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[prince8889]

I donno wat happened but suddenly this is the error whick i have after opening my latex document today. I need to work on it to complete my thesis please help me
Thanks in advance

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Which operating system do you use? Do you know the character encoding of the document file? Perhaps add a sample, maybe the beginning, as attachment to a post here.

Stefan

[prince8889]

I am very new to LATEX and i just copied a template from the internet and i was working on it. So far it was fine but suddenly this error popped up..

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% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
%                   LATEX TEMPLATE FOR PhD THESIS
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% based on Harish Bhanderi's PhD/MPhil template, then Uni Cambridge
% http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ThesisStyle/
% corrected and extended in 2007 by Jakob Suckale, then MPI-CBG PhD programme
% and made available through OpenWetWare.org - the free biology wiki
%: Style file for Latex
% Most style definitions are in the external file PhDthesisPSnPDF.
% In this template package, it can be found in ./Latex/Classes/
\documentclass[twoside,11pt]{Latex/Classes/PhDthesisPSnPDF}
%: Macro file for Latex
% Macros help you summarise frequently repeated Latex commands.
% Here, they are placed in an external file /Latex/Macros/MacroFile1.tex
% An macro that you may use frequently is the figuremacro (see introduction.tex)
\include{Latex/Macros/MacroFile1}
 
 
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Is this what you asked for ???

[prince8889]

I am using a windows 7 operating system

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% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
%                   LATEX TEMPLATE FOR PhD THESIS
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% based on Harish Bhanderi's PhD/MPhil template, then Uni Cambridge
% http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ThesisStyle/
% corrected and extended in 2007 by Jakob Suckale, then MPI-CBG PhD programme
% and made available through OpenWetWare.org - the free biology wiki
%: Style file for Latex
% Most style definitions are in the external file PhDthesisPSnPDF.
% In this template package, it can be found in ./Latex/Classes/
\documentclass[twoside,11pt]{Latex/Classes/PhDthesisPSnPDF}
%: Macro file for Latex
% Macros help you summarise frequently repeated Latex commands.
% Here, they are placed in an external file /Latex/Macros/MacroFile1.tex
% An macro that you may use frequently is the figuremacro (see introduction.tex)
\include{Latex/Macros/MacroFile1}
%: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
%:                  TITLE PAGE: name, degree,..
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% below is to generate the title page with crest and author name
%if output to PDF then put the following in PDF header
\ifpdf  
    \pdfinfo { /Title  (PhD and MPhil Thesis Classes)
               /Creator (TeX)
               /Producer (pdfTeX)
               /Author (YourName your@email.net)
               /CreationDate (D:YYYYMMDDhhmmss)  %format D:YYYYMMDDhhmmss
               /ModDate (D:YYYYMMDDhhmm)
               /Subject (xyz)
               /Keywords (add, your, keywords, here) }
    \pdfcatalog { /PageMode (/UseOutlines)
                  /OpenAction (fitbh)  }
 
 
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[prince8889]

Hii..

Is this what u meant by charcter encoding..

[Stefan Kottwitz]

This line can be a problem:

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\include{Latex/Macros/MacroFile1}
 
 
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Change it to

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\input{Latex/Macros/MacroFile1}
 
 
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In a preamble, use \input, not \include. The latter is for the document body and ends the current page, which is meaningless in a preamble.

If there's still an error, post the error message, even better: upload the .log file as attachment to a post.

Stefan

[prince8889]

Hii,

I tried it but no success yet I have been working with the include statement but i havent faced any problem with it so far.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Ok, perhaps we can continue if you post the .log file as attachment or at least the current error messages, as recommended. Without any such information, or your code which produces an error, I think nobody could help you.

Stefan

[prince8889]

hello ,

this is my error message

! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.1
A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input.
Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Ok, the same as before. Perhaps, if it's not confidential, you could post the original file as attachment. We cannot see the invalid character until now. Probably there's one.
Also, as mentioned, the .log file as attachment would be good, to see how you compile.

Stefan