Hi Tom,
might be worthwhile to try and reduce your article.tex file to the bare
bones and run it to see what happens. That is, does the following work?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\title{Introduction to \LaTeX}
\author{Tom Roche\thanks{Thanks, Janet!}}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
This is the abstract for our paper.
\end{abstract}
hello world!
\end{document}
Cheers,
Andreas
_______________
Andreas Kiermeier
Find me at: LinkedIn<http://au.linkedin.com/pub/andreas-kiermeier/3/635/7b9>
Google <http://sites.google.com/site/andreaskiermeier/>
Contact me: [image: Skype/]andreas.kiermeier
Signature powered by WiseStamp <http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install>
On 23 April 2010 11:39, Tom Roche <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> summary: When I add
>
> > \maketitle
>
> to a document in an AUCTeX buffer, all subsequent `C-c C-c` fail with
>
> *TeX Help*
> > ERROR: Missing $ inserted.
> >
> > --- TeX said ---
> > <inserted text>
> > $
> > l.40
>
> How to fix?
>
> details:
>
> I am very new to TeX and AUCTeX, so feel free to tell me if this
> question should be directed elsewhere. Also, apologies if these are
> FAQs, but I didn't see anything relevant when either searching the
> auctex archive or just googling.
>
> I enrolled for a 2-day TeX course @ my school, which is being taught
> with TeXnicCenter on xp. I run ubuntu karmic and emacs (ubuntu
> package=emacs-snapshot, emacs version="GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1
> (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0"), so instead I
>
> 1 installed the ubuntu packages
>
> auctex
> texlive-fonts-recommended
> texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
> texlive-publishers
> texlive-publishers-doc
> texlive-science
> texlive-science-doc
>
> and their dependencies.
>
> 2 put
>
> > (setq TeX-auto-save t)
> > (setq TeX-parse-self t)
> > (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>
> in my init.el
>
> I was able to follow the class (see notes from the January iteration @
>
> http://www.unc.edu/~jjharden/latex/latex_intro.pdf
>
> ) as far as
>
> article.tex
> > \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> > % preamble
> > \usepackage{graphicx}
> > \usepackage{indentfirst}
> > \usepackage{setspace}
> > \usepackage[longnamesfirst]{natbib}
> > \usepackage{booktabs}
> > \usepackage{rotating}
> > \usepackage{amsmath}
> > \usepackage[margin = .75in]{geometry}
> > \usepackage{url}
> > \usepackage{subfig}
> > \captionsetup[subfloat]{position = top, font = large}
> > \usepackage{float}
> > \bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{,}
> > \parskip = 3pt
> > \usepackage[colorlinks = TRUE, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = black,
> > citecolor = blue]{hyperref}
> > \usepackage{fancyhdr}
> > \pagestyle{fancy}
> > \fancyhf{}
> > \rfoot{\thepage}
> > \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
> > \usepackage{color}
> > \usepackage{endnotes}
> > \let\footnote = \endnote
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >
> > \title{Introduction to \LaTeX}
> > \author{Tom Roche\thanks{Thanks, Janet!} \\
> > Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering \\
> > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \\
> > [email protected]}
> > \date{\today}
> >
> > \begin{abstract}
> > This is the abstract for our paper.
> > \end{abstract}
> >
> > hello world!
> >
> > \end{document}
>
> I then tried to display the title by adding
>
> article.tex
> > \title{Introduction to \LaTeX}
> > \author{Tom Roche\thanks{Thanks, Janet!} \\
> > Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering \\
> > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \\
> > [email protected]}
> > \date{\today}
> + \maketitle
>
> But on compiling (with C-c C-c) I get
>
> *TeX Help*
> > ERROR: Missing $ inserted.
> >
> > --- TeX said ---
> > <inserted text>
> > $
> > l.40
> >
> > --- HELP ---
> > TeX probably found a command that can be used only in math mode when
> > it wasn't in math mode. Remember that unless stated otherwise, all
> > all the commands of Section 3.3 in LaTeX Book (Lamport) can be used
> > only in math mode. TeX is not in math mode when it begins processing
> > the argument of a box-making command, even if that command is inside
> > a math environment. This error also occurs if TeX encounters a blank
> > line when it is in math mode.
>
> However
>
> - '$' is not inserted in article.tex
>
> - when I insert '$' (e.g.
>
> article.tex
> > \title{Introduction to \LaTeX}
> > \author{Tom Roche\thanks{Thanks, Janet!} \\
> > Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering \\
> > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \\
> > [email protected]}
> > \date{\today}
> + $
> + \maketitle
>
> ), save, and recompile, I get the same error.
>
> - I can't find anything in the AUCTeX info about switching to math mode.
>
> TeXnicCenter handled the \maketitle without error, however, which makes
> me suspect a configuration problem on my end, but I don't know if it's
> an AUCTeX problem, or a TeX install problem, or a stupid user problem,
> or what. Your assistance is appreciated: feel free to reply to the list,
> to me directly, or to forward.
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <[email protected]>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> auctex mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
>
_______________________________________________
auctex mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
