On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, developers. Can you make LyX look in the current working directory for > class files and turn off the warnings the pop up with LyX 2.0.7? Please? > Can this be related to http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8864 ?
> For our doctoral students, I worked out a LyX example (LaTeX as well) and it > uses a custom class file. I have the cls file in the document directory. > Along with a biblio style and the document itself. All was well until LyX > 2.0.7 > Is it an option to advise your students to downgrade LyX to 2.0.6, assuming that that version behaves? Liviu > http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Computing-HOWTO/KU-thesis/ > > (I'd like advice on how to create a real LyX template that would conceal the > ERT in the LyX main document, but that's a different email I need to write > to you). > > The PDF output passed the inspection of our administrators, and we have > started teaching students how to use this. So far, there have been 6 > dissertations written with LyX at KU. > > LyX 2.0.7 seems to have introduced a new warning that is driving the users > crazy. I had never seen it before this Saturday. Maybe this is just in > Windows. Every time they open the LyX dissertation document, warnings pop up > over and over saying the kuthesis.cls file is not installed and they cannot > compile anything until they get it. > > I say ignore those warnings, click OK 5 times, the document compiles, all is > well. But I'd rather not bother with the warnings. > > I suppose you are thinking I should teach them LaTeX distribution > maintenance so they can install the cls file. I want to resist. It should > not be needed. Windows has made doing even the most basic user accountant > maintenance chores into a frustrating battle for users. I don't think it > should be necessary, just make LyX take notice of the cls file in the > current working directory and move on. > > Just to whine about Windows for a while, since I complain all the time about > it. I spent Saturday afternoon installing LyX on student computers and no > two Windows systems behaved in the same way to the LyX install. The new > installer works quite nicely, really, except for interaction with the MikTeX > package manager is still problematic. It hangs the LyX process completely > on about 1/2 of the systems we tried. There can be a silent failure of > communication between LyX and MikTeX, I've never gotten to the bottom of it. > > I realize now the right thing is to just ask for help in preparing > instructions for MikTeX users. For people that have admin powers, here is > what to do. Maybe you double check me. > > 1. Find your MikTeX under c:\Program Files .... > > 2. Find a subdirectory in there texmf\tex\latex. You might have to search > for it, but it is certainly under the main MikTeX folder > > 3. You could drop the kuthesis.cls file into that directory, but don't. > Please be tidy. Inside tex\latex, make a directory, call it whatever you > want. For example, we used "misc" or "kuthesis". > > But, wait, you are not done yet. MikTeX does not know about that file. > > 4. In the Start Menu, find the MikTeX settings (admin) program, there should > be a button on the first panel that says "update FNDB", which will have the > same effect as "texhash" on Linux & mac systems. It indexes the class & > style files. I found it difficult to describe to people how to find this > menu on Windows 8, so I said get a command box open as administrator and run > this at the prompt: > >> initexmf --update-fndb > > The only tricky part there is getting the command box with admin powers. On > the start screen, type "cmd" and when it suggests a program, right click the > launcher, choose run as administrator. > > 5. Run Lyx, do Preferences -> Reconfigure. Hopefully, all is well after you > close LyX and re-start. > > In my experience, this is the least error probe method, but it only works > for people who have admin powers to write in tex\latex. > > We did not succeed on the system where the user could not be the > administrator. I realize there are documents that say a local Windows user > can set up a personalized LaTeX tree, but I've not seen it succeed with my > own eyes. We did try, adding a folder in the hidden AppData folder of the > user account > > pj > > -- > Paul E. Johnson > Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director > 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods > University of Kansas University of Kansas > http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
