General ⇒ Compilation stops after seven pages

[jonnyneill14]

hi this isnt my work but my flatmate's latex just doesnt work after 7 pages with what hes written and i cant figure out why.

his file is attached. we're both pretty new to latex so im sure its an obvious mistake but still any guidance would be much appreciated by him.. and by me because he will cheer up and stop being in such a bad mood!

[frabjous]

The file is riddled with errors. The surprising thing is that you were getting any output from it at all -- not that you were only getting 7 pages.

\tableofcontents is mispelled as \tablecontents and erroneously placed before the \begin{document} command.

Many things that needed to be in math mode were not in math mode, and vice-versa.

\newline is frequently placed in places where there was no line to end.

There are runaway arguments, e.g., \frac commands that are never ended.

There are \right commands with no matching \left commands, and vice-versa.

You need to pay attention to the warning and errors that latex is giving you, even if you are getting output. If you see it report any error, you need to fix it right away.. and not just chug on until it won't compile at all.

In any case, I'm uploading a version that fixes the most important errors, though I did notice numerous places where things were messy, and at least 20 misspelled words that I left alone, and you can find on your own. I couldn't fully test this, since I don't have the image files .jpg's that the file calls, and it can't be compiled without them.

Really, this isn't a place to have people do your work for you. I think you (or your "flatmate") need to get back to basics and read a beginner's guide like lshort.

This may be saved with a different encoding than you were using -- can't really help that.