Text Formatting ⇒ blank line error, Missing $ inserted.<inserted text>$

[Colin93]

Hi everyone !

I have an issue with a blank line again... So I have an empty line between 2 paragraphs on my Latex script and I have this error message :

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! Missing $ inserted.<inserted text>$

Could you help me ?

[Johannes_B]

LaTeX cannot have a paragraph break inside math mode. Somewhere in our first paragraph, LaTeX switched to math mode (likely an underscore) and at the very end, the error is reported. Carefully comment out pieces of that paragraph using % to find the cause.

[Colin93]

I see... I tries putting \ on that blank line and I don't have that error message anymore. Thankyou again !

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Colin,

with a \ the line produces a space. I guess it doesn't matter for you. Just to mention it... a % would have commented it out so with a % at the beginning the line would do nothing.

Stefan

[cgnieder]

Here is a minimal working example which reproduces your error:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\[
  x

  y
\]

\end{document}

Using a \ very likely is the wrong choice here. If you really want that blank line then you should comment said line – see the difference:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\[
  x
%
  y
\]

\[
  x
\
  y
\]

\end{document}

Regards