Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-02 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 3/04/2018 11:31 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: I propose to change the first part to something like: Your MiKTeX installation must be updated in order for LyX 2.3.0 to work. Choose "Continue" to ... Then, we will give a link to a Wiki page, as discussed before. This will allow us to ke

Re: Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:34:19 +1000 Alan Tyree wrote: > Hello Steve, > I would think YAML is the best choice here. It is easy to type and > easy for the beginner to understand. You could provide simple > templates for the most common cases. My own feeling is that anything > more complicated is goin

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-02 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 07:17:57AM +, Baris Erkus wrote: > I have seen many posts to TeX SE, where users encounters this sort of issues. > Most of the time, waiting one or two days solves the issue, which I believe > MikTeX developer(s) fix the associated problem. I've seen many posts like

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-02 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 02:38:58PM +, V K wrote: > Sentence "For most users, choosing "Continue" is the appropriate choice."  > sounds definately better. But I am not inexperienced user and for me minimum > information why should I continue (but more specific than only "LyX > requires") is be

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-02 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:02:02AM +, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > Dear Scott, > > MiKTeX 2.9 has been available since 2010 and the *only* version available > since 2014; see https://miktex.org/releases. Hence the message in your > proposed dialogue > >     LyX requires MiKTeX 2.9 or later. Yo

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-02 Thread V K
Sentence "For most users, choosing "Continue" is the appropriate choice."  sounds definately better. But I am not inexperienced user and for me minimum information why should I continue (but more specific than only "LyX requires") is better. A lot of detales would be too complex. "More details" w

MikTeX problem...

2018-04-02 Thread Bernt Lie
I just updated MikTeX after some problems with LyX lately. (LyX 2.2.3, Windows 10, 64 bit). When trying to preview a LyX document, I get the following error message: [cid:image003.jpg@01D3CA9A.7F05B090] When clicking on “Yes”, the following detail pops up: [cid:image004.jpg@01D3CA9A.7F

RE: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-02 Thread Baris Erkus
Hello, I want to join to this discussion again and would like to clarify my previous post that had suggested a totally different approach. I am a very frequent user of MikTeX in the sense that I update it almost weekly basis. MikTeX is a very “good” TeX system but sometimes it acts awkwa