Chapter 3 template preventing knitting

[kelseygonzalez]

Describe the bug
When rendering the default template, there's something in chapter 3 that Latex is now struggling to render that is breaking the build.

To Reproduce
Create a new thesisdown from the template, and click knit from the index.Rmd file. Error from the console / thesis.log:

Chapter 3.
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   (
l.553 ...columnwidth - 2\tabcolsep) * \real{0.31}}
                                                  \centering 

Expected behavior
I expect it to render the default document.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows
• Version R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) -- "Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out"

Additional context
This could definitely be a latex issue on my own computer. I've been fighting with it all day but this error has persisted. If I delete most of the chapter 3, the error disappears and the document renders.

[ismayc]

Hi there. I think this might be the table that I have added in to demo that in Chapter 3 as that has caused issues with LaTeX before. It's probably best to just remove that Markdown table and generate tables with R instead.

[kelseygonzalez]

Indeed @ismayc - I just tested by removing only the markdown table at the beginning and it rendered. Sounds like it's time to rid ourselves of that pesky table!

[ismayc]

I'll look into updating the template over the next few days so others don't have this same issue when they do a fresh build. Thanks for reporting!

[Xyv]

Hey,
Pandoc has recently changed the way they compute the the column widths in tables: jgm/pandoc@bd7c9eb
Adding \usepackage{calc} in the template fixes this.
And thanks for all the work you've done!

EDIT: They've made a few more changes regarding tables since were you might require to include array too. (jgm/pandoc@7c4d7db)
For reference, I made my own template and stumbled onto the same problem, I've skimmed through the last few commits on the default.latex template to catch the culprits.

[ismayc]

Thank you! That's super helpful

[Xyv]

My pleasure, happy to be of some help to this nice project.

[ismayc]

Pushed to master in #124

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