A colleague sent me a latex file that (on my system)compiles perfectly to pdf. Importing into lyx mangles it up in such a way that it doesn't compile any to pdf anymore (from lyx). Here is what I see:
1. In the preamble, tex2lyx gobbles up whitespace in (what seems to me) random places. As a consequence, several Latex commands are chained up back to back, and, understandably, Latex is not happy. 2. In the text, \par commands are inserted here and there. Again, I cannot see a specific pattern. 3. The file contains many equations (in fact, it is almost all equations), and some of them must have been mangled up, because (after correcting the preamble problem), the file does not compile and I get tens of Latex errors about a missing and/or extra }. I suppose the problems may be caused by the same gobbling up of white space that causes problem 1, but I am not sure (I know very little about equation formatting, and never write equations in Latex) Does anyone know if this is a known problem? Perhaps it is encoding related? Or Windows/Linux related (I am on Linux, the colleague is on Windows)? Cheers, S. ______________________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall [email protected] College Station, TX 77843-4237
