Thanks for the help. Essentially I have not fixed the problem but PDFLatex works fine as a work around.
I am grateful to this entire volunteer enterprise. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Heck [mailto:rgh...@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 2:24 PM To: Liviu Andronic Cc: Michael Rothschild; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Problem getting started -- cant find ecm fonts On 09/05/2011 03:59 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello > > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Michael Rothschild > <mroth...@princeton.edu> wrote: >> I have no idea what this means or how to install the ecm fonts or set the >> correct path. I am - obviously - a rank beginner. >> > Something may be wrong with your LaTeX installation. Please try > compiling with something other than the DVI output; I would suggest > 'pdflatex'. Second, try to change Document > Settings > Fonts to Latin > Modern. Maybe this would help. > There were lots of such errors in the TeXLive 2011 packages for Fedora at one point. Something to do with the font maps not being updated properly. I don't know if there's a connection, though. Richard