You could try renaming your .lyx/ directory and launching lyx to have it generate a fresh set of settings.
See if that makes a difference. ---Kayvan On Sep 22, 2012, at 0:36, "Julia Schäfer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have been using Lyx 2.0.3 (on Mac OSX) on my current project for several > months now and learned to deal with most errors occurring. However, now Lyx > doesn't any longer guide me directly to the point in my document that caused > the problem but only tells me that there is a problem as soon as I try to > generate the PDF-preview. I think it stopped doing so a couple of days ago > but I can't remember why and if I involuntarily changed any settings. Now > recently I have reworked my document and made changes all over the place (and > forgot to generate the preview every couple of minutes). So it is impossible > for me simply to 'guess' which recent change may have caused the errors Lyx > is "talking" about. Especially as it's so general problems like "LaTeX Error: > Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item." or "Missing } inserted." which > seems to be cover terms for all kinds errors. Usually I can figure out what > the problem is if I just know where to look for it. > > I have also tried to solve the problems by looking at the source code but I > couldn't figure out anything. As long as I can't solve the existing problems > I won't be able to generate the preview in order to check if I don't produce > any new errors as I proceed writing and the list of 'mysterious errors' is > getting longer and longer. > > So please help me!!! How can I make Lyx guide me to the problem in the > document and show me at least the paragraph containing the errors again? > > Thank you very much! > Julia Schäfer
