[texhax] Question

[Jo Goodger]

Thanks, That's the problem.. I now have an extensive contents page.
Thank you to you all for your help, its has been much appreciated.

Joanna :o) 

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Benjamin Deutsch wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Jo Goodger wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have compiled this file about 6 times and still I have no contents in
> > the table of contents.  From the books that I have read, LaTeX is suppose
> > to search the .tex file for sectioning and captions in tables and figures,
> > and write a \contentsline command to the .toc (or .lof, .lot) file.  I
> > have a .toc file containing this information but it is not appearing in
> > the postscipt file .ps
> 
> I tested your file, and had the same problem, both with latex and with
> pdflatex (may not be newest versions). But read on...
> 
> > Here is the header files and initial part of my report with sections
> > included:
> >
> > \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> > \usepackage{graphicx,amssymb,lscape,setspace,xspace}
> > \usepackage{latexsym}
> [...snip...]
> > \RequirePackage{amssymb}
> 
> First of all, you should use "usepackage" instead of "RequirePackage", the
> latter being mainly for package writers. But that normally doesn't make
> any difference.
> 
> > \RequirePackage{setspace}
> > \RequirePackage{graphicx}
> > %\RequirePackage{lscape}     ;
> > \RequirePackage{amssymb}
> > \RequirePackage{longtable}
> > \RequirePackage{fancyhdr}
> > \RequirePackage{xspace}
> > \RequirePackage{multicol}
> > \RequirePackage{fancybox}
> 
> Here we go: I commented out the fancybox package, and it worked. I'm not
> sure why, or why it would work for other people; maybe we should check
> versions. If commenting out this package works for you too, you may want
> to either upgrade it, or do without it.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
>   Benjamin
> 
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> 

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