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From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: No VIEW->DVI in LyX Win32
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The native versions of Lyx for 137 and 140 appear to conflict up in
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\LyX where
preferences are stored. There is no conflict with native WinLyX and
CygLyX because CygLyx has its preferences stored down in C:\Cygwin.
Stephen,
coexistence of both 1.3.7 and 1.4.0 on Windows is easier than on Linux
because the only conflict is the userdir. You can solve this only problem
simply renaming the 1.4.0 userdir as
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\LyX140
and then adding the following switch to your shortcuts or .bat files
invoking LyX 1.4.0:
-userdir "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\LyX140"
doing so, LyX will look there for its files. Try issuing the following
command from a terminal:
"C:\Program files\LyX-1.4.0\bin\lyx.exe" -userdir C:/MyLyX140dir
and you will see that LyX will even create C:/MyLyX140dir if it does
not exists, autoreconfiguring itself.
SH: This works and is so much easier it is even convenient!
I entered it on the Target line. Thanks!
But I am using all Windows native programs. Maybe there would be
an insurmountable conflict if both the Win and Cygwin versions of
ImageMagick were used for instance. But I think maybe Enrico has
this working (unless he is using all Cygwin helper apps )
The native LyX version can be used with all Cygwin apps. Whatever you
can do with a native app you can do the same and more with a Cygwin one.
For example, Cygwin apps understand both native and posix syntax for
paths.
With a Cygwin app you can indifferently use C:\aspell\lib or C:/aspell/lib
or /cygdrive/c/aspell/lib or even C:\aspell/lib (note the mixup of \ and
/).
I tested Chuck's method. He is not getting a DVI viewer because the
latex.exe is found during "sh configure" to be "not useable". So by
"native LyX version", you don't mean a binary, but that LyX can be
compiled under Cygwin to use Qt3 and Cygwin LyX helpers?
The WinLyX binary install bombs for finding xpdf also.
The only problem I face is when a Cygwin app is a symlink to a real
binary program, as in this case native (and even MSYS) apps do not
understand symlinks. The solution in this case is really simple: create
a .bat script with the same name which simply calls the real binary
program.
--
Enrico
Well I noticed that latex.exe was rather small and there was a symlink
to pdfetex.exe. So I tried to tried deleting latex.exe and then copying
pdfetex.exe to latex.exe but the binary LyX still found latex.exe "not
useable". I noticed you put the new Cygwin LyX140 up for ftp download.
Regards,
Stephen
