thanks! i had setup miktex for automatic package installation. but the ftp server was offline and miktex silently failed. so, now i changed the ftp server and it worked.
cheers, niko 2008/12/3 Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Niko Schwarz wrote: > > > why does it say that? > > because prettyref.sty is not installed on your computer. > > > what can i do about it? > > Install it :-) > > Grab it here: > http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/prettyref > > or try to get it via your package manager (probably the MikTeX package > manager). > > Jürgen > > BTW the problem with prettyref, which is used by LyX for formatted cross > references, was that it had an unclear license, so many TeX distributions > excluded it. Recently, the license issue was sorted out, so the package will > most likely be reincluded in the distros. > > >
