This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4. Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer 'lyx-144-2.exe' failed for me as well as the previous one. Following Uwe's suggestion, I tried the installer from
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall The small installer I used was 'LyXWin144Small-2-11.exe' I am happy to report that this actually worked for me on Windows XP (32 bit). My initial installs failed on two different 32-bit Windoze machines, but this other installer worked on both of them. There is just one mildly annoying message I see whenever I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex. Maybe this is to be expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx file. It's not a crippling error. I can generate a PDF view and all the references are there correctly. Is this message simply due to the fact that lyx initially looks for .bbl files that aren't there? I never quite understood this feature of lyx. I remember the days when a latex compilation resulted in a .bbl file being created locally (which makes it easier to collaborate, since you could send the .bbl along with the document and your co-writer could see the references without needing the bibtex databases). One final thing. My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for 64-bit XP was dashed. It didn't work. When I attempted to launch lyx I would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear, and no lyx window would appear. In fact, I seem to have quite a bit more trouble with lyx in a 64-bit environment. In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert PDF figures. I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as '/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'. I could use a bit of help with this, actually. Thanks for your help. Jim
