Paulina Restrepo wrote: > Hi, thanks for your response. > > I do have lyx, but beamer is not a class. I already downloaded beamer > but I don't know where I need to put it and how to install it so that > it works with lyx. > > Does anyone know? This will depend how LaTeX is installed. Search for the file "article.cls". Let's say you find it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/. Then you can put beamer.cls and all the *.sty files in there if you wish, but it's better to put them in, say, /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/, which you'll have to create.
Better yet, you can create a "local TeX tree" under your home directory. This local tree won't get overwritten by upgrades, etc, so it's a good place to put anything you download yourself. Where it goes is determined by the texmf.cnf configuration file. There are some remarks about how to read it, etc., in the Customization documentation (Help>Customization, section 5.1). Find this file and then look for the definition of TEXMFHOME. It's usually $HOME/texmf or something similar. Suppose it's that. Then you can put beamer.cls and the *.sty files in $HOME/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/, which again you'll have to create. Note how the structure of the local tree mirrors that of the main tree. This is important. The documentation you could put in $HOME/texmf/doc/latex/beamer, say. Check out your main tree (/usr/share/texmf, again, or something close to that) and see where your distribution has put similar things. That said, I think that the Mac LaTeX distribution includes some sort of "package installer" that will download and install packages for you. Richard -- ================================================================== Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ ================================================================== Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
