Re: Mysterious LaTeX Error

2008-05-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 May 2008, José Matos wrote: The usual culprit in these cases is the underscore. Jose, Sure was. My suggestion is to replace the calls to str(left) and str(right) by a call to a new function that escapes all the usual suspects. Good idea. I am not sure if the latex code is

Re: Mysterious LaTeX Error

2008-05-21 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:24:04 Rich Shepard wrote: >    The 'Missing $ inserted' error message is generated when there is a math > symbol (e.g., $) in the text string that causes LaTeX to enter math mode. I > do not have any monetary amounts in the text. What other character might be > seen by L

Re: Mysterious LaTeX Error -- SOLVED

2008-05-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: l.1963 IIA1 & if impervioussurface_ amount is little then goodness is greatly... What other character might be seen by LaTeX as a command to enter math mode when that's not my intention? OK. Got it. LaTeX sees the

Mysterious LaTeX Error

2008-05-21 Thread Rich Shepard
Folks here have been exceptionally helpful in seeing errors that I miss. This new error may well be the most challenging. My embedded LaTeX is trying to print a two-column table with text (strings) in each column, no numbers. Here's the relevant code: ivr.write('\\begin{tabular}{lp{7