On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:42, John O'Gorman wrote: > Trying the article(linuxdoc) option, I get 2 distinct problems. Before > delving deeper into them can anyone offer suggestions. > > 1. Runs OK as root but will not produce a .dvi file as a normal user. > The problem seems to be missing .pk files. Presumably a permission > problem or something wrong with my configuration. > > 2. The .dvi produced > a. is ugly. Big bold headings (sans serif), deep indenting, > unproportionately small type for normal text. (this is probably related > to missing fonts above). Maybe I have been spoilt by LyX's normally > superb typesetting.
That is weird and those problems should be related. The linuxdoc tools chain uses latex to make a dvi, so something is going wrong in that department. > b. Does not conform to the description in the LyX Exended Features > manual. In particular, there is no thick line under the page headers. > This would seem to be a stylesheet issue. That is true, but weird neverthless, I never saw such a drastic change in behaviour before. :-) > My system: SuSE 8.0, LyX 1.3.2 (xforms) > > Installed RPMs: sgml-skel-0.2-122, sgmltoo1-1.0.9-505, sgmltools-3.0.2-367 > > Somewhat perversely, I have found a table I created did come out OK > (despite an earlier email saying this was unsupported). Now I am confused, as the table now (1.3.x) exported as plaintext. > Hope someone can shed some light on this. I'm afraid it was the opposite. ;-) > John O'Gorman -- José Abílio LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)
