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throws up errors as it finds them. Typical
errors are missing closing brackets and mis-spelt
commands. For example, the following error message was
produced because of a mis-spelling of the
itemize environment:
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LaTeX error. See LaTeX manual for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
! Environment itemise undefined.
\@latexerr ...for immediate help.}\errmessage {#1}
\endgroup
l.226 \begin{itemise}
?
1.3The ? at the end of the error message
indicates that has suspended processing. It is
possible to introduce a patch dynamically, however, this
does not effect the source file which must also be
modified. The interested
reader is referred to chapter 6 of the manual
for more details. By simply pressing the return
key is instructed to skip over the error and
continue processing the input. Note that a single error
may cause many spurious errors. It is sensible to press
on and identify as many errors as possible before going
back to modify the source file. If you do want to terminate
before it is finished then type the character e
followed by the `return' character in
response to the ? prompt. A log (.log) file is
generated which records the details of a text processing run
and provides a permanent record of error messages.
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