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Quick actionable hints to fix your LaTeX errors

James · June 29, 2016

This article was originally published on the ShareLaTeX blog and is reproduced here for archival purposes.

Everyone has been in that situation where LaTeX spits out some unintelligible error messages that takes 15 minutes to figure out what it means and how to fix it. At ShareLaTeX, we get a lot of messages from users about these difficult to understand errors, so we've started cataloging them and showing you quick actionable hints to help you fix the problem, right there in your project:

Log hints in the latex logs

We've started with a few of the most common errors, but our final aim is to catalogue all (or nearly all) of the errors that you might encounter when using LaTeX.

Let us know what you think!

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