Re: "fatal error: symbol expected following @@V"

[Jeff Kingston]

This sounds rather horrible.  I have two vague suggestions.

First, I remember long ago there was a problem reading large files,
at the block boundaries some characters got lost.  But that was fixed
(by Uwe?) long ago.

Second, the database does have a known bug with the scoping, which leads
occasionally to a symbol name being misinterpreted as a literal word.

If you could send me a copy of book.ld as it is at the moment just before
the start of the run that produces this error message, I could have a
look and see what I can make of it.  Luckily, the line number of the
error message is actually meaningful, so I can start by looking there.

I'm assuming you are using a recent version of Lout - 3.25 is the current
version.  But there have been no fixes in this area for a long time.

Jeff Kingston

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:56:55 +0200 (MEST), Robert Feldt wrote:
  > 
  > Hi,
  > 
  > I've been running into troubles as some of my Lout documents grow in
  > size. I can build the PS if I start from scratch and delete all ld and ldx
  > files but when I build without deleting the ld/ldx files I get 
  > 
  >   lout file "book.ld":
  >   5757,6: fatal error: symbol expected following @@V
  > 
  > Anyone got any hints on what may cause this?
  > 
  > I guess its hard to help me without seeing all the files but this is a
  > rather large project so I hope someone had seen something similar before.
  > 
  > Regards,
  > 
  > Robert Feldt