Hi
I am v new to lyx & latex.
I installed the windows binary 'standard installer' from here http://www.lyx.org/Download.
I imported a latex file previously editing the latex text directly & manually through texworks, which used to generate a pdf. No errors appeared to be presented to me on import.
All the lyx guides and tutorials and a new file I cretae compile to pdf, but my imported latex file just shows up a status bar text "(buffer-view pdf2)".
I am asuming this is probably some kind of compilation error, but I have no error window presented to me.
I appologise if I am just being dumb. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
LyX ⇒ Cannot generate Pdf
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Re: Cannot generate Pdf
Is a PDF being created at all? If you navigate to the folder directly, is there a PDF there and can you open it manually?
Re: Cannot generate Pdf
There is no pdf in the same folder as the lyx file.
Just in case it's relevant, the Document/Latx Log menu item is still disbled.
On the tutorials and on the newly created and edited files this menu item is enabled after I hit the generate pdf button.
Just in case it's relevant, the Document/Latx Log menu item is still disbled.
On the tutorials and on the newly created and edited files this menu item is enabled after I hit the generate pdf button.
Re: Cannot generate Pdf
I think I may be on my way to solving this, but it still leaves me wondering why it has happened and whether it may be a bug.
I tracked down what looks like the execustion of a script, may be it's the latex compilation. It is in the form of a *.tex file with original latex and other commands interspersed, located in C:\Users\Andrew Hardy\AppData\Local\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.p13280\lyx_tmpbuf1.
The reading of the file appears as though the execution of the script just stops or fails during a table (worked fine in texworks). I am surprised that this doesn't result in some kind of error text and a way of presenting this to the user. Perhaps the process that is executing this action crashes and at this point nothing is prepared to enbale the user to see what has happened.
Any way I guess that the point in the latex (ie the table) where the text of the script just stops, holds some latex that presents the execution with a problem so I just remove it (ie the table), and hey presto the next pdf generation works fine.
I would be grateful of peoples view on this eg why no feedback on failure, if latex is cause then why no error message on import. Or perhaps I failed to follow the insatallation properly and am missing some vital component that would have enabled the error to be presented to me. If any one has a though what I may have done wrong I'd appreciate it.
Thank you.
I presume if I now re-add this table manually through lyx editor all should be well again.
I tracked down what looks like the execustion of a script, may be it's the latex compilation. It is in the form of a *.tex file with original latex and other commands interspersed, located in C:\Users\Andrew Hardy\AppData\Local\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.p13280\lyx_tmpbuf1.
The reading of the file appears as though the execution of the script just stops or fails during a table (worked fine in texworks). I am surprised that this doesn't result in some kind of error text and a way of presenting this to the user. Perhaps the process that is executing this action crashes and at this point nothing is prepared to enbale the user to see what has happened.
Any way I guess that the point in the latex (ie the table) where the text of the script just stops, holds some latex that presents the execution with a problem so I just remove it (ie the table), and hey presto the next pdf generation works fine.
I would be grateful of peoples view on this eg why no feedback on failure, if latex is cause then why no error message on import. Or perhaps I failed to follow the insatallation properly and am missing some vital component that would have enabled the error to be presented to me. If any one has a though what I may have done wrong I'd appreciate it.
Thank you.
I presume if I now re-add this table manually through lyx editor all should be well again.