[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> Under Linux, you can add all the LaTeX packages in the dependencies >>> of the LyX package. Your problem is solved if LyX is correctly >>> packaged by your distribution. >> And maybe if lyx documented all the latex packages it (could) use... :) > Actually, if you do stuff to the preamble or roll your own layout file > you can probably use any LaTeX package. > > So the question would then be what packages can be used by whatever > layouts that come with LyX. Though... isn't this what reconfigure checks? I think we're getting past the real issue. The non-existence of nomencl is one thing: A menu option that is on the menu doesn't function. Packages needed by this or that layout are another thing. We can't check for all of that, let alone provide it. (And, as has been pointed out before, no one wants all that stuff.) So, minimally, if nomencl is not present, then the glossary stuff ought to be disabled. And, better, reconfigure ought to tell the user that the package isn't present and direct the user to a section of the documentation where it will explain what to do about it. Namely, install nomencl. And instructions about how to do that kind of thing are already in the docs. (See the Customization manual.)
I think Rex's point was that if we could tell him what packages are required for LyX to function optimally, he could make sure the Fedora rpm installs them. (That's Rex's job. One of them.) Other packagers can then do the same thing, if so they choose, including our friend who does the Windows installer. And maybe someone could make the Mac installer do it. But total package management is too much to ask, largely because this is not a LyX issue but a LaTeX issue. And, to answer one of Timothy's (Tim's?) original questions, no, LyX isn't aimed at the same audience that, say, OpenOffice is. LyX can profitably be used with no knowledge of LaTeX, but only if you're prepared to stick with the defaults in a lot of cases. You /ought/ to be prepared to do that, because most of the messing about people do with margins, fonts, and the like is a waste of time. I almost never use ERT myself, and the only time I've really used LaTeX will LyX is to add custom environments to layouts. So yes, if you want to go beyond the defaults, then you have to learn some LaTeX. Not nearly what you would to use LaTeX natively, but some, including how to install packages from CTAN, which isn't all that hard on Windows. I guess I'm surprised to find out that this isn't trivial on a Mac. Don't Macs make everything easy? ;-) Richard -- ================================================================== Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ ================================================================== Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
