On January 31, 2008 10:39:31 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> I take it you're running some flavor of Linux?  

sorry, yes, gentoo linux

> Did you run texhash 
> after you installed phonetic.sty? 

yep  ... didn't help

> If you run 'kpsewhich phonetic.sty' 
> from a terminal, is it found?

yes, it is found (~/texmf/tex/latex/phonetic.sty)

> That said, your installation is indeed somewhat munged. 

looks like

> What does Help 
> -> About LyX have for your user directory (i.e., home)? 

~/.lyx

> One possibility 
> might be LyX somehow trying to put your per-user configuration in a
> place where it doesn't have write access.  Other than that, my best
> suggestion would be to open a terminal in your home directory (the
> parent of the LyX user directory, probably ~), and from there run the
> configure.py script (you'll need to locate it in the LyX installation --
> I forget where it is, and I'm on a Windoze box right now).  Watch the
> output for any errors.

no errors ...

I've installed lots of style files and they work fine - don't have a clue
what's wrong here


all the best, Bill S.





-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

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