Paul Johnson schrieb:
We installed the lyx bundle that has MixTeX included with it, not the alternative Windows installer, but the one from the LyX team itself.
The alternative installer is also from the LyX team (from me).
As far as I can tell, that bundle already has ghostscript and python inside the MikTeX part. Is that correct?
It installs MiKTeX, Ghostscript, and Python when these are not already installed on your PC, so yes this correct. MiKTeX also has its own subset of Ghostscript, but this version is not installed to be used by any other program than MiKTeX itself, so you can ignore it.
When I installed the bundle, I did not change settings, except I removed the spaces from the proposed paths, i.e., it went into c:\ProgramFiles\Lyx161 and so forth. After making the install, we start LyX and there is the usual long delay while additional LaTeX packages are downloaded.
This is correct. The installation of all LaTeX-packages used by LyX takes some minutes. When you use the alternative installer, the installation status is shown to you.
1. On some systems, spaces in directory structure of LyX document causes view to bomb. On 2 of the student systems, when we try to view a LyX file, we get a window popping up saying spaces in file names are not allowed. If I move the user's lyx files to c:\whatever, then LyX does work.
This only happens when you are using BibTeX files. Because BibTeX is a very old program and doesn't support path with spaces.
However, I made the exact same install on another Windows XP system while I was standing in front of the class. Guess What? The LyX default structure was the same a before, C:\Documents and Settings\whatever\whatever .
This is the correct default path on WindowsXP - for all programs installed on Windows.
LyX Created "newfile.lyx" in there, and I was saying to the class "Now this view will fail because of spaces in the file name,"
This is strange and should not happen.
Why would it work on one system and not another? How is LyX/LaTeX dealing with spaces?
Fine, except of BibTeX.
2. I wanted to view an eps file that R produced on one of these systems. From looking at the MikTeX install, it appears to me that the bundle included ghostscript and python. Yes?
Yes, see above.
After installing LyX, I wanted to install gsview32 so students can view eps files generated from R, but the gsview installer fails, claiming that ghostscript was not installed. But ghostscript is part of the LyX bundle? I don't think latex would be working at all without ghostscript.
Hmm, seems that the installer indeed failed. OK, then try this: 1. uninstall LyX completely 2. open an Internet connection 3. install LyX using the complete version of the alternative installer (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller) This installer should install Ghostscript AND GSview together with LyX. regards Uwe
