>>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:10:41 -0300
>>From: Roberto Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "Jean-Pierre.Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: Problem including files.
>>
>>Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>>
>>>>>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:01:47 -0300
>>>>>From: Roberto Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>Subject: Problem including files.
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm working on a long document, so I split it up into several files.
>>>>>Everything was working well until I included the file with the
>>>>>appendices. When I try to generate the PS file I get an error message:
>>>>>
>>>>>"LaTeX error: Something's wrong, perhaps a missing \item."
>>>>>
>>>
>>> This strongly looks like a preceding empty bibliography.
>>> Check that your .bbl file is not just like
>>> \begin{bibliography}
>>>
>>> \end{bibliography}
>>> without any item listed.
>>>
>>> This produces an error at the next command, and this can be
>>> quite misleading.
>>
>>
>>In the Sample.lyx file I attatched there is one bibliography entry that
>>just says "bibliography", but in the real document there are about 8 or
>>9 books (and I haven't even started working on the bibliography part),
>>so that's probably not the problem. Either way, if that was the problem
>>the main file would give some error messages, even when not including
>>any file at the end.
Not if the citation commands are missing, in which case
there is a bibliography environment and nothing in it.
That true that this happens only with bibtex, not by direct use
of the bibliography environnment as you did in Sample.lyx.
I abandoned your example because of missing \addto commands which prevented
complete Lyx compilation: if I export o Latex to go through errors,
it doesn't exhibit here the error message you mentioned. So what ?
By the way, you could Insert->Toggle appendix to have appendix stuff numbered
alphabetically (but perhaps you prefer to follow normal chapter numbering).
Do you use bibtex in your real document ?
--
Jean-Pierre
