Something appears to be significantly broken: I'm not submitting these as bugs because they're *so* bad, this can't be normal, otherwise LyX would still be an Alpha release. I have no idea what's going on, hopefully you can see some common thread that's causing all these errors.
I'm running a Dapper-based MEPIS Linux system. Dapper includes 1.3.7. I have also installed the Dapper version 1.5.1, from the LyX servers (which installed without errors). Ubuntu/Debian packages automatically install all the programmer-specified dependencies, so all the background requirements should be fulfilled, and configured properly--if not, we need to get the package maintainers to fix that. Oh, and "Reconfigure" fixed some other errors, but not these: Some of the example documents can't even open without reporting an error: 1) Opening the example article docbook_article.lyx, for example, results in: Warning: Document class not available ---------------------------------------- The layout file requested by this document, docbook.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the Customization documentation for more information. LyX will not be able to produce output. I can't imagine you're shipping examples files without the "stuff" needed to open them, so I assume this is some kind of installation or configuration problem... 2) Attempting to view (DVI) chessgame.lyx results in the following error message: An empty output file was generated followed by: Lamda.sty not found Some simpler files do print OK. Unnstalled 1.3.7 reinstalled 1.5.1, no change Uninstalled 1.5.1 reinstalled 1.3.7 no change; error messages worded slightly differently, but still largely non-functional beyond the most basic commands. 3) In simpler documents using both 1.3.7 & 1.5.1 I've been unable to get a Figure Float Wrap to appear in either DVI or a print-out. It's visible to me--I can see both the graphic & the text in LyX. Floated images work fine, but as soon as I try to wrap text, the entire float becomes invisible to DVI & Post Script. In fact, if there's nothing else on the page, DVI complains that I sent it a blank page! The only things I see to configure are windows called "Graphics" OR "Text Wrap Settings". I have changed all kinds of things in both those windows and see *absolutely no change whatsoever* in the LyX window appearance of the float box, graphic nor text (using 1.5.1). Is something suppose to be changing that I can see? The red (float?) box automatically goes full (column?) width and I see no way to adjust that. 4) Also, the text always starts at the bottom of the graphic--like "justified to bottom". How do I get the text to start at the top of the graphic so it actually has something to wrap around? Console error is as follows: Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Warning: Output is empty Any idea what's going on here--why so many features are either reporting errors or simply not working? This is from just one day with LyX. note: I know essentially nothing about TeX or LaTeX, they must be installed & working or the simple documents wouldn't be printing at all. -- Thanks! Lance W. Haverkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact & encryption info: http://thehaverkamps.net/?Lance:Contact_Me <>< <>< <><
