[OS X TeX] verbatim problems

David Watson dewatson at mac.com
Thu Jul 6 04:27:44 CEST 2006


If the line endings are DOS, here is a little perl script to remove  
them.

#!/usr/bin/perl
{
     foreach $inFileName (@ARGV) {
         open INTEXTFILE , $inFileName;
         open OUTTEXTFILE, ">". $inFileName . ".con";
         binmode OUTTEXTFILE;
         binmode INTEXTFILE;
         @textFile = <INTEXTFILE>;
         foreach $textline (@textFile) {
                 $textline =~ s/\x0d//g;
                 print OUTTEXTFILE $textline ;
         };
         close (INTEXTFILE);
         close (OUTTEXTFILE);
         rename($inFileName,$inFileName . ".dos");
         rename($inFileName . ".con",$inFileName);

     }
}

Save this code to dos2unix.pl and run "chmod 755 dos2unix.pl".

Run the code with your source file from the Terminal as follows:
./dos2unix.pl source


On Jul 5, 2006, at 7:53 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote:

>
> George Gratzer wrote:
>> Trying to typeset by LaTeX book, starting with Chapter 15 (the BiBTeX
>> chapter), I get error messages
>>
>> !Missing $ inserted.
>> <inserted text>
>>                 $
>> l.712    Algebra",^^M
>>
>
> [snipped]
>
> Looks like a line ending problem to me. Try opening the file in a  
> local text
> editor, remove the line break, hit return, and save it. Then try  
> again. It
> should remove the error.
>
> Usually these come from text that has been brought in from 'other  
> platforms'.
>
> Cheers
> Alan
>
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