RE: Lyx Win32 setup notes - some anotations
Hi Paul, List; > >> >4. Install Acrobat Reader on root path (may have to ignore install > >> >warnings if you already have it installed in program files â leave > >> >that copy there though!) Change folder path to remove any spaces. > >> >(My second copy is installed as C:\Adobe\Reader) Since I originated this thread I must admit I started this practice of "install all on root" and "all exe's in path" when I was using the Cygwin version and have not changed my ways since then. From what I've read in general over the past view days this is now an unnecessary step, and I must admit I have to agree at least as far as AcroRd32 is concerned. I've since amended my (own) notes to reflect these opinions. However, as yet the only way I have managed to get newer Sed working is to follow this procedure but hey thats another matter What you follow with is I'm sure pretty much the case now. > > I think the concern about spaces in the path is misplaced in this case. > I have the Win32 port running on three different versions of Windoze (98, > ME, XP), with Acrobat Reader installed under C:\Program Files\... in all > cases, and no problems using it. In no case is its directory on the > system path, either. Just putting 'acrord32' as the viewer in the LyX > preferences dialog works. (I'm not sure exactly how LyX locates it. > Invoking acrord32.exe from a command prompt fails. Perhaps LyX looks in > the registry?) > > In general, you can specify a path containing spaces for a viewer by (a) > entering the full path in the preferences dialog and (b) escaping spaces. > You may need to enclose the path in quotes (can't recall). This won't > work with documents, since some latex programs apparently can't handle > escaped spaces in the paths to their targets, but it seems to work ok for > accessing programs. > > -- Paul Rob S
Re: Lyx Win32 setup notes - some anotations
On top of anything else that might be going wrong, you seem to be missing at least one (and possibly two) files. Note the message that sed can't find LaTeXConfig.lyx.in. When I installed Ruurd's 1.3.3 port, that file and LyXConfig.lyx.in were both missing. Check your /doc directory, which is where they should be. If they are missing, either grab them from an older version, or from the source distribution, or e- mail me and I'll send you copies (they're small). Park the files in the doc directory and try again. You can download the files from: http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/doc/LyXConfig.lyx.in
Re: Lyx Win32 setup notes - some anotations
First assure that you use the actual memoir.layout. You can download it from here: http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/memoir.layout This worked beautifully, it was quite stupid of me not to think about deleting the three memoir layouts previously posted from my local .lyx/layouts directory, but doing that and using your link to get the memoir.layout has now sorted everything out. > The default home directory in WinXP is Documents and Settings/... -> a directory with spaces, is that an issue? I have not been able to figure how to change the home directory to a regular directory without spaces do you know how? This is not an issue if you follow Ruurds instructions not to install LyXWin under a folder with spaces in its name. The user settings are saved by LyXWin under Documents and Settings/user/.lyx, but this works fine on all Win-platforms.
Re: Lyx Win32 setup notes - some anotations
I can reconfigure without problems but following this there are still couple of "bugs": 1. Trying to read Latex configuration from the menu or the file in the .../share/doc/ directory gives the message it is not a lyx file, the file is not created i.e. it has 0 bytes. This is a well known bug, but doesn't make any troubles. 2. All document styles work except article memoir and book memoir when lyx chokes and exits with asking me to send a error report to microsoft!! First assure that you use the actual memoir.layout. You can download it from here: http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/memoir.layout The next step is to copy the file into the directory \lyx\share\lyx\layouts Now restart LyX and reconfigure it, because as you can see in your configuration output: +checking for linuxdoc class manpage... no +checking for document class mwart [mwart]... yes LyX didn't check for memoir. If you use MiKTeX, the necessary LaTeX-package 'memoir' will be installed on the fly while reconfiguring LyX. If not or if you disabled this MiKTeX feature, install the package before reconfiguring LyX. When you get +checking for linuxdoc class manpage... no +checking for document class memoir [memoir]... yes +checking for document class mwart [mwart]... yes all should be fine. I hope this solves your problem. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx Win32 setup notes - some anotations
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