On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Wolfgang Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I've been successfully using LyX (currently 2.0) as a portable > application together with TeXlive 2010 on Windows (XP & Vista) for > quite some time. After switching to XeTeX for some documents with > Opentype fonts, and only on some computers, XeTeX will not run through > but immediately exit after being started by LyX. The error message of > LyX is like this: > > 20:52:46.602: The process crashed some time after starting > successfully...\..\..\lyx-2.0.0\src\support\Systemcall.cpp(238): > Systemcall: 'xelatex "document.tex"' finished with exit code -1 > To give us some useful information, please post the full latex log (in Document > Log), the exact name of the file (there are known issues when parentheses are part of the file name), and if possible a _minimal_ example that reproduces the problem.
Regards Liviu > On the same computer, the same document, just with LaTeX fonts, will > successfully compile with pdftex. And, if I export the document that > uses Opentype fonts from LyX to .tex and then run Xelatex manually from > the console, it also compiles successfully. Also, on some computers (all > with Windows), the problem does not occur at all. > > This is not a serious problem for me, I just wonder whether anyone has > a clue what could be wrong here (in terms of configuration of the > computers in question or whatever) that I could change or whether this > could be a hint to some kind of esoteric "feature" in the communication > of LyX with XeTeX. > > TIA, > > Sincerely, > > Wolfgang > -- > Führungskräfte leisten keine Arbeit. > (D'Alembert) > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
