ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Public release of LyX version 1.4.2 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include: - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors

Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Boehler
Hi list, I am using lyx 1.3.7 (17.Jan 2006) on WinXP. I have to insert some graphics into a document of book type. The graphics come from Visio 2003. Firstly, I tried to export them as png files, but they are rather inaccurate, so I tried to convert them as eps files. I tried the method with

Adding an abstract section into a book class

2006-07-13 Thread Isaac Pante
Hello everybody! I want to insert an abstract of my work in my document. Is there a way to use the abstract environment into a document created with the class book? Thanks for your help! Isaac Pante

Re: Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:18:18 +0200 From: Michael Boehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Export to PDF (pdflatex) Hi list, I am using lyx 1.3.7 (17.Jan 2006) on WinXP. I have to insert some graphics into a document of book type. The graphics come from Visio 2003.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: ctrl-h must be a custom shortcut. I guess you mean Georg, Must be, but I've used it so long it's just part of LyX. What is the difference between PDF (pdflatex) and LaTeX (pdflatex)? The answer is simple: PDF (pdflatex) produces a .pdf file (with

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve. I used only .eps

Re: Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Boehler
Thanks to all who assist me. For the next person with the same prob: I finally had to delete the whole section in the eps file featurebegin{ . . here is the evil setpagedevice command ; ) . }featurecleanup insert the graphic into lyx and instead of pdflatex I use now ps2pdf for the export.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: A-ha! That makes sense. When might I want to use the latter (a two-step process) rather than the former (a one-step process)? Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document to

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document to somebody who does not have LyX and needs the .tex file. Or you might use special packages that require more

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread mail.k
Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve.

Re: Adding an abstract section into a book class

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Heck
Isaac Pante wrote: I want to insert an abstract of my work in my document. Is there a way to use the abstract environment into a document created with the class book? No: The abstract environment does not exist in the book class. (It does exist in amsbook.) Of course, you can define such an

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current Yes sir, except for the occasional madam Im adam. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/ These contain Joost's new files for

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied

Re: Instant-Preview not working - How to troublecheck

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jan Peters wrote: Hi, i have a problem with instant preview: it simply claims that the latex compilation failed, see below --- despite that I could compile it manually. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks, -Jan lyx document header finished command python

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I've installed LyX with the windows installer without problem and the beamer presentation class appears in the menu. It seems however that beamer.layout cannot be found. It can be found in the texmf directories. How can I tell LyX where to find it? Where is the

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich Ah, but this is the *user* list, where (a) not all users are male

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Hello LyXers, lyx -x reconfigure takes 10s instead of 45 with 1.4.1 on Sun/Solaris... really great ! However, I noticed a few minor things while installing: - the prefernce file is not created any more in the home dir. lyxrc.default refers to a custom lyxrc file, but it seems that the name

Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Dean O'Connor
I have freshly installed the lastest Lyx 1.4.2 r1, using the net installer. I can creates docs and view DVI without problems. Looks great. But if I try to Export (or View) to HTML I get an error occurred whilst running htlatex errors. Firstly error is that htlatex still has problems with paths

Re: Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Bo Peng
I have not tried htlatex on windows. When I tried ooffice format, windows told me that zip.exe not found so the final step could not be completed. I would suggest that you export to latex and try these conversion tools in a command window. In this way, you will see what has gone wrong with the

Start LyX 1.3.7 and 1.4.2 with custom user directory using single click on a Mac?

2006-07-13 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
Hi, I am trying to run both LyX 1.4.2 (just compiled it) and 1.3.7 on my Mac (Powerbook G4, OS X 10.4.7). I would like to be able to start either version by simply clicking on the corresponding icon on my desktop. However, when I do that, LyX always sets the user directory to

Re: Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Dean O'Connor wrote: I have freshly installed the lastest Lyx 1.4.2 r1, using the net installer. I can creates docs and view DVI without problems. Looks great. But if I try to Export (or View) to HTML I get an error occurred whilst running htlatex errors. Firstly error is that htlatex still

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Public release of LyX version 1.4.2 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include: - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors

Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Boehler
Hi list, I am using lyx 1.3.7 (17.Jan 2006) on WinXP. I have to insert some graphics into a document of book type. The graphics come from Visio 2003. Firstly, I tried to export them as png files, but they are rather inaccurate, so I tried to convert them as eps files. I tried the method with

Adding an abstract section into a book class

2006-07-13 Thread Isaac Pante
Hello everybody! I want to insert an abstract of my work in my document. Is there a way to use the abstract environment into a document created with the class book? Thanks for your help! Isaac Pante

Re: Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:18:18 +0200 From: Michael Boehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Export to PDF (pdflatex) Hi list, I am using lyx 1.3.7 (17.Jan 2006) on WinXP. I have to insert some graphics into a document of book type. The graphics come from Visio 2003.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: ctrl-h must be a custom shortcut. I guess you mean Georg, Must be, but I've used it so long it's just part of LyX. What is the difference between PDF (pdflatex) and LaTeX (pdflatex)? The answer is simple: PDF (pdflatex) produces a .pdf file (with

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve. I used only .eps

Re: Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Boehler
Thanks to all who assist me. For the next person with the same prob: I finally had to delete the whole section in the eps file featurebegin{ . . here is the evil setpagedevice command ; ) . }featurecleanup insert the graphic into lyx and instead of pdflatex I use now ps2pdf for the export.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: A-ha! That makes sense. When might I want to use the latter (a two-step process) rather than the former (a one-step process)? Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document to

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document to somebody who does not have LyX and needs the .tex file. Or you might use special packages that require more

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread mail.k
Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve.

Re: Adding an abstract section into a book class

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Heck
Isaac Pante wrote: I want to insert an abstract of my work in my document. Is there a way to use the abstract environment into a document created with the class book? No: The abstract environment does not exist in the book class. (It does exist in amsbook.) Of course, you can define such an

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current Yes sir, except for the occasional madam Im adam. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/ These contain Joost's new files for

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied

Re: Instant-Preview not working - How to troublecheck

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jan Peters wrote: Hi, i have a problem with instant preview: it simply claims that the latex compilation failed, see below --- despite that I could compile it manually. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks, -Jan lyx document header finished command python

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I've installed LyX with the windows installer without problem and the beamer presentation class appears in the menu. It seems however that beamer.layout cannot be found. It can be found in the texmf directories. How can I tell LyX where to find it? Where is the

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich Ah, but this is the *user* list, where (a) not all users are male

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Hello LyXers, lyx -x reconfigure takes 10s instead of 45 with 1.4.1 on Sun/Solaris... really great ! However, I noticed a few minor things while installing: - the prefernce file is not created any more in the home dir. lyxrc.default refers to a custom lyxrc file, but it seems that the name

Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Dean O'Connor
I have freshly installed the lastest Lyx 1.4.2 r1, using the net installer. I can creates docs and view DVI without problems. Looks great. But if I try to Export (or View) to HTML I get an error occurred whilst running htlatex errors. Firstly error is that htlatex still has problems with paths

Re: Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Bo Peng
I have not tried htlatex on windows. When I tried ooffice format, windows told me that zip.exe not found so the final step could not be completed. I would suggest that you export to latex and try these conversion tools in a command window. In this way, you will see what has gone wrong with the

Start LyX 1.3.7 and 1.4.2 with custom user directory using single click on a Mac?

2006-07-13 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
Hi, I am trying to run both LyX 1.4.2 (just compiled it) and 1.3.7 on my Mac (Powerbook G4, OS X 10.4.7). I would like to be able to start either version by simply clicking on the corresponding icon on my desktop. However, when I do that, LyX always sets the user directory to

Re: Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Dean O'Connor wrote: I have freshly installed the lastest Lyx 1.4.2 r1, using the net installer. I can creates docs and view DVI without problems. Looks great. But if I try to Export (or View) to HTML I get an error occurred whilst running htlatex errors. Firstly error is that htlatex still

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Public release of LyX version 1.4.2 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include: - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors

Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Boehler
Hi list, I am using lyx 1.3.7 (17.Jan 2006) on WinXP. I have to insert some graphics into a document of book type. The graphics come from Visio 2003. Firstly, I tried to export them as png files, but they are rather inaccurate, so I tried to convert them as eps files. I tried the method with

Adding an abstract section into a book class

2006-07-13 Thread Isaac Pante
Hello everybody! I want to insert an abstract of my work in my document. Is there a way to use the "abstract" environment into a document created with the class "book"? Thanks for your help! Isaac Pante

Re: Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:18:18 +0200 >>From: "Michael Boehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Export to PDF (pdflatex) >> >>Hi list, >> >>I am using lyx 1.3.7 (17.Jan 2006) on WinXP. >> >>I have to insert some graphics into a document of book type. The graphics

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output >> format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including >> figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. > > Gentlemen: > >

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: ctrl-h must be a custom shortcut. I guess you mean Georg, Must be, but I've used it so long it's just part of LyX. What is the difference between "PDF (pdflatex)" and "LaTeX (pdflatex)"? The answer is simple: "PDF (pdflatex)" produces a .pdf file

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output > > format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including > > figure

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve. I used only .eps

Re: Export to PDF (pdflatex)

2006-07-13 Thread Michael Boehler
Thanks to all who assist me. For the next person with the same prob: I finally had to delete the whole section in the eps file featurebegin{ . . here is the evil setpagedevice command ; ) . }featurecleanup insert the graphic into lyx and instead of pdflatex I use now ps2pdf for the export.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: >A-ha! That makes sense. When might I want to use the latter (a two-step > process) rather than the former (a one-step process)? Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document to somebody who does not have LyX and needs the .tex file. Or you might use special packages that require more

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread mail.k
Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve.

Re: Adding an abstract section into a book class

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Heck
Isaac Pante wrote: > I want to insert an abstract of my work in my document. Is there a way > to use the "abstract" environment into a document created with the > class "book"? No: The abstract environment does not exist in the book class. (It does exist in amsbook.) Of course, you can define such

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current Yes sir, except for the occasional madam Im adam. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/ These contain Joost's new files for

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied

Re: Instant-Preview not working - How to troublecheck

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jan Peters wrote: Hi, i have a problem with instant preview: it simply claims that the latex compilation failed, see below --- despite that I could compile it manually. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks, -Jan lyx document header finished python

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I've installed LyX with the windows installer without problem and the beamer presentation class appears in the menu. It seems however that beamer.layout cannot be found. It can be found in the texmf directories. How can I tell LyX where to find it? Where is the

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich Ah, but this is the *user* list, where (a) not all users are male

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Hello LyXers, lyx -x reconfigure takes 10s instead of 45 with 1.4.1 on Sun/Solaris... really great ! However, I noticed a few minor things while installing: - the prefernce file is not created any more in the home dir. lyxrc.default refers to a custom lyxrc file, but it seems that the name

Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Dean O'Connor
I have freshly installed the lastest Lyx 1.4.2 r1, using the net installer. I can creates docs and view DVI without problems. Looks great. But if I try to Export (or View) to HTML I get an "error occurred whilst running htlatex" errors. Firstly error is that htlatex still has problems with

Re: Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Bo Peng
I have not tried htlatex on windows. When I tried ooffice format, windows told me that "zip.exe not found" so the final step could not be completed. I would suggest that you export to latex and try these conversion tools in a command window. In this way, you will see what has gone wrong with the

Start LyX 1.3.7 and 1.4.2 with custom user directory using single click on a Mac?

2006-07-13 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
Hi, I am trying to run both LyX 1.4.2 (just compiled it) and 1.3.7 on my Mac (Powerbook G4, OS X 10.4.7). I would like to be able to start either version by simply clicking on the corresponding icon on my desktop. However, when I do that, LyX always sets the user directory to

Re: Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Dean O'Connor wrote: I have freshly installed the lastest Lyx 1.4.2 r1, using the net installer. I can creates docs and view DVI without problems. Looks great. But if I try to Export (or View) to HTML I get an "error occurred whilst running htlatex" errors. Firstly error is that htlatex still