As stated in the question, trying to produce a pdf, results in the above error, and Kile (my editor of choice) opens a new tab with the aux file. If I look at myfile.log, it ends with the following (and 3400 lines above it):
l.1185 \@
LN{932}{15}
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.
! You can't use `\spacefactor' in math mode.
\@->\spacefactor
\@m {}
l.1186 \@
LN{933}{15}
(That makes 100 errors; please try again.)
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
17820 strings out of 493315
299733 string characters out of 6145893
408971 words of memory out of 5000000
20928 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
12592 words of font info for 29 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
957 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
63i,3n,57p,974b,205s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
So how do I make sense of that? It seems like the spacefactor is an error that I can ignore (even though it shows up 326 times), and probably is related to some macros or self defined commands (in the template) beyond my control. At last I can't think of anything I have done, related to math mode, that I have tone 326 times. What else can the log file tell me?
Or, how do I actually boil it down to a minimal example, that I could share? This specific error message shows up quite a few times, but most times its either something very beamer specific (which I am not using), points towards some issues where files are locked, or the user has not rights to write a certain file (should also be no problem in my case) or dies without an answer.
Problem is, the whole thing is occurring in an 800 line document, that used to compile without problems (that is, no errors that put everything to a halt), until I put in a table. But if I put the table into a minimal example (see below), it works, but if I comment out the table in my original document, it still fails. So, it is not the table!?
Then what else could it be? How do I pinpoint the input where it all starts to go wrong?
The aux file that gets opened has the cursor at a line saying the following:
\@writefile{tdo}{\contentsline {todo}{nur ganz grobe Idee. Falls Sinnvoll, koennte ich daf\GenericError {(inputenc) }{Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined\MessageBreak in inputencoding `utf8'}{See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.}{You need to provide a definition with \def 1 ${}\def \begingroup \let \reserved@d =\bgroup \def \let \reserved@d =*\def \par }\def \begingroup \let \reserved@d =\bgroup \def \let \reserved@d =*\def \par }\def \begingroup \let \reserved@d =\bgroup \def \let \reserved@d =*\def \par }\def \begingroup \let \reserved@d =\bgroup \def \let \reserved@d =*\def \par
OK, so it has issues with encoding, and I have some German words with stuff like ü and ß in them, but I have had those letters in there from the beginning, and those errors I could always ignore. And the rest is not very readable to me.
Example
Using the copernicus template from linked here
\documentclass[hess]{copernicus}%, manuscript]{copernicus}
%% \usepackage commands included in the copernicus.cls:
%\usepackage[german, english]{babel}
%\usepackage{tabularx}
%\usepackage{cancel}
%\usepackage{multirow}
%\usepackage{supertabular}
%\usepackage{algorithmic}
%\usepackage{algorithm}
%\usepackage{amsthm}
%\usepackage{float}
%\usepackage{subfig}
%\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{todonotes}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
test
%%% TWO-COLUMN TABLE
%
%t
\begin{table*}[t]
\caption{This is a table
\todo[inline]{some fixme notes about this table}
}
%\begin{tabular}{column = l c c c c}
%Somehow, the above does not work, even though the template specifies it. But the standard solution below works.
\begin{tabular}{l | c c c c c c}
Location & Average & Average & Average & Average & Average & Average \\
\tophline
xxx & yyy & yyy & yyy & yyy & yyy & yyy \\
xxx & yyy & yyy & yyy & yyy & yyy & yyy \\
%
%
% \middlehline
%
% \bottomhline
\end{tabular}
\belowtable{} % Table Footnotes
\label{Result_table}
\end{table*}
\end{document}
works.
EDIT
I have played around a bit with deleting the aux file, and I can somewhat get it to compile. Seems like this line:
xx & SGI, SPI and SRSI & SGI and SPI & SGI & SGI and SRSI & SRSI & SRSI and SPI \\
is the one causing it to fail. However, when I put it into the example above, it does not cause any issues. How can a single line that seems to be quite "normal" cause a whole document to fail?
EDIT2
Here is the output of \listfiles:
*File List*
copernicus.cls 2016/01/22 8.09 Copernicus papers
fixltx2e.sty 2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
copernicus.cfg
article.cls 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
fleqn.clo 1998/08/17 v1.1c Standard LaTeX option (flush left equations)
size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontenc.sty
t1enc.def 2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
textcomp.sty 2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX package
ts1enc.def 2001/06/05 v3.0e (jk/car/fm) Standard LaTeX file
inputenc.sty 2008/03/30 v1.1d Input encoding file
utf8.def 2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
t1enc.dfu 2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
ot1enc.dfu 2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
omsenc.dfu 2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
ts1enc.dfu 2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
babel.sty 2013/05/16 v3.9f The Babel package
english.ldf 2012/08/20 v3.3p English support from the babel system
array.sty 2008/09/09 v2.4c Tabular extension package (FMi)
tabularx.sty 1999/01/07 v2.07 `tabularx' package (DPC)
graphicx.sty 1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
keyval.sty 1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty 2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
trig.sty 1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg 2010/04/23 v1.9 graphics configuration of TeX Live
dvips.def 1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
color.sty 1999/02/16
color.cfg 2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
dvipsnam.def 1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
amssymb.sty 2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS font symbols
amsfonts.sty 2013/01/14 v3.01 Basic AMSFonts support
amsmath.sty 2013/01/14 v2.14 AMS math features
amstext.sty 2000/06/29 v2.01
amsgen.sty 1999/11/30 v2.0
amsbsy.sty 1999/11/29 v1.2d
amsopn.sty 1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names
amsthm.sty 2004/08/06 v2.20
url.sty 2006/04/12 ver 3.3 Verb mode for urls, etc.
cancel.sty 2000/03/12 v2.1 Cancel math terms
multirow.sty
supertabular.sty 2004/02/20 v4.1e the supertabular environment
caption.sty 2013/05/02 v3.3-89 Customizing captions (AR)
caption3.sty 2013/05/02 v1.6-88 caption3 kernel (AR)
natbib.sty 2006/09/06 7.4a (PWD)
rotating.sty 2009/03/28 v2.16a rotated objects in LaTeX
ifthen.sty 2001/05/26 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC)
lineno.sty 2005/11/02 line numbers on paragraphs v4.41
times.sty 2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a (SPQR)
pifont.sty 2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a Pi font support (SPQR)
upzd.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for U/pzd.
upsy.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for U/psy.
hyperref.sty 2012/11/06 v6.83m Hypertext links for LaTeX
hobsub-hyperref.sty 2012/05/28 v1.13 Bundle oberdiek, subset hyperref (HO)
hobsub-generic.sty 2012/05/28 v1.13 Bundle oberdiek, subset generic (HO)
hobsub.sty 2012/05/28 v1.13 Construct package bundles (HO)
infwarerr.sty 2010/04/08 v1.3 Providing info/warning/error messages (HO)
ltxcmds.sty 2011/11/09 v1.22 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)
ifluatex.sty 2010/03/01 v1.3 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
ifvtex.sty 2010/03/01 v1.5 Detect VTeX and its facilities (HO)
intcalc.sty 2007/09/27 v1.1 Expandable calculations with integers (HO)
ifpdf.sty 2011/01/30 v2.3 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
etexcmds.sty 2011/02/16 v1.5 Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO)
kvsetkeys.sty 2012/04/25 v1.16 Key value parser (HO)
kvdefinekeys.sty 2011/04/07 v1.3 Define keys (HO)
pdftexcmds.sty 2011/11/29 v0.20 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO)
pdfescape.sty 2011/11/25 v1.13 Implements pdfTeX's escape features (HO)
bigintcalc.sty 2012/04/08 v1.3 Expandable calculations on big integers (HO)
bitset.sty 2011/01/30 v1.1 Handle bit-vector datatype (HO)
uniquecounter.sty 2011/01/30 v1.2 Provide unlimited unique counter (HO)
letltxmacro.sty 2010/09/02 v1.4 Let assignment for LaTeX macros (HO)
hopatch.sty 2012/05/28 v1.2 Wrapper for package hooks (HO)
xcolor-patch.sty 2011/01/30 xcolor patch
atveryend.sty 2011/06/30 v1.8 Hooks at the very end of document (HO)
atbegshi.sty 2011/10/05 v1.16 At begin shipout hook (HO)
refcount.sty 2011/10/16 v3.4 Data extraction from label references (HO)
hycolor.sty 2011/01/30 v1.7 Color options for hyperref/bookmark (HO)
ifxetex.sty 2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional
auxhook.sty 2011/03/04 v1.3 Hooks for auxiliary files (HO)
kvoptions.sty 2011/06/30 v3.11 Key value format for package options (HO)
pd1enc.def 2012/11/06 v6.83m Hyperref: PDFDocEncoding definition (HO)
hyperref.cfg 2002/06/06 v1.2 hyperref configuration of TeXLive
hdvips.def 2012/11/06 v6.83m Hyperref driver for dvips
pdfmark.def 2012/11/06 v6.83m Hyperref definitions for pdfmark specials
rerunfilecheck.sty 2011/04/15 v1.7 Rerun checks for auxiliary files (HO)
todonotes.sty 2012/07/25
xkeyval.sty 2012/10/14 v2.6b package option processing (HA)
xkeyval.tex 2012/10/14 v2.6b key=value parser (HA)
xcolor.sty 2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
color.cfg 2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
tikz.sty 2010/10/13 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.76)
pgf.sty 2008/01/15 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.12)
pgfrcs.sty 2010/10/25 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.24)
everyshi.sty 2001/05/15 v3.00 EveryShipout Package (MS)
pgfrcs.code.tex
pgfcore.sty 2010/04/11 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.7)
pgfsys.sty 2010/06/30 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.37)
pgfsys.code.tex
pgfsyssoftpath.code.tex 2008/07/18 (rcs-revision 1.7)
pgfsysprotocol.code.tex 2006/10/16 (rcs-revision 1.4)
pgfcore.code.tex
pgfcomp-version-0-65.sty 2007/07/03 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.7)
pgfcomp-version-1-18.sty 2007/07/23 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.1)
pgffor.sty 2010/03/23 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.18)
pgfkeys.sty
pgfkeys.code.tex
pgffor.code.tex
tikz.code.tex
calc.sty 2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
ts1cmr.fd 1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
t1ptm.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for T1/ptm.
nameref.sty 2012/10/27 v2.43 Cross-referencing by name of section
gettitlestring.sty 2010/12/03 v1.4 Cleanup title references (HO)
umsa.fd 2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS symbols A
umsb.fd 2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS symbols B
t1phv.fd 2001/06/04 scalable font definitions for T1/phv.
graphics/pic1.jpeg
graphics/pic2.png
graphics/....png
draft.bbl
***********
System is: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/TeX Live for SUSE Linux) (format=latex 2016.6.17) 6 JUL 2016 15:56
I just ran my list and the list in the accepted answer trough a comparison, and it seems that in almost all cases, a different (older) date is quoted on Opensuse, and also, often, older versions. But in most cases, it only seems to be minor version differences. I would assume that a large and current distro, such as Opensuse ships a working texlive.
Best Answer
There are several problems here, I think.
First, your given message
l.1185 \@ ... N{932}{15}comes usualy from packagelinenoyou didn't mention in your problem description.I guess you activated an option for class
copernicusto get a numbered line output? If that is true and you changed the option to be unnumbered you should delete file.auxbefore recompiling to avoid the given message ...Second, package
captiongives a warning, thatcopernicusis an unsupported class. That can be causing unexspected errors or warnings!Third, you are using an file with utf-8 encoding. Then you can add the german umlauts äöüÄÖÜ and the eszet ß without using the escaped version of adding umlauts for ascii text for LaTeX!
Fourth, do not call
\todoinside a caption. You can add an\todoafter closing the caption (I showed in the following MWE, including correct, working umlauts) or after the place where you refered to the table ...Fiths, please check with adding
\listfilesas first line in your TeX code, if your TeX distribution is up to date. Then you get a list of used packages and version numbers at the end of thelogfile after compiling. Add this list please to your question. I guess, there are some packages outdated on your system ...MWE (see new
\todomarked with<====================):compiled with no errors to:
and the returned list file with an current MiKTeX 2.9:
At last just a remark to your errors you get "you can omit" ... I'm sure that one or more of theese errors are causing your problems in compiling your document. It is very important that you correct all errors in your document, and start allways with the first, correct it, recompile and check the next first error. Please see, that the first error can causing the next errors, and theese errors do vanish if you correct the first one!
Update:
Your TeX distribution TeX Live 2013 is very old. The current one is TeX Live 2016! TeX/LaTeX is continuining developed, therefore it is important to keep your distribution up-to-date! The change of one package can result errors in other packages. For example is package
fixltx2since 2016 obsolete ...Please update your TeX distribution to get rid off the errors you have ...
Package
todonotesis an older package, therefore command\todois no robust command. That means, it is fragile, and it can sometimes result with an error. Command\todowas designed 2012 to be added as own command into an paragraph or an environment, but not as part of another command, as you tried with your combination\caption{...\todo{...}}.So please use
\todoin the way it is desiged ... And sorry, I do not have a link for you, it is just my knowledge (from looking inside the code oftodonotes).