From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Subject: tex2lyx
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:03:46 +0100
Anyone managed to get this working with 1.3.6-1 for Windows
I have followed the install instruction and also the instructions for
activation from within Lyx which are provided on the wiki
and I keep getting an error saying
Cannot convert file
Error while executing
tex2lyx.cmd "filename.tex" "filename.lyx"
Run it from a console, the popup is not enough informative.
I don't think the cmd workaround is needed anymore if you patch the *.py
files
of the lyx-1.4 distribution in C:/Program Files/LyX/resources/lyx2lyx:
lyx-1.3.6 will be able to read the converted files. I edited the tex2lyx
wiki page in that line.
However tex2lyx needs the other LyX-1.4 files, so copying tex2lyx in
C:/Program Files/LyX/bin remains
hazardous (it worked for me on some layouts, but this is not a general
rule).
So editing the PATH variable remains necessary.
Then a MinGW console is your friend :-)
--
Jean-Pierre
Ok I have run it from the command window. I am still using the command file
work around, firstly because I think it is a far more friendly way of doing
things but it appears that this is where the problem is.
I get the message
c:\folder>\@
'\s@' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program
or batch file.
where the \ is in fact a small square (like the sort you get when word cant
find a font). @ is the first line of the tex2lyx.cmd file. If I change the
first character so the error message changes.
If I do not use the script, can I still use tex2lyx from within lyx or do I
have to go back to the command line.
Geoff
