Endless typesetting with enabled Show changes in output

Dr Eberhard Lisse nospam at lisse.NA
Wed Feb 26 22:33:08 UTC 2020


Daniel,

what is often helpful is to export the files to LaTeX and run that
manually perusing the log files.

The tracking feature clashes with a few other packages, for example if I
mark text with yellow background.

I personally find it overrated in any case and try to avoid it. I use
RCS for everything bigger than a short letter and

On 2020-02-26 12:44 , Daniel wrote:
> On 2020-02-26 11:29, Daniel wrote:
>> On 2020-02-26 07:29, Daniel wrote:
>>> On 2020-02-25 21:45, Daniel wrote:
[...]
>> I got it to work after some battle. The endless typeset problem seem
>> to have been caused by tracked changes within a TeX Code inset. I knew
>> that using this combination was risky but I had no clue it could lead
>> to a case where I don't even get an error message.
>>
>> I'll try to create a minimal example. Maybe it's worth knowing how
>> this can happen.
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> Okay, here it is I think. Whether the LaTeX code is typeset within LyX
> or not does not matter, so it seems that the code generated by LyX is
> the problem.
> 
> As I said, I knew that putting tracked changed into a TeX Code inset is
> asking for trouble. However, I just missed this one when copy and
> pasting a whole passage with tracked changed enabled.
> 
> Still it surprises me that there is no error message or anything. Maybe
> a problem with the error handling in the booktabs package?
> 
> Daniel
> 



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