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From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0
I can't get this version to work. Do I need to build the dictionaries
to make it work? I tried doing sh configure and it still won't load. I
uninstalled the old version of LyX too to make sure nothing was
interfering.
No, Aspell isn't needed to make LyX work, if you don't install
Aspell then LyX just doen't have that functionality. I think you
forgot to rename your LyX config folder up in Application data.
I have 3 Windows version of LyX installed and 1 Cygwin and all
this works. "C:\Documents and Settings\UserID\Application Data"
I made a desktop link to this directory which stores your LyX
prefs: C:\Documents and Settings\UserID\Application Data\LyX
I started by renaming that LyX folder in Application Data, to LyX137,
so that LyX doesn't see a LyX folder. When I installed LyX137v3, it
made its own LyX folder. Next, I renamed it, LyX, to LyX137v3. Next
I installed LyX140v2 which makes its own LyX folder. I rename
(right-click on folder, choose rename) that LyX folder to LyX140v2
when I want to switch back to using LyX137. Next I rename the
the folder called Lyx137 to simply LyX.
IOW, I put the preferences folder LyX in sync with the Lyx version
executable I want to use. Enrico thinks my method can be simplified.
When I installed the "old" WinLyX137, I selected C:\LyX and made a
desktop link (right-click on lyx.bat or lyx.exe, Send To, and choose
Desktop (create shortcut) which puts a shortcut on the desktop.
When I installed LyX137v3 I installed it to C:\Lyx137v3. Then I used
the process described above to put a link for that lyx.exe on the desktop.
One can rename the shortcuts so that they say LyX137v3 etc to keep
track of them. Finally I installed WinLyX140v2 in C:\Lyx140v2 and
made a desktop link for it.
In summary, if I have been using WinLyx137 with the folder LyX
which has been used to store the 137 settings, and I want to use
LyX140v2; then I click on my Application data shortcut link which
is on my desktop and rename LyX to LyX137. I rename the LyX140v2
folder to LyX. Then I click on the desktop link which is named for
the LyX140v2 .exe or bat. I keep them matched up the lyx.exe version
and the the LyX configuration file which was made during the install of
that lyx.exe version and stored up in \Application data in a LyX folder.
Enrico's advice is in a recent thread, maybe in response to the **post.
I didn't use Control Panel, Add and Remove Programs, to uninstall
my original version of LyX (137). It is not prudent to replace LyX137
with LyX140 now. IMO it is safer to keep both programs until Lyx1.4.1
I think a backup of C:\Aspell that works with LyX137 should be made
before building a new dictionary, especially data and dict. Building
the new dict made overwrite the old files in those folders and they
need to be kept separate from the /lib/aspell-0.60 contents. That is
why I think it is better to wait for the new dict packages being readied.
Installing Aspell is not part of the installing LyX140v2 method, but
apllies to how fully LyX140v2 functions afterwards. I don't think that
spellchecking works as well in 140 as 137 anyway. The fix is for 1.4.1
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http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/ a good resource.
**To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
**Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:38 AM
**Subject: Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Maybe that sounded complicated, but it takes less than
15 seconds to switch back and forth by renaming folders.
I don't know if it is this easy using Linux, but there should
be a way.
Enrico wrote:
You need not renaming your folders. Call one folder LyX137 and the
otherLyX140 (place them wherever you want, too), than in your batch
files call the lyx binary using the -userdir option to point it to the
location of the right folder.
C:\LyX\bin\lyx.exe -userdir C:\whatever\LyX137 <- for lyx 1.3.7
C:\LyX140\bin\lyx.exe -userdir C:\whatever\LyX140 <- for lyx 1.4.0
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I see you have another post about this. I will mail this and read
your next. First glimpse seems like you are merging the build
instructions and the rather easy Angus LyX140v2 installation.
Regards,
Stephen
