Dealing with Errors Recorded in the Log

Abstract

This chapter is to familiarize you with the error file. Refer back to it when you start doing markups. Get in the habit of doing a run through Latex whenever you finish a section or try some different type of markup. In an xterm, type: Latex<filename>; e.g., Latex practice.tex. Frequent runs help locate areas where mistakes lurk. Otherwise, if, for example, you start a list and don’t terminate it, you may not find out about it until the \end{document} statement many pages downstream. The intermediate pages will be nicely formatted, including sections and chapters, which you might suppose would stop the runaway list.