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I'm having a weird problem with the following document:

The preamble consist of 

    \documentclass[11pt, letterpaper]{amsart}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{amsthm}
    \usepackage{amssymb}
    \usepackage{amsfonts}
    \usepackage{fullpage}
    \usepackage{exercise}
    \usepackage{enumitem}
    %\usepackage{baskervald}
    \usepackage{mathrsfs}
    \usepackage{xstring}
    \usepackage{ifthen}
    \usepackage{tikz-cd}
    \usepackage{tikz}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{wrapfig}
    \usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
    \usepackage{xcolor}
    \usepackage{gauss}
    \usepackage{bbm}
    \usepackage{pdfsync}

    \setlist[enumerate]{label=(\roman*)}
    \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

    \newcommand{\set}[2]{\ifthenelse{\equal{#2}{}}{\{ #1 \}}{\{ #1 \text{ } | \text{ } #2 \}}}

    \title{Exam in Integration Theory \\ 2020-01-14}
    \author{Jonathan Lindell}

Then I have

    \begin{document}
... some other exercises to get to this one. 
        \begin{Exercise}
          Suppose that \(\set{a_n}{}\) is a sequence of non-negative numbers and \(\set{E_n}{}\) a sequence of Lebesgue measurable subsets of \([0,1]\). Supppose there exists \(\delta > 0\) such that \(m(E_n) \geq \delta\) and
          \begin{align*}
            \sum_{n}a_n\chi_{E_n}(x) < \infty
          \end{align*}
          for Lebesgue a.e. \(x\). Prove that
          \begin{align*}
            \sum_{n} a_n < \infty
          \end{align*}
        \end{Exercise}
\end{document}

When I compile this, the whole exercise disappers. If I remove the last align the document compiles as normal. The whole code If I remove the last align

I am using emacs to write the tex code in auctex. I have tried to compile it directly in the terminal using pdflatex, though no difference. If I compile just the code I have posted I get the same problem.

Mico
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    Welcome to TEX.SE! As it stands there is no way of telling what is going wrong. Please provide a full minimal working example starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – campa Jan 14 '20 at 14:32
  • Okay, I tried to add a minimal working example now. Hopefully it is enough. Thank you for your help! :) – user204878 Jan 14 '20 at 15:23
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    Drop the pdfsync package (since we got synctex build into the engine, this package have been irrelevant). BTW 1: make your MWE into a single piece of code not two sniplets. BTW 2: you are loading a lot of packages that are irrelevant for showing the issue. BTW 3: you might want to have a look at the \Set example in the mathtools manual, it provides a (IMO) better syntax for sets than a two arg macro. – daleif Jan 14 '20 at 15:33
  • Thank you very much for all your help :) it works if I just drop pdfsync. Thank you for all tips in general – user204878 Jan 14 '20 at 15:38
  • From the user guide of the pdfsync package: pdfsync uses extremely [sensitive] code. You should not use pdfsync on final documents because it can change the layout rather significantly (different page/line breaks are the most obvious changes), ... Murphy’s law states that it will happen to you when it absolutely must not... – Mico Jan 14 '20 at 15:47
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    Some general comments about your code: (a) You appear to have considerable fondness for using align* environments. You should not use them to create single-line unnumbered displaymath environments; use \[ ... \] instead. See the posting What are the differences between $$, \[, align, equation and displaymath? for more information on this topic. (b) The hyperref package should be loaded last. (c) The amsfonts package is loaded automatically by the amssymb package; hence, no need to load amsfonts explicitly. – Mico Jan 14 '20 at 15:52
  • Thank you very much for the general comments regarding my tex code. Is there a guide or tutorial you recommend for learning to write better documents in general? – user204878 Jan 14 '20 at 16:03

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The issue goes away if you drop the pdfsync package. I have no idea what the problem is, but pdfsync have not been relevant for a very long time by now.

daleif
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