Thanx Paul. Date in "LaTeX Configuration" doesn't appear, just "???", the same in the book class. The book class appeared before making the first change you told me to do (adding the viewer command). I undid the changes but it remains "???" for the fields asked and the samen error presented.
I believe I'll have to reinstall LaTeX, don't I? On 3/6/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julio Rojas wrote: > > Thanx Paul, but after I did what you suggested and reconfigured LyX > > the following message is presented when I opened my document: > > > > Textclass error > > The document uses a missong TeX class book > > LyX will not be able to produce output > > > > I'm using OS X 10.4.5 and the application I use to view PDF's is the > > Preview tool of OS X > > (/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview). > > > > Thanx for your help. > > > > The new error message has nothing to do with your PDF viewer -- LyX > cannot run latex (or pdflatex) against the document because it cannot > find the book class (which the document apparently uses). Take a look > at Help->LaTeX Configuration. First note the date (third line) and make > sure it conforms to the date you most recently reconfigured LyX. Then > scroll down to section 3.3 and see if it says 'yes' or 'no' for having > found the book class. (Based on the error message, it is likely to say > 'no'.) If it says 'no', make sure you have the book class installed in > your LaTeX setup. If you do, try regenerating your LaTeX file > directory, then reconfigure LyX again (and restart LyX). > > /Paul > > -- ------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
