General ⇒ Error ! File ended while scanning use of \@xdblarg.<inserted text>\par \include{chapter2}

[DavideIng]

Hello,
I am aware that this kind of error has already been discussed in this forum but the answers that I have read don't help me to fix mine.
So, I get this error:

! File ended while scanning use of \@xdblarg.<inserted text>\par \include{chapter2}

I have sorted my document in chapters, the code of the main document is the following:

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\mainmatter{
\include{introduzione}
\include{chapter2}
\include{chapter3}
\include{chapter4}
\include{chapter5}
\include{chapter6}
\include{chapter7}
\include{chapter8}
\include{conclusion}
}

I know that code is just a label to call each chapter but most of the others statements are only package, tell me if is useful to post the whole code to figure out the issue.

Many thanks
Davide

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Davide,

welcome to the forum!

\mainmatter is a switch, so remove the curly braces of that command. Otherwise all chapters are in the argument (parameter) of \mainmatter but that one has no argument.

Stefan

[rbarrphd]

Thank you, Stephan, for saving my day yesterday with your 2018 post! I could not find the source of my mistake and the error message was not exactly helpful. Just one missing } kept the document from compiling and your post gave the answer after an hour of distress. Thank you very much.