Re: help

[Mats Bengtsson]

Carl Sorensen wrote:

> If there were a way to have a customized lilypond version of cygwin's
> setup.exe, with the appropriate packages automatically selected, so that
> we could just tell users to click on next, and next, and next..., then
> I think the installation could be better.  And if we could get it so that
> jedit with lilypond mode showed up not as an all purpose editor, but as
> a user interface for lilypond that could coincidentally do text editing,
> then I think it would be even closer to a Windows app.  Now, if we could 
> just avoid all of the problems with making sure TeX is set up right...

The only problems related to TeX setup I have seen during the last years 
are:
- That setup.exe doesn't always get the dependencies right, so the
  tetex-* packages are not installed. => Cygwin problem!
- A few people who already have some other TeX installation on their
  systems and have set some environment variables that conflict with
  teTeX. => Hard to avoid, but this affects only a very small number of
  users so it may confuse more people than it helps if we add some hint
  in the documentation.

Do you have any other TeX related problems in mind?

If you had tried to install LilyPond in the old days when we used
MikTeX instead of teTeX, you would realize that the current problems
are almost non-existing. ;-)

   /Mats