General ⇒ Error with text: -stack

[skandal]

I want to write an instruction how to set up a program. I have made a list with itemize and I need to write down an command but Latex gives out an error every time:

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\begin{compactitem}
  \item doing something
  \item enter Command: sdcc -c –stack-auto and push okay.
  \item something else
\end{compactitem}

every time I get an error because of -stack. If I remove that - than there are no problems, but I need that for the instruction.

Does somebody have an idea? I tried alread with \verb+text+ and with begin{verbatime} ... end{verbatime} but both dosent work.

[localghost]

No problem here.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{paralist}

\begin{document}
  \begin{compactitem}
    \item doing something
    \item enter Command: sdcc -c –stack-auto and push okay.
    \item something else
  \end{compactitem}
\end{document}

Well then?


Thorsten

[skandal]

dokumentclass needs to be:

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{book}

.
Why did you use paralist?

[localghost]

The document class is almost irrelevant here. My example also works with the »book« class.

[…] Why did you use paralist?

Because it provides the »compactitem« environment? Otherwise it won't work.

You still haven't provided a counterexample that reproduces the error you mentioned earlier.

[skandal]

Sorry yes of course I also included the paralist package for compactitem.
The problem is I need to write the following as a text: "sdcc -c –stack-auto". But it seems because of any of these words it cant compile it. I realized it doesn't matter if I write this in text inside a compactitem or just as a normal text. Every time my compiler (WinEdt) is saying:

! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
(inputenc) in inputencoding 'latin1'.
sdcc -c –
stack-auto
?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It seems like you copied the words resp. characters into your document, with a different encoding. Obviously LaTeX complains about the minus sign, which is not Latin-1 - perhaps it's an Unicode minus just like in this topic.

Just type and replace the sign by a normal character available using the keyboard.

Stefan

[skandal]

Thanks 1000 times. That was the reason! Just replaced that by a "new" - and it worked. I am so happy you could help me.
Have a great evening.