Hi all, I am new to LyX, but fairly experienced with other programs. In particular, I understand the basic concepts.
I installed from LyX-1.5.1-1-Installer-Bundle.exe on WinXP - everything ran as smoothly as can be. Congratulations! Next I took the offer to open LyX. The first message I saw was a message box LyX: Die Dokumentklasse ist nicht verfügbar Die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Layoutdatei scrartcl.layout ist nicht verwendbar. Dies liegt wahrscheinlich daran, daß eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Style-Datei nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen Sie das Hilfe-Dokument 'Anpassung' für weitere Informationen. LyX wird keine Ausgabe erzeugen können. OK Ok, I went on to the recommended "Anpassung" only to get another similar warning. Next I spent and hour and a half working through help texts and Google findings to fix this, to no avail. So I decided to join the mailing list. The problem is not only to fix these problems, but to avoid them in the first place. Why do you refer to things which are missing? BTW, I plan to publish books with and without illustrations previously published as articles online. I managed to produce a book as PDF automatically for publication on lulu.com using PHP and pfdf, but typografics and hyphenation wasn't optimal. So I looked at Scribus and managed to produce a nice flyer, but found that this most probably isn't the way to go for books. Automatic publication from database contents should be possible with Scribus as well, but they only support Python, and I'd rather not install and learn another script language. Werner
