----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:53
PM
Subject: Re: LyX + WinME +
MikTeX
Hi Christoph,
Thank you very much for your help. I got it
much sooner but had to come home to try your points. Here is the
outcome.
My installation of LyX dates back to
yesterday :) so quite up-to-date.
I got the required files for LyX, put them in
a dir and ran setup(from cygwin) and asked it to install from that dir and
it recognized the existence of all packages except GS403 !
Now, I did the same to see if it would change
anything and it did not recognize anything to be installed! Does the setup
check to see if those packages are already installed or not?
Then I manually installed the GS as you said.
Excuse me if I am not that good in BASH, but how do I run a shell script
like:
SetupGS403.sh ?
I tried a few ways and it didn't run
:(
Anyway, the main problem is to
follow.
When I installed MikTeX a few weeks ago,
their setup program was not complete or for some other reason it did not
allow me to do a full install, well when I asked it to do so, it just
didn't find any FTP from which I could download so I did a fairly full
install :) To be sure that it was not the problem with my case, I
reinstalled MikTeX 2.1 today which worked fine and it is now a full full
installation.
BUT, the main problem is still there! I open
LyX, it seems to be all right, I import a LaTeX file, it creates its own
lyx version out of it and then it is the conversion time. I ask it to
convert to DVI, PS, whatever, and it says it is doing it and done and so
on and so forth (if I manually do not create the DVI (out of LyX), it
complains when I ask to export to PS, because no DVI is there but if it is
there, it says done and STILL nothing is produced, no DVI, no PS, no
PDF.
I am really clueless because it does not
complain at all and does not give me a hint of what is missing. At first,
when the original configuration was there, it did not find windvi which is
normal and I changed it to YAP and it did no more complaints but it could
not do the conversion either case!
When I ask to view the dvi that I produced
outside LyX, it searches for it in:
c:\cygwin\tmp\lyx_tmpdir766193766193\lyx_tmpbuf0\1.dvi
and not in:
c:\MyFiles\LyX\doc\1.dvi
and when I ask to export to DVI, it creates
an EMPTY file in the tmp dir, 1.tex.dep
PART II:
As for the styles, first of all, I've to say
that there has never been a LOG file in LyX! I guess it should be there
when I try to export a DVI but under no circumstances, a log file was
created!
I also copied all those STY files and ran the
initexmf -u but
nothing changed. My PATH is all right because WinEdt does anything
that it is supposed to do (latex, dvips, pdflatex, etc) without
complaining.
Anyone please could help me to see where I am
going wrong?
Thanks so much for all your attention,
Christoph and others as well.
Regards,
m&m
