[OS X TeX] Weird behavior

[Alain Schremmer]

(1) After I read Goedde's post, I got maybe ten of those weirdos (I 
merrily trashed the aux file) but this had nothing to do with dragging 
a graphics. (I just did one right now to see and nothing happened.)

These weirdos kept happening in one particular situation. So, here it 
is should someone wish to pursue the matter. I had the following table 
but without the $$:

\begin{center}
	\begin{tabular}{@{} ccccc @{}}\label{Table}
	%Row0
			ð
		&	ð
		&	3 $\denom{foot}$
		&	\&
		&	1 $\denom{inch}$
		\\
	%Row1
			ð
		&	$\times$
		&	2 $\denom{foot}$
		&	\&
		&	2 $\denom{inch}$
		\\
		\midrule
	%Row2
			ð
		&	ð
		&	\cellcolor[gray]{0.9}6 $\denom{Inch}$$\times$$\denom{Foot}$
		&	\&
		&	2 $\denom{Inch}$$\times$$\denom{Inch}$
		\\
	%Row3
			6 $\denom{Foot}$$\times$$\denom{Foot}$
		&	\&
		&	\cellcolor[gray]{0.9}2 $\denom{Foot}$$\times$$\denom{Inch}$
		&	ð
		&	ð
		\\
		\midrule
		\vspace{2mm}
	%Row4
			6 $\denom{Foot}$$\times$$\denom{Foot}$
		&	\&
		&	\cellcolor[gray]{0.9}8 $\denom{Foot}$$\times$$\denom{Inch}$
		&	\&
		&	2 $\denom{inch}\times\denom{Inch}$
		\\
		\vspace{2mm}
	%Row5
			ð
		&	ð
		&	or
		&	ð
		&	ð
		\\
	%Row6
			6 $\denom{Foot}$$\times$$\denom{Foot}$
		&	\&
		&	\cellcolor[gray]{0.9}8 $\denom{Inch}$$\times$$\denom{Foot}$
		&	\&
		&	2 $\denom{inch}$$\times$$\denom{Inch}$
		\\
	\end{tabular}
\end{center}



Now I wanted to have the same table but with  $\denom{Meter}$ instead 
of $\denom{Inch}$ and  \scbf{D}{EKA}$\denom{Meter}$ instead of 
$\denom{Foot}$.

So, I copied the above table and proceeded with the replacement. Of 
course I made typing mistakes and TeX wouldn't compile but as soon as I 
caught the mistake, if it would usually compile, some times it went 
"weird".
Then, after it did work, I put in the $$ to prevent TeX to put spaces 
around the "x". Again, I made typing mistakes and again, sometimes TeX 
would recover sometimes it wouldn't.
Then I put in the $$ in the original table for consistency with the 
same results.

Also, other than the time with dragging the figure, the first two times 
it happened also had to do with $.

Once again I am grateful to all and in particular, this time, to Goedde 
and Neary. Thanks.

Regards
--schremmer








I got a whole lot of
On Aug 14, 2004, at 1:00 AM, Hugh Neary wrote:

> Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> I once mentioned a talent I have which is to bring banks to a
>> standstill.
>>
>> It seems it occasionally extends to TeXshop. I will do something 
>> rather
>> innocuous like dragging a pdf graphics into a source file. TeXshop
>> dutifully wraps it as
>>
>> %\includegraphics[]{Figures/04_07.pdf}
>>
>> But then, it won't typeset. The console runs amok, I have to force 
>> quit
>> TeXshop and, after that, when I try to typeset again, it gives a
>> message (which, since TeXshop is stuck, I cannot just copy/paste here.
>> Is that on purpose?) ending with
>
> I don't know if this is the same issue. Sometimes I find that the .aux 
> file gets corrupted in TeXShop and then typesetting becomes 
> impossible, with the console typically giving something like you 
> describe
>
>> !File ended while scanning use of \@writefile
>> <inserted text>
>> \par
>> 1.69 \begin{document}
>> 			%begin{document}(that's something I have to flag it in red.)
>> ?
>>
>
> Simple trouble-shooting tricks like putting \end{document} somewhere 
> in the file previous to where the trouble began don't help since the 
> error message comes back no matter what.
>
> A solution is to simply trash the .aux file and then re-typeset. A new 
> trouble-free .aux file is created automatically. This seems to be 
> effectively what you are doing, by cutting and pasting to a new file 
> which automatically generates a new .aux file when you typeset.
>
> Hope this helps (to quote a very helpful member of the list)
>
> Hugh Neary
>
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