General ⇒ No config error on one computer, 115 errors on the other

[PierreJ]

Hello all,

I have a LaTeX document on my M1 MacBook Pro, and everything is fine. No issue at all. The Pdf is perfect.

But when I copied the .tex file on my Intel iMac, I got 35 configuration errors. The Pdf could be generated, but the chapters and sections titles were in a smaller and thinner font.

Seeing that, I uninstalled MacTeX from the iMac and reinstalled it from scratch using Homebrew. Bad idea! Once it was done, the number of errors went from 35 to 115, and the Pdf couldn't be generated any more, except the 8 pages which are before the Contents page. The 32 first lines of the Config part are all red, meaning 'Error' (please see attached file).

Any idea of the source of the problem?

The typesetter is XeLaTeX in both cases, but the editor I use is Texpad 1.9.7 667 on the notebook and 669 on the iMac.

[PierreJ]

I've just found the culprit, it's the line:

\usepackage[fontsize=13pt]{scrextend}

I don't know why this package works perfectly on the notebook but not on the iMac, but at least the problematic line is now identified.

Your help would still be much appreciated: is there a way to tell LaTeX that the normal font size is 13 points? The following line doesn't work:

\documentclass[13pt,a4paper,twoside,openright,french]{memoir}

It's very much needed because the biggest publishing house in France wants 13pt Pdf files.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Pierre,

you could use this file mem13.clo (also attached below), source is here by Adriano:

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%% This is file `mem13.clo', generated as a convex 
%% combination of mem12.clo and mem14.clo
%%
%%   This work may be distributed and/or modified under
%%   the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, 
%%   either version 1.3 of this license or (at your 
%%   option) any later version.
%%   The latest version of the license is in
%%      http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
%%   and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions
%%   of LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later.
%%
%%   This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
%%
\ProvidesFile{mem13.clo}%
       [2016/05/17 v0.01 memoir class 13pt size option]
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{%
   \@setfontsize\normalsize{13.2}{16.0}%
   \abovedisplayskip 13.2\p@ \@plus3\p@ \@minus7.5\p@
   \abovedisplayshortskip \z@ \@plus3\p@
   \belowdisplayshortskip 6.75\p@ \@plus3.5\p@ \@minus3\p@
   \belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
   \let\@listi\@listI}
\normalsize
\newcommand{\small}{%
   \@setfontsize\small\@xiipt{14.0}%
   \abovedisplayskip 11.5\p@ \@plus3\p@ \@minus6\p@
   \abovedisplayshortskip \z@ \@plus3\p@
   \belowdisplayshortskip 6.5\p@ \@plus3.5\p@ \@minus3\p@
   \def\@listi{\leftmargin\leftmargini
               \topsep 10\p@ \@plus3.5\p@ \@minus5.5\p@
               \parsep 5.25\p@ \@plus2.5\p@ \@minus\p@
               \itemsep \parsep
%%               \itemindent\z@
              }%
   \belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
}
\newcommand{\footnotesize}{%
   \@setfontsize\footnotesize\@xipt\@xiipt
   \abovedisplayskip 10.5\p@ \@plus2.5\p@ \@minus5.5\p@
   \abovedisplayshortskip \z@ \@plus3\p@
   \belowdisplayshortskip 6.25\p@ \@plus3.25\p@ \@minus3\p@
   \def\@listi{\leftmargin\leftmargini
               \topsep 6.25\p@ \@plus2.75\p@ \@minus2.5\p@
               \parsep 3.5\p@ \@plus2.5\p@ \@minus\p@
               \itemsep \parsep
%%               \itemindent\z@
              }%
   \belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
}
\newcommand*{\miniscule}{\@setfontsize\miniscule\@viiipt{8.8}}
\newcommand*{\tiny}{\@setfontsize\tiny\@ixpt{10}}
\newcommand*{\scriptsize}{\@setfontsize\scriptsize\@xpt\@xipt}
\newcommand*{\large}{\@setfontsize\large{14.5}{20}}
\newcommand*{\Large}{\@setfontsize\Large{18.5}{23.5}}
\newcommand*{\LARGE}{\@setfontsize\LARGE{22}{27}}
\newcommand*{\huge}{\@setfontsize\huge{27}{33}}
\ifextrafontsizes
  \newcommand*{\Huge}{\@setfontsize\Huge{33}{40}}
  \newcommand*{\HUGE}{\@setfontsize\HUGE{40}{48}}
\else
  \let\Huge=\huge
  \let\HUGE=\huge
\fi
\setlength{\onelineskip}{16\p@}
\if@twocolumn
  \setlength\parindent{1em}
\else
  \setlength\parindent{1.5em}
\fi
\setlength\smallskipamount{3\p@ \@plus 1\p@ \@minus 1\p@}
\setlength\medskipamount{6\p@ \@plus 2\p@ \@minus 2\p@}
\setlength\bigskipamount{12\p@ \@plus 4\p@ \@minus 4\p@}
\setlength\headheight{16\p@}
\setlength\headsep{.3in}
\setlength\topskip{13.2\p@}
\setlength\footskip{33\p@}
\setlength\maxdepth{.5\topskip}
\setlength\@maxdepth\maxdepth
\setlength\footnotesep{9\p@}
\setlength{\skip\footins}{11.9\p@ \@plus 4\p@ \@minus 2\p@}
\setlength\floatsep    {13.2\p@ \@plus 2\p@ \@minus 2\p@}
\setlength\textfloatsep{20\p@ \@plus 2\p@ \@minus 4\p@}
\setlength\intextsep   {14\p@ \@plus 4\p@ \@minus 4\p@}
\setlength\dblfloatsep    {14\p@ \@plus 2\p@ \@minus 4\p@}
\setlength\dbltextfloatsep{20\p@ \@plus 2\p@ \@minus 4\p@}
\setlength\@fptop{0\p@ \@plus 1fil}
\setlength\@fpsep{10\p@ \@plus 2fil}
\setlength\@fpbot{0\p@ \@plus 1fil}
\setlength\@dblfptop{0\p@ \@plus 1fil}
\setlength\@dblfpsep{10\p@ \@plus 2fil}
\setlength\@dblfpbot{0\p@ \@plus 1fil}
\setlength\lxvchars{372\p@} % standard 390pt
\setlength\xlvchars{264\p@} %
\if@twocolumn
  \setlength\marginparsep{10\p@}
\else
  \setlength\marginparsep{7\p@}
\fi
\setlength{\marginparpush}{7\p@}
\endinput
%%
%% End of file `mem13.clo'.

Save it in your document directory, ad load it that way, as written by daleif in the linked thread:

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\newcommand*{\anyptfilebase}{mem}
\newcommand*{\anyptsize}{13}
\documentclass[a4paper,*pt]{memoir}
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}

Stefan

[PierreJ]

Thank you very much Stefan!