This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (format=pdflatex 2006.9.8) 19 OCT 2006 16:40 entering extended mode **ContractionMacros.tex (./ContractionMacros.tex LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded. ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ... l.66 H ere's a simple contraction using only the first (lowest) level: ? quit OK, entering \batchmode... Missing character: There is no H in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no e in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no r in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no e in font nullfont! 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Overfull \hbox (20.0pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 68--68 [] [] LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size (Font) <7> on input line 68. LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size (Font) <5> on input line 68. Overfull \hbox (41.7779pt too wide) detected at line 70 [][][][][][][][][] [] ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ... l.72 A nd here's a complicated example using all three levels: You're in trouble here. Try typing to proceed. If that doesn't work, type X to quit. Missing character: There is no A in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no n in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no d in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no h in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no e in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no r in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no e in font nullfont! 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Missing character: There is no l in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no s in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no : in font nullfont! Overfull \hbox (20.0pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 72--73 [] [] Overfull \hbox (257.45694pt too wide) detected at line 79 \OMS/cmsy/m/n/10 h\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 0\OMS/cmsy/m/n/10 j [][][][][][][][][][][][][ ][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] [][][][][][][] j\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 0\OMS/cmsy/m/n/10 i [] ! Undefined control sequence. l.81 \bye The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. ) ! Emergency stop. <*> ContractionMacros.tex *** (job aborted, no legal \end found) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 22 strings out of 94500 364 string characters out of 1175789 54348 words of memory out of 1000000 3290 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 500000 for 2000 580 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 17i,11n,12p,105b,69s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s PDF statistics: 0 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 No pages of output.