General ⇒ problem running latex

[perrytom]

Hi,

I recently bought a new computer and installed miktex on it. For some reason, when I try to run my files (that I've used many times before) I get the following error message:

! Package keyval Error: book undefined.

See the keyval package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.458 }

?


can any one help me with that problem?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Which is the line before that error, i.e. before line 458?
Perhaps make a copy of the document, hack it down, and post the reduced minimal working example, which still produces the error, here.

Stefan

[perrytom]

Hi!
Thanks for the prompt reply! the problem is - there is no line 458 in my file! I have only 107 lines in it... and it gives me the same error (with the same line number) with other files that have different lengths and different commands. also, all of these files worked in my old computer.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Somewhere should be a book option within an argument, look for this.

For example,

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\usepackage[book]{geometry}

would raise exactly the same error

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! Package keyval Error: book undefined.

Stefan

[perrytom]

I understand - but nowhere do I have this. In fact, even my template file - which has nothing other than installations of packages etc., gives the same error message.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

As I said: make a copy, reduce it step by step, test, reduce again, until you have isolated the problem to a line or a package or to a short example which you can post. The problem could be in your template or in your code - as long as you don't post it, we can just guess, as I did.

Stefan

[perrytom]

here's my file - it's totally reduced yet it doesn't work.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Ok, I tested it, no errors here. Could you please also post your .log file of your compilation of this example?

Stefan

[perrytom]

I really appreciate all your help. Here's my log:

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
("C:/Users/perrytom/Dropbox/~Ph.D/Tex Files/TEMPerry.tex"
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic, 
croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao, latin, lat
vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerm
an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese, 
romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swis
sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, u
senglishmax, welsh, loaded.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size12.clo"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amsmath.sty"
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amstext.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amsgen.sty"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amsbsy.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amsopn.sty"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\amsfonts\amsfonts.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\amsfonts\amssymb.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\classes\amsthm.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\latexsym.sty")
("C:\Users\perrytom\Dropbox\~Ph.D\Tex Files\fancyhdr.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\enumitem\enumitem.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\tools\array.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\multirow\multirow.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\babel.sty"
*************************************
* Local config file bblopts.cfg used
*
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\english.ldf"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\babel.def")))
("C:\Users\perrytom\Dropbox\~Ph.D\Tex Files\csquotes.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\etoolbox\etoolbox.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\misc\etex.sty"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\csquotes\csquotes.def")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\csquotes\csquotes.cfg"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ltxmisc\parskip.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\epigraph\epigraph.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\footmisc\footmisc.sty")
("C:\Users\perrytom\Dropbox\~Ph.D\Tex Files\biblatex.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\logreq\logreq.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\logreq\logreq.def"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\ifthen.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ltxmisc\url.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\blx-compat.def")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\biblatex.def")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\bbx\authoryear-icomp.bbx
" ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\bbx\authoryear.bbx"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\bbx\standard.bbx")))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\cbx\authoryear-icomp.cbx
") ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\biblatex.cfg"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\lbx\american.lbx"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\lbx\english.lbx"

! Package keyval Error: book undefined.

See the keyval package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.458 }
       
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[Stefan Kottwitz]

This error seems to be related to biblatex:

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("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\lbx\american.lbx"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\lbx\english.lbx"

! Package keyval Error: book undefined.

See the keyval package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                 
l.458 }

To verify this, try without biblatex, i.e. remove

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\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp,autocite=inline]{biblatex} %% footnote for footnoted references 
\addbibresource{TEMPbibfile.bib}

and

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\printbibliography

as well, or comment out these three lines.

If biblatex is the cause, update this package.

Stefan