Hugo Hiraoka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Checking for LaTeX2e program...
> +checking for "latex"... not useable
> +checking for "latex2e"...not useable
[...]
> But Latex runs from the command line, and I have it defined in my path
> variable.
And how? I can conjure up three reasons for lib/configure not to
detect LaTeX2e:
1) You are using an exotic name such as "platex" to invoke it,
2) You are using a shell alias and there is actually no latex/
latex2e executable (can be a shell script) in your path,
3) The LaTeX installtion on your system is not really an LaTeX2e.
If you are absolutely sure that 3) is not the case, edit
Two related topics:
1. Jean-Marc, considering that lib/configure is invoked also from
within LyX, it might not be a good idea to add another command
line option to it, however, there can be a way to respect what
users had set in some environment varable in the LaTeX2e detection,
don't you think?
2. pTeX is a Japanese-only implementation of TeX. An input encoding
handling routine for Japanese character sets are hard-coded into
TeX compiler. It handles 7-bit characters just the same way as
any standard implementations of TeX. But if 8-bit characters
are encountered, the special routine in the compiler is invoked
*before* any @catcode macros are interpreted. This is necessary
to handle Shift-JIS encoding for Japanese (EUC and JIS can be
handled just fine with any standard implementations of TeX).
In short, you cannot typeset UserGuide.lyx with pTeX, for example.
(I fully realized that pTeX has a definite advantage with dvips
and other DVI-drivers for PostScript over the standard
implementations when Japanese fonts are concerned, though)
Regards,
SMiyata
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