On 11.02.20 20:44, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:33:23 -0500 > schrieb "Paul A. Rubin" <parubi...@gmail.com>: > >>>> If you open a terminal in the temp directory and run pdflatex against >>>> the .tex file, does it compile? If not, is there a meaningful error >>>> message in the terminal? >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>> Yes, it does. There is no error. >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> >> Okay, what follows is definitely grasping at straws. From a clean start >> of LyX, load the HelloWord.lyx file and try to either view or export a >> PDF. Presumably this will fail. Copy the LaTeX .log file in the LyX temp >> directory to someplace safe. Leave LyX open (so that the temp directory >> remains). > I would > create a new (empty) directory > copy HelloWord.lyx there > and use this copied file > >> Now, in a terminal, run pdflatex on the .tex file in the LyX temp >> directory. Presumably this succeeds in generating a PDF file. Copy the >> new LaTeX .log file someplace safe. Then compare the two (using either >> 'diff' if you are command-line oriented or 'meld' if you like graphical >> output) and see if you can find a clue in the differences between the >> log files. Alternatively, you can post both log files here. >> >> Paul >> > Kornel > Ok, here's something I (just) noticed: pdflatex, when run without arguments, produces a .dvi file from HelloWorld.tex. It is only if I specify "-output-format=pdf" that it creates a .pdf file.
>From what I understand, this is not what pdflatex should normally do. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users