if you have the french version of lyx, the preamble text would be in
document/paramètres/préambule latex.
(or documents/settings/preamble in the english version). Unless you have
done a lot of ERT, the box should not be empty if you use specific packages.
I guess you can safely copy and paste
2008/4/28 rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Desilets, Alain wrote:
>
> > Dear Lyx users,
> >
> > I am a total newbie user of Lyx, using it to co-write a paper with two =
> > other folks. The paper is due in 4 days (Sat May 3rd), and we seem =
> > unable to generate a PDF file from the .lyx file.
> >
> > The only person in our team who knows how to use Lyx and Latex is in =
> > Cuba right now and is mostly incommunicado.
> >
> > The problem is that when we try to generate a PDF file from the .lyx =
> > file, we get a bunch of "Undefined control sequence" errors.
> >
> > We generate the PDF using: File > Export > pdflatex.
> >
> > This used to work about a week ago, but it doesn't anymore. No idea why.
> >
> > I tried to debug the .lyx file by deleting text from the end, and found
> > =
> > that even if I delete everything except the very first instruction:
> >
> > \conferenceinfo{WikiSym'08,} {September 8--10, 2008, Porto, Portugal.}
> >
> > The PDF generation still fails.
> >
> > Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated and will greatly =
> > improve your future Karma I'm sure ;-).
> >
> >
> >
> It seems like you must be using the wrong document class. The
> \conferenceinfo command isn't standard LaTeX but will be defined by some
> document class. Probably this setting got changed. So what do you have under
> Doucument>Settings>Document Class?
>
> rh
>
>
