Greetings Rod, Thank you ~very~ much. Your experiences and suggestions greatly helped.
On 11-12-01, Rod Pinna wrote: > > I just checked my installation; doing > > locate helvet.sty showed the file in > > /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss > Originally, although I had this directory, it was ~empty~. Both in the debian stable installation and in the one that I made from ctan last night. > As far as I remember, this should have come from the standard debian tetex > installation. Checking the file helvet.sty, it appears that it changes the > form of your sans serif font from Computer Modern to Helvetica. So as well > as choosing that font, you'll also need to change the character family to > sans serif. > I will make a note of that -- actually ~this~ email and your address or going in my guru file! > As for setspace, I just checked, and it ran without problems. So you might > need to > > 1/ check if the files are in the locations above. Doing > "locate helvet.sty" and "locate setpace.sty" > should show you where they are. > As I said, they weren't intitally there, but ~now~ they are. > 2/ if you do have them, then you might need to run texhash, as root. This > updates the latex "database" that tells it what is available. Also, try > (in Lyx) EDIT->RECONFIGURE, then restart. If you've added packages since > compiling/installing lyx, you'll need to do that. > Done and done. > It sounds like you somehow have a broken tetex install. helvet.sty should > be part of the standard tetex package, and it is (As far as I know) a > standard part of the tetex base deb. > BINGO!!! It would appear that the initial install of tetex-* files (including extra, docs, dev, etc.) was broken. I eventually just a/g --reinstall install'd all the relevent packages. All works now exactly as I need it to. > BTW, are you using stable or unstable debian? > Stable .... I haven't the ... compusure (or content apartment insurance) to dally with the notion of testing or unstable. My few ~failed~ attempts at upgrading were during the rash of X related config problems. I'm more than happy to wait for Woody to become stable. > Rod > Many thanks again Rod!!! C-Cose Masters
