Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Guenter Milde wrote:
  LyX does this as well.  What do you miss?

 In many cases LyX is not able to find the true location of the
 offending code (e.g. if inside a float or a macro definition in the
 preamble).

Please provide examples for the float thing and other instances where the 
place in the document is not found (otherwise we cannot fix it).
Preamble is more difficult to solve I guess.

  More longer excerpts from the error messages?

 How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

Hm.

 Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Yes, that would be helpful indeed.

Jürgen

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Ralf]

Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@... writes:

  How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

  Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Ahh, big discovery for me - you can indeed browse through the errors. My
apologies, I just did not recognize it, because the offending code was in the
BibTex part: I copied the BibTex entry from a website and there was a
(nonprintable?) character that caused the trouble.

But, I concur, an option to jump to the error in the Log file would be swell!

Thanks for the replies
-Ralf

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Guenter Milde wrote:
  LyX does this as well.  What do you miss?

 In many cases LyX is not able to find the true location of the
 offending code (e.g. if inside a float or a macro definition in the
 preamble).

Please provide examples for the float thing and other instances where the 
place in the document is not found (otherwise we cannot fix it).
Preamble is more difficult to solve I guess.

  More longer excerpts from the error messages?

 How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

Hm.

 Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Yes, that would be helpful indeed.

Jürgen

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Ralf]

Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@... writes:

  How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

  Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Ahh, big discovery for me - you can indeed browse through the errors. My
apologies, I just did not recognize it, because the offending code was in the
BibTex part: I copied the BibTex entry from a website and there was a
(nonprintable?) character that caused the trouble.

But, I concur, an option to jump to the error in the Log file would be swell!

Thanks for the replies
-Ralf

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Guenter Milde wrote:
> > LyX does this as well.  What do you miss?
>
> In many cases LyX is not able to find the true location of the
> offending code (e.g. if inside a float or a macro definition in the
> preamble).

Please provide examples for the float thing and other instances where the 
place in the document is not found (otherwise we cannot fix it).
Preamble is more difficult to solve I guess.

> > More longer excerpts from the error messages?
>
> How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

Hm.

> Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Yes, that would be helpful indeed.

Jürgen

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Ralf]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  writes:

> > How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

> > Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Ahh, big discovery for me - you can indeed browse through the errors. My
apologies, I just did not recognize it, because the offending code was in the
BibTex part: I copied the BibTex entry from a website and there was a
(nonprintable?) character that caused the trouble.

But, I concur, an option to jump to the error in the Log file would be swell!

Thanks for the replies
-Ralf

About Lyx Error Messages

[Ralf]

Dear Gurus,

sometimes even in Lyx you do something wrong and you get an error message. Most
of the time they are not very usefull - they simply indicate that something went
wrong with a short excerpt of what caused the trouble - the excerpt however is
not enough (for me at least) to find out what exactly went wrong and how to fix
it. You always have to go bug-hunting...

Maybe that is by choice of design to let the user chase it, but if TeXnicCenter
can do it, I dare to say, Lyx can (should?) do it.

TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
place, which is very very helpfull.

Is something like this planned in a future release or maybe it is already there
and I just missed it?

How do you people solve things like this?

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

 TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
 place, which is very very helpfull.

LyX does this as well. What do you miss? More longer excerpts from the error 
messages?

Jürgen

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-06-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
 place, which is very very helpfull.

 LyX does this as well.  What do you miss?

In many cases LyX is not able to find the true location of the
offending code (e.g. if inside a float or a macro definition in the
preamble). 

 More longer excerpts from the error messages?

How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Günter

About Lyx Error Messages

[Ralf]

Dear Gurus,

sometimes even in Lyx you do something wrong and you get an error message. Most
of the time they are not very usefull - they simply indicate that something went
wrong with a short excerpt of what caused the trouble - the excerpt however is
not enough (for me at least) to find out what exactly went wrong and how to fix
it. You always have to go bug-hunting...

Maybe that is by choice of design to let the user chase it, but if TeXnicCenter
can do it, I dare to say, Lyx can (should?) do it.

TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
place, which is very very helpfull.

Is something like this planned in a future release or maybe it is already there
and I just missed it?

How do you people solve things like this?

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

 TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
 place, which is very very helpfull.

LyX does this as well. What do you miss? More longer excerpts from the error 
messages?

Jürgen

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-06-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
 place, which is very very helpfull.

 LyX does this as well.  What do you miss?

In many cases LyX is not able to find the true location of the
offending code (e.g. if inside a float or a macro definition in the
preamble). 

 More longer excerpts from the error messages?

How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Günter

About Lyx Error Messages

[Ralf]

Dear Gurus,

sometimes even in Lyx you do something wrong and you get an error message. Most
of the time they are not very usefull - they simply indicate that something went
wrong with a short excerpt of what caused the trouble - the excerpt however is
not enough (for me at least) to find out what exactly went wrong and how to fix
it. You always have to go bug-hunting...

Maybe that is by choice of design to let the user chase it, but if TeXnicCenter
can do it, I dare to say, Lyx can (should?) do it.

TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
place, which is very very helpfull.

Is something like this planned in a future release or maybe it is already there
and I just missed it?

How do you people solve things like this?

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

> TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
> place, which is very very helpfull.

LyX does this as well. What do you miss? More longer excerpts from the error 
messages?

Jürgen

Re: About Lyx Error Messages

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-06-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>> TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right
>> place, which is very very helpfull.

> LyX does this as well.  What do you miss?

In many cases LyX is not able to find the true location of the
offending code (e.g. if inside a float or a macro definition in the
preamble). 

> More longer excerpts from the error messages?

How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log?

Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window.

Günter