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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label nonum</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>&#8220;Missing number, treated as zero&#8221;</h3>
-<p/>In general, this means you&#8217;ve tried to assign something to a count,
-dimension or skip register that isn&#8217;t (in TeX&#8217;s view of things) a
-number. Usually the problem will become clear using the
-<a href="FAQ-erroradvice.html">ordinary techniques of examining errors</a>.
-<p/>Two LaTeX-specific errors are commonly aired on the newsgroups.
-<p/>The commonest arises from attempting to use an example from the
-<a href="FAQ-books.html"><em>The LaTeX Companion</em> (first edition)</a>, and is
-exemplified by the following error text:
-<pre>
-! Missing number, treated as zero.
-&#60;to be read again&#62;
- \relax
-l.21 \begin{Ventry}{Return values}
-</pre>
-The problem arises because, in its first edition, the
-<em>Companion</em>&#8217;s examples always assumed that the <i>calc</i>
-package is loaded: this fact is mentioned in the book, but often not
-noticed. The remedy is to load the <i>calc</i> package in any
-document using such examples from the <em>Companion</em>. (The problem
-does not really arise with the second edition; copies of all the
-examples are available on the accompanying CDROM, or on
-CTAN.)
-<p/>The other problem, which is increasingly rare nowadays, arises from
-misconfiguration of a system that has been upgraded from LaTeX 2.09:
-the document uses the <i>times</i> package, and the error appears
-at <code>\</code><code>begin{document}</code>. The file search paths are wrongly set
-up, and your <code>\</code><code>usepackage{times}</code> has picked up a LaTeX 2.09
-version of the package, which in its turn has invoked another which
-has no equivalent in LaTeX2e. The obvious solution is to rewrite
-the paths so that LaTeX 2.09 packages are chosen only as a last resort
-so that the startlingly simple LaTeX2e <i>times</i> package will
-be picked up. Better still is to replace the whole thing with
-something more modern still; current <i>psnfss</i> doesn&#8217;t provide
-a <i>times</i> package &#8212; the alternative <i>mathptmx</i>
-incorporates <i>Times</i>-like mathematics, and a sans-serif face
-based on <i>Helvetica</i>, but scaled to match <i>Times</i>
-text rather better.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>calc.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/calc.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>Examples for LaTeX Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/tlc2.zip">info/examples/tlc2</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/tlc2/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>The psnfss bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/psnfss.zip">macros/latex/required/psnfss</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/psnfss/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/psnfss.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nonum">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nonum</a>
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