On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Stefano > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:13 PM, stefano franchi > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Probably off-topic, but I can attest that Lualatex/Lyx works fine once >> you take care of the TexLive distribution issues (as Liviu rightly >> stated). I completed a book with it just a couple of months ago and >> was very happy with it. I work on Linux and my strategy was (and still >> is) to get rid of the distribution's Texlive's packages and rely only >> on TexLive's original installer (and its excellent package manager >> tlmgr). >> > Could you point to some specific instructions? I've always wanted to > try this, but never quite made the first step. I may first test it in > a Virtual Machine. >
Hi Liviu, there isn't much to my strategy. I was on Kubuntu when I started working on the book and what I did was simply: 1. Uninstall all the tex-related packages from the system via synaptic 2. Download the texlive installer from tug: http://tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html 3. Install a full distribution 4. I had to play around a bit with system paths to instruct linux to get to the tex binaries, man pages, etc. (I just followed the instructions provided in texlive installation instructions) 5. Since Lyx 2.0 was not out yet when the project started (although it came out toward the end of its life), I stuck with Lyx 1.6.7 and followed the instructions to use LuaTeX from LyX's wiki. I had some problems with biblatex/biber (which I also used instead of bibtex) but no problems with Lualatex. Cheers, Stefano > Liviu > -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA
