Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-22 Thread Stephen Harris
SH: A new winlyx user should have 1.3.7 installed. I think that will avoid most of the problems you mentioned at least it does for me. Bo: I did not experience these problems with Uwe's 1.3.7 installer, but that was for user accounts with administrative privilege. Maybe this made a big difference

Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A new winlyx user should have 1.3.7 installed. I think that will >> avoid most of the problems you mentioned at least it does for me. > I did not experience these problems with Uwe's 1.3.7 installer, but > that was for user accounts with administrative privil

Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-22 Thread Bo Peng
> A new winlyx user should have 1.3.7 installed. I think that will > avoid most of the problems you mentioned at least it does for me. I did not experience these problems with Uwe's 1.3.7 installer, but that was for user accounts with administrative privilege. Maybe this made a big difference. Bo

Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-22 Thread Stephen Harris
Bo Peng wrote: Hi, Just helped another guy to install lyx/win on his windows machine, again frustrated. Briefly, 1. download everything, install, until we are told that miktex can not be installed without adminstrative priveledge. --- SH: An expe

Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:46:43PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > Don't you _hate_ Windows? > > Not exactly. I have been a long time, even qualified as *experienced* > windows user. For basic usage and entertainment, windows is fine. The > reason why I am now basically a linux user is that for the area

Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-21 Thread Bo Peng
> Don't you _hate_ Windows? Not exactly. I have been a long time, even qualified as *experienced* windows user. For basic usage and entertainment, windows is fine. The reason why I am now basically a linux user is that for the area I am working in, linux is far better. Another reason is that I can

Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, the biggest problem now is the viewer stuff. This is totally > un-windows-ish, and unnecessary. All we need to do is a call to let > windows *open* the document. Windows will do the rest. I will put this > to my TODO list. Cool. That's something that J

Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-21 Thread Bo Peng
> So do something about it then. Yes. I am doing something. For example, my patches would allow users to ignore the texhash and "document settings\user\application data\lyx\layouts" trouble, but I heard words like "this brings more trouble than good". Anyway, the biggest problem now is the viewe

Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-21 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:25:29PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > Hi, > > Just helped another guy to install lyx/win on his windows machine, > again frustrated. Briefly, ... > You can see why I was not particularly happy when things finally worked. Don't you _hate_ Windows? - Martin pgpoyUDcm7pM

Re: Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can see why I was not particularly happy when things finally worked. So do something about it then. Angus

Experience with lyx/win ...

2006-04-21 Thread Bo Peng
Hi, Just helped another guy to install lyx/win on his windows machine, again frustrated. Briefly, 1. download everything, install, until we are told that miktex can not be installed without adminstrative priveledge. 2. log out/in as administrator, install, lyx/configure fails to start. 3. check