Export to Word fails and tables do not work

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I have a new problem with the export of a document into the word format. The following error message occurs:

Failed to apply XSL transform Compilers/WordML/styles to input XML data

In addition, any table, that I create, is completely wrapped up after closing and reopening of the document. I have to re-edit them after every reopening of the document.

@hanashra are you running the most recent 1.0.29 version? Could you send us the document via support@manuscriptsapp.com, please? We'll be able to resolve the Word export issue if we get a copy of the document,

The table issue is most likely related – there's most likely something in the table which fails a certain validation, which also results in failure to export. If we fix one issue, we most likely fix the other one too. And if not, we'll just fix the two separately

Hi, I use the latest version of manuscripts. Will send you the document right away and want to add another problem, that just occurred with the LaTex export to PDF:

Launch path not accessible

I think, manuscripts is not able to locate my Tex Installation, is it?

@hanashra thanks, we'll do our best to resolve this quickly!

Re: the TeX issue, there's a separate forum thread about that: http://support.manuscriptsapp.com/topic/238/instructions-on-tex/19 – we're trying to establish the pattern with this issue. It has something to do with a specific version of MacTeX, that's our best thinking at the moment (I can't promise reinstalling MacTeX will affect it but I would propose trying that).

Interesting, I did not update or change my MacTeX installation, but only applied every Manuscripts-Update. With the previous versions it worked quite well, but it seems like a version issue, true.

@hanashra hmm, have you meanwhile updated MacTeX or your OSX install? Are you you saying you began to see this issue after the PDF export via LaTeX previously worked for you on the same system?

I am trying to update right now to the latest version of MacTeX. However, with previous versions of Manuscripts it worked. But I don't know right now, which one was working correctly on my system as I did not export with LaTeX for about one week. I was just about to finalize my document now and trying to export it, which caused the error. Usually, I would need to export to Word in order to be able to insert a Table of Content, Title Page, etc. to meet the university's requirements.

@hanashra OK, got you. The issue with Word export appears associated with styles and we should be able to resolve it quickly.

Incidentally ToC and title page are both things we hope to lift as requirements for doing Word exports

Ah very good, thanks
So only the latex problem seems to be still quite strange. After updating every single LaTeX program on my Mac, it still has the same problem. I think, it might be an El Capitan problem, if you look at all the issues they seem to have with it:

*Users updating from Yosemite to El Capitan may encounter one problem with TeX, but it is easily fixed. After that, MacTeX works fine on Apple's latest operating system.

MacTeX installs a symbolic link /usr/texbin pointing to the TeX binaries. GUI applications use this link to find the binaries. But in El Capitan, the location /usr is reserved for Apple, and even users with root access are not allowed to write to that location.

The solution to this problem is to relocate the link to /Library/TeX/texbin, and reconfigure GUI applications to look in this location. Consequently, MacTeX-2015 and BasicTeX-2015 write two links, /usr/texbin and /Library/TeX/texbin, when installing on systems earlier than El Capitan, and write /Library/TeX/texbin when installing on El Capitan. These installations configure shell applications to look for TeX in both locations.

Consequently, if you install MacTeX-2015 or BasicTeX-2015 after upgrading to El Capitan, or if you have already installed one of them before upgrading, then TeX will work as usual when accessed from the Terminal, and will work from GUI applications once these are reconfigured.

The latest version of TeXShop automatically reconfigures itself. This version was released a month after MacTeX-2015 was released, so TeXShop users should use the menu item "Check for Updates" before using it on El Capitan.

Herbert Schulz's document Updating For El Capitan carefully explains how to update the other GUI applications installed by MacTeX, and how to update a few other popular applications.

The new symbolic links also work for older TeX installations. Once they are installed by MacTeX-2015 or BasicTeX-2015 and GUI applications are reconfigured, users can switch back to, say, TeXLive-2013 using the TeX Distribution Preference Pane as usual. Users who don't want to install one of the 2015 distributions can write the new links directly using instructions in Herbert Schulz's document.*

@hanashra we've fortunately isolated and solved the LaTeX issue – the problem was not the El Capitan 10.11.0 time problem you noted above (that we were aware of), but it was a new bug introduced in 10.11.2 which we have now resolved for our 1.0.30 update which we are making available in a moment.

@hanashra we now also have a fix to the table related issue that leads to the export error. Thanks for reporting the issue and for your patience!

@hanashra the most recent update, 1.0.30 which is now out, should resolve all of these issues, except for the whitespaces inside the table which is best to correct in the export side still with this version, or by creating actual rows in the table (by right clicking inside the table column header and choosing "Add Row").

@mz2 Manuscripts (1.0.33-11-G0A544) has been quite buggy on my system and I am now postponing its use for serious work to a later date, maybe when version 2 is out. For that I need to export a very important document to word. But unfortunately export to word does not work at all on my system!!!! Can someone help me with it?

@pmccarvalho could you send us the .manuscript which fails to be exported to Word via support@manuscriptsapp.com? To date we have been able to resolve all .manuscript --> Word export issues this route. Thanks for your patience!