On Jan 22, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

> My main suggestion, if you are able, would be to run LyX from a terminal, as 
> you will then get much more detailed error messages. It is possible that 
> there is some configuration problem with these programs, but I am not on Mac 
> and so cannot say for sure.

I have access to a terminal, but I would need instructions telling me how to do 
whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing.

> I'm not sure why you are converting to and from rtf, but if you just want to 
> import some old documents of your own, you might also try running rtf2latex2e 
> from a terminal and see how that goes.

I do want to import some "old documents", yes.

But rtf is the favored format for emailing manuscripts to people for 
beta-reading amoung my writer friends.  It would be nice to have it available 
to me. 



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