General ⇒ Missing \endcsname inserted

[simojoki]

Hilfe auf Deutsch: Missing \endcsname inserted - was ist die Ursache? - Ed.: German Help.

I'm pretty new to LaTeX. Using MikTeX 2.6 and TeXnicCenter on Windows XP.

Trying to compile (PDFLatex) a file, I keep running to this error. I haven't found any useful advise on the web on how to solve it.

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! Missing \endcsname inserted.
 <to be read again>
                       \unhbox
1.84 ...piscopal ministry.''\cite[24]{tustinedem}.}

The final line is the end of a footnote, hence the left-over curly bracket.

Just in case it's relevant, here's my preamble:

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\documentclass[letterpaper]{thesis}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{etex}

\usepackage[bibstyle=authortitle,citestyle=authortitle-trad,bibtex8]{biblatex}
\bibliography{porvoobib2}

\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{url}

\clubpenalty=10000
\widowpenalty=10000

\raggedbottom

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[localghost]

Your code fragment is useless, because it doesn't contain the critical code. Please create a minimum working example (MWE) that reproduces the error.

[simojoki]

No problem. I'm afraid I'm not very competent with LaTeX (yet -- I hope). I have narrowed down the problem to the following footnote entry. Apologies if I this doesn't comply with the MWE rules -- I tried...

\footnote{TEXT...\cite[148]{bell-docs3} MORE TEXT...\label{2} \cite[18 \S5]{Kirkkojärjestys}; see also \cite[64]{forsberg02}. STILL MORE TEXT\cite[24]{tustindem}.}

My hunch is that this may be related to biblatex, but I'm not sure.

Thanks for helping!

[localghost]

[…] Apologies if I this doesn't comply with the MWE rules -- I tried... […]

Shouldn't be very hard to understand the advices. Looking at this little piece of code I noted something curious in your footnote.

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\cite[18 \S5]{Kirkkojärjestys}

What is that going to be? In the brackets there should be nothing with a backslash (respectively a command).

[simojoki]

Looking at this little piece of code I noted something curious in your footnote.

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\cite[18 \S5]{Kirkkojärjestys}

What is that going to be? In the brackets there should be nothing with a backslash (respectively a command).

OK, I have changed that particular offence from the footnote. However, I'm still getting multiple error messages referring to this footnote, which now reads as follows:

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\footnote{SOME TEXT \cite[149--152]{bell-docs3}. MORE TEXT \cite[148]{bell-docs3}. MORE TEXT \label{2} \cite[18 §5]{Kirkkojärjestys}; see also \cite[64]{forsberg02}. MORE TEXT, FINISHING WITH a common episcopal ministry.''\cite[24]{tustindem}.}  For this reason a minority report ETC.

The error messages I now get include, in addition to the one quoted in the subject of this message, the following:

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! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup.
<argument> ... \spacefactor }\accent 127 a\egroup
                                                                      \spacefactor \accent@space...
1.83 ...piscopal ministry.''\cite[24]{tustindem}.}

For this reason, a minori...

[ekin]

I have a similar problem. Disabling the babel package line solves the problem. However, that also disables correct hyphenation for non-english languages.. Any one has a solution?

Ekin

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Ekin,

welcome to the LaTeX Community Forum! Feel free to open new topics for your questions.
Can you post a minimal working example that shows the problem? Then we probably could give an appropriate correction.
Or post at least your logfile, by examining that we could help you to locate the error.

Stefan

[vanessagp]

I don´t know what the mistake. But I had the same problem, and I only copy in other notebook (I was mading the minimal report) and inexplicably it compiled in the way that it was!

[saintmatthieu]

Hi,

I have the same problem. It came out of the blue. Here is the MWC :

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
blah blah
\end{document}

It is as if it were the package hyperref which causes the problem - without its inclusion, this piece of code runs smoothly. Given the amount of work I've already put in my document, though, I cannot do without it. Help!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi saintmatthieu,

welcome to the board!

Can you post your .log file for that small code example? You can attach files to forum posts. It would be good if you also add the \listfiles command to the preamble.

Btw. generally please use the Code button when writing or editing a question containing LaTeX code, I edited the question for you marking the code.

Stefan