Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rob S wrote: More info please! subst?? subst (short for substitute) is an old DOS command that is still supported Thanks for following up on this for me, Paul. I've been travelling and have fallen behind on my personal email. One additional note: if you open a

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rob S wrote: More info please! subst?? subst (short for substitute) is an old DOS command that is still supported Thanks for following up on this for me, Paul. I've been travelling and have fallen behind on my personal email. One additional note: if you open a

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rob S wrote: More info please! subst?? subst (short for "substitute") is an old DOS command that is still supported Thanks for following up on this for me, Paul. I've been travelling and have fallen behind on my personal email. One additional note: if you open

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rob S wrote: Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rob S wrote: Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rob S wrote: Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Wojcik
Brian Williams wrote: If it could deal with spaces in the user directory, surely it wouldn't need that restriction? The way I get around this is to map a local network drive (X:) to the Documents and Settings directory so as to avoid having to create yet another top level directory. Quick

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Rob S
Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can make the subst

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Wojcik
Brian Williams wrote: If it could deal with spaces in the user directory, surely it wouldn't need that restriction? The way I get around this is to map a local network drive (X:) to the Documents and Settings directory so as to avoid having to create yet another top level directory. Quick

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Rob S
Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can make the subst

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Wojcik
Brian Williams wrote: If it could deal with spaces in the user directory, surely it wouldn't need that restriction? The way I get around this is to map a local network drive (X:) to the Documents and Settings directory so as to avoid having to create yet another top level directory. Quick

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Rob S
Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can make the subst

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-09 Thread lamikr
I have also this same problem. And as the error box comes before Lyx really is fully started, it is impossible to get in the preferences dialog. I will however try your other suggestions tomorrow. Mika Nicolás wrote: I don't really know if this is the problem, but be sure you have the

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-09 Thread Angus Leeming
lamikr wrote: I have also this same problem. And as the error box comes before Lyx really is fully started, it is impossible to get in the preferences dialog. I will however try your other suggestions tomorrow. Mika It would be interesting to see if you have problems with LyX/Win 1.3.6pre,

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-09 Thread lamikr
I have also this same problem. And as the error box comes before Lyx really is fully started, it is impossible to get in the preferences dialog. I will however try your other suggestions tomorrow. Mika Nicolás wrote: I don't really know if this is the problem, but be sure you have the

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-09 Thread Angus Leeming
lamikr wrote: I have also this same problem. And as the error box comes before Lyx really is fully started, it is impossible to get in the preferences dialog. I will however try your other suggestions tomorrow. Mika It would be interesting to see if you have problems with LyX/Win 1.3.6pre,

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-09 Thread lamikr
I have also this same problem. And as the error box comes before Lyx really is fully started, it is impossible to get in the preferences dialog. I will however try your other suggestions tomorrow. Mika Nicolás wrote: I don't really know if this is the problem, but be sure you have the

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-09 Thread Angus Leeming
lamikr wrote: I have also this same problem. And as the error box comes before Lyx really is fully started, it is impossible to get in the preferences dialog. I will however try your other suggestions tomorrow. Mika It would be interesting to see if you have problems with LyX/Win 1.3.6pre,

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Angus Leeming
David Boutillier wrote: I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. Usage: C:\LaTeX\LyX\lyx\bin\sed.exe [OPTION] . . configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script. Any help would be muchly appreciated. Muchly? :) I don't think that I've ever seen the error that you

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Brian Williams
You have User Lyx directory: 'C:/Documents and Settings/db/.lyx/' Maybe the problem is that you have your user directory set to a directory with spaces in the pathname? It may not be in this case, but I'm sure it will give you trouble later.

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Boutillier wrote: I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. As someone else pointed out in the thread, be sure that you do not try to start LyX from a directory containing spaces in its name or path. Bad Things Will Happen. Also, it makes a difference what directory is

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Angus Leeming
David Boutillier wrote: I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. Usage: C:\LaTeX\LyX\lyx\bin\sed.exe [OPTION] . . configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script. Any help would be muchly appreciated. Muchly? :) I don't think that I've ever seen the error that you

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Brian Williams
You have User Lyx directory: 'C:/Documents and Settings/db/.lyx/' Maybe the problem is that you have your user directory set to a directory with spaces in the pathname? It may not be in this case, but I'm sure it will give you trouble later.

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Boutillier wrote: I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. As someone else pointed out in the thread, be sure that you do not try to start LyX from a directory containing spaces in its name or path. Bad Things Will Happen. Also, it makes a difference what directory is

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Angus Leeming
David Boutillier wrote: I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. Usage: C:\LaTeX\LyX\lyx\bin\sed.exe [OPTION] . . configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script. Any help would be muchly appreciated. Muchly? :) I don't think that I've ever seen the error that you

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Brian Williams
You have >> User Lyx directory: 'C:/Documents and Settings/db/.lyx/' Maybe the problem is that you have your user directory set to a directory with spaces in the pathname? It may not be in this case, but I'm sure it will give you trouble later.

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Boutillier wrote: I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. As someone else pointed out in the thread, be sure that you do not try to start LyX from a directory containing spaces in its name or path. Bad Things Will Happen. Also, it makes a difference what directory is

LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread David Boutillier
I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. 1) I have followed the detailed notes for installing LyXWin on XP from the LyX/WindowsSetup page of the LyX wiki-wiki. 2) I have opened LyX from a command window with the command lyx -dbg 3. In the command prompt window. Among the

RE: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread Steven Ning
@lists.lyx.org Subject: LyXWin not working on XP I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. 1) I have followed the detailed notes for installing LyXWin on XP from the LyX/WindowsSetup page of the LyX wiki-wiki. 2) I have opened LyX from a command window with the command lyx -dbg 3

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread Nicolás
I don't really know if this is the problem, but be sure you have the directories containing acrobat.exe and gsview32.exe in the PATH. Then check that in Edit-Preferences-File formats, for PDF the viewer is acrobat.exe and for postcript is gsview32.exe Be sure also that you have lyx_path\bin\

LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread David Boutillier
I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. 1) I have followed the detailed notes for installing LyXWin on XP from the LyX/WindowsSetup page of the LyX wiki-wiki. 2) I have opened LyX from a command window with the command lyx -dbg 3. In the command prompt window. Among the

RE: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread Steven Ning
@lists.lyx.org Subject: LyXWin not working on XP I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. 1) I have followed the detailed notes for installing LyXWin on XP from the LyX/WindowsSetup page of the LyX wiki-wiki. 2) I have opened LyX from a command window with the command lyx -dbg 3

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread Nicolás
I don't really know if this is the problem, but be sure you have the directories containing acrobat.exe and gsview32.exe in the PATH. Then check that in Edit-Preferences-File formats, for PDF the viewer is acrobat.exe and for postcript is gsview32.exe Be sure also that you have lyx_path\bin\

LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread David Boutillier
I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. 1) I have followed the detailed notes for installing LyXWin on XP from the LyX/WindowsSetup page of the LyX wiki-wiki. 2) I have opened LyX from a command window with the command lyx -dbg 3. In the command prompt window. Among the

RE: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread Steven Ning
@lists.lyx.org Subject: LyXWin not working on XP I am having difficulty getting LyXWin working properly. 1) I have followed the detailed notes for installing LyXWin on XP from the LyX/WindowsSetup page of the LyX wiki-wiki. 2) I have opened LyX from a command window with the command lyx -dbg 3

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-05 Thread Nicolás
I don't really know if this is the problem, but be sure you have the directories containing acrobat.exe and gsview32.exe in the PATH. Then check that in Edit->Preferences->File formats, for PDF the viewer is "acrobat.exe" and for postcript is "gsview32.exe" Be sure also that you have "\bin\"