Update: I still could not track down the offending lines in my Unix *.lyx file, so I tried the following experiment. I logged onto my old Unix machine remotely, running Xwin32. I was able to start a Lyx session and create a simple one-line lyx file that contained only one sentence: "This is a test." I saved it, ftp'd it back to my pc using ascii transfer and also using binary transfer (same result).
When I try to open that file on the PC using Lyx, I get the same old error: "An error occurred while running the conversion script". Below, I have pasted in the contents of this file as seen in Windows Notepad.
Can anyone find the problem? As I stated in my first post, I can open the Lyx help files on the PC, save them as *.lyx files, and re-open them. So my installation of Lyx appears capable of opening Lyx files in general.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 218 \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
This is a test.
\layout Standard
\the_end ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks in advance.
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K. Clint Slatton, Assistant Professor University of Florida Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
