On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 02:58:34PM +0000, Benedict Holland wrote: > I would say that the only people who would update MiKTeX outside of a Lyx > install are power users. > > I would simply state something like: > > Lyx requires MikTeX 2.9 or later. Your version is X.X. Chose "Continue" to > automatically update MiKTeX to version X.X or cancel the LyX installation > and update MiKTeX manually. > > You don't need to mention why they would update it manually or using it > with other applications or anything like that. I would say that if the Lyx > user understands the potential chaos for updating MiKTeX, you can just tell > them to manually do it.
Thanks for your suggestions, Ben! > I also assume that you will only show this dialog if MikTex is installed on > their system. If it isn't installed, you probably don't need to tell the > user that you are installing it. I agree. I think another case where we don't need to show it is if the user already has a TeX Live installation. Thanks for taking the time to help with the message, Scott
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