On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:21:39AM +0100, Jens Nellesen wrote: > Hello Enrico, > > I included the paths > > C:\cygwin\bin AND C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin > > in the path prefix. Now it says "converting into loadable format" all > the time instead of "error during conversion ..." but nothing happens > and also lyx doesn't use the CPU.
Note that you may experience several problems using the native version of LyX in a Cygwin environment. See, for example: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/67073/focus=67935 In this case, most probably the problem is that you have the cygwin version of ImageMagick and the way convert.exe is called by the native LyX confuses it. > If I try to generate a dvi-file, Lyx crashes with the error > > lyxc.exe has encountered a problem ... > > LyX has been closed because of an unexpected situation. ... > > lyx: Disabling LyX socket. > Could not fork: Invalid argument. > > > Please let me know if you want to me test something else. Your example .fig file with only text was working for me with 1.4.3-3, but after installing 1.4.3-5 I see that it crashes for me, too. So this must be a bug introduced in the 1.4.3-5 native version. However, if you have teTeX and want to use the native version of LyX, my advice is to use the following two batch files: ---- latex.bat ---- @echo off sh.exe -c 'latex %*' exit ------------------- ---- pdflatex.bat ---- @echo off sh.exe -c 'pdflatex %*' exit ---------------------- You should put them in a directory listed ahead in "PATH prefix" such that they are found before the corresponding binaries. If you have the cygwin python, then you should also use the following: ---- python.bat ---- @echo off sh.exe -c 'python %*' exit -------------------- And finally, if you have xdvi, the following script is your friend: ---- xdvi.bat ---- @echo off set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 sh.exe -c 'xdvi %*' exit ------------------ What I don't understand is why you want the native version of LyX given that you have the cygwin version ;-) If you want it in order to avoid launching the X-server, then a better solution would be downloading this archive: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/lyx-1.4.3-cygwin.tar.gz and using the executable lyx-qtwin.exe you can find in it. This is a cygwin version of LyX but not using X11, so its appearance is exactly as that of a native LyX. Note that you don't need installing the LyX package contained there, but simply extract lyx-qtwin.exe from lyx-1.4.3.tar.bz2 and put it alongside the official LyX/X11 using the following commands: $ tar jxvf lyx-1.4.3.tar.bz2 usr/local/bin/lyx-qtwin.exe $ mv usr/local/bin/lyx-qtwin.exe /usr/bin and you are done. You may want to install the other packages you find in the above archive, though, namely aiksaurus, dvipost, and latex2rtf. -- Enrico
