Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Nirmal Govind wrote: 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. These do not exist it seems.. What should he do? I'll e-mail them to you, and you can ransom them to him. :-) -- Paul
Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Nirmal Govind wrote: 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. These do not exist it seems.. What should he do? I'll e-mail them to you, and you can ransom them to him. :-) -- Paul
Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Nirmal Govind wrote: 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. These do not exist it seems.. What should he do? I'll e-mail them to you, and you can ransom them to him. :-) -- Paul
Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Thanks for the responses, folks. Please see my replies inline below... 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. These do not exist it seems.. What should he do? 4: Someone reported on the list that Edit-Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives. this is also true.. so I'll forward him Jim's post with the link to the new configure.bat .. I believe his path is also missing Ghostscript so I suspect that this is the culprit... will report back once he tries out these suggestions. Thanks, nirmal
Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Thanks for the responses, folks. Please see my replies inline below... 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. These do not exist it seems.. What should he do? 4: Someone reported on the list that Edit-Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives. this is also true.. so I'll forward him Jim's post with the link to the new configure.bat .. I believe his path is also missing Ghostscript so I suspect that this is the culprit... will report back once he tries out these suggestions. Thanks, nirmal
Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Thanks for the responses, folks. Please see my replies inline below... 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. These do not exist it seems.. What should he do? 4: Someone reported on the list that Edit->Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives. this is also true.. so I'll forward him Jim's post with the link to the new configure.bat .. I believe his path is also missing Ghostscript so I suspect that this is the culprit... will report back once he tries out these suggestions. Thanks, nirmal
LyX Win32 installation problem
Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal
RE: LyX Win32 installation problem
Hi In the first instance have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Rob S Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal
RE: LyX Win32 installation problem
make sure that in Edit-Preferences-File Formats the viewer box has a path to the viewer for each type (pdf,ps,dvi,ect.). -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nirmal Govind Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LyX Win32 installation problem Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal
Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal Four things to consider: 1. If the user has any other versions of latex installed, make sure that they are either deleted, renamed, or appear after MiKTeX on the system path. (I had one machine where the configure script choked on an old latex.exe that was part of a Cygwin installation.) 2: Does Edit | Reconfigure by any chance write a 0 byte textclass.lst file? If so, it's likely to be due to having the wrong version of sed.exe. Ruurd's port ships with sed 3.02; download the GnuWin32 port of sed (4.0.7 or later) from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/). 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. 4: Someone reported on the list that Edit-Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives. -- 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: LyX Win32 installation problem
4: Someone reported on the list that Edit-Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives. If this is the problem try this version of configure.bat http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rds2/configure.bat to replace the one found in \lyx\share\lyx (It is there now - I've just put it back - sorry. I'll upload it to the wikki asap) Rob S -- Paul
LyX Win32 installation problem
Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal
RE: LyX Win32 installation problem
Hi In the first instance have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Rob S Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal
RE: LyX Win32 installation problem
make sure that in Edit-Preferences-File Formats the viewer box has a path to the viewer for each type (pdf,ps,dvi,ect.). -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nirmal Govind Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LyX Win32 installation problem Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal
Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal Four things to consider: 1. If the user has any other versions of latex installed, make sure that they are either deleted, renamed, or appear after MiKTeX on the system path. (I had one machine where the configure script choked on an old latex.exe that was part of a Cygwin installation.) 2: Does Edit | Reconfigure by any chance write a 0 byte textclass.lst file? If so, it's likely to be due to having the wrong version of sed.exe. Ruurd's port ships with sed 3.02; download the GnuWin32 port of sed (4.0.7 or later) from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/). 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. 4: Someone reported on the list that Edit-Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives. -- 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: LyX Win32 installation problem
4: Someone reported on the list that Edit-Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives. If this is the problem try this version of configure.bat http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rds2/configure.bat to replace the one found in \lyx\share\lyx (It is there now - I've just put it back - sorry. I'll upload it to the wikki asap) Rob S -- Paul
LyX Win32 installation problem
Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal
RE: LyX Win32 installation problem
Hi In the first instance have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Rob S > > Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on > windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure > script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to > dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before > installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So > right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. > Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have > much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... > incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few > weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same > procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that > this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, > which we deleted before installing the latest version... > > Thanks, > nirmal
RE: LyX Win32 installation problem
make sure that in Edit->Preferences->File Formats the viewer box has a path to the viewer for each type (pdf,ps,dvi,ect.). > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nirmal Govind > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LyX Win32 installation problem > > > Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on > windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure > script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to > dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before > installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So > right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. > Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have > much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... > incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few > weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same > procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that > this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, > which we deleted before installing the latest version... > > Thanks, > nirmal >
Re: LyX Win32 installation problem
Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version... Thanks, nirmal Four things to consider: 1. If the user has any other versions of latex installed, make sure that they are either deleted, renamed, or appear after MiKTeX on the system path. (I had one machine where the configure script choked on an old latex.exe that was part of a Cygwin installation.) 2: Does Edit | Reconfigure by any chance write a 0 byte textclass.lst file? If so, it's likely to be due to having the wrong version of sed.exe. Ruurd's port ships with sed 3.02; download the GnuWin32 port of sed (4.0.7 or later) from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/). 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. 4: Someone reported on the list that Edit->Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives. -- 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: LyX Win32 installation problem
> > 4: Someone reported on the list that Edit->Reconfigure fails if LyX and > the user's home directory are on different drives. If this is the problem try this version of configure.bat http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rds2/configure.bat to replace the one found in \lyx\share\lyx (It is there now - I've just put it back - sorry. I'll upload it to the wikki asap) Rob S > > -- Paul >
