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Command Summary and
Processing Messages
If you have mistakenly omitted the closing parenthesis of an argument
list, the tag translator begins to search the remainder of your file
for a closing parenthesis. If it encounters a vertical bar (perhaps in
a figure or code example), it then begins to search for a matching
ampersand. Thus, this error message may be issued instead of the
EOFARGLST error message.
User Action: Correct the argument list by replacing
the vertical bar with the <VBAR> tag or by properly closing the
argument list.
VMOVRFLOW, at tag or text, line n, file file-spec
Internal error. Failure to allocate additional space in virtual memory
Fatal: This error message is generally caused by one
of two types of error in the SDML file. These errors, and the action
that you should take to correct them, are as follows:
- An unterminated argument list. If you fail to terminate an argument
list, the tag translator regards the text that follows the argument
list as part of the last argument. Suppose you write
<EMPHASIS>(always\BOLD> press the RETURN key.
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instead of
<EMPHASIS>(always\BOLD) press the RETURN key.
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The tag translator does not realize that the right angle bracket should
have been a right parenthesis. It tries to include all the following
words as part of the second argument of the <EMPHASIS> tag. This
means that it may store large portions of the SDML file in memory while
it searches for a closing parenthesis to the argument list. If memory
limits are exceeded, the VMOVRFLOW error message is issued.
- Too many tag definitions. The tag translator has no limit on the
number of tag definitions. However, a limit is imposed by the memory
allocation algorithm. When this limit is exceeded, it usually indicates
that one or both of the following conditions are present:
- A file that contains tag definitions is being repeatedly included.
This file is often a global definitions file that is being used to
define tags or symbols for text substitution. You can avoid memory
limitation problems by using the <CHECK_FOR_INCLUSION> tag at the
start of such a file. This ensures that the file's definitions are
actually loaded only once, even though the file is included many times.
- A tag's definition changes frequently during execution, perhaps
when the tag is being used to temporarily hold a text string. If the
tag's definition is established each time by the <DEFINE> tag
rather than by the <REDEFINE> tag, the definitions pile up in
memory. A reference to the tag always retrieves the latest definition,
and if you never use the <UNDEFINE> tag to erase the latest
definition, you will never see the old definitions, but they are still
occupying memory space.
User Action: Determine if the error was caused by an
unclosed argument list. The error is generally located by the
information supplied in the error message.
Otherwise, examine your tag definitions to determine whether you are
defining the same tag name multiple times. You can avoid memory
limitation problems by defining your tags with the <REDEFINE>
tag, rather than with the <DEFINE> tag. Unless you specifically
intend to "stack" tag definitions, and use the
<UNDEFINE> tag to "pop" definitions off the stack, you
should always establish a tag definition with the <REDEFINE> tag.
XRFINCMPL, at tag or text, line n, file file-spec The
file containing cross reference symbols is incomplete. filename
Fatal: During the reading of the file containing cross
reference symbols, an error was detected that indicates that the file
was not recorded correctly.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
XRFINVALD, at tag or text, line n, file file-spec The
file containing cross reference symbols is invalid. filename
Fatal: The file was opened without error, but it does
not contain cross reference symbols.
User Action: The wrong file is being referenced. Check
the file name supplied with the /PROFILE qualifier.
XRFNORENM, at tag or text, line n, file file-spec The
temporary cross reference file cannot be renamed to filename
Fatal: The tag translator creates a temporary cross
reference file with a file type TMP. When the file is complete, it
renames it with a file type XREF. The rename operation has failed.
(You must have Delete privileges for the directory in which the TMP
file is being renamed.)
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
2.3 Text Processor Messages
ATPT, Font was read at number pt
Informational: This is an internal error.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADALPHA, Improper alphabetic constant
Warning: Text formatter expected to scan a constant
consisting only of letters.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADCHAR, Text line contains an invalid character
Warning: Text formatter could not scan a character
from the current input line.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADCODE, Bad code number: value, must be between smaller
number and larger number using zero instead
Warning: Text formatter expected to find a code value
within the range shown.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADCS, Bad control sequence: Command
Warning: Text formatter could not understand how the
user meant to use the shown command in the current context.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADDISC, Improper discretionary list. Must contain only kerns and boxes
Warning: Discretionary list contained unexpected
information.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADDISCMATH, Illegal discretionary break in math mode. The third part
of a discretionary break must be emptyin this mode. Attempting to
recover...
Warning: Discretionary break was improperly coded.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADDUMP, Cannot \dump inside a group
Warning: Command \dump occurred when there was one
group or more still active.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADFONTFMT, Fatal font format file error
Error: Text formatter could not load the font format
file, or the font format file was fatally flawed.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADFRACTION, Ambiguous fraction ignored.
Warning: Text formatter could not determine the
meaning of a fraction.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADGLUE, Infinite glue. Attempting to recover
Warning: Text formatter was asked to typeset a box
using infinite glue. Glue was made finite and the text formatter
attempted to continue.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADHALIGN, Improper \halign
Warning: Command \halign is invalid in current context.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADHRULE, Cannot use \hrule in an \hbox. Use\leaders or \hrulefill
instead
Warning: Command \hrule is invalid in current context.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADHYPHEN, Improper \hypenation ignored. Must contain only letters and
hyphens
Warning: Text formatter can only read letters and
hyphens in a hyphnation pattern.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADHYPHFMT, Fatal hyphenation format file error
Error: Text formatter could not load the hyphenation
format file, or the hyphenation format file was fatally flawed.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADLASTBOX, \box255 is not empty, attempting to continue
Warning: Text formatter expected \box255 to be empty.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADLEADERS, \leaders not followed by proper glue
Warning: Glue specifiaction was not valid in the
current context.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADLETINPAT, Non-letter found in \patterns
Warning: Text formatter can only read letters in a
pattern.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADLIMIT, Ignoring misplaced \limits or \nolimits command
Warning: Text formatter did not expect to see \limits
or \nolimits in this context.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADMACROFMT, Fatal macro format file error
Error: Text formatter could not load the macro format
file, or the macro format file was fatally flawed.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADMAG, Illegal magnification ratio: bad number, value set to
good number
Warning: Text formatter could not set the
magnification to the requested value.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADMATHCHAR, font number font-number is missing this
character: character
Warning: Text formatter could not typeset the
character shown, because that character was missing from the font shown.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADMATHDELIM, Inserted missing or misplaced math delimiter
Warning: Text formatter became confused while closing
a math formula.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADNOALIGN, \noalign can only appear after \cr
Warning: Command \noalign is not valid in the current
context.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADOMIT, \omit can only appear after \cr or &
Warning: Command \omit is not valid in the current
context.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADOUTLOOP, Output loop repeated number of cycles times
without doing a \shipout Attempting to recover. Increase\maxdeadcycles
if neccesary
Warning: Text formatter cycled through its output loop
too many times without doing a \shipout.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADPARAMNUM, Illegal parameter number
Warning: Text formatter became confused while scanning
parameters to a macro.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADPARAMSEQ, Parameter was numbered out of sequence
Warning: Text formatter became confused while scanning
parameters to a macro, because a parameter was numbered out of sequence.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADPATTERNS, Bad \patterns
Warning: Text formatter became confused while reading
a pattern.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADPREAMBLE, Cannot nest alignment preambles
Error: Text formatter became confused during current
alignment, because it found an alignment within an alignment.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADPREFIX2, Can't use \long or \outer with command
Warning: Text formatter will ignore \long or \outer or
\global when used with the shown command.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADPREFIX3, Can't use \long or \outer or \global with command
Warning: Text formatter will ignore \long or \outer
when used with the shown command.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADPREVGRAF, \prevgraf = number. Value must be positive
Warning: Text formatter expected to see \prevgraf
specified with a positive value.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADPT, Bad font size = number pt, replaced by 10 pt
Warning: Text formatter attempted to read a font at an
improper font size.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report. )
BADUNBOX, Cannot unbox a hbox or vbox in Text formatter
mode mode
Warning: Command unbox is invalid under current
circumstances.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADUNIT, Bad unit of measure, replaced by string
Warning: Text formatter could not use the requested
unit of measure. Unit was changed to shown value.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BADVALUE, quantity = quantity. Value must be between
smaller number and larger number
Warning: Text formatter was expecting to read a value
within the range shown.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
BUFFERSIZE, Maximum number of characters in the input buffer is
number
Informational: User has exceeded total size of text
formatter's input buffer.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
CANNOTRESETMAG, Cannot change magnification, using old value:
number
Warning: Text formatter can only set magnification
value once.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
CONFUSION, Text formatter became confused doing this: Command,
job is aborting
Error: Text formatter became confused doing the shown
activity and had to exit.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
DIMENTOOBIG, Dimension too large
Warning: Text formatter became confused while scanning
a dimension, because the dimension was too big.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
DISCTOOLONG, Discretionary list is too long. Attempting to recover
Warning: Discretionary list was too long.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
DOUBLESUB, Double subscript
Warning: Text formatter found a quantity with two
subscripts. In these cases, x^1^2 will be treated like x^1{}^2.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
DOUBLESUPER, Double superscript
Warning: Text formatter found a quantity with two
superscripts. In these cases, x_1_2 will be treated like x_1{}_2.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
DURING, Error occurred during a command
Warning: Error occurred during a specified command or
control sequence.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
DURINGOR, Error occurred during a command or string
Warning: Error occurred during one of the two commands
or control sequences shown.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
EMERGENCYSTOP, Job is aborting
Error: Text formatter became confused and had to exit.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
ENDDURING, \end occurred during command
Warning: Command \end occurred unexpectedly.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
ENDINGROUP, \end occurred inside group at level Number
Warning: Command \end occurred when there was one
group or more still active.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
EOF, Unexpected end of file
Warning: Text formatter encountered the end of the
current file unexpectedly.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
EOP, Paragraph ended before the following completed:
Warning: Text formatter encountered the end of a
paragraph unexpectedly.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
EXTRATAB, Extra \halign or & in alignment has been changed to \cr
Warning: Text formatter found extra or unexpected
\halign or &.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
FILENAME, file-name
Informational: Identifies current file being used as
input.
User Action: This message always occurs in conjunction
with other messages. Action depends upon associated message.
FONTDIMEN, The following font has only number fontdimen
parameters To increase the number of font parameters you must use
\fontdimen immediately after the \font is loaded
Warning: Current font has too many parameters.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
FONTERROR, Error occurred in the following font:
Warning: Text formatter found an error in the current
font.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
FONTMEMSIZE, Font memory size = number words
Informational: Reports the total size of text
formatter's font memory.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
FONTTYPE, Font was declared by: string
Warning: Identifies the font's type, e.g. \preloaded.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
FUNNYCS, Missing control sequence inserted
Warning: Text formatter became confused while defining
a control sequence.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
HPOOLSIZE, Hyphenation string memory size = number bytes
Informational: User has exceeded total size of text
formatter's hyphenation string memory.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
IDENT, string
Informational: Identifies the current version of the
text formatter.
User Action: None.
IGNORED, Extra command ignored
Warning: An unneccesary text formatting command was
found.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
IGNOREDTEXT, All text was ignored after line string
Warning: Text formatter could not typeset any of the
following lines shown.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
IGNORING, Ignored the following: command
Warning: Text formatter encountered an unexpected
command and ignored it.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
IMPROPERCMD, Improper command found: command
Warning: command shown is not valid in the current
context.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
INCOMPLETECMD, Incomplete command found: command
Warning: Text formatter became confused while trying
to scan the shown command.
User Action: If you receive this message and are under
a service contract with Digital, call your customer service center.
Otherwise, submit a Software Performance Report.
INFO, text - on page number
Informational: A text formatting macro has generated
an informational message. A problem occurred while the text formatter
was processing the output. text provides a description of the
problem. In most cases, the file will continue processing successfully
and you can examine the output. The message indicates the page on which
the problem occurred, and you can use this information to correct the
problem
User Action: The following is a list of the messages
you may see and the associated action that will correct the problem.
- Callout number 0 is undefined. Using 1.
You specified a
<CALLOUT> or <CO> tag as 0.