Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:30:55 +0200 From: Kay Lehmann <kay_lehmann@web.de> To: Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: lyx-1.3.4 (broken by recent teTeX port updates) Message-ID: <40AC88DF.70801@web.de> In-Reply-To: <40AC78AD.7060706@users.sourceforge.net> References: <40AC5BC7.7080306@users.sourceforge.net> <40AC78AD.7060706@users.sourceforge.net>
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Hello,
Rob wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recent changes to the teTeX port, removes the capability of LyX
>> to view documents in DVI and ps formats.
>>
>> In order to have this work, I had to do manually two things:
>>
>> 1) compile teTeX as
>> make WITH_XDVIK=yes
>> which will add to LyX viewing in DVI format.
>>
>> 2) install the print/dvipsk-tetex
>> this will add ps viewing of LyX document.
>> (Note: installing print/dvips will have conflicts with teTeX!).
>
You may compile teTeX with the additional option WITH_DVIPSK=yes, so you
do not need to use print/dvipsk-tetex.
>
> Moreover, this dvips does not recognize any papersize. When I do
>
> dvips -t a4 ....
>
> I will get
>
> dvips: no match for papersize
>
> Any other reasonable alternatives for a4 will also fail and output is
> letter size.
> This is quite troublesome!
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
There was a thread about this some days ago. The problem is that
${TEXMF_TREE}/dvips/config/config.ps isn't created or when it is created
everything is commented out. So you need to edit it manually.
Greets,
Kay
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