[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all, how do i set up lyx (using 1.4.1) so that i can work with beamer? i'm on windows, and i installed all the prereq software (incl. miktex, which i see has beamer in its tex\latex\ directory). i downloaded the wiki's beamer.layout into my layouts dir, and i ran reconfigure.
And restarted LyX afterward?
however, i still don't see a 'beamer' option in the document class dropdown, and i can't open the example beamer .lyx files from the wiki (i get an error, that the beamer class isn't found). thanks in advance for any help.
Hmm, odd. Open a DOS window and run 'kpsewhich beamer.cls'. It should report back the path to the beamer class file. If not, there's a problem with its installation. (It might have been downloaded without updating the MiKTeX database.) If kpsewhich strikes out, try running the MiKTeX Options program, and click "Refresh now" in the General tab.
If kpsewhich finds beamer.cls, then you might try running the LyX configuration script from a command prompt. Open the command prompt in the LyX Resources folder, and run configure.bat (or 'sh configure' if you don't have a configure.bat file). If you have to run sh, you might need to supply a path to it. The (copious) output from the configure script should include some mention of finding (or not finding) beamer.
/Paul
