Re: Required packages
Am 07.01.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: I recently needed to re-install MiKTeX. I chose the basic package to make the download manageable, but it installs nothing like all the packages that LyX uses. For additional packages I was guided by the packages listed under Help > LaTeX Configuration, and then by the packages listed in the yellow notes at the start of some of the LyX docs. However this is still inadequate for compiling the LyX docs. The problem was a bug in MiKTeX's installer: It did not work unless one added something to the proxy field. To fix this, open the program MiKTeX update (admin) There click on the button "Connection settings" and use the option to use a proxy. As address just type in "test". (Port is 8080) and press OK. Now continue the updating. Afterwards MiKTeX should be in shape again. Now you can log in ad Admin in Windows, open LyX and reconfigure LyX. Now all necessary packages to compile all LyX documentation files should be installed. If this fails, please report back. regards Uwe p.s. for further MiKTeX updates you could remove the dummy proxy "test" and do it without any proxy.
Re: Required packages
On 07/01/17 09:06, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I recently needed to re-install MiKTeX. I chose the basic package to make the download manageable, but it installs nothing like all the packages that LyX uses. For additional packages I was guided by the packages listed under Help > LaTeX Configuration, and then by the packages listed in the yellow notes at the start of some of the LyX docs. However this is still inadequate for compiling the LyX docs. dvips is required for the Introduction There is no note indicating additional required packages at the start of the Additional LyX Features manual, but I found I needed to download shapepar, lipsum, babel-latin (The last is certainly "out of left field", presumably required to correctly hyphenate the lorem ipsum nonsense!) For the Embedded Objects manual there is a yellow note with additional packages listed but I found I needed also eso-pic, ms, pict2e For at least one of the manuals (but I didn't note which) I needed zhmetrics (presumably for a font used in one of the manuals), and also graphics-cfg. Andrew Thanks for that. I am sorry to say that the Additional features manual has not been updated for some time. I had hoped to be able to d that last year but pressure of work got in the wau. I will take account of your feedback when I update it. John
Required packages
I recently needed to re-install MiKTeX. I chose the basic package to make the download manageable, but it installs nothing like all the packages that LyX uses. For additional packages I was guided by the packages listed under Help > LaTeX Configuration, and then by the packages listed in the yellow notes at the start of some of the LyX docs. However this is still inadequate for compiling the LyX docs. dvips is required for the Introduction There is no note indicating additional required packages at the start of the Additional LyX Features manual, but I found I needed to download shapepar, lipsum, babel-latin (The last is certainly "out of left field", presumably required to correctly hyphenate the lorem ipsum nonsense!) For the Embedded Objects manual there is a yellow note with additional packages listed but I found I needed also eso-pic, ms, pict2e For at least one of the manuals (but I didn't note which) I needed zhmetrics (presumably for a font used in one of the manuals), and also graphics-cfg. Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
