On 10/29/2016 01:00 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On the machines where I've done both installs, it appears to me that
pdf compile with TexLive is quite a bit faster. Have no idea why, but
others have made same claim.
TexLive is a surprisingly slow install. Even if you put the whole iso
on disk, and disconnect entirely from the internet, the install takes
1 hour. I've done it on 3 machines during the night. At first I
thought it was slow because it was trying to pull updates or
something, but no. It is just a slow install.
Aside from that, it appears fine to me. Make sure texlive/bin/win32
is put in the path, all can work. Previously installed LyX still looks
for MikTex, but you can make sure LyX knows is supposed to use TeXLive
if you remove LyX and re-install. It will ask which LaTeX to use.
Seems like we ought to have a post-install config setting there, but
don't know how. (PS: don't use the LyX Bundle for LyX).
Only puzzle I did not work out so far is how to get spell check and
other pieces from LyX bundle to work with LyX installed separately.
If the LyX website pointed at the installers for spellcheckers and
JabRef and whatever comes in bundle, with some install tips, it would
be nice.
Since I don't do Windows much, I ask a lot of stupid questions....
I haven't seen any stupid questions yet.
I used to use MiKTeX (on Windows) and now use TeXLive (on Linux). I
haven't noticed any significant difference in document compilation
times, but that's conflated with system speed and operating system
(Windows, at least back when I was using it, put more of a strain on the
CPU and memory than Linux did on the machines that I dual booted.) My
main reasons for preferring MiKTeX to TeXLive are (a) I prefer the
package manager that comes with MiKTeX and (b) MiKTeX is more granular.
By the latter, I mean that after loading the base distribution, the
MiKTeX package manager lets you install individual packages easily,
rather than having to install sizable bundles. I'm not sure, since I
don't use tlmgr, but my impression is that if you try to use to install
joesmacros.sty, you end up installing whatever large bundle includes
joesmacros.sty. That may account for the extensive installation times
you noted.
Linux systems typically include a spellchecker as part of the initial
operating system installation. On Windows, you need to add one (and also
a thesaurus, if you're so inclined). IIRC, I used the Windows port of
aspell <http://aspell.net/win32/> for spell-checking. I don't have a
thesaurus recommendation, since I don't use one. I just make words up,
or misuse existing ones , as needed.
Paul
