Re: Compilation error with Lyx 1.4.1

2006-06-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Carine Simon wrote: Hello, I’ve just installed Lyx 1.4.1 under Windows XP with lyx-1.4.1_win32_setup_v1.exe ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1/lyx-1.4.1_win32_setup_v1.exe . I am using the sh.exe under cygwin, the Python 2.4, the gs8.51 and ImageMagick6.7 Q16. I can start Lyx with no problem

Re: xpm-Konverter?

2006-06-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hello, I`m starting to work with Lyx again with Lyx 1.4.1 (windows installer, german). I cannot view the tutorial als a PDF-file: I get the information: Keine Information vorhanden, um Dateien im xpm-Format nach png zu konvertieren. Definieren Sie einen Konverter in den

Re: long standing annoyance with tables

2006-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Leuven, E. wrote: Dear LyX-users, On the developers list we are presently discussing default behavior with respect to how lines are set when inserting a new tabular. There is some reluctance to change default behavior even if the rationale behind the default is not that clear. To move the

Re: Equations and Bibliography

2006-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Julio Rojas wrote: Hi. I'm writing my equationsusing Ctrl-Shift-M but no numbering appears on the right side of them. I'm using Book class and have automatically enabled AMS package. What can be happening??? Equation numbering is off by default. With the cursor in the equation, you can

Re: footnote ends up below tables

2006-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Charles de Miramon wrote: Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: Hi, all. I'm using LyX 1.4.1 on Debian, and writing in the koma-script book class. I'm having a problem with footnotes and table floats (it happens with figure floats, too). In the text, I have a footnote, which I *think* should go at the

Re: Instant Preview working in LyX 1.4.1?

2006-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Is Instant Preview working at all in LyX 1.4.1? I upgraded from 1.3.7 to 1.4.1 on my Fedora 5 box and mathematical expression are not rendered with Instant Preview. Then, I removed 1.4.1 and installed 1.3.7 back and it worked again... Works for me under Windows XP.

Re: upper case letter with accentuation

2006-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
paul saumane wrote: 2) In a title, is there a way to mix character size with bolding and slanting on several lines to reproduce the way it was done on old books. I tried it using title and ctrl new line but the first line(s) are not taken into account in the final document. Give a small

Re: Exporting to DVI in Windows

2006-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adrian M. Peter wrote: I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix this? Why doesn't it just

Re: Exporting to DVI in Windows

2006-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Adrian M. Peter wrote: I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix

Re: Turning a LyX environment into a LaTeX command

2006-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, After Richard Heck talked about LatexType=Command in the LyX Title environment thread, I started experimenting and got it to work. I have a LyX and LaTeX breakout environment (breakout is the name of the environment) which prints in a shaded box, with a label.

Re: postscript converter

2006-06-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Karin E wrote: Hello i just installed Lyx 1.4.1 for windows with the installer package from wiki.lyx. Which version of the installer did you use? There are two linked from the wiki, one that installs just LyX (and will take you to the download sites for anything else you need) and the other

Re: timestamp of lyx files not updated in windows xp

2006-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello - i notice a strange problem when using lyx 1.4.1 under windows xp (various machines): when working on a file and saving it, the Date Modified and Time attributes are not updated. this is particularly annoying since my backup strategy is based on the files'

Re: Inserting a tab indented outline into a lyx document

2006-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, In several places in my latest book I need to insert tab indented outlines. Here's an example: Whole program Initialize Open input file for read Open output file for write Copy loop

Re: Inserting a tab indented outline into a lyx document

2006-06-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: That works perfectly, and I could make a LyX environment to eliminate the ERT. As it turned out, I just used the itemize environment for this particular application, but your example showed me how to directly translate my tab indented outline into LyX with a simple Ruby

Re: Instant Preview working in LyX 1.4.1?

2006-06-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Is there some way to check out on some error messages that might come up when lyx tries to execute the instant preview? lyx -dbg any (and brace yourself for the flood of messages). /Paul

Re: Inserting a tab indented outline into a lyx document

2006-06-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Johnson wrote: Seems easier to just use the itemize environment with customized bullet symbols. if you use the Document/Settings/Bullets options, you can eliminate the symbols and then the output looks exactly the way you want. I thought about that, but what if you also want bullet lists

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Springer publisher wants a certain style for references. I tried to make one by using latex makebst It produced springer.dbj. springer .bst and springer.log in my home. Now I am confused how to proceed. The existing bst files are spread in /usr/local/texlive/..

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: After reconfiguring LyX, you should be able to select the .bst file from the drop down list of choices. Unless you are using a Springer style file, there is no need for \usepackage{springer}. Jean-Marc, (Not unless my mother was kidding me all those years.) I

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 18:13 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Hi Paul (I am sure your mother was right..) Disclaimer: I have not done this myself (being an English-speaker) (although the Brits might disagree). Theoretically, if you run latex against makebst.tex and choose

Re: strange text alignment in tables

2006-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi all I am writhing a questionnaire in Lyx 1.4.1 on Win XP. The whole thing is one gigantic table. I experience very strange effects with the alignment of text both vertically and horizontally 1. Text in adjacent columns are not aligned even when both are set at the

Re: importing program code

2006-06-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andrew Harrington wrote: I am new to Lyx and have no LaTeX experience. I am writing a sequence of Python tutorials in a book document. I tried switching from default book to AMS book because it supports numbered exercises and examples, however in the AMS system, each exercise appears to

Re: Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc.

2006-06-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: As I understood you, you insert the graphics as EPS in LyX and produce then the PDF via pdflatex. I also use pdflatex for the PDF-output but insert all graphics as PDF. This has the advantage that the compilation process is much faster because JPG, PNG, and PDF-graphics can

Re: Lost Keybindings in 1.4.1

2006-06-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Rich == Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich This is frustrating: in 1.4.1 (linux), some of my shortcut Rich keys no longer work. Same bind file as before. Some that do work Rich include: C-d View dvi output C-i Italics (emphasize) C-b Bold Rich C-h Compile

Re: ECBI1440

2006-07-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Kaito wrote: Hi! Compiling my lyx-file, DVI complains about missing the font ECBI1440! Where can I get it from, please? Kaito. You need to install the EC font package. ECBI1440 is just the bold italic version of the EC font at a particular type size. How you obtain and install the EC

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and

Re: Index more small

2006-07-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
icebna wrote: Hi all : I'm sorry. I lost how make that the superscript number are more small. Is very big to my work. Thanks advanced Miguel Is this what you need? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/30672

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sven Schreiber wrote: Don't know if this is a known bug; when using pdf (pdflatex), Lyx doesn't respond while waiting for latex run 1 forever. The exported latex compiles fine directly to pdf with Miktex (using Texniccenter). Using other pdf-generating profiles works, so this is not a huge

Re: no Comment environment in release 1.4.1 windows version

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Chen wrote: Dear all, I can not find Comment environment in the release 1.4.1 of windows version. I reinstalled it again, and got nothing. What can I do? Thanks in advance. Michael Insert-Note-Comment. It's not an environment in 1.4.1. /Paul

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. Well, I just opened a command window on my laptop (XP Pro), ran a command in it, hit Alt-F4 and (a) the window vanished and (b) it's not

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native

Re: Math fonts in win32

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Weithöner wrote: Hi there, I have spent a number of hours trying to figure out how to get the math symbols displayed in in the win32 environment. The standard installation does not allow this. For instance, relations such as \leq result in a dot displayed instead of the symbol. I read all

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. I did this for all

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sven Schreiber wrote: Thanks for your reply, Paul. I loaded your document into LyX 1.4.1 here (Win XP, MiKTeX but *not* Texniccenter), substituted a PNG file I have (you didn't attach yours), and viewed it via pdflatex with no problem. I routinely use PNG images in PDF files and have not had

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start-Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a

Re: BibTeX Styles

2006-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Anyone know where can I find samples of how the citations and list of references come out using various bibtex styles? Bruce Google is your friend. Try bibtex and samples as the keywords. Of particular interest might be:

Wiki idea

2006-07-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Would the academics on the list be willing to contribute to a Wiki page that paired journals with BibTeX style files that conformed to those journals (possibly including custom styles contributed by the writers)? /Paul

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: There is a python.exe file in the same directory as the lyx.exe executable. Python opens what looks like a cmd.exe window that you can't close with Alt-F4 either. I wonder if lyx.exe is somehow running in a python shell? No. LyX runs Python scripts for various things, but

Re: Instant-Preview not working - How to troublecheck

2006-07-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi fellow LyXers, I am sure this must have been discussed here, but I could not find it :-( There've been a few messages about people who could not get preview to work, but this is the first I recall where it worked and then broke. In my LyX 1.4.1 for Windows XP,

Re: Wiki idea

2006-07-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Charles de Miramon wrote: LB wrote: I agree. That's a great idea. http://jo.irisson.free.fr/bstdatabase/index.php Cheers, Charles Outstanding! This obviates the need for a wiki page (although perhaps someone should link this site on the wiki, since this could turn into a FAQ).

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Harris wrote: I researched and found a few reports complaining about not being able to close cmd.exe with alt-f4. I found no report of being able to close cmd.exe shell with alt-f4. I think Paul has a very talented machine. Boy, you sure wouldn't know it from its general performance!

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sven Schreiber wrote: Jean-Pierre Chretien schrieb: Dear all, how do I activate/access (whatever you call it) the drop-down menu for setting the paragraph environment without the mouse? Here (lyx-1.4.1) after Alt-E P I get the paragraph settings window, but then it seems that the

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sven Schreiber wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: M-p (alt-p) followed by a space opens the environment list. From there, repeatedly typing the same letter cycles through all environment names starting with that letter. Thanks alot Paul! I looked in the guides and the wiki and couldn't find

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: M-p (alt-p) followed by a space opens the environment list. From there, repeatedly typing the same letter cycles through all environment names starting with that letter. I was not aware of this, but it does not work excatly as described here: I need the arrow keys

Re: bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left

2006-07-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose' Matos wrote: I would like to hear from other windows users. If the bug is not there it should be filled in bugzilla to be fixed in 1.4.2. I can reproduce it (LyX 1.4.1, WinXP). If I follow Sven's instructions and then type the letter 'a', the keyboard is locked out (but the mouse

Re: \abstractname failure

2006-07-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
mail.k wrote: But I am /not /using Babel (to my knowledge, the document is in English) and I got the preamble right. You may be using Babel anyway. I'm set up to write in English (true English, i.e., the American version :-)) only, and I just created a new document with a few words in it

Re: Instant-Preview not working - How to troublecheck

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

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

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

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

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

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

2006-07-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dean O'Connor wrote: This is my env path value: PATH=c:\program files\imagemagick-6.2.8-q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\ system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Progra m Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL

Re: portable Lyx version: live lyx CD or others?

2006-07-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Chen wrote: I think it is meaningful to produce a portable Lyx, which can be used with U-disk, CD or DVD. Any suggestions? There was a discussion on the list not too long ago about running LyX from a flash drive. You might be able to find it in the GMANE list archive. (Sorry, don't

Re: Wiki idea

2006-07-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/bstdatabase/index.php Cheers, Charles Outstanding! This obviates the need for a wiki page (although perhaps someone should link this site on the wiki, since this could

Re: Exporting to pdf on windows XP

2006-07-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: I got an error from acroread that the file was corrupted when trying to view a Lyx document (Beamer presentation) into pdf using pdflatex. Any ideas? Maybe a graphic didn't convert properly? If it repeats, can you post the culprit (including any images), or a minimal

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: The Framesubtitle feature of beamer.layout does not seem to exist on Windows though. That's odd. Should it? (Meaning, does it exist as an environment in Linux?) You can enter a frame subtitle by putting \framesubtitle{blah blah blah} in ERT as the first thing in the

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Sonntag, 16. Juli 2006 01:26 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Myriam Abramson wrote: The Framesubtitle feature of beamer.layout does not seem to exist on Windows though. That's odd. Should it? (Meaning, does it exist as an environment in Linux?) You Yes, it does. Maybe

Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex

2006-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Sonntag, 16. Juli 2006 01:31 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Hi all, First, thanks to the developers for another fine update. The Windows 1.4.2 installer ran error-free for me. However, subsequent to installing it, I lost View-PDF (pdflatex) in 1.4.1 (and presumably 1.4.2

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Sven, do the *.lst files get regenerated if you do Tools-TeX information-rescan? Georg, I'm not Sven :-) but I installed 1.4.2 (Joost's installer) and (a) it found all the LaTeX stuff during the initial installation and (b) the .lst files do get regenerated with a rescan.

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
(Disclaimer: what follows below was done on my laptop, which we've established was manufactured in an alternative dimension) Steve Harris wrote: No, Tex Information does not work. The Rescan button does not work right. I have to run python TeXFiles.py in order to generate a the .lst files.

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... I suspect that the sound snippet where Linus Torvalds pronounces linux helped promote linux quite a bit... Not to mention settling more than a few arguments -- as the

Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex

2006-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. Even my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! Another thing to add to the mystery of alt-F4. My only problem so far is the win installer still did not get the equation instant

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Claude Garreau wrote: Hi, I recently intalled the win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2, and I can't view the Latex logfile. It says No LaTeX log file found. Is there a way to circunvent the problem? Thanks of any information, The same thing happens to me (in both 1.4.2 and

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Hi everyone, I have installed LyX142 and have a strange problem. When I include a graphics into my document, the DVI output shows the whole page of the graphics (pdf file) while it should clip to the bounding box. This was working correctly in Lyx141. Now with LyX142, I

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Shourya Prakash Otta wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and say \alpha and the math symbol for alpha will appear. (assumed that you have the latex-xft fonts installed). I

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Jean-Claude Garreau wrote: Hi, I recently intalled the win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2, and I can't view the Latex logfile. It says No LaTeX log file found. Is there a way to circunvent the problem? Thanks of any information, The same thing happens to me

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 20:33 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Yes, and it contains the correct content. Picking up from after where I load the document but just before where I execute View-DraftDVI: Temporary file `C:/Documents and Settings/me/Local Settings/Temp/lyx

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: cannot open file name BibTest.aux Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Paul wrote No, that was Jean-Pierre. I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View-DVI. It worked correctly. I'm attaching the modified document (when I loaded it there was no

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: An easier solution may be to View-DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? You use one of those Mac thingies, right?

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Harris wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Paul wrote No, that was Jean-Pierre. I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View-DVI. It worked correctly. I'm attaching the modified

Re: Suggesting Hyphenation Within URL

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I must be missing something simple here, so please be gentle when you clue me in. The mechanism for providing hyphenation hints to LaTeX is to put {\-} at acceptable word breaks. However, when a URL is entered (\usepackage{url} in the preamble) with

Re: Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: John Pye wrote: Here's the really surprising part. When I copy the same PDF file to another machine (also Win2k, also Acrobat 4.0), it prints out fine, without the brackets chopped. That does not match with what I'll write below, but nevertheless... So I guess the

Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?

2006-07-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bo Peng wrote: Here is a question along the same lines: How can I modify the number of environments shown by default? By default, it shows 10 different types and you have to scroll up or down. Ideally, I would like all the environments shown with the current one highlighted. This has

Re: Lyx Document Error

2006-07-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adrian M. Peter wrote: I was able to fix the error by removing the Bibtex Bibliography at the end of the document and reinserting it. But I have no idea what caused this. Thanks. _ From: Adrian M. Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:43 PM To:

Re: More class files by default

2006-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or anything to the /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run the texhash program. The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some strange reason, so the performance hit was

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bo Peng wrote: The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached. I can view the figure (converted successfully) under windows, using lyx 1.4.2. Bo Same here (LyX 1.4.2, WinXP). It takes a couple of seconds on my laptop for the image to convert, but convert it does. /Paul

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bo Peng wrote: What OS? What other processes are running? Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox. Bo Bo, There's an earlier thread (started with message [EMAIL PROTECTED] dated 7/11 from Sven Schreiber, subject bug(?): strange behavior after

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Ok, this means it has something to do with my setup. I'm just surprised that this one particular figure causes the problem while all others figures work just fine. How can I run Lyx in debug mode to see what is happening? Leo From a command shell (either in the LyX bin directory

Re: clippping figures in Lyx

2006-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
UK wrote: The behavior of the CLIPPING function in LyX seems mysterious. Entering numbers for the x,y coordinates (offsets?) of the bottom left or upper right does not produce the expected result: things move, but not by the correct amounts or even direction. What am I doing wrong? They

Re: Multiple lines in a table cell

2006-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I used to know this, but forgot. When working with a LyX table, how does one have multiple lines in one cell? I need more than wordwrap, I need to be able to break the lines exactly where I want them broken. Other solutions might include an itemize list within the

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: I think I'm getting somewhere with this. It turns out that when I start lyx by using lyx.bat file from bin directory I get the problem with the figure. However if I run lyx.exe the problem disappears. This is what my lyx.bat looks like: @echo off SET LC_ALL=en_EN SET

Re: \noun

2006-07-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: I'll try to find out from the journal what they recommend to fix this problem. Thanks, Rich. You might ask the journal whether they apply their own style files or macros and, if so, whether they happen to have a macro named \noun (which might be redefining the one

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: I tried that with no success. When starting LyX.exe without the lyx.bat, the figure works every time though. How do I display the shell windows that shows the debug messages? So I can see if there are any. Make a copy of lyx.bat, change the last line to lyx.exe -dbg graphics

Re: HTML view does not work in LyX 142

2006-07-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nicolás wrote: Hi! Calling Vew-HTML in my Lyx 142 Windows XP does not work. There is a problem with spaces in file names. The log is below: Calling htlatex C:/Documents and Settings/pepito/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir496a03376/lyx_tmpbuf0/MonasDePascua.tex This is e-TeX, Version

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Hi When the image does not preview, the last a few lines in the debug window are: ForkedCallQueue: waking up LoaderQueue: I'm going to sleep AFPL Ghostscript 8.14 (2004-02-20) Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY:

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Hello I added the echo line in convertDefault.sh script. The following are the error message that I see: filetools(getFormatFromContents) File type not recognised before EOF! filetools(getFormatFromContents) Couldn't find a known format!

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: I mentioned that editing out aiksaurus line in lyx.bat fixed the problem. It turns out that removing SET LC_ALL=en_EN also fixes the problem. Renaming aiksaurus directory however does not fix it. Starting Lyx.exe directly also fixes the problem. It the lyx.bat that causes this

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Yes, moving the file test.lyx to C:\ solves the problem. The path to test.lyx is fairly long. It's located five directories deep. The path consists of 68 characters, including C: and \, plus the file name. I have changed figure name to be only one character long, but that did not

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Thank you Paul for all your help. Adding path to GS in lyx.bat did not solved the problem. I have this feeling that the problem is somehow related to the postscript commands inside the figure... I don't know much about Postscript, but I looked in your test.ps file a few days ago

LyX 1.4.2, Aspell and second languages

2006-07-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, Under Win XP, I have Aspell loaded in C:\Aspell, including the German (de_DE) dictionaries. In the LyX 1.4.2 settings, I have de_DE listed as the alternate language. (The preferences file has \use_alt_language true \alternate_language de_DE in it.) However, if I try to spell-check a

Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tom Tom wrote: Dear list, I do need a long table having three columns with a caption. Everything works fine when entering the \caption... at the end of a two column table. With more columns however, I do get the following error in the pdflatex run: Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr.

Re: Help with citation/bibliography style

2006-08-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nicolás wrote: Hi! This is probably a latex question but hopefully you can help me. I would like a bibliography style that inserts citations in the text as: [MainAuthor et al., year] and that creates a bibliography like: [MainAuthor et al., year] Authors list, ... I have tried Natbib, but

Re: Postscript preview

2006-08-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: When I start lyx1.4.2 I see two black windows (shell windows???) pop-up and dissapear before Lyx actually appears. Lyx1.4.1 only flashes one black window. Does that mean anything? Normal behavior. The first window is lyx.bat; as soon as it starts lyx.exe, it exits. The second

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: I uninstalled Lyx and reinstalled it into c:\lyx\lyx14. This solved my figure problem!!! Thank you. I can now use 1.4.2 Looks like I spoke too soon. Now a different figure does not want to be displayed. Leo But the original one does display, even when loaded from its

Re: Overwrite existing files

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: Is there any way to turn off the dialog for export errors, for The file already exists, Overwrite? I don't think so (short of modifying the source and recompiling). I select export and switch to another application, a few second later the error dialog get buried (on XP), and

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. No, it works fine from C:\Program Files\... This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find the requisite configuration information. (But it would at

Re: Overwrite existing files

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: It is an odd behavior to lose the error dialog under a window. It gets buried because I tell Lyx to export pdf then switch to another application. The error dialog takes a while to pop up and ends up under the other application. This sort of thing occurs to me occasionally

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Lyx (or GS) gets stuck at different figures depending on what I comment out in lyx.bat. I want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly: in a single document with multiple images, GS will get stuck on image with the original lyx.bat file, then process that image correctly

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: I want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly: in a single document with multiple images, GS will get stuck on image with the original lyx.bat file, then process that image correctly but get stuck on a later one if you comment something out of lyx.bat? (And how far it gets

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial eps, pdf, and so on. Inkscape looks pretty nice, but unless I'm

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Win doesn't find new installed Tex packages

2006-08-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello! I installed the bundle version of Lyx 1.4.2. (on a new WinXP system) Now I installed the koma-skript with the Mik-Tex Package manager. This worked well with Lyx 1.4.1. but doesn't work with 1.4.2. Lyx doesn't find any new installed package with MikTex. Has had

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