General ⇒ Problem with \@xfloat and figures

[dberg]

I am using a thesis template provided by my University but am running into an issue with a portion of it. The following piece of code from the .cls file produces an error that goes away when I comment this portion out.

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% Single Space Figures, Tables, and Footnotes
% Redefine the macro used for floats (including figures and tables) so
% that single spacing is used.  (Note \def\figure{\@float{figure}set
% single spacing} doesn't work because figure has an optional argument)

\def\@xfloat#1[#2] {
  \ifhmode
    \@bsphack\@floatpenalty -\@Mii
  \else
    \@floatpenalty -\@Miii
  \fi
  \def\@captype{#1}
  \ifinner
    \@parmoderr\@floatpenalty\z@
  \else\@next\@currbox\@freelist {
    \@tempcnta\csname ftype@#1\endcsname
    \multiply\@tempcnta\@xxxii\advance\@tempcnta\sixt@@n
    \@tfor \@tempa :=#2\do {
      \if\@tempa h\advance\@tempcnta \@ne\fi
      \if\@tempa t\advance\@tempcnta \tw@\fi
      \if\@tempa b\advance\@tempcnta 4\relax\fi
      \if\@tempa p\advance\@tempcnta 8\relax\fi
    }
    \global\count\@currbox\@tempcnta
  } \@fltovf\fi
  \global\setbox\@currbox\vbox\bgroup
  \def\baselinestretch{1}\@normalsize
  \boxmaxdepth\z@

% leave captions indented, I hope
 \hsize\columnwidth
  \@parboxrestore
}

The error it produces reads:

Paragraph ended before \@xfloat was complete

The error at the point at which the first figure in the document is inserted. Can someone help me to fix the issue with this?

Thank you.

[localghost]

The error messages indicates that you've forgotten a closing brace.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[dberg]

I appreciate your response; however, looking through the portion of code that I posted, I don't see any missed brace.

[sommerfee]

Patching internal LaTeX commands inside a document class was necessary in LaTeX 2.09 days, but is IMHO a bad idea in "modern" LaTeX2e times.

I would just drop this faulty redefinition and include a \RequirePackage{setspace} instead. (The setspace package includes a proper redefinition so content inside floating environments are typeset with single spacing.)

[dberg]

That does seem to produce the desired output. Thanks a lot! Now if only I can get the University to update the templates...