New Windows Installer For Testing

2020-02-24 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
I've put a new Windows installer here     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ for testing. It is meant to fix bug #11750, which prevents proper collection of TeX files on Windows. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel

Re: New Windows Installer For Testing

2019-01-01 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 1/1/19 9:29 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > On 2/01/2019 12:35 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> >> A Windows installer that should fix the previously reported issue has >> been uploaded for testing here: >> >>     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ >> >> The issue was that citations could

Re: New Windows Installer For Testing

2019-01-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 2/01/2019 12:35 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: A Windows installer that should fix the previously reported issue has been uploaded for testing here: http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ The issue was that citations could not be added in documents that used the bibliography environ

New Windows Installer For Testing

2019-01-01 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
A Windows installer that should fix the previously reported issue has been uploaded for testing here:     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ The issue was that citations could not be added in documents that used the bibliography environment, rather than BibTeX files. I have tested myself b

Re: New Windows Installer

2018-12-14 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/14/18 3:04 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > On 15/12/2018 5:32 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> A new Windows installer that should fix the slowness problem reported >> earlier is available here: >> >> http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ >> >>

Re: New Windows Installer

2018-12-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 15/12/2018 5:32 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: A new Windows installer that should fix the slowness problem reported earlier is available here:     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ Please let me know if this does solve the problem. Riki Downloaded and installed on windows 7

New Windows Installer

2018-12-14 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
A new Windows installer that should fix the slowness problem reported earlier is available here:     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ Please let me know if this does solve the problem. Riki

[announce] again a new Windows installer for LyX 2.2.2 is available

2017-01-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dear LyX on Windows users, especially new users or those who installed LyX the first time on a computer recently encountered error messages of missing LaTeX packages. There was a bug in the LaTeX distribution MiKTeX that is used by LyX for Windows that disabled any LaTeX package downloads. Th

Re: Conclusion - New Windows installer for LyX 2.0.4

2012-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 08.07.2012 18:25, schrieb Scott Kostyshak: I have now provided the new installer version "LyX-204-3" here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/ The download link on the sourceforge front page hasn't been changed to 204-3 yet. This usually takes a while until it is available a

RE: Conclusion - New Windows installer for LyX 2.0.4

2012-07-08 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org [lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org] on behalf of Uwe Stöhr [uwesto...@web.de] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 11:55 AM >I have now provided the new installer version "LyX-204-3" here: >http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/ The download link on the sourceforge front pag

Conclusion - New Windows installer for LyX 2.0.4

2012-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 28.06.2012 11:23, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: The reason why I don't accept this installer now is that: - the installer installs LyX in a folder called: LyX 2.0.4 instead of LyX20 as the current official installer does. I really don't see a single reason to change this behaviour; We di

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-13 Thread Joost Verburg
Bo Peng wrote: Later on, when installing aspell English dictionary, the installer runs OK, but exits with error message "the setup wizard of the English spell checker dictionary was not completed, Do you want to run the set up again?". That's because of the new Aspell dictionaries. The next bui

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-13 Thread Bo Peng
I am trying the installer on a new machine with which I probably do not have administrative privilege. I get downloading error for both miktex and imagemagik, but I can download ghostview and ghostscript. Error messages say hostname resolving problem. Later on, when installing aspell English dic

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-13 Thread Bo Peng
I am wondering what if the > built-in (?) download link is no longer valid. Good. SourceForge and CTAN never delete files, so the download links should remain valid. Of course the files can also be hosted on the LyX server, Lars should probably decide. I am trying the installer on a new machine

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Build 20060602 is available and has Joost> been uploaded to incoming. Can you move the files again JMarc? Joost> Thanks. I think it's time to put the source code in SVN. Can I Joost> get access to upload

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:04:30AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Agreed. But what's your point? I didn't mean to correct the possibly > > broken dvipost code but only to let it work (or not work) on Windows > > in the same way it works (or doesn't w

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-06 Thread Angus Leeming
Joost Verburg wrote: > I agree to license my contributions under the GNU General Public > License, version 2 or later. Good man. Your name is now up in lights at http://www.lyx.org/about/credits.php and http://www.lyx.org/about/blanket-permission.php Regards, -- Angus

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-06 Thread Joost Verburg
Angus Leeming wrote: However, I've just checked and we don't have an entry for you in lib/generate_contributions.py. Could you please send a mail to this list stating that you agree to license your contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public License, Version 2 or later. I agree to licen

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: That doesn't look right. Do you mean apache.wiki? Nope. The LyX wiki is housed at /home/lyx/www/pmwiki $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cd ../lyx/www/pmwiki/uploads/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uploads]$ pwd /home/lyx/www/pmwiki/uploads [EMAIL PROTECTED] uploads]$ find .

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | Joost Verburg wrote: | > | > Angus Leeming wrote: | > | >> Ok, Joost. All dictionaries are now uploaded | > | >> and available through | >> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Joost Verburg wrote: | > Angus Leeming wrote: | >> Ok, Joost. All dictionaries are now uploaded | >> and available through | >> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6. | | > Great, thanks! Now only the license is shown when

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Joost Verburg wrote: | > Angus Leeming wrote: | >> Ok, Joost. All dictionaries are now uploaded | >> and available through | >> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6. | | > Great, thanks! Now only the license is shown when | > installing a dictionary us

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Joost Verburg wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Joost> Build 20060602 is available and has been uploaded to incoming. Joost> Can you move the files again JMarc? Thanks. I think it's time to put the source code in SVN. Can I get access to upload and maintain the installer myself or should I s

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Joost Verburg wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> Ok, Joost. All dictionaries are now uploaded >> and available through >> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6. > Great, thanks! Now only the license is shown when > installing a dictionary using the LyX installer. > Can you also update the data insta

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-05 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Joost> Build 20060602 is available and has been uploaded to incoming. Joost> Can you move the files again JMarc? Thanks. I think it's time to put the source code in SVN. Can I get access to upload and maintain the installer myself or should I send the files to some

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-05 Thread Joost Verburg
Angus Leeming wrote: Ok, Joost. All dictionaries are now uploaded and available through http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6. Great, thanks! Now only the license is shown when installing a dictionary using the LyX installer. Can you also update the data installer? Because you own the file I

Re: New windows installer: missing windefault?

2006-06-03 Thread Bo Peng
On 6/3/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just upgraded my lyx1.4.1 using the new installer. The installation goes well but when I try to start lyx, I get error message: error when reading the configuration file: windefault, please check your installation. OK, I deleted program fles\

New windows installer: missing windefault?

2006-06-03 Thread Bo Peng
Hi, I just upgraded my lyx1.4.1 using the new installer. The installation goes well but when I try to start lyx, I get error message: error when reading the configuration file: windefault, please check your installation. Bo

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: A new installer for Aspell 0.6 data and dictionaries has been uploaded: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Installer/aspell6-wininstaller-src.tar.gz The next version of the LyX installer will bundle this new Aspell installer and

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Build 20060602 is available and has been uploaded to incoming. Joost> Can you move the files again JMarc? Done: lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ftp/pub/lyx/pre> dir lyx-142svn-20060602.exe* -rw-r--r--1 507 2002 8856899

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Build 20060602 is available and has been uploaded to incoming. Can you move the files again JMarc? Everything related the Aspell should now work fine. Dictionary installation will also become easier once the script Angus is running finished (just a single click to accept the license). The un

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: A new installer for Aspell 0.6 data and dictionaries has been uploaded: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Installer/aspell6-wininstaller-src.tar.gz The next version of the LyX installer will bundle this new Aspell installer and make use of the new fe

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Joost Verburg wrote: A new installer for Aspell 0.6 data and dictionaries has been uploaded: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Installer/aspell6-wininstaller-src.tar.gz The next version of the LyX installer will bundle this new Aspell installer and make use of the new features. Angus, can

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Stephen Harris wrote: The first time I installed it took awhile to generate Tex Information. I uninstalled and reinstalled. This time generating Tex Information was instantaneous, which indicates some config file was not deleted from the prior installation and was being read again, instead of a

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sadly, it's still the case, after fixing the registry and reinstalling LyX, that spell checking is disabled (the Tools menu entry is grayed out, and F7 generates a "command disabled" status message). Aspell must be installed correctly, since it works with both LyX 1.3.7 an

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Stephen Harris
"By the way, I noticed a couple of things when I uninstalled 1.4svn. First, the installer creates only a program menu entry for LyX itself -- no entry for the uninstall command. (Angus's installers created a folder for LyX, with links to both LyX and the uninstall executable). So I used Add/Remov

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 1. It installed a bunch of Aspell files to C:\Program Files\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60. I already had Aspell installed (at C:\Aspell). I thought that Aspell *had* to be installed to C:\Aspell. Has this changed? The Aspell installer, which defaults to

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Joost Verburg
A new installer for Aspell 0.6 data and dictionaries has been uploaded: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Installer/aspell6-wininstaller-src.tar.gz The next version of the LyX installer will bundle this new Aspell installer and make use of the new features. Angus, can you run the script aga

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: 1. It installed a bunch of Aspell files to C:\Program Files\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60. I already had Aspell installed (at C:\Aspell). I thought that Aspell *had* to be installed to C:\Aspell. Has this changed? The Aspell installer, which defaults to C:\Aspell, is used to

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: Thanks for all your comments and feature requests. A new version of the installer, again based on the latest 1.4.2svn, is now available. Hi, Joost, Great job with the installer. I just tried it out, and it worked great for the most part, with a few anomalies: 1. It

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for all your comments and feature requests. A new version of the > installer, again based on the latest 1.4.2svn, is now available. ... > I have uploaded the source to: > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Installer/installer-src.tar.gz Hi, Joos

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Ready-to-use installers have been uploaded to incoming on the Joost> devel FTP server (called lyx-142svn-20060531.exe and Joost> lyx-142svn-20060531-bundle.exe). Can someone move them to a Joost> public location? They are now at ft

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Thanks for all your comments and feature requests. A new version of the installer, again based on the latest 1.4.2svn, is now available. Main new features: * Spell checker dictionaries can be downloaded * dvipost/pplatex is included (to view changes in output) * Downloading of additional dictio

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-31 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:37:19PM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > >Eh, no! If you want to play the perfectionism game you should try > >to be perfect ;-) > > > >What if both p1 and p2 are NULL? Then you should also consider that > >"C:foo" is a valid path on Windows, too ;-) > > Replacing every bac

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Eh, no! If you want to play the perfectionism game you should try to be perfect ;-) What if both p1 and p2 are NULL? Then you should also consider that "C:foo" is a valid path on Windows, too ;-) Replacing every backslash by a slash before the other actions should solve everything, right? It s

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The dvipost source is really ugly. I would also replace the strchr > in the following line by strrchr to allow for additional dots in > a filename. > I still don't understand why it is working for me, but I think > it is an example of what undefined b

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-31 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:49:05AM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Joost Verburg wrote: > >Unfortunately it was just a coincidence. Even using Windows XP I now had > >a few crashes. Tools > Reconfigure often triggers it. > > I think I found it. One byte more needs to be allocated in get_dvi_name >

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Joost Verburg wrote: Unfortunately it was just a coincidence. Even using Windows XP I now had a few crashes. Tools > Reconfigure often triggers it. I think I found it. One byte more needs to be allocated in get_dvi_name (for the null byte). Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:04:30AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Agreed. But what's your point? I didn't mean to correct the possibly > > broken dvipost code but only to let it work (or not work) on Windows > > in the same way it works (or doesn't w

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Angus Leeming
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Agreed. But what's your point? I didn't mean to correct the possibly > broken dvipost code but only to let it work (or not work) on Windows > in the same way it works (or doesn't work) on *nix. Fair enough. Note, however, that "foo\bar/baz" is a val

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:54:24PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Do you need to consider also mixed \ and / delimiters, as in "foo/bar\baz" > >> ? > > I was not thinking of that, even if I just checked that it works. > > Are you sure? Won't >

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Angus Leeming
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do you need to consider also mixed \ and / delimiters, as in "foo/bar\baz" ? > I was not thinking of that, even if I just checked that it works. Are you sure? Won't p = strrchr(arg, '/'); return "bar\baz" ? What about "foo/bar/"? Wi

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:51:58AM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >Good detective work! Indeed, I have SP4 installed but would have never > >thought about it. After all, dvipost seems a so simple application... > > Unfortunately it was just a coincidence. Even using Windo

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:18:38PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In the meantime I have discovered that a native Windows build > > needs another small patch. Please, find it attached. > > ... > > > p = strrchr(arg, '/'); > > > >+#ifdef _WIN32

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Good detective work! Indeed, I have SP4 installed but would have never thought about it. After all, dvipost seems a so simple application... Unfortunately it was just a coincidence. Even using Windows XP I now had a few crashes. Tools > Reconfigure often triggers it.

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Georg Baum wrote: No. This is still on my todo list, I will include beamer.layout in one of the next 1.4.x releases, but am swamped with work right now. Unfortunately one cannot simply include it, since there seem to be some bugs in 1.4 that make some styles unusable. Even if it still needs so

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Angus Leeming
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the meantime I have discovered that a native Windows build > needs another small patch. Please, find it attached. ... > p = strrchr(arg, '/'); > >+#ifdef _WIN32 >+ if (!p) >+ p = strrchr(arg, '\\'); >+#endif Do you n

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:09:20PM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >>Unfortunately pplatex.exe is very unstable. Especially during testing on > >>Windows 2000 it crashes all the time. > > > >This is weird. I run it on Windows 2000 and it works flawlessly. > > The crash is

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Unfortunately pplatex.exe is very unstable. Especially during testing on Windows 2000 it crashes all the time. This is weird. I run it on Windows 2000 and it works flawlessly. The crash is caused by a stack overflow. The problem however seems to be solved after I ins

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Indeed. Georg, did you ever have an answer from beamer people? No. This is still on my todo list, I will include beamer.layout in one of the next 1.4.x releases, but am swamped with work right now. Unfortunately one cannot simply include it, since there seem to be so

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Both still crash. It looks like they crash during memory allocation, which is a bit weird. I'll try to find a solution. Joost Edwin Leuven wrote: could you try these? thanks

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Edwin" == Edwin Leuven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Edwin> Joost Verburg wrote: >> Finally, the source code of the new LyX 1.4 installer. Updated >> Windows build instructions are also included. Edwin> would be nice if beamer.layout could be included Indeed. Georg, did you ever have an ans

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Edwin Leuven
Joost Verburg wrote: Finally, the source code of the new LyX 1.4 installer. Updated Windows build instructions are also included. would be nice if beamer.layout could be included thanks, edwin

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> The batch file is generated by the installer. If you select Joost> another language there will be another langcode. Thanks for the clarification. JMarc

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Joost> No, the installer allows you to select a language and writes Joost> the batch file with the right language code. OK, so this was the en_US shown in the example lyx.bat, right? The batch file is generated by the installer. If you select another language there

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> So in windows it is possible to store environment variables there >> and they are passed to the application, right? Is this a local or a >> global setting? Joost> No, the installer allows you to selec

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: So in windows it is possible to store environment variables there and they are passed to the application, right? Is this a local or a global setting? No, the installer allows you to select a language and writes the batch file with the right language code. Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> And where is this language choice stored? Joost> Paths and language choice are stored in the Windows registry. So in windows it is possible to store environment variables there and they are passed to

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:28:48AM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Leuven, E. wrote: > >patch + archive with .exe and .sty attached > > > >edwin > > Unfortunately pplatex.exe is very unstable. Especially during testing on > Windows 2000 it crashes all the time. This is weird. I run it on Windows 2

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Leuven, E. wrote: patch + archive with .exe and .sty attached edwin Unfortunately pplatex.exe is very unstable. Especially during testing on Windows 2000 it crashes all the time. This needs to be fixed before it can go into the installer, because the whole configure process fails when it c

RE: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Leuven, E. wrote: patch + archive with .exe and .sty attached edwin PS perhaps this should find a place on the wiki as well? Hi Edwin I just trigger on "wiki", what exactly is it that you think should have place on there? 'dvipost' doesn't tell me anything. First sea

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: And where is this language choice stored? Paths and language choice are stored in the Windows registry. Does it default to windows default? Yes, the updated version will default to the Windows language. Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> So, if LANG is not set, you should do nothing, so that the windows >> default is used instead of en_US. Joost> The installer always let's the user choose a language. And where is this language choice

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: So, if LANG is not set, you should do nothing, so that the windows default is used instead of en_US. The installer always let's the user choose a language. Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Note that if LANG is not set, gettext gets the language setting >> from Windows. Do we really want to override this with LANG? Joost> It should be possible to choose a language, the region set in Joos

RE: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Leuven, E.
Title: RE: New Windows Installer patch + archive with .exe and .sty attached edwin PS perhaps this should find a place on the wiki as well? -Original Message- From: Joost Verburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 5/29/06 14:44 To: Leuven, E. Cc: LyX Developers List Subject: Re

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Bo Peng wrote: As far as I remember, dvipost and latexpreview are not standard miktex packages and can not be installed in this way. Consequently, 'latex-preview' and 'change tracking' will not be functioning in a fresh installed lyx. The files listed at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview a

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Edwin Leuven wrote: i agree that the windows installer should come with this so that it works 'out of the box'. dvipost needs enrico's patch, be compiled and then installed in the proper location. definitely too much for the average user... Can you send me this dvipost patch? Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Note that if LANG is not set, gettext gets the language setting from Windows. Do we really want to override this with LANG? It should be possible to choose a language, the region set in Windows is not always the language you want. Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Unless something fancier is in mind for this batch file, this can >> be handled at least in configure.py, if not in lyx itself. Joost> What do you mean? The purpose of the batch file is to set the Joost> LANG environment variable to wh

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-29 Thread Georg Baum
Stephen Harris wrote: > As reported C:\Foxit\foxit.exe , the absolute path works but > not just foxit(.exe). There seems to be something inconsistent > between how acrord32 and foxit are recognized. Strange. Please investigate further when the known "path with spaces" problems are fixed. > since

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Edwin Leuven
Bo Peng wrote: As far as I remember, dvipost and latexpreview are not standard miktex packages and can not be installed in this way. Consequently, 'latex-preview' and 'change tracking' will not be functioning in a fresh installed lyx. i agree that the windows installer should come with this so

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Stephen Harris
Original Message Subject: Re: New Windows Installer Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 15:05:54 -0700 From: Stephen Harris Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX Developers List Am Sonntag, 28. Mai 2006 21:51 schrieb Stephen Harris

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Bo Peng
> I guess no. I think lyx (configure.py) should detect this and disable > instant preview when the preview package is not available. (and tells > user why instant preview is disabled.) MiKTeX automatically asks you to download packages, unless you disabled this option. As far as I remember, dvi

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Stephen Harris
Am Sonntag, 28. Mai 2006 21:51 schrieb Stephen Harris: > I sometimes use Foxit Reader.exe to view pdf files because it > loads quicker. By default is is located in > C:\Program Files\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Foxit reader.exe SH: There always seems to be lingering path with spaces problems >

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Bo Peng wrote: Maybe the language dictionary for the language user selected (for lyx) should be downloaded automatically? The next version of the installer will show a list of all available dictionaries. I guess no. I think lyx (configure.py) should detect this and disable instant preview w

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Stephen Harris wrote: Spell checking was retained, but during the installation the Aspell .60.4 files returned errors about not being read. You need to have access to C:\Aspell to install the spell checker. If it's already installed there it will work. Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Stephen Harris
Stephen Harris wrote: I will logon to the non-admin account and see how well the install proceeds for 'this user only'. I liked how this was handled, warning that some functions would probably be lost but allowing the install to proceed. It works well maybe due to the fact that on the sam

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Bo Peng
Automatic dictionary download/installation is indeed a good idea. Maybe the language dictionary for the language user selected (for lyx) should be downloaded automatically? Works fine for me. The necessary files for instant preview are also included in the installers. Did you install the LaTeX

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Stephen Harris wrote: No desktop icon was automatically created and I'm used to that. Easy to fix of course. Good point. I'll add a check box to create a desktop icon. Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 28. Mai 2006 21:51 schrieb Stephen Harris: > I sometimes use Foxit Reader.exe to view pdf files because it > loads quicker. By default is is located in > C:\Program Files\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Foxit reader.exe > > There always seems to be lingering path with spaces problems > an

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Stephen Harris
I also tested the 8mb installer and it works quite well. The spellchecker still doesn't check the first misspelled word. No desktop icon was automatically created and I'm used to that. Easy to fix of course. I sometimes use Foxit Reader.exe to view pdf files because it loads quicker. By defaul

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Bo Peng wrote: Maybe you can do things like * automatically download from: an edit box with default link. That's not a user-friendly solution. Better would be to either host the files on the LyX server or download a file list from the LyX server. Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Bo Peng
> Good. SourceForge and CTAN never delete files, so the download links > should remain valid. I wouldn't bet on that. It wouldn't be the first time that the CTAN directory structure changes and the links to packages become invalid. Maybe you can do things like * automatically download from:

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Joost Verburg wrote: > Bo Peng wrote: > > Just tried the non-bundle one since I have most of the components > > installed. The setup process goes smoothly. It correctly detects my > > existing components and automatically downloads the missing ones. This > > is already better than the official one

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Bo Peng wrote: Just tried the non-bundle one since I have most of the components installed. The setup process goes smoothly. It correctly detects my existing components and automatically downloads the missing ones. This is already better than the official one but I am wondering what if the built-

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Bo Peng
They are now in pub/lyx/pre. People, please test! Just tried the non-bundle one since I have most of the components installed. The setup process goes smoothly. It correctly detects my existing components and automatically downloads the missing ones. This is already better than the official one b

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> I have uploaded the two installers to ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming. They are now in pub/lyx/pre. People, please test! JMrc

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: We do not have access there! Could you upload to ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming ? I have uploaded the two installers to ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming. Joost

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-05-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> These installers have been uploaded to incoming on the LyX FTP server. Can someone move them to a public location? We do not have access there! Could you upload to ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming ? Thanks, JMarc

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