Stephen P. Harris wrote: > Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your > advice to change the Path statement in the preference file rather > than run a reconfigure. Since the location of the preference file > is somewhat out of the way, I usually Search for it, starting > from C:\documents and settings. Then double-click on it to > invoke a text editor. I have to set my Windows search tool > on display "hidden files and folders" or Search won't report > finding the preference file that needs editing. A small thing but > this really aggravated somebody who didn't know about it.
What can I say? >From the LyX/Win 1.3.6 wiki page, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 : We believe that we?ve overcome LyX?s problems regarding ?file paths with spaces?, so the installer defaults to installing LyX at C:\Program Files\LyX. Thereafter, it would expect to find a user?s (Angus) customization of its support files at C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\lyx ... Or, alternatively, if you want more formal documentation than a wiki, try UserGuide.lyx: 2.2 Basic LyX Setup ... There are many other user-configurable options that you can feed to LyX. Upon startup, LyX reads a global options file called lyxrc.defaults. It will then attempt to read a file called ~/.lyx/preferences beneath your home directory. The Tools->Preferences dialog can be used to change these options; the document Customization contains more information about the preferences dialog and these configuration files. OK, so this is unix-centric in that it talks about your "home" directory, but I don't think we've done too bad a job of writing enough docs to get you started. Angus
