On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question for you > all: > > I get following error message: > > ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not > usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it > is not available. See the Customization documentation for more information. > LyX will not be able to produce output.'' > > when I try to open a .tex file. What's going on and what are we talking > about? > > $ uname -a > Darwin Mac.loc 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT > 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc > $ >
Sounds like you haven't installed a TeX distribution. The distribution will contain article.cls which article.layout needs. I don't know much about Mac stuff, but I thought MacTeX was a popular option. I'm sure there are other ways. Actually, I just looked at MacPorts and they have TeXLive (this is the prefered distribution for Linux). You need to install TeXLive which is a TeX distribution. Cheers, /Bob
