Re: PDF file was not produced! Too deeply nested!??

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> With the following Org-Beamer ECM, I've got a "too deeply nested" error.
> 
> #+TITLE:     PDF file was not produced!
> #+AUTHOR:    Seb Vauban
> #+DATE:      2012-05-14
> #+Time-stamp: <2012-05-14 Mon 14:32 Fabrice on MEDIACENTER>
> 
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
> #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation,t]
> #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \usetheme{default}\usecolortheme{default}
> #+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 1
> 
> * Action plan
> 
> ** Iterations on architecture
> 
> - 2-tier
>   + Fat client
>   + MySQL DB
> 
> - 2-tier vers 3-tier
>   + Analysis of the separation
>     * What logic at which place?
>     * Which data, where?
>   + Impact on performance
> 
> ** Iterations on ...
> 
> On http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=toodeep, they say:
> 
>    "LaTeX keeps track of the nesting of one list inside another. There is a
>     set of list formatting parameters built-in for application to each of the
>     list nesting levels; the parameters determine indentation, item
>     separation, and so on. The list environment (the basis for list
>     environments like itemize and enumerate) "knows" there are only 6 of these
>     sets."
> 
> But, here, I only have 4 indentation levels (the level 2 "Iterations on
> architecture" being an item as well, as BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL is 1).
> 
> If I remove:
> 
>     * What logic at which place?
>     * Which data, where?
> 
> then I only have 3 levels, and everything compiles right.
> 
> But with that 4-th level (far from 6!), the compilation simply ends in error.
> 
> Anyone understanding why this happens?
> 

Apparently the FAQ is wrong: 4 will compile, 5 will not - e.g. the
following will not compile with my setup:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item foo
  \begin{itemize}
  \item bar
    \begin{itemize}
    \item baz
      \begin{itemize}
      \item hunoz
        \begin{itemize}
        \item hukerz
        \end{itemize}
      \end{itemize}
    \end{itemize}
  \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

That's probably part of the explanation - the extra frame enclosing the
nested list in your case might have something to do with the rest but
that's purely a guess.

Nick