On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> I think you are missing the point that in MikTeX it is a KNOWN bug >> that the ASK option is broken and it fails to make the menu pop up and >> ask the user about the packages. > > > I didn't know that. It works perfectly for me. > Well it depends on which version of MikTeX, which version of Windows, etc. And whether you are logged in as an ordinary user.
Just read the MikTeX page on it: http://miktex.org/2.8/issues I believe the problem I'm seeing is the same described there for TeXnicCenter "This happens when a missing package needs to be installed and the pop-up window cannot be displayed." I've not seen the pop up permission request since the middle years of WinXP. Do you see it when LyX needs a package? And also the problem that motivated somebody to put this message into the LyXWinTips page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc10 > Vincent -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu
