Uwe, thanks for correcting the instant-preview glitch in your installer.
In my eyes, the installer is a great step ahead to make LyX popular amongst
Windows-Users who are typically not willing to install all sorts of auxiliary
programs (MinGW,Imagemagick, ...) before being able to try out a new
H == H Peter Gumm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
H - Generating pdf-files, one obtains rather ugly bit-mapped fonts,
H until one finds the trick (in the FAQs) of changing the fonts size
H to ae in Document-Layout. Why not making this the default from
H the beginning ?
Note that the bit-mapped fonts
H. Peter Gumm wrote:
Uwe, thanks for correcting the instant-preview glitch in your installer.
In my eyes, the installer is a great step ahead to make LyX popular amongst
Windows-Users who are typically not willing to install all sorts of auxiliary
programs (MinGW,Imagemagick, ...) before
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
- Generating pdf-files, one obtains rather ugly bit-mapped fonts, until
one finds the trick (in the FAQs) of changing the fonts size to ae
in Document-Layout. Why not making this the default from the beginning?
Because ae aren't real fonts. For example accents and
Thanks for all the advices to my mail. Most of the problem
solutions I knew, my point was to suggest making the default
behaviour for the windows version of LyX reasonable without
the need to tweak the system and to scan the FAQs.
On the unsolved points
Helge Hafting wrote:
Turn the
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:42:04 +0100 (CET)
H. Peter Gumm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for all the advices to my mail. Most of the problem
solutions I knew, my point was to suggest making the default
behaviour for the windows version of LyX reasonable without
the need to tweak the system and
Micha Feigin wrote:
I think this should be possible somehow. lyxpreview2ppm.py takes as a
second argument a scale factor. I also seem to remember a menu entry or
settings file option that controls the scale factor but I can't seem to
find it now.
Add a line
\preview_scale_factor 1.8
to
Uwe, thanks for correcting the instant-preview glitch in your installer.
In my eyes, the installer is a great step ahead to make LyX popular amongst
Windows-Users who are typically not willing to install all sorts of auxiliary
programs (MinGW,Imagemagick, ...) before being able to try out a new
H == H Peter Gumm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
H - Generating pdf-files, one obtains rather ugly bit-mapped fonts,
H until one finds the trick (in the FAQs) of changing the fonts size
H to ae in Document-Layout. Why not making this the default from
H the beginning ?
Note that the bit-mapped fonts
H. Peter Gumm wrote:
Uwe, thanks for correcting the instant-preview glitch in your installer.
In my eyes, the installer is a great step ahead to make LyX popular amongst
Windows-Users who are typically not willing to install all sorts of auxiliary
programs (MinGW,Imagemagick, ...) before
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
- Generating pdf-files, one obtains rather ugly bit-mapped fonts, until
one finds the trick (in the FAQs) of changing the fonts size to ae
in Document-Layout. Why not making this the default from the beginning?
Because ae aren't real fonts. For example accents and
Thanks for all the advices to my mail. Most of the problem
solutions I knew, my point was to suggest making the default
behaviour for the windows version of LyX reasonable without
the need to tweak the system and to scan the FAQs.
On the unsolved points
Helge Hafting wrote:
Turn the
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:42:04 +0100 (CET)
H. Peter Gumm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for all the advices to my mail. Most of the problem
solutions I knew, my point was to suggest making the default
behaviour for the windows version of LyX reasonable without
the need to tweak the system and
Micha Feigin wrote:
I think this should be possible somehow. lyxpreview2ppm.py takes as a
second argument a scale factor. I also seem to remember a menu entry or
settings file option that controls the scale factor but I can't seem to
find it now.
Add a line
\preview_scale_factor 1.8
to
Uwe, thanks for correcting the instant-preview glitch in your installer.
In my eyes, the installer is a great step ahead to make LyX popular amongst
Windows-Users who are typically not willing to install all sorts of auxiliary
programs (MinGW,Imagemagick, ...) before being able to try out a new
> "H" == H Peter Gumm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
H> - Generating pdf-files, one obtains rather ugly bit-mapped fonts,
H> until one finds the trick (in the FAQs) of changing the fonts size
H> to "ae" in Document->Layout. Why not making this the default from
H> the beginning ?
Note that the
H. Peter Gumm wrote:
Uwe, thanks for correcting the instant-preview glitch in your installer.
In my eyes, the installer is a great step ahead to make LyX popular amongst
Windows-Users who are typically not willing to install all sorts of auxiliary
programs (MinGW,Imagemagick, ...) before
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
- Generating pdf-files, one obtains rather ugly bit-mapped fonts, until
one finds the trick (in the FAQs) of changing the fonts size to "ae"
in Document->Layout. Why not making this the default from the beginning?
Because "ae" aren't "real" fonts. For example
Thanks for all the advices to my mail. Most of the problem
solutions I knew, my point was to suggest making the default
behaviour for the windows version of LyX "reasonable" without
the need to tweak the system and to scan the FAQs.
On the unsolved points
Helge Hafting wrote:
> Turn the
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:42:04 +0100 (CET)
"H. Peter Gumm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for all the advices to my mail. Most of the problem
> solutions I knew, my point was to suggest making the default
> behaviour for the windows version of LyX "reasonable" without
> the need to tweak the
Micha Feigin wrote:
> I think this should be possible somehow. lyxpreview2ppm.py takes as a
> second argument a scale factor. I also seem to remember a menu entry or
> settings file option that controls the scale factor but I can't seem to
> find it now.
Add a line
\preview_scale_factor 1.8
to
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
instant preview still does not work.
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview
(using e.g. MiKTeX's package
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:50:10 +0100
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
instant preview still does not work.
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview
(using e.g. MiKTeX's
I wrote:
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview
(using e.g. MiKTeX's package Manager), to enable
Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview, and to reconfigure Lyx.
Sorry I was wrong, a
I wrote:
The only thing
that is still missing is a nice and free (GPLed) BibTeX-manager for
Windows.
I found only two adequate programs:
WibTeX
http://wibtex.weithoener.org/
and
JabRef
http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
the latter requires an installed java-runtime.
I'll not include one of
Uwe Stöhr schrieb:
I hope that the installer will now be nearly complete. The only thing
that is still missing is a nice and free (GPLed) BibTeX-manager for
Windows.
Has anybody a good proposal?
What about JabRef? It's working with Java (at least 1.4.1), and it's
GPLed (c;
Regards,
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
instant preview still does not work.
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview
(using e.g. MiKTeX's package
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:50:10 +0100
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
instant preview still does not work.
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview
(using e.g. MiKTeX's
I wrote:
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview
(using e.g. MiKTeX's package Manager), to enable
Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview, and to reconfigure Lyx.
Sorry I was wrong, a
I wrote:
The only thing
that is still missing is a nice and free (GPLed) BibTeX-manager for
Windows.
I found only two adequate programs:
WibTeX
http://wibtex.weithoener.org/
and
JabRef
http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
the latter requires an installed java-runtime.
I'll not include one of
Uwe Stöhr schrieb:
I hope that the installer will now be nearly complete. The only thing
that is still missing is a nice and free (GPLed) BibTeX-manager for
Windows.
Has anybody a good proposal?
What about JabRef? It's working with Java (at least 1.4.1), and it's
GPLed (c;
Regards,
"Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
>
> > instant preview still does not work.
>
> The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
> files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package "preview"
> (using e.g.
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:50:10 +0100
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
>
> > instant preview still does not work.
>
> The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
> files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package "preview"
> (using e.g.
I wrote:
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package "preview"
(using e.g. MiKTeX's package Manager), to enable
Edit->Preferences-Graphics->Instant Preview, and to reconfigure Lyx.
Sorry I was wrong, a
I wrote:
The only thing
that is still missing is a nice and free (GPLed) BibTeX-manager for
Windows.
I found only two adequate programs:
WibTeX
http://wibtex.weithoener.org/
and
JabRef
http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
the latter requires an installed java-runtime.
I'll not include one of
Uwe Stöhr schrieb:
I hope that the installer will now be nearly complete. The only thing
that is still missing is a nice and free (GPLed) BibTeX-manager for
Windows.
Has anybody a good proposal?
What about JabRef? It's working with Java (at least 1.4.1), and it's
GPLed (c;
Regards,
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
Is the new installer meant to install everything
Lyx needs for instant preview to work ?
No, Instant Preview is not yet supported but I'm working on it.
At the moment you have to install needed programs manually after you
have installed LyX.
I missed to give this
H. Peter Gumm wrote:
Is the new installer meant to install everything
Lyx needs for instant preview to work ?
After
- installing the preview package in LaTeX,
- checking Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview
- doing a Reconfigure
- restarting LyX
instant preview still does not work.
What
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
instant preview still does not work.
What is missing ?
You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your
system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus
recommends the Win32all extensions for Python as well. See
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
instant preview still does not work.
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview
(using e.g. MiKTeX's package Manager), to enable
Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview, and to
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
instant preview still does not work.
What is missing ?
You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your
system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus
recommends the Win32all
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
Is the new installer meant to install everything
Lyx needs for instant preview to work ?
No, Instant Preview is not yet supported but I'm working on it.
At the moment you have to install needed programs manually after you
have installed LyX.
I missed to give this
H. Peter Gumm wrote:
Is the new installer meant to install everything
Lyx needs for instant preview to work ?
After
- installing the preview package in LaTeX,
- checking Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview
- doing a Reconfigure
- restarting LyX
instant preview still does not work.
What
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
instant preview still does not work.
What is missing ?
You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your
system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus
recommends the Win32all extensions for Python as well. See
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
instant preview still does not work.
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview
(using e.g. MiKTeX's package Manager), to enable
Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview, and to
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
instant preview still does not work.
What is missing ?
You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your
system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus
recommends the Win32all
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
Is the new installer meant to install everything
Lyx needs for instant preview to work ?
No, Instant Preview is not yet supported but I'm working on it.
At the moment you have to install needed programs manually after you
have installed LyX.
I missed to give this
H. Peter Gumm wrote:
Is the new installer meant to install everything
Lyx needs for instant preview to work ?
After
- installing the preview package in LaTeX,
- checking Edit->Preferences-Graphics->Instant Preview
- doing a "Reconfigure"
- restarting LyX
instant preview still does not work.
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> instant preview still does not work.
>> What is missing ?
> You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your
> system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus
> recommends the Win32all extensions for Python as well. See
>
H. Peter Gumm schrieb:
instant preview still does not work.
The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary
files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package "preview"
(using e.g. MiKTeX's package Manager), to enable
Edit->Preferences-Graphics->Instant Preview,
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> >> instant preview still does not work.
> >> What is missing ?
>
> > You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your
> > system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus
> > recommends
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