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Article #529Re: Help with TeX error message
From: Adam M. Logan
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:55
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:55
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In article <1992Jul28.223317.10113@vela.acs.oakland.edu> jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.161910.16295@math.toronto.edu> rodney@math.toronto.edu (Peter Rodney) writes:
>>Hi. I am using LaTeX and could use some help with the
>>following tex error message.
>>
>>(\end occurred inside a group at level 1)
>>
>>In particular, what exactly does this mean? Is there an efficient
>>method of locating where the problem is occurring? Any help will
>>be appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>>-peter
>
>This usually indicates that you failed to match the group delimiters (i.e.,
>{ or }) someplace. If your LaTeX file is large it is often helpful to
>comment out clean (matched) sections of your file so that the missing
>delimiter can be quickly isolated. An emacs macro to place % at the
>beginning of lines or one of the comment style files should work.
You could also try Emacs's validate-TeX-buffer command. It isn't perfect,
and its results are displyaed in a confusing fashion, but it still is better
than nothing.
Adam
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