Hello, sorry for replying sooo late.
> I do not have administrative privileges at work computers but am so dependent > on using lyx for my writing and want to be able to use it on a USB drive or a > network drive that I have access to. I wondered if anyone has used Lytex as > suggested in the wiki? > I tried it and get error messages. The home page for Lytex does not give any > email addresses for requesting help. I have successfully used LyX from a USB stick in the past. In fact LyX itself seems to be "portable" right out of the box. The point was to get a LaTeX installation that works from a stick without "installation". I managed to get it done by using TeX Live 2008. I bought a copy of their DVD (you could also download the iso disk image) and simply moved the entire contents to my USB stick, alongside the LyX folder. Again: I did _NOT_ "install" TeX Live using the installer on the DVD, but only copy the contents from the DVD to the USB stick. Then I modified the tl-lyx.bat file from http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~elts2/lyx/tl-lyx.bat as follows: @echo off set TEXDIR=%~dp0 set tldrive=%~d0 %tldrive% cd %TEXDIR% set TEXDIRW=%USERPROFILE%\.tlportable2008\ if not exist "%TEXDIRW%" md "%TEXDIRW%" set TEXMFSYSVAR=%TEXDIR%texmf-var set TEXMFSYSCONFIG=%TEXDIR%texmf-config set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXDIR%texmf set TEXMFDIST=%TEXDIR%texmf-dist set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXDIR%texmf-local set TEXMFHOME=%TEXDIRW%texmf-home set TEXMFVAR=%TEXDIRW%texmf-var set TEXMFCONFIG=%TEXDIRW%texmf-config set TEXBINDIR=%TEXDIR%bin\win32 set platform=win32 set PERL5LIB=%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perllib "%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perl" "%TEXDIR%install-tl" --portable if not errorlevel 1 goto doit echo Initialization of TeXLive failed! pause exit :doit path %TEXDIR%bin\win32;%path% set LYX_DIR=%TEXDIR%..\LyX16\ path %LYX_DIR%python;%path% path %LYX_DIR%bin;%path% path %LYX_DIR%imagemagick;%path% set GS_DIR=%LYX_DIR%ghostscript\ path %GS_DIR%bin;%path% set GS_LIB=%GS_DIR%lib;%GS_DIR%fonts;%GS_DIR%Resource %TEXDIR%..\LyX16\bin\lyx.exe %* I never managed to make the TeX Live "package manager" work in portable mode, so I had to install and update packages "by hand", but well, *sigh*... Hope this helps, Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE!
