Failed Make

[abilinx]

This line are printed when I try to make the pdf file:

... pandoc main.tex -o software-testing-laboon-ebook.pdf
--latex-engine xelatex
--chapters -N --toc --toc-depth=2
-M documentclass="book"
-M classoption="twoside"
-M classoption="letterpaper"
-M geometry="margin=1.25in"
-M title="\Huge{\textbf{A Friendly Introduction\\to Software Testing}}"
-M author="\LARGE{Bill Laboon}"
-M date="{\Large\textcopyright~\textbf{2017-07-05}}\\Compiled in PDF\LaTeX{}\endgraf\textit{for AKS and CKN}" pandoc: Error at "source" (line 429, column 26): unexpected "\n" expecting "!" ``\lstinline!78 &^\item ^ make: *** [pdf] Error 1

[laboon]

Hello - Thanks for reporting. I can't reproduce this problem locally. Could you let me know your operating system along with the version of pandoc and make you are using?

[abilinx]

Hi Excuse me for late response. I'm using a Linux box with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and pandoc 1.12.2.1.