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- From: amlogan@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Adam M. Logan)
- Subject: Re: Help with TeX error message
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.235544.24039@Princeton.EDU>
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- Keywords: typo isolation, group delimiters
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- References: <1992Jul28.161910.16295@math.toronto.edu> <1992Jul28.223317.10113@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:55:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.223317.10113@vela.acs.oakland.edu> jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul28.161910.16295@math.toronto.edu> rodney@math.toronto.edu (Peter Rodney) writes:
- >>Hi. I am using LaTeX and could use some help with the
- >>following tex error message.
- >>
- >>(\end occurred inside a group at level 1)
- >>
- >>In particular, what exactly does this mean? Is there an efficient
- >>method of locating where the problem is occurring? Any help will
- >>be appreciated. Thanks.
- >>
- >>-peter
- >
- >This usually indicates that you failed to match the group delimiters (i.e.,
- >{ or }) someplace. If your LaTeX file is large it is often helpful to
- >comment out clean (matched) sections of your file so that the missing
- >delimiter can be quickly isolated. An emacs macro to place % at the
- >beginning of lines or one of the comment style files should work.
-
- You could also try Emacs's validate-TeX-buffer command. It isn't perfect,
- and its results are displyaed in a confusing fashion, but it still is better
- than nothing.
-
- Adam
-