> 2014-03-28 13:58 GMT+01:00 Mark Salmon <markhsal...@gmail.com>: >> Aplogies for lack of immediate response - I had to teach. I have had >> frustrations with Lyx ever since I moved from SciWord several years ago. >> Yesterday I upgraded to the latest beta and now when I try and load up a New >> file I get the error message that there is no begin document command when >> there clearly is in the source file- I wasted half a day trying to work out >> what was wrong- in fact I still don¹t know what was wrong but by removing use >> theme warsaw from the Latex preamble it works for some reason- secondly the >> installation on MacOSx does not drop the relevant files -templates etc. in >> the right places where the system can find them - so when I ask for a New >> from template I am told the file will not compile as it requires external >> files which are not available.etc. Etc. etc. can you understand how >> frustrating this is when you are under pressure??? I am not a TeX speaker >> but someone who needs to use the wonderful system that you have helped to >> create in a professional context. However. It is just a real pain that it >> does not work properly on a Mac largely because of install problems I >> believe. I fully understand your effort and all those who along with you have >> helped create Lyx in the form it is today thank you- but that is not the >> point nobody should put any software out to the public which does not work >> as it should my time as yours is valuable. It is simply not professional. > > 1. If you install beta software, be aware that it is beta software. The > announcement of LyX 2.1beta and LyX 2.1rc clearly state that "this release is > for testing purposes only, users are encouraged to use current 2.0 stable > release for any serious work." > > 2. LyX is a community project, not a commercial product. The developers are > all volunteers and have jobs (I am, as you, a researcher and teacher at the > university). So if you do not have time to give at least constructive feedback > (one way of "participating"), then use commercial software and pay for the > support. > > Regards > Jürgen
I completely agree with Jurgen "when I ask for a New from template I am told the file will not compile as it requires external files which are not available.etc² is not really helpful for solving your problem. (A good idea if you want someone to really help you is to make it as easy as possible for them if you just want to complain that is another thing ;-) Anyway, if I try to reproduce on a freshly installed 2.1rc1 on a Mac by taking the elsarticle template, i get an error that ../examples/biblioExample.bib is not found. (I assume the reason is that the template resides in ~/Library/Application Support/Lyx-2.1/templates/ but gets moved to ~/Documents/ when you create a new file. If your problem is something like that (which, as said, I don¹t know) then click on the gray box with BibTeX-generated bibliography, remove the current database and add the biblioExample by browsing and selecting ~/Library/Application Support/Lyx-2.1/examples/biblioExample.bib And now it works. I agree that this is not really good, but I suspect it could be a bit difficult to solve. Also you usually provide your own bibliography when using the template. As I said, I have no idea if your problem is similar (judging from the first comment, I would suspect that you would also require a Reconfigure of LyX and possible to do a sudo texhash from the Terminal to get things to work). But as Jürgen pointed out: If you can¹t take time to explain what your problem is, then buy commercial program/support (especially if they get paid by the hour in supporting ;-) Have a nice weekend! Anders
