Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jean-Pierre Chrétien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:54 AM > Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp > > > Angus Leeming <leeming <at> ...> writes: [...] > > Should we understand this recent release of protext-1.3 as the MikTeX > > equivalent of TeXLive-2005 ? > > > > I decided to test out your idea. I also did some investigating: > > http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/archive/2005/07/01/73.aspx > "MiKTeX 2.4.2007 ISO image [posted by maintainer CSchenk] > I have uploaded a pretest version of the MiKTeX CD (ISO image): > > http://www.tug.org/ftp/tex/miktex/ > > The final version (available some time in July) will be the base > for this year's ProTeXt." > md-2.4.2025.iso.bz2 19-Jul-2005 14:34 340M > > Version: 2.4.2127 Date: Oct 28, 2005 > > SH: So yes, I would think so. The TexLive 2005 dvd > includes ProText and it can't be any newer than 1.3 > And I don't think there will be an update cd of TL2005.
The TeXLive DVD/CD comes with 2 different distributions: - on the DVD, a TeXLive-2005 installable on many platforms (including Windows); - on the CD, a ProTeXt-2005 self-extracting version. > > The 1.3 iso is 383mb and the miktex iso is 340mb compressed with bz2. I guess protext-1.3.iso (a zip file) will be one of the CDs of the nest TeXLive-2005 distro. Did you get it by download or from the dvd/cd ? In that case, I suspect the files/packages to be the same. [..] record of the protext install > > It is possible to download all the Miktex packages to disk and then install. > But there is an Miktex iso (if you have a burner) that will serve the same > purpose as the ProTeXt iso. But the Protext .exe will be better for some. > One problem is that the package versions are already 4 months old, and > in 6 months will be old with the next TexLive release still 6 months > further. OK so protext-1.3 does not seem in sync with TexLive-2005. > > Protext doesn't come with LyX but with TeXnic. LyX still needs Python > so a download or 3 is still needed. Going to the homepage of the needed > helper apps gives the chance for obtaining newer versions which will in some > cases have a useful upgrade to the older version residing on the old > cd/.exe. > I doubt though, that the Miktex web setup gives as much as the Miktex iso. > > There was no problem with the install. Again I used the browse button to > find latex.exe (C:\texmf\miktex\bin) as LyX does'nt see this version Miktex. > Also had to again add C:\ghostgum\gsview to Path Prefix for gsview32.exe > so that the viewers, Tex Information, and the ifsym display all worked. > > The dsl download speed of the ProText iso file is 3 times faster than the > Miktex iso file, which might be an issue for people without fixed dsl rates. In fact I created an iso image of all the Windows executable needed by LyX (with protext-1.2, I use only the miktex part there, just unzip and install), to provide autonomous LyX installation from CD. It's a near miss to have the miktex.exe unzipped, but no way, the size is over 700Mb in that case (454 w/protext-1.2). -- Jean-Pierre
