Re: Problem with xdvi preview on MAC OSX

2011-05-11 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Works for me too. Mac OS X 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard Server with latest updates but logged in as a normal user), LyX 2.0 (LyX-2.0.0+qt4 dmg downloaded on 2011-05-10), MacTex 2010 (downloaded from TUG on 2011-05-10). On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 11.05.2011

Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-12 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server machine. The executable runs fine. I can create simple documents (as in testing someone else's issue with 10.6.7) but when I try New from Template the various folders are empty. Those in the LyX package are there (Finder can

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-12 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server machine. The executable runs fine. I can create simple documents (as in testing

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server machine

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:54 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: I seem

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: On May 12, 2011, at 4:54 PM, BH wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-18 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I recently installed LyX on Snow Leopard (Server) [10.6.7 with all the latest patches]. Go to lyx.org and download the dmg from there. That page you listed is somewhat old; Apple don't appear to be update those download pages anymore --- they are pushing App Store instead. Remember you will need

Re: PDF will not reload

2011-05-19 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Hafney hafne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm at the end of my rope with adobe acrobat. I'm using adobe acrobat reader 10. I can successfully generate a pdf but I cannot update the pdf after I make changes to my .lyx document. How do I fix this? (I'm using windows).

Re: Portable LyX PortableApps

2011-05-20 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Matthias Schmidt gm_schm...@yahoo.dewrote: I gave this request to the PortableApps Forum Request Apps yesterday (http://portableapps.com/node/27981) : There was a version of LyX at PortableApps.com but it was difficult to get to work. I never succeeded in

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On May 18, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: (be aware that the recommended MacTeX install is a pkg of 1.2Gb) There is a much smaller package that can be installed that has all the TeX files required by LyX. See

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Yeah but the link on the LyX wiki doesn't point to the TUG address it points direct to the FTP server directory storing the mkpg for MacTeX. It's misleading. On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On May 25, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
little netbok air has 120 Gig. Meddling is not worth the effort. It's better suing something like CleanMyMac or similar. greetings, el On 5/25/11 7:47 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: Yeah but the link on the LyX wiki doesn't point to the TUG address it points direct to the FTP server directory

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:26 PM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: ... The wiki entry for Mac points direct to an FTP directory for MacTeX (the package is 1.2Gb) others have suggested that there are smaller (streamlined) packages available but anyone looking at the LyX wiki isn't going to

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: It'll trim approximately 1 Gig in unnecessary language and other crap from *ALL* apps and stuff, not just from the wiki, but if space is tight yu don't have to mess about installations :-)-O Shame it doesn't also trim

Re: Pasting from pdf

2011-05-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: Making some text as Bold-Italic-Numbered-Size 14-Roman can be done in Lyx, but it is much better to say that such text is in a Section environment, because when changes on the document style are made, you only have to

Re: Pasting from pdf

2011-05-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, Andrew, how did you manage to copy from a PDF and pasting on Abiword keeping the format? I was curious, so I tried with a simple PDF, but it only pasted plain text. I tried something similar. Had a LyX-generated

Empty document at start

2011-06-04 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Is there an option (preference setting perhaps) that will cause LyX to start up with an empty document? I'm finding it increasingly tedious whenever I open LyX to have to do a Cmd-N as the first action before I can start type. At the moment the default settings mean I get the splash screen

Re: indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0

2011-06-06 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Hwan C. Lin hwan...@gmail.com wrote: Can one tell me how to remove indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0? There isn't enough information in that to help you. What document class are you using? What bibliography style? Either or both of those may cause an indent so

Re: indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0

2011-06-06 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Hwan C. Lin wrote: Can one tell me how to remove indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0? Edit Paragraph Settings. Remove the string from the Longest Label input field. This is a bug. Interesting, for me Longest Label is

Re: indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0

2011-06-06 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Trevor Jenkins wrote: Interesting, for me Longest Label is greyed out (even with a new document created using the default document class and for the Tufte handout and book classes, which are what I use most

Re: Bibliography without bibtex file

2011-06-16 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I don't have answer but a related question. Occasionally I want to include a citation in a document that doesn't warrant being added to my set of LaTeX .bib files. I can't figure out how I might to that in LyX (other than hard coding the TeX stuff by hand). As to your specific question I agree

Re: Copying a table column crashes LyX

2011-06-20 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 06/20/2011 06:58 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 20/06/2011 8:18 p.m., Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Il 20/06/2011 01:28, Andrew Parsloe ha scritto: I created a table and made some settings then, in the right-click menu

Re: reinstall LyX 2.0.0 on OS X, templates, examples, layout, key-bind missing

2011-06-22 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 22.06.2011 um 08:11 schrieb David Nuddleman: On Jun 20, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Zan wrote: Hello All, OS X 10.5.8, Fresh MacTex 2010 I've attempted to install 2.0 over 1.6 and now have only empty folders in the

Importing LaTeX file fails

2011-06-24 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/2010/05/constraint-grammar-tutorial/ The author provides a LaTeX file that latex processes correctly (other than that my system doesn't have a specific font installed). When I import this file

Re: Importing LaTeX file fails

2011-06-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 24.06.2011 19:02, schrieb Trevor Jenkins: I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/**2010/05/constraint-grammar-**tutorial/http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/2010/05

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything in which I need to see markup. As much as I agree with this, the one

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a

Re: Problem with lyx 2 on Mac

2011-07-05 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:30 AM, sam samuel_f...@yahoo.com wrote: ... use insert --- list/toc to include file in the my document. ... However, any new file I create in the new version can not read the bibliography data. I checked the latex error message. It simply says undefined path Seen

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:31 AM, steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final editing/touch-ups before generating my final book? Conceivable yes, practical maybe. It will depend as

Re: Portable version of LyX? [solved]

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Karl Linek k...@linek.at wrote: This is very easy and does its job fine. Why then this projekt ist abandoned? It should be easy to do and it ist very important for the project. Many people dont carry always their notebook around. But the usb-stick is easy to

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I'm a Mac user too and make extensive use of both Scrivener and LyX/LaTeX. But they are no competitive products. LyX is at the end of the pre-press cycle; it's about presentation. Don't get me wrong its f***ing good presentation given that LaTeX is behind it but none the less it's primarily about

Re: SV: tufte class query

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Kulkarni Shantanu m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: Hi, The tufte class title and author name is slanted. How to get those upright? Have you tried to use emphasis or the text style dialog. Worked for me in my test of tufte book... Works for me

Re: Tufte Handout Title (again) and TOC

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Kulkarni Shantanu m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: Hi, I want my tufte handout title look like these ; http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Layouts/tufte-handout/1.6.x/sample-handout.lyx Um, that LyX file and the class authors' own PDF equivalent do not have

Re: Tufte Handout Title (again) and TOC

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kulkarni Shantanu m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: * Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com [110713 23:32]: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Layouts/tufte-handout/1.6.x/sample-handout.lyx Um, that LyX file and the class authors' own PDF equivalent do

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Stephen George steve_...@optusnet.com.auwrote: A couple of you asked what I intend to do (how complicated). I'll be dragging data from a data base populated with genealogy data GEDCOM? There's an example in an early edition of Michael Kay's book on using

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Livingstone livingstonem...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively you might want to consider using LifeLifes (open source so provided you have a C compiler can be run pretty much on many machine

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so important. It assumes few prerequisites. I do recall there being significant content at your site related

Re: Problem with lyx 2 on Mac

2011-07-19 Thread Trevor Jenkins
is saved in some other directory that later inserts will include full path names. My workaround is to include a b') step above to save the document. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:30 AM, sam samuel_f...@yahoo.com wrote: ... use

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

2011-08-30 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Nothing to do with LyX but I did enjoy this PowerPoint related item reported on the Guardian newspaper this weekend. Maybe someone there is a fan of Edward Tufte in that party; Tufte's essay on PowerPoint should be read by everyone who thinks that presentation software is a good thing.

Re: Lyx 2.0.1 not working on Lion

2011-10-01 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Mark mark@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi, After upgrading to Lion I checked that my Lyx installation worked - no problem. Now when I try to run it,  it fails with the PowerPC applications not supported error from Lion. I'm not sure what changed - don't  

Mutliple Bibliographies Problems

2011-10-11 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I wanted to use two different bibliographies in a document. There was already a bibliography defined and used in the document text. To add the second one the menu items Insert List BibTeX Bibliography ... were used. The second seemed to be there. It was shown separately from the first and if I

Re: A4 paper in tufte book class

2011-11-03 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Document Settings Then Custom where you type a4paper as an option. Works for me in 2.0.0. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Roel Schipper - CITG h.r.schip...@tudelft.nl wrote: Is there a way to use A4 paper in Tufte book class? The Tufte-LaTeX def file is prepared for A4. LyX is using Letter now

Re: A4 paper in tufte book class - SOLVED

2011-11-04 Thread Trevor Jenkins
. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG h.r.schip...@tudelft.nl wrote: Thanks Trevor, That works for me as well! I would not have thought of putting a4paper there without your suggestion, thanks. Roel -Original Message- From: Trevor Jenkins [mailto:bslwann

Re: Examples of integration between Lyx, Sage computations, and PDFLateX

2012-03-31 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Thomas Coffee thomasmcof...@gmail.com wrote: I notice your email shows up in the archive thread but mine does not, and thus neither do the attachments. Any idea how to change this?

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

2012-04-15 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote bi...@jovial.com wrote: Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the You cannot ... Please read the tutorial message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:28 AM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 03/20/2010 09:23 PM, Jose Quesada wrote:  1. incremental search Do you mean F3? no, I mean that as you type in the search box things that match

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. It's hard Julio. It's hard enough

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

2010-06-15 Thread Trevor Jenkins
What sort of notes are these? It's too vague a term without some context. In my day job I work as an amanuensis for Deaf and disabled students. The notes I write (or type) are expected to be nothing more than a verbatim transcript of the class/meeting/lecture. There is supposed to me some

Re: PDF preview not working on upgrade to 2.0.4

2012-09-30 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Tim Garrett tim.garr...@utah.edu wrote: I've updated from 1.6 to 2.0 on lion OS X, and now the pdf viewer eyes no longer bring up the acrobat window. I'm running 2.0.4 on Mountain Lion without any issues. The compiling appears to be successful This is

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

2012-11-24 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier ar...@cornell.edu wrote: I agree completely with Trevor. I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful

Re: My hyperlinks and urls are not working in Adobe or Okular but do work

2013-05-23 Thread Trevor Jenkins
That PDF works fine for me in Acrobat too (v10.1.7) on Mac OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion) On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM, John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca wrote: I don't seem to be able to create a clickable hyperlink or url that works in Adobe Reader or Okular but they work just fine in Document

Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject

2009-09-11 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Murray Eisenberg wrote: I agree with the O.P. on this. This is something that, surely, is easily fixed at the server end, so that each message going out from the server has, say, [LyX] prepended to the subject. But

Re: [Survey] Explicit subject tag on this list

2009-09-18 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Manveru manv...@manveru.pl wrote: 2009/9/17 Andre Poenitz andre.poen...@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de That's not really surprising for a page that needs creating an account. I am even surprised that 36 people voted... I am surprised you said that. I've tested

Re: Problem with xdvi preview on MAC OSX

2011-05-11 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Works for me too. Mac OS X 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard Server with latest updates but logged in as a normal user), LyX 2.0 (LyX-2.0.0+qt4 dmg downloaded on 2011-05-10), MacTex 2010 (downloaded from TUG on 2011-05-10). On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 11.05.2011

Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-12 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server machine. The executable runs fine. I can create simple documents (as in testing someone else's issue with 10.6.7) but when I try New from Template the various folders are empty. Those in the LyX package are there (Finder can

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-12 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server machine. The executable runs fine. I can create simple documents (as in testing

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server machine

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:54 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: I seem

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: On May 12, 2011, at 4:54 PM, BH wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-18 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I recently installed LyX on Snow Leopard (Server) [10.6.7 with all the latest patches]. Go to lyx.org and download the dmg from there. That page you listed is somewhat old; Apple don't appear to be update those download pages anymore --- they are pushing App Store instead. Remember you will need

Re: PDF will not reload

2011-05-19 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Hafney hafne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm at the end of my rope with adobe acrobat. I'm using adobe acrobat reader 10. I can successfully generate a pdf but I cannot update the pdf after I make changes to my .lyx document. How do I fix this? (I'm using windows).

Re: Portable LyX PortableApps

2011-05-20 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Matthias Schmidt gm_schm...@yahoo.dewrote: I gave this request to the PortableApps Forum Request Apps yesterday (http://portableapps.com/node/27981) : There was a version of LyX at PortableApps.com but it was difficult to get to work. I never succeeded in

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On May 18, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: (be aware that the recommended MacTeX install is a pkg of 1.2Gb) There is a much smaller package that can be installed that has all the TeX files required by LyX. See

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Yeah but the link on the LyX wiki doesn't point to the TUG address it points direct to the FTP server directory storing the mkpg for MacTeX. It's misleading. On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On May 25, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
little netbok air has 120 Gig. Meddling is not worth the effort. It's better suing something like CleanMyMac or similar. greetings, el On 5/25/11 7:47 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: Yeah but the link on the LyX wiki doesn't point to the TUG address it points direct to the FTP server directory

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:26 PM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: ... The wiki entry for Mac points direct to an FTP directory for MacTeX (the package is 1.2Gb) others have suggested that there are smaller (streamlined) packages available but anyone looking at the LyX wiki isn't going to

Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?

2011-05-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: It'll trim approximately 1 Gig in unnecessary language and other crap from *ALL* apps and stuff, not just from the wiki, but if space is tight yu don't have to mess about installations :-)-O Shame it doesn't also trim

Re: Pasting from pdf

2011-05-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: Making some text as Bold-Italic-Numbered-Size 14-Roman can be done in Lyx, but it is much better to say that such text is in a Section environment, because when changes on the document style are made, you only have to

Re: Pasting from pdf

2011-05-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, Andrew, how did you manage to copy from a PDF and pasting on Abiword keeping the format? I was curious, so I tried with a simple PDF, but it only pasted plain text. I tried something similar. Had a LyX-generated

Empty document at start

2011-06-04 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Is there an option (preference setting perhaps) that will cause LyX to start up with an empty document? I'm finding it increasingly tedious whenever I open LyX to have to do a Cmd-N as the first action before I can start type. At the moment the default settings mean I get the splash screen

Re: indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0

2011-06-06 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Hwan C. Lin hwan...@gmail.com wrote: Can one tell me how to remove indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0? There isn't enough information in that to help you. What document class are you using? What bibliography style? Either or both of those may cause an indent so

Re: indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0

2011-06-06 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Hwan C. Lin wrote: Can one tell me how to remove indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0? Edit Paragraph Settings. Remove the string from the Longest Label input field. This is a bug. Interesting, for me Longest Label is

Re: indent in bibliograph in LyX 2.0.0

2011-06-06 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Trevor Jenkins wrote: Interesting, for me Longest Label is greyed out (even with a new document created using the default document class and for the Tufte handout and book classes, which are what I use most

Re: Bibliography without bibtex file

2011-06-16 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I don't have answer but a related question. Occasionally I want to include a citation in a document that doesn't warrant being added to my set of LaTeX .bib files. I can't figure out how I might to that in LyX (other than hard coding the TeX stuff by hand). As to your specific question I agree

Re: Copying a table column crashes LyX

2011-06-20 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 06/20/2011 06:58 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 20/06/2011 8:18 p.m., Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Il 20/06/2011 01:28, Andrew Parsloe ha scritto: I created a table and made some settings then, in the right-click menu

Re: reinstall LyX 2.0.0 on OS X, templates, examples, layout, key-bind missing

2011-06-22 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 22.06.2011 um 08:11 schrieb David Nuddleman: On Jun 20, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Zan wrote: Hello All, OS X 10.5.8, Fresh MacTex 2010 I've attempted to install 2.0 over 1.6 and now have only empty folders in the

Importing LaTeX file fails

2011-06-24 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/2010/05/constraint-grammar-tutorial/ The author provides a LaTeX file that latex processes correctly (other than that my system doesn't have a specific font installed). When I import this file

Re: Importing LaTeX file fails

2011-06-25 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 24.06.2011 19:02, schrieb Trevor Jenkins: I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/**2010/05/constraint-grammar-**tutorial/http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/2010/05

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything in which I need to see markup. As much as I agree with this, the one

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a

Re: Problem with lyx 2 on Mac

2011-07-05 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:30 AM, sam samuel_f...@yahoo.com wrote: ... use insert --- list/toc to include file in the my document. ... However, any new file I create in the new version can not read the bibliography data. I checked the latex error message. It simply says undefined path Seen

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:31 AM, steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final editing/touch-ups before generating my final book? Conceivable yes, practical maybe. It will depend as

Re: Portable version of LyX? [solved]

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Karl Linek k...@linek.at wrote: This is very easy and does its job fine. Why then this projekt ist abandoned? It should be easy to do and it ist very important for the project. Many people dont carry always their notebook around. But the usb-stick is easy to

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I'm a Mac user too and make extensive use of both Scrivener and LyX/LaTeX. But they are no competitive products. LyX is at the end of the pre-press cycle; it's about presentation. Don't get me wrong its f***ing good presentation given that LaTeX is behind it but none the less it's primarily about

Re: SV: tufte class query

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Kulkarni Shantanu m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: Hi, The tufte class title and author name is slanted. How to get those upright? Have you tried to use emphasis or the text style dialog. Worked for me in my test of tufte book... Works for me

Re: Tufte Handout Title (again) and TOC

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Kulkarni Shantanu m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: Hi, I want my tufte handout title look like these ; http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Layouts/tufte-handout/1.6.x/sample-handout.lyx Um, that LyX file and the class authors' own PDF equivalent do not have

Re: Tufte Handout Title (again) and TOC

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kulkarni Shantanu m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: * Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com [110713 23:32]: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Layouts/tufte-handout/1.6.x/sample-handout.lyx Um, that LyX file and the class authors' own PDF equivalent do

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-13 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Stephen George steve_...@optusnet.com.auwrote: A couple of you asked what I intend to do (how complicated). I'll be dragging data from a data base populated with genealogy data GEDCOM? There's an example in an early edition of Michael Kay's book on using

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Livingstone livingstonem...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively you might want to consider using LifeLifes (open source so provided you have a C compiler can be run pretty much on many machine

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so important. It assumes few prerequisites. I do recall there being significant content at your site related

Re: Problem with lyx 2 on Mac

2011-07-19 Thread Trevor Jenkins
is saved in some other directory that later inserts will include full path names. My workaround is to include a b') step above to save the document. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:30 AM, sam samuel_f...@yahoo.com wrote: ... use

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

2011-08-30 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Nothing to do with LyX but I did enjoy this PowerPoint related item reported on the Guardian newspaper this weekend. Maybe someone there is a fan of Edward Tufte in that party; Tufte's essay on PowerPoint should be read by everyone who thinks that presentation software is a good thing.

Re: Lyx 2.0.1 not working on Lion

2011-10-01 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Mark mark@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi, After upgrading to Lion I checked that my Lyx installation worked - no problem. Now when I try to run it,  it fails with the PowerPC applications not supported error from Lion. I'm not sure what changed - don't  

Mutliple Bibliographies Problems

2011-10-11 Thread Trevor Jenkins
I wanted to use two different bibliographies in a document. There was already a bibliography defined and used in the document text. To add the second one the menu items Insert List BibTeX Bibliography ... were used. The second seemed to be there. It was shown separately from the first and if I

Re: A4 paper in tufte book class

2011-11-03 Thread Trevor Jenkins
Document Settings Then Custom where you type a4paper as an option. Works for me in 2.0.0. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Roel Schipper - CITG h.r.schip...@tudelft.nl wrote: Is there a way to use A4 paper in Tufte book class? The Tufte-LaTeX def file is prepared for A4. LyX is using Letter now

Re: A4 paper in tufte book class - SOLVED

2011-11-04 Thread Trevor Jenkins
. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG h.r.schip...@tudelft.nl wrote: Thanks Trevor, That works for me as well! I would not have thought of putting a4paper there without your suggestion, thanks. Roel -Original Message- From: Trevor Jenkins [mailto:bslwann

Re: Examples of integration between Lyx, Sage computations, and PDFLateX

2012-03-31 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Thomas Coffee thomasmcof...@gmail.com wrote: I notice your email shows up in the archive thread but mine does not, and thus neither do the attachments. Any idea how to change this?

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

2012-04-15 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote bi...@jovial.com wrote: Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the You cannot ... Please read the tutorial message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't

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