Chapter 3 template preventing knitting
kelseygonzalez opened this issue · comments
Describe the bug
When rendering the default template, there's something in chapter 3 that Latex is now struggling to render that is breaking the build.
To Reproduce
Create a new thesisdown from the template, and click knit from the index.Rmd file. Error from the console / thesis.log:
Chapter 3.
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
(
l.553 ...columnwidth - 2\tabcolsep) * \real{0.31}}
\centering
Expected behavior
I expect it to render the default document.
Desktop (please complete the following information):
- OS: Windows
- Version R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) -- "Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out"
Additional context
This could definitely be a latex issue on my own computer. I've been fighting with it all day but this error has persisted. If I delete most of the chapter 3, the error disappears and the document renders.
Hi there. I think this might be the table that I have added in to demo that in Chapter 3 as that has caused issues with LaTeX before. It's probably best to just remove that Markdown table and generate tables with R instead.
Indeed @ismayc - I just tested by removing only the markdown table at the beginning and it rendered. Sounds like it's time to rid ourselves of that pesky table!
I'll look into updating the template over the next few days so others don't have this same issue when they do a fresh build. Thanks for reporting!
Hey,
Pandoc has recently changed the way they compute the the column widths in tables: jgm/pandoc@bd7c9eb
Adding \usepackage{calc} in the template fixes this.
And thanks for all the work you've done!
EDIT: They've made a few more changes regarding tables since were you might require to include array too. (jgm/pandoc@7c4d7db)
For reference, I made my own template and stumbled onto the same problem, I've skimmed through the last few commits on the default.latex template to catch the culprits.
Thank you! That's super helpful
My pleasure, happy to be of some help to this nice project.
Pushed to master in #124
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