On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everybody,
I've just installed Lyx and even though things went fairly smooth,
I'm struggling with a bunch of minor issues.
(Using the latest Lyx version, Mac OS 10.4.2, Powerbook with a
german keyboard. Gerben Wierda's TeX, ghostscript8, Freetype2,
libiconf, libwmf, ImaheMagick, cm-super packages, ran the Lyx
Installer script)
- Lyx won't recognize the ^ key at all (as in x^3 for x cubed). It
does recognize shift ^ though, which correctly yields °
on my german keyboard.
I'm not sure how the German keyboard affects this, so I'll let
someone else answer.
- Whenever I click View -> DVI nothing happens. Am I not supposed
to get some kind of window displaying the Latex source code???
Do you have a default .dvi viewer in the Finder? If not, LyX will
tell your Mac to open it, but your Mac won't know what to do with it,
and nothing will happen. I suspect that's your problem.
To solve it, you can do any one of 3 things here:
1. In the Finder, find a .dvi file on your Mac (perhaps generated
from LyX with File > Export), and do File > Get Info.... In the
window that pops up, make sure your have a .dvi viewer selected in
the "Open With" drop-down list, and click on the "Change all" button
to make it the default for your Mac.
2. In LyX, go to File > Preferences > File Formats, and select DVI in
the list, changing the Viewer field to "open -a xxx", where "xxx" is
the name of your .dvi viewer. Click the "Modify" button and then the
"Save" button. This will make LyX use this viewer no matter what the
OS default is.
3. Generate .PDFs instead of .DVIs (even choosing dvipdfm, if you like).
Bennett
