Stephen, you asked what happens with View > pdf. Home for lunch, where the badly behaving LyX resides, I checked. View > pdf gives this error message: "Cannot convert file. Error while executing dvips -t letter -o 'filename.ps' 'filename.dvi' Does this mean anything to anyone?
Bruce Stephen Buonopane wrote: > > > > > Here's the problem I've been having: in any lyx file which contains (in > > mathmode) a fraction or a sub or superscript, both View > pdflatex and > > File > Print produce an error message. (LyX/Mac, LyX 1.3.4, Mac 10.3.4) > > Ronald Florence has been very helpful, and he suggested that I read the > > help files on the use of -dbg and then start lyx from the command line > > with the appropriate debug parameter. > > > > But I'm a tabla rasa as far as unix is concerned. And the LyX help > > files > > say almost nothing about -dbg, unless I've missed a section. And what > > is > > the appropriate debug parameter? Can someone spell out exactly what I > > need to do to follow Ronald's suggestion? Do I do whatever I do right > > after I have gotten LyX to produce a print or preview error message? I > > do at least know how to get to the Terminal on the Mac, and Ronald's > > HOWTO LyX/Mac page says for debugging that I can start LyX from the > > command line with /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/LyX. > > > > At the terminal prompt type > "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/LyX -dbg" > This will give you a list of debug options > > To see all debugging messages use > "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/LyX -dbg any" > > When you perform the action that is producing the error, then you will > hopefully see some helpful messages in the terminal window. > > I think that the dbg approach may be a bit deeper than you need. > Some other things to try... > 1. What is the error message you get? > 2. Do you get the proper output when you use just View > pdf? > 3. Export the file as latex and then run "pdflatex myfilename" in > terminal and see if there are any errors?
