General ⇒ LaTeX error! Too many }'s. \color@endbox ->\color@endgroup

[tamintl]

Dear all,

I am new to latex and having some problems writing my dissertation. I am trying to input r code using the listing package. However, at the moment my file will not compile and returns the following error:

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! Too many }'s.
\color@endbox ->\color@endgroup \egroup

I have worked backwards and figured out that the error only occurs when I use a style file given to us by my department. I have attached the .sty file that causes the error and I have also attached an example that shows the error in action. You will notice if you take out the

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\usepackage[y4project]{edmaths}

that the error will disappear.

Can anyone help me with this. I have searched but couldn't get the following fix to work. http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... 45&p=18575

Thank you and good day.

[cgnieder]

Hi tamintl,

Welcome to the LaTeX community.

I compiled your file and it ran without errors...

I also notice that the test file is quite long (180 lines). That's a bit much for a test file. Maybe you can create an smaller example file that shows the error and post the code directly using the [code]...[/code] syntax?

Regards

[cgnieder]

BTW: if you double post questions to other forums, too, such as this one to TeX.sx it would be nice if you told us... Thanks

[tamintl]

Hi tamintl,

Welcome to the LaTeX community.

I compiled your file and it ran without errors...

I also notice that the test file is quite long (180 lines). That's a bit much for a test file. Maybe you can create an smaller example file that shows the error and post the code directly using the

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...

syntax?

Regards

I apologise for double posting but I really need to get this fixed so it gives me the best chance by posting to more than one place.

I have made a shorter test and found that the edmaths package clashes with the table environment. In my case anyway. Here is the shorter Test.tex:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath,amsthm}
\usepackage[y4project]{edmaths} %%%% REMOVE THIS TO FIX ERROR

\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{mygreen}{rgb}{0,0.6,0}
\definecolor{mygray}{rgb}{0.5,0.5,0.5}
\definecolor{mymauve}{rgb}{0.58,0,0.82}
\lstset{ %
  backgroundcolor=\color{white},   % choose the background color; you must add \usepackage{color} or \usepackage{xcolor}
  basicstyle=\footnotesize,        % the size of the fonts that are used for the code
  breakatwhitespace=false,         % sets if automatic breaks should only happen at whitespace
  breaklines=true,                 % sets automatic line breaking
  captionpos=b,                    % sets the caption-position to bottom
  commentstyle=\color{mygreen},    % comment style
  deletekeywords={...},            % if you want to delete keywords from the given language
  escapeinside={\%*}{*)},          % if you want to add LaTeX within your code
  extendedchars=true,              % lets you use non-ASCII characters; for 8-bits encodings only, does not work with UTF-8
  frame=single,                    % adds a frame around the code
  keepspaces=true,                 % keeps spaces in text, useful for keeping indentation of code (possibly needs columns=flexible)
  keywordstyle=\color{blue},       % keyword style
  language=Octave,                 % the language of the code
  morekeywords={*,...},            % if you want to add more keywords to the set
  numbers=left,                    % where to put the line-numbers; possible values are (none, left, right)
  numbersep=5pt,                   % how far the line-numbers are from the code
  numberstyle=\tiny\color{mygray}, % the style that is used for the line-numbers
  rulecolor=\color{black},         % if not set, the frame-color may be changed on line-breaks within not-black text (e.g. comments (green here))
  showspaces=false,                % show spaces everywhere adding particular underscores; it overrides 'showstringspaces'
  showstringspaces=false,          % underline spaces within strings only
  showtabs=false,                  % show tabs within strings adding particular underscores
  stepnumber=2,                    % the step between two line-numbers. If it's 1, each line will be numbered
  stringstyle=\color{mymauve},     % string literal style
  tabsize=2,                       % sets default tabsize to 2 spaces
  title=\lstname                   % show the filename of files included with \lstinputlisting; also try caption instead of title
}

%  End of preamble

\author{TESTING }
\title{TEST FILE}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Introduction}

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{tabular}{rrrrr}
 & Estimate & Std. Error & t value & Pr($>$$|$t$|$) \\ 
  \hline
Intercept & 7.7569 & 0.5280 & 14.69 & 0.0000 *** \\ 
  y2 & 1.0765 & 0.0067 & 161.16 & 0.0000 *** \\ 
   \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{lstlisting}
#include <stdio.h>
#define N 10
/* Block
 * comment */
int main()
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document} 

Could you please tell me what steps you took to make it run? Where did you save the sty file for example? What distribution are you suing?

[cgnieder]

I still can't reproduce any errors. This runs fine for me. Since I use an up to date TeX Live 2013 (updated today) I suspect that some older version of a package may be the problem. If you add \listfiles at the very beginning of the example a list of the used files together with their publication dates and version numbers is written to the log file. I'll post the list I get with the example below:

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 *File List*
  report.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size12.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
 amssymb.sty    2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS font symbols
amsfonts.sty    2013/01/14 v3.01 Basic AMSFonts support
 amsmath.sty    2013/01/14 v2.14 AMS math features
 amstext.sty    2000/06/29 v2.01
  amsgen.sty    1999/11/30 v2.0
  amsbsy.sty    1999/11/29 v1.2d
  amsopn.sty    1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names
  amsthm.sty    2004/08/06 v2.20
 edmaths.sty    2007/02/05 Edinburgh maths thesis/report style v0.95
    calc.sty    2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
  ifthen.sty    2001/05/26 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC)
setspace.sty    2011/12/19 v6.7a set line spacing
   amscd.sty    1999/11/29 v2.0
listings.sty    2014/03/04 1.5c (Carsten Heinz)
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
 lstmisc.sty    2014/03/04 1.5c (Carsten Heinz)
listings.cfg    2014/03/04 1.5c listings configuration
  xcolor.sty    2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
   color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
  pdftex.def    2011/05/27 v0.06d Graphics/color for pdfTeX
infwarerr.sty    2010/04/08 v1.3 Providing info/warning/error messages (HO)
 ltxcmds.sty    2011/11/09 v1.22 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)
lstlang1.sty    2014/03/04 1.5c listings language file
supp-pdf.mkii
    umsa.fd    2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS symbols A
    umsb.fd    2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS symbols B
  omlcmr.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
  omscmr.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
 ***********

Regards

PS: re the crosspost: we don't have much against crosspostings but our board rules state that a link should be provided. That way nobody needs to look for an answer if in the other forum an answer already was found.