(Disclaimer: what follows below was done on my laptop, which we've
established was manufactured in an alternative dimension)
Steve Harris wrote:
No, Tex Information does not work. The Rescan button does not work
right. I have to run "python TeXFiles.py" in order to generate a
the .lst files. Rescan does not work at this point. After you copy
the .lst files to ~Resources, then Rescan registers the files in
the Resources directory, nearly instantaneously. Rescan does not
search the texmf directory. I've tested this twice.
Not only does it work for me, but I hid the bstFiles.lst file (by
renaming it), started LyX 1.4.2, went to Tools->TeX Information->BibTeX
styles, and bstFiles.lst was reconstituted automagically (without my
having to click Rescan). I did this about three times to convince
myself that the gods were not playing with me. (If they were, they were
unusually single-minded about it.)
Python acting on TexFiles.py works right, but the Rescan button
doesn't invoke "python texfiles.py" it only reads from Resources.
I'm not sure that asking if you have a full Python installed is
relevant. I do, and it is in the Path and works with earlier versions.
Same here.
But the installer (small 9mb) still installs Python into my LyX/lyx14
sub-directory and Msys shell tools too. The installer doesn't check
to see if you already have Python and Msys intalled, it just installs
it again.
Same here.
The reason I questioned the relevance is that I thought
LyX ran executables from its own installation directory first, so
that the Python used was the LyX-owned Python, not the full version.
In any event, whatever python is being used, it correctly runs
"python texfiles.py" but that action is not connected to Rescan.
Rescan *only* reads the .lst files *after* they have been created,
from the Resource directory (not even from /scripts where they arise).
Works for me (on the laptop -- haven't tried any other machines).
Since Bo also says it does not work (and I'm pretty sure I'm not the
only Windows user for whom it does work), perhaps we should be looking
for environmental similarities/differences.
/Paul
