Re: Compose keys don't work in LyX anymore

2024-08-30 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:27:43 -0400 Paul Rubin wrote: > Might this be OS-specific? I'm on Linux Mint 22 with Qt 5.15.13 and > LyX 2.4.1. My compose key combo (right ALT + " + a to get ä) > continues to work. It displays the accent character (", ~, `) until I > hit the letter key, at which point th

Re: Compose keys don't work in LyX anymore

2024-08-26 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:12:39 -0300 John Coppens wrote: > I have a suspicion that the problem comes from Qt5.15. Most of my > applications are Gtk based and work fine. I am still running X11. LibreCAD - Qt5.15 based - exhibits the same problem. John -- lyx-users mailing list lyx

Compose keys don't work in LyX anymore

2024-08-25 Thread John Coppens
Hi guys... I'm hoping your collective knowledge helps me out. I'm not a frequent LyX user (2.3.6.1) but when I had to edit a document with accented characters (á, é, ... and ñ's) this doesn't seem to work anymore. As you can see, in the mail program it _does_ work. Also, I'm quite sure this wor

Re: pdfcomment.sty: tlmgr says it's installed, but latex document doesn't find it

2023-03-20 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 21:50:47 -0300 John Coppens wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:14:21 +0100 > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > that looks like a TeXLive installation with your system package > > manager and not with the TeXLive manager which itself uses > > directories li

Re: pdfcomment.sty: tlmgr says it's installed, but latex document doesn't find it

2023-02-23 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:40:03 +0200 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > I would in the first instance just do a > >tlmgr install --reinstall pdfcomment Gives: tlmgr install --reinstall pdfcomment tlmgr: Cannot load TeX Live database from https://ctan.dcc.uchile.cl/systems/texlive/tlnet I foun

Re: pdfcomment.sty: tlmgr says it's installed, but latex document doesn't find it

2023-02-23 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:33:51 +0100 Herbert Voss wrote: > which directories are updated by texhash? $ texhash texhash: Updating /usr/share/texmf-config/ls-R... texhash: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R... texhash: Updating /usr/share/texmf-local/ls-R... texhash: Updating /usr/share/texmf-va

Re: pdfcomment.sty: tlmgr says it's installed, but latex document doesn't find it

2023-02-22 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:42:27 +0100 Herbert Voss wrote: > texhash > > and then try again with > > kpsewhich pdfcomment.sty No luck. texhash runs fine, kpsewich doesn't show anything. John -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

pdfcomment.sty: tlmgr says it's installed, but latex document doesn't find it

2023-02-21 Thread John Coppens
Hi all. I created a new LyX document and imported the 'orbd.tex' file from a package I wanted to use (https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/84164/LaTeX%20sourcefiles.zip?sequence=16&isAllowed=y) and modify some things. tlmgr list --only-installed lists the pdfcomment.sty file, b

Re: LyX Menu Bar is Missing

2017-07-09 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 12:24:32 +0530 Karthik Tayur wrote: > The menu bar has disappeared on LyX. I am using Arch Linux. I haven't > observed this happening on any of my other applications. My system is up to > date. Any idea as to what might have gone wrong? If you're using Unity: Older versions o

Re: Google Analytics (or other)

2017-07-08 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:23:09 +0200 Christian Ridderström wrote: > Personally I'd even prefer (regular) LyX versions to not even include code > for "capturing and uploading telemetry". +1 Though I really don't do any 'sensitive work', I shudder at the thought of having Google (or anyone else) po

Re: Google Analytics (or other)

2017-07-08 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:10:17 + (UTC) Guenter Milde wrote: +1

Re: Tables

2014-12-10 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:29:33 -0700 Hal Kierstead wrote: > Am I doing something wrong? Did you actually set the column width with the table property editor? And use the correct units? I seem to remember that the default unit is 'cm' (which I can't convince myself to use). Maybe you set 20cm ins

Re: dictionary not found

2014-11-03 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 15:19:48 + (UTC) Marcelo Acuña wrote: > The problem with hunspell is that debian no have spanish dictionary for > hunspell.Plus I installed hunspell but is not recongized by lyx 2.1.x. Marcelo, you can use the dictionaries from LibreOffice (OpenOffice), Firefox and othe

Re: dictionary not found

2014-11-03 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 14:22:22 +0100 Stephan Witt wrote: > You're using LyX with backend support for more than one spell checker. > Every spell checker comes with it's own shared library. > These open calls are made on program startup to resolve the library function > addresses. > Your strace outpu

Re: dictionary not found

2014-11-02 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 22:43:17 +0100 Stephan Witt wrote: > Can you try the Hunspell package, please? > Enchant support in LyX 2.1 is not very good. I have exactly the same problem with hunspell. I compiled and installed it, added en_US and es_ES dictionaries, and tested it on a couple of text files

Re: dictionary not found

2014-11-02 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 15:40:56 + (UTC) Marcelo Acuña wrote: > Yes, work ok.LibreOffice spellchecker work too. > I normally don't use spellcheckers, but I tested enchant now, and it does seem to fail randomly. Sometimes I get the 'dictionary' problem, and sometimes the checker just reports tha

Re: dictionary not found

2014-10-31 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:55:09 + (UTC) Marcelo Acuña wrote: > hello,  I have lyx 2.1.2 compiled in debian linux.  I can`t get that > spellcheckers work. I have installed all components of myspell, enchant > (development librarys included) and dictionarys but when I start a run of the > spell

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

2014-03-30 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:22:41 +0100 Wolfgang Keller wrote: > Looks like someone wanted to be extra-smart, but this only prevents > people from being able to do what they need to do. Which, to me, is > compulsive, imperious and totally braindead, if you prefer these > adjectives to "bullshittish".

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:53:35 -0600 Ken Springer wrote: > But, as I wrote in news://news.gmane.org:119/l4bi37$vh$1...@ger.gmane.org, > if I help by reporting bugs I find in a program, assuming that reporting > is requested by developers, shouldn't there be some thanks shown by > fixing the bug?

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:32:05 +1300 John O'Gorman wrote: > On 26/10/13 04:12, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > > > For me, LyX is in fact a killer app, in the sense that it has killed any > > need or desire to have an affair, a one night s

Re: Table formating

2013-08-03 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 13:01:36 -0400 Ignacio Martinez wrote: > How can I do this? Or you simply define a width for the column (cm or in or so) in the table properties. Then the lines will break into several. John

Re: LyX.app can't be opened

2013-06-26 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:36:15 -0400 Eric Weir wrote: > New computer. Now on OS X Mountain Lion. When I started LyX after installing > it, I got a message saying, "LyX.app can't be opened because it's from an > unidentified developer." > > What do I need to do? Really? I hadn't heard that one.

Re: No converter from "lyxpreview" format has been defined

2012-10-23 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:21:54 -0300 John Coppens wrote: > Just to be complete: I have also checked the existence of the xypic and > preview > packages... This starts to look like bugging... My apologies. More info: I (proudly) wrote my first LaTeX script, using the xy-pic library, and

Re: No converter from "lyxpreview" format has been defined

2012-10-23 Thread John Coppens
Just to be complete: I have also checked the existence of the xypic and preview packages...

No converter from "lyxpreview" format has been defined

2012-10-23 Thread John Coppens
Hello all. I've been trying to get xypic working. I don't get any message from LyX, but on the terminal, I see No converter from "lyxpreview" format has been defined I googled around some, and found several mentions of the problem in LyX 1.3.6, but very little recent. In Converters, I have the l

Re: In openSUSE 11.4, scrolling in LyX RC1 very slow

2011-03-20 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:10:36 -0500 "Joon Ro" wrote: > I tried to compile LyX from the source, but it was slow as well. (Actually > I did this first because I did not want to add unstable repo) Hi Joon. Guessing: There have been changes in Xorg, and the detection system for the display/keyboar

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 1)

2010-11-10 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:59:20 +0100 Pavel Sanda wrote: > We hope you will enjoy the result! Admirable... Unpacked, compiled, installed and it worked - just like that. Amazing job! I'll give it a larger workout later, but at first sight, noticed that tables don't seem to scroll around as much as

Re: Tables and more tables

2010-09-10 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:03:44 +0200 Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 09.09.2010 18:45, schrieb John Coppens: > > > 1) Scrolling: > > > > When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes > > unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around, >

Re: Tables and more tables

2010-09-10 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:53:28 -0400 Todd Denniston wrote: > I do this when I have a document in which I am doing a lot of table editing. > Hope this helps some. Great idea, Todd. Thanks John

Tables and more tables

2010-09-09 Thread John Coppens
Hello people, Two problems with tables: 1) Scrolling: When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around, so scrolling has to be done clicking columns. This gets a little tiring if a lot of editing has to be done. Sel

Viewing documents 'element DUMMY undefined

2010-08-13 Thread John Coppens
Hello people. I edited a document in 'docbook' style, and get loads of error messages like this one: jade:/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ9507/lyx_tmpbuf0/mspgcc.sgml:440:41:E: element "DUMMY" undefined (the converter gives up after 200 of them). The 'DUMMY' element occurs in lines like: 15 14 These are e

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

2010-03-04 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:12:37 +0100 Richard Brown wrote: > Thanks for that; but I'm sorry I should have been clearer in my > question. I don't want to change the default settings for paragraph > spacing in the whole document. I just need to be able to say that > certain paragraphs will be nearer t

Re: Why this list refuses small zip / 7z archives ?

2010-01-20 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:14:18 +0100 Olivier Ripoll wrote: > I'm not planning to attach the images individually, there are more than > 100 files (including variants and some xcf)! How can I send them to the > list. Should I change the extension to pretend it's something else ? Hi Olivier, A rat

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-03 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:09:49 -0700 Rob Oakes wrote: > But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX > documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other > topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview > of the program and

Re: Small poll about svn

2009-10-08 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:50:26 +0200 Pavel Sanda wrote: > hi, Hullo, 1.5.5. here John

Re: How many use Linux:

2009-09-14 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:34:39 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > > On Slackware Linux since '96 > > Dang dude! You used LyX since 96? I thought I was early, starting LyX > in 2001. Yup... I can't say I am a very 'frequent user', I certainly won't earn any free miles, but I have known LyX from the sparse

Re: How many use Linux:

2009-09-14 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:22:51 -0600 Richard Talley wrote: > I use LyX on OS X. On Slackware Linux since '96 John

Re: Rotating tables with URLs

2009-09-10 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:25:27 +0200 Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > I have a (rather wide) table with cross-references in it. When I > > rotate the table to fit it on a page, the table rotates fine, but the > > (red) boxes around the references stay unrotated. > > You can turn off the boxes in the document

Rotating tables with URLs

2009-09-08 Thread John Coppens
Hello people. I have a (rather wide) table with cross-references in it. When I rotate the table to fit it on a page, the table rotates fine, but the (red) boxes around the references stay unrotated. I used the rotate function as provided in the Table settings. Do I need anything else? John

Re: Extra spacing in tables

2009-08-27 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:19:58 -0300 John Coppens wrote: > > > I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the > > > borders, > > > > Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you > > find in LyX's Help menu? T

Re: Extra spacing in tables

2009-08-27 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:18:41 -0400 Stephen Buonopane wrote: > Did you try in ERT > \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5} Hi Stephem. That command seems to resize the entire table, with contents. It does nothing to the row-to-border spacing. I have [] around matrices in the table, and the [] touch th

Re: Extra spacing in tables

2009-08-27 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:59:49 +0200 Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the > > borders, > > Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find > in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick for > tables. Tha

Extra spacing in tables

2009-08-27 Thread John Coppens
Hello all. I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the borders, so I defined a default 'extra bottom space' in the properties. It seems this extra space is only added to the (bottom of) last row (even though all rows are selected on enabling the spacing, and, on-screen, the

Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters

2009-07-16 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:02:39 + (GMT) silvio grosso wrote: > To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about > capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intellige

Re: LyX is a pain in the butt, but it's the easiest among alternatives

2009-07-14 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:33:44 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Yes, I didn't want to imply otherwise. What I was trying to get across > is that it's as DISTASTEFUL as working in a sceptic tank. And, as you > bring up, it's also as NECESSARY to do well as it is necessary to fix a > sceptic tank well. I'v

Re: Problems with German Umlauts

2009-02-14 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:17:45 +0100 (CET) Konrad Blum wrote: > Thanks for reply - hmm, I am using a German keybord,, so I just hit the > umlauts... I had to look up the german keyboard ;-) Do the Ö Ä keys work normally? And the ß? If all the others work, I suspect that the umlaut has been rec

Re: Problems with German Umlauts

2009-02-14 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:33:37 +0100 (CET) Konrad Blum wrote: > Any help is welcome! I'm guessing on several accounts. Is composing failing completely? I mean do accented letters still work (é á etc, and eszet ß)? Do you enter the umlaut with " as a dead-key or with composing? I have composing p

Re: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI

2008-07-27 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:38:36 +0100 "Marwan Boustany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone suggest something else I should try? Run LyX from a command line (terminal) and check for messages on the screen. John

Re: emphasis as underline?

2008-07-17 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:43:25 -0600 (MDT) Michele Lynn Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, it seems that mine is not most systems, but if it can be changed > from italic, it should be able to be changed to italic--but how? Hallo Michele, I'm no great expert, but I suspect that LyX always shows

Re: interesting behaviour

2008-07-11 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:00:04 +0200 assasukasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed an interesting behaviour: > If i make a document with lyx in ubuntu hardy, the pdf that comes out > is around 9Mb > if i do in debian lenny, the pdf that comes out is 20Mb! > of course both the sources are the sa

Still no composing, and a crash...

2008-07-04 Thread John Coppens
Hello people. I'm not a very frequent user of LyX, but irregularly I do use it, and seem to run into recurrent problems. I reported the accented character composing problem a while ago (it just doesn't work - I can't type Compose-e-', and get é, as I _can_ with other programs, like sylpheed). T

Re: LyX doesn't start: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed

2008-06-26 Thread John Coppens
> > HTH > Nigel > > On 25/06/2008, John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > After updating quite a lot of libraries, I can't start LyX anymore. I > > didn't update Qt - still 4.3.3, and lyx --version still works: Hi Ni

LyX doesn't start: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed

2008-06-25 Thread John Coppens
Hi guys, After updating quite a lot of libraries, I can't start LyX anymore. I didn't update Qt - still 4.3.3, and lyx --version still works: LyX 1.5.3 (Mon, Dec 17, 2007) Built on Dec 31 2007, 14:30:47 Configuration Host type:i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:21:14 -0500 Bruce Pourciau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts > on how I can make this go smoothly for them? Can't she run your LyX remotely? Maybe make an account for her on your machine? John

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:00:15 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, why do web-designers insist on wanting my browser to show text > smaller than the one I configured? Most, if not all of these templates > find it necessary to define the body text as 65-80% of t

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:19:53 -0400 "Rex C. Eastbourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities > for the new website. What do you guys like most out of these (and the > current one on the site)? I like the third option - it's very cle

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:46:49 -0500 AK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK no browsers > let you set them to use some color if no background is set but will > show document's color if it is set - > but I could be wrong about this. Firefox does this, feature which I've been using for years now. Ther

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured > > to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors > > hurts my eyes. > > But would you be opposed to having the usual colors

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:53:25 +0100 Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are talking about Qt 4._1_ and that's quite a bit more than a year > old. So this fits well into your concept of 'grace period'. Mmmm... Sorry about that. Twice confused. I was convinced having read somewhere that Ly

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:54 +0100 Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among > > other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up > > on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of >

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:08:08 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Donn wrote: > > > Forgive any dumb-a$$ery on my part, but it's my understanding that > > (most modern) distros will pick up fonts dropped into ~/.fonts - > > could you not put your .atm .pb (an

Compose keys again

2007-12-31 Thread John Coppens
Hi all. Just compiled & installed 1.5.3 and I'm back to not being able to use the compose key. Compose is defined: ... keycode 115 = Super_L keycode 116 = Multi_key keycode 117 = Menu ... as shown byxmodmap -v -pke (116 is the right WinKey) It works in most places (even in the rxvt-unicod

Re: RFC: Better name for the wiki page 'LyX for X'

2007-07-24 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:21:13 -0400 "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Discipline-specific tips"? (Then I'll have to start a page for the > un-disciplined. :-)) The temptation was too big... Here are my 2c: Personal LyX Personalized LyX Individualized LyX Specialized LyX LyX for you

Weird compositions.

2007-03-20 Thread John Coppens
Hi... Someone may recall I reported quite a while ago that composing doesn't work here anymore, in 1.4.4. I did find a workaround by defining an 'american' keyboard. Now I detected a number of other weirdnesses... If I type '/' o, I automatically get ó - no compose key necessary! It seems quite

Re: Insering source code into LyX document

2007-03-01 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:28:14 +0200 Eugeny N Dzhurinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, is there anything about how to use the package? > > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/listings/listings.html seems > to be dead? http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=index has the Listings packag

Re: Compile warnings for 1.4.4

2007-02-23 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:41:37 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> This happened after a clean install of the 1.4.4 source distro. > John> The .pch appe

Re: Compile warnings for 1.4.4

2007-02-22 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:22:12 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> I get similar warnings for most files compiled: g++ > John> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.

Compile warnings for 1.4.4

2007-02-19 Thread John Coppens
I get similar warnings for most files compiled: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -Winvalid-pch --include=./pch.h -I./.. -I../../boost -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-exceptions -O2 -MT kill.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/kill.Tpo -c kill.C -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/kill.o cc1plus: warning: ././pch.h.gch: crea

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:21:32 -0500 Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I was looking for something easy for a novice. In particular, > something that shows the characters graphically so user doesn't need to > know a code. Well... You can always prepare a (LyX) document with all th

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool. It works, except that it is Winkey-` e rather than the other > way around. That depends on if the combinations are defined - in my case both work. There's a lot of fun to be had with combinations. Try thing

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:13:47 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard). If you feel like it, try to check if you have a file in your home directory called .Xmodmap (it's a hidden file). If so, add the following line, else create it:

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:28:29 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > >> Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I'm using lyx-1.4.3 on Fedora with kde. What is the easiest way to > >> enter a > >> few special accented characters?

Re: how to type in accented character in text mode?

2007-01-12 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:16:48 +0100 Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A pity composing stopped working in the latest LyX version, it seems. > > I submitted a bug report on that... Same was confirmed by a german > > user. > > > > It works here. LyX 1.4.3 on Debian sid. Charles, is

Re: how to type in accented character in text mode?

2007-01-12 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:39:54 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I simply can't use LyX anymore for my international documents. I'd > > love to find a solution... > > Did you submit a bug report to bugzilla? (I just want to check) > Yes, I did. Bug #3009 John

Re: how to type in accented character in text mode?

2007-01-12 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:53:07 +0100 Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are using Linux, you need to activate the 'compose key'. In KDE, > go to the Keyboardconfiguration module and then to the Xkb tab and > there you can assign the compose to one of the key of your keyboard. > R

Re: It's a bug ?

2006-12-08 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:29:27 +0100 icebna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The image of the logo in preamble, don't print it. I can see it in the > xdvi visor, but don't print it. This file, work fine in lyx-1.3.7, and > print the logo. It's a bug of lyx-1.4.3 ?. My distro is Mandriva 2007. Maybe you

Re: Once again, key composing

2006-11-30 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:37:30 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello people. > > After I changed machines, compiled the latest & greatest LyX, I sadly > found that I can't compose international characters anymore. But > strangely enough, this only ha

Once again, key composing

2006-11-29 Thread John Coppens
Hello people. After I changed machines, compiled the latest & greatest LyX, I sadly found that I can't compose international characters anymore. But strangely enough, this only happens inside LyX. I can type ó here (sylpheed), in rxvt terminals, everywhere except LyX. Logically, Multi_key is defi

Re: left-hand side superscript

2006-11-24 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:04:58 +0200 Gal Diskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Does anyone know how to embed this inside a regular lyx math > environment? I'm not sure this is what you mean: If you open an 'inline formula', type ^2A, you should have a left superscript? It's not entirely nice,

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:44:55 +0100 Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:11:15 -0300 > John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:41:49 +0100 > > Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Running LyX on Slackware

2006-11-18 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:13:06 +0100 Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:19 +0100, Rich Shepard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >One of the Slackware disks has tetex, but I don't recall in which > > directory. Yes you need this because LyX is a GUI front end fo

Re: Greek characters

2006-10-18 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:52:38 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. > > This is slightly off topic. In fact, it works in LyX, not outside... > > When editing a document in LyX, greek characters like mu and delta show > correctly in xpdf... When I do

Greek characters

2006-10-18 Thread John Coppens
Hello all. This is slightly off topic. In fact, it works in LyX, not outside... When editing a document in LyX, greek characters like mu and delta show correctly in xpdf... When I download a datasheet, from the net, all greek characters are missing. Anyone know why? Eg. the datasheet on this pag

Re: Weird... Styles dropdown stopped working

2006-07-24 Thread John Coppens
Hi all... Solved! I'm still not sure of the why, but, in my case, the solution was simple: I ran 'qtconfig' and changed the 'theme' (in my case to 'platinum'). All works as advertised now. Don't ask me why. The reason I went there was: 1) I visited trolltech.com, and looked up the QDropDown wid

Re: Weird... Styles dropdown stopped working

2006-07-23 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:02:19 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, John Coppens wrote: > > > Compiled 1.4.2 without problems, installed, and I have exactly the > > same effect! Again, the 'style button' effectively disab

Re: Weird... Styles dropdown stopped working

2006-07-23 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:09:17 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:26:24 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > > > > > Can't reproduce it he

Re: Weird... Styles dropdown stopped working

2006-07-20 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > > > Can't reproduce it here, lyx-1.4.2/Qt/Solaris. Clicking twice on the > > rectangle reactivates the dropdown list. Clicking twice on the > > selected style clos

Weird... Styles dropdown stopped working

2006-07-20 Thread John Coppens
Hi all This is probably a very stupid problem, but I can't find any reference in the docs. I'd installed 1.4.1 a while ago, and thought I'd try and enter the outline of a book, just for the fun of it. I entered a title, marked it as title, fine. Entered my name marked it as author, but, by accide

Re: Generated SGML

2006-06-28 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:04:01 +0100 Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 26 June 2006 17:22, John Coppens wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I was trying to make a manpage with LyX 1.4.1, so I started a new doc > > with the docbook manpage layout.

Generated SGML

2006-06-26 Thread John Coppens
Hi all. I was trying to make a manpage with LyX 1.4.1, so I started a new doc with the docbook manpage layout. I did a few sections, and exported to SGML. The generated SGML had an extra '>' at the beginning: --- >

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:44:06 -0700 (PDT) "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I exported my graphic with inkscape to both EPS and Postscript. They > both look good when viewed with gv. > > But they won't load with LyX's Insert->Graphics. > Maybe a bit far-fetched, but 'skencil' loads SV

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-06-19 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:00:22 +0100 Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I know that people have been writing documents this way for much > longer than word processors have been around, (think of raw TeX) > which suggests it's a problem with my approach. Do you have any tips > or sugg

Re: Versio 1.4.0 segfaults on startup

2006-04-17 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:53:19 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * I compiled LyX, using the qt frontend. No obviuous problems I just updated from svn, and tried to compile with the xforms frontend (version 1.0.90, freshly compiled). The result is exactly the same: lyx

Versio 1.4.0 segfaults on startup

2006-04-15 Thread John Coppens
Hi all. I submitted this to bugzilla (issue 2503), but didn't get any reaction yet. I stupidly installed over the previous version, so I'm LyX-challenged at the moment. Here goes: * I compiled LyX, using the qt frontend. No obviuous problems * When starting, I immediately get a SIGSEGV and a mes

Re: c++2latex Ok, but...

2005-12-05 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:39:58 -0300 (ART) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, thanks one more time. The listings > package works fine to C++, Fortran, Pascal, etc. I > like it very much! > It have many options like color, typeset, etc, > but, the spaces between the lines are too huge!

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:25:57 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, Sure Ctl has some effect (not alone, but with the other key combined). To type 1/2 as one symbol, try Ctrl-. and then (without Ctrl) 1 and 2 if the 1 appea

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:58:38 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you > mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose > key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is > it something special to some keyboards: mine seems not

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:53:06 + Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly, I don't think that's true. Looking back over the mail list > archive as far as 22 Oct, I see the list of messages below. (Sorted > alphabetically.) Most all of 'em are probelms that aren't specific to > Windows,

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread John Coppens
On 08 Nov 2005 13:19:46 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) wrote: > Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I'd also like to see more focus (especially) on GTK+. > > The only way to make that happen is to get someone to do it, or do it > yourself. There is not really much developer att

Re: data sources

2005-10-27 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:29:32 +0200 Paolo Cavallini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 15:55, giovedì 27 ottobre 2005, Paul A. Rubin has probably written: > > AFAIK, there is no way to dynamically link a LyX document to a > > database, unless you are willing to write a script that queries the > > DB a

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