From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 3:53:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6165937B8CD for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 03:53:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp3-pa5.neomedia.it [195.103.207.115]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA31555; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 12:53:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 11:55:30 GMT Message-ID: <20000402.11553000@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: lyx dvips error - only prints small files To: David Banning , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38E53D0F.167EB0E7@worldy.com> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 4/1/00, 1:04:31 AM, David Banning wrote regarding lyx dvips error - only prints small files: > I have just installed tex 3.13159, dvips 5.76 and Lyx 1.1.4fix1 > I am using FreeBSD 3.4 with XFree86 3.3.3 > I am just printing the example files that come with LyX. > The first two print fine through dvips and gs butter > the larger ones don't - can't view in dvi or ps either. > All get the same error on the text screen; > "UserGuide.dvi: No such file or directory" > The only tip I've heard so far was that memory might be low > I tried increasing it (from 1Meg to 2 to 5) in the file; > "/usr/local/share/texmf/ps/config.ps" > but that didn't work (not sure if I have to run anything > to make the memory change take effect) > Any ideas? Dear David Banning, I installed the Lyx ports this week (AFAIR, three days ago.) It works fine on my 3.4-STABLE system running XFree86-3.3.6 and the TeX port (1.0.6, needs updating :-). I had a look (view dvi) at the User's Guide etc. NO difficulties so far. I even printed a few documents. However, my home box has 384 MB RAM if that matters. Also, I had installed the textproc/docproj and raised the default TeX settings as described in /usr/ports/jadetex/pkg/MESSAGE: --------------------------------------------------------------------- JadeTeX uses quite a lot of TeX's resources. You may find it necessary to increase the size of some of TeX's resource pools by editing the file /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf with any text editor. For example, to typeset the FreeBSD Handbook with JadeTeX, change the following settings to the listed values: hash_extra =3D 60000 pool_size =3D 1000000 max_strings =3D 70000 save_size =3D 10000 If you change /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, delete the word "original" on line 1 of the file. This will prevent future installations of TeX from overwriting changes you've made. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I seem to understand the following: i) LyX uses LaTeX as a print backend; ii) LaTeX (a TeX macro package) uses (wait for it) TeX; iii) TeX is a typesetting engine (or program) with macro capability. Configuring TeX as shown above should (probably) solve the problem. HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message