On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Michael Rothschild <mroth...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Thanks for the help. Essentially I have not fixed the problem but PDFLatex > works fine as a work around. > Well, in the grand scheme of things pdflatex is probably more important than DVI output. Most of those using LyX will use pdflatex to generate the final PDF. From what I hear DVI is most useful for quickly generating the preview. But as Paul mentioned, you might have a broken DVI viewer installation. Liviu
> 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 > > -- 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
