On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, stefano franchi <fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:07 AM, BH <bewih...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefano Franchi >> <fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu> wrote: >> > Suppose I have two complete TeX installation trees: >> > >> > 1. /usr/share/texlive/* >> > >> > 2. /usr/local/texlive/2009/* >> > >> > >> > Is there any way to tell Lyx to switch from (1) to (2) (and back)? >> > Reading the >> > manuals proved unhelpful. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong places? >> >> Preferences > Paths > PATH prefix? >> > > > I checked that, but there is no "Tex path" or "Latex Path"
But the order you put paths there determines the order LyX will check for executables like latex, so I think changing the PATH prefix will do what you want. (I haven't tested it, though.) >> (On Mac the TeX Distribution preference pane that comes with TeXLive >> can switch it system wide.) >> > > I am on Linux/Ubuntu. Are you referring to a TeXLive preference that can be > set (and is presumably platform-neutral)? No -- as far as I know, this is Mac only. (There may be equivalent functionality for Linux or Windows, but I just don't know what it is.) BH
