On Oct 8, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote:
Hello everybody,
I have been using Lyx very successfully for a long time on x86
Linux (SuSE) and convinced others to do so, too.
Now I have an Apple PowerBook with OSX 10.4 (Tiger) for a while and
decided to work again on larger documents (up to more than 1000
pages) with LyX.
A while ago I had problems installing teTeX with i-installer, but
now it worked.
Unfortunately, after searching the whole morning I could not find a
solution to the following problem within LyX:
No (not even one!) single document type is available. I can open my
old documents, but LyX warns me, that the original document type
specified in that document (like "book", "article" etc.) is not
available and therefore LyX will not be able to produce any output
- and it's right in saying so.
I already checked for the .layout files - they are there; for
the .cls-filex in /usr/local/teTeX ... - they are there. And I
could not find any hint on the web, what might be wrong with my
installation.
Am I the only one having this problem?
No -- this or similar issues have been covered several times on the
LyX User's list. (You can search the archives.)
What could be the reason?
Most likely it's that your PATH Prefix is not set properly. Check LyX
> Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix; it should be set to:
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-
current:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin
For some reason I haven't been able to figure out (since I cannot
replicate the problem), this alone doesn't seem to do the trick for
some users of OSX 10.4. So check your PATH Prefix, restart LyX, run
Edit > Reconfigure, restart LyX again, and see if that improves things.
Let us know what happens ....
Bennett
