I have lyx working with texlive and it is awesome. No issues. TexLive is really hard to install though.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:16 PM Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/15/18 12:13 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I was trying to compile texinfo on Windows, if you succeed, let me know > how. > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo > > I was able to cross-compile on Linux, but I'm a bit clueless about what > to do with the result. > > The files texi2* that it installs are all scripts, for what it's worth. > The main one seems to be texi2any, which is a Perl script. I'm not sure > how much one really needs to run it. > > There's also this an older set of binaries here: > > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/texinfo.htm > > which might be good enough. > > Riki > > > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 1:12 PM Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 10/13/18 1:58 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> The only critical flaw in TeXLive we have encountered is that it does > >>> not include texi2pdf. Because of that absence, the R team is still > >>> devoted to MikTeX as a part of the tool chain to build/use R for > >>> windows. I spent a while trying to figure out how to compile texi2pdf > >>> on Windows and gave up. > >> Can you point me at the source code? I'd certainly have a go at > >> cross-compiling it on Linux with mingw. > >> > >> Riki > >> > >> > > > >
