<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <!--http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd--> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head><title>minimal</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta name="generator" content="TeX4ht (http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/)" /> <meta name="originator" content="TeX4ht (http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/)" /> <!-- xhtml,th4,index --> <meta name="src" content="mn.tex" /> <meta name="date" content="2007-07-08 23:10:00" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mn.css" /> </head><body > <a href="mn.html#mn-bug.html" >exit minimal</a> <ul > <li>Remove the calls to packages that are not essential to reproduce the problem (e.g., <span class="cmtt-10">\RequirePackage</span>, <span class="cmtt-10">\usepakage</span>) <!--l. 8678--><p class="noindent" ></p></li> <li>Remove the local definitions that are not essential. For instance, use <div class="Verbatim"><span class="cmtt-10">\begin{figure}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> </span> <br /><span class="cmtt-10"> </span><span class="cmtt-10"> </span><span class="cmtt-10"> \includegraphics{filename}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> </span> <br /><span class="cmtt-10"> </span><span class="cmtt-10"> </span><span class="cmtt-10"> \caption{What</span><span class="cmtt-10"> ever.}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> </span> <br /><span class="cmtt-10">\end{figure}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> </span> <br /></div> <!--l. 8688--><p class="indent" > instead of </p><div class="Verbatim"><span class="cmtt-10">\def\fig#1#2{\begin{figure}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> \includegraphics{#1}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> \caption{#2}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> \end{figure}}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> </span> <br /><span class="cmtt-10">\fig{filename}{What</span><span class="cmtt-10"> ever.}</span><span class="cmtt-10"> </span> <br /></div> <!--l. 8695--><p class="noindent" ></p></li> <li>Use core classes when possible (e.g., <span class="cmtt-10">article </span>instead of <span class="cmtt-10">scrbook</span>). <!--l. 8697--><p class="noindent" ></p></li> <li>Cut to a minimum the content where possible (e.g., ‘Abc’ instead of ‘Blah blah ... for ever.’) </li></ul> <!--l. 8702--><p class="indent" > I work in a LaTeX environment different from where the bug reports typically originate. To understand the bugs I need to recreate the environments producing them. A sample file that isolates the problem reduces the debugging effort to a minimum. </p> </body></html>