Erkko Airo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
>Are you using Linux? And if so, what flavor?
SuSE 6.3. I installed the lyx1.1.5fix2 rpm from a SuSE site,
if I remember correctly. SuSE 6.3 came with lyx1.1.0 or thereabouts.
>On Debian Woody (i.e. testing) there has been a similar happening for a
>while (since early June, I think). I found out that the xdvi-part is a
>little bit broken:
>
>- lyx calls /usr/bin/xdvi which is a sh-script
>-> this script then calls xdvi.bin -binary-executable
>- xdvi.bin does not exist
>-> nothing much happens.
>
>There is, however, xdvi.real binary executable and I solved the problem by
>creating a link xdvi.bin -> xdvi.real (with command "ln -s xdvi.real
>xdvi.bin" as root in /usr/bin directory). There may be better ways, but
>this works here.
The files/symlinks on my system seem to be like this:
/usr/bin/xdvi: symbolic link to ../share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i386-linux-glibc/xdvi
/usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i386-linux-glibc/xdvi: Bourne shell script text
/usr/bin/xdvi.bin: symbolic link to ../share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i386-linux-glibc/xdvi.bin
/usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i386-linux-glibc/xdvi.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable,
Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
The puzzling thing to me is how I can view some files but not others,
how I can view one particular file, until making some seemingly
innocuous change to it. And how, when failing to view the file,
get no error message from lyx. The file does use the multicol package;
if I remove all refs to multicols, the file views. Maybe that's
a clue of some sort. I'm using the multicol package from the
tools file on Herbert Voss's site; now I can use \columnbreak :).
Thanks for the response,
Jim
