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haha thanks. Yes i know LaTeX is the standard for scientific reports and papers. And indeed it produces very nice documents. It just seems to me that these templates are a bit fragile when they are too complex.

Still, it seems to me that those Latex templates are like a house of cards: any slight gust of wind and the whole thing goes down, no ?

The more complex -> the more cards -> the more fragile it is

ah ok

OK problem solved by your aforementioned solution : simply remove crappy \thesistitle{} command and replace \ttitle by the hard coded title...I admit it was simple indeed.

I also had another problem with the degree symbol causing errors which is solved by:

\let\savedegree\degree
\let\degree\relax ...

ok thanks a lot for taking time to explain all that. I will do my best with what you provided and I ll re post when I succeed. Thanks again and my apologies for the inconvenience. You guys are very helpful in these forums.

haha yes indeed. I do not expect to work in the nuclear field indeed. Yes I am panicking (a bit) and am also very tired and a bit sick lol (therefore -> going a bit nuts)

Ok thanks I did try that but then I do not know where to place \supervisor{..} \author{} etc. which came after \thesistitle before the begin document command. Therefore I still get errors. but you might argue that it's my problem and I might need to search that for myself. (Please understand that I ...

sorry for the cross post by the way. Please note that i asked again in this post becausethat I'm in a hurry. And I must as soon as possible make some minor changes to my thesis and submitted for publication. And if any layout changes occur I would have to verify each page of my thesis to be sure ...

hum ok i think i begin to understand. And by the way thanks for your time and explanations. (You understand my extreme frustration after having spent months writing a master thesis of more than 100 pages ^^)

Just to summarize: If i use anotherLatex installation on an old computer (working before ...

Sorry..what do you mean by that?

Unless someone hacked my computer to modify files the template +thesis chapters I wrote were EXACTLY the same as when they were were compiling correctly. The only sensible explanation for me is that something changed in the Latex installation files or downloaded ...