Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:33:01AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:04:05AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to see where these

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:20:06PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to see where these limits are lying, like seeing the page boundaries and

search in Version 1.2

2002-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I recently posted a problem I had with search (suchen) in Version 1.2: I guess that in this version searching should now work also in cases such as \caption[short caption]{long caption}. However, this takes a lot of time (in my case at least 15 minutes, about 500 pages and 230 figures),

Re: search in Version 1.2

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:10:26AM -0400, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: This problem prevents me from using the searching facility. Note that this applies for forward and backward searching. Searching is fairly unusable in 1.2.0. There is a fix for that in 1.3.0cvs and if people test it this

importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Struan Cockcroft
I have recently crossed over from windows, in which I was using scientific workplace, to linux (and burned the bridge). I tried ktexmaker, but I need wysiwym so I installed lyx 1.2.0. It's very nice but it cannot import my tex files from swp or ktexmaker, cannot relyx. Can anyone help me,

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:13:37PM +0200, Struan Cockcroft wrote: I have recently crossed over from windows, in which I was using scientific workplace, to linux (and burned the bridge). I tried ktexmaker, but I need wysiwym so I installed lyx 1.2.0. It's very nice but it cannot import my

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Rem
If I am not mistaken SW is built on an old version of LaTex (At least this was the case sometime ago when I had to deal with an export problem between Mathematica and SW.) This may be one of the problems? R - Original Message - From: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struan Cockcroft

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:42:35AM -0600, Rem wrote: If I am not mistaken SW is built on an old version of LaTex (At least this was the case sometime ago when I had to deal with an export problem between Mathematica and SW.) This may be one of the problems? I don't think so. LaTeX per se is

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jorgen Johansson
Ery Djunaedy wrote: Hi, I just installed Lyx 1.2. But apparently I could not see many document class. These are the classes available in document layout window: - article (6 of them) - book (2 of them) - letter (2 of them) - report - seminar - slide I could not open my old letters

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:54:15PM +0900, Jorgen Johansson wrote: I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin on win2k. I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and upgraded another machine to 1.2.0a. I can not find any layout files in home/Administrator or

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jorgen == Jorgen Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jorgen I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin Jorgen on win2k. I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and Jorgen upgraded another machine to 1.2.0a. I can not find any layout Jorgen files in home/Administrator or

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jorgen Johansson
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jorgen == Jorgen Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jorgen I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin Jorgen on win2k. I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and Jorgen upgraded another machine to 1.2.0a. I can not find any layout

crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Hi, I just upgraded from lyx-1.6fix2 to 1.2.0. I'm running on Redhat 7.0. I compiled from sources using the xforms 0.88 glibc library. Everything compiles and installs fine. When I run lyx the main screen appears with no problem. But as soon as I try to either open an old document or

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jorgen == Jorgen Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jorgen Sorry to have bothered. I had not exported the OSTYPE=cywin Jorgen variable properly. I exported the variable and ran the Jorgen reconfigure from Lyx and now it works fine (without the Jorgen patch). Actually, the variable is expoted

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:33:01AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:04:05AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Mark Carroll
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with Watch File - that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all! I'll make

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Nathan Becker wrote: I just upgraded from lyx-1.6fix2 to 1.2.0. I'm running on Redhat 7.0. I compiled from sources using the xforms 0.88 glibc library. Everything compiles and installs fine. When I run lyx the main screen appears with no problem. But as soon as I try to either open

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Hi Herbert, I deleted the entire .lyx directory and let lyx rebuild it fresh. This didn't fix it. I also looked in stdclass.inc in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts but the line you said to add is already there. I tried compiling and reinstalling 1.1.6fix4 just in case I've screwed something

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Nathan Becker wrote: Any more suggestions? can you send the lyx-file as private mail? Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Nathan Becker wrote: Hi Herbert, I deleted the entire .lyx directory and let lyx rebuild it fresh. This didn't fix it. Could you try to get a backtrace? Something like gdb ./lyx (gdb) run [load the file] ...crash... (gdb) bt JMarc

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Yes here it is: #0 0x082f3792 in atexit (func=0x82eb7f0 __tcf_0) at atexit.c:32 #1 0x082e1bc2 in CreateBufferTmpDir () #2 0x080a1996 in Buffer::Buffer () #3 0x080c1547 in BufferStorage::newBuffer () #4 0x080c4efb in BufferList::newFile () #5 0x0810ff73 in LyXFunc::menuNew () #6 0x0810773e

Re: footbib

2002-07-16 Thread Guido Milanese
On Monday 15 July 2002 20:21, Herbert Voss wrote: Karen Thomas wrote: I found the footbib package on the CTAN website. However, when I try to use it, lyx gives me many many errors, and latex tells me that the output routine of LaTeX has changed. I am using LaTeX2e. Does anyone have

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:33:01AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:04:05AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to see where these

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:20:06PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to see where these limits are lying, like seeing the page boundaries and

search in Version 1.2

2002-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I recently posted a problem I had with search (suchen) in Version 1.2: I guess that in this version searching should now work also in cases such as \caption[short caption]{long caption}. However, this takes a lot of time (in my case at least 15 minutes, about 500 pages and 230 figures),

Re: search in Version 1.2

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:10:26AM -0400, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: This problem prevents me from using the searching facility. Note that this applies for forward and backward searching. Searching is fairly unusable in 1.2.0. There is a fix for that in 1.3.0cvs and if people test it this

importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Struan Cockcroft
I have recently crossed over from windows, in which I was using scientific workplace, to linux (and burned the bridge). I tried ktexmaker, but I need wysiwym so I installed lyx 1.2.0. It's very nice but it cannot import my tex files from swp or ktexmaker, cannot relyx. Can anyone help me,

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:13:37PM +0200, Struan Cockcroft wrote: I have recently crossed over from windows, in which I was using scientific workplace, to linux (and burned the bridge). I tried ktexmaker, but I need wysiwym so I installed lyx 1.2.0. It's very nice but it cannot import my

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Rem
If I am not mistaken SW is built on an old version of LaTex (At least this was the case sometime ago when I had to deal with an export problem between Mathematica and SW.) This may be one of the problems? R - Original Message - From: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struan Cockcroft

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:42:35AM -0600, Rem wrote: If I am not mistaken SW is built on an old version of LaTex (At least this was the case sometime ago when I had to deal with an export problem between Mathematica and SW.) This may be one of the problems? I don't think so. LaTeX per se is

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jorgen Johansson
Ery Djunaedy wrote: Hi, I just installed Lyx 1.2. But apparently I could not see many document class. These are the classes available in document layout window: - article (6 of them) - book (2 of them) - letter (2 of them) - report - seminar - slide I could not open my old letters

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:54:15PM +0900, Jorgen Johansson wrote: I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin on win2k. I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and upgraded another machine to 1.2.0a. I can not find any layout files in home/Administrator or

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jorgen == Jorgen Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jorgen I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin Jorgen on win2k. I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and Jorgen upgraded another machine to 1.2.0a. I can not find any layout Jorgen files in home/Administrator or

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jorgen Johansson
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jorgen == Jorgen Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jorgen I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin Jorgen on win2k. I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and Jorgen upgraded another machine to 1.2.0a. I can not find any layout

crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Hi, I just upgraded from lyx-1.6fix2 to 1.2.0. I'm running on Redhat 7.0. I compiled from sources using the xforms 0.88 glibc library. Everything compiles and installs fine. When I run lyx the main screen appears with no problem. But as soon as I try to either open an old document or

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jorgen == Jorgen Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jorgen Sorry to have bothered. I had not exported the OSTYPE=cywin Jorgen variable properly. I exported the variable and ran the Jorgen reconfigure from Lyx and now it works fine (without the Jorgen patch). Actually, the variable is expoted

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:33:01AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:04:05AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations on different sections. Can it be easy

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Mark Carroll
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with Watch File - that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all! I'll make

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Nathan Becker wrote: I just upgraded from lyx-1.6fix2 to 1.2.0. I'm running on Redhat 7.0. I compiled from sources using the xforms 0.88 glibc library. Everything compiles and installs fine. When I run lyx the main screen appears with no problem. But as soon as I try to either open

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Hi Herbert, I deleted the entire .lyx directory and let lyx rebuild it fresh. This didn't fix it. I also looked in stdclass.inc in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts but the line you said to add is already there. I tried compiling and reinstalling 1.1.6fix4 just in case I've screwed something

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Nathan Becker wrote: Any more suggestions? can you send the lyx-file as private mail? Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Nathan Becker wrote: Hi Herbert, I deleted the entire .lyx directory and let lyx rebuild it fresh. This didn't fix it. Could you try to get a backtrace? Something like gdb ./lyx (gdb) run [load the file] ...crash... (gdb) bt JMarc

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Yes here it is: #0 0x082f3792 in atexit (func=0x82eb7f0 __tcf_0) at atexit.c:32 #1 0x082e1bc2 in CreateBufferTmpDir () #2 0x080a1996 in Buffer::Buffer () #3 0x080c1547 in BufferStorage::newBuffer () #4 0x080c4efb in BufferList::newFile () #5 0x0810ff73 in LyXFunc::menuNew () #6 0x0810773e

Re: footbib

2002-07-16 Thread Guido Milanese
On Monday 15 July 2002 20:21, Herbert Voss wrote: Karen Thomas wrote: I found the footbib package on the CTAN website. However, when I try to use it, lyx gives me many many errors, and latex tells me that the output routine of LaTeX has changed. I am using LaTeX2e. Does anyone have

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:33:01AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:04:05AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > > (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations > > on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to > > see where

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:20:06PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations > > > on different sections. Can it be easy while editing documents in LyX to > > > see where these limits are lying, like seeing the page boundaries

search in Version 1.2

2002-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I recently posted a problem I had with search (suchen) in Version 1.2: I guess that in this version searching should now work also in cases such as \caption[short caption]{long caption}. However, this takes a lot of time (in my case at least 15 minutes, about 500 pages and 230 figures),

Re: search in Version 1.2

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:10:26AM -0400, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > This problem prevents me from using the searching facility. Note that this > applies for forward and backward searching. Searching is fairly unusable in 1.2.0. There is a fix for that in 1.3.0cvs and if people test it this

importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Struan Cockcroft
I have recently crossed over from windows, in which I was using scientific workplace, to linux (and burned the bridge). I tried ktexmaker, but I need wysiwym so I installed lyx 1.2.0. It's very nice but it cannot import my tex files from swp or ktexmaker, cannot relyx. Can anyone help me,

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:13:37PM +0200, Struan Cockcroft wrote: > I have recently crossed over from windows, in which I was using > scientific workplace, to linux (and burned the bridge). I tried > ktexmaker, but I need wysiwym so I installed lyx 1.2.0. It's very nice > but it cannot import

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Rem
If I am not mistaken SW is built on an old version of LaTex (At least this was the case sometime ago when I had to deal with an export problem between Mathematica and SW.) This may be one of the problems? R - Original Message - From: "Andre Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struan

Re: importing tex files

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:42:35AM -0600, Rem wrote: > If I am not mistaken SW is built on an old version of LaTex (At least this > was the case sometime ago when I had to deal with an export problem between > Mathematica and SW.) > This may be one of the problems? I don't think so. LaTeX per se

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jorgen Johansson
Ery Djunaedy wrote: > Hi, > I just installed Lyx 1.2. But apparently I could not see many document > class. These are the classes available in "document layout" window: > - article (6 of them) > - book (2 of them) > - letter (2 of them) > - report > - seminar > - slide > > I could not open my

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:54:15PM +0900, Jorgen Johansson wrote: > I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin on win2k. > I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and upgraded another > machine to 1.2.0a. I can not find any layout files in > home/Administrator or

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jorgen" == Jorgen Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jorgen> I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin Jorgen> on win2k. I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and Jorgen> upgraded another machine to 1.2.0a. I can not find any layout Jorgen> files in

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jorgen Johansson
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>"Jorgen" == Jorgen Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jorgen> I have a similar problem. I am running Lyx 1.2.0a under cygwin > Jorgen> on win2k. I recently did a new installation of 1.2.0a and > Jorgen> upgraded another machine to 1.2.0a. I can not

crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Hi, I just upgraded from lyx-1.6fix2 to 1.2.0. I'm running on Redhat 7.0. I compiled from sources using the xforms 0.88 glibc library. Everything compiles and installs fine. When I run lyx the main screen appears with no problem. But as soon as I try to either open an old document or

Re: help - layouts not found

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jorgen" == Jorgen Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jorgen> Sorry to have bothered. I had not exported the OSTYPE=cywin Jorgen> variable properly. I exported the variable and ran the Jorgen> reconfigure from Lyx and now it works fine (without the Jorgen> patch). Actually, the

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:33:01AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:04:05AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > > > (a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations > > > on different sections. Can it be

Re: LyX capabilities question

2002-07-16 Thread Mark Carroll
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with "Watch File" - that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all! I'll make

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Nathan Becker wrote: > I just upgraded from lyx-1.6fix2 to 1.2.0. I'm running on Redhat 7.0. I > compiled from sources using the xforms 0.88 glibc library. Everything > compiles and installs fine. When I run lyx the main screen appears with > no problem. But as soon as I try to either

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Hi Herbert, I deleted the entire .lyx directory and let lyx rebuild it fresh. This didn't fix it. I also looked in stdclass.inc in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts but the line you said to add is already there. I tried compiling and reinstalling 1.1.6fix4 just in case I've screwed something

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Nathan Becker wrote: > Any more suggestions? can you send the lyx-file as private mail? Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Nathan Becker wrote: > Hi Herbert, > > I deleted the entire .lyx directory and let lyx rebuild it fresh. This > didn't fix it. Could you try to get a backtrace? Something like gdb ./lyx (gdb) run [load the file] ...crash... (gdb) bt JMarc

Re: crash on opening document

2002-07-16 Thread Nathan Becker
Yes here it is: #0 0x082f3792 in atexit (func=0x82eb7f0 <__tcf_0>) at atexit.c:32 #1 0x082e1bc2 in CreateBufferTmpDir () #2 0x080a1996 in Buffer::Buffer () #3 0x080c1547 in BufferStorage::newBuffer () #4 0x080c4efb in BufferList::newFile () #5 0x0810ff73 in LyXFunc::menuNew () #6

Re: footbib

2002-07-16 Thread Guido Milanese
On Monday 15 July 2002 20:21, Herbert Voss wrote: > Karen Thomas wrote: > > I found the footbib package on the CTAN website. However, when I try > > to use it, lyx gives me many many errors, and latex tells me that "the > > output routine of LaTeX has changed". I am using LaTeX2e. > > > > Does