argh!! LyXWinInstaller requires admin privileges :/ i managed to install it using the LyX 1.3.6 installer after installing minsys and python 2.3 (2.4 requires admin privileges :/)
i'll try to install miktex and gs tomorrow. once i've installed them, i can simply add the directories in the preferences and reconfigure? another annoying thing is the dialog boxes used by winlyx to open/save files. it's old school drive:\dir and my work laptop has that weird setup for network syncing where my home directory is a network dir (\\server\...) synced locally as My Documents. since the widget doesnt recognize shortcut links i have no way to access my home directory. concerning printing notes (previous message), i'll try to see if it's possible to create a new flagged environment like in latex... do i just use ERT or is there an nicer way to do it? mamato