FiLeNamE CaSe problems windows
Hi everyone, Lyx 1.4.2 works like a charm on windows, even got bibunits working from within Lyx now! The new install is brilliant, I got Lyx installed in my application profile directory (a lot of spaces!) on a machine where you have literally no privilages. Lyx is completely self contained (without image support and tex compilation though), but at least I can finish my thesis in my spare time at work :) One serious problem though. Lyx can open fILe.lyx and file.lyx at the same time. The one saved last will be, quite literally, the final one. I found this out the hard way... Cheers, Johann
FiLeNamE CaSe problems windows
Hi everyone, Lyx 1.4.2 works like a charm on windows, even got bibunits working from within Lyx now! The new install is brilliant, I got Lyx installed in my application profile directory (a lot of spaces!) on a machine where you have literally no privilages. Lyx is completely self contained (without image support and tex compilation though), but at least I can finish my thesis in my spare time at work :) One serious problem though. Lyx can open "fILe.lyx" and "file.lyx" at the same time. The one saved last will be, quite literally, the final one. I found this out the hard way... Cheers, Johann
Re: Why Bibtex name mangling is bad....
Am Montag, 6. März 2006 21:35 schrieb Georg Baum:
This solution is wrong for two reasons:
1. All file names in the temp dir must be mangled in order to avoid name
clashes
The extension .bib should be fairly unique, only a problem if you have refs.bib
for subdocument 1 in one folder and refs.bib for subdocument 2 in another
folder. Which would be pointless, since the point of bibtex is to have a
library like '.bib' file.
2. This solution would not work if you only used bibunits bibliography, or
a different file for the bibunits bibliography than for the main
bibliography.
This point is valid, since Lyx wont even try to do anything with it. But in my
case it would be more than perfect.
I redefine \bibliography to do the nasty stuff. This way Lyx thinks its happily
using normal bibtex and after all it's using a sectioned approach. That's why
my first problem with the mangled name passing to the bibtex inset was
important.
This works with bibtopic
ERT \begin{btUnit} after each chapter / section etc.
And then a normal lyx bibtex inset with the following in the preamble.
\usepackage[dot]{bibtopic} % multiple bibliographies
\renewcommand{\bibliography}[1]{
\section{References}
\begin{btSect}[IEEEtr]{##1}
\btPrintCited
\end{btSect}
\end{btUnit}
}
I'm trying to get this to work with bibunit (no luck yet)
---
ERT \begin{bibunit} after each chapter / section etc.
And then a normal lyx bibtex inset with the following in the preamble.
\usepackage{bibunits} % multiple bibliographies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@bibunitauxcnt}
\renewcommand{\bibliography}[1]{
\section{References}
\putbib[##1]
\end{bibunit}
}
A solution that would work in all cases is to set the BIBUNITS variable
from within LyX.
export BIBINPUTS=.:${HOME}
This solution will also fail if you have bibtex files with the same name as my
example above. (point 1)
At least it will still work for your point 2.
This seems like the best solution. And is already being done for another path
type variable since tex can find the preamble \include{xx.tex} files (which is
not copied to temp)
As long as the ${home} is the home of the document and not global home!
Do you file this in bugzilla?
Should I file request to export BIBINPUTS?
Regards,
Johann
Re: Why Bibtex name mangling is bad....
Am Montag, 6. März 2006 21:35 schrieb Georg Baum:
> This solution is wrong for two reasons:
> 1. All file names in the temp dir must be mangled in order to avoid name
> clashes
The extension .bib should be fairly unique, only a problem if you have refs.bib
for subdocument 1 in one folder and refs.bib for subdocument 2 in another
folder. Which would be pointless, since the point of bibtex is to have a
library like '.bib' file.
> 2. This solution would not work if you only used bibunits bibliography, or
> a different file for the bibunits bibliography than for the main
> bibliography.
This point is valid, since Lyx wont even try to do anything with it. But in my
case it would be more than perfect.
I redefine \bibliography to do the nasty stuff. This way Lyx thinks its happily
using normal bibtex and after all it's using a sectioned approach. That's why
my first problem with the mangled name passing to the bibtex inset was
important.
This works with bibtopic
ERT "\begin{btUnit}" after each chapter / section etc.
And then a normal lyx bibtex inset with the following in the preamble.
\usepackage[dot]{bibtopic} % multiple bibliographies
\renewcommand{\bibliography}[1]{
\section{References}
\begin{btSect}[IEEEtr]{##1}
\btPrintCited
\end{btSect}
\end{btUnit}
}
I'm trying to get this to work with bibunit (no luck yet)
---
ERT "\begin{bibunit}" after each chapter / section etc.
And then a normal lyx bibtex inset with the following in the preamble.
\usepackage{bibunits} % multiple bibliographies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@bibunitauxcnt}
\renewcommand{\bibliography}[1]{
\section{References}
\putbib[##1]
\end{bibunit}
}
>
> A solution that would work in all cases is to set the BIBUNITS variable
> from within LyX.
> export BIBINPUTS=.:${HOME}
>
This solution will also fail if you have bibtex files with the same name as my
example above. (point 1)
At least it will still work for your point 2.
This seems like the best solution. And is already being done for another path
type variable since tex can find the preamble \include{xx.tex} files (which is
not copied to temp)
As long as the ${home} is the home of the document and not global home!
> Do you file this in bugzilla?
Should I file request to export BIBINPUTS?
Regards,
Johann
Why Bibtex name mangling is bad....
Hi, I've had a couple of problems about bibtex support for lyx and last time Georg helped me fix one of my problems. I now have a problem with the whole idea of name mangling (although I see its necessity) I decided I need to use the bibunits package. I was using bibtopic but its got a fundamental drawback (no unsorted lists). Use the example on http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Bibunits to see why name mangling breaks support for the bibunits package. Why? Bibunits creates name.xxx.aux files, which lyx 1.37 should have no problem with, but since the aux was not created by lyx, the original name instead of the mangled name is in the file. Possible solution? Copy the file (non mangled) to the temp dir. You may still mangle it for the rest of lyx, but please supply a copy of the original. That should restore bibunits support at least and normally bib files are very small (compared to the rest of the temp files at least) One other question, why does sub documents get their own temp sub directories? The mangled names is always unique (because of $(ID) prefix) Regards, Johann
Why Bibtex name mangling is bad....
Hi, I've had a couple of problems about bibtex support for lyx and last time Georg helped me fix one of my problems. I now have a problem with the whole idea of name mangling (although I see its necessity) I decided I need to use the bibunits package. I was using bibtopic but its got a fundamental drawback (no unsorted lists). Use the example on http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Bibunits to see why name mangling breaks support for the bibunits package. Why? Bibunits creates name.xxx.aux files, which lyx 1.37 should have no problem with, but since the aux was not created by lyx, the original name instead of the mangled name is in the file. Possible solution? Copy the file (non mangled) to the temp dir. You may still mangle it for the rest of lyx, but please supply a copy of the original. That should restore bibunits support at least and normally bib files are very small (compared to the rest of the temp files at least) One other question, why does sub documents get their own temp sub directories? The mangled names is always unique (because of $(ID) prefix) Regards, Johann
Bug in subdocument bibtex support 1.3.6, 1.3.7-pre2 [proposed fix]
Hi,
Please refer to my previous message for the problem. Bug in subdocument
bibtex support 1.3.6, 1.3.7-pre2
What I could see from looking at the code is the following.
The copy problem is around line 244 in insetbib.C
database = mangled_filename(database);
string const out_file = MakeAbsPath(database +
.bib,
buffer-tmppath);
I assume buffer-tmppath is set to the sub documents temp path. (same as
for the images)
Maybe the buffer-tmppath should be the path to where the temp documents
.tex file is output to. (thus the main documents temp path)
I have no knowledge of the main document / sub document mechanisms. So
another solution might be constructing a relative path. The temp dir
contains no spaces, so this should be safe. And even if there is no main
document, stepping one path back and into the correct one again will
pose no problem. Maybe just add some checking to see if there is no
absolute path already.
Inserting something like this where the actual tex is output might work.
(about line 277, see the -- below)
// Chomp off everything in the temp path except the last
directory.
String last_path_bit = buffer-tmppath;
while (int tmp_int=AnisPos(\, last_path_bit)0) {
last_path_bit=AnsiDelete(last_path_bit, 1, tmp_int);
}
// add the relative path.
-- os \\bibliography{ dbs_str }\n;
++ os \\bibliography{../ last_path_bit / dbs_str
}\n;
This is from the lyx 1.3.7cvs downloaded from ftp.sylvan.com. Please
excuse the use of AnisString / AnsiPos. I've only written one C++
program in Borland C Builder in windows and have no other knowledge of
function / libraries. This is done from a more dominant windows/Delphi
and avr-gcc c viewpoint.
Hope it helps locating the problem.
Regards,
Johann
Bug in subdocument bibtex support 1.3.6, 1.3.7-pre2 [proposed fix]
Hi,
Please refer to my previous message for the problem. "Bug in subdocument
bibtex support 1.3.6, 1.3.7-pre2"
What I could see from looking at the code is the following.
The copy problem is around line 244 in insetbib.C
database = mangled_filename(database);
string const out_file = MakeAbsPath(database +
".bib",
buffer->tmppath);
I assume buffer->tmppath is set to the sub documents temp path. (same as
for the images)
Maybe the buffer->tmppath should be the path to where the temp documents
.tex file is output to. (thus the main documents temp path)
I have no knowledge of the main document / sub document mechanisms. So
another solution might be constructing a relative path. The temp dir
contains no spaces, so this should be safe. And even if there is no main
document, stepping one path back and into the correct one again will
pose no problem. Maybe just add some checking to see if there is no
absolute path already.
Inserting something like this where the actual tex is output might work.
(about line 277, see the -- below)
// Chomp off everything in the temp path except the last
directory.
String last_path_bit = buffer->tmppath;
while (int tmp_int=AnisPos("\", last_path_bit)>0) {
last_path_bit=AnsiDelete(last_path_bit, 1, tmp_int);
}
// add the relative path.
-- os << "\\bibliography{" << dbs_str << "}\n";
++ os << "\\bibliography{../" << last_path_bit << "/" << dbs_str <<
"}\n";
This is from the lyx 1.3.7cvs downloaded from ftp.sylvan.com. Please
excuse the use of AnisString / AnsiPos. I've only written one C++
program in Borland C Builder in windows and have no other knowledge of
function / libraries. This is done from a more dominant windows/Delphi
and avr-gcc c viewpoint.
Hope it helps locating the problem.
Regards,
Johann
Re: Path to bibtex file?
BibTeX *hates* paths with spaces. So we copy the BibTeX database to
the temp directory and give it a nice, BibTeX-friendly mangled name.
\bibliography should refer to this copied database in the same
directory as the .tex file.
The bibtex file is NOT copied to the same directory as my tex file. I have the
followig situation:
One master document that inputs a bunch of lyx documents (chapters). I need
references at the end of each chapter and i need to be able to compile these
chapters seperate.
I use \usepackage[dot]{bibtopic}
then I add a \begin{btUnit} after each chapter heading and I redefine the
\bibliography
\renewcommand{\bibliography}[1]{
\section{References}
\bibliographystyle{\kstyle}
\begin{btSect}{\kpath\kname}
\btPrintCited
\end{btSect}
\end{btUnit}
}
Instead of using \kpath\kname I would like to use #1, but the file is in some
unknown temp directory?!
My temp dir looks something like this
lyxtmpdir124312412
./lyx_tmpbuf0
master_file.tex
chap1.tex
chap2.tex
./lyx_tmpbuf1
3d_bibtex_file.bib
4d_image.eps
5d_image.eps
./lyx_tmpbuf2
6d_bibtex_file.bib
7d_image_file.eps
inside of chap1.tex and chap2.tex that refer to the FULL path of the eps files,
but the bibtext files is without path - resulting in a failed latex
compilation.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also did the reverse of Johann's experiment: I reinstalled LyX 1.3.6 (in a separate directory -- installation went fine) and copied the qt-mt3.dll file from that version into the 1.3.7 bin directory. That cured the font problems in 1.3.7. Paul My Lyx used exactly the same font! A simple solution is to delete the Algerian font from your windows\fonts directory. The next best is Arial, which looks decent. Algerian is an ugly font anyway... Johann
Re: Path to bibtex file?
> BibTeX *hates* "paths with spaces". So we copy the BibTeX database to
> the temp directory and give it a nice, BibTeX-friendly mangled name.
> \bibliography should refer to this copied database in the same
> directory as the .tex file.
The bibtex file is NOT copied to the same directory as my tex file. I have the
followig situation:
One master document that inputs a bunch of lyx documents (chapters). I need
references at the end of each chapter and i need to be able to compile these
chapters seperate.
I use \usepackage[dot]{bibtopic}
then I add a \begin{btUnit} after each chapter heading and I redefine the
\bibliography
\renewcommand{\bibliography}[1]{
\section{References}
\bibliographystyle{\kstyle}
\begin{btSect}{\kpath\kname}
\btPrintCited
\end{btSect}
\end{btUnit}
}
Instead of using \kpath\kname I would like to use #1, but the file is in some
unknown temp directory?!
My temp dir looks something like this
lyxtmpdir124312412
./lyx_tmpbuf0
master_file.tex
chap1.tex
chap2.tex
./lyx_tmpbuf1
3d_bibtex_file.bib
4d_image.eps
5d_image.eps
./lyx_tmpbuf2
6d_bibtex_file.bib
7d_image_file.eps
inside of chap1.tex and chap2.tex that refer to the FULL path of the eps files,
but the bibtext files is without path -> resulting in a failed latex
compilation.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also did the reverse of Johann's experiment: I reinstalled LyX 1.3.6 > (in a separate directory -- installation went fine) and copied the > qt-mt3.dll file from that version into the 1.3.7 bin directory. That > cured the font problems in 1.3.7. > > Paul > > > My Lyx used exactly the same font! A simple solution is to delete the Algerian font from your windows\fonts directory. The next best is Arial, which looks decent. Algerian is an ugly font anyway... Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
A couple of problems. When installing it over the previous 1.3.6 the configure step during setup fails and lyx has to be closed and opended again to configure. Doing it this way gives completely unreadable fonts in all the dialogs - looks likes 'Algerian' font. The fonts on the menu bars is also a very bold font. Removing the old lyx dir and installing fresh: Once again configure failed. and Lyx wouldn't even start this time - textclass.lst not found. Going back to 1.3.6... Copied the new qt-mt3.dll to lyx 1.3.6 and got the same font issues. At least reconfigure seems to work. Regards, Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Anyway, clearly more work needed :( Keep up the good work! Lyx 1.3.6 is very impressive already, got 3 windows people LyXing with it. The font issue is with the actual text in the dialogs. All the controls/widgets except the buttons use the strange font. The fonts in the Lyx editor window (the ones you can set) is fine. Johann
Path to bibtex file?
One question about the paths. Why does the temporary tex file not contain the full path to the bibtex file? It contains full path to all the included graphics, but for the bibtex inset, only the filename. I've rewritten the \bibliography comand to enable btunits to add chapter bibliography and i have to manually add the path tho the \bibliography entry. How can \bibliography do a search in the paths, say: ../lyx_tmpbuf4/ ? Thanks, Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
A couple of problems. When installing it over the previous 1.3.6 the configure step during setup fails and lyx has to be closed and opended again to configure. Doing it this way gives completely unreadable fonts in all the dialogs - looks likes 'Algerian' font. The fonts on the menu bars is also a very bold font. Removing the old lyx dir and installing fresh: Once again configure failed. and Lyx wouldn't even start this time - textclass.lst not found. Going back to 1.3.6... Copied the new qt-mt3.dll to lyx 1.3.6 and got the same font issues. At least reconfigure seems to work. Regards, Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
> Anyway, clearly more work needed :( > Keep up the good work! Lyx 1.3.6 is very impressive already, got 3 windows people LyXing with it. The font issue is with the actual text in the dialogs. All the controls/widgets except the buttons use the strange font. The fonts in the Lyx editor window (the ones you can set) is fine. Johann
Path to bibtex file?
One question about the paths. Why does the temporary tex file not contain the full path to the bibtex file? It contains full path to all the included graphics, but for the bibtex inset, only the filename. I've rewritten the \bibliography comand to enable btunits to add chapter bibliography and i have to manually add the path tho the \bibliography entry. How can \bibliography do a search in the paths, say: ../lyx_tmpbuf4/ ? Thanks, Johann
Input / include, Lyx error. 1.3.6-1 windows
In lyx I get the latex error just after one of my INCLUDED chapters,
I have about 9 included chapters but just this specific one give the
problem. I use listings package alot in this chapter, but this is not
the only chapter I use it in.
Extra \else.
\include{apdx2-AutoLAB}
I'm ignoring this; it doesn't match any \if.
If I go the the command prompt, I can compile without any errors, using
latex m-ing
bibtex m-ing.1
bibtex m-ing.2 7
latex m-ing
latex m-ing
And I've got a perfetly working dvi! How does lyx compile a document?
One way to get Lyx to behave is to change the INCLUDE to INPUT
very strange.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. (It gave the same problem before
bibtopic)
Regards,
Johann
Input / include, Lyx error. 1.3.6-1 windows
In lyx I get the latex error just after one of my INCLUDED chapters,
I have about 9 included chapters but just this specific one give the
problem. I use listings package alot in this chapter, but this is not
the only chapter I use it in.
Extra \else.
\include{apdx2-AutoLAB}
I'm ignoring this; it doesn't match any \if.
If I go the the command prompt, I can compile without any errors, using
latex m-ing
bibtex m-ing.1
bibtex m-ing.2 7
latex m-ing
latex m-ing
And I've got a perfetly working dvi! How does lyx compile a document?
One way to get Lyx to behave is to change the INCLUDE to INPUT
very strange.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. (It gave the same problem before
bibtopic)
Regards,
Johann
Re: Batch file help needed!
Then Ruurd's clever stuff to hide the console window in os_win32.C kicks in. just add: cmdow @ /HID and include cmdow.exe from http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/cmdow.zip. Very powerful window manager console program read more at http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/ Regards, Johann
Re: Batch file help needed!
> Then Ruurd's clever stuff to hide the console window in os_win32.C kicks in. just add: cmdow @ /HID and include cmdow.exe from http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/cmdow.zip. Very powerful window manager console program read more at http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/ Regards, Johann
Re: Installing Windows fonts
and the \t issue when you write to !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE ioSummary.ini Field 2 Text \ $INSTDIR\bin \r\n$MiKTeXPath \r\n$GhostscriptPath \r\n$ImageMagickPath\r\n$PythonPath\r\n$PerlPath you have to quote the paths. What do you mean with the \t issue did I missed something? And what should I quote? This is a string of a label and threrfore still in quotes. Sorry for the confusion. It was discussed in an earlier post. If you write to the installoptions ini file. you have to quote (or rather escape) \t \r \n in the paths. else they get turned into spaces, newlines etc. According the the abovementioned section you should have \\t for tab (located in path strings like c:\texmf). They have the nessacery function in installoption(see below). So after constructing and writing out the complete path variable to anther variable, the one that you send to Angus's plugin. You should escape al the path names: Push $GhostscriptPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $GhostscriptPath Push $INSTDIR Call Nsis2Io Pop $R0 ; dont mess with instdir Push $MiKTeXPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $MiKTeXPath Push $PerlPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $PerlPath Push $ImageMagickPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $ImageMagickPath Push $PythonPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $PythonPath ;and then only -- note the $R0 change !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE ioSummary.ini Field 2 Text \ $R0\bin \r\n$MiKTeXPath \r\n$GhostscriptPath \r\n$ImageMagickPath\r\n$PythonPath\r\n$PerlPath Haven't tested it but it should work (hopefully) I will look into skipping a page. I no it is possible to skip standard pages with _PRE and _POST macros, but I'll try to construct a small installoptions case and pass it along Regards, Johann ; Convert an NSIS string to a form suitable for use by InstallOptions ; Usage: ; Push NSIS-string ; Call Nsis2Io ; Pop IO-string Function Nsis2Io Exch $0 ; The source Push $1 ; The output Push $2 ; Temporary char StrCpy $1 ; Initialise the output loop: StrCpy $2 $0 1 ; Get the next source char StrCmp $2 done ; Abort when none left StrCpy $0 $0 1 ; Remove it from the source StrCmp $2 \ +3 ; Back-slash? StrCpy $1 $1\\ Goto loop StrCmp $2 $\r +3 ; Carriage return? StrCpy $1 $1\r Goto loop StrCmp $2 $\n +3 ; Line feed? StrCpy $1 $1\n Goto loop StrCmp $2 $\t +3 ; Tab? StrCpy $1 $1\t Goto loop StrCpy $1 $1$2 ; Anything else Goto loop done: StrCpy $0 $1 Pop $2 Pop $1 Exch $0 FunctionEnd
Re: Installing Windows fonts
Create one string that contains the lang environment variable and just makes sure that is translated for now. That solves the language step in one go. You select your installation language and your environment variable is set according to that. That is not possible as we have only six available installer languages. That means an italian user must start the installer in english and can later choose Italiano. I know there are only a couple of translated languages. What I propose is create the other languages as nullsoft languages. For now the installer strings can be in english until a concerned user post the correct translations. The only string we can translate for now is the lang environment variable. This means a user selects a language only once. If not translated yet, maybe show a message that the installer is in english until we receive a contribution, but at least lyx should be fine. Regards, Johann
Re: Installing Windows fonts
StrCpy $0
$MiKTeXPath$\r$\n$GhostscriptPath$\r$\n$ImageMagickPath$\r$\n$PythonPa
th$\r
$\n$PerlPath
${StrNSISToIO} $0 $0
Note that ${StrNSISToIO} is part of StrUtils.nsh...
You don't want to manipulate (change) $GhostscriptPath et al,
because you're actually going to use them later...
It's a bit cleaner solution, was not sure how to escape the \r and \n to
avoid it begin escaped by the escaping StrNSISToIO function Or
something like that
Uwe, attached is the small test script to show page skipping by using
!define MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_PRE ___
And another suggested solution for choosing the fonts by better usage of
the nsi sections components.
Regards,
Johann
section_and_page_skip.nsi
Description: section_and_page_skip.nsi
RE: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again
- I need the registry path for Acroread. If anybody has installed it, please send it to me. I started working on this. My thoughts was to extract the pdf viewer associated with pdf's on the windows machine. With: Function getFileAssociation Exch $R1 Push $R0 ReadRegStr $R0 HKCR $R1 ReadRegStr $R1 HKCR $R0\shell\open\command Pop $R0 Exch $R1 FunctionEnd And then using: Push .pdf Call getFileAssociation pop $acrobat_path -- The result is: C:\Program Files\acrobat\acrord32.exe %1 So you'll still need to do some parsing, but this will cater for acrobat and other pdf viewers. So maybe in lyxrc.defaults add the line \viewer pdf acrord32 ?? Regards, Johann
Re: Installing Windows fonts
> > and the \t issue when you write to > > !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSummary.ini" "Field 2" "Text" \ > >"$INSTDIR\bin \r\n$MiKTeXPath \r\n$GhostscriptPath > > \r\n$ImageMagickPath\r\n$PythonPath\r\n$PerlPath" > > you have to quote the paths. > > What do you mean with the "\t issue" did I missed something? And what > should I quote? This is a string of a label and threrfore still in quotes. Sorry for the confusion. It was discussed in an earlier post. If you write to the installoptions ini file. you have to quote (or rather escape) \t \r \n in the paths. else they get turned into spaces, newlines etc. According the the abovementioned section you should have \\t for tab (located in path strings like c:\texmf). They have the nessacery function in installoption(see below). So after constructing and writing out the complete path variable to anther variable, the one that you send to Angus's plugin. You should escape al the path names: Push $GhostscriptPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $GhostscriptPath Push $INSTDIR Call Nsis2Io Pop $R0 ; dont mess with instdir Push $MiKTeXPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $MiKTeXPath Push $PerlPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $PerlPath Push $ImageMagickPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $ImageMagickPath Push $PythonPath Call Nsis2Io Pop $PythonPath ;and then only --> note the $R0 change !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSummary.ini" "Field 2" "Text" \ "$R0\bin \r\n$MiKTeXPath \r\n$GhostscriptPath \r\n$ImageMagickPath\r\n$PythonPath\r\n$PerlPath" Haven't tested it but it should work (hopefully) I will look into skipping a page. I no it is possible to skip standard pages with _PRE and _POST macros, but I'll try to construct a small installoptions case and pass it along Regards, Johann ; Convert an NSIS string to a form suitable for use by InstallOptions ; Usage: ; Push ; Call Nsis2Io ; Pop Function Nsis2Io Exch $0 ; The source Push $1 ; The output Push $2 ; Temporary char StrCpy $1 "" ; Initialise the output loop: StrCpy $2 $0 1 ; Get the next source char StrCmp $2 "" done ; Abort when none left StrCpy $0 $0 "" 1 ; Remove it from the source StrCmp $2 "\" "" +3 ; Back-slash? StrCpy $1 "$1\\" Goto loop StrCmp $2 "$\r" "" +3 ; Carriage return? StrCpy $1 "$1\r" Goto loop StrCmp $2 "$\n" "" +3 ; Line feed? StrCpy $1 "$1\n" Goto loop StrCmp $2 "$\t" "" +3 ; Tab? StrCpy $1 "$1\t" Goto loop StrCpy $1 "$1$2" ; Anything else Goto loop done: StrCpy $0 $1 Pop $2 Pop $1 Exch $0 FunctionEnd
Re: Installing Windows fonts
> > Create one string that contains > > the lang environment variable and just makes sure that is translated for now. > > That solves the language step in one go. You select your installation language > > and your environment variable is set according to that. > > That is not possible as we have only six available installer languages. > That means an italian user must start the installer in english and can > later choose "Italiano". I know there are only a couple of translated languages. What I propose is create the other languages as nullsoft languages. For now the installer strings can be in english until a concerned user post the correct translations. The only string we can translate for now is the lang environment variable. This means a user selects a language only once. If not translated yet, maybe show a message that the installer is in english until we receive a contribution, but at least lyx should be fine. Regards, Johann
Re: Installing Windows fonts
> StrCpy $0
>"$MiKTeXPath$\r$\n$GhostscriptPath$\r$\n$ImageMagickPath$\r$\n$PythonPa
th$\r
> $\n>$PerlPath"
> ${StrNSISToIO} $0 $0
>Note that ${StrNSISToIO} is part of StrUtils.nsh...
>You don't want to manipulate (change) $GhostscriptPath et al,
>because you're actually going to use them later...
It's a bit cleaner solution, was not sure how to escape the \r and \n to
avoid it begin escaped by the escaping StrNSISToIO function Or
something like that
Uwe, attached is the small test script to show page skipping by using
!define MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_PRE ___
And another suggested solution for choosing the fonts by better usage of
the nsi sections & components.
Regards,
Johann
section_and_page_skip.nsi
Description: section_and_page_skip.nsi
RE: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again
>- I need the registry path for Acroread. If anybody has installed it, please send it to me. I started working on this. My thoughts was to extract the pdf viewer associated with pdf's on the windows machine. With: Function getFileAssociation Exch $R1 Push $R0 ReadRegStr $R0 HKCR "$R1" "" ReadRegStr $R1 HKCR "$R0\shell\open\command" "" Pop $R0 Exch $R1 FunctionEnd And then using: Push ".pdf" Call getFileAssociation pop $acrobat_path -- The result is: "C:\Program Files\acrobat\acrord32.exe" "%1" So you'll still need to do some parsing, but this will cater for acrobat and other pdf viewers. So maybe in lyxrc.defaults add the line \viewer pdf "acrord32" ?? Regards, Johann
Re: Installing Windows fonts
Hi Uwe, Everything seems fine. The summary of the page is nice for novice users, but I would prefer a advanced button with a more detailed explanation. It just seems wrong if it says it found everything... the people that know what everything is will want to know where it found it (msys/cygwin issues) and all that important for the rest is if it found a harddisk to install to. Had a quick look at the instalation script, the fonts seems quite complex (4+files) compared to the 30 line solution i had. I don't quite understand the issue between xft and bakoma, but thats probably an issue for a whole other thread. Xft works, doesn't look that bad and if instant preview is on (which now works out of the box) do you really need the prettier font with lots of licensing issues to confuse your average user? Why would you even want to turn off instant preview? For the languages I have the following suggestion. Include all the available languages in Lyx as .nsh files in the installer. Create one string that contains the lang environment variable and just makes sure that is translated for now. That solves the language step in one go. You select your installation language and your environment variable is set according to that. All that really needs to be done is to update to Angus's newer plugin (to stop installation while running configure) and the \t issue when you write to !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE ioSummary.ini Field 2 Text \ $INSTDIR\bin \r\n$MiKTeXPath \r\n$GhostscriptPath \r\n$ImageMagickPath\r\n$PythonPath\r\n$PerlPath you have to quote the paths. See Get the input in http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Contrib/InstallOptions/Readme.html for a function to do it. Regards, Johann
Re: Installing Windows fonts
Hi Uwe, Everything seems fine. The summary of the page is nice for novice users, but I would prefer a advanced button with a more detailed explanation. It just seems wrong if it says it found everything... the people that know what everything is will want to know where it found it (msys/cygwin issues) and all that important for the rest is if it found a harddisk to install to. Had a quick look at the instalation script, the fonts seems quite complex (4+files) compared to the 30 line solution i had. I don't quite understand the issue between xft and bakoma, but thats probably an issue for a whole other thread. Xft works, doesn't look that bad and if instant preview is on (which now works out of the box) do you really need the prettier font with lots of licensing issues to confuse your average user? Why would you even want to turn off instant preview? For the languages I have the following suggestion. Include all the available languages in Lyx as .nsh files in the installer. Create one string that contains the lang environment variable and just makes sure that is translated for now. That solves the language step in one go. You select your installation language and your environment variable is set according to that. All that really needs to be done is to update to Angus's newer plugin (to stop installation while running configure) and the \t issue when you write to !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSummary.ini" "Field 2" "Text" \ "$INSTDIR\bin \r\n$MiKTeXPath \r\n$GhostscriptPath \r\n$ImageMagickPath\r\n$PythonPath\r\n$PerlPath" you have to quote the paths. See "Get the input" in http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Contrib/InstallOptions/Readme.html for a function to do it. Regards, Johann
Re: [LyXWin1.3.6CVS] installer issue
Hi Angus,
A small problem with version 10:
If you next, back from the MSYS page you get strange results.
It keeps on appending \bin. After the second entry into the page
it can't find sh.exe any more.
Probable fix: (from version 9 nsi file)
in file lyx_installer.nsi line 336
${DownloadEnter} \
$MinSYSPath $2 Inno Setup: App Path \
\bin \
RemovefromPath is blank.
Addtopath is set to \bin.
Johann
Checking for additional software on windows
Hi all, I thought about including checking for acrobat, aspell and more. As Angus suggested having all these options before even installing lyx could be too much for most users. What about creating a secondary installer to check for required software? The functionality would be a smaller subset of the current installer (first couple of pages) plus pages for the additional software. If a user needs to add more functionality to lyx he can just run the config or features program from the start menu. Maybe later on it can be moved into Edit-Reconfigure for windows platforms?? The operation would be similar to the installer, the only difference is it can be run at any time and would include all support software. It will allow a windows user to easily extend the functionality of lyx (by installing additional supporting applications). So if a user installs a new version of acrobat or decides he needs to be able to convert tex files to lyx he can just run the config/features option from the start menu and be guided through a couple of questions. Any further ideas/comments would be appreciated. Regards, Johann
Re: [LyXWin1.3.6CVS] installer issue
Hi Angus,
A small problem with version 10:
If you next, back from the MSYS page you get strange results.
It keeps on appending \bin. After the second entry into the page
it can't find sh.exe any more.
Probable fix: (from version 9 nsi file)
in file lyx_installer.nsi line 336
${DownloadEnter} \
$MinSYSPath "$2" "Inno Setup: App Path" \
"" "\bin" \
RemovefromPath is blank.
Addtopath is set to "\bin".
Johann
Checking for additional software on windows
Hi all, I thought about including checking for acrobat, aspell and more. As Angus suggested having all these options before even installing lyx could be too much for most users. What about creating a secondary installer to check for required software? The functionality would be a smaller subset of the current installer (first couple of pages) plus pages for the additional software. If a user needs to add more functionality to lyx he can just run the "config" or "features" program from the start menu. Maybe later on it can be moved into Edit->Reconfigure for windows platforms?? The operation would be similar to the installer, the only difference is it can be run at any time and would include all support software. It will allow a windows user to easily extend the functionality of lyx (by installing additional supporting applications). So if a user installs a new version of acrobat or decides he needs to be able to convert tex files to lyx he can just run the "config"/"features" option from the start menu and be guided through a couple of questions. Any further ideas/comments would be appreciated. Regards, Johann
Cannot access cvs
Hi, I'm trying to get cvs up and running but when I try to checkout lyx-devel I get the following: D:\settings\desktop\installlyxset CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ cvs/lyx D:\settings\desktop\installlyxcvs login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401:/cvs/lyx CVS password: *** cvs [login aborted]: connect to anoncvs.us.lyx.org:2401 failed: An existing conn ection was forcibly closed by the remote host. - It probably means my university is blocking access to the cvs port 2401, or did I get something else wrong? Just want to check before I get into a fight with the network people... Thanks, Johann
Re: Bug in Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)
Hi Nicols, C: ools\msys1_0\bin;C: ools\Python24;... That is, the :\t is missing! (But the result was however OK in lyxrc.defaults file) \t is a special tab character, thats why you get the big whitespace displayed. The generated line in the file should be fine. Then, when I launched Lyx from the installer, I got this message: LyX wasn't able to find its layout despcriptions! Check that the textclass.lst is installed correctly. Has to exit However, the textclass.lst was correct and running lyx.exe by myself gave no errors. I got the same problem and I quote from Angus: Yes, I get this sometimes too. It appears that somehow the generated file takes some seconds to get registered. If you wait twenty seconds or so before trying to launch lyx from the installer, it tends to work. It might also have something to do with Lyx still running configure for the first time, but it still needs some investigation. Johann
Cannot access cvs
Hi, I'm trying to get cvs up and running but when I try to checkout lyx-devel I get the following: D:\settings\desktop\installlyx>set CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ cvs/lyx D:\settings\desktop\installlyx>cvs login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401:/cvs/lyx CVS password: *** cvs [login aborted]: connect to anoncvs.us.lyx.org:2401 failed: An existing conn ection was forcibly closed by the remote host. - It probably means my university is blocking access to the cvs port 2401, or did I get something else wrong? Just want to check before I get into a fight with the network people... Thanks, Johann
Re: Bug in Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)
Hi Nicolás, > C: ools\msys1_0\bin;C: ools\Python24;... > > That is, the ":\t" is missing! (But the result was however OK in > lyxrc.defaults file) \t is a special tab character, thats why you get the big whitespace displayed. The generated line in the file should be fine. > Then, when I launched Lyx from the installer, I got this message: > > "LyX wasn't able to find its layout despcriptions! Check that the > textclass.lst is installed correctly. Has to exit" > > However, the textclass.lst was correct and running lyx.exe by myself > gave no errors. I got the same problem and I quote from Angus: "Yes, I get this sometimes too. It appears that somehow the generated file takes some seconds to get "registered". If you wait twenty seconds or so before trying to launch lyx from the installer, it tends to work." It might also have something to do with Lyx still running configure for the first time, but it still needs some investigation. Johann
First impressions of 1.3.6cvs on windows
Hi, I used the installer from http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx_setup_136.exe and it works great! Windows compatibility has imoroved by miles. Instant preview works 100% and the math boxes seems to be completely aligned. Some minor issues: When installation is done the first time lyx is run I get the following error: Lyx cannot find it's textclass layout files. Has to exit or similar. Luckily from the second time it was gone. Can't get the spell checker to work at all. Lyx option is grayed out and stuck on ispell. I have aspell, it's in the path and worked fine with lyx135. Doesn't seem as if 1.3.6cvs picks it up (even after reconfigure) Any ideas? Thanks for all the hard work! Johann
First impressions of 1.3.6cvs on windows
Hi, I used the installer from http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx_setup_136.exe and it works great! Windows compatibility has imoroved by miles. Instant preview works 100% and the math boxes seems to be completely aligned. Some minor issues: When installation is done the first time lyx is run I get the following error: "Lyx cannot find it's textclass layout files. Has to exit" or similar. Luckily from the second time it was gone. Can't get the spell checker to work at all. Lyx option is grayed out and stuck on ispell. I have aspell, it's in the path and worked fine with lyx135. Doesn't seem as if 1.3.6cvs picks it up (even after reconfigure) Any ideas? Thanks for all the hard work! Johann
