Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 September 2012 09:08, David L. Johnson wrote: > His full path began with /usr/local -- not somewhere the distro should use. > That is for things the user installs, only, in my book. That texlive was obviously installed manually as no sane, orthodox package manager touches /usr/local. The t

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread Alan L Tyree
David L. Johnson writes: > On 09/01/2012 08:33 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: >> Sorry for the noise, John. I should have read the whole thread more >> carefully. >> >> I have a machine where I did a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 just a week >> ago, so it is pretty clean. I get: >> >> alant@windy:~$ whic

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread David L. Johnson
On 09/01/2012 08:33 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: Sorry for the noise, John. I should have read the whole thread more carefully. I have a machine where I did a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 just a week ago, so it is pretty clean. I get: alant@windy:~$ which latex /usr/bin/latex Further investication s

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread Alan L Tyree
John Kane writes: > > From: Alan L Tyree > To: John Kane > Cc: David L. Johnson ; "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" > > Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 4:26:16 PM > Subject: Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version? > > > John Kane writes

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread John Kane
From: David L. Johnson To: John Kane Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 1:51:43 PM Subject: Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version? On 09/01/2012 01:33 PM, John Kane wrote: Please but in.  I am a newbie with Ubuntu and tend to blund

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread John Kane
From: Alan L Tyree To: John Kane Cc: David L. Johnson ; "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 4:26:16 PM Subject: Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version? John Kane writes: > Please but in. I am a newbie wi

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread Alan L Tyree
John Kane writes: > Please but in. I am a newbie with Ubuntu and tend to blunder around. > Basically I have a dual boot Ubutu /Window 7. Some time ago I upgraded from > 11.? to 12.04 with apparently no problem. > > I have no real idea of what is correct or not-- I lack the partly intuitive >

margin comments in a pdf output file

2012-09-01 Thread ehud.kaplan
It is often desirable to leave comments in the margins of a document. The various TODOnotes facilities work fine, but I have now found that they do NOT work in the abstract environment. Is this a feature or a bug? EK -- Ehud Kaplan,

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread John Kane
Please but in.  I am a newbie with Ubuntu and tend to blunder around.  Basically I have a dual boot Ubutu /Window 7. Some time ago I upgraded from 11.? to 12.04 with apparently no problem. I have no real idea of what is correct or not-- I lack the partly intuitive feel that I had for Windws aft

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread David L. Johnson
On 09/01/2012 11:22 AM, John Kane wrote: Sorry to butt in here, but these outputs seem very strange. This looks to me like there is something very amiss with your system. Now, I use debian, not ubuntu, but ubuntu is debian-based, so it should not be all that different. -

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread John Kane
Thanks to Stefano and Rainer > Now this is strange: tlmgr is, as far as I kow, of part of the official texlive > installation in > Ubuntu. Are you sure you did not install from the texlive installer? Err yes, that is what I did. I manually installed tlmgr for 2011 a while ago based onStefano's