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fredre

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Registered: 2009-12-18

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[SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

Ever since the last latex update, none of my files will run anymore. This is the error that I get:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...{text-ohm=\textohm }}}\tl_if_eq:nVT 
                                                  {OT1}\encodingdefault {\ke...

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: texlive-core 2010.20288-1

Last edited by fredre (2010-11-07 23:20:52)

frabjous

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

I confess with LaTeX I bypass pacman and install directly from TUG/CTAN. But a good first troubleshooting step would be to see if you get the problem even with a minimal "Hello World" type document:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}

If you do, that's a serious problem. If you don't, well, then you need to try to create a minimal working example that does create the problem, either by adding to a minimal document like that to make it more like your old files, adding more and more until the problem appears, or by working in the other direction by removing parts piece by piece from an old document until the problem disappears. Perhaps that would help pinpoint the cause of the problem.

That particular error looks like it might be part of the siunitx package, so you might start by checking whether or not it creates the problems. I know it has gone through some changes recently, and I wonder if you might have a version of it that is incompatible with the versions of certain other packages.

Last edited by frabjous (2010-11-07 21:27:12)

AlexS

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

with LaTeX I bypass pacman and install directly from TUG/CTAN.

sorry for the threadjacking, but how do you do it? LaTex never really worked for me in Arch, so I'm interested. I'm reading this TUG page, do you install it as a normal user?

frabjous

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

That's the page. Install as root.

fredre

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

@frabjous-- I took your suggestion, and was able to narrow it down to the siunitx package. As a solution for now, I will just not use the package. Thanks for the help.

I'm marking this thread as solved.

frabjous

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

@frabjous-- I took your suggestion, and was able to narrow it down to the siunitx package. As a solution for now, I will just not use the package. Thanks for the help.

I'm marking this thread as solved.

I'm glad that helped. If you do have a need for that package, you might want to ask at the LaTeX Community forums at at the TeX, LaTeX and friends SE site. Joseph Wright, who wrote the siunitx package, frequents both.

alkemir

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Registered: 2010-11-12

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

Hi there.

My thesis is not working right now due to this error,
and I cant figure it out. I need the SIunitsx package.

Any ideaas?

frabjous

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

Process some minimal LaTeX document which calls siunitx, adding \listfiles to the beginning of the code (even before \documentclass{...}), and post both it and the *List of Files* part of the resulting .log file here. I'll compare it to the log file I'm getting with my fully updated system, and that way maybe we can track down the package incompatibility.

(Either that, or switch from Arch's TeXlive packages to installing directly from TUG/CTAN, so you get tlmgr and can update properly.)

fredre

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

I just happened to notice that this error occurs only when both the textcomp and siunitx package are used. Anyway, I don't mean to intrude, but:

\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}

 *File List*
 article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
textcomp.sty    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX package
  ts1enc.def    2001/06/05 v3.0e (jk/car/fm) Standard LaTeX file
 siunitx.sty    2010/09/14 v2.0u A comprehensive (SI) units package
   expl3.sty    2010/10/02 v2056 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
 l3names.sty    2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX Primitives
    etex.sty    1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
 l3expan.sty    2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
    l3tl.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental Token Lists
   l3int.sty    2010/10/09 v2070 L3 Experimental Integer module
 l3quark.sty    2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
   l3seq.sty    2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
  l3toks.sty    2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
   l3prg.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
 l3clist.sty    2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
 l3token.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and manipulation
  l3prop.sty    2010/03/21 v1857 L3 Experimental Property Lists
   l3msg.sty    2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
    l3io.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
  l3skip.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental skip registers
   l3box.sty    2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty    2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
  l3keys.sty    2010/10/13 v2075 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty    2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
  l3xref.sty    2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
  l3file.sty    2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
    l3fp.sty    2010/09/19 v2029 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty    2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
    calc.sty    2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
 amstext.sty    2000/06/29 v2.01
  amsgen.sty    1999/11/30 v2.0
   array.sty    2008/09/09 v2.4c Tabular extension package (FMi)
l3keys2e.sty    2010/10/13 v2076 Parsing LaTeX3 keyvals as LaTeX2e package options
  xparse.sty    2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
translator.sty    2010/06/12 ver 1.10
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
translator-language-mappings.tex
  ts1cmr.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
translator-basic-dictionary-English.dict

frabjous

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

Here's what I get for that from a fully updated TL 2010.

 *File List*
 article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
textcomp.sty    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX package
  ts1enc.def    2001/06/05 v3.0e (jk/car/fm) Standard LaTeX file
 siunitx.sty    2010/11/05 v2.1b A comprehensive (SI) units package
   expl3.sty    2010/10/02 v2056 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
 l3names.sty    2010/10/03 v2064 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX Primitiv
es
    etex.sty    1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
 l3expan.sty    2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
    l3tl.sty    2010/10/29 v2081 L3 Experimental Token Lists
   l3int.sty    2010/10/17 v2077 L3 Experimental Integer module
 l3quark.sty    2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
   l3seq.sty    2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
  l3toks.sty    2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
   l3prg.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental control structures
 l3clist.sty    2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
 l3token.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and manipu
lation
  l3prop.sty    2010/03/21 v1857 L3 Experimental Property Lists
   l3msg.sty    2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
    l3io.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
  l3skip.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental skip registers
   l3box.sty    2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty    2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
  l3keys.sty    2010/10/27 v2079 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty    2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
  l3xref.sty    2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
  l3file.sty    2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
    l3fp.sty    2010/10/27 v2080 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty    2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
    calc.sty    2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
 amstext.sty    2000/06/29 v2.01
  amsgen.sty    1999/11/30 v2.0
   array.sty    2008/09/09 v2.4c Tabular extension package (FMi)
l3keys2e.sty    2010/10/13 v2076 Parsing LaTeX3 keyvals as LaTeX2e package opti
ons
  xparse.sty    2010/10/13 v2073 Generic document command parser
translator.sty    2010/06/12 ver 1.10
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
translator-language-mappings.tex
  ts1cmr.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
translator-basic-dictionary-English.dict    
 ***********

The important difference is probably that I'm using a newer version of siunitx (CTAN link). I would try installing the new version locally using the instructions for installing packages manually given in this thread, and see if you can get it working.

fredre

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Registered: 2009-12-18

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

The latest pacman version has siunitx v2.1b, and everything works normally now.

alkemir

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Registered: 2010-11-12

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

Its working now! Sorry it took me so long to answer.
Thank you very much!

alkemir

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Re: [SOLVED] LaTeX not working since last update

For the record,

I tried this file:

\documentclass[letterpaper, 12pt, titlepage, onecolumn]{report}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
\num{1+-2i}
%\SI{50}{\micro\metre}
\end{document}

And \num would work, but \SI wouldnt.