On Tuesday 4 October 2011 18:57:03 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking a Lyx as a replacement document tool. I'm trying to run the > > examples in the tutorial. > > I'm running Kubuntu Linux 11.10 and I have downloaded Latex2e, Lyx, etc > > using the package manager. > > > > I tried typing in a single sentence into Lyx and saved it to creat a > > test.lyx file. I ran: > > latex test.lyx > > You don't need to do this when you use LyX. Simply access View > View > PDF (pdflatex) or similar to compile your document. If you want to do > this manually using the command line (not recommended), then do File > > Export > LaTeX and then compile it as you're used to. See LyX > Essentials for some pointers. [1] > > Regards > Liviu Just to explain; a LyX 2 file is an XML file, not a TeX file. It contains all the additional information needed to set up the input screen in LyX. When you ask for an output, it creates a TeX file and sends the necessary commands to TeX or pdftex or whatever for processing. The File>Export>LaTeX option stops after the TeX file creation.
John > > [1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex > > > and got the following: > > > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) > > entering extended mode > > (./test.lyx > > LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> > > Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, > > dumylang, noh > > yphenation, loaded. > > ! You can't use `macro parameter character #' in vertical mode. > > l.1 # > > LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ > > > > > > I removed the first line: "#LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see > > http://www.lyx.org/"; > > > > and tried again and got: > > > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) > > entering extended mode > > (./test.lyx > > LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> > > Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, > > dumylang, noh > > yphenation, loaded. > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > l.1 \lyxformat > > 413 > > > > The first line of my test.lyx file is now "\lyxformat 413". Which latex > > apparently does not like. > > > > I'm guessing that I need something else installed or I have to pass an > > argument to latex so > > that the lyx package will work with latex. I think you need to add a > > brief prerequisite statement in your tutorial. > > > > > > Second, can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix the problem so I can > > continue with the tutuorial? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jim Anderson
