On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:06:36 +0000 (UTC), "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [posted and mailed] > > "Rafael Magui�a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > The log-file wasn't there. The test.tex file is written, the path is > > also alright - yap looks for the temp dvi file in the right place, but > > then, there is just the tex file, the dvi file is missing. So, i guess > > it is a latex problem, because the *.tex file is not converted to > > *.dvi... I couldn't go farther than that, but then... I'm just a > > newby at latex/lyx. > > Well, that's a bit puzzling (though consistent with what Jim Reid > reported). This is a long shot, but try Help-LaTeX Configuration and > check "LaTeX version currently in use". If it does not contain a date > (and typically this would also mean that the page itself has question > marks in lieu of a date in its heading), then LyX can't find your LaTeX > installation. In that case, you need to make sure that latex.exe is on > your path, then run Edit->Reconfigure. I think Jim Reid said that his > LyX was indicating that LaTeX had been found, though, so I'm not > optimistic about this. > > If you were using a more recent version of Windoze, I might suspect a > permissions problem (LyX trying to invoke latex.exe but latex.exe > requiring root permissions, or some such). I had a problem a while back > on a Windows 2000 machine that boiled down to a difference between the > permissions Cygwin assigned to a file and the permissions Windoze > assigned to it. However, Win 98 SE isn't particularly anal about > permissions (in fact, I don't recall being able to assign permissions in > it), so that's not likely to be the problem. > > Another experiment you might try: load a document into LyX; use ctrl-alt- > del to pop up the list of processes running; then click View->DVI and > watch the process list to see whether latex.exe starts or not. It might > be that latex.exe is being invoked but dying without writing a log file. > > Or maybe this is something peculiar to the native version, in which case > someone else will have to come up with the answer. > > Meanwhile, you at least have a workaround, albeit a tedious one: > > 1. Use File->Export to export your LyX file as a LaTeX file. This > should export to the same directory in which the LyX file lives, not to a > temp directory. > > 2. Open a DOS prompt in that directory and run latex <file.tex>. Since > you're new to LaTeX, I'll warn you that if you have references in your > document, you have to run LaTeX at least twice (the first time creates an > auxiliary file with the references, the second time uses that file to > fill in reference numbers). Also, if you put in a bibliography, you'll > have to run bibtex after the first latex run and before the second one. > My rule of thumb is to keep running latex until the log output > stabilizes. :-) > > 3. Now run yap, or whatever your DVI viewer is, on the DVI. > > You still get to use LyX to shield you from Evil Red TeX, so this is not > all bad, but obviously it's not nearly as good as resolving the problem. > > > And I'm astonished to having got so much help so > > quick. Thanks! > > Benjamin Franklin predates Windows, but nonetheless has a quote relevant > to Windows users: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all > hang separately." > > -- Paul
It was just the paths!! They were missing. Neither yap.exe nor latex.exe or the rest dll's that are needed for converting the lyx -> tex -> dvi were being loaded. That is why there wasn't also any log file being written. So, I tried editing Edit -> Preferences -> Converters (-> File Formats), i.e. typing the whole paths to the viewer (in my case yap) and to the converter (latex), and it worked! Thanks for the help! And I hope this helps some other newbie like myself... Regards, Rafael -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Sent 0.000002 seconds ago
