[Tex/LaTex] a very weird situation for the Latex Error: Something’s wrong–perhaps a missing \item

classicthesiserrors

I am using classicthesis download from latextemplate. It has main.tex and chapter01.tex. etc…. I got this error "Latex Error: Something's wrong–perhaps a missing \item" when I was writing in chapter04.tex. The log pointed me to the main.tex where the \include{chapter04} command is. I guess this is more complicated than just changing anything about this line.

Plus, I had not come across with any error before when I compiled main.tex with Chapter04. What made it REALLY weird is when I just randomly comment out (or delete) a paragraph in chapter04 or just change the font from 11pt to larger ones like 15pt, the error disappeared and main.tex compiled OK. It just seemed I have certain length (after typeset) of this chapter that Latex is not happy about…

I really dont understand this. since there are multiple files related to the issue and I frankly dont know which one went wrong or have conflicting issue, I just uploaded the zip folder containing all the relevant files.

a dropbox link to my files

I would really appreciate any help for this urgent issue in my thesis writing.

Best Answer

You cannot have \\ in a section title using this documentclass.

works:

\section{How do lithium ions interact with OIPCs? --- A  Molecular Dynamics study}

doesn't work:

\section{How do lithium ions interact with OIPCs? \\ --- A  Molecular Dynamics study}

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[Tex/LaTex] Weird “Something is wrong – perhaps a missing item”

You are using chapter level constructs in the table of contents but the article class does not have chapters, use report:

\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} %Deutsche Sprachunterstützung
\usepackage{scrpage2} %Kopf- und Fußzeilen
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %Umlaute
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{dramatist}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
%\pagestyle{scrheadings}


\begin{document}
\title{Szene 12 \\ TenSing Theaterskript}
\author{Lukas Rose}
\date{2016}
\maketitle


\tableofcontents

\renewcommand{\casttitlename}{Personen}
\renewcommand{\actname}{Akt}
\renewcommand{\scenename}{Szene}
s\renewcommand{\casttitlefont}{\scshape \bfseries \LARGE}
\renewcommand{\scenenamefont}{\scshape \LARGE}
\renewcommand{\printscenenum}{\scenenumfont \thescene}
\renewcommand{\printscenetitle}[1]{\scenetitlefont \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Banane} #1}

\begin{CharacterGroup}{Omas}
\GCharacter{Eine/r Alte/r}{Eine/r Alte/r}{hb}
\end{CharacterGroup}

\newcommand{\ac}[1]{\item\begin{tcolorbox}[title=\hb,colframe=Red]#1\end{tcolorbox}}

\DramPer

\setcounter{scene}{11}
\scene{}
\StageDir{}

\begin{drama}
\ac {\direct{Banane} Hallo! Ich kann sprechen!}
\end{drama}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Something’s wrong–perhaps a missing \item. \end{frame} Error

There are two main solutions. The first one is given by @moewe in the comments.

The other is to load the caption package (\usepackage{caption}), which will get rid of the error. This is the best option if you want to add a break line in the caption (which was perhaps your original intention).

If you do not want to load another package and still want to add more space after the figure, I would suggest to use \vspace{} after the figure. This however works for one figure only. If you want to change the spacing for every figure, use the suggestion by @Fran, and set \belowcaptionskip. See more about it here.

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