Re: How to modify text alignment

2021-09-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
RTFM :-)-O el On 07/09/2021 18:37, jezZiFeR wrote: Am 7. Sep. 2021, 15:55 +0200 schrieb Axel Dessecker : Am Dienstag, 7. September 2021, 15:28:41 CEST schrieb jezZiFeR: Hello, in Komascript report, block text is specified as the default for the text alignment.

Re: Setting a permanent default class that is not "Article (Standard Class)

2021-09-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Try it out :-)-O Can't damage anything :-)-O el On 18/09/2021 18:23, Trevor Jenkins wrote: Thanks. Is that what that wording means‽ [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Libertinus and AnonymousPro fonts

2021-07-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wolfgang, It is being developed, I think not even in beta. The latest (for the Mac) is LyX 2.3.6.2 (2021-01-07) LyX can export into lower versions but it's better to have the same version with all collborators. If you have homebrew it'll update itself by itself :-)-O. Otherwise, read this

Re: Sort order in the index

2021-07-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Herbert, I am being offered makeindex, texindy and xindy. All, I know I can add a custom one but does anyone know whether one of the above two (latter) also allow German sorting? Imust however confess that I write next to nothing in German. greetings, el On 14/07/2021 17:02, Herbert Voss

Re: biblatex style option Springer Publisher

2021-07-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wolfgang, this is a LaTeX issue, niot a LyX issue. el On 2021-07-31 08:56 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Herbert Voss pointed to this site  https://hvoss.org/biblatex-spbasic.zip where the two style files biblatex-spbasic.bbx biblatex-spbasic.cbx are found which can be used for Springer

How to access the Date Field from Koma Letter in the (LaTeX) preamble.

2021-09-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I have hacked me a Stamp in LaTeX which works very well in the Koma Letter (by way of putting it in LyX's preamble. The stamp gets placed next to the signature block, slightly randomly placed, then slightly randomly rotated and by way of some roation of the frame achieving a realistic look

Re: How to access the Date Field from Koma Letter in the (LaTeX) preamble.

2021-09-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
:25:57 AM PDT Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: [...] Thanks Doc, I have marked this email "important" and "action item." When I get some time I will try to figure it out. It prints your letterhead with some extraneous code. Do not try to tell me how to fix it. I need to figure tha

Re: KOMA-Script Report: page numbers not displaying

2021-10-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions for the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default. However, when using Koma Script I set Document -> Settings... -> Page Layout -> Page Style: Default and in the preamble I put something something

Re: JabRef entry warning

2021-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Paul, this is why I am getting irritated at the (ie his) persistent lack of sending in MWEs. Having to go through this (and every time) borders on the rude, and frustrates people like you (and me) who want to help. A small file such as your dummy file, producing the error with the required

Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

2021-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I totally disagree :-)-O but then I have written recently about having a template and using that for presentations. greetings, el On 13/10/2021 00:32, UD K wrote: On 10/12/21 7:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote: UD K said on Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:47:46 +0200 [...] I like LyX as much as the next guy

Re: Compile error

2021-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, Which part of 'change the label from "O'Connor" to "OConnor"' do you not understand? Never mind the Minimal Working Example... BibTeX does not like Apostropes "'" in the label names. el On 12/10/2021 21:41, Rich Shepard wrote: [...] Now I still have biber complaining about the

Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

2021-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
:-)-O greetings, el On 13/10/2021 00:42, UD K wrote: On 10/12/21 4:54 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Ehud, https://www.google.com/search?q=%22MX+Linux%22+latex returns 89 results of which the first one https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=59086 gives a hint at how to get

Re: Bibliography styles

2021-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
IT. IS. THE. APOSTROPHE! On 12/10/2021 17:10, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Change the label/reference to OConnor2019 :-)-O BibDesk does not allow me to even enter a "'" el, $ grep -c -e "O'" documents/jabrefdb.bib 10 There are

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be? Indeed it is very easy to write poorly looking documents in (Word and) LibreOffice. LaTeX enforces a lot of things, and this one of the reasons why you really have to try hard to write poorly looking documents, though I have seen many determined

Re: KOMA-Script Report: page numbers not displaying

2021-10-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Revision Control is your friend :-)-O el On 2021-10-08 03:06 , Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions for the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default. However, when using Koma Script I

Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

2021-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Neal, thanks. I am however now quite used to the LyX way and I hate ERT so I don't think I'll change my template just yet. For those who are interested it sits on https://github.com/gadmm/beamer-flex greetings, el On 13/10/2021 15:21, Neal Becker wrote: I've found the LyX UI for

Re: Compile error [FIXED]

2021-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
: On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: [...] Actually, neither bibtex nor biblatex object to apostrophes or other accents and umlauts, etc. It's how they're entered and I had completely forgotten how to do it properly until this morning and recent caffinization. The solution

Re: Bibliography styles

2021-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
ally TeX commands, so you should avoid using underscores, for instance, if you ever need to print the actual cite key itself. el On 13/10/2021 14:54, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: IT. IS. THE. APOSTROPHE! 1. Then why is it only this one entry and not

Re: How to convert LyX doc to LaTeX

2021-10-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Please do not confuse novices with XeTeX. LyX can export to a number of formats from the File pulldown, PDF being the most common with several choices LuaTeX being probably the most common. There is also DVI, if really necessary, and of course LaTeX. Hoeevr you would only export to LaTeX

Re: Bibliography styles

2021-10-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Change the label/reference to OConnor2019 :-)-O BibDesk does not allow me to even enter a "'" el On 12/10/2021 15:47, Rich Shepard wrote: [...] @article{O'Connor2019, abstract = {Mercury (Hg) is a potentially harmful trace element in the environment and one of the World Health

Re: Bibliography styles

2021-10-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, you can have whatever BST file is found by LaTeX, or rather whatever BST file LyX finds when Tools --> Reconfigure... is run. I for one like one called plaindin.bst which for German texts comes with the din1505 package (via the tlmgr manager) and have hacked me an English version which

Re: Bibliography styles

2021-10-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Would be so much more helpful to include the complete citation, and even better a MWE. el On 12/10/2021 15:47, Rich Shepard wrote: [...] @article{O'Connor2019, abstract = {Mercury (Hg) is a potentially harmful trace element in the   environment and one of the World

Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

2021-10-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ehud, https://www.google.com/search?q=%22MX+Linux%22+latex returns 89 results of which the first one https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=59086 gives a hint at how to get a TexLive installed. As it is Debian based, there are dummy packages for TexLive somewhere. el

Re: Compile error

2021-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: BibTeX does not like Apostropes "'" in the label names. el, With more research on stackexchange I see that you're correct. My apologies. [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lis

Re: Bibliography styles

2021-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I can only find LOG and PNG files, not a LyX, never mind an MWE :-)-O On 13/10/2021 17:06, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Because it is in the "label" (\cite key?) field whereas (I assume without having seen a MWE) the others are elsewhere (&quo

Re: LaTeX warning explanation needed

2021-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
LOG files don't help. MWE's do :-)-O el On 14/10/2021 00:47, Rich Shepard wrote: The document now compiles without error using TeXLive2021 (and the 2020 version of texlive-extra), but the bibliography still does not print in the PDF. The latex.log has these warnings: LaTeX Warning: Citation

Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

2021-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That comibiantion does not work on the Mac and so I use the Pulldown Insert --> Separated Frame Below after placing the cursor at the end of the last line. And of course you can always tie that to a simple(r) keystroke combination but I could not be bothered. el On 13/10/2021 17:12,

Re: Compile error [FIXED]

2021-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
':' also seem to work in LaTeX. And, there's not heat here :-)-O el On 14/10/2021 09:58, Steve Litt wrote: Rich Shepard said on Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:10:57 -0700 (PDT) [...] I'm not taking sides in this too-heated argument, but my practice is to make every variable and filename consist of the

Re: Fwd: PDF Page Size

2021-10-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
If you were to look into the Emoji Handbook you'd find that I am credited with the stethoscope (25 years or so ago). The arrows are just pointing... el On 19/10/2021 13:56, Daniel wrote: On 18/10/2021 01:12, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: --> :-)-O <-- stands for I was joking Never came

Re: LaTeX warning explanation needed [RESOLVED]

2021-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, Good that it's working now. In large documents, I find it helpful to pull out every section into its own child document and have other than the ToC only Include statements generated by Insert --> File --> Child Document... in the main file. I then put my preamble into an

Re: Fwd: PDF Page Size

2021-10-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ken, the answer is obvious, don't use Windows :-)-O But, I don't think it has anything to do with LyX but rather is a LaTeX issue, and guessing of setting a default page size installation wide. The LeX Live Manager app on the Mac has the option Configure --> Change Paper Size which

Re: Fwd: PDF Page Size

2021-10-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On 2021-10-15 16:38 , Daniel wrote: On 15/10/2021 13:07, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: On 15/10/2021 07:57, Ken Kopelson wrote: [...] What is the LyXBook class? Or if it refers to the layout, where did you get it from? What is the LyXBook class? I find Koma Script much better and easier

Re: Fwd: PDF Page Size

2021-10-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ken, --> :-)-O <-- stands for I was joking If it works for you it works for you. However I am not sure that for LyX and LaTeX 64GB RAM makes that much difference, and we see many queries here caused by the MikReX setup. I run the latexbench on all machines I can lay my hands on and after

Re: How to access the Date Field from Koma Letter in the (LaTeX) preamble.

2021-09-28 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
greetings, el On 25/09/2021 12:27, Herbert Voss wrote: Am 24.09.21 um 07:58 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: here is the complete letter with the accompanying Koma Letter Class Option file, which either needs to be in the same directory or in one which texhash (which MUST be run after each change

Re: How to access the Date Field from Koma Letter in the (LaTeX) preamble.

2021-09-28 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
end_layout --- 185,190 If I don't, LyX (or rather Koma) sets up a default date (into the Koma variable), which then also comes up on the stamp. Complete files enclosed again. el On 28/09/2021 17:12, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Herbert, thanks. I seem to recall having asked this particula

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-09-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
You can't. Ad you should not :-)-O You need to create the header manually with KomaScript, which has a gazillion possibilities, and then you can save the signature image and add that image to the signature field. el On 30/09/2021 10:21, Osman Kemal Kadiroğlu wrote: Hi, I am a bit

LibreOffice to LyX (new thread)

2021-10-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
From my early days in private practice I have about 185 surgery reports which I wrote then in Open Office. They are in table form and when I am really bored I copy and paste them over into LyX files, review them and if it is correct I remove the original (ODT). In true Perl fashion I was

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Virgil, how could that work in ANY program ("dorward" compatibility)? But it's Open Source, just pull the latest version once out of beta. The next one is rumored to support DocBook so you can get inti evenmore trouble :-)-O el On 2021-10-07 14:05 , Virgil Arrington wrote: [...] This is

Re: Thanks

2021-10-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
08:31 , Osman Kemal Kadiroğlu wrote: Sorry, I am new in this list, so I could not find a reply button for a very helpful replies to my LibreOffice question by Steve Litt and Dr. Eberhard Lisse. Many thanks for the help you have given to me, I will try them. Best regards Osman Kemal Kadiroğlu

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
It would probably easier to translate from LyX/LaTeX to LibreOffice/Word/RTF, but I have no idea (and of course no interest whatsoever) to find out (how to template the front page and page numbering. But, it is probably not worth the effort to even try :-)-O there must be gazillions of ugly Word

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This list should be kept free from responses such as the one below because for many people they just do not care. Abstain from trying to continue stupid flame wars. el On 01/10/2021 19:07, Tobias Hilbricht wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2021, 21:38 -0400 schrieb Steve Litt: [...] This

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Steve, I do all my slides in Beamer. I have settled on a modified metropolis theme and that works very well and I haven't changed that in years years. I am a fan of 10-20-20 and bullet points and do my tables and graphs usually with knitR. If you have a clean pandoc template you can

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-05 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Virgil, I have shortened and reformatted slightly for ease of reference. On 2021-10-05 15:24 , Virgil Arrington wrote: [...] Unlike our good Dr. E.L., I can't leave my slide designs alone. [...] Actually constant misunderimprovements are one of the mistakes one often makes in

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On 05/10/2021 22:51, Virgil Arrington wrote: On 10/5/2021 2:45 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: [...] Actually constant misunderimprovements are one of the mistakes one often makes in presentations. I suspect you're right, but I just can't leave things alone. Once of my CPD/CME presentations

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
both, Virgil and Dr Eberhard Lisse for your interesting, informative tutorial. [...] As an aside: Retired? I was never as busy, nor learned more, before I was retired. [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
To go into even more detail: Look on CTAN for letterhead templates, of which they are galore. Then refine to those that do this in KomaScript and find one that is as close to your ideas as possible. This (probably a letter class options file *.LCO, the name of which you then add to LyX's

Re: beamer metropolis fonts

2021-12-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I use \usepackage[medium]{noto} in the (middle of the) preamble :-)-O el On 2021-12-01 17:06 , Neal Becker wrote: I've been using beamer with metropolis theme for some time now. The recommended font here is Fira. I've used: \setsansfont[ BoldFont={Fira Sans SemiBold},

Re: Graphic file formatsx

2021-12-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
What does "slowly" mean? One could try the "draft" option (of graphicx) which should speed things up until the production runs. For my big handbook (which takes 110 seconds to compile (70 on the M1)) I have split this into child documents which compile individually within 10 to 15 seconds.

Re: How to find LyX' compile strategy?

2021-12-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
What's wrong with lyx -f -e pdf5 lawnmower.lyx or if you must, with lyx -f -e luatex lawnmower.lyx && latexmk lawnmower.tex el On 08/12/2021 03:20, Steve Litt wrote: [...] The following is my shellscript: ==

Re: Sort order in the index

2021-07-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
In Preferences (see the attachment) 2.3.6.2 on the Mac el On 15/07/2021 15:11, Andreas Plihal wrote: [...] To Eberhard Lisse, how can i even add a custom one? Greetings Andreas [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Libertinus and AnonymousPro fonts

2021-07-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Herbert, he can't see them in LyX. And that is so because LyX does not know about Libertinus and/or AnonymousPro as far as I know. If LyX knew about them and could not find them it would say "not installed". That's why this needs to go into the preamble. However, I agree, it would be cool,

Re: Jabref 5.3.1

2021-07-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Get a Mac :-)-O el On 22/07/2021 21:31, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 7/22/21 2:25 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am 22.07.21 um 20:12 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am 22.07.21 um 17:32 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: On 7/22/21 9:31 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with

Re: What Am I Doing Wrong … bibliography entries not being included

2022-04-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Create an MWE, please, ie a minimal working example, by reducing everything but what triggers the issue, and paste this here, including the BIB file which should contain a single reference. Often that will lead you to the solution and if not we can have a look at it :-)-O el On 2022-04-18

Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

2022-05-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
terms and conditions will allow the University to deliver LyX using this new model? Otherwise, if this does not comply with your current terms, can you please advise what changes are required to allow us to deliver LyX" On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 05:58, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Neither statement

Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

2022-05-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
terms and conditions will allow the University to deliver LyX using this new model? Otherwise, if this does not comply with your current terms, can you please advise what changes are required to allow us to deliver LyX" On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 05:58, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Neither statement

Re: Top toolbar missing after switching from debian 10 to debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-05-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
John, what happens if you right-click on one of the toolbars? "Standard" should be ticked. el On 12/05/2022 18:56, John White wrote: The main lyx tool bar is gone, the one with File, Edit, View, Insert, Navigate, Document, Tools, Help. Any thoughts on how I might get it back? Thanks,

Re: Formatting Python code

2022-05-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
STOP. USING. ERT! :-)-O In Settings -> Document -> Listings you can set things into the window which wind up in the generated tex file as \lstset{} greetings, el On 2022-05-27 23:20 , Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: Thanks for the pointer. Paul, Since all

Re: Settings file for lyx

2022-06-02 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
You are not listening. Don't do this, there is no need to and it'll confuse your colleagues. Split the document into chapters and have each "owned" by a particular colleague and then use GIT or CVS source control. That's much more productive with messing with the site installation, which has

Re: Acrobat pdf

2022-05-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Assuming this is on the Mac: Click on any PDF and then issue CMD-I. Then change the "Open-With" Pulldown do whatever viewer you want but click on "Change-All" Then in Lyx you can use "open" as the viewer. PDF Expert is very nice and powerful but I like Skim for day-to-day by the way.

Re: Suggestions for custom layouts/templates creation

2022-05-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I have recreated a number of forms required by the local Medical Industrial Complex :-)-O using tables, judicious spacing and other trickery to achieve reasonable similarity which has been accepted in each case. I usually use Komascript but have a few legacy forms that I created in Memoir and

Re: Conversion failure for older format

2022-06-24 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
He did address it by complete path prefixed by python2. I would think the scrip itself uses python3 and therefor works. el On 2022-06-21 12:06 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 20/06/2022 à 15:28, Rudi Gaelzer a écrit : That successfully converted the original to format 544, which the

Re: Syncing skim with LyX

2022-07-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ehud, Search in Help -> Customization for Copiers (or Converters) :-)-O Some variables are there defined and $$i is the input file name. greetings, el On 20/07/2022 00:43, tush via lyx-users wrote: [...] By the way, what does the $$i option that you added to "open -a Skim.app" do? With

Re: Bug tracker accounts

2022-07-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
While deliberation on email lists are very helpful that just will not work for software development, not even in closed shops, but most certainly not in Open Source projects and large ones such as this. el On 15/07/2022 23:16, Steve Litt wrote: [...] Or, how's this for a novel idea: How

Re: Syncing skim with LyX

2022-07-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Not all do. On 20/07/2022 07:01, Stephan Witt wrote: [...] PS: the readers on this list prefer the use of inline citation or bottom post in mails.[...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: check the logs

2022-07-28 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This is of course a LaTeX and not a LyX issue and https://www.google.com/search?q=I+can%27t+find+the+format+file+%60lualatex.fmt shows 63 hits. el On 28/07/2022 07:34, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am 27.07.22 um 22:38 schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse: Wolfgang, this is not what what I

Re: no document classes available

2022-07-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Buy a Mac, install Homebrew and then install MacTeX and LyX from Homebrew :-)-O el On 28/07/2022 17:06, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I just found that my lyx document does not have the Document class KOMA-script-book available In fact, all the document classes are greyed out. What should I do?

Re: check the logs

2022-07-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This is because you don't read (the manuals) :-)-O el On 28/07/2022 16:43, Steve Litt wrote: [...] I had no idea you could install tlmgr as anything BUT root. Thanks for the information. [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: How to include a bunch of tex commands globally

2022-04-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That will not survive LyX Updates. Local Layouts should go into the local layout difrectory (which on the Mac is below ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3). Never mind that "must be located" is incorrect. LaTeX finds documents in many places (find out what texhash does :-)-O) I don't

Re: MacOS 12.3.1 (Monterey) lyx2lyx script fails to convert

2022-04-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On the Mac I STRONGLY recommend using homebrew's python as it will be updated any time you do a 'brew update'. el On 2022-04-17 10:21 , Stephan Witt wrote: Am 16.04.2022 um 01:52 schrieb gelfand : Just upgraded (from Mohave!) and when attempt to open any LyX 2.2 and earlier get lyx2lyx

Re: After my latest MacOS/Microsoft updates

2022-04-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This is a "security" feature of the Mac. See https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/ I usually enter from a terminal window (iTerm2) sudo spctl --master-disable and then you still get a warning when you open an app for the first time but can go ahead at your discretion. el

Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

2022-05-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Neither statement is helpful. This most likely boilerplate that they send to everybody and as we want to push Open Source use we should politely point them towards the GLP2 license. greetings, el On 2022-05-03 08:50 , Alan Tyree wrote: I agree with Steve on this. It's no part of the LyX

Re: SOLVED >: nomenclature error

2022-04-28 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I don't think LyX can ever fix LaTeX errors :-)-O el On 19/04/2022 10:24, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: [...] It took some time to find out, and I wonder whether there could be a better error or warning handling. [...] Am 14.04.22 um 17:30 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users: [...] !

Re: Tufte Handout class handling of citations broken by LyX v2.3.6.2

2022-04-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This is a LaTeX issue, not a LyX one as far as I can see. And perhaps one between chair and screen (lack of RTFM perhaps) :-)-O el On 29/04/2022 01:18, Trevor Jenkins wrote: I have a number of (old) LyX files that use the Tufte Handout class (tufte-handout.cls). In LyX version 2.0 these

Re: Missing character

2022-09-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Auntie Gugel tells me via https://unicodeplus.com/U+0098 that this (SoS) is the Tilde '~' but it probably does not matter. I would first remove the reference \ref{alg:Skript-zur PRC-Erzeugung} If that does the trick, you may want to remove the space from the Reference and

Re: Missing character

2022-09-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
C.O.M.P.I.I.L.E the TeX file with lualatex and note where it stops (on or near the error line ). Also what does googling for the error message show you? Or just for "U+0098"? el On 31/08/2022 17:01, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Am 31.08.22 um 15:20 schrieb Dr Eberhar

Re: Missing character

2022-08-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
compile the file with lualatex and not the line the error is reported on. el On 25/08/2022 17:17, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 8/25/22 05:02, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> I got this warning >> Missing character: There is no ˜ (U+0098) in font >> [LibertinusSerif-Italic.otf]: >> >> and tried to

Re: Running a command from within Lyx/Beamer

2022-09-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
\usepackage{multimedia} in the preamble comes to mind. el On 27/09/2022 14:24, UD K wrote: > Is there a (simple) way of running a (linux) command from within a > Lyx/Beamer presentation?  > I have tried the href latex command but it did not do anything, although > I included the

Re: Book about LyX 2.4

2022-10-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ricardo, I have an (almost) 1000 page ops handbook of 25 chapters (child documents) and a common include.tex with 330 includes (listings and images) and a 550 line Makefile. It displays in 12 point font in landscape when I need to work something (like recently reinstalling Perl from Homebrew)

Re: Book about LyX 2.4

2022-10-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I'll be willing to try it on my handbook too :-)-O el On 17/10/2022 22:49, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 10:03:51PM +0200, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: [...] > Don't worry about it! I'll ask you again whenever we are close to > releasing 2.4.0 if we really want lyx2lyx to get some

Re: Book about LyX 2.4

2022-10-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ricardo, when 2.4 final is out you should look at exporting this to DocBook because then it can go onto the Kindle... el On 2022-10-17 15:17 , Ricardo Berlasso wrote: I'm a bit crazy, let's face it, so not only have I updated the book I once wrote about LyX, I've done it in English, Spanish

Re: Bibliography filtering by type

2022-10-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Perhaps an Umlaut Issue? el On 18/10/2022 21:04, Oliver Margraf wrote: > Dear list, > > I have used LyX for some time and came now across the change of the > handling of the bibliography in 2.3.6. I managed to understand the > changes concering inserting a biblography, changes towards the

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
The easiest is to completeley uninstall TeX and then LyX (on the Mac you can just Trash it) and then first to install TeX (MacTex in whatever guise or form) and then LyX, which in the first run will do a Tools -> Reconfigure which you can do manually any time. You should be able to run

Re: Re MacOS Ventura trouble

2022-10-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
MacOs 12.6 and 12.6.1 both have Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin/python3 (12.6.2 is not out yet of course :-)-O el On 2022-10-29 13:54 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: [...] As my two Desktop machines do not support Ventura I'll have to software update them after the (long) weekend (at the coast :-)-O)

Re: Re MacOS Ventura trouble

2022-10-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
MacOs 12.6 and 12.6.1 both have Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin/python3 (12.6.2 is not out yet of course :-)-O el On 2022-10-29 13:54 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: [...] As my two Desktop machines do not support Ventura I'll have to software update them after the (long) weekend (at the coast :-)-O)

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On the Mac (deduced from the icloud address) find /Applications/LyX.app/ -name lyx2lyx -type f tells us /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx Try the complete path/file name on the old file and see what that says. Looks a little like a TeX installation

Re: Drawing an arc

2022-10-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Computers can be used to type. el On 06/10/2022 08:41, Daniel wrote: > On 04/10/2022 23:03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> What does this have to do with LyX? >> >> el >> >> > > LyX can be used to output LaTeX documents. TikZ can be used in LaTeX via > a package. Or did you mean something more

Re: Drawing an arc

2022-10-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
No, you didn't. Or maybe you use Windows. el On 11/10/2022 10:14, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 23:25 +0200, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> So, because I can include images, questions about Photoshop should be >> asked here? >> >> There are 18 Million Tikz hits on Google. >> >> el >

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Have you tried running lyx2lyx on them and see what that says? perhaps with the --noisy option? LyX will display, but can't convert. So you need to look what image you are trying to display and whether there is a converter for that. Sometimes just a Tools --> Reconfigure will do the trick el

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That can be a Python issue. But it's nice to see it works. What I have done in the past is to convert all LyX files I have below my work area with something similar to find ~/medicine/cpd/ -name '*.lyx' -type f -exec open {} ';' and then having to save all the files manually. Which

Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

2022-08-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
for i in lyx lyx240 lyx24n lyx24x do rm -rf $(realpath $(which $i)) done el On 11/08/2022 00:08, Alan Tyree wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > I can't help you with your immediate problem, but if you again wish to > install multiple versions of a program, I suggest using GNU Stow. It > allows

Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

2022-08-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Steve I read the subject line "Debian Bullseye" as meaning Linux. el On 2022-08-12 08:49 , Steve Litt wrote: [...] Hi Wolfgang, What El wrote is a shellscript. Shellscripts can't be used on Windows unless you have Linux For Windows or Windows Posix or whatever. [...] -- lyx-users

Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

2022-08-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
apt install coreutils or for i in lyx lyx24[0xn] do sudo find / -name $i -exec rm -rf {} ';' done this is not difficult. el On 2022-08-11 18:08 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am 11.08.22 um 14:28 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: for i in lyx lyx240

Re: Voice Recognition Accessibility

2022-08-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I purchased a Dragon Dictate license for the Mac exactly 4 weeks before they discontinued the Mac Support. I was never able to dictate into the Mac LyX, so I went through a small detour dictating MarkDown which is much easier to dictate than LaTeX, and worked extremely well for me. I spent

Re: About upgrading to MacOS 13

2022-12-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Never even thought for a second to downgrade any of the many upgrades I have done. Even if some were not straight sailing... el On 2022-12-07 19:46 , Marcus Kriele via lyx-users wrote: Hi Daniel Please note that Time Machine may not work for going back from macOS13 to macOS12. At least it

Re: Raster image format

2022-12-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I would not waste too much time on that, but for speed purposes I would select the draft button, until such time you want to see the images proper. el On 2022-12-07 20:27 , Rich Shepard wrote: My documents tend to contain many PDF vector images which appear to be converted by LyX to a

Re: How to make LyX work with Mac OS 13.1:solved

2022-12-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hal, the command is sudo xcode-select --install you will then be asked for your password. It is a system wide installation of the command line tools (of XCode) and hence must be done as administrator (technically root). The complete XCode will of course also install python3 but is a

closing a named buffer?

2022-12-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I can easily close the current buffer with a command like (on the mac) LYXPIPE=$(find ~/Library/Application\ Support ~/.lyx \ -name .lyxpipe.in 2>/dev/null | head -1) echo "LYXCMD:P2:buffer-close" > "$LYXPIPE" Is it possible to close a named buffer even another was "active"

Layout question, was Re: Method for Not Input \tag Everytime

2022-12-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hao, it is better to only ask one question per email with appropriate subject line. Then it is helpful to produce a minimal working example (MWE) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_reproducible_example https://minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html You did not mention the class

Re: How to make LyX work with Mac OS 13.1:solved

2022-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
05:55:17PM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Hal, >> >> the command is >> >> sudo xcode-select --install >> >> you will then be asked for your password. >> >> It is a system wide installation of the command line tools (of XCode) >

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Why would I try and install a VM on an M1 (ie an EMULATOR for a different processor) and install Linux, of which most distributions do not have the latest and greatest LyX and or TeX(live) to fix a bug that is almost certainly going to be fixed soon and can be reasonably easily circumvented until

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