[tex-live] hyperref broken

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/5/26 Alan T Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>:
> hyperref should be loaded last. From the manual it says (I assume you have
> read it):
>
> "Make sure it comes last of your loaded packages, to give it a fighting
> chance of not being over-written, since its job is to redefine many LATEX
> commands."
>
> It is most likely interfering with another of the packages. I have found
> there are some packages that do not play nicely with hyperref. Also, does
> the Blackwell Journal actually need hyperref turned on?
>
> Just on the off-chance there is this from the url manual: "The “\url”
> command is fragile, and its argument is likely to be very fragile, but a
> defined-url is robust. " Could this be causing problems? Perhaps you could
> educate me, why do you want url and hyperref?
>
url is loaded automatically by hyperref, it is not necessary to load
url separately if hyperref is used but it should be harmless.

> Hyperref also seems to do a lot with lastpage. Perhaps there is an error in
> your article?
>
> Alan
>
> On 26/05/2011, at 11:10 AM, Pau wrote:
>
>> Hi Zdenek,
>>
>> thanks, but that didn't work.
>>
>> For your information, I also had this problem with other classes than
>> mn2e and I am sorry, but I do not have the time to provide you with an
>> example.
>>
>> This is only a hint for texlive users. If you end up with
>>
>> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>>
>> try to comment out hyperref.
>>
>> I spent two hours until I came up with this... I am trying to help
>> some desperate user.
>>
>> In any case, thanks a *lot* for keeping tex alive!!!!
>>
>> Pau
>>
>> 2011/5/25 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> 2011/5/26 Pau <vim.unix at googlemail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have noticed that including hyperref breaks the compilation of
>>>> pdflatex.
>>>>
>>>> I have a very long article in preparation and I have been driven mad
>>>> for some days until I came to the idea of commenting out hyperref and
>>>> then everything compiled just fine.
>>>>
>>> Have you tried to load hyperref as the very last package?
>>>
>>>> This is
>>>>
>>>> deukalion(pts/9)| pdflatex -v
>>>> pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.11-2.2 (TeX Live 2010)
>>>> kpathsea version 6.0.0
>>>> Copyright 2010 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
>>>> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
>>>> covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
>>>> the Lesser GNU General Public License.
>>>> For more information about these matters, see the file
>>>> named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
>>>> Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh
>>>> (pdfTeX).
>>>> Compiled with libpng 1.2.40; using libpng 1.2.40
>>>> Compiled with zlib 1.2.3; using zlib 1.2.3
>>>> Compiled with xpdf version 3.02pl4
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> deukalion(pts/9)| latex -v
>>>> pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.11-2.2 (TeX Live 2010)
>>>> kpathsea version 6.0.0
>>>> Copyright 2010 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
>>>> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
>>>> covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
>>>> the Lesser GNU General Public License.
>>>> For more information about these matters, see the file
>>>> named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
>>>> Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh
>>>> (pdfTeX).
>>>> Compiled with libpng 1.2.40; using libpng 1.2.40
>>>> Compiled with zlib 1.2.3; using zlib 1.2.3
>>>> Compiled with xpdf version 3.02pl4
>>>>
>>>> and my preamble is
>>>>
>>>> \documentclass[useAMS,usenatbib]{mn2e}
>>>> \usepackage{epsfig,graphicx,latexsym,amsmath,amssymb}
>>>> \usepackage{natbib}
>>>> %\usepackage{hyperref}
>>>> \usepackage{mathrsfs}
>>>> \usepackage{wasysym}
>>>> \usepackage{url,lastpage}
>>>>
>>>> \usepackage{latexsym}
>>>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>>>> \usepackage{eepic}
>>>> \usepackage{epic}
>>>> \usepackage{subfigure}
>>>> \usepackage{alltt}
>>>> \bibpunct[,]{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{,}
>>>>
>>>> Pau
>>>>
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