> The alternative installer already checks if Ghostscript is installed and only > installs it if not.
How does it check Ghostscript? What I use is just the MiKTeX internal gs, its executable is called mgs.exe, rather than gswin32c.exe. Will LyX check and use this special version of Ghostscript? > The preamble command checks if lmodern exists, if not it won't be used. > MiKTeX tries to install > missing packages but you can turn this off in MiKTeX settings. At install > time MiKTeX is set to > install all packages LyX supports, therefore also the different font > packages. (This is independent > from document preambles.) This assures that you have a full featured system > setup. Note that this is > only done once, so the first LyX installation could takes indeed some time, > but then you can use > your full featured MiKTeX/LyX until you decide to reinstall MiKTeX. Yes just when installing LyX does it forces installation of lmodern. But what I wanted is to keep lmodern away from my computer. So I have only two choices: 1) let LyX install lmodern and manually remove it after LyX installation; 2) interupt LyX installation process while it is downloading lmodern,and then after LyX setup exits, modify configure.py (by commenting out the line which checks lmodern) and then run this script. Can LyX avoid checking lmodern at setup and just display a message somewhere during the setup saying that lmodern is recommended to use LyX? Regards instanton
