The dvipdfm works on my iBook, but I don't think I could tell you
why. I used fink, but not for LyX. I really like LyX, but it was too
hard to get the formatting requirements for my thesis implemented so
I found another program TeXmacs that I am using for my thesis.
This was my process:
1) Install fink
2) Install TeXmacs via fink (which automatically installs various
programs needed, including tetex/ghostscript/imagemagick/etc)
3) Download and install LyX from the main LyX ftp site
Everything seemed to work after that, except for viewing dvi (but
this really doesn't bother me, I use pdf).
I'd be happy to answer any question, but I'm definitely not a
computer guru.
Bob
On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Sue Kientz wrote:
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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