Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

The easiest is to completeley uninstall TeX and then LyX (on the Mac you
can just Trash it) and then first to install TeX (MacTex in whatever
guise or form) and then LyX, which in the first run will do a Tools ->
Reconfigure which you can do manually any time.

You should be able to run

	/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -o abc.lyx testfile.lyx

directly (ie without the python call) as well.

What do

	head -1 /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx

and

	which python

show?

greetings, el

On 2022-10-20 21:10 , Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> On 10/20/22 14:44, ahostmadsen--- via lyx-users wrote:
>> And to add.  When I run the following command, which I think emulates
>> the converter as run from LyX:
>>
>> python -tt /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx
>> -o abc.lyx testfile.lyx
>>
>> the conversion works perfectly.  Yet, from inside lyx it doesn’t
>> work.
>>
>> Meanwhile, trying to edit converters, my LyX installation got further
>> damaged.  Now the font used inside LyX is screwed up (only
>> sans-serif), although I didn’t change anything about fonts.  I feel
>> my LyX installation is damaged.  How can I uninstall completely, and
>> then install from scratch?
>>
> Regarding screen fonts, if you go to Tools > Preferences...  > Look &
> Feel > Screen Fonts, you should see which fonts are being used in the
> LyX UI (including sample text for each).  Do they indicate that any
> fonts with serifs are selected?  If not, are any fonts you would like
> listed among the options in the select boxes?
> 
> Paul
> 
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