Hello, I am a relatively unskilled latex user, which is why I fell instantly in love with lyx. I am impressed with how easy it is to use, and the WYSI part improves productivity for interactive tasks like formatting an equation or inserting diagrams.
However, I was unable to get it to fully work. I followed the instructions on Mac OS X, got the MacTeX-20070829.dmg, installed it. It appears to have installed itself into /Library/TeX When I installed Lyx beforehand, it failed on certain things related to finding TeX, so I re-installed, and everything appeared successful. However, printing is ghosted out, and when I load the document I created with lots of equations, it warns: The layout requested by this document, article.layout is not usable. This is presumably because lyx doesn't know where the TeX stuff is. I got it to work in the first place by adding /Library/TeX/Root/bin to my path. What other environment variables or other configuration should I do, (and I think this should be added to the instructions for the Mac). Just to confirm, I grabbed a tiny latex demo off the net, latex'd it, xdvi'd it, and it works, so clearly MacTeX is working as it should, in my path. thanks!
