LyX ⇒ MiKTex, LiveTeX, and Lyx On Windows

[russurquhart1]

Hi,

I'm doing some simple LaTex documents. I currently have MikTex installed on my Windows Laptop. I'd like to use Lyx, but I understand that it prefers if you use LiveTex. I'm also, of the understanding that, on Windows machines, LiveTex and MiKTex can co-exist peacefully without any path switching necessary. If that is true, and I install also LiveTex, will Lyx work ok with this setup/configuration? Is anyone else using a setup like this?

Thanks for any help!

Russ

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Russ,

welcome to the forum!

I think Lyx runs fine with MiKTeX. In the best case, you have a full MiKTeX installed, and LyX finds all commands (pdflatex, etc.), packages, and fonts. I would not mix MiKTeX and TeX Live, especially path switching may be necessary when both have the latex and pdflatex commands. I prefer TeX Live though. Just continue with LyX and the already installed MiKTeX until you really see there may be an issue.

Stefan

[russurquhart1]

Thank you very much for responding to my question. I will give that a try!

Thanks again!

Russ