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OK, I've been staring at this for an hour. I know there's an error in this frame, as the document compiles fine if I put \end{document} in the frame before this. But this frame gives an error about extra } or missing endgroup.

Where is it?????

\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{PROC TEMPLATE for a fancy graph (part 1)}
\begin{alltt}
proc template;
 define statgraph scatdens2;
 begingraph;   *BEGIN DEFINING THE GRAPH;
   entrytitle "Scatter plot with density plots";
    *CREATE A TITLE;
   layout lattice/columns = 2 rows = 2
    columnweights = (.8 .2) rowweights = (.8 .2)
      columndatarange = union rowdatarange = union;
   *LAYOUT LATTICE...SETS UP A GRID OF GRAPHS;
   *COLUMNWEIGHTS AND ROWWEIGHTS SETS
    THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THE INDIVIDUAL COLUMNS AND ROWS;
 \end{alltt}
 \end{frame}
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Don't put greetings and a signature, as the latter is automatically inserted. For the code, indent each line by four spaces. – egreg May 9 '11 at 21:11
Try removing the space before \end{frame} (assuming that this is real and not an artefact from posting here) – Joseph Wright♦ May 9 '11 at 21:11

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Believe it or not, the error was caused by the space before \end{frame}.

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Oh, I believe you. frame is a pseudo-environment, i.e. a macro in disguise which collects everything till \end{frame}. With the fragile option it turns on verbatim mode in addition and then looks for the <new line>\end{frame} verbatim. With the space it doesn't find it and therefore takes everything until the end of the document where an error is raised, except of course if there is such a line later in the document. – Martin Scharrer♦ May 9 '11 at 21:25
Thanks! That was it. How strange. – Peter Flom May 9 '11 at 22:28
what's the point of adding the [fragile] option ? – Suresh May 10 '11 at 3:10
That's scary... thanks! Unbelievable is the perfect translation for "not easy findable" in this case. – Vinicius Massuchetto Jun 10 '12 at 17:59
@ViniciusMassuchetto After more than one year I don't remember precisely what I did to pinpoint the error. I was probably helped by the fact that I never indent environments. :) Only the code in definitions and sometimes the contents of the environments, particularly "continuation lines" in tabulars. – egreg Jun 10 '12 at 18:48

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