Okay, this confirms that MiKTeX is correctly installed (still) and that
it knows where the article class is located. The error messages you
were getting about the article class not being available suggested a
problem with MiKTeX -- either a borked installation or something
knocking it off the command path -- because the article class is
*always* installed with an LaTeX distribution.
Regarding the configuration logs someone (Richard?) asked for, where did
you find the ones you posted? In particular, did you check in the local
LyX folders? (On XP those should be C:\Documents and Settings\<your
login id>\Application Data\..., where ... is either lyx, lyx16, lyx2 or
something like that -- sadly, I no longer have access to an XP box to
nail down the exact name.) In both LyX 1.6 and LyX 2.0, you can do Help
> About LyX and look at the "User directory" entry (expanding ~ to
C:\Documents and Settings\<you>\Application Data). You might want to
confirm that 1.6 and 2.0 point to different user directories, and that
both directories exist.
Just out of curiosity, can you View > DVI any of the LyX help files?
Sorry this process is taking so long, but nothing obvious comes to mind,
and your symptoms seem to have changed a bit along the way. A working
installation suddenly breaking sometimes happens when something
unrelated to LyX screws with MiKTeX, but that does not seem to have
happened to you.
Paul
On 06/25/2011 02:31 PM, William Hanson wrote:
Did it. What I got was
C:\Program Files/MikTeX 2.7/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Bill
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Paul A. Rubin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote:
I have a folder named "MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I
suppose I'm using MiKTeX.
You are. Pretty much everyone on Windows is.
But I know very little about how LyX works. Also, I don't
know what you mean when you say, "open a command prompt and
run 'kpsewhich article.cls' ".
Click Start > Run (or hold down the Windows key and hit R) and
type 'cmd', then click the button to do it (I forget what the
button says, probably "Ok" or "Run"). That should open a window
with a DOS prompt. At the prompt, type 'kpsewhich article.cls'
and see what happens. Don't type the single quotes (') either place.
Paul
