* Will Furnass <[email protected]> [2015-05-05 11:51:56 +0100]:
> How do others locate compilation errors in large multi-file documents? > > I get a 'Missing } inserted' error for 'l.1052' when compiling but can't > relate that line number to the LyX source. I then try exporting to tex > using pdflatex into a temporary directory and search through all 16 tex > files looking for errors on or near line 1052. > > An alternative approach would have been to comment the > 'includes'/'inputs' for various chapters of my thesis then try to > recompile but this partitioning approach would be slow given that it > currently takes ~5mins to compile my thesis. > > I'm sure I can find the cause of the error eventually; I was just > wondering if there were a neat way of identifying the location of > errors. At present pretty much everything in LyX is a joy and very > slick apart from locating the source of errors. > > FYI, yes I am using a little Evil Red Text (to use \resizebox within > table floats). Something like "binary search": split in two halfs, try to find out which half does not compile. Then, again, repeat the same: split in half, identify the erroneous part. Sooner or later you'll nail the source of the error. Cheers, Nikos
