On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 02:35:35 +0200 (EET), Mika Kristian Laitio wrote:
>The readme.os2 where is carefully explained how to install
>lyx to work with latex, xdvi gv etc. is missing from the newest
>lyx-zip distribution!!!
>Could it be added to there again. (after making small updates to it)
>Currently there is much shortened version of this text which
>does not help so much for new lyx users to get everything
>lyx related to work undex XFree86/2.
Well, as I already said, before making it part of the 'official' source
distribution, I want to clean it up. I already rewrote parts and split
it
into two file README.OS2 and INSTALL.OS2 according to hints of the
source maintainer.
But I never thought, writing such a little piece of documentation would
mean so much work :) ... So, thank you very much for your hints and
corrections.
Another still missing part is the use of fax software with LyX/2 (I
never used such things and have no idea, how it works). If anybody has
some experience with it, please mail me some hints. Otherwise I will
have to omit it.
>Before adding it I however suggest changing some parts from
>the text to include more uptodate information.
>(It is quite already quite well written but some of the
>information needed is missing)
>
>1) For ghostscript it should now suggest installing gs5.50 as
>descriped in
>http://www.ime.rwth-aachen.de/~michael/os2/ghostscript/index.html
>/* Missing */
OK, I'm just testing it; thanks to the helpful soul, who has compiled
it.
>2) Gv needs to find gs.exe not gsos2.exe so after installing
>ghostscript 5.50 and gv2.7 gsos2.exe should be copied/renamed
>to gs.exe.
>/* Missing*/
Ok, and it should be moved to %PATH%.
>3) For xdvi you need following things:
> - Install dvips583 from
> http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/emTeX/contrib/index.html
> into emtex root directory
> /* Missing */
Well, this is an additional option for preview of postscript related
things, which xdvi happens to handle in a better way than dvipm. I'll
mention it...
> - unzip xdvi.zip and xaw3d.zip in [x11root]
> /* missing */
Well, if you really feel that people need this explicit hint...
> - copy xaw3d.dll to xaw.dll in
> [x11root]:\xfree86\lib
Ok, already included.
> - edit maketexpk.cmd in
> [x11root]:\xfree86\bin
> (correct line mapfile='d:\emtex\data\dvips\psfonts.map'
> to point psfonts.map file, which came with dvips*.zip from Leo)
> /* Missing */
Well, this is already part of XDVI/2 's README. Unfortunately the
author of the port forgot to include the README in most distributed
versions...
> - Set following lines into config.sys
> SET XDVIFONTS=D:/texfonts/*/%ddpi/%f.%p
> SET XDVIVFS=D:/texfonts/vf/%f.vf
>4) With emtex make sure that you have latex2e.cmd in
> \emtex\bin-directory. If it is missing (It is missing if you
> have installed emtex from 1 big file called
> emtex-bin-os2.zip) create it by using following commands
> from quick.eng (which locates in \emtex\doc\english)
> cd \emtex\btexfmts
> makefmt 386 latex2e US 8bit -b \emtex\bin\latex2e
> /* Missing */
Well, at least for me this is incorrect, as I installed Babel and use
other languages.... I think people really need to read the original
documentation. So I will include a hint to make sure that format files
have been created correctly, according to the original documentation of
EmTeX and Babel.
>here is also my suggestion for sample config.sys settings.
>(Directory structure is similar than the default one created by
>install.exe of the new emtex-distribution)
>
>SET EMTEXDIR=D:\emtex
>SET DVIDRVFONTS=D:\texfonts
>SET MFJOBOPT=/3
>SET T1FONTS=E:\PSFONTS
>rem !! after texinput dir forces to search styles also from
>rem all subdirectories. Latex2e-dir must be before
>rem \emtex\texinput!! because this will prevent latex2e to
>rem accidentally loading old latex209 styles with same name.
>SET TEXINPUT=D:\EMTEX\TEXINPUT\LATEX2E!!;D:\EMTEX\TEXINPUT!!
>SET GS_LIB=D:/HYOTY/GSTOOLS/gs5.50;E:/PSFONTS;
>SET GS_FONTPATH=D:/APPS/GSTOOLS/gs5.50/FONTS;E:/PSFONTS;
>SET XDVIFONTS=D:/texfonts/*/%ddpi/%f.%p
>SET XDVIVFS=D:/texfonts/vf/%f.vf
>SET TEXCONFIG=D:/EMTEX/data/dvips
>SET TEXTFM=D:\EMTEX\tfm!!
>SET DVIDRVinput=D:\EMTEX\doc;D:\EMTEX\doc\latex;D:\EMTEX\doc\english;
>SET DVIDRVGRAPH=D:\EMTEX\DOC
>SET XDVIFIGS=D:/EMTEX/data/dvips;D:/HYOTY/GSTOOLS/gs5.50;E:/PSFONTS;
>SET indexstyle=D:\emtex\idxstyle
Well, I think this is useful.
Greets,
Arnd
