acronym package missing

[Francesco]

Hi,

I'm using for the first time lyx under cygwin. When I ask to produce the output
it gives the following error message:
---------
LaTeX Error: File 'acronym.sty' not found

^^M

***(cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)
---------
I don't know how to solve it can anyone help?

Many thanks and regards
Francesco

[Paul A. Rubin]

Post by Francesco
Hi,
I'm using for the first time lyx under cygwin. When I ask to produce the output
---------
LaTeX Error: File 'acronym.sty' not found
^^M
***(cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)
---------
I don't know how to solve it can anyone help?
Many thanks and regards
Francesco

You need to download and install the LaTeX acronym package. How you do
that depends on which LaTeX distribution you have.

/Paul

[Enrico Forestieri]

Post by Francesco
I'm using for the first time lyx under cygwin. When I ask to produce the output
---------
LaTeX Error: File 'acronym.sty' not found
^^M
***(cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)
---------
I don't know how to solve it can anyone help?

You have to install the cygwin tetex-extra package.
Contrarily to IEEEtran.cls, the acronym.sty package is contained there.

In general, when you search for a particular file and want to know what
cygwin package contains it, you can paste the following query in the
address field of your browser:

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=acronym.sty

Replace acronym.sty with whatever filename you are interested in.

[Francesco]

Post by Enrico Forestieri
You have to install the cygwin tetex-extra package.
Contrarily to IEEEtran.cls, the acronym.sty package is contained there.

Thanks a lot for your help Enrico,

unfortunately I've already installed the cygwin tetex-extra package and I
already have the acronym.sty package in the following location:
\usr\share\texmf\tex\latex\acronym\acronym.sty
but for some reason it seems lyx is not able to find it.
Actually in:
c:\Documents and Settings\<my user name>\.lyx\packages.lst
I have the following list of packages:

array
babel
color
geometry
longtable
varioref
graphicx

but not the acronym package. I tried to add it myself (just typing it there, a
bit naive, I know) but after running reconfigure it was obviously removed. Do
you have any other suggestion on how to solve this problem?
Any help or workaround would be very appreciated.

Thanks a lot
Francesco

[Paul A. Rubin]

Post by Francesco
unfortunately I've already installed the cygwin tetex-extra package and I
\usr\share\texmf\tex\latex\acronym\acronym.sty
but for some reason it seems lyx is not able to find it.

After installing it, did you refresh the LaTeX file database? I think
the command to do so is texhash (but I'm not a tetex user, so I'm not
sure). Does tetex include the kpsewhich command? If so, run 'kpsewhich
acronym.sty' to verify that tetex knows the style file is there. If
tetex is blind to it, LyX will also be blind to it.

/Paul

[Enrico Forestieri]

Post by Francesco
unfortunately I've already installed the cygwin tetex-extra package and I
\usr\share\texmf\tex\latex\acronym\acronym.sty
but for some reason it seems lyx is not able to find it.
c:\Documents and Settings\<my user name>\.lyx\packages.lst

[snip]

Post by Francesco
but not the acronym package. I tried to add it myself (just typing it there, a
bit naive, I know) but after running reconfigure it was obviously removed. Do
you have any other suggestion on how to solve this problem?
Any help or workaround would be very appreciated.

Actually, LyX does not look for acronym.sty, so you should not expect to
find it listed in packages.lst. If you do as Paul suggests, ie. running
the command "kpsewhich acronym.sty" in a cygwin shell, does it output the
path to acronym.sty? If not, run "texhash" and then try again.
It would be best if you could post a minimal .lyx file showing the problem.