Re: newbie's request: installing hollywood.cls

2003-11-19 Thread Rafael Maguiña
Matej Cepl wrote:

kpsewhich did found hollywood.cls. However, that was as far as
I got. After running Edit/Reconfigure the "Latex
Configuration"-helpfile didn't recongnize hollywood.cls as
present/installed.
   

What does Help/About LyX about "Library directory" and "User
directory"?
 

Library directory: d:/programme/lyx/share/LYX/
User directory: .lyx/
I think everything is ok with that.

Anyway, thanks for the help Matej. Maybe it's a MikTeX-specific issue. I 
will try post in the MikTeX forum/list, but if anyone on the lyx 
community can lend me a hand on this, please, feel free to write me.

Regards

--
Rafael



Re: newbie's request: installing hollywood.cls

2003-11-18 Thread Rafael Maguiña
Matej Cepl wrote:

What happens when you move hollywood.cls somewhere to the TeXMF 
tree (e.g., c:\program files\TeXLive\texmf-local\tex\latex, if 
your TeX distribution is TeXLive), refresh kpsepath database 
(there is a Start-menu item for it in TeXLive), and then run 
kpsewhich hollywood.cls in DOS/Shell window?
If it finds hollywood.cls, you are half way through. Start LyX 
and run Edit/Reconfigure. Then restart LyX and File/New from 
Template. Select hollywood.lyx as a template. Save under the new 
name and you are all set!

Matej

I moved hollywood.cls to \texmf\tex\latex (as my \texmflocal directory 
hasn't any texmflocal\tex\latex subdirectories) and, as I did not find 
"kpsepath", I run an update for the package database in the mpm (miktex 
package manager). After that, kpsewhich did found hollywood.cls. 
However, that was as far as I got. After running Edit/Reconfigure the 
"Latex Configuration"-helpfile didn't recongnize hollywood.cls as 
present/installed.

I even checked the mpm and there wasn't no hollywood package nor 
hollywood.cls file to be found for installing.

The MikTeX FAQ reads:

"If (for some reason) you have to install a package by hand, then you 
should copy the input files into the directory tex\latex\/package/ 
relative to the local TEXMF directory (usually C:\localtexmf\). Remember 
to refresh the file name database, so that MiKTeX finds the files."

I did it, but it didn't help. The mpm still don't "see" hollywood.cls.

I forgot to tell that I run Windows98SE (pity me!) and downloaded and 
installed MikTeX directly from miktex.org (no TeXLive CD).

--
Rafael



newbie's request: installing hollywood.cls

2003-11-17 Thread Rafael Maguiña
Can anybody help me install the hollywood class?
I have the Ruurd Reitsma's win32 port of LyX 1.3.2 and miktex 2.4 
installed. The documentation wasn't very helpful on this (maybe because 
I run LyX under windows...?).

Thanks in advance,

--
Rafael Maguiña



Re: View -> dvi doesn't work - FIXED!

2003-07-17 Thread Rafael Maguiña
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:06:36 + (UTC), "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> [posted and mailed]
> 
> "Rafael Maguiña" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> 
> > The log-file wasn't there. The test.tex file is written, the path is
> > also alright - yap looks for the temp dvi file in the right place, but
> > then, there is just the tex file, the dvi file is missing. So, i guess
> > it is a latex problem, because the *.tex file is not converted to
> > *.dvi... I couldn't go farther than that, but then... I'm just a 
> > newby at latex/lyx.
> 
> Well, that's a bit puzzling (though consistent with what Jim Reid 
> reported).  This is a long shot, but try Help-LaTeX Configuration and 
> check  "LaTeX version currently in use".  If it does not contain a date 
> (and typically this would also mean that the page itself has question 
> marks in lieu of a date in its heading), then LyX can't find your LaTeX 
> installation.  In that case, you need to make sure that latex.exe is on 
> your path, then run Edit->Reconfigure.  I think Jim Reid said that his 
> LyX was indicating that LaTeX had been found, though, so I'm not 
> optimistic about this.
> 
> If you were using a more recent version of Windoze, I might suspect a 
> permissions problem (LyX trying to invoke latex.exe but latex.exe 
> requiring root permissions, or some such).  I had a problem a while back 
> on a Windows 2000 machine that boiled down to a difference between the 
> permissions Cygwin assigned to a file and the permissions Windoze 
> assigned to it.  However, Win 98 SE isn't particularly anal about 
> permissions (in fact, I don't recall being able to assign permissions in 
> it), so that's not likely to be the problem.
> 
> Another experiment you might try: load a document into LyX; use ctrl-alt-
> del to pop up the list of processes running; then click View->DVI and 
> watch the process list to see whether latex.exe starts or not.  It might 
> be that latex.exe is being invoked but dying without writing a log file.
> 
> Or maybe this is something peculiar to the native version, in which case 
> someone else will have to come up with the answer.
> 
> Meanwhile, you at least have a workaround, albeit a tedious one:
> 
> 1.  Use File->Export to export your LyX file as a LaTeX file.  This 
> should export to the same directory in which the LyX file lives, not to a 
> temp directory.
> 
> 2.  Open a DOS prompt in that directory and run latex .  Since 
> you're new to LaTeX, I'll warn you that if you have references in your 
> document, you have to run LaTeX at least twice (the first time creates an 
> auxiliary file with the references, the second time uses that file to 
> fill in reference numbers).  Also, if you put in a bibliography, you'll 
> have to run bibtex after the first latex run and before the second one.  
> My rule of thumb is to keep running latex until the log output 
> stabilizes.  :-)
> 
> 3.  Now run yap, or whatever your DVI viewer is, on the DVI.
> 
> You still get to use LyX to shield you from Evil Red TeX, so this is not 
> all bad, but obviously it's not nearly as good as resolving the problem.
> 
> > And I'm astonished to having got so much help so
> > quick. Thanks!
> 
> Benjamin Franklin predates Windows, but nonetheless has a quote relevant 
> to Windows users:  "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all 
> hang separately."
> 
> -- Paul

It was just the paths!! They were missing. Neither yap.exe nor latex.exe
or the rest dll's that are needed for converting the lyx -> tex -> dvi
were being loaded. That is why there wasn't also any log file being
written. So, I tried editing Edit -> Preferences -> Converters (-> File
Formats), i.e. typing the whole paths to the viewer (in my case yap) and
to the converter (latex), and it worked!

Thanks for the help! And I hope this helps some other newbie like
myself...

Regards,
Rafael

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - Sent 0.02 seconds ago


Re: View -> dvi doesn't work

2003-07-09 Thread Rafael Maguiña
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:11:18 + (UTC), "Paul A. Rubin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Easy way to tell if LyX is running LaTeX:  open the doc, do View->DVI,
> then (in LyX) View->LaTeX log file.  If the log file's not there, or if
> it contains an error message, it gives you a clue what's up.  If the
> log file is there, scroll to the bottom and see if it says that it
> wrote a .dvi file.
>
> When you View-DVI, LyX writes a LaTeX file in a temp directory, runs
> LaTeX there (along with BibTeX if needed), then invokes your DVI viewer
> on the DVI file created in that temp directory.  So I'm wondering if
> you and/or Rafael are running into some kind of problem where the
> viewer is being passed the file name but not the path to the temp
> directory. There's probably a smarter way to figure that out, but my
> inclination would be to write a batch file that just echos its command
> parameters to the screen, and substitute that batch file (and the path
> to it) for the path to Yap in
> Edit->Preferences->Conversion->Formats->DVI.  Then try viewing a test
> file, and see if the batch file is passed an accurate path to the temp
> directory. -- Paul

The log-file wasn't there. The test.tex file is written, the path is
also alright - yap looks for the temp dvi file in the right place, but
then, there is just the tex file, the dvi file is missing. So, i guess
it is a latex problem, because the *.tex file is not converted to
*.dvi... I couldn't go farther than that, but then... I'm just a 
newby at latex/lyx. And I'm astonished to having got so much help so
quick. Thanks!

Rafael

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service?


Re: View -> dvi doesn't work

2003-07-09 Thread Rafael Maguiña
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:12:15 + (UTC), "Paul A. Rubin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> [posted and mailed]
> 1.  Does your DVI viewer work properly from a command line?
>
> 2.  Does Edit->Preferences->Conversion->Formats->DVI show the correct
> program in the Viewer slot?
>
> 2a.  If yes, does it have the correct path?  (If it's missing the path,
>  try adding the path to the entry.)
>
> -- Paul

I followed your advice and came so far as to step "2a". The path was
indeed missing and I added it. But there is still something missing. It
displays something like: "The DVI file  \...\test.dvi does not exist."
(The lyx file I try to see is "test.lyx").

Regards, Rafael

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own


Re: View -> dvi doesn't work

2003-07-08 Thread Rafael Maguiña
Thanx for the quick response!

I downloaded the listings.cab package from ctan and installed it with the
miktex package manager. The package was really missing in my repository
folder. Then I restarted and tried again... but still no luck.

Any other ideas??

Cheers, Rafael

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:57:23 -0500 (COT), "Andres Becerra Sandoval"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Hello,
>
> I had a similar problem, and I solved it downloading the latest
> listings package (which contains a patch) and overwriting the original
> files in tex directories ...
>
> http://www.atscire.de/products/listings/downloads.htm
>
> Hope it helps, and the problem be the same..
>
>
> Andres.

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders
  wherever you are


View -> dvi doesn't work

2003-07-08 Thread Rafael Maguiña
Hi,

I've just installed the Ruurd Reitsma's windows port for lyx (qt). It
worked fine until I tried to view what I was writing...

"file not found..." is all I got.

I've had already installed MiKTeX before installing lyx... (but not in
the default directories though).

I've got Win98 SE on my machine.

Has anyone some clues about what I might be missing here?

Thanks, Rafael

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own