Failed to compile Wiley NJD v5 latex template zip downloaded from Wiley official

Question

1. Following the author guideline, I downloaded Wiley NJD v5 template zip file from the official site.
2. Then, as I following the author-guideline.pdf inside the zip file to compile the tex file, it failed.
3. Tried Xelatex, pdflatex, latexmk, lualatex... ALL FAILED.
4. Upload the zip folder onto overleaf. Builded it. Failed.

Anything wrong with my operations?

My environment: windows 11, texlive 2023.

Answer 1

The template includes private copies of standard packages and standard fonts which makes very little sense, and if you use it with texlive 2023 it stops with

) (./listings.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/tex/latex/listings/lstmisc.sty

***
*** This file requires `listings.sty' version 1.9.
*** You have a serious problem, so I'm exiting ...
***

If you delete the version of listings.sty in the template, the supplied wileyNJDv5_AMA.tex does run without error with both pdflatex and lualatex but with several warnings and ending with

(\end occurred when \iftrue on line 4824 was incomplete)
(\end occurred when \if on line 4812 was incomplete)
(\end occurred when \if on line 4800 was incomplete)
(\end occurred when \if on line 4788 was incomplete)
(\end occurred when \if on line 4776 was incomplete)
(\end occurred when \if on line 4764 was incomplete)
(\end occurred when \if on line 4752 was incomplete)
(\end occurred when \if on line 4740 was incomplete)
(\end occurred when \if on line 2 was incomplete)

However as a commercially supported class, it's not reasonable to debug it, I would just use it as is if they are requiring that, but complain to the publisher and ask that they provide an example document that runs without warning.

Answer 2

I have also been plagued by this and have found the answer. It's an embarrassment to see the poor support Wiley gives for this NJD-v5 template.

The issue with Overleaf/LaTeX editors is the version of TeX Live 2023. If you roll back to 2022, the template compiles successfully with listings.sty.

It is probably not wise to delete that file.

If you use Overleaf (why don't you), click 'Menu' in the top left and then change the 'TeX Live' version to 2022, the template compiles without error.

I can't speak to other LaTeX editors but hopefully a change in TeX live versions is easy to do.

Answer 3

I changed the file name of 'listings.sty' to 'listings__.sty' and then it starts to compile in TeXstudio 4.8.1 (git 4.8.1)

Answer 4

In my case, it helped to set the version to 1.9 in the listings.sty file:

\def\filedate{2020/03/24} \def\fileversion{1.9}%previously 1.8d

This enables TeXlive 2023, which also allows you to submit it to arXiv.