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joe8232 · Post by **joe8232** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:32 pm

Hi, i'm fairly new at LaTeX and am having a rather annoying problem. Everytime I make an error say
\begin{equation}
3^{21)
\end{equation}
and compile, I obviously get told that I have an error and where the error is, but then after I fix it and try to compile I get a fail at \begin{document}, yet if I copy the whole code and paste it into a new tex document and save and compile I don't get an error. This is really frustrating, does anyone have any idea why? Thanks

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Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:58 pm

Hi Joe,

welcome to the board!

joe8232 wrote:after I fix it and try to compile I get a fail at \begin{document}

could you post the exact error message?
If that happens every time then you could just create a minimal working example showing that behaviour and post this example here in the forum and also the corresponding .log file containing errors, warnings and information.

Stefan

Post by **localghost** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:08 pm

Perhaps deleting all auxiliary files might do the trick.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

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