Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
On 10.08.2008, at 18:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Burton wrote:
I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed.
If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla.
If I got it right it
worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx
spotted
the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go,
go directly to Go, do not collect £200!
When you reopened the doc, did LyX convert your ERT listings stuff
to a listings inset?? If so, that can probably be worked around.
You could load the listings package in the preamble and add a new
environment (say mylistings) that simply begins/ends a listings
environment with your new language selected. Then use
\begin{mylistings}...\end{mylistings} in ERT. I doubt LyX would
make any attempt to convert that.
I do not think that this is the problem. I used to use listings in ERT
all the time and LyX never converted it automagically. I only
recently switched to the listings inset, so in many of my documents
ERT-based listings and listing insets now happily co-exist. I also use
an own language.
A better workaround:
Load (or define) your language in the preamble. In the listings inset
select No language, go to the Advanced page and directly pass the
language= parameter to listings.
Daniel
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote:
Hi,
I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to
listings. This is what I have:
Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP.
I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS
configurations and :-
put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and
reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down.
Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured -
same result.
Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else.
Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result.
I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive
and googled extensively but I'm no further forward.
I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I
can't trigger as much as an error message.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes
completely.
Steve.
This should work, as I'm using it extensively. If you define the
language in the preamble like:
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0.3,0.5,0.3}
\definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0.3,0.3,0.5}
\definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0.5,0.3,0.3}
\definecolor{darkcyan}{rgb}{0.3,0.5,0.5}
\lstdefinelanguage{LUA}{%
sensitive=true,%
columns=fixed,%
keywordstyle=[1]{\color{darkblue}\bfseries},%
keywordstyle=[2]{\color{darkgreen}\bfseries},%
morekeywords=[1]{local,if,then,else,end,while,do,function,coroutine,yield},%
Official LUA keywords
morekeywords=[2]{},% Your private keywords
otherkeywords={.,=,~,*,,:},%
morestring=[b],%
stringstyle={\color{darkred}\itshape},%
breaklines=true,%
linewidth=\textwidth,%
comment=[l]{--}%
}
You can set it as language in the inline or external listing by using
language=LUA and bypassing validation.
Marc Flerackers
Marc,
I've played with this and it's just what I need. Now I can produce
truly ghastly multicoloured listings at the drop of a hat. Is
there a blink tag?
It would be nice though if Lyx picked up the language definitions from
lstlangx.sty.
Thanks to all for helpful advice and solutions.
Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
On 10.08.2008, at 18:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Burton wrote:
I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed.
If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla.
If I got it right it
worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx
spotted
the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go,
go directly to Go, do not collect £200!
When you reopened the doc, did LyX convert your ERT listings stuff
to a listings inset?? If so, that can probably be worked around.
You could load the listings package in the preamble and add a new
environment (say mylistings) that simply begins/ends a listings
environment with your new language selected. Then use
\begin{mylistings}...\end{mylistings} in ERT. I doubt LyX would
make any attempt to convert that.
I do not think that this is the problem. I used to use listings in ERT
all the time and LyX never converted it automagically. I only
recently switched to the listings inset, so in many of my documents
ERT-based listings and listing insets now happily co-exist. I also use
an own language.
A better workaround:
Load (or define) your language in the preamble. In the listings inset
select No language, go to the Advanced page and directly pass the
language= parameter to listings.
Daniel
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote:
Hi,
I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to
listings. This is what I have:
Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP.
I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS
configurations and :-
put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and
reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down.
Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured -
same result.
Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else.
Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result.
I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive
and googled extensively but I'm no further forward.
I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I
can't trigger as much as an error message.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes
completely.
Steve.
This should work, as I'm using it extensively. If you define the
language in the preamble like:
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0.3,0.5,0.3}
\definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0.3,0.3,0.5}
\definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0.5,0.3,0.3}
\definecolor{darkcyan}{rgb}{0.3,0.5,0.5}
\lstdefinelanguage{LUA}{%
sensitive=true,%
columns=fixed,%
keywordstyle=[1]{\color{darkblue}\bfseries},%
keywordstyle=[2]{\color{darkgreen}\bfseries},%
morekeywords=[1]{local,if,then,else,end,while,do,function,coroutine,yield},%
Official LUA keywords
morekeywords=[2]{},% Your private keywords
otherkeywords={.,=,~,*,,:},%
morestring=[b],%
stringstyle={\color{darkred}\itshape},%
breaklines=true,%
linewidth=\textwidth,%
comment=[l]{--}%
}
You can set it as language in the inline or external listing by using
language=LUA and bypassing validation.
Marc Flerackers
Marc,
I've played with this and it's just what I need. Now I can produce
truly ghastly multicoloured listings at the drop of a hat. Is
there a blink tag?
It would be nice though if Lyx picked up the language definitions from
lstlangx.sty.
Thanks to all for helpful advice and solutions.
Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
On 10.08.2008, at 18:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Burton wrote:
I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed.
If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla.
If I got it right it
worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx
spotted
the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go,
go directly to Go, do not collect £200!
When you reopened the doc, did LyX convert your ERT listings stuff
to a listings inset?? If so, that can probably be worked around.
You could load the listings package in the preamble and add a new
environment (say "mylistings") that simply begins/ends a listings
environment with your new language selected. Then use
\begin{mylistings}...\end{mylistings} in ERT. I doubt LyX would
make any attempt to convert that.
I do not think that this is the problem. I used to use listings in ERT
all the time and LyX never converted it "automagically". I only
recently switched to the listings inset, so in many of my documents
ERT-based listings and listing insets now happily co-exist. I also use
an own language.
A better workaround:
Load (or define) your language in the preamble. In the listings inset
select "No language", go to the "Advanced" page and directly pass the
language= parameter to listings.
Daniel
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
> Steve Burton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to
>> listings. This is what I have:
>>
>> Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP.
>>
>> I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS
>> configurations and :-
>>
>> put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
>> 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and
>> reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down.
>>
>> Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured -
>> same result.
>>
>> Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else.
>> Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result.
>>
>> I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive
>> and googled extensively but I'm no further forward.
>>
>> I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I
>> can't trigger as much as an error message.
>>
>> Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes
>> completely.
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>>
>>
> This should work, as I'm using it extensively. If you define the
> language in the preamble like:
> \usepackage[usenames]{color}
> \definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0.3,0.5,0.3}
> \definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0.3,0.3,0.5}
> \definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0.5,0.3,0.3}
> \definecolor{darkcyan}{rgb}{0.3,0.5,0.5}
> \lstdefinelanguage{LUA}{%
> sensitive=true,%
> columns=fixed,%
> keywordstyle=[1]{\color{darkblue}\bfseries},%
> keywordstyle=[2]{\color{darkgreen}\bfseries},%
> morekeywords=[1]{local,if,then,else,end,while,do,function,coroutine,yield},%
> Official LUA keywords
> morekeywords=[2]{},% Your private keywords
> otherkeywords={.,=,~,*,>,:},%
> morestring=[b]",%
> stringstyle={\color{darkred}\itshape},%
> breaklines=true,%
> linewidth=\textwidth,%
> comment=[l]{--}%
> }
> You can set it as language in the inline or external listing by using
> "language=LUA" and bypassing validation.
> Marc Flerackers
Marc,
I've played with this and it's just what I need. Now I can produce
truly ghastly multicoloured listings at the drop of a hat. Is
there a tag?
It would be nice though if Lyx picked up the language definitions from
lstlangx.sty.
Thanks to all for helpful advice and solutions.
Steve.
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve. yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? thanks again, Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve. yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. rh
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
rgheck wrote: Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. I don't know if it'd work, but you might try defining your language as one that LyX already accepts, and see if you can get LyX to pretend. rh
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve. yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. rh rh, I probably could, though I'm using Windows at the moment and I only have an elderly Borland compiler installed. It's years since I programmed for Windows (Windows 95, in fact). I could perhaps do do it under FreeBSD but then I'm trying to use Lyx at work and a non-Windows version wouldn't fit there at all! I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed. If I got it right it worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go, go directly to Go, do not collect £200! I tried using an included TeX file but the layout was all wrong. I haven't written anything this weekend and this is rather a lot of trouble for a handful of configuration files. I'll revert to just using Lyx-Code. I might come back to this when I'm not in mid-document! Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote:
I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed.
If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla.
If I got it right it
worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted
the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go,
go directly to Go, do not collect £200!
When you reopened the doc, did LyX convert your ERT listings stuff to a
listings inset?? If so, that can probably be worked around. You could
load the listings package in the preamble and add a new environment (say
mylistings) that simply begins/ends a listings environment with your
new language selected. Then use \begin{mylistings}...\end{mylistings}
in ERT. I doubt LyX would make any attempt to convert that.
/Paul
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve. yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? thanks again, Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve. yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. rh
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
rgheck wrote: Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. I don't know if it'd work, but you might try defining your language as one that LyX already accepts, and see if you can get LyX to pretend. rh
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve. yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. rh rh, I probably could, though I'm using Windows at the moment and I only have an elderly Borland compiler installed. It's years since I programmed for Windows (Windows 95, in fact). I could perhaps do do it under FreeBSD but then I'm trying to use Lyx at work and a non-Windows version wouldn't fit there at all! I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed. If I got it right it worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go, go directly to Go, do not collect £200! I tried using an included TeX file but the layout was all wrong. I haven't written anything this weekend and this is rather a lot of trouble for a handful of configuration files. I'll revert to just using Lyx-Code. I might come back to this when I'm not in mid-document! Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote:
I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed.
If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla.
If I got it right it
worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted
the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go,
go directly to Go, do not collect £200!
When you reopened the doc, did LyX convert your ERT listings stuff to a
listings inset?? If so, that can probably be worked around. You could
load the listings package in the preamble and add a new environment (say
mylistings) that simply begins/ends a listings environment with your
new language selected. Then use \begin{mylistings}...\end{mylistings}
in ERT. I doubt LyX would make any attempt to convert that.
/Paul
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
> Steve Burton wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to >> listings. This is what I have: >> >> Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. >> >> I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS >> configurations and :- >> >> put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX >> 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and >> reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. >> >> Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - >> same result. >> >> Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. >> Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. >> >> I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive >> and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. >> >> I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I >> can't trigger as much as an error message. >> >> Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes >> completely. >> >> > I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly > helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar > problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes > any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, > then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. > rh >> Steve. >> yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? thanks again, Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve. yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. rh
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
rgheck wrote: Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. I don't know if it'd work, but you might try defining your language as one that LyX already accepts, and see if you can get LyX to "pretend". rh
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
> Steve Burton wrote: >>> Steve Burton wrote: >>> Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. >>> I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly >>> helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar >>> problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes >>> any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, >>> then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. >>> >> >> >>> rh >>> >> >> Steve. >> >> yes, yes, yes and no! >> >> I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to >> be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... >> >> I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the >> language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I >> can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct >> pdf's. >> >> This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. >> >> However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain >> 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I >> did reconfigure and restart Lyx. >> >> Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this >> work? >> >> > Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available > languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good > decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if > you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd > be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available > languages should be made configurable. > rh rh, I probably could, though I'm using Windows at the moment and I only have an elderly Borland compiler installed. It's years since I programmed for Windows (Windows 95, in fact). I could perhaps do do it under FreeBSD but then I'm trying to use Lyx at work and a non-Windows version wouldn't fit there at all! I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed. If I got it right it worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go, go directly to Go, do not collect £200! I tried using an included TeX file but the layout was all wrong. I haven't written anything this weekend and this is rather a lot of trouble for a handful of configuration files. I'll revert to just using Lyx-Code. I might come back to this when I'm not in mid-document! Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote:
I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed.
If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla.
If I got it right it
worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted
the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go,
go directly to Go, do not collect £200!
When you reopened the doc, did LyX convert your ERT listings stuff to a
listings inset?? If so, that can probably be worked around. You could
load the listings package in the preamble and add a new environment (say
"mylistings") that simply begins/ends a listings environment with your
new language selected. Then use \begin{mylistings}...\end{mylistings}
in ERT. I doubt LyX would make any attempt to convert that.
/Paul
I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve.
I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve.
I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. Steve.
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve.
