Blank Page and "Missing \begin{document}" error in simple document

Asked Aug 12 '13 at 03:55

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Im new with LaTeX, I have MikTek and TeXnic Center. The first time I tried to write a document I noticed I couldn't cancel terms in mathematical equations, so iI download the cancel package and installed it by hand.

Now the new package is working (or at least that is what I think), but for example the following simple document generates a Missing \begin{document} error and a first blank page:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[spanish,activeacute]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{cancel}

\title{...}
\author{...}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{equation}
\cancel{a}
\end{equation}

\end{document}

I cant copy all the build output from the TexnicCenter output window, but here you can see some part of it

Why is this?

edited Aug 12 '13 at 04:10

Corentin

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asked Aug 12 '13 at 03:55

Wyvern666

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This is referred to as a Byte-Order-Mark (or BOM), and therefore the problem is similar to LaTeX baffled by BOM---Unicode's byte order mark. – Werner Aug 12 '13 at 04:15
Are you using TeXnicCenter 2? you should save the file using a UTF-8 encoding (check the bottom-right of the editor window). – Werner Aug 12 '13 at 04:15
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@Werner Thanks!. The encoding was the problem. – Wyvern666 Aug 12 '13 at 04:20

Blank Page and "Missing \begin{document}" error in simple document

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