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I am trying to compile a TeX document using Tectonic on Windows. When I compile the document, it is giving me some form of \begin{document} error that I can't figure out. I've checked to make sure the document path is right, I have my document class set, Encoding is UTF-8, and I do in fact have begin{document}...\end{document}.

Here is the code I am trying to compile:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[margin=1.2in]{geometry} 
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{accents}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{apacite}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\setlength{\headheight}{38pt}
\usepackage{natbib} % For references
\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{,} % Reference punctuation
\def\citeapos#1{\citeauthor{#1}'s (\citeyear{#1})}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,
    linkcolor={blue!50!blue},
    citecolor={black!50!black},
    urlcolor={blue!80!blue}
}

\renewcommand\qedsymbol{$\blacksquare$}

\newcommand{\ubar}[1]{\underaccent{\bar}{#1}}

\begin{document}

\lhead{Damon Roberts} %\rhead{Information Processing \ Annotated Bibliography: Emotion \ \today}

\cfoot{\thepage}

\doublespacing

\section{General Notes}

\section{Overview} \begin{itemize} \item Marcus \citeyearpar{marcus_2000_arps} details a rich intellectual history of the ways that political psychologists have (and have not) built off the literature in psychology and neuroscience on emotion. In doing so, they highlight the pervasive view that emotions are seen quite normatively rather than functionally in the political science literature. Functional definitions of emotion are much more pervasive in non-political science applications by arguing for the ways in which emotions work in both cognitive and non-cognitive ways. It highlights the tendency for political scientists to view it as largely a cognitive process rather than aligning with the view that Marcus says is a consensus which is that emotions are not appraisals but are these pre-conscious sources of information, mediators of judgement, and are shaped by information. Read this over and over for the dissertation. \end{itemize} \section{Genetic predictors of emotional predispositions} \begin{itemize} \item Hatemi and colleagues \citeyearpar{hatemi_et-al_2013_ajps} build off of work conducted by psychologists which found that there is a genetic component to fear as a predisposition. They propose a theory which suggests that fear mediates the relationship between genetics and out-group political preferences. Using the Virginia Vital Registry dataset of related folks, they ask a 28-item battery of political attitudes and find that those who are predisposed to expressing more social fear tend to hold more negative attitudes about immigration and segregation. Out of 28 items, they find two. \end{itemize} \section{Heterogeneity in induction and magnitude} \begin{itemize} \item Bakker and colleagues \citeyearpar{bakker_et-al_2020} present a circumplex model which suggests that emotional responses to political stimuli are dependent on a number of factors. Using EMG (to measure valence of emotion) and skin conductance (to measure intensity of emotional response) in response to video clips with left or right-wing rhetoric on prominent issues they measure heart rate variability, activation of the Zygomaticus (positive emotions) and Corrugator (negative emotions) muscle, they find that knowledge does not explain variation in arousal, incongruent rhetoric produces negative affect, congruent rhetoric does not produce positive affect (there is not much positive emotion in politics), no evidence that incongruence increases attentitiveness, and arousal and negative affect predict issue position change, independent of self-reported discrete emotions. \end{itemize} \newpage %\bibliographystyle{apsr} %\bibliography{~/Dropbox/bibliographies/information_processing/emotions.bib} \end{document}

Here is the error including my command line entry:

(base)
damon@DCR-DESKTOP MINGW64 ~/Dropbox/annotated_bibliographies
$ conda activate tectonic
(tectonic) 
damon@DCR-DESKTOP MINGW64 ~/Dropbox/annotated_bibliographies
$ tectonic -X compile ~/information_processing/emotions.tex --print
note: "version 2" Tectonic command-line interface activated
note: generating format "latex"
(texput (tectonic-format-latex.tex (xelatex.ini (latex.ltx (texsys.cfg)
./texsys.aux found

@currdir set to: ./.

Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path.

Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser.

catcodes, registers, parameters, LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 5 hacks, control, par, spacing, files, font encodings, lengths, ====================================

Local config file fonttext.cfg used

==================================== (fonttext.cfg (fonttext.ltx === Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===

(omlenc.def) (omsenc.def) (ot1enc.def) (t1enc.def) (ts1enc.def) (tuenc.def) (tulmr.fd) (tulmss.fd) (tulmtt.fd) (ts1lmr.fd) (t1cmr.fd) (ot1cmr.fd) (ot1cmss.fd) (ot1cmtt.fd))) ====================================

Local config file fontmath.cfg used

==================================== (fontmath.cfg (fontmath.ltx === Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===

(omlcmm.fd) (omscmsy.fd) (omxcmex.fd) (ucmr.fd)))

Local config file preload.cfg used

===================================== (preload.cfg (preload.ltx)) page nos., x-ref, environments, center, verbatim, math definitions, boxes, title, sectioning, contents, floats, footnotes, index, bibliography, output, Unicode character data, (load-unicode-data load-unicode-data.tex v1.12 (2020-03-12) Reading Unicode data

UnicodeData-13.0.0.txt

Modified 2020-03-12 11:00:00 GMT [JAW]

)

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! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. error: latex.ltx:10708: LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help Type H <return> for immediate help. ...

l.10708 \let\repeat= \fi No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. error: halted on potentially-recoverable error as specified

I have no idea what the error "l.10708 \let\repeat= \fi" or "latex.ltx:10708" means...

1 Answers1

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Soooo.... I think there was some issue with my installation of Tectonic or my conda environment.

I deleted my conda environment, then created a new one, reinstalled tectonic with conda-forge, and then recompiled the document and it works now.

Thanks @DavidCarlisle for the help!