I am having significant difficulty getting through the tutorial on lyx.
Specifically through portion 2.1.1 (My first lyx document.) Following
the tutorial instructions:
File->New
Type: This is my first lyx document.
File->Save As
View->DVI
I get this output:
ampad:~/lyx.tutorial$ Converting from latex to DVI
Running
sh: first.tex: not found
Executing command: xdvi -paper us 'first.dvi'
file:first.dvi: No such file or directory
And there are no additional files in the directory to see if lyx even attempted
the conversion.
If I try to expert to latex, I get:
moving /tmp/lyx_tmpdir20005evaOeN/lyx_tmpbuf20005hvaOeN/first.tex to
/export/home/vkyle/lyx.tutorial/first.tex
And if I try to create a dvi from that file I get:
prompt> texi2dvi first.tex
first.tex:3: Misplaced {.
first.tex:3: Misplaced }.
first.tex:4: Misplaced {.
first.tex:4: Misplaced }.
first.tex:5: Misplaced {.
first.tex:5: Misplaced }.
first.tex:6: Misplaced {.
first.tex:6: Misplaced }.
first.tex:11: Misplaced {.
first.tex:11: Misplaced }.
first.tex:11: Misplaced {.
first.tex:11: Misplaced {.
first.tex:11: Misplaced }.
first.tex:14: Misplaced {.
first.tex:14: Misplaced }.
first.tex:16: Misplaced {.
first.tex:16: Misplaced }.
makeinfo: Removing macro output file `/tmp/txi2d.20024/first.texi' due to errors; use
--force to preserve.
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(/tmp/txi2d.20024/first.texi
I know that the tutorial says that it assumes that there is a proper
installation that has been completed of both latex and lyx. This is a
big assumption on my part. However, if I try to convert a sample
Tetex document to a dvi, I have no problems. I have no idea of where
to continue at this point.
Has someone else experienced these problems, or can point me to some
specific documentation that I might have missed? I appreciate any help.
As far as specifics, I am running:
Solaris 2.8
TeTex
lyx-1.1.6fix3
teTex-1.0.7
teTeX-texmfsrc-1.0.1
texinfo-4.0
bxforms-089
Thanks in advance,
Vern
