On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class > powerdot, i have an alert : > > the layout file requested by this document > powerdot.layout > is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file > required by it is not available.
Nicolas, Look in the Powerdot documentation (probably /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf or /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf, definitely at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/doc/powerdot.pdf) at Table 2 on page 26, which lists the required LaTeX packages. You can download these individually from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) and follow the installation instructions for each one; or as an alternative, just install all the texlive packages available for Ubuntu -- you'll get them in there somewhere, but I don't know where, and the total download is hundreds of megabytes. Once you have installed the missing LaTeX packages, reconfigure LyX and try to open the sample Powerdot LyX presentation, powerdot-example.lyx (which on my system is at /usr/share/texmf/doc/powerdot/lyx, but may be somewhere else on yours) and check whether you can export to PDF (using ps2pdf). If you can, everything is working. The best way to start your own presentation is by modifying the example: getting the preamble and powerdot options right is sometimes tricky. There is a mailing list archived at http://www.freelists.org/archives/powerdot/ which is helpful for a new user. -- Les ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
