Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Soukal wrote: Paul, thanks a lot you for the tip. I happened to have Cygwin installed one my machine, so I gave it a try. My setup is the following: I have windows version of LyX 1.3.5 downloaded from LyX.org. I tried to create the sym-link in Cygwin and run LyX from there. However, i

Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-06 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 20:44, David Soukal wrote: > But then, how can the MinSYS's "ln -s" command work with LyX? I don't > know about MinSYS but Cygwin really creates only a shortcut which is not > being interpreted by LyX... so the trick does not work... > > I'm so confused right now... :)

Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-06 Thread Angus Leeming
David Soukal wrote: > You mentioned MinSYS being required for LyX 1.3.6. What does it mean? > Does it mean that LyX will understand shortcuts in Windows? No. We use MinSYS only to run various shell scripts. Some people have reported success using Cygwin's shell environment instead, but I haven't b

Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-06 Thread David Soukal
Paul A. Rubin wrote: If your advisor has installed (or is willing to install) the MinSYS system (subsystem? package? whatever), you can use symbolic links. I believe MinSYS is mandatory for LyX 1.3.6 and later on Windows. From MinSYS's interactive shell, you create the link pretty much as yo

Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Soukal wrote: Dear LyXers, I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents wo

how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-02 Thread David Soukal
Dear LyXers, I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we hav