The newest MacOs and the newest Lyx

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:46 pm

Hi folks,

I have recently upgraded to El Capitan and promptly killed my nicely running Lyx. Without checking the web I also downloaded the newest Lyx version for a fix - which turned out to be quite the time sink. Lyx is now working again, however I am still missing some style documents (sty?) as I get nomencl.sty not found, subscript.sty not found and so on. It also killed my Elsevier (academic publishing) style.
Is this an issue related to my OS or with Lyx? Or TexShop? Any help for dummies would be appreciated. Do I need to download these files? If yes, where do they go?
Thanks,
F

NEW: TikZ book now 40% off at Amazon.com for a short time.

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:27 am

Hi Frost,

welcome to the forum!

Have a look at TeX on El Capitan. Does that document already help?

Stefan

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:50 am

Hi,
thanks for your answer. I used the link you posted to get Lyx working at all, however the following error still persists:
Latex error: file subscript.sty not found
\usepackage
[unicode=true,pdfusetitle,^^M
*** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)

Can someone explain me what it means? It is obviously related to subscript, however I don't know whether I need to install a file, give permission to use a file or ...?

Post by **Johannes_B** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:00 am

That is something in your preamble, go to the preamble settings and place a percent sign (%) in front of the line \usepackage{subscript}. You don't need it.

Better to start from scratch and not by a template a friend or colleague gave you. From experience i can say: errors occur.

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 11:47 am

Johannes_B wrote:That is something in your preamble, go to the preamble settings and place a percent sign (%) in front of the line \usepackage{subscript}. You don't need it.

Better to start from scratch and not by a template a friend or colleague gave you. From experience i can say: errors occur.

I tried putting it into the preamble, but it does not solve the problem. I also don't understand why I would need it now, when before it was not necessary?
The files are not from a template or colleague, it is all documents that worked before upgrading my OS and Lyx. As you can probably imagine it is very irritating to have dozens of lengthy documents (PhD work) that suddenly can't be compiled.

Post by **Johannes_B** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 12:04 pm

Well, if it wasn't in your preamble, another package might load subscript.

Try kpsewhich subscript.sty in a terminal. Does it give a result? If so, LyX makes trouble and i cannot help. If nothing is coming up, your MacTeX installation seems to be incomplete.

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 12:40 pm

Thanks again! Nothing is coming up which is strange since I have just updated MacTex.
Is there something like a "clean" reinstall or anything I should consider other than deleting and redownloading it?

Post by **Johannes_B** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:19 pm

Check if you have TeX Live manager or TeX Live utility and try to install missing parts. If that does not work, reinstalling might be the simplest way.

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:55 pm

Thanks, will give it a go later tonight. Proxy here doesn't like the utility (which I didn't know even existed).

LaTeX.org

LyX ⇒ The newest MacOs and the newest Lyx