Thank RH,

That indeed was it.

So in general I should always be careful about using underscores in LyX?

B. Bogart

rgheck wrote:
> B. Bogart wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm writing a paper in LyX, all was going well until I tried to generate
>> a PDF of my current draft.
>>
>> LyX complains about some Latex problems, missing $, } and an extra }.
>>
>> I've looked at the latex code from within lyx, I've looked at the lyx
>> file directly, and I've even deleted the section it complains about and
>> rewrote it by hand (not copy-paste) and I always get this damn error.
>>
>> I've attached a screenshot to provide the most information possible.
>>
>> If I copy the offending section into a new document I can generate the
>> file fine.
>>
>> If I remove the offending section from the document (cut) the same
>> errors happen, but they mark a different area of text as offending.
>>
>> If I copy the entire test and paste it into a new document I get the
>> same set of errors, but for yet another section of text.
>>
>> What and where should I be looking for the cause?
>>
>>   
> This error has to do with your bibliography. (The \newblock that LaTeX
> is complaining about is generated by BibTeX.) It looks like you have an
> illegal character in a citation somewhere. LyX is not very good at
> figuring out where these errors are, so it isn't actually where LyX is
> saying it is. (This is a complicated matter.) It looks to me as if the
> problem is the underscore in "ann_som". LaTeX thinks that's indicating a
> subscript, but you aren't in math mode, so it's deeply confused. If you
> can just take that out, that'd be simplest. Otherwise, you can escape
> it, thus: ann\_som.
> 
> rh
> 
> 
> 

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