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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:	DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:	New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)
Moderator:	CLOSET::ADLER

Created:	Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	897
Total number of notes:	4397

881.0. "%TEX-W-BADCHAR error" by ECADSR::RAVEN () Fri Sep 04 1987 17:59

     I'm having a problem with the text formatter.  I've tried everything
    I can think of, and I'm stuck.  Here's the error message:
    
    $DOC PREPARE S.R LN03
    %DOC-I-IDENT...
       .
       .
       .
    [ T e x t  F o r m a t t i n g ]
   
    %TEX-I-DENT, T1.0-005
    %TEX-W-BADCHAR, Text line contains an invalid character
    %TEX-I-LINE, Error occured on or around line number: 302
    %TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '\nlistelement{2}{2\numledelin}Open-mos^^?'
    %TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '                                          \[B'
    %TEX-I-FILENAME, 'prepare'
    -TEX-I-ONPAGE, on page [1-5]
       .
       .
       .
    %DOC-E-ERROR_FORMATTER, Errors found by the Text Formatter.
    
    
    Here is the .sdml file around line 302:
                  
    <head2>(running S2dsim)
    <list>(numbered)
    <le>define symbols on your VAX
    <p>s2dsim must be installed as a foreign command.
    <literal>
    
                      $ s2dsim :== $ DISKNAME:[DIRECTORY]S2DSIM.EXE
    <endliteral>
    <le>for decsim:
    <literal>
                      $ DEcsim :== $decsim$sys:decsim
    <endliteral>
    
    <le>for special library and other symbols:
    
    <literal>
                       $@[simlib]sim   ! ECADJR ONLY?
    
                       $ define alsttl "[simlib.alsttl]alsttl"
                       $ define ttlflops "[simlib.lsttl]ttlflops"
                       $ define lsttllib "[simlib.lsttl]lsttllib"
                       $ define ttllib "[simlib.ttl]ttllib"
                       $ define memory "[simlib.memory]memory"
                       $ s2dsim  :==   $ user:[simlib.s2dsim]s2dsim.exe
    <endliteral>
    <endlist>
    
    <le>Creates a 
    
    <p>the Decsim.sym
    
         .
         .
         .

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
881.1		CLOSET::ADLER		`Fri Sep 04 1987 19:05`	7
	The line number there refers to the .TEX file, not the .SDML file. Run DOCUMENT with the /KEEP=TEX qualifier, then look at the .TEX file to determine the correct context. Alternatively, search through your .SDML file for the text string "Open-mos" within a numbered list, since the bogus character occurs immediately following that string. --Brian
881.2	Same problem: arrow keys pressed too long	IJSAPL::KLERK	Theo de Klerk	`Sat Sep 05 1987 17:56`	11
	The situation described in .0 is EXACTLY the situation I encountered before entering the recent note on "unprintable character eliminator". I bet the author of .0 kept one/several of the arrow keys pressed too long inside EDT and caused an <esc>[A-D sequence which is passed by Gutentag but not by TeX. Indeed the line number reference fooled me at first too, as the end-user normally never enters the TeX file voluntarily... Theo