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| Thread ID: 80647 | 2007-06-30 12:02:00 | Lyx under Windows | davehartley (3487) | Press F1 |
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| 564648 | 2007-06-30 12:02:00 | Just wondering of anyone here's actually got this going? I'm having huge problems either installing it (the installation hangs running a Python configuration script), or once it HAS installed it won't run. Period. Nothing happens. I've got LaTeX (actually MiKTeX 2.6) running fine (produces really nice PDFs of hugely complex math :thumbs: ), but would quite like a WYSIWYG-ish interface so my less computer-geeky colleagues have a chance of using LaTeX ... Conversly, if someone has a better suggestion of a GUI front-end to LaTeX on Windows, I'd be interested to hear of it! Thanks in advance ... |
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| 564649 | 2007-06-30 21:35:00 | Ok I no nothing about lyx but as it is a windows port of unix/linux thingie A) have you got all the programs it relies on installed, python qt and the latex fonts etc probably more B) being from a linux background does it have an error log somewhere? C) what version of python do you have installed, and do you still need to set the path variable see number 4 below www.lyx.org |
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| 564650 | 2007-06-30 23:54:00 | Well, LaTeX itself runs absolutely fine, so all the fonts etc for THAT are there. I had a look at the website you gave me -- thanks for that! -- but all the required packages seem to be where they should be (all the listed files in #8 are there, for instance) and the Python script is launched with a direct reference to a Python executable, so it look like Python isn't actually "installed" as such, just used to create a config file for Lyx. There's actually two different installation packages for Lyx (off the www.lyx.org website): the "official" windows installer, and a LyxWinInstaller that's about twice the size. The first one installs, but doesn't run. The second one is the one that includes the Python executable, but then hangs when it runs the configuration script for Lyx (which is a Python script). The script actually executes, so Python itself doesn't appear to be the problem? It just 'hangs' somewhere while executing -- but I'm no Python guru, so I don't know where to start looking in the script. With regards to the error log, there's no error log as such, but there IS a config log -- which basically says that the script was terminated if I close the batch window the script is running in (I left it going 3 hours yesterday, just to make sure I wasn't being impatient!). Again, it's just annoying more than anything else. I'm quite happy typing the LaTeX commands into a text file ... but I know that my colleagues will be less happy with that! Hence the search for a semi-WYSIWYG interface. Any other help/suggestions would be most appreciated! :waughh: |
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