thanks. it looks like my layout file is in the correct place. And
kpsewhich authesis.cls recognizes the file.
here are the results of my running configure. I don't think it is working.
dhcp-226-212:~ mikemartell$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/
dhcp-226-212:LyX-1.5 mikemartell$ python
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py
checking for a Latex2e program...
+checking for "latex"... yes
checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
+checking for "pplatex"... no
checking for a Tgif viewer and editor...
+checking for "tgif"... no
checking for a FIG viewer and editor...
+checking for "xfig"... no
checking for a Grace viewer and editor...
+checking for "xmgrace"... no
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-remote"... no
+checking for "gimp"... no
checking for a raster image editor...
+checking for "gimp-remote"... no
+checking for "gimp"... no
checking for a text editor...
+checking for "sensible-editor"... no
+checking for "xemacs"... no
+checking for "gvim"... no
+checking for "kedit"... no
+checking for "kwrite"... no
+checking for "kate"... no
+checking for "nedit"... no
+checking for "gedit"... no
+checking for "notepad"... no
checking for a Postscript previewer...
+checking for "kghostview"... no
+checking for "evince"... no
+checking for "gv"... no
+checking for "ghostview"... no
checking for a PDF previewer...
+checking for "kpdf"... no
+checking for "evince"... no
+checking for "kghostview"... no
+checking for "xpdf"... no
+checking for "acrobat"... no
+checking for "acroread"... no
+checking for "gv"... no
+checking for "ghostview"... no
checking for a DVI previewer...
+checking for "xdvi"... yes
checking for an HTML previewer...
+checking for "firefox"... no
+checking for "mozilla"... no
+checking for "netscape"... no
checking for Noteedit...
+checking for "noteedit"... no
checking for an OpenDocument viewer...
+checking for "oowriter"... no
checking for the pdflatex program...
+checking for "pdflatex"... yes
checking for a LaTeX/Noweb -> LyX converter...
+checking for "tex2lyx"... no
+checking for "tex2lyx"... no
checking for a Noweb -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "noweave"... no
checking for an HTML -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "html2latex"... no
+checking for "gnuhtml2latex"... no
+checking for "htmltolatex"... no
+checking for "java"... yes
checking for an MS Word -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "wvCleanLatex"... no
checking for a LaTeX -> HTML converter...
+checking for "htlatex"... yes
checking for a LaTeX -> MS Word converter...
+checking for "htlatex"... yes
checking for an OpenOffice.org -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "w2l"... no
checking for an OpenDocument -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "w2l"... no
checking for a LaTeX -> Open Document converter...
+checking for "htlatex"... yes
checking for a LaTeX -> RTF converter...
+checking for "latex2rtf"... no
+checking for "latex2rt"... no
checking for a PS to PDF converter...
+checking for "ps2pdf13"... yes
checking for a PS to TXT converter...
+checking for "pstotext"... no
checking for a PS to TXT converter...
+checking for "ps2ascii"... yes
checking for a PS to EPS converter...
+checking for "ps2eps"... yes
checking for a PDF to PS converter...
+checking for "pdf2ps"... yes
checking for a PDF to EPS converter...
+checking for "pdftops"... no
checking for a DVI to TXT converter...
+checking for "catdvi"... no
checking for a DVI to PS converter...
+checking for "dvips"... yes
checking for a DVI to PDF converter...
+checking for "dvipdfmx"... yes
checking for dvipng...
+checking for "dvipng"... yes
checking for a fax program...
+checking for "kdeprintfax"... no
+checking for "ksendfax"... no
checking for a FIG -> EPS/PPM converter...
+checking for "fig2dev"... no
checking for a TIFF -> PS converter...
+checking for "tiff2ps"... no
checking for a TGIF -> EPS/PPM converter...
+checking for "tgif"... no
checking for a WMF -> EPS converter...
+checking for "metafile2eps"... no
+checking for "wmf2eps"... no
checking for an EMF -> EPS converter...
+checking for "metafile2eps"... no
+checking for "wmf2eps"... no
checking for an EPS -> PDF converter...
+checking for "epstopdf"... yes
checking for a Grace -> Image converter...
+checking for "gracebat"... no
checking for a Dot -> PDF converter...
+checking for "dot"... no
checking for a LilyPond -> EPS/PDF/PNG converter...
+checking for "lilypond"... no
checking for a Noteedit -> LilyPond converter...
+checking for "noteedit"... 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 whether TeX allows spaces in file names... yes
checking for a *roff formatter...
+checking for "groff"... yes
checking for an index processor...
+checking for "texindy"... yes
checking for ChkTeX...
+checking for "chktex"... no
checking for a spellchecker...
+checking for "ispell"... no
checking for a spool command...
+checking for "lp"... yes
checking LaTeX configuration... auto
Wrong input layout file with line '\\DeclareLaTeXClass[authesis]\{authesis\}\
Can you tell me what the error means?
You've been so helpful thus far--thank you very, very much.
mike
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Martell wrote:
>>
>> I followed your directions. you said (thanks for being so explicit
>> ):
>> That is, in Terminal, type:
>>
>> cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/
>>
>> to get to the user directory. Then type:
>>
>> python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py
>>
>> to reconfigure. (Note that in this line there is no "/ui" before
>> "configure".)
>>
>>
>
> So what was the output in this case? Did configure complete, or did it die
> with an error?
>
>> Is this perhaps because i have placed my files in the wrong spot?
>> Should the authesis.layout file i made be with all the other layout
>> files? in Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts/ instead
>> of in username/Library/Application Support/Lyx-1.5/layouts ?
>>
>>
>
> The layout files should be in ~/Library/Application\
> Support/LyX-1.5/layouts/. The "username" bit is meant to indicate your main
> user directory, whatever that is. That's what ~ gets you, and also should be
> the content of the $HOME environment variable. So if you do:
>> echo $HOME
> you'll get your home directory back.
>
>> And perhaps, these files (authesis.cls, aucas.clo, aut10.clo,
>> auecon.clo) should not be in this location:
>> users/username/library/texmf/tex/latex/authesis/
>>
>>
>
> If kpsewhich is seeing them, then they are fine. So you might want to check
> that again:
>> kpsewhich authesis.cls
>
> rh
>
>
