Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-08 Thread Will Furnass
> Will Furnass wrote: >> >> If would be great if LyX would switch to/open the child document >> containing the likely location of the error and move the cursor to that >> location. Ticket filed: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9539

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-07 Thread Georg Baum
Will Furnass wrote: > On 5 May 2015 at 21:38, Georg Baum wrote: > >> >> If you select the error item in the error dialog then the corresponding >> LyX contents should should be selected in the main area as well. This is >> not always 100% correct, but usually the error cause is nearby. Does this

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Gordon Cooper
On 06/05/15 09:57, Will Furnass wrote: That works perfectly if the error is in the master document but not if the error is in a child document (of which I have quite a few). I have been having similar problems with errors, mainly relating to producing printable pdf versions of a Software Use

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Will Furnass
On 5 May 2015 at 21:38, Georg Baum wrote: > > If you select the error item in the error dialog then the corresponding LyX > contents should should be selected in the main area as well. This is not > always 100% correct, but usually the error cause is nearby. Does this not > work in your case? >

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Georg Baum
Will Furnass wrote: > How do others locate compilation errors in large multi-file documents? > > I get a 'Missing } inserted' error for 'l.1052' when compiling but can't > relate that line number to the LyX source. I then try exporting to tex > using pdflatex into a temporary directory and searc

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > That was the reason I was asking a while ago, whether the latex source > panel (under >view) could show the tex line number. But I was told it is > not possible under lyx. Why that? Of course it would only be possible if the panel is set to show the full source (other

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Will Furnass
On 05/05/15 15:06, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > That was the reason I was asking a while ago, whether the latex > source panel (under >view) could show the tex line number. But I was > told it is not possible under lyx. That would certainly be a step in the right direction. Given that we already h

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 05.05.2015 um 15:18 schrieb Will Furnass: On 05/05/15 13:27, Rainer M Krug wrote: Will Furnass writes: could LyX be improved to make locating errors less manual though? For example, if a mapping was generated at compile time from LyX lines to TeX lines then buttons could be added to the c

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Will Furnass
On 05/05/15 13:27, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Will Furnass writes: >> >> could LyX be improved to make locating errors less manual >> though? For example, if a mapping was generated at compile time >> from LyX lines to TeX lines then buttons could be added to the >> compilation pane to move the curso

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Rainer M Krug
Will Furnass writes: > On 05/05/15 12:47, Nikos Alexandris wrote: >> * Will Furnass [2015-05-05 11:51:56 +0100]: >> >>> How do others locate compilation errors in large multi-file documents? >>> > >> >> Something like "binary search": split in two halfs, try to find out >> which half does not

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Will Furnass
On 05/05/15 12:47, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > * Will Furnass [2015-05-05 11:51:56 +0100]: > >> How do others locate compilation errors in large multi-file documents? >> > > Something like "binary search": split in two halfs, try to find out > which half does not compile. Then, again, repeat the

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Nikos Alexandris
* Will Furnass [2015-05-05 11:51:56 +0100]: > How do others locate compilation errors in large multi-file documents? > > I get a 'Missing } inserted' error for 'l.1052' when compiling but can't > relate that line number to the LyX source. I then try exporting to tex > using pdflatex into a temp