Steve Harris wrote:
Paul: I have the full Python 2.3 on my system path (relatively
early). It's also on my LyX path prefix, near the front. This is
inherited from 1.4.1; I don't know if the 1.4.2 installer would put
the full Python directory in the path prefix on its own. Have you
tried that?
Aha! You are still the Professor!
Yeah, but fat lot of good it does me. Still no Ginger, still no Mary Ann.
If I put C:\python243 at the
beginning of Path_prefix it runs Tex Information immediately and
also will do a Rescan later. *Also*, this solves the missing
Latex (plain)->HTML converter that I also discovered because
of the htlatex topics.
I don't suppose it cures the common cold as well?
If I put C:\python243 at the end of the
Path_prefix string (after Imagemagick here) then the Tex Info
still fails and also Rescan fails. My Latex->HTML converter
disappears too (a Reconfigure needs to be run).
I'm not quite sure why your idea worked. When Angus mentored
me on this I must have flunked. I thought that LyX copied
the Windows PATH and then appended the Path_prefix string
to it internally... maybe it used to work that way.
That was my impression as well (except that I thought the path prefix
was prepended to the Windows path), so perhaps something has in fact
changed. If they're being merged, I strongly suggest to the developers
that it go back to prepending, since that's the best way to avoid
conflicts with eponymous but incorrect programs. (IIRC, Windows has a
convert function somewhere whose name collides with the ImageMagick
convert utility.)
So that was the difference in our environments, mine didn't
have the system Python near the beginning of LyX Path_prefix.
That indicates the Lyx local python package is broken a bit,
because I don't think you are using it. Maybe if you temp
removed your system Python from LyX Path_prefix, or even
put it at the end, then your Rescan would fail too since
it would be relying on the local lyx python package.
You are indeed correct; hiding the full Python directory causes Rescan
to fail.
/Paul
