Greetings list,
After following Ronald Florence's HOWTO for LyX/Mac, I am the proud and
happy owner of a lovely implementation of LyX on the Mac OS X. However,
probably because I accidentally altered a converter setting, selecting
view -> pdflatex, which had been giving me a nice preview of my LyX
files, now either gives me an error message ("File error. Couldn't open
file. It may be corrupt or a file format Preview does not recognize.")
or the same sort of garbage that View -> dvipdfm has always given me (I
assume because I have not yet installed MacDviX). The converter settings
now are: LaTeX -> DVI on the left under converters and LaTeX, DVI, latex
$$i, latex going down on the right side. Are these incorrect?
When I select different settings on the left side under converters and
then click
modify or save, the settings seem to return to their original choices
(namely those given above) when I open the converter window later.
Suggestions? If I don't have MacDviX installed, and I want to preview
using pdflatex as I had been, what should the settings be?
Installation: Gerben Wierda's teTeX implementation (TeX, ghostscript,
Freetype 2, WMF and icon conversion support, ImageMagick), plus LyX/Mac
as a self-installing binary based on LyX 1.3.4 and the Qt/Mac library
running on Mac OS 10.3.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Bruce Pourciau
Department of Mathematics
Lawrence University
PS I'm very new at this game, so suggestions/instructions should be
phrased accordingly.
