Finding source of pdflatex build error

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Sep 11 12:47:26 UTC 2022


On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

> Here's what I would do. Assuming that you have the original document (the
> one that won't compile) salted away somewhere, I would take your MWE and
> add Chapter 1 and anything else that's missing. If it still compiles, I'd
> compare it to the original using a file comparison tool and see if there
> are any meaningful differences (e.g., LaTeX commands in one but not the
> other). If differences are found, I'd try to figure out which one(s) cause
> the problem and then what caused LyX to insert/delete/alter/reorder the
> critical lines.

Paul,

Thanks. I got it all sorted out before your message arrived. :-)

I appreciate your expert help,

Rich


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