RE: LyX & svg files

[Bernt Lie]

Thanks for tip.

-B

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From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  On Behalf Of Steve Litt
Sent: tirsdag 27. november 2018 02.00
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: LyX & svg files

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:07:54 +
Bernt Lie  wrote:

> I'm a little confused. I have LyX 2.3.1 installed on two computers, 
> both running 64bit Windows 10, latest update, and the samve version of 
> Inkscape. Some arrows show up with "broken neck" on one computer, but 
> not on the other. I sync the LyX documents and the figures among my 
> computers using OneDrive.
> 
> On the computer where the "broken neck" persists, if I open the 
> drawing in Inkscape, ungroup elements, and group them again before 
> saving the drawing, then the drawing becomes ok. Puzzling. -- 
> Occationally, the arrows are "broken" also in Inkscape. This typically 
> happens if I have slanted lines, typically different from a multiple 
> of 45 degrees, and sometimes if I select several lines and chose arrow 
> on all lines simultaneously. So probably there is something flaky in 
> Inkscape, too.

Something I always do, and it might help you too. Before including any 
Inkscape-constructed image in LyX or HTML, I always
File->Clean_up_document and File->Save_as->Plain_SVG. This tends to get
all the "inkscapisms" out of the image. Whenever I have problems with text not 
fitting in boxes in the ultimate viewer (a web page or PDF), I always convert 
text to curves and then once again clean up and save as plain.

SteveT

Steve Litt
November 2018 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand 
new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: MIA: short title menu item

[Daniel]

On 27/11/2018 00:47, Rich Shepard wrote:

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Kornel Benko wrote:


Move the mouse pointer to the title line. Right mouse click gives a menu.
One of the entries is Short Title.


Kornel,

   That's not what I see here. I have choices to paste, jump around, move
things, but not add a short title. And I cannot capture the menu in a
screenshot as it disappears as soon as I move the cursor to xv to 
initiate a

screen grab.


I might be wrong, but I don't think the title LaTeX command provides an 
optional short title argument (both Stadard and KOMA).


Daniel

Re: lyx changes the file access privileges

[paolo m.]

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:

> There is no practical problem for me here, and a practical problem
> could be addressed by chmod.  But the situation is puzzling.


Files with access mode:  -rw    cannot be synced with the dropbox 


paolo m.

Re: Copy/paste from lyx document

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:40:44PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 
> > Are you talking about middle-click paste? It works for me with 2.3.1.
> 
> Scott,
> 
>   Interesting. That's what I do when pasting highlighted text from all
> applications, but it has not been working from lyx with my logitech
> trackball. However, after reading your response I discovered that if I first
> press the scroll wheel, then the middle button, it works. Very strange, but
> as long as I can do the copy/paste I don't care what sequence of moving
> parts needs to be done.

Strange, LyX shouldn't be different from other applications. Not sure
why that's happening.

Scott


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New Color Box Type code error

[lloyd]

This code throws an error: 
 
New Color Box Type Name cBoxA 1 col back=gray!25!white,colbacktitle=black, 
colframe=black!;75!black, fonttitle=\bfseries, title=\listno\,##, 
width=\textwidth

\begin{cBoxA}
{}
 Evidently related to the parameter after cBoxA. My notes say that there should 
be the term Arguments after cBoxA, but when I try that I still get an error.
 
Can some kind guru show me the way?
 
Best wishes,
 
LRP

Re: LyX & svg files

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:07:54 +
Bernt Lie  wrote:

> I'm a little confused. I have LyX 2.3.1 installed on two computers,
> both running 64bit Windows 10, latest update, and the samve version
> of Inkscape. Some arrows show up with "broken neck" on one computer,
> but not on the other. I sync the LyX documents and the figures among
> my computers using OneDrive.
> 
> On the computer where the "broken neck" persists, if I open the
> drawing in Inkscape, ungroup elements, and group them again before
> saving the drawing, then the drawing becomes ok. Puzzling. --
> Occationally, the arrows are "broken" also in Inkscape. This
> typically happens if I have slanted lines, typically different from a
> multiple of 45 degrees, and sometimes if I select several lines and
> chose arrow on all lines simultaneously. So probably there is
> something flaky in Inkscape, too.

Something I always do, and it might help you too. Before including any
Inkscape-constructed image in LyX or HTML, I always
File->Clean_up_document and File->Save_as->Plain_SVG. This tends to get
all the "inkscapisms" out of the image. Whenever I have problems with
text not fitting in boxes in the ultimate viewer (a web page or PDF), I
always convert text to curves and then once again clean up and save as
plain.

SteveT

Steve Litt
November 2018 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical
Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition
http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: MIA: short title menu item

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Kornel Benko wrote:


Move the mouse pointer to the title line. Right mouse click gives a menu.
One of the entries is Short Title.


Kornel,

  That's not what I see here. I have choices to paste, jump around, move
things, but not add a short title. And I cannot capture the menu in a
screenshot as it disappears as soon as I move the cursor to xv to initiate a
screen grab.

Thanks,

Rich

Re: Copy/paste from lyx document

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018, Scott Kostyshak wrote:


Are you talking about middle-click paste? It works for me with 2.3.1.


Scott,

  Interesting. That's what I do when pasting highlighted text from all
applications, but it has not been working from lyx with my logitech
trackball. However, after reading your response I discovered that if I first
press the scroll wheel, then the middle button, it works. Very strange, but
as long as I can do the copy/paste I don't care what sequence of moving
parts needs to be done.

  Thanks very much!

Best regards,

Rich

Re: MIA: short title menu item

[Kornel Benko]

Am Montag, 26. November 2018 15:05:30 CET schrieb Rich Shepard 
:
>Environment: LyX-2.3.1 on Slackware-14.2. Document class: KOMA article.
> 
>No matter how many times I look on the Insert menu I do not find a short
> title option. I know that I've used it before and the UserGuide insists that
> it's there (Section 3.3.4.4.).
> 
>What might I have missed?

Move the mouse pointer to the title line. Right mouse click gives a menu. One 
of the entries is Short Title.

> TIA,
> 
> Rich

Kornel


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Re: Copy/paste from lyx document

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 02:57:43PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Platform: lyx-2.3.1 on Slackware-14.2.
> 
>   I used to be able to highlight text in a lyx document (using the
> pointer-thingy) and paste the highlighted text in a text file, e-mail
> message (in alpine), or other documents. This no longer works. Is there a
> switch that needs to be reset?

Are you talking about middle-click paste? It works for me with 2.3.1.

Scott


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MIA: short title menu item

[Rich Shepard]

  Environment: LyX-2.3.1 on Slackware-14.2. Document class: KOMA article.

  No matter how many times I look on the Insert menu I do not find a short
title option. I know that I've used it before and the UserGuide insists that
it's there (Section 3.3.4.4.).

  What might I have missed?

TIA,

Rich

Copy/paste from lyx document

[Rich Shepard]

  Platform: lyx-2.3.1 on Slackware-14.2.

  I used to be able to highlight text in a lyx document (using the
pointer-thingy) and paste the highlighted text in a text file, e-mail
message (in alpine), or other documents. This no longer works. Is there a
switch that needs to be reset?

TIA,

Rich

RE: LyX & svg files

[Bernt Lie]

Ah, thanks. I'll test it when I get a similar "error".

-B

-Original Message-
From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  On Behalf Of Kornel 
Benko
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 18:03
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: LyX & svg files

Am Montag, 26. November 2018 16:22:28 CET schrieb Bernt Lie :
> Thanks for tip. Should I delete the content of the userdir to remove the 
> cache??

No, only the cache dir.

> -B
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  On Behalf Of Kornel 
> Benko
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 15:26
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: LyX & svg files
> 
> Am Montag, 26. November 2018 14:07:54 CET schrieb Bernt Lie 
> :
> > I'm a little confused. I have LyX 2.3.1 installed on two computers, both 
> > running 64bit Windows 10, latest update, and the samve version of Inkscape. 
> > Some arrows show up with "broken neck" on one computer, but not on the 
> > other. I sync the LyX documents and the figures among my computers using 
> > OneDrive.
> 
> I would check the cache in your userdir.
> (See Help->About LyX->user address)

Kornel

Re: LyX & svg files

[Kornel Benko]

Am Montag, 26. November 2018 16:22:28 CET schrieb Bernt Lie :
> Thanks for tip. Should I delete the content of the userdir to remove the 
> cache??

No, only the cache dir.

> -B
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  On Behalf Of Kornel 
> Benko
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 15:26
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: LyX & svg files
> 
> Am Montag, 26. November 2018 14:07:54 CET schrieb Bernt Lie 
> :
> > I'm a little confused. I have LyX 2.3.1 installed on two computers, both 
> > running 64bit Windows 10, latest update, and the samve version of Inkscape. 
> > Some arrows show up with "broken neck" on one computer, but not on the 
> > other. I sync the LyX documents and the figures among my computers using 
> > OneDrive.
> 
> I would check the cache in your userdir.
> (See Help->About LyX->user address)

Kornel

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RE: LyX & svg files

[Bernt Lie]

Thanks for tip. Should I delete the content of the userdir to remove the cache??

-B

-Original Message-
From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  On Behalf Of Kornel 
Benko
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 15:26
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: LyX & svg files

Am Montag, 26. November 2018 14:07:54 CET schrieb Bernt Lie :
> I'm a little confused. I have LyX 2.3.1 installed on two computers, both 
> running 64bit Windows 10, latest update, and the samve version of Inkscape. 
> Some arrows show up with "broken neck" on one computer, but not on the other. 
> I sync the LyX documents and the figures among my computers using OneDrive.

I would check the cache in your userdir.
(See Help->About LyX->user address)

Kornel

Re: LyX & svg files

[Kornel Benko]

Am Montag, 26. November 2018 14:07:54 CET schrieb Bernt Lie :
> I'm a little confused. I have LyX 2.3.1 installed on two computers, both 
> running 64bit Windows 10, latest update, and the samve version of Inkscape. 
> Some arrows show up with "broken neck" on one computer, but not on the other. 
> I sync the LyX documents and the figures among my computers using OneDrive.

I would check the cache in your userdir.
(See Help->About LyX->user address)

Kornel

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RE: LyX & svg files

[Bernt Lie]

I'm a little confused. I have LyX 2.3.1 installed on two computers, both 
running 64bit Windows 10, latest update, and the samve version of Inkscape. 
Some arrows show up with "broken neck" on one computer, but not on the other. I 
sync the LyX documents and the figures among my computers using OneDrive.

On the computer where the "broken neck" persists, if I open the drawing in 
Inkscape, ungroup elements, and group them again before saving the drawing, 
then the drawing becomes ok. Puzzling.
--
Occationally, the arrows are "broken" also in Inkscape. This typically happens 
if I have slanted lines, typically different from a multiple of 45 degrees, and 
sometimes if I select several lines and chose arrow on all lines 
simultaneously. So probably there is something flaky in Inkscape, too.

-B

-Original Message-
From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  On Behalf Of Daniel
Sent: mandag 26. november 2018 14.51
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: LyX & svg files

On 26/11/2018 09:54, Cris Fuhrman wrote:
> Replying to the list...
> 
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:14 PM Bernt Lie  > wrote:
> 
> I use LyX 2.3.1 on Windows 10, 64 bit.
> 
> __ __
> 
> It seems like LyX sometimes has problems handling SVG files,
> specifically lines with arrow heads. 
> 
> 
> 
> There was a bug about this that was closed (fixed in 2.2.4 for which 
> there is no binary I could find on LyX.org):
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9778
> 
> Anyone know if it's the same thing showing up in 2.3.x?
> 
> Also, I'd love to get an installer for the 2.2.4 on Windows 10 if 
> possible (I downgraded from 2.3.x because it breaks my custom file 
> formats and I could not find a work-around:
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11087).

The graphic from the tickets shows up incorrectly in 2.2.3 but fine on
2.3.1 under Win10. If I understood the fix correctly, then it is to use the 
converter from SVG -> PNG instead of the qt internal one. Hence it should be 
unrelated.

Daniel

Re: LyX & svg files

[Daniel]

On 26/11/2018 09:54, Cris Fuhrman wrote:

Replying to the list...

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:14 PM Bernt Lie > wrote:


I use LyX 2.3.1 on Windows 10, 64 bit.

__ __

It seems like LyX sometimes has problems handling SVG files,
specifically lines with arrow heads. 



There was a bug about this that was closed (fixed in 2.2.4 for which 
there is no binary I could find on LyX.org): 
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9778


Anyone know if it's the same thing showing up in 2.3.x?

Also, I'd love to get an installer for the 2.2.4 on Windows 10 if 
possible (I downgraded from 2.3.x because it breaks my custom file 
formats and I could not find a work-around: 
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11087).


The graphic from the tickets shows up incorrectly in 2.2.3 but fine on 
2.3.1 under Win10. If I understood the fix correctly, then it is to use 
the converter from SVG -> PNG instead of the qt internal one. Hence it 
should be unrelated.


Daniel

Re: LyX & svg files

[Cris Fuhrman]

Replying to the list...

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:14 PM Bernt Lie  wrote:

> I use LyX 2.3.1 on Windows 10, 64 bit.
>
>
>
> It seems like LyX sometimes has problems handling SVG files, specifically
> lines with arrow heads.
>
>
>
There was a bug about this that was closed (fixed in 2.2.4 for which there
is no binary I could find on LyX.org): https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9778

Anyone know if it's the same thing showing up in 2.3.x?

Also, I'd love to get an installer for the 2.2.4 on Windows 10 if possible
(I downgraded from 2.3.x because it breaks my custom file formats and I
could not find a work-around: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11087).