LaTeX forum ⇒ Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ Job aborted, no legal \end found Topic is solved

[kwa2]

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}

I type in this to the Texmaker and it gives me an error that the job has aborted because no legal \end command is found, even though it clearly is there.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

This document is compilable. Perhaps post your .log file here as attachment to a post, the cause can probably seen in the log.

Stefan

[toobadbear]

Hi,

I'm also new to LaTeX and have a problem: For a thesis I am using a template created by a friend, but I can't get it to compile in either TeXnicCenter (1 or 2)/MikTex2.9 in Win7 or Kile 2.1.0/TeX-Live (2009-15, latest version in the repositories). However, it compiles just fine on his computer.

The error I get is:

[PDFLatex] finished with exit code 1
header.tex:0:Emergency stop

In this, header.tex is the main file of the template. It ends with the following (If needed, I could attach the entire file):

%
% D. AKTIONEN
% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
%

%
%  1. Index erzeugen.
%
\makeindex


%
% E. SILBENTRENNUNG
% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
%
\input{hyphenation}


%
% ===========================================================================
% EOF
%

The header.log says the following (I assume the important part is the end):

Writing index file header.idx
(./hyphenation.tex))
! Emergency stop.
<*> header.tex
              
*** (job aborted, no legal \end found)

 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 26860 strings out of 493848
 531728 string characters out of 1152824
 763925 words of memory out of 3000000
 29540 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+50000
 4808 words of font info for 17 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
 714 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 53i,1n,97p,461b,245s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

I have tried commenting /input{hyphenation} and /makeindex out, but that does not change anything. I have checked for missing /end in all .tex files that are part of the template (there is no /begin of any kind in the header). I have removed and reinstalled Tex-Live-full and Kile (without the purge-option, though).

I would really appreciate some help, especially since the error message doesn't really point me towards any obvious reason.

Cheers,
Chris

[toobadbear]

So the problem got solved, proving me a total idiot. The main file was in fact a different one (which had header.tex as input file) and the compilation stopped due to a missing document body. Posting this just in case someone else runs across the same problem and wants to avoid looking like a fool

Chris

[rajadurai330]

Hi, I am also facing the same problem. But I couldn't find a proper solution from this post. So please, let me know how can this problem be solved ?

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome.

There is no solution provided in this thread as it is document dependant.

Run your document using texworks and boil it down to a Minimal working example. Post this with an appropriate title and the log file in a new thread.

[krisnotchris]

@toobadbear I had that problem also, and I have no idea how I set settings.tex to be main... Thanks for sharing! Unfortunately I came acrross your post after hours of online research

[astawsky]

You can click in the top left where it says menu with the overleaf symbol. Then you'll be able to change the main file to be main.

[shovradas]

So the problem got solved, proving me a total idiot. The main file was in fact a different one (which had header.tex as input file) and the compilation stopped due to a missing document body. Posting this just in case someone else runs across the same problem and wants to avoid looking like a fool

Chris

Thanks man. I ran into same problem in overleaf where the main document was not set. I have just set it and worked.