Am 10.05.2011 02:08, schrieb Uwe Stöhr:
5. The latest version of the metafile2eps printer gives an error message when
it is first used:
When I compile a LyX file containing a wmf-image, I get the error message that
the printer could
not be successfully be initialized. For all further uses of the printer, I
don't get this error.
However, the WMF-image is still rotated by 90° in the output, so that
WMF-images can still not be
used for real-life documents. I can send you a LyX test file showing the
problematic.
I tried to resolve the known issues in the new 2.0 version of the Metafile 2
EPS converter.
Joost fixed this yesterday.
7. It is not possible to select the LyX GUI-language in the installer. My
installer provides this
feature, because it was once often requested.
This setting is also in the LyX preferences. We can duplicate it in the
installer if you want. My
main concern was having to maintain an additional list of supported languages.
Well, this work is already done. All that we have to do is to add a new string
in the file
io_ui_language.ini and in LanguageSettings.nsh (see the versions of these files
that are on SVN).
Yes, the user can also do this in the preferences, but I implemented this
feature on request. There
were users that want to have e.g. a French LyX on e.g. a Swedish Windows.
Without the installer
option, LyX will be started the first time in Swedish making it difficult for
the user to switch to
the language he can understand.
This might happen on research institutes with a lot of foreign students, but
also with some Win Xp
versions. I can for example set the menu language of my Win XP 64bit (which is
in fact Win2003) to
French, but it will still be recognized as a German Windows.
I didn't noticed yet that in cases like this, the installer language will also be German, so setting
the GUI language in the installer is no advantage. I think to remember that I introduced this
feature for an installer of LyX 1.4.x when setting the GUI language via the preferences didn't work
on LyX for Windows.
So I don't know what is better, to implement the GUI language setting in the installer or not - I'll
ask on the lyx-users list.
11. When installing LyX the first time, and therefore also MiKTeX is installed
the first time, the
configure.py file should be run in a console window. This is very important
because the first
installation will install more than 50 LaTeX-packages and take approximately
half an hour. In the
console window the user can see that there is some progress. Without this
information, many users
will kill the install process because they think it hung up.
What exactly do you mean? The installers already prints a message saying this
should take a long
time. And there's a "Show details" button.
This works here only when MiKTeX is already installed, but not when install
MiKTeX together with
LyX. Maybe something is misconfigured here, so I'll recheck this tomorrow.
Seems to be a problem of the MiKTeX repositories: LyX's first run of configure.py runs through
without installing any LaTeX-package. That's why I couldn't see in this case no feedback from the
installer. I'll investigate further.
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So for now the ToDo-list for the merged installer is:
1. check if Inkscape is already installed and use it for SVG images (I can no longer
provide/maintain support for checking for Adobe Illustrator)
2. implement to ask to update MiKTeX at the end of installation process
3. option in the uninstaller not to uninstall the metafile2eps printer
4. include JabRef to the bundle installer version (there will be an option not to install it as in
my installer)
5. option to start LyX after installing it (which will be unchecked by default)
6. sanitize the hunspell dictionaries installation (to be discussed further how
to do this)
7. ask on the users list for the GUI language setting issue
So not much to do for now. Joost, can I start to implement point 1 and 2?
regards Uwe
