TeX - LaTeX Asked by smaas on August 13, 2021
After installing the new updates I get these errors while compiling my documents
A <box> was supposed to be here.
A <box> was supposed to be here. setcounter
deleting as much as possible left me with this document
documentclass[twocolumn]{memoir}
usepackage{tcolorbox}
begin{document}
tekst
end{document}
which gives this error
A <box> was supposed to be here. end{document}
replace "memoir"with book or article no error, removing twocolumn no error
I updated everything and reinstalled MikTex but the problem remains.
any ideas?
The problem seems to be an incompability between mparhack and the shipout/background hook.
You can as workaround until this is fixed suppress the loading of the package:
makeatletter
disable@package@load{mparhack}{}
makeatother
documentclass[twocolumn]{memoir}
usepackage{tcolorbox}
begin{document}
blub
end{document}
The problem is that mparhack redefines hb@xt@
in the output, and this command is used in various places, beside others in put
, and this means that the code in the shipout/background hooks fails. So another work around is this:
documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
usepackage{mparhack}
AddToHook{shipout/background}{put (0,0){}}
makeatletter
longdefput(#1,#2)#3{%
@killglue
@defaultunitsset@tempdimc{#2}unitlength
raise@tempdimc
hbox toz@{% <--- instead of hb@xt@
@defaultunitsset@tempdimc{#1}unitlength
kern@tempdimc
#3hss}%
ignorespaces}
makeatletter
begin{document}
blub
end{document}
Answered by Ulrike Fischer on August 13, 2021
As Ulrike said, the problem here is that the package mparhack
attempts to patch the kernel command @dbloutputcol
and inject some code into it. To make its life easier it simply redefined hb@xt@ which is used there and replaces that under certain conditions (when the first argument is columnwidth
) with its own code --- if not it tries to execute the original code (which is basically hbox to
). Unfortunately that breaks very badly in other places where the kernel and package use hb@t@
, i.e., whenever it is used and has to be expandable, for example inside put
where the code looks like this
raise hb@xt@ ... % means raisehbox to ...
After mparhack
has acted this now looks like
raise defmph@tempa{}hbox to
an def
is not a box hence the error.
Midterm mparhack.sty
needs a correct patch (or should vanish eventually), short term, here is a firstaid that we should apply from the kernel side until the package gets fixed. I didn't do much just made sure that hb@xt@
remains expandable and expands to hbox to
normally (there are better ways to address this):
makeatletter
defmph@outputdblcol{%
defmph@chk@dcl{0}%
defhb@xt@##1##2{%
ifx##1columnwidth
mph@step@cntmph@chk@dcl
protected@edefmph@tempa{%
noexpandwritenoexpand@auxout{%
noexpandstringnoexpandmph@setcol{%
romannumeralmph@chk@dcl:noexpandthepage%
}{%
noexpandstringnoexpandmph@nr%
}%
}%
}%
mph@orig@hb@xt@##1{##2mph@tempa}%
else
mph@orig@hb@xt@##1{##2}%
fi
}%
mph@orig@outputdblcol
defhb@xt@{mph@orig@hb@xt@}%
ifnummph@chk@dcl=0relax
else
ifnummph@chk@dcl=2relax
else
mph@error{string@outputdblcol}%
fi
fi
}
AddToHook{package/after/mparhack}{let@outputdblcolmph@outputdblcol}
makeatother
%----- above needs to happen before mparhack is loaded or rather fixed there
documentclass[twocolumn]{memoir}
usepackage{tcolorbox}
begin{document}
tekst
end{document}
As a final remark, especially also in the light of the claims made in Are the latest TeXLive updates failing to provide backwards capability? in the comments:
hb@xt@
and change its semantics and then say it is LaTeX's fault if this breaks when all we do is using it as defined by the kernel. And in that particular case the authors must have seen the problem in the past as they tried to fix it for eso-pic which does (more or less) what is now offered as a standard functionality in the kernel.mparhack
got the necessary patch and it showed up on TL by now. This means that the problem should be gone. As a side-effect mparhack
should now also work correctly in older LaTeX releases, for example, in TL18 where it broke the document
documentclass{article}
usepackage{draftwatermark,mparhack}
begin{document} X end{document}
Answered by Frank Mittelbach on August 13, 2021
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