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I wonder if we'll need to run that before running LyX, and then close it when LyX closes. (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've started by unpacking it into X:/PortableApps/CommonFiles/MiKTeX. In fact, LyX uses MiKTeX by default on windows (see this page). 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.
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#Lyx windows portable#
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. 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. 2.0 is much better than 1.*, so I'm only focusing on 2.0. An external LaTeX distro is the only dependency. Version 2.0 simplifies this, as they bundle the required parts of imagemagick, python and ghostscript. 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).