On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH <bewih...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins <bslwann...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server > > machine. The executable runs fine. I can create simple documents (as in > > testing someone else's issue with 10.6.7) but when I try "New from > Template" > > the various folders are empty. Those in the LyX package are there (Finder > > can open the package and show me the various files) but LyX itself cannot > > find anything. > > Can you be more specific? -- Which folders are empty? >
Can't be more specific than "all o them" that is all of them offered in the dialog box displayed by New from Template. > > > The Mac section of the Wiki hasn't been updated yet to cover 2.0.0 so I'm > > flying solo. > > Not much has changed with 2.0, so there's not much to update on the > wiki specifically for 2.0. > > One thing that has changed, which may be relevant, is the installation > procedure. Previously, we supplied a LyX-Installer.app, which would do > things like copy your LyX user's folder to its new location. Now > you're supposed to do that manually. (This is detailed in the ReadMe > that came with the application.) I'm guessing you didn't follow those > instructions and so aren't seeing templates that are in your LyX-1.6 > user's folder but not your LyX-2.0 user's folder. > Ye gods! You're kidding. The 1.4 instructons on the Wiki are opaque. I worked out that there wasn't an installer app because ... well there isn't an installer app to be executed. This manualised step is retrogressive surely?Regards, Trevor. And that wiki page needs some serious work to make it comprehensible to the average user. <>< Re: deemed!
