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jackson13info / mla13

A LaTeX MLA style formatter package that allows users to create MLA style documents easily.
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ERROR: Illegal parameter number in definition of \blx@defformat@d. #21

Closed raxod502 closed 7 years ago

raxod502 commented 7 years ago

I get the following error on compiling Sample.tex with TeX Live 2016:

ERROR: Illegal parameter number in definition of \blx@defformat@d.

--- TeX said ---
<to be read again> 
                   4
l.56     {\usebibmacro{name:first-last}{#1}{#4
                                              }{#5}{#7}}

Probably relevant (but is this package abandoned?)

raxod502 commented 7 years ago

The problem actually came from a dependency, biblatex-mla, rather than mla13 itself. Solved as follows:

sudo tlmgr update --self
sudo tlmgr update biblatex-mla
qtheperfect commented 3 years ago 
/usr/bin/tlmgr: unexpected return value from verify_checksum: -5

for all commands

raxod502 commented 3 years ago

Looks like a problem upstream in tlmgr. It is a notably flaky piece of software. Unfortunately, I know nothing more than you. Perhaps others have reported the problem elsewhere online :/

raxod502 commented 3 years ago

Oh, although I'll point out that these days I don't use tlmgr directly anymore, preferring instead to install TeX Live exclusively from the system package manager.