Re: Forward search with Sumatra stopped working

When I upgraded/updated to LyX 2.2.0/2.2.1 forward search stopped working. I found that the syncTeX settings were hosed (maybe set to some defaults by the installer, maybe by reconfigure command?). I set them again following the instructions for Windows/Sumatra below, and forward/backward search

Re: Recommended PDF viewer?

On Friday, 21 October 2016, Wierdl Máté wrote: > So then what is the recommended PDF previewer for LyX on Windows 10 > I use Sumatra PDF. LyX can be configured for it with synctex for forward and backward search. https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX#toc2 That feature is a huge

Re: Lyx-Miktex problems on Windows 10

I had a similar problem earlier this week. The cause was the MikTeX mirror I was using was reporting that versions of LaTeX elements were present, but when the updater would run from LyX to install missing things, it would fail. The errors show in LyX message console, but they aren't fatal. I

Re: Lyx-Miktex problems on Windows 10

X to run "reconfigure" after updating MikTeX? Updates sometimes cause obsolete packages to be removed and replaced. Could LyX detect this and suggest running "reconfigure"? On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Cris Fuhrman <fuhrmana...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had a similar p

TODO notes (double entries) in LyX 2.2.2 on Windows 10

I've recently noticed an odd behavior of TODO Notes in LyX 2.2.2. I enabled the fancyline option, and I saw I was getting two lines. Upon further debugging (using author= and size=\tiny), I can prove that it's actually generating two TODO notes at the same place. Here's a screen grab: [image:

Troubleshooting BibTeX in LyX

Hello, I'm using Windows 10, LyX 2.2.2 on an article I've been working on for months, and all my citations started to appear as question marks (?) and no References section is produced. It was working before, so something got hosed on my machine. I tried the LyX file on another Windows machine

Re: Troubleshooting BibTeX in LyX

ly it started working. I believe reconfigure re-set the default bibliography generator to bibtex, as that is what it is now, and it's working. Hope this is helpful to someone. On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Cris Fuhrman <fuhrmana...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Window

Re: TODO notes (double entries) in LyX 2.2.2 on Windows 10

rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 12/01/2016 11:14 AM, Cris Fuhrman wrote: > > I've recently noticed an odd behavior of TODO Notes in LyX 2.2.2. I > enabled the fancyline option, and I saw I was getting two lines. Upon > further debugging (using author= and size=\tiny), I can prove

Re: Lyx 2.2 errors w/ miktex 2.9.6 (on win10)

I can share a bit as a win10 user of 2.2.2. One annoying quirk of LyX and MikTeX is the fact that MikTeX on-the-fly installs can sometimes fail for weird but not rare reasons. For example, you configured MikTeX to use server ABC but for some strange reason that server's archive is broken and the

What's your preferred way to merge changes and manage conflicts in LyX files under git?

I'm collaborating using git on bitbucket (for a free private cloud repository) and SourceTree for Windows on an article in LyX (2.2.2). There are multiple image files (e.g., generated by R in SVG) and a big .bib file. For the record, I'm not really using LyX's built-in version control, as it

LyX 2.2.3, Windows 10 and showing SVG in the editor

Hello, While debugging some issues with SVG converters, I'm a bit confused now. I had configured an SVG -> PNG conversion rule in my preferences, hoping to control the tool that will visualize my SVG images when editing in LyX. Sadly, it seems that LyX is not applying the rule anymore. Here's the

Re: how to input Chinese in ERT?

Hello Su Baochen, What operating system are you running? I think the answer will depend on that. Cheers, C. Fuhrman On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 6:34 AM, subaochen wrote: > hi all, > > I can not input any Chinese in ERT, but can copy from others, if I missing > some tricks to

Re: Issues using lyx

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Mr William Balthes < william.balt...@uqconnect.edu.au> wrote: > A suggestion from the list is that I use linux. > > I know nothing about it. Does it have automatic updates that you can't > avoid where the system restarts. > I've not had any data loss on my

Re: LyX 2.2.3, Windows 10 and showing SVG in the editor

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what happens and if there is platform-specific > behavior. To see the discussion I was referencing, see: > > https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9778 Thanks for the details. Clearly LyX is trying

Re: LyX 2.2.3, Windows 10 and showing SVG in the editor

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Qt has > problems with some (valid) SVG files and only supports a certain > implementation of the SVG fileformat. > Can you confirm that Qt is overriding the SVG -> PNG conversion in LyX 2.2.3? This seems like a bug to

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

Hi Scott, I'm attaching my "anonymized" prefs file. Did you ever consider using Google Analytics to track LyX usage? Of course, it's ethical (and probably required in the TOS of GA) that you have it deactivated by default and that you request permission from users to turn it on. I played around

Google Analytics (or other)

On Jun 3, 2017 15:50, "Scott Kostyshak" wrote: Thanks for this idea, Cris. Would this be only to see how many people are using LyX or for something in addition to that? Every time I think about something like that, I challenge myself and ask: "Why do I want to know how many

Re: Google Analytics (or other)

On Jun 3, 2017 19:23, "Joel Kulesza" wrote: However, I would want to see an option in the installation process to disable "anonymous usage statistics" from being collected. I totally agree. I mentioned this point in my first post in the other thread about the preferences

Re: Issues using lyx

I use LyX a lot with Windows 10, and have had some spontaneous crashes that are hard to reproduce in small documents. They have happened when selecting large parts of a document (the selection scrolling beyond the current window is expanded super fast downward, across many parts of a document

Re: Issues using lyx

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Cris Fuhrman <fuhrmana...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just tried this in LyX 2.3.3 on one of my big exam files... > Correction: I'm running LyX 2.2.2 on my computer at home where this crash was.

Re: LyX error: "No information for converting svgz format files to pdf6. Define a converter in the preferences.”

I'm not a Mac user, but it sounds like an SVG support problem. I personally like Inkscape for SVG, but there are other solutions. I would try to - install inkscape on MacOS - make sure LyX sees the directory for it in the path section of the settings - do the "configure" command. My

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

I started out using TRS-DOS in the 80s and have been on all operating systems over the years. ;-) I'm primarily a Windows user today, because of the work culture and the hardware I have (Surface Pro). But I've always believed that any kind of dogma regarding the "best flavor" of IT is dangerous

Re: Where is the Plain-TeX IRC channel and mailing list?

Hi Steve - I don't have a direct answer to your question about IRC, but there is a TeX Stack Exchange, which has chat. There have been some Eplain questions/answers in the past (I'm not a TeX expert): https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eplain Cheers, C. Fuhrman On Sun, May 27, 2018

Re: LUAtodonotes (was: fontsize for the TODO Module)

I'm not sure of the LUA context. However, I've tweaked todonotes in LyX by going to Document > Settings > Local layout and adding the following line: PackageOptions todonotes "colorinlistoftodos,backgroundcolor=green!40,textsize=tiny" On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:14 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I do this maneuver enough times that I find it annoying. > I'd map the command to change language text to a hot key (I'm pretty sure I did this before with one of the text formatting things I found myself doing often).

Re: BibTeX issue: journal name not seen by LyX

ave the library as the converted "bibtex" library. Cheers, C. Fuhrman On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Cris Fuhrman wrote: > > If your JabRef format is biblatex, are you using LyX appropriately? &g

Re: BibTeX issue: journal name not seen by LyX

Hi Rich, If your JabRef format is biblatex, are you using LyX appropriately? https://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex Otherwise, make sure you've updated to the latest Jabref. It has some tools to validate the bib(la)tex files (Menu Quality > Check Integrity, and Menu Quality > Cleanup entries >

Re: Small poll - download speed of LyX installers

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > 1. time to download (/ download speed) > I'm using Chrome on Windows at my university which has a pretty fast connexion normally. However, it's telling me 40 minutes left (pretty consistent time, not going to wait for it to

Re: How do I bring the QUANTA journal template into LyX?

Indeed there is no trace of any LyX layout file for Quanta. However, I don't think you have to go the customized layout route. I tried (with LyX 2.2.3) to import (File > Import > LaTeX (plain)) the LaTeX template called Manuscript.tex (it's available on the quanta site) and it creates a LyX file

Re: How do I bring the QUANTA journal template into LyX?

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:52 AM Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan < daniel@oeconomist.com> wrote: > Versions of perl have long been available for Windows. > There is also Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW), which I recently tried. One still must update the perl environment to get the tex2bib script to

Re: pdfcomment

Hi Frank, This seems to be a pdfcomment question rather than one about LyX. I tried markup=Underline,linewidth=29bp,color=red to no avail (the line width of the underline is not affected). PDF might support various thicknesses, but I can't see a way to do it in pdfcomment. On Tue, Aug 14, 2018

Re: Gothic style fonts in LyX/MikTeX

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:35 PM Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > If you are willing to use XeTeX instead of plain LaTeX, setting up a new > font-family that uses ... > Thanks for the pointer - that option finds my Windows fonts, one of which is Old English Text MT, and it shows nicely in the PDF.

Gothic style fonts in LyX/MikTeX

Hello, For a project, I wanted to use an old-English/Germanic style font. I found some in yfonts, but it's tricky to install/setup with MikTeX (not automatic) because it requires a local tex install. There are instructions at https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/InstallType1Fonts and also on StackOverflow

Re: you say install latest version of MiKTeX before installing LyX - what is the minimal version needed?

I also updated my MikTeX 2.9 with two installs of 2.2.x under Windows 10 in the past 10 days and had no problems. Is this a LyX 2.3.x problem only? On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 12:54 PM Daniel wrote: > On 09/09/2018 18:05, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > On 09/08/2018 09:15 PM, Peter Taylor wrote: >

Re: MikTeX problem...

Hi Bernt, I googled the error and found this: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/18144/17868 Is it helpful? C. Fuhrman On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 09:52 Bernt Lie wrote: > I just updated MikTeX after some problems with LyX lately. (LyX 2.2.3, > Windows 10, 64 bit). > > > > When

Re: Formatting name/date to be filled by others

Hi Rich, An alternative is to use a table. The labels (Name, Date, etc) are in cells that have no borders, and the other parts are in cells with borders on the bottom. Of course you have to play with widths of columns, but this approach is more form-like and it's easier to perceive (WYSIWYM) in

LyX 2.3.0 Ubuntu possible bug with custom file format

I'm testing 2.3.0 on my Ubuntu VM (didn't want to break my Windows install) with a document that has a lot of PlantUML files (which have a custom conversion rule to SVG that works well most of the time). One of the files has some embedded HTML in it, and LyX seems to decide (despite the .plantuml

Re: LyX 2.3.0 Ubuntu possible bug with custom file format

My initial response was only to Riki. This one is to the whole list (slightly clarified): On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > It looks to me as if maybe there is a difference between 2.2.x and 2.3.0 > in whether > it was packed with the "magic"

Re: LyX & svg files

Replying to the list... On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:14 PM Bernt Lie wrote: > I use LyX 2.3.1 on Windows 10, 64 bit. > > > > It seems like LyX sometimes has problems handling SVG files, specifically > lines with arrow heads. > > > There was a bug about this that was closed (fixed in 2.2.4 for

Re: How to keep versions of a paper in different formats

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 8:04 AM wrote: > I have a manuscript which I plan to submit for publication. In its current > form, it is in a format different from what the journal expects and as such > must be converted to the format (IEEE) expected by the journal. (I normally > do this by

Re: How to keep versions of a paper in different formats

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 8:04 PM wrote: > Sure. But there’s always the final rejection. :-( FWIW, IEEE Access > operates very close to a binary model, thumbs-up or -down with little > chance for modifications. They did allow me one round of changes, however. > I got the impression from my

Re: Reuse MikTeX from Win10 in WSL

Posting a status of what I tried: I followed https://miktex.org/howto/install-miktex-unx to install MiKTeX for Ubuntu (under WSL). I managed to get MiKTeX installed in WSL (with the "shared" option, and using the common-X options described at https://docs.miktex.org/manual/miktexsetup.html) to

Re: Reducing document figures size

GhostScript has lots of features. There are some hints at this GIST: https://gist.github.com/firstdoit/6390547 On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:45 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > I have a 37-page report and the pdf size is 7.3M because it includes 34 > figures. Some of these figures are digital photographs

Re: Reducing document figures size

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:19 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > Thanks, Chris. Over the past couple of decades I've used gs primarily to > convert .ps to .pdf (or the reverse) and have never dug deeply into all its > capabilities. And it hadn't occurred to me to look at it. > I recently had to submit a

Re: Reuse MikTeX from Win10 in WSL

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 9:44 AM Kees Zeelenberg (kzStats) < kzsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, this is possible; that is to say I once did this under a dual boot of > W10 and Lubuntu. Install MikTeX in the usual way under one system, say W10, > then install the basics under the other system, WSL,

More obvious feedback when a reconfigure is in process

Hello, While trying some various installs of MiKTeX recently, I had to reconfigure LyX several times. At one point, I was trying to change the settings and the menu wasn't working. Finally I realized that the reconfigure was still running, and that I had just been duped by the fact that the only

LyX under WSL2 using VcXsrv (sharing clipboard problems)

Hello, I recently started using LyX on my Windows 10 via WSL2 (Ubuntu) with VcXsrv. The application is snappy and I like configuring the supporting tools in linux (especially the tex configurations). Sadly, I can't get the clipboard to work consistently outside of X. For example: 1. In

Re: LyX under WSL2 using VcXsrv (sharing clipboard problems)

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:03 AM Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 02:47:34PM -0500, Cris Fuhrman wrote: > > Sadly, I can't get the clipboard to work consistently outside of X. For > > example: > > > > > >1. In Windows, start the VcXsrv > &g