Dear LyX-Users,
I am working on my thesis with LyX 1.5.2 to LyX 1.5.4. It might seem
a bit complicated but I use XeTeX (on OS X Tiger), the Memoir
Document Class (for which I have also written some hints in the LyX
wiki) and BibLaTeX, so that I have made a special version of the
Memoir Class, everything according to hints on the list or in the wiki.
Until yesterday, everything worked really, really fine and I was
about to write the most beautiful thesis my departement has ever seen
-- coming from social sciences, Word seems to be a 99% must-have ;)
But all of a sudden, LyX won't compile my document anymore and
instead gives me an error message like this:
›Eine leere Ausgabedatei wurde erzeugt.‹ (which means something
like ›an empty output file was made...‹)
Unfortunately, the many error messages from the compiler are not
readable at all, starting with eg.
LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
ZGD0-z%^^8dyN^^8d^^89^^PcCF^^80^^80...
Text line contains an invalid character.
M^^F
An1oz:8 #^^82^^Sr6'GE^^89N^^94A^^IK^^93}:
4*^^Ye:;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input.
Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened.
You can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode.
M^^FAn1oz:8 #
^^82^^Sr6'GE^^89N^^94A^^IK^^93}:
4*^^Ye:;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.
Text line contains an invalid character.
M^^FAn1oz:8 #^^82^^S
r6'GE^^89N^^94A^^IK^^93}:
4*^^Ye:;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input.
Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened.
Too many }'s.
...n1oz:8 #^^82^^Sr6'GE^^89N^^94A^^IK^^93}
:
4*^^Ye:;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@...
You've closed more groups than you opened.
Such booboos are generally harmless, so keep going.
Text line contains an invalid character.
... #^^82^^Sr6'GE^^89N^^94A^^IK^^93}:4*^^Y
e:;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@^^@ ...
A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input.
Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened.
Text line contains an invalid character.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'^^81L^^N
3^^E^^N^^N^^96^^V^^T^^\^^Iq4^^PQ^^84`^^98z^^...
A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input.
Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened.
Misplaced alignment tab character &.
...^^9cn^^99^^92^^916]x^^8d^^Q&
^^85^^QrZ^^98...
I can't figure out why you would want to use a tab mark
here. If you just want an ampersand, the remedy is
simple: Just type `I\&' now. But if some right brace
up above has ended a previous alignment prematurely,
you're probably due for more error messages, and you
might try typing `S' now just to see what is salvageable.
LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@^^A
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And so on. The error messages are everytime the same ones. Now what
happened? No changes have been made on my TeX-Setup since the last
succesful run. Nothing on the file itself has been changed except
that I once accidently clicked on Document -> compressed
(komprimiert) when opening the document settings dialogue. To be sure
that it had nothing to do with that, I started a new file and copied
everything bit by bit but I still get the same error messages... also
my preamble does not include anything too special:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\usepackage{fontspec}%
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Hoefler Text} %
\setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Gill Sans} %
\setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text]{Courier New} %
} %
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\widowpenalty=10000
\clubpenalty=10000
\usepackage[natbib=true,style=verbose-inote,indexing=cite]{biblatex}
\bibliography{/Users/Maksi/Studium/Politikwissenschaft/Diplomarbeit/
TeX/politischer_islam}
Also, the problem does not seem to be related to XeTeX as I get
exactly the same error messages when trying to compile the usual way,
using pdflatex or post-script. And then, strange enough, a backup of
a about a week ago that I tried wouldn't compile either... and it
definitely has so far...
The error occured in LyX 1.5.3 the first time and also occurs in LyX
1.5.4 so it has nothing to do with the update. Trying to compile the
document in TeXShop gives me the same errors, again in XeLaTeX as
well as in LaTeX.
Funny enough, LyX won't compile any test document any more, not even
if I export it to LaTeX and run it through TeXShop like this:
%% LyX 1.5.4 created this file. For more info, see http://
www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,naustrian]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
\makeatletter
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Test.
\end{document}
Any suggestions? Many thanks for your help!
Kind regards,
Max
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