Re: Does anyone face this problem too?

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:08:15 +0530
 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote:

 Somehow, when I work with a remote editor on Lyx, I tend to get error
 messages while importing the .lyx file into my system. 

I don't know what a remote editor is, so I'll skip the questins about
why it imports the way it does.

 Probably this
 has to do with the fact tha they're using Windows, and I'm on
 GNU/Linux. Or maybe some difference in the version etc.
 
 My point is this: when the error messages show up, instead of zeroing
 on to the offending problem, it tends to point in all different
 diretions as to what might be wrong.

LaTeX tends to do that. LaTeX error messages tend to be numerous and
unhelpful. The way I quickly get to the bottom of LaTeX errors in LyX
that I can't quickly recognize or diagnose is to save the file, and
then keep cutting it in half. Eventually the error goes away. So then I
concentrate on the last part I deleted, and start cutting THAT in half.
Within a few minutes I have a LyX file that contains the error and
nothing but the error. 90% of the time the error and its solution is
obvious, but if not, I can email that tiny file to this mailing list,
together with an error listing, and somebody here will know what to do.


SteveT

Re: Does anyone face this problem too?

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:08:15 +0530
 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote:

 Somehow, when I work with a remote editor on Lyx, I tend to get error
 messages while importing the .lyx file into my system. 

I don't know what a remote editor is, so I'll skip the questins about
why it imports the way it does.

 Probably this
 has to do with the fact tha they're using Windows, and I'm on
 GNU/Linux. Or maybe some difference in the version etc.
 
 My point is this: when the error messages show up, instead of zeroing
 on to the offending problem, it tends to point in all different
 diretions as to what might be wrong.

LaTeX tends to do that. LaTeX error messages tend to be numerous and
unhelpful. The way I quickly get to the bottom of LaTeX errors in LyX
that I can't quickly recognize or diagnose is to save the file, and
then keep cutting it in half. Eventually the error goes away. So then I
concentrate on the last part I deleted, and start cutting THAT in half.
Within a few minutes I have a LyX file that contains the error and
nothing but the error. 90% of the time the error and its solution is
obvious, but if not, I can email that tiny file to this mailing list,
together with an error listing, and somebody here will know what to do.


SteveT

Re: Does anyone face this problem too?

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:08:15 +0530
 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
 wrote:

> Somehow, when I work with a remote editor on Lyx, I tend to get error
> messages while importing the .lyx file into my system. 

I don't know what a "remote editor" is, so I'll skip the questins about
why it imports the way it does.

> Probably this
> has to do with the fact tha they're using Windows, and I'm on
> GNU/Linux. Or maybe some difference in the version etc.
> 
> My point is this: when the error messages show up, instead of zeroing
> on to the offending problem, it tends to point in all different
> diretions as to what might be wrong.

LaTeX tends to do that. LaTeX error messages tend to be numerous and
unhelpful. The way I quickly get to the bottom of LaTeX errors in LyX
that I can't quickly recognize or diagnose is to save the file, and
then keep cutting it in half. Eventually the error goes away. So then I
concentrate on the last part I deleted, and start cutting THAT in half.
Within a few minutes I have a LyX file that contains the error and
nothing but the error. 90% of the time the error and its solution is
obvious, but if not, I can email that tiny file to this mailing list,
together with an error listing, and somebody here will know what to do.


SteveT