On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 02:20:19PM -0700, Anna H.Pryor wrote:
>
> Please forward this to the right person, if I have not mailed it to you
> correctly. Thanks!
Well, I may be the right person. For future reference, the right list would
probably be lyx-users, which is the list for questions about using LyX,
while lyx-docs is for questions about the documentation. (Although I guess
you did put in a question about documentation :)
> Basically, I have a latex file (large) that was created in 12/98 that I
> would like to port to the lyx program. Unfortunatley, all I get is a
> message saying that it cannot do it...but I don't know why? I must be
> missing something in the documentations that says how to convert latex
> files. Can you please tell me where!
reLyX is the program that lyx uses in order to import latex documents. It
has its own man page, which has quite a lot of information, some of which
might be useful. So if your LyX was correctly installed, you should be able
to just say "man reLyX". You can actually call reLyX from the command line,
which allows you to do a bunch of fancier things, and there are also a
couple files you can change to do interesting things.
If you call reLyX from the command line, it often gives descriptive (if
cryptic) error messages before it dies. But I assume you're calling it from
within LyX. If you called *lyx* from the command line, then the reLyX output
will appear in the same window you called LyX from. If you called it using
some GUI tool, then I have no idea where the output will go.
So: could you try doing something like "reLyX foo.tex" from the command line
and let me know what happened? That will get us a lot farther towards
knowing what the problem is, if not to solving it.
It's probably OK to reply just to me rather than the list for now. I'll ask
the list for help if I'm stumped.
Always eager to help a NASAite.
-Amir Karger
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