David A. Case writes: > Just a note that might help some people: Current cygwin versions install into > /usr/local, so you may need to reference /usr/local/share/lyx/fonts instead > of /usr/share/lyx/fonts in the instructions above. Just check to see what > directories you have.
Just to clear up this. There is an official cygwin version of LyX that can be installed through official repositories. This version uses a X server and installs into /usr. Then there are unofficial versions, downloadable from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin, that don't use a X server and install into /usr/local. These last versions cannot be made official because one of the requirements is that they should compile using only software available in the cygwin distro, and the non-X11 Qt which is used is not there. And there is no hope that it can be there, because they want the X11 version of Qt. > > (btw, I see that 1.4.4 is still the current available version) > > There is a lyx-1.5.2-cygwin.tar.gz at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2, > (and comparable versions for 1.5.0, 1.5.1 and 1.4.5.1). These have all worked > fine for me, including showing math fonts. These are the unofficial versions not using X11. > [A personal view: if you are already using cygwin, or if you are familiar with > Unix/Linux, you should seriously consider using the cygwin version of LyX if > you need a windows version.] I agree ;-) -- Enrico
