Thanks everyone, this is really useful.
Someone posted a while back about working on a book on LyX - this
would be a great topic to include.
"and windows is meant to be easier than Linux, even the command line on
Linux is easier to use, I remember the old path command had a limit of
something like 128 characters is this still the case."
I got curious, and found this:
Windows 2000 has a 254 character limit.
Windows XP has a 255 charact
On 11/04/2010 02:02 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote:
First, we have to go to where the file lives.
C:\Users\MyName>cd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin
Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of
thing be put in quotes. So:
C:\Users\MyName>cd "C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin"
Th
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> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
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>> Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here?
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Shucks, I guess I'll give it a go.
Go to the command line (windowsbubble>run>cmd).
Type in our command.
C:\Users\MyName>lyx.exe -help
'lyx.exe' is not recognized as an i
By default, lyx.exe is not in your path... you will have to put the full
"%programfiles%\lyx\bin\lyx.exe" in quotes on the command prompt (or some
variation thereof)
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
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> Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here?
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> C:\Users\M
Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here?
C:\Users\MyName>lyx.exe -help
'lyx.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
... and I'm stuck.
Are there any simple resources on how to get started with the very basics?
Unfortun
I am looking into something like:
lyx.exe input.lyx --format=PDFLATEX output.pdf
lyx -e pdf2 input.lyx
This will produce input.pdf, you cannot specify output.pdf.
Very nice, thanks I can now write my batch file which does the
publishing automatically.
I tried lyx.exe /HELP but Lyx just open
Tim Michelsen wrote:
Using lyx on the windows command line
Hello,
I'd like to automatize the PDF-generation an publication of my Lyx-documents.
I there I way that allows me to run lyx.exe from command line and having it
convert a file to a PDF using pdflatex?
I am looking into something
Using lyx on the windows command line
Hello,
I'd like to automatize the PDF-generation an publication of my Lyx-documents.
I there I way that allows me to run lyx.exe from command line and having it
convert a file to a PDF using pdflatex?
I am looking into something like:
lyx.exe inpu
