William O. Bray wrote: > Hi all, after some work and reading posts on this list, I have managed to > complile Lyx from source with the qt frontend. Wow, it is indeed nice, > cheers to the developers.
Well done ;-) > One question, I have installed the preview-latex files and checked the box > for > instant preview in Lyx. I do not see anything happening. Is there some > additional configuring of preview-latex I need to do?? Previews are generated only of the math insets and, optionally, of included latex files (say latex images). If you load uup a file with math insets, then lyx will dump them out to a special latex file and run the script /usr/share/lyx/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.sh on it. If the conversion of latex file to a stack of bitmap images fails, the original latex file will be left in the tmp dir. You'll get a message to this effect on the console. Save this file someplace more easily accessible and investigate further. The script isn't very complex, so it should be easy enough to track down what's gone wrong. HTH, -- Angus
