On May 13, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Micha wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:29:39 -0230
"Justin Pittman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,I've encountered a problem that I can't seem to rectify....
I'm trying to finish my masters thesis and upon trying to compile
it today
before I left for dinner and got a strange error that I have never
encountered before.. a LaTeX formatting window popped up stating only
"Conversion error".... and LyX then unexpectedly quit! Now, when I
sit here
trying to open the MastersThesis.lyx file or the backup .lyx~
file, LyX
can't open it!! It starts to open and then the Mac Spinning
pinwheel comes
up and boom, LyX is gone.
What do I do now!!! I haven't done a backup in a few weeks and
have added a
good 20 pages since then!! I need help and quick!!
Please, any suggestions, ASAP! My deadline is quickly approaching.
Cheers,
J.p
There was an issue under linux with qt 4.4, did you happen to
upgrade that by
any chance? If so see if you can downgrade qt to 4.3 (although
latest 4.4 works
under debian). Afraid I don't have a mac so I don't have any other
suggestions
I'm assuming the problem refers to the LyX binary distribution from
the LyX web site, not to a fink or macports version. Is that correct?
What platform is this happening on? Leopard? Tiger? What language is
being used?
On the Mac the Qt libs are linked statically, so you can't change the
Qt version as was suggested by Micha.
Of course you should now have made a backup, so one could try to
experiment a little. I'm speculating wildly now, but maybe it works:
(a)
Did you include any figures? If so, move them all out of your working
directory, and try to re-open. If that allows the file to open, put
the figures back one by one, to see where it hangs.
(b)
If that doesn't work, perhaps it's some obscure problem with Unicode
characters (perhaps some weird key combination, pressed accidentally,
created a pathological character).
How can one fix something like that? Maybe the easiest is to open
the .lyx file in emacs and look through the source. Do you know how
to use the Terminal, and an editor like emacs? That would allow you
to see if the 20 pages you entered are still there in the file.
(c)
If you don't know emacs (or vi), you may at least find out if the
file "filename.lyx" is still whole, by opening a Terminal window,
changing to your working directory and typing "cat filename.lyx" -
e.g., it would be a bad sign if the file doesn't end with
"\end_document"
(d)
Another possibility: if you can start LyX without an open file, try
to disable instant preview of graphics and math before loading the
troublesome file. Alternatively, reconfiguring and resetting as much
as possible to the default values may be a good idea.
Maybe this helps -
Jens
