On 9/7/13 3:33 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
Am 07.09.2013 um 03:19 schrieb Ken Springer <[email protected]>:
Having resolved my issue with the LyX installation on my Mac, I also have
installed it under Windows 7. Also appears to work fine.
This has left me wondering about installation packages for different OS's.
Why is it, that if it's a Windows program, if a supporting program is needed to
make the program run, in this case, the supporting program is also included in
the program's installation package. But, when the program goes into OS X, the
supporting program isn't included in the installation package.
If the Mac LyX package for OS X had included the supporting program, I would
never have had a problem. LOL
What support do you have in mind? The installation of a usable TeX system?
Exactly. When you install the Windows "bundle", it includes MikTeX and
JabRef(?), not sure if that's exactly right. Isn't JabRef a
bibliography thing? (This is new to me.) So a new user like me doesn't
have to worry about making sure that when LyX is installed on Windows
for the first time, it's a fully functional system. But on the Mac,
that doesn't happen. The Mac LyX package does not include a TeX system,
and I'm guessing no bibliography option. So if a new user got a copy of
LyX from some free software place, it's not going to work "right out of
the box", and the user isn't going to be happy. I don't know what the
user gets if it's for Linux.
I just now looked a bit more at the LyX site, and it's intimidating to a
new user, lots of things there that may as well be written in a foreign
language if you are completely new to typography and the LyX world.
Even more so if you are relatively new to computers. (Something every
site for every platform has become. They totally ignore the "newbie"
concept, and I'd bet turn off a lot of potential new users/converts.)
--
Ken
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