James wrote:
All,I am trying to get 1.50b3 running on my desktop (Linux). I have it running on my laptop (Mac) and am very pleased with the new look and feel. On the linux build, I am having trouble with math symbols in preview. They come out fine in a DVI/PS/PDF document, but don't show up properly in the lyx preview. This is more of an annoyance than anything else, but I would like to have it working properly. Launching lyx from a command prompt, I see an error message back to the command window that says: latex failed to compile 01lyxpreview.tex This message shows up after I leave a math environment. Any thoughts on what is causing this, or how I could fix it? I built the binary from the 1.50 beta 3 source today, and I used qt 4.2.3.James
While LyX is open (and you're staring at that error message), locate your temporary buffer directory. (Sorry, I know where to find it on Windows but not on Linux. Tools -> Preferences... -> Paths -> Temporary directory will point you to it.) The first question is whether 01lyxpreview.tex exists there. If so, open it with a plain vanilla text editor and see if it looks like valid LaTeX source code. It should look like an abbreviated document containing just your math formula(s). Presumably 01lyxpreview.dvi is *not* there. If there's a 01lyxpreview.log, have a look at it and see if you can spot what blew up. If not, perhaps you could post a minimal example plus whatever you find in the temp directory.
/Paul
