Funny, I just did the same thing, but on a linux machine and with success.
Hope I can help you. A few questions/proposals:
1. When you do the reconfiguration of lyx, the program logs on screen what
it finds and not. What about IEEEtran?
2. What does this report
$ kpsewhich IEEEtran.cls
It should give the path to where you put the file. If not, have a look
at the variable TEXINPUTS. I think it should start with a : otherwise
the default paths are lost.
good luck
/johan
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Rob Chapman wrote:
> I just installed LyX on my Mac and after all the installing I
> decided to try it out. The first template I tried failed as
> it was the IEEE template. I downloaded IEEEtran.cls
> and stuck it in the appropriate place.
>
> /sw/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base
>
> I ran:
> mktexlsr
>
> I also did the reconfigure from the edit menu in LyX and
> restarted the program. After all that, I still get the
> same error:
>
> Textclass error
> The document uses a missing TeX class IEEEtran
> LyX will not be able to produce output.
>
> I'm stuck now but I would like to try and learn this new
> tool for writing papers. I have used FrameMaker for many
> years but it is no longer supported on a Mac so I am
> looking for alternatives. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Rob
>
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