Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks! It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be further red marked items found by scrolling further upward Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Uups, the last one went off too early. I also had these kind of errors and often found them caused by bibtex-related problems, mostly special characters. Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. Kind regards, Felix Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 06.01.2012 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de: Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks! It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be further red marked items found by scrolling further upward Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Thanks for your comments. Just to update you, the problem was due to incompatible encoding in BibTeX. I imported some citations with accented characters in the author names - these failed to show in the reference database. When I over-rode the encoding by manually inserting the characters, the problem went away. Took me several days to work out! On 6 Jan 2012, at 15:18, Felix Krawehl wrote: Uups, the last one went off too early. I also had these kind of errors and often found them caused by bibtex-related problems, mostly special characters. Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. Kind regards, Felix Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 06.01.2012 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de: Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks! It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be further red marked items found by scrolling further upward Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 19:56:31 schrieb Gerry Clare: Thanks for your comments. Just to update you, the problem was due to incompatible encoding in BibTeX. I imported some citations with accented characters in the author names - these failed to show in the reference database. When I over-rode the encoding by manually inserting the characters, the problem went away. Took me several days to work out! Yes, I know this! What I try to do nowadays (sometimes I forget, see one of my latest questions...) is to check after every entering of a citation whether lyx- pdf conversion is alright. I am using Jabref as a bib-file and push the ref via lyx in Jabrefs menu into the document. Jabref allows also to check for the coding ( filedatabase propertiesencodingISO8859_1). Felix remark: Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. I find it faster to mark parts which you have to do anyway if you put it in a comment field, use ctr x, try the rest, if ok, paste it back with ctr v, try the other half etc until the error has been pinned down. Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks! It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be further red marked items found by scrolling further upward Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Uups, the last one went off too early. I also had these kind of errors and often found them caused by bibtex-related problems, mostly special characters. Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. Kind regards, Felix Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 06.01.2012 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de: Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks! It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be further red marked items found by scrolling further upward Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Thanks for your comments. Just to update you, the problem was due to incompatible encoding in BibTeX. I imported some citations with accented characters in the author names - these failed to show in the reference database. When I over-rode the encoding by manually inserting the characters, the problem went away. Took me several days to work out! On 6 Jan 2012, at 15:18, Felix Krawehl wrote: Uups, the last one went off too early. I also had these kind of errors and often found them caused by bibtex-related problems, mostly special characters. Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. Kind regards, Felix Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 06.01.2012 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de: Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks! It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be further red marked items found by scrolling further upward Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 19:56:31 schrieb Gerry Clare: Thanks for your comments. Just to update you, the problem was due to incompatible encoding in BibTeX. I imported some citations with accented characters in the author names - these failed to show in the reference database. When I over-rode the encoding by manually inserting the characters, the problem went away. Took me several days to work out! Yes, I know this! What I try to do nowadays (sometimes I forget, see one of my latest questions...) is to check after every entering of a citation whether lyx- pdf conversion is alright. I am using Jabref as a bib-file and push the ref via lyx in Jabrefs menu into the document. Jabref allows also to check for the coding ( filedatabase propertiesencodingISO8859_1). Felix remark: Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. I find it faster to mark parts which you have to do anyway if you put it in a comment field, use ctr x, try the rest, if ok, paste it back with ctr v, try the other half etc until the error has been pinned down. Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: > I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class > 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the > following errors: > > ! Missing $ inserted. > ! Extra }, or forgotten $. > ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. > ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. > ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. > > Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to > the bottom of these errors. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be further red marked items found by scrolling further upward Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Uups, the last one went off too early. I also had these kind of errors and often found them caused by bibtex-related problems, mostly special characters. Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. Kind regards, Felix Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 06.01.2012 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>: > Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: >> I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class >> 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the >> following errors: >> >> ! Missing $ inserted. >> ! Extra }, or forgotten $. >> ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. >> ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. >> ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. >> >> Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to >> the bottom of these errors. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks! > > It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. > It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards > until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for > words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be > further red marked items found by scrolling further upward > > Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Thanks for your comments. Just to update you, the problem was due to incompatible encoding in BibTeX. I imported some citations with accented characters in the author names - these failed to show in the reference database. When I over-rode the encoding by manually inserting the characters, the problem went away. Took me several days to work out! On 6 Jan 2012, at 15:18, Felix Krawehl wrote: > Uups, the last one went off too early. > I also had these kind of errors and often found them caused by bibtex-related > problems, mostly special characters. > Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn > document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. > Kind regards, > Felix > > Von meinem iPhone gesendet > > Am 06.01.2012 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann > <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>: > >> Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: >>> I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class >>> 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the >>> following errors: >>> >>> ! Missing $ inserted. >>> ! Extra }, or forgotten $. >>> ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. >>> ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. >>> ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. >>> >>> Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to >>> the bottom of these errors. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> Thanks! >> >> It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. >> It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards >> until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for >> words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be >> further red marked items found by scrolling further upward >> >> Wolfgang
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 19:56:31 schrieb Gerry Clare: > Thanks for your comments. Just to update you, the problem was due to > incompatible encoding in BibTeX. I imported some citations with > accented characters in the author names - these failed to show in the > reference database. When I over-rode the encoding by manually inserting > the characters, the problem went away. Took me several days to work > out! Yes, I know this! What I try to do nowadays (sometimes I forget, see one of my latest questions...) is to check after every entering of a citation whether lyx- >pdf conversion is alright. I am using Jabref as a bib-file and push the ref via "lyx" in Jabrefs menu into the document. Jabref allows also to check for the coding ( file>database properties>encoding>ISO8859_1). Felix remark: > Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I > turn document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. I find it faster to mark parts which you have to do anyway if you put it in a comment field, use ctr x, try the rest, if ok, paste it back with ctr v, try the other half etc until the error has been pinned down. Wolfgang
! Missing $ inserted.
I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 06:43:45 PM Gerry Clare wrote: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Hi Gerry, Because I know very little of LaTeX, the underlying technology of LyX, the way I fix these type of problems is divide and conquer. First I back up my file for safe keeping. Then I split it roughly in half, and see if the symptom remains. If it does, I split it in half again. If it's still there, I split it in half again, etc. Of course, sometimes the symptom goes away when I take material away, so when it goes away, I put back half the material I last took away. Keep half-splitting it and pretty soon you'll get it down to a tiny document that exhibits the problem, and the root cause becomes obvious. This works for just about any situation where LyX fails to compile to PDF etc. Hope this helps. SteveT Steve Litt: http://www.troubleshooters.com My new 99 cent Kindle book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QTBLA2
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
On 01/05/2012 06:43 PM, Gerry Clare wrote: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Many of these sorts of errors occur because of a mistaken environment setting. For example, if you accidentally have a whole bunch of stuff included in a heading type environment, it can mess things up badly. Of course, if you have some ERT included, you might have a problem there, too. LyX is really quite good at writing tex that actually compiles, so if it doesn't, there is usually some sort of unnoticed mistake somewhere. The previous suggestion is a good one, though. Break the file up (after saving it) into pieces to see in which piece the problem lies. If you still can't isolate it, put the smallest bad chunk of the document on the list, and I'll take a look at it. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
To locate the source of such problems, I export the file to latex and manually compile it to latex in a terminal (or command window in Windows). The compilation will give you a line number. You can open the latex file in a simple text editor and go to the line to have an idea of the part of the document that poses problem. -- Murat Yildizoglu yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr Le 6 janv. 2012 à 03:07, David L. Johnson david.john...@lehigh.edu a écrit : On 01/05/2012 06:43 PM, Gerry Clare wrote: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Many of these sorts of errors occur because of a mistaken environment setting. For example, if you accidentally have a whole bunch of stuff included in a heading type environment, it can mess things up badly. Of course, if you have some ERT included, you might have a problem there, too. LyX is really quite good at writing tex that actually compiles, so if it doesn't, there is usually some sort of unnoticed mistake somewhere. The previous suggestion is a good one, though. Break the file up (after saving it) into pieces to see in which piece the problem lies. If you still can't isolate it, put the smallest bad chunk of the document on the list, and I'll take a look at it. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
! Missing $ inserted.
I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 06:43:45 PM Gerry Clare wrote: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Hi Gerry, Because I know very little of LaTeX, the underlying technology of LyX, the way I fix these type of problems is divide and conquer. First I back up my file for safe keeping. Then I split it roughly in half, and see if the symptom remains. If it does, I split it in half again. If it's still there, I split it in half again, etc. Of course, sometimes the symptom goes away when I take material away, so when it goes away, I put back half the material I last took away. Keep half-splitting it and pretty soon you'll get it down to a tiny document that exhibits the problem, and the root cause becomes obvious. This works for just about any situation where LyX fails to compile to PDF etc. Hope this helps. SteveT Steve Litt: http://www.troubleshooters.com My new 99 cent Kindle book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QTBLA2
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
On 01/05/2012 06:43 PM, Gerry Clare wrote: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Many of these sorts of errors occur because of a mistaken environment setting. For example, if you accidentally have a whole bunch of stuff included in a heading type environment, it can mess things up badly. Of course, if you have some ERT included, you might have a problem there, too. LyX is really quite good at writing tex that actually compiles, so if it doesn't, there is usually some sort of unnoticed mistake somewhere. The previous suggestion is a good one, though. Break the file up (after saving it) into pieces to see in which piece the problem lies. If you still can't isolate it, put the smallest bad chunk of the document on the list, and I'll take a look at it. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
To locate the source of such problems, I export the file to latex and manually compile it to latex in a terminal (or command window in Windows). The compilation will give you a line number. You can open the latex file in a simple text editor and go to the line to have an idea of the part of the document that poses problem. -- Murat Yildizoglu yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr Le 6 janv. 2012 à 03:07, David L. Johnson david.john...@lehigh.edu a écrit : On 01/05/2012 06:43 PM, Gerry Clare wrote: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Many of these sorts of errors occur because of a mistaken environment setting. For example, if you accidentally have a whole bunch of stuff included in a heading type environment, it can mess things up badly. Of course, if you have some ERT included, you might have a problem there, too. LyX is really quite good at writing tex that actually compiles, so if it doesn't, there is usually some sort of unnoticed mistake somewhere. The previous suggestion is a good one, though. Break the file up (after saving it) into pieces to see in which piece the problem lies. If you still can't isolate it, put the smallest bad chunk of the document on the list, and I'll take a look at it. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
! Missing $ inserted.
I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to the bottom of these errors. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 06:43:45 PM Gerry Clare wrote: > I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document > class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I > now get the following errors: > > ! Missing $ inserted. > ! Extra }, or forgotten $. > ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. > ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. > ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. > > Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to > get to the bottom of these errors. > > Any suggestions? Hi Gerry, Because I know very little of LaTeX, the underlying technology of LyX, the way I fix these type of problems is divide and conquer. First I back up my file for safe keeping. Then I split it roughly in half, and see if the symptom remains. If it does, I split it in half again. If it's still there, I split it in half again, etc. Of course, sometimes the symptom goes away when I take material away, so when it goes away, I put back half the material I last took away. Keep half-splitting it and pretty soon you'll get it down to a tiny document that exhibits the problem, and the root cause becomes obvious. This works for just about any situation where LyX fails to compile to PDF etc. Hope this helps. SteveT Steve Litt: http://www.troubleshooters.com My new 99 cent Kindle book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QTBLA2
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
On 01/05/2012 06:43 PM, Gerry Clare wrote: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Many of these sorts of errors occur because of a mistaken environment setting. For example, if you accidentally have a whole bunch of stuff included in a "heading" type environment, it can mess things up badly. Of course, if you have some ERT included, you might have a problem there, too. LyX is really quite good at writing tex that actually compiles, so if it doesn't, there is usually some sort of unnoticed mistake somewhere. The previous suggestion is a good one, though. Break the file up (after saving it) into pieces to see in which piece the problem lies. If you still can't isolate it, put the smallest bad chunk of the document on the list, and I'll take a look at it. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
To locate the source of such problems, I export the file to latex and manually compile it to latex in a terminal (or command window in Windows). The compilation will give you a line number. You can open the latex file in a simple text editor and go to the line to have an idea of the part of the document that poses problem. -- Murat Yildizoglu yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr Le 6 janv. 2012 à 03:07, "David L. Johnson" <david.john...@lehigh.edu> a écrit : > On 01/05/2012 06:43 PM, Gerry Clare wrote: >> I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class >> 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the >> following errors: >> >> ! Missing $ inserted. >> ! Extra }, or forgotten $. >> ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. >> ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. >> ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. >> > > Many of these sorts of errors occur because of a mistaken environment > setting. For example, if you accidentally have a whole bunch of stuff > included in a "heading" type environment, it can mess things up badly. Of > course, if you have some ERT included, you might have a problem there, too. > LyX is really quite good at writing tex that actually compiles, so if it > doesn't, there is usually some sort of unnoticed mistake somewhere. > > The previous suggestion is a good one, though. Break the file up (after > saving it) into pieces to see in which piece the problem lies. If you still > can't isolate it, put the smallest bad chunk of the document on the list, and > I'll take a look at it. > > -- > > David L. Johnson > > The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics. >
underscore and missing $ inserted
Hi All,
I'm using this in my preamble.sty to include doi-links:
\newcommand*{\doi}[1]{\href{http://dx.doi.org/#1}{doi:#1}}
this works less than great when the DOI happens to include an underscore _
I then get two Missing $ inserted warnings from lyx, and no pdf output.
I would need some magic in front of the \doi command which would make
lyx/latex ignore the underscore(s) and not complain about missing $.
Any ideas?
This is lyx 1.6.5 with latex 3.1415926-1.40.10 on Ubuntu 10.04LTS
thanks,
AW
underscore and missing $ inserted
Hi All,
I'm using this in my preamble.sty to include doi-links:
\newcommand*{\doi}[1]{\href{http://dx.doi.org/#1}{doi:#1}}
this works less than great when the DOI happens to include an underscore _
I then get two Missing $ inserted warnings from lyx, and no pdf output.
I would need some magic in front of the \doi command which would make
lyx/latex ignore the underscore(s) and not complain about missing $.
Any ideas?
This is lyx 1.6.5 with latex 3.1415926-1.40.10 on Ubuntu 10.04LTS
thanks,
AW
underscore and "missing $ inserted"
Hi All,
I'm using this in my preamble.sty to include doi-links:
\newcommand*{\doi}[1]{\href{http://dx.doi.org/#1}{doi:#1}}
this works less than great when the DOI happens to include an underscore "_"
I then get two "Missing $ inserted" warnings from lyx, and no pdf output.
I would need some magic in front of the \doi command which would make
lyx/latex ignore the underscore(s) and not complain about missing "$".
Any ideas?
This is lyx 1.6.5 with latex 3.1415926-1.40.10 on Ubuntu 10.04LTS
thanks,
AW
Re: underscore and missing $ inserted
Try adding \usepackage{underscore} in the preamble (and, of course, installing
it if you don't already have it).
/Paul
[nomenclature] missing $ inserted.
Hi!
When I get an error with lyx.
! Missing $ inserted.
inserted text
$
l.1478 ...ture[XX HH $\left[\left[\right]\right]^
{n}$]{$\left[\left[\right]...
I exported the file to pdflatex and found that this line is the source of
the problem (the part in \nomenclature[]). Any idea what is wrong?
{} \nomenclature[XX HH
$\left[\left[\right]\right]^{n}$]{$\left[\left[\right]\right]^{n}$}{A term
that is evaluted at time level n.}
Thanks.
/Maka
[nomenclature] missing $ inserted.
Hi!
When I get an error with lyx.
! Missing $ inserted.
inserted text
$
l.1478 ...ture[XX HH $\left[\left[\right]\right]^
{n}$]{$\left[\left[\right]...
I exported the file to pdflatex and found that this line is the source of
the problem (the part in \nomenclature[]). Any idea what is wrong?
{} \nomenclature[XX HH
$\left[\left[\right]\right]^{n}$]{$\left[\left[\right]\right]^{n}$}{A term
that is evaluted at time level n.}
Thanks.
/Maka
[nomenclature] missing $ inserted.
Hi!
When I get an error with lyx.
! Missing $ inserted.
$
l.1478 ...ture[XX HH $\left[\left[\right]\right]^
{n}$]{$\left[\left[\right]...
I exported the file to pdflatex and found that this line is the source of
the problem (the part in \nomenclature[]). Any idea what is wrong?
{} \nomenclature[XX HH
$\left[\left[\right]\right]^{n}$]{$\left[\left[\right]\right]^{n}$}{A term
that is evaluted at time level n.}
Thanks.
/Maka
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Dear All, Thanks for your comments! I used James' suggestion and deleted each section. My document is more than 120 pages, so I spent a good few hours fixing the problem. Today I found Paul's comment which was right on the money! This was exactly the cause. For some reason, two citations in two separate footnotes went crazy. I can't even see why in the bibtex file, but when I re-entered them as new citations in the bibtex database, it works. Quite annoying. :-) Thanks all for your help, Erez On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Dear All, I have been working on a document for a long time. I regularly pdf it. I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams This happens on the first line of the document, with line as standard I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp. See below the error... It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck... Are you using a BibTeX database to add citations? The fact that this occurs during or after the second pass rather than the first suggests that something is being added belatedly (like the bibliography) that produces the error. You said you didn't do anything to the document; might you (or someone else) have edited the BibTeX file? /Paul -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Dear All, Thanks for your comments! I used James' suggestion and deleted each section. My document is more than 120 pages, so I spent a good few hours fixing the problem. Today I found Paul's comment which was right on the money! This was exactly the cause. For some reason, two citations in two separate footnotes went crazy. I can't even see why in the bibtex file, but when I re-entered them as new citations in the bibtex database, it works. Quite annoying. :-) Thanks all for your help, Erez On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Dear All, I have been working on a document for a long time. I regularly pdf it. I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams This happens on the first line of the document, with line as standard I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp. See below the error... It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck... Are you using a BibTeX database to add citations? The fact that this occurs during or after the second pass rather than the first suggests that something is being added belatedly (like the bibliography) that produces the error. You said you didn't do anything to the document; might you (or someone else) have edited the BibTeX file? /Paul -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Dear All, Thanks for your comments! I used James' suggestion and deleted each section. My document is more than 120 pages, so I spent a good few hours fixing the problem. Today I found Paul's comment which was "right on the money"! This was exactly the cause. For some reason, two citations in two separate footnotes went crazy. I can't even see why in the bibtex file, but when I re-entered them as new citations in the bibtex database, it works. Quite annoying. :-) Thanks all for your help, Erez On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I have been working on a document for a long time. I regularly pdf it. >> >> I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams >> >> This happens on the first line of the document, with line as "standard" >> >> I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp. >> >> See below the error... >> >> It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck... >> >> > Are you using a BibTeX database to add citations? The fact that this > occurs during or after the second pass rather than the first suggests that > something is being added belatedly (like the bibliography) that produces the > error. You said you didn't do anything to the document; might you (or > someone else) have edited the BibTeX file? > > /Paul > > -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as standard
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
I sometimes have this problem due to what is likely a bug in LyX.
Try the following: segment your document into several documents and
see which one(s) fail. Continue removing until you find the offending
part(s). Then if you also look at the LaTeX source code you can
sometimes find the problem. Ususally for me it is an extra space
(LyX typically eliminates those, and if it doesn't for some reason,
things break).
James
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as
standard
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
That's a LaTeX error. Something is odd with the way you're putting in
your equations. I often find it useful to export the LyX document as
LaTeX and then see where the error comes from there. You can also
click on the error message in list and see the line in the original
LyX document that causes the problem. Either way should give you some
insight into the problem.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as
standard
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Dear All, I have been working on a document for a long time. I regularly pdf it. I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams This happens on the first line of the document, with line as standard I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp. See below the error... It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck... Are you using a BibTeX database to add citations? The fact that this occurs during or after the second pass rather than the first suggests that something is being added belatedly (like the bibliography) that produces the error. You said you didn't do anything to the document; might you (or someone else) have edited the BibTeX file? /Paul
missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as standard
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
I sometimes have this problem due to what is likely a bug in LyX.
Try the following: segment your document into several documents and
see which one(s) fail. Continue removing until you find the offending
part(s). Then if you also look at the LaTeX source code you can
sometimes find the problem. Ususally for me it is an extra space
(LyX typically eliminates those, and if it doesn't for some reason,
things break).
James
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as
standard
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
That's a LaTeX error. Something is odd with the way you're putting in
your equations. I often find it useful to export the LyX document as
LaTeX and then see where the error comes from there. You can also
click on the error message in list and see the line in the original
LyX document that causes the problem. Either way should give you some
insight into the problem.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as
standard
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Dear All, I have been working on a document for a long time. I regularly pdf it. I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams This happens on the first line of the document, with line as standard I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp. See below the error... It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck... Are you using a BibTeX database to add citations? The fact that this occurs during or after the second pass rather than the first suggests that something is being added belatedly (like the bibliography) that produces the error. You said you didn't do anything to the document; might you (or someone else) have edited the BibTeX file? /Paul
missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as "standard"
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
I sometimes have this problem due to what is likely a bug in LyX.
Try the following: segment your document into several documents and
see which one(s) fail. Continue removing until you find the offending
part(s). Then if you also look at the LaTeX source code you can
sometimes find the problem. Ususally for me it is an "extra" space
(LyX typically eliminates those, and if it doesn't for some reason,
things break).
James
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as
"standard"
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
That's a LaTeX error. Something is odd with the way you're putting in
your equations. I often find it useful to export the LyX document as
LaTeX and then see where the error comes from there. You can also
click on the error message in list and see the line in the original
LyX document that causes the problem. Either way should give you some
insight into the problem.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as
"standard"
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Dear All, I have been working on a document for a long time. I regularly pdf it. I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams This happens on the first line of the document, with line as "standard" I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp. See below the error... It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck... Are you using a BibTeX database to add citations? The fact that this occurs during or after the second pass rather than the first suggests that something is being added belatedly (like the bibliography) that produces the error. You said you didn't do anything to the document; might you (or someone else) have edited the BibTeX file? /Paul
