On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > > Are you SURE that a failure of dvi with a pdftex option either global > or local to a package is a LyX or a (La)TeX bug ?
No, the only thing I know is that the LyX window stops responding, and that either the lyx process, or the latex process consumes 98% cpu - but to me it looks like they're stuck in a loop... > Up to my understanding, pdftex option is needed to get hypertext pdf, > I don't see why dvi shouls be considered there I would certainly accept getting an error when trying dvi, but not that LyX hangs... btw, it also hangs if I try to do View PDF > (and moreover, tex2pdf avoids your fightings with hyperref in the > document). > > Maybe I misunderstood the problem ? If it comes from the use of pdftex/hyperref, > check your versions first (if anterior to feb 2001, upgrade). > I installed a later teTeX (beta), with pdftex 1.00b-pretest-20020211 and get the same behaviour. It's very Windowish they way LyX hangs now :) /C -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr