On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:20:43AM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:33:35PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > >> I wonder if this is a matter of how you filled in the preferences > >> dialog. What works for me is this: > >> > >> 1. Install Enrico's lp.exe binary in the LyX bin directory. > >> > >> 2. In Tools->Preferences...->Outputs->Printer, set the printer name to > >> 'lp' and leave the printer command 'dvips'. > > > > This should not be necessary. It should work simply reconfiguring LyX. > > I mean, you should have to touch nothing in preferences. > > > > Well, I'm confused (as usual). When I first installed your lp.exe, I > reconfigured LyX, but printing did not work until I specified LP as the > printer name. Yesterday I restarted LyX, and the printer name was again > blank (I had apparently not saved my change). Printing did not work > until I entered LP as the printer name (and saved it). So just now I > started LyX, removed the printer name, saved, restarted, reconfigured, > restarted (printer name still blank), and now printing works with the > printer name blank. > > I can see where the configure script looks for lp.exe, and I can see it > in the "local" copy of lyxrc.defaults. No idea why it didn't work > before (other than to blame it on Windows, of course).
You're not alone about the confusion, I think. I can exactly predict what will happen on Unix, but Windows always escapes me ;-) I think that the chaos theory is most appropriate to explain things on Windows :( -- Enrico
