Description This is the readme of the variant "small" of the LyXWinInstaller. Please read this file carefully to prevent troubles with the installer. The LyXWinInstaller installs the wordprocessor "LyX" (www.lyx.org) and some needed programs on Windows 2000/XP/XPx64. ! Win95, Win98, and WinME are NOT supported. ! --- General The installer variant "small" has the same functionality as the "complete" version but doesn't include the LaTeX-distribution MiKTeX. It checks your system for an installed version of MiKTeX (www.miktex.org) or TeXLive (http://www.tug.org/texlive/). The installer provides an option to to choose a LaTeX-distribution from a network drive or a live-CD/DVD and an option to not use LyX with LaTeX. --- Prerequisites To use the installer you need administrator privileges. An open internet connection is recommended as several LaTeX-packages and spellchecker dictionaris can than be downloaded and installed automatically. It is not essential but would be an advantage if you have the PDF-viewer "Adobe Reader" installed before running the installer. --- Installed Applications The variant "small" of the LyXWinInstaller analyses your system and installs, if needed, a fully functional version of: - Aspell, a spellchecker - Ghostscript, an interpreter for Postscript and PDF - ImageMagick, an image converter - (optional) GSview, a viewer for Postscript and PDF-documents ImageMagick and Ghostscript won't appear in the list of the installed programs in Window's system control because they are installed in a special version to use them with LyX. But if you decide to install another version of the programs you can do this without problems and without uninstalling LyX. If you want to install GSview manually later you can do this without a new installation of Ghostscript. --- After the Installation To view/edit external files like images LyX uses the default program set in the registry for a file extension. This installer checks for many programs so that you only need to type the name of their executables in LyX's preferences to change this. For example the default viewer for PNG-images on Windows is "Paint". To change it to Gimp, set "gimp-2.2" as viewer/editor for the PNG file format in LyX's preferences. --- Known Problems You can't install LyX to a folder that has accents or umlauts in its name. If you use LyX with a computer user account that has accents or umlauts in its name, change LyX's paths in the menu Edit -> Preferences so that they don't contain accents and restart LyX. The live-variant of TeX-Live don't work together with LyX due to incompatible Ghostscript and dv2dt/dt2dv versions. TeX-Live will only work together with LyX when it is installed without Ghostscript. --- The Uninstaller LyXWinInstall's uninstaller uninstalls LyX. Aspell, Ghostscript, GSview, ImageMagick, JabRef, and MiKTeX are only uninstalled when they were installed together with LyX. You can uninstall Aspell, GSview, JabRef, and MiKTeX also separately via Window's Software menu in the system control. --- Internationalization The installer language string files can be found in the subfolder "lyx_languages" of the sourcecode package: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117 If you want to help the project you can translate them or create a new language string file based on the file "english.nsh". Please send the modified files as patch to http://developer.berlios.de/patch/?group_id=5117 or to uwestoehrweb.de. --- License The scripts of the LyXWinInstaller are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). A package with the sourcecode can be found in the section "LyxWinInstallerSource" of http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117 The license files of all used pgrograms can be found in the subdirectory "bin" of LyX's installation folder.