Thanks everyone for speedy responses! Scott, I installed texlive2014-20140525, but that didn't help.
Before installing the daily version of LyX as you suggested I tried to reinitialize my local ~/.lyx/ directory and .... that did it!!!! So my local ~/.lyx/ directory was somehow corrupted, probably because I upgraded LyX a few times and apparently something went wrong inbetween when I kept the existing ~/.lyx/ directory. Sure I'll have to do my LyX configuration again, but that is fine - in any case many thanks fore help! Martin 2014-08-14 19:06 GMT+02:00 Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Martin Vlk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I am new to LyX/LaTeX/TeX and trying to convert the UserGuide.lyx > from > > LyX Help into PDF for easy reading. > > > > When I run View PDF (pdflatex) I get a lot of the following output: > > > > \par > > > > \end{center} > > > > I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this > > > > control sequence to too much text. How can we recover? > > > > My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best. > > > > > > \par\end{center} > > > > Try typing <return> to proceed. > > > > If that doesn't work, type X <return> to quit. > > > > > > ETC. > > > > I have no idea why plain UserGuide.lxy can't be viewed. I have another > > document which I can successfully convert. > > > > I will appreciate any pointers to what might be wrong. > > > > Many Thanks > > Martin > > Hi Martin, indeed something strange might be happening here. I don't > have access to LyX 2.1 right now but on LyX 2.2dev it exports fine for > me on Ubuntu 14.04. Note however that I'm using TeX Live 2014 (which I > installed with https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu). > Either the LyX version of the TeX Live version could explain the > difference. Can you install LyX 2.2dev by using the daily PPA? see > instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3 > > If after that, it doesn't work, I would be happy to take a look at it > (not right now though) *if* you provide a script that will allow me to > reproduce your error from a fresh Ubuntu installation. Perhaps the > script would just contain the following line? > sudo apt-get install lyx texlive-full > Actually I think you'll need to put adding the PPA (and a sudo apt-get > update and then install of the package name). > > Best, > > Scott >
