>> I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the >> background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and >> finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in >> the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the >> PDF because the PDF does not exist. Indeed, if I check the temp >> directory >> for LyX, all files are present but the PDF. I get no other warnings or >> errors from texi2dvi and cannot figure out why this happens. >> > Did you look at Document > LaTeX log? Sometimes it will display errors > that are not popped-up by LyX.
That menu item is greyed out, presumably because I used a converter through the batch file to make the PDF, so LyX wasn't really doing the work (and thus does not have record of the transaction?). >> Can someone help me figure out why texi2dvi fails to produce a PDF? >> Does anyone know if it is perhaps something about MiKTeX and the way >> the texi2dvi.exe works? Might it be possible to bypass that program >> and do the conversion via LyX more directly after R finishes the >> Sweaving and Stangling? >> > Did you try pdflatex, or ps2pdf? Yeah, pdflatex works a charm when called on the tex file resulting from Sweaving directly from the command line. That's what I was getting at here. It seems like the issue is in R's function texi2dvi (which calls MiKTeX's texi2dvi.exe to do the work), so I was hoping there was some way to let the converter in LyX run the batch file, pass the Sweaving/Stangling and TeX file production off to R, then come back and run pdflatex out of LyX to get the PDF from the TeX file. Surely this is possible? Thanks a million for the help!
