[OS X TeX] problem with running project root file
Maarten Sneep
maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 21 23:35:29 CEST 2008
On 21 aug 2008, at 23:26, Sheetal Silal wrote:
> Thesis is the main file.
The main file seems to be OK (not a lot that can go wrong with that
small amount of code).
> What you see in the Chapter file 'Epidemiology' is what became of my
> chapter that was once full of writing and diagrams.
> That chapter file included the Document settings and all the
> packages and the \begin and \end{document}. At the point when i
> first typesetted the thesis.tex file (main file) I didnt know that
> one wasnt supposed to have the preamble stuff and begin and end
> document bit. That was when the writing in the chapter
> 'Epidemiology' became what it looks now in the attachment. So I am
> trying to get my chapter with all my writing in it back!
I have bad news for you, I hope you have a backup. It is hard to
reconstruct now, but it is possible to overwrite files in LaTeX. How
it decided to overwrite Epidemiology.tex, I don't know, but that text
is gone.
Maarten
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