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Re: view PDF doesn't work with a certain mathematical formula

Florin Oprina
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:13:50 -0700

On further inspection, it turns out the culprit is the ellipsis, which you
input as a unicode character instead of \ldots.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Florin Oprina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> When trying to view the pdf file, lyx suggested to change the encoding to
> utf8. I did, and the file compiles just fine.
> BTW, I notice that in the endocing drop-down list there are utf8 and UTF8
> (not to mention utf8-plain and utf8x). Does anyone know what the differences
> between them are?
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Eric Cavalcanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
>
>> I am writing a paper with lyx, and for some reason viewing of exporting
>> DVI
>> or PDF stopped working at all. Not even an error message. I managed to
>> narrow it down to the mathematical formulas. Something happened along the
>> way that turned them into offending things. I can't even create a new
>> formula and copy and paste the contents of the old ones, only retyping
>> from
>> scratch works.
>>
>> Anybody has an idea what's going on? I would hate to have to retype all
>> the
>> hundreds of formulas in this paper!
>>
>> I'll try to attach a sample lyx file, but I suspect it will be rejected.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>