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Answer is an expansion of a comment made by John Kormylo.
To avoid getting the message "this does not look like a TDS; are you sure...", extract xcolor.zip into <dir>/tex/latex rather than just to <dir>/.
cd to <dir>/tex/latex and pdflatex xcolor.ins to generate xcolor.sty.
Using the MikTeX console to Settings->Directories, add the ...
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Well, just use Emacs. Steep learning curve, but worth the time and effort. And it comes with org-mode. Good thing to get things organised. I never learned lisp, by the way.
To write and compile *.tex files, there is AUCTeX mode of Emacs.
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Is your network connection effectively timing out? Reviewing the download progress of packages, elapsed times (assuming I'm reading them correctly as minutes:seconds) seem quite slow. Perhaps try renewing your connection, checking DL speeds independently?
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Try this:
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\test}{{abc}def}
\begin{document}
\uppercase\test
\end{document}
The output is
Funny? A bit.
The fact is that \uppercase is a TeX primitive that requires { after it. To this end, it expands tokens after it; any \relax token or space token is ignored and expansion is resumed. This expansion process ends as ...
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latex provides \MakeUppercase because \uppercase will destroy lots of text, almost all text if you are using UTF-8 with non ascii letters. However the specific error here is
\uppercase\chaptertitlename
The braces are not optional, it has to be
\uppercase{\chaptertitlename}
hence the missing brace error that you show.
But as noted above this will break ...
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You do not define \FILENAME in the case that filecontents* is used, presumably you want something like this that defines it to be \jobname
\documentclass[tikz, border=0mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{readarray}
\readarraysepchar{,}
\usepackage{filecontents}
% If the argument is provided at the Windows command prompt use it
% otherwise ...
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