The following documents (the rest of the data from this thread) how I got
the PDF and DVI viewers and PDF and HTML exports all working on Mac OSX
10.4.8 (just as I have them in my Slackware Linux setup) -- with much
thanks to Jens Noeckel's help.
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Jens Noeckel wrote:
On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Jens Noeckel wrote:
2 of the 3 pdf conversions work. On viewing or exporting with dvipdfm, I
get the following error:
... error running dvipdfmx -p letter -o 'newfile1.pdf' 'newfile1.dvi'
dvipdfmx exists. So is the command line wrong?
I've always had simply dvipdfm as the driver (had not installed dvipdfmx at
all because I didn't need it). Now I tried that using fink and got the same
error as you.
The error was, as you suggested, that I was using the dvipdfmx command but
didn't actually have it installed -- only dvipdfm from fink. So I
installed dvipdfmx and it uninstalled other things which caused some of
the viewers to stop working.
So I uninstalled dvipdfmx and took the 'x' off of the command line leaving
dvipdfm to do the work, and viola! -- all three pdf viewers and exports
now work. thanks!
Also, it seems that I have to have X11 running to use the DVI. So do I need
to start X11 before running the DVI viewer? And which? And should I remove
the other X11?
I wouldn't worry about it. The X11's can coexist, as far as I know. But
you're right, there is a "bug" in open-x11 which doesn't let it automatically
start X11.app, as I had intended (it works if you provide an argument to
open-x11). Another thing I never noticed, because I have X11 running all the
time, anyway...
So the better way to do this is: replace "open-x11" by "open -a X11" in
the line I sent you earlier, i.e., open -a X11 && export DISPLAY=:0.0 &&
/sw/bin/xdvik
Yes, adding the -a works for opening X11 automatically. So the DVI viewer
is all smooth and nice now too! :-)
And oops -- to bring this up to the functionality I depend on in linux on
the Mac, I mostly need to be able to export to html as well as pdf.
For that, I would suggest doing a "fink install tex4ht" (I don't think you
can get tth from fink, but tex4ht is extremely good in my opinion; there's
also "hevea"). You may have to run Reconfigure in LyX after the installation.
I guess I assumed that I got a new html export when I upgraded to 1.4.3 in
slackware. But I've been using TTH for years now which I installed a couple
years back. So I guess that wasn't part of the upgrade then. But it sure
does work seamlessly in LyX 1.4.3 on linux if it's from that old install.
The exported files retain the important parts of the lyx formatting I need
and require little or no modification thereafter.
I had trouble with tex4ht -- I guess because it's converting from DVI and
I couldn't figure out the command line. I may re-investigate this later.
So I went to TTH's website and downloaded the latest source.
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth
Then I installed all the Xcode stuff from OSX, and the OSX gcc.
Then tth compilied quite simply. I moved the executable to /usr/local/bin.
And then I replicated the command line my linux setup has for the html
export in preferences - converters - LaTeX (plain) -> HTML:
tth -t -e2 -L$$b <$$i >$$o
And it works beautifully as it does in linux. :-)
As for importing from Word, I'm not sure I'll need this but I'm using a
package I got some years ago -- wv. Command line in MS Word -> LaTeX
exports is wvCleanLatex $$i $$o The package is wv. Though the one I have
is old and I suspect there are better options.
And here one more stupid question from a long-time LyX user: what's a
"wiki"? <:-O I've seen it and probably should know what it is. Is it an
acronym?
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Boy was THAT ever a complete definition! Thanks for bringing me out of the
dark on this one too!
And thanks much for all the other help!
jamie faunt
