Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: I'd never heard of ptex before. Uncle Google says it's used to publish in Japanese. I take it that's what you are trying to do? Paul, No, I write in English. For some reason the fresh installation of TeXLive2024 and attempted update of fmtutil failed.

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Rubin
On 3/16/24 15:38, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: In order to try to compile the doc, LyX has to write a .tex file someplace, and that someplace has to be the "tempbuf" directory. As long as you don't close LyX (and barring a rift in the space-time continuum), that

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Eberhard W Lisse
Thank you so much for telling me what it SHOULD do. It didn't in the Mac case (two different laptops). el On 2024-03-16 20:40, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Eberhard W Lisse wrote: [...] > A fresh installation of TeXLive2024 yesterday should have installed all > necessary files. >

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Eberhard W Lisse wrote: I needed to (re-)install footmisc with the tlmgr. El, A fresh installation of TeXLive2024 yesterday should have installed all necessary files. But Lyx has an option of looking at the logfiles. And you did not mention what OS you use, on the Mac

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: In order to try to compile the doc, LyX has to write a .tex file someplace, and that someplace has to be the "tempbuf" directory. As long as you don't close LyX (and barring a rift in the space-time continuum), that buffer directory and its contents should

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Rubin
On 3/16/24 13:33, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: I trust you are leaving LyX open while you look for the temp directory. If you go to Tools > Preferences... > Paths, what do you have filled in for "Temporary directory:"? Paul, /tmp, and that's where I've found

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: I trust you are leaving LyX open while you look for the temp directory. If you go to Tools > Preferences... > Paths, what do you have filled in for "Temporary directory:"? Paul, /tmp, and that's where I've found LyX_tempbuf* before. Thanks, Rich --

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Eberhard W Lisse
I needed to (re-)install footmisc with the tlmgr. But Lyx has an option of looking at the logfiles. And you did not mention what OS you use, on the Mac the latest version is automatically symlinked. el On 2024-03-15 22:54, Rich Shepard wrote: > I upgraded TeXLive from 2023 to 2024 and tried

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Rubin
On 3/16/24 11:39, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: The first place I looked was /tmp/lyx_* but both subdirectories were empty. Just invoked Lyx-2.3.6.1 and tried compiling mwe.lyx using pdflatex. Same message box displayed; image attached. There is no lyx

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: The first place I looked was /tmp/lyx_* but both subdirectories were empty. Just invoked Lyx-2.3.6.1 and tried compiling mwe.lyx using pdflatex. Same message box displayed; image attached. There is no lyx directory in /tmp. All new issues for me.

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: The log file will be in the temp directory created by LyX for the document. Most likely you'll start spelunking in /tmp, but if you set up the temp directory to be somewhere else you can find out where in Tools > Preferences Paths > Temporary directory.

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-15 Thread Paul Rubin
On 3/15/24 17:54, Rich Shepard wrote: I upgraded TeXLive from 2023 to 2024 and tried compiling the MWE for the math issues still unresolve. A message box displayed: The external program pdflatex finished with an error. It is recommended you fix the cause of the external program's error