Dear Anders and all,
sorry for the unprecise question -- after years of reading mailing
list (but having to write questions only very few times) I still make
these errors:
So, you are right, I installed everything regarding TeX with the i-
Installer.
Very strange ist, that _all_ the classes are "missing" from LyX's
point of view: When I open a new document, there is no complain - but
when I want to see a preview or transform it (e.g. into HTML), LyX
says it is not able to do so because of the missing classes. That, on
the "surface" is the only "error message" I got. I did not try
(because I never had to deal with this after my first LyX installs on
Linux in 1998 or so ...) to use the shell for further information.
Should I - and if, how?
When I open an old document - like the one I was successfully writing
and printing on Monday - I get "The document uses a missing TeX class
"article". LyX will not be able to produce output."
When I create a new document and check in the document preferences,
in the "class" list really all the dozens of classes are
"unavailable". As I wrote, this happened before, I already had fixed
it by putting a copy of the "LyX-1.4" folder and writing it's path in
the LyX preferences ... but now LyX seems to be not able to find any
of the paths mentioned in my post below.
I hope I do not have to re-install all the i-Installer packages and
finally also LyX to solve this problem ...? (What makes me wonder,
anyway, is how LyX could change its behaviour between Monday and
Wednesday ...)
Thank you all for any suggestions!
Bernd
Am 20.07.2006 um 22:34 schrieb Anders Ekberg:
Bernd,
If I understand you correctly the problem seems to be TeX- rather
than LyX-related. Could you explain exactly what you do and what
the error message is?
Do you use TeX as installed by the i-Installer? Which class(es) are
missing? Have you installed these yourself or are they included in
the LyX-bundle and you have added a path to them manually?
/Anders
Bernd Kulawik
Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:46:40 -0700
Hi,
thanx to all who made this possible.
But I - again - have a problem I had solved before (on Mac OSX
10.4.7):
All the classes have been "unavailable" for me until I moved the
LyX-1.4 folder from /users/.../Library/Application Support/ to /
users/.../Library/ --- because I had learned that LaTeX does not
like paths with "empty spaces" in their names. Ok, it worked, I
wrote a short article a few days ago ... and since Tuesday I got
the "unavailable" again. Though I changed the Paths in the
Preferences (or looked, if there were still the correct paths
given - they were) and "reconfigured" LyX 2 times.
Now, after installing LyX-1.4.2, the problem remains.
Any idea what went wrong? Am I the only person too stupid to find
the reason ... or does anybody else have the problem too. The
solution described above is the one I found for the problem - and
it worked ... a few days. Strange, isn't it?
Thanks for any hints and suggestions!
Bernd
