wrote in all the calls, using \usepackage instead of \RequirePackage, into the preamble to the master source file.  In any case, the error message continues. I am getting a similar message for two other macros, one defined in the same style file, the other in a different file, also initially called by calculusmacros.sty.  All of these macros never gave me trouble before this particular run.
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