From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: 33094@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33094: latex-koma-script: scrlttr2: ERROR: Argument of \strip@prefix has an extra }.
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:15:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsoj67gb.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtjst8tk.fsf@elephly.net>
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> My guess: the argument is the absolute file name of pdftex.map. It
> doesn’t belong to any real package in the tlpdb, and I’m pretty sure we
> generate it. However, in this case it must be missing, so that there is
> no argument to \strip@prefix.
This was wrong, but I can’t blame myself: the LaTeX errors are
incredibly useless and misleading.
I added \setcounter{errorcontextlines}{999} to the document to see some
context, but it served little more than to confuse me. (It didn’t print
999 context lines but only 4 lines with elisions.) It did however
indicate that the error might be related to languages.
So I changed the document to this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass[a4paper]{scrlttr2}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
% This line is new. Set the language!
\usepackage[british]{babel}
%\setcounter{errorcontextlines}{999}
\title{A very simple document}
\author{Oliver Klee}
\date{\today\ (a very good day)}
\begin{document}
This is an example of how to create line breaks and paragraphs:
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,\\
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,\\
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,\\
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
\end{document}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
It worked.
I don’t know why the monolithic TeX Live package doesn’t have this
problem, but at least we’ve got a workaround now: load babel and set a
default language.
I’ll also add that the texlive-latex-koma-script package in Guix is not
up to our standards. It’s not built from source (= not generated from
dtx/ins files) and it doesn’t include all files such as documentation
and source files. We should fix that too.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-15 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-19 13:35 bug#33094: latex-koma-script: scrlttr2: ERROR: Argument of \strip@prefix has an extra } Pierre Neidhardt
[not found] ` <handler.33094.B.15399561855233.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2018-10-19 14:07 ` bug#33094: Acknowledgement (latex-koma-script: scrlttr2: ERROR: Argument of \strip@prefix has an extra }.) Pierre Neidhardt
2022-01-19 8:38 ` bug#33094: latex-koma-script: scrlttr2: ERROR: Argument of \strip@prefix has an extra } Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-15 23:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2022-02-16 11:00 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-16 12:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-05-26 12:05 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-05-31 10:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-05 10:25 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-06-05 11:00 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-06-05 17:48 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2023-08-26 9:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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