is about finding the cause of errors or wrong results in (La)TeX code/documents using a methodical approach.
Debugging is covered to some extent by Chapter 27: Recovery from Errors in The TeXbook.
For a general definition see Debugging on Wikipedia.
Questions tagged [debugging]
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Compilation Error "! Missing \endcsname inserted" The control sequence marked should not appear between \csname and \endcsname
here's my thesis Latex files: http://www.mediafire.com/download/c7q8z4v6gv864rk/triet_thesis_clean.rar
Please help me to fix the error, I've tried all the things I can find with Google :( :
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
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Latex \tracing commands list?
Often I need to recall the different \tracing commands; and a couple of times I stumbled on some webpages that worked fine for me; sadly, I didn't keep them, and my searches don't take me there anymore.
So I thought I'd ask about links to where one…
sdaau
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LaTeX debugging strategies and brace mismatching
What is the recommended way to track down brace mismatches in LaTeX? I have a large beamer presentation, but this equally applies to any other LaTeX work I've done.
In other computer languages I've used pretty printers to highlight where things…
Sean
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Goto or jump command in LaTeX?
The answer to this is probably "no", but I just wanted to make sure... (also, I'm not trying to get into the whole "gotos are evil" debate :)).
Basically, one of the things that irritates me in my current workflow, is that eventually I get to a…
sdaau
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"show" family debugging commands
As discussed here, there are many commands which can be used to "debug" (La)TeX composing process.
I also know that sometimes the \show command can be used to show the macro definitions.
Nevertheless I know that there are some debug/tracing…
Moriambar
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How to debug issue where LaTeX refuses to produce more than 7 pages?
I consider myself quite experienced in this field by now. But today I am totally stumped. I have a .tex file where LaTeX truncates anything after page 7. It used to be that I had a \newpage in the middle of page 7 but if I remove that thing it will…
jonalv
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How to fix Underfull \vbox
I am trying to compile some chapters with the main file thesis.tex in TeXmaker.
After compiling it returns:
Chapter 4.
(./chapter/res.tex)
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active []
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I'm new to latex, how can I…
user134500
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Trace values of parameters
I would like to print the value of a register into the document for 'debugging' purposes. For counters I would use \arabic{myCounter}. But \abovedisplayskip is not a counter.
Hector
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Previously working code now gives "Argument of \put has an extra }" after TeXLive/MiKTeX reinstall
I realize this might not be as detailed as expected, but I'm working on a series of books (meaning I have subfiles and many different packages loaded).
Turns out I'm running short of space in my C drive, so I reinstall everything TeX into D, and…
Guilherme Vargas
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Displaying plus and minus of a length
I know that \the\somelength will show me the value of \somelength. But how do I find out what the current stretch on that length is?
For instance, if I have
\setlength{\footnotesep}{10 pt plus 5pt minus 3pt}
and I later want to display what the…
Mike Maxwell
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Error: paragraph ended before ... was complete
I'm quite lost. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong below.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\aermb[1]{\def\ae@i@r{#1}\ae@rmb}
\def\ae@rmb{%%
\typeout{=======> \space\space ae@rmb}%%
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A.Ellett
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Why does LaTeX trigger a font warning when I don't even use that font and how can I trace it down to an input file?
My first question is, when exactly does LaTeX trigger a font warning? I suspect, it is in the moment when I request a font through \sffamily or \selectfont, correct?
This is why
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\fontseries{book}\selectfont…
TobiBS
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Force line return with \message
I am trying to use \message to debug my code; in particular, to print information to the console. For some reason it is not adding line returns after each invocation (see example below). How can I force the line returns in the log (console)? Thanks,…
dontpanic
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Overfull \vbox with a document containing no images
[I updated the text so it includes a Overfull \vbox of 5.37814pt now]
My document has more like this, but this is an example of a overfull \vbox (I hope I got it…
alfred
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How to obtain enough debug information?
I wrote a LaTeX package (actually a beamer theme, quite macro-heavy). With this theme I have a document that compiles perfectly on my own computer but compilation fails on the computer of my boss.
I already asked my boss to compile with…
Circonflexe
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