Thanks for the hint on running from a command window to see more useful error messages. As it turned out, my problem existed only with a nonstandard class/layout combination. The reported error was that tex2lyx could not find the .layout file. The reason was that the layout file and the class file had different names (jasatex.cls and jasa.layout). The layout file contains the class file name, but not vice versa, so tex2lyx didn't know where to find the layout.
The problem was fixed by renaming the layout file to jasatex.layout; i.e. fixing the original operator error. Thanks again, Steve -----Original Message----- From: RIchard Heck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:11 PM To: Stephen Thompson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cannot Export Lyx to latex on Mac On 05/24/2010 08:15 PM, Stephen Thompson wrote: > I am also a new user -- and have the same issue. I have not been able to convert in either direction between LyX and LaTeX. How ever I am able to View->View Source. What appears seems to be pure LaTeX. > > So there is a problem with the copying of the file from the temporary directory, probably. Please run LyX from a terminal and report any error messages. If there aren't any, try running LyX as: lyx -dbg files and, if that doens't work: lyx -dbg any The latter will dump a lot of info. We're only interested in what happens at export time. Richard
