Re: Trouble building on PPC
hi! I get the following error when trying to build either fix2 or cvs: kill.c: In function `int lyx::kill(int, int)': kill.c:10: implicit devlaration of function `int kill(...)' make[3]: *** [kill.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Is this a problem with the lyx source or with the library setup on my machine? I don't have any probhlems building lyx on ppc since 1.1.6 (1.1.5fix* didn't build) hmm, sounds like you're missing some header-files.. why don't you use my ppc.rpm on ftp.sylvan.com? what kind of ppc? this rpm is built on a G3 with glibc-2.2 Have fun* Niklas
Re: marking text doesn't work
Hi everybody, I already posted this question last week, but got no answer until now. So I try it again: I've installed LyX 1.1.6-fix2 with rpm on SuSE 7.1 (which worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow gives no result. Just nothing happens. I've tried it with cua-binding and de_menues and tried also to replace "lyx.mo" with the fixed one that Peter Suetterlin posted here on May 9th, but still no change. If I start lyx with -dbg 2 I get always the message "Empty argument!". Has anybody any idea? Thanks in advance Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: OK, LyX users, could you tell Mike why you are LyX users? ;) There are many reasons: Lyx use very little resources (cpu mem) compared to others. Try loading the user guide (40 pages or so of heavily formatted text demonstrating every feature, such as tables, pictures, math, lists and so on.) It loads fast. Then try to scroll through it all. The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Rendering the tables, pictures and math on screen isn't noticeably slower than text. The scrolling don't get awkward around a big picture. Try something similiar with word. :-( Lyx create small document files. Why do word and others create 20k-60k when lyx creates 5k-6k? Lyx works well on linux I like the WISYWYM instead of WYSIWYG idea. Fantastic for math and other things latex does well. You don't lose stuff with lyx. It rarely crash. Particularly, it don't crash more just because the document is huge and contain all sorts of convoluted tricks. (Try the user guide again). And if it crash, (i.e. somebody tripped over the power cord) nothing much is lost. And the files contain readable text if you ever manage to mangle a file so bad that lyx refuse it. You can then save your work with a plaintext editor. That doesn't work so well with word and others that fill the file with binary data and store paragraphs in random order. And lyx don't do strange things like asking me about saving changes when I didn't make any. Try to read a document with word (or staroffice), and it will prompt about saving changes even though I didn't do anything other than scroll through it. This makes me nervous when I close a editor that I forgot to close for few days - was there any changes or is it just bogus? In other cases it is irritating. And don't even mention stupid things like capitalizing i by default. Lowercase i is a common word in my language... Lyx may take some more getting used to than changing between word-like word processors. Once you get used to it you _don't_ want to go back though, and neither will your grandmother. Helge Hafting
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: Has anybody any idea? Not really, but worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test your keyboard with xev. You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. Or try installing different version of Xforms.
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
Helge Hafting wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: OK, LyX users, could you tell Mike why you are LyX users? ;) There are many reasons: The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) I like the WISYWYM instead of WYSIWYG idea. yes, yes, yes ... And the files contain readable text if you ... You can write scripts, that produce LyX files. For combining letters with an adress database (see msg Wed, 6 Jun, Martin Hansen). For create Table from csv-file (see msg csv2lyx-0.0.1fix1 :-) Thu, 31 May, A.Gulino)
Re: marking text doesn't work
Tuukka == Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tuukka On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: Has anybody any idea? Tuukka Not really, but worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Tuukka Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. JMarc
Re: marking text doesn't work
You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which was surprising for me because I always had used the german bindings before, which were selected by default (as far as I remember). So I changed to /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, which should be correct. Anyway the marking problem comes with both bindings. Are there more things I can check, before I have to start compiling or fiddling with xmodmap? Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? It works in KDE programms and in Netscape Messenger. Ctrl-arrows works also in xedit. I think it's a problem of my LyX configuration. Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test your keyboard with xev. xev shows keysym Shift_L if I press left Shift and Right if I press right arrow. So everything seems ok. Before I start fighting with xmodmap, I will try to find the reason of the problem, which can only be one of the two possibilities: 1. that I messed up my system unconsciously, 2. something has changed in 1.1.6-fix2 compared to the previous versions of LyX. You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. Or try installing different version of Xforms. I deinstalled the SuSE xforms and installed xforms 88.3 from the LyX download page with no effect. Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a normal user without technical background and usually have no luck with compiling from sources. But I will try, if I find no better way. Thanks anyway Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a normal user without technical background and usually have no luck with All GNU programs (well, autoconf) are very easy to install from source. It is just unpacking the distribution package with tar xvfz file.tar.gz, going in to the extracted program directory, and typing: ./configure make make install If everything is OK, you are ready to go after that. If this doesn't work, it is either not a autoconf package (which is bad thing for developers to do nowadays), you are missing some required packages, or either the package you are trying to install or your system is misconfigured/broken and you can complain either vendor. (Unfortunately many Linux distributions and packages are broken in a way or another) It seems that in distributions the required header files are in some devel packages which I think it is a very bad thing. If Joe User sees a package named devel he won't install since he thinks it is only for developers. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Everybody should have gcc AND all header files required for compiling installed by default, since source distributions are the standard in Unix/Linux world. Should mpg123 be installed only for musician computer users?
Re: Problem with a freezed cursor.
I am using the Lyx version delivered with SUSE Linux 7.1. [That is 1.1.5fix1 for the non-SuSE-devvies.] You might want to try 1.1.5fix2 for backward-compatible bugfix or 1.1.6 if you do not have to use 1.1.5 or older for other reasons... Here is an RPM for SuSE with LyX 1.1.6fix2: ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx-1.1.6fix2-50.i386.rpm I got the link from this page: http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit/LyX/ Best Regards Marcus Beyer _ Dipl.-Inform. Marcus Beyer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Abt. Medizinische Informatik - Universitätsklinikum Stefan-Meier-Straße 26 D-79104 Freiburg Tel. +49/761/203-6698 Fax +49/761/203-6711 _ http://www.Stormlight.de __
Re: marking text doesn't work
Gerhard Schuck wrote: You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which was surprising for me because I always had used the german bindings before, which were selected by default (as far as I remember). So I changed to /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, which should be correct. Anyway the marking problem comes with both bindings. Maybe that's not the problem, but I think you shouldn't select de_menus.bind in the lyx preferences, because it's only the menu part of the bindings. You would better use cua.bind. Lyx should then include de_menus.bind according to your locale. If it doesn't, copy the cua.bind (from the /usr/share/lyx/bind/ directory) to your ~/.lyx/bind/, and then edit it to replace, at the end of the file, the line: \bind_file menus.bind by this one: \bind_file de_menus.bind Maybe you will need to copy de_menus.bind and math.bind too, but I'm not sure. I think having your own bind files is a good thing, so you can add shortcuts for your favorite commands. And don't forget to restart lyx after you change the binding preferences, or after you edit a bind file. Thomas.
Re: marking text doesn't work
All GNU programs (well, autoconf) are very easy to install from source. It is just unpacking the distribution package with tar xvfz file.tar.gz, going in to the extracted program directory, and typing: ./configure make make install I know developers. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Everybody should have gcc AND all header files required for compiling installed by default, since source distributions are the standard in Unix/Linux world. I really admire the Slackware guys but unfortunately I'm only a rpm guy. And I think for people with limited technical knowledge it's probably easier to keep the system clean with rpms. As a compromise I've just rebuilt the rpms from the src.rpm files, which worked fine. But the result was the same. Then I installed the 1.1.6-fix1 version, and had the same problem. So it's clear that something in my system is broken and not the fix-2 version. I think now I will check my backup files to find out what has changed in the configuration of my system. Thank you again Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? It works in KDE programms and in Netscape Messenger. Ctrl-arrows works also in xedit. I think it's a problem of my LyX configuration. Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test your keyboard with xev. xev shows keysym Shift_L if I press left Shift and Right if I press right arrow. So everything seems ok. Before I start fighting with xmodmap, I will try to find the reason of the problem, which can only be one of the two possibilities: 1. that I messed up my system unconsciously, 2. something has changed in 1.1.6-fix2 compared to the previous versions of LyX. You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. Or try installing different version of Xforms. I deinstalled the SuSE xforms and installed xforms 88.3 from the LyX download page with no effect. Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a normal user without technical background and usually have no luck with compiling from sources. But I will try, if I find no better way. Thanks anyway Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
A.Gulino a écrit : Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] There are many reasons: The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) Re Sorry : 8 MB with 1.1.5fix2 with a 386DX40 (I have to admit that I did add a 387 fp coprocessor) (((c: [snip] -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Emmanuel GUREGHIAN ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_)
Re: linuxdoc and windows
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:29:35AM -0300, Orlando de Andrade Figueiredo wrote: Hello, Ola', ;-) I want to generate Linuxdoc files with Lyx on Windows. Is it possible? The linuxdoc files are only useful if you can convert them to other formats. Is sgml-tools v1.0 available to cygwin? If not you can generate the linuxdoc files but you will not see the resulting dvi. Thanks, -- Orlando de Andrade Figueiredo -- Estudante de Mestrado em Computacao, USP, S.Carlos * Computer Science Graduate Student, Brazil -- José
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
George == George De Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a George place mark where I stopped editing. So, below the item that I George had just finished, I inserted a comment paragraph. I noticed George that the numbering in my enumerated list was reset by this George addition. Did you try to change the environment depth of the comment to include it into the list? JMarc
Re: marking text doesn't work
Gerhard == Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. Gerhard After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which Gerhard was surprising for me because I always had used the german Gerhard bindings before, which were selected by default (as far as I Gerhard remember). So I changed to /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, Gerhard which should be correct. Anyway the marking problem comes Gerhard with both bindings. If you set the binding to cua and restart LyX, it should work. JMarc
lyx and latex2rtf in Linux
Hi all!! I'm a beginner with latex2rtf. My problem is this. 1. I write an Lyx document, and export to Latex. 2. If I write latex2rtf file.tex, I obtain errrors because of Lyx commands in the tex file. 3. If I delete these lines (referent to lyx code) in the tex document, I obtain a perfect RTF file. Can someone explain to me this? Thanks... (Adolfo M. Pachón Rodríguez)
Re: Problem with a freezed cursor.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:44:42AM +0200, Urs Graf wrote: I am a fresh user of Lyx and I like it and I should like to use it more. But there is a problem which renders the use of Lyx almost inpracticable. When I use a mathematical symbol, for example the square root, a matrix or a fraction, the cursor is placed correctly on the first element of the mask, in the case of a matrix at the first element of the first row, but it is always freezed, i.e. the keybord dosen't respond when you want to type the first element. I had How do you insert the square root ? If you use the math panel, then the window of the math panel gets the focus when you press on it, so to return to the LyX screen you need to press alt+tab (or another key combination, depending on your window manager). Do you also have a problem when you inserting the root with the keyboard ? There are two ways to do it: 1. M-m s 2. Typing \sqrt and pressing space
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:31:18PM -0500, George De Bruin wrote: I have LyX 1.1.6Fix2 installed on my Linux Mandrake 7.2 system (thanks toGerman Poo C. for his RPM), and noticed a behavior that is slightly odd, IMO. A similar behavior has been mentioned recently, but this one surprised me a little bit... I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a place mark where I stopped editing. So, below the item that I had just finished, I inserted a comment paragraph. I noticed that the numbering in my enumerated list was reset by this addition. I am slightly surprised by this... I didn't think that a comment would reset the numbering for the list. Is this a glitch? Should it be this way? You just need to nest the comment into the enumerate by either pressing the Change Env. depth icon in the toolbar, or by pressing M-p left
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:06:26PM +0900, Gerhard Schuck wrote: Hi everybody, I already posted this question last week, but got no answer until now. So I try it again: I've installed LyX 1.1.6-fix2 with rpm on SuSE 7.1 (which worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow gives no result. Just nothing happens. I've tried it with cua-binding and de_menues and tried also to replace lyx.mo with the fixed one that Peter Suetterlin posted here on May 9th, but still no change. If I start lyx with -dbg 2 I get always the message Empty argument!. Do other keyboard shortcut work (e.g. ctrl+k) ? To help you, I need to see the output of running lyx -dbg 6 and pressing Shift+right
Re: Exam design package
Oscar Garcia Poblacion wrote:
someone been working on a layout for lyx?.
I have notice that this class has no support for spanish. I have
translated the strings on exam.cls, but I couldn't find things such Part
or Answer.
by default this should be done by choosing the right language
in layout-document-language
otherwise try in latex preamble
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\parname{Parte}}
same for the answer, but i don't know the latex-name
(something like parname)
It is a minor problem but, does someone know where to find
these strings?. As soon as I learn more about latex and lyx I would like to
help in developing of classes and layouts, but for the time being...
fine! :-)
Herbert
--
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: George == George De Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a George place mark where I stopped editing. So, below the item that I George had just finished, I inserted a comment paragraph. I noticed George that the numbering in my enumerated list was reset by this George addition. Did you try to change the environment depth of the comment to include it into the list? you can also insert a note instead of the comment. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Lyx latex2html
Hi all!! I want to obtain this in the HTML output: a href=http://www.lyx.org;Go to Lyx/a How have I to write in Lyx to export to Latex and then generate the HTML output with latex2html? Thanks (Adolfo M. Pachón Rodríguez)
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: A.Gulino a écrit : Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] There are many reasons: The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) Re Sorry : 8 MB with 1.1.5fix2 with a 386DX40 (I have to admit that I did add a 387 fp coprocessor) (((c: [snip] It's been years since I worked on anything with 8MB, or 16, but that's not because of LyX. It was a sad day for me when we had to start upgrading machines to 64 and 128MB to keep them running with a well known commercial Word Processor, produced by a well known commercial OS vendor. What I like about LyX is that the whole question of memory use when producing documents is largely irrelevant. It also doesn't crash when documents get big, which happens on most traditional word processors regardless of the hardware that they run on. I work in a very micro$oft orientated environment, where everybody is impressed with LyX, especially after they discovered that it can produce pdf output. I still sometimes have to explain to people that Times New Roman is not a standard font:-) Cheers Henk
Re: Lyx latex2html
Yes, I read this in the latex2html manual, but in Lyx, an CTRL+D shows me an
error message:
File html.sty Not Found
I've put this file in all sites, but always tell me the error.
Where have I to put the html.sty exactly?
Very Thanks.
NOTE: I can Export to Latex, an then latex2html file.tex works fine, but now my
problem is with Lyx, because of the latex preamble.
El jue, 07 jun 2001, Herbert Voss escribió:
Adolfo Pachón wrote:
I want to obtain this in the HTML output:
a href=http://www.lyx.org;Go to Lyx/a
How have I to write in Lyx to export to Latex and then generate the HTML
output with latex2html?
\usepackage{html}
and in lyx-text
\htmladdnormallink{Go to Lyx}{http://www.lyx.org/Where_Else}
Herbert
--
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
--
Adolfo Pachón
(SAMTEK, SCA)
Re: Lyx latex2html
Adolfo Pachón wrote: Yes, I read this in the latex2html manual, but in Lyx, an CTRL+D shows me an error message: File html.sty Not Found I've put this file in all sites, but always tell me the error. Where have I to put the html.sty exactly? NOTE: I can Export to Latex, an then latex2html file.tex works fine, but now my problem is with Lyx, because of the latex preamble. no, this is not possible. when latex finds the file, lyx does it too, because lyx starts latex abd does not search by itself. are you sure, you have installed the file? otherwise ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/ltx2x/html.sty Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
On Thursday 07 June 2001 10:28, Dekel Tsur wrote: You just need to nest the comment into the enumerate by either pressing the Change Env. depth icon in the toolbar, or by pressing M-p left smacking forehead - Doh! Thanks Dekel and Jean-Marc... That fixed it. I should have thought of that -- George J. De Bruin Check Out 0l0rin's New Age compositions at http://mp3.com/0l0rin 0l0rin's latest recording Collection is available now!
Make-Index doesn,t work
Hi I´m using LyX 1.1.6fix1 on a Mandrake 8.0-System. Everything works really fine with LyX, but the Index doesn´t appear in PDF-Files (either using the Way with ps2pdf nor pdftex) Is there anybody out there, who has an idea or solution ? Thank You for help CU Thorsten (excuse my english) -- Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little too early for anything you want to do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Book layout and included files problem.
I'm using Lyx 1.1.6fix1 and am encountering the following problem: if I
create a document which includes other lyx documents using the article
class, everything is fine. But if I change the master document layout to
be book or Thesis (University of Colorado's thesis, specifically), the
included files vanish! That is, the include gray boxes are still present
in the lyx document, but when a latex file is produced (either
automatically for making the PostScript or explicitly by Latex Export), the
\include{file} lines are simply not there! As far as I can tell this is a
lyx bug, can anyone confirm and suggest solutions?
I can include specific example files if someone needs clarification.
Regards,
Fernando Perez.
Re: marking text doesn't work
Maybe that's not the problem, but I think you shouldn't select de_menus.bind in the lyx preferences, because it's only the menu part of the bindings. You would better use cua.bind. Lyx should then include de_menus.bind according to your locale. If it doesn't, copy the cua.bind (from the /usr/share/lyx/bind/ directory) to your ~/.lyx/bind/, and then edit it to replace, at the end of the file, the line: \bind_file menus.bind by this one: \bind_file de_menus.bind Maybe you will need to copy de_menus.bind and math.bind too, but I'm not sure. I think having your own bind files is a good thing, so you can add shortcuts for your favorite commands. And don't forget to restart lyx after you change the binding preferences, or after you edit a bind file. Thank you, that did it! Everything is working fine now. Thanks to everybody who tried to help me. Gerhard Schuck
Re: Book layout and included files problem.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Fernando [iso-8859-1] Pérez wrote:
I'm using Lyx 1.1.6fix1 and am encountering the following problem: if I
create a document which includes other lyx documents using the article
class, everything is fine. But if I change the master document layout to
be book or Thesis (University of Colorado's thesis, specifically), the
included files vanish! That is, the include gray boxes are still present
in the lyx document, but when a latex file is produced (either
automatically for making the PostScript or explicitly by Latex Export), the
\include{file} lines are simply not there! As far as I can tell this is a
lyx bug, can anyone confirm and suggest solutions?
how should this work, when you have a file with layout x and
another file with layout y? most of the deklarations are
document-wide ones.
all files must have the same class, than all works well.
Herbert
Re: Trouble building on PPC
hi! I get the following error when trying to build either fix2 or cvs: kill.c: In function `int lyx::kill(int, int)': kill.c:10: implicit devlaration of function `int kill(...)' make[3]: *** [kill.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Is this a problem with the lyx source or with the library setup on my machine? I don't have any probhlems building lyx on ppc since 1.1.6 (1.1.5fix* didn't build) hmm, sounds like you're missing some header-files.. why don't you use my ppc.rpm on ftp.sylvan.com? what kind of ppc? this rpm is built on a G3 with glibc-2.2 Have fun* Niklas
Re: marking text doesn't work
Hi everybody, I already posted this question last week, but got no answer until now. So I try it again: I've installed LyX 1.1.6-fix2 with rpm on SuSE 7.1 (which worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow gives no result. Just nothing happens. I've tried it with cua-binding and de_menues and tried also to replace "lyx.mo" with the fixed one that Peter Suetterlin posted here on May 9th, but still no change. If I start lyx with -dbg 2 I get always the message "Empty argument!". Has anybody any idea? Thanks in advance Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: OK, LyX users, could you tell Mike why you are LyX users? ;) There are many reasons: Lyx use very little resources (cpu mem) compared to others. Try loading the user guide (40 pages or so of heavily formatted text demonstrating every feature, such as tables, pictures, math, lists and so on.) It loads fast. Then try to scroll through it all. The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Rendering the tables, pictures and math on screen isn't noticeably slower than text. The scrolling don't get awkward around a big picture. Try something similiar with word. :-( Lyx create small document files. Why do word and others create 20k-60k when lyx creates 5k-6k? Lyx works well on linux I like the WISYWYM instead of WYSIWYG idea. Fantastic for math and other things latex does well. You don't lose stuff with lyx. It rarely crash. Particularly, it don't crash more just because the document is huge and contain all sorts of convoluted tricks. (Try the user guide again). And if it crash, (i.e. somebody tripped over the power cord) nothing much is lost. And the files contain readable text if you ever manage to mangle a file so bad that lyx refuse it. You can then save your work with a plaintext editor. That doesn't work so well with word and others that fill the file with binary data and store paragraphs in random order. And lyx don't do strange things like asking me about saving changes when I didn't make any. Try to read a document with word (or staroffice), and it will prompt about saving changes even though I didn't do anything other than scroll through it. This makes me nervous when I close a editor that I forgot to close for few days - was there any changes or is it just bogus? In other cases it is irritating. And don't even mention stupid things like capitalizing i by default. Lowercase i is a common word in my language... Lyx may take some more getting used to than changing between word-like word processors. Once you get used to it you _don't_ want to go back though, and neither will your grandmother. Helge Hafting
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: Has anybody any idea? Not really, but worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test your keyboard with xev. You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. Or try installing different version of Xforms.
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
Helge Hafting wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: OK, LyX users, could you tell Mike why you are LyX users? ;) There are many reasons: The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) I like the WISYWYM instead of WYSIWYG idea. yes, yes, yes ... And the files contain readable text if you ... You can write scripts, that produce LyX files. For combining letters with an adress database (see msg Wed, 6 Jun, Martin Hansen). For create Table from csv-file (see msg csv2lyx-0.0.1fix1 :-) Thu, 31 May, A.Gulino)
Re: marking text doesn't work
Tuukka == Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tuukka On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: Has anybody any idea? Tuukka Not really, but worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Tuukka Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. JMarc
Re: marking text doesn't work
You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which was surprising for me because I always had used the german bindings before, which were selected by default (as far as I remember). So I changed to /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, which should be correct. Anyway the marking problem comes with both bindings. Are there more things I can check, before I have to start compiling or fiddling with xmodmap? Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? It works in KDE programms and in Netscape Messenger. Ctrl-arrows works also in xedit. I think it's a problem of my LyX configuration. Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test your keyboard with xev. xev shows keysym Shift_L if I press left Shift and Right if I press right arrow. So everything seems ok. Before I start fighting with xmodmap, I will try to find the reason of the problem, which can only be one of the two possibilities: 1. that I messed up my system unconsciously, 2. something has changed in 1.1.6-fix2 compared to the previous versions of LyX. You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. Or try installing different version of Xforms. I deinstalled the SuSE xforms and installed xforms 88.3 from the LyX download page with no effect. Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a normal user without technical background and usually have no luck with compiling from sources. But I will try, if I find no better way. Thanks anyway Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a normal user without technical background and usually have no luck with All GNU programs (well, autoconf) are very easy to install from source. It is just unpacking the distribution package with tar xvfz file.tar.gz, going in to the extracted program directory, and typing: ./configure make make install If everything is OK, you are ready to go after that. If this doesn't work, it is either not a autoconf package (which is bad thing for developers to do nowadays), you are missing some required packages, or either the package you are trying to install or your system is misconfigured/broken and you can complain either vendor. (Unfortunately many Linux distributions and packages are broken in a way or another) It seems that in distributions the required header files are in some devel packages which I think it is a very bad thing. If Joe User sees a package named devel he won't install since he thinks it is only for developers. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Everybody should have gcc AND all header files required for compiling installed by default, since source distributions are the standard in Unix/Linux world. Should mpg123 be installed only for musician computer users?
Re: Problem with a freezed cursor.
I am using the Lyx version delivered with SUSE Linux 7.1. [That is 1.1.5fix1 for the non-SuSE-devvies.] You might want to try 1.1.5fix2 for backward-compatible bugfix or 1.1.6 if you do not have to use 1.1.5 or older for other reasons... Here is an RPM for SuSE with LyX 1.1.6fix2: ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx-1.1.6fix2-50.i386.rpm I got the link from this page: http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit/LyX/ Best Regards Marcus Beyer _ Dipl.-Inform. Marcus Beyer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Abt. Medizinische Informatik - Universitätsklinikum Stefan-Meier-Straße 26 D-79104 Freiburg Tel. +49/761/203-6698 Fax +49/761/203-6711 _ http://www.Stormlight.de __
Re: marking text doesn't work
Gerhard Schuck wrote: You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which was surprising for me because I always had used the german bindings before, which were selected by default (as far as I remember). So I changed to /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, which should be correct. Anyway the marking problem comes with both bindings. Maybe that's not the problem, but I think you shouldn't select de_menus.bind in the lyx preferences, because it's only the menu part of the bindings. You would better use cua.bind. Lyx should then include de_menus.bind according to your locale. If it doesn't, copy the cua.bind (from the /usr/share/lyx/bind/ directory) to your ~/.lyx/bind/, and then edit it to replace, at the end of the file, the line: \bind_file menus.bind by this one: \bind_file de_menus.bind Maybe you will need to copy de_menus.bind and math.bind too, but I'm not sure. I think having your own bind files is a good thing, so you can add shortcuts for your favorite commands. And don't forget to restart lyx after you change the binding preferences, or after you edit a bind file. Thomas.
Re: marking text doesn't work
All GNU programs (well, autoconf) are very easy to install from source. It is just unpacking the distribution package with tar xvfz file.tar.gz, going in to the extracted program directory, and typing: ./configure make make install I know developers. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Everybody should have gcc AND all header files required for compiling installed by default, since source distributions are the standard in Unix/Linux world. I really admire the Slackware guys but unfortunately I'm only a rpm guy. And I think for people with limited technical knowledge it's probably easier to keep the system clean with rpms. As a compromise I've just rebuilt the rpms from the src.rpm files, which worked fine. But the result was the same. Then I installed the 1.1.6-fix1 version, and had the same problem. So it's clear that something in my system is broken and not the fix-2 version. I think now I will check my backup files to find out what has changed in the configuration of my system. Thank you again Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? It works in KDE programms and in Netscape Messenger. Ctrl-arrows works also in xedit. I think it's a problem of my LyX configuration. Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test your keyboard with xev. xev shows keysym Shift_L if I press left Shift and Right if I press right arrow. So everything seems ok. Before I start fighting with xmodmap, I will try to find the reason of the problem, which can only be one of the two possibilities: 1. that I messed up my system unconsciously, 2. something has changed in 1.1.6-fix2 compared to the previous versions of LyX. You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. Or try installing different version of Xforms. I deinstalled the SuSE xforms and installed xforms 88.3 from the LyX download page with no effect. Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a normal user without technical background and usually have no luck with compiling from sources. But I will try, if I find no better way. Thanks anyway Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
A.Gulino a écrit : Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] There are many reasons: The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) Re Sorry : 8 MB with 1.1.5fix2 with a 386DX40 (I have to admit that I did add a 387 fp coprocessor) (((c: [snip] -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Emmanuel GUREGHIAN ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_)
Re: linuxdoc and windows
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:29:35AM -0300, Orlando de Andrade Figueiredo wrote: Hello, Ola', ;-) I want to generate Linuxdoc files with Lyx on Windows. Is it possible? The linuxdoc files are only useful if you can convert them to other formats. Is sgml-tools v1.0 available to cygwin? If not you can generate the linuxdoc files but you will not see the resulting dvi. Thanks, -- Orlando de Andrade Figueiredo -- Estudante de Mestrado em Computacao, USP, S.Carlos * Computer Science Graduate Student, Brazil -- José
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
George == George De Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a George place mark where I stopped editing. So, below the item that I George had just finished, I inserted a comment paragraph. I noticed George that the numbering in my enumerated list was reset by this George addition. Did you try to change the environment depth of the comment to include it into the list? JMarc
Re: marking text doesn't work
Gerhard == Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. Gerhard After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which Gerhard was surprising for me because I always had used the german Gerhard bindings before, which were selected by default (as far as I Gerhard remember). So I changed to /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, Gerhard which should be correct. Anyway the marking problem comes Gerhard with both bindings. If you set the binding to cua and restart LyX, it should work. JMarc
lyx and latex2rtf in Linux
Hi all!! I'm a beginner with latex2rtf. My problem is this. 1. I write an Lyx document, and export to Latex. 2. If I write latex2rtf file.tex, I obtain errrors because of Lyx commands in the tex file. 3. If I delete these lines (referent to lyx code) in the tex document, I obtain a perfect RTF file. Can someone explain to me this? Thanks... (Adolfo M. Pachón Rodríguez)
Re: Problem with a freezed cursor.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:44:42AM +0200, Urs Graf wrote: I am a fresh user of Lyx and I like it and I should like to use it more. But there is a problem which renders the use of Lyx almost inpracticable. When I use a mathematical symbol, for example the square root, a matrix or a fraction, the cursor is placed correctly on the first element of the mask, in the case of a matrix at the first element of the first row, but it is always freezed, i.e. the keybord dosen't respond when you want to type the first element. I had How do you insert the square root ? If you use the math panel, then the window of the math panel gets the focus when you press on it, so to return to the LyX screen you need to press alt+tab (or another key combination, depending on your window manager). Do you also have a problem when you inserting the root with the keyboard ? There are two ways to do it: 1. M-m s 2. Typing \sqrt and pressing space
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:31:18PM -0500, George De Bruin wrote: I have LyX 1.1.6Fix2 installed on my Linux Mandrake 7.2 system (thanks toGerman Poo C. for his RPM), and noticed a behavior that is slightly odd, IMO. A similar behavior has been mentioned recently, but this one surprised me a little bit... I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a place mark where I stopped editing. So, below the item that I had just finished, I inserted a comment paragraph. I noticed that the numbering in my enumerated list was reset by this addition. I am slightly surprised by this... I didn't think that a comment would reset the numbering for the list. Is this a glitch? Should it be this way? You just need to nest the comment into the enumerate by either pressing the Change Env. depth icon in the toolbar, or by pressing M-p left
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:06:26PM +0900, Gerhard Schuck wrote: Hi everybody, I already posted this question last week, but got no answer until now. So I try it again: I've installed LyX 1.1.6-fix2 with rpm on SuSE 7.1 (which worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow gives no result. Just nothing happens. I've tried it with cua-binding and de_menues and tried also to replace lyx.mo with the fixed one that Peter Suetterlin posted here on May 9th, but still no change. If I start lyx with -dbg 2 I get always the message Empty argument!. Do other keyboard shortcut work (e.g. ctrl+k) ? To help you, I need to see the output of running lyx -dbg 6 and pressing Shift+right
Re: Exam design package
Oscar Garcia Poblacion wrote:
someone been working on a layout for lyx?.
I have notice that this class has no support for spanish. I have
translated the strings on exam.cls, but I couldn't find things such Part
or Answer.
by default this should be done by choosing the right language
in layout-document-language
otherwise try in latex preamble
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\parname{Parte}}
same for the answer, but i don't know the latex-name
(something like parname)
It is a minor problem but, does someone know where to find
these strings?. As soon as I learn more about latex and lyx I would like to
help in developing of classes and layouts, but for the time being...
fine! :-)
Herbert
--
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: George == George De Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a George place mark where I stopped editing. So, below the item that I George had just finished, I inserted a comment paragraph. I noticed George that the numbering in my enumerated list was reset by this George addition. Did you try to change the environment depth of the comment to include it into the list? you can also insert a note instead of the comment. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Lyx latex2html
Hi all!! I want to obtain this in the HTML output: a href=http://www.lyx.org;Go to Lyx/a How have I to write in Lyx to export to Latex and then generate the HTML output with latex2html? Thanks (Adolfo M. Pachón Rodríguez)
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: A.Gulino a écrit : Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] There are many reasons: The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) Re Sorry : 8 MB with 1.1.5fix2 with a 386DX40 (I have to admit that I did add a 387 fp coprocessor) (((c: [snip] It's been years since I worked on anything with 8MB, or 16, but that's not because of LyX. It was a sad day for me when we had to start upgrading machines to 64 and 128MB to keep them running with a well known commercial Word Processor, produced by a well known commercial OS vendor. What I like about LyX is that the whole question of memory use when producing documents is largely irrelevant. It also doesn't crash when documents get big, which happens on most traditional word processors regardless of the hardware that they run on. I work in a very micro$oft orientated environment, where everybody is impressed with LyX, especially after they discovered that it can produce pdf output. I still sometimes have to explain to people that Times New Roman is not a standard font:-) Cheers Henk
Re: Lyx latex2html
Yes, I read this in the latex2html manual, but in Lyx, an CTRL+D shows me an
error message:
File html.sty Not Found
I've put this file in all sites, but always tell me the error.
Where have I to put the html.sty exactly?
Very Thanks.
NOTE: I can Export to Latex, an then latex2html file.tex works fine, but now my
problem is with Lyx, because of the latex preamble.
El jue, 07 jun 2001, Herbert Voss escribió:
Adolfo Pachón wrote:
I want to obtain this in the HTML output:
a href=http://www.lyx.org;Go to Lyx/a
How have I to write in Lyx to export to Latex and then generate the HTML
output with latex2html?
\usepackage{html}
and in lyx-text
\htmladdnormallink{Go to Lyx}{http://www.lyx.org/Where_Else}
Herbert
--
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
--
Adolfo Pachón
(SAMTEK, SCA)
Re: Lyx latex2html
Adolfo Pachón wrote: Yes, I read this in the latex2html manual, but in Lyx, an CTRL+D shows me an error message: File html.sty Not Found I've put this file in all sites, but always tell me the error. Where have I to put the html.sty exactly? NOTE: I can Export to Latex, an then latex2html file.tex works fine, but now my problem is with Lyx, because of the latex preamble. no, this is not possible. when latex finds the file, lyx does it too, because lyx starts latex abd does not search by itself. are you sure, you have installed the file? otherwise ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/ltx2x/html.sty Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
On Thursday 07 June 2001 10:28, Dekel Tsur wrote: You just need to nest the comment into the enumerate by either pressing the Change Env. depth icon in the toolbar, or by pressing M-p left smacking forehead - Doh! Thanks Dekel and Jean-Marc... That fixed it. I should have thought of that -- George J. De Bruin Check Out 0l0rin's New Age compositions at http://mp3.com/0l0rin 0l0rin's latest recording Collection is available now!
Make-Index doesn,t work
Hi I´m using LyX 1.1.6fix1 on a Mandrake 8.0-System. Everything works really fine with LyX, but the Index doesn´t appear in PDF-Files (either using the Way with ps2pdf nor pdftex) Is there anybody out there, who has an idea or solution ? Thank You for help CU Thorsten (excuse my english) -- Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little too early for anything you want to do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Book layout and included files problem.
I'm using Lyx 1.1.6fix1 and am encountering the following problem: if I
create a document which includes other lyx documents using the article
class, everything is fine. But if I change the master document layout to
be book or Thesis (University of Colorado's thesis, specifically), the
included files vanish! That is, the include gray boxes are still present
in the lyx document, but when a latex file is produced (either
automatically for making the PostScript or explicitly by Latex Export), the
\include{file} lines are simply not there! As far as I can tell this is a
lyx bug, can anyone confirm and suggest solutions?
I can include specific example files if someone needs clarification.
Regards,
Fernando Perez.
Re: marking text doesn't work
Maybe that's not the problem, but I think you shouldn't select de_menus.bind in the lyx preferences, because it's only the menu part of the bindings. You would better use cua.bind. Lyx should then include de_menus.bind according to your locale. If it doesn't, copy the cua.bind (from the /usr/share/lyx/bind/ directory) to your ~/.lyx/bind/, and then edit it to replace, at the end of the file, the line: \bind_file menus.bind by this one: \bind_file de_menus.bind Maybe you will need to copy de_menus.bind and math.bind too, but I'm not sure. I think having your own bind files is a good thing, so you can add shortcuts for your favorite commands. And don't forget to restart lyx after you change the binding preferences, or after you edit a bind file. Thank you, that did it! Everything is working fine now. Thanks to everybody who tried to help me. Gerhard Schuck
Re: Book layout and included files problem.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Fernando [iso-8859-1] Pérez wrote:
I'm using Lyx 1.1.6fix1 and am encountering the following problem: if I
create a document which includes other lyx documents using the article
class, everything is fine. But if I change the master document layout to
be book or Thesis (University of Colorado's thesis, specifically), the
included files vanish! That is, the include gray boxes are still present
in the lyx document, but when a latex file is produced (either
automatically for making the PostScript or explicitly by Latex Export), the
\include{file} lines are simply not there! As far as I can tell this is a
lyx bug, can anyone confirm and suggest solutions?
how should this work, when you have a file with layout x and
another file with layout y? most of the deklarations are
document-wide ones.
all files must have the same class, than all works well.
Herbert
Re: Trouble building on PPC
hi! > I get the following error when trying to build either fix2 or cvs: > > kill.c: In function `int lyx::kill(int, int)': > kill.c:10: implicit devlaration of function `int kill(...)' > make[3]: *** [kill.lo] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > Is this a problem with the lyx source or with the library setup on my > machine? I don't have any probhlems building lyx on ppc since 1.1.6 (1.1.5fix* didn't build) hmm, sounds like you're missing some header-files.. why don't you use my ppc.rpm on ftp.sylvan.com? what kind of ppc? this rpm is built on a G3 with glibc-2.2 Have fun* Niklas
Re: marking text doesn't work
Hi everybody, I already posted this question last week, but got no answer until now. So I try it again: I've installed LyX 1.1.6-fix2 with rpm on SuSE 7.1 (which worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow gives no result. Just nothing happens. I've tried it with cua-binding and de_menues and tried also to replace "lyx.mo" with the fixed one that Peter Suetterlin posted here on May 9th, but still no change. If I start lyx with -dbg 2 I get always the message "Empty argument!". Has anybody any idea? Thanks in advance Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > OK, LyX users, could you tell Mike why you are LyX users? ;) There are many reasons: Lyx use very little resources (cpu & mem) compared to others. Try loading the user guide (40 pages or so of heavily formatted text demonstrating every feature, such as tables, pictures, math, lists and so on.) It loads fast. Then try to scroll through it all. The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Rendering the tables, pictures and math on screen isn't noticeably slower than text. The scrolling don't get awkward around a big picture. Try something similiar with word. :-( Lyx create small document files. Why do word and others create 20k-60k when lyx creates 5k-6k? Lyx works well on linux I like the WISYWYM instead of WYSIWYG idea. Fantastic for math and other things latex does well. You don't lose stuff with lyx. It rarely crash. Particularly, it don't crash more just because the document is huge and contain all sorts of convoluted tricks. (Try the user guide again). And if it crash, (i.e. somebody tripped over the power cord) nothing much is lost. And the files contain readable text if you ever manage to mangle a file so bad that lyx refuse it. You can then save your work with a plaintext editor. That doesn't work so well with word and others that fill the file with binary data and store paragraphs in random order. And lyx don't do strange things like asking me about saving changes when I didn't make any. Try to read a document with word (or staroffice), and it will prompt about "saving changes" even though I didn't do anything other than scroll through it. This makes me nervous when I close a editor that I forgot to close for few days - was there any changes or is it just bogus? In other cases it is irritating. And don't even mention stupid things like capitalizing " i " by default. Lowercase "i" is a common word in my language... Lyx may take some more getting used to than changing between word-like word processors. Once you get used to it you _don't_ want to go back though, and neither will your grandmother. Helge Hafting
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: > Has anybody any idea? Not really, but > worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with > the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test your keyboard with xev. You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. Or try installing different version of Xforms.
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
Helge Hafting wrote: > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > OK, LyX users, could you tell Mike why you are LyX users? ;) > > There are many reasons: > > The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) > I like the WISYWYM instead of WYSIWYG idea. yes, yes, yes > ... And the files contain readable text if you ... You can write scripts, that produce LyX files. For "combining letters with an adress database" (see msg Wed, 6 Jun, Martin Hansen). For create Table from csv-file (see msg "csv2lyx-0.0.1fix1 :-)" Thu, 31 May, A.Gulino)
Re: marking text doesn't work
> "Tuukka" == Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tuukka> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: >> Has anybody any idea? Tuukka> Not really, but >> worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark >> text with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. >> Also Ctrl-arrow Tuukka> Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set in preference. JMarc
Re: marking text doesn't work
> You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set > in preference. > After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which was surprising for me because I always had used the german bindings before, which were selected by default (as far as I remember). So I changed to /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, which should be correct. Anyway the marking problem comes with both bindings. Are there more things I can check, before I have to start compiling or fiddling with xmodmap? Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
> > worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text > > with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also > > Ctrl-arrow > > Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? It works in KDE programms and in Netscape Messenger. Ctrl-arrows works also in xedit. I think it's a problem of my LyX configuration. > > Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test > your keyboard with xev. xev shows keysym "Shift_L" if I press left Shift and "Right" if I press right arrow. So everything seems ok. Before I start fighting with xmodmap, I will try to find the reason of the problem, which can only be one of the two possibilities: 1. that I messed up my system unconsciously, 2. something has changed in 1.1.6-fix2 compared to the previous versions of LyX. > > You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. > Or try installing different version of Xforms. I deinstalled the SuSE xforms and installed xforms 88.3 from the LyX download page with no effect. Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a "normal" user without technical background and usually have no luck with compiling from sources. But I will try, if I find no better way. Thanks anyway Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: > Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a > "normal" user without technical background and usually have no luck with All GNU programs (well, autoconf) are very easy to install from source. It is just unpacking the distribution package with "tar xvfz file.tar.gz", going in to the extracted program directory, and typing: ./configure make make install If everything is OK, you are ready to go after that. If this doesn't work, it is either not a autoconf package (which is bad thing for developers to do nowadays), you are missing some required packages, or either the package you are trying to install or your system is misconfigured/broken and you can complain either vendor. (Unfortunately many Linux distributions and packages are broken in a way or another) It seems that in distributions the required header files are in some "devel" packages which I think it is a very bad thing. If Joe User sees a package named "devel" he won't install since he thinks it is only for developers. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Everybody should have gcc AND all header files required for compiling installed by default, since source distributions are the standard in Unix/Linux world. Should "mpg123" be installed only for musician computer users?
Re: Problem with a freezed cursor.
> > I am using the Lyx version delivered with SUSE Linux 7.1. > > [That is 1.1.5fix1 for the non-SuSE-devvies.] > You might want to try 1.1.5fix2 for "backward-compatible bugfix" > or 1.1.6 if you do not have to use 1.1.5 or older for other reasons... Here is an RPM for SuSE with LyX 1.1.6fix2: ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx-1.1.6fix2-50.i386.rpm I got the link from this page: http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit/LyX/ Best Regards Marcus Beyer _ Dipl.-Inform. Marcus Beyer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Abt. Medizinische Informatik - Universitätsklinikum Stefan-Meier-Straße 26 D-79104 Freiburg Tel. +49/761/203-6698 Fax +49/761/203-6711 _ http://www.Stormlight.de __
Re: marking text doesn't work
Gerhard Schuck wrote: > > > You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in set > > in preference. > > > After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which was surprising > for me because I always had used the german bindings before, which were > selected by default (as far as I remember). So I changed to > /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, which should be correct. Anyway the > marking problem comes with both bindings. > Maybe that's not the problem, but I think you shouldn't select "de_menus.bind" in the lyx preferences, because it's only the menu part of the bindings. You would better use "cua.bind". Lyx should then include "de_menus.bind" according to your locale. If it doesn't, copy the "cua.bind" (from the /usr/share/lyx/bind/ directory) to your "~/.lyx/bind/", and then edit it to replace, at the end of the file, the line: \bind_file menus.bind by this one: \bind_file de_menus.bind Maybe you will need to copy "de_menus.bind" and "math.bind" too, but I'm not sure. I think having your own bind files is a good thing, so you can add shortcuts for your favorite commands. And don't forget to restart lyx after you change the binding preferences, or after you edit a bind file. Thomas.
Re: marking text doesn't work
> All GNU programs (well, autoconf) are very easy to install from source. It > is just unpacking the distribution package with "tar xvfz file.tar.gz", > going in to the extracted program directory, and typing: > ./configure > make > make install I know > developers. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Everybody should have gcc AND all header > files required for compiling installed by default, since source > distributions are the standard in Unix/Linux world. I really admire the Slackware guys but unfortunately I'm only a rpm guy. And I think for people with limited technical knowledge it's probably easier to keep the system clean with rpms. As a "compromise" I've just rebuilt the rpms from the src.rpm files, which worked fine. But the result was the same. Then I installed the 1.1.6-fix1 version, and had the same problem. So it's clear that something in my system is broken and not the fix-2 version. I think now I will check my backup files to find out what has changed in the configuration of my system. Thank you again Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: marking text doesn't work
> > worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text > > with the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also > > Ctrl-arrow > > Does shift+arrows work with other programs, such as nedit? It works in KDE programms and in Netscape Messenger. Ctrl-arrows works also in xedit. I think it's a problem of my LyX configuration. > > Maybe you could do something with xmodmap, read the man page. You can test > your keyboard with xev. xev shows keysym "Shift_L" if I press left Shift and "Right" if I press right arrow. So everything seems ok. Before I start fighting with xmodmap, I will try to find the reason of the problem, which can only be one of the two possibilities: 1. that I messed up my system unconsciously, 2. something has changed in 1.1.6-fix2 compared to the previous versions of LyX. > > You could try to compile LyX from source. It shouldn't be difficult. > Or try installing different version of Xforms. I deinstalled the SuSE xforms and installed xforms 88.3 from the LyX download page with no effect. Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a "normal" user without technical background and usually have no luck with compiling from sources. But I will try, if I find no better way. Thanks anyway Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
"A.Gulino" a écrit : > > Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] > > There are many reasons: > > > > The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. > Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) Re Sorry : 8 MB with 1.1.5fix2 with a 386DX40 (I have to admit that I did add a 387 fp coprocessor) (((c: [snip] -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Emmanuel GUREGHIAN ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_)
Re: linuxdoc and windows
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:29:35AM -0300, Orlando de Andrade Figueiredo wrote: > > Hello, Ola', ;-) > I want to generate Linuxdoc files with Lyx on Windows. Is it possible? The linuxdoc files are only useful if you can convert them to other formats. Is sgml-tools v1.0 available to cygwin? If not you can generate the linuxdoc files but you will not see the resulting dvi. > Thanks, > -- > Orlando de Andrade Figueiredo > -- > Estudante de Mestrado em Computacao, USP, S.Carlos > * Computer Science Graduate Student, Brazil -- José
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
> "George" == George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a George> place mark where I stopped editing. So, below the item that I George> had just finished, I inserted a comment paragraph. I noticed George> that the numbering in my enumerated list was reset by this George> addition. Did you try to change the environment depth of the comment to include it into the list? JMarc
Re: marking text doesn't work
> "Gerhard" == Gerhard Schuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You should also check whether you have a correct binding file in >> set in preference. >> Gerhard> After installing fix-2 I found cua.bind in preference, which Gerhard> was surprising for me because I always had used the german Gerhard> bindings before, which were selected by default (as far as I Gerhard> remember). So I changed to /usr/share/lyx/bind/de_menus.bind, Gerhard> which should be correct. Anyway the marking problem comes Gerhard> with both bindings. If you set the binding to cua and restart LyX, it should work. JMarc
lyx and latex2rtf in Linux
Hi all!! I'm a beginner with latex2rtf. My problem is this. 1. I write an Lyx document, and export to Latex. 2. If I write "latex2rtf file.tex", I obtain errrors because of Lyx commands in the tex file. 3. If I delete these lines (referent to lyx code) in the tex document, I obtain a perfect RTF file. Can someone explain to me this? Thanks... (Adolfo M. Pachón Rodríguez)
Re: Problem with a freezed cursor.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:44:42AM +0200, Urs Graf wrote: > I am a fresh user of Lyx and I like it and I should like to use it more. > But there is a problem which renders > the use of Lyx almost inpracticable. When I use a mathematical symbol, > for example the square root, a matrix > or a fraction, the cursor is placed correctly on the first element of > the mask, in the case of a matrix at the > first element of the first row, but it is always freezed, i.e. the > keybord dosen't respond when you want to type the first element. I had How do you insert the square root ? If you use the math panel, then the window of the math panel gets the focus when you press on it, so to return to the LyX screen you need to press alt+tab (or another key combination, depending on your window manager). Do you also have a problem when you inserting the root with the keyboard ? There are two ways to do it: 1. M-m s 2. Typing \sqrt and pressing space
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:31:18PM -0500, George De Bruin wrote: > I have LyX 1.1.6Fix2 installed on my Linux Mandrake 7.2 system (thanks > toGerman Poo C. for his RPM), and noticed a behavior that is slightly odd, > IMO. A similar behavior has been mentioned recently, but this one surprised > me a little bit... > > I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a place mark where > I stopped editing. So, below the item that I had just finished, I inserted a > comment paragraph. I noticed that the numbering in my enumerated list was > reset by this addition. > > I am slightly surprised by this... I didn't think that a comment would reset > the numbering for the list. Is this a glitch? Should it be this way? You just need to nest the comment into the enumerate by either pressing the "Change Env. depth" icon in the toolbar, or by pressing M-p
Re: marking text doesn't work
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:06:26PM +0900, Gerhard Schuck wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I already posted this question last week, but got no answer until now. So I > try it again: I've installed LyX 1.1.6-fix2 with rpm on SuSE 7.1 (which > worked well with all previous versions of LyX) and now can't mark text with > the keyboard (Shift-arrow). It only works with the mouse. Also Ctrl-arrow > gives no result. Just nothing happens. I've tried it with cua-binding and > de_menues and tried also to replace "lyx.mo" with the fixed one that Peter > Suetterlin posted here on May 9th, but still no change. If I start lyx with > -dbg 2 I get always the message "Empty argument!". Do other keyboard shortcut work (e.g. ctrl+k) ? To help you, I need to see the output of running lyx -dbg 6 and pressing Shift+right
Re: Exam design package
Oscar Garcia Poblacion wrote:
> someone been working on a layout for lyx?.
> I have notice that this class has no support for spanish. I have
> "translated" the strings on exam.cls, but I couldn't find things such "Part"
> or "Answer".
>
by default this should be done by choosing the right language
in layout->document->language
otherwise try in latex preamble
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\parname{Parte}}
same for the answer, but i don't know the latex-name
(something like parname)
> It is a minor problem but, does someone know where to find
> these strings?. As soon as I learn more about latex and lyx I would like to
> help in developing of classes and layouts, but for the time being...
fine! :-)
Herbert
--
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "George" == George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > George> I was working in an enumerated list, and needed to insert a > George> place mark where I stopped editing. So, below the item that I > George> had just finished, I inserted a comment paragraph. I noticed > George> that the numbering in my enumerated list was reset by this > George> addition. > > Did you try to change the environment depth of the comment to include > it into the list? you can also insert a note instead of the comment. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Lyx & latex2html
Hi all!! I want to obtain this in the HTML output: http://www.lyx.org;>Go to Lyx How have I to write in Lyx to export to Latex and then generate the HTML output with latex2html? Thanks (Adolfo M. Pachón Rodríguez)
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: > "A.Gulino" a écrit : > > Helge Hafting wrote: > > [snip] > > > > There are many reasons: > > > > > > The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M. > > > > Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux) > > Re Sorry : 8 MB with 1.1.5fix2 with a 386DX40 (I have to admit that I > did add a 387 fp coprocessor) (((c: > [snip] It's been years since I worked on anything with 8MB, or 16, but that's not because of LyX. It was a sad day for me when we had to start upgrading machines to 64 and 128MB to keep them running with a well known commercial Word Processor, produced by a well known commercial OS vendor. What I like about LyX is that the whole question of memory use when producing documents is largely irrelevant. It also doesn't crash when documents get big, which happens on most traditional word processors regardless of the hardware that they run on. I work in a very micro$oft orientated environment, where everybody is impressed with LyX, especially after they discovered that it can produce pdf output. I still sometimes have to explain to people that Times New Roman is not a "standard" font:-) Cheers Henk
Re: Lyx & latex2html
Yes, I read this in the latex2html manual, but in Lyx, an CTRL+D shows me an
error message:
"File html.sty Not Found"
I've put this file in all sites, but always tell me the error.
Where have I to put the html.sty exactly?
Very Thanks.
NOTE: I can Export to Latex, an then latex2html file.tex works fine, but now my
problem is with Lyx, because of the latex preamble.
El jue, 07 jun 2001, Herbert Voss escribió:
> Adolfo Pachón wrote:
> >
> > I want to obtain this in the HTML output:
> >
> > http://www.lyx.org;>Go to Lyx
> >
> > How have I to write in Lyx to export to Latex and then generate the HTML
> > output with latex2html?
>
> \usepackage{html}
>
> and in lyx-text
>
> \htmladdnormallink{Go to Lyx}{http://www.lyx.org/Where_Else}
>
> Herbert
>
>
> --
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
--
Adolfo Pachón
(SAMTEK, SCA)
Re: Lyx & latex2html
"Adolfo Pachón" wrote: > > Yes, I read this in the latex2html manual, but in Lyx, an CTRL+D shows me an > error message: > > "File html.sty Not Found" > > I've put this file in all sites, but always tell me the error. > > Where have I to put the html.sty exactly? > NOTE: I can Export to Latex, an then latex2html file.tex works fine, but now my > problem is with Lyx, because of the latex preamble. no, this is not possible. when latex finds the file, lyx does it too, because lyx starts latex abd does not search by itself. are you sure, you have installed the file? otherwise ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/ltx2x/html.sty Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Enumerated Lists / Comments
On Thursday 07 June 2001 10:28, Dekel Tsur wrote: > You just need to nest the comment into the enumerate by either pressing the > "Change Env. depth" icon in the toolbar, or by pressing M-p Thanks Dekel and Jean-Marc... That fixed it. I should have thought of that -- George J. De Bruin Check Out 0l0rin's New Age compositions at http://mp3.com/0l0rin 0l0rin's latest recording "Collection" is available now!
Make-Index doesn,t work
Hi I´m using LyX 1.1.6fix1 on a Mandrake 8.0-System. Everything works really fine with LyX, but the Index doesn´t appear in PDF-Files (either using the Way with ps2pdf nor pdftex) Is there anybody out there, who has an idea or solution ? Thank You for help CU Thorsten (excuse my english) -- Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little too early for anything you want to do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Book layout and included files problem.
I'm using Lyx 1.1.6fix1 and am encountering the following problem: if I
create a document which includes other lyx documents using the article
class, everything is fine. But if I change the "master document" layout to
be book or Thesis (University of Colorado's thesis, specifically), the
included files vanish! That is, the "include" gray boxes are still present
in the lyx document, but when a latex file is produced (either
automatically for making the PostScript or explicitly by Latex Export), the
\include{file} lines are simply not there! As far as I can tell this is a
lyx bug, can anyone confirm and suggest solutions?
I can include specific example files if someone needs clarification.
Regards,
Fernando Perez.
Re: marking text doesn't work
> Maybe that's not the problem, but I think you shouldn't select > "de_menus.bind" in the lyx preferences, because it's only the menu part > of the bindings. You would better use "cua.bind". Lyx should then > include "de_menus.bind" according to your locale. If it doesn't, copy > the "cua.bind" (from the /usr/share/lyx/bind/ directory) to your > "~/.lyx/bind/", and then edit it to replace, at the end of the file, the > line: > > \bind_file menus.bind > > by this one: > > \bind_file de_menus.bind > > Maybe you will need to copy "de_menus.bind" and "math.bind" too, but I'm > not sure. I think having your own bind files is a good thing, so you can > add shortcuts for your favorite commands. And don't forget to restart > lyx after you change the binding preferences, or after you edit a bind > file. Thank you, that did it! Everything is working fine now. Thanks to everybody who tried to help me. Gerhard Schuck
Re: Book layout and included files problem.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Fernando [iso-8859-1] Pérez wrote:
> I'm using Lyx 1.1.6fix1 and am encountering the following problem: if I
> create a document which includes other lyx documents using the article
> class, everything is fine. But if I change the "master document" layout to
> be book or Thesis (University of Colorado's thesis, specifically), the
> included files vanish! That is, the "include" gray boxes are still present
> in the lyx document, but when a latex file is produced (either
> automatically for making the PostScript or explicitly by Latex Export), the
> \include{file} lines are simply not there! As far as I can tell this is a
> lyx bug, can anyone confirm and suggest solutions?
how should this work, when you have a file with layout x and
another file with layout y? most of the deklarations are
document-wide ones.
all files must have the same class, than all works well.
Herbert
