Thanks to Jim and Andre! I really appreciate the suggestions so far. Here is what I've tried:
I tried the unix2dos, but to no avail. I used it on my *.lyx file on the unix platform and ftp'ed the file to the pc, but lyx still wouldn't open it. Thinking that latex my be a more portable format, I exported a latex version of my lyx file on unix, ran unix2dos, ftp'd to the pc, and tried to import into lyx. I still get the same errors.
The strange thing is that I was able to use MikTeX on the pc to compile the latex file that I exported from lyx on unix. I get a nice dvi file and everything seems fine. So the latex syntax seems to be OK. I then tried to import that latex file into lyx. Lyx works on it for a few seconds. The command window shows displays how the conversion is progressing:
Reading latex command syntax... Reading layout file... Cleaning... Translating...
But then an error appears. The conversion immediately bombs out and the window disappears, so I can't see what the error was. It appears to say that something is "illegal" about an "&" character.
Finally, a lyx error window comes up and states "An error occurred while running the conversion script", which is the same error I've was getting before.
How do I run lyx2lyx?
Clint Slatton
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:53:18PM +0200, Ronald Pagel wrote:
Just a guess:
A carriage return is treated differently in Unix and Dos, respectively. Did you do a "unix2dos" on your files under Unix? I think the real command is "recode" but "unix2dos" works on most systems.
He's converting across a couple of stable releases, too. So this might as well be a lyx2lyx issue (either by lyx2lyx itself, or, more likely some installation problem)
Andre'
