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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 08:14:35 +0200 (EET)
From: Timo Kuronen <kuronen@admin1.gsf.fi>
Subject: Re: WHY "! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}."
To: Ganping Chen <gchen@suntzu.psg.datap.ca>
Cc: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
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On Thu, 3 Nov 1994, Ganping Chen wrote:
> Hi, there. THanks in advance for any help.
>
> I have a thesis document in latex format. It works perfect when I use LaTeX209. But when
> I try to use LaTeX2e, It complains "Missing \begin{document}" even though it is definitely there.
> What else I should do to make it work? By the way, for some simple latex file, it works fine.
>
> Following is the output of latex2e.
>
> ...
> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>
I have seen that message many times.
The error is somewhere between lines (those lines excluded)
\documentclass[...
and
\begin{document}
latex is not verbose enough. Maybe you use some package which is
not LaTeX2e compatible.
Timo
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