Processing .md file through pandoc = Latex Error

[Hen-son]

Hi Lukas,

very helpful Bundle. Had been using for several letters. Since the upgrade to Texlive 2020 the bundle is broken for me. Do you know if I am able to fix it on my side?

This is the .md file to be processed:

---
documentclass: hu-berlin-letter
sender: hu-berlin-letter-example
subject: Short description
addressee:
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Unter den Linden 6
- 10099 Berlin
---
Thank you very much for your letter.

This is the Terminal command:

pandoc beispiel.md -o beispiel.pdf --pdf-engine=lualatex --template hu-berlin-letter-template.latex

This is the result:

Error producing PDF.
! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.57 \opening{\usekomavar{opening}}

Processing it through Rmarkdown I get a more detailed error-Log (see below). Especially this seems to be troubling: ! Missing $ inserted

Do you have any idea where I could proceed investigating? Very basic understanding of those things here.

Thanks for the great tool.

Best Henning

...
...
Foldmarks: yes
Head of first page
<hu-berlin-logo.pdf, id=1, 661.47125pt x 132.495pt>
File: hu-berlin-logo.pdf Graphic file (type pdf)
<use hu-berlin-logo.pdf>
Package luatex.def Info: hu-berlin-logo.pdf  used on input line 58.
(luatex.def)             Requested size: 412.56496pt x 82.63731pt.
File: hu-berlin-logo.pdf Graphic file (type pdf)
<use hu-berlin-logo.pdf>
Package luatex.def Info: hu-berlin-logo.pdf  used on input line 58.
(luatex.def)             Requested size: 412.56496pt x 82.63731pt.
Foot of first page
Address: No
Location field: yes
LaTeX Font Info:    Trying to load font information for U+mvs on input line 58.
(/usr/local/texlive/2020basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/umvs.fd)
Title: no
Subject: no
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
$
l.58 \opening{\usekomavar{opening}}

[LukasCBossert]

Hi Henning,

thank you for the feedback - always nice to hear that someone is using this package.

Thank you very much for the bug report - I could find the issue

Class scrlttr2 Warning: Usage of deprecated command `\ifkomavarempty'.
(scrlttr2)              The command has been renamed to because of a
(scrlttr2)              recommendation of LaTeX3 team members.
(scrlttr2)              Please replace `\ifkomavarempty' by `\Ifkomavarempty' o
n input line 30.

This change must have happend with the latest update of the KOMAscripts. It should also fix the error with Rmarkdown.

Fix is on its way to CTAN and probably available soon.

Best, Lukas

[Hen-son]

Hi Lukas,

Thank you for this quick answer! Very supportive. I did see this specific warning and already tried to alter the local file accordingly. Did not solve the issue, though (I think warnings are more or less ignorable?). But I will wait for your official fix and hope for the best.

Greetings, Henning

On 28 Apr 2020, at 21:02, Lukas C. Bossert wrote:

Hi Henning,

thank you for the feedback - always nice to hear that someone is using this package.

Thank you very much for the bug report - I could find the issue

Class scrlttr2 Warning: Usage of deprecated command `\ifkomavarempty'.
(scrlttr2)              The command has been renamed to because of a
(scrlttr2)              recommendation of LaTeX3 team members.
(scrlttr2)              Please replace `\ifkomavarempty' by 
`\Ifkomavarempty' o
n input line 30.

This change must have happend with the latest update of the KOMAscripts. It should also fix the error with Rmarkdown.

Fix is on its way to CTAN and probably available soon.

Best, Lukas

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[LukasCBossert]

hm - I tested the files and didnt get the error anymore. Maybe you can test with https://github.com/LukasCBossert/hu-berlin-bundle/blob/master/hu-berlin-letter.cls too?!

If there is still the error just reopen this issue.

[Hen-son]

Sorry, still problems here. Runs through fine with your hu-berlin-letter-example.lco file. But still the ! Missing $ inserted. error as soon as I point to my personalized .lco file (see below). Cannot see any meaningful differences between my modifications (see below) and your example. Do you have a clue?

Best, Henning

\ProvidesFile{hu-berlin-letter-fueller.lco}
\setkomavar{fromname}
  [Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter]
  {Dr. Henning Füller}
\setkomavar{fromemail}{henning.fueller@geo.hu-berlin.de}
\setkomavar{fromphone}{9315}
\setkomavar{fromfax}{6853}
\setkomavar{fromurl}{https://www.geographie.hu-berlin.de/de/Members/fueller_henning}
\setkomavar{backaddress}{HU Berlin\\
Unter den Linden 6\\
D-10099 Berlin}
\setkomavar{faculty}{%
Math.-Nat. Fakultät
}
\setkomavar{institute}{%
  \mbox{Geographisches Institut}
}
\setkomavar{institute.additional}{Here you can add more text.}
\setkomavar{institute.head}[Dekanin]{Prof. Dr. Maike Musterfrau}
\setkomavar{institute.head.mail}{maike.musterfrau@hu-berlin.de}
\setkomavar{local}{%
  Rudower Chaussee 16\\
  Raum 3'108 (Neubau)\\
  D-12489 Berlin}
\setkomavar{connections}{U Bahnhof Adlershof}
\setkomavar{accessibility}{Adlershof}
\setkomavar{signature}{%
  \usekomavar{institute.head} --
  \usekomavar{fromname}
}
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2019-2020
%%
%% End of file `hu-berlin-letter-fueller.lco'.

[LukasCBossert]

try to escape the underscore in the url ...henning_fueller....

can’t test right now will do later

[LukasCBossert]

henning\_fueller

[Hen-son]

This did the trick! (Confusing as my file did work for several letters without this escaping, not sure why it suddenly became a trouble)

Thanks again. Happy to continue with well formatted official correspondence.

Best, Henning

On 29 Apr 2020, at 20:18, Lukas C. Bossert wrote:

henning\_fueller

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[LukasCBossert]

Happy to hear that it works now! Hope to hear from you again when there are more issues with the bundle, currently I am not using it so I need some feedback from others.

Best, Lukas

[Hen-son]

Lieber Lukas,

Immer noch ein zufriedener Nutzer Deines Pandoc-Briefvorlage für die HU. Heute bin ich allerdings an eine Grenze gestossen bei dem Abfassen eines englischsprachigen Empfehlungsschreibens. Fakultät und Institut kann ich ganz einfach selbst ändern durch ein angepasstes .lco Datei. Aber die ganzen festen Überschriften in der rechten Spalte bleiben dann immer noch auf deutsch. Ich habe versucht, das in der Letter class option Datei zu ändern oder sogar sprachbasiert anzupassen aber bin leider nicht zum Ziel gekommen.

Ich habe immer die Fehlermeldung: ! Package scrbase Error: \bank' already defined (scrbase) for languagengerman'.

Vielleicht hast Du auf einen Blick eine Idee, woran das liegen könnte?

Ich hänge Dir für alle Fälle mal die veränderte .cls Datei an.

Herzlichen Gruß, Henning

---

Dr. Henning Füller Geographisches Institut Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

henning.fueller@geo.hu-berlin.de http://hu.berlin/fueller

On 28 Apr 2020, at 21:02, Lukas C. Bossert wrote:

Hi Henning,

thank you for the feedback - always nice to hear that someone is using this package.

Thank you very much for the bug report - I could find the issue

Class scrlttr2 Warning: Usage of deprecated command `\ifkomavarempty'.
(scrlttr2)              The command has been renamed to because of a
(scrlttr2)              recommendation of LaTeX3 team members.
(scrlttr2)              Please replace `\ifkomavarempty' by 
`\Ifkomavarempty' o
n input line 30.

This change must have happend with the latest update of the KOMAscripts. It should also fix the error with Rmarkdown.

Fix is on its way to CTAN and probably available soon.

Best, Lukas

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\setkomavar{location}{% \raggedright \fontsize{7}{8.5}\selectfont \begin{minipage}[t][64mm]{\useplength{locwidth}} \Ifkomavarempty{faculty} {\hspace{1em}} {\usekomafont{faculty}% \usekomavar{faculty}\[1\baselineskip]} \Ifkomavarempty{institute} {} {\usekomafont{institute}\usekomavar{institute}\[1\baselineskip]} \Ifkomavarempty{institute.additional} {} {\usekomavar{institute.additional}\[1\baselineskip]} \Ifkomavarempty{institute.head} {} {{\usekomafont{institute.head}% \usekomavar{institute.head}}\% \usekomavar{institute.head}} \end{minipage} \textbf{\usekomavar{date}}\ \usekomavar{date}\par \Ifkomavarempty{fromname} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{fromname}}\ \usekomavar{fromname}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{myref} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{myref}}\ \usekomavar{myref}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{yourref} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{yourref}}\ \usekomavar{yourref}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{yourmail} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{yourmail}}\ \usekomavar{yourmail}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{customer} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{customer}}\ \usekomavar{customer}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{invoice} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{invoice}}\ \usekomavar{invoice}\par} \textbf{\usekomavar{fromaddress}}\ \usekomavar{fromaddress} \Ifkomavarempty{fromphone} {\par} {\\usekomavar{fromphone}\usekomavar{fromphone} \Ifkomavarempty{fromfax} {\par} {\}} \Ifkomavarempty{fromfax} {} {\usekomavar{fromfax}\usekomavar{fromfax}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{institute.head.mail} {} {\usekomavar{institute.head.mail} \Ifkomavarempty{fromemail} {\Ifkomavarempty{fromurl} {\par} {\}} {\}} \Ifkomavarempty{fromemail} {} {\usekomavar{fromemail} \Ifkomavarempty{fromurl} {\par} {\}} \Ifkomavarempty{fromurl} {} {\usekomavar{fromurl}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{local} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{local}}\ \usekomavar{local}\par} \vfill \Ifkomavarempty{connections} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{connections}}\ \usekomavar{connections}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{officehours} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{officehours}}\ \usekomavar{officehours}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{accessibility} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{accessibility}}\ \usekomavar{accessibility}\par} \Ifkomavarempty{bank} {} {\textbf{\usekomavar{bank}}\ \usekomavar{bank}\ \usekomavar{IBAN}\ \usekomavar{BIC} } } \KOMAoptions{% numericaldate =true ,refline =nodate ,backaddress =plain ,parskip =half- } \removereffields \setplength{refvpos}{110mm} \setplength{refaftervskip}{0pt} \setplength{toaddrhpos}{25mm} \setplength{firstheadhpos}{\useplength{toaddrhpos}} \setplength{lochpos}{15mm} \setplength{locvpos}{\useplength{toaddrvpos}} \addtoplength{locvpos}{.75\baselineskip} \setplength{locwidth}{45mm} \setplength{locheight}{232mm} \setkomavar{firsthead}{% \IfFileExists{hu-berlin-logo.pdf} {\includegraphics[width=145mm]{hu-berlin-logo.pdf}} {{\vspace{2em}\hfil\scshape [humboldt-universität zu berlin]}}% } \setkomavar{backaddressseparator}{~\textbar~} \setkomavar{fromphone}{0000} \setkomavar{fromphone}{Telefon +49 [30] 2093–} \setkomavar{fromfax}{0000} \setkomavar{fromfax}{Telefax +49 [30] 2093–} \setkomavar{fromaddress}{Postanschrift:} \setkomavar{fromaddress}{% Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\ Unter den Linden 6\ D-10099 Berlin} \setkomavar{backaddress}{% Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\ UdL 6\ D-10099 Berlin} \setkomavar{date}{Datum:} \setkomavar{fromname}{Bearbeiter:} \setkomavar{myref}{Geschäftszeichen:} \setkomavar{enclseparator}{Anlage} \setkomavar{ccseparator}{Kopie an} %% %% Copyright (C) 2019-2020 %% %% End of file `hu-berlin-letter.cls'.

[LukasCBossert]

Hi Henning,

vielen Dank für dein Feedback. Der Fokus auf Deutsch ist mir beim letzten Update auch schmerzlich aufgefallen. Ursprünglich hatte ich nicht gedacht, dass man eine andere Version als deutsch bzw. 'ngerman' bräuchte. Dein Fall zeigt aber, dass es notwendig ist.

An sich sollte es kein Problem sein, ich selbst bin bis zum 3.12. mit anderen Projekten beschäftigt aber spätestens dann sollte ich Zeit haben (vielleicht auch schon früher).

Ich habe für das Thema ein neues Issue aufgemacht: https://github.com/LukasCBossert/hu-berlin-bundle/issues/3

Wenn du magst, kannst du mir auch ein PullRequest schicken (falls du in der .dtx-Datei arbeiten kannst/willst).

Schöne Grüße Lukas

[Hen-son]

Lieber Lukas,

Herzlichen Dank für die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Anliegen! Ich habe gestern länger probiert. Ich befürchte, es ist ein Sonderfall, der sich mit den Mitteln der KOMA-Klasse nicht lösen lässt. Dieses \renewcaption scheint jedenfalls nicht explizit für die Brief-Klasse in der KOMA-Dokumentation ausgeführt. Vielleicht hast Du aber eine Idee wie es doch gehen könnte. Es scheint im Grunde machbar, jedenfalls bieten andere Unis eine eine ähnliche Latex-Briefvorlage, die wohl entsprechend der Sprach-Einstellung die Briefvorlage anpasst. Habe das z.B. für die TU Braunschweig oder Dresden gefunden. Leider sind die Original-Dateien dort nicht öffentlich abrufbar, sondern nur die Dokumentationen:

https://tu-dresden.de/ressourcen/dateien/service/publizieren/cd/4_latex/dat/Handbuch_print.pdf?lang=de (siehe Seite 11)

Wie gesagt - freue mich über die Hilfe.

Herzlich, Henning

On 26 Nov 2020, at 14:12, Lukas C. Bossert wrote:

Hi Henning,

vielen Dank für dein Feedback. Der Fokus auf Deutsch ist mir beim letzten Update auch schmerzlich aufgefallen. Ursprünglich hatte ich nicht gedacht, dass man eine andere Version als deutsch bzw. 'ngerman' bräuchte. Dein Fall zeigt aber, dass es notwendig ist.

An sich sollte es kein Problem sein, ich selbst bin bis zum 3.12. mit anderen Projekten beschäftigt aber spätestens dann sollte ich Zeit haben (vielleicht auch schon früher).

Ich habe für das Thema ein neues Issue aufgemacht: https://github.com/LukasCBossert/hu-berlin-bundle/issues/3

Wenn du magst, kannst du mir auch ein PullRequest schicken (falls du in der .dtx-Datei arbeiten kannst/willst).

Schöne Grüße Lukas

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