Re: MiKTeX 2.7
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I haven't tested how it works to have two MiKTeX versions installed side by side. But in case you have this, LyXWinInstaller will set up LyX to use the latest version (in this case 2.7). I've been running 2.6 and 2.7 (beta) side-by-side for a couple of months now with no problems. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: MiKTeX 2.7
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I haven't tested how it works to have two MiKTeX versions installed side by side. But in case you have this, LyXWinInstaller will set up LyX to use the latest version (in this case 2.7). I've been running 2.6 and 2.7 (beta) side-by-side for a couple of months now with no problems. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: MiKTeX 2.7
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I haven't tested how it works to have two MiKTeX versions installed side by side. But in case you have this, LyXWinInstaller will set up LyX to use the latest version (in this case 2.7). I've been running 2.6 and 2.7 (beta) side-by-side for a couple of months now with no problems. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
MiKTeX 2.7
MiKTeX 2.7, which includes XeTeX, was released today, see: http://miktex.org/2.7/ Of course, this prompts a certain question g. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
MiKTeX 2.7
MiKTeX 2.7, which includes XeTeX, was released today, see: http://miktex.org/2.7/ Of course, this prompts a certain question g. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
MiKTeX 2.7
MiKTeX 2.7, which includes XeTeX, was released today, see: http://miktex.org/2.7/ Of course, this prompts a certain question . Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Maximilian Wollner wrote: I'll simply stick with either the LaTeX fonts (which are not too beautiful, but that's a very individual question) or with XeTeX (which would mean to not be able to use many regular TeX packages, right? Like hyperref, microtype, ...?) Hyperref seems to work perfectly well with xelatex here, using MiKTeX 2.7 under XP(SP2). The document needs at least two passes through xelatex. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Maximilian Wollner wrote: I'll simply stick with either the LaTeX fonts (which are not too beautiful, but that's a very individual question) or with XeTeX (which would mean to not be able to use many regular TeX packages, right? Like hyperref, microtype, ...?) Hyperref seems to work perfectly well with xelatex here, using MiKTeX 2.7 under XP(SP2). The document needs at least two passes through xelatex. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Maximilian Wollner wrote: I'll simply stick with either the LaTeX fonts (which are not too beautiful, but that's a very individual question) or with XeTeX (which would mean to not be able to use many regular TeX packages, right? Like hyperref, microtype, ...?) Hyperref seems to work perfectly well with xelatex here, using MiKTeX 2.7 under XP(SP2). The document needs at least two passes through xelatex. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller (with Update installer) for LyX 1.5.2
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I uploaded the new version 3.20 of the LyXWinInstaller. This version also offers an update installer. With this you can easily your LyX 1.5.1 to LyX 1.5.2 without uninstalling LyX 1.5.1 before installing LyX 1.5.2. Only log in as adminstrator on your PC and execute the update installer. Check it out! I've checked it out using the 'small' version and everything so far is good. Testing it on a fairly large document, I notice that the compile time is much reduced when compared with Version 1.5.1. Which I didn't expect. Thanks for all of the hard work. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller (with Update installer) for LyX 1.5.2
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I uploaded the new version 3.20 of the LyXWinInstaller. This version also offers an update installer. With this you can easily your LyX 1.5.1 to LyX 1.5.2 without uninstalling LyX 1.5.1 before installing LyX 1.5.2. Only log in as adminstrator on your PC and execute the update installer. Check it out! I've checked it out using the 'small' version and everything so far is good. Testing it on a fairly large document, I notice that the compile time is much reduced when compared with Version 1.5.1. Which I didn't expect. Thanks for all of the hard work. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller (with Update installer) for LyX 1.5.2
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I uploaded the new version 3.20 of the LyXWinInstaller. This version also offers an update installer. With this you can easily your LyX 1.5.1 to LyX 1.5.2 without uninstalling LyX 1.5.1 before installing LyX 1.5.2. Only log in as adminstrator on your PC and execute the update installer. Check it out! I've checked it out using the 'small' version and everything so far is good. Testing it on a fairly large document, I notice that the compile time is much reduced when compared with Version 1.5.1. Which I didn't expect. Thanks for all of the hard work. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
Would something like this apply to MiKTex 2.6 and MiKTeX 2.7 (beta) together on an XP machine. MiKTeX 2.7 has XeTeX, with which I'm interested in experimenting, but not at the expense of causing problems with LyX. Well, I've bitten the bullet and installed MiKTeX 2.7 (beta 3) alongside MiKTeX 2.6 and it works as it should without interfering with LyX. I'm still using 2.6 with LyX, of course. I do like being able to use ttf fonts in XeLaTeX, Gentium works out of the box. In fact, all of my Truetype and Opentype fonts work out of the box. Looking forward to seeing LyX working with XeLaTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
Would something like this apply to MiKTex 2.6 and MiKTeX 2.7 (beta) together on an XP machine. MiKTeX 2.7 has XeTeX, with which I'm interested in experimenting, but not at the expense of causing problems with LyX. Well, I've bitten the bullet and installed MiKTeX 2.7 (beta 3) alongside MiKTeX 2.6 and it works as it should without interfering with LyX. I'm still using 2.6 with LyX, of course. I do like being able to use ttf fonts in XeLaTeX, Gentium works out of the box. In fact, all of my Truetype and Opentype fonts work out of the box. Looking forward to seeing LyX working with XeLaTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
Would something like this apply to MiKTex 2.6 and MiKTeX 2.7 (beta) together on an XP machine. MiKTeX 2.7 has XeTeX, with which I'm interested in experimenting, but not at the expense of causing problems with LyX. Well, I've bitten the bullet and installed MiKTeX 2.7 (beta 3) alongside MiKTeX 2.6 and it works as it should without interfering with LyX. I'm still using 2.6 with LyX, of course. I do like being able to use ttf fonts in XeLaTeX, Gentium works out of the box. In fact, all of my Truetype and Opentype fonts work out of the box. Looking forward to seeing LyX working with XeLaTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
Chris Menzel wrote: By default LyX will pick up the distribution whose binary directory is listed (first) in your PATH environment variable. You can override this in LyX (works for me, anyway) by going to LyX - Preferences - Paths. In the PATH prefix: field make the directory containing the binaries of the distribution of your choice the first entry in the list, e.g., /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin or /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current. Be sure it is separated from the following entry by a colon. Would something like this apply to MiKTex 2.6 and MiKTeX 2.7 (beta) together on an XP machine. MiKTeX 2.7 has XeTeX, with which I'm interested in experimenting, but not at the expense of causing problems with LyX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
Chris Menzel wrote: By default LyX will pick up the distribution whose binary directory is listed (first) in your PATH environment variable. You can override this in LyX (works for me, anyway) by going to LyX - Preferences - Paths. In the PATH prefix: field make the directory containing the binaries of the distribution of your choice the first entry in the list, e.g., /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin or /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current. Be sure it is separated from the following entry by a colon. Would something like this apply to MiKTex 2.6 and MiKTeX 2.7 (beta) together on an XP machine. MiKTeX 2.7 has XeTeX, with which I'm interested in experimenting, but not at the expense of causing problems with LyX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
Chris Menzel wrote: By default LyX will pick up the distribution whose binary directory is listed (first) in your PATH environment variable. You can override this in LyX (works for me, anyway) by going to LyX -> Preferences -> Paths. In the "PATH prefix:" field make the directory containing the binaries of the distribution of your choice the first entry in the list, e.g., "/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin" or "/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current". Be sure it is separated from the following entry by a colon. Would something like this apply to MiKTex 2.6 and MiKTeX 2.7 (beta) together on an XP machine. MiKTeX 2.7 has XeTeX, with which I'm interested in experimenting, but not at the expense of causing problems with LyX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others
One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? I like the idea of being able to use ttf fonts without the grief of trying to install them in MikTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others
One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? I like the idea of being able to use ttf fonts without the grief of trying to install them in MikTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others
One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? I like the idea of being able to use ttf fonts without the grief of trying to install them in MikTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: Include pdf-Images from OpenDraw
Fritz Bein wrote: [...] I want now to use the pdflatex function, and the eps-images do not appear in the output file. Thus, I tried to export the OpenDraw file as .pdf. Now Lyx includes the image with a white boarder, and it does not make it fitting to the page width anymore. I tried epstopdf.exe on the eps-file. Same result. What attributes does the pdf-file need? Are there any export options from OpenDraw I need to switch on/off? I did not find any. [...] I'm not sure if Open Draw is intended to be used like this, it doesn't appear to have the facility to select the objects that comprise the drawing and export them as a PDF, it just exports them as a page (with white space borders). You might like to try Inkscape for your drawings, this is a nice little package that will do everything OD will do and more. With Inkscape you can group all of the objects in a drawing together and then snap the page size to the drawing and save it as a PDF, with no borders. It's free, see: http://www.inkscape.org Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: Include pdf-Images from OpenDraw
Fritz Bein wrote: [...] I want now to use the pdflatex function, and the eps-images do not appear in the output file. Thus, I tried to export the OpenDraw file as .pdf. Now Lyx includes the image with a white boarder, and it does not make it fitting to the page width anymore. I tried epstopdf.exe on the eps-file. Same result. What attributes does the pdf-file need? Are there any export options from OpenDraw I need to switch on/off? I did not find any. [...] I'm not sure if Open Draw is intended to be used like this, it doesn't appear to have the facility to select the objects that comprise the drawing and export them as a PDF, it just exports them as a page (with white space borders). You might like to try Inkscape for your drawings, this is a nice little package that will do everything OD will do and more. With Inkscape you can group all of the objects in a drawing together and then snap the page size to the drawing and save it as a PDF, with no borders. It's free, see: http://www.inkscape.org Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: Include pdf-Images from OpenDraw
Fritz Bein wrote: [...] I want now to use the pdflatex function, and the eps-images do not appear in the output file. Thus, I tried to export the OpenDraw file as .pdf. Now Lyx includes the image with a white boarder, and it does not make it fitting to the page width anymore. I tried epstopdf.exe on the eps-file. Same result. What attributes does the pdf-file need? Are there any export options from OpenDraw I need to switch on/off? I did not find any. [...] I'm not sure if Open Draw is intended to be used like this, it doesn't appear to have the facility to select the objects that comprise the drawing and export them as a PDF, it just exports them as a page (with white space borders). You might like to try Inkscape for your drawings, this is a nice little package that will do everything OD will do and more. With Inkscape you can group all of the objects in a drawing together and then snap the page size to the drawing and save it as a PDF, with no borders. It's free, see: http://www.inkscape.org Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
You can alternatively simply use:
\href{F:/Directory1/Directory2/index.html}{name}
This opens the file with the default program that is set in the registry
as default viewer for html-files.
Thanks again for this Uwe, now when I click on the link in the PDF,
Explorer fires up and loads index.html. All very good, but the trouble
is that the drive letter (F:) is hard wired into the link. However, what
I want to do is put the PDF file containing the link and the HTML file
at which the link points onto a CD, but it doesn't seem possible to use
relative paths in PDF links. On the CD the link in the PDF will always
point at drive F: which isn't where the HTML file will be (unless by
some happy chance all of the people to whom I distribute the CD have
drive F: as their CD-ROM drives).
I know this isn't strictly a LyX problem, but any hints on a possible
solution would be appreciated. I'm very reluctant to abandon the idea of
using a LyX-generated PDF as a 'front page' for my project (it's
genealogy, for the family).
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
You can alternatively simply use:
\href{F:/Directory1/Directory2/index.html}{name}
This opens the file with the default program that is set in the registry
as default viewer for html-files.
Thanks again for this Uwe, now when I click on the link in the PDF,
Explorer fires up and loads index.html. All very good, but the trouble
is that the drive letter (F:) is hard wired into the link. However, what
I want to do is put the PDF file containing the link and the HTML file
at which the link points onto a CD, but it doesn't seem possible to use
relative paths in PDF links. On the CD the link in the PDF will always
point at drive F: which isn't where the HTML file will be (unless by
some happy chance all of the people to whom I distribute the CD have
drive F: as their CD-ROM drives).
I know this isn't strictly a LyX problem, but any hints on a possible
solution would be appreciated. I'm very reluctant to abandon the idea of
using a LyX-generated PDF as a 'front page' for my project (it's
genealogy, for the family).
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
You can alternatively simply use:
\href{F:/Directory1/Directory2/index.html}{name}
This opens the file with the default program that is set in the registry
as default viewer for html-files.
Thanks again for this Uwe, now when I click on the link in the PDF,
Explorer fires up and loads index.html. All very good, but the trouble
is that the drive letter (F:) is hard wired into the link. However, what
I want to do is put the PDF file containing the link and the HTML file
at which the link points onto a CD, but it doesn't seem possible to use
relative paths in PDF links. On the CD the link in the PDF will always
point at drive F: which isn't where the HTML file will be (unless by
some happy chance all of the people to whom I distribute the CD have
drive F: as their CD-ROM drives).
I know this isn't strictly a LyX problem, but any hints on a possible
solution would be appreciated. I'm very reluctant to abandon the idea of
using a LyX-generated PDF as a 'front page' for my project (it's
genealogy, for the family).
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks
Using LyX, pdflatex and the hyperref package I'm trying to produce a PDF
that contains links to locally-stored files. What I want to do is to
click on a link to an HTML file in the PDF and have it start my browser
(Firefox) and then load the required HTML file.
The following, in ERT, almost works, but clicking on the link produced
in the PDF starts three instances of Firefox, only one of which shows
the required HTML file.
\href{file://F:/Directory1/Directory2/index.html}{name}
This is a menace, can anyone suggest better ways of inserting links to
local HTML files in PDFs? Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks
Using LyX, pdflatex and the hyperref package I'm trying to produce a PDF
that contains links to locally-stored files. What I want to do is to
click on a link to an HTML file in the PDF and have it start my browser
(Firefox) and then load the required HTML file.
The following, in ERT, almost works, but clicking on the link produced
in the PDF starts three instances of Firefox, only one of which shows
the required HTML file.
\href{file://F:/Directory1/Directory2/index.html}{name}
This is a menace, can anyone suggest better ways of inserting links to
local HTML files in PDFs? Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks
Using LyX, pdflatex and the hyperref package I'm trying to produce a PDF
that contains links to locally-stored files. What I want to do is to
click on a link to an HTML file in the PDF and have it start my browser
(Firefox) and then load the required HTML file.
The following, in ERT, almost works, but clicking on the link produced
in the PDF starts three instances of Firefox, only one of which shows
the required HTML file.
\href{file://F:/Directory1/Directory2/index.html}{name}
This is a menace, can anyone suggest better ways of inserting links to
local HTML files in PDFs? Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
List problem
I suffering some minor pain with a list problem. This happens when someone posts using not the list submission address (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) but posts a reply to the original sender, with a cc. to the list. At my end, this causes postings to the list to be routed to the wrong mail box and in addition it means that if I try and reply to the list the wrong address is inserted in the 'To:' field. Is anyone else having this problem at present? Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
List problem
I suffering some minor pain with a list problem. This happens when someone posts using not the list submission address (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) but posts a reply to the original sender, with a cc. to the list. At my end, this causes postings to the list to be routed to the wrong mail box and in addition it means that if I try and reply to the list the wrong address is inserted in the 'To:' field. Is anyone else having this problem at present? Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
List problem
I suffering some minor pain with a list problem. This happens when someone posts using not the list submission address (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) but posts a reply to the original sender, with a cc. to the list. At my end, this causes postings to the list to be routed to the wrong mail box and in addition it means that if I try and reply to the list the wrong address is inserted in the 'To:' field. Is anyone else having this problem at present? Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
