Hy LyXers,
after Jürgen finished the font handling for LyX 2.1 I added all supported font packages to
chkconfig.ltx in order to install automatically all possible fonts on Windows. The idea was to
provide full-featured LyX so that you can go offline after the installation of LyX and work without
restrictions.
This works so far, except for the cbgreek fonts. I ercently upraded my PC hardware and therefore
played a bit with LyX 2.1 beta. The installation failed on some machines because of cbgreek. I could
not figure out why latex hangs because it is correctly packaged. Maybe because its package sizes is
74 MB:
http://www.miktex.org/packages/cbgreek
and the download repositories for TeX are chosen randomly. I encountered some problems with some
download repositories so that downloading the 74 MB cbgreek package took on one try more than 2
hours (despite my VDSL connection). At some point latex.exe issues a timeout but the latex.exe is
not stopped. Therefore our chkconfig.ltx LaTeX-scripts runs forever and therefore also configure.py.
After fiddling with this issue for 2 months now, I would like to skip cbgreek form chkconfig.ltx.
(see attached patch) This solves all installation problems for me. Users who might need these Greek
font have to install the fonts on demand via MiKTeX's package manager. If they do so, latex.exe is
not involved and no timeout happens - even if the download swill take ages.
OK to do so?
thanks and regards
Uwe
diff --git "a/C:\\DOCUME~1\\usti\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\TortoiseGit\\chk1F.tmp\\chkconfig-4f36bac-left.ltx" "b/D:\\LyXGit\\Master\\lib\\chkconfig.ltx"
index e22c7d9..bbae44c 100644
--- "a/C:\\DOCUME~1\\usti\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\TortoiseGit\\chk1F.tmp\\chkconfig-4f36bac-left.ltx"
+++ "b/D:\\LyXGit\\Master\\lib\\chkconfig.ltx"
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
\TestPackage{ae}
\TestPackage{bera}
\TestPackage{biolinum-type1}
-\TestFont[glic1000]{cbgreek}% for Greek
+%\TestFont[glic1000]{cbgreek}% for Greek % suported by LyX but too large to force downloading
\TestPackage{ccfonts}
\TestFont[ccr10]{concrete} % required by ccfonts
\TestFont[eorm10]{ecc} % required by ccfonts
