Angus Leeming wrote:
Easy to test: typing 'yap' at a command prompt should open the yap viewer (albeit with nothing to view).Abdul-Hadi Abulrub wrote:
Dear all,
After a good effort, I managed to have LyX installed on my Machine. It is running XP.
Unfortunately, when I tried to convert the LyX file to DVI, an error message says that missing file called yap. I tried all possibilities even re-installation but nothing works.
It is set correctly set in preferences to use yap for DVI.
Any help would be so much appreciated and many thanks in advance.
Regards Hadi
yap is a viewer of dvi files on Windows machines. It should be part of your latex distribution. You may need to alter your PATH environment variable to include the directory containing yab.exe.
On the other hand, the PATH *should* be ok. A-H is probably using MiKTeX; yap.exe is in MiKTeX's bin directory, and MiKTeX puts the bin directory on the path during installation. (If it doesn't, you won't get as far as yap -- latex.exe won't be found.) I'm not sure about teTeX, but I think it too puts yap in the same directory as latex.
-- Paul
