On 08/12/2017 05:25 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Paul A Rubin wrote:
Curious. Your setup must be a tad nonstandard.
Paul,
Could be ... because I am.
Ain't we all!
I tested it at my end (using " pdf2") and it worked. In the list of file
formats (under preferences) on both my machines, pdf2 is "shorthand" for
"PDF (pdflatex)". That's a LyX default, not something I screwed with.
Hmmm-m-m. Under Tools -> Preferences -> File Handling -> File
formats for
default output formats with TeX fonts PDF (pdflatex), with non-TeX
fonts DVI
(LuaTeX). The Shortcut text entry widget is empty.
I use the T1 TeX font encoding; the default body text typeface is
Palatino.
Same one mine, but that's not the key bit. And, in hindsight, it's
possible I gave you the way to export to the wrong format.
Under Tools > Preferences > File Handling > File formats, click on the
Format select box at the top and scroll to "LaTeX (pdflatex)". I suspect
that under "Short name" you have "pdflatex", as I do. Now switch the
select box to "PDF (pdflatex)", and I suspect the short name is now
"pdf2". At least it is on my systems.
So I gave you the shortcut to export the buffer as a PDF file, compiled
using pdflatex, which might not be what you had in mind. What worked for
you should be producing a LaTeX source file compatible with pdflatex. If
that's what you want, dandy. The expression of confusion by LyX when you
used "pdf2" suggests that maybe it doesn't know how to compile to PDF
using pdflatex (converter not specified, didn't find pdflatex on your
system, finds pdflatex morally objectionable, thinks it's a Russian
plot/Chinese hoax/SNL skit, ...).
Paul