Hi:
So I've been using LyX for awhile now. Great program - wrote my dissertation on it in about half the time it would have taken for LatTeX.
So I noticed the new build (1.3.6) for Windows, and figured I'd give it a shot. I don't know what the problem is, but it's been giving me fits ever since, with a progressive degrading of performance that's a bit startling.
First, I couldn't import LaTex files correctly. Always got an error message. Tried installing tex2lyx -- no dice. I just got a generic error message, and so was never able to track it down beyond that.
Then, just yesterday, LyX apparently lost the ability to generate previews - no DVI, nothing. The pull-down menu options which existed before simply vanished. Only output to PDF. Having removed and re-installed, now I can't even run it. I get an error message which tells me that it "wasn't able to find any layout description" and the program fails to run.
So in the space of three days I've gone from a functional program to one which simply won't run at all.
Any ideas/suggestions? This is very worrying and not at all explicable. Rob Badzey
