On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Heike Zierau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am 18.06.2008 um 14:11 schrieb Bennett Helm: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Heike Zierau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> I'm using Mac OS X 10.3.9 and installed Lyx 1.5.5. I have some problems >>> with exporting and I don't know if there are some latex installations >>> missing or if Lyx 1.5.5 isn't working properly with my Mac. >>> >> You'll need to be much more specific for us to figure out what the problem >> might be. >> > > When I go to file > export there doesn't appear a list of different export > possibilities, like "pdflatex", "plain", "dvi", ... but just "user defined". > When I click on that I get a little window with several export formats and a > field where a order should appear when choosing one export format (see > attachment). But nothing happens when I choose one of the possibilities, not > even the buttons "OK" or "Übernehmen" (adopt) work by then, neither by > double clicking. I have to type in a order to be able to press OK or > Übernehmen, but nothing is exported then. On my friends Mac OSX 1.4 under > file > export I got all the export possibilities right away and I could > export in pdf, ps, latex, dvi. > The only way to export here is by clicking on pdf, ps or dvi on the upper > tool bar which doesn't work always either. What bothers me the most is that > I'm not able to export in tex code. This suggests that your preferences are probably messed up. In LyX > Preferences > File formats, you should see a checkbox for "Document format"; this should be checked for each of the possibilities you want to export to. Having done that, those options should show up in the View and File > Export menus. (Alternatively, you can move your preferences file aside (~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences) and restart LyX, and it should work. > I also installed Lyx 1.5.5 on a friends Mac OS X 10.4 and there this >>> problems didn't come up. >>> >> This has been reported before, but I can't reproduce it myself. As a >> workaround, what happens if you specify a temporary directory (LyX > >> Preferences > Paths) that's in your home directory, such as ~/tmp? >> >> I tried to change the path of the tmp directory but still the same message > appears. Then I'm at a loss on this one. Bennett
