On 2009-11-06, Manolo Martínez wrote: > Eventually, the problem was with a typographic accent in one of the > references cited in the offending chapter. Thanks for your advise!
> As you said, the information in the compilation log is invaluable when > things go wrong. It's a pity that LyX does not provide this information > when it cannot compile. The error messages it does provide are, many > times, far from enough to track down a problem. > Maybe a more intelligent behaviour by LyX would be to silently compile > when everything goes OK, but providing a pointer to the compilation log > when things go wrong? AFAIK, this is LyX's default behaviour. Did you try with Document>LaTeX log after a compilation already? I only miss a search function in the window that shows the log. Günter