Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I made a shortcut to startxwin, which opened in my Home directory. > Then a lyxer.bat file to change to C:\lyxcyg\bin\ - lyx.bat > This starts up LyX137v2, which now uses Cygwins', xdvi, xpdf and gv. > Tex Information still does not visibly populate, but I'm pretty sure they > are > indexed. The drop-down box doesn't work right either (with or without > latex.bat). I'm not sure this is what you intended since the batfiles don't > seem > to be needed and you wouldn't have gone to that trouble without a reason. > I suppose they were for non-X11 functioning. My impression that a WinLyX > binary wouldn't work with Cygwin seems to be wrong. > > It must have been something Angus told me > Stephen
Stephen, I really appreciate the effort you put in stress-testing the software, but my brain is really turning into guacamole trying to follow you ;-) My idea about all these LyX versions was the following: 1) People not even knowing the existence of cygwin should be happy with the native LyX version (i.e., that not needing the cygwin dll) and all native Windows helper apps. 2) People having cygwin installed but using MikTeX instead of teTeX, should be happy with a cygwin version of LyX which uses the native Windows graphics (i.e., doesn't need an X-server). 3) People using all cygwin apps (tetex, xdvi, gv, ...) would gain nothing from having a cygwin version of LyX using native graphics, as they still need launching an X-server. For them, a cygwin LyX/X11 should be the right thing. Given that, it is possible to use a native LyX with all cygwin apps but you must know what you are doing and a casual user is perhaps overwhelmed by the task of making it work. Until now, only a native LyX version was available, so I think it was worth providing a cleaner solution for people like in 2) or 3) above. I would stick with the three cases above only, without taking into consideration the possibility of using native LyX with all cygwin apps or, conversely, using a cygwin LyX with all native apps. These cases would be considered as perversions ;-) IMHO, of course ;-) -- Enrico
