Stefano,
put the Mac-Basic on a mac that uses this and load all missing packages
with tlmgr until it works.
Then run something like
tlmgr list|grep ^i|awk '{print $2}' > mactexmedium.txt
Now you install Mac-Basic on her computer taransfer the file and run
something like
sudo tlmgr install `cat mactexmedium.txt`
which leaves her with a minimal installation that has all missing
packages. I am quite sure once she has started to edit and sees the
output from a compile run, she'll be convinced.
Once she's done and she really doesn't like it you can do
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/2013basic
to remove the 473MB (which reside on my box) :-)-O
el
on 2014-01-29, 19:19 stefano franchi said the following:
> I am trying to convince a Mac-only colleague to use LyX on a common
> project. She resists installing TeX on her system, for a number of reasons.
>
> But she won't need to typeset anything---I'll be in charge of that---and
> will only use LyX to edit jointly produced file.
>
> A LyX-only installation would suit her needs perfectly. But I can't
> figure out from the lyx.org <http://lyx.org> page if this is possible at
> all. The page says:
>
> "LyX for Mac OS X is available here: LyX-2.0.7+qt4.dmg
> <ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.7/LyX-2.0.7+qt4.dmg>. Before you
> install LyX you need to install a TeX system such as MacTeX
> <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>. "
>
> Is that requirement enforced? I don't have a Mac at my disposal to try
> it out.
>
> Best,
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
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