Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Björn Snippe

Good morning Lyx'ers :)

I'm just wondering why Gerhard's lyx141\bin directory contains a sh.exe, 
while on my WinXP-Installation the sh.exe is in the msys\1.0\bin folder. 
I did not use an all-in-one-installer (is there one for Lyx141-Win32 
already?), but rather installed the prerequisites step by step, 
including manually adding the msys\1.0\bin folder to my PATH in order 
for configure being able to run.
Could it be that everything, including msys, was installed into the 
lyx141 directory (which would leave the sh.exe in it's bin subfolder and 
probably cause some overwritten files or confusion with relative paths)?
On my system, for example, I used a common c:\lyx folder, containing 
separate subfolders for the prerequisites, e.g. \msys, \python, \lyx141, 
\gs etc.).


HTH,
Bjoern

Gerhard Schaffer wrote:

I do not understand where thze msys directory should be.
sh.exe is in my case located in ...\lyx141\bin.
There no path entry to this directory. But I cannot start sh from that 
directory.
There was only one entry made in the PATH EnvVar during installation 
pointing to miktex\bin
I checked my complete system disc and there is only the sh.exe in the 
lyx141\bin directory. There I found a dll called msys-1.0.dll too.


What other directories should be added to the PATH EnvVar ?



Re: pdfpages \includepdf not working

2006-05-04 Thread Björn Snippe

Hi,

I tried it on my system (WinXP, Lyx 1.4.1) and keep getting errors saying
"Package pdfpages Error: You are using neither pdfTeX nor VTeX."
Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, though, as I'm a newbie to Lyx/Latex.

If you just need to concatenate the two PDFs (your thesis and the 
survey) you could try FreePDF (http://freepdfxp.de/) (Windows and German 
only, AFAIK), which has also a 'MultiDoc' function to do just that - 
feed it two PDFs and get out one.


Peter Bowyer schrieb:
[...]
I've posted the Word document, PDF file and a sample LyX file online at 
http://dev.mapledesign.co.uk/lyx/ and if someone would test if it works 
on their computer that would be great.  I have to hand in my thesis by 
3pm GMT tomorrow, so if this doesn't work I'll be reduced to stapling a 
Word printout to the back!

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