[posted and mailed] tarvydas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I'm trying lyx for the first time and am walking through the tutorial. > Version 1.3.2 Under Mandrake 9.2. > > When I get to tutorial step "View >> DVI", I see only "View >> PDF > (pdflatex)". I select it and get an error "Cannot view file, No > information for viewing PDF (pdflatex)". > > Anybody know what's wrong? What is lyx looking for at this point? > > thanx > Paul Tarvydas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > p.s. The Preferences >> Converters menu appears to have a command line > set up for pdflatex "pdflatex $$i". > > pps. "which pdflatex" shows that it exists in /usr/bin/pdflatex. > Check Edit | Preferences | File formats (as opposed to Converters) and see if a viewer is filled in for DVI and PDF (pdflatex) formats. If not, type in the appropriate file name (and if it has trouble finding the corresponding viewer, toss in the path as well). Presumably your LaTeX installation has a DVI viewer (yap maybe?). For pdflatex, the viewer is whatever program you use to display PDF files (GhostView, Acrobat reader, ...). -- Paul ************************************************************************* Paul A. Rubin Phone: (517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432-1111 The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ************************************************************************* Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different. J. W. v. GOETHE
