On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Stefano Franchi wrote:
Thanks Paul,
the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered,
thanks for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up
in either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is
supposed to do to carry out the various conversions, but cannot find
some relevant piece of software. Is there a way to get some more
information on what is going on? I tried to start LyX in debug mode,
but since I cannot trigger any "coverting" action, that's hardly
helpful.
Stefano,
Does this mean that the DVI->Postscript and Postscript->PDF converters
are correctly listed in the Edit->Preferences->Converters dialog? If
so, is Ghostscript installed, and does the ps2pdf13 command run if
invoked from the console?
Yes, in the converters panels of Preferences I have both DVI>
Postscript and Postscript> PDF listed. For the former, the converter
is:
dvips -o $$o $$i
and for the latter:
ps2pdf13 $$i
They both work from the console, ghostscript is installed, etc.
When you say "nothing shows up" in the View and Export menus, do you
mean just no way to View/Export PDF? Or do you mean no way to
View/Export a DVI as well? If the latter, it might imply that LyX is
having a hard time finding LaTeX.
What I mean is that in View menu I only have one item "PDF (pdflatex)"
. Similarly, in the File>Export menu I LaTeX and PDF(pdflatex). And
nothing else. No DVI, dvipdfm, etc.
If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI->PS->PDF route, then
the next question is whether you can view/export PDFs using pdflatex
or dvipdfm?
I cannot view DVIs. All I can do is view PDFs via the pdflatex route.
Which has been all I needed so far, that's why I never bothered
recovering the other options.
Cheers,
Stefano
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