#5 coda 2.1 LaTeX wrong on RedHat Linux

[Scott Weitenkamp]

Running coda 2.1 on its own spec/format.txt produces
LaTeX that doesn't work. LaTeX says:

$ latex codatext.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(codatext.tex
LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american,
french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2000/05/19 v1.4b Standard
LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(codatext.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd)
! Argument of \add@accent has an extra }.
<inserted text>
\par
l.45 are identifyied by the initial "{\~}
" character, while the value
will
?
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text>
\par
l.45 are identifyied by the initial "{\~}
" character, while the value
will
No pages of output.
Transcript written on codatext.log.
$ cat codatex.log
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(format=latex 2001.9.23) 5 JUL 2002
20:44
**codatext.tex
(codatext.tex
LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american,
french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2000/05/19 v1.4b Standard
LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
File: size10.clo 2000/05/19 v1.4b Standard LaTeX file
(size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
) (codatext.aux)
\openout1 = `codatext.aux'.

LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it
on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on
input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n
on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for
OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n
on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on
input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font) <12> on input line 6.
LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font) <8> on input line 6.
LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font) <6> on input line 6.
LaTeX Font Info: Try loading font information for
OMS+cmr on input line 17.

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd
File: omscmr.fd 1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font
definitions
)
LaTeX Font Info: Font shape `OMS/cmr/m/n' in size
<10> not available
(Font) Font shape `OMS/cmsy/m/n' tried
instead on input line 17.
LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font) <7> on input line 34.
LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font) <5> on input line 34.

! Argument of \add@accent has an extra }.
<inserted text>
\par
l.45 are identifyied by the initial "{\~}
" character, while the value
will
?
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text>
\par
l.45 are identifyied by the initial "{\~}
" character, while the value
will
End of file on the terminal!

Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
236 strings out of 25890
2384 string characters out of 197430
46293 words of memory out of 384000
3240 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+15000
7329 words of font info for 26 fonts, out of 400000 for
1000
14 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
24i,8n,19p,153b,209s stack positions out of
300i,100n,500p,50000b,4000s
No pages of output.