On Jan 27, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 01/24/2011 09:07 AM, Michelle Bottorff wrote: >> >> I think my personal preference would be to run Lyx or even just rtf2latex2e >> from the terminal, so I could get the better error messages and maybe have a >> chance of finding out what is going wrong. Fixing the problems that I'm >> having with Lyx seems like a better long-time solution than merely working >> around them. (Especially if all that is wrong is that I need to alter a few >> configuration files, or reinstall a package or two.) >> >> But someone would need to do a little hand-holding for me, because, this is >> entirely out of my area of expertise. (Although, FWIW, I am good at >> following directions. I have successfully installed php and mysql and done >> a number of other command line tasks, using instructions found online.) >> > Can someone on Mac help Michelle here?
From the terminal, /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx should launch LyX. Error messages will show up in the terminal. Kevin > >> I guess in lieu of that, I will be hunting down a copy of NeoOffice. >> > LibreOffice > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ > is probably a better choice at this point. Like LyX, it's free. It can do an > excellent job converting Word and RTF type documents to LaTeX. > > Richard >
