On Oct 30, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
I'm posting this vicariously, as it were (not being a Mac user
myself), so please bear with me. Someone else is having a problem
with LyX 1.4.3/Mac OSX/teTeX (installed via fink). At least part
of the problem seems to be caused by instant preview. With IP on
and math insets in the document, misadventures occur, and in
particular the temp directory shows 0lyxpreview.tex,
0lyxpreview.aux, 0lyxpreview.pdf but not 0lyxpreview.dvi.
The user seems to think that /sw/bin/latex is symlinked (or hard
linked, I'm not sure) to pdflatex. I'm guessing from the symptoms
above that when the Python script that compiles the previews runs
what it thinks is latex, it's actually running pdflatex (or pdfetex
with the format set to pdflatex, or something like that). Hence no
DVI output, and the DVI to PNG conversion unsurprisingly breaks.
Does this resonate with any Mac users? Is there something
installation-wise that could get 'latex' to actually run latex (as
in producing DVI output without additional tweaking)?
We've given up trying to use dvipdfm to generate PDF on our Macs. We
just use the second 2 options, pdflatex or ps2pdf, which do work.
Sue Kientz
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