On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 03:13, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Darren Freeman wrote: > > > I just got my shiny OpenSUSE 10.2 box up and running to write my thesis, > > and dammit I can't compile my document. "prettyref.sty" is missing from > > the distrubution. > > Point your browser to CTAN and get it. > > Prettyref was exluded from teTeX due to license reasons. However, teTeX is > dead. Forthcoming openSuse distributions will probably contain it again (in > some kind of stripped down TeXLive package).
This is still a problem for me and getting me in hot water. My supervisor wants me to use Word (for a PhD thesis!) and not being able to give him a PDF or print it isn't helping. The problem so far is I have prettyref.zip from CTAN and it doesn't contain prettyref.sty. I'm not a LaTeX person, preferring LyX to know what it's doing. Is the .sty file automatically generated or should I keep looking for it? The zip file contains prettyref.dtx .ins and .pdf. I can see a heap of .sty files under /usr/share/texmf but I'm not even sure if I can just put these files in there without rebuilding a database. I know I could solve this with further reading/learning etc. but if somebody can just tell me it would be most appreciated! My previously working LyX setup is 1.3.3 and I was hoping to yank prettyref.sty from that system, but it doesn't appear to have it anyway so I guess that's a new requirement. In my opinion, this should count as a blocker. Even though you could argue it's the distro at fault, but I can't find a machine with it installed to steal it from, between an older Mandrake and a newer SUSE. Have fun, Darren
