Question

(LaTeX) I'm writing up a math assignment in LaTeX, but I'm having some severe rendering/compiling issues where I can't get past the first page (no second page is displayed/there's nothing showing up after a certain point despite a \newpage command), could somebody take a look at my code really quick and tell me what's wrong with it?

Answer 1

You might be able to get more help from the TeX Stack Exchange page https://tex.stackexchange.com/

Answer 2

Mimi, are you Dan? What's with the profile pic?

Answer 3

This is the first time I've legitimately used TeX editor to generate a document that is going to be multipage, so it's overwhelmingly likely it's just a simple coding issue, but I just can't get to the second page. Should I post my code here or something for somebody to take a look?

Answer 4

You can try posting it here, or share it using ShareLatex (you'll need to register): https://www.sharelatex.com/

Answer 5

I'll try posting it here, one sec. Or, why don't I just upload the .tex file?
I'll just do that.

Answer 6

(the math for the first problem is pathetically easy, don't chide me lol)

Answer 7

Oops I could have sworn I had a .tex reader installed on this computer... Any chance you can extract the text into a .txt file?

Answer 8

Uhh yeah one sec

Answer 9

(I should note that I have no idea how to make a prim and proper LaTeX document so my code probably looks like total garbage, I just do what looks nice even if inefficient or unorthodox)

Answer 10

First problem I'm seeing is all the `\[` and `\]`. I'm pretty sure that kind of wrapping is used on OS only.

Answer 11

you shouldn't use \\ if there is nothing before it

you should have some text before the \\

Answer 12

delete the \\ that is at the top of page 1 and page 2

Answer 13

Alright

Answer 14

second problem: you forgot to close off the mathbf for F_{y}=

Answer 15

Oh also, there is text before the double slashes at the beginning, but I got rid of it because it had my personal info

Answer 16

here is the fixed doc (and I got it to compile just fine with this fixed file)

Answer 17

But yeah, double slashes at beginning because my personal info was there

Answer 18

ah i gotcha

Answer 19

But OS only what? What about that, sith?

Answer 20

also I deleted the "\\" before the "We can immediately disregard the y-component of force due to our golf ball being hit and moving solely along the x and z axes; this leaves us with"

Answer 21

`\[` and `\]` are used on this site for display mode, whereas tex documents require dollar sign wrapping.

On OS, `\[\sum\]` gives you
\[\sum\]
(display mode) and `\(\sum\)` gives \(\sum\) (inline mode).

In tex docus, you need to use `$$` and `$`, respectively.

Answer 22

`\[...\]` works just fine

it is the same as `$$...$$`

Answer 23

Oh, I was told it was a mortal sin to use dollar sign wrapping unless you are using it inside a paragraph or sentence of plain text.

Answer 24

@jim_thompson5910 really? I guess I've only used software that uses $$...

Answer 25

it could be dependent on the software then?

Answer 26

So what was specifically causing that second page to not appear?

Answer 27

I'm using TeXworks and it renders just fine

Answer 28

that \\

Answer 29

I had actually removed and tested both with and without the double slashes before, and I still couldn't get the second page

Answer 30

before the first sentence

Answer 31

the \\ needs to have words come before it

Answer 32

I've only ever used TeXShop (Macs only I believe) and whatever ShareLatex uses.

Answer 33

Lemme open up my original file and try it again, yeah, I tried it both with and without that but for some reason that didn't change stuff, thank you guys again

Answer 34

you also had an error in

F_{y}=m\mathbf{\ddot{y}

you forgot the closing brace

Answer 35

since it should be F_{y}=m\mathbf{\ddot{y}}

Answer 36

Yeah, I got that, but there's something entirely odd going on with it compiling, because it's finishing compiling and is giving me green, but the altered document both without the personal info and without the double slash at the end, after telling it to produce an updated preview, still has the old preview with my personal info at the top and no second page, so something is up with it compiling

Answer 37

so it sounds like it didn't compile properly

Answer 38

delete everything but the tex file and try again

Answer 39

I got aux errors so I deleted those files

Answer 40

Aaaaand now I'm getting no preview after I had the same thought and deleted the aux files and everything but the original .tex file :CCC

Answer 41

I normally go Fn+F7 and then Fn+F6 to render a document in the preview

Answer 42

It's not able to find the PDF (which I also deleted); I normally generate a preview PDF when I do those commands successively, right? Compile, and then Build & View?

Answer 43

which program are you using?

Answer 44

TeX Studio

Answer 45

This weird stuff has happened before, I'm going to restart the program and see if that changes anything

Answer 46

Yeah, it looks like when I compile, build and view, I'm not generating a PDF.

Answer 47

strange, well it works with sharelatex

https://www.sharelatex.com/project/54c5bce60231378d4def14b5

I made a public test project to show that it works. So you can always start a free account there and work off of sharelatex

Answer 48

TY, I'm probably just going to move on for now and do all the homework by hand first, this is too tedious and I'm too tired to play with LaTeX at the moment >:C

Answer 49

And LaTeX isn't even required, I just like it, lol

Answer 50

it's good you're writing it up professionally like that

Answer 51

Thanks!