Re: Required packages

On 07/01/17 09:06, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> I recently needed to re-install MiKTeX. I chose the basic package to 
> make the download manageable, but it installs nothing like all the 
> packages that LyX uses. For additional packages I was guided by the 
> packages listed under Help > LaTeX Configuration, and then by the 
> packages listed in the yellow notes at the start of some of the LyX 
> docs. However this is still inadequate for compiling the LyX docs.
>
> dvips is required for the Introduction
>
> There is no note indicating additional required packages at the start 
> of the Additional LyX Features manual, but I found I needed to download
>
> shapepar, lipsum, babel-latin
>
> (The last is certainly "out of left field", presumably required to 
> correctly hyphenate the lorem ipsum nonsense!)
>
> For the Embedded Objects manual there is a yellow note with additional 
> packages listed but I found I needed also
>
> eso-pic, ms, pict2e
>
> For at least one of the manuals (but I didn't note which) I needed 
> zhmetrics (presumably for a font used in one of the manuals), and also 
> graphics-cfg.
>
>
> Andrew

Thanks for that. I am sorry to say that the Additional features manual 
has not been updated for some time. I had hoped to be able to d that 
last year but pressure of work got in the wau. I will take account of 
your feedback when I update it.
John