Re: LaTeX export failure

[Thomas S. Dye]

Thanks John,

IIRC, this isn't the first time you've recommended that I divide 
and conquer :)

Here is the offending bit, which worked fine last November but 
fails today:

#+caption: Compare figure\nbsp{}[[fig:mqs3_op]].

All the best,
Tom

John Hendy writes:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:32 PM Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.online> 
> wrote:
> > Happy New Year!
> >
> > Returning to a writing project after a few months absence, I'm 
> > no
> > longer able to export the writing project subtree.  Here is 
> > what I
> > find in *Messages*:
> >
> >   Wrote /home/dk/Projects/historical-inference/r14c.org
> >   executing Shell code block...
> >   Wrote /tmp/babel-j0SOWm/ob-input-aS23DO
> >   Code block evaluation complete.
> >   match-string-no-properties: Args out of range: #<killed 
> >   buffer>,
> >   3, 11
>
> Are you able to share a portion of this? Or have you tried, say,
> creating a copy of the file and removing all but the first 
> heading and
> a sentence to see if it fails?
>
> Someone else might recognize that particular failure from past
> experience, but I'd have to try something locally. In the past 
> to
> debug I've moved all headings after the first under a new one, 
> marked
> that as :noexport:, and exported iteratively, moving each one 
> out of
> the :noexport: heading until I find the offending one. Then I 
> can hone
> in on where I should be looking.
>
> John
>
> > The writing project exported without issue on November 7, 2019.
> >
> > I'm typically using up-to-date org-plus-contrib from Elpa, so
> > suspect my issue is due to a recent change in Org mode.
> >
> > I don't know how to track down the problem.  Any ideas?
> >
> > All the best,
> > Tom
> > --
> > Thomas S. Dye
> > https://tsdye.online/tsdye


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