Re: Klyx problems

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 01:10:13PM -0000, Foz wrote:
> > 	I have used Klyx in the past, but have switched back to lyx so
> > of late, so as not to install several zillion megs of libraries. I think
> > lyx (and klyx, after all is just a glorified lyx with a more modern UI)
> > doesn't use log files at all. Latex (which is what does the dirty work)
> So the moral is to use Lyx, not KLyx - ok I can deal with that

	Not really. Only that Lyx is being developed and Klyx is
somewhat stalled. Lyx will hopefully be GUI independent in the near
future, and there'll probably be a kde and a gnome port of it, but
nothing to worry about. YOUR klyx should accomplish your task fine.

> 
> > does, but they're there only for your perusual AFAIK. What you can do is
> AFAIK? Explain please

	Sorry :) As Far As I Know :)

> > export your file as latex, run latex on it (twice!) and then convert the
> > dvi to a postrcript file yourself. By doing this, you will be sure where
> > the problem lies. On the other hand, how do you configure Klyx for PS
> > export? Do you have dvi2ps or whatever it needs to convert the file
> > installed?
> It has an export option - PS, dvi, text, and a couple of others, PS is 
> what I need. What list of components to I need installed to do PS 
> files. I can then go and tick them off and it should hopefully be 
> sorted out. I don't really want to do back to writing html pages for 
> assignments so I have formatting features when I have the tools for 
> doing PS.

	You should have a working latex installation, and then either
dvi2ps or dvips. However, it seems that you can't even preview things.
This is because latex isn't running and therefore, won't generate the
dvi file you could preview. Try using the following file (save it as
test.tex):

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\begin{document}
This is a stupid example
\end{document}

	By running latex on this file I get:
faust:/tmp$ latex st.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(st.tex
LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (st.aux) [1] (st.aux) )
Output written on st.dvi (1 page, 240 bytes).
Transcript written on st.log.

	It looks as if klyx is complaining at your latex run not
generating a log file. Maybe you should check those directory
permissions, but first, check that you can "compile" a simple latex
document as the one above. Note that you can then convert the dvi file
to ps by using dvi2ps -o st.ps st.dvi (or similar).

	It should be straightforward to do if your latex installation is
complete (which they usually are: just install all tetex packages your
distro comes up with :D)

	Regards,
	José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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