----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false "
so no output. Any suggestions?
2. I've attached the file used to test your LaTeX
installation. and run 'latex chklatex.ltx'. It should cough up a
log file, that should contain the string 'ThisIsLaTeX2e'
(lack of spaces intentional).
I ran the 'latex chklatex.ltx' file. No sign of 'ThisIsLaTeX2e' as far
as I can see. The log is at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/LatexLog12nov05.pdf
.
Roger that. For comparison purposes, here is what I get on my system:
--- log begins ---
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=latex
2005.11.4) 13 NOV 2005 15:56
entering extended mode
**chklatex.ltx
(chklatex.ltx
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
ThisIsLaTeX2e )
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
6 strings out of 95901
56 string characters out of 1195189
44793 words of memory out of 1048577
3139 multiletter control sequences out of 60000
3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 1000000 for 2000
14 hyphenation exceptions out of 4999
5i,0n,1p,49b,8s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,32768s
No pages of output.
--- log ends ---
This is what I get also though the direct output was slightly different.
So something seems amiss with MiKTeX, and if I had to guess I would say
that there is a configuration file somewhere that has developed an
unfortunate sense of humor. Unfortunately, my knowledge of LaTeX in
general and MiKTeX in particular does not go very far beyond the funky
capitalizations thereof. I note that my log mentions a preloaded format
and yours does not. You might try running the MiKTeX Options program from
the Start menu, clicking the Update Now button on the general tab. If you
upgraded an old MiKTeX (as the paragraph below suggests) and did not
rediddle the formats, things could get dicey. (I had font generation go
on hiatus until I did a format refresh.)
Well, the installation not building a format file (latex.fmt) is looking
more
likely. John's log file ends with "initexmf: The file "latex.efmt" could not
be found. cannot make latex.efmt I can't find the default format file!"
I read of another problem with the format file caused in this
case of fptex .4 for windows being overinstalled by fptex .4.
Thank you Prof. Ripley. I'll bet it is the .fmt file(s). Isn't
there a way to just rebuild the formats w/o a complete make/remake
Yes, sure :
c:\>fmtutil --all
It depends on what you have installed, but clearly, you have a 0.4
format file found by your 0.5 installation. [for windows fptex]
Fabrice
SH: But John didn't mention he had a prior version of *tex installed.
The annoying thing is that I spend an hour and a half
downloading and installing a new copy of MiKTeX and I
thought that I had manged to kill off everything from
the old installation. Well another clean sweep
tomorrow or Monday and I'll see what happens.
Try the update thingy first, lest the re-re-install waste time.
Well, it has the merit of being quick and painless.
Miktex options, refresh database and fonts etc.
Before installing LyX I checked and all of the above
programs loaded including latex.exe.
According to computer I also had gswview which also
loaded.
C:\GSTools\gsview (gsview32.exe)
This all looks copacetic. > Paul
It looks like the cure is to eliminate any conflict with
creating a working format file, I think called latex.fmt.
Sometimes installing over a prior version doesn't seem
to hurt at all and other times its a recipe for disaster.
There have been no other reports of problems with the
Miktex "large" install. Not everybody used small or total.
I'll read up on latex.fmt,
Stephen
