Peter Hovmand wrote: > I've installed cygwin/XFree86, Miktex, and Lyx on my Windows XP system. I > can start Lyx from a desktop icon without any problem, open files, save > them etc. What I can't do is preview or export the files. I go to View and > there are no menu options for DVI, HTML, etc. The first option under View > is for Update, and the submenu only gives me an option of ASCII and LaTeX. > Peter
That probably means that lyx has been unable to find the external programs that do this conversion/viewing. You have a script 'configure' in /usr/local/share/lyx (or equivalent) that is run by LyX when you press Edit->Reconfigure. It generates files lyxrc.defaults, packages.lst, textclass.lst. I've appended my own lyxrc.defaults. Yours should look similar. In particular you should find lines like \converter latex dvi "latex $$i" "latex" meaning the program 'latex' is used to convert from latex format to dvi format. If you don't have such a line, then the configure script has been unable to find your 'latex' or 'latex2e' executable. Is it in you PATH environment variable? $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/angus/bin $ which latex /usr/bin/latex Can you run 'configure' from a console. The accompanying messages may be illuminating. Good luck, Angus $ cat lyxrc.defaults # This file has been automatically generated by LyX' lib/configure # script. It contains default settings that have been determined by # examining your system. PLEASE DO NOT MODIFY ANYTHING HERE! If you # want to customize LyX, make a copy of the file LYXDIR/lyxrc as # ~/.lyx/lyxrc and edit this file instead. Any setting in lyxrc will # override the values given here. \Format text txt ASCII A \Format textparagraph txt ASCII(paragraphs) "" \Format docbook sgml DocBook B \Format bmp bmp BMP "" \Format dvi dvi DVI D \Format eps eps EPS "" \Format fax "" Fax "" \Format fig fig XFig "" \Format agr agr GRACE "" \Format html html HTML H \Format gif gif GIF "" \Format jpg jpg JPG "" \Format latex tex LaTeX L \Format linuxdoc sgml LinuxDoc x \Format lyx lyx LyX "" \Format literate nw NoWeb N \Format pdf pdf PDF P \Format pdf2 pdf "PDF (pdflatex)" F \Format pdf3 pdf "PDF (dvipdfm)" m \Format png png PNG "" \Format ppm ppm PPM "" \Format pgm pgm PGM "" \Format pbm pbm PBM "" \Format ps ps Postscript t \Format program "" Program "" \Format tgif obj TGIF "" \Format tiff tif TIFF "" \Format word doc Word W \Format xbm xbm XBM "" \Format xpm xpm XPM "" \Format lyxpreview lyxpreview "LyX Preview" "" \converter latex dvi "latex $$i" "latex" \converter latex pdf2 "pdflatex $$i" "latex" \converter latex html "latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i" "originaldir,needaux" \converter literate latex "none" "" \converter dvi pdf3 "none" "" \converter dvi ps "dvips -o $$o $$i" "" \converter ps pdf "ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 $$i" "" \converter ps fax "kdeprintfax $$i" "" \converter linuxdoc lyx "sgml2lyx $$i" "" \converter linuxdoc latex "sgml2latex $$i" "" \converter linuxdoc dvi "sgml2latex -o dvi $$i" "" \converter linuxdoc html "sgml2html $$i" "" \converter docbook dvi "db2dvi $$i" "" \converter docbook html "db2html $$i" "" \converter lyxpreview ppm "lyxpreview2bitmap.sh" "" \converter latex lyx "none" "" \converter literate lyx "none" "" \converter html latex "none" "" \converter word latex "none" "" \viewer dvi "xdvi" \viewer html "mozilla file://$$p$$i" \viewer pdf "acroread" \viewer ps "none -swap" \viewer eps "none" \ps_command "gs" \ascii_roff_command "groff -t -Tlatin1 $$FName" \chktex_command "none" \spell_command "ispell" \print_spool_command "lp" \print_spool_printerprefix "-d " \font_encoding "T1" \converter tiff eps "tiff2ps $$i > $$o" "" \converter tgif eps "tgif -print -eps $$i" "" \converter tgif pdf "tgif -print -pdf $$i" "" \converter tgif png "tgif -print -png $$i" "" \converter tgif ppm "tgif -print -stdout -xpm $$i | xpmtoppm > $$o" "" \converter eps pdf "epstopdf --outfile=$$o $$i" ""
