Attaching the template (template.tex) in question (from 
https://github.com/killercup/trpl-ebook.git). Since the rest of TeX Live 
seems to work fine on my machine, the attached template is the natural 
suspect. Needless to say, I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 6:02:06 PM UTC-5 fiddlosopher wrote:

> Looks like you’re using a custom template; you’re probably missing 
> something we do in the default template.
> Get the default using
> pandoc -D latex
> and compare it to what you’re using.
>
> On Feb 1, 2023, at 1:22 PM, Mouse Mousevich <u...-OVIABD91gjs3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> pandoc-2.19.2, pdflatex from TeXLive-2022.
> Rust-book set of .md files from 
> https://github.com/killercup/trpl-ebook.git (version from 2016).
>
> Conversion to LaTeX seems to succeed, but subsequent invocation of 
> pdflatex fails.
>
> I printed out arguments passed to pandoc:
>
> pandoc args: 
> --from=markdown+smart+grid_tables+pipe_tables-simple_tables+raw_html+implicit_figures+footnotes+intraword_underscores+auto_identifiers-inline_code_attributes 
> --embed-resources --standalone --highlight-style=tango 
> --top-level-division=chapter --table-of-contents 
> --template=lib/template.tex --pdf-engine=pdflatex --to=latex 
> --pdf-engine-opt=--interaction=nonstopmode --variable papersize=letterpaper 
> --output=dist/trpl-2019-05-04.letter.pdf; plus book itself
>
> Error message from pdflatex:
>
> Error producing PDF.
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>
> <to be read again> 
>
>                    (
>
> l.306 \begin
>
>
> This is what the (apparently) relevant fragment of the LaTeX file looks 
> like:
>
> 299   │ \begin{longtable}[]{@{}
>
>  300   │   >{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * 
> \real{0.4189}}
>
>  301   │   >{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * 
> \real{0.0676}}
>
>  302   │   >{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * 
> \real{0.0676}}
>
>  303   │   >{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * 
> \real{0.0676}}
>
>  304   │   >{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * 
> \real{0.3784}}@{}}
>
>  305   │ \toprule()
>
>  306   │ \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
>
>  307   │ Target
>
>  308   │ \end{minipage} & \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
>
>  309   │ std
>
>  310   │ \end{minipage} & \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
>
>
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