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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: LaTeX export failure
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:02:30 -0600
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To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>
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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
>