Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational.
Not to worry, I haven't been for years. ;-)
I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the LaTeX Configuration 7.13 was a no, as were quite a few other packages (4.x 6.x 7.x I think) I decided to update MikTeX to 2.5 and see if that would help, no go.
Sorry, I forgot to say that if you had to install setspace you would also have to reconfigure and restart LyX. I see you got there on your own eventually.
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went to the LyX->Tools->Reconfigure and after many many pop-up to download files, it seems to have finished. I shut down LyX and restarted my computer. I went to LaTeX Configuration and Lo! there were many more yeses, including 7.13. I went to my little document (it's just three lines, nothing special) selected single spacing, tried to render to dvi, and now get a brand new error the package download pop-ups I saw when I "reconfigured" saying that the required file "tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty" is missing and needs to be downloaded. I press install, it pops up again, the document renders, but without the single spacing I wanted. I close down yap, make a change (so I don't get the cached dvi) CTRL-D, and the same download pop-up appears. If I press cancel instead of install I get a pop-up that say "an empty output file was generated" click okay, get a familiar LaTeX error message that File 'setspace.sty' not found. By the way, I checked, and it *is* in the E:\texmf\tex\latex\setspace folder (E: is my boot drive.) Any suggestions?
The pop-ups are coming from MikTeX, not LyX, so apparently MikTeX is confused about the status of setspace -- although if LyX has a yes next to it in the LaTeX Configuration page, it means that MikTeX knew it was there when LyX reconfigured. If you run 'kpsewhich setspace.sty' from a DOS prompt, does it find the copy in E:\...\setspace?
You can try the following (although it shouldn't be necessary): Run the MikTeX Options program from the Start menu, and on the General tab click Refresh FNDB. (No restart or reconfiguring of LyX is required after this.)
/Paul
