Re: Difficulty Startiing Lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

Ron Lomax wrote:
Can you help?  I have downloaded the  LyX-1.5.3-1-Installer.exe 
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.3/LyX-1.5.3-1-Installer.exe and run 
it successfully, including the various downloads it triggers (apart from 
an error message when I try to load the Italian spellcheck dictionary). 
 Now, when I try to use it, I receive an error window:


 


The entire list of layout files in the menu appear as Unusable.

 


What have I done wrong and how can I get going with Lyx?

 


Hope to hear from you soon

 


Dr Ron Lomax



Either you don't have LaTeX (most likely MiKTeX, as you're on Windows) 
installed, or LyX was unable to find it during the configuration 
process, or something went splat during configuration.


First things first:  Is MiKTeX (or some other LaTeX distribution) 
installed, and is it on your system command path?  If you run the 
command 'latex --version' at a command prompt, do you get a meaningful 
answer?


/Paul

Re: Difficulty Startiing Lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

Ron Lomax wrote:
Can you help?  I have downloaded the  LyX-1.5.3-1-Installer.exe 
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.3/LyX-1.5.3-1-Installer.exe and run 
it successfully, including the various downloads it triggers (apart from 
an error message when I try to load the Italian spellcheck dictionary). 
 Now, when I try to use it, I receive an error window:


 


The entire list of layout files in the menu appear as Unusable.

 


What have I done wrong and how can I get going with Lyx?

 


Hope to hear from you soon

 


Dr Ron Lomax



Either you don't have LaTeX (most likely MiKTeX, as you're on Windows) 
installed, or LyX was unable to find it during the configuration 
process, or something went splat during configuration.


First things first:  Is MiKTeX (or some other LaTeX distribution) 
installed, and is it on your system command path?  If you run the 
command 'latex --version' at a command prompt, do you get a meaningful 
answer?


/Paul

Re: Difficulty Startiing Lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

Ron Lomax wrote:
Can you help?  I have downloaded the  LyX-1.5.3-1-Installer.exe 
 and run 
it successfully, including the various downloads it triggers (apart from 
an error message when I try to load the Italian spellcheck dictionary). 
 Now, when I try to use it, I receive an error window:


 


The entire list of layout files in the menu appear as Unusable.

 


What have I done wrong and how can I get going with Lyx?

 


Hope to hear from you soon

 


Dr Ron Lomax



Either you don't have LaTeX (most likely MiKTeX, as you're on Windows) 
installed, or LyX was unable to find it during the configuration 
process, or something went splat during configuration.


First things first:  Is MiKTeX (or some other LaTeX distribution) 
installed, and is it on your system command path?  If you run the 
command 'latex --version' at a command prompt, do you get a meaningful 
answer?


/Paul