date:20080604

On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

 Although some programs may automatically generate keys, it is advisable (in
 my opinion) to create your own keys in order to easily remember what they
 refer to. 

My opinion differs, as I see the benefit of a key/label generated according
to a memorizable rule especially for large and growing databases.

At some stage I even used BibTool to normalize existing labels in a large
.bib file.

GM

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Bennett Helm wrote:
I'm hoping I have problems worked out here. I'm posting a new version of 
LyX/Mac-1.5.5 here:


LyX.app.zip http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX.app.zip 

Could anyone who had trouble with the previous version (George, Nicola, 
anyone else?) please try to see if this version works? Also, it would be 
good if others who didn't have a problem would also test (Konrad, Jean?).


Looks good on 10.4.11/Intel.

/Konrad

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
to a pattern that you can recognize. Hence, my prolific author example in my
original post. In the end, however, I think it really depends how you have
set things up and your patterns of usage. The problem with automatic key
generation, in my opinion, is that it might create a patter that does not
make sense for the way you conceptualize your database. Is this not what you
are saying?

In the end, you have to use what works for you. Although, it is good that we
are all sharing our opinions in order to get an idea about what others are
doing. Everyone benefits from that type of discussion.

Peace,

Jeremy M. Kritt
Seoul National University of Technology
Seoul, South Korea.


On 6/4/08, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

  Although some programs may automatically generate keys, it is advisable
 (in
  my opinion) to create your own keys in order to easily remember what they
  refer to.

 My opinion differs, as I see the benefit of a key/label generated according
 to a memorizable rule especially for large and growing databases.

 At some stage I even used BibTool to normalize existing labels in a large
 .bib file.

 GM




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Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:
 My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
 might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
 to a pattern that you can recognize. 

Agreed.

 The problem with automatic key generation, in my opinion, is that it
 might create a patter that does not make sense for the way you
 conceptualize your database. Is this not what you are saying?

I wanted to point out that there are tools (e.g. the BibTools program)
that allow the (re)creation of bibtex keys in a user-specified
format, author[,author2,...]:, say.

While requiring extensive reading of the manual in order to find out how
to specify the format, for a large database this might be less effort
than creating all the missing labels by hand.
OTOH, for 20 or so entries it might be simpler to do this manually.

 In the end, you have to use what works for you. 

That's it.

GM

RE: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-04 Thread Jean Kaplan


Also looks good on 10.5.3/ppc
Jean
Le 4 juin 08 à 10:42, Konrad Hofbauer a écrit :


Bennett Helm wrote:
I'm hoping I have problems worked out here. I'm posting a new  
version of LyX/Mac-1.5.5 here:
LyX.app.zip http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX.app.zip  
Could anyone who had trouble with the previous version (George,  
Nicola, anyone else?) please try to see if this version works?  
Also, it would be good if others who didn't have a problem would  
also test (Konrad, Jean?).


Looks good on 10.4.11/Intel.

/Konrad

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

2008-06-04 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL


JabRef is highly customizable as far as the key generation is concerned.
The examples given by Jeremy ( Nahm1996 or Nahm1996a ... ) are in fact 
JabRef's default.
You can describe your pattern with markers like [auth:lower] if you want 
the name of the first author all in lowercase.

There are more than twenty such markers to be used for customization.
And finally, you can edit the generated key if in a special case the 
generated key is not appropriate.


Siegfried.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Nicola Focci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 2008/6/3 George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 
 
  The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no
  hassles.
  The GUI is no longer blurred like in Nicola's case (see screenshot).
 


 Maybe I have done somethning wrong... I simply copied Lyx.app in the
 applications folder.
 Should I also run the installer?


No, that's not necessary. I do wonder what the problem is. Does LyX crash on
you as it did for George?

Bennett

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


George G. Szegö wrote:
The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no 
hassles.


Bennett, since the crash is reproducable, we should still try to figure 
out what the reason is.


Based on his debug output, it seemed like an error occured as soon as Qt 
tried to paint the first thing.


I wonder what could make the difference between my and your build (in 
respect to Qt). Are we sure that we both compiled Qt against the SDK 
(and not the system headers)?
Did you use the -sdk /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk flag (that you told 
me) to Qt's configure?


/Konrad

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 George G. Szegö wrote:

 The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no
 hassles.


 Bennett, since the crash is reproducable, we should still try to figure out
 what the reason is.

 Based on his debug output, it seemed like an error occured as soon as Qt
 tried to paint the first thing.

 I wonder what could make the difference between my and your build (in
 respect to Qt). Are we sure that we both compiled Qt against the SDK (and
 not the system headers)?
 Did you use the -sdk /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk flag (that you told
 me) to Qt's configure?


You're confusing me: I don't see any clear pattern to the error yet. The new
build (with our current procedures) works for George. (And yes, I use the
10.4 SDK for Qt.) What I don't understand is why it doesn't work for Nicola,
and I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong there. There are potentially
two issues (the drawing problem and the crash), though they're probably
related; that's why I asked Nicola if he's getting the crash. Let's see

Bennett

Re: keystrokes and styles


G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

  
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc)  
can be assigned with keystrokes. 



Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly either
cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, website, 
and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles. But it seems 
that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any interest in 
these kinds of suggestions? Or are there deeply ingrained ways that 
people work with LyX?


Ryan

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Nicola Focci wrote:

Maybe I have done somethning wrong... I simply copied Lyx.app in the
applications folder.


Could you also provide a debug output?

Close LyX, open Terminal, enter:

/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx -dbg any  ~/lyxdbg.txt

and send lyxdbg.txt to me and Bennett (since it is too large for the list).

(You might need to change the path to LyX.app to the one that crashes 
for you.)


Thanks,
Konrad

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly either
cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, website, 
and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the cua.bind file which you 
will find in the bind/ subdirectory of you LyX installation directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems 
that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any interest in 
these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already present 
before adding it.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that 
people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04


stefano franchi wrote:

I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04 running
on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the terminal
I get this error message:


ASSERT failure in QListT::at: index out of range, file
../../include/QtCore/
../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391

The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of LyX.
That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden, it started
crashing every time.

Any help is appreciated.

  
Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at: 
~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some 
problems there.


rh

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX


Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
to a pattern that you can recognize. Hence, my prolific author example in my
original post. In the end, however, I think it really depends how you have
set things up and your patterns of usage. The problem with automatic key
generation, in my opinion, is that it might create a patter that does not
make sense for the way you conceptualize your database. Is this not what you
are saying?

  
JabRef, at least, let's you customize this pattern. There's a simple GUI 
for doing it.


rh

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:22 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then
it
might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote
according
to a pattern that you can recognize. Hence, my prolific author example in
my
original post. In the end, however, I think it really depends how you have
set things up and your patterns of usage. The problem with automatic key
generation, in my opinion, is that it might create a patter that does not
make sense for the way you conceptualize your database. Is this not what
you
are saying?

JabRef, at least, let's you customize this pattern. There's a simple GUI
for doing it.

My comment were mainly a response to Ed' s problem. He wrote:

Hi,

Running: Windows XP, EndNote X1
I'm trying to export from EndNote to BibTeX format using their output style
file.

The most recent BibTeX output style can be found here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyledetail.asp?SORT=0PAGE=3METH=0DISC=noneJOUR=noneBSRT=noneFF1=noneFF2=noneFF3=noneCITE=noneDKEY=714200664457JBA

When I import it into LyX I point it to the exported .bib file but when I
try to add a citation there are no records to choose from.

Anyone else encountered this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,
Ed Sykes

One other problem that might be affecting Ed is the encoding of the the .bib
file and the default encoding settings in Jabref. I first had a problem with
this when I first started using Jabref. This could be the reason why nothing
is showing up in Jabref after the export.

1. There is an option to save the exported file in .txt, .rtf, .htm, or.
xml format. He should be selecting .txt format. (The file must be renamed
with the .bib extension.)
2. The default encoding in Jabref should be set to ASCII format. He can
check the default encoding settings in Jabref by going to OPTIONS --
PREFERENCES -- GENERAL. Default encoding is the last option.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Jeremy M. Kritt

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 11:48:30 pm Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:
 It seems that the way one chooses to organize things for export from
 Endnote to Bibtex format depends on your system configuration and how your
 have your materials organized. Respectfully, I do not believe there is one
 way to economically do it.

Sure, there is no one way, it all depends on your setup. If your main 
reference manager is and remains Endnote---for whatever reasons, and there 
are a few good ones---, then I agree with you. If you are migrating from 
Endnote to JabRef/BibDesk/Whatever, however, and you have databases with 
hundreds and hundreds of references, things are different. I was in such a 
situation a couple of years ago, and I went with JabRef's automatic---and 
configurable---automatic keys generations. It would hae literally taken me 
days to do the job by hand.

Cheers,

S.


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Re: keystrokes and styles


Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly 
either

cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, 
website, and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the cua.bind file which 
you will find in the bind/ subdirectory of you LyX installation 
directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any 
interest in these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already 
present before adding it.



Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with . For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted. I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...

Ryan

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly 
either

cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, 
website, and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a 
different list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the cua.bind file which 
you will find in the bind/ subdirectory of you LyX installation 
directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems that the issue is already very complicated. Is there 
any interest in these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already 
present before adding it.



Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with . For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted. I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...

Feel free to play with the bind files if you wish. This will be a LOT 
easier in 1.6 (which you can shortly download in beta), since there is a 
shortcuts editor there.


rh

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04


Stefano Franchi wrote:

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:20:33 am you wrote:
  

stefano franchi wrote:


I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04
running on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the
terminal I get this error message:


ASSERT failure in QListT::at: index out of range, file
../../include/QtCore/
../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391

The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of
LyX. That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden, it
started crashing every time.

Any help is appreciated.
  

Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at:
~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some
problems there.

rh



Hi Richard,

thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help. Anything else I can 
try to narrow down the problem?


  
Try moving your entire .lyx/ directory next. Did you upgrade Qt in the 
meantime? What's your Qt version?  


rh

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:
Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with .


Right the Alt-p number keys, which I agree are a bit long to type, 
especially using French keyboards.



For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted.


Well we already use F2 for 'save', F3 for 'search again' and 'F7' to 
launch the spellchecker. As those are pretty standard, I don't think we 
are going to change, but, as I said, you are free to customize your 
personal bind file to use the F keys for layouts.



I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...


They are, see above.

Abdel.

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 10:47:16 am rgheck wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  On Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:20:33 am you wrote:
  stefano franchi wrote:
  I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04
  running on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
  LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the
  terminal I get this error message:
 
 
  ASSERT failure in QListT::at: index out of range, file
  ../../include/QtCore/
  ../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391
 
  The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of
  LyX. That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden,
  it started crashing every time.
 
  Any help is appreciated.
 
  Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at:
  ~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some
  problems there.
 
  rh
 
  Hi Richard,
 
  thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help. Anything else I
  can try to narrow down the problem?

 Try moving your entire .lyx/ directory next. Did you upgrade Qt in the
 meantime? What's your Qt version?

 rh

All right, I tried moving the entire .lyx directory, it did not help.

The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.

Oh, and I am on a AMD64 system.

S.

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Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

2008-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller

Stefano Franchi wrote:
 The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.

Could you post the output of lyx --version?

It might be that your LyX binary was compiled against another version of Qt 
(Qt 4.4 f.ex.).

Jürgen

LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3) is released

2008-06-04 Thread José Matos

Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3)
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.6.0 (beta 3).

Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
results.

This release is the first to be publically announced in the path that leads to 
1.6.0, the beta status is thus an indication of the development stage and so 
we advise care when using this release. Please back up your work before using 
this release as it should be generally done in a beta release.

As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16

The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.5.5). An updated list of
issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes

You can download LyX 1.6.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0beta3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0beta3.tar.bz2

Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.5.5.

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0beta3, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

Help on new (1.6) mathmacro

2008-06-04 Thread Neal Becker

I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff. 
Attempting to insert a mathmacro I get something that appears to have input
for a name, TeX code, and LyX code.  I don't know what should go into
these.  I'm guessing that the box labeled TeX is for a TeX expansion of the
macro, but don't know what the box labeled LyX is for.

Re: Help on new (1.6) mathmacro


Neal Becker schrieb:


I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff.


I'm working on this, but due to lack of time this is not ready yet. The attached document from the 
developer of the new macro code explains you the details in the background, so start with this.


regards Uwe


dynmacro.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Help on new (1.6) mathmacro

2008-06-04 Thread Pavel Sanda

 I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff. 
 Attempting to insert a mathmacro I get something that appears to have input
 for a name, TeX code, and LyX code.  I don't know what should go into
 these.  I'm guessing that the box labeled TeX is for a TeX expansion of the
 macro, but don't know what the box labeled LyX is for.

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc12
http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/development/mathmacros
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg137035.html

pavel

[announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0beta3 for Windows


Hello LyX testers,

I uploaded an installer for the third beta release of the upcoming LyX version 
1.6.0 for Windows.

NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in beta state! That means it is stable enough for a beta test 
release, but expect
inconsistencies and regressions. This preview release is build for interested 
LyX users who want
to check out the new features of LyX.

The new features of LyX are listed here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16

! THIS LYX VERSION SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAN TESTING !

-

The installer for this version can be downloaded from:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=14717

(General infos about the installer can be found here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller )

This LyX version can be installed side by side to an existing LyX 1.5 
installation when you unchek
the installer option update the .lyx file extension settings. It will be installed 
as LyX
1.6.0beta3.

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.05
- LyX 1.6beta3 (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg141094.html)

- When Aspell is installed together with this installer (this will be the
  case when Aspell is not already installed), now every user on the PC
  gets his personal word list files.

-

Please report bugs, regressions, and crashes at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ .
Here is a list of the known crashes, and regressions to LyX 1.5.5:
http://tinyurl.com/yu4the

happy testing and best regards
Uwe

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 11:35:51 am Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.

 Could you post the output of lyx --version?

 It might be that your LyX binary was compiled against another version of Qt
 (Qt 4.4 f.ex.).

 Jürgen

Output appended below---it seems to be ok. I should add that I just tried 1.6 
Beta and it does not exhibit the same problem.

Cheers,

S.



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lyx --version
LyX 1.5.5 (Sun, May 11, 2008)
Built on May 24 2008, 17:12:57
Configuration
  Host type:x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  Special build flags:  pch  use-ispell
  C   Compiler: gcc
  C   Compiler LyX flags:
  C   Compiler flags: -O2
  C++ Compiler: g++ (4.2.3)
  C++ Compiler LyX flags:
  C++ Compiler flags: -O2
  Linker flags:
  Linker user flags:
  Qt 4 Frontend:
  Qt 4 version: 4.3.4
  Packaging:posix
  LyX binary dir:   /usr/local/bin
  LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx


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Behavior of Lyx 1.5.5 on Vista 64-bit

Hi,

I installed Lyx 1.5.5 (using the alternative windows installer) on a 64-bit
Vista machine.  The first time I launched it I noticed that Lyx was not
coming up and this command shell indicating that inittexmf.exe was running
would pop-up every couple of minutes.   I let this continue for about 30
min. and then killed latex manually at which point Lyx then launched.
However, I noticed that none of the document types were available.  After
looking into this further, I figured out that MikeTex did not have write
permission to refresh it database.  So I gave full control to user on which
Lyx and Miketex were installed, refreshed the dB and launched Lyx.  It
seemed to work fine.  However, I notice that whenever I reconfigure Lyx or
do an export, the cmd dialog for initexmf.exe keeps popping up.  Everything
seems to be working fine, but I am just wondering why this is occuring since
I have not noticed this before on previous versions of Lyx.  Thanks.

Adrian

Re: Behavior of Lyx 1.5.5 on Vista 64-bit

Never mind, I just realized that this installer enables the automatic
downloading of missing latex packages.  After the first few times of using
it, the tex dialog has disappeared.  Thanks.

Adrian



On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Hi,

 I installed Lyx 1.5.5 (using the alternative windows installer) on a 64-bit
 Vista machine.  The first time I launched it I noticed that Lyx was not
 coming up and this command shell indicating that inittexmf.exe was running
 would pop-up every couple of minutes.   I let this continue for about 30
 min. and then killed latex manually at which point Lyx then launched.
 However, I noticed that none of the document types were available.  After
 looking into this further, I figured out that MikeTex did not have write
 permission to refresh it database.  So I gave full control to user on which
 Lyx and Miketex were installed, refreshed the dB and launched Lyx.  It
 seemed to work fine.  However, I notice that whenever I reconfigure Lyx or
 do an export, the cmd dialog for initexmf.exe keeps popping up.  Everything
 seems to be working fine, but I am just wondering why this is occuring since
 I have not noticed this before on previous versions of Lyx.  Thanks.

 Adrian

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-04 Thread Nicola Focci

2008/6/3 George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED]:



 The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no
 hassles.
 The GUI is no longer blurred like in Nicola's case (see screenshot).



Maybe I have done somethning wrong... I simply copied Lyx.app in the
applications folder.
Should I also run the installer?
Nicola

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

 Although some programs may automatically generate keys, it is advisable (in
 my opinion) to create your own keys in order to easily remember what they
 refer to. 

My opinion differs, as I see the benefit of a key/label generated according
to a memorizable rule especially for large and growing databases.

At some stage I even used BibTool to normalize existing labels in a large
.bib file.

GM

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Bennett Helm wrote:
I'm hoping I have problems worked out here. I'm posting a new version of 
LyX/Mac-1.5.5 here:


LyX.app.zip http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX.app.zip 

Could anyone who had trouble with the previous version (George, Nicola, 
anyone else?) please try to see if this version works? Also, it would be 
good if others who didn't have a problem would also test (Konrad, Jean?).


Looks good on 10.4.11/Intel.

/Konrad

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
to a pattern that you can recognize. Hence, my prolific author example in my
original post. In the end, however, I think it really depends how you have
set things up and your patterns of usage. The problem with automatic key
generation, in my opinion, is that it might create a patter that does not
make sense for the way you conceptualize your database. Is this not what you
are saying?

In the end, you have to use what works for you. Although, it is good that we
are all sharing our opinions in order to get an idea about what others are
doing. Everyone benefits from that type of discussion.

Peace,

Jeremy M. Kritt
Seoul National University of Technology
Seoul, South Korea.


On 6/4/08, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

  Although some programs may automatically generate keys, it is advisable
 (in
  my opinion) to create your own keys in order to easily remember what they
  refer to.

 My opinion differs, as I see the benefit of a key/label generated according
 to a memorizable rule especially for large and growing databases.

 At some stage I even used BibTool to normalize existing labels in a large
 .bib file.

 GM




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Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:
 My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
 might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
 to a pattern that you can recognize. 

Agreed.

 The problem with automatic key generation, in my opinion, is that it
 might create a patter that does not make sense for the way you
 conceptualize your database. Is this not what you are saying?

I wanted to point out that there are tools (e.g. the BibTools program)
that allow the (re)creation of bibtex keys in a user-specified
format, author[,author2,...]:, say.

While requiring extensive reading of the manual in order to find out how
to specify the format, for a large database this might be less effort
than creating all the missing labels by hand.
OTOH, for 20 or so entries it might be simpler to do this manually.

 In the end, you have to use what works for you. 

That's it.

GM

RE: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-04 Thread Jean Kaplan


Also looks good on 10.5.3/ppc
Jean
Le 4 juin 08 à 10:42, Konrad Hofbauer a écrit :


Bennett Helm wrote:
I'm hoping I have problems worked out here. I'm posting a new  
version of LyX/Mac-1.5.5 here:
LyX.app.zip http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX.app.zip  
Could anyone who had trouble with the previous version (George,  
Nicola, anyone else?) please try to see if this version works?  
Also, it would be good if others who didn't have a problem would  
also test (Konrad, Jean?).


Looks good on 10.4.11/Intel.

/Konrad

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

2008-06-04 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL


JabRef is highly customizable as far as the key generation is concerned.
The examples given by Jeremy ( Nahm1996 or Nahm1996a ... ) are in fact 
JabRef's default.
You can describe your pattern with markers like [auth:lower] if you want 
the name of the first author all in lowercase.

There are more than twenty such markers to be used for customization.
And finally, you can edit the generated key if in a special case the 
generated key is not appropriate.


Siegfried.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Nicola Focci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 2008/6/3 George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 
 
  The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no
  hassles.
  The GUI is no longer blurred like in Nicola's case (see screenshot).
 


 Maybe I have done somethning wrong... I simply copied Lyx.app in the
 applications folder.
 Should I also run the installer?


No, that's not necessary. I do wonder what the problem is. Does LyX crash on
you as it did for George?

Bennett

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


George G. Szegö wrote:
The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no 
hassles.


Bennett, since the crash is reproducable, we should still try to figure 
out what the reason is.


Based on his debug output, it seemed like an error occured as soon as Qt 
tried to paint the first thing.


I wonder what could make the difference between my and your build (in 
respect to Qt). Are we sure that we both compiled Qt against the SDK 
(and not the system headers)?
Did you use the -sdk /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk flag (that you told 
me) to Qt's configure?


/Konrad

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 George G. Szegö wrote:

 The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no
 hassles.


 Bennett, since the crash is reproducable, we should still try to figure out
 what the reason is.

 Based on his debug output, it seemed like an error occured as soon as Qt
 tried to paint the first thing.

 I wonder what could make the difference between my and your build (in
 respect to Qt). Are we sure that we both compiled Qt against the SDK (and
 not the system headers)?
 Did you use the -sdk /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk flag (that you told
 me) to Qt's configure?


You're confusing me: I don't see any clear pattern to the error yet. The new
build (with our current procedures) works for George. (And yes, I use the
10.4 SDK for Qt.) What I don't understand is why it doesn't work for Nicola,
and I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong there. There are potentially
two issues (the drawing problem and the crash), though they're probably
related; that's why I asked Nicola if he's getting the crash. Let's see

Bennett

Re: keystrokes and styles


G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

  
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc)  
can be assigned with keystrokes. 



Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly either
cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, website, 
and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles. But it seems 
that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any interest in 
these kinds of suggestions? Or are there deeply ingrained ways that 
people work with LyX?


Ryan

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Nicola Focci wrote:

Maybe I have done somethning wrong... I simply copied Lyx.app in the
applications folder.


Could you also provide a debug output?

Close LyX, open Terminal, enter:

/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx -dbg any  ~/lyxdbg.txt

and send lyxdbg.txt to me and Bennett (since it is too large for the list).

(You might need to change the path to LyX.app to the one that crashes 
for you.)


Thanks,
Konrad

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly either
cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, website, 
and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the cua.bind file which you 
will find in the bind/ subdirectory of you LyX installation directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems 
that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any interest in 
these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already present 
before adding it.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that 
people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04


stefano franchi wrote:

I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04 running
on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the terminal
I get this error message:


ASSERT failure in QListT::at: index out of range, file
../../include/QtCore/
../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391

The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of LyX.
That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden, it started
crashing every time.

Any help is appreciated.

  
Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at: 
~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some 
problems there.


rh

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX


Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
to a pattern that you can recognize. Hence, my prolific author example in my
original post. In the end, however, I think it really depends how you have
set things up and your patterns of usage. The problem with automatic key
generation, in my opinion, is that it might create a patter that does not
make sense for the way you conceptualize your database. Is this not what you
are saying?

  
JabRef, at least, let's you customize this pattern. There's a simple GUI 
for doing it.


rh

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:22 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

JabRef, at least, let's you customize this pattern. There's a simple GUI
for doing it.

My comment were mainly a response to Ed' s problem. He wrote:

Hi,

Running: Windows XP, EndNote X1
I'm trying to export from EndNote to BibTeX format using their output style
file.

When I import it into LyX I point it to the exported .bib file but when I
try to add a citation there are no records to choose from.

Anyone else encountered this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,
Ed Sykes

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Jeremy M. Kritt

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 11:48:30 pm Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:
 It seems that the way one chooses to organize things for export from
 Endnote to Bibtex format depends on your system configuration and how your
 have your materials organized. Respectfully, I do not believe there is one
 way to economically do it.

Sure, there is no one way, it all depends on your setup. If your main 
reference manager is and remains Endnote---for whatever reasons, and there 
are a few good ones---, then I agree with you. If you are migrating from 
Endnote to JabRef/BibDesk/Whatever, however, and you have databases with 
hundreds and hundreds of references, things are different. I was in such a 
situation a couple of years ago, and I went with JabRef's automatic---and 
configurable---automatic keys generations. It would hae literally taken me 
days to do the job by hand.

Cheers,

S.


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Re: keystrokes and styles


Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly 
either

cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, 
website, and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the cua.bind file which 
you will find in the bind/ subdirectory of you LyX installation 
directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any 
interest in these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already 
present before adding it.



Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with . For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted. I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...

Ryan

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See HelpCustomization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly 
either

cua or emacs and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, 
website, and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a 
different list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the cua.bind file which 
you will find in the bind/ subdirectory of you LyX installation 
directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems that the issue is already very complicated. Is there 
any interest in these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already 
present before adding it.



Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with . For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted. I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...

Feel free to play with the bind files if you wish. This will be a LOT 
easier in 1.6 (which you can shortly download in beta), since there is a 
shortcuts editor there.


rh

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04


Stefano Franchi wrote:

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:20:33 am you wrote:
  

stefano franchi wrote:


I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04
running on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the
terminal I get this error message:


ASSERT failure in QListT::at: index out of range, file
../../include/QtCore/
../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391

The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of
LyX. That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden, it
started crashing every time.

Any help is appreciated.
  

Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at:
~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some
problems there.

rh



Hi Richard,

thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help. Anything else I can 
try to narrow down the problem?


  
Try moving your entire .lyx/ directory next. Did you upgrade Qt in the 
meantime? What's your Qt version?  


rh

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:
Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with .


Right the Alt-p number keys, which I agree are a bit long to type, 
especially using French keyboards.



For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted.


Well we already use F2 for 'save', F3 for 'search again' and 'F7' to 
launch the spellchecker. As those are pretty standard, I don't think we 
are going to change, but, as I said, you are free to customize your 
personal bind file to use the F keys for layouts.



I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...


They are, see above.

Abdel.

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 10:47:16 am rgheck wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  On Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:20:33 am you wrote:
  stefano franchi wrote:
  I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04
  running on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
  LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the
  terminal I get this error message:
 
 
  ASSERT failure in QListT::at: index out of range, file
  ../../include/QtCore/
  ../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391
 
  The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of
  LyX. That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden,
  it started crashing every time.
 
  Any help is appreciated.
 
  Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at:
  ~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some
  problems there.
 
  rh
 
  Hi Richard,
 
  thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help. Anything else I
  can try to narrow down the problem?

 Try moving your entire .lyx/ directory next. Did you upgrade Qt in the
 meantime? What's your Qt version?

 rh

All right, I tried moving the entire .lyx directory, it did not help.

The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.

Oh, and I am on a AMD64 system.

S.

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Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

2008-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller

Stefano Franchi wrote:
 The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.

Could you post the output of lyx --version?

It might be that your LyX binary was compiled against another version of Qt 
(Qt 4.4 f.ex.).

Jürgen

LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3) is released

2008-06-04 Thread José Matos

Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3)
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.6.0 (beta 3).

Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
results.

This release is the first to be publically announced in the path that leads to 
1.6.0, the beta status is thus an indication of the development stage and so 
we advise care when using this release. Please back up your work before using 
this release as it should be generally done in a beta release.

As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16

The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.5.5). An updated list of
issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes

You can download LyX 1.6.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0beta3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0beta3.tar.bz2

Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.5.5.

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0beta3, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

Help on new (1.6) mathmacro

2008-06-04 Thread Neal Becker

I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff. 
Attempting to insert a mathmacro I get something that appears to have input
for a name, TeX code, and LyX code.  I don't know what should go into
these.  I'm guessing that the box labeled TeX is for a TeX expansion of the
macro, but don't know what the box labeled LyX is for.

Re: Help on new (1.6) mathmacro


Neal Becker schrieb:


I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff.


I'm working on this, but due to lack of time this is not ready yet. The attached document from the 
developer of the new macro code explains you the details in the background, so start with this.


regards Uwe


dynmacro.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Help on new (1.6) mathmacro

2008-06-04 Thread Pavel Sanda

 I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff. 
 Attempting to insert a mathmacro I get something that appears to have input
 for a name, TeX code, and LyX code.  I don't know what should go into
 these.  I'm guessing that the box labeled TeX is for a TeX expansion of the
 macro, but don't know what the box labeled LyX is for.

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc12
http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/development/mathmacros
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg137035.html

pavel

[announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0beta3 for Windows


Hello LyX testers,

I uploaded an installer for the third beta release of the upcoming LyX version 
1.6.0 for Windows.

NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in beta state! That means it is stable enough for a beta test 
release, but expect
inconsistencies and regressions. This preview release is build for interested 
LyX users who want
to check out the new features of LyX.

The new features of LyX are listed here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16

! THIS LYX VERSION SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAN TESTING !

-

The installer for this version can be downloaded from:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=14717

(General infos about the installer can be found here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller )

This LyX version can be installed side by side to an existing LyX 1.5 
installation when you unchek
the installer option update the .lyx file extension settings. It will be installed 
as LyX
1.6.0beta3.

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.05
- LyX 1.6beta3 (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg141094.html)

- When Aspell is installed together with this installer (this will be the
  case when Aspell is not already installed), now every user on the PC
  gets his personal word list files.

-

Please report bugs, regressions, and crashes at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ .
Here is a list of the known crashes, and regressions to LyX 1.5.5:
http://tinyurl.com/yu4the

happy testing and best regards
Uwe

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 11:35:51 am Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.

 Could you post the output of lyx --version?

 It might be that your LyX binary was compiled against another version of Qt
 (Qt 4.4 f.ex.).

 Jürgen

Output appended below---it seems to be ok. I should add that I just tried 1.6 
Beta and it does not exhibit the same problem.

Cheers,

S.



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lyx --version
LyX 1.5.5 (Sun, May 11, 2008)
Built on May 24 2008, 17:12:57
Configuration
  Host type:x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  Special build flags:  pch  use-ispell
  C   Compiler: gcc
  C   Compiler LyX flags:
  C   Compiler flags: -O2
  C++ Compiler: g++ (4.2.3)
  C++ Compiler LyX flags:
  C++ Compiler flags: -O2
  Linker flags:
  Linker user flags:
  Qt 4 Frontend:
  Qt 4 version: 4.3.4
  Packaging:posix
  LyX binary dir:   /usr/local/bin
  LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx


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Behavior of Lyx 1.5.5 on Vista 64-bit

Hi,

I installed Lyx 1.5.5 (using the alternative windows installer) on a 64-bit
Vista machine.  The first time I launched it I noticed that Lyx was not
coming up and this command shell indicating that inittexmf.exe was running
would pop-up every couple of minutes.   I let this continue for about 30
min. and then killed latex manually at which point Lyx then launched.
However, I noticed that none of the document types were available.  After
looking into this further, I figured out that MikeTex did not have write
permission to refresh it database.  So I gave full control to user on which
Lyx and Miketex were installed, refreshed the dB and launched Lyx.  It
seemed to work fine.  However, I notice that whenever I reconfigure Lyx or
do an export, the cmd dialog for initexmf.exe keeps popping up.  Everything
seems to be working fine, but I am just wondering why this is occuring since
I have not noticed this before on previous versions of Lyx.  Thanks.

Adrian

Re: Behavior of Lyx 1.5.5 on Vista 64-bit

Never mind, I just realized that this installer enables the automatic
downloading of missing latex packages.  After the first few times of using
it, the tex dialog has disappeared.  Thanks.

Adrian



On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Hi,

 I installed Lyx 1.5.5 (using the alternative windows installer) on a 64-bit
 Vista machine.  The first time I launched it I noticed that Lyx was not
 coming up and this command shell indicating that inittexmf.exe was running
 would pop-up every couple of minutes.   I let this continue for about 30
 min. and then killed latex manually at which point Lyx then launched.
 However, I noticed that none of the document types were available.  After
 looking into this further, I figured out that MikeTex did not have write
 permission to refresh it database.  So I gave full control to user on which
 Lyx and Miketex were installed, refreshed the dB and launched Lyx.  It
 seemed to work fine.  However, I notice that whenever I reconfigure Lyx or
 do an export, the cmd dialog for initexmf.exe keeps popping up.  Everything
 seems to be working fine, but I am just wondering why this is occuring since
 I have not noticed this before on previous versions of Lyx.  Thanks.

 Adrian

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-04 Thread Nicola Focci

2008/6/3 "George G. Szegö" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
>
> The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no
> hassles.
> The GUI is no longer blurred like in Nicola's case (see screenshot).
>


Maybe I have done somethning wrong... I simply copied Lyx.app in the
applications folder.
Should I also run the installer?
Nicola

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

> Although some programs may automatically generate keys, it is advisable (in
> my opinion) to create your own keys in order to easily remember what they
> refer to. 

My opinion differs, as I see the benefit of a key/label generated according
to a memorizable rule especially for large and growing databases.

At some stage I even used BibTool to "normalize" existing labels in a large
.bib file.

GM

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Bennett Helm wrote:
I'm hoping I have problems worked out here. I'm posting a new version of 
LyX/Mac-1.5.5 here:


LyX.app.zip  

Could anyone who had trouble with the previous version (George, Nicola, 
anyone else?) please try to see if this version works? Also, it would be 
good if others who didn't have a problem would also test (Konrad, Jean?).


Looks good on 10.4.11/Intel.

/Konrad

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
to a pattern that you can recognize. Hence, my prolific author example in my
original post. In the end, however, I think it really depends how you have
set things up and your patterns of usage. The problem with automatic key
generation, in my opinion, is that it might create a patter that does not
make sense for the way you conceptualize your database. Is this not what you
are saying?

In the end, you have to use what works for you. Although, it is good that we
are all sharing our opinions in order to get an idea about what others are
doing. Everyone benefits from that type of discussion.

Peace,

Jeremy M. Kritt
Seoul National University of Technology
Seoul, South Korea.

On 6/4/08, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:
>
> > Although some programs may automatically generate keys, it is advisable
> (in
> > my opinion) to create your own keys in order to easily remember what they
> > refer to.
>
> My opinion differs, as I see the benefit of a key/label generated according
> to a memorizable rule especially for large and growing databases.
>
> At some stage I even used BibTool to "normalize" existing labels in a large
> .bib file.
>
> GM
>

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Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On  4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:
> My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
> might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
> to a pattern that you can recognize. 

Agreed.

> The problem with automatic key generation, in my opinion, is that it
> might create a patter that does not make sense for the way you
> conceptualize your database. Is this not what you are saying?

I wanted to point out that there are tools (e.g. the BibTools program)
that allow the (re)creation of bibtex keys in a user-specified
format, [,,...]:, say.

While requiring extensive reading of the manual in order to find out how
to specify the format, for a large database this might be less effort
than creating all the missing labels by hand.
OTOH, for 20 or so entries it might be simpler to do this manually.

> In the end, you have to use what works for you. 

That's it.

GM

RE: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-04 Thread Jean Kaplan


Also looks good on 10.5.3/ppc
Jean
Le 4 juin 08 à 10:42, Konrad Hofbauer a écrit :


Bennett Helm wrote:
I'm hoping I have problems worked out here. I'm posting a new  
version of LyX/Mac-1.5.5 here:
LyX.app.zip   
Could anyone who had trouble with the previous version (George,  
Nicola, anyone else?) please try to see if this version works?  
Also, it would be good if others who didn't have a problem would  
also test (Konrad, Jean?).


Looks good on 10.4.11/Intel.

/Konrad

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

2008-06-04 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL


JabRef is highly customizable as far as the key generation is concerned.
The examples given by Jeremy ( Nahm1996 or Nahm1996a ... ) are in fact 
JabRef's default.
You can describe your pattern with markers like [auth:lower] if you want 
the name of the first author all in lowercase.

There are more than twenty such markers to be used for customization.
And finally, you can edit the generated key if in a special case the 
generated key is not appropriate.


Siegfried.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Nicola Focci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 2008/6/3 "George G. Szegö" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> >
> > The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no
> > hassles.
> > The GUI is no longer blurred like in Nicola's case (see screenshot).
> >
>
>
> Maybe I have done somethning wrong... I simply copied Lyx.app in the
> applications folder.
> Should I also run the installer?

No, that's not necessary. I do wonder what the problem is. Does LyX crash on
you as it did for George?

Bennett

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


George G. Szegö wrote:
The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no 
hassles.


Bennett, since the crash is reproducable, we should still try to figure 
out what the reason is.


Based on his debug output, it seemed like an error occured as soon as Qt 
tried to paint the first thing.


I wonder what could make the difference between my and your build (in 
respect to Qt). Are we sure that we both compiled Qt against the SDK 
(and not the system headers)?
Did you use the -sdk /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk flag (that you told 
me) to Qt's configure?


/Konrad

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Konrad Hofbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> George G. Szegö wrote:
>
>> The new build you posted for version 1.5.5 worked on my machine with no
>> hassles.
>>
>
> Bennett, since the crash is reproducable, we should still try to figure out
> what the reason is.
>
> Based on his debug output, it seemed like an error occured as soon as Qt
> tried to paint the first thing.
>
> I wonder what could make the difference between my and your build (in
> respect to Qt). Are we sure that we both compiled Qt against the SDK (and
> not the system headers)?
> Did you use the -sdk /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk flag (that you told
> me) to Qt's configure?

You're confusing me: I don't see any clear pattern to the error yet. The new
build (with our current procedures) works for George. (And yes, I use the
10.4 SDK for Qt.) What I don't understand is why it doesn't work for Nicola,
and I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong there. There are potentially
two issues (the drawing problem and the crash), though they're probably
related; that's why I asked Nicola if he's getting the crash. Let's see

Bennett

Re: keystrokes and styles


G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

  
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc)  
can be assigned with keystrokes. 



Yes. See Help>Customization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the "emulation mode", most commonly either
"cua" or "emacs" and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, website, 
and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles. But it seems 
that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any interest in 
these kinds of suggestions? Or are there deeply ingrained ways that 
people work with LyX?


Ryan

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update


Nicola Focci wrote:

Maybe I have done somethning wrong... I simply copied Lyx.app in the
applications folder.


Could you also provide a debug output?

Close LyX, open Terminal, enter:

/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx -dbg any &> ~/lyxdbg.txt

and send lyxdbg.txt to me and Bennett (since it is too large for the list).

(You might need to change the path to LyX.app to the one that crashes 
for you.)


Thanks,
Konrad

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See Help>Customization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the "emulation mode", most commonly either
"cua" or "emacs" and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, website, 
and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the "cua.bind" file which you 
will find in the "bind/" subdirectory of you LyX installation directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems 
that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any interest in 
these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already present 
before adding it.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that 
people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04


stefano franchi wrote:

I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04 running
on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the terminal
I get this error message:


ASSERT failure in QList::at: "index out of range", file
../../include/QtCore/
../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391

The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of LyX.
That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden, it started
crashing every time.

Any help is appreciated.

  
Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at: 
~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some 
problems there.


rh

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX


Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:

My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it
might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according
to a pattern that you can recognize. Hence, my prolific author example in my
original post. In the end, however, I think it really depends how you have
set things up and your patterns of usage. The problem with automatic key
generation, in my opinion, is that it might create a patter that does not
make sense for the way you conceptualize your database. Is this not what you
are saying?

  
JabRef, at least, let's you customize this pattern. There's a simple GUI 
for doing it.


rh

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:22 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:
>
>> My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then
>> it
>> might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote
>> according
>> to a pattern that you can recognize. Hence, my prolific author example in
>> my
>> original post. In the end, however, I think it really depends how you have
>> set things up and your patterns of usage. The problem with automatic key
>> generation, in my opinion, is that it might create a patter that does not
>> make sense for the way you conceptualize your database. Is this not what
>> you
>> are saying?
>>
>>
>>
> JabRef, at least, let's you customize this pattern. There's a simple GUI
> for doing it.
>
> rh
>
>
My comment were mainly a response to Ed' s problem. He wrote:

Hi,

Running: Windows XP, EndNote X1
I'm trying to export from EndNote to BibTeX format using their output style
file.

The most recent BibTeX output style can be found here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyledetail.asp?SORT=0=3=0=none=none=none=none=none=none=none=714200664457JBA

When I import it into LyX I point it to the exported .bib file but when I
try to add a citation there are no records to choose from.

Anyone else encountered this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,
Ed Sykes

One other problem that might be affecting Ed is the encoding of the the .bib
file and the default encoding settings in Jabref. I first had a problem with
this when I first started using Jabref. This could be the reason why nothing
is showing up in Jabref after the export.

   1. There is an option to save the exported file in .txt, .rtf, .htm, or.
   xml format. He should be selecting .txt format. (The file must be renamed
   with the .bib extension.)
   2. The default encoding in Jabref should be set to ASCII format. He can
   check the default encoding settings in Jabref by going to OPTIONS -->
   PREFERENCES --> GENERAL. Default encoding is the last option.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Jeremy M. Kritt

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 11:48:30 pm Jeremy M. Kritt wrote:
> It seems that the way one chooses to organize things for export from
> Endnote to Bibtex format depends on your system configuration and how your
> have your materials organized. Respectfully, I do not believe there is one
> way to "economically" do it.

Sure, there is no "one way," it all depends on your setup. If your main 
reference manager is and remains Endnote---for whatever reasons, and there 
are a few good ones---, then I agree with you. If you are migrating from 
Endnote to JabRef/BibDesk/Whatever, however, and you have databases with 
hundreds and hundreds of references, things are different. I was in such a 
situation a couple of years ago, and I went with JabRef's automatic---and 
configurable---automatic keys generations. It would hae literally taken me 
days to do the job by hand.

Cheers,

S.

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Re: keystrokes and styles


Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See Help>Customization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the "emulation mode", most commonly 
either

"cua" or "emacs" and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, 
website, and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a different 
list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the "cua.bind" file which 
you will find in the "bind/" subdirectory of you LyX installation 
directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems that the issue is already very complicated. Is there any 
interest in these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already 
present before adding it.



Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with . For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted. I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...

Ryan

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:

G. Milde wrote:

On  2.06.08, RyanC wrote:

 
Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, 
etc)  can be assigned with keystrokes. 


Yes. See Help>Customization.

More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org

Existing keybindings depend on the "emulation mode", most commonly 
either

"cua" or "emacs" and to some extend also on your locale.

GM

  

Thanks, GM - for your reply.

I had been trying to navigate my way through the documentation, 
website, and Wiki.


I wanted to suggest to the developers (yes, I know that's a 
different list), adopting this keyboard approach for physical styles.


That's already the case for most layouts (what you call style). The 
default keyboard shortcuts are defined in the "cua.bind" file which 
you will find in the "bind/" subdirectory of you LyX installation 
directory.

The layouts are generally set with Alt-p:
Alt-p 1 chapter
Alt-p 2 section
Alt_p i itemize
...


But it seems that the issue is already very complicated. Is there 
any interest in these kinds of suggestions?


Sure, there is bugzilla.lyx.org if you want to report bug or put an 
enhancement request. Please verify that the item is not already 
present before adding it.



Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?


Not sure I follow you...

Abdel.


Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with . For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted. I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...

Feel free to play with the bind files if you wish. This will be a LOT 
easier in 1.6 (which you can shortly download in beta), since there is a 
shortcuts editor there.


rh

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04


Stefano Franchi wrote:

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:20:33 am you wrote:
  

stefano franchi wrote:


I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04
running on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the
terminal I get this error message:


ASSERT failure in QList::at: "index out of range", file
../../include/QtCore/
../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391

The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of
LyX. That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden, it
started crashing every time.

Any help is appreciated.
  

Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at:
~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some
problems there.

rh



Hi Richard,

thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help. Anything else I can 
try to narrow down the problem?


  
Try moving your entire .lyx/ directory next. Did you upgrade Qt in the 
meantime? What's your Qt version?  


rh

Re: keystrokes and styles


RyanC wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

RyanC wrote:
Or are there deeply ingrained ways that people work with LyX?



Not sure I follow you...


All I meant by this is that there may be established systems and sets of
keystrokes that I am not familiar with .


Right the Alt-p  keys, which I agree are a bit long to type, 
especially using French keyboards.



For me, layouts (or styles) and
F keys are a natural combination. They seem very well fitted.


Well we already use F2 for 'save', F3 for 'search again' and 'F7' to 
launch the spellchecker. As those are pretty standard, I don't think we 
are going to change, but, as I said, you are free to customize your 
personal bind file to use the F keys for layouts.



I'm not an
Emacs/TeX/LyX power user - and for all I know, F keys already have an
important use. But if not, maybe this would be useful idea for LyX in
terms of the user experience...


They are, see above.

Abdel.

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 10:47:16 am rgheck wrote:
> Stefano Franchi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:20:33 am you wrote:
> >> stefano franchi wrote:
> >>> I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04
> >>> running on a Thinkpad T61 laptop.
> >>> LyX crashes on the CTRL-O (open file) command. If lanched from the
> >>> terminal I get this error message:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ASSERT failure in QList::at: "index out of range", file
> >>> ../../include/QtCore/
> >>> ../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391
> >>>
> >>> The crash is repeatable. However, it only happened after a few uses of
> >>> LyX. That is, I was able to open a few files, then all of of a sudden,
> >>> it started crashing every time.
> >>>
> >>> Any help is appreciated.
> >>
> >> Try moving or renaming your session file, which is probably at:
> >> ~/.lyx/session. If that works, let us know. There have been some
> >> problems there.
> >>
> >> rh
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help. Anything else I
> > can try to narrow down the problem?
>
> Try moving your entire .lyx/ directory next. Did you upgrade Qt in the
> meantime? What's your Qt version?
>
> rh

All right, I tried moving the entire .lyx directory, it did not help.

The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.

Oh, and I am on a AMD64 system.

S.

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Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

2008-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller

Stefano Franchi wrote:
> The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.

Could you post the output of lyx --version?

It might be that your LyX binary was compiled against another version of Qt 
(Qt 4.4 f.ex.).

Jürgen

LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3) is released

2008-06-04 Thread José Matos

Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3)
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.6.0 (beta 3).

Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
results.

This release is the first to be publically announced in the path that leads to 
1.6.0, the beta status is thus an indication of the development stage and so 
we advise care when using this release. Please back up your work before using 
this release as it should be generally done in a beta release.

As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16

The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.5.5). An updated list of
issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes

You can download LyX 1.6.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0beta3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0beta3.tar.bz2

Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.5.5.

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0beta3, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

Help on new (1.6) mathmacro

2008-06-04 Thread Neal Becker

I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff. 
Attempting to insert a mathmacro I get something that appears to have input
for a name, TeX code, and LyX code.  I don't know what should go into
these.  I'm guessing that the box labeled TeX is for a TeX expansion of the
macro, but don't know what the box labeled LyX is for.

Re: Help on new (1.6) mathmacro


Neal Becker schrieb:


I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff.


I'm working on this, but due to lack of time this is not ready yet. The attached document from the 
developer of the new macro code explains you the details in the background, so start with this.


regards Uwe


dynmacro.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Help on new (1.6) mathmacro

2008-06-04 Thread Pavel Sanda

> I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff. 
> Attempting to insert a mathmacro I get something that appears to have input
> for a name, TeX code, and LyX code.  I don't know what should go into
> these.  I'm guessing that the box labeled TeX is for a TeX expansion of the
> macro, but don't know what the box labeled LyX is for.

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc12
http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/development/mathmacros
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg137035.html

pavel

[announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0beta3 for Windows


Hello LyX testers,

I uploaded an installer for the third beta release of the upcoming LyX version 
1.6.0 for Windows.

NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in beta state! That means it is stable enough for a beta test 
release, but expect
inconsistencies and regressions. This preview release is build for interested 
LyX users who want
to check out the new features of LyX.

The new features of LyX are listed here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16

! THIS LYX VERSION SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAN TESTING !

-

The installer for this version can be downloaded from:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=14717

(General infos about the installer can be found here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller )

This LyX version can be installed side by side to an existing LyX 1.5 
installation when you unchek
the installer option update the ".lyx" file extension settings. It will be installed 
as "LyX
1.6.0beta3".

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.05
- LyX 1.6beta3 (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg141094.html)

- When Aspell is installed together with this installer (this will be the
  case when Aspell is not already installed), now every user on the PC
  gets his personal word list files.

-

Please report bugs, regressions, and crashes at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ .
Here is a list of the known crashes, and regressions to LyX 1.5.5:
http://tinyurl.com/yu4the

happy testing and best regards
Uwe

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 11:35:51 am Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Stefano Franchi wrote:
> > The version of QT is 4.3.4. to be precise, Adept tells me 4.3.4.0Ubuntu3.
>
> Could you post the output of lyx --version?
>
> It might be that your LyX binary was compiled against another version of Qt
> (Qt 4.4 f.ex.).
>
> Jürgen

Output appended below---it seems to be ok. I should add that I just tried 1.6 
Beta and it does not exhibit the same problem.

Cheers,

S.



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lyx --version
LyX 1.5.5 (Sun, May 11, 2008)
Built on May 24 2008, 17:12:57
Configuration
  Host type:x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  Special build flags:  pch  use-ispell
  C   Compiler: gcc
  C   Compiler LyX flags:
  C   Compiler flags: -O2
  C++ Compiler: g++ (4.2.3)
  C++ Compiler LyX flags:
  C++ Compiler flags: -O2
  Linker flags:
  Linker user flags:
  Qt 4 Frontend:
  Qt 4 version: 4.3.4
  Packaging:posix
  LyX binary dir:   /usr/local/bin
  LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx


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Behavior of Lyx 1.5.5 on Vista 64-bit

Hi,

I installed Lyx 1.5.5 (using the alternative windows installer) on a 64-bit
Vista machine.  The first time I launched it I noticed that Lyx was not
coming up and this command shell indicating that inittexmf.exe was running
would pop-up every couple of minutes.   I let this continue for about 30
min. and then killed latex manually at which point Lyx then launched.
However, I noticed that none of the document types were available.  After
looking into this further, I figured out that MikeTex did not have write
permission to refresh it database.  So I gave full control to user on which
Lyx and Miketex were installed, refreshed the dB and launched Lyx.  It
seemed to work fine.  However, I notice that whenever I reconfigure Lyx or
do an export, the cmd dialog for initexmf.exe keeps popping up.  Everything
seems to be working fine, but I am just wondering why this is occuring since
I have not noticed this before on previous versions of Lyx.  Thanks.

Adrian

Re: Behavior of Lyx 1.5.5 on Vista 64-bit