Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Missing \endcsname error

[rwdell]

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post on the LaTeX Community forum. I've been using LaTex for a couple years, but never tried to do anything complicated with it. I was wondering if anyone had any insight into an error message that I've been getting when I try to include a figure. It says:

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! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
        \protect

A minimum working example to get this error message is:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{~/Documents/Computing/Placeholder.pdf}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

I do not seem to get the message if I don't include the full path of the the filename of the figure graphic. Am I just formatting the filename incorrectly? I'm using TexShop version 2.14.

Thanks,
Rebecca

[localghost]

You can't use the tilde in the filename.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹