Hi: I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' addresses in the output DVI file. I was pretty shocked by this, since a long time back when I was an Atari ST user, I had LaTeX set up there as my word processor and never had a problem like this.
My setup is a current (as of 30 Nov) 'slink' distribution. Here is what I have installed: p2 14:11 press-rcb[152] dpkg --list tetex\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii tetex-base 0.9.981030-2 basic teTeX library files ii tetex-bin 0.9.981031-3 teTeX binary files pn tetex-dev <none> (no description available) pn tetex-doc <none> (no description available) ii tetex-extra 0.9.981030-2 extra teTeX library files pn tetex-french <none> (no description available) ii tetex-nonfree 0.9.981030-2 non-free teTeX library files pn tetex-src <none> (no description available) p2 14:29 press-160[153] dpkg --list lyx\* ~ Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii lyx 0.12.0.final-0 High Level Word Processor (BETA version) Here is a sample document I could reproduce the problem with: \documentclass{letter} \begin{document} \address{John Jones\\ 123 A St.\\ Anytown, AW AB3 4AA} \begin{letter}{Mr. Joe Smith\\ 2345 Princess St. \\ Edinburgh, EH1 1AA} Each letter is a `letter' environment, whose argument is the name and address of the recipient. For example, you might have: \end{letter} \end{document} If I run 'latex test.tex', the DVI once again is missing the address information. Is this a bug or do I just have a messed up installation? Thanks, --- Roy Bixler The University of Chicago Press [EMAIL PROTECTED]