This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (format=pdflatex 2008.4.21) 9 JAN 2009 13:15 entering extended mode **repxxx.tex (/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/x.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. ! . l.33 \batchmode \errmessage{} \csname @@end\endcsname \end This error message was generated by an \errmessage command, so I can't give any explicit help. Pretend that you're Hercule Poirot: Examine all clues, and deduce the truth by order and method. ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 7 strings out of 94500 234 string characters out of 1174973 48348 words of memory out of 1000000 3273 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 1000 5i,0n,1p,90b,8s 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.