Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Matthias Hunstig 
Hi,

 It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
 pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
 are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the 
Windows XP Control Panel to end up with a clean system?

Matthias

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Olivier Ripoll 

On 15.09.2011 09:31, Matthias Hunstig wrote:

Hi,


It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.


I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the Windows XP 
Control Panel to end up with a clean system?

Matthias



Assuming windows 7, you may want to delete (or simply rename/move it) 
the LyX preferences folder (lyx20), in the AppData\Roaming folder in 
you home directory (the AppData folder is hidden).


that would be
C:\Users\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on windows 7, and something like (from memory)
C:\Documents and Settings\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on XP.

Also, some apps can help checking for leftovers (ccleaner is such an 
app) when uninstalling a soft (they are safe to use to analyse the 
left-overs, you may want to be careful if you use them for cleaning)


Sincerely,

Olivier

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Rubin 
Matthias Hunstig matthias.hunstig at uni-paderborn.de writes:


 If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the
Windows XP Control Panel to end
 up with a clean system?

On Windows XP, look in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data and
delete any folders with 'Lyx' or 'Miktex' in their names.  Note that this will
delete any customized layouts, keyboard bindings etc. you might have stored for
LyX.  If you have any such things, it would be prudent to archive copies first.

Also look in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Local Settings\Application Data
for MikTeX directories.  (LyX stores nothing there, but I think MiKTeX does.)

Repeat this above with All Users in place of your id to catch anything
stored if either LyX of MiKTeX was installed for all users.

Paul

Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Matthias Hunstig 
Hi,

 It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
 pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
 are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the 
Windows XP Control Panel to end up with a clean system?

Matthias

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Olivier Ripoll 

On 15.09.2011 09:31, Matthias Hunstig wrote:

Hi,


It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.


I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the Windows XP 
Control Panel to end up with a clean system?

Matthias



Assuming windows 7, you may want to delete (or simply rename/move it) 
the LyX preferences folder (lyx20), in the AppData\Roaming folder in 
you home directory (the AppData folder is hidden).


that would be
C:\Users\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on windows 7, and something like (from memory)
C:\Documents and Settings\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on XP.

Also, some apps can help checking for leftovers (ccleaner is such an 
app) when uninstalling a soft (they are safe to use to analyse the 
left-overs, you may want to be careful if you use them for cleaning)


Sincerely,

Olivier

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Rubin 
Matthias Hunstig matthias.hunstig at uni-paderborn.de writes:


 If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the
Windows XP Control Panel to end
 up with a clean system?

On Windows XP, look in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data and
delete any folders with 'Lyx' or 'Miktex' in their names.  Note that this will
delete any customized layouts, keyboard bindings etc. you might have stored for
LyX.  If you have any such things, it would be prudent to archive copies first.

Also look in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Local Settings\Application Data
for MikTeX directories.  (LyX stores nothing there, but I think MiKTeX does.)

Repeat this above with All Users in place of your id to catch anything
stored if either LyX of MiKTeX was installed for all users.

Paul

Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Matthias Hunstig 
Hi,

> It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
> pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
> are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the 
Windows XP Control Panel to end up with a "clean" system?

Matthias

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Olivier Ripoll 

On 15.09.2011 09:31, Matthias Hunstig wrote:

Hi,


It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.


I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the Windows XP 
Control Panel to end up with a "clean" system?

Matthias



Assuming windows 7, you may want to delete (or simply rename/move it) 
the LyX preferences folder ("lyx20"), in the AppData\Roaming folder in 
you home directory (the AppData folder is hidden).


that would be
C:\Users\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on windows 7, and something like (from memory)
C:\Documents and Settings\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on XP.

Also, some apps can help checking for leftovers ("ccleaner" is such an 
app) when uninstalling a soft (they are safe to use to analyse the 
left-overs, you may want to be careful if you use them for cleaning)


Sincerely,

Olivier

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Rubin 
Matthias Hunstig  uni-paderborn.de> writes:


> If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the
Windows XP Control Panel to end
> up with a "clean" system?

On Windows XP, look in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data and
delete any folders with 'Lyx' or 'Miktex' in their names.  Note that this will
delete any customized layouts, keyboard bindings etc. you might have stored for
LyX.  If you have any such things, it would be prudent to archive copies first.

Also look in C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data
for MikTeX directories.  (LyX stores nothing there, but I think MiKTeX does.)

Repeat this above with "All Users" in place of  to catch anything
stored if either LyX of MiKTeX was installed for all users.

Paul

pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Matthias Hunstig 
Hello everybody,

today, I installed LyX 2.0.1 using Uwe's installer 
(http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=18767)
 over my somewhat broken 2.0 installation 
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70495/focus=70618, main 
cause seems to be a problem with network drives and/or limited rights users in 
WinXP) in the hope that it might fix something.

Unfortunately, things got worse instead. Pdflatex now runs infinitely long (not 
proven, but at least very long, i. e. over one hour for a one page document) in 
the background. Tex files are created in the temporary folder, but no pdf is 
created. Any idea why this might be and how it could be solved?

To be honest, I am quite frustrated with LyX now. I love it when it works, but 
in the last weeks I spent more time fixing problems than actually writing in 
LyX. I just stumpled across Portable Lyx 2.0 
(http://portable-lyx.impossible-exil.info/). Maybe this is a solution for me 
and other people struggeling with installation problems.

Regards

Matthias

Re: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Matthias Hunstig
matthias.huns...@uni-paderborn.de wrote:
 Hello everybody,

 today, I installed LyX 2.0.1 using Uwe's installer 
 (http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=18767)
  over my somewhat broken 2.0 installation 
 (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70495/focus=70618, main 
 cause seems to be a problem with network drives and/or limited rights users 
 in WinXP) in the hope that it might fix something.

 Unfortunately, things got worse instead. Pdflatex now runs infinitely long 
 (not proven, but at least very long, i. e. over one hour for a one page 
 document) in the background. Tex files are created in the temporary folder, 
 but no pdf is created. Any idea why this might be and how it could be solved?

 To be honest, I am quite frustrated with LyX now. I love it when it works, 
 but in the last weeks I spent more time fixing problems than actually writing 
 in LyX. I just stumpled across Portable Lyx 2.0 
 (http://portable-lyx.impossible-exil.info/). Maybe this is a solution for me 
 and other people struggeling with installation problems.

Or you could try Cygwin (on Windows), or installing a Linux distro
such as Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine such as VMWare. This worked pretty
fine for me when I needed to use Windows, and sometimes it is less of
a hassle than getting an open-source thingy working on Windows. If you
install in a VMWare you need only very little knowledge about Linux.

I cannot help with your actual problem. Sorry
Liviu


 Regards

 Matthias




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Re: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Rubin 
It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run pdflatex
against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there are problems
with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

Paul

pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Matthias Hunstig 
Hello everybody,

today, I installed LyX 2.0.1 using Uwe's installer 
(http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=18767)
 over my somewhat broken 2.0 installation 
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70495/focus=70618, main 
cause seems to be a problem with network drives and/or limited rights users in 
WinXP) in the hope that it might fix something.

Unfortunately, things got worse instead. Pdflatex now runs infinitely long (not 
proven, but at least very long, i. e. over one hour for a one page document) in 
the background. Tex files are created in the temporary folder, but no pdf is 
created. Any idea why this might be and how it could be solved?

To be honest, I am quite frustrated with LyX now. I love it when it works, but 
in the last weeks I spent more time fixing problems than actually writing in 
LyX. I just stumpled across Portable Lyx 2.0 
(http://portable-lyx.impossible-exil.info/). Maybe this is a solution for me 
and other people struggeling with installation problems.

Regards

Matthias

Re: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Matthias Hunstig
matthias.huns...@uni-paderborn.de wrote:
 Hello everybody,

 today, I installed LyX 2.0.1 using Uwe's installer 
 (http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=18767)
  over my somewhat broken 2.0 installation 
 (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70495/focus=70618, main 
 cause seems to be a problem with network drives and/or limited rights users 
 in WinXP) in the hope that it might fix something.

 Unfortunately, things got worse instead. Pdflatex now runs infinitely long 
 (not proven, but at least very long, i. e. over one hour for a one page 
 document) in the background. Tex files are created in the temporary folder, 
 but no pdf is created. Any idea why this might be and how it could be solved?

 To be honest, I am quite frustrated with LyX now. I love it when it works, 
 but in the last weeks I spent more time fixing problems than actually writing 
 in LyX. I just stumpled across Portable Lyx 2.0 
 (http://portable-lyx.impossible-exil.info/). Maybe this is a solution for me 
 and other people struggeling with installation problems.

Or you could try Cygwin (on Windows), or installing a Linux distro
such as Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine such as VMWare. This worked pretty
fine for me when I needed to use Windows, and sometimes it is less of
a hassle than getting an open-source thingy working on Windows. If you
install in a VMWare you need only very little knowledge about Linux.

I cannot help with your actual problem. Sorry
Liviu


 Regards

 Matthias




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http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
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Re: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Rubin 
It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run pdflatex
against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there are problems
with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

Paul

pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Matthias Hunstig 
Hello everybody,

today, I installed LyX 2.0.1 using Uwe's installer 
(http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=18767)
 over my somewhat broken 2.0 installation 
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70495/focus=70618, main 
cause seems to be a problem with network drives and/or limited rights users in 
WinXP) in the hope that it might fix something.

Unfortunately, things got worse instead. Pdflatex now runs infinitely long (not 
proven, but at least very long, i. e. over one hour for a one page document) in 
the background. Tex files are created in the temporary folder, but no pdf is 
created. Any idea why this might be and how it could be solved?

To be honest, I am quite frustrated with LyX now. I love it when it works, but 
in the last weeks I spent more time fixing problems than actually writing in 
LyX. I just stumpled across Portable Lyx 2.0 
(http://portable-lyx.impossible-exil.info/). Maybe this is a solution for me 
and other people struggeling with installation problems.

Regards

Matthias

Re: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Matthias Hunstig
 wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> today, I installed LyX 2.0.1 using Uwe's installer 
> (http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=18767)
>  over my somewhat broken 2.0 installation 
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70495/focus=70618, main 
> cause seems to be a problem with network drives and/or limited rights users 
> in WinXP) in the hope that it might fix something.
>
> Unfortunately, things got worse instead. Pdflatex now runs infinitely long 
> (not proven, but at least very long, i. e. over one hour for a one page 
> document) in the background. Tex files are created in the temporary folder, 
> but no pdf is created. Any idea why this might be and how it could be solved?
>
> To be honest, I am quite frustrated with LyX now. I love it when it works, 
> but in the last weeks I spent more time fixing problems than actually writing 
> in LyX. I just stumpled across Portable Lyx 2.0 
> (http://portable-lyx.impossible-exil.info/). Maybe this is a solution for me 
> and other people struggeling with installation problems.
>
Or you could try Cygwin (on Windows), or installing a Linux distro
such as Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine such as VMWare. This worked pretty
fine for me when I needed to use Windows, and sometimes it is less of
a hassle than getting an open-source thingy working on Windows. If you
install in a VMWare you need only very little knowledge about Linux.

I cannot help with your actual problem. Sorry
Liviu


> Regards
>
> Matthias
>



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Re: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Rubin 
It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run pdflatex
against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there are problems
with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

Paul