[posted and mailed] Peter Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:bntjms$fl4$1 @sea.gmane.org:
> hi, > > i have installed all the suff - lyx, cygwin, miktex so that i can use > lyx. however, i dont seem to be able to convert documents to pdf with > lyx. where is the scritpt to do this? do i have to set it up manually? > Just to clarify, are you saying that you cannot convert to PDF (File | Export | PDF (pdflatex) does not work), or are you saying you can't *view* them in PDF (View | PDF (pdflatex) does not work)? If it's the former, check Edit | Preferences | Converters | LaTeX -> PDF (pdflatex) and make sure the Converter: line contains pdflatex $$i, then make sure that pdflatex is installed in the MiKTeX ...\miktex\bin directory. If it's the latter, check Edit | Preferences | File formats | PDF (pdflatex) and make sure that the Viewer: line contains the name of your preferred PDF reader program (I use acrord32). -- 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
