Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jose Capco wrote: output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine anyway.. Considering that LyX uses LaTeX to produce the output it should really be *exactly* the same.. Oh by the by.. not related to the topic

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think

thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi all, I just wanted to thank the LyX team for the work they do. I have written my PhD thesis 2 years ago with LyX, and it never failed on me. Even when X crashed once (in a 6 month period), LyX managed not to loose a single letter of my work. It may seem late to thank the team now, but since

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Olivier == Olivier Ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olivier Hi all, I just wanted to thank the LyX team for the work they Olivier do. I have written my PhD thesis 2 years ago with LyX, and it Olivier never failed on me. Even when X crashed once (in a 6 month Olivier period), LyX managed not to

tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I remember Angus has recently produced a version of tex2lyx for MS Windows. Is there a Linux version of it to run autonomously, that is, without having LyX 1.4 cvs installed? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread samar j. singh
Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux days.There is a world of difference when you have to do

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
I would be interested too.. I would also be interested in a tex2lyx standalone (ie. would run without one having lyx in his system) if this is possible. I just downloaded Angus's tex2lyx but Im not sure if it works for window users who installed lyx using cygwin (I didnt tried other lyx versions

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I remember Angus has recently produced a version of tex2lyx for MS Windows. Is there a Linux version of it to run autonomously, that is, without having LyX 1.4 cvs installed? No, because different flavours of linux have different run time libraries and a single

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: I would be interested too.. I would also be interested in a tex2lyx standalone (ie. would run without one having lyx in his system) if this is possible. I just downloaded Angus's tex2lyx but Im not sure if it works for window users who installed lyx using cygwin (I didnt

Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread nburgan
Hello All, I have installed LyXWin ((lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) on Windows 2000 following the instructions on the LyW WikiWiki – LyX.WindowsSetup webpage. Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I can’t get .eps or .pdf files to display within LyX when I insert them into a document. When I insert

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have installed LyXWin ((lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) on Windows 2000 following the instructions on the LyW WikiWiki – LyX.WindowsSetup webpage. Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I can’t get .eps or .pdf files to display within LyX when I insert them

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
No! In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just to test this and it didnt worked I installed the windows port in C:\Lyx directory.. and then extracted the file in the tex2lyx zipfile you posted today to their respective paths and then after running I got something like -- Unable to

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 13:31, you wrote: No! Ach! In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just to test this and it didnt worked Why did you think you needed this? I installed the windows port in C:\Lyx directory.. and then extracted the file in the tex2lyx zipfile you

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
On 02/02/2005 05:15:11 PM, samar j. singh wrote: Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux days.There is a

layout for a PhD thesis

2005-02-02 Thread Paolo Valente
Hi everybody, I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis. Could someone suggest me a nice layout including chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments? Thanks, Paolo Valente

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just to test this and it didnt worked Why did you think you needed this? you told me that the cygwin thingy isn't recognized. Just a second. tex2lyx expects to find the support files in a directory ..\Resources\lyx relative to the

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:58, Jose Capco wrote: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last):   File C:\LyX\Resources\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx, line 19, in ?     import getopt ImportError: No module named getopt Last time we saw this error this was the

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:58, Jose Capco wrote: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\LyX\Resources\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx, line 19, in ? import getopt ImportError: No module named getopt Last time we saw this error this

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InternetResources I found the link to the gmane interface as follows: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/ And of course it means there is also a Gmane newsgroup (which is what I am writing into right now)

Getting LyX to replace custom-defined symbols as if they were standard LaTeX symbols

2005-02-02 Thread Davide Cescato
Hello, I am writing a draft for an article and I am still unsure about the names of some variables I am going to use in my final version. In order to handle this situation, in LaTeX I would define \newcommand{\ntx}{N_T} \newcommand{\nrx}{N_R} and then use \ntx and \nrx in my formulas whenever

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread samar j. singh
On 02/02/2005 05:15:11 PM, samar j. singh wrote: Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux

Re: layout for a PhD thesis

2005-02-02 Thread samar j. singh
Hi everybody, I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis. Could someone suggest me a nice layout including chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments? Thanks, Paolo Valente Many US universities have latex formats on the website. Take the one you like, import

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: ImportError: No module named getopt Last time we saw this error this was the result of a bad or incomplete python installation. Actually it's the stripped-down python version always installed by the LyxWin package. Due to PATH settings it can get called even though a

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has

Re: Getting LyX to replace custom-defined symbols as if they were standard LaTeX symbols

2005-02-02 Thread Johan Ingvast
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Davide Cescato wrote: Hello, I am writing a draft for an article and I am still unsure about the names of some variables I am going to use in my final version. In order to handle this situation, in LaTeX I would define \newcommand{\ntx}{N_T} \newcommand{\nrx}{N_R}

Re: Getting LyX to replace custom-defined symbols as if they were standard LaTeX symbols

2005-02-02 Thread Vaclav Smidl
It si probably math-macros what you are looking for. Basicaly, it is LyX frontend to \newcommand. It is all well described in the User Guide (MenuHelpUserGuide), Section 5.6 Usedr defined macros in math mode. good luck, Vasek On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:10, Davide Cescato wrote: Hello,

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Sven Schreiber
Angus Leeming wrote: Sven Schreiber wrote: ImportError: No module named getopt Last time we saw this error this was the result of a bad or incomplete python installation. Actually it's the stripped-down python version always installed by the LyxWin package. Due to PATH settings it can get called

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 16:58 schrieb Jose Capco: I didn't understand your example, I was however able to read the output lyx using the recent available version , I'm not sure if it would be looking the same had I lyx2lyxed it... it looks .. er not bad if I don't don't use packages in my

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
ok great.. so I'll just wait until the 1.4.x comes up and the python er... anyway I'll just let 1.3.x import the 1.4.x lyxs which are still readable (but probably... Im not sure though, that after relyxing things would look better). and also, if the owner of this mailing list also reads this...

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
I'd love to be the guinea pig.. the boss cant write with LaTeX and this is the only way out. I'll send feedbacks. Jose Capco PS: I'll try experimenting on importing packages and using \newcommands on the preamble.. if anyone knows that this work then please advise. --- Georg Baum [EMAIL

install failure lyx-1.3.5

2005-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Somebody out there who ran into an install failure using lyx-1.3.5-1suse90_xforms.i586.rpm? klicking on it calls Yast which after some time tells me lyx.rpm install failed: /root/bashrc: line 45:profile: no such file or dir error: %post (lyx-1.3.5-1suse90_xforms) scriptlet failed exit status 1

Re: layout for a PhD thesis

2005-02-02 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
Some one in Durham university has made a basic thesis layout. You will have to edit it to suit your needs. If you are unable to find it I can send it to you. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Paolo Valente wrote: Hi everybody, I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis. Could

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: btw, another thing I very much appreciate is your tex2lyx snapshot. In fact I am using it right now to avoid my earlier relyx-problems. What I'm not sure about: Would you like users (like me) to give feedback now, or will testing start later on? Feedback is good. Apart

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Sven Schreiber
Angus Leeming wrote: Sven Schreiber wrote: btw, another thing I very much appreciate is your tex2lyx snapshot. In fact I am using it right now to avoid my earlier relyx-problems. What I'm not sure about: Would you like users (like me) to give feedback now, or will testing start later on? Feedback

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I cant get .eps or .pdf files to display within LyX when I insert them into a document. When I insert such a figure I get the message Error conveting to loadable format in the box where the picture should be displayed. The output DVI

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 19:03 schrieb Jose Capco: and also, if the owner of this mailing list also reads this... could you please setup the listbot to send the emails so that when I hit the reply button it will send to the list rather than the individul users (I think that is possible,

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: Overall I'm quite impressed! But it still required some corrections afterwards, although I suspect some problems may be windows-specific (e.g. because of line-ending characters -- although I used an editor to try both unixish and windowsish settings without any

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Angus, for your reply to my question. Meanwhile, I had the idea of installing LyX 1.4 cvs and getting tex2lyx. Afterwards, can I get back to LyX 1.3.5 and using tex2lyx without LyX 1.4? Does my idea make some sense? Paul

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 20:37 schrieb Sven Schreiber: - complains when \includegraphics* (starred variant) is used, while it could just be treated as the unstarred version (or am I missing something?) \includegraphics* is equivalent to \includegraphics[clip]. I implemented

Reading lyx-users via newsgroup/http [Was Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor]

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Jose Capco writes: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical) You could

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:29:27 -0500 Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jose Capco wrote: output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine anyway.. Considering that LyX uses LaTeX to produce the output it should really be *exactly* the same.. Oh by the by.. not related to the topic

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think

thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi all, I just wanted to thank the LyX team for the work they do. I have written my PhD thesis 2 years ago with LyX, and it never failed on me. Even when X crashed once (in a 6 month period), LyX managed not to loose a single letter of my work. It may seem late to thank the team now, but since

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Olivier == Olivier Ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olivier Hi all, I just wanted to thank the LyX team for the work they Olivier do. I have written my PhD thesis 2 years ago with LyX, and it Olivier never failed on me. Even when X crashed once (in a 6 month Olivier period), LyX managed not to

tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I remember Angus has recently produced a version of tex2lyx for MS Windows. Is there a Linux version of it to run autonomously, that is, without having LyX 1.4 cvs installed? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread samar j. singh
Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux days.There is a world of difference when you have to do

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
I would be interested too.. I would also be interested in a tex2lyx standalone (ie. would run without one having lyx in his system) if this is possible. I just downloaded Angus's tex2lyx but Im not sure if it works for window users who installed lyx using cygwin (I didnt tried other lyx versions

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I remember Angus has recently produced a version of tex2lyx for MS Windows. Is there a Linux version of it to run autonomously, that is, without having LyX 1.4 cvs installed? No, because different flavours of linux have different run time libraries and a single

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: I would be interested too.. I would also be interested in a tex2lyx standalone (ie. would run without one having lyx in his system) if this is possible. I just downloaded Angus's tex2lyx but Im not sure if it works for window users who installed lyx using cygwin (I didnt

Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread nburgan
Hello All, I have installed LyXWin ((lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) on Windows 2000 following the instructions on the LyW WikiWiki – LyX.WindowsSetup webpage. Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I can’t get .eps or .pdf files to display within LyX when I insert them into a document. When I insert

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have installed LyXWin ((lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) on Windows 2000 following the instructions on the LyW WikiWiki – LyX.WindowsSetup webpage. Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I can’t get .eps or .pdf files to display within LyX when I insert them

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
No! In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just to test this and it didnt worked I installed the windows port in C:\Lyx directory.. and then extracted the file in the tex2lyx zipfile you posted today to their respective paths and then after running I got something like -- Unable to

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 13:31, you wrote: No! Ach! In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just to test this and it didnt worked Why did you think you needed this? I installed the windows port in C:\Lyx directory.. and then extracted the file in the tex2lyx zipfile you

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
On 02/02/2005 05:15:11 PM, samar j. singh wrote: Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux days.There is a

layout for a PhD thesis

2005-02-02 Thread Paolo Valente
Hi everybody, I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis. Could someone suggest me a nice layout including chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments? Thanks, Paolo Valente

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just to test this and it didnt worked Why did you think you needed this? you told me that the cygwin thingy isn't recognized. Just a second. tex2lyx expects to find the support files in a directory ..\Resources\lyx relative to the

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:58, Jose Capco wrote: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last):   File C:\LyX\Resources\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx, line 19, in ?     import getopt ImportError: No module named getopt Last time we saw this error this was the

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:58, Jose Capco wrote: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\LyX\Resources\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx, line 19, in ? import getopt ImportError: No module named getopt Last time we saw this error this

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InternetResources I found the link to the gmane interface as follows: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/ And of course it means there is also a Gmane newsgroup (which is what I am writing into right now)

Getting LyX to replace custom-defined symbols as if they were standard LaTeX symbols

2005-02-02 Thread Davide Cescato
Hello, I am writing a draft for an article and I am still unsure about the names of some variables I am going to use in my final version. In order to handle this situation, in LaTeX I would define \newcommand{\ntx}{N_T} \newcommand{\nrx}{N_R} and then use \ntx and \nrx in my formulas whenever

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread samar j. singh
On 02/02/2005 05:15:11 PM, samar j. singh wrote: Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux

Re: layout for a PhD thesis

2005-02-02 Thread samar j. singh
Hi everybody, I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis. Could someone suggest me a nice layout including chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments? Thanks, Paolo Valente Many US universities have latex formats on the website. Take the one you like, import

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: ImportError: No module named getopt Last time we saw this error this was the result of a bad or incomplete python installation. Actually it's the stripped-down python version always installed by the LyxWin package. Due to PATH settings it can get called even though a

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has

Re: Getting LyX to replace custom-defined symbols as if they were standard LaTeX symbols

2005-02-02 Thread Johan Ingvast
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Davide Cescato wrote: Hello, I am writing a draft for an article and I am still unsure about the names of some variables I am going to use in my final version. In order to handle this situation, in LaTeX I would define \newcommand{\ntx}{N_T} \newcommand{\nrx}{N_R}

Re: Getting LyX to replace custom-defined symbols as if they were standard LaTeX symbols

2005-02-02 Thread Vaclav Smidl
It si probably math-macros what you are looking for. Basicaly, it is LyX frontend to \newcommand. It is all well described in the User Guide (MenuHelpUserGuide), Section 5.6 Usedr defined macros in math mode. good luck, Vasek On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:10, Davide Cescato wrote: Hello,

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Sven Schreiber
Angus Leeming wrote: Sven Schreiber wrote: ImportError: No module named getopt Last time we saw this error this was the result of a bad or incomplete python installation. Actually it's the stripped-down python version always installed by the LyxWin package. Due to PATH settings it can get called

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 16:58 schrieb Jose Capco: I didn't understand your example, I was however able to read the output lyx using the recent available version , I'm not sure if it would be looking the same had I lyx2lyxed it... it looks .. er not bad if I don't don't use packages in my

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
ok great.. so I'll just wait until the 1.4.x comes up and the python er... anyway I'll just let 1.3.x import the 1.4.x lyxs which are still readable (but probably... Im not sure though, that after relyxing things would look better). and also, if the owner of this mailing list also reads this...

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
I'd love to be the guinea pig.. the boss cant write with LaTeX and this is the only way out. I'll send feedbacks. Jose Capco PS: I'll try experimenting on importing packages and using \newcommands on the preamble.. if anyone knows that this work then please advise. --- Georg Baum [EMAIL

install failure lyx-1.3.5

2005-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Somebody out there who ran into an install failure using lyx-1.3.5-1suse90_xforms.i586.rpm? klicking on it calls Yast which after some time tells me lyx.rpm install failed: /root/bashrc: line 45:profile: no such file or dir error: %post (lyx-1.3.5-1suse90_xforms) scriptlet failed exit status 1

Re: layout for a PhD thesis

2005-02-02 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
Some one in Durham university has made a basic thesis layout. You will have to edit it to suit your needs. If you are unable to find it I can send it to you. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Paolo Valente wrote: Hi everybody, I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis. Could

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: btw, another thing I very much appreciate is your tex2lyx snapshot. In fact I am using it right now to avoid my earlier relyx-problems. What I'm not sure about: Would you like users (like me) to give feedback now, or will testing start later on? Feedback is good. Apart

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Sven Schreiber
Angus Leeming wrote: Sven Schreiber wrote: btw, another thing I very much appreciate is your tex2lyx snapshot. In fact I am using it right now to avoid my earlier relyx-problems. What I'm not sure about: Would you like users (like me) to give feedback now, or will testing start later on? Feedback

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I cant get .eps or .pdf files to display within LyX when I insert them into a document. When I insert such a figure I get the message Error conveting to loadable format in the box where the picture should be displayed. The output DVI

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 19:03 schrieb Jose Capco: and also, if the owner of this mailing list also reads this... could you please setup the listbot to send the emails so that when I hit the reply button it will send to the list rather than the individul users (I think that is possible,

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: Overall I'm quite impressed! But it still required some corrections afterwards, although I suspect some problems may be windows-specific (e.g. because of line-ending characters -- although I used an editor to try both unixish and windowsish settings without any

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Angus, for your reply to my question. Meanwhile, I had the idea of installing LyX 1.4 cvs and getting tex2lyx. Afterwards, can I get back to LyX 1.3.5 and using tex2lyx without LyX 1.4? Does my idea make some sense? Paul

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 20:37 schrieb Sven Schreiber: - complains when \includegraphics* (starred variant) is used, while it could just be treated as the unstarred version (or am I missing something?) \includegraphics* is equivalent to \includegraphics[clip]. I implemented

Reading lyx-users via newsgroup/http [Was Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor]

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Jose Capco writes: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical) You could

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:29:27 -0500 Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jose Capco wrote: > output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the > printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine > anyway.. Considering that LyX uses LaTeX to produce the output it should really be *exactly* the same.. > Oh by the by.. not related to the

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: > > Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there > a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts > without checking it up in the email (like in a > newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx > newsgroup , that way I

thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi all, I just wanted to thank the LyX team for the work they do. I have written my PhD thesis 2 years ago with LyX, and it never failed on me. Even when X crashed once (in a 6 month period), LyX managed not to loose a single letter of my work. It may seem late to thank the team now, but since

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Olivier" == Olivier Ripoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Olivier> Hi all, I just wanted to thank the LyX team for the work they Olivier> do. I have written my PhD thesis 2 years ago with LyX, and it Olivier> never failed on me. Even when X crashed once (in a 6 month Olivier> period), LyX

tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I remember Angus has recently produced a version of tex2lyx for MS Windows. Is there a Linux version of it to run autonomously, that is, without having LyX 1.4 cvs installed? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread samar j. singh
Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux days.There is a world of difference when you have to do

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
I would be interested too.. I would also be interested in a tex2lyx standalone (ie. would run without one having lyx in his system) if this is possible. I just downloaded Angus's tex2lyx but Im not sure if it works for window users who installed lyx using cygwin (I didnt tried other lyx versions

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I remember Angus has recently produced a version of tex2lyx for MS > Windows. Is there a Linux version of it to run autonomously, that is, > without having LyX 1.4 cvs installed? No, because different flavours of linux have different run time libraries and a

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: > I would be interested too.. I would also be interested > in a tex2lyx standalone (ie. would run without one > having lyx in his system) if this is possible. I just > downloaded Angus's tex2lyx but Im not sure if it works > for window users who installed lyx using cygwin (I >

Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread nburgan
Hello All, I have installed LyXWin ((lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) on Windows 2000 following the instructions on the LyW WikiWiki – LyX.WindowsSetup webpage. Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I can’t get .eps or .pdf files to display within LyX when I insert them into a document. When I insert

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I have installed LyXWin ((lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) on Windows 2000 > following the instructions on the LyW WikiWiki – LyX.WindowsSetup > webpage. > > Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I can’t get .eps or .pdf files to > display within LyX when I

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
No! In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just to test this and it didnt worked I installed the windows port in C:\Lyx directory.. and then extracted the file in the tex2lyx zipfile you posted today to their respective paths and then after running I got something like -- Unable to

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 13:31, you wrote: > No! Ach! > In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just > to test this and it didnt worked Why did you think you needed this? > I installed the windows port in C:\Lyx directory.. and > then extracted the file in the tex2lyx zipfile you >

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-02-02 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
On 02/02/2005 05:15:11 PM, samar j. singh wrote: Hi I would like to join the applause for the lyx team. Although Lyx was not around when I did mine, I use it very extensively for writing proposals and just about everything else. I had years of latex and miktex before my linux days.There is a

layout for a PhD thesis

2005-02-02 Thread Paolo Valente
Hi everybody, I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis. Could someone suggest me a nice layout including chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments? Thanks, Paolo Valente

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Jose Capco
> > In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just > > > to test this and it didnt worked > > Why did you think you needed this? you told me that the cygwin thingy isn't recognized. > Just a second. tex2lyx expects to find the support > files in a > directory ..\Resources\lyx relative to

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