Adam Hoffman wrote:
I followed the guidance provided by Paul, in spite of my limited DOS
abilities.
I ran 'kpsewhich article.cls' and the command prompt responded with the
location of article.cls:
C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7_/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Good. That means MiKTeX is properly installed.
I interpreted that as MiKTeX being on the system path,
Correct.
so I relocated the
dos prompt as directed by Paul to:
C:\Documents and Settings\Adam\Application Data
At this point I tried to
run python configure.py, but I got an error. I entered the following
text into the command prompt at \Application Data:
C:\program files\lyx15\python\python.exe C:\program
files\lyx15\resources\configure.py
and I received this output:
'C:\program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program, or batch file.
Two things here. First, use Windows Explorer to poke around C:\Program
Files\lyx15 (assuming that's where you installed LyX) and locate
python.exe. Prior to LyX 1.5.6, it had its own little subdirectory, but
at least on my machine it's sitting in the LyX 1.5.6 bin directory.
Change the first part of that DOS command to reflect the correct
location. The configure.py script appears not to have moved.
Second, for an operating system that actively promotes spaces in the
paths, Windoze isn't real bright about spaces in the paths. You need to
enclose the paths in quotes:
> "C:\Program Files\lyx15\bin\python.exe" "C:\Program
Files\lyx15\Resources\configure.py"
On the bright side, XP emulates Linux's tab-completion for commands at
the DOS prompt. Start the command, type enough to make it unambiguous
where you're going (say, c:\prog), and hit the tab key. DOS will
complete the command to the correct path and supply the quote
automatically. You can then type some more (say \lyx) outside the
quotes, hit tab again, and DOS will extend the path and adjust the
quotes. Here's the progression when I do it (^T indicates me whacking
the tab key, and <> brackets stuff I type, the rest being supplied by DOS):
<c:\pr^T>
"c:\Program Files"<\ly^T>
"c:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.6"<\b^T>
"c:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.6\bin"<\py^T>
"c:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.6\bin\python.exe"< c:\pr^T>
"c:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.6\bin\python.exe" "c:\Program Files"<\ly^T>
"c:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.6\bin\python.exe" "c:\Program Files\LyX
1.5.6"<\r^T>
"c:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.6\bin\python.exe" "c:\Program Files\LyX
1.5.6\Resources"<\co^T>
"c:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.6\bin\python.exe" "c:\Program Files\LyX
1.5.6\Resources\configure.log"<^T>
"c:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.6\bin\python.exe" "c:\Program Files\LyX
1.5.6\Resources\configure.py"
and away we go. I don't hit the Enter key until the last line. Note
that in the next to last line the tab key gave me a valid path to the
wrong file. Like Linux, if you keep hitting the tab key, DOS will cycle
through the valid completions of the previous line. Unlike Linux, DOS
paths are not case-sensitive, so you don't have capitalize anything.
Besides being less typing (once you get used to it, it takes care of the
quotes for you.
I assume I need to provide some sort of command to tell it to run python,
but I don't know enough DOS to do so. I tried to use the 'help' command to
find the command to use here, but nothing looked appropriate.
The <path>\python.exe entry will run Python. The two problems above
(stale advice, Python having moved, and the lack of quotes) just need to
be fixed.
Good luck,
Paul
