Re: Missing Number, Treated As Zero

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>]

Joost Kremers writes:

> On Tue, Jun 09 2020, Aaron Lopez wrote:
>> Testing the conversion of .epub to pdf and not having much luck. I downloaded
>> a random epub file to test with...
>>
>> pandoc -f epub -t latex -o mytest.pdf --pdf-engine=pdflatex aliceDynamic.epub
>> --verbose > epub.txt
>>
>> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>> <to be read again>
>>                    \protect
>> l.90 ...enter}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}
>>                                                   \end{center}
>> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> Transcript written on C:\tex2pdf.-5080fd875f0b148b\input.log.
>>
>> Error producing PDF.
>> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>> <to be read again>
>>                    \protect
>> l.90 ...enter}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}
>>
>
> The latex macro `\rule` requires two arguments, a length and a line thickness.
> The error message suggests that the macro `\linethickness` isn't defined. I'm
> not sure what could be the cause of that, though.

See also
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/d9db76dcf40d1930ad15317d76fd2c90d9114801

The solution for Aaron is to update pandoc to the latest version.

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