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[tw33]

Hi,

I got the following error during typesetting. I am trying to make a poster, it seems something happened with mtmacs.tex Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks so much.

Tom

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This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (PTITeX)
  (PTITeX 3.4, (c) Personal TeX, Inc. 1985-1998)
**(D:\Backup\Dissertation\Poster\poster.tex
LaTeX2e <1997/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for english, loaded.
(D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/a0poster.cls
Document Class: a0poster 2004/01/31 v1.22b a0poster class (GK, MW)
(C:\PCTEX32\LATEX2E\article.cls
Document Class: article 1997/10/10 v1.3x Standard LaTeX document class
(C:\PCTEX32\LATEX2E\size10.clo)) (D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/a0size.sty))
(D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/textpos.sty
Package: `textpos' 1.7f <2009 May 28>
(D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/everyshi.sty)
Grid set 16 x 16 = 149.30585pt x 211.29729pt
TextBlockOrigin set to 0pt x 0pt
) (D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/multirow.sty) (C:\PCTEX32\LATEX2E\graphicx.sty
(C:\PCTEX32\LATEX2E\keyval.sty) (C:\PCTEX32\LATEX2E\graphics.sty
(C:\PCTEX32\LATEX2E\trig.sty) (C:\PCTEX32\LATEX2E\graphics.cfg)
(C:\PCTEX32\LATEX2E\pctex32.def))) (D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/wrapfig.sty)
(C:\PCTEX32\AMSLTX12\amsmath.sty (C:\PCTEX32\AMSLTX12\amstext.sty
(C:\PCTEX32\AMSLTX12\amsgen.sty)) (C:\PCTEX32\AMSLTX12\amsbsy.sty)
(C:\PCTEX32\AMSLTX12\amsopn.sty)) (D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/times.sty
(D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/psfonts.sty)
(D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/mtmacs.tex
! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.197 ...^^A=8 \catcode`\^^A\active\let^^A
                                          _\fi
?

[localghost]

A log file without the according source is completely useless. Narrow down the problem to a minimal working example (MWE) that reproduces the misbehaviour.

The content of »mtmacs.tex« is unknown. Furthermore your LaTeX system seems more than outdated. An update to a modern distribution appears recommendable.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[CrazyHorse]

I got the following error during typesetting. I am trying to make a poster, it seems something happened with mtmacs.tex Can someone tell me how to fix this? Thanks so much.

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This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (PTITeX)

(D:/Backup/Dissertation/Poster/mtmacs.tex
! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.197 ...^^A=8 \catcode`\^^A\active\let^^A
                                          _\fi
?

A_ can only be written inside math or with a modification of
the catcode of the underscore.

Herbert