On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:44:49AM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:11:07PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> >
> > Has anybody recently actually tried to compile the UserGuide?
> >
> > On my machine LaTeX simply does not finish. Run by hand I get stuff
> > like
> >
> >
> > ! Use of [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't match its definition.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] #1->\def [EMAIL PROTECTED] {
> > #1}\ifx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
> > PROTECTED] \let
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > l.4770 ...{http://wiki.lyx.org/Bib\TeX{}/Programs}
> > \\
> > ?
>
> Commands such as \url and \index don't like latex macros in their
> argument, and the UserGuide is full of them:
>
> $ egrep "\\(url|index)[{].*(LyX|TeX).*[}]" UserGuide.tex | wc -l
> 46
>
> This is due to the LyX -> \LyX and TeX -> \TeX translations performed
> by LyX.
>
> When the words LyX or TeX (or LaTeX, or BibTeX, or ...) appear in the
> argument of one of those commands, they should be marked as ERT in
> order to avoid their translation to a macro.
I wonder how that worked earlier.
I seem to remember being able to view the UserGuide as e.g. .pdf.
Andre'
