----- Original Message -----
From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: LyX Windows installer and TeXLive
the new installer version 0.2
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=7989
now recognizes also TeXLive.
The various TeXLive Win-installers don't write something special to the
registry so that I serach for the path to the latex.exe in the PATH
variable.
Stephen, can you find out if TeXlive has an entry in the registry so
that the Windows installer can check for its existence?
I think the default install directory is C:\TexLive2005, I don't remember
any choice for changing the directory which is called "TLroot"
Don't know if this will help but I saw TLroot associated with the entry
for C:\TexLive2005 in
My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Controlset001
\Control\Session Manager\Environment
(also TEXMFTEMP , TEXMFCNF, but nothing latex.exe specific)
SH: I am a computist rather than a developer, so take this ? with a
grain of salt as I'm asking out of curiousity. I thought the TLroot
value (the default C:\TexLive2005 in this case) could be used as
a variable to check for C:\TLroot\texmf\miktex\bin where latex.exe
lives? I'm in not challenging the method you adopted, just interested.
I think the ~\texmf\miktex\bin\*.exe is the required structure.
If a user installs "protext" then MiKTeX is installed as LaTeX
distribution, so no change in the code was needed.
(btw. the protext bundle is the same as my "complete" installer for LyX,
it also comes with all necessary programs like GSView, spellchecker etc.)
With the Angus installer I had to use the browse icon to navigate
to latex.exe even though ProText uses the Miktex installation.
Only our "standard" Miktex installation is recognized by default.
The Miktex developer stated that the Miktex full iso was going
(http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/archive/category/1005.aspx)
to be used for the Miktex in ProText released along with TL2005
on the dvd only. ProTeXt includes the trial version of WinEdt but
there is very little difference between the Protext cd and the Miktex cd.
The Protext version has a different gui for updating Miktex.
Stephen could you please test if the installer recognizes your TeXLive
distribution (when thepath to the latex.exe of TeXLive is in the PATH
variable). Many thanks in advance.
(When you also have MiKTeX installed LyXWin will use this one instead of
TeXLive because MiKTeX is much easier to use, especially when a
LaTeX-package is missing and should be installed.)
regards Uwe
I got into a discussion with Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp
about the relative merits of switching to ProText from
the web install of Miktex. So I tried TexLive2005 full install first, and
it was bloated. I then tried Protext which has almost the same version
number as the Mitex cd md-2.4.2025.iso.bz2 19-Jul-2005 14:34 340M
which worked well enough, but it comes bundled with TeXnicCenter
which is no help for a LyX user and a soso Mitex Options gui.
So after deleting Texlive2005 and ProText, I tested the Mitex iso
and that worked very well. But then I had occasion to investigate
a net install of Mitex. So I deleted the Mixtex cd install and used
the Miktex net total install choosing to store all the cabs on disk.
This also works great and seems very close in content to the full iso.
To make a long story short, I've already deleted the TeXlive2005
and am using the net installed Miktex for troubleshooting now. I
would have tested your installer and Angus earlier, but with my
limited skills, I evaluate the success of the install using Tex
Information as one criteria, which the Angus install displays. I
didn't test the Angus 1.3.7 install with the other Miktex/Protext
versions because I like to install LyX to C:\LyX, which both of
the WinLyX 1.3.6 installers do well. I do like your installer.
Also Uwe wrote: There are two versions available:
- "Complete"; contains all programs listed above
- "Small"; doesn't contain MiKTeX and GSview
(to reduce the download time)
[and from beta post: "- GSview (optional)"]
SH: I don't seem to be able to print when using the
Postscript viewer unless I've installed gswin32.exe
I have each time been adding it to Path Prefix and
on the overly safe side using the absolute path to
C:\ghostgum\gsview\gswin32 under File formats.
How do you print without GSview? Well, maybe printing
from postscript is an unappreciated option for most users?
Maybe because pdf is available, but postscript has text
extract that works on some pdf files when Adobe doesn't.
Regards,
Stephen
