Am 18.07.2016 um 02:14 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:
That doesn't help us, since the linguistics manual is not compilable for
TeXLive users on Windows anymore (if you don't have already ALL LaTeX
packages installed), see the post I just sent.
Well, this was not correct. To make it more clear:
- assume you use TeXLive and doesn't have forest etc. installed. LyX
tells you that the package forest is missing.
- now you need a lot of knowledge. For example what a package is and,
more complicated, how a package is installed. As I wrote, this is to
easy to find out how the GUI for the package management is executed.
- you are right that if you are able to install a package with TeXLive
it is unnecessary to have elocalloc in our dependencies.
- But why do we now only address experienced users? The goal must be to
keep it as simple a possible (of course the experienced users can setup
whatever they like). To acheive this, there is MiKTeX's automatic silent
package installation.
- MiKTeX doesn't provide a dependency handling. That is a fact for now.
- Users don't care about internal issues. (I also don't care if e.g.
LibreOffice is using Cairo etc., I just want to write a text.)
- Users can expect that LyX is able to output its manuals as PDF without
any fiddling. To achieve this, we need the dependencies - because MiKTeX
doesn't have this while it provides the essential feature of the
automatic package installation.
regards Uwe
