Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@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