Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:38:39PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:
 I found another strange but related to topic bahavior:
 If I change screen font to some ttf (cp1250 encoding) text is rendered 
 correctly, almost all greeks symbols are ok, but other math symbols are 
 displayed as a lyx commands (or rather latex commands).

That's the fallback to the X symbol font (and only behaviour up to 1.1.6)
if the LaTeX font are not found for any reason.

 It looks like ttf family font is used to render greeks too.

*shrug* I don't really understand what is going on here. For me adding the
LaTeX fonts to the Fontpath just worked...

Andre'

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Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Marcin == Marcin Bukat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Marcin And question: 1. Changing to CVS version can make difference?

Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts, but I do not
know whether it will fix your particular problem.

Marcin 2. Is there some doc about proper bug reporting in lyx?

Go to http://bugzilla.lyz.org/

JMarc

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Jean-Marc == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Marcin == Marcin Bukat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marcin And question: 1. Changing to CVS version can make difference?

Jean-Marc Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts,
Jean-Marc but I do not know whether it will fix your particular
Jean-Marc problem.

Marcin 2. Is there some doc about proper bug reporting in lyx?

Jean-Marc Go to http://bugzilla.lyz.org/

That should be http://bugzilla.lyx.org/, of course.

JMarc

Use an Xfig figure in LyX with non-latin1 Special flagged text

[Kamil Anis]

Hello,

I use to make Xfig figures with Special flagged text quite often.
I mostly write english documets, but sometimes I need to make a
figure that includes non-english text -- namely the Czech.  A
block scheme is such an example (see the attachments).

I used a trick with TeX macros for typesetting accented
characters for a long time, but creating the figures in such a
way requires so much effort -- you need to rerun LaTeX several
times while editting the figure to get the final result. So I
decided to localize Xfig and put the figure (with non-latin1
characters) right into the LyX document in regular way. But there
were some problems that arised during this process. I finaly
found the solution so I'm gonna to describe what I did. Hope this
helps any one.

It's clear that you don't need to use TeX macros for accented
characters any more or do another fiddling around. You just
switch the keyboard layout and write the text directly into the
figure.

NOTE: I've tried this for Czech (iso8859-2) text only, so I hope
  it should work also for other alphabets. 

1) Localize Xfig

   Common instructions for Xfig localization can be found at

 http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tsato/xfig/latin/latin-e.html
   
   For example if you have transfig-3.2.3d-7 you need to nuthin'
   at all. You just make a symlink in your FIG2DEV_LIBDIR
   directory (usually in /usr/share/fig2dev/)
   
 czech.ps - cs_CZ.ps
   
   If there's no cs_CZ.ps file in that directory get the file
   czech.ps from the above site and put it into your
   FIG2DEV_LIBDIR directory.

   Set the locale to appropriate language
   
 export LANG=czech
 
   and run Xfig. You would be able to enter non-latin1 characters
   right from the keyboard.

2) Change the LyX template

   Add the -j option to the fig2dev command in the
   /usr/share/lyx/scripts/fig2pstex.py script so it will look
   like this 
   
 os.execvp(fig2dev, [fig2dev, -j, -Lpstex] +
 parameters + [filename, basename + .eps])

 os.execvp(fig2dev, [fig2dev, -j, -Lpstex_t] +
 parameters + [filename, basename + .pstex_t])

   Insert the figure to the LyX document via standard template:
   Insert  External Material...  Xfig and enjoy the result!


ADDITIONAL NOTES (and suggestions for the developpers):

In fact there's no need to change the LyX tempalte. You can
export the figure manually by Combined PS/LaTeX (both parts) and
include the *.pstex_t part into the LyX document via Insert 
Include File. Needless to say that inserting the *.fig file via
Insert  External Material  Xfig is much more comfortable since
Transfig creates both parts automatically.

So the secret that the non-latin1 characters appear right in the
typeset document lies in the missing -j option in fig2dev command
which provides the conversion from FIG format to another
languages. The -j option is always set when the figure is
exported manually from Xfig, so that's the reason why it works
with inclusion of *.pstex_t.

In fact I haven't found what the option -j does. There's no
description in fig2dev man page. But it's clear that it really
works with -j so I suggest to add this option to the future
releases of LyX, namely in fig2pstex script. Moreover it doesn't
affect the behaviour of the template at all.

Regards,

   KAMIL ;-{


xfig-czech.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.1
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.1.

As expected this is a maintenance release, which adds some polish
to the new features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also
fixes some significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import
script. We also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex
import improvements) for good measure.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports still need an X server.

You can download LyX 1.3.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files) :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.bz2

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors (also with
the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.1/
 
If you already have LyX 1.3.0 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new
==

** Updates

- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
  is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]

- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
  descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this

- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
  polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
  Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
  scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
  class kluwer

- new polski keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
  keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
  (documentation has been updated too)

- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
  spanish translation of menus

- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
  of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
  release, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

** Bug fixes

- fix mathed bug where curly brackets in, e.g. {a^b}^c, would get lost
  and cause TeX errors

- fix bug where strange symbols were displayed instead of math symbols
  [Qt only]

- fix bug where lyx -e would refuse to work [bug #788, Qt only]

- delete lyxserver pipes on exit [bug #865, Qt only]

- add floats definition to the LLNCS class [bug #923]

- fix a bug where the DVI file was not updated due to an old format
  .dep file (this happened only when use_tempdir was set to false)

- graphics that have been set to not display in LyX are no longer
  converted [bug #920]

- fix converters for tgif format

- fix bug where preview snippets would most of the time be processed twice

- prevent a crash when generating previews if the user is not using a
  tmp directory

- fix possible crash on exit when there are many previews

- don't cause a warning message to complain about starting an already running
  timer. Just don't start it ;-)

- prevent incorrect warning message about failing to find a graphics file to 
  load when all is actually fine and dandy

- fix a bug where ERT curly braces in math formulas would have a wrong
  descent on screen

- The printer parameter preferences for spool command and file
  extension were accidentally made the same [Qt only]

- Update the language of the text after changing the document language

- fix display of right quote inset

- fix off-by-one error in placement of error insets

- fix bug where opening the tabular dialog would mark the document as 
  changed [bug 

Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Thomas Schnhoff]

Hello,
I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall newerversions of LyX 
everytime they came out,but now I decided to use the provided patch. 
since I am new to this issueI am interested in advices, instructions on 
howto do it smoothly or a link containing any of this aspects!

Thanks
Thomas

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Thomas == =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Thomas Sch=F6nhoff?= ISO-8859-15 writes:

Thomas Hello, I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall
Thomas newerversions of LyX everytime they came out,but now I decided
Thomas to use the provided patch. since I am new to this issueI am
Thomas interested in advices, instructions on howto do it smoothly or
Thomas a link containing any of this aspects!

There are instructions contained at the beginning of the patch. They
have not been updated for a long time, so I will be grateful for any
comment about them.

JMarc

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Davor Cengija]

Thomas Schnhoff wrote:

 Hello,
 I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall newerversions of LyX
 everytime they came out,but now I decided to use the provided patch.
 since I am new to this issueI am interested in advices, instructions on
 howto do it smoothly or a link containing any of this aspects!

Basically, if you ever patched the kernel source, then you'll have no 
problems :-)

Put the uncompressed patch in the lyx source dir and issue:

patch -p1  patch-1.3.1

-p1 helps the patch program to (loosely said) position itself within the 
source tree.

You shouldn't have any problems with the patch.

After that, issue ./configure options, see README, then make, then
make install.

That's it.

However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least the 
1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the missing 
aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll investigate it a little bit 
more deeply and post my findings.

Regards,
Davor
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Davor == Davor Cengija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Davor However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least
Davor the 1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the
Davor missing aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll
Davor investigate it a little bit more deeply and post my findings.

I think it is a dependency problem. Files timestamps are not correctly
ordered, so the stupid configure script wants to rebuild itself, and
just fails for some reason.

This is why the text at the top of the patch advise to issue
touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in src/config.h.in

although it would not have helped in this particular case. If you can
find the correct list of files to touc in order to be able to build
without triggering the autotools, I would appreciate that.

JMarc

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[William Adams]

Ronald said:
I've written novels with LyX (see www.18james.com/writing.html).  The
book class does fine.  The real problem is that unless you're
self-publishing -- with which I have no experience -- you have to face
the fact that trade publishers are not interested in any output from
LyX.  They want the manuscript in ms-word, not in LaTeX, LyX, PDF, or
Postscript.  They'll accept ascii text, but if you have foreign
language or special characters in your text, they're lost in an ascii
version.
We're glad to get manuscript from LyX ;) (but we're a composition 
house specializing in math, physics, c. textbooks)

You should be able to submit a .pdf for direct printing though, 
unless the publisher has specific style recommendations you're unable 
to accomplish in LaTeX?

Let me second the suggestion of Peter Wilson's Memoir class.

William

--
William Adams, publishing specialist
voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Ronald Florence]

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 09:12  AM, William Adams wrote:

We're glad to get manuscript from LyX ;) (but we're a composition 
house specializing in math, physics, c. textbooks)

You should be able to submit a .pdf for direct printing though, unless 
the publisher has specific style recommendations you're unable to 
accomplish in LaTeX?--
The trade publishing houses that publish my books (Random House, 
HarperCollins, St. Martins, etc.) commission custom designs for the 
layout of each title, and are simply not interested in camera-ready 
copy.  I've argued until I'm blue in the face, and met the same answer. 
 One of my books was about the building of the Palomar telescope (The 
Perfect Machine) and I argued with HarperCollins that LaTeX was the 
preferred format for astronomy and that I would create camera-ready 
copy in any format their designer choose.  The answer?  Please submit 
your manuscript in ms-word, wordperfect, or ascii text!

I've met the same resistance from publishers like Kluwer when I've 
written sections for their Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.

LyX is a wonderful tool, and TeX does wonderful typesetting for 
technical publications and technical publishers that accept 
camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade 
publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors 
typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap 
for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another 
book with LyX!
--

Ronald Florencewww.18james.com

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Praedor Atrebates]

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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 09:33 am, Ronald Florence wrote:
[...]
 LyX is a wonderful tool, and TeX does wonderful typesetting for
 technical publications and technical publishers that accept
 camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade
 publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors
 typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap
 for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another
 book with LyX!

How then do you get around the problems you list?  Do you end up submitting 
ascii to them afterall, thus giving up the formatting/typesetting advantages 
of using Lyx/latex?

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Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Ronald Florence]

Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  LyX is a wonderful tool, and TeX does wonderful typesetting for
  technical publications and technical publishers that accept
  camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade
  publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors
  typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap
  for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another
  book with LyX!
 
 How then do you get around the problems you list?  Do you end up submitting 
 ascii to them afterall, thus giving up the formatting/typesetting advantages 
 of using Lyx/latex?

Alas, I end up submitting manuscripts either in hardcopy or in PDF so
they can see what it looks like, and in ascii for their publishing
process.  Trade publishers always reset whatever an author submits, so
the formatting is lost in any case.  
-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Davor Cengija]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Davor == Davor Cengija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Davor However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least
 Davor the 1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the
 Davor missing aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll
 Davor investigate it a little bit more deeply and post my findings.
 
 I think it is a dependency problem. Files timestamps are not correctly
 ordered, so the stupid configure script wants to rebuild itself, and
 just fails for some reason.
 
 This is why the text at the top of the patch advise to issue
 touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in
 src/config.h.in
 
 although it would not have helped in this particular case. If you can
 find the correct list of files to touc in order to be able to build
 without triggering the autotools, I would appreciate that.
 

LyX compile process takes 3 hours on my system so it would be pretty slow 
to find which files need to be touched explicitly, so I decided to touch 
them all. 

for i in `find`; do echo $i; touch -t 20030101 $i; done

Compiled and happily installed. It works.

It's important to mention that the files' timestamps need to be set in the 
past (Jan 01 2003, in my case), otherwise config script keeps complaining 
about missing aclocal. 
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[Praedor Atrebates]

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This is inevitable, it seems, whether I try the qt version or the xforms 
version.  Inspite of the fact that I have xforms installed and qt3 devel libs 
installed, the src rpm for lyx never builds on my Mandrake system.  

Mandrake doesn't use QTDIR.  It is dispensed with and is generally unneeded.  
Nonetheless I created QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 in an attempt to satisfy the rpm for 
building.  It fails:

checking for Qt library name... failed
configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the 
right $QTDIR !
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)

What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check from 
occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure options I 
see no option to turn it off that way so...

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Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:

 checking for Qt library name... failed
 configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the 
 right $QTDIR !
 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)
 
 What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check from 
 occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure options I 

You can't turn it off, that makes no sense (how would you build ?).
Instead, look at config.log, and see what you did wrong in your setup.

john

auto date

[Mirco Dunker]

hi there,
is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel?
greetings
Mirco

Re: auto date

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Mirco Dunker wrote:

 is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel?

I click on Layout and then LaTeX Preamble And in the pop-up window
I enter:

\date{}


   Jeremy C. Reed

   http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/

RE: auto date

[Remzi Seker]

At the beginning of your doc. In ERT
\date{}

-Original Message-
From: Mirco Dunker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: auto date


hi there,
is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel? greetings
Mirco

Chapter endnotes and memoir class

[Todd Flaming]

How do I get book to use chapter endnotes instead of footnotes?

Is there an easier set of instructions on installing memoir for Lyx than
is given with the package?

Follow-up: installing memoir

[Todd Flaming]

It looks as though in my c:\texmf directory structure there is a directory
for memoir, so I'm guessing it was installed or at least downloaded to my
computer.

But LyX doesn't know that. I tried finding installation instructions and
came up with something that requires a file called texmf.cnf (ideally
under web2c). But alas no such file. And then the instructions talk about
setting variables. Where and how do you set them?

I'm lost. How do I get LyX to recognize and use new packages?

Sorry, I'm really trying to figure this stuff out on my own, but I'm
just an author hoping to move beyond Word.

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Marcin Bukat]

Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts, but I do not
know whether it will fix your particular problem.
Yes it makes some difference :P
just see:
http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png
wo

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:

 http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png

Now things are working as they should.

You have to install the right set of fonts, now, to get the symbols to
appear.

john

Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[Praedor Atrebates]

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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 12:54 pm, John Levon wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
  checking for Qt library name... failed
  configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have
  the right $QTDIR !
  error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)
 
  What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check
  from occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure
  options I

 You can't turn it off, that makes no sense (how would you build ?).
 Instead, look at config.log, and see what you did wrong in your setup.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot but there is nothing wrong with my setup.  I can 
build qt apps, kde apps, etc. without problem...just not lyx-qt (or lyx 
xforms for that matter - but I CAN build other xforms apps).  The problem 
seems to be based on assumptions made by the configure script on what the 
system should be like (like Redhat's broken system?).  It assumes there MUST 
be an environment variable called QTDIR set which is not necessarily true 
except, perhaps, on the developer's system.  I just wanted to be able to 
disable the check on qt that the configure script is doing and let the system 
just make the qt app like it can with every other qt app I've tried that 
doesn't make similar assumptions.

In the meantime, I commented out all the lines in the configure script in 
which the qt lib version is determined, created a new entry directly setting 
qt_cv_libname=Qt3 and let it go from there.  It builds and the binary works.  
It would appear that the gatekeeper in configure is not critical and needs to 
have a switch settable by the builder.  It would allow for a simple sidestep 
of an erroneous check (for my system - any Mandrake system) and still get a 
working binary.

praedor



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Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:36:27PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:

 seems to be based on assumptions made by the configure script on what the 
 system should be like (like Redhat's broken system?).  It assumes there MUST 
 be an environment variable called QTDIR set which is not necessarily true 
 except, perhaps, on the developer's system.  I just wanted to be able to 

This is all entirely wrong.

 In the meantime, I commented out all the lines in the configure script in 
 which the qt lib version is determined, created a new entry directly setting 
 qt_cv_libname=Qt3 and let it go from there.

It's impossible to say what's happening without seeing config.log

john

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Marcin Bukat]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:


http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png


Now things are working as they should.

You have to install the right set of fonts, now, to get the symbols to
appear.
john
 
Ok thats something new.
What do You mean by 'right set of fonts'?
I added prefix/share/lyx/xfonts to Xserwer's font path - it doesn't 
work. I downloaded ttf set of fonts mentioned someware in INSTALL 
(although my sys don't use fontconfig) - it dosn't work too.

wo

1.3.1 build on cygwin: problems

[Max Bian]

There are problems with the file src/.libs/impgen.c.  It is not a valid
C file and it won't compile.

The error will appear when lyx.exe is being built.  It requires editing
the file by hand. Bad sed script? 

--
generating import library for `cygintl-2.dll'
dlltool --as=as --dllname cygintl-2.dll --def .libs/cygintl-2.dll-def
--output-lib .libs/libimp-cygintl-2.a
dlltool: Syntax error in def file .libs/cygintl-2.dll-def:0
extracting exported symbol list from `cygiconv-2.dll'
test -f .libs/impgen.c || \
  sed -e /^# \/\* impgen\.c starts here \*\//,/^# \/\* impgen.c
ends here \*\// { s/^# //;s/^# *$//; p; } -e d  ../libtool 
.libs/impgen.c 
  test -f .libs/impgen.exe || (cd .libs  \
  if test x != x ; then  -o impgen impgen.c ; \
  else gcc-2 -o impgen impgen.c ; fi) 
  .libs/impgen /usr/lib/../bin/cygiconv-2.dll 
.libs/cygiconv-2.dll-def
impgen.c:82: parse error
impgen.c:111: unterminated `#if' conditional
../libtool: line 6: .libs/impgen: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [lyx.exe] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/max/lyx-1.3.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/max/lyx-1.3.1/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Another question: How do I build the libaiksaurus?  The source won't
compile under cygwin.

Max

update to 1.3.1 problem aclocal-1.6

[Owen Lucas]

I have 1.3.0 installed and so I downloaded the patch to upgrade it first 
off it does the following

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# make distclean
cd .  /bin/sh ./config.status Makefile
config.status: creating Makefile
Making distclean in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/lib'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/lib'
make: *** [distclean-recursive] Error 1
ignoring this I go on to do the rest of the patch install

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# zcat patch-1.3.1.gz | patch -p1

(note that in the patch it says patch-1.2.1.gz)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in 
*/*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in src/config.h.in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# ./configure

this seems to work but when running ./configure it pops up more NO 
then I remember the first time around

then I run make and it gives

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# make
cd .  /bin/sh /usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/config/missing --run aclocal-1.6
/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/config/missing: aclocal-1.6: command not found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.6' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy 
on your
 system.  You might have modified some files without having the
 proper tools for further handling them.  Check the `README' file,
 it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
 this package.  You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
 some other package would contain this missing `aclocal-1.6' 
program.
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1



I have aclocal  aclocal-1.4  aclocal-1.5
I down loaded automake-1.6.2 which should have in it aclocal-1.6 but 
this does non even compile. What should I do.Is there some way of 
telling lyx to use aclocal-1.5 ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
[2]+  Doneemacs README
[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ rpm -q Autoconf
package Autoconf is not installed

Re: update to 1.3.1 problem aclocal-1.6

[Owen Lucas]

Also could I point out that do have Autoconf 2.57

Owen Lucas wrote:



[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
[2]+  Doneemacs README
[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ rpm -q Autoconf
package Autoconf is not installed

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[robin]

If anyone compiles a Mandrake RPM, please let me know! If no one wants 
to do it, I'll have a go, but last time I got bogged down in 
dependencies, got fed up, and made myself a simple tar.gz binary 
instead.  Don't trust me on this one!

Robin

--
The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't
mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[Max Bian]

I am impressed by the time required to compile LyX.  Gcc is slow, but I
felt it took much shorter time to build linux kernel with all the
modules.

Any config time option to speed up the build process besides turning
off -O2?

Max

LyX-1.3.1 on FreeBSD

[Marco Beishuizen]

Hi,

Since LyX-1.3.0 I'm unable to compile LyX on FreeBSD. Compiling
exits with lots of errors like this:

...
xformsImage.o(.text+0x4914): undefined reference to
'flimage_enable_tiff'
xformsImage.o(.text+0x4924): undefined reference to
'flimage_enable_xbm'
...

My version of xforms is 1.0. I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE.

Anyone succeeded in compiling LyX-1.3.1 on FreeBSD?

Thanks,

Marco

-- 
The more data I punch in this card, the lighter it becomes, and the
lower the mailing cost.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: update to 1.3.1 problem aclocal-1.6

[Owen Lucas]

Woops worked it out. some old unupdated soft linked stuff.
I have now upgraded lyx and it seems to be working
cheers
owen
Owen Lucas wrote:

Also could I point out that do have Autoconf 2.57

Owen Lucas wrote:



 [EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure
 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
 checking whether build environment is sane... yes
 checking for gawk... gawk
 checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
 checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
 configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
 [2]+  Doneemacs README
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ rpm -q Autoconf
 package Autoconf is not installed

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:49:04PM -0800, Max Bian wrote:

 Any config time option to speed up the build process besides turning
 off -O2?

You didn't state what compiler you're using. I suspect recent gcc.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-01/msg01336.html

regards
john

pdf problems in 1.3.1

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. I'm running into a couple of problems:

1. I've included a jpg figure in my document .. pdflatex seems to be modifying
the size of this figure to fit into my two column format document since if I
view - dvipdfm, it shows the correct size (bigger than what would fit into a
column width).. is this normal?

2. There seem to be some problem with the update while doing a View-pdflatex..
After doing a view - pdflatex, if I go and see view - dvipdfm, due to the
problem mentioned in 1., the output is different (the figure is much bigger in
dvipdfm). Now if I do a view - pdflatex again, I get teh same output as I got
with dvipdfm and not what I got first with pdflatex.. very weird.. any idea
what's going on??

I updated 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 on my Debian powerpc system using the patch.. (I built
from source)...

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:38:39PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:
 I found another strange but related to topic bahavior:
 If I change screen font to some ttf (cp1250 encoding) text is rendered 
 correctly, almost all greeks symbols are ok, but other math symbols are 
 displayed as a lyx commands (or rather latex commands).

That's the fallback to the X symbol font (and only behaviour up to 1.1.6)
if the LaTeX font are not found for any reason.

 It looks like ttf family font is used to render greeks too.

*shrug* I don't really understand what is going on here. For me adding the
LaTeX fonts to the Fontpath just worked...

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: screen fonts in math problem

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Marcin == Marcin Bukat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Marcin And question: 1. Changing to CVS version can make difference?

Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts, but I do not
know whether it will fix your particular problem.

Marcin 2. Is there some doc about proper bug reporting in lyx?

Go to http://bugzilla.lyz.org/

JMarc

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Jean-Marc == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Marcin == Marcin Bukat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marcin And question: 1. Changing to CVS version can make difference?

Jean-Marc Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts,
Jean-Marc but I do not know whether it will fix your particular
Jean-Marc problem.

Marcin 2. Is there some doc about proper bug reporting in lyx?

Jean-Marc Go to http://bugzilla.lyz.org/

That should be http://bugzilla.lyx.org/, of course.

JMarc

Use an Xfig figure in LyX with non-latin1 Special flagged text

[Kamil Anis]

Hello,

I use to make Xfig figures with Special flagged text quite often.
I mostly write english documets, but sometimes I need to make a
figure that includes non-english text -- namely the Czech.  A
block scheme is such an example (see the attachments).

I used a trick with TeX macros for typesetting accented
characters for a long time, but creating the figures in such a
way requires so much effort -- you need to rerun LaTeX several
times while editting the figure to get the final result. So I
decided to localize Xfig and put the figure (with non-latin1
characters) right into the LyX document in regular way. But there
were some problems that arised during this process. I finaly
found the solution so I'm gonna to describe what I did. Hope this
helps any one.

It's clear that you don't need to use TeX macros for accented
characters any more or do another fiddling around. You just
switch the keyboard layout and write the text directly into the
figure.

NOTE: I've tried this for Czech (iso8859-2) text only, so I hope
  it should work also for other alphabets. 

1) Localize Xfig

   Common instructions for Xfig localization can be found at

 http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tsato/xfig/latin/latin-e.html
   
   For example if you have transfig-3.2.3d-7 you need to nuthin'
   at all. You just make a symlink in your FIG2DEV_LIBDIR
   directory (usually in /usr/share/fig2dev/)
   
 czech.ps - cs_CZ.ps
   
   If there's no cs_CZ.ps file in that directory get the file
   czech.ps from the above site and put it into your
   FIG2DEV_LIBDIR directory.

   Set the locale to appropriate language
   
 export LANG=czech
 
   and run Xfig. You would be able to enter non-latin1 characters
   right from the keyboard.

2) Change the LyX template

   Add the -j option to the fig2dev command in the
   /usr/share/lyx/scripts/fig2pstex.py script so it will look
   like this 
   
 os.execvp(fig2dev, [fig2dev, -j, -Lpstex] +
 parameters + [filename, basename + .eps])

 os.execvp(fig2dev, [fig2dev, -j, -Lpstex_t] +
 parameters + [filename, basename + .pstex_t])

   Insert the figure to the LyX document via standard template:
   Insert  External Material...  Xfig and enjoy the result!


ADDITIONAL NOTES (and suggestions for the developpers):

In fact there's no need to change the LyX tempalte. You can
export the figure manually by Combined PS/LaTeX (both parts) and
include the *.pstex_t part into the LyX document via Insert 
Include File. Needless to say that inserting the *.fig file via
Insert  External Material  Xfig is much more comfortable since
Transfig creates both parts automatically.

So the secret that the non-latin1 characters appear right in the
typeset document lies in the missing -j option in fig2dev command
which provides the conversion from FIG format to another
languages. The -j option is always set when the figure is
exported manually from Xfig, so that's the reason why it works
with inclusion of *.pstex_t.

In fact I haven't found what the option -j does. There's no
description in fig2dev man page. But it's clear that it really
works with -j so I suggest to add this option to the future
releases of LyX, namely in fig2pstex script. Moreover it doesn't
affect the behaviour of the template at all.

Regards,

   KAMIL ;-{


xfig-czech.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.1
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.1.

As expected this is a maintenance release, which adds some polish
to the new features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also
fixes some significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import
script. We also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex
import improvements) for good measure.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports still need an X server.

You can download LyX 1.3.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files) :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.bz2

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors (also with
the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.1/
 
If you already have LyX 1.3.0 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new
==

** Updates

- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
  is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]

- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
  descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this

- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
  polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
  Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
  scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
  class kluwer

- new polski keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
  keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
  (documentation has been updated too)

- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
  spanish translation of menus

- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
  of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
  release, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

** Bug fixes

- fix mathed bug where curly brackets in, e.g. {a^b}^c, would get lost
  and cause TeX errors

- fix bug where strange symbols were displayed instead of math symbols
  [Qt only]

- fix bug where lyx -e would refuse to work [bug #788, Qt only]

- delete lyxserver pipes on exit [bug #865, Qt only]

- add floats definition to the LLNCS class [bug #923]

- fix a bug where the DVI file was not updated due to an old format
  .dep file (this happened only when use_tempdir was set to false)

- graphics that have been set to not display in LyX are no longer
  converted [bug #920]

- fix converters for tgif format

- fix bug where preview snippets would most of the time be processed twice

- prevent a crash when generating previews if the user is not using a
  tmp directory

- fix possible crash on exit when there are many previews

- don't cause a warning message to complain about starting an already running
  timer. Just don't start it ;-)

- prevent incorrect warning message about failing to find a graphics file to 
  load when all is actually fine and dandy

- fix a bug where ERT curly braces in math formulas would have a wrong
  descent on screen

- The printer parameter preferences for spool command and file
  extension were accidentally made the same [Qt only]

- Update the language of the text after changing the document language

- fix display of right quote inset

- fix off-by-one error in placement of error insets

- fix bug where opening the tabular dialog would mark the document as 
  changed [bug 

Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Thomas Schnhoff]

Hello,
I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall newerversions of LyX 
everytime they came out,but now I decided to use the provided patch. 
since I am new to this issueI am interested in advices, instructions on 
howto do it smoothly or a link containing any of this aspects!

Thanks
Thomas

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Thomas == =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Thomas Sch=F6nhoff?= ISO-8859-15 writes:

Thomas Hello, I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall
Thomas newerversions of LyX everytime they came out,but now I decided
Thomas to use the provided patch. since I am new to this issueI am
Thomas interested in advices, instructions on howto do it smoothly or
Thomas a link containing any of this aspects!

There are instructions contained at the beginning of the patch. They
have not been updated for a long time, so I will be grateful for any
comment about them.

JMarc

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Davor Cengija]

Thomas Schnhoff wrote:

 Hello,
 I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall newerversions of LyX
 everytime they came out,but now I decided to use the provided patch.
 since I am new to this issueI am interested in advices, instructions on
 howto do it smoothly or a link containing any of this aspects!

Basically, if you ever patched the kernel source, then you'll have no 
problems :-)

Put the uncompressed patch in the lyx source dir and issue:

patch -p1  patch-1.3.1

-p1 helps the patch program to (loosely said) position itself within the 
source tree.

You shouldn't have any problems with the patch.

After that, issue ./configure options, see README, then make, then
make install.

That's it.

However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least the 
1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the missing 
aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll investigate it a little bit 
more deeply and post my findings.

Regards,
Davor
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Davor == Davor Cengija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Davor However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least
Davor the 1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the
Davor missing aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll
Davor investigate it a little bit more deeply and post my findings.

I think it is a dependency problem. Files timestamps are not correctly
ordered, so the stupid configure script wants to rebuild itself, and
just fails for some reason.

This is why the text at the top of the patch advise to issue
touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in src/config.h.in

although it would not have helped in this particular case. If you can
find the correct list of files to touc in order to be able to build
without triggering the autotools, I would appreciate that.

JMarc

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[William Adams]

Ronald said:
I've written novels with LyX (see www.18james.com/writing.html).  The
book class does fine.  The real problem is that unless you're
self-publishing -- with which I have no experience -- you have to face
the fact that trade publishers are not interested in any output from
LyX.  They want the manuscript in ms-word, not in LaTeX, LyX, PDF, or
Postscript.  They'll accept ascii text, but if you have foreign
language or special characters in your text, they're lost in an ascii
version.
We're glad to get manuscript from LyX ;) (but we're a composition 
house specializing in math, physics, c. textbooks)

You should be able to submit a .pdf for direct printing though, 
unless the publisher has specific style recommendations you're unable 
to accomplish in LaTeX?

Let me second the suggestion of Peter Wilson's Memoir class.

William

--
William Adams, publishing specialist
voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Ronald Florence]

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 09:12  AM, William Adams wrote:

We're glad to get manuscript from LyX ;) (but we're a composition 
house specializing in math, physics, c. textbooks)

You should be able to submit a .pdf for direct printing though, unless 
the publisher has specific style recommendations you're unable to 
accomplish in LaTeX?--
The trade publishing houses that publish my books (Random House, 
HarperCollins, St. Martins, etc.) commission custom designs for the 
layout of each title, and are simply not interested in camera-ready 
copy.  I've argued until I'm blue in the face, and met the same answer. 
 One of my books was about the building of the Palomar telescope (The 
Perfect Machine) and I argued with HarperCollins that LaTeX was the 
preferred format for astronomy and that I would create camera-ready 
copy in any format their designer choose.  The answer?  Please submit 
your manuscript in ms-word, wordperfect, or ascii text!

I've met the same resistance from publishers like Kluwer when I've 
written sections for their Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.

LyX is a wonderful tool, and TeX does wonderful typesetting for 
technical publications and technical publishers that accept 
camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade 
publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors 
typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap 
for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another 
book with LyX!
--

Ronald Florencewww.18james.com

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Praedor Atrebates]

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 technical publications and technical publishers that accept
 camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade
 publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors
 typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap
 for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another
 book with LyX!

How then do you get around the problems you list?  Do you end up submitting 
ascii to them afterall, thus giving up the formatting/typesetting advantages 
of using Lyx/latex?

praedor
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Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Ronald Florence]

Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  LyX is a wonderful tool, and TeX does wonderful typesetting for
  technical publications and technical publishers that accept
  camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade
  publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors
  typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap
  for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another
  book with LyX!
 
 How then do you get around the problems you list?  Do you end up submitting 
 ascii to them afterall, thus giving up the formatting/typesetting advantages 
 of using Lyx/latex?

Alas, I end up submitting manuscripts either in hardcopy or in PDF so
they can see what it looks like, and in ascii for their publishing
process.  Trade publishers always reset whatever an author submits, so
the formatting is lost in any case.  
-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Davor Cengija]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Davor == Davor Cengija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Davor However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least
 Davor the 1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the
 Davor missing aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll
 Davor investigate it a little bit more deeply and post my findings.
 
 I think it is a dependency problem. Files timestamps are not correctly
 ordered, so the stupid configure script wants to rebuild itself, and
 just fails for some reason.
 
 This is why the text at the top of the patch advise to issue
 touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in
 src/config.h.in
 
 although it would not have helped in this particular case. If you can
 find the correct list of files to touc in order to be able to build
 without triggering the autotools, I would appreciate that.
 

LyX compile process takes 3 hours on my system so it would be pretty slow 
to find which files need to be touched explicitly, so I decided to touch 
them all. 

for i in `find`; do echo $i; touch -t 20030101 $i; done

Compiled and happily installed. It works.

It's important to mention that the files' timestamps need to be set in the 
past (Jan 01 2003, in my case), otherwise config script keeps complaining 
about missing aclocal. 
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[Praedor Atrebates]

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This is inevitable, it seems, whether I try the qt version or the xforms 
version.  Inspite of the fact that I have xforms installed and qt3 devel libs 
installed, the src rpm for lyx never builds on my Mandrake system.  

Mandrake doesn't use QTDIR.  It is dispensed with and is generally unneeded.  
Nonetheless I created QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 in an attempt to satisfy the rpm for 
building.  It fails:

checking for Qt library name... failed
configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the 
right $QTDIR !
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)

What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check from 
occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure options I 
see no option to turn it off that way so...

praedor
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Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:

 checking for Qt library name... failed
 configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the 
 right $QTDIR !
 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)
 
 What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check from 
 occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure options I 

You can't turn it off, that makes no sense (how would you build ?).
Instead, look at config.log, and see what you did wrong in your setup.

john

auto date

[Mirco Dunker]

hi there,
is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel?
greetings
Mirco

Re: auto date

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Mirco Dunker wrote:

 is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel?

I click on Layout and then LaTeX Preamble And in the pop-up window
I enter:

\date{}


   Jeremy C. Reed

   http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/

RE: auto date

[Remzi Seker]

At the beginning of your doc. In ERT
\date{}

-Original Message-
From: Mirco Dunker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: auto date


hi there,
is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel? greetings
Mirco

Chapter endnotes and memoir class

[Todd Flaming]

How do I get book to use chapter endnotes instead of footnotes?

Is there an easier set of instructions on installing memoir for Lyx than
is given with the package?

Follow-up: installing memoir

[Todd Flaming]

It looks as though in my c:\texmf directory structure there is a directory
for memoir, so I'm guessing it was installed or at least downloaded to my
computer.

But LyX doesn't know that. I tried finding installation instructions and
came up with something that requires a file called texmf.cnf (ideally
under web2c). But alas no such file. And then the instructions talk about
setting variables. Where and how do you set them?

I'm lost. How do I get LyX to recognize and use new packages?

Sorry, I'm really trying to figure this stuff out on my own, but I'm
just an author hoping to move beyond Word.

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Marcin Bukat]

Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts, but I do not
know whether it will fix your particular problem.
Yes it makes some difference :P
just see:
http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png
wo

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:

 http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png

Now things are working as they should.

You have to install the right set of fonts, now, to get the symbols to
appear.

john

Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[Praedor Atrebates]

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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 12:54 pm, John Levon wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
  checking for Qt library name... failed
  configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have
  the right $QTDIR !
  error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)
 
  What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check
  from occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure
  options I

 You can't turn it off, that makes no sense (how would you build ?).
 Instead, look at config.log, and see what you did wrong in your setup.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot but there is nothing wrong with my setup.  I can 
build qt apps, kde apps, etc. without problem...just not lyx-qt (or lyx 
xforms for that matter - but I CAN build other xforms apps).  The problem 
seems to be based on assumptions made by the configure script on what the 
system should be like (like Redhat's broken system?).  It assumes there MUST 
be an environment variable called QTDIR set which is not necessarily true 
except, perhaps, on the developer's system.  I just wanted to be able to 
disable the check on qt that the configure script is doing and let the system 
just make the qt app like it can with every other qt app I've tried that 
doesn't make similar assumptions.

In the meantime, I commented out all the lines in the configure script in 
which the qt lib version is determined, created a new entry directly setting 
qt_cv_libname=Qt3 and let it go from there.  It builds and the binary works.  
It would appear that the gatekeeper in configure is not critical and needs to 
have a switch settable by the builder.  It would allow for a simple sidestep 
of an erroneous check (for my system - any Mandrake system) and still get a 
working binary.

praedor



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Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:36:27PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:

 seems to be based on assumptions made by the configure script on what the 
 system should be like (like Redhat's broken system?).  It assumes there MUST 
 be an environment variable called QTDIR set which is not necessarily true 
 except, perhaps, on the developer's system.  I just wanted to be able to 

This is all entirely wrong.

 In the meantime, I commented out all the lines in the configure script in 
 which the qt lib version is determined, created a new entry directly setting 
 qt_cv_libname=Qt3 and let it go from there.

It's impossible to say what's happening without seeing config.log

john

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Marcin Bukat]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:


http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png


Now things are working as they should.

You have to install the right set of fonts, now, to get the symbols to
appear.
john
 
Ok thats something new.
What do You mean by 'right set of fonts'?
I added prefix/share/lyx/xfonts to Xserwer's font path - it doesn't 
work. I downloaded ttf set of fonts mentioned someware in INSTALL 
(although my sys don't use fontconfig) - it dosn't work too.

wo

1.3.1 build on cygwin: problems

[Max Bian]

There are problems with the file src/.libs/impgen.c.  It is not a valid
C file and it won't compile.

The error will appear when lyx.exe is being built.  It requires editing
the file by hand. Bad sed script? 

--
generating import library for `cygintl-2.dll'
dlltool --as=as --dllname cygintl-2.dll --def .libs/cygintl-2.dll-def
--output-lib .libs/libimp-cygintl-2.a
dlltool: Syntax error in def file .libs/cygintl-2.dll-def:0
extracting exported symbol list from `cygiconv-2.dll'
test -f .libs/impgen.c || \
  sed -e /^# \/\* impgen\.c starts here \*\//,/^# \/\* impgen.c
ends here \*\// { s/^# //;s/^# *$//; p; } -e d  ../libtool 
.libs/impgen.c 
  test -f .libs/impgen.exe || (cd .libs  \
  if test x != x ; then  -o impgen impgen.c ; \
  else gcc-2 -o impgen impgen.c ; fi) 
  .libs/impgen /usr/lib/../bin/cygiconv-2.dll 
.libs/cygiconv-2.dll-def
impgen.c:82: parse error
impgen.c:111: unterminated `#if' conditional
../libtool: line 6: .libs/impgen: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [lyx.exe] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/max/lyx-1.3.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/max/lyx-1.3.1/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Another question: How do I build the libaiksaurus?  The source won't
compile under cygwin.

Max

update to 1.3.1 problem aclocal-1.6

[Owen Lucas]

I have 1.3.0 installed and so I downloaded the patch to upgrade it first 
off it does the following

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# make distclean
cd .  /bin/sh ./config.status Makefile
config.status: creating Makefile
Making distclean in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/lib'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/lib'
make: *** [distclean-recursive] Error 1
ignoring this I go on to do the rest of the patch install

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# zcat patch-1.3.1.gz | patch -p1

(note that in the patch it says patch-1.2.1.gz)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in 
*/*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in src/config.h.in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# ./configure

this seems to work but when running ./configure it pops up more NO 
then I remember the first time around

then I run make and it gives

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# make
cd .  /bin/sh /usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/config/missing --run aclocal-1.6
/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/config/missing: aclocal-1.6: command not found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.6' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy 
on your
 system.  You might have modified some files without having the
 proper tools for further handling them.  Check the `README' file,
 it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
 this package.  You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
 some other package would contain this missing `aclocal-1.6' 
program.
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1



I have aclocal  aclocal-1.4  aclocal-1.5
I down loaded automake-1.6.2 which should have in it aclocal-1.6 but 
this does non even compile. What should I do.Is there some way of 
telling lyx to use aclocal-1.5 ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
[2]+  Doneemacs README
[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ rpm -q Autoconf
package Autoconf is not installed

Re: update to 1.3.1 problem aclocal-1.6

[Owen Lucas]

Also could I point out that do have Autoconf 2.57

Owen Lucas wrote:



[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
[2]+  Doneemacs README
[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ rpm -q Autoconf
package Autoconf is not installed

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[robin]

If anyone compiles a Mandrake RPM, please let me know! If no one wants 
to do it, I'll have a go, but last time I got bogged down in 
dependencies, got fed up, and made myself a simple tar.gz binary 
instead.  Don't trust me on this one!

Robin

--
The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't
mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake.
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[Max Bian]

I am impressed by the time required to compile LyX.  Gcc is slow, but I
felt it took much shorter time to build linux kernel with all the
modules.

Any config time option to speed up the build process besides turning
off -O2?

Max

LyX-1.3.1 on FreeBSD

[Marco Beishuizen]

Hi,

Since LyX-1.3.0 I'm unable to compile LyX on FreeBSD. Compiling
exits with lots of errors like this:

...
xformsImage.o(.text+0x4914): undefined reference to
'flimage_enable_tiff'
xformsImage.o(.text+0x4924): undefined reference to
'flimage_enable_xbm'
...

My version of xforms is 1.0. I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE.

Anyone succeeded in compiling LyX-1.3.1 on FreeBSD?

Thanks,

Marco

-- 
The more data I punch in this card, the lighter it becomes, and the
lower the mailing cost.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: update to 1.3.1 problem aclocal-1.6

[Owen Lucas]

Woops worked it out. some old unupdated soft linked stuff.
I have now upgraded lyx and it seems to be working
cheers
owen
Owen Lucas wrote:

Also could I point out that do have Autoconf 2.57

Owen Lucas wrote:



 [EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure
 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
 checking whether build environment is sane... yes
 checking for gawk... gawk
 checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
 checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
 configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
 [2]+  Doneemacs README
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ rpm -q Autoconf
 package Autoconf is not installed

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:49:04PM -0800, Max Bian wrote:

 Any config time option to speed up the build process besides turning
 off -O2?

You didn't state what compiler you're using. I suspect recent gcc.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-01/msg01336.html

regards
john

pdf problems in 1.3.1

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. I'm running into a couple of problems:

1. I've included a jpg figure in my document .. pdflatex seems to be modifying
the size of this figure to fit into my two column format document since if I
view - dvipdfm, it shows the correct size (bigger than what would fit into a
column width).. is this normal?

2. There seem to be some problem with the update while doing a View-pdflatex..
After doing a view - pdflatex, if I go and see view - dvipdfm, due to the
problem mentioned in 1., the output is different (the figure is much bigger in
dvipdfm). Now if I do a view - pdflatex again, I get teh same output as I got
with dvipdfm and not what I got first with pdflatex.. very weird.. any idea
what's going on??

I updated 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 on my Debian powerpc system using the patch.. (I built
from source)...

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:38:39PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:
> I found another strange but related to topic bahavior:
> If I change screen font to some ttf (cp1250 encoding) text is rendered 
> correctly, almost all greeks symbols are ok, but other math symbols are 
> displayed as a lyx commands (or rather latex commands).

That's the fallback to the X symbol font (and only behaviour up to 1.1.6)
if the LaTeX font are not found for any reason.

> It looks like ttf family font is used to render greeks too.

*shrug* I don't really understand what is going on here. For me adding the
LaTeX fonts to the Fontpath just worked...

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: screen fonts in math problem

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Marcin" == Marcin Bukat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Marcin> And question: 1. Changing to CVS version can make difference?

Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts, but I do not
know whether it will fix your particular problem.

Marcin> 2. Is there some doc about proper bug reporting in lyx?

Go to http://bugzilla.lyz.org/

JMarc

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "Marcin" == Marcin Bukat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marcin> And question: 1. Changing to CVS version can make difference?

Jean-Marc> Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts,
Jean-Marc> but I do not know whether it will fix your particular
Jean-Marc> problem.

Marcin> 2. Is there some doc about proper bug reporting in lyx?

Jean-Marc> Go to http://bugzilla.lyz.org/

That should be http://bugzilla.lyx.org/, of course.

JMarc

Use an Xfig figure in LyX with non-latin1 Special flagged text

[Kamil Anis]

Hello,

I use to make Xfig figures with Special flagged text quite often.
I mostly write english documets, but sometimes I need to make a
figure that includes non-english text -- namely the Czech.  A
block scheme is such an example (see the attachments).

I used a trick with TeX macros for typesetting accented
characters for a long time, but creating the figures in such a
way requires so much effort -- you need to rerun LaTeX several
times while editting the figure to get the final result. So I
decided to localize Xfig and put the figure (with non-latin1
characters) right into the LyX document in regular way. But there
were some problems that arised during this process. I finaly
found the solution so I'm gonna to describe what I did. Hope this
helps any one.

It's clear that you don't need to use TeX macros for accented
characters any more or do another fiddling around. You just
switch the keyboard layout and write the text directly into the
figure.

NOTE: I've tried this for Czech (iso8859-2) text only, so I hope
  it should work also for other alphabets. 

1) Localize Xfig

   Common instructions for Xfig localization can be found at

 http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tsato/xfig/latin/latin-e.html
   
   For example if you have transfig-3.2.3d-7 you need to nuthin'
   at all. You just make a symlink in your FIG2DEV_LIBDIR
   directory (usually in /usr/share/fig2dev/)
   
 czech.ps -> cs_CZ.ps
   
   If there's no cs_CZ.ps file in that directory get the file
   czech.ps from the above site and put it into your
   FIG2DEV_LIBDIR directory.

   Set the locale to appropriate language
   
 export LANG=czech
 
   and run Xfig. You would be able to enter non-latin1 characters
   right from the keyboard.

2) Change the LyX template

   Add the -j option to the fig2dev command in the
   /usr/share/lyx/scripts/fig2pstex.py script so it will look
   like this 
   
 os.execvp("fig2dev", ["fig2dev", "-j", "-Lpstex"] +
 parameters + [filename, basename + ".eps"])

 os.execvp("fig2dev", ["fig2dev", "-j", "-Lpstex_t"] +
 parameters + [filename, basename + ".pstex_t"])

   Insert the figure to the LyX document via standard template:
   Insert > External Material... > Xfig and enjoy the result!


ADDITIONAL NOTES (and suggestions for the developpers):

In fact there's no need to change the LyX tempalte. You can
export the figure manually by Combined PS/LaTeX (both parts) and
include the *.pstex_t part into the LyX document via Insert >
Include File. Needless to say that inserting the *.fig file via
Insert > External Material > Xfig is much more comfortable since
Transfig creates both parts automatically.

So the secret that the non-latin1 characters appear right in the
typeset document lies in the missing -j option in fig2dev command
which provides the conversion from FIG format to another
languages. The -j option is always set when the figure is
exported manually from Xfig, so that's the reason why it works
with inclusion of *.pstex_t.

In fact I haven't found what the option -j does. There's no
description in fig2dev man page. But it's clear that it really
works with -j so I suggest to add this option to the future
releases of LyX, namely in fig2pstex script. Moreover it doesn't
affect the behaviour of the template at all.

Regards,

   KAMIL ;-{


xfig-czech.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.1
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.1.

As expected this is a maintenance release, which adds some polish
to the new features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also
fixes some significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import
script. We also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex
import improvements) for good measure.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports still need an X server.

You can download LyX 1.3.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files) :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.bz2

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors (also with
the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.1/
 
If you already have LyX 1.3.0 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new
==

** Updates

- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
  is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]

- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
  descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this

- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
  polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
  Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
  scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
  class kluwer

- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
  keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
  (documentation has been updated too)

- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
  spanish translation of menus

- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
  of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
  release, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

** Bug fixes

- fix mathed bug where curly brackets in, e.g. {a^b}^c, would get lost
  and cause TeX errors

- fix bug where strange symbols were displayed instead of math symbols
  [Qt only]

- fix bug where "lyx -e" would refuse to work [bug #788, Qt only]

- delete lyxserver pipes on exit [bug #865, Qt only]

- add floats definition to the LLNCS class [bug #923]

- fix a bug where the DVI file was not updated due to an old format
  .dep file (this happened only when use_tempdir was set to false)

- graphics that have been set to not display in LyX are no longer
  converted [bug #920]

- fix converters for tgif format

- fix bug where preview snippets would most of the time be processed twice

- prevent a crash when generating previews if the user is not using a
  tmp directory

- fix possible crash on exit when there are many previews

- don't cause a warning message to complain about starting an already running
  timer. Just don't start it ;-)

- prevent incorrect warning message about failing to find a graphics file to 
  load when all is actually fine and dandy

- fix a bug where ERT curly braces in math formulas would have a wrong
  descent on screen

- The printer parameter preferences for "spool command" and "file
  extension" were accidentally made the same [Qt only]

- Update the language of the text after changing the document language

- fix display of right quote inset

- fix off-by-one error in placement of error insets

- fix bug where opening the tabular dialog would mark the document as 
  

Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Thomas Schönhoff]

Hello,
I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall newerversions of LyX 
everytime they came out,but now I decided to use the provided patch. 
since I am new to this issueI am interested in advices, instructions on 
howto do it smoothly or a link containing any of this aspects!

Thanks
Thomas

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Thomas" == =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Thomas Sch=F6nhoff?=  writes:

Thomas> Hello, I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall
Thomas> newerversions of LyX everytime they came out,but now I decided
Thomas> to use the provided patch. since I am new to this issueI am
Thomas> interested in advices, instructions on howto do it smoothly or
Thomas> a link containing any of this aspects!

There are instructions contained at the beginning of the patch. They
have not been updated for a long time, so I will be grateful for any
comment about them.

JMarc

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Davor Cengija]

Thomas Schönhoff wrote:

> Hello,
> I've LyX-QT-1.3.0 installed. I used to reinstall newerversions of LyX
> everytime they came out,but now I decided to use the provided patch.
> since I am new to this issueI am interested in advices, instructions on
> howto do it smoothly or a link containing any of this aspects!

Basically, if you ever patched the kernel source, then you'll have no 
problems :-)

Put the uncompressed patch in the lyx source dir and issue:

patch -p1 < patch-1.3.1

-p1 helps the patch program to (loosely said) position itself within the 
source tree.

You shouldn't have any problems with the patch.

After that, issue ./configure , then make, then
make install.

That's it.

However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least the 
1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the missing 
aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll investigate it a little bit 
more deeply and post my findings.

Regards,
Davor
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Davor" == Davor Cengija <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Davor> However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least
Davor> the 1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the
Davor> missing aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll
Davor> investigate it a little bit more deeply and post my findings.

I think it is a dependency problem. Files timestamps are not correctly
ordered, so the stupid configure script wants to rebuild itself, and
just fails for some reason.

This is why the text at the top of the patch advise to issue
touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in src/config.h.in

although it would not have helped in this particular case. If you can
find the correct list of files to touc in order to be able to build
without triggering the autotools, I would appreciate that.

JMarc

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[William Adams]

Ronald said:
I've written novels with LyX (see www.18james.com/writing.html).  The
book class does fine.  The real problem is that unless you're
self-publishing -- with which I have no experience -- you have to face
the fact that trade publishers are not interested in any output from
LyX.  They want the manuscript in ms-word, not in LaTeX, LyX, PDF, or
Postscript.  They'll accept ascii text, but if you have foreign
language or special characters in your text, they're lost in an ascii
version.
We're glad to get manuscript from LyX ;) (but we're a composition 
house specializing in math, physics,  textbooks)

You should be able to submit a .pdf for direct printing though, 
unless the publisher has specific style recommendations you're unable 
to accomplish in LaTeX?

Let me second the suggestion of Peter Wilson's Memoir class.

William

--
William Adams, publishing specialist
voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Ronald Florence]

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 09:12  AM, William Adams wrote:

We're glad to get manuscript from LyX ;) (but we're a composition 
house specializing in math, physics,  textbooks)

You should be able to submit a .pdf for direct printing though, unless 
the publisher has specific style recommendations you're unable to 
accomplish in LaTeX?--
The trade publishing houses that publish my books (Random House, 
HarperCollins, St. Martins, etc.) commission custom designs for the 
layout of each title, and are simply not interested in camera-ready 
copy.  I've argued until I'm blue in the face, and met the same answer. 
 One of my books was about the building of the Palomar telescope (The 
Perfect Machine) and I argued with HarperCollins that LaTeX was the 
preferred format for astronomy and that I would create camera-ready 
copy in any format their designer choose.  The answer?  Please submit 
your manuscript in ms-word, wordperfect, or ascii text!

I've met the same resistance from publishers like Kluwer when I've 
written sections for their Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.

LyX is a wonderful tool, and TeX does wonderful typesetting for 
technical publications and technical publishers that accept 
camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade 
publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors 
typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap 
for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another 
book with LyX!
--

Ronald Florencewww.18james.com

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Praedor Atrebates]

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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 09:33 am, Ronald Florence wrote:
[...]
> LyX is a wonderful tool, and TeX does wonderful typesetting for
> technical publications and technical publishers that accept
> camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade
> publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors
> typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap
> for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another
> book with LyX!

How then do you get around the problems you list?  Do you end up submitting 
ascii to them afterall, thus giving up the formatting/typesetting advantages 
of using Lyx/latex?

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Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

[Ronald Florence]

Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > LyX is a wonderful tool, and TeX does wonderful typesetting for
> > technical publications and technical publishers that accept
> > camera-ready copy, or perhaps for self-published material.  Until trade
> > publishers catch on to the economy and quality of having authors
> > typeset the material into camera-ready copy, LyX is actually a handicap
> > for authors writing trade books.  That said, I'm working on yet another
> > book with LyX!
> 
> How then do you get around the problems you list?  Do you end up submitting 
> ascii to them afterall, thus giving up the formatting/typesetting advantages 
> of using Lyx/latex?

Alas, I end up submitting manuscripts either in hardcopy or in PDF so
they can see what it looks like, and in ascii for their publishing
process.  Trade publishers always reset whatever an author submits, so
the formatting is lost in any case.  
-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Re: Using a patch from 1.30 too 13.1

[Davor Cengija]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

>> "Davor" == Davor Cengija <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Davor> However, it looks that the configure script in 1.3.1 (at least
> Davor> the 1.3.0+patch version) is broken and make complains about the
> Davor> missing aclocal-1.6. With 1.3.0 I had no problems. I'll
> Davor> investigate it a little bit more deeply and post my findings.
> 
> I think it is a dependency problem. Files timestamps are not correctly
> ordered, so the stupid configure script wants to rebuild itself, and
> just fails for some reason.
> 
> This is why the text at the top of the patch advise to issue
> touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in
> src/config.h.in
> 
> although it would not have helped in this particular case. If you can
> find the correct list of files to touc in order to be able to build
> without triggering the autotools, I would appreciate that.
> 

LyX compile process takes 3 hours on my system so it would be pretty slow 
to find which files need to be touched explicitly, so I decided to touch 
them all. 

for i in `find`; do echo $i; touch -t 20030101 $i; done

Compiled and happily installed. It works.

It's important to mention that the files' timestamps need to be set in the 
past (Jan 01 2003, in my case), otherwise config script keeps complaining 
about missing aclocal. 
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[Praedor Atrebates]

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This is inevitable, it seems, whether I try the qt version or the xforms 
version.  Inspite of the fact that I have xforms installed and qt3 devel libs 
installed, the src rpm for lyx never builds on my Mandrake system.  

Mandrake doesn't use QTDIR.  It is dispensed with and is generally unneeded.  
Nonetheless I created QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 in an attempt to satisfy the rpm for 
building.  It fails:

checking for Qt library name... failed
configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the 
right $QTDIR !
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)

What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check from 
occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure options I 
see no option to turn it off that way so...

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Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:

> checking for Qt library name... failed
> configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the 
> right $QTDIR !
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)
> 
> What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check from 
> occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure options I 

You can't turn it off, that makes no sense (how would you build ?).
Instead, look at config.log, and see what you did wrong in your setup.

john

auto date

[Mirco Dunker]

hi there,
is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel?
greetings
Mirco

Re: auto date

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Mirco Dunker wrote:

> is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel?

I click on "Layout" and then "LaTeX Preamble...". And in the pop-up window
I enter:

\date{}


   Jeremy C. Reed

   http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/

RE: auto date

[Remzi Seker]

At the beginning of your doc. In ERT
\date{}

-Original Message-
From: Mirco Dunker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: auto date


hi there,
is there any way to delete the auto set date under the titel? greetings
Mirco

Chapter endnotes and memoir class

[Todd Flaming]

How do I get book to use chapter endnotes instead of footnotes?

Is there an easier set of instructions on installing memoir for Lyx than
is given with the package?

Follow-up: installing memoir

[Todd Flaming]

It looks as though in my c:\texmf directory structure there is a directory
for memoir, so I'm guessing it was installed or at least downloaded to my
computer.

But LyX doesn't know that. I tried finding installation instructions and
came up with something that requires a file called texmf.cnf (ideally
under web2c). But alas no such file. And then the instructions talk about
setting variables. Where and how do you set them?

I'm lost. How do I get LyX to recognize and use new packages?

Sorry, I'm really trying to figure this stuff out on my own, but I'm
just an author hoping to move beyond Word.

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Marcin Bukat]

Version 1.3.1 will make some difference wrt Qt and fonts, but I do not
know whether it will fix your particular problem.
Yes it makes some difference :P
just see:
http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png
wo

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:

> http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png

Now things are working as they should.

You have to install the right set of fonts, now, to get the symbols to
appear.

john

Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[Praedor Atrebates]

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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 12:54 pm, John Levon wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > checking for Qt library name... failed
> > configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have
> > the right $QTDIR !
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build)
> >
> > What lines in the configure script do I comment out to prevent this check
> > from occuring and killing the build process?  Looking over the configure
> > options I
>
> You can't turn it off, that makes no sense (how would you build ?).
> Instead, look at config.log, and see what you did wrong in your setup.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot but there is nothing "wrong" with my setup.  I can 
build qt apps, kde apps, etc. without problem...just not lyx-qt (or lyx 
xforms for that matter - but I CAN build other xforms apps).  The "problem" 
seems to be based on assumptions made by the configure script on what the 
system should be like (like Redhat's broken system?).  It assumes there MUST 
be an environment variable called QTDIR set which is not necessarily true 
except, perhaps, on the developer's system.  I just wanted to be able to 
disable the check on qt that the configure script is doing and let the system 
just make the qt app like it can with every other qt app I've tried that 
doesn't make similar assumptions.

In the meantime, I commented out all the lines in the configure script in 
which the qt lib version is determined, created a new entry directly setting 
qt_cv_libname=Qt3 and let it go from there.  It builds and the binary works.  
It would appear that the gatekeeper in configure is not critical and needs to 
have a switch settable by the builder.  It would allow for a simple sidestep 
of an erroneous check (for my system - any Mandrake system) and still get a 
working binary.

praedor



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Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

[John Levon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:36:27PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:

> seems to be based on assumptions made by the configure script on what the 
> system should be like (like Redhat's broken system?).  It assumes there MUST 
> be an environment variable called QTDIR set which is not necessarily true 
> except, perhaps, on the developer's system.  I just wanted to be able to 

This is all entirely wrong.

> In the meantime, I commented out all the lines in the configure script in 
> which the qt lib version is determined, created a new entry directly setting 
> qt_cv_libname=Qt3 and let it go from there.

It's impossible to say what's happening without seeing config.log

john

Re: screen fonts in math problem

[Marcin Bukat]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:


http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png


Now things are working as they should.

You have to install the right set of fonts, now, to get the symbols to
appear.
john
 
Ok thats something new.
What do You mean by 'right set of fonts'?
I added /share/lyx/xfonts to Xserwer's font path - it doesn't 
work. I downloaded ttf set of fonts mentioned someware in INSTALL 
(although my sys don't use fontconfig) - it dosn't work too.

wo

1.3.1 build on cygwin: problems

[Max Bian]

There are problems with the file src/.libs/impgen.c.  It is not a valid
C file and it won't compile.

The error will appear when lyx.exe is being built.  It requires editing
the file by hand. Bad sed script? 

--
generating import library for `cygintl-2.dll'
dlltool --as=as --dllname cygintl-2.dll --def .libs/cygintl-2.dll-def
--output-lib .libs/libimp-cygintl-2.a
dlltool: Syntax error in def file .libs/cygintl-2.dll-def:0
extracting exported symbol list from `cygiconv-2.dll'
test -f .libs/impgen.c || \
  sed -e "/^# \/\* impgen\.c starts here \*\//,/^# \/\* impgen.c
ends here \*\// { s/^# //;s/^# *$//; p; }" -e d < ../libtool >
.libs/impgen.c 
  test -f .libs/impgen.exe || (cd .libs && \
  if test "x" != "x" ; then  -o impgen impgen.c ; \
  else gcc-2 -o impgen impgen.c ; fi) 
  .libs/impgen /usr/lib/../bin/cygiconv-2.dll >
.libs/cygiconv-2.dll-def
impgen.c:82: parse error
impgen.c:111: unterminated `#if' conditional
../libtool: line 6: .libs/impgen: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [lyx.exe] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/max/lyx-1.3.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/max/lyx-1.3.1/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Another question: How do I build the libaiksaurus?  The source won't
compile under cygwin.

Max

update to 1.3.1 problem "aclocal-1.6"

[Owen Lucas]

I have 1.3.0 installed and so I downloaded the patch to upgrade it first 
off it does the following

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# make distclean
cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status Makefile
config.status: creating Makefile
Making distclean in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/lib'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/lib'
make: *** [distclean-recursive] Error 1
ignoring this I go on to do the rest of the patch install

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# zcat patch-1.3.1.gz | patch -p1

(note that in the patch it says patch-1.2.1.gz)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in 
*/*/Makefile.in */*/*/Makefile.in src/config.h.in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# ./configure

this seems to work but when running ./configure it pops up more "NO" 
then I remember the first time around

then I run make and it gives

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# make
cd . && /bin/sh /usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/config/missing --run aclocal-1.6
/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/config/missing: aclocal-1.6: command not found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.6' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy 
on your
 system.  You might have modified some files without having the
 proper tools for further handling them.  Check the `README' file,
 it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
 this package.  You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
 some other package would contain this missing `aclocal-1.6' 
program.
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1



I have aclocal  aclocal-1.4  aclocal-1.5
I down loaded automake-1.6.2 which should have in it aclocal-1.6 but 
this does non even compile. What should I do.Is there some way of 
telling lyx to use aclocal-1.5 ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
[2]+  Doneemacs README
[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ rpm -q Autoconf
package Autoconf is not installed

Re: update to 1.3.1 problem "aclocal-1.6"

[Owen Lucas]

Also could I point out that do have Autoconf 2.57

Owen Lucas wrote:



[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
[2]+  Doneemacs README
[EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ rpm -q Autoconf
package Autoconf is not installed

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[robin]

If anyone compiles a Mandrake RPM, please let me know! If no one wants 
to do it, I'll have a go, but last time I got bogged down in 
dependencies, got fed up, and made myself a simple tar.gz binary 
instead.  Don't trust me on this one!

Robin

--
"The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't
mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake."
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin