On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:13:25 -0800, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:59:53PM +0000, Alexandru Băluț wrote: > > I'm converting a LYX file to PDF from the command line and the conversion > > apparently fails, the exit code of the process is 1: > > $ lyx -e pdf2 docs/myfile.lyx -dbg latex
> > I kept removing stuff and I got to a point where I have a section 2.2.3 > > containing some simple text and if I remove its text leaving the section > > empty (only the title), exporting to PDF succeeds with no errors, whereas > > before it failed. I don't see how I could minimize the lyx file to be able > > to report the bug. > I don't understand. Why not? Because the document is not public. I ended up replacing all text manually with "t". To my surprise, the common double-click to select a word and drag to select further entire words does not work in lyx. It would be nice if it is the same as in other editors. I filed a bug: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10586 On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 01:37:43 -0800, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > It runs PDFLaTeX repeatedly hence the repeated error messages. > > What I do in these cases is > > lyx -f -e pdflatex file.lyx > > Then run > > pdflatex file.tex > > (preferably from TexTmate2 on the Mac with Command-R) and go to the > lines generating the error messages. I tried this and it still errors out, but it prints a different error related to a separate pdf used as an image in the document. > If all fails, remove EVERYTHING (text before and after, formatting and > loaded packages) step by step, until the error goes away. then generate > a very small file (Minimal Working Example) that produces the error and > post this here. I attached the lyx file to the bug I filed, I removed as much as I could: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10586 Thanks, Alex
