Sarah McMurray <smcmurra <at> mymail.mines.edu> writes: > > > Thanks for the advice Uwe,Can I do this without uninstalling Cygwin? Because I actually need it alot otherwise.Thanks,Sarah
Yes, you can leave Cygwin alone, provided that you have a Windows installation of LaTeX (MiKTeX, for instance). Assuming you have MiKTeX (or some other Windows-compatible LaTeX distribution) installed, you might try the following before reinstalling. Go to the dialog where you edit your system path (see, for example, http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-15ZLK/index.html if you don't know how) and make sure that any MiKTeX (or whatever) directories are listed ahead of any Cygwin directories. If they are not, edit the path to make it so, and see if that helps. Cygwin comes with a version of LaTeX. I have not used Cygwin in a long time, but back when I did, the LaTeX that came with it was incomplete and not useable by LyX. So if Cygwin's path moved ahead of MiKTeX's path, LyX found the Cygwin version of LaTeX and Bad Things Happened. If you were fooling around with an update or adjustment to Cygwin, it could be you inadvertantly moved its path to the head of the queue. /Paul
