On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:15:35AM -0500, Paul E Johnson wrote:
> This is just for your information. Last time I sent one of these, you
> didn't seem to mind. Maybe reLyx will keep getting better if we supply
> these ones?
>
> This file was originally in WordPerfect. Then converted to MSWord, then
> edited, so it has all kinds of funny format stuff is probably floating
> around. I used Word2Latex to convert to tex. I can process the tex file
> and view it with tetex and xdvi. However, reLyx crashes on it. The error
> output from reLyX does not point at the part of the offending file.
>
> $ /opt/lyx/bin/reLyX LOGITHA2.tex
> Unrecognized escape \d passed through at
> /opt/lyx/bin/../share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 87.
> reLyX, the LaTeX to LyX translator. Revision date 2000/06/06
> cannot find default syntax file /usr/share/lyx/reLyX/syntax.default at
> /opt/lyx/bin/../share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 150.
> Compilation failed in require at /opt/lyx/bin/reLyX line 52.
> Exited due to fatal Error!
I was able to reLyX the tex file without a problem.
It seems that reLyX is not properly installed on your machine:
I think that you need to edit the reLyX script and change the line
'$lyxdir = ...' to:
$lyxdir = "/opt/lyx/share/lyx"
or something similar.
