Latex unable to render

[mtheiss]

In 2.8.0 Latex is unable to render a simple document (pdflatex -halt-on-error -shell-escape demo.tex) like

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{minted}

\begin{document}
    X \mintinline{http}|abc| X
\end{document}

with the message:

! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   -
l.2 \PYG{err}{abc}

Might be related to #1710

[birkenfeld]

please take a look @jfbu

[jfbu]

@birkenfeld

This is a bug of minted which seems to assign catcode 11 to the - character in this context. It is not a bug of Pygments. I will investigate more later the minted aspect of this

(clearly this is the same as #1731 previous report)

but I can't now and only did enough to get to the conclusion I reported.

We could fix it via \setlength{\fboxsep}{\string -\fboxrule} (mind the space after \string) or TeX syntax \fboxsep=\string -\fboxrule (space after \string, else due to minted bug, TeX would see a control sequence with name \string- where - is part of the name).

With the above I get successful build of provided test document. But this should be a temporary hotfix as this is a minted bug and should be reported to minted maintainer. Should I make PR with it?

[birkenfeld]

Thanks so much for the investigation!