Re: Prelease of LyX 1.2.0 (lyx-1.2.0pre4)
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: \bind_file /usr/share/lyx/bind/emacs.bind Without it everything goes fine. How can I now use emacs.bind? If you do not have a modified bind file in your home (/.lyx) directory, entering just emacs.bind into Pref-Look'n'Feel-Interface-bind file should do it. Juergen.
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:01:10 -0400 wrote Nirmal Govind [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Is there a way by which I can change the font size of multiple entries in a
table in an efficient way? Right now, I'm selecting the text in each cell
and then doing Layout-Character and changing the font. This is a bit
tedious if the table has a large number of entries.
Exactly :-(
In 1.1.6 there is no other simple and nice way. However, you can
a) use ERT: put
{\small
before the table and
}
behind
b) use the text editor of your choice and change the *.lyx source. This
might be rather complicated, maybe doing one change by hand and looking
at the differences in the lyx source might help to find an (maybe regex)
replace command for your editor. Reload the changed file with
FileRestore (^R).
Hope this helps
Guenter
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Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:01:10 -0400 wrote Nirmal Govind [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Is there a way by which I can change the font size of multiple entries in a
table in an efficient way? Right now, I'm selecting the text in each cell
and then doing Layout-Character and changing the font. This is a bit
tedious if the table has a large number of entries.
Exactly :-(
In 1.1.6 there is no other simple and nice way. However, you can
a) use ERT: put
{\small
before the table and
}
behind
b) use the text editor of your choice and change the *.lyx source. This
might be rather complicated, maybe doing one change by hand and looking
at the differences in the lyx source might help to find an (maybe regex)
replace command for your editor. Reload the changed file with
FileRestore (^R).
Hope this helps
Guenter
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Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:01:10 -0400 wrote Nirmal Govind [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there a way by which I can change the font size of multiple entries in a
table in an efficient way? Right now, I'm selecting the text in each cell
and then doing Layout-Character and changing the font. This is a bit
tedious if the table has a large number of entries.
In 1.1.6 there is no other simple and nice way :-(. However, you can
a) use ERT: put
{\small
before the table and
}
behind
b) use the text editor of your choice and change the *.lyx source. This
might be rather complicated, maybe doing one change by hand and looking
at the differences in the lyx source might help to find an (maybe regex)
replace command for your editor. Reload the changed file with
FileRestore (^R).
Hope this helps
Guenter
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Re: Re: LyX layout files
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:37:30 +0100 (BST) wrote Sarah Mount [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Herbert Voss wrote:
Sarah Mount wrote:
OK, I'm trying to make sure all my section headings, abstract, title
authors are in a size 10 font. I've got a .layout file that's reproduced
below, but it doesn't seem to make any difference at all.
For me, it made a difference (displaying all in normal size in LyX)
the layout file is only (!) for the lyx-view and has nothing(!) to do
with the latex output. when it's the same it's fine, when not ...
There is an option, however to have the layout file also changing the way
LaTeX works: The
Preamble
EndPreamble
pair. Everything inbetween will be written to the latex preamble when LyX
exports to latex (or runs latex to get dvi/ps/pdf).
if you want to change only for one document the chapter/sections/..
titles, than use in preamble for example:
\usepackage{sectsty}
\allsectionsfont{\small}
if you want it for all docs than it makes sense to write an own
lyx-layout to get more wysiwig.
Or you combine this with your already existing layout file and get the
attached article_with_normalsized_headings.layout.
(Works fine here, except Title and Author size (don't know the correct latex
commands/options there)
Günter
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article_with_normalsized_headings.layout
Description: Binary data
Re: Re: Re: Inserting gnutella tables inside LyX ?
On 25 Apr 2002 12:34:22 +0200 wrote Jerome Oufella [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I was meaning gnumeric, of course :-). Thanks for all those advices, but importing from standard CSV would not be affordable for my usage, since my goal was to keep gnumeric's table format (colors, backgrounds, etc). I wonder if cleaning gnumeric's latex output would keep those stuff. I doubt that gnumerics latex export will keep colors etc. Maybe you can experiment with the gnumeric output in pure latex before trying to get it into lyx. Once upon a time I managed to make something halvway usefull out of the gnumeric latex output (even got it to reLyX) --- but I did not manage to automatize this task. I suppose inserting the table as an eps might be easier. Wouldnt it be easyer to build a lyx output filter for gnumeric ? Try to ask this at the gnumric list. I suppose it will be easier to convince them to write a good latex2e output filter and then relyx. Another option would be an xml import for LyX (as gnumerics own format is gnuzipped xml). Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I have a. the numbering continue after changing styles or b.............
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:18:49 +1000 wrote Guru - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do I have a. the numbering continue after changing styles or b. Have styles within a style.??? NOTE: I have attached a LyX document of what I am trying to dohow would I have this done automatically instead of manually? NOTE: I am still new at Lyx (I've read 2 of the manuals ... not all of them) and have used LyX a little bit..I'm learning :)... The recipe is nesting (Look for nesting in the HelpUser Guide) Changing the enumeration style is rather tricky and needs Latex commands (evil red text: ERT). A good book on latex (e.g. the LaTeX compagnion) helps a lot. Changing the itemize bullets style is possible from within LyX (search the layout menu) Another idea would be to make the toplevel enumeration (with the bold text) subsubheadings. (Some tricky latex style option/ latex class will surely allow to change the numbering from 1.1.3 to 3. (and so on) The the attachment for a proposal Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] nested-enumerates.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Suppressing the date in article format?
Oliver Margraf wrote:
Hi,
after looking throught the help at lyx.org, I have a question which may
be a silly one: is there a way to suppress the date in the 'article'
class or at least an option where you can configure the placement of the
date?
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I just recalled the same question answered on friday (see below), hope
this helps
have a nice day,
Peter
Am Freitag, 19. April 2002 18:47 schrieb José Luis Gómez Dans:
On Friday 19 April 2002 17:38, Christian Beermann wrote:
Hello,
I use the comascript article class for an document, but I dont to
have the date displayed after the title is there any way to
delete it ?
Don't know if any other way is available, but if you put in the
preamble
\date {}
you're done :-)
Jose
Re: How do I have a. the numbering continue after changing styles or b.............
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:18:49PM +1000, Guru - wrote: How do I have a. the numbering continue after changing styles or b. Have styles within a style.??? NOTE: I have attached a LyX document of what I am trying to dohow would I have this done automatically instead of manually? NOTE: I am still new at Lyx (I've read 2 of the manuals ... not all of them) and have used LyX a little bit..I'm learning :)... What I am trying to do was: Have an enumerate field then within that field have a description or standard field but once I leave the standard field and switch back to enumerate field have the numbering continue Read section Nesting Environments in the user's guide.
Re: fitting math within the page text width
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:54:01PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi, While typing in the math mode, the math text goes into the region which is supposed to be the margin (doesn't stay within textwidth). Hence, the text part of the document is within the textwidth whereas the math part goes beyond this and into the margins. Any way to make the math characters either wrap around or automatically move the whole math box to the next line (assuming that the math box isn't longer than textwidth it should fit within textwidth on the new line). Latex does break math equations, but it can only break at relation symbols (e.g. ) or at binary operators (e.g. +,-). If you want to avoid text that goes into the margins, put \sloppy in the preamble (note that this can create a lot of space between words).
Problems compiling lyx1.2.0pre4
Hi I tray to compile. output ./configure --- Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:warnings assertions included-libsigc xforms-image-loader C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (2.95.4) C++ Compiler flags: -g -O -fno-exceptions -W -Wall Linker flags: Frontend: xforms libXpm version: 4.11 libforms version: 0.89.5 LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx Configuration of LyX was successful. Type 'make' to compile the program, and then 'make install' to install it. --- output make --- Making all in config make[1]: Entering directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/config' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/config' Making all in intl make[1]: Entering directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/intl' gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\/usr/local/ share/locale\ -DLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../src -I. -I../int l -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 intl-compat.c gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\/usr/local/ share/locale\ -DLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../src -I. -I../int l -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 bindtextdom.c In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360, from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/bits/string2.h:391: warning: `strchr' redefined ../src/config.h:418: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/string.h:242: conflicting types for `bcopy' /usr/include/string.h:42: previous declaration of `bcopy' In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360, from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/bits/string2.h: In function `__strsep_1c': /usr/include/bits/string2.h:1138: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in cond itional expression make[1]: *** [bindtextdom.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/intl' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 -- What's going on? Thank's in advanced.
Problems compiling Lyx1.2.0pre4
Hi I tray to compile. output ./configure --- Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:warnings assertions included-libsigc xforms-image-loader C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (2.95.4) C++ Compiler flags: -g -O -fno-exceptions -W -Wall Linker flags: Frontend: xforms libXpm version: 4.11 libforms version: 0.89.5 LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx Configuration of LyX was successful. Type 'make' to compile the program, and then 'make install' to install it. --- output make --- Making all in config make[1]: Entering directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/config' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/config' Making all in intl make[1]: Entering directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/intl' gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\/usr/local/ share/locale\ -DLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../src -I. -I../int l -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 intl-compat.c gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\/usr/local/ share/locale\ -DLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../src -I. -I../int l -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 bindtextdom.c In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360, from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/bits/string2.h:391: warning: `strchr' redefined ../src/config.h:418: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/string.h:242: conflicting types for `bcopy' /usr/include/string.h:42: previous declaration of `bcopy' In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360, from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/bits/string2.h: In function `__strsep_1c': /usr/include/bits/string2.h:1138: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in cond itional expression make[1]: *** [bindtextdom.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/intl' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 -- What's going on? Thank's in advanced. Juan Ramón.
Re: XpmColorFailed
H. For some reason I had unsubscribed myselff from the lyx-users list. I must have wanted some peace and quiet ;-) Allow me to introduce myself: I'm the guy who's responsible for 1.2's graphics support. Before you reach for the reply button and deluge me with complaints, read on. I should be able to provide you with explanations and work arounds for most of your problems. I've just had a look at the users-archive. This is illuminating: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg18828.html Re: images in pre-1.2.0 LyX docs -- I have run lyx -dbg any and open the UserGuide, the eps file is black. the message: Image conversion succeeded. Loading image. In LookupColor [rgb_db.c 210] can't handle color #0811 In LookupColor [rgb_db.c 210] can't handle color #614d xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : Done Reading xpm Image loading succeeded. my xforms 0.89-320 Wayan -- For those who don't know anything about LyX's internals, a brief description. LyX has two possible image loaders. Which one you use will depend on your version of the xforms library. Those of you with a sufficiently modern version of the xforms library (0.89.X where X = 5 I believe) will be using an image loader based on the sophisticated routines supplied by xforms. We'll call that the xforms-based image loader. The rest of you will be using a far less sophisticated image loader based on the libXPM library. I wrote it; it's crappy, but it should allow you to see a rough representation of what will appear in your documents. Don't tell me it's crappy; I know that already. Moreover, it's going to go the way of the dodo, so we won't put t much effort into making it more wonderful. We'll call this the libXpm-based image loader. From the messages Wayan has posted above, I deduce that he's using the xforms-based image loader. So, I'm intrigued by his problems because I didn't realise that there were any! The problem stems from the colour definition in the XPM files: xforms can't cope with such 16 char definitions, as Herbert Voss has pointed out already. It can cope with colours that are 4, 7, 10 and 13 chars. For that matter, the libXpm-based loader couldn't cope with this either. So, the question is, how did you create such an XPM file, Wayan? Run lyx -dbg graphics and the script that LyX used to convert your EPS file to XPM will be displayed on the console. Can we provide a work-around? Well, for those of you using the xforms-based load, yes we can. Again, lyx -dbg graphics is your friend here. You should discover that you can load a host of graphics formats directly, rather than have to convert everything to XPM format. This is important info for you, because it means that you can scrap all those ???-XPM converters that are defined in /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults (or where ever you have placed this file). You'll have to use a text editor to do this I'm afraid; you can't delete these system-wide preferences using the preferences dialog. XPM is a very inefficient format to store large images; it wasn't designed for such stuff. Moreover, some converters to XPM format create non-standard colour definitions that Wayan for one is disovering can't be loaded. In place of these ???-XPM converters, you'll need to define converters for those graphics formats you use that can't be loaded direct. An example here is EPS. Here I convert EPS files to PPM format using \converter eps ppm convert $$i PPM:$$o (Add this directly to your /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults or to your $HOME/.lyx/preferences file or use the Preferences dialog to add it to $HOME/.lyx/preferences). This will enable you to load EPS files much more quickly (because PPM is a more efficient file format than XPM). It will also resolve Wayan's problems. Hope that this info helps, Angus
WYSIWYG mathematical symbols in LyX
Dear all, (Kees read on. There's sone new info for you at the bottom...) one of the things that LyX 1.2 can do for you is display most of the mathematical symbols you'll ever use in a WYSIWYG way. However, you'll need to first perform a little magic with your font path. On Friday 26 April 2002 12:22 pm, C. van Wijk wrote: The strange thing is when I try to insert an epsilon from within the math panel there is a greek epsilon available. So why isn't it displayed in the formula as well? This is a \varepsilon. However, \epsilon should be displayed as well. Do the other AMS symbols show properly? To display \epsilon and any of the AMS symbols like \sqcup and \blacktriangledown you'll need to tell the font server where to find these fonts. Look in /usr/local/share/lyx, or wherever you have installed the lyx support stuff. You'll find a directory xfonts containing symbolic links to a number of fonts used by LyX (if you have them installed). If you have them, then you should check whether this directory is in your font path. Type xset -q at the console. Here I get [snip] Font Path: /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fo nts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fo nts/Type1Adobe/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/ X11/fonts/user/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/user/misc/,/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C/, Note the all important /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts. To add the equivalent to your font path, if it isn't already there, type xset +fp PATH_TO_YOUR_LYX_FONTS_DIR Unfortunately, I understand that this magic will not work if you are running LyX remotely. Sorry! On Friday 26 April 2002 12:22 pm, C. van Wijk wrote: Isn't it possible for lyx to do a 'xset +fp PATH_TO_YOUR_LYX_FONTS_DIR' when starting? Well, you only need to do this once per xsession. Here, I have added the following to my .xsession file: # # Some fonts for LyX # lyxmathfontsdir=/usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts if [ -d $lyxmathfontsdir ]; then xset q | grep $lyxmathfontsdir if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then # directory is not already in the font path # so add it: xset +fp $lyxmathfontsdir; xset fp rehash fi fi That should do the trick for you too Angus
lyx
hello. i've been using lyx for a while now, love it, and am just about to start my thesis. I cant wait. But i tried to convince a friend to use lyx, and i felt pretty stupid. because I cont know how to pronounce it. how do you pronounce lyx?
Re: lyx
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:59:13AM -0500, bcr wrote: hello. i've been using lyx for a while now, love it, and am just about to start my thesis. I cant wait. But i tried to convince a friend to use lyx, and i felt pretty stupid. because I cont know how to pronounce it. how do you pronounce lyx? Consensus is (for english speaker) : licks to rhyme with Weetabix We really need Matthias do us an .au : Hi, my name is Matthias Ettrich, and I pronounce LyX LyX Or Lars. john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: lyx
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:59:13AM -0500, bcr wrote: hello. i've been using lyx for a while now, love it, and am just about to start my thesis. I cant wait. But i tried to convince a friend to use lyx, and i felt pretty stupid. because I cont know how to pronounce it. how do you pronounce lyx? Lüks with short ü. I've heard Liks with short i, too. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: XpmColorFailed
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Angus Leeming wrote:
So, the question is, how did you create such an XPM file, Wayan?
Run
lyx -dbg graphics
and the script that LyX used to convert your EPS file to XPM will be
displayed on the console.
Thank you for your clear explanation.
This is part of the result,
-
The file contains eps format data.
Converting it to xpm format.
Conversion script:
#!/bin/sh
infile='/usr/local/share/lyx/doc/mobius.eps'
infile_base='/usr/local/share/lyx/doc/mobius'
outfile='/tmp/lyx_tmpdir13456jX8gi4/gconvert013456R9Ldyi.xpm'
convert EPS:${infile} XPM:${outfile}
-
Wayan
thumbpdf
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Hello,
I want to use the thumbpdf package,with lyx, but the only way I found
which made it possible was inserting \usepackage{thumbpdf} in the
preamble, and then export the doc to latex, and run pdflatex
manually, then thumbpdf manually and then pdflatex.
Does anybody know how I can do it without export to latex and directly
from lyx ? I don't find any hint in the docs and the great lyx help
on the lyx homepage.
Thank You
Christian
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I like work ... I can sit and watch it for hours.
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Re: fitting math within the page text width
Latex does break math equations, but it can only break at relation symbols (e.g. ) or at binary operators (e.g. +,-). If you want to avoid text that goes into the margins, put \sloppy in the preamble (note that this can create a lot of space between words). thanks Dekel.. it works great... nirmal
Re: XpmColorFailed
Angus Leeming writes: Allow me to introduce myself: I'm the guy who's responsible for 1.2's graphics support. Before you reach for the reply button and deluge me with complaints [...] Not exactly a complaint, but is it possible to revive the .ps/.eps rendering scheme of LyX-1.1.5 and before with LyX-1.2.0? I've recently built 1.2.0, and tried it with both a long LyX file which incorporates a number of photographs and with the UserGuide.lyx. For reasons you complain, even after I installed convert, the images don't render on screen. Both files come up relatively quickly in Lyx-1.1.5. What troubles me, as I contemplate upgrading my xforms library and run the risk of breaking Lyx-1.1.5, is that the multi-step rendering process for on-screen images in Lyx-1.2.0 seems complicated, kluge-like, wasteful of temporary file space, and s-l-o-w. Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new version of LyX? Thanks, -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
In 1.1.6 there is no
other simple and nice way. However, you can
a) use ERT: put
{\small
before
the table and
}
behind
Thanks Guenter.. I like the one above... it works for my present problem
which is that the table is too big (wide) to fit on the page so I wanted
to change the sizes of all the entries including headings and make them
smaller so that it would fit. Btw, is there a way of making the table
extend into the left margin? (right now, it only goes into the right
margin and beyond the page border so I'm hoping that if I can get it to
extend into the left margin, then maybe it would stay within the page)
It would be nice to have a way of selecting multiple cells
and changing the characteristics of the text like the font etc.. is this
something on the agenda?
Thanks,
nirmal
Re: XpmColorFailed
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:23:40AM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: Not exactly a complaint, but is it possible to revive the .ps/.eps rendering scheme of LyX-1.1.5 and before with LyX-1.2.0? I've Over my dead body... What troubles me, as I contemplate upgrading my xforms library and run the risk of breaking Lyx-1.1.5, is that the multi-step rendering process for on-screen images in Lyx-1.2.0 seems complicated, kluge-like, wasteful of temporary file space, and s-l-o-w. LyX 1.2.0 is not yet out. And I've already told you there's no need to break 1.1.5 at all - read up about library paths. I haven't noticed any speed difference at all. Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new version of LyX? No, xforms' image loader can load several formats directly. Like Angus said, eventually his own code will die anyway. regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: XpmColorFailed
Ronald Florence wrote: Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new version of LyX? no, it uses always the xforms or internal xpm-library Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:28:14AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: It would be nice to have a way of selecting multiple cells and changing the characteristics of the text like the font etc.. is this something on the agenda? Works (almost) perfectly in the forthcoming 1.2.0 regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: thumbpdf
I want to use the thumbpdf package,with lyx, but the only way I found
which made it possible was inserting \usepackage{thumbpdf} in the
preamble, and then export the doc to latex, and run pdflatex
manually, then thumbpdf manually and then pdflatex.
Does anybody know how I can do it without export to latex and directly
from lyx ? I don't find any hint in the docs and the great lyx help
on the lyx homepage.
than try this ... ;-)
http://www.lyx.org/help/pdf/thumbnails.php
Herbert
--
http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: XpmColorFailed
On Friday 26 April 2002 2:23 pm, Ronald Florence wrote: Angus Leeming writes: Allow me to introduce myself: I'm the guy who's responsible for 1.2's graphics support. Before you reach for the reply button and deluge me with complaints [...] Not exactly a complaint, but is it possible to revive the .ps/.eps rendering scheme of LyX-1.1.5 and before with LyX-1.2.0? I've recently built 1.2.0, and tried it with both a long LyX file which incorporates a number of photographs and with the UserGuide.lyx. For reasons you complain, even after I installed convert, the images don't render on screen. Both files come up relatively quickly in Lyx-1.1.5. What troubles me, as I contemplate upgrading my xforms library and run the risk of breaking Lyx-1.1.5, is that the multi-step rendering process for on-screen images in Lyx-1.2.0 seems complicated, kluge-like, wasteful of temporary file space, and s-l-o-w. Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new version of LyX? It's a fact of life. The code has been rewritten entirely. There were some really good reasons for doing so and we won't be going back. Now that xforms has gone open source, and once xforms 1.0 is released (start of May, apparently), then no-one will have a real excuse to stay with xforms 0.88 or early 0.89. Then none of you'll be using the libXpm-based loader. The converter mechanism is extremely powerful. It is most-certainly NOT a kludge. If you can define a converter from your graphics format to EPS, you can use it with LaTeX. If you define a converter to a loadable format, then you can view it in LyX. xforms will load many, many formats directly. The only real PITA is EPS itself. Now that xforms is Open Source, that's likely to change. As for speed: convert is slow, but I tend to use the netpbm suite of converters here. Much, much quicker. Ok, I haven't found an alternative for EPS but you might. And anyway, since the graphics loading is performed asynchronously, you could always get on and do some work ;-) Finally, I suspect that the images don't come up on screen for perfectly valid reasons to do with convert creating wierd XPM files. I've already explained how to work around that if you're using the xforms-based image loader. If, however, you're using the libXPM-based loader, then 1. Scrub the ???-XPM converters in /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults that use convert to do the job. 2. Use convert to create PPM files instead. These are always valid. 3. Define a PPM-XPM converter using ppmtoxpm. (man ppmtoxpm). These are also always valid. Angus
Re: XpmColorFailed
Angus Leeming writes: It's a fact of life. The code has been rewritten entirely. There were some really good reasons for doing so and we won't be going back. I can accept this, and with the kluge you provided for using .eps and .ps files with the older xforms library, those of us making the transition from older versions of LyX can test LyX-1.2.0 before shifting over or venturing into LD_LIBRARY_PATH kluges to use two versions of xforms simultaneously. Many thanks for your generous help with this. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
Re: lyx
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:11:31PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | Consensus is (for english speaker) : | licks try to meake the 'e' sound a bit more like 'y' This makes no sense to me ! There's no eee there in the english pronounciation, it's a hard short i. Ho hum, it seems this spectre will never lie ... I'm English so I'm going to pronounce it in an English way, just like we call Paris Paris ! | Hi, my name is Matthias Ettrich, and I pronounce LyX LyX | Or Lars. I did one several years ago... Well dg eeet up ! Damn, I'm itching for a smiley john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
Works (almost) perfectly in the forthcoming 1.2.0 Cool!! I was looking on the website but couldn't find any list of changes/new features that are in the pre-release of 1.2.0 or going to be in the final 1.2.0. Is there a link to this? thanks, nirmal
Empty files?
I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document. Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar problems? Cheers, Sarah -- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. -- Noam Chomsky
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:26:39AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: Cool!! I was looking on the website but couldn't find any list of changes/new features that are in the pre-release of 1.2.0 or going to be in the final 1.2.0. Is there a link to this? Read NEWS in one of the test releases. It's quite brief though. regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: Empty files?
Sarah Mount wrote: I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document. Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar problems? in 99% a problem in the preamble, mostly a missing parenthesis Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: Empty files?
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: Sarah Mount wrote: I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document. Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar problems? in 99% a problem in the preamble, mostly a missing parenthesis Thanks, I eventually found this by exporting to TeX and runnint LaTeX by hand. I'm a bit surprised that LyX doesn't give the same error message as LaTeX in this situation. Cheers, Sarah
Re: Empty files?
Sarah Mount wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: Sarah Mount wrote: I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document. Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar problems? in 99% a problem in the preamble, mostly a missing parenthesis Thanks, I eventually found this by exporting to TeX and runnint LaTeX by hand. I'm a bit surprised that LyX doesn't give the same error message as LaTeX in this situation. view-logfile and you have it all, no need to run it ba hand. Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: lyx
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:13:54PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I just got Licks smacked in my forehead... I don't want to know what you've been doing with certain Welsh vegetables ! so I do not thing so. You english speaking cretins are not able to hear the difference between LyX and Licks. Oh, it's all true - we /are/ cretins john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
LyX-1.2.0pre4 + xforms-89.6
I successfully built Lyx-1.2.0pre4 with my old xforms-88.1 library (Sparc-Solaris-8, gcc 2.95.3, gnumake) only to run into problems with screen rendering of graphics. So I tried to build it with the new xforms-89.6 library, only to find that the make now breaks on sigc++: Making all in sigc++ gnumake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' m4 -I./macros macros/object_slot.h.m4 ./object_slot.h m4: bad option: -I./macros gnumake[1]: *** [object_slot.h] Error 1 gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' gnumake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 It appears that -I is not an option in the Solaris m4. I'd welcome a workaround suggestion. (I hope LyX hasn't become so Linux-oriented that it no longer compiles with standard Unix utilities.) Thanks, -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
Re: LyX-1.2.0pre4 + xforms-89.6
On Friday 26 April 2002 4:43 pm, Ronald Florence wrote: I successfully built Lyx-1.2.0pre4 with my old xforms-88.1 library (Sparc-Solaris-8, gcc 2.95.3, gnumake) only to run into problems with screen rendering of graphics. So I tried to build it with the new xforms-89.6 library, only to find that the make now breaks on sigc++: Making all in sigc++ gnumake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' m4 -I./macros macros/object_slot.h.m4 ./object_slot.h m4: bad option: -I./macros gnumake[1]: *** [object_slot.h] Error 1 gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' gnumake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 It appears that -I is not an option in the Solaris m4. I'd welcome a workaround suggestion. (I hope LyX hasn't become so Linux-oriented that it no longer compiles with standard Unix utilities.) Thanks, Well, I compile quite happily under Tru64 unix, but you're right here I believe. You need gm4. Having said that, how did you compile the first time round? Angus
Re: LyX-1.2.0pre4 + xforms-89.6
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:43:07AM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: Making all in sigc++ gnumake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' m4 -I./macros macros/object_slot.h.m4 ./object_slot.h m4: bad option: -I./macros gnumake[1]: *** [object_slot.h] Error 1 gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' gnumake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 You need to use GNU m4 (check the archives, this came up recently). It appears that -I is not an option in the Solaris m4. I'd welcome a workaround suggestion. (I hope LyX hasn't become so Linux-oriented that it no longer compiles with standard Unix utilities.) It's GNU not Linux-oriented I'm afraid :/ I expect we'll take patches to fix it if possible regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: LyX-1.2.0pre4 + xforms-89.6
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:43:07AM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: Making all in sigc++ gnumake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' m4 -I./macros macros/object_slot.h.m4 ./object_slot.h m4: bad option: -I./macros gnumake[1]: *** [object_slot.h] Error 1 gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' gnumake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | You need to use GNU m4 (check the archives, this came up recently). _and_ we have used this version of sigc++ for a _long_ time. -- Lgb
Re: Empty files?
Sarah Mount wrote:
I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document.
Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with
fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX
says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar
problems?
Cheers,
Sarah
I've had a similar problem. It triggers with the following combination:
* Koma-script book class
* Bibentry package
* Include a footnote placed in a Chapter environment and put a
\bibentry{} inside the footnote.
When I compile the document, everything from the point of insertion of
the footnote is blank in the PS output. I am using a BibTeX database.
I'm sure the problem isn't a mismatch in parentheses or the like,
because if cutpaste the footnote in a Standard environment everything
works well.
I still haven't figured out the problem, so for now I just live with it
and don't include footnotes in chapter environments.
Regards,
Roberto
Version of xforms?
OK, so I'm now a little confused, so I'll put my stupid luser hat on. I'm currently downloading bxform-089-glibc2.1.tgz from one of the ftp sites in the iINSTALL file. Will this allow lyx-1.2.0 to cleanly produce the insert previews, or do I need to look at updating convert as well? Imagemagik is at 5.2.5 Sorry about asking what appear to be stupid question, but at the moment I am quite confused. Thanks alot everyone, Rod _ rpinna|Zoeggeler denies Hackl four straight luge golds civil.uwa| .edu.au | ABC news headline, 2002
Re: Version of xforms?
On Friday 26 April 2002 6:01 pm, Rod Pinna wrote:
OK, so I'm now a little confused, so I'll put my stupid luser hat on.
I'm currently downloading bxform-089-glibc2.1.tgz from one of the ftp
sites in the iINSTALL file. Will this allow lyx-1.2.0 to cleanly produce
the insert previews, or do I need to look at updating convert as well?
Imagemagik is at 5.2.5
Sorry about asking what appear to be stupid question, but at the moment I
am quite confused.
Thanks alot everyone,
Rod
My final HELP of the day (I'm off home).
The answer to your question is depends...
I thought you'd like that. Seriously, we're talking about different things.
If you upgrade to a version of xforms with image support (0.89.X, X=5ish),
then you'll be able to use the xforms-based image loader. This loader can
load several image formats natively. Running lyx -dbg graphics, I get:
The image loader can load the following directly:
Windows/OS2 BMP file, extension bmp
NASA/NOST FITS, extension fits
CompuServ GIF, extension gif
JPEG/JFIF format, extension jpg
Portable Pixmap, extension ppm
Portable Graymap, extension pgm
Portable Bitmap, extension pbm
PostScript, extension ps
SGI Iris, extension sgi
Tag Image File Format, extension tif
X11 Bitmap, extension xbm
X Window Dump, extension xwd
XPM format, extension xpm
So, if your graphics file is in one of the above formats, it'll just load.
If, however, it ain't, then you'll need to convert it to one of the above.
That's where convert comes in. Here I have deleted all ???-XPM converters
because my version of convert can produce nasty XPM files. Instead I
convert EPS files to PPM format and load that. I believe I've explained how
to set LyX up to do that earlier.
Hope that this helps your understanding.
Have a good weekend,
Angus
For what it's worth, that same lyx -dbx graphics will also display the
conversion script used by any converting process. Here's what LyX used to
convert time_40.eps to ppm format here:
The file contains eps format data.
Converting it to ppm format.
Conversion script:
#!/bin/sh
infile='/usr/users/aleem/docs/Calgary2002/time_40.eps'
infile_base='/usr/users/aleem/docs/Calgary2002/time_40'
outfile='/tmp/lyx_tmpdir24933aaylfa/gconvert024933aaylfa.ppm'
convert ${infile} PPM:${outfile}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
'rm' -f ${outfile}
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f ${outfile} ]; then
if [ -f ${outfile}.0 ]; then
'mv' -f ${outfile}.0 ${outfile}
'rm' -f ${outfile}.?
else
exit 1
fi
fi
fromfile=${outfile}
tofile='/tmp/lyx_tmpdir24933aaylfa/time_4024933aaylfa.ppm'
'mv' -f ${fromfile} ${tofile}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
'cp' -f ${fromfile} ${tofile}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
exit 1
fi
'rm' -f ${fromfile}
fi
Angus
Re: Version of xforms?
My final HELP of the day (I'm off home).
Thanks, it *is* very much appreciated. As is the help from everyone else.
Just to reiterate, I'm really not having a go at anyone.
So, if your graphics file is in one of the above formats, it'll just load.
If, however, it ain't, then you'll need to convert it to one of the above.
That's where convert comes in. Here I have deleted all ???-XPM converters
because my version of convert can produce nasty XPM files. Instead I
convert EPS files to PPM format and load that. I believe I've explained how
to set LyX up to do that earlier.
Hope that this helps your understanding.
Indeed it does. It's almost crystal clear. So it really comes down to a
nasty xpm files, produced by convert.
Thanks for that.
Regards,
Rod
Have a good weekend,
Angus
For what it's worth, that same lyx -dbx graphics will also display the
conversion script used by any converting process. Here's what LyX used to
convert time_40.eps to ppm format here:
The file contains eps format data.
Converting it to ppm format.
Conversion script:
#!/bin/sh
infile='/usr/users/aleem/docs/Calgary2002/time_40.eps'
infile_base='/usr/users/aleem/docs/Calgary2002/time_40'
outfile='/tmp/lyx_tmpdir24933aaylfa/gconvert024933aaylfa.ppm'
convert ${infile} PPM:${outfile}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
'rm' -f ${outfile}
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f ${outfile} ]; then
if [ -f ${outfile}.0 ]; then
'mv' -f ${outfile}.0 ${outfile}
'rm' -f ${outfile}.?
else
exit 1
fi
fi
fromfile=${outfile}
tofile='/tmp/lyx_tmpdir24933aaylfa/time_4024933aaylfa.ppm'
'mv' -f ${fromfile} ${tofile}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
'cp' -f ${fromfile} ${tofile}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
exit 1
fi
'rm' -f ${fromfile}
fi
Angus
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rpinna|Zoeggeler denies Hackl four straight luge golds
civil.uwa|
.edu.au | ABC news headline, 2002
Re: XpmColorFailed
Thanks Angus, This works for me. 1. Scrub the ???-XPM converters in /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults that use convert to do the job. 2. Use convert to create PPM files instead. These are always valid. 3. Define a PPM-XPM converter using ppmtoxpm. (man ppmtoxpm). These are also always valid. Angus _ rpinna|Zoeggeler denies Hackl four straight luge golds civil.uwa| .edu.au | ABC news headline, 2002
rotating image files (lyx-1.2.0pre4)
Despite my earlier curmudgeonly grumbling, once I got it all up and running, the new image rendering facility in LyX-1.2.0pre4 with xforms-89.6 is nifty, at least for Postsript images. I do find that rotation of images, at least in files created under lyx-1.1.5, causes some problems. When the lyx looks like this: \begin_inset Figure size 226 180 file photos/80-1092.ps width 1 8 angle 270 flags 9 \end_inset the image is rendered but not properly rotated, and the error output is: In RotateMatrix [image_rotate.c 239] InternalError: bad special angle -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
translating layout files for LyX-1.2.0pre4
I find that some custom layout files which worked fine under lyx-1.1.5
generate protests and/or break under lyx-1.2.0pre4. For example, the
layout file included below generates the following error messages:
[begin errors]
LyX: Unknown tag `Latex' [around line 32 of file ~/.lyx/layouts/rletter.layout]
LyX: Unknown layout tag `Latex' [around line 33 of file ~/.lyx/layouts/rletter.layout]
Error parsing style `Close'
Error reading `~/.lyx/layouts/rletter.layout'
(Check `rletter')
Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure...
[eof]
and the `close' instead of functioning correctly produces a closing on
the left marging.
I'd welcome specific or generic suggestions on how to convert this
file to work with LyX-1.2.0pre4. Thanks,
#% Do not delete he line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{rletter (R letterhead)}
# Letter textclass definition file.
# Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED], 22 Mar 1998
# Input general definitions
Input stdletter.inc
Input stdlists.inc
Input lyxmacros.inc
Input stdlayouts.inc
# Remove some unwanted styles.
NoStyle Right_Address
NoStyle Address
Style Close
LatexType Command
LatexName close
LeftMarginSignature::xx
LabelSep xx
TopSep0.4
BottomSep 0.4
ParSep0.4
Align Block
AlignPossible Block, Left
LabelType Static
LabelString Close:
# label font definition
LabelFont
Series Bold
Shape Italic
Latex Latex
EndFont
# define the environment lyxcode
Preamble
\newcommand{\close}[1]{\def\fromaddress{\ }\closing{#1}}
EndPreamble
End
--
Ronald Florence www.18james.com
Re: compiling LyX-1.2.0pre4 on Solaris
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:48:44PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: In the hope that this may save others some time, here are some notes on compiling LyX-1.2.0pre4 on Sparc-Solaris-8: Thanks for these notes. I'll hopefully patch these into our INSTALL soonish. - The distribution from ftp.devel.lyx.org includes pre-configured header files in the sigc++ subdirectory. If you do a `distclean', you will need gm4 to recreate those header files; the makefile in the sigc++ subdirectory does not work with Solaris m4. Hum, this sounds like a plain bug. distclean should not be removing any file that comes in the tarball. Lars ? - The Solaris ar seg-faults trying to build the insets library. You will need to use the ar from the GNU binutils for this subdirectory. How would we solve this one ? It's a plain broken tool, no ? Are you running the latest version of ar that Sun provide ? - Don't bother building LyX-1.2.0pre4 with an older xforms library. The new on-screen graphics rendering requires xforms-89.6 and convert from the ImageMagick tools. actually for most cases, it's xforms-89.6 OR convert. It's fairly cleear we need to add a little documentation on what's required when though. same time, I hope that building the production versions of this and future releases of LyX will not require quite so many proprietary Linux/GNU tools. LyX builds fine on digital unix with the system tools, for example. The simple fact is none of the developers use Solaris ! Testers such as yourself help to keep us honest. If I recall correctly, Lyx-1.1.5 and before could be built with standard Unix utilities and a good C++ compiler. Restoring that portability might go a long way toward wider acceptance and use of LyX. Will you be contributing Solaris builds of 1.2.0 proper for the LyX ftp site ? I hope so ! regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: rotating image files (lyx-1.2.0pre4)
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:54:17PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: the image is rendered but not properly rotated, and the error output is: In RotateMatrix [image_rotate.c 239] InternalError: bad special angle Don't you just love xforms ? If I remember correctly, Angus sent a fix to the xforms list for this bug. Try the archive there. I know that's not much use to you now (using 0.89) but we are aware of the problem in xforms... regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
some files missing? (qt2 frontend)
Hi! I found this when compiling lyx 1.2.0 pre 4: ... make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/jpablo/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/src/frontends/qt2/xforms' Making all in ui make[5]: Entering directory `/home/jpablo/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/src/frontends/qt2/ui' Making all in . make[6]: Entering directory `/home/jpablo/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/src/frontends/qt2/ui' make[6]: *** No rule to make target `QAboutDialogBase.C', needed by `QAboutDialogBase.lo'. Stop. make[6]: Leaving directory ... It seems `QAboutDialogBase.C' is missing, or something. This is my setup: ./configure --with-frontend=qt2 --with-qt2-dir=/home/jpablo/src/qt-2.3.1/ And the contents of 'src/frontents/qt2/ui': Makefile Makefile.am Makefile.in moc Juan Pablo
Re: some files missing? (qt2 frontend)
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:56:23PM -0500, Juan Pablo Romero wrote: Hi! I found this when compiling lyx 1.2.0 pre 4: The Qt frontend won't compile in 1.2 anyway. Sorry. (it should have generated the .Ch files from the .ui files) regards john -- This is just the kind of crackpot scheme I've been looking to champion!!! - P.M. Hartke on 6U campaign
I hate asking compile questions...
So I saw on Freshmeat the LyX1.2pre4 had been released and decided to see how it would look in QT (since I hate xforms). I did ./configure --with-frontend=qt2 and got no error messages. At the very end of the make process, however, I got the following error: make[6]: Entering directory `/home/peter/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/src/frontends/qt2/ui'make[6]: *** No rule to make target `QAboutDialogBase.C', needed by `QAboutDialogBase.lo'. Stop. I'm running Debian and I just confirmed that I have libqt-dev 2.3.1. Just to be on the safe side, I recompiled it with the xforms frontend; no problem. Glancing at the GUII page, I notice that there are still a few blank and Pending spots left to be filled. Is the QT frontend just not ready for public consumption yet? :Peter
Re: rotating image files (lyx-1.2.0pre4)
Ronald Florence wrote: Despite my earlier curmudgeonly grumbling, once I got it all up and running, the new image rendering facility in LyX-1.2.0pre4 with xforms-89.6 is nifty, at least for Postsript images. I do find that rotation of images, at least in files created under lyx-1.1.5, causes some problems. When the lyx looks like this: \begin_inset Figure size 226 180 file photos/80-1092.ps width 1 8 angle 270 flags 9 \end_inset as John wrote it's a bug in xforms. try 270.1 as angel and it should work. Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: I hate asking compile questions...
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:46:55PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: So I saw on Freshmeat the LyX1.2pre4 had been released and decided to see how it would look in QT (since I hate xforms). I did ./configure That's a surprise ! I didn't know it had got on freshmeat. Actually I'm a bit perplexed /how/ it did since I supposedly own the freshmeat entry. --with-frontend=qt2 and got no error messages. At the very end of the make process, however, I got the following error: make[6]: Entering directory `/home/peter/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/src/frontends/qt2/ui'make[6]: *** No rule to make target `QAboutDialogBase.C', needed by `QAboutDialogBase.lo'. Stop. I'm not sure why this is happening to be honest. I'm running Debian and I just confirmed that I have libqt-dev 2.3.1. Just to be on the safe side, I recompiled it with the xforms frontend; no problem. Glancing at the GUII page, I notice that there are still a few blank and Pending spots left to be filled. Is the QT frontend just not ready for public consumption yet? Correct. It wouldn't link at the end anyway (I don't know what's wrong). Besides, only a proportion of the dialogs have been converted. Our next major release will have a fully working Qt frontend. Here's a sneak peak http://www.movement.uklinux.net/ss2.png regards john -- This is just the kind of crackpot scheme I've been looking to champion!!! - P.M. Hartke on 6U campaign
New to LyX
Hi I'm a new LyX user, and I have played with it a bit. My question is, is there a site with example publications written in LyX ? (Except for those included in the LyX package) . /Emil
1.2 crashes on launch
1.2 was working fine, but now crashes, giving the following message: Could not set menu font to -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-?-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 Could not set popup font to -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-?-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 Using 'helvetica' font for menus Could not find helvetica font. Using 'fixed'. BadFont (invalid Font parameter) id: 1077224896 I haven't done anything to either my lyx files or my fonts in the interim. Same happens if I delete the .lyx directory and create a new one. Robin
Re: 1.2 crashes on launch
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 01:31:42AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: 1.2 was working fine, but now crashes, giving the following message: Could not set menu font to -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-?-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 Could not set popup font to -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-?-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 compressed xlsfonts output please. Can you look at helvetica and/or fixed in xfontsel ? If nothing's changed I can't see how LyX can be at fault ;) regards john -- This is just the kind of crackpot scheme I've been looking to champion!!! - P.M. Hartke on 6U campaign
Re: New to LyX
On Saturday 27 April 2002 00:04, Emil Erlandsson wrote: Hi I'm a new LyX user, and I have played with it a bit. My question is, is there a site with example publications written in LyX ? (Except for those included in the LyX package) . Not as far as I know. To get a good idea of what LyX can do, with a bit of added ERT (= Evil Red Text = raw LaTeX code), just print out the Extended Features help page - there are some impressive effects there. Somone on this list also used LyX to produce a very nice-looking fanzine some time back. One of my own ventures into LyX publishing (admittedly only within my own university) is at http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~fast/term.ps Happy LyXing! Robin
Re: I hate asking compile questions...
On Saturday 27 April 2002 00:01, John Levon wrote: Besides, only a proportion of the dialogs have been converted. Our next major release will have a fully working Qt frontend. Here's a sneak peak http://www.movement.uklinux.net/ss2.png Nice to finally get away from that clunky grey 1980's-UNIX-look GUI! Will we be able to substitute our own icons, though? Robin
Re: I hate asking compile questions...
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 01:55:08AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/ss2.png Nice to finally get away from that clunky grey 1980's-UNIX-look GUI! Will we be able to substitute our own icons, though? You can already do this in current lyx. Just plonk them in ./share/lyx/images/ regards john -- This is just the kind of crackpot scheme I've been looking to champion!!! - P.M. Hartke on 6U campaign
1.2.0: space = replace all
Hi, I have the following problem in 1.2.0: In the search/replace window, pressing keyboard key space is understood as Replace all, that is, it starts to replace all. Now, this mistake depends on the Linux default language environment! I have this problem if it is Hungarian. If, however, I reinstall Linux (Red Hat 7.2 + KDE (3.0 or 2.2.) ) with default language English, then the problem disappears. (This is not a new bug. 1.1.6fix4 produces the same problem.) What can I do? Best wishes, Laszlo -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Home: (36-1) 200-7318 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
Re: New to LyX
Emil Erlandsson wrote: I'm a new LyX user, and I have played with it a bit. My question is, is there a site with example publications written in LyX ? (Except for those included in the LyX package) . some templates for different problems http://www.lyx.org/help/layouts/templates.php Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: Prelease of LyX 1.2.0 (lyx-1.2.0pre4)
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: \bind_file /usr/share/lyx/bind/emacs.bind Without it everything goes fine. How can I now use emacs.bind? If you do not have a modified bind file in your home (/.lyx) directory, entering just emacs.bind into Pref-Look'n'Feel-Interface-bind file should do it. Juergen.
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:01:10 -0400 wrote Nirmal Govind [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Is there a way by which I can change the font size of multiple entries in a
table in an efficient way? Right now, I'm selecting the text in each cell
and then doing Layout-Character and changing the font. This is a bit
tedious if the table has a large number of entries.
Exactly :-(
In 1.1.6 there is no other simple and nice way. However, you can
a) use ERT: put
{\small
before the table and
}
behind
b) use the text editor of your choice and change the *.lyx source. This
might be rather complicated, maybe doing one change by hand and looking
at the differences in the lyx source might help to find an (maybe regex)
replace command for your editor. Reload the changed file with
FileRestore (^R).
Hope this helps
Guenter
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Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:01:10 -0400 wrote Nirmal Govind [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Is there a way by which I can change the font size of multiple entries in a
table in an efficient way? Right now, I'm selecting the text in each cell
and then doing Layout-Character and changing the font. This is a bit
tedious if the table has a large number of entries.
Exactly :-(
In 1.1.6 there is no other simple and nice way. However, you can
a) use ERT: put
{\small
before the table and
}
behind
b) use the text editor of your choice and change the *.lyx source. This
might be rather complicated, maybe doing one change by hand and looking
at the differences in the lyx source might help to find an (maybe regex)
replace command for your editor. Reload the changed file with
FileRestore (^R).
Hope this helps
Guenter
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Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:01:10 -0400 wrote Nirmal Govind [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there a way by which I can change the font size of multiple entries in a
table in an efficient way? Right now, I'm selecting the text in each cell
and then doing Layout-Character and changing the font. This is a bit
tedious if the table has a large number of entries.
In 1.1.6 there is no other simple and nice way :-(. However, you can
a) use ERT: put
{\small
before the table and
}
behind
b) use the text editor of your choice and change the *.lyx source. This
might be rather complicated, maybe doing one change by hand and looking
at the differences in the lyx source might help to find an (maybe regex)
replace command for your editor. Reload the changed file with
FileRestore (^R).
Hope this helps
Guenter
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Re: Re: LyX layout files
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:37:30 +0100 (BST) wrote Sarah Mount [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Herbert Voss wrote:
Sarah Mount wrote:
OK, I'm trying to make sure all my section headings, abstract, title
authors are in a size 10 font. I've got a .layout file that's reproduced
below, but it doesn't seem to make any difference at all.
For me, it made a difference (displaying all in normal size in LyX)
the layout file is only (!) for the lyx-view and has nothing(!) to do
with the latex output. when it's the same it's fine, when not ...
There is an option, however to have the layout file also changing the way
LaTeX works: The
Preamble
EndPreamble
pair. Everything inbetween will be written to the latex preamble when LyX
exports to latex (or runs latex to get dvi/ps/pdf).
if you want to change only for one document the chapter/sections/..
titles, than use in preamble for example:
\usepackage{sectsty}
\allsectionsfont{\small}
if you want it for all docs than it makes sense to write an own
lyx-layout to get more wysiwig.
Or you combine this with your already existing layout file and get the
attached article_with_normalsized_headings.layout.
(Works fine here, except Title and Author size (don't know the correct latex
commands/options there)
Günter
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article_with_normalsized_headings.layout
Description: Binary data
Re: Re: Re: Inserting gnutella tables inside LyX ?
On 25 Apr 2002 12:34:22 +0200 wrote Jerome Oufella [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I was meaning gnumeric, of course :-). Thanks for all those advices, but importing from standard CSV would not be affordable for my usage, since my goal was to keep gnumeric's table format (colors, backgrounds, etc). I wonder if cleaning gnumeric's latex output would keep those stuff. I doubt that gnumerics latex export will keep colors etc. Maybe you can experiment with the gnumeric output in pure latex before trying to get it into lyx. Once upon a time I managed to make something halvway usefull out of the gnumeric latex output (even got it to reLyX) --- but I did not manage to automatize this task. I suppose inserting the table as an eps might be easier. Wouldnt it be easyer to build a lyx output filter for gnumeric ? Try to ask this at the gnumric list. I suppose it will be easier to convince them to write a good latex2e output filter and then relyx. Another option would be an xml import for LyX (as gnumerics own format is gnuzipped xml). Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I have a. the numbering continue after changing styles or b.............
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:18:49 +1000 wrote Guru - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do I have a. the numbering continue after changing styles or b. Have styles within a style.??? NOTE: I have attached a LyX document of what I am trying to dohow would I have this done automatically instead of manually? NOTE: I am still new at Lyx (I've read 2 of the manuals ... not all of them) and have used LyX a little bit..I'm learning :)... The recipe is nesting (Look for nesting in the HelpUser Guide) Changing the enumeration style is rather tricky and needs Latex commands (evil red text: ERT). A good book on latex (e.g. the LaTeX compagnion) helps a lot. Changing the itemize bullets style is possible from within LyX (search the layout menu) Another idea would be to make the toplevel enumeration (with the bold text) subsubheadings. (Some tricky latex style option/ latex class will surely allow to change the numbering from 1.1.3 to 3. (and so on) The the attachment for a proposal Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] nested-enumerates.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Suppressing the date in article format?
Oliver Margraf wrote:
Hi,
after looking throught the help at lyx.org, I have a question which may
be a silly one: is there a way to suppress the date in the 'article'
class or at least an option where you can configure the placement of the
date?
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I just recalled the same question answered on friday (see below), hope
this helps
have a nice day,
Peter
Am Freitag, 19. April 2002 18:47 schrieb José Luis Gómez Dans:
On Friday 19 April 2002 17:38, Christian Beermann wrote:
Hello,
I use the comascript article class for an document, but I dont to
have the date displayed after the title is there any way to
delete it ?
Don't know if any other way is available, but if you put in the
preamble
\date {}
you're done :-)
Jose
Re: How do I have a. the numbering continue after changing styles or b.............
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:18:49PM +1000, Guru - wrote: How do I have a. the numbering continue after changing styles or b. Have styles within a style.??? NOTE: I have attached a LyX document of what I am trying to dohow would I have this done automatically instead of manually? NOTE: I am still new at Lyx (I've read 2 of the manuals ... not all of them) and have used LyX a little bit..I'm learning :)... What I am trying to do was: Have an enumerate field then within that field have a description or standard field but once I leave the standard field and switch back to enumerate field have the numbering continue Read section Nesting Environments in the user's guide.
Re: fitting math within the page text width
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:54:01PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi, While typing in the math mode, the math text goes into the region which is supposed to be the margin (doesn't stay within textwidth). Hence, the text part of the document is within the textwidth whereas the math part goes beyond this and into the margins. Any way to make the math characters either wrap around or automatically move the whole math box to the next line (assuming that the math box isn't longer than textwidth it should fit within textwidth on the new line). Latex does break math equations, but it can only break at relation symbols (e.g. ) or at binary operators (e.g. +,-). If you want to avoid text that goes into the margins, put \sloppy in the preamble (note that this can create a lot of space between words).
Problems compiling lyx1.2.0pre4
Hi I tray to compile. output ./configure --- Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:warnings assertions included-libsigc xforms-image-loader C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (2.95.4) C++ Compiler flags: -g -O -fno-exceptions -W -Wall Linker flags: Frontend: xforms libXpm version: 4.11 libforms version: 0.89.5 LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx Configuration of LyX was successful. Type 'make' to compile the program, and then 'make install' to install it. --- output make --- Making all in config make[1]: Entering directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/config' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/config' Making all in intl make[1]: Entering directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/intl' gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\/usr/local/ share/locale\ -DLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../src -I. -I../int l -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 intl-compat.c gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\/usr/local/ share/locale\ -DLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../src -I. -I../int l -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 bindtextdom.c In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360, from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/bits/string2.h:391: warning: `strchr' redefined ../src/config.h:418: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/string.h:242: conflicting types for `bcopy' /usr/include/string.h:42: previous declaration of `bcopy' In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360, from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/bits/string2.h: In function `__strsep_1c': /usr/include/bits/string2.h:1138: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in cond itional expression make[1]: *** [bindtextdom.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/intl' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 -- What's going on? Thank's in advanced.
Problems compiling Lyx1.2.0pre4
Hi I tray to compile. output ./configure --- Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:warnings assertions included-libsigc xforms-image-loader C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (2.95.4) C++ Compiler flags: -g -O -fno-exceptions -W -Wall Linker flags: Frontend: xforms libXpm version: 4.11 libforms version: 0.89.5 LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx Configuration of LyX was successful. Type 'make' to compile the program, and then 'make install' to install it. --- output make --- Making all in config make[1]: Entering directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/config' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/config' Making all in intl make[1]: Entering directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/intl' gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\/usr/local/ share/locale\ -DLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../src -I. -I../int l -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 intl-compat.c gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\/usr/local/ share/locale\ -DLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../src -I. -I../int l -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 bindtextdom.c In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360, from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/bits/string2.h:391: warning: `strchr' redefined ../src/config.h:418: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/string.h:242: conflicting types for `bcopy' /usr/include/string.h:42: previous declaration of `bcopy' In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360, from bindtextdom.c:25: /usr/include/bits/string2.h: In function `__strsep_1c': /usr/include/bits/string2.h:1138: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in cond itional expression make[1]: *** [bindtextdom.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanra/tmp3/lyx-1.2.0pre4/intl' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 -- What's going on? Thank's in advanced. Juan Ramón.
Re: XpmColorFailed
H. For some reason I had unsubscribed myselff from the lyx-users list. I must have wanted some peace and quiet ;-) Allow me to introduce myself: I'm the guy who's responsible for 1.2's graphics support. Before you reach for the reply button and deluge me with complaints, read on. I should be able to provide you with explanations and work arounds for most of your problems. I've just had a look at the users-archive. This is illuminating: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg18828.html Re: images in pre-1.2.0 LyX docs -- I have run lyx -dbg any and open the UserGuide, the eps file is black. the message: Image conversion succeeded. Loading image. In LookupColor [rgb_db.c 210] can't handle color #0811 In LookupColor [rgb_db.c 210] can't handle color #614d xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : xpm xforms image loader. Status : Done Reading xpm Image loading succeeded. my xforms 0.89-320 Wayan -- For those who don't know anything about LyX's internals, a brief description. LyX has two possible image loaders. Which one you use will depend on your version of the xforms library. Those of you with a sufficiently modern version of the xforms library (0.89.X where X = 5 I believe) will be using an image loader based on the sophisticated routines supplied by xforms. We'll call that the xforms-based image loader. The rest of you will be using a far less sophisticated image loader based on the libXPM library. I wrote it; it's crappy, but it should allow you to see a rough representation of what will appear in your documents. Don't tell me it's crappy; I know that already. Moreover, it's going to go the way of the dodo, so we won't put t much effort into making it more wonderful. We'll call this the libXpm-based image loader. From the messages Wayan has posted above, I deduce that he's using the xforms-based image loader. So, I'm intrigued by his problems because I didn't realise that there were any! The problem stems from the colour definition in the XPM files: xforms can't cope with such 16 char definitions, as Herbert Voss has pointed out already. It can cope with colours that are 4, 7, 10 and 13 chars. For that matter, the libXpm-based loader couldn't cope with this either. So, the question is, how did you create such an XPM file, Wayan? Run lyx -dbg graphics and the script that LyX used to convert your EPS file to XPM will be displayed on the console. Can we provide a work-around? Well, for those of you using the xforms-based load, yes we can. Again, lyx -dbg graphics is your friend here. You should discover that you can load a host of graphics formats directly, rather than have to convert everything to XPM format. This is important info for you, because it means that you can scrap all those ???-XPM converters that are defined in /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults (or where ever you have placed this file). You'll have to use a text editor to do this I'm afraid; you can't delete these system-wide preferences using the preferences dialog. XPM is a very inefficient format to store large images; it wasn't designed for such stuff. Moreover, some converters to XPM format create non-standard colour definitions that Wayan for one is disovering can't be loaded. In place of these ???-XPM converters, you'll need to define converters for those graphics formats you use that can't be loaded direct. An example here is EPS. Here I convert EPS files to PPM format using \converter eps ppm convert $$i PPM:$$o (Add this directly to your /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults or to your $HOME/.lyx/preferences file or use the Preferences dialog to add it to $HOME/.lyx/preferences). This will enable you to load EPS files much more quickly (because PPM is a more efficient file format than XPM). It will also resolve Wayan's problems. Hope that this info helps, Angus
WYSIWYG mathematical symbols in LyX
Dear all, (Kees read on. There's sone new info for you at the bottom...) one of the things that LyX 1.2 can do for you is display most of the mathematical symbols you'll ever use in a WYSIWYG way. However, you'll need to first perform a little magic with your font path. On Friday 26 April 2002 12:22 pm, C. van Wijk wrote: The strange thing is when I try to insert an epsilon from within the math panel there is a greek epsilon available. So why isn't it displayed in the formula as well? This is a \varepsilon. However, \epsilon should be displayed as well. Do the other AMS symbols show properly? To display \epsilon and any of the AMS symbols like \sqcup and \blacktriangledown you'll need to tell the font server where to find these fonts. Look in /usr/local/share/lyx, or wherever you have installed the lyx support stuff. You'll find a directory xfonts containing symbolic links to a number of fonts used by LyX (if you have them installed). If you have them, then you should check whether this directory is in your font path. Type xset -q at the console. Here I get [snip] Font Path: /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fo nts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fo nts/Type1Adobe/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/ X11/fonts/user/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/user/misc/,/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C/, Note the all important /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts. To add the equivalent to your font path, if it isn't already there, type xset +fp PATH_TO_YOUR_LYX_FONTS_DIR Unfortunately, I understand that this magic will not work if you are running LyX remotely. Sorry! On Friday 26 April 2002 12:22 pm, C. van Wijk wrote: Isn't it possible for lyx to do a 'xset +fp PATH_TO_YOUR_LYX_FONTS_DIR' when starting? Well, you only need to do this once per xsession. Here, I have added the following to my .xsession file: # # Some fonts for LyX # lyxmathfontsdir=/usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts if [ -d $lyxmathfontsdir ]; then xset q | grep $lyxmathfontsdir if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then # directory is not already in the font path # so add it: xset +fp $lyxmathfontsdir; xset fp rehash fi fi That should do the trick for you too Angus
lyx
hello. i've been using lyx for a while now, love it, and am just about to start my thesis. I cant wait. But i tried to convince a friend to use lyx, and i felt pretty stupid. because I cont know how to pronounce it. how do you pronounce lyx?
Re: lyx
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:59:13AM -0500, bcr wrote: hello. i've been using lyx for a while now, love it, and am just about to start my thesis. I cant wait. But i tried to convince a friend to use lyx, and i felt pretty stupid. because I cont know how to pronounce it. how do you pronounce lyx? Consensus is (for english speaker) : licks to rhyme with Weetabix We really need Matthias do us an .au : Hi, my name is Matthias Ettrich, and I pronounce LyX LyX Or Lars. john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: lyx
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:59:13AM -0500, bcr wrote: hello. i've been using lyx for a while now, love it, and am just about to start my thesis. I cant wait. But i tried to convince a friend to use lyx, and i felt pretty stupid. because I cont know how to pronounce it. how do you pronounce lyx? Lüks with short ü. I've heard Liks with short i, too. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: XpmColorFailed
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Angus Leeming wrote:
So, the question is, how did you create such an XPM file, Wayan?
Run
lyx -dbg graphics
and the script that LyX used to convert your EPS file to XPM will be
displayed on the console.
Thank you for your clear explanation.
This is part of the result,
-
The file contains eps format data.
Converting it to xpm format.
Conversion script:
#!/bin/sh
infile='/usr/local/share/lyx/doc/mobius.eps'
infile_base='/usr/local/share/lyx/doc/mobius'
outfile='/tmp/lyx_tmpdir13456jX8gi4/gconvert013456R9Ldyi.xpm'
convert EPS:${infile} XPM:${outfile}
-
Wayan
thumbpdf
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Hello,
I want to use the thumbpdf package,with lyx, but the only way I found
which made it possible was inserting \usepackage{thumbpdf} in the
preamble, and then export the doc to latex, and run pdflatex
manually, then thumbpdf manually and then pdflatex.
Does anybody know how I can do it without export to latex and directly
from lyx ? I don't find any hint in the docs and the great lyx help
on the lyx homepage.
Thank You
Christian
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I like work ... I can sit and watch it for hours.
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Re: fitting math within the page text width
Latex does break math equations, but it can only break at relation symbols (e.g. ) or at binary operators (e.g. +,-). If you want to avoid text that goes into the margins, put \sloppy in the preamble (note that this can create a lot of space between words). thanks Dekel.. it works great... nirmal
Re: XpmColorFailed
Angus Leeming writes: Allow me to introduce myself: I'm the guy who's responsible for 1.2's graphics support. Before you reach for the reply button and deluge me with complaints [...] Not exactly a complaint, but is it possible to revive the .ps/.eps rendering scheme of LyX-1.1.5 and before with LyX-1.2.0? I've recently built 1.2.0, and tried it with both a long LyX file which incorporates a number of photographs and with the UserGuide.lyx. For reasons you complain, even after I installed convert, the images don't render on screen. Both files come up relatively quickly in Lyx-1.1.5. What troubles me, as I contemplate upgrading my xforms library and run the risk of breaking Lyx-1.1.5, is that the multi-step rendering process for on-screen images in Lyx-1.2.0 seems complicated, kluge-like, wasteful of temporary file space, and s-l-o-w. Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new version of LyX? Thanks, -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
In 1.1.6 there is no
other simple and nice way. However, you can
a) use ERT: put
{\small
before
the table and
}
behind
Thanks Guenter.. I like the one above... it works for my present problem
which is that the table is too big (wide) to fit on the page so I wanted
to change the sizes of all the entries including headings and make them
smaller so that it would fit. Btw, is there a way of making the table
extend into the left margin? (right now, it only goes into the right
margin and beyond the page border so I'm hoping that if I can get it to
extend into the left margin, then maybe it would stay within the page)
It would be nice to have a way of selecting multiple cells
and changing the characteristics of the text like the font etc.. is this
something on the agenda?
Thanks,
nirmal
Re: XpmColorFailed
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:23:40AM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: Not exactly a complaint, but is it possible to revive the .ps/.eps rendering scheme of LyX-1.1.5 and before with LyX-1.2.0? I've Over my dead body... What troubles me, as I contemplate upgrading my xforms library and run the risk of breaking Lyx-1.1.5, is that the multi-step rendering process for on-screen images in Lyx-1.2.0 seems complicated, kluge-like, wasteful of temporary file space, and s-l-o-w. LyX 1.2.0 is not yet out. And I've already told you there's no need to break 1.1.5 at all - read up about library paths. I haven't noticed any speed difference at all. Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new version of LyX? No, xforms' image loader can load several formats directly. Like Angus said, eventually his own code will die anyway. regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: XpmColorFailed
Ronald Florence wrote: Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new version of LyX? no, it uses always the xforms or internal xpm-library Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:28:14AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: It would be nice to have a way of selecting multiple cells and changing the characteristics of the text like the font etc.. is this something on the agenda? Works (almost) perfectly in the forthcoming 1.2.0 regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: thumbpdf
I want to use the thumbpdf package,with lyx, but the only way I found
which made it possible was inserting \usepackage{thumbpdf} in the
preamble, and then export the doc to latex, and run pdflatex
manually, then thumbpdf manually and then pdflatex.
Does anybody know how I can do it without export to latex and directly
from lyx ? I don't find any hint in the docs and the great lyx help
on the lyx homepage.
than try this ... ;-)
http://www.lyx.org/help/pdf/thumbnails.php
Herbert
--
http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: XpmColorFailed
On Friday 26 April 2002 2:23 pm, Ronald Florence wrote: Angus Leeming writes: Allow me to introduce myself: I'm the guy who's responsible for 1.2's graphics support. Before you reach for the reply button and deluge me with complaints [...] Not exactly a complaint, but is it possible to revive the .ps/.eps rendering scheme of LyX-1.1.5 and before with LyX-1.2.0? I've recently built 1.2.0, and tried it with both a long LyX file which incorporates a number of photographs and with the UserGuide.lyx. For reasons you complain, even after I installed convert, the images don't render on screen. Both files come up relatively quickly in Lyx-1.1.5. What troubles me, as I contemplate upgrading my xforms library and run the risk of breaking Lyx-1.1.5, is that the multi-step rendering process for on-screen images in Lyx-1.2.0 seems complicated, kluge-like, wasteful of temporary file space, and s-l-o-w. Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new version of LyX? It's a fact of life. The code has been rewritten entirely. There were some really good reasons for doing so and we won't be going back. Now that xforms has gone open source, and once xforms 1.0 is released (start of May, apparently), then no-one will have a real excuse to stay with xforms 0.88 or early 0.89. Then none of you'll be using the libXpm-based loader. The converter mechanism is extremely powerful. It is most-certainly NOT a kludge. If you can define a converter from your graphics format to EPS, you can use it with LaTeX. If you define a converter to a loadable format, then you can view it in LyX. xforms will load many, many formats directly. The only real PITA is EPS itself. Now that xforms is Open Source, that's likely to change. As for speed: convert is slow, but I tend to use the netpbm suite of converters here. Much, much quicker. Ok, I haven't found an alternative for EPS but you might. And anyway, since the graphics loading is performed asynchronously, you could always get on and do some work ;-) Finally, I suspect that the images don't come up on screen for perfectly valid reasons to do with convert creating wierd XPM files. I've already explained how to work around that if you're using the xforms-based image loader. If, however, you're using the libXPM-based loader, then 1. Scrub the ???-XPM converters in /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults that use convert to do the job. 2. Use convert to create PPM files instead. These are always valid. 3. Define a PPM-XPM converter using ppmtoxpm. (man ppmtoxpm). These are also always valid. Angus
Re: XpmColorFailed
Angus Leeming writes: It's a fact of life. The code has been rewritten entirely. There were some really good reasons for doing so and we won't be going back. I can accept this, and with the kluge you provided for using .eps and .ps files with the older xforms library, those of us making the transition from older versions of LyX can test LyX-1.2.0 before shifting over or venturing into LD_LIBRARY_PATH kluges to use two versions of xforms simultaneously. Many thanks for your generous help with this. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
Re: lyx
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:11:31PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | Consensus is (for english speaker) : | licks try to meake the 'e' sound a bit more like 'y' This makes no sense to me ! There's no eee there in the english pronounciation, it's a hard short i. Ho hum, it seems this spectre will never lie ... I'm English so I'm going to pronounce it in an English way, just like we call Paris Paris ! | Hi, my name is Matthias Ettrich, and I pronounce LyX LyX | Or Lars. I did one several years ago... Well dg eeet up ! Damn, I'm itching for a smiley john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
Works (almost) perfectly in the forthcoming 1.2.0 Cool!! I was looking on the website but couldn't find any list of changes/new features that are in the pre-release of 1.2.0 or going to be in the final 1.2.0. Is there a link to this? thanks, nirmal
Empty files?
I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document. Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar problems? Cheers, Sarah -- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. -- Noam Chomsky
Re: font sizes of entries in a table
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:26:39AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: Cool!! I was looking on the website but couldn't find any list of changes/new features that are in the pre-release of 1.2.0 or going to be in the final 1.2.0. Is there a link to this? Read NEWS in one of the test releases. It's quite brief though. regards john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
Re: Empty files?
Sarah Mount wrote: I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document. Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar problems? in 99% a problem in the preamble, mostly a missing parenthesis Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: Empty files?
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: Sarah Mount wrote: I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document. Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar problems? in 99% a problem in the preamble, mostly a missing parenthesis Thanks, I eventually found this by exporting to TeX and runnint LaTeX by hand. I'm a bit surprised that LyX doesn't give the same error message as LaTeX in this situation. Cheers, Sarah
Re: Empty files?
Sarah Mount wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: Sarah Mount wrote: I have a LyX file which normally converts to a 9-page postscript document. Having changed a bit of the preamble (to include some messing around with fancyhdrs), every time I try to generate a postscript or pdf file, LyX says operation resulted in an empty file. Has anyone had similar problems? in 99% a problem in the preamble, mostly a missing parenthesis Thanks, I eventually found this by exporting to TeX and runnint LaTeX by hand. I'm a bit surprised that LyX doesn't give the same error message as LaTeX in this situation. view-logfile and you have it all, no need to run it ba hand. Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
Re: lyx
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:13:54PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I just got Licks smacked in my forehead... I don't want to know what you've been doing with certain Welsh vegetables ! so I do not thing so. You english speaking cretins are not able to hear the difference between LyX and Licks. Oh, it's all true - we /are/ cretins john -- I continue to be amazed at what Andrei can make templates do. Some of it still makes my head hurt. - Herb Sutter
LyX-1.2.0pre4 + xforms-89.6
I successfully built Lyx-1.2.0pre4 with my old xforms-88.1 library (Sparc-Solaris-8, gcc 2.95.3, gnumake) only to run into problems with screen rendering of graphics. So I tried to build it with the new xforms-89.6 library, only to find that the make now breaks on sigc++: Making all in sigc++ gnumake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' m4 -I./macros macros/object_slot.h.m4 ./object_slot.h m4: bad option: -I./macros gnumake[1]: *** [object_slot.h] Error 1 gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' gnumake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 It appears that -I is not an option in the Solaris m4. I'd welcome a workaround suggestion. (I hope LyX hasn't become so Linux-oriented that it no longer compiles with standard Unix utilities.) Thanks, -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
Re: LyX-1.2.0pre4 + xforms-89.6
On Friday 26 April 2002 4:43 pm, Ronald Florence wrote: I successfully built Lyx-1.2.0pre4 with my old xforms-88.1 library (Sparc-Solaris-8, gcc 2.95.3, gnumake) only to run into problems with screen rendering of graphics. So I tried to build it with the new xforms-89.6 library, only to find that the make now breaks on sigc++: Making all in sigc++ gnumake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' m4 -I./macros macros/object_slot.h.m4 ./object_slot.h m4: bad option: -I./macros gnumake[1]: *** [object_slot.h] Error 1 gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/sigc++' gnumake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 It appears that -I is not an option in the Solaris m4. I'd welcome a workaround suggestion. (I hope LyX hasn't become so Linux-oriented that it no longer compiles with standard Unix utilities.) Thanks, Well, I compile quite happily under Tru64 unix, but you're right here I believe. You need gm4. Having said that, how did you compile the first time round? Angus
