[Tex/LaTex] Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed

colorsoul

I already read the discussions about this error, but nothing helpfull. My MWE

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{soul}
%\soulregister{\cl}{7} irrelevant
%\soulregister{\sethlcolor}{7}
\definecolor{inlineBG}{HTML}{F1F1F1}
\newcommand{\cl}[2]{\textcolor[HTML]{#1}{#2}}

\newcommand{\codeinline}[1]{%
  \sethlcolor{inlineBG}{%
  \texttt{\hl{#1}}}%
}

\begin{document}

% ok :
\codeinline{ {\cl{FF0000}{Hello}} }

% Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed.
\codeinline{ {\cl{FF0000}{Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo}} }

\codeinline{ {\cl{FF0000}{Hello World}} }

\end{document}

the first \codeinline works fine, not the others. How can i fix it ?

Best Answer

In a similar situation, I found the help text provided by the soul package quite useful. It suggests to wrap the text inside an mbox. Indeed, if you change your definition to

\newcommand{\codelinline}[1]{%
  \sethlcolor{inlineBG}{%
  \texttt{\hl{\mbox{#1}}}}%
}

your MWE works for me. There might be issues with hyphenation if the text inside \codeline is long. (Seems to be a limitation of soul generally.)

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These option clashes happen when a package is requested to be loaded on two different positions, like by you and inside another package, but with different options. The package is loaded by the first \usepackage (or its twin \RequirePackage); it isn't loaded again when it is requested again. It simply can't be loaded a second time. Therefore the new options can be activated and previous options might conflict with the second usage. So LaTeX creates an error to report this issue to you.

The way to fix this is to declare the options beforehand using \PassOptionsToPackage{<options>}{<package>}. Then they are used wherever the package is loaded.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
    \PassOptionsToPackage{pdftex,usenames,dvipsnames}{color}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{libertine} % most likely loads 'color' itself
    %\usepackage{lmodern} % doesn't load 'color'
    \usepackage{color}
    \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\else
    %\bye
\fi
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

I can't test it by myself, because I don't have the libertine package installed.

PS:

I don't think you need to set pdftex manually. Normally packages do a good job recognizing the driver by themselves. Also you might want to use the extended xcolor package instead of color.

[Tex/LaTex] Error “Reconstruction failed” with soul package

With pdflatex the most easy way to get letterspacing is via microtype

\usepackage{microtype}

...

\par
{\centering\Huge
 \textbf{\myAnotherCommand{} \textsc{\lsstyle \myCommand}}
 \par\bigskip}

This avoids the need to do all the involved tricks of soul. Letterspacing can be obtained via the package letterspace (included with microtype), but it doesn't hurt to load the bigger one (it's very advantageous, actually).

With XeLaTeX a similar effect can be obtained with

\addfontfeature{LetterSpace=2.0}

(the number can be chosen to suit one's needs):

\par
{\centering\Huge
 \textbf{\myAnotherCommand{} \textsc{\addfontfeature{LetterSpace=2.0} \myCommand}}
 \par\bigskip}

This particular combination might fail, because not all fonts family have a boldface small caps font.

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