On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 09:11 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Paul Clark wrote: > > > >> Run lyx from a command line (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc), and it should > >> spew out the nitty-gritty details of what is going on behind the scenes > >> (in > >> particular, most of the (la)tex runs). Hopefully, that will give a clue. > > > I ran it from the gnome-terminal. Not a single message comes out on > > start up or while trying to print. > > I found I could reproduce the problem, if the directory containing the .lyx > document is not writable. Why? lyx runs latex behind the scenes, which > needs to create intermediate <file>.(aux|log|dvi|ps|pdf) files in the same > directory as the open .lyx document. > > -- Rex lyx does not run latex at all. A quick check of a lyx file will convince you the language it uses to format text is like latex but is certainly not latex. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
