General ⇒ Enumeration Errors

[rong]

I don't know why, but in Texnet when I have an enumeration I get an error:

! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
\relax

The code is simple, but will not work? Am I missing something? Or do I need to do something in configuration?

Thanks, this really puzzles me.
the code

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
  this is a test of an enumeration
  \begin{enumerate}
    \item this is item 1
    \item this is item 2
  \end{enumerate}
\end(document)

[frabjous]

I don't know if that's your problem, but the last line should be \end{document} not \end(document).

[rong]

Thanks, I fixed that typo, but it is not the problem.

According to Lamport's book on LaTeX, this error occurs when LaTeX is expecting but not finding a number as an argument. But, I should be able to have an enumeration without defining a counter?

[frabjous]

The code:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
this is a test of an enumeration
\begin{enumerate}
\item this is item 1
\item this is item 2
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

does not give me any errors when I try to compile it. Are you sure there isn't anything wrong with your latex installation? Or something wrong with your copy of article.cls? Do you get a similar error with any article document? What version of latex are you using? (And, to be clear, you are using latex and not pdflatex or conTeXt or anything else, right?) (I have to confess I don't know what "texnet" is.)

[localghost]

Thanks, I fixed that typo, but it is not the problem. [...]

Attach the complete log file produced by this simple example to your next post by uploading it to the server.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[rong]

Thanks for your help. I fixed the problem by removing and then reinstalling Miktek. Now it works. I don't understand what was wrong with the Miktek installation, but it works.