Re: Lyx on Windows and layout error
Banibrata Dutta wrote: Hi, I am Lyx newbie, but I am posting this query after a google search (failed). When I start a new document (New from Template), with all templates (layouts) I tried, I get the same warning, i.e. the TeX class is missing. For e.g. on selecting docbook_article.lyx, I got the following: Textclass error : The document uses a missing TeX class docbook. Lyx will not be able to produce output. Is there some additional installation that I need to do. I think I had meticulously followed all steps mentioned in the Lyx on Windows Wiki. thanks regards, bd Hi, Banibrata. You are suffering from a common misconception: LyX does nothing to the underlying LaTeX or Docbook distributions that are used to actually typeset your document. That's what your error message means; LyX has enough information in its own docbook.layout file to typeset your document on-screen. In order to do more you need to set up docbook on your machine. Searching on the wiki for docbook pulls up these links in the LyX Users' list: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocBook HTH, -- Angus
Re: Lyx on Windows and layout error
Thanks a lot Angus for the reply. Since I am getting the same error for other layouts too, (i.e. non docbook ones), is some information available in the Wiki for setting up the underlying LaTeX for generating the document. In the presence of these errors, the Export options (to DVI, PS, PDF etc.) are all disabled (and that's logical too). BTW, is there a central repository (like CTAN for instance) that contains common layouts's ? Many years back I'd a short fling with KLyX, and I remember having success in using a IEEE / SigCOMP layout (and AFAIR it worked out-of-the-box). Can't seem to find it now. thanks regards, bd On 11/6/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Banibrata Dutta wrote: Hi, I am Lyx newbie, but I am posting this query after a google search (failed). When I start a new document (New from Template), with all templates (layouts) I tried, I get the same warning, i.e. the TeX class is missing. For e.g. on selecting docbook_article.lyx, I got the following: Textclass error : The document uses a missing TeX class docbook. Lyx will not be able to produce output. Is there some additional installation that I need to do. I think I had meticulously followed all steps mentioned in the Lyx on Windows Wiki. thanks regards, bd Hi, Banibrata. You are suffering from a common misconception: LyX does nothing to the underlying LaTeX or Docbook distributions that are used to actually typeset your document. That's what your error message means; LyX has enough information in its own docbook.layout file to typeset your document on-screen. In order to do more you need to set up docbook on your machine. Searching on the wiki for docbook pulls up these links in the LyX Users' list: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocBook HTH, -- Angus -- Diamond is a piece of coal that did well under pressure.
Lyx on Windows and layout error
Hi,
I am Lyx newbie, but I am posting this query after a google search
(failed).
When I start a new document ("New from Template"), with all templates
(layouts) I tried, I get the same warning, i.e. the TeX class is missing.
For e.g. on selecting "docbook_article.lyx", I got the following:
"Textclass error : The document uses a missing TeX class "docbook". Lyx will
not be able to produce output. "
Is there some additional installation that I need to do. I think I had
meticulously followed all steps mentioned in the Lyx on Windows Wiki.
thanks & regards,
bd
Re: Lyx on Windows and layout error
Banibrata Dutta wrote:
> Hi,
> I am Lyx newbie, but I am posting this query after a google search
> (failed).
> When I start a new document ("New from Template"), with all templates
> (layouts) I tried, I get the same warning, i.e. the TeX class is missing.
> For e.g. on selecting "docbook_article.lyx", I got the following:
> "Textclass error : The document uses a missing TeX class "docbook". Lyx
> will not be able to produce output. "
> Is there some additional installation that I need to do. I think I had
> meticulously followed all steps mentioned in the Lyx on Windows Wiki.
> thanks & regards,
> bd
Hi, Banibrata.
You are suffering from a common misconception: LyX does nothing to the
underlying LaTeX or Docbook distributions that are used to actually
typeset your document. That's what your error message means; LyX has
enough information in its own docbook.layout file to typeset your document
on-screen. In order to do more you need to set up docbook on your machine.
Searching on the wiki for "docbook" pulls up these links in the LyX Users'
list: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocBook
HTH,
--
Angus
Re: Lyx on Windows and layout error
Thanks a lot Angus for the reply.
Since I am getting the same error for other layouts too, (i.e. non docbook
ones), is some information available in the Wiki for setting up the
underlying LaTeX for generating the document. In the presence of these
errors, the "Export" options (to DVI, PS, PDF etc.) are all disabled (and
that's logical too).
BTW, is there a central repository (like CTAN for instance) that contains
common layouts's ? Many years back I'd a short fling with KLyX, and I
remember having success in using a IEEE / SigCOMP layout (and AFAIR it
worked out-of-the-box). Can't seem to find it now.
thanks & regards,
bd
On 11/6/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Banibrata Dutta wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am Lyx newbie, but I am posting this query after a google search
> > (failed).
> > When I start a new document ("New from Template"), with all templates
> > (layouts) I tried, I get the same warning, i.e. the TeX class is
> missing.
> > For e.g. on selecting "docbook_article.lyx", I got the following:
> > "Textclass error : The document uses a missing TeX class "docbook". Lyx
> > will not be able to produce output. "
> > Is there some additional installation that I need to do. I think I had
> > meticulously followed all steps mentioned in the Lyx on Windows Wiki.
> > thanks & regards,
> > bd
>
> Hi, Banibrata.
>
> You are suffering from a common misconception: LyX does nothing to the
> underlying LaTeX or Docbook distributions that are used to actually
> typeset your document. That's what your error message means; LyX has
> enough information in its own docbook.layout file to typeset your document
> on-screen. In order to do more you need to set up docbook on your machine.
>
> Searching on the wiki for "docbook" pulls up these links in the LyX Users'
> list: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocBook
>
> HTH,
> --
> Angus
>
>
--
Diamond is a piece of coal that did well under pressure.
Some Keyboard shortcuts don't work under Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)
I am not sure whether I need special setting or not, but some keyboard shortcuts don't work under LyX 1.3.6 (Windows). Like Ctrl+M (math), ctrl+enter (forced new line), ctrl+l (latex),etc. Anyone can shade some lights on it? More thanks. Regards. Sunkey
Re: Some Keyboard shortcuts don't work under Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)
Wang Xiangqi wrote: I am not sure whether I need special setting or not, but some keyboard shortcuts don't work under LyX 1.3.6 (Windows). It *is* pre-release software... Like Ctrl+M (math), ctrl+enter (forced new line), ctrl+l (latex),etc. Anyone can shade some lights on it? How about: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#qt_winfree_bugs -- Angus
Some Keyboard shortcuts don't work under Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)
I am not sure whether I need special setting or not, but some keyboard shortcuts don't work under LyX 1.3.6 (Windows). Like Ctrl+M (math), ctrl+enter (forced new line), ctrl+l (latex),etc. Anyone can shade some lights on it? More thanks. Regards. Sunkey
Re: Some Keyboard shortcuts don't work under Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)
Wang Xiangqi wrote: I am not sure whether I need special setting or not, but some keyboard shortcuts don't work under LyX 1.3.6 (Windows). It *is* pre-release software... Like Ctrl+M (math), ctrl+enter (forced new line), ctrl+l (latex),etc. Anyone can shade some lights on it? How about: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#qt_winfree_bugs -- Angus
Some Keyboard shortcuts don't work under Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)
I am not sure whether I need special setting or not, but some keyboard shortcuts don't work under LyX 1.3.6 (Windows). Like Ctrl+M (math), ctrl+enter (forced new line), ctrl+l (latex),etc. Anyone can shade some lights on it? More thanks. Regards. Sunkey
Re: Some Keyboard shortcuts don't work under Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)
Wang Xiangqi wrote: > I am not sure whether I need special setting or not, but some keyboard > shortcuts don't work under LyX 1.3.6 (Windows). It *is* pre-release software... > Like Ctrl+M (math), ctrl+enter (forced new line), ctrl+l (latex),etc. > Anyone can shade some lights on it? How about: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#qt_winfree_bugs -- Angus
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at >> all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it >> was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was >> lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have >> C:\lyx >> which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the >> exe did this. > > > This looks fine. > >> The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. >> In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one >> called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and >> another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst >> and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of >> textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: >> >> "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" >> "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" >> "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" >> "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" > > > This is as it should be. > >> When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to >> the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. >> I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory >> to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no >> difference. The error still says >> >> LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description >> >> Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” >> Sorry, has to exit >> >> >> >> I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to >> give. >> >> Richard > > > The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not > exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes > (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the > configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the > directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin > directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start > ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have > a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in > lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best > guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around > somewhere. > > So here are a couple of things to try: > > 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the > Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir > c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. > That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. > > 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), > copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at > it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default > from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those > may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and > I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to > the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create > the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the > shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target > and startup entries as follows: > > Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work > Start in: C;\lyx\bin > > (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be > sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the > shortcut. Does that help? > > One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type > 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using > the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to > fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip > on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that > what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an > *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have > gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) > > Let us know what transpires. > > -- Paul > > >
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit-Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicols Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Sthr wrote: accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jrgen
[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicols wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Sthr wrote: Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
Richard Brown wrote: I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an advanced idiot (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file textclass.lst really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 21 configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit-Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicols Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Sthr wrote: accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jrgen
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I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicols wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Sthr wrote: Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
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Richard Brown wrote: I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an advanced idiot (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file textclass.lst really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 21 configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit->Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicolás Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicolás a écrit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jürgen
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I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicolàs wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: > Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is > advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. > I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all > sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first > attempt to run lyx I got this error message: > > LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description > > Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” > Sorry, has to exit > > > The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, > and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nicolás a écrit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
Richard Brown wrote: > I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I > got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an "advanced idiot" (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file "textclass.lst" really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 2>&1 > configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log > tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The "advanced" part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your "home" directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > >> Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is >> advanced idiot, > > > The "advanced" part puts you one up on me. :-) > >> so I've assuredly done something wrong. >> I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all >> sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first >> attempt to run lyx I got this error message: >> >> LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description >> >> Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” >> Sorry, has to exit >> >> >> The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, >> and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. > > > Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you > start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory > as well (and does it have non-zero length)? > >> The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx > > > Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in > c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? > >> I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of >> free disk space. > > > AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with > respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a > system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for > the problem at hand.) > > I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for > now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. > > FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your > "home" directory (which is either the directory from which it is > started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | > Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It > also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize > clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document > directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. > I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding > textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but > then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). > > -- Paul > > >
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
LyX on Windows
Hi. How can I install LyX on Windows XP ? What softwares do I need installed ? I have Miktex, Ghostscripd. What more do I need ? Thank you, -- Carlos Fernando Knauer
Re: LyX on Windows
Carlos Knauer wrote: Hi. How can I install LyX on Windows XP ? Grab the port of LyX 1.3.5 to Windows from http://home.versatel.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ Note that we hope to release LyX 1.3.6 soon and that this version will be the first to support the Windows platform officially. Having said that, you'll still need to grab the stuff that I describe below... What softwares do I need installed ? I have Miktex, Ghostscript. What more do I need ? Thank you, You'll need patience and perseverance :) LyX has historically been developed for use under UNIX where most of the tools that it uses just work. LyX uses a lot of external scripts written in a variety of scripting languages. (We hope to eventually use just python, but not yet...) So, you'll need: * python http://www.python.org/download/ * a UNIX shell scripting environment. I can recommend MinSYS. I believe that you'll need only msys.exe from the http://mingw.org/download.shtml page: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download * if you plan on converting existing LaTeX files to LyX, then you'll need an automated converter. LyX 1.3.x ships with a perl script, reLyX, so, if you plan on using this, you'll need perl http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?_x=1 Note, however, that reLyX is no longer maintained and that a backport of the new tex2lyx converter exists for LyX 1.3.x: http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx I understand that Ruurd Reitsma's port of LyX to Windows comes with stripped down versions of the above three scripting languages/environments. They may, or may not, work for you. Personally, I'd throw away the stripped down versions and go grab real versions of python, perl and a UNIX shell scripting environment from the official sources. Graphics conversion: if you want to see your graphics files displayed on the LyX screen then you'll need some converter from format X to so something that LyX can load. By default, LyX uses the ImageMagick convert utility http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php Note, however, that Windows users such as yourself must ensure that ImageMagick's convert appears in your PATH before the system utility convert (something to do with reformatting your hard disk...) In general, the Windows pages on the wiki site contain lots of useful info http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/ and this mailing list contains several active Windows users who will be able to help with real world experience of LyX on Windows far more than I can. I strongly recommend reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips which contains work-arounds for several bugs in LyX 1.3.5 on the Windows platform. -- Angus
Re: LyX on Windows
Carlos Knauer schrieb: How can I install LyX on Windows XP? What softwares do I need installed? I have Miktex, Ghostscripd. What more do I need? It's very easy. You find all necessary informations under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup regards Uwe
LyX on Windows
Hi. How can I install LyX on Windows XP ? What softwares do I need installed ? I have Miktex, Ghostscripd. What more do I need ? Thank you, -- Carlos Fernando Knauer
Re: LyX on Windows
Carlos Knauer wrote: Hi. How can I install LyX on Windows XP ? Grab the port of LyX 1.3.5 to Windows from http://home.versatel.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ Note that we hope to release LyX 1.3.6 soon and that this version will be the first to support the Windows platform officially. Having said that, you'll still need to grab the stuff that I describe below... What softwares do I need installed ? I have Miktex, Ghostscript. What more do I need ? Thank you, You'll need patience and perseverance :) LyX has historically been developed for use under UNIX where most of the tools that it uses just work. LyX uses a lot of external scripts written in a variety of scripting languages. (We hope to eventually use just python, but not yet...) So, you'll need: * python http://www.python.org/download/ * a UNIX shell scripting environment. I can recommend MinSYS. I believe that you'll need only msys.exe from the http://mingw.org/download.shtml page: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download * if you plan on converting existing LaTeX files to LyX, then you'll need an automated converter. LyX 1.3.x ships with a perl script, reLyX, so, if you plan on using this, you'll need perl http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?_x=1 Note, however, that reLyX is no longer maintained and that a backport of the new tex2lyx converter exists for LyX 1.3.x: http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx I understand that Ruurd Reitsma's port of LyX to Windows comes with stripped down versions of the above three scripting languages/environments. They may, or may not, work for you. Personally, I'd throw away the stripped down versions and go grab real versions of python, perl and a UNIX shell scripting environment from the official sources. Graphics conversion: if you want to see your graphics files displayed on the LyX screen then you'll need some converter from format X to so something that LyX can load. By default, LyX uses the ImageMagick convert utility http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php Note, however, that Windows users such as yourself must ensure that ImageMagick's convert appears in your PATH before the system utility convert (something to do with reformatting your hard disk...) In general, the Windows pages on the wiki site contain lots of useful info http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/ and this mailing list contains several active Windows users who will be able to help with real world experience of LyX on Windows far more than I can. I strongly recommend reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips which contains work-arounds for several bugs in LyX 1.3.5 on the Windows platform. -- Angus
Re: LyX on Windows
Carlos Knauer schrieb: How can I install LyX on Windows XP? What softwares do I need installed? I have Miktex, Ghostscripd. What more do I need? It's very easy. You find all necessary informations under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup regards Uwe
LyX on Windows
Hi. How can I install LyX on Windows XP ? What softwares do I need installed ? I have Miktex, Ghostscripd. What more do I need ? Thank you, -- Carlos Fernando Knauer
Re: LyX on Windows
Carlos Knauer wrote: > Hi. > How can I install LyX on Windows XP ? Grab the port of LyX 1.3.5 to Windows from http://home.versatel.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ Note that we hope to release LyX 1.3.6 soon and that this version will be the first to support the Windows platform officially. Having said that, you'll still need to grab the stuff that I describe below... > What softwares do I need installed ? I have Miktex, Ghostscript. What > more do I need ? > Thank you, You'll need patience and perseverance :) LyX has historically been developed for use under UNIX where most of the tools that it uses "just work". LyX uses a lot of external scripts written in a variety of scripting languages. (We hope to eventually use just python, but not yet...) So, you'll need: * python http://www.python.org/download/ * a UNIX shell scripting environment. I can recommend MinSYS. I believe that you'll need only msys.exe from the http://mingw.org/download.shtml page: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download * if you plan on converting existing LaTeX files to LyX, then you'll need an automated converter. LyX 1.3.x ships with a perl script, reLyX, so, if you plan on using this, you'll need perl http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?_x=1 Note, however, that reLyX is no longer maintained and that a backport of the new tex2lyx converter exists for LyX 1.3.x: http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx I understand that Ruurd Reitsma's port of LyX to Windows comes with stripped down versions of the above three scripting languages/environments. They may, or may not, work for you. Personally, I'd throw away the stripped down versions and go grab "real" versions of python, perl and a UNIX shell scripting environment from the official sources. Graphics conversion: if you want to see your graphics files displayed on the LyX screen then you'll need some converter from format X to so something that LyX can load. By default, LyX uses the ImageMagick "convert" utility http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php Note, however, that Windows users such as yourself must ensure that ImageMagick's "convert" appears in your PATH before the system utility "convert" (something to do with reformatting your hard disk...) In general, the Windows pages on the wiki site contain lots of useful info http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/ and this mailing list contains several active Windows users who will be able to help with "real world" experience of LyX on Windows far more than I can. I strongly recommend reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips which contains work-arounds for several bugs in LyX 1.3.5 on the Windows platform. -- Angus
Re: LyX on Windows
Carlos Knauer schrieb: How can I install LyX on Windows XP? What softwares do I need installed? I have Miktex, Ghostscripd. What more do I need? It's very easy. You find all necessary informations under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup regards Uwe
can lyx native windows lyx use tetex from cygwin?
Hello, everybody. I'm paying my once-per-year visit to ms windows to see what's up. Today I'm wondering if I really have to install MikTeX when I already have a working latex.. I have a full cygwin install and latex works in there. I can process latex files from Texmacs, for example. Texmacs is distributed as a Cygwin package and it runs in their X server just fine. That X server is about 100 times better than it was the last time I tried it out, incidentally. I installed ImageMagik, ghostscript for windows (also have ghostscript in cygwin), and the other windows lyx prerequisites. When I run lyx reconfigure, the output in the terminal it says it can't use latex. I don't understand it because I have put c:\cygwin\bin on the path and, in the terminal (either cygwin terminal or dos command shell) I can type which latex and it points to the right spot. Has anybody mastered this one? -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Sciencehttp://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700
Re: can lyx native windows lyx use tetex from cygwin?
Paul Johnson wrote: I'm wondering if I really have to install MikTeX when I already have a working latex. I have a full cygwin install and latex works in there. I tried out once to use latex under cygwin, but the compilation of the documents takes a lot of time. Using MikTeX was much faster. MikTeX is also easier to administrate - installing packages is very easy, you don't need console commands. And updating the distribution is only four clicks. So you should give give it a try. When I run lyx reconfigure, the output in the terminal it says it can't use latex. I don't understand it because I have put c:\cygwin\bin on the path and, in the terminal (either cygwin terminal or dos command shell) I can type which latex and it points to the right spot. Has anybody mastered this one? Yes, but it was three years ago, so I can't help you. regards Uwe
can lyx native windows lyx use tetex from cygwin?
Hello, everybody. I'm paying my once-per-year visit to ms windows to see what's up. Today I'm wondering if I really have to install MikTeX when I already have a working latex.. I have a full cygwin install and latex works in there. I can process latex files from Texmacs, for example. Texmacs is distributed as a Cygwin package and it runs in their X server just fine. That X server is about 100 times better than it was the last time I tried it out, incidentally. I installed ImageMagik, ghostscript for windows (also have ghostscript in cygwin), and the other windows lyx prerequisites. When I run lyx reconfigure, the output in the terminal it says it can't use latex. I don't understand it because I have put c:\cygwin\bin on the path and, in the terminal (either cygwin terminal or dos command shell) I can type which latex and it points to the right spot. Has anybody mastered this one? -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Sciencehttp://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700
Re: can lyx native windows lyx use tetex from cygwin?
Paul Johnson wrote: I'm wondering if I really have to install MikTeX when I already have a working latex. I have a full cygwin install and latex works in there. I tried out once to use latex under cygwin, but the compilation of the documents takes a lot of time. Using MikTeX was much faster. MikTeX is also easier to administrate - installing packages is very easy, you don't need console commands. And updating the distribution is only four clicks. So you should give give it a try. When I run lyx reconfigure, the output in the terminal it says it can't use latex. I don't understand it because I have put c:\cygwin\bin on the path and, in the terminal (either cygwin terminal or dos command shell) I can type which latex and it points to the right spot. Has anybody mastered this one? Yes, but it was three years ago, so I can't help you. regards Uwe
can lyx native windows lyx use tetex from cygwin?
Hello, everybody. I'm paying my once-per-year visit to ms windows to see what's up. Today I'm wondering if I really have to install MikTeX when I already have a working latex.. I have a full cygwin install and latex works in there. I can process latex files from Texmacs, for example. Texmacs is distributed as a Cygwin package and it runs in their X server just fine. That X server is about 100 times better than it was the last time I tried it out, incidentally. I installed ImageMagik, ghostscript for windows (also have ghostscript in cygwin), and the other windows lyx prerequisites. When I run lyx reconfigure, the output in the terminal it says it can't use latex. I don't understand it because I have put c:\cygwin\bin on the path and, in the terminal (either cygwin terminal or dos command shell) I can type "which latex" and it points to the right spot. Has anybody mastered this one? -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Sciencehttp://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700
Re: can lyx native windows lyx use tetex from cygwin?
Paul Johnson wrote: I'm wondering if I really have to install MikTeX when I already have a working latex. I have a full cygwin install and latex works in there. I tried out once to use latex under cygwin, but the compilation of the documents takes a lot of time. Using MikTeX was much faster. MikTeX is also easier to administrate - installing packages is very easy, you don't need console commands. And updating the distribution is only four clicks. So you should give give it a try. When I run lyx reconfigure, the output in the terminal it says it can't use latex. I don't understand it because I have put c:\cygwin\bin on the path and, in the terminal (either cygwin terminal or dos command shell) I can type "which latex" and it points to the right spot. Has anybody mastered this one? Yes, but it was three years ago, so I can't help you. regards Uwe
Re: How to use version control under Lyx 1.3.5 Windows
Wang Xiangqi scripsit: I am trying to search from the lists and webs, only what I can get is a docu. written by LARS GULLIK BJ?NNES. But it looks to discuss the issues under Linux. So it is difficult for me to get ideas from it. Any good suggestions from you about the version control under LyX 1.3.5 Windows? Try to search google using keywords rcs djgpp (that's for M$-DOS version) or maybe there is even rcs cygwin (for Windows version). Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 - Do you think of yourself as a Christian artist? - I'm an artist who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian artist. -- Johny Cash in his last interview
Re: How to use version control under Lyx 1.3.5 Windows
Wang Xiangqi scripsit: I am trying to search from the lists and webs, only what I can get is a docu. written by LARS GULLIK BJ?NNES. But it looks to discuss the issues under Linux. So it is difficult for me to get ideas from it. Any good suggestions from you about the version control under LyX 1.3.5 Windows? Try to search google using keywords rcs djgpp (that's for M$-DOS version) or maybe there is even rcs cygwin (for Windows version). Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 - Do you think of yourself as a Christian artist? - I'm an artist who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian artist. -- Johny Cash in his last interview
Re: How to use version control under Lyx 1.3.5 Windows
Wang Xiangqi scripsit: > I am trying to search from the lists and webs, only what I can get is a > docu. written by LARS GULLIK BJ?NNES. But it looks to discuss the issues > under Linux. So it is difficult for me to get ideas from it. Any good > suggestions from you about the version control under LyX 1.3.5 Windows? Try to search google using keywords "rcs djgpp" (that's for M$-DOS version) or maybe there is even "rcs cygwin" (for Windows version). Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 - Do you think of yourself as a Christian artist? - I'm an artist who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian artist. -- Johny Cash in his last interview
Re: Change bars for Lyx 1.3.5 (Windows)
Omair-Inam Abdul-Matin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to patch my lyx with the change bars. I keep getting asked a password at the wiki site. Could someone tell me what I need to do to get to the patch? Thanks, Omair The password is LyXers -- Angus
Re: Change bars for Lyx 1.3.5 (Windows)
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: Omair-Inam Abdul-Matin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to patch my lyx with the change bars. I keep getting asked a password at the wiki site. Could someone tell me what I need to do to get to the patch? Thanks, Omair The password is LyXers You shouldn't need the password just to download a file... I looked at this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2 and notice a slight error in the link to the attached files in the section called Change bars with LyX 1.3.5. The problem was that it didn't actually refer correctly to the uploaded files. Does this do it for you? /Christian PS. For those who are curious about what I did, see here for a diff: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2?action=diff Basically there was a ':' missing in 'Attach:' togethe with an incorrect path. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Change bars for Lyx 1.3.5 (Windows)
Omair-Inam Abdul-Matin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to patch my lyx with the change bars. I keep getting asked a password at the wiki site. Could someone tell me what I need to do to get to the patch? Thanks, Omair The password is LyXers -- Angus
Re: Change bars for Lyx 1.3.5 (Windows)
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: Omair-Inam Abdul-Matin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to patch my lyx with the change bars. I keep getting asked a password at the wiki site. Could someone tell me what I need to do to get to the patch? Thanks, Omair The password is LyXers You shouldn't need the password just to download a file... I looked at this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2 and notice a slight error in the link to the attached files in the section called Change bars with LyX 1.3.5. The problem was that it didn't actually refer correctly to the uploaded files. Does this do it for you? /Christian PS. For those who are curious about what I did, see here for a diff: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2?action=diff Basically there was a ':' missing in 'Attach:' togethe with an incorrect path. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Change bars for Lyx 1.3.5 (Windows)
Omair-Inam Abdul-Matin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to patch my lyx with the change bars. I keep getting asked a > password at the wiki site. Could someone tell me what I need to do to > get to the patch? > > Thanks, > Omair The password is LyXers -- Angus
Re: Change bars for Lyx 1.3.5 (Windows)
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: > Omair-Inam Abdul-Matin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to patch my lyx with the change bars. I keep getting asked a > > password at the wiki site. Could someone tell me what I need to do to > > get to the patch? > > > > Thanks, > > Omair > > The password is LyXers You shouldn't need the password just to download a file... I looked at this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2 and notice a slight error in the link to the attached files in the section called "Change bars with LyX 1.3.5". The problem was that it didn't actually refer correctly to the uploaded files. Does this do it for you? /Christian PS. For those who are curious about what I did, see here for a "diff": http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2?action=diff Basically there was a ':' missing in 'Attach:' togethe with an incorrect path. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
Hello, I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The following error message is displayed : Cannot convert file ... Error while executing latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_number. In Preferences \ Converters, I added this entry : Latex - HTML, with this command : latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i Is it a known bug or is it a configuration problem ? Thanks in advance, P. Mellerin.
Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick wrote: I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The following error message is displayed : Cannot convert file ... Error while executing latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_number. In Preferences \ Converters, I added this entry : Latex - HTML, with this command : latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i Is it a known bug or is it a configuration problem ? If you run lyx from the command line as $ lyx -dbg files You should get a stream of information output to the console including the actual command that is being invoked. One question to investigate. Can LyX find latex2html? Ie, if you type this at the command line, do you get similar output to: $ latex2html --version This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2002-2-1 (1.70) by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. If not, then you should adjust your PATH environment variable appropriately. See, eg: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm -- Angus
Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The latex2html package in MiKTeX is unfortunately NOT the expected latex2html binary converter, but just a set of .sty files (don't know how to use those either). M
RE : LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
Yes, absolutely ... As MiKTeX proposes the converter 'text4ht', I thought that it was the same for 'LaTeX2HTML' ... unfortunately it is not the case, as you said ! So, I have followed the indications at this address : http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/l2h.htm and now all is OK ... -Message d'origine- De : news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Milos Komarcevic Envoyé : jeudi 31 mars 2005 16:33 À : lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Objet : Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The latex2html package in MiKTeX is unfortunately NOT the expected latex2html binary converter, but just a set of .sty files (don't know how to use those either). M
LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
Hello, I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The following error message is displayed : Cannot convert file ... Error while executing latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_number. In Preferences \ Converters, I added this entry : Latex - HTML, with this command : latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i Is it a known bug or is it a configuration problem ? Thanks in advance, P. Mellerin.
Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick wrote: I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The following error message is displayed : Cannot convert file ... Error while executing latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_number. In Preferences \ Converters, I added this entry : Latex - HTML, with this command : latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i Is it a known bug or is it a configuration problem ? If you run lyx from the command line as $ lyx -dbg files You should get a stream of information output to the console including the actual command that is being invoked. One question to investigate. Can LyX find latex2html? Ie, if you type this at the command line, do you get similar output to: $ latex2html --version This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2002-2-1 (1.70) by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. If not, then you should adjust your PATH environment variable appropriately. See, eg: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm -- Angus
Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The latex2html package in MiKTeX is unfortunately NOT the expected latex2html binary converter, but just a set of .sty files (don't know how to use those either). M
RE : LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
Yes, absolutely ... As MiKTeX proposes the converter 'text4ht', I thought that it was the same for 'LaTeX2HTML' ... unfortunately it is not the case, as you said ! So, I have followed the indications at this address : http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/l2h.htm and now all is OK ... -Message d'origine- De : news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Milos Komarcevic Envoyé : jeudi 31 mars 2005 16:33 À : lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Objet : Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The latex2html package in MiKTeX is unfortunately NOT the expected latex2html binary converter, but just a set of .sty files (don't know how to use those either). M
LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
Hello, I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The following error message is displayed : "Cannot convert file ... Error while executing latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_number". In "Preferences \ Converters", I added this entry : "Latex -> HTML", with this command : "latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i" Is it a known bug or is it a configuration problem ? Thanks in advance, P. Mellerin.
Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick wrote: > I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with > the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). > The following error message is displayed : "Cannot convert file ... > Error while executing latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 > -show_section_number". > > In "Preferences \ Converters", I added this entry : "Latex -> HTML", with > this command : > > "latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i" > > Is it a known bug or is it a configuration problem ? If you run lyx from the command line as $ lyx -dbg files You should get a stream of information output to the console including the actual command that is being invoked. One question to investigate. Can LyX find latex2html? Ie, if you type this at the command line, do you get similar output to: $ latex2html --version This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2002-2-1 (1.70) by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. If not, then you should adjust your PATH environment variable appropriately. See, eg: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm -- Angus
Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, > > I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with the > latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The latex2html package in MiKTeX is unfortunately NOT the expected latex2html binary converter, but just a set of .sty files (don't know how to use those either). M
RE : LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html
Yes, absolutely ... As MiKTeX proposes the converter 'text4ht', I thought that it was the same for 'LaTeX2HTML' ... unfortunately it is not the case, as you said ! So, I have followed the indications at this address : http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/l2h.htm and now all is OK ... -Message d'origine- De : news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Milos Komarcevic Envoyé : jeudi 31 mars 2005 16:33 À : lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Objet : Re: LyX-1.3.5 - Windows native version - Problem with Latex2html EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, > > I have a problem when I want to export my .lyx document in .html, with > the latex2html package (installed with MiKTeX). The latex2html package in MiKTeX is unfortunately NOT the expected latex2html binary converter, but just a set of .sty files (don't know how to use those either). M
Inserting Bibtex in lyx for Windows
Hi I am using lyx win32 port by Ruurd Reitsma (1.3.5). When i goto to insert-lists-Bibtex reference i get the following windows error message. --- windows cannot open this file file: TeXFiles.sh --- and then the usual choice of how to open it. Any advice on how to get round this bug and actually insert a *.bib file. Many thanks Geoffrey Lloyd
Inserting Bibtex in lyx for Windows
Hi I am using lyx win32 port by Ruurd Reitsma (1.3.5). When i goto to insert-lists-Bibtex reference i get the following windows error message. --- windows cannot open this file file: TeXFiles.sh --- and then the usual choice of how to open it. Any advice on how to get round this bug and actually insert a *.bib file. Many thanks Geoffrey Lloyd
Inserting Bibtex in lyx for Windows
Hi I am using lyx win32 port by Ruurd Reitsma (1.3.5). When i goto to insert->lists->Bibtex reference i get the following windows error message. --- windows cannot open this file file: TeXFiles.sh --- and then the usual choice of how to open it. Any advice on how to get round this bug and actually insert a *.bib file. Many thanks Geoffrey Lloyd
Problem with Lyx for Windows
Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? Yours, martin
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Martin Pischler wrote: Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? Yours, martin Maybe this page will help: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Search for: Problem with Acrobat Reader (AcroRd32.exe) not being found? -- Angus
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Martin Pischler wrote: Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? Yours, martin Are you saying that the View menu has neither the DVI entry nor any of the three PDF entries [PDF, PDF (dvipdfm), PDF (pdflatex)]? Lack of the PDF entries could be due to the viewer not having been set in the preferences dialog, but if you are also missing the DVI option, it could be that LyX can't find your MiKTeX distribution for some reason. -- Paul ** Paul A. RubinPhone: (517) 432-3509 Department of ManagementFax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ** Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Martin Pischler wrote: Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? My guess is that configure script is not finding the native windows version of a PDF viewer i.e. AcroRd32.exe The wiki page that Angus linked to in a previous reply has all the info on this. A link to an ammended configure script that picks up AcroRd32 is to be found there. Looks like that when version 1.3.5 is ported to windows in the same way as 1.3.3 this will be taken care of automatically. (if only I knew how to port it!!) Rob S
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Rob == Rob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob The wiki page that Angus linked to in a previous reply has all Rob the info on this. A link to an ammended configure script that Rob picks up AcroRd32 is to be found there. Rob Looks like that when version 1.3.5 is ported to windows in the Rob same way as 1.3.3 this will be taken care of automatically. (if Rob only I knew how to port it!!) Note that 1.3.5 does search for acrord32 now. JMarc
Problem with Lyx for Windows
Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? Yours, martin
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Martin Pischler wrote: Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? Yours, martin Maybe this page will help: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Search for: Problem with Acrobat Reader (AcroRd32.exe) not being found? -- Angus
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Martin Pischler wrote: Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? Yours, martin Are you saying that the View menu has neither the DVI entry nor any of the three PDF entries [PDF, PDF (dvipdfm), PDF (pdflatex)]? Lack of the PDF entries could be due to the viewer not having been set in the preferences dialog, but if you are also missing the DVI option, it could be that LyX can't find your MiKTeX distribution for some reason. -- Paul ** Paul A. RubinPhone: (517) 432-3509 Department of ManagementFax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ** Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Martin Pischler wrote: Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? My guess is that configure script is not finding the native windows version of a PDF viewer i.e. AcroRd32.exe The wiki page that Angus linked to in a previous reply has all the info on this. A link to an ammended configure script that picks up AcroRd32 is to be found there. Looks like that when version 1.3.5 is ported to windows in the same way as 1.3.3 this will be taken care of automatically. (if only I knew how to port it!!) Rob S
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Rob == Rob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob The wiki page that Angus linked to in a previous reply has all Rob the info on this. A link to an ammended configure script that Rob picks up AcroRd32 is to be found there. Rob Looks like that when version 1.3.5 is ported to windows in the Rob same way as 1.3.3 this will be taken care of automatically. (if Rob only I knew how to port it!!) Note that 1.3.5 does search for acrord32 now. JMarc
Problem with Lyx for Windows
Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? Yours, martin
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Martin Pischler wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I > have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. > > In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF > viewer, but there isn´t. > I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. > > What couls be the problem? > > Yours, martin Maybe this page will help: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Search for: Problem with Acrobat Reader (AcroRd32.exe) not being found? -- Angus
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Martin Pischler wrote: Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? Yours, martin Are you saying that the View menu has neither the DVI entry nor any of the three PDF entries [PDF, PDF (dvipdfm), PDF (pdflatex)]? Lack of the PDF entries could be due to the viewer not having been set in the preferences dialog, but if you are also missing the DVI option, it could be that LyX can't find your MiKTeX distribution for some reason. -- Paul ** Paul A. RubinPhone: (517) 432-3509 Department of ManagementFax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ** Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Martin Pischler wrote: Hello, I have installed the new version of Lyx for Windows 1.3.3 and know I have a problem with my Pdf-viewer. In the Lyx Program there should be a menupoint: DVI Viewer or PDF viewer, but there isn´t. I have installes the newest Miktex and Lyx version. What couls be the problem? My guess is that configure script is not finding the native windows version of a PDF viewer i.e. AcroRd32.exe The wiki page that Angus linked to in a previous reply has all the info on this. A link to an ammended "configure" script that picks up AcroRd32 is to be found there. Looks like that when version 1.3.5 is ported to windows in the same way as 1.3.3 this will be taken care of automatically. (if only I knew how to port it!!) Rob S
Re: Problem with Lyx for Windows
> "Rob" == Rob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> The wiki page that Angus linked to in a previous reply has all Rob> the info on this. A link to an ammended "configure" script that Rob> picks up AcroRd32 is to be found there. Rob> Looks like that when version 1.3.5 is ported to windows in the Rob> same way as 1.3.3 this will be taken care of automatically. (if Rob> only I knew how to port it!!) Note that 1.3.5 does search for acrord32 now. JMarc
Re: Ispell, Lyx and Windows
Now I want to choose a Danish spellchecker, but I don't know how or where to install that language or where to find a distribution to Windows? Can anyone help? I see here http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Supported.html that Danish is a supported language. Snce there appears to be support for Danish have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Half way down this page is a useful four stage setup of Aspell(spellchecking) on the Windows version of Lyx that Uwe Stohr has sussed out. It is important you follow all steps here, 1 - 4. Rob S
Re: Ispell, Lyx and Windows
Now I want to choose a Danish spellchecker, but I don't know how or where to install that language or where to find a distribution to Windows? Can anyone help? I see here http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Supported.html that Danish is a supported language. Snce there appears to be support for Danish have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Half way down this page is a useful four stage setup of Aspell(spellchecking) on the Windows version of Lyx that Uwe Stohr has sussed out. It is important you follow all steps here, 1 - 4. Rob S
