Hi there, Well I've been reading/studying the guides that come together with Lyx, and so far I think it's a great piece of software, there is a but, though, not only I'm a newbie to Lyx but also to Linux, specifically to Kubuntu. and I found really hard to keep up how to install and set up everything, the worst part is that you don't even bother saying it! you go as far as saying something like "in this tutorial we are going to assume that Lyx is working perfectly (why would it?) as well as LaTeX, xdvi, dvips" and then you say that if this is not the case then I'll have to do it by myself (!?). I believe that stuff like this is what pushes people away from using great open source software... specially newbies like me. I know... we can always google anything but it seems that even though there is an official website for dvips, you can't download it from them, it only says "download reliable TeX software, it should be included there"... why don't you include everything that Lyx needs to be perfect?? then there seems to be a way to link all these pieces of software, that is, make them work together, but never mention how to do that...
Now regarding exporting and printing... in every single document I've made with Lyx.... If I try to do one or the other a message like this pops up... \makeatother The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. Then I read somewhere else that if I was able to print from any other piece of software I should be able to print without any problem from Lyx, and that is not the case, every single time after showing me the above message then it tells me that my printer hasn't been installed properly, oddly enough I have no problems printing from any other software. I hope that you can help me because I actually really like working with Lyx, but then again if I can't make pdf or print then is pretty much useless for me. keep up the good work René
