This can't happen, but it does....

[Joris]

Hello,

pdflatex gave me the error message "This can't happen (paragraph)" and
quit with a Fatal error. Can anyone please enlighten me as to what
this error message means/ when it arises?

Thanks!

J.

[Stefan Junge]

Without an example not easy, but the error message was
a former pdftex bug [292] which is fixed since several years.
Is your LaTeX system up to date? What version of pdflatex did
you use? Otherwise give us an minimum example...

Stefan

[Joris]

Thanks Stefan. The reason I didn't provide a minimal example is that
the message comes and goes with minimal changes to the document and I
have as yet been unable to reproduce it in a small example. I was
asking for the meaning of the error message to help me do just that.

First though, I'll chase after bug 292; sounds like the likely culprit
here.

Best,

J.

[Joris]

The error doesn't occur with a new distribution, thanks again. It
hadn't occurred to me that pdftex rather than I could be responsible
for an error message.

On May 16, 7:57 pm, Stefan Junge <sju...@imsas.uni-bremen.de> wrote: