Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-07 Thread Tomasz Łuczak
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Tomasz Łuczak schrieb: >> Thanks, it should working but still missing support for installation >> for current user I've now this code now that works for me also in this case (many thanks that you pointed me to this): It should working now. Many thanks OK, all characters

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tomasz Łuczak schrieb: >> Thanks, it should working but still missing support for installation >> for current user I've now this code now that works for me also in this case (many thanks that you pointed me to this): ; check if the variable TLroot exists (the case when it is installed us

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-07 Thread Tomasz Łuczak
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Could you please help me to verify what is used? I attached a small dummy installer showing one message coded in CP-1250. Are all characters correctly displayed? If not could you please send me a screenshot to see how the message appears? OK, all characters are correct. for

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-07 Thread Tomasz Łuczak
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Tomasz Łuczak wrote: > I use TeXLive2005 and path to latex.exe is in PATH variable. > After run LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe appear a message: > No LaTeX-distribution could be found!... This is fixed now. I use this code to catch all TeXLive cases: Thanks, it should working b

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tomasz Łuczak wrote: > I use TeXLive2005 and path to latex.exe is in PATH variable. > After run LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe appear a message: > No LaTeX-distribution could be found!... This is fixed now. I use this code to catch all TeXLive cases: ; test if TeXLive is

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: there is no reason to support old TeXLive versions. I couldn't expect that users upgrade their TeXLive every year. - TeXLive don't have the program "epstopdf" so that you have to anwer from Staszek (texlive): TeX Live2005 *has* epstopdf for Windows.

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Tomasz Łuczak
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > I use TeXLive2005 and path to latex.exe is in PATH variable. > > After run LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe appear a message: > > No LaTeX-distribution could be found!... > > Hmm, not good but I cannot reproduce it. My TeXLive2005 doesn't write things to the PATH variable. But a

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: This feature is very useful for LyX because all missing packages are installed while LyX reconfigures. no, this works as along as Christian has build a cab file of such a package. But you can build it and send it to him. I did this in the past to have

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Herbert Voss wrote: This feature is very useful for LyX because all missing packages are installed while LyX reconfigures. no, this works as along as Christian has build a cab file of such a package. But you can build it and send it to him. I did this in the past to have actual versions of

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Angus Leeming wrote: Thanks. But what I really meant is: I pulled the dt2dv package off CTAN. How do I go about getting these improvements into it? to the people listed in the header, e.g. Nelson Beebe. But I do not know any person, who uses or needs this file ... Herbert

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voss wrote: >> Herbert, >> >> do you know where I should post fixes to these files? (See attached) > > as I said, there is _no real_ Windows installer on TeXLive and > the interest in this area is low. However, you can post to the > TeXLive people, maybe that one is interesting in the > W

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Angus Leeming wrote: On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:26, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: - I found also incompatibilities in the programs dt2dv and dv2dt, that are used by LyX for the DVI-output. Could you expand? TeXLive has its own dt2dv versions, I expect old ones. The are called

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Herbert Voss schrieb: So I would say, that MiKTeX is also powerful than a teTeX or texlive installtion. It is. Personally I like the automatic(on the fly) installation of missing LaTeX-packages, so that the user isn't bothered with LaTeX-errors that xxx.sty is missing. T

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:26, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > >> - I found also incompatibilities in the programs dt2dv and dv2dt, > >> that are used by LyX for the DVI-output. > > > > Could you expand? > > TeXLive has its own dt2dv versions, I expect old ones. The are called > whe

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Herbert Voss schrieb: So I would say, that MiKTeX is also powerful than a teTeX or texlive installtion. It is. Personally I like the automatic(on the fly) installation of missing LaTeX-packages, so that the user isn't bothered with LaTeX-errors that xxx.sty is missing. This feature is very u

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: - I found also incompatibilities in the programs dt2dv and dv2dt, that are used by LyX for the DVI-output. Could you expand? TeXLive has its own dt2dv versions, I expect old ones. The are called when I want to generate a DVI and give me spurious error messages. I dele

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] These problems and possibly more implies that I don't give support that LyXWin works together with TeXLive. I bought the official TeXLive2005 DVD and fiddled aroud for three days after I gave up to get it to work properl

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Uwe Stöhr wrote: - I found also incompatibilities in the programs dt2dv and dv2dt, that are used by LyX for the DVI-output. Could you expand? Angus

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > These problems and possibly more implies that I don't give support that > LyXWin works together with TeXLive. > > I bought the official TeXLive2005 DVD and fiddled aroud for three days > after I gave up to get it to work properly. I focus now on the

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Herbert Voss wrote: there is no reason to support old TeXLive versions. I couldn't expect that users upgrade their TeXLive every year. - TeXLive don't have the program "epstopdf" so that you have to redefine the EPS -> PDF converter in LyX using the program "ps2pdf". eps2pdf is a shell sc

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > TeXLive2003 had own installer, TeXLive2004 hadn't windows installer, > but later appear native windows installer: tlpm.exe (text mode) + > tlpmgui.exe... > Several edition of TeXLive have different variables: TEXMF, TEXMFMAIN > TEXMFCNF. just like with LyX, every versio

Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> I use TeXLive2005 and path to latex.exe is in PATH variable. > After run LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe appear a message: > No LaTeX-distribution could be found!... Hmm, not good but I cannot reproduce it. My TeXLive2005 doesn't write things to the PATH variable. But anyway could you please send me

LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005

2006-01-04 Thread Tomasz Łuczak
Hi I use TeXLive2005 and path to latex.exe is in PATH variable. After run LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe appear a message: No LaTeX-distribution could be found!... I see in lyx_installer-small.nsi: ReadRegStr $String HKLM "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" "Path" StrCpy