Confused by arbitrary failure

[mattharrison]

Confused by arbitrary failure

[gpoore]

I suspect that this is due to using \mintinline inside \section with

\hypertarget{if-statements}{%
\section{\texorpdfstring{\mintinline[]{text}{if}
statements}{ statements}}\label{if-statements}}

and

\hypertarget{else-statements}{%
\section{\texorpdfstring{\mintinline[]{text}{else}
statements}{ statements}}\label{else-statements}}

Swapping \mintinline for \Verb{if} and \Verb{else} works for me. \Verb is defined by fvextra, and \mintinline uses fvextra internally so I would have expected both to behave identically, but apparently something is different in this case.

[mattharrison]

Thanks for the response. Any indication why commenting out non-section code allows it to work in sections?

[gpoore]

My guess is that the section code (which is interacting with the table of contents) fails to open or more likely fails to close a sequence of commands (basically equivalent to an environment that isn't properly closed), and then the unopened/unclosed state is fixed if the right sequence of non-section code appears later in the document. However, given the state of LaTeX error messages, it can be nearly impossible to track down the details of what is happening in some of these cases. I think I found multiple parts of the document that when removed allowed it to compile successfully.

The last minted release (2.7) reimplemented \mintinline so that it would work better inside other commands, like \section. However, since \Verb works here and \mintinline doesn't, there may be some remaining issues. Unless there is a totally separate, unrelated bug or issue that we're both missing that is causing this. At least from the minted side, the \mintinline in sections is the only thing that seems potentially problematic here, and switching to \Verb does work.

[mattharrison]

I'm using pandoc and pandoc-minted. So I removed any mintinline creations from the pandoc-minted plugin.

After jumping through another hoop ( https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/176113/problem-with-in-pdf-bookmark-under-xelatex ) I appear to be creating PDFs again. Thanks for your help.

[gpoore]

I've done some additional experiments, and it appears that memoir redefines \section so that it is incompatible with \mintinline (but only in some situations). Please leave this issue open for now.

• The documentation for \mintinline needs a note that it may not work inside \section etc. when using some document classes.
• It may be worth creating an option that causes \mintinline to behave like \Verb when used inside other commands like \section.

[mattharrison]

For posterity's sake, it appears that index entries also have issues with minted (though it might be that the Pandoc plugin is naive).

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