Stefano, so she can actually edit the files? Cool. I was wondering if the config run (using luatex) would work.
Now what you also can do to cooperate, is to use SVN (see Additional
Features Section 7.2), which is really, really cool.
I have myself some experience with remoteness, being an Obstetrician
and Gynaecologist in Africa, though in Windhoek connectivity is
starting to become useful.
What I do between my house and the practice (and of course the
laptop) is something like this :-)-O
sudo tlmgr install `ssh USER@HOST.DOMAIN tlmgr list|grep ^i|awk
'{print $2}'|sed s/://g`
That you can easily install into crontab and or whatever scheduler
you like and run this on a number of hosts, so you need to only
update one. If you can not predict where changes are happening one
will have to figure out a more complicated round robin scheme :-)-O
But you can configure the working BasicMacTeX and then tar the
update /usr/local/texlive. Put all on a stick, DHL it over there
and she must install and then untar over /usr/local/texlive to bring
it up to what is required.
Mabye someone writes a shell script for her to take care of the
command line stuff, but that's not a big deal. And, if the
university has serious Mac programming resources, someone can make
an installer for her that does all of this with a click.
greetings, el
On 2014-01-31, 16:32 , stefano franchi wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the many suggestions.
>
> To clarify the issue and sum up the outcome:
>
> My question was really about the Mac installer, not about the
> functionality of LyX without a suitable TeX installation. In
> other words, I was asking:
>
> "Can a minimally computer savvy Mac user install LyX only with no
> help and obtain a working LyX-editing only environment?"
>
> And the answer, I am happy to report, is yes. Aside from the
> puzzlement raised by the "Untrusted source" dialog, installation
> (of 2.0.6) went smoothly and we are happily cooperating.
>
> On the other hand, on the alternative question of "How to provide
> a minimal yet still fully functioning LyX+TeX installation" I
> particularly liked Eberhard's solution. It was not viable in my
> case, since the user is an ocean away and working on a crappy (and
> expensive) internet connection, but I think it should be kept as a
> LyX recipe for space constrained Mac users, a category that is
> growing fast now that traditional hard drives have gone the way of
> the dodo on the MacBook Air.
>
> Perhaps it should be put on the wiki? And since it is really not
> Mac-only (Mac-Basic is just the Mac-version of TexLive's basic
> scheme, I guess), perhaps it could be generalized to other
> platforms as well.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefano
>
>
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