re: Mac OS X 1.5.2 unable to print

[Dov Kruger]

Hello,

I am a relatively unskilled latex user, which is why I fell instantly 
in love with lyx. I am impressed with how easy it is to use, and the 
WYSI part improves productivity for interactive tasks like formatting 
an equation or inserting diagrams.

However, I was unable to get it to fully work. I followed the 
instructions on Mac OS X, got the MacTeX-20070829.dmg, installed it.

It appears to have installed itself into /Library/TeX

When I installed Lyx beforehand, it failed on certain things related to 
finding TeX, so I re-installed, and everything appeared successful. 
However, printing is ghosted out, and when I load the document I 
created with lots of equations, it warns:

The layout requested by this document, article.layout is not usable.

This is presumably because lyx doesn't know where the TeX stuff is.
I got it to work in the first place by adding /Library/TeX/Root/bin

to my path. What other environment variables or other configuration 
should I do, (and I think this should be added to the instructions for 
the Mac).

Just to confirm, I grabbed a tiny latex demo off the net, latex'd it, 
xdvi'd it, and it works, so clearly MacTeX is working as it should, in 
my path.

thanks!

using lyx as a front end

[Dov Kruger]

I'd like to enter an equation in lyx and have my code process the
equation. In general, this question might be more appropriate for the
developer forum, but I noticed that the converters may have hooks to get
at the document. Is there any user-configurable way to get a piece of a
document to a converter? If not, where is the appropriate forum to go?

thanks!

formatting an integral or limit

[Dov Kruger]

I only know how to format a limit using a subscript, which puts the
condition below and to the right of the limit. Is there any way to put
it underneath?

ie:

lim_x \tends \infinity