[OS X TeX] sudden stop

[Nathan Paxton]

Just to point out that Ross made a potentially "obvious" comment quite
elegantly, so much so that I had to add it to my commonplace book:

Examine the  .log  .
> It is your friend and wise oracle.
> You should *always* have it open.
>
> It normally will give you the answer, but as with all oracles
> you may need to learn a bit to be able to understand its answer.
>

 Even the line breaks were perfect. Well done.

-NAP


On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 12:32 PM Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <
Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:

> Big thanks to Herb and Ross for their suggestions.
> As it turns out, the problem had nothing to do with the code interrupting
> an enumerate environment with a comment,
> but the suggestions from both of you led me to a search which ultimately
> found the problem.
>
> My first move was to comment out the “interrupting” code and everything
> that follows (to the end of an inserted file, containing one chapter of the
> book).
> Doing that restored the bibliography and index pages, so I knew the
> problem was in that code.
> I then uncommented the material *after* the interruption (expecting the
> enumerate environment to continue to the two \items remaining after the
> interruption).
> The problem returned.  At least at that point I suspected the
> “interruption” was not the problem.
> I then re-commented that material and uncommented line by line.  The
> problem remained until I commented out the very last line.
> It took me a while to notice a silly but catastrophic typo:  I use a
> reference macro which takes two inputs, the first of which specifies the
> “type” of reference
> (Chapter, Section, theorem, lemma, exercise, etc.) and in referring to a
> section, I had written {\sec} instead of {sec}.  When I looked more closely
> at the console
> I saw that my compilation had run out of space—clearly some kind of
> viscious loop.
> Once I fixed that, everything went well, including when I restored th
> “interruption”.
>
> Thanks to the two of you for holding my hand through the problem.
>
> Z
>
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
>
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>
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2021, at 19:15, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Zbigniew,
>
> On 14 Apr 2021, at 6:06 am, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <
> Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
>
> I’m totally flummoxed by the situation I am about to describe, and can’t
> even see how to provide a minimal example.But I do need help.
>
> I am developing a notes/book project, currently at about 200+ pages, using
> the memoir document style.
> Yesterday, I finished a certain section, and today went to continue by
> proofreading what I had added last.
> after correcting a few typos, noticed that whereas the page count (in
> preview) had been 215, it was now 202.
> So I went and checked the pdf, and discovered that during at least my last
> few typesetting sessions, the output wasstopping in the
> middle of an enumerate environment.  In fact, neither the bibliography nor
> the index, together totaling maybe 8-10 pages, were appearing in the pdf.
> But the stopping point was not where I had started inserting new material
> intent, but an item or two earlier.  Also, the (later) page numbers for
> subsequent “parts’, as well as
> for the bibliography and index, still show up in the table of contents.
>
>
> I tried to run bibtex and makeindex.  Bibtex showed some disturbing
> warnings, which I don’t understand:
>
> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2017)
> The top-level auxiliary file: Coeur.aux
> I found no \bibdata command---while reading file Coeur.aux
> I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file Coeur.aux
> (There were 2 error messages)
>
> The makeindex run also has a disturbing error message (which I had not
> noticed earlier, since it said zero items rejected):
>
> This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2017] (kpathsea + Thai support).
> Scanning input file Coeur.idx...done (0 entries accepted, 0 rejected).
> Nothing written in Coeur.ind.
> Transcript written in Coeur.ilg.
>
>
>
> The stopping point in the output is at a place where an enumerate
> environment inside an item ends.
>
>
> But what does the  Console  window say, when the job stops?
> Open up the  .log  file, which has even more messages.
>
>
> It looks to me like your job has stopped with an error,
> perhaps coming from one of your environments.
>
> Since the job never gets to the  \end{document}
> then the bibliography and index files are not written out.
> So the next processing step, if you are running a script, finds no entries.
>
>
>
> All items in the environment are produced;  the next item does not begin.
>
> At first I thought I might have made a mistake using mdwlist, which I
> used a couple of times to interrupt an enumeration of exercises, using the
> following format:
>
>
> \savecounter{enumi}
> \end{enumerate}
>
> \medskip
> \noindent
> {
>     \textit{comment}.
> }
> \medskip
>
>
> \begin{enumerate}
> \backcounter{enumi}
>
>
> But as far as I can tell, all the \end{enumerate} and \begin{enumerate}
> commands within this interruption are properly matched up—and an earlier
> interruption is compiling fine.
>
> I don’t even know where to begin trying to find and fix the problem.  Can
> anyone make a suggestion?
>
>
> Examine the  .log  .
> It is your friend and wise oracle.
> You should *always* have it open.
>
> It normally will give you the answer, but as with all oracles
> you may need to learn a bit to be able to understand its answer.
>
>
>
>
> I’ll be happy to privately send any number of files (there will be plenty)
> if they are useful toward fixing this, which at the moment has me stopped
> cold in my tracks.
>
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ross
>
>
> Dr Ross Moore
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