Stephen, Thanks for the reply. However, I'm somewhat confused. My current installation of LyX works just fine except I don't have the DVI rendering. I'd assumed that this was because it couldn't find the DVI convert helper. And this because I either don't have the needed helper on my system, or I messed up when configuring the system. I've spent some time trying to hack the configuration files to try to get LyX to link to xdvi with no success. Your suggestion that I follow either Enrico's or Kayvan's instructions implies that the binary distribution I'm using was built without this feature. This begs the question "Why would anyone distribute a version of a program which cannot even run the included tutorial?". I guess the response I was expecting to the inquiry was something like "LyX Win32 is built assuming DVI renderer xxx. You need to get xxx from yyy and make LyX aware of it by zzz."
So I tried Enrico's instructions first and ran into the following issues: The sourceforge cvs repository seems to be broken. It won't let me log into qtwin as anonymous. So I down loaded the source from the sourceforge web site, noticing that this was qt-3 not qt3. The patch file mostly works except for some #includes in one file which I fixed up, and an #ifdef associated with multi head monitors which aren't of interest to me anyway. Make fails because undeclared function wcsncpy in qprinter_win.cpp. Also warns about /* within a comment so I'm guessing that this is a result of another patch incompatibility. Note: the patch file does not touch qprint_win.cpp. Gave up on this path. Looked at Kayvan's suggestions for X11 build of LyX 1.4 which requires a down level of the gcc compiler and asked myself if I wanted to start down another path which will probably have problems and decided to write a reply to your note. Is there a "simple" path to getting the DVI rendering working which doesn't require rebuilding LyX and qt3? Chuck If self-replicating chemicals had as hard a time reaching maturity as good ideas, this planet would still be lifeless. Robert Qualkinbush "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/10/2006 03:40 PM Please respond to "Stephen Harris" To <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>, Charles Schulz/Watson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: No VIEW->DVI in LyX Win32 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 7:55 AM Subject: No VIEW->DVI in LyX Win32 >I have installed LyX Win32 on an XP machine including cygwin. I chose to > get all the necessary prerequisite stuff through cygwin rather than having > the install script download it (they all end up in $cygwin/bin). I have > added $cygwin/bin and $cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin to my environment path. When > I try going through the tutorial and follow the "My first LyX document!" > example, I'm hung up at producing a DVI version since there is not > VIEW->DVI menu item. It isn't greyed out, it just doesn't exist. I've > checked that $cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/xdvi.exe exists. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Chuck > Enrico Forestieri wrote this Howto using Qt3. He is active on this list so perhaps will see your post and be more helpful. This approach worked out quite well. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin SH: I asked Kayvan Sylvan about this (using X11) and he replied: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg45585.html There is a make file included with that post. Regards, Stephen
