RE: texlive or miktech

[Baris Erkus]

I have been using MikTeX on Windows and very happy with it.



Easy to istall, easy to handle…



Updating, installing new packages, package maintenance, I had no major problem.



Occasionally, when there is an update or change in MikTeX system it gives error 
but in a day or so it is always fixed.



It gives the impression that the maintainer is always on top it.



I have used MikTex with WinEdt, Texmaker and Lyx and had no issue.



I have also used my own macros and was easy to install.



I did not use the other TeX systems but if you chose MikTeX you will not be 
sorry for general use.



B. Erkus



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From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  on behalf of Wolfgang 
Engelmann 
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 6:05:41 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: texlive or miktech

Which one is recommendable for the beginner: texlive or miktech? It
should contain texlive-extra and/or texlive-publishers

Wolfgang

Re: texlive or miktech

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 03/02/2018 10:05 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
Which one is recommendable for the beginner: texlive or miktech? It 
should contain texlive-extra and/or texlive-publishers


Wolfgang

Contrary to Ehud's opinion, I'd go with MiKTeX on Windows (probably 
TeXLive on Linux). For background, I was on Windows for a (painfully) 
long time, and I've been using almost exclusively Linux for about a 
decade. I strongly prefer the MiKTeX package manager to the 
corresponding program in TeXLive when it comes to installing individual 
packages (and thus just what you need).


At one time I tried out a Linux port of MiKTeX. I'm not sure if it still 
exists or not, and I don't recall why I decided to go with TeXLive on 
Linux. Bottom line, though: if I had to use Windows most of the time but 
occasionally switch to Linux, I think I would use MiKTeX. If it were the 
other way around (only occasional Windows use), I would probably use 
TeXLive. If I were exclusively on Windows, I would use MiKTeX.


Paul

Re: texlive or miktech

[udi]

  
  
Like others, I have been using TexLive for years now (since it
replaced EmTex), because it runs the same under Windows (which I
still use sometime) and Linux (which I use most of the time).  I
also find that maintaining and updating using TexLive is easier than
using MikTeX.
EK

On 03/02/2018 04:40 PM, Rich Shepard
  wrote:

On
  Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
  
  
  Windows. (I ask for somebody else. I am on
Linux)

  
  
  Wolfgang,
  
  
    Oh. Then I have no idea.
  
  
  Regards,
  
  
  Rich
  


-- 
Ehud Kaplan
Prague

  

Re: texlive or miktech

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:


Windows. (I ask for somebody else. I am on Linux)


Wolfgang,

  Oh. Then I have no idea.

Regards,

Rich

RE: texlive or miktech

[Bernt Lie]

Interesting question (miktech vs. texlive). Additional consideration:
* I have installed Inkscape and try to use this drawing tool instead of Visio
* My current Inkscape installation allows me to insert TeX math and have it 
converted to a curve/object in Inkscape -- which I can then scale
* In an *ideal* world, I'd like to keep the TeX math in the Inkscape drawing in 
a form that makes LyX scale the text so that it fits with the body text size of 
the document...

OK -- I haven't looked into LyX' recent Inkscape support, and don't know 
whether such scaling is supported -- and whether Inkscape support works for 
both Miktech and TeXLive...

-B

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From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of 
Wolfgang Engelmann
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 16:29
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: texlive or miktech



Am 02.03.2018 um 16:21 schrieb Rich Shepard:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
>
>> Which one is recommendable for the beginner: texlive or miktech? It 
>> should contain texlive-extra and/or texlive-publishers
>
> Wolfgang,
>
>   What platform (OS)?
>
>   I've been running texlive since it replaced tetex and recommend it 
> despite my lack of experiences with other currently-available 
> distributions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
Windows. (I ask for somebody else. I am on Linux) Wolfgang

Re: texlive or miktech

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am 02.03.2018 um 16:21 schrieb Rich Shepard:

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

Which one is recommendable for the beginner: texlive or miktech? It 
should contain texlive-extra and/or texlive-publishers


Wolfgang,

  What platform (OS)?

  I've been running texlive since it replaced tetex and recommend it 
despite

my lack of experiences with other currently-available distributions.

Regards,

Rich

Windows. (I ask for somebody else. I am on Linux)
Wolfgang

Re: texlive or miktech

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

Which one is recommendable for the beginner: texlive or miktech? It should 
contain texlive-extra and/or texlive-publishers


Wolfgang,

  What platform (OS)?

  I've been running texlive since it replaced tetex and recommend it despite
my lack of experiences with other currently-available distributions.

Regards,

Rich