Chapter 10 Troubleshooting

What to do if your build is failing:

1. Especially if you just added the OCR’d text of the book, do a search for backslashes in the text. They are a special character and will cause problems unless they are used for the specific things mentioned above.
2. Make sure every .Rmd file starts with either # or ##.
3. If you are working on footnotes, make sure you didn’t try to insert a footnote reference inside bold or italic text or from within chapter or section headers if the footnote itself has multiple paragraphs. (See warning in footnote section.)
4. Take a look at the log in the Github Action tab, and see if you can find where it failed. (Look for a red line.) Sometimes it will tell you what went wrong, but often the best hint is a number of lines earlier, so scroll up a bit looking for a root cause.