X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=de437f7f66dbb12c1cec74ff73a3f65b97aa2048;hb=f0833aa7748a78b5c5f1afe40f25ed6bafe27cd6;hp=2658c62b4008baaac935aee4f2a044b1df757849;hpb=002d8c107a460b1d6010327e8efb6cc976c67b3a;p=lyx.git diff --git a/README b/README index 2658c62b40..de437f7f66 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -25,17 +25,21 @@ What is LyX? What do I need to run LyX? - Either of : + Either: * a Unix-like system (including Windows with cygwin) * Windows 2000 or newer * Mac OS 10.2 or newer A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. TeX Live for Linux, MikTeX for - Windows). - Python 2.3 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts - (note that you need at least Python 2.3.4 for exporting LyX files + Windows). + + Python 2.3 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts. + Note 1: Python 2.3.4 or later is required for exporting LyX files to a pre-unicode format, as previous versions are affected by a bug - about the normalization of unicode strings) + about the normalization of unicode strings. + Note 2: Python 2.4.0 or later is required for the clean_dvi.py script, + which, however, is only used on Windows, where at least Python 2.6.0 + is anyway recommended. How does the LyX version scheme work?