On May 1, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 01/05/2011 3:09 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> I'm brand new -- to LyX, LaTeX, and TeX. The whole shebang. >> >> I've attempted to import an RTF document into LyX. Under Preferences/File >> Handling/Converters I've set the From: format to RTF and the To: format to >> LaTeX (Plain). The converter identified for this translation is rtf2latex2e >> $$i. >> >> When do /File/Import/Rich Text Format..., I get the following message: An >> error occurred whilst running rtf2latex2e >> 'Avoidable-Losses-VIII-new-stuff.rtf' >> >> Help identifying the problem and solving it will be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> eew...@bellsouth.net >> > > Hi, and welcome, > > We would like to help you, but the information provided is very limited. It's > not really your fault: LyX doesn't show any constructive error message here, > other than `it did not work.' > > So we'll need more information. I assume that you have rtf2latex2e installed > and configured on your system. I would suggest that either you > > a) Try running rtf2latex2e 'Avoidable-Losses-VIII-new-stuff.rtf' from a > command-line terminal, capture the output, and provide it here in email,
Thanks, Julien. I looked in the scripts folder of the LyX package. It's not there. I ran it in terminal, and the result was: "-bash: rtf2latex2e: command not found". Is it a LyX specific script? Or is it used in the wider LaTeX community? My copy of LyX came in the MacTeX-Extras package. My installation of TeX also came from MacTeX, but it's the BasicTeX package, not the full TeX Live package. > b) Send a .rtf this way, and hope that some kind person might be able to > convert it on their machine and post the result here. This is not a critical document. I'm just using it as a case to get set up to import rtf documents on a regular basis. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net
