On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Martin Vlk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx from > LyX Help into PDF for easy reading. > > When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output: > > \par > > \end{center} > > I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this > > control sequence to too much text. How can we recover? > > My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best. > > > \par\end{center} > > Try typing <return> to proceed. > > If that doesn't work, type X <return> to quit. > > > ETC. > > I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another > document which I can successfully convert. > > I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong. > > Many Thanks > Martin
Hi Martin, indeed something strange might be happening here. I don't have access to LyX 2.1 right now but on LyX 2.2dev it exports fine for me on Ubuntu 14.04. Note however that I'm using TeX Live 2014 (which I installed with https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu). Either the LyX version of the TeX Live version could explain the difference. Can you install LyX 2.2dev by using the daily PPA? see instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3 If after that, it doesn't work, I would be happy to take a look at it (not right now though) *if* you provide a script that will allow me to reproduce your error from a fresh Ubuntu installation. Perhaps the script would just contain the following line? sudo apt-get install lyx texlive-full Actually I think you'll need to put adding the PPA (and a sudo apt-get update and then install of the package name). Best, Scott
