Why do I constantly get this error:
There’s no line here to end. \maketitle
When I learned to use latex I was told to use \maketitle where I want to have my title placed. What is written in the title is defined by \title. Like this:
\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,abstracton]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} %Zeichencodierung Text
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} %Schriftsatz Dokument
%%Language settings
\usepackage[english]{babel} %ngerman for German
\usepackage{csquotes} %[babel,quotes=english]
\usepackage{caption}
\addto\captionsenglish{\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}}
%\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} % only works when not using babel
%%Paper adjustments
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf} %if problems with importing .eps graphics
%\usepackage{a4wide} %obsolete and replaced by geometry
\usepackage[a4paper,bottom=3.1cm]{geometry} %also with command \geometry{options}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{titling}
\begin{document}
\title{\LARGE Advanced Course \\ [1em] \huge \textbf{Tools}}
\author{Muster1 \hspace{1cm} Muster2}
\date{\\[1em] {Today} \\ [0.8cm] Supervisor Dr. Muster3 \\ [0.5cm] Institut \\ University of Whatsoever}
\clearpage
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\renewcommand\abstractname{Abstract}
\renewcommand\tablename{Table}
\newpage
\end{document}
asked Feb 23, 2015 at 14:33
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The problem is that you are using \\ (inside \date) when TeX is in vertical mode. TeX has the vertical and the horizontal modes. Horizontal mode is for putting letters into lines and assembling those into paragraphs, vertical mode is for putting those paragraphs and other things onto the page. \\ is a horizontal mode command that breaks the current line inside a paragraph. The error you are getting, no line to end, is exactly right: you have not begun a line, i.e. entered horizontal mode, yet.
Use \vspace{1em} instead of \\[1em] as vspace is a vertical mode macro that will function exactly how you want it to.
answered Feb 23, 2015 at 15:51
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Выдается ошибка в LaTeX: line 11 I can’t write on file
`\documentclass[russian,utf8,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[russian]{babel}
% Title Page
\title {ААА}
\author{Nick}
\date{2018}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}`
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задан 28 июн 2018 в 14:14
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попробовал в первом попавшем онлайн редакторе LaTex — все заработало, правда заменил russian/english
28 июн 2018 в 14:48
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@KoVadim Спасибо за ответ. Попробовал менять english/russian, все равно выдает ошибку. В тексте ошибок вроде бы нет. Может с установкой что-то не так?
29 июн 2018 в 6:35
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может просто папка /tmp или какая там у Вас ОС не доступна на запись
29 июн 2018 в 7:17
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@KoVadim Ошибка была из-за установок MiKLaTeX. Установил default pdfLaTeX и ошибка ушла.
29 июн 2018 в 8:04
I have a paper to submit in an hour, and have an issue with the \maketitle command. The template provided to me does not work, and the instructor has told me to figure it out on my own.
Here is a simplified example:
\documentclass{bioinfo}
\copyrightyear{2014}
\pubyear{2014}
\begin{document}
\firstpage{1}
\title[QTL Analysis]{Evaluation of a QTL Dataset}
\author[Robert R. Gotwals]{Robert R. Gotwals\,\footnote{to whom correspondence should be addressed}}
\address{$^{1}$Department of XXXXXXX, Address XXXX etc.}
\history{Received on XXXXX; revised on XXXXX; accepted on XXXXX}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
Here's the abstract.
\section{Keywords:} first, second, third, fourth
\section{Contact:} \href{cowbell@ncssm.edu}{gotwals@ncssm.edu}
\end{abstract}
\section{Introduction}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore.
\end{document}
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The bioinfo document class can be downloaded from http://www.oxfordjournals.org.
Does anyone have any idea of what is going wrong? System is Texmaker (compiler is Miktex) on 64-bit Windows 7. Code also refuses to compile on ShareLaTeX.
Thanks!
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| i | (followed by a correction) means input the correction in place of the error and carry on (This is only a temporary fix to get the file processed. You still have to make that correction in the editor). |
| r | run in non-stop mode. Plow through any errors, unless too many pile up and it fails (100 errors). |
Some systems (Emacs is one example) run LaTeX with a «nonstop» switch turned on, so it will always process through to the end of the file, regardless of errors, or until a limit is reached.
Warnings[edit | edit source]
Warnings don’t begin with an exclamation mark: they are just comments by LaTeX about things you might want to look into, such as overlong or underrun lines (often caused by unusual hyphenations, for example), pages running short or long, and other typographical niceties (most of which you can ignore until later).
Unlike other systems, which try to hide unevennesses in the text (usually unsuccessfully) by interfering with the letter spacing, LaTeX takes the view that the author or editor should be able to contribute. While it is certainly possible to set LaTeX’s parameters so that the spacing is sufficiently sloppy that you will almost never get a warning about badly-fitting lines or pages, you will almost certainly just be delaying matters until you start to get complaints from your readers or publishers.
Examples[edit | edit source]
Only a few common error messages are given here: those most likely to be encountered by beginners. If you find another error message not shown here, and it’s not clear what you should do, ask for help.
Most error messages are self-explanatory, but be aware that the place where LaTeX spots and reports an error may be later in the file than the place where it actually occurred. For example if you forget to close a curly brace which encloses, say, italics, LaTeX won’t report this until something else occurs which can’t happen until the curly brace is encountered (e.g. the end of the document!) Some errors can only be righted by humans who can read and understand what the document is supposed to mean or look like.
Newcomers should remember to check the list of special characters: a very large number of errors when you are learning LaTeX are due to accidentally typing a special character when you didn’t mean to. This disappears after a few days as you get used to them.
Too many }’s[edit | edit source]
! Too many }'s. l.6 \date December 2004}
The reason LaTeX thinks there are too many }’s here is that the opening curly brace is missing after the \date control sequence and before the word December, so the closing curly brace is seen as one too many (which it is!). In fact, there are other things which can follow the \date command apart from a date in curly braces, so LaTeX cannot possibly guess that you’ve missed out the opening curly brace until it finds a closing one!
Undefined control sequence[edit | edit source]
! Undefined control sequence.
l.6 \dtae
{December 2004}
In this example, LaTeX is complaining that it has no such command («control sequence») as \dtae. Obviously it’s been mistyped, but only a human can detect that fact: all LaTeX knows is that \dtae is not a command it knows about: it’s undefined. Mistypings are the most common source of errors. Some editors allow common commands and environments to be inserted using drop-down menus or icons, which may be used to avoid these errors.
Not in Mathematics Mode[edit | edit source]
! Missing $ inserted
A character that can only be used in the mathematics mode was inserted in normal text.
If you intended to use mathematics mode, then use $…$ or \begin{math}…\end{math} or use the ‘quick math mode’: \ensuremath{…}.
If you did not intend to use mathematics mode, then perhaps you are trying to use a special character that needs to be entered in a different way; for example _ will be interpreted as a subscript operator in mathematics mode, and you need \_ to get an underscore character.
This can also happen if you use the wrong character encoding, for example using utf8 without «\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}» or using iso8859-1 without «\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}», there are several character encoding formats, make sure to pick the right one.
Runaway argument[edit | edit source]
Runaway argument?
{December 2004 \maketitle
! Paragraph ended before \date was complete.
<to be read again>
\par
l.8
In this error, the closing curly brace has been omitted from the date. It’s the opposite of the error of too many }’s, and it results in \maketitle trying to format the title page while LaTeX is still expecting more text for the date! As \maketitle creates new paragraphs on the title page, this is detected and LaTeX complains that the previous paragraph has ended but \date is not yet finished.
Underfull hbox[edit | edit source]
Underfull \hbox (badness 1394) in paragraph at lines 28--30 [][]\LY1/brm/b/n/10 Bull, RJ: \LY1/brm/m/n/10 Ac-count-ing in Busi- [94]
This is a warning that LaTeX cannot stretch the line wide enough to fit, without making the spacing bigger than its currently permitted maximum. The badness (0-10,000) indicates how severe this is (here you can probably ignore a badness of 1394). It says what lines of your file it was typesetting when it found this, and the number in square brackets is the number of the page onto which the offending line was printed. The codes separated by slashes are the typeface and font style and size used in the line. Ignore them for the moment.
This comes up if you force a linebreak, e.g., \\, and have a return before it. Normally TeX ignores linebreaks, providing full paragraphs to ragged text. In this case it is necessary to pull the linebreak up one line to the end of the previous sentence.
This warning may also appear when inserting images. It can be avoided by using the \textwidth or possibly \linewidth options, e.g. \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{image_name}
Overfull hbox[edit | edit source]
[101] Overfull \hbox (9.11617pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 860--861 []\LY1/brm/m/n/10 Windows, \LY1/brm/m/it/10 see \LY1/brm/m/n/10 X Win-
An overfull \hbox means that there is a hyphenation or justification problem: moving the last word on the line to the next line would make the spaces in the line wider than the current limit; keeping the word on the line would make the spaces smaller than the current limit, so the word is left on the line, but with the minimum allowed space between words, and which makes the line go over the edge.
The warning is given so that you can find the line in the code that originates the problem (in this case: 860-861) and fix it. The line on this example is too long by a shade over 9pt. The chosen hyphenation point which minimizes the error is shown at the end of the line (Win-). Line numbers and page numbers are given as before. In this case, 9pt is too much to ignore (over 3mm), and a manual correction needs making (such as a change to the hyphenation), or the flexibility settings need changing.
If the «overfull» word includes a forward slash, such as «input/output«, this should be properly typeset as «input\slash output«. The use of \slash has the same effect as using the «/» character, except that it can form the end of a line (with the following words appearing at the start of the next line). The «/» character is typically used in units, such as «mm/year» character, which should not be broken over multiple lines.
The warning can also be issued when the \end{document} tag was not included or was deleted.
Easily spotting overfull hboxes in the document[edit | edit source]
To easily find the location of overfull hbox in your document, you can make latex add a black bar where a line is too wide:
Missing package[edit | edit source]
! LaTeX Error: File `paralisy.sty' not found. Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: sty) Enter file name:
When you use the \usepackage command to request LaTeX to use a certain package, it will look for a file with the specified name and the filetype .sty. In this case the user has mistyped the name of the paralist package, so it’s easy to fix. However, if you get the name right, but the package is not installed on your machine, you will need to download and install it before continuing. If you don’t want to affect the global installation of the machine, you can simply download from Internet the necessary .sty file and put it in the same folder of the document you are compiling.
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language X[edit | edit source]
Although this is a warning from the Babel package and not from LaTeX, this error is very common and (can) give some strange hyphenation (word breaking) problems in your document. Wrong hyphenation rules can decrease the neatness of your document.
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for (babel) the language `Latin' (babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.
This can happen after the usage of: (see LaTeX/Internationalization)
\usepackage[latin]{babel}
The solution is not difficult, just install the used language in your LaTeX distribution.
Package babel Error: You haven’t loaded the option X yet.[edit | edit source]
If you previously set the X language, and then decided to switch to Y, you will get this error.
This may seem awkward, as there is obviously no error in your code if you did not change anything.
The answer lies in the .aux file, where babel defined your language.
If you try the compilation a second time, it should work.
If not, delete the .aux file, then everything will work as usual.
No error message, but won’t compile[edit | edit source]
One common cause of (pdf)LaTeX getting stuck is forgetting to include \end{document}
Software that can check your .tex Code[edit | edit source]
There are several programs capable of checking LaTeX source, with the aim of finding errors or highlighting bad practice, and providing more help to (particularly novice) users than the built-in error messages.
- nag (www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nag) is a LaTeX package designed to indicate the use of obsolete commands.
- lacheck (www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/lacheck) is a consistency checker intended to spot mistakes in code. It is available as source code or compiled for Windows and OS/2
- chktex (baruch.ev-en.org/proj/chktex/) is a LaTeX semantic checker available as source code for Unix-like systems.
Problems with \maketitle in LaTeX can be caused by missing symbols, incorrect font sizes, incorrect margins, and other issues. One common solution is to make sure the font size is set correctly, and any symbols used in the document are properly defined. Another solution is to ensure the margins are set correctly, as this will ensure the text is properly formatted. Additionally, you may need to manually adjust the font size and margins to get the desired result. Additionally, it is important to make sure all the required packages are loaded correctly and the document is compiled correctly. Finally, you may need to use additional packages to customize the appearance of the title.
Synopsis:
\maketitle
Generate a title. In the standard classes the title appears on a separate page, except in the article class where it is at the top of the first page. (See Document class options, for information about the titlepage document class option.)
This example shows \maketitle appearing in its usual place, immediately after \begin{document}.
\documentclass{article}
\title{Constructing a Nuclear Reactor Using Only Coconuts}
\author{Jonas Grumby\thanks{%
With the support of a Ginger Grant from the Roy Hinkley Society.} \\
Skipper, \textit{Minnow}
\and
Willy Gilligan\thanks{%
Thanks to the Mary Ann Summers foundation
and to Thurston and Lovey Howell.} \\
Mate, \textit{Minnow}
}
\date{1964-Sep-26}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship. The mate was
a mighty sailin' man, the Skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set
sail that day for a three hour tour. A three hour tour.
...
You tell LaTeX the information used to produce the title by making the following declarations. These must come before the \maketitle, either in the preamble or in the document body.
-
Required. Declare the document author or authors. The argument is a list of authors separated by
\andcommands. To separate lines within a single author’s entry, for instance to give the author’s institution or address, use a double backslash,\\. If you omit the\authordeclaration then you get ‘LaTeX Warning: No \author given’. \date{text}¶-
Optional. Declare text to be the document’s date. The text doesn’t need to be in a date format; it can be any text at all. If you omit
\datethen LaTeX uses the current date (see\today). To have no date, instead use\date{}. \thanks{text}¶-
Optional. Produce a footnote. You can use it in the author information for acknowledgements as illustrated above, but you can also use it in the title, or any place a footnote makes sense. It can be any text at all so you can use it for any purpose, such as to print an email address.
\title{text}¶-
Required. Declare text to be the title of the document. Get line breaks inside text with a double backslash,
\\. If you omit the\titledeclaration then you get ‘LaTeX Error: No \title given’.
To make your own title page, see titlepage. You can either create this as a one-off or you can include it as part of a renewed \maketitle command. (Many publishers will provide a class to use in place of article that formats the title according to their house requirements.)