Lars,
The lyx and latex files looked fine. The foot note was there. I have
included them at the bottom of this document.
I think you were right way long ago about suspecting a font problem.
Here is the standard error output of "latex <text.tex 2>log"
I think this is the answer, I just don't know what the gobbletygook
means.
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kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1000
mktextfm: /var/tmp/texfonts/tfm/unknown/unknown/ecrm1000.tfm already
exists.
kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm0700
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source
abbreviation for ecrm0700.
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm0700
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm0700
! I can't find file `ecrm0700'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm0700
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm0700
Transcript written on mfput.log.
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm0700'
failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
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test.lyx
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#This file was created by <darrint> Mon Aug 16 16:27:00 1999
#LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team
\lyxformat 2.15
\textclass article
\language default
\inputencoding default
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
help
\begin_float footnote
\layout Standard
test
\end_float
\layout Standard
me!
\the_end
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test.tex
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\makeatletter
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
\providecommand{\LyX}{L\kern-.1667em\lower.25em\hbox{Y}\kern-.125emX\@}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
help\footnote{%
test
}
me!
