I had previously used an older version of LyX, but I modified it to use XeTeX because I wanted to use my own fonts. I reinstalled Windows some time ago and yesterday I tried to get LyX back. I downloaded and installed LyX-2.0.0-3-Installer.exe from http://www.lyx.org/Download, but then realised that I needed some installation of LaTeX underneath it. I didn't want to download a random one, so I uninstalled that and got LyX-2.0.0-3-Installer-Bundle.exe, which includes MiKTeX, from ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.0.
I then learned that it's supposed to be much easier to use XeTeX in this new version of LyX; just change a few settings and I'm done. Awesome, good job LyX team for putting that in, even if I am having trouble. So I take an old .lyx file from before and try to make a PDF now. I go through many, many errors about missing .sty files. The first one was "expl3". I discovered that there was some sort of package manager for MiKTeX, so I tried to download it through that. It wouldn't work for a reason that after some searching ended up being because MiKTeX had to be updated. So I did that through the updater. After that, I go back to trying to find the .sty files (most of which started with "l3"). They didn't seem to be available through the package manager, so I found them through Google and put them in the same folder as my .lyx file (as I did when I had to find some, but not nearly as many, .sty files in the older version of LyX).
So now there are no more .sty errors, but the xelatex process just stays running at 50% of my processing power (so one core) for minutes on end. That's very different from the few seconds that it used to take. So I decide that maybe it's a result of the fact that the .lyx file has a lot of packages used in the preamble, headers, etc. I make a new .lyx file and change the settings to use non-TeX fonts so that now it uses XeTeX. PDFLaTeX, or whatever the default was, worked perfectly fine producing a PDF file, but its choice of fonts is still very limited. This new file has no preamble or fancy packages used because I assume checking the box to use non-TeX fonts with XeTeX tells LyX to set it up for XeTeX.
So I decide to let XeTeX run for a while to see if it will ever finish, and yes, after around 30 minutes it does finish, but I get an error: "LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}". I thought that "\begin{document}" was something that you include when you're writing up your own LaTeX file, but that LyX takes care of. I also tried copying the source from LyX to TeXworks and compiling with xelatex, but it gave a similar "Missing \begin{document}" error, I think.
I have an incredibly long error file that I think includes many failures. Does anyone know how I can get XeTeX working with LyX so that I can use the fonts of my choosing?
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