[OS X TeX] Latest TeXLive 2020 updates are killers

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 4, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As reported by Tine Wilde in a previous message here, so for me things have gone very wrong since the latest updates (via TeXLive Utility): a book-length document using the memoir document class chokes on the preamble.
> 
> In response to my post https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/565360/13492, “egreg” replied that an update to memoir (specifically, to memhfixc.sty) didn’t get added to CTAN yet but should be available soon.
> 
> So if Tine Wilde’s document used memoir, perhaps that will fix things.
> 
> Not knowing how long it will be before the memoir update becomes available — or whether, in fact, that will cure all the ills of the 2020-10-03 LaTeX updates, I’m tempted to re-install TeXLive 2020. BUT…there have been some crucial updates to packages since the original appearance of TeXLive 2020. So..
> 
> How might one revert to an earlier version of the TeXLive 2020 system _and_ do all updates EXCEPT those around October 1 that broke things?
> 
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Howdy,

David Carlise suggested a temporary fix until the memoir class files are updated, specifically memhfixc.sty. I enclose a version that may help until memoir is updated.

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Just put the file in the same folder as your root tex file.

The file

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that failed before seems to typeset fine with this temporary fix.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)