Text Formatting ⇒ xthesis and color packages

[Champ]

I use following package for my thesis as I understand originally created/used by Aleksander Simoni later Modified by Steven Matheson,

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\usepackage{xthesis} %DAL Thesis Style

but when I use \usepackage[dvips]{xcolor}, it gives errors, and I am unable to use \textcolor in the document.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

but when I use \usepackage[dvips]{xcolor}, it gives errors

Perhaps tell us the error messages, that would make it easier to help. For example, errors would occur if color or xcolor has already been loaded with a different option, perhaps implicitly.

Stefan

[Champ]

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1) 	Too many }’s.
\color@endbox->color@endgroup \egroup
1.87 \end{figure}

2) 	\begin{document} ended by \end{figure}.
1.87 \end{figure}

3)	Extra \endgroup
1.87 \end{figure}

Statements giving error:

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\begin{figure}[!h]
    \centering
        \includegraphics[width=3in]{bionetics/kNpfout3.eps}
\caption[kNpfout]{The effect of fanout ratio ($f$) on the onset of IEs ($N_+/N$) in a WCSN with a regular grid topology in the presence of a chemical tracer field. The range of values used for the $f$ are: $f$ = 0.0 (\textcolor[rgb]{0.0784,0.1686,0.5490}{$\circ$}), $f$ = 0.6 (\textcolor{black}{$\diamond$}),  $f$ = 1.0 (\textcolor[rgb]{0,0.5,0.4}{$\Box$}). The analytical fitted curves are shown in solid lines.  $\kappa = t/\tau_*$ is the normalised time where $\tau_*$ is the detection period of a sensor.}
\label{fig:mvR}%
\end{figure}

It gives errors only when xthesis.sty is used.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

With all the code you gave, it worked. You should provide a minimal working example, which produces the error, as the error is caused somewhere else.

It could look like this, and this code works, containing your code lines and using this xthesis file:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{xthesis}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage[dvips]{xcolor}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[!h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=3in]{bionetics/kNpfout3.eps}
    \caption[kNpfout]{The effect of fanout ratio ($f$) on the onset of IEs ($N_+/N$) in a WCSN with a regular grid topology in the presence of a chemical tracer field. The range of values used for the $f$ are: $f$ = 0.0 (\textcolor[rgb]{0.0784,0.1686,0.5490}{$\circ$}), $f$ = 0.6 (\textcolor{black}{$\diamond$}),  $f$ = 1.0 (\textcolor[rgb]{0,0.5,0.4}{$\Box$}). The analytical fitted curves are shown in solid lines.  $\kappa = t/\tau_*$ is the normalised time where $\tau_*$ is the detection period of a sensor.}
    \label{fig:mvR}%
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Stefan