![]() The old (LyX provided) 1.* installers required manually installing a variety of dependencies including imagemagick/graphicmagick, python, ghostscript and some LaTeX distro ( An old/broken version of LyX Portable is here). Version 2.0 simplifies this, as they bundle the required parts of imagemagick, python and ghostscript. An external LaTeX distro is the only dependency. 2.0 is much better than 1.*, so I'm only focusing on 2.0. It also provides (via ERT, layouts and modules) an interface to directly interact with the LaTeX backend. Thereby LyX profits from many LaTeX benefits. It is text system in its own respect that just happens to use LaTeX as back end. If you require LyX 2.0, try 'Portable LyX' or 'LyTex'. If needed, we can hack out the ghostscript, and use the PortableApps version, but I'd rather not deal with that overhead - let's just use the bundled ghostscript. IMHO it is very important to not consider LyX as an 'editor' for LaTeX. The best way to install a portable version is to try the portable installer packages listed under 'Alternatives' (at the bottom). We could also use Portable Python, but again, I think that's more effort than it's worth - plus we'll have to deal with making sure to have the right version of Python. Blender bundles python, so I say we let LyX do the same.Īs far as the LaTeX distro, I think we can use MiKTeX Portable. In fact, LyX uses MiKTeX by default on windows (see this page). I've started by unpacking it into X:/PortableApps/CommonFiles/MiKTeX. (Perhaps someone would also like to make a PortableApps installer for this?) Currently, their main executable 'miktex-portable.cmd' runs 'miktex\bin\miktex-taskbar-icon.exe'. I wonder if we'll need to run that before running LyX, and then close it when LyX closes.
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