Lyx wont print

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 09:11 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Paul Clark wrote:
> 
> 
> >> Run lyx from a command line (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc), and it should
> >> spew out the nitty-gritty details of what is going on behind the scenes
> >> (in
> >> particular, most of the (la)tex runs).  Hopefully, that will give a clue.
> 
> > I ran it from the gnome-terminal. Not a single message comes out on
> > start up or while trying to print.
> 
> I found I could reproduce the problem, if the directory containing the .lyx
> document is not writable.  Why?  lyx runs latex behind the scenes, which
> needs to create intermediate <file>.(aux|log|dvi|ps|pdf) files in the same
> directory as the open .lyx document.
> 
> -- Rex
lyx does not run latex at all. A quick check of a lyx file will convince
you the language it uses to format text is like latex but is certainly
not latex.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>