Bug 232840
| Summary: | lyx: can't handle its templates | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Penelope Fudd <bugzilla.redhat.com> |
| Component: | lyx | Assignee: | Rex Dieter <rdieter> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6 | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-03-21 13:24:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Penelope Fudd
2007-03-18 18:18:26 UTC
The babel error occurs when you try 'view/DVI' or view/anything from the menu. That's with the IEEEtran.lyx template, for example. Right, these are templates for given latex classes, which as you found out, are not all installed (or even available) by default in Fedora. For the record, many of the templates *do* work :) including: beamer-* docbook-* hollywood letter slides Are you suggesting we remove the templates that don't work out of the box? I was hoping to use lyx to help write my scientific report so I could hand in a professional looking piece of work today, but the appropriate templates aren't working, and attempting to write a paper from scratch with an unfamiliar program is no picnic. I temporarily gave up and used openoffice. If the templates that don't work out of the box are removed, a new user will have a more positive experience (everything works), but will think that lyx is a useless toy (few templates), when in fact it's pretty powerful. A better solution is to figure out what other latex classes have to be installed to make everything in lyx work, package them up either separately or as part of the normal lyx package, and have lyx depend on them. I am a LyX and LaTeX newbie, and I don't know squat about TeX. I came across LyX just last week, and thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. But then I tried to use it, and the bugs (well, misconfigurations, or maybe unpackaged files) just kept getting in my way. I don't want to be harsh, but the linux world doesn't need any more half-working packages; we're here to beat Microsoft, not just equal them. Thanks for your constructive criticism, well said.
> A better solution is to figure out what other latex classes have to be
>installed to make everything in lyx work
In your particular case, tetex-IEEEtran is available, so
$ yum install tetex-IEEEtran
and running lyx menu: Tools->Reconfigure does the trick.
I'll double check availability for all the other template classes as well, and
add them as package requirements.
Unfortunately, some classes aren't available in Fedora (yet). When/if they do
become available, I'll add them as Required dependencies for lyx.
%changelog * Wed Mar 21 2007 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 1.4.4-3 - +Requires: tetex-IEEEtran (#232840) |