I've know RTFM for years, and have often used it.
You missed the point of my post, but I don't have time to explain at the
moment. Work calls. :-(
On 9/9/13 12:47 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
Please google what RTFM measn :-)-O
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On 2013-09-07 15:12 , Ken Springer wrote:
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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