On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:44:20 +0200 Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> In preparation for the class, I plan to post a separate > >> questionnaire to the lyx-users and lyx-devel lists. > >> .... > >> I welcome any comments about this. Again, my intent is to > >> have this be a contribution to the lyx project. > >> > > > > I am currently working with a colleague on a book chapter using lyx, me on > > linux platform, he on microsoft. There are some problems on his side (e.g. > > exporting to pdf) with which I can´t help him. > > > > I think, it would be very helpful in such and similar cases to have a linux > > livesystem on CD which contains all the necessary programs needed for > > writing > > documents with lyx such as tex stuff, spellchecker, vector and pixel > > oriented > > graphics (xfig, PyX, PStricks..), chemical formulas, bibtex related things > > such as JabRef or Pybliographer, presentations (beamer..). There is a nice > > book by Rainer Hattenhauer (2005), Linux-Livesysteme (published by Galileo > > Computing) - alas in German (perhaps translated in the meantime?) which > > gives > > detailed instructions and could serve as a basis. > > > > One could just insert this CD in the computer, start the system, work with > > it, > > save the produced documents on the computer, and thats it. I think this > > would > > be a nice project also for your students ... > > > A LyX liveCD would be nice, sure. Be aware that linux doesn't > write very well to NTFS filesystems though - so it may be necessary > to save on FAT/FAT32 formatted usb thing if the disk filesystem is NTFS. There is now another ntfs driver for ext3 which looks promising. http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ This Ubuntu Dapper laptop has this in the ability from right at the start. So far it can read/write to NTFS with out errors. from /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 There is a driver to read/right ext3 from ntfs. http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html I usually use this to read Ext3 from ntfs so I can install Windows software I have downloaded while in Linux session. Both work, though I only use it read from the other partition, and too cautious to write back cheers Russell > > As for making pdf on windows - pdflatex is supposed to work > there too. > > Helge Hafting
