<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've added below the error message that I get <div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">/grammar.aux)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">Runaway definition?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">->\LT@entry {1}{44.51369pt}\LT@entry {1}{42.15236pt}\LT@entry {1}{78.\ETC.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">./grammar.tex:34: File ended while scanning definition of \LT@x.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; "><inserted text> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; "> }</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">l.34 \begin{document}</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Charis SIL; min-height: 16.0px"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">? H</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">I suspect you have forgotten a `}', causing me</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">to read past where you wanted me to stop.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">I'll try to recover; but if the error is serious,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">you'd better type `E' or `X' now and fix your file.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">? X</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">No pages of output.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Charis SIL'; ">Transcript written on grammar.log.</div><div><br></div><div>andI've added one of the tables from the document into the text below.</div><div><br></div><div>Ruth.<div><br><div><div>On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Ruth Robbins wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Here's everything up until the error message<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">% XeLaTeX can use any Mac OS X font. See the setromanfont command below.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">% Input to XeLaTeX is full Unicode, so Unicode characters can be typed directly into the source.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">% The next lines tell TeXShop to typeset with xelatex, and to open and save the source with Unicode encoding.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\documentclass[12pt]{book}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\usepackage{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\geometry{letterpaper} % ... or a4paper or a5paper or ...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">%\geometry{landscape} % Activate for for rotated page geometry<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">%\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\usepackage{graphicx}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\usepackage{amssymb}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\usepackage{longtable}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">% Will Robertson's fontspec.sty can be used to simplify font choices.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">% To experiment, open /Applications/Font Book to examine the fonts provided on Mac OS X,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">% and change "Hoefler Text" to any of these choices.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Charis SIL}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text]{Charis SIL}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Charis SIL}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\title{ESQUISSE PHONOLOGIQUE ET GRAMMATICALE D’UN<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">PARLER SÉNOUFO:\\<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">LE TYÉBARA DE KORHOGO<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CÔTE D’IVOIRE}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\author{Elizabeth Mills}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\date{} % Activate to display a given date or no date<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\begin{document}<br></blockquote>\maketitle<br></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>À l'exception de m qui n'est palatalisée que dans le mot myɛ́ɛ (tous) et son homophone myɛ́ɛ (aussi), les sonantes ne sont pas palatalisées ou labialisées. . Le phonème palatal /ɲ/, écrit ny, n'est pas palatalise : nyaƒn [ɲã˧] (nager). Mais devant une voyelle longue il posse…de une variante combinatoire palatalisée [ ɲj] : nyaa [ ɲjā:] (voir). La nasale vélaire /ŋ/ tend à la labialisation non phonologique devant ɔɔ ɔ̃ɔ̃ : ŋɔri [ŋɔ̄rī ~ [ŋwɔ̄rī] ~ [ŋwɔ̄:rī] (tê̂ter). Ces variantes libres sont écrites dans le dictionnaire après la forme non labialisée ŋɔri. </div><div><br></div><div>\subsection{Identification phonologique des consonnes} </div><div><br></div><div>\subsubsection{ \centerline{Les occlusives}}</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Les occlusives sont identifiées comme phonèmes à partir des oppositions suivantes :</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>\centerline{Les occlusives bilabiale}</div><div><br></div><div>\begin{longtable}{ l l l l l l }</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&/p /<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>& <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&/ b / <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>& \\</div><div>p / b<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&pɛɛn<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&être amer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&b / p<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&bára<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&s'efforcer\\</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&bɛɛn<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&détester<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&pára<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&vendre\\</div><div>p / kp<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&pírige<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&malaxer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&b / g<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&bàga<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&eau stagnante\\</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&kpírige<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&trébucher<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&gbàga<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&lit traditionnel\\</div><div>p / f<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&pe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&être mou<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&b / v<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&búgu<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&proliférer\\</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&fe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&courir (inacc.)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&vùguvúgi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&être instable \\</div><div>\end{longtable}</div><div>\end{document}</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Howdy,<br><br>Just added<br><br>Hello World!<br>\end{document}<br><br>and it compiled just fine, so something else is giving you the error. What does the Console output or log file look like? Can you add some more to make an example document which is compilable and fails?<br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br>(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:<br> <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>