Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The file in question is a Python script that is processed by python.exe on the fly. No compilation necessary. Ok sorry for my ignorance of how to use the diff. No need to apologise. Thanks for testing it out. I have now made the changes and it does indeed solve the

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The file in question is a Python script that is processed by python.exe on the fly. No compilation necessary. Ok sorry for my ignorance of how to use the diff. No need to apologise. Thanks for testing it out. I have now made the changes and it does indeed solve the

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: >>> The file in question is a Python script that is processed by python.exe >>> on the fly. No compilation necessary. >> Ok sorry for my ignorance of how to use the diff. No need to apologise. Thanks for testing it out. >> I have now made the changes and it does indeed

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: I have just installed this (version small) and all seems to work nicely except for Instant Preview. I have checked for all the files and the preview.sty latex package but it still doesnt seem to work. Here's the InstantPreview page describing how it is enabled:

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:28 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: I have just installed this (version small) and all seems to work

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed: gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps Thanks Geoffrey for your investigation. I also get this error with some documents that use complicated math constructs (for example if I load my math-documentation

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:47 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed: gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps Does Instant preview work when you create a new document (without preamble stuff) with simple formulas like: A=B Yes I get the same error - except the number increaes by 1

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another message I do seem to get is this- Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're irritated by windows appearing briefly You can ignore this. This messafe wil always be printed in the console also when Instant preview works. Failed: gswin32c.exe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another message I do seem to get is this- Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're irritated by windows appearing briefly I am not sure whether this is important This is a message produced by the preview generation script itself

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another message I do seem to get is this- Consider installing

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The command gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps is succesful with your file

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another thing would be write permissions. Please assure that LyX's temp directory and output/working directory has write permissions. The temp directory constantly resets itself to read-only but it must have write permissions as all the preview files appear there.

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.defaults file which shows the path from Lyx Everything is fine there. So I have now no more ideas. What about this: What was already installed when you used my installer? Python, MSYS, Perl? regards uwe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.defaults file which shows the path from

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.defaults file which shows the path from

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Very odd Indeed! I give up now. Please try out the installer on another machine. regards Uwe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ideas I created a new partition and installed lyx to F:\lyx Aspell and GSVIEW still installed to C:\ Interestingly InstantPreview now works. Yes! Very good to hear. I uninstalled and reinstalled in the usual C:\Program Files\Lyx and it failed

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:27 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ideas I created a new partition

Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - works

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Not sure why I didnt try a different nonspaced path before but I think Instant Preview is the only problem. It certainly compiles my 120 page thesis no problem in all locations via Export-blah The problem is a bug in Ghostscript. I reported it:

Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - works

2005-12-07 Thread Bo Peng
I think the installer is very good. I agree so. I want my research group to use lyx but the IT guy said no after he watched me install, fiddle, hack and general force my way through 1.3.5 for Windows. Now with this one package I can see it on all machines next week! The same situation

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:27 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ideas I created a new partition

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Bo Peng
Just to confirm here that instant preview is not working with lyx installed under c:'\program files\lyx Bo

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:28 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - Original Message - From: Stephen

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:09 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - Original Message - From

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: If this is a problem with Ghostscript, rather than paths with spaces, or LyX, why did gswin32.exe 0lsypreview.ps work? Was Ghostscript used to create 0lsypreview.ps? Hmmm good point. Wherever Lyx is the temp directory still has paths with spaces

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:34 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: If this is a problem with Ghostscript, rather than paths with spaces, or LyX

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:25 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey, that was some good sleuthing

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: I have just installed this (version small) and all seems to work nicely except for Instant Preview. I have checked for all the files and the preview.sty latex package but it still doesnt seem to work. Here's the InstantPreview page describing how it is enabled:

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:28 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: I have just installed this (version small) and all seems to work

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed: gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps Thanks Geoffrey for your investigation. I also get this error with some documents that use complicated math constructs (for example if I load my math-documentation

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:47 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed: gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps Does Instant preview work when you create a new document (without preamble stuff) with simple formulas like: A=B Yes I get the same error - except the number increaes by 1

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another message I do seem to get is this- Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're irritated by windows appearing briefly You can ignore this. This messafe wil always be printed in the console also when Instant preview works. Failed: gswin32c.exe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another message I do seem to get is this- Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're irritated by windows appearing briefly I am not sure whether this is important This is a message produced by the preview generation script itself

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another message I do seem to get is this- Consider installing

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The command gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps is succesful with your file

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another thing would be write permissions. Please assure that LyX's temp directory and output/working directory has write permissions. The temp directory constantly resets itself to read-only but it must have write permissions as all the preview files appear there.

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.defaults file which shows the path from Lyx Everything is fine there. So I have now no more ideas. What about this: What was already installed when you used my installer? Python, MSYS, Perl? regards uwe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.defaults file which shows the path from

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.defaults file which shows the path from

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Very odd Indeed! I give up now. Please try out the installer on another machine. regards Uwe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ideas I created a new partition and installed lyx to F:\lyx Aspell and GSVIEW still installed to C:\ Interestingly InstantPreview now works. Yes! Very good to hear. I uninstalled and reinstalled in the usual C:\Program Files\Lyx and it failed

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:27 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ideas I created a new partition

Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - works

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Not sure why I didnt try a different nonspaced path before but I think Instant Preview is the only problem. It certainly compiles my 120 page thesis no problem in all locations via Export-blah The problem is a bug in Ghostscript. I reported it:

Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - works

2005-12-07 Thread Bo Peng
I think the installer is very good. I agree so. I want my research group to use lyx but the IT guy said no after he watched me install, fiddle, hack and general force my way through 1.3.5 for Windows. Now with this one package I can see it on all machines next week! The same situation

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:27 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ideas I created a new partition

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Bo Peng
Just to confirm here that instant preview is not working with lyx installed under c:'\program files\lyx Bo

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:28 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - Original Message - From: Stephen

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:09 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - Original Message - From

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: If this is a problem with Ghostscript, rather than paths with spaces, or LyX, why did gswin32.exe 0lsypreview.ps work? Was Ghostscript used to create 0lsypreview.ps? Hmmm good point. Wherever Lyx is the temp directory still has paths with spaces

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:34 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: If this is a problem with Ghostscript, rather than paths with spaces, or LyX

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:25 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey, that was some good sleuthing

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: I have just installed this (version small) and all seems to work nicely except for Instant Preview. I have checked for all the files and the preview.sty latex package but it still doesnt seem to work. Here's the InstantPreview page describing how it is enabled:

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:28 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: I have just instal

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed: gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps Thanks Geoffrey for your investigation. I also get this error with some documents that use complicated math constructs (for example if I load my math-documentation

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:47 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an error It says Failed: gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps Does Instant preview work when you create a new document (without preamble stuff) with simple formulas like: A=B Yes I get the same error - except the number increaes by 1

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another message I do seem to get is this- Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're irritated by windows appearing briefly You can ignore this. This messafe wil always be printed in the console also when Instant preview works. Failed: gswin32c.exe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another message I do seem to get is this- > Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're > irritated by windows appearing briefly > I am not sure whether this is important This is a message produced by the preview generation script

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another messa

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The command gs

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another thing would be write permissions. Please assure that LyX's temp directory and output/working directory has write permissions. The temp directory constantly resets itself to read-only but it must have write permissions as all the preview files appear there.

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.defaults file which shows the path from Lyx Everything is fine there. So I have now no more ideas. What about this: What was already installed when you used my installer? Python, MSYS, Perl? regards uwe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrot

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrot

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Very odd Indeed! I give up now. Please try out the installer on another machine. regards Uwe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ideas I created a new partition and installed lyx to F:\lyx Aspell and GSVIEW still installed to C:\ Interestingly InstantPreview now works. Yes! Very good to hear. I uninstalled and reinstalled in the usual C:\Program Files\Lyx and it failed

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:27 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrot

Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - works

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Not sure why I didnt try a different nonspaced path before but I think Instant Preview is the only problem. It certainly compiles my 120 page thesis no problem in all locations via Export->blah The problem is a bug in Ghostscript. I reported it:

Re: WinInstaller 0.51 - works

2005-12-07 Thread Bo Peng
> > I think the installer is very good. I agree so. >> I want my research group to use lyx > > but the IT guy said no after he watched me install, fiddle, hack and > > general force my way through 1.3.5 for Windows. Now with this one > > package I can see it on all machines next week! The same

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:27 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloy

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Bo Peng
Just to confirm here that instant preview is not working with lyx installed under c:'\program files\lyx" Bo

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: >> If this is a problem with Ghostscript, rather than paths with spaces, or >> LyX, why did "gswin32.exe 0lsypreview.ps" work? Was Ghostscript >> used to create 0lsypreview.ps? > Hmmm good point. Wherever Lyx is the temp directory still has paths with

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:34 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: If this is a problem with Ghostscript, rather

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:25