On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 05:56:21PM +1300, gordon cooper wrote: > Happy New Year to All. > > This has been solved (after some detective work) but am reporting > it, just in case it happens to others. > > Had a recent mysterious error when trying an Lyx to pdf conversion. > The program reported a Latex error but gave no error report. > > The same Lyx file converted to html immediately, no errors. I had > a coding error, ignored by one converter. A look at the source code > was not a success. > > So, used the traditional system of halving the file, testing halving again, > until there only a single line of code left. There was the problem, a > Hyperlink > with a irreconcilable character, a beginning itemize dot, like this : > > > • http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html > > Removing the dot fixed the problem, but an hour or two wasted looking > for it. > > Gordon. >
Happy New Year, Gordon! Thanks for reporting this problem. Next time it would be helpful if you sent an example file. I went ahead and created an example file and I can reproduce the same problem you saw. The example file is attached. If you open LyX in the terminal, you see the following message when compiling: Error 84 returned from iconv when converting from UCS-4LE to ISO-8859-15: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character It does not give a clue where the error comes from, and indeed the LyX GUI is not helpful at all in indicating where the error might be. I'm moving this thread to the lyx-devel list now. I think you wanted to just give lyx-users a warning in case they come across the problem, and I think potential discussion of how to improve LyX to handle this case should proceed on lyx-devel. Scott
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