On Tuesday 27 March 2007 10:29, curtis osterhoudt wrote: > Hi, LyXers. I should really be asking this on a LaTeX list, but I thought > I'd find out if anyone has quick answers: > > I'm running into the dreaded "No room for a new \write" problem. I'm at > the worrisome stage of removing packages from inclusion in the preamble to > see if that helps at all. But I know that there are many packages which > claim they *must* be loaded last, or before another package, etc. Does > anyone know of a site which is somewhat up-to-date where the _order_ of > inclusion of many common packages is listed? > > Thanks! > Curtis O.
Hi Curtis, I can't answer your question, and am not familiar with your specific error message, but if you can't find it, here's how I'd approach the problem... I'd start by exporting to LaTeX, compiling to dvi, and see if it still happens. If not, inspect what LyX is doing differently. If it still occurs, save a copy of the LaTeX file for further experimentation, and continue. I'd remove almost all the body, titlepage, etc, leaving just a sentence of standard environment text. Does it still occur? If so you're right, it's probably a packages thing -- remove packages. If eliminating the body removes the symptom, put back half the body. If the symptom comes back, remove half of that half. Keep half splitting the thing until you find a sentence, phrase, ERT or whatever that can toggle the symptom. Then try to reduce the document body to just that sentence, phrase, ERT or whatever. At that point the problem will probably be obvious. The reason I suggested exporting to LaTeX is so you don't need to include LyX in your change/compile/observe cycle, and if you change your layout file you don't need to reconfigure and exit from LyX. Like I said, you may solve it before needing to resort to any of this, but IMHO that's your backup plan, and I'm sure it will work. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
