thanks. it looks like my layout file is in the correct place. And kpsewhich authesis.cls recognizes the file. here are the results of my running configure. I don't think it is working.
dhcp-226-212:~ mikemartell$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ dhcp-226-212:LyX-1.5 mikemartell$ python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py checking for a Latex2e program... +checking for "latex"... yes checking for a DVI postprocessing program... +checking for "pplatex"... no checking for a Tgif viewer and editor... +checking for "tgif"... no checking for a FIG viewer and editor... +checking for "xfig"... no checking for a Grace viewer and editor... +checking for "xmgrace"... no checking for a FEN viewer and editor... +checking for "xboard"... no checking for a raster image viewer... +checking for "xv"... no +checking for "kview"... no +checking for "gimp-remote"... no +checking for "gimp"... no checking for a raster image editor... +checking for "gimp-remote"... no +checking for "gimp"... no checking for a text editor... +checking for "sensible-editor"... no +checking for "xemacs"... no +checking for "gvim"... no +checking for "kedit"... no +checking for "kwrite"... no +checking for "kate"... no +checking for "nedit"... no +checking for "gedit"... no +checking for "notepad"... no checking for a Postscript previewer... +checking for "kghostview"... no +checking for "evince"... no +checking for "gv"... no +checking for "ghostview"... no checking for a PDF previewer... +checking for "kpdf"... no +checking for "evince"... no +checking for "kghostview"... no +checking for "xpdf"... no +checking for "acrobat"... no +checking for "acroread"... no +checking for "gv"... no +checking for "ghostview"... no checking for a DVI previewer... +checking for "xdvi"... yes checking for an HTML previewer... +checking for "firefox"... no +checking for "mozilla"... no +checking for "netscape"... no checking for Noteedit... +checking for "noteedit"... no checking for an OpenDocument viewer... +checking for "oowriter"... no checking for the pdflatex program... +checking for "pdflatex"... yes checking for a LaTeX/Noweb -> LyX converter... +checking for "tex2lyx"... no +checking for "tex2lyx"... no checking for a Noweb -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "noweave"... no checking for an HTML -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "html2latex"... no +checking for "gnuhtml2latex"... no +checking for "htmltolatex"... no +checking for "java"... yes checking for an MS Word -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "wvCleanLatex"... no checking for a LaTeX -> HTML converter... +checking for "htlatex"... yes checking for a LaTeX -> MS Word converter... +checking for "htlatex"... yes checking for an OpenOffice.org -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "w2l"... no checking for an OpenDocument -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "w2l"... no checking for a LaTeX -> Open Document converter... +checking for "htlatex"... yes checking for a LaTeX -> RTF converter... +checking for "latex2rtf"... no +checking for "latex2rt"... no checking for a PS to PDF converter... +checking for "ps2pdf13"... yes checking for a PS to TXT converter... +checking for "pstotext"... no checking for a PS to TXT converter... +checking for "ps2ascii"... yes checking for a PS to EPS converter... +checking for "ps2eps"... yes checking for a PDF to PS converter... +checking for "pdf2ps"... yes checking for a PDF to EPS converter... +checking for "pdftops"... no checking for a DVI to TXT converter... +checking for "catdvi"... no checking for a DVI to PS converter... +checking for "dvips"... yes checking for a DVI to PDF converter... +checking for "dvipdfmx"... yes checking for dvipng... +checking for "dvipng"... yes checking for a fax program... +checking for "kdeprintfax"... no +checking for "ksendfax"... no checking for a FIG -> EPS/PPM converter... +checking for "fig2dev"... no checking for a TIFF -> PS converter... +checking for "tiff2ps"... no checking for a TGIF -> EPS/PPM converter... +checking for "tgif"... no checking for a WMF -> EPS converter... +checking for "metafile2eps"... no +checking for "wmf2eps"... no checking for an EMF -> EPS converter... +checking for "metafile2eps"... no +checking for "wmf2eps"... no checking for an EPS -> PDF converter... +checking for "epstopdf"... yes checking for a Grace -> Image converter... +checking for "gracebat"... no checking for a Dot -> PDF converter... +checking for "dot"... no checking for a LilyPond -> EPS/PDF/PNG converter... +checking for "lilypond"... no checking for a Noteedit -> LilyPond converter... +checking for "noteedit"... no checking for SGML-tools 1.x (LinuxDoc)... +checking for "sgml2lyx"... no checking for SGML-tools 2.x (DocBook) or db2x scripts... +checking for "sgmltools"... no +checking for "db2dvi"... no Checking whether TeX allows spaces in file names... yes checking for a *roff formatter... +checking for "groff"... yes checking for an index processor... +checking for "texindy"... yes checking for ChkTeX... +checking for "chktex"... no checking for a spellchecker... +checking for "ispell"... no checking for a spool command... +checking for "lp"... yes checking LaTeX configuration... auto Wrong input layout file with line '\\DeclareLaTeXClass[authesis]\{authesis\}\ Can you tell me what the error means? You've been so helpful thus far--thank you very, very much. mike On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Martell wrote: >> >> I followed your directions. you said (thanks for being so explicit >> ): >> That is, in Terminal, type: >> >> cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ >> >> to get to the user directory. Then type: >> >> python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py >> >> to reconfigure. (Note that in this line there is no "/ui" before >> "configure".) >> >> > > So what was the output in this case? Did configure complete, or did it die > with an error? > >> Is this perhaps because i have placed my files in the wrong spot? >> Should the authesis.layout file i made be with all the other layout >> files? in Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts/ instead >> of in username/Library/Application Support/Lyx-1.5/layouts ? >> >> > > The layout files should be in ~/Library/Application\ > Support/LyX-1.5/layouts/. The "username" bit is meant to indicate your main > user directory, whatever that is. That's what ~ gets you, and also should be > the content of the $HOME environment variable. So if you do: >> echo $HOME > you'll get your home directory back. > >> And perhaps, these files (authesis.cls, aucas.clo, aut10.clo, >> auecon.clo) should not be in this location: >> users/username/library/texmf/tex/latex/authesis/ >> >> > > If kpsewhich is seeing them, then they are fine. So you might want to check > that again: >> kpsewhich authesis.cls > > rh > >