On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:59:20PM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote: > 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.
Yes... I believe you have to run LaTeX on those. latex prettyref.ins I believe that you run for the docs: latex prettyref.dtx giving you a .tex file. Etc. > 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. Yes... run (as root) texhash. You may also have to reconfure and restart LyX. > 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 HTH Martin
