Hello David, Thank you for your reply.
On Fri 20 Apr 2012 03:19:28 AM EEST, David L. Johnson wrote: > On 04/19/2012 08:03 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote: >> Just one question: for LyX to work it requires TeX packages right? How >> big should that be for a regular usage involving mathematics& physics? >> Moreover, how can I install it (with TeX packages; more accurately: like >> it is installed on my system!) on a system with no connection? > > I would suggest that if you are doing either mathematics or physics, > you really, really need the TeX packages, no matter what. The idea of > not using TeX to write mathematics is impossible for me to deal with > -- especially if your alternative is Word. > Actually, I don't use word anymore; even OpenOffice or LibreOffice I don;t use either except for rare occasions; that's why wehn I found out about LyX (while searching for Scientific Workplace -commercial) I chose LyX & have been using it ever since. Am happ with it :D > In my opinion, TeX is a huge improvement in writing technical material > over anything else out there, and LyX is a huge improvement to using > TeX. Yes, these things require a large download any more (I remember > when LyX fit on a floppy disk -- without TeX, but even so, one floppy > disk). > > If you have no internet connection, then I imagine you have a usb > port, or other pluggable access. Get a usb keychain drive, or > equivalent other media, get access somehow to download the archive to > the drive, and you should have no problem. You clearly have some > internet access since you did send this message. > I do have a cxn, but I am writing a document with someone & I'd like to install it for him so we can work on the editing together, but he doesn't have a cxn (weird as it may be) + to save time in installing. And yes, that's what I was thinking; I just wanted to know how to find what packages (dependencies incl. of course) I needed & where to find them (for Ubuntu!) > Others can answer about how big the distribution ought to be, but > again, believe me, you need this to write mathematics. > Sure I do need to write mathematics, with TeX! :D thanks again -- Sincerely Yours, -Merhebi, Bob Thunderbird Signature
