Breaking News! I just ran LaTeX(plain) on myfile.lyx and it produced
mytext.bbl. I've never gotten a bbl file before. This is good, isn't it?
Is there an easy way forward from here?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:59 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com
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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:55 PM, stefano franchi <
> stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:26 PM, William Hanson <whan...@umn.edu> wrote:
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>>> I am calling pdflatex from the command line of TeXworks.
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>>> It did also produce a myfile.pdf file.
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>>> What I see on my screen after running pdflatex is a window labeled
>>> myfile.tex - TeXworks. It contains what apparently is myfile.tex, which I
>>> assume is the TeX version of my paper,
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>> If you use texworks, you should just be able to select pdflatex from the
>> Typeset menu, and it will compile your file to myfile.pdf and also produce
>> a myfile.log. For instance, this is what I see in TeXWorks console, when I
>> try to compile a test.tex file:
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>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded
>> format=pdflatex)
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>> restricted \write18 enabled.
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>> entering extended mode
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>> (./test.tex
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>> LaTeX2e <2014/05/01>
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>> Babel <3.9k> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.
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>> (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
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>> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
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>> (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
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>> (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
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>> (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
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>> (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
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>> (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-english/english.ldf
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>> (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)))
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>> LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):
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>> [article].
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>> (./test.aux)
>> [1{/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdfte
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>> x.map}] (./test.aux)
>> ){/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/cm-su
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>> per/cm-super-t1.enc}</usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/cm-s
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>> uper/sfrm1095.pfb>
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>> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 13144 bytes).
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>> SyncTeX written on test.synctex.gz.
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>> Transcript written on test.log.
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>> Notice how on the last line it informs me that it has produced a log file.
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>> At any rate, try recompiling your file, and if you cannot find the log
>> file, juct cut and paste everything you see in TeXWorks's console output
>> window into an email message and send it to the list.
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>> Do the same for a compilation with bibtex (just select bibtex from the
>> Typeset menu and hit ctrl-T). Cut and paste the console output into an
>> email message and send it to the list.
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>> That should give us enough info to understand what's going wrong.
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> The alternative is to use a good old-fashioned terminal---I believe it is
> called "Command prompt" in Windows, or at least it used to be. See here [1]
> on how to do it in Windows 7 (with apologies if it is obvious to you).
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> [1]
> http://smallbusiness.chron.com/open-terminal-session-windows-7-56627.html
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> __________________________________________________
> Stefano Franchi
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> stefano.fran...@gmail.com <stef...@tamu.edu>
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