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I use MikTex and had to run the Update (Admin) process twice, but it worked.

Recently I have been getting the following error

LaTeX Warning: You have requested release `2014/05/01' of LaTeX,
but only release `2011/06/27' is available.


I think it has something to do with package lastpage. How can I get rid of it?

Here's the smallest MWE I could make.

\documentclass ...

Thansk, Johannes. What exactly was the part that told Latex not to insert dollar signs?

I notice you treated the circumflex differently in two different spots. Once you explicitly said "\circumflex" and once you just escaped it with a slash. What's the difference? Were you just showing me two ...

The quoted code is supposed to represent instructions for using a calculator (MWE at the bottom). However, the latex compiler insists on inserting "$" in various places. For example, it puts a dollar sign prior to the text "x^3", then the output is an x raised to the third power, which would be ...

\documentclass[fleqn,addpoints
,answers
]{exam}

\makeatletter
\let\padded@point@block\relax
\makeatother

\usepackage{amsfonts,amsmath,amssymb,amsthm,mathtools}
\newcommand{\sol}[1]{\begin{solution} #1 \end{solution}
\vspace{\stretch{1}}
\droppoints
}

\begin{document}

\begin{questions ...

I found the one single difference between the above nonworking MWE and a working MWE I made: I did not include the "optional" points parameter on the \question command. The following works, but I have no idea why.

\documentclass[fleqn,addpoints
,answers
]{exam}
\usepackage{amsfonts,amsmath,amssymb ...

When I add \sol{} to the following document, I start to get the error
Undefined control sequence
<argument> \padded@point@block
And the problem is not fixed when I add content to the \sol{<content>} .

The funny thing is, I've used \sol{} in many previous documents without any issues, but I get an ...

Thanks for your last reply. But since it worked with article class, I just left it. For the reason you described, you have to compile it a second time when converting from report class to article.

Thanks very much. Does this solution require documentclass{report} or can I switch back to article ? Report class has changed my section numbering.

When I tried to use article, I got 4 errors saying "Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item".

Also, report class has made my Table of Contents all ...

How do I get the copyright statement on its own page, no page number, title, or anything else on it? (Bonus if it can be moved down the page, but that is of considerably less import). I can only get it to work if use \maketitle (why?).

This first MWE works correctly. That is, it prints the ...