Pablo Ortúzar wrote:
Hi,
Thanks, Paul. I dowloaded & installed the XFT forms and fonts. In a console,
"kpsewhich article.cls" (no quotation marks) gave... nothing. )
Uh-oh.
Doing
"Reconfigure" didn't change anything.
It wouldn't. The problem lies with LaTeX, not with LyX.
Under "View", I have no DVI nor PDF.
You need to clarify something here. When you first open LyX (meaning
you are looking at the splash screen, and no document is open in LyX),
the View menu has "No Documents Open!" and does not have entries for DVI
or PDF. It should, however, end with an entry that lets you view your
TeX information (list LaTeX classes and styles, as well as BibTeX
styles). In a properly configured system, when you open a document (or
create a new one), the View menu contains entries for DVI, PDF etc. Are
you saying the View menu lacks DVI and PDF entries even when a document
is open? For that matter, *can* you open a document, given that either
LyX or LaTeX can't seem to find any of your document classes?
I do not think there is something wrong with *my* installation: I've seen
quite a few posts pointing to the same problem, which appears after an
upgrade (in one case, Fedora. Mine is a clean SuSE install. Others have
reported the same problem both with Windows and with Macs).
Forget about LyX for the moment. In any LaTeX installation I've used
(and I confess I've not used teTeX), kpsewhich should be able to find
any document class you have installed, and *every* LaTeX package
installs the article class. The article.cls file should be in the
./tex/latex/base folder under your LaTeX installation. Is it there? If
not, the teTeX installation may be hosed. If it is there, then I
suspect there's a problem with environment variables. Quoting the teTeX
FAQ:
The file texmf.cnf is searched for in $SELFAUTODIR, $SELFAUTOPARENT,
$TETEXDIR. If the file texmf.cnf is not found, set the TETEXDIR variable
in your environment.
Are those variables set in your environment?
Paul
