diff --git a/noseprogressive/tests/test_tracebacks.py b/noseprogressive/tests/test_tracebacks.py
index b5c4cfc..1dcab27 100644
--- a/noseprogressive/tests/test_tracebacks.py
+++ b/noseprogressive/tests/test_tracebacks.py
@@ -83,3 +83,25 @@ def test_none_members():
         [(None, None, None, None)],
         AttributeError,
         AttributeError('I have many nasty attributes.')))
+
+
+def test_proxied_syntax_error():
+    """The logcapture plugin formats errors by extracting and converting
+    the value to a string. Nose recreates a proxy exception lacking
+    filename and lineno attributes, crashing the shortcut formatting
+    """
+    string_error = ''.join([
+        "invalid syntax (package.py, line 111)\n",
+        "-------------------- >> begin captured logging << --------------------\n",
+        "DEBUG: a logged message\n",
+        "--------------------- >> end captured logging << ---------------------"
+        ])
+    # This is essentially what nose does with a string exception
+    proxied_syntax_error = type('SyntaxError', (Exception,), {})(string_error)
+    proxied_syntax_tb = ([
+    ('/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/loader.py', 403, 'loadTestsFromName', 'module = resolve_name(addr.module)'),
+    ('/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/util.py', 311, 'resolve_name', "module = __import__('.'.join(parts_copy))"),
+    ('/usr/local/venvs/project/tests.py', 8, '<module>', 'from project.package import something')
+    ], SyntaxError, proxied_syntax_error
+    )
+    ''.join(format_traceback(*proxied_syntax_tb))
diff --git a/noseprogressive/tracebacks.py b/noseprogressive/tracebacks.py
index e7c589e..bcbab7e 100644
--- a/noseprogressive/tracebacks.py
+++ b/noseprogressive/tracebacks.py
@@ -79,8 +79,15 @@ def format_shortcut(editor,
         # SyntaxErrors have a format different from other errors and include a
         # file path which looks out of place in our newly highlit, editor-
         # shortcutted world.
-        exc_lines = [format_shortcut(editor, exc_value.filename, exc_value.lineno)]
-        formatted_exception = format_exception_only(SyntaxError, exc_value)[1:]
+        if hasattr(exc_value, 'filename') and hasattr(exc_value, 'lineno'):
+            exc_lines = [format_shortcut(editor, exc_value.filename, exc_value.lineno)]
+            formatted_exception = format_exception_only(SyntaxError, exc_value)[1:]
+        else:
+            # The logcapture plugin may format exceptions as strings,
+            # stripping them of the full filename and lineno
+            exc_lines = []
+            formatted_exception = format_exception_only(SyntaxError, exc_value)
+            formatted_exception.append(u'(Try --nologcapture for a more detailed traceback)\n')
     else:
         exc_lines = []
         formatted_exception = format_exception_only(exc_type, exc_value)