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Compile old LaTeX document

I recently found an old LaTeX doc that I wrote in 1994. It starts with the line

\documentstyle[makeidx,twoside,german,bibgerm,a4wide,mydefs,
               equations,fleqn,psfig]{script}

Now I tried to compile this document using a real version of MiKTeX on my windows machine, but pdflatex complains about the undefined contol '\ phspace' sequence:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \uppercase {i}\phspace
                                  {1em}Fail--Stop

I am very confident that this document was compiled without errors in 1994 (this was my thesis). What can I do to make this build again?

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This is similar to what is coming from the file toc

. Do you still have all the supporting files created by the old LaTeX in the same directory? If so, you should remove them before trying modern LaTeX. They include at least aux

, toc

, lof

and lot

.



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I think I \phspace

was probably an old LaTeX 2.09 primitive that is no longer used. Try adding

\let\phspace\hspace


in the preamble.

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