Freezing

[Paniez Paykari]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems 
and they both have the same problem.


1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every 
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the 
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to 
'force quit'


2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?

Cheers
Paniez

Re: Freezing

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 6/22/07, Paniez Paykari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems
and they both have the same problem.

1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to
'force quit'

2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?


I have come across this bug too. I fix it by opening the file using
1.5.0, e.g. Release Candidate 1, see http://www.lyx.org/ for the
latest version.)

I can then convert the file back to 1.4.x format from 1.5.0 if I wish.

Freezing

[Paniez Paykari]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems 
and they both have the same problem.


1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every 
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the 
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to 
'force quit'


2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?

Cheers
Paniez

book - two sides

[Giuseppe Vitalone]

Hi, I use Lyx 1.5rc1 in Windows. The guide says that the class book make
the new chapters start on the right page, but in my documents it doesn't
works, new chapters start on the left (in fact, right margin is wider), why?
I can't attach any source to this message, but I will send it to anyone who
can help me.
Thanks

Replace all feature in spellchecker?

[Urtzi Jauregi]

Greetings,

I wonder if it would be possible to improve the spellchecker dialog by 
adding 
a Replace all button.

When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are not 
writing 
in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to replace every 
individual ocurrence.

I think Replace All would save a lot of time and avoid many unneeded 
clicks 
(and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for LyX 1.5 stable?

Yours,

- Urtzi -

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Jadranska 19, Si-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija

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modifyng amsalpha style for Bibtex

[Giuseppe Vitalone]

Hi, I'd like to modify that style in a way that it doesn't write words in
lower-case, is this possible? Thanks, Giuseppe

Re: book - two sides

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 June 2007 05:49, Giuseppe Vitalone wrote:
 Hi, I use Lyx 1.5rc1 in Windows. The guide says that the class book make
 the new chapters start on the right page, but in my documents it doesn't
 works, new chapters start on the left (in fact, right margin is wider),
 why? I can't attach any source to this message, but I will send it to
 anyone who can help me.
 Thanks

I'd rather ask a stupid question than make a stupid mistake, so I'll ask the 
stupid question -- do your chapters begin on odd pages, or on even pages? The 
answer is significant in diagnosing this problem.

SteveT

Re: modifyng amsalpha style for Bibtex

[Richard Heck]

Giuseppe Vitalone wrote:
Hi, I'd like to modify that style in a way that it doesn't write words 
in lower-case, is this possible? 
Yes. Copy amsalpha.bst to an appropriate place in your local TeX tree 
(e.g., /home/you/texmf/bibtex/bst/) and rename it to avoid conflicts. 
Open it and find this bit:

FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
   {  }
   { title t change.case$ emphasize }
 if$
}
and change it to this:
FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
   {  }
   { title emphasize }
 if$
}
That should do it. Don't forget to run texhash or do whatever else you 
need to do to regenerate the TeX database when you're done. And don't 
forget to choose your new bibliography style!


Richard

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Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Richard Heck]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
If, as I suspect, Bob wants the space just to keep \noindent from 
running into the text, a somewhat simpler solution is


command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent{}; char-forward;

Yup.

rh


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LyX and temporary directory

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I have this problem:
my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have therefore 
changed the path in LyX (toolssettings) to a /tmp in my home 
and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now by 
trying to start lyx I get:

LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'

Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?

Wolfgang

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:34:57PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Richard Heck wrote:
 
 2. insert a space in the text after the ERT.
 This seems tricky, as I can't see how just to insert a space.
 
 Indeed.  I crabbed once about the fact that trailing spaces are 
 eliminated when an LFUN is processed.  Don't know if anyone entered an 
 enhancement request for a way to insert an ordinary space.

This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Andre'

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Darren Freeman wrote:


once upon a time, I could type extra whitespace between words and then
it would magically go away when I left that region of text.

Now, extra space keypresses have no effect and I feel like I'm in a
straight-jacket. I can still insert a space *before* an existing space,
because I might be about to type a word between them, just not after
one. Anybody else get that feeling or prefer the old behaviour?



What is it about the previous behavior (which I don't recall, but that 
proves nothing) that you find desirable?  The part about allowing a 
space before a space (so that you can insert a word between them) is 
obviously functional, but what is the appeal of inserting a space after 
a space knowing LyX will clean it up later?  Just curious.


/Paul

double labels

[Jakub Suder]

Hi,

I've noticed that Lyx allows me to set two labels with exactly the
same name. This causes problems because when there are two such
labels, and I make a cross-reference to one of them, neither I nor Lyx
know which one it is a reference to :) (I got ?? once instead of the
section number in the generated pdf). I think there should be a check
if the entered name for a new label doesn't already exist, and if it
does, there should be an error message...

Jakub Suder

Re: lyx 1.5 problems - slowness, scrolling, listings

[Jakub Suder]

2007/6/20, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 - I can't put any Polish letters in a listing or a listing's caption,
 because I get those errors:

 (listing)
 Missing $ inserted.
 Extra }, or forgotten $.
 Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined. [You
 need to provide a definition with \DeclareInputText or
 \DeclareInputMath before using this key.]

I do not know this but please try it in plain latex. I mean, create a
minimal lyx file with a  Polish listing, export to latex and adjust
things over there. If it is supposed to work, please send the lyx file
to the devel list and I will have a look.


I've experimented a bit and found out that:

- listings package generally has problems with UTF-8 encoding, even
without Lyx, but there's a workaround - UTF-8 works inside a Latex
escape block, so if I set inputencoding=utf8 and escapechar=| and then
write comments |like this|, there are no errors

- that trick doesn't work in listing captions, but if I change the
line \inputencoding{latin1} just before \begin{lstlisting} to
\inputencoding{utf8}, it starts working. The problem is, Lyx generates
listing blocks with \inputencoding{latin1} and I don't think I can
change that... (in Document-Settings-Language I've set: Language =
Polish, Use language's default encoding = no, Encoding = utf8... So
why latin1?)

Jakub Suder

Re: lyx 1.5 problems - slowness, scrolling, listings

[Bo Peng]

I've experimented a bit and found out that:

- listings package generally has problems with UTF-8 encoding, even
without Lyx, but there's a workaround - UTF-8 works inside a Latex
escape block, so if I set inputencoding=utf8 and escapechar=| and then
write comments |like this|, there are no errors

- that trick doesn't work in listing captions, but if I change the
line \inputencoding{latin1} just before \begin{lstlisting} to
\inputencoding{utf8}, it starts working. The problem is, Lyx generates
listing blocks with \inputencoding{latin1} and I don't think I can
change that... (in Document-Settings-Language I've set: Language =
Polish, Use language's default encoding = no, Encoding = utf8... So
why latin1?)


The latin1 suggestion is given by Herbert. I have forwarded this email to him.

Cheers,
Bo

Spell checker: switch to the proposal list with key strokes

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
aspell is working well for me ;-)
Most often I can either ignore the proposal (Ignorieren|I, i.e. alt-i 
for me) or accept it (Ersetzen|E i.e. alt+e). That's done very quickly.
When I have to choose one of the alternatives from the proposal list, I 
have to use the mouse because I haven't found yet a possibility to 
switch to the list with a key conmbination. Once this list is activated 
I can move up and down with the arrow keys.


Did I miss something? Does this possibility exist?

System: Gentoo-Linux, kde-3.5.7, LyX-svn (2007-06-17), LC_ALL=[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Greetings from Munich

Hellmut

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Re: Replace all feature in spellchecker?

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
I would like to support this feature request.
It would have saved me quite some time in the last weeks.

Greetings

Hellmut

	When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are not writing 
in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to replace every 
individual ocurrence.


	I think Replace All would save a lot of time and avoid many unneeded clicks 
(and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for LyX 1.5 stable?


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Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Paul A. Rubin]

Andre Poenitz wrote:

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:34:57PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Richard Heck wrote:


2. insert a space in the text after the ERT.

This seems tricky, as I can't see how just to insert a space.
Indeed.  I crabbed once about the fact that trailing spaces are 
eliminated when an LFUN is processed.  Don't know if anyone entered an 
enhancement request for a way to insert an ordinary space.


This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Andre'



Excellent!  Now all I have to do is remember that.  ;-)

/Paul

Re: LyX and temporary directory

[Paul A. Rubin]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I have this problem:
my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have therefore 
changed the path in LyX (toolssettings) to a /tmp in my home 
and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now by 
trying to start lyx I get:


LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'

Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?



No.  Find the 'preferences' file in your home directory (might be under 
.lyx on a Linux system -- I'm on Windoze, so I'm not sure).  Open it 
with an editor (presumably not LyX) and find the file section.  There 
should be an entry labeled \tempdir_path.  Delete it, save the file, and 
try to start LyX.  This should revert you to the original /tmp.  This 
works with 1.5.0rc1, but I'm pretty sure it's the same on 1.4.4.


I'm a bit fuzzy on what you did (and why it went wrong).  The 
cannot-create message suggests either a nonexistent path or a 
permissions problem.  Again, I'm not a Linux user (although I have 
fooled around with it in the past), but doesn't /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... imply 
that tmp is mounted at the root level?  (Apologies if I flubbed the 
terminology there.)  If I were using a local temp directory, I would 
have assumed it would look like /home/tmp or /user/me?/tmp.


/Paul

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Bob Alvarez]

If, as I suspect, Bob wants the space just to keep \noindent from running
into the text, a somewhat simpler solution is

command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent{}; char-forward;
---

Yes, that is the purpose of the space.
This works but I do not understand the code. Do the braces {} after
\noindent put you back into regular text input mode?

Thanks for your input.

Bob

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Richard Heck]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Andre Poenitz wrote:

This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Excellent!  Now all I have to do is remember that.  ;-)

It's not so bad: 0x20 is decimal 32---ascii for a space.

Richard


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Re: Replace all feature in spellchecker?

[Richard Heck]

Hellmut Weber wrote:

I would like to support this feature request.
It would have saved me quite some time in the last weeks.
When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are 
not writing in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to 
replace every individual ocurrence.


I think Replace All would save a lot of time and avoid many 
unneeded clicks (and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for 
LyX 1.5 stable?

Someone should file a bugzilla request.

rh


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Re: Question about preview converters

[Paul A. Rubin]

killermike wrote:
I am still having problems with the use of .svg files on 1.5.0beta on my new 
Linux install (scroll down to previous message if interested).


Hmm.  Not a lot of scrolling to be done here.  I think the original 
message didn't make it.


It would seem that LyX is ignoring my settings for SVGpng (the preview 
format, I presume?)


I think LyX converts images to PPM for viewing internally.

conversion and what I would like to know is: where are 
the default converter settings held? Knowing the name of this script or 
config file would be a great help.


It's not exactly default *settings* per se.  In lyx/Resources/scripts 
there's a Python script called convertDefault.py.  That should be what 
gets invoked for a conversion if there's no user-defined conversion path.


If you want to define your own route for converting SVG to something LyX 
can display, you might try either defining an SVG-PPM converter rather 
than SVG-PNG, or else define SVG-PNG and also PNG-PPM.  For most 
user-definable conversions, LyX will look for a valid chain of 
converters from source format to target format.  I assume that also 
applies to graphics conversions for internal display, although I don't 
recall ever putting that assumption to the test.


/Paul

Re: LyX and temporary directory

[charlie]

On Saturday 23 June 2007 02:06, Wolfgang Engelmann shared this with us all:
--} I have this problem:
--} my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have
 therefore --} changed the path in LyX (toolssettings) to a /tmp in my home
--} and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now
 by --} trying to start lyx I get:
--}
--} LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'
--}
--} Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?
--}
--} Wolfgang

In Tools/Preferences/Paths select your temporary directory. It can be changed 
to a /home/user directory easily there.

Charlie

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Re: double labels

[Uwe Stöhr]

Jakub Suder schrieb:


I think there should be a check if the entered name for a new label doesn't 
already exist, and if it
does, there should be an error message...


Yes. Could you please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org?

thanks and regards
Uwe

Freezing

[Paniez Paykari]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems 
and they both have the same problem.


1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every 
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the 
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to 
'force quit'


2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?

Cheers
Paniez

Re: Freezing

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 6/22/07, Paniez Paykari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems
and they both have the same problem.

1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to
'force quit'

2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?


I have come across this bug too. I fix it by opening the file using
1.5.0, e.g. Release Candidate 1, see http://www.lyx.org/ for the
latest version.)

I can then convert the file back to 1.4.x format from 1.5.0 if I wish.

Freezing

[Paniez Paykari]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems 
and they both have the same problem.


1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every 
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the 
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to 
'force quit'


2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?

Cheers
Paniez

book - two sides

[Giuseppe Vitalone]

Hi, I use Lyx 1.5rc1 in Windows. The guide says that the class book make
the new chapters start on the right page, but in my documents it doesn't
works, new chapters start on the left (in fact, right margin is wider), why?
I can't attach any source to this message, but I will send it to anyone who
can help me.
Thanks

Replace all feature in spellchecker?

[Urtzi Jauregi]

Greetings,

I wonder if it would be possible to improve the spellchecker dialog by 
adding 
a Replace all button.

When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are not 
writing 
in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to replace every 
individual ocurrence.

I think Replace All would save a lot of time and avoid many unneeded 
clicks 
(and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for LyX 1.5 stable?

Yours,

- Urtzi -

-- 
Urtzi Jauregi
Fakulteta za Matematiko in Fiziko, Univerza v Ljubljani
Jadranska 19, Si-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija

Tel: ++386 01 540 13 53
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

modifyng amsalpha style for Bibtex

[Giuseppe Vitalone]

Hi, I'd like to modify that style in a way that it doesn't write words in
lower-case, is this possible? Thanks, Giuseppe

Re: book - two sides

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 June 2007 05:49, Giuseppe Vitalone wrote:
 Hi, I use Lyx 1.5rc1 in Windows. The guide says that the class book make
 the new chapters start on the right page, but in my documents it doesn't
 works, new chapters start on the left (in fact, right margin is wider),
 why? I can't attach any source to this message, but I will send it to
 anyone who can help me.
 Thanks

I'd rather ask a stupid question than make a stupid mistake, so I'll ask the 
stupid question -- do your chapters begin on odd pages, or on even pages? The 
answer is significant in diagnosing this problem.

SteveT

eps figures

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Would like to ask again re inserting eps figures in a float environment. 
I use PyxPlot to produce diagrams in eps and the header of it is e.g.:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: -19 -32 239 157
%%HiResBoundingBox: -18.3596 -31.3467 238.766 156.575
%%Creator: PyX 0.9
%%Title: /home/wolfgang/Pyxplot/Pyxplot-eps/D002.eps
%%CreationDate: Thu Jun  7 11:47:49 2007
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%BeginFont: CMR10
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.1: CMR10 1.00B

I found out that I should not mark 
'limit to binding box'
and use for the left lower point
 x=-10, y=0
instead of 
x=0, y=0
(probably clever people would have seen this already from the eps header. 

Now that I do not get anymore partly cut-off figures, I am still faced with 
the question, how to insert the grafic into the export-box on the right side 
of the popup menu 

particularly, what does the 
size%
in the selection mean?
If I add 100 in the width box
(assuming the figure width should be 100%)
it has disappeared after clicking again on the figure and I am left with size% 
only. Is this what it should be?
As an alternative I could use cm and insert 5, which is the width size of the 
x-axis of my diagram. It would, however, be easier to have a standard way 
which takes whatever the originat size of the plot is.

Secondly, how do I insert figures in a column (I use koma script twocolumn 
style)? Again with cm or col% set to 100 (and span columns switched off)?

The User Guide of Lyx is not very detailed here. 

Thanks for help

Wolfgang

Re: modifyng amsalpha style for Bibtex

[Richard Heck]

Giuseppe Vitalone wrote:
Hi, I'd like to modify that style in a way that it doesn't write words 
in lower-case, is this possible? 
Yes. Copy amsalpha.bst to an appropriate place in your local TeX tree 
(e.g., /home/you/texmf/bibtex/bst/) and rename it to avoid conflicts. 
Open it and find this bit:

FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
   {  }
   { title t change.case$ emphasize }
 if$
}
and change it to this:
FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
   {  }
   { title emphasize }
 if$
}
That should do it. Don't forget to run texhash or do whatever else you 
need to do to regenerate the TeX database when you're done. And don't 
forget to choose your new bibliography style!


Richard

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Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Richard Heck]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
If, as I suspect, Bob wants the space just to keep \noindent from 
running into the text, a somewhat simpler solution is


command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent{}; char-forward;

Yup.

rh


/Paul




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LyX and temporary directory

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I have this problem:
my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have therefore 
changed the path in LyX (toolssettings) to a /tmp in my home 
and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now by 
trying to start lyx I get:

LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'

Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?

Wolfgang

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:34:57PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Richard Heck wrote:
 
 2. insert a space in the text after the ERT.
 This seems tricky, as I can't see how just to insert a space.
 
 Indeed.  I crabbed once about the fact that trailing spaces are 
 eliminated when an LFUN is processed.  Don't know if anyone entered an 
 enhancement request for a way to insert an ordinary space.

This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Andre'

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Darren Freeman wrote:


once upon a time, I could type extra whitespace between words and then
it would magically go away when I left that region of text.

Now, extra space keypresses have no effect and I feel like I'm in a
straight-jacket. I can still insert a space *before* an existing space,
because I might be about to type a word between them, just not after
one. Anybody else get that feeling or prefer the old behaviour?



What is it about the previous behavior (which I don't recall, but that 
proves nothing) that you find desirable?  The part about allowing a 
space before a space (so that you can insert a word between them) is 
obviously functional, but what is the appeal of inserting a space after 
a space knowing LyX will clean it up later?  Just curious.


/Paul

double labels

[Jakub Suder]

Hi,

I've noticed that Lyx allows me to set two labels with exactly the
same name. This causes problems because when there are two such
labels, and I make a cross-reference to one of them, neither I nor Lyx
know which one it is a reference to :) (I got ?? once instead of the
section number in the generated pdf). I think there should be a check
if the entered name for a new label doesn't already exist, and if it
does, there should be an error message...

Jakub Suder

Re: lyx 1.5 problems - slowness, scrolling, listings

[Jakub Suder]

2007/6/20, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 - I can't put any Polish letters in a listing or a listing's caption,
 because I get those errors:

 (listing)
 Missing $ inserted.
 Extra }, or forgotten $.
 Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined. [You
 need to provide a definition with \DeclareInputText or
 \DeclareInputMath before using this key.]

I do not know this but please try it in plain latex. I mean, create a
minimal lyx file with a  Polish listing, export to latex and adjust
things over there. If it is supposed to work, please send the lyx file
to the devel list and I will have a look.


I've experimented a bit and found out that:

- listings package generally has problems with UTF-8 encoding, even
without Lyx, but there's a workaround - UTF-8 works inside a Latex
escape block, so if I set inputencoding=utf8 and escapechar=| and then
write comments |like this|, there are no errors

- that trick doesn't work in listing captions, but if I change the
line \inputencoding{latin1} just before \begin{lstlisting} to
\inputencoding{utf8}, it starts working. The problem is, Lyx generates
listing blocks with \inputencoding{latin1} and I don't think I can
change that... (in Document-Settings-Language I've set: Language =
Polish, Use language's default encoding = no, Encoding = utf8... So
why latin1?)

Jakub Suder

Re: lyx 1.5 problems - slowness, scrolling, listings

[Bo Peng]

I've experimented a bit and found out that:

- listings package generally has problems with UTF-8 encoding, even
without Lyx, but there's a workaround - UTF-8 works inside a Latex
escape block, so if I set inputencoding=utf8 and escapechar=| and then
write comments |like this|, there are no errors

- that trick doesn't work in listing captions, but if I change the
line \inputencoding{latin1} just before \begin{lstlisting} to
\inputencoding{utf8}, it starts working. The problem is, Lyx generates
listing blocks with \inputencoding{latin1} and I don't think I can
change that... (in Document-Settings-Language I've set: Language =
Polish, Use language's default encoding = no, Encoding = utf8... So
why latin1?)


The latin1 suggestion is given by Herbert. I have forwarded this email to him.

Cheers,
Bo

Spell checker: switch to the proposal list with key strokes

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
aspell is working well for me ;-)
Most often I can either ignore the proposal (Ignorieren|I, i.e. alt-i 
for me) or accept it (Ersetzen|E i.e. alt+e). That's done very quickly.
When I have to choose one of the alternatives from the proposal list, I 
have to use the mouse because I haven't found yet a possibility to 
switch to the list with a key conmbination. Once this list is activated 
I can move up and down with the arrow keys.


Did I miss something? Does this possibility exist?

System: Gentoo-Linux, kde-3.5.7, LyX-svn (2007-06-17), LC_ALL=[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Replace all feature in spellchecker?

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
I would like to support this feature request.
It would have saved me quite some time in the last weeks.

Greetings

Hellmut

	When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are not writing 
in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to replace every 
individual ocurrence.


	I think Replace All would save a lot of time and avoid many unneeded clicks 
(and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for LyX 1.5 stable?


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Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Paul A. Rubin]

Andre Poenitz wrote:

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:34:57PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Richard Heck wrote:


2. insert a space in the text after the ERT.

This seems tricky, as I can't see how just to insert a space.
Indeed.  I crabbed once about the fact that trailing spaces are 
eliminated when an LFUN is processed.  Don't know if anyone entered an 
enhancement request for a way to insert an ordinary space.


This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Andre'



Excellent!  Now all I have to do is remember that.  ;-)

/Paul

Re: LyX and temporary directory

[Paul A. Rubin]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I have this problem:
my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have therefore 
changed the path in LyX (toolssettings) to a /tmp in my home 
and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now by 
trying to start lyx I get:


LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'

Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?



No.  Find the 'preferences' file in your home directory (might be under 
.lyx on a Linux system -- I'm on Windoze, so I'm not sure).  Open it 
with an editor (presumably not LyX) and find the file section.  There 
should be an entry labeled \tempdir_path.  Delete it, save the file, and 
try to start LyX.  This should revert you to the original /tmp.  This 
works with 1.5.0rc1, but I'm pretty sure it's the same on 1.4.4.


I'm a bit fuzzy on what you did (and why it went wrong).  The 
cannot-create message suggests either a nonexistent path or a 
permissions problem.  Again, I'm not a Linux user (although I have 
fooled around with it in the past), but doesn't /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... imply 
that tmp is mounted at the root level?  (Apologies if I flubbed the 
terminology there.)  If I were using a local temp directory, I would 
have assumed it would look like /home/tmp or /user/me?/tmp.


/Paul

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Bob Alvarez]

If, as I suspect, Bob wants the space just to keep \noindent from running
into the text, a somewhat simpler solution is

command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent{}; char-forward;
---

Yes, that is the purpose of the space.
This works but I do not understand the code. Do the braces {} after
\noindent put you back into regular text input mode?

Thanks for your input.

Bob

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Richard Heck]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Andre Poenitz wrote:

This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Excellent!  Now all I have to do is remember that.  ;-)

It's not so bad: 0x20 is decimal 32---ascii for a space.

Richard


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Re: Replace all feature in spellchecker?

[Richard Heck]

Hellmut Weber wrote:

I would like to support this feature request.
It would have saved me quite some time in the last weeks.
When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are 
not writing in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to 
replace every individual ocurrence.


I think Replace All would save a lot of time and avoid many 
unneeded clicks (and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for 
LyX 1.5 stable?

Someone should file a bugzilla request.

rh


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Re: Question about preview converters

[Paul A. Rubin]

killermike wrote:
I am still having problems with the use of .svg files on 1.5.0beta on my new 
Linux install (scroll down to previous message if interested).


Hmm.  Not a lot of scrolling to be done here.  I think the original 
message didn't make it.


It would seem that LyX is ignoring my settings for SVGpng (the preview 
format, I presume?)


I think LyX converts images to PPM for viewing internally.

conversion and what I would like to know is: where are 
the default converter settings held? Knowing the name of this script or 
config file would be a great help.


It's not exactly default *settings* per se.  In lyx/Resources/scripts 
there's a Python script called convertDefault.py.  That should be what 
gets invoked for a conversion if there's no user-defined conversion path.


If you want to define your own route for converting SVG to something LyX 
can display, you might try either defining an SVG-PPM converter rather 
than SVG-PNG, or else define SVG-PNG and also PNG-PPM.  For most 
user-definable conversions, LyX will look for a valid chain of 
converters from source format to target format.  I assume that also 
applies to graphics conversions for internal display, although I don't 
recall ever putting that assumption to the test.


/Paul

Re: LyX and temporary directory

[charlie]

On Saturday 23 June 2007 02:06, Wolfgang Engelmann shared this with us all:
--} I have this problem:
--} my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have
 therefore --} changed the path in LyX (toolssettings) to a /tmp in my home
--} and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now
 by --} trying to start lyx I get:
--}
--} LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'
--}
--} Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?
--}
--} Wolfgang

In Tools/Preferences/Paths select your temporary directory. It can be changed 
to a /home/user directory easily there.

Charlie

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Re: double labels

[Uwe Stöhr]

Jakub Suder schrieb:


I think there should be a check if the entered name for a new label doesn't 
already exist, and if it
does, there should be an error message...


Yes. Could you please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org?

thanks and regards
Uwe

Freezing

[Paniez Paykari]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems 
and they both have the same problem.


1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every 
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the 
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to 
'force quit'


2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?

Cheers
Paniez

Re: Freezing

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 6/22/07, Paniez Paykari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems
and they both have the same problem.

1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to
'force quit'

2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?


I have come across this bug too. I fix it by opening the file using
1.5.0, e.g. Release Candidate 1, see http://www.lyx.org/ for the
latest version.)

I can then convert the file back to 1.4.x format from 1.5.0 if I wish.

Freezing

[Paniez Paykari]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems 
and they both have the same problem.


1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every 
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the 
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to 
'force quit'


2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?

Cheers
Paniez

book - two sides

[Giuseppe Vitalone]

Hi, I use Lyx 1.5rc1 in Windows. The guide says that the class "book" make
the new chapters start on the right page, but in my documents it doesn't
works, new chapters start on the left (in fact, right margin is wider), why?
I can't attach any source to this message, but I will send it to anyone who
can help me.
Thanks

"Replace all" feature in spellchecker?

[Urtzi Jauregi]

Greetings,

I wonder if it would be possible to improve the spellchecker dialog by 
adding 
a "Replace all" button.

When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are not 
writing 
in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to replace every 
individual ocurrence.

I think "Replace All" would save a lot of time and avoid many unneeded 
clicks 
(and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for LyX 1.5 stable?

Yours,

- Urtzi -

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modifyng amsalpha style for Bibtex

[Giuseppe Vitalone]

Hi, I'd like to modify that style in a way that it doesn't write words in
lower-case, is this possible? Thanks, Giuseppe

Re: book - two sides

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 22 June 2007 05:49, Giuseppe Vitalone wrote:
> Hi, I use Lyx 1.5rc1 in Windows. The guide says that the class "book" make
> the new chapters start on the right page, but in my documents it doesn't
> works, new chapters start on the left (in fact, right margin is wider),
> why? I can't attach any source to this message, but I will send it to
> anyone who can help me.
> Thanks

I'd rather ask a stupid question than make a stupid mistake, so I'll ask the 
stupid question -- do your chapters begin on odd pages, or on even pages? The 
answer is significant in diagnosing this problem.

SteveT

eps figures

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Would like to ask again re inserting eps figures in a float environment. 
I use PyxPlot to produce diagrams in eps and the header of it is e.g.:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: -19 -32 239 157
%%HiResBoundingBox: -18.3596 -31.3467 238.766 156.575
%%Creator: PyX 0.9
%%Title: /home/wolfgang/Pyxplot/Pyxplot-eps/D002.eps
%%CreationDate: Thu Jun  7 11:47:49 2007
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%BeginFont: CMR10
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.1: CMR10 1.00B

I found out that I should not mark 
'limit to binding box'
and use for the left lower point
 x=-10, y=0
instead of 
x=0, y=0
(probably clever people would have seen this already from the eps header. 

Now that I do not get anymore partly cut-off figures, I am still faced with 
the question, how to insert the grafic into the export-box on the right side 
of the popup menu 

particularly, what does the 
size%
in the selection mean?
If I add 100 in the width box
(assuming the figure width should be 100%)
it has disappeared after clicking again on the figure and I am left with size% 
only. Is this what it should be?
As an alternative I could use cm and insert 5, which is the width size of the 
x-axis of my diagram. It would, however, be easier to have a standard way 
which takes whatever the originat size of the plot is.

Secondly, how do I insert figures in a column (I use koma script twocolumn 
style)? Again with cm or col% set to 100 (and span columns switched off)?

The User Guide of Lyx is not very detailed here. 

Thanks for help

Wolfgang

Re: modifyng amsalpha style for Bibtex

[Richard Heck]

Giuseppe Vitalone wrote:
Hi, I'd like to modify that style in a way that it doesn't write words 
in lower-case, is this possible? 
Yes. Copy amsalpha.bst to an appropriate place in your local TeX tree 
(e.g., /home/you/texmf/bibtex/bst/) and rename it to avoid conflicts. 
Open it and find this bit:

FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
   { "" }
   { title "t" change.case$ emphasize }
 if$
}
and change it to this:
FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
   { "" }
   { title emphasize }
 if$
}
That should do it. Don't forget to run texhash or do whatever else you 
need to do to regenerate the TeX database when you're done. And don't 
forget to choose your new bibliography style!


Richard

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Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Richard Heck]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
If, as I suspect, Bob wants the space just to keep \noindent from 
running into the text, a somewhat simpler solution is


"command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent{}; char-forward;"

Yup.

rh


/Paul




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LyX and temporary directory

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I have this problem:
my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have therefore 
changed the path in LyX (tools>settings) to a /tmp in my home 
and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now by 
trying to start lyx I get:

LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'

Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?

Wolfgang

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:34:57PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Richard Heck wrote:
> 
> >>2. insert a space in the text after the ERT.
> >This seems tricky, as I can't see how just to insert a space.
> 
> Indeed.  I crabbed once about the fact that trailing spaces are 
> eliminated when an LFUN is processed.  Don't know if anyone entered an 
> enhancement request for a way to insert an ordinary space.

This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Andre'

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Darren Freeman wrote:


once upon a time, I could type extra whitespace between words and then
it would magically go away when I left that region of text.

Now, extra space keypresses have no effect and I feel like I'm in a
straight-jacket. I can still insert a space *before* an existing space,
because I might be about to type a word between them, just not after
one. Anybody else get that feeling or prefer the old behaviour?



What is it about the previous behavior (which I don't recall, but that 
proves nothing) that you find desirable?  The part about allowing a 
space before a space (so that you can insert a word between them) is 
obviously functional, but what is the appeal of inserting a space after 
a space knowing LyX will clean it up later?  Just curious.


/Paul

double labels

[Jakub Suder]

Hi,

I've noticed that Lyx allows me to set two labels with exactly the
same name. This causes problems because when there are two such
labels, and I make a cross-reference to one of them, neither I nor Lyx
know which one it is a reference to :) (I got "??" once instead of the
section number in the generated pdf). I think there should be a check
if the entered name for a new label doesn't already exist, and if it
does, there should be an error message...

Jakub Suder

Re: lyx 1.5 problems - slowness, scrolling, listings

[Jakub Suder]

2007/6/20, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> - I can't put any Polish letters in a listing or a listing's caption,
> because I get those errors:
>
> (listing)
> Missing $ inserted.
> Extra }, or forgotten $.
> Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined. [You
> need to provide a definition with \DeclareInputText or
> \DeclareInputMath before using this key.]

I do not know this but please try it in plain latex. I mean, create a
minimal lyx file with a  Polish listing, export to latex and adjust
things over there. If it is supposed to work, please send the lyx file
to the devel list and I will have a look.


I've experimented a bit and found out that:

- listings package generally has problems with UTF-8 encoding, even
without Lyx, but there's a workaround - UTF-8 works inside a Latex
escape block, so if I set inputencoding=utf8 and escapechar=| and then
write comments |like this|, there are no errors

- that trick doesn't work in listing captions, but if I change the
line \inputencoding{latin1} just before \begin{lstlisting} to
\inputencoding{utf8}, it starts working. The problem is, Lyx generates
listing blocks with \inputencoding{latin1} and I don't think I can
change that... (in Document->Settings->Language I've set: Language =
Polish, Use language's default encoding = no, Encoding = utf8... So
why latin1?)

Jakub Suder

Re: lyx 1.5 problems - slowness, scrolling, listings

[Bo Peng]

I've experimented a bit and found out that:

- listings package generally has problems with UTF-8 encoding, even
without Lyx, but there's a workaround - UTF-8 works inside a Latex
escape block, so if I set inputencoding=utf8 and escapechar=| and then
write comments |like this|, there are no errors

- that trick doesn't work in listing captions, but if I change the
line \inputencoding{latin1} just before \begin{lstlisting} to
\inputencoding{utf8}, it starts working. The problem is, Lyx generates
listing blocks with \inputencoding{latin1} and I don't think I can
change that... (in Document->Settings->Language I've set: Language =
Polish, Use language's default encoding = no, Encoding = utf8... So
why latin1?)


The latin1 suggestion is given by Herbert. I have forwarded this email to him.

Cheers,
Bo

Spell checker: switch to the proposal list with key strokes

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
aspell is working well for me ;-)
Most often I can either ignore the proposal (Ignorieren|I, i.e. alt-i 
for me) or accept it (Ersetzen|E i.e. alt+e). That's done very quickly.
When I have to choose one of the alternatives from the proposal list, I 
have to use the mouse because I haven't found yet a possibility to 
switch to the list with a key conmbination. Once this list is activated 
I can move up and down with the arrow keys.


Did I miss something? Does this possibility exist?

System: Gentoo-Linux, kde-3.5.7, LyX-svn (2007-06-17), LC_ALL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Greetings from Munich

Hellmut

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Re: "Replace all" feature in spellchecker?

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
I would like to support this feature request.
It would have saved me quite some time in the last weeks.

Greetings

Hellmut

	When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are not writing 
in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to replace every 
individual ocurrence.


	I think "Replace All" would save a lot of time and avoid many unneeded clicks 
(and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for LyX 1.5 stable?


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Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Paul A. Rubin]

Andre Poenitz wrote:

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:34:57PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Richard Heck wrote:


2. insert a space in the text after the ERT.

This seems tricky, as I can't see how just to insert a space.
Indeed.  I crabbed once about the fact that trailing spaces are 
eliminated when an LFUN is processed.  Don't know if anyone entered an 
enhancement request for a way to insert an ordinary space.


This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Andre'



Excellent!  Now all I have to do is remember that.  ;-)

/Paul

Re: LyX and temporary directory

[Paul A. Rubin]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I have this problem:
my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have therefore 
changed the path in LyX (tools>settings) to a /tmp in my home 
and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now by 
trying to start lyx I get:


LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'

Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?



No.  Find the 'preferences' file in your home directory (might be under 
.lyx on a Linux system -- I'm on Windoze, so I'm not sure).  Open it 
with an editor (presumably not LyX) and find the file section.  There 
should be an entry labeled \tempdir_path.  Delete it, save the file, and 
try to start LyX.  This should revert you to the original /tmp.  This 
works with 1.5.0rc1, but I'm pretty sure it's the same on 1.4.4.


I'm a bit fuzzy on what you did (and why it went wrong).  The 
cannot-create message suggests either a nonexistent path or a 
permissions problem.  Again, I'm not a Linux user (although I have 
fooled around with it in the past), but doesn't /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... imply 
that tmp is mounted at the root level?  (Apologies if I flubbed the 
terminology there.)  If I were using a local temp directory, I would 
have assumed it would look like /home/tmp or /user//tmp.


/Paul

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Bob Alvarez]

If, as I suspect, Bob wants the space just to keep \noindent from running
into the text, a somewhat simpler solution is

"command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent{}; char-forward;"
---

Yes, that is the purpose of the space.
This works but I do not understand the code. Do the braces {} after
\noindent put you back into regular text input mode?

Thanks for your input.

Bob

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

[Richard Heck]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Andre Poenitz wrote:

This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on.

Excellent!  Now all I have to do is remember that.  ;-)

It's not so bad: 0x20 is decimal 32---ascii for a space.

Richard


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Re: "Replace all" feature in spellchecker?

[Richard Heck]

Hellmut Weber wrote:

I would like to support this feature request.
It would have saved me quite some time in the last weeks.
When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are 
not writing in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to 
replace every individual ocurrence.


I think "Replace All" would save a lot of time and avoid many 
unneeded clicks (and hence chances of mistake). Is it feasible for 
LyX 1.5 stable?

Someone should file a bugzilla request.

rh


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Re: Question about preview converters

[Paul A. Rubin]

killermike wrote:
I am still having problems with the use of .svg files on 1.5.0beta on my new 
Linux install (scroll down to previous message if interested).


Hmm.  Not a lot of scrolling to be done here.  I think the original 
message didn't make it.


It would seem that LyX is ignoring my settings for SVG>png (the preview 
format, I presume?)


I think LyX converts images to PPM for viewing internally.

conversion and what I would like to know is: where are 
the default converter settings held? Knowing the name of this script or 
config file would be a great help.


It's not exactly default *settings* per se.  In /Resources/scripts 
there's a Python script called convertDefault.py.  That should be what 
gets invoked for a conversion if there's no user-defined conversion path.


If you want to define your own route for converting SVG to something LyX 
can display, you might try either defining an SVG->PPM converter rather 
than SVG->PNG, or else define SVG->PNG and also PNG->PPM.  For most 
user-definable conversions, LyX will look for a valid chain of 
converters from source format to target format.  I assume that also 
applies to graphics conversions for internal display, although I don't 
recall ever putting that assumption to the test.


/Paul

Re: LyX and temporary directory

[charlie]

On Saturday 23 June 2007 02:06, Wolfgang Engelmann shared this with us all:
>--} I have this problem:
>--} my /tmp in root is a separate partition and not very large. I have
> therefore --} changed the path in LyX (tools>settings) to a /tmp in my home
>--} and emptied the  /tmp in root. That was apparently a bad idea, since now
> by --} trying to start lyx I get:
>--}
>--} LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4'
>--}
>--} Lyx is not starting anymore. Do I have to install LyX anew?
>--}
>--} Wolfgang

In Tools/Preferences/Paths select your temporary directory. It can be changed 
to a /home/user directory easily there.

Charlie

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Re: double labels

[Uwe Stöhr]

Jakub Suder schrieb:


I think there should be a check if the entered name for a new label doesn't 
already exist, and if it
does, there should be an error message...


Yes. Could you please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org?

thanks and regards
Uwe