On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:14 AM, Jerry wrote: > I have installed LyX, the word processor, on OS X 10.4.11. I have > spent only a couple of hours with it, but there seem to be some > oddities. > > First of all, when pasting text which has been copied from within > LyX, or when opening a LyX Help file, this message appears in a > dialog box: > > The layout file requested by this document, > article.layout, > is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX > class or style file required by it is not > available. See the Customization documentation > for more information. > LyX will not be able to produce output. > > I have seen other versions of the message where article.layout is > something else. After I dismiss the dialog, the pasted text appears > as expected. When pasting text that has been put into the clipboard > from a "normal" Mac program such as Text Edit, the dialog box does > not appear. > > Also, clicking on the Adobe logo in the tool bar results in a dialog > box that says this: > > No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex). > > Clicking on DVI and PS have similar results. (Note that the Tutorial > says that there should be a View>DVI menu item but there is none.) > > Finally (for now), images are not rendered. For example, in the > User's Guide, instead of seeing a platypus in Section 4.6.1, I see a > box with this text in it: > > platypus.eps > Error converting to loadable format > > Thanks for any help, > Jerry >
As per "fink info lyx-mac": "Since LyX is highly configurable at runtime, we've moved to having recommended rather than mandatory dependencies [on] Imagemagick, TeX, and Postscript and PDF viewers. Some users may already have non-Fink options for these and so we won't force extra packages upon them." Thus, everything you're seeing is probably due to not having the relevant tools installed. So if you install imagemagick, tetex or ptex, and ghostscript, that should get you going. Unfortunately, fink doesn't (yet) pop up a list of recommended packages. This was done, by the way, because people have been griping about the "old and useless" (their words, not mine) tetex in Fink. I've found tetex to be adequate for _my_ needs. But for someone who has a default MacTeX install, which includes imagemagick and ghostscript, our LyX package won't burden them with extra dependencies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
