For your first question: yes, I restard LyX many times. I ran configure (sh is from MSYS) but there was no mention of beamer.
C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources>kpsewhich beamer.cls C:/Programs/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources>sh configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... +checking for "pplatex"... no +checking for "latex2e"... no +checking for "latex"... yes checking for the pdflatex program... +checking for "pdflatex"... yes checking for a Tgif viewer and editor... +checking for "tgif"... no checking for a FIG viewer and editor... +checking for "xfig"... yes checking for a Grace viewer and editor... +checking for "xmgrace"... yes checking for a FEN viewer and editor... +checking for "xboard"... no checking for a raster image viewer... +checking for "xv"... no +checking for "kview"... no +checking for "gimp"... no checking for a raster image editor... +checking for "gimp"... no checking for a text editor... +checking for "xemacs"... no +checking for "gvim"... no +checking for "kedit"... no +checking for "kwrite"... no +checking for "kate"... no +checking for "nedit"... yes checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter... +checking for "/c/Program"... no +checking for "tex2lyx"... no checking for a Noweb -> LyX converter... +checking for "noweb2lyx"... no checking for a Noweb -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "noweave"... no checking for an HTML -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "html2latex"... no checking for an MS Word -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "wvCleanLatex"... no checking for a LaTeX -> MS Word converter... +checking for "htlatex"... yes checking for Image converter... +checking for "convert"... yes checking for an OpenOffice.org -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "w2l"... no checking for a LaTeX -> OpenOffice.org converter... +checking for "oolatex"... yes checking for a Postscript previewer... +checking for "gsview32"... no +checking for "gv"... yes checking for a PDF previewer... +checking for "acrobat"... no +checking for "acrord32"... no +checking for "gsview32"... no +checking for "acroread"... no +checking for "gv"... yes checking for a DVI previewer... +checking for "xdvi"... yes checking for a HTML previewer... +checking for "mozilla"... yes checking for a PS to PDF converter... +checking for "ps2pdf13"... yes checking for a DVI to PS converter... +checking for "dvips"... yes checking for a DVI to PDF converter... +checking for "dvipdfm"... yes checking for dvipng... +checking for "dvipng"... yes checking for a *roff formatter... +checking for "groff"... yes checking for ChkTeX... +checking for "chktex"... no checking for a spellchecker... +checking for "ispell"... no checking for Octave... +checking for "octave"... yes checking for Maple... +checking for "maple"... no checking for a fax program... +checking for "kdeprintfax"... no +checking for "ksendfax"... no checking for SGML-tools 1.x (LinuxDoc)... +checking for "sgml2lyx"... no checking for SGML-tools 2.x (DocBook) or db2x scripts... +checking for "sgmltools"... no +checking for "db2dvi"... no checking for a spool command... +checking for "lp"... no +checking for "lpr"... yes checking for a LaTeX -> HTML converter... +checking for "htlatex"... yes checking LaTeX configuration... auto +Inspecting your LaTeX configuration. +checking for LaTeX version... 2003/12/01 +checking for available hyphenation patterns... english, dumylang, nohyphenatio +checking for default encoding (this may take a long time) + checking for ec fonts... yes + checking for ec support in LaTeX format... yes +checking for document class IEEEtran [IEEEtran]... yes +checking for document class aa [aa]... no +checking for document class aapaper [aa]... no +checking for document class aastex [aastex]... yes +checking for docbook class agu-dtd... no +checking for document class agums [aguplus,agums.sty]... no +checking for document class amsart-plain [amsart]... yes +checking for document class amsart-seq [amsart]... yes +checking for document class amsart [amsart]... yes +checking for document class amsbook [amsbook]... yes +checking for document class apa [apa,apacite.sty]... yes +checking for document class article [article]... yes +checking for document class book [book]... yes +checking for document class broadway [broadway]... no +checking for document class chess [article,lyxskak.sty]... no +checking for document class cl2emult [cl2emult]... no +checking for document class cv [cv]... no +checking for document class dinbrief [dinbrief]... yes +checking for docbook class docbook-book... no +checking for docbook class docbook-chapter... no +checking for docbook class docbook-section... no +checking for docbook class docbook... no +checking for document class dtk [dtk]... yes +checking for document class egs [egs]... no +checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no +checking for document class entcs [entcs]... no +checking for document class extarticle [extarticle]... yes +checking for document class extbook [extbook]... yes +checking for document class extletter [extletter]... yes +checking for document class extreport [extreport]... yes +checking for document class foils [foils]... no +checking for document class g-brief-de [g-brief]... yes +checking for document class g-brief-en [g-brief]... yes +checking for document class g-brief2 [g-brief2]... yes +checking for document class heb-article [article]... yes +checking for document class heb-letter [letter]... yes +checking for document class hollywood [hollywood]... no +checking for document class ijmpd [ws-ijmpd]... no +checking for document class jgrga [aguplus,jgrga.sty]... no +checking for document class kluwer [kluwer]... yes +checking for document class latex8 [article,latex8.sty,times.sty]... no +checking for document class letter [letter]... yes +checking for linuxdoc class linuxdoc... no +checking for document class literate-article [article,noweb.sty]... no +checking for document class literate-book [book,noweb.sty]... no +checking for document class literate-report [report,noweb.sty]... no +checking for document class llncs [llncs]... no +checking for document class ltugboat [ltugboat]... yes +checking for linuxdoc class manpage... no +checking for document class memoir [memoir]... yes +checking for document class mwart [mwart]... yes +checking for document class mwbk [mwbk]... yes +checking for document class mwrep [mwrep]... yes +checking for document class paper [paper]... yes +checking for document class report [report]... yes +checking for document class revtex [revtex]... no +checking for document class revtex4 [revtex4]... yes +checking for document class scrartcl [scrartcl]... yes +checking for document class scrbook [scrbook]... yes +checking for document class scrlettr [scrlettr]... yes +checking for document class scrlttr2 [scrlttr2]... yes +checking for document class scrreprt [scrreprt]... yes +checking for document class seminar [seminar]... yes +checking for document class siamltex [siamltex]... yes +checking for document class slides [slides]... yes +checking for document class spie [spie]... yes +checking for document class svglobal [svjour,svglobal.clo]... no +checking for document class svjog [svjour,svjog.clo]... no +checking for document class svprobth [svjour,svprobth.clo]... no +checking for package algorithm [algorithm]... yes +checking for package array [array]... yes +checking for package babel [babel]... yes +checking for package bibtopic [bibtopic]... yes +checking for package color [color]... yes +checking for package dvipost [dvipost]... no +checking for package fancybox [fancybox]... yes +checking for package fancyhdr [fancyhdr]... yes +checking for package floatflt [floatflt]... yes +checking for package geometry [geometry]... yes +checking for package jurabib [jurabib]... yes +checking for package latex8 [latex8]... no +checking for package longtable [longtable]... yes +checking for package natbib [natbib]... yes +checking for package prettyref [prettyref]... yes +checking for package preview [preview]... yes +checking for package rotating [rotating]... yes +checking for package setspace [setspace]... yes +checking for package subfigure [subfigure]... yes +checking for package varioref [varioref]... yes +checking for package url [url]... yes +checking for package graphicx [graphicx]... yes +checking for graphics driver... default +checking for package psnfss [times.sty]... yes +Inspection done. +Read the file doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx for more information. creating packages.lst creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx checking whether TeX allows spaces in file names... yes creating lyxrc.defaults checking for a FIG -> EPS/PPM/PNG converter... +checking for "fig2dev"... yes checking for a TIFF -> PS converter... +checking for "tiff2ps"... yes checking for a Tgif -> EPS/PDF converter... +checking for "tgif"... no checking for an EPS -> PDF converter... +checking for "epstopdf"... yes checking for a Grace -> Image converter... +checking for "gracebat"... yes C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources> Paul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all, how do i set up lyx (using 1.4.1) so that i can work with beamer? i'm on windows, and i installed all the prereq software (incl. miktex, which i see has beamer in its tex\latex\ directory). i downloaded the wiki's beamer.layout into my layouts dir, and i ran reconfigure.
And restarted LyX afterward?
however, i still don't see a 'beamer' option in the document class dropdown, and i can't open the example beamer .lyx files from the wiki (i get an error, that the beamer class isn't found). thanks in advance for any help.
Hmm, odd. Open a DOS window and run 'kpsewhich beamer.cls'. It should report back the path to the beamer class file. If not, there's a problem with its installation. (It might have been downloaded without updating the MiKTeX database.) If kpsewhich strikes out, try running the MiKTeX Options program, and click "Refresh now" in the General tab. If kpsewhich finds beamer.cls, then you might try running the LyX configuration script from a command prompt. Open the command prompt in the LyX Resources folder, and run configure.bat (or 'sh configure' if you don't have a configure.bat file). If you have to run sh, you might need to supply a path to it. The (copious) output from the configure script should include some mention of finding (or not finding) beamer. /Paul
