Hi all, I had a LyX nightmare last night. A couple lines at the end of a page ran waaaaay off the right margin and off the paper. There was no problem on the following page. So I investigated.
None of the usual suspects was at fault. There were no URLs on the line. There were no incredibly long words. The header immediately above these two lines was short and had nothing strange, but I suspected it was the header. Then former president Bill Clinton joined me in troubleshooting. He hypothesized that the problem was in my mouse and took it apart. Then Clinton shrank himself so he could go inside the mouse, and the mouse magically transformed itself into a garage with a garage door opener. Clinton manipulated the mouse ball, which now looked like some sort of huge, round, childs-toy version of an alien spacecraft. After a thorough investigation, he showed me exactly where the mouse ball was leaking, stating that the leak still allowed the mouse to go up and down, but prevented side to side motion, and this indeed was the cause of the two lines going off the right side of the paper. Clinton finished the repair, closed the garage door and left. Only after he left did I discover that something was disconnected or missing, and I couldn't operate the garage door at all, therefore couldn't use my mouse and couldn't use LyX correctly. This put me in a state of terror, from which I woke up and immediately wrote this down. LyX is good, but it's not the software of my dreams. Thank goodness. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
