foiltex.sty and foiltex.cls
I found two different tarballs for foiltex. I tried each one, unpacking them in /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex and then doing texhash. I reconfigure in LyX and then restart LyX but it never sees foiltex. When looking at the foiltex folder, there are only three files: foiltex.dtx, foiltex.ins, and readme.flt. Where are foiltex.cls and foiltex.sty? I'm running version 1.35 of lyx. Foiltex used to be included. What am I doing wrong? Rick
foiltex.sty and foiltex.cls
I found two different tarballs for foiltex. I tried each one, unpacking them in /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex and then doing texhash. I reconfigure in LyX and then restart LyX but it never sees foiltex. When looking at the foiltex folder, there are only three files: foiltex.dtx, foiltex.ins, and readme.flt. Where are foiltex.cls and foiltex.sty? I'm running version 1.35 of lyx. Foiltex used to be included. What am I doing wrong? Rick
foiltex.sty and foiltex.cls
I found two different tarballs for foiltex. I tried each one, unpacking them in /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex and then doing texhash. I reconfigure in LyX and then restart LyX but it never sees foiltex. When looking at the foiltex folder, there are only three files: foiltex.dtx, foiltex.ins, and readme.flt. Where are foiltex.cls and foiltex.sty? I'm running version 1.35 of lyx. Foiltex used to be included. What am I doing wrong? Rick
Rotated Foil in Foiltex
I'm using LyX 1.3.1 with Foiltex. If I open an old document with a rotated foil, LyX creates a proper pdf or ps file. But when creating a new document with a rotated foilhead, the ps and pdf never show the rotation. Is there a work around? Rick B.
Rotated Foil in Foiltex
I'm using LyX 1.3.1 with Foiltex. If I open an old document with a rotated foil, LyX creates a proper pdf or ps file. But when creating a new document with a rotated foilhead, the ps and pdf never show the rotation. Is there a work around? Rick B.
Rotated Foil in Foiltex
I'm using LyX 1.3.1 with Foiltex. If I open an old document with a rotated foil, LyX creates a proper pdf or ps file. But when creating a new document with a rotated foilhead, the ps and pdf never show the rotation. Is there a work around? Rick B.
Re: [Lyx 1.2.1] Problems with foiltex and pdflatex
Thorsten, I had a similar problem with foiltex and viewing in gv. The problem was intermittent. I haven't used foiltex for about 6 months, but every so often, a landscape page or pages would have no left side margin. I never was able to resolve the problem. I was able to go into the postscript code and manually fix it (which is a pain). It appears that some how the margin instructions on some landscape pages get mangled when using foiltex when creating the postscript. This was with LyX 1.1.6 or earlier. I haven't used foiltex with 1.2.1 but it appears from what you are saying there is still a problem. Rick B. Thorsten Grothe wrote: Hi all, I created some foils with the foiltex package and pdflatex in landscape format. Now I got problems to print them with lyx or acrobat reader. The page margins are not correct when I print the slides with acroread. (Left= 4cm, right=.5 cm and I want to have Left=2cm, right=2cm). When I try to print it with lyx all the slides are printed in portrait mode not in landscape mode. My document settings are: foiltex, landscape and my printer driver is dvips. I read the manual but did not found something specific for my problem. Where or how can I adjust pdflatex so that I can print with the correct margins and how can I set up lyx to print in landcape mode? Thank you! Thorsten
Re: [Lyx 1.2.1] Problems with foiltex and pdflatex
Thorsten, I had a similar problem with foiltex and viewing in gv. The problem was intermittent. I haven't used foiltex for about 6 months, but every so often, a landscape page or pages would have no left side margin. I never was able to resolve the problem. I was able to go into the postscript code and manually fix it (which is a pain). It appears that some how the margin instructions on some landscape pages get mangled when using foiltex when creating the postscript. This was with LyX 1.1.6 or earlier. I haven't used foiltex with 1.2.1 but it appears from what you are saying there is still a problem. Rick B. Thorsten Grothe wrote: Hi all, I created some foils with the foiltex package and pdflatex in landscape format. Now I got problems to print them with lyx or acrobat reader. The page margins are not correct when I print the slides with acroread. (Left= 4cm, right=.5 cm and I want to have Left=2cm, right=2cm). When I try to print it with lyx all the slides are printed in portrait mode not in landscape mode. My document settings are: foiltex, landscape and my printer driver is dvips. I read the manual but did not found something specific for my problem. Where or how can I adjust pdflatex so that I can print with the correct margins and how can I set up lyx to print in landcape mode? Thank you! Thorsten
Re: [Lyx 1.2.1] Problems with foiltex and pdflatex
Thorsten, I had a similar problem with foiltex and viewing in gv. The problem was intermittent. I haven't used foiltex for about 6 months, but every so often, a landscape page or pages would have no left side margin. I never was able to resolve the problem. I was able to go into the postscript code and manually fix it (which is a pain). It appears that some how the margin instructions on some landscape pages get mangled when using foiltex when creating the postscript. This was with LyX 1.1.6 or earlier. I haven't used foiltex with 1.2.1 but it appears from what you are saying there is still a problem. Rick B. Thorsten Grothe wrote: Hi all, I created some foils with the foiltex package and pdflatex in landscape format. Now I got problems to print them with lyx or acrobat reader. The page margins are not correct when I print the slides with acroread. (Left= 4cm, right=.5 cm and I want to have Left=2cm, right=2cm). When I try to print it with lyx all the slides are printed in portrait mode not in landscape mode. My document settings are: foiltex, landscape and my printer driver is dvips. I read the manual but did not found something specific for my problem. Where or how can I adjust pdflatex so that I can print with the correct margins and how can I set up lyx to print in landcape mode? Thank you! Thorsten
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a different problem. Try zipping the file and then sending. This works for me until this bug gets fixed. Rick B.
Re: Spell Check Does Not Work in 1.2.1 RH 8.0
Matej Cepl wrote: Try to play with lyx -dbg (redirect stderr to file as the amount of information produced is massive) and tell us whay you find Matej This looks like the only relevant debugging info: LyXFunc::Dispatch: action[157] arg[] The file /home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Entering Menubar::Pimpl::set for menu `main' The file .aspell.english.pw doesn't appear to actually exist. What does this tell us? Rick B.
Re: Spell Check Does Not Work in 1.2.1 RH 8.0
rab wrote: This looks like the only relevant debugging info: LyXFunc::Dispatch: action[157] arg[] The file /home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Entering Menubar::Pimpl::set for menu `main' The file .aspell.english.pw doesn't appear to actually exist. What does this tell us? Rick B. I logged into a different home account and LyX spell checking works fine. There is NO .aspell.english.pw file in this account. (I don't think I ever tried running LyX from this accoutn.) So I deleted all the .aspell* files in my account and now LyX spell checking works in this account. Possibly these files were left over from RH 7.1 when I upgraded to RH 8.0. (This would explain why spell checking worked on the Work machine - RH 8.0 was a new install.) Rick B.
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a different problem. Try zipping the file and then sending. This works for me until this bug gets fixed. Rick B.
Re: Spell Check Does Not Work in 1.2.1 RH 8.0
Matej Cepl wrote: Try to play with lyx -dbg (redirect stderr to file as the amount of information produced is massive) and tell us whay you find Matej This looks like the only relevant debugging info: LyXFunc::Dispatch: action[157] arg[] The file /home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Entering Menubar::Pimpl::set for menu `main' The file .aspell.english.pw doesn't appear to actually exist. What does this tell us? Rick B.
Re: Spell Check Does Not Work in 1.2.1 RH 8.0
rab wrote: This looks like the only relevant debugging info: LyXFunc::Dispatch: action[157] arg[] The file /home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Entering Menubar::Pimpl::set for menu `main' The file .aspell.english.pw doesn't appear to actually exist. What does this tell us? Rick B. I logged into a different home account and LyX spell checking works fine. There is NO .aspell.english.pw file in this account. (I don't think I ever tried running LyX from this accoutn.) So I deleted all the .aspell* files in my account and now LyX spell checking works in this account. Possibly these files were left over from RH 7.1 when I upgraded to RH 8.0. (This would explain why spell checking worked on the Work machine - RH 8.0 was a new install.) Rick B.
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a different problem. Try "zipping" the file and then sending. This works for me until this bug gets fixed. Rick B.
Re: Spell Check Does Not Work in 1.2.1 RH 8.0
Matej Cepl wrote: Try to play with lyx -dbg (redirect stderr to file as the amount of information produced is massive) and tell us whay you find Matej This looks like the only relevant debugging info: LyXFunc::Dispatch: action[157] arg[] The file "/home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws" is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Entering Menubar::Pimpl::set for menu `main' The file .aspell.english.pw doesn't appear to actually exist. What does this tell us? Rick B.
Re: Spell Check Does Not Work in 1.2.1 RH 8.0
rab wrote: This looks like the only relevant debugging info: LyXFunc::Dispatch: action[157] arg[] The file "/home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws" is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Entering Menubar::Pimpl::set for menu `main' The file .aspell.english.pw doesn't appear to actually exist. What does this tell us? Rick B. I logged into a different home account and LyX spell checking works fine. There is NO .aspell.english.pw file in this account. (I don't think I ever tried running LyX from this accoutn.) So I deleted all the .aspell* files in my account and now LyX spell checking works in this account. Possibly these files were left over from RH 7.1 when I upgraded to RH 8.0. (This would explain why spell checking worked on the Work machine - RH 8.0 was a new install.) Rick B.
Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. Rick B.
Re: Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
rab wrote: This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. Rick B. BTW, the default language was set to English. I've tried changing this to American but it doesn't help. ispell and aspell are installed on the system. Rick B.
Re: Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: rab wrote: This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. 1. Start LyX from the console and try again. You will get an error message Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/xyz.hash or so. xyz.hash is the dictionary which ispell is looking for (e.g. aenglish). 2. Have a look at /usr/lib/ispell: how is the dictionary called? I suspect that its name differs from the one which is searched. 3. Now open the preferences dialog in LyX (edit-preferences), go to the tab Language-Spellchecker, check the checkbox use alternative language and type the name of the dictionary, which you have found in the ispell directory, (without the extension) into the input field. Regards, Jürgen (it's not a bug but a non-intuitive behaviour ... and a real FAQ in the meantime). Rick B. I'm not sure what the difference is between ispell and aspell. I installed Redhat 8.0. aspell is installed but not ispell. (I cannot find an ispell rpm for RH 8.0.) I tried changing the preferences in LyX to aspell. But I get: $ The file /home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Are both aspell and ispell required? Thanks. Rick B.
Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. Rick B.
Re: Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
rab wrote: This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. Rick B. BTW, the default language was set to English. I've tried changing this to American but it doesn't help. ispell and aspell are installed on the system. Rick B.
Re: Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: rab wrote: This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. 1. Start LyX from the console and try again. You will get an error message Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/xyz.hash or so. xyz.hash is the dictionary which ispell is looking for (e.g. aenglish). 2. Have a look at /usr/lib/ispell: how is the dictionary called? I suspect that its name differs from the one which is searched. 3. Now open the preferences dialog in LyX (edit-preferences), go to the tab Language-Spellchecker, check the checkbox use alternative language and type the name of the dictionary, which you have found in the ispell directory, (without the extension) into the input field. Regards, Jürgen (it's not a bug but a non-intuitive behaviour ... and a real FAQ in the meantime). Rick B. I'm not sure what the difference is between ispell and aspell. I installed Redhat 8.0. aspell is installed but not ispell. (I cannot find an ispell rpm for RH 8.0.) I tried changing the preferences in LyX to aspell. But I get: $ The file /home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Are both aspell and ispell required? Thanks. Rick B.
Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. Rick B.
Re: Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
rab wrote: This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. Rick B. BTW, the default language was set to English. I've tried changing this to American but it doesn't help. ispell and aspell are installed on the system. Rick B.
Re: Spellchecking Doesn't Work in 1.2.1
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: rab wrote: This is the first time I've tried to check the spelling since I installed 1.2.1. LyX freezes for a while but the spell checker panel never appears. Is this a known bug? How do I fix this? I'm using RH 8.0 on an Intel computer. 1. Start LyX from the console and try again. You will get an error message "Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/xyz.hash" or so. "xyz.hash" is the dictionary which ispell is looking for (e.g. aenglish). 2. Have a look at /usr/lib/ispell: how is the dictionary called? I suspect that its name differs from the one which is searched. 3. Now open the preferences dialog in LyX (edit->preferences), go to the tab Language->Spellchecker, check the checkbox "use alternative language" and type the name of the dictionary, which you have found in the ispell directory, (without the extension) into the input field. Regards, Jürgen (it's not a bug but a non-intuitive behaviour ... and a real FAQ in the meantime). Rick B. I'm not sure what the difference is between ispell and aspell. I installed Redhat 8.0. aspell is installed but not ispell. (I cannot find an ispell rpm for RH 8.0.) I tried changing the preferences in LyX to aspell. But I get: $ The file "/home/chippy/.aspell.english.pws" is not in the proper format. Ispell read timed out, what now? Are both aspell and ispell required? Thanks. Rick B.
Re: problems with 1.2.1
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:37:48PM +, lev kantorovitch wrote: 1. it is not longer possible to have all the math aplletes openned; this was quite a nice and convenient feature: I had all bracket and decorations openned all the time ready to get a click, not anymore! Why on earth did you remove this feature? All math panel sub menus at the same time? That did work? Yes, it was nice to have several math subpanels opened at the same time. Now opening a new subpanel causes the previous subpanel to dissappear. I agree that it is easier to type \alpha than use the math panel. But I don't happen to know all the tex needed to replace the math panel. Even if using \alpha is easier, it makes no sense to make the math panel HARDER and less convenient to use than it is now. You don't have to improve it - just don't degrade it. Rick B.
Re: problems with 1.2.1
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:37:48PM +, lev kantorovitch wrote: 1. it is not longer possible to have all the math aplletes openned; this was quite a nice and convenient feature: I had all bracket and decorations openned all the time ready to get a click, not anymore! Why on earth did you remove this feature? All math panel sub menus at the same time? That did work? Yes, it was nice to have several math subpanels opened at the same time. Now opening a new subpanel causes the previous subpanel to dissappear. I agree that it is easier to type \alpha than use the math panel. But I don't happen to know all the tex needed to replace the math panel. Even if using \alpha is easier, it makes no sense to make the math panel HARDER and less convenient to use than it is now. You don't have to improve it - just don't degrade it. Rick B.
Re: problems with 1.2.1
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:37:48PM +, lev kantorovitch wrote: 1. it is not longer possible to have all the math aplletes openned; this was quite a nice and convenient feature: I had all bracket and decorations openned all the time ready to get a click, not anymore! Why on earth did you remove this feature? All math panel sub menus at the same time? That did work? Yes, it was nice to have several math subpanels opened at the same time. Now opening a new subpanel causes the previous subpanel to dissappear. I agree that it is easier to type "\alpha" than use the math panel. But I don't happen to know all the tex needed to replace the math panel. Even if using "\alpha" is easier, it makes no sense to make the math panel HARDER and less convenient to use than it is now. You don't have to improve it - just don't degrade it. Rick B.
Re: Waiting for draw request to start loading
Paul E Johnson wrote: I'm sorry if you have been through this one before. On RedHat 7.3, I used the xforms-1RC5.2 RPMS from here ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/libforms-1.0-RC5.2.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/libforms-devel-1.0-RC5.2.i386.rpm And I have gcc-3.0.4 and I built lyx-1.2.1. Except for one little change needed in the source code about string handling, it built fine. Now when I open a lyx document that has eps figures, I see no preview, but the output does have the picture. The message in the eps box is Waiting for draw request to start loading. On the same system, using xforms-88 and lyx-1.2.1, I do not have the same preview problem. What do you think about that one? I asked the same question. I have three computers (work, home, and laptop) and the same thing happens on all three. Someone suggested turning on debugging using lyx -dbg any or lyx -dbg graphics. This shows that there is a problem in converting the eps into pnm (if memory serves). Yet all the necessary software is installed and functioning. LyX is set up to use convert from ImageMagick. I can convert the eps files manually but it just doesn't work in LyX. What is really funny is that if I load a LyX help document, it displays the eps figures. LyX 1.2.1 seems to have a lot of problems. I used to be able to just install the latest version and everything would basically work. With 1.2.1 now I also have trouble with the previewing of the document. On my home PC, if I logged in as a regular user, the preview worked OK (dvi, ps, and pdf). Yet if I would log in as root, it would not work. Another strange problem is viewing as html. I get an error message about the document name if it has more than one .. Something about dvips not working in this case (although it has always worked to do a dvi preview). If I rename the document so it has only one ., then it makes a nice html document and displays it in netscape (4.79) using latex2html. In some situations (I don't remember exactly), I would get an error saying that netscape can't find the server. If I configure LyX to use mozilla, I always get this error. Must have something to do with writine the mozilla command to open a file. I imagine when LyX installs itself (I used an rpm), it looks for helper programs and configures accordingly. But I have all of them and they worked in 1.1.6fix3 so I'm not sure why things are so flaky now. If it was just one machine, I could understand it but not three (all running RH 8.0 - maybe it has to do with RH 8.0). Rick B.
Re: Waiting for draw request to start loading
Paul E Johnson wrote: I'm sorry if you have been through this one before. On RedHat 7.3, I used the xforms-1RC5.2 RPMS from here ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/libforms-1.0-RC5.2.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/libforms-devel-1.0-RC5.2.i386.rpm And I have gcc-3.0.4 and I built lyx-1.2.1. Except for one little change needed in the source code about string handling, it built fine. Now when I open a lyx document that has eps figures, I see no preview, but the output does have the picture. The message in the eps box is Waiting for draw request to start loading. On the same system, using xforms-88 and lyx-1.2.1, I do not have the same preview problem. What do you think about that one? I asked the same question. I have three computers (work, home, and laptop) and the same thing happens on all three. Someone suggested turning on debugging using lyx -dbg any or lyx -dbg graphics. This shows that there is a problem in converting the eps into pnm (if memory serves). Yet all the necessary software is installed and functioning. LyX is set up to use convert from ImageMagick. I can convert the eps files manually but it just doesn't work in LyX. What is really funny is that if I load a LyX help document, it displays the eps figures. LyX 1.2.1 seems to have a lot of problems. I used to be able to just install the latest version and everything would basically work. With 1.2.1 now I also have trouble with the previewing of the document. On my home PC, if I logged in as a regular user, the preview worked OK (dvi, ps, and pdf). Yet if I would log in as root, it would not work. Another strange problem is viewing as html. I get an error message about the document name if it has more than one .. Something about dvips not working in this case (although it has always worked to do a dvi preview). If I rename the document so it has only one ., then it makes a nice html document and displays it in netscape (4.79) using latex2html. In some situations (I don't remember exactly), I would get an error saying that netscape can't find the server. If I configure LyX to use mozilla, I always get this error. Must have something to do with writine the mozilla command to open a file. I imagine when LyX installs itself (I used an rpm), it looks for helper programs and configures accordingly. But I have all of them and they worked in 1.1.6fix3 so I'm not sure why things are so flaky now. If it was just one machine, I could understand it but not three (all running RH 8.0 - maybe it has to do with RH 8.0). Rick B.
Re: Waiting for draw request to start loading
Paul E Johnson wrote: I'm sorry if you have been through this one before. On RedHat 7.3, I used the xforms-1RC5.2 RPMS from here ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/libforms-1.0-RC5.2.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/libforms-devel-1.0-RC5.2.i386.rpm And I have gcc-3.0.4 and I built lyx-1.2.1. Except for one little change needed in the source code about string handling, it built fine. Now when I open a lyx document that has eps figures, I see no preview, but the output does have the picture. The message in the eps box is "Waiting for draw request to start loading". On the same system, using xforms-88 and lyx-1.2.1, I do not have the same preview problem. What do you think about that one? I asked the same question. I have three computers (work, home, and laptop) and the same thing happens on all three. Someone suggested turning on debugging using "lyx -dbg any" or "lyx -dbg graphics". This shows that there is a problem in converting the eps into pnm (if memory serves). Yet all the necessary software is installed and functioning. LyX is set up to use "convert" from ImageMagick. I can convert the eps files manually but it just doesn't work in LyX. What is really funny is that if I load a LyX help document, it displays the eps figures. LyX 1.2.1 seems to have a lot of problems. I used to be able to just install the latest version and everything would basically work. With 1.2.1 now I also have trouble with the previewing of the document. On my home PC, if I logged in as a regular user, the preview worked OK (dvi, ps, and pdf). Yet if I would log in as root, it would not work. Another strange problem is viewing as html. I get an error message about the document name if it has more than one ".". Something about dvips not working in this case (although it has always worked to do a dvi preview). If I rename the document so it has only one ".", then it makes a nice html document and displays it in netscape (4.79) using latex2html. In some situations (I don't remember exactly), I would get an error saying that netscape can't find the server. If I configure LyX to use mozilla, I always get this error. Must have something to do with writine the mozilla command to open a file. I imagine when LyX installs itself (I used an rpm), it looks for helper programs and configures accordingly. But I have all of them and they worked in 1.1.6fix3 so I'm not sure why things are so flaky now. If it was just one machine, I could understand it but not three (all running RH 8.0 - maybe it has to do with RH 8.0). Rick B.
