Thanks for your comments. Just to update you, the problem was due to incompatible encoding in BibTeX. I imported some citations with accented characters in the author names - these failed to show in the reference database. When I over-rode the encoding by manually inserting the characters, the problem went away. Took me several days to work out!
On 6 Jan 2012, at 15:18, Felix Krawehl wrote: > Uups, the last one went off too early. > I also had these kind of errors and often found them caused by bibtex-related > problems, mostly special characters. > Instead of actually splitting your document in search for the error I turn > document parts into comments, which is easily undoable. > Kind regards, > Felix > > Von meinem iPhone gesendet > > Am 06.01.2012 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann > <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>: > >> Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 00:43:45 schrieb Gerry Clare: >>> I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class >>> 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the >>> following errors: >>> >>> ! Missing $ inserted. >>> ! Extra }, or forgotten $. >>> ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. >>> ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. >>> ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. >>> >>> Although I have read some suggestions on Google, I can't seem to get to >>> the bottom of these errors. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> Thanks! >> >> It might also help to check the log-file informations of the error message. >> It can be quite long, but if you start from the end and scroll upwards >> until you hit the first red marked stuff and read it carefully checking for >> words from your text and looking it up in your document. There might be >> further red marked items found by scrolling further upward >> >> Wolfgang
