Acknowledgment

2020-02-20 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
LyX is acknowledged in this paper https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020319000480 because it was much easier to effect the work that underlies the paper, let alone to compose it, having something like LyX allowing me quickly to construct formulae. -- lyx-users mailing list

Re: Update: LyX 2.3.2-2 for Windows

2019-01-05 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 1/5/19 4:07 AM, Graeme wrote: A bug in the previous release of LyX 2.3.2 for Windows prevented the insertion of citations when using the Bibliography environment (rather than bib(la)tex). An updated installer is available here: http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.3.2/ It is not necessary

Re: lyx changes the file access privileges

2018-11-27 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/26/18 11:23 PM, paolo m. wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: There is no practical problem for me here, and a practical problem could be addressed by chmod. But the situation is puzzling. Files with access mode: -rw cannot be synced

Re: lyx changes the file access privileges

2018-11-24 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/24/18 7:11 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 11/24/18 6:33 PM, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: On 11/24/18 1:05 PM, paolo m.  wrote: As i change a lyx file name (say test1.lyx ) with a new name  (say test2.lyx) , by the command 'file -> save as', the new file created has the usual

Re: lyx changes the file access privileges

2018-11-24 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/24/18 1:05 PM, paolo m. wrote: As i change a lyx file name (say test1.lyx ) with a new name (say test2.lyx) , by the command 'file -> save as', the new file created has the usual access mode, but, when saved, its mode change so that is inaccessible to groups and to the world. That does

Re: Please help: how do I insert a list of my publications in an otherwise ready thesis?

2018-11-19 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/16/18 5:36 PM, Polina Proutskova wrote: I have written my PhD thesis in LyX and have to do my minor corrections. I’ve been asked to put a list of my publications in the thesis. What is the proper way to do it? My suggestion is rather brutal. That is to create a separate document for

Re: PDF graphics is blurred in LyX when scaled

2018-11-15 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
This d_mn'd thread already had both top posting... On 11/15/18 5:04 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: whenever I see unnecessary full quotes like this I know why top posting is the right thing to do :-)-O el On 15/11/2018 06:32, Baris Erkus wrote: On 14-Nov-18 11:36 PM,

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-07 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/7/18 9:10 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Well aware — I started writing in (a much earlier version of) LaTeX in Emacs at Stanford in the mid-1980s, while Knuth was still actively developing the TeX code. :-) The usual process back then was .tex → .dvi → .ps via the latex and dvips

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-05 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/5/18 4:55 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: I might well just be naive but I'm not getting this line of criticism at all. LyX has always been a frontend to LaTeX, right? That's it's /raison d'etre./ It's still the only game in town to that end, and it's fabulous at it. LaTeX creates PDFs.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-05 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/5/18 12:31 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: El lun., 5 nov. 2018 a las 0:53, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) (<mailto:daniel@oeconomist.com>>) escribió: On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > > Sorry for jumping into the discussi

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 4:55 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 04/11/2018 à 14:26, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) a écrit : I think we have to calm down here. I doubt that you should inject your guesses about the moods of others. As you prefer. It is about a proposed feature

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 3:57 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 04/11/2018 à 13:52, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) a écrit : Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here are missing the real point of the problem Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'? Yes, unequivocally. Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 1:18 AM, Pol wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters. No. The computer would not _rearrange_ letters. It would effect a string subsitution, oblivious to whether any of the letters

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 1:44 AM, Michael Berger wrote: Do you think this list is the right place for your continuing dispute? He's advocating a change to LyX.

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-03 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/3/18 4:16 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: On 11/2/18 9:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Perhaps this is why LyX becomes less relevant every year. I don't think that peer-reviewed academic publication is going to vanish anytim

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-03 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: You've not answered my actual question. A feature of the sort that you propose is not likely to be popular; the vast majority of people would, in constructing the underlying look-up table, find

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-02 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/2/18 9:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Perhaps this is why LyX becomes less relevant every year. I don't think that peer-reviewed academic publication is going to vanish anytime soon; and, over about the last decade, I've observed journals continuing to transition from accepting manuscripts

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-02 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/1/18 7:29 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: >> At one point, I wanted to create a couple of apps for Android. >> I've taught Java programming for a university; but, when I saw how >> much I would have to invest in learning the peculiarities of the >> Android interface, I lost nearly all of my

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-01 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/1/18 12:41 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Perhaps beating a dead horse, but I really wish there would be a LyX for iPad. I don't think that anyone is opposed to the idea, but it requires developers willing and _able_ to port to the iPad. I think that your hope would be in finding

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-10-23 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/23/2018 05:41 AM, Pol wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote: A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by lyx, by checking

Re: weird language management

2018-10-23 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/23/2018 06:04 AM, Pol wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: On 10/22/2018 03:38 AM, Pol wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: On 10/21/2018 11:48 AM, Paolo M wrote: I have noticed that spellchecker does not work

Re: weird language management

2018-10-22 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/22/2018 03:38 AM, Pol wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: On 10/21/2018 11:48 AM, Paolo M wrote: I have noticed that spellchecker does not work, if an alternative language has been given. Is that a bug? Do you have a vocabulary loaded

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-10-22 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote: A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by lyx, by checking a suitable list maintained by authors themseves. If there is to be a list of substring substitutions

Re: weird language management

2018-10-21 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/21/2018 11:48 AM, Paolo M wrote: I have noticed that spellchecker does not work, if an alternative language has been given. Is that a bug? Do you have a vocabulary loaded for the alternative language?

Re: Replace list x by list y

2018-10-12 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/11/2018 10:32 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:22:19 +0200 Daniel wrote: Hi, Is there a way to replace let's say all enumerate lists by itemize lists? Why in the WORLD would you want to do that? Were you mistaken that some lists needed numbers? Or do you just like the

Re: 2.3.1-1 on Mojave debugging

2018-10-10 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/10/2018 04:24 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Hi, I am trying to debug a lyxserver issue but when running lyx -dbg lyxserver I get Setting debug level to lyxserver Debugging `lyxserver' (External control interface) This application failed to start because

Re: Bibliographic Slop-Over

2018-10-07 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/07/2018 04:00 AM, José Abílio Matos wrote: On Sunday, 7 October 2018 02.48.38 WEST Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: Odd. We are each running distributions of Linux (Fedora in my case), so the apps should be virtually identical. What version of Fedora

Re: Bibliographic Slop-Over

2018-10-06 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/06/2018 05:02 AM, John Kane wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 at 06:27, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: I've problems with bibliographical entries extending into the marginal area. With the default article layout, a URL is doing this.  With a Springer layout

Bibliographic Slop-Over

2018-10-06 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
I've problems with bibliographical entries extending into the marginal area. With the default article layout, a URL is doing this. With a Springer layout, a title is doing this. Attached are small working examples (albeit not literally minimal). Now, I assume that I could insert a bit of