Thanks Mark and Richard for your replies. That's true, apparently a lot of tetex-related packages were missing in my Linux setup. (Why aren't they added automatically by the lyx setup ? Following Richard, i'll forward this to the Ubuntu forums.)
After adding them, the error message is gone. However, I have a minor side effect. The DVI files now open under "xdvik". I don't like this previewer too much: the page barely fills half of the screen, and maximizing is not remembered. I'd like to return to the "original" DVI previewer, the one which did not display the docs. but showed correctly the pages that I wrote myself. I guess this is the setting under tools - preferences - files formats - DVI - viewer because it reads "xdvik" there, but I don't know what to put instead. In my windows setup it is "auto". Maybe I could try this? Regards, Daniel CLEMENT > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Hansel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 3:16 PM > To: Daniel CLEMENT > Subject: Re: Preview doc. under Linux > > > Daniel, > > Check your TeTeX installation. Computer Modern is a family of > fonts Donald > Knuth developed for TeX and that the whole family of macros built on top > of TeX uses (or can use). LaTeX is one of that family and LyX uses LaTeX > to "compile" documents. > > Depending on the linux distribution you use, fixing this can be very > simple or wonderfully challenging. In Ubuntu, I would use synamtic. In > Fedora, I would od a yum search (starting with something like "yum > tetex|grep font"). You can probably do it manually from one of the TeX > TUGs (http://www.tug.org/tetex/). > > Mark Hansel > Minnesota State University Moorhead > Moorhead, MN 56563 > ph: 218-477-2039 fax: 218-477-2593 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwwcj.mnstate.edu > > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:06:44 +0100 > > From: Daniel CLEMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: LyX <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > > Subject: Preview doc. under Linux > > > > Dear LyX users, > > > > I'm new to LyX -- pls forgive if the question is trivial: > > > > I'm currently migrating to Linux, and I've selected LyX as word > processor. > > I'm practicing at LyX under Linux and Windows as well. > > > > I would like to preview/print some of the LyX documentation, > but under Linux > > it doesn't work. Here is what I get: > > > > font TS1/cmr/m/n/10=ccrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric > (TFM) file not > > fo ["found" I guess - the end of the error message is dropped]. > > > > How can I fix that? Under Windows instead, the doc. appears to > preview fine. > > > > (Linux Ubuntu 7.10 / LyX installed through add/remove applet.) > > > > TIA - regards, > > > > Daniel CLEMENT > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------- > Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > >
