Re: Aspell Troubles with the WinInstaller, 3 May 2006

2006-05-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter Pakulski wrote: Hi, I've just installed Lyx for the first time on this machine, using the installer from: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller for Lyx 1.4.1 Both before and after installing the Aspell language pack (for English), Spell-checking is greyed-out in Tools->Preference

Aspell Troubles with the WinInstaller, 3 May 2006

2006-05-03 Thread Peter Pakulski
Hi, I've just installed Lyx for the first time on this machine, using the installer from: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller for Lyx 1.4.1 Both before and after installing the Aspell language pack (for English), Spell-checking is greyed-out in Tools->Preferences->Spellchecker. I've

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 solv

WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:41 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 On Thursday 08 December 2005 00:47, you wrote: > Me neither. How

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" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:25 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 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 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: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:09 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.

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" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:28 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller

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" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: WinInstall

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 Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:27 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ide

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 s

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: http://bugs.ghostscript.c

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" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:27 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ide

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 I

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 Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.d

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" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.d

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 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. Real

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The command gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps is succe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The command gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps is succesful with your file on my system. Could you check as last try to copy the "0lyxpreview.ps" from LyX's temp directory to LyX's install folder ~\etc\Ghostscript\bin Then start a console, change to ~\etc\Ghostscript\bin and t

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: 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- Conside

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 itse

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 0l

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an err

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 eacht

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:47 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an erro

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 http://wiki.ly

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:28 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: I have just installed this (version small) and

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: http://

WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-06 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have just installed this 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. Anyone got any ideas? Geoff

WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-06 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi 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. Anyone got any ideas? Geoff

Re: WinInstaller

2005-12-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I am having problems downloading the wininstaller (v0.4) from the berlios website. berlios.de is down, I don't know why. Please try it again later. regards Uwe

WinInstaller

2005-12-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am having problems downloading the wininstaller (v0.4) from the berlios website. Everytime it clicks through to Cannot find Server. Does anyone know if this is a problem at their end or mine - my XP box is gently corrupting so it wouldn't surprise me. Geoff