Re: MWE isolation: was Puzzling compile error

2017-12-29 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 05:02:20AM +, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 11:50:27 -0800 (PST) > Rich Shepard wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > > > Rich, it would be great if you could send MWE for messages like > > > this. The first step is: remove all text

MWE isolation: was Puzzling compile error

2017-12-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 11:50:27 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > Rich, it would be great if you could send MWE for messages like > > this. The first step is: remove all text and just put "hello". Does > > that compile? If so, then figure out the sm

Re: Puzzling compile error [UPDATE]

2017-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Looks okay to me. I assume that JabRef is storing that in a .bib file somewhere. If you want to send me the .bib file, the .tex file and the log file with the warning, I can take a look (most likely not until tomorrow, though). I promise not to disclose

Re: Puzzling compile error [UPDATE]

2017-12-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/28/2017 06:04 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I assume you're using bibtex (as opposed to biber or biblatex) to generate references. Paul,   Yeah, bibtex. Here's the error message running pdflatex on the .tex file: Package natbib Warning: Citation `

Re: Puzzling compile error [UPDATE]

2017-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I assume you're using bibtex (as opposed to biber or biblatex) to generate references. Paul, Yeah, bibtex. Here's the error message running pdflatex on the .tex file: Package natbib Warning: Citation `Goovaerts1997' on page 58 undefined on input l

Re: Puzzling compile error [UPDATE]

2017-12-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/28/2017 04:04 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: If the glitch is in a BibTeX reference, ... Paul,   I found the reported warnings, but still get the same compile error from lyx. Here's an update:   Running pdflatex on the *.tex file was followed by ru

Re: Puzzling compile error [UPDATE]

2017-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: If the glitch is in a BibTeX reference, ... Paul, I found the reported warnings, but still get the same compile error from lyx. Here's an update: Running pdflatex on the *.tex file was followed by running bibtex on the *.aux file. It showed 4 war

Re: Puzzling compile error

2017-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: If you're using BibTeX, the BibTeX file could be the culprit. Sometimes people copy citations (or parts thereof) from non-text sources (e.g., PDF files) and paste them into a .bib file. They look benign, but there are character codes (ligatures come to m

Re: Puzzling compile error

2017-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Rich, it would be great if you could send MWE for messages like this. The first step is: remove all text and just put "hello". Does that compile? If so, then figure out the smallest .lyx file that can give the same error. Scott, I think that I fou

Re: Puzzling compile error

2017-12-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/28/2017 02:50 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Rich, it would be great if you could send MWE for messages like this. The first step is: remove all text and just put "hello". Does that compile? If so, then figure out the smallest .lyx file that can give

Re: Puzzling compile error

2017-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Rich, it would be great if you could send MWE for messages like this. The first step is: remove all text and just put "hello". Does that compile? If so, then figure out the smallest .lyx file that can give the same error. Scott, The .lyx file is 8

Re: Puzzling compile error

2017-12-28 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 07:22:19PM +, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've no idea where to look for the source of > this error and would appreciate a pointer or two. Rich, it would be great if you could send MWE for messages like this. The first step is: remove all text and just put "hello". Does that

Puzzling compile error

2017-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
I've added text to the book and now it chokes at compiling. The reported problem is with this text: "variables) to describe their objectives and actions needed to achieve them." and the error window is shown in the attached screenshot. There were no problems compiling the document before and