“Undefined tab position” when trying to generate PDF with Doxygen and pdfLaTeX

Question

I have read this but it doesn't help me.

I know nothing about TEX, all I care is to extract Doxygen documentation from a C project in a PDF.

For that, the DoxyWizard wants me to generate TEX files ready for hyperlinked PDFs, then I use the pdflatex tool (I actually run an autogenerated make.bat to do that) and it generates me a PDF.

Problem is that while running the pdflatex tool some "LaTeX Error: Undefined tab position" messages appear which determine a lot of linking errors in the resulting PDF.

Where should I be looking for the cause of these errors?

Answer 1

The error means that you are using tabbing and have moved to a tab beyond the last defined tab on the line.

! LaTeX Error: Undefined tab position.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.7   x\> y \>
               z
?

The above error shows (via the position of the line break) that the second tab \> is not defined. The reason being that there is only one \= setting tab stops in the first line of this test file:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabbing}
  aaaaa\= bbbb\\
  x\> y \> z
\end{tabbing}
\end{document}