Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote:
I've worked a bit on the English texts, which it is downloading the
complete package. A patch to english.nsh attached, along with the new
english.nsh.
Thanks, I'll have a look at it. And what is about norwegian.nsh ;-)?
Suggestions:
- Change it to include at least an English aspell dictionary out of the
box.
I also thaught about it, but this increases the package size of 2MB and
not everybody need an english spellchecker. If I include it I have two
possibilities:
- I can pop up the original dictionary installer, but then a french user
might wonder why he has to install an english dictionary.
- I can do this silently in the background as for aspell but then user
who want to additionally an english dictionary will have forgotten that
it is still installed. (Also ifI popup an information in the installer
process.)
So I'll think about.
- Change it to include the caution about manually uninstalling previous
versions of LyX, including removing the ...\Application data\LyX folder
- or even better, offer to do this as part of the installation.
Yes, this is the next thing on my todo list. The behaviour is too
error-prone at the moment.
- Either use a different QT/Winfree without the font problem, or make it
put a custom configuration which is correct into the installation by
default.
I'll test out Angus' new version.
Also, be sure to suggest the user to use the truetype font
"Courier New", rather than the bitmap font "Courier".
This are only the screen fonts within LyX, independent from the output
and the bitmap font looks ok in LyX. Courier is the default of the
qt3.dll, also in Ruurds LyXWin versions.
I'll put it on my todo list.
- A little later, MikTeX wants to install something. I have not seen the
warning about this, since I already have it installed, but this is fine
- it did the right thing.
Thanks for the info, I'll popup the warning in any installation case.
- The dialog about aspell dictionaries should have a hyperlink, so that
you can visit the site directly. At the very least, make it so that you
can copy & paste the URL - now, you have to manually type it!
I think this is a restriction of NSIS. I'll investigate further.
Even better would be to provide the option to check off which languages you
would like, and then the installer would download these and install them.
Yes this would be the gold plus version but this is really hard to
implement.
At the end, I choose start LyX, but nothing happens... In the task
manager, I can see that the LyX process is running, and the CPU has at
100%. After maybe 20 seconds (this is a slow laptop :-), the LyX window
finally appears.
> Please change the last page to read: "Start LyX - the
first time, this might take 10 seconds or more. Be patient."
I'll do so.
But it works! I can typeset, view DVI, and so on. Great stuff.
Cool!
One general comment. When I choose view PDF, it launces GSview with a
very ugly looking document as the result. Come on, why do we not prefer
Adobe Acrobat Reader instead? I have this installed, and when I open the
document with this, it looks a million times better.
OK then this is a bug. I also have adobe reader installed and this will
be used to view PDF. The installer didn't find it in your case in the
registry. Please don't (re)install acrobat or GSview, I'll come up with
concrete qestions about your registry in a few minutes.
One for now:
Have you chosen to install GSview together with the installer or was it
installed before?
Bundling adobe reader to the package is not possible due to license
restrictions. But we can assume that it is installed on more than 95 %
of all Windows computers. I'll add a hint to the readme that it would be
an advantage to have it installed before installing LyX.
When I click View, TeX information, it takes forever, and then an empty
dialog comes up. Does this mean that my LaTeX installation is completely
empty?
No, your LaTeX-installation is OK. This is a known bug af all LyXWin
versions.
Feature requests for LyX:
Please add feature requests for LyX to
bugzilla.lyx.org
many thanks and regards
Uwe
