On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, stefano franchi wrote: >> 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. >>
... > 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. To that, I would add an additional piece of advice: compile LyX from source or install a non-packaged binary. In Ubuntu, if you try and install LyX from the package manager, it will download all of the associated LaTeX packages as well. This can be a tremendous pain because you'll have two versions of everything installed and you need to manually manage the packages. Having two LaTeX distributions can be done (see http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/07/15/latex-custom for a description of how), but it's a pain. It's much better to have a single LaTeX distribution installed alongside LyX. > I had some problems with biblatex/biber (which I also used instead of > bibtex) but no problems with Lualatex. I'd be really interested in hearing about using biber and biblatex. I'm really interested in moving away from bibtex to something else, and I've heard really good things. Cheers, Rob
