On Wednesday 28 March 2007 11:33, N.W. England wrote: > I am trying to export a lyx file to latex, and it seems impossible. > > I have tried file->export->latex which results in the status bar displaying > "(buffer-output latex)" but no file being created and the contents not in > the clipboard. > > if I type "lyx -export latex <file.lyx>" then it displays a lot of text > including that it has written ~/file.tex, but the file is not there. > > I can do lyx -export text/dvi/pdf etc and it works fine. -export tex > results in a format not known error. > > I presume I am doing something stupid as lyx will happily convert to a > latex file on the way to anything else, but it seems impossible to get it > to output the actual latex file. > > Thanks! > > (and I have tried searching the mail archives but couldn't find anyone else > with this problem) > > - Nick England
Hi Nick, Humor me, and just for fun, in the directory from which you were running lyx, type this command: ls -ltr Look at the bottom of the displayed info and see what files you see there. Another possibility -- do it a step at a time. rm myfile.dvi rm myfile.ps rm myfile.pdf lyx --export dvi myfile.lyx dvips -o myfile.ps myfile.dvi ps2pdf myfile.ps gv ps2pdf In the preceding, you can find out which step is failing. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
