Re: LyxWin wiki page

2005-07-26 Thread chr
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > I've added a paragraph abouth first checks of the installation. > I wonder if it would be better located in the LyXWin tips, or in a new page. In which group (LyX or Windows) is the page located right now? > Feel free to add other examples (with

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rob S wrote: More info please! subst?? subst (short for "substitute") is an old DOS command that is still supported Thanks for following up on this for me, Paul. I've been travelling and have fallen behind on my personal email. One additional note: if you open

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rob S wrote: Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can mak

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Rob S
Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can make the subst co

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Wojcik
Brian Williams wrote: If it could deal with spaces in the user directory, surely it wouldn't need that restriction? The way I get around this is to map a local network drive (X:) to the Documents and Settings directory so as to avoid having to create yet another top level directory. Quick Win

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-09 Thread Angus Leeming
lamikr wrote: I have also this same problem. And as the error box comes before Lyx really is fully started, it is impossible to get in the preferences dialog. I will however try your other suggestions tomorrow. Mika It would be interesting to see if you have problems with LyX/Win 1.3.6pre, a

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-09 Thread lamikr
I have also this same problem. And as the error box comes before Lyx really is fully started, it is impossible to get in the preferences dialog. I will however try your other suggestions tomorrow. Mika Nicolás wrote: I don't really know if this is the problem, but be sure you have the directo

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Boutillier wrote: I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. As someone else pointed out in the thread, be sure that you do not try to start LyX from a directory containing spaces in its name or path. Bad Things Will Happen. Also, it makes a difference what directory is c

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Brian Williams
You have >> User Lyx directory: 'C:/Documents and Settings/db/.lyx/' Maybe the problem is that you have your user directory set to a directory with spaces in the pathname? It may not be in this case, but I'm sure it will give you trouble later. http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSe

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Angus Leeming
David Boutillier wrote: I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. Usage: C:\LaTeX\LyX\lyx\bin\sed.exe [OPTION] . . configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script. Any help would be muchly appreciated. Muchly? :) I don't think that I've ever seen the error that you ap

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread Nicolás
I don't really know if this is the problem, but be sure you have the directories containing acrobat.exe and gsview32.exe in the PATH. Then check that in Edit->Preferences->File formats, for PDF the viewer is "acrobat.exe" and for postcript is "gsview32.exe" Be sure also that you have "\bin\" a

RE: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread Steven Ning
Sorry for such a brief response to a detailed question, but have you tried to view as DVI? (I believe it's ctrl-d) Also, does it correctly export to pdf? Steven -Original Message- From: David Boutillier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 3:23 PM To: lyx-users@lists.l

Re: LyXwin not finding miktex -- SOLVED

2005-06-01 Thread Srinivas Nedunuri
teven Ning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:26 PM Subject: RE: LyXwin not finding miktex -- SOLVED > Ah, I found out what was going on. After I put the miktex binaries directory > in my PATH, I had to remove the .lyx folder in C:\Documents and > Settings\us

RE: LyXwin not finding miktex -- SOLVED

2005-05-31 Thread Steven Ning
Ah, I found out what was going on. After I put the miktex binaries directory in my PATH, I had to remove the .lyx folder in C:\Documents and Settings\user and THEN let it reconfigure. It works now! Thanks for the help! Steven

Re: LyXwin not finding miktex

2005-05-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steven Ning wrote: I've just installed miktex 2.4 under C:\texmf, and then installed LyX 1.3.5 for Windows under C:\lyx. When I started lyx for the first time (or reconfigured), it does not seem to see miktex or any of the document classes included with miktex. The help>configuration document say

Re: LyXwin not finding miktex

2005-05-30 Thread Angus Leeming
Steven Ning wrote: I've just installed miktex 2.4 under C:\texmf, and then installed LyX 1.3.5 for Windows under C:\lyx. When I started lyx for the first time (or reconfigured), it does not seem to see miktex or any of the document classes included with miktex. The help>configuration document say

Re: LyxWin

2004-11-16 Thread Rob S
I've seen references here to LyxWin. I would like to know if a non-techie Academic using Windows XP (or 2000) could be happy using LyxWin. My wife is working on a book publication and I have wanted to get her out of Word for some time. I can handle the general tech support and installation if the

Re: LyxWin

2004-11-16 Thread Matthias Quick
Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 14:22 schrieb Kevin Pfeiffer: > Hi, > > I've seen references here to LyxWin. I would like to know if a non-techie > Academic using Windows XP (or 2000) could be happy using LyxWin. My wife > is working on a book publication and I have wanted to get her out of Word > f

Re: LyxWin

2004-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Kevin Pfeiffer schrieb: Hi, I've seen references here to LyxWin. I would like to know if a non-techie Academic using Windows XP (or 2000) could be happy using LyxWin. My wife is working on a book publication and I have wanted to get her out of Word for some time. I can handle the general tech su

Re: LyxWin - sed question (new versions)

2004-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] =?UTF-8?B?VXdlIFN0w7Zocg==?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On the sed-page > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id= > 16429 I found a version 1.4, that is newer than version 4.0.9. What's > the difference between these

Re: LyxWin - sed question

2004-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] =?UTF-8?B?VXdlIFN0w7Zocg==?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In the mail-archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg32760.html > I found the following: > > --- > Ope

Re: LyxWin on win98

2004-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
theblond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Dear Uwe and list, > > US> Has anybody tried the new version to configure LyX under Win98? > I unpacked and run LyX on Win98 (first EN edition v4.10.1998). > But it is not yet configured. > I can open, edit, save files without any p

Re: LyxWin on win98

2004-03-14 Thread theblond
Dear Uwe and list, US> Has anybody tried the new version to configure LyX under Win98? I unpacked and run LyX on Win98 (first EN edition v4.10.1998). But it is not yet configured. I can open, edit, save files without any problem. But to view them, I know I need TeX, and LaTeX and mabye some other