Text Formatting ⇒ Incomprehensible Error appears from Scratch

[Raghnar]

Hello to all.

I'm Davide, I'm from Italy, and I have a serious problem with my LaTeX editor (LEd). I'm writing a book, I'm around 270 pages, and until five minutes ago it worked. Just now I tried to compile the LaTeX text to a PDF, but it makes me an error. The text of the error is:

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file ended while scanning use of \@writefile.
<insert text>
             \par
1.10 \begin{document}

The first lines of my text are:

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{"Immagini/"}}
\renewcommand\theequation{\thesection.\arabic{equation}}

\begin{document}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\tableofcontents
%\listoffigures
\part{Democrazia - Analisi teorica.}

\chapter{Introduzione.}

I'm not able to understand what kind of error it could be. Any idea?

[alainremillard]

A \@writefile error happens when the previous compilation aborted. You could simply erase the *.aux file and recompile.

This error happen often to me too. After a while, I simply ignore it (press "Enter" a few times) and the compilation goes on normally, but the PDF does not show the right page (for me it was around four pages earlier). I immediately recompile and the PDF goes back to the right page.


Regards
Alain


PS: It is my first post so I hope it is clear enough. If not, do tell me, I'll try to be more specific.

[ddm]

This error appears to be a little more deep, and it cannot always be resolved in a simple way as suggested.

For example, it appears to come out when a sectioning command (e.g., \paragraph) is formatting text that has to be put close to the end of a page (it is appearing to me while writing a book with personalized footers). It comes out with either the 'book' or the 'report' classes; and with or without specifying a paper format (e.g., a4paper). If I comment out the personalized footers, the error "magically" disappears. Note, however, that the error is coming out, in my case, for the first page of a chapter; for this page the personalized footer does not come directly from the commented out file, instead it is set aside, in the main source file, explicitly to deal with each first page of each chapter (because of the known problem under this respect). So, in fact, I'm erasing something that I'm not using in the page at the end of which the error suddenly comes out (which is the first page of a chapter), but I've commented out something that I'm using in the following pages.

Thus it seams that the problem has something to do with the size of the space left for adding text at the bottom of a page (at least, in my case), and is also, in same ways, erratic. Note that this is not the only book that I've written in LaTeX, and it is not the only one in which I'm using personalized footers (and headers). While the LaTeX compiler is running, and putting text out on the PDF file, something is "disturbing" it while it is writing.

I'm currently using TeXShop on a Mac (OS: Snow Leopard)