! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item

[domi]

hi, i'm getting errors that look like this:
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

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...

l.31 ... {chapter}{\numberline {6}Actualit\'e}{11}

?

at the question mark, i can type something
i had \chapter{Actualités} as the sixth chapter, as he seems to have noticed, i
don't think i've done everything wrong in my text. I think the error occurs
where in \tableofcontents
does anyone have any ideas what this error could mean
thx
domi

[Herman Bruyninckx]

I tried your file, and as you say, ignoring the error messages
produces a good result... I have already experienced similar
`problems' when using babel (with pdflatex, for example), but I don't
know exactly what the problem is...

Herman

[Kris Luyten]

In article
<Pine.LNX.4.33.02010...@pc25-213.mech.kuleuven.ac.be>,

"Herman Bruyninckx" <Herman.B...@mech.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, domi wrote:

<snip>

>> at the question mark, i can type something i had \chapter{Actualités}
>> as the sixth chapter, as he seems to have noticed, i don't think i've
>> done everything wrong in my text. I think the error occurs where in
>> \tableofcontents
>> does anyone have any ideas what this error could mean
>
> I tried your file, and as you say, ignoring the error messages produces
> a good result... I have already experienced similar `problems' when
> using babel (with pdflatex, for example), but I don't know exactly what
> the problem is...
>
> Herman
>

I experienced he same kind of problem a while ago using pdfscreen.
Deleting the .toc file everytime the table of contents should change solved my problem.

Regards,
Kris
--
Kris Luyten
kris ad lumumba dot luc dot ac dot be
http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/kris/

[piet]

Have a look at:

http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=latex/1354&

regards,
piet

[domi]

thanks, people, the errors are gone !
domi

[domi]

Kris Luyten wrote:

i think that if you do that, you won't get a correct table of contents (but i
could be wrong, of course)
domi

[Kris Luyten]

In article <UEFZ7.30175$rt4....@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>, "domi"

<fritme...@pandora.be> wrote:
> i think that if you do that, you won't get a correct table of contents
> (but i could be wrong, of course)
> domi

I recreated the toc by running LaTeX 2 times on the input document. I
actually "recreated" it every time. Not a very effective way, but it
worked.

[daiqi...@gmail.com]

Thank you---it really saved my day!