Re: creating my first lyx doc
-Original Message- From: Barry Brent Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 16:52 To: Anders Ekberg Cc: Richard Heck , , , Benjamin Piwowarski Subject: Re: creating my first lyx doc >Anders, hi. > >I checked and there is no file with the name ³TeX Distribution² on my >machine! > >I¹ll get one. Not sure where I should put it however. > >Barry Jus so I understand you: You clicked the Apple menu, and then System Preferences. In the System Preferences pane there was no TeX Distribution. If this is the case, go to: http://tug.org/mactex/ Download MacTeX.pkg (direct link http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg ) Note: It is a BIG download (2.3 GB) Once Downloaded double-click the Installation package and follow the instructions (use the default options unless you are sure about something else). Once installed launch LyX. Open Tutorial (Help > Tutorial) If the Document > View other formats is still blank select Tools > Reconfigure. Once the reconfiguring is done quit and then restart LyX. Open Tutorial. Now you should be able to select Document > View [PDF (pdflatex)] and the pdf document should open in Preview. If not we continune from there. All the best! Anders
Re: creating my first lyx doc
-Original Message- From: Richard Heck Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 00:17 To: Barry Brent Cc: , , Benjamin Piwowarski Subject: Re: creating my first lyx doc >On 05/07/2014 04:54 PM, Barry Brent wrote: >> As it happens I'm using version 2.1 with Mac OS 9. >> But in the Mac OS 9 version of Version 2.1, the >> menu >> >> Document ? View (Other Formats) >> >> is empty. > >Did you install MacTeX prior to installing LyX? If so, then you might try >Reconfiguring LyX. I'm not sure where that is on the OSX menus. Here, it >is at Tools> Reconfigure, but it might be elsewhere for you. (OSX has its >own way of doing things.) It’s Tools > Reconfigure >Actually, it is very odd that the menu is completely empty. LyX has >certain >internal formats it can produce without external assistance, such as >XHTML, >so you should at least see that, even if LaTeX is not installed. > >Is that menu still empty if you check it when the Tutorial is open? As soon as you have any document open you should have the menu. If no document is open the entire Document menu should be greyed out. I would suggest to check that TeX is installed: open System preferences and make sure you have an item TeX Distribution. If you open that item you should see a that TeXLive-2013 is selected. If you don’t have TeX installed, go to http://tug.org/mactex/ and get it. If TeX is installed do a Tools > Reconfigure If it still doesn’t work open the Terminal and do a sudo texhash (you need administrative permissions). If it still doesn’t work try to reinstall LyX If it still doesn’t work I am out of advices… All the best! Anders
Re: creating my first lyx doc
On 05/07/2014 04:54 PM, Barry Brent wrote: As it happens I'm using version 2.1 with Mac OS 9. But in the Mac OS 9 version of Version 2.1, the menu Document ◃ View (Other Formats) is empty. Did you install MacTeX prior to installing LyX? If so, then you might try Reconfiguring LyX. I'm not sure where that is on the OSX menus. Here, it is at Tools> Reconfigure, but it might be elsewhere for you. (OSX has its own way of doing things.) Actually, it is very odd that the menu is completely empty. LyX has certain internal formats it can produce without external assistance, such as XHTML, so you should at least see that, even if LaTeX is not installed. Is that menu still empty if you check it when the Tutorial is open? It is possible there is some Python issue. This has been reported on some systems. I'm going to cc the OSX developers and see if they have any ideas. Richard
Re: creating my first lyx doc
On Wed, 7 May 2014, Barry Brent wrote: I got through the first three bullet points, but not the fourth. (I’m using Mac OS 9.2.) In your pull- down menu “View” there is no sub-option also called “View”. But there *is* an option called “Toolbars” within which I found an option called “View/Update”. That’s as close as I could come to “View◃View”. Barry, I use linux, not OS X, but it should make no difference. I've never used the View menu to look at the compiled document. Instead, I use Ctrl-x p (with the emacs keyboard layout). You can get to the same place using Tools -> Preferences -> Editing -> Shortcuts -> Document/Window -> Buffer-View DVI. Assign they keys you want (such as what I use) to that function. The DVI viewer will pop up and display the document as it would be compiled to a pdf with, for example, File -> Export -> pdflatex. Welcome to the club, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.| Technically sound and legally defensible Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | ... guaranteed. www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
creating my first lyx doc
I'm new to LyX and I'm trying to create my first LyX document using the LyX Tutorial. I described my first try in an email to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org as follows: ** I’m running into trouble teaching myself how to use LyX from your document “The LyX Tutorial”. I just tried out the suggestions in section 2.1.1: 2.1.1 Typing, Viewing, and Exporting Open a new file with File◃New Type a sentence like: This is my first LYX document! Save your document with File ◃ Save As. Create a PDF file, with View◃View or the toolbar button . LYX will open a PDF-viewer program displaying your document as it will look when printed.3 Export the ready to print document with File ◃ Export to a format you want. Congratulations! You have written your first LYX document. All of the rest is just details. I got through the first three bullet points, but not the fourth. (I’m using Mac OS 9.2.) In your pull- down menu “View” there is no sub-option also called “View”. But there *is* an option called “Toolbars” within which I found an option called “View/Update”. That’s as close as I could come to “View◃View”. View/Update didn’t work. (No viewer was forthcoming.) * The reply was as follows: * Which version are you using? You should have View>View (Other Formats) in 2.0.x (and it appears you are using the Tutorial from some such version). That has been moved to the Document menu (Document> View (Other Formats)) in 2.1.x. You should be able to choose PDF (pdflatex), e.g., off that menu. FYI, these questions are better suited to the lyx-users list. This list is for discussion of problems with the documentation itself. Which maybe there is some here, but the main issues seem to be using the program. * As it happens I'm using version 2.1 with Mac OS 9. But in the Mac OS 9 version of Version 2.1, the menu Document ◃ View (Other Formats) is empty. Please advise. Thanks, Barry Brent barrybr...@iphouse.com
