Peter Hegt wrote:
I wrote it more to make a point that this is confusing for a novice
user:
Setup, enter, enter, try feature, fails => confused
(MikTeX is quite an elaborate setup so a novice cannot be confident that
the setup went 100% error free/complete).
True. On the positive side, you can run the package manager and get
both a comprehensive list of packages available in MiKTeX and which ones
you have installed. There are still at least two issues for a novice:
(1) it's sometimes hard to tell you have a particular package installed,
because it comes as part of a larger package with a different name; and
(2) you can install packages that are not available as MiKTeX cab files,
but this requires somewhat more advanced knowledge than a novice might have.
(Oke, RTM, but still...)
I guess this is inherent to a system that relies on many other systems,
so a solution is not so easy I guess. What the developers could do is to
put some more info in the error message, e.g. what you wrote below.
You might want to submit this to bugzilla as an enhancement request
(detailing specifically what threw you and what LyX could have said to
smooth things).
/Paul
