----- Original Message ---- From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:07:37 AM Subject: Re: A quick LaTeX question
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. ============= response follows ================= Thanks for your response, Steve, and the good advice. Most of it I'd tried already, of course :-) What's really frustrating is that this error is what I'd call a problem of the whole, rather than the parts. I can go through my document and successively comment out different portions, and things work fine. It's when everything is called together that the error crops up (it's apparently a fundamental limitation in the way TeX was originally written, and there's not any really tricky way around it other that's not tremendously painful, as far as I can tell). I'll keep hacking away. Too bad my dissertation is due in a couple of days! Thanks all. /************************************************************* Down with categorical imperative! [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
