I'm making slides and I've had a bug for like 20 mins. Right at the point of thinking "screw this" I'll go back to a working version (git
), I realise the error message is literally what I was doing wrong (just wrong line number cause LaTeX is a joker). FFS. 
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**Sometimes** using beamer is not too far off from the definition of self-harm. Unlike LaTeX generally, beamer can be a real punch in the face (wacky errors!) if you copy-paste stuff from other .tex files esp if they are "working fine" using other compilers (PDFLaTeX!


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Replying to @o_guest
Those unclosed brackets have stolen hours of my lifetime. A month ago, I bumped into GitPitch, Markdown Presentations For Everyone on Git, but I haven't tried yet , my immediate impression is that it seems less harmful :-) https://github.com/gitpitch/gitpitch …
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Replying to @_mxochicale
It wasn't unclosed brackets in my case. It was a "\vspace{}".
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