Re: Portable LyX & PortableApps

2011-06-01 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Some days before I gave a request for a portable Lyx to the request-forum of portableapps.com. Today came an answer: there is someone, who would build a portable lyx! Have a look at http://portableapps.com/node/27981. He closes his considerations with: "I've started putting together the LyX Launch

Re: Portable LyX & PortableApps

2011-05-20 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote: > I gave this request to the PortableApps Forum "Request Apps" > yesterday (http://portableapps.com/node/27981) : There was a version of LyX at PortableApps.com but it was difficult to get to work. I never succeeded in running it. It has a

Re: Portable LyX & PortableApps

2011-05-19 Thread Matthias Schmidt
I gave this request to the PortableApps Forum "Request Apps" yesterday (http://portableapps.com/node/27981) : LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG): http://www.lyx.org. Some y

Re: Portable LyX

2011-05-10 Thread Diego Queiroz
> > I am not able to fully understand the part > "the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way to > achieve this without changing the code". > > Open LyX and select Help > About. There you can see what directory LyX is using to store user files. On Windows, this folder i

Re: Portable LyX

2011-05-10 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX? Yes [1]. > I want to be able to edit TeX files While LyX uses (La)TeX to produce PDF, it does not use "native" (La)TeX internally. And importing (La)TeX into LyX is not exactly seamless. Sincerely, Wolfgang [1] I'm using

Re: Portable LyX

2011-05-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 10/05/11 06:20, Ganesh Sundaram a écrit : LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows register. AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way to achieve this without changing the code. I am not able to fully understand the part "the dire

Re: Portable LyX

2011-05-09 Thread Ganesh Sundaram
On 5/9/2011 8:08 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific question. LyX uses t

Re: Portable LyX

2011-05-09 Thread Drazick
The perfect idea would be a portable LyX which includes any library needed within it. I think the guys over Portable Apps will be helpful. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: > The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the >

Re: Portable LyX

2011-05-09 Thread Diego Queiroz
> > The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the > installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc). > Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific > question. > LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the W

Re: Portable LyX

2011-05-09 Thread Ganesh Sundaram
On 5/9/2011 6:43 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Drazick wrote: Hello. Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX? I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing programs (Use only portable programs). You cannot produ

Re: Portable LyX

2011-05-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Drazick wrote: > Hello. > Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX? > > I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing > programs > (Use only portable programs). > You cannot produce PDF from TeX files without a L

Re: portable lyx: Lytex

2009-11-29 Thread John Kane
; From: James Mansion > Subject: Re: portable lyx: Lytex > To: vban...@gmail.com > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 5:39 AM > vban...@gmail.com > wrote: > > Portable lyx is available as Lytex on google code > project. Works fine. For

Re: portable lyx: Lytex

2009-11-29 Thread John Kane
I've had it on a USB stick for 3-4 months and it seems good but I have had a problem loading new LaTeX styles. Otherwise it's been handy. --- On Sun, 11/29/09, vban...@gmail.com wrote: > From: vban...@gmail.com > Subject: portable lyx: Lytex > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday

Re: portable lyx: Lytex

2009-11-29 Thread James Mansion
vban...@gmail.com wrote: Portable lyx is available as Lytex on google code project. Works fine. For information What is the benefit of this over the normal Win32 installers? The documentation on there is sparse. James

Re: Portable Lyx

2008-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Does anyone know, if there is a portable version of lyx anywhere, that is running without problems from an usb-stick? And if there is, how it is to arrange with miktex an so on the stick? You might want to look at http://portableapps.com/node/9880. /Paul

Re: Portable Lyx?

2007-09-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Oliver Rath wrote: is it planned to release a portable lyx version (like portable firefox, openoffice etc. (www.portableapps.com)) ? Maybe this would be a good idea for demonstrating it from CD or USB-Stick.. There's an item for it in the feature poll (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll#toc

Re: portable Lyx version: live lyx CD or others?

2006-07-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Chen wrote: I think it is meaningful to produce a portable Lyx, which can be used with U-disk, CD or DVD. Any suggestions? There was a discussion on the list not too long ago about running LyX from a flash drive. You might be able to find it in the GMANE list archive. (Sorry, don't

Re: portable Lyx version: live lyx CD or others?

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Robin Green wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:57:10 -0700 "Michael Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, MS Office is installed in all public libraries. However I would like to edit my lyx files in library computer. At home I installed lyx 1.4.2 from scratch to my U-disk, hoping

Re: portable Lyx version: live lyx CD or others?

2006-07-14 Thread Robin Green
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:57:10 -0700 "Michael Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, MS Office is installed in all public libraries. However I would > like to edit my lyx files in library computer. At home I installed lyx > 1.4.2 from scratch to my U-disk, hoping that I can use it on other > machine.