Help!!!
I am trying to compile a LaTeX document that has been compiled before, but now for some reason it just won’t go through. The error message I am getting is not very informative, and I can’t even find the file it is pointing to.
The details: I am using Aquamacs, and when I try to compile the document the mini-buffer displays the following message:
When I press C-c ` this is what I get:
— TeX said — \Hy@AtBeginDocument ->\ltx@LocalAppendToMacro
\Hy@AtBeginDocumentHook l.735
…r\Hy@AtBeginDocument\expandafter{\Hy@temp
}
— HELP — TeX encountered an unknown command name. You probably
misspelled the name. If this message
occurs when a LaTeX command is being
processed, the command is probably in
the wrong place—for example, the
error can be produced by an \item
command that’s not inside a
list-making environment. The error can
also be caused by a missing
\documentclass command.
The problem is, I can’t even find this file referred to in the mini-buffer (report output*) – believe me, it is not in the directory they say it is. My LaTeX document has only 191 lines, and the error supposedly is on line 735.
I have checked the whole document looking for something that could be wrong, but I haven’t been able to find anything.
It might not have anything to do with this, but earlier today I was rearranging my whole .emacs file and I might have done something which interferes with auctex or latex, but I tried compiling another file and it worked.
Thanks 🙂
Try making a clean compile of the document outside of emacs (i.e., just run the latex command from a terminal) and see what happens. The log file will be in the current directory. Also, it will run latex in interactive mode, so you’ll have a better idea of what went wrong.