<span style='font-family:Verdana'><span style='font-size:12px'>>The document you are typesetting seems to be chapter 4 of the<br />
>pari-gp user's guide, which is a plain tex document.<br />
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Indeed. I am amazed by your medium-like powers :-) : everything is as you say.<br />
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>Anyway, your code snippet typesets OK when inserted into a latex<br />
>document (with amsmath loaded for the \text macro), and the pari-gp<br />
>user's guide typesets OK, too, so your error message must come from<br />
>something particular you did. Unless you tell what you did and in what<br />
>environment, there is not much chance of a meaningful answer to your<br />
>question.<br />
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Initially, it was a problem I had in updating my GP version, a problem that involved both tex and non-tex files. I presented only the tex part of the problem here.<br />
Now the GP problem is solved, and after some trial and error I finally could produce a seemingly normal pdf file.<br />
So the bad news is that we'll never know exactly what went wrong with the tex compilation, and the good news is that the problem is solved.<br />
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Thanks for the feedback anyway.<br />
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Ewan<br />
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