Dear Experts, I am not a real LyX User (I prefer LaTeX) but I always suggest LyX to my students and to everyone wishing to leave the Word-like approach to writing. Most of my students use Windows, and it's all right, some Linux, even better, but a PhD student using a Mac apparently cannot reconfigure LyX. The LaTeX installation is all right: it produces PDF and DVI with no problems at all. Using LyX, even a very simple file, this student cannot produce PDF or DVI. Checking the configuration boxes it seems to me to be all right; I made a comparison with LyX on my Ubuntu installation and I cannot detect any problem, but non even the PDF and DVI icons are shown (through menu we get an error message saying that there is no converter). The students is using a Mac Book Air equipped with Mac OS X version 10.5.6; Lyx version is 1.6.1-Universal. Removing the programme and installing again was not successful.
Many thanks! gm -- Guido Milanese - Professor of Latin Language and Literature The Catholic University, Milan and Brescia, Italy http://docenti.unicatt.it/milanese_guido http://www.arsantiqua.org
