Hi,
A few points following a (mostly successful) installation:
1. When the installer asks for a path (e.g. to sh.exe), it doesn't
tolerate a path ending with a slash. Being a unix person I entered
"C:\Cygwin\bin\", and got the error "cannot find sh.exe", while
"C:\Cygwin\bin" worked fine. Same behaviour for the question about
python and perl.
2. As expected, the cygwin sh.exe seems to work fine for LyX. The cygwin
python.exe (version 2.3.3) doesn't -- the script to prettify DVI files
(DraftDVI -> DVI converter) doesn't work. I'll try looking further into
this.
3. Despite the appearance of the installer finding the installed Adobe
Acrobat Reader (v 7.0), no viewer was put in for the 3 PDF file formats.
I thus had to do it by hand.
For the help section note that paths containing spaces must be enclosed in
quotes to ensure they are treated as a single command, so the correct
entry was:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe"
4. Various problems with "Edit->Preferences"
a. In the "File formats" tab, after I apply a change to a format (e.g.
addving a viewer) with the "Modify" button, the selection jumps back to
the first format (ASCII) rather than staying with the format I modified.
This is very annoying.
b. In the "Paths" tab, most of the paths appear with ordinary forward
slashes. This looks weird to me on a Windows machine. I think this point
was debated yesterday.
5. Handling of temporary files
When LyX closes a document, it attempts to remove the temporary directory
and delete all the files there. Unfortunately if one of these files is
opened by another application (e.g. a PDF viewer), LyXWin cannot delete
the file (unlike LyX on unix), and gives an error message ("Cannot delete
file ..."). Perhaps the error message can be modified on Windows machines
to account for this behaviour.
I'll add more reports as I encounter problems.
Lior
