Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
Thanks, Paul, for the update. I guess I was totally wrong. Good to know about the Debian release, too. I suppose that will cover Ubuntu. Ehud Kaplan On 05/31/2017 08:57 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 05/31/2017 11:49 AM, udi wrote: I was under the impression that the Miktex developer has abandoned it in favor of TexLive, which works well on both Windows and Linux. Is that information inaccurate? Ehud Kaplan The most recent release came out three days ago, and the "roadmap" page shows plans through this coming winter. Christian seems to be planning a (first ever?) Debian installer, which would be odd for someone planning to yield the Windows platform to TeXLive. Paul
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
On 05/31/2017 11:49 AM, udi wrote: I was under the impression that the Miktex developer has abandoned it in favor of TexLive, which works well on both Windows and Linux. Is that information inaccurate? Ehud Kaplan The most recent release came out three days ago, and the "roadmap" page shows plans through this coming winter. Christian seems to be planning a (first ever?) Debian installer, which would be odd for someone planning to yield the Windows platform to TeXLive. Paul
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
I was under the impression that the Miktex developer has abandoned it in favor of TexLive, which works well on both Windows and Linux. Is that information inaccurate? Ehud Kaplan On 05/30/2017 03:03 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 05/29/2017 11:03 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: Hey Richard, I am pretty sure it is Windows, and it's the most recent version from miktex. I can ask her for the specifics though if you think it might help? -- We also need to know which LyX installer she used. There are two versions for Windows, the "installer" (52 MB) and the "bundle" (261 MB). The former relies on an existing MiKTeX installation; the latter installs a version of MiKTeX. If you use the bigger installer and you already have MiKTeX, you end up with two MiKTeX installations (the original is not replaced). So I wonder if she used the larger installer and, after uninstalling LyX, some trace of the LyX-installed MiKTeX distribution persisted? Paul -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
On 05/30/2017 01:43 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: Hey everyone, I talked with my collaborator and acquired some more details. When she was installing lyx, it asked her to update miktex/install updates. She did that and after that was when tex was not working. So then she uninstalled lyx, but tex was still not working, so she uninstalled miktex and reinstalled it. So her beamer slides and some formats of latex are still not working on her windows desktop. My thought was just to reinstall everything and get all the packages up to date? Assuming that the problem is with her MiKTeX installation, wiping all traces of MiKTeX (and LyX) and reinstalling (and then updating) MiKTeX should fix it. The sequence "i_DEc2016_NBER.nav" has me wondering whether something is garbled in a source file, though. If a full reinstall does not fix things, can you get her to provide one of the offending source documents, cut down to more or less the minimum required to trigger an error? Paul
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
Hey everyone, I talked with my collaborator and acquired some more details. When she was installing lyx, it asked her to update miktex/install updates. She did that and after that was when tex was not working. So then she uninstalled lyx, but tex was still not working, so she uninstalled miktex and reinstalled it. So her beamer slides and some formats of latex are still not working on her windows desktop. My thought was just to reinstall everything and get all the packages up to date?
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
Great question, will find out and follow up. (Thank you all for being so prompt and interested in figuring out the problem!)
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
On 05/29/2017 11:03 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: Hey Richard, I am pretty sure it is Windows, and it's the most recent version from miktex. I can ask her for the specifics though if you think it might help? -- We also need to know which LyX installer she used. There are two versions for Windows, the "installer" (52 MB) and the "bundle" (261 MB). The former relies on an existing MiKTeX installation; the latter installs a version of MiKTeX. If you use the bigger installer and you already have MiKTeX, you end up with two MiKTeX installations (the original is not replaced). So I wonder if she used the larger installer and, after uninstalling LyX, some trace of the LyX-installed MiKTeX distribution persisted? Paul
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:55:03PM -0700, Christos Makridis wrote:
> Hey Lyx Community,
>
> One of my collaborators downloaded lyx, but for some reason it prevented
> her from compiling her latex files as she normally did. After she
> uninstalled lyx, there was still a problem with beamer, which would not
> compile. Specifically, it gave the following error:
> ---
> (C:/Users/filepathXX
> i_DEc2016_NBER.nav
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.1 \beamer@endinputifotherversion
> {3.33pt}
> ?
> ---
>
> Does anyone know why this happened, and if there's a way to avoid it? I
> googled the error and it looks like the problem arises from something on
> line 1 in the beamer file. But, even so, why was it not a problem before
> lyx was installed, and why is it a problem even after it is uninstalled?
I've never heard of this happening before. Perhaps a LaTeX package got
updated somehow and the new version is incompatibile with the old. It's
hard to know without a minimal example .tex or .lyx file. For more
information, please read:
https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample
If you can send a minimal example (please send all email to the list),
perhaps someone can figure it out.
In any case, sorry to your friend and to you for the frustration. I hope
you're not on the hook for having recommended LyX :)
Scott
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
Hey Richard, I am pretty sure it is Windows, and it's the most recent version from miktex. I can ask her for the specifics though if you think it might help? -- Christos Makridis Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University Department of Management Science & Engineering Department of Economics www.christosmakridis.com
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
On 05/29/2017 08:55 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: > Hey Lyx Community, > > One of my collaborators downloaded lyx, but for some reason it > prevented her from compiling her latex files as she normally did. Is this on Windows? Which version of LyX did she install? and how? Richard
