Re: Installing on Mac--MacTex vs. BasicTex
Am 27.05.11 05:14, schrieb Bob Alvarez: I am installing Lyx 1.6.9 on a Macbook Air OSX 10.6 . Quite interesting for me. I'm thinking over a change to Macbook Air for having a lightweight and smaller computing possibility when travelling. The Wiki suggests BasicTex but this thread suggests that is a bad idea http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg78404.html My article you pointed to was more meant to encourage the use of Lyx with BasicTeX, I wrote: For not to praise the day before eve, I don't exclude other frustrating experiences with the method "BasicTeX and additional packages on demand", but in the moment I'm confident in having got with three days of work a very smaller TeXLive installation, usable also with LyX. I'm using »LyX with BasicTeX and additionel (LaTeX) packages on demand« all the time since then (Dec 2009) with success, also with BasicTeX 2011 and LyX 2.0. But every now and then it is still somewhat difficult to interprete the LaTeX error messages and to find out what's the correct name of the package I have to install with tlmgr. Questions: 1. Has anyone had success installing and using Lyx with BasicTex (I am mainly interested in koma-script article document class)? Me, as I write above. Joachim -- BacicTeX 2010 Mac - LyX 2.0.0 - TeXShop 2.36 MacBook Pro OSX 10.6.5 Snow Leopard intel
Re: Installing on Mac--MacTex vs. BasicTex
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Bob Alvarez wrote: > I am installing Lyx 1.6.9 on a Macbook Air OSX 10.6 . Looking through the > instructions I was dismayed to see that I may have to install the 1.6 GB > MacTex package. This machine only has a 64 GB drive so this is quite a lot > of overhead not to mention that the download will take many hours on my > basic DSL connection. > > The Wiki suggests BasicTex but this thread suggests that is a bad idea > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg78404.html > > Questions: > 1. Has anyone had success installing and using Lyx with BasicTex (I am > mainly interested in koma-script article document class)? > > 2. Any ideas on using an external USB drive to hold the installation package > and then selecting the components I need for Lyx? > > 3. Any other ideas on how to reduce the drive space requirement? I haven't used BasicTeX myself, but I believe it will work together with TeX Live Utility.app, which will allow you selectively to add other LaTeX packages that BasicTeX itself does not include. It may be a pain to track down packages you need but don't have and then to install them, but if you're willing to put in that effort, BasicTeX may be for you. I believe (2) will not work: when installing the full MacTeX package, it's pretty much all or nothing. (But I'm going from memory of something I didn't pay attention to when installing MacTeX a long time ago.) BH
Installing on Mac--MacTex vs. BasicTex
I am installing Lyx 1.6.9 on a Macbook Air OSX 10.6 . Looking through the instructions I was dismayed to see that I may have to install the 1.6 GB MacTex package. This machine only has a 64 GB drive so this is quite a lot of overhead not to mention that the download will take many hours on my basic DSL connection. The Wiki suggests BasicTex but this thread suggests that is a bad idea http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg78404.html Questions: 1. Has anyone had success installing and using Lyx with BasicTex (I am mainly interested in koma-script article document class)? 2. Any ideas on using an external USB drive to hold the installation package and then selecting the components I need for Lyx? 3. Any other ideas on how to reduce the drive space requirement? TIA Bob
