RE : cannot export graphics

[EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick]

What's happen if you move the LyX document to the same folder than the
graphics ? Anyelse, you can try to convert your files to EPS Level 2 with
this command : convert file.eps eps2:file.eps.

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Objet : cannot export graphics


Hi,

I have just installed Lyx for win32  from Claus Hentschel, and I have a
problem using graphics. Everything (viewing, converting) works fine as long
as I do not insert graphics. If I insert a graphic and try to convert to
PDF, I have a latex error latex error: file
tmp_directory/picture_directory_filename I could not locate the file with
any of these extensions .eps, .ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z. However, the
picture is in the specified temporary folder. 
When I export the lyx file into latex, it compiles without any problem, and
creates the .dvi.

Does anyone has suggestions ?

Thanks in advance,

Mlanie Bouroche

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Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:58:41AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
 On Monday 24 November 2003 01:41, Nirmal Govind wrote:
   LyX: Cannot view file
  
   No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex).
 
  Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option ..
  you can do this by going to Edit - Preferences - File Formats
  (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the
  xforms frontend but should be something similar) and then select the
  PDF (pdflatex) option and define a viewer for it (xpdf or acroread
  or any other viewer that you use). And you may need to do the same
  for the other PDF options and for PS...
 No, you haven't installed xpdf. Install it and everything will work
 fine. BTW: can we consider this a bug in the lyx rpm? I mean should
 xpdf or any other viewer be a build require in the spec file? or
 should Mandrake install xpdf by default?

This is not a bug in the spec. LyX works without pdf just fine.
_Recommending_ a .pdf viewer is another thing, though...

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:35:33AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Sean wrote:
 
  How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/?
 
   Huh? I don't understand your problem. Here, the executable is in
 /usr/local/bin/ and, as long as X is running, I can bring it up in any
 desktop. Data can reside anywhere.
 
   What's not working for you?

It looks as if LyX on Apple has matured enough that we get Apple
sepcific questions without too much of a hint towards the used
platform. Not too mention a version number or such...

I find this rather amusing, though...

Andre'

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:41:01PM -0800, Not Pam Green wrote:
 I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
 source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three attempts
 gives me this message:
 
 
 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.501
  
 lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
 Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting
 instructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if
 necessary. Thanks ! Bye.
 Aborted (core dumped)
 
 
 It happens as root or as not. 
 
 I recently upgraded my system from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2. Under
 9.0 it worked perfectly, and I used it to write a novel. Now my novel is
 on hold because of this problem. Can anyone help? I like Lyx much better
 than Openoffice for writing...but I may have to switch if I can't find a
 resolution to this.

As a workaround: what about the xforms frontend. I don't think the
choice of frontends makes much difference when writing a novel, i.e.
mostly 'flat text' (structurally, I hope ;-))

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Johann Haarhoff]

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

[LyX-users] Re: LyX - Mailing lists

instead of just

Re: LyX - Mailing lists.

Most of the other mailing lists I subscribe to have this ability, and I
wonder if the administrator of this list would consider implementing
it.

Thank you

Johann

p.s. this was not supposed to sound like a rant (it kind of came out
that way), but rather like a feature request.

 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/11/2003 11:35:29 
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:35:33AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Sean wrote:
 
  How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/?
 
   Huh? I don't understand your problem. Here, the executable is in
 /usr/local/bin/ and, as long as X is running, I can bring it up in
any
 desktop. Data can reside anywhere.
 
   What's not working for you?

It looks as if LyX on Apple has matured enough that we get Apple
sepcific questions without too much of a hint towards the used
platform. Not too mention a version number or such...

I find this rather amusing, though...

Andre'

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Re: Large algorithm in LyX

[Helge Hafting]

Aleksandar Donev wrote:
Hello,

Please include [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies.

I am aware one cannot have multipage floats. I have a paper with lots of 
algorithms floating around, a couple of which happen to be longer then a 
page. I would like to continue to use the nice LyX algorithm float, but 
somehow do something special about the long ones. I have found some advice on 
the web, but I am not sure what the best way is. I would appreciate a pointer 
to what the best approach with LyX is.

The simple approach I used is to break the long algorithm into two
separate algoritm floats.  Call them algorithm (part 1) and so on.
Helge Hafting

Re: cannot export graphics

[Nirmal Govind]

I have just installed Lyx for win32  from Claus Hentschel, and I have a problem using graphics. Everything (viewing, converting) works fine as long as I do not insert graphics. If I insert a graphic and try to convert to PDF, I have a latex error latex error: file tmp_directory/picture_directory_filename I could not locate the file with any of these extensions .eps, .ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z. However, the picture is in the specified temporary folder. 
When I export the lyx file into latex, it compiles without any problem, and creates the .dvi.
Can you check if the Use temporary directory option in Edit - 
Preferences - Paths is checked? If so, you can try unchecking it so 
that things happen in your local directory.. maybe that'll help.. if 
this works then it's an alternative to the earlier suggestion of moving 
the graphics files to your local directory...

Btw, the Win32 port is by Ruurd Reitsma and Claus Hentschel's is 
what's called the Windows NT/9x port I believe.. if you're using LyX 
via cygwin then you're using the latter...

nirmal

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:06:41PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
 While on the topic of mailing lists.
 
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
 indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to read
mails on this list if people were not top-posting and full-quoting.

This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Andre'

clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. is there a way by which I can clear the entries in a table? i.e. 
preserve the number of rows, columns, formatting etc. but just delete 
the contents of each cell.. if not, is this in cvs by any chance?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

[Ladislav Mecir]

On Tuesday 25 of November 2003 10:29, Andre Poenitz wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:58:41AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
  On Monday 24 November 2003 01:41, Nirmal Govind wrote:
LyX: Cannot view file
   
No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex).
  
   Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option ..
   you can do this by going to Edit - Preferences - File Formats
   (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the
   xforms frontend but should be something similar) and then select the
   PDF (pdflatex) option and define a viewer for it (xpdf or acroread
   or any other viewer that you use). And you may need to do the same
   for the other PDF options and for PS...
 
  No, you haven't installed xpdf. Install it and everything will work
  fine. BTW: can we consider this a bug in the lyx rpm? I mean should
  xpdf or any other viewer be a build require in the spec file? or
  should Mandrake install xpdf by default?

 This is not a bug in the spec. LyX works without pdf just fine.
 _Recommending_ a .pdf viewer is another thing, though...

 Andre'

I know how to adjust the LyX using xforms GUI to properly show documents like 
CS_tutorial containing ISO 8859-2 (ISO Latin 2) characters.

Can you tell me how to do it in LyX using QT?

Thanks in advance

-Ladislav

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Johann Haarhoff]

Dude,

We have to use Novell's Groupwise mail client at work. It does not have
the capability to reply in the style I (and you) prefer. My extreme
apologies. I am not going to insert '' characters by hand for every
line I am replying to.

If you know of a way to make the Groupwise mail client (I am using
version 6.5) reply in the proper fashion please let me know.

Cheers,

Johann

 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/11/2003 12:54:23 
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:06:41PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
 While on the topic of mailing lists.
 
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give
an
 indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to read
mails on this list if people were not top-posting and full-quoting.

This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Tysdag 25. november 2003 11:06, skreiv Johann Haarhoff:
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
 indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

 [LyX-users] Re: LyX - Mailing lists

It would be superfluous information for me as I filter the messages on the 
To/CC:[EMAIL PROTECTED] into a separate folder as they arrive. Maybe 
this would be a good idea for you as well ? It would make the inbox easier to 
organize :).

If you are uncertain how to filter, have a look at this page:
http://www.groupsense.co.nz/howtofilter.html

Ingar

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
 We have to use Novell's Groupwise mail client at work. It does not have
 the capability to reply in the style I (and you) prefer.

So you are not able to use any kind of text editor to write your mails?

 My extreme apologies. I am not going to insert '' characters by
 hand for every line I am replying to.

Just removing the lines you are _not_ replying would already help.
I guess. In this case here there were six lines left...

 If you know of a way to make the Groupwise mail client (I am using
 version 6.5) reply in the proper fashion please let me know.

I've never used that but a quick look around the net indicates that this
is not worse than any web-based mail client (i.e. you have a big editing
field) and I've seen readable messages coming that way...

Never mind,
Andre'

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Angus Leeming]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give
 an indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.
 
 While on the topic of mailing lists.
 
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 read mails on this list if people were not top-posting and
 full-quoting.
 
 This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Hi, Johann.

André is grumpy on the devel list too. Don't worry about it ;-)

The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
the From field.

Regards,

-- 
Angus

RE : cannot export graphics

[melanie . bouroche]

I moved the Lyx file to the same folder, tried to convert the files to eps level 2, 
and also tried without using a tmp directory and it still doesn't work. I succeeded to 
pine it down to the path of the file: when I try to export the lyx file to pdf for 
example, in the tex file the picture is designed with an absolute path 
(C:/cygwin/home/Melanie/Event). This way, I cannot compile it with latex, but if I 
change the picture path to a relative path, it works. 

But I still don't know what I am supposed to change so that it works directly from lyx 
!

Melanie



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Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote:
 Hi.. is there a way by which I can clear the entries in a table? i.e. 
 preserve the number of rows, columns, formatting etc. but just delete 
 the contents of each cell.. if not, is this in cvs by any chance?

Select everything with the mouse and press 'Del'.

Andre'

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

Select everything with the mouse and press 'Del'.
Yes, I did try that but it doesn't work here. Probably cos I use 
Debian-ppc on an iBook which has one delete key that's mapped to 
backspace and so no real way of getting a delete as in a PC... is there 
a way by which I can specify the commands in some ui file and have it 
appear as a menu option in Edit - Tabular?

nirmal

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

M-x delete-forward   should works as a substitute to a 'real' delete key
press.
Awesome!

I put this in the ui file too and it all works great!

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Karsten Heymann]

Hi, 

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:24:34 +
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
 the From field.

if you mean the From: field, that won't work (the mail I'm replying to right now
 
 Regards,
 
 -- 
 Angus
 

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:24:34PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
 André is grumpy on the devel list too.

But that's only because nobody else is.

 Don't worry about it ;-)

We have settled that matter in private mail already...

Andre'

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Karsten Heymann]

I'm sorry! Sylpheed has Send mapped to C-Return. That's bad :((

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:24:34 +
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
 the From field.

if you mean the From: field, that won't work (the mail I'm replying to
right now has From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Better filter by
something like

  List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

These headers (there are some more) are inserted by the list manager
software and so give you exactly the mails you want.

Karsten

PS: Now pressing C-Retuen ;-)

Re: RE : cannot export graphics

[Angus Leeming]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I moved the Lyx file to the same folder, tried to convert the files
 to eps level 2, and also tried without using a tmp directory and it
 still doesn't work. I succeeded to pine it down to the path of the
 file: when I try to export the lyx file to pdf for example, in the
 tex file the picture is designed with an absolute path
 (C:/cygwin/home/Melanie/Event). This way, I cannot compile it with
 latex, but if I change the picture path to a relative path, it
 works.
 
 But I still don't know what I am supposed to change so that it works
 directly from lyx !
 
 Melanie

This is the Win32 port?

There is some horrible nastiness in the code that appears to bite 
Win32 users. Others have reported similar problems. Trouble is, to 
fix things the right way I'd have to have access to a Win32 machine 
with compiler environment. And some spare time of course...

-- 
Angus

display of greek letters

[Martijn Brouwer]

Hi,
When I insert greek letters in a document they are not diplayed correctly. I do not 
get the symbol but the name of letter. So when I type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red 
instead of the symbol alpha. Latex output is OK, so I think it is related to my 
mathfont. Another user in my system does not have this problem, so the cause is 
somewhere in my configuration. Does somebody have a clue where I can look? I tried 
moving away my ~/.lyx/preferences, but that did not help.

Bye,

Martijn Brouwer

display of greek letters

[Martijn Brouwer]

Hi,
When I insert greek letters in a document they are not diplayed correctly. I do not 
get the symbol but the name of letter. So when I type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red 
instead of the symbol alpha. Latex output is OK, so I think it is related to my 
mathfont. Another user in my system does not have this problem, so the cause is 
somewhere in my configuration. Does somebody have a clue where I can look? I tried 
moving away my ~/.lyx/preferences, but that did not help.

Bye,

Martijn Brouwer

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Karsten Heymann wrote:

 if you mean the From: field, that won't work (the mail I'm replying to
 right now has From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Better filter by
 something like

   List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Karsten,

  I don't know if this would help you as I've not followed this thread from
its beginning, but in my procmail/recipes.rc file I have the following:

:0:
* ^TO_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LYX

  This has worked flawlessly for years.

Rich

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Matej Cepl]

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 How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/?
 Specifically, I want to stick it in a subdirectory
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Guys, could you please always indicate which operating system you
are using (especially when it is Mac or Windows)? For us, Linux
people, this is really confusing ...

Thanks,

Matej

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Re: display of greek letters

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:27:22PM +0100, Martijn Brouwer wrote:
 Hi, When I insert greek letters in a document they are not diplayed
 correctly. I do not get the symbol but the name of letter. So when I
 type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red instead of the symbol alpha. Latex
 output is OK, so I think it is related to my mathfont. Another user in
 my system does not have this problem, so the cause is somewhere in my
 configuration. Does somebody have a clue where I can look? I tried
 moving away my ~/.lyx/preferences, but that did not help.

This comes up repeatedly here. Have you checked the archives?

Andre'

Re: display of greek letters

[Angus Leeming]

Martijn Brouwer wrote:

 Hi,
 When I insert greek letters in a document they are not diplayed
 correctly. I do not get the symbol but the name of letter. So when I
 type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red instead of the symbol alpha. Latex
 output is OK, so I think it is related to my mathfont. Another user
 in my system does not have this problem, so the cause is somewhere
 in my configuration. Does somebody have a clue where I can look? I
 tried moving away my ~/.lyx/preferences, but that did not help.
 
 Bye,
 
 Martijn Brouwer

Hello Martin.

Did me previous posting on this matter to you not help?

Angus



Re: rendering greek letters in 1.3.3 qt
From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday 21 November 2003 11:18:42 am
Groups: gmane.editors.lyx.general
XRef: main.gmane.org gmane.editors.lyx.general:13065
References: 1

Martijn Brouwer wrote:

 Hi since I upgraded lyx to 1.3.3 qt, greek letters are not rendered
 anymore in LyX (latex output is OK). The symbols are displayed as
 ERT. An equation with a lot of \varepsilons becomes very unreadable.
 Can anybody shed some light on this? Am I missing some X11 fonts, is
 something else wrong or is this a bug? It is WYGIWYM, but not
 WYSIWYM :(.
 
 Martijn

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Qt

Re: EPS figure not showing in output

[Vaclav Smidl]

Hi,
Are you using draft option? This is what draft mode does.

Vasek


On Tuesday 25 November 2003 06:55, Jeremy Buchmann wrote:
 Hello all,

 I am using LyX 1.3.3qt and am having trouble with a figure I made in Dia.
 It is an EPS file and displays perfectly in LyX, but doesn't show up in
 the output (PostScript).  All I get is a frame where the figure should be
 and a pathname to /tmp/lyx_tmpdir...stuff.../_home_me_path_to_eps_file. I
 checked the LaTeX logfile, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
 I've included it below in case it helps.  As an experiment, I saved the
 figure as a PNG and loaded it into LyX, but I got the same problem.  I've
 scaled the image to a small size, but it still doesn't show up.  Any
 ideas?

 Thanks,
 Jeremy

Re: EPS figure not showing in output

[Jeremy Buchmann]

Ahh...that must be it.  I'll set it back to final when I get
home.

Thanks!
Jeremy


On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Vaclav Smidl wrote:

 Hi,
 Are you using draft option? This is what draft mode does.
 
 Vasek
 
 
 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 06:55, Jeremy Buchmann wrote:
  Hello all,
 
  I am using LyX 1.3.3qt and am having trouble with a figure I made in Dia.
  It is an EPS file and displays perfectly in LyX, but doesn't show up in
  the output (PostScript).  All I get is a frame where the figure should be
  and a pathname to /tmp/lyx_tmpdir...stuff.../_home_me_path_to_eps_file. I
  checked the LaTeX logfile, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
  I've included it below in case it helps.  As an experiment, I saved the
  figure as a PNG and loaded it into LyX, but I got the same problem.  I've
  scaled the image to a small size, but it still doesn't show up.  Any
  ideas?
 
  Thanks,
  Jeremy
 

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Nirmal Govind wrote:

  
  M-x delete-forward   should works as a substitute to a 'real' delete key
  press.
 
 Awesome!
 
 I put this in the ui file too and it all works great!

Or you could bind it to M-C-Del . ;-)

/Christian

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Tables with columns with the same width

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. Could 
somebody here please help me?

Thank you a lot in advance!

Paul

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Sean]

I think I've fixed it. I don't know who makes LyX/Mac, but whoever does 
should really rethink the design a little. I'll start by describing how 
I was able to make LyX.app run anywhere. I don't know if anything else 
was broken, but it will certainly launch, edit, and save documents. If 
it breaks anything, though, it could rightly be regarded as a bug in 
LyX, since I am only calling the app with an argument that should 
remove the directory dependence.

First, I changed the property stored in Lyx.app/Contents/Info.plist to 
point to a shell script (LyX.sh) instead of the original executable. To 
make this take effect, I had to reboot (I believe that unmounting and 
remounting the disk LyX.app is on is sufficient, but when that's the 
startup disk). Note that the shell script must be placed in 
LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/.

Now, for the contents of said shell script:

#! /bin/sh

exec `$0_pathmaker`

It turns out that the exec command is the key to making LyX responsive 
upon launch from a shell script. $0 gives the command name of the 
script (in this case, the full path), and I concatenate that with 
_pathmaker in order to run a C app I coded to put together the 
command for launching LyX using the path to the command as a basis. If 
I knew how to do that string manipulation in the shell script, that 
would be preferable. Nevertheless, here is the source code for 
LyX.sh_pathmaker:

#include stdio.h
#include string.h
#include stdlib.h
int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
  char * command;
  int L = strlen(argv[0]);
  command = (char *) malloc((2*L + 30)*sizeof(char));
  if (command != NULL) {
strncpy(command, argv[0], L - strlen(LyX.sh_pathmaker));
strcat(command, LyX -sysdir );
strncat(command, argv[0], L - strlen(MacOS/LyX.sh_pathmaker));
strcat(command, Resources/LyX/);
printf(command);
  }
  else {
printf(echo \Error allocating command buffer\n\);
  }
  free(command);
  return 0;
}
There are, of course, lots of optimizations that could be performed, 
but this is the most bulletproof and readable implementation I could 
come up with.

Ideally, though, the maker of LyX/Mac would combine the run anywhere 
functionality I've scraped together above in to the code of Start-LyX 
(applescript can do the string munging I've done in C, I'm sure), and 
incorporate Start-LyX in to the LyX.app bundle.

Oh, yeah, note that the above breaks Start-LyX because it too uses hard 
coded directories.

Sean
On Nov 24, 2003, at 12:52, Sean wrote:
How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/? 
Specifically, I want to stick it in a subdirectory 
/Applications/Productivity/. LyX, for some reason, has the path 
/Applications/ internally hard coded (you can check this with a hex 
editor - just search for the path). I can get it to run from the 
command line by launching it with an absolute path an giving it the 
argument -sysdir, but I can't figure out how to make it back in to a 
double-clickable app. I've tried moving the executable and replacing 
with either a shell script and a compiled c executable (both just 
running the command I would enter in the CLI), but LyX will launch 
frozen (even if a attach an  to the end of the command).

Is there any way to get LyX to be a double clickable, run anywhere 
app? In theory, this would entail some kind of script (shell or apple) 
that would figure out the full path of the program, and launch it with 
the appropriate arguments. Even better would be if the executable 
itself did this, but there may be some obscure technical reasons I'm 
unaware of why it cannot.

Sean

Re: Converting latex to lyx with Lyx 1.3.x

[Frank Chu]

Thanks, Andres,

I just found a solution.  It maybe helpful to document it.  So, feel free to 
document it somewhere.

There is a proposed solution at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg29976.html
But there is an error there:

LYXDIR\lyx2lyx.bat foo.lyx  temp.lyx
should be==
LYXDIR\lyx2lyx foo.lyx  temp.lyx
After making the changes as described there, I am not sure if it solves the 
problem for all the systems.  For me, it needs a bit more work.  Basically I 
found a way manually convert latex to lyx with the native win32 lyx.  It 
takes two steps, in addition to the changes described in that link: 
(assuming your LYXDIR\bin is on PATH)

1. Convert Latex file to lyx file:

perl LYXDIR\bin\relyx xxx

Note: the latex filename is xxx.tex, above automatically produces xxx.lyx

for help:
perl LYXDIR\bin\relyx -h
Such an xxx.lyx file cannot be used yet, one should:

2. Convert Lyx accross different Lyx versions:

python -S LYXDIR\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx -o yyy.lyx xxx.lyx

Such a xxx.lyx file should be unix format (No need to change Enter key
to DOS format)
one can also add -t 1.3 -f 1.1.6
From ver1.1.6 to ver1.3  (I guess)  For detail look at the python script
LYXDIR\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx

For help:
python -S LYXDIR\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx -h
(For Win98, to get more space for env var, one may need to add one line in
config.sys: shell=C:\WINDOWS\command.com C:\WINDOWS /e:4096 /p)
Frank

From: Andres Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Frank Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Converting latex to lyx with Lyx 1.3.x
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:26:40 -0500
Hello,

The conversion from latex to lyx is complex, and the process has no 
guarantees to work perfectly.If the latex file is simple the conversion 
works, if it has lots of stuff it may fail.

Maybe you can split the latex document in order to convert the chunks 
partially.

If you want, you can send me the file to convert, I can't promess nothing, 
anyway :-)

Andres.

En Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:22:29 -0600, Frank Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
escribió:

Andres wrote:
Do you still have problems with lyx? What problems?
It seems I can guess some reasons: is it the problem of the conversion 
script in lyx 1.3.x ?  Just now I happened to use a Unix version of Lyx 
(but 1.3.x) and it can't convert my latex file to lyx file right (however 
lyx 1.1.6fixed does very good job -- never had a problem).  Do you know 
any compatibility problem in lyx version control, etc. ?  Sorry for my 
ignorance. Thanks!

Frank


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Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Not Pam Green]

Excuse the repetition - is this getting through to the list? Any ideas
about where else I might find help? 

Thanks


On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:41:01 -0800
Not Pam Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
 source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three attempts
 gives me this message:
 
 
 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.501
  
 lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
 Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting
 instructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if
 necessary. Thanks ! Bye.
 Aborted (core dumped)
 
 
 It happens as root or as not. 
 
 I recently upgraded my system from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2. Under
 9.0 it worked perfectly, and I used it to write a novel. Now my novel
 is on hold because of this problem. Can anyone help? I like Lyx much
 better than Openoffice for writing...but I may have to switch if I
 can't find a resolution to this.
 
 Thanks,
 Reuben
 

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Not Pam Green wrote:

 Excuse the repetition - is this getting through to the list?

Reuben,

  Yup.

 I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
 source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three attempts
 gives me this message:

 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.501

  Can we assume that you checked and confirmed that libgl.so.* exists? I
don't have such a library (and haven't seen a library numbered like that) on
my Red Hat 7.3 system.

 I recently upgraded my system from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2. Under
 9.0 it worked perfectly, and I used it to write a novel.

  Well, then. It's probably a Mandrake problem. I seem to recall reading
either on my local LUG mail list or some application-related mail lists,
that folks have found problems with mdk-9.2. I'd check that out first. I run
Slackware and a couple of legacy Red Hat systems so I know nothing about
Mandrake.

HTH,

Rich

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Re: Tables with columns with the same width

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:09:48PM +, Paul Smith wrote:
 Dear All
 
 I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width.
 Could somebody here please help me?

Column widths are set by using the right mouse button over any one you
wish to fix. A dialog will appear, with the width option near the
bottom. Be sure you hit the enter key after entering the number, so the
change takes place...

I don't know how to do it to all columns at once.  Sorry.  :(


Kenward
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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Ronald Florence]

Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I think I've fixed it. I don't know who makes LyX/Mac, but whoever
 does should really rethink the design a little. 

I'm not sure what was broken.  Early on Jean-Marc and I played with
an idea similar to yours for LyX/Mac.  Aside from being ugly, your
hack breaks Start-LyX, reLyX, noweb2lyx, and lyxeditor (which is used
for reverse DVI search with xdvi or MacDviX).  It may also break
starting LyX from the command line for batch processing and debugging.
I suppose with enough hacking you get get some of those features to
work, but in the process you would compromise the simple and reliable
installation, and lack of ugly hacks, that makes LyX/Mac appealing to
many Mac users.

As I noted earlier, if you have some compulsion to move LyX to a
different directory, you can make an alias anywhere you want.  The LyX
alias will function with all of the features your hack breaks.
-- 

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Re: Tables with columns with the same width

[Nirmal Govind]

I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. Could 
somebody here please help me?
You can do this by setting the width of each column to be a percentage 
of the entire table width. So if you had 4 columns, then you can set 
each column's width to 25%..  To do this - with the cursor somewhere in 
a column, right click on the the column and in the box that pops up, put 
in 25 in the width box and select col% from the drop down menu to the 
right (I think it's col% that you want but you can play around with the 
other % options too to see what works best).. repeat for each column... 
not sure if there's a way to do this for all columns at one go - 
selecting all columns and doing the above doesn't seem to work...

nirmal

RE : cannot export graphics

[EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick]

What's happen if you move the LyX document to the same folder than the
graphics ? Anyelse, you can try to convert your files to EPS Level 2 with
this command : convert file.eps eps2:file.eps.

-Message d'origine-
De : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Envoy : lundi 24 novembre 2003 20:03
 : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet : cannot export graphics


Hi,

I have just installed Lyx for win32  from Claus Hentschel, and I have a
problem using graphics. Everything (viewing, converting) works fine as long
as I do not insert graphics. If I insert a graphic and try to convert to
PDF, I have a latex error latex error: file
tmp_directory/picture_directory_filename I could not locate the file with
any of these extensions .eps, .ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z. However, the
picture is in the specified temporary folder. 
When I export the lyx file into latex, it compiles without any problem, and
creates the .dvi.

Does anyone has suggestions ?

Thanks in advance,

Mlanie Bouroche

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Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:58:41AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
 On Monday 24 November 2003 01:41, Nirmal Govind wrote:
   LyX: Cannot view file
  
   No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex).
 
  Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option ..
  you can do this by going to Edit - Preferences - File Formats
  (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the
  xforms frontend but should be something similar) and then select the
  PDF (pdflatex) option and define a viewer for it (xpdf or acroread
  or any other viewer that you use). And you may need to do the same
  for the other PDF options and for PS...
 No, you haven't installed xpdf. Install it and everything will work
 fine. BTW: can we consider this a bug in the lyx rpm? I mean should
 xpdf or any other viewer be a build require in the spec file? or
 should Mandrake install xpdf by default?

This is not a bug in the spec. LyX works without pdf just fine.
_Recommending_ a .pdf viewer is another thing, though...

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:35:33AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Sean wrote:
 
  How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/?
 
   Huh? I don't understand your problem. Here, the executable is in
 /usr/local/bin/ and, as long as X is running, I can bring it up in any
 desktop. Data can reside anywhere.
 
   What's not working for you?

It looks as if LyX on Apple has matured enough that we get Apple
sepcific questions without too much of a hint towards the used
platform. Not too mention a version number or such...

I find this rather amusing, though...

Andre'

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:41:01PM -0800, Not Pam Green wrote:
 I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
 source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three attempts
 gives me this message:
 
 
 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.501
  
 lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
 Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting
 instructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if
 necessary. Thanks ! Bye.
 Aborted (core dumped)
 
 
 It happens as root or as not. 
 
 I recently upgraded my system from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2. Under
 9.0 it worked perfectly, and I used it to write a novel. Now my novel is
 on hold because of this problem. Can anyone help? I like Lyx much better
 than Openoffice for writing...but I may have to switch if I can't find a
 resolution to this.

As a workaround: what about the xforms frontend. I don't think the
choice of frontends makes much difference when writing a novel, i.e.
mostly 'flat text' (structurally, I hope ;-))

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Johann Haarhoff]

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

[LyX-users] Re: LyX - Mailing lists

instead of just

Re: LyX - Mailing lists.

Most of the other mailing lists I subscribe to have this ability, and I
wonder if the administrator of this list would consider implementing
it.

Thank you

Johann

p.s. this was not supposed to sound like a rant (it kind of came out
that way), but rather like a feature request.

 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/11/2003 11:35:29 
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:35:33AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Sean wrote:
 
  How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/?
 
   Huh? I don't understand your problem. Here, the executable is in
 /usr/local/bin/ and, as long as X is running, I can bring it up in
any
 desktop. Data can reside anywhere.
 
   What's not working for you?

It looks as if LyX on Apple has matured enough that we get Apple
sepcific questions without too much of a hint towards the used
platform. Not too mention a version number or such...

I find this rather amusing, though...

Andre'

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Re: Large algorithm in LyX

[Helge Hafting]

Aleksandar Donev wrote:
Hello,

Please include [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies.

I am aware one cannot have multipage floats. I have a paper with lots of 
algorithms floating around, a couple of which happen to be longer then a 
page. I would like to continue to use the nice LyX algorithm float, but 
somehow do something special about the long ones. I have found some advice on 
the web, but I am not sure what the best way is. I would appreciate a pointer 
to what the best approach with LyX is.

The simple approach I used is to break the long algorithm into two
separate algoritm floats.  Call them algorithm (part 1) and so on.
Helge Hafting

Re: cannot export graphics

[Nirmal Govind]

I have just installed Lyx for win32  from Claus Hentschel, and I have a problem using graphics. Everything (viewing, converting) works fine as long as I do not insert graphics. If I insert a graphic and try to convert to PDF, I have a latex error latex error: file tmp_directory/picture_directory_filename I could not locate the file with any of these extensions .eps, .ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z. However, the picture is in the specified temporary folder. 
When I export the lyx file into latex, it compiles without any problem, and creates the .dvi.
Can you check if the Use temporary directory option in Edit - 
Preferences - Paths is checked? If so, you can try unchecking it so 
that things happen in your local directory.. maybe that'll help.. if 
this works then it's an alternative to the earlier suggestion of moving 
the graphics files to your local directory...

Btw, the Win32 port is by Ruurd Reitsma and Claus Hentschel's is 
what's called the Windows NT/9x port I believe.. if you're using LyX 
via cygwin then you're using the latter...

nirmal

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:06:41PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
 While on the topic of mailing lists.
 
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
 indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to read
mails on this list if people were not top-posting and full-quoting.

This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Andre'

clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. is there a way by which I can clear the entries in a table? i.e. 
preserve the number of rows, columns, formatting etc. but just delete 
the contents of each cell.. if not, is this in cvs by any chance?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

[Ladislav Mecir]

On Tuesday 25 of November 2003 10:29, Andre Poenitz wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:58:41AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
  On Monday 24 November 2003 01:41, Nirmal Govind wrote:
LyX: Cannot view file
   
No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex).
  
   Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option ..
   you can do this by going to Edit - Preferences - File Formats
   (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the
   xforms frontend but should be something similar) and then select the
   PDF (pdflatex) option and define a viewer for it (xpdf or acroread
   or any other viewer that you use). And you may need to do the same
   for the other PDF options and for PS...
 
  No, you haven't installed xpdf. Install it and everything will work
  fine. BTW: can we consider this a bug in the lyx rpm? I mean should
  xpdf or any other viewer be a build require in the spec file? or
  should Mandrake install xpdf by default?

 This is not a bug in the spec. LyX works without pdf just fine.
 _Recommending_ a .pdf viewer is another thing, though...

 Andre'

I know how to adjust the LyX using xforms GUI to properly show documents like 
CS_tutorial containing ISO 8859-2 (ISO Latin 2) characters.

Can you tell me how to do it in LyX using QT?

Thanks in advance

-Ladislav

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Johann Haarhoff]

Dude,

We have to use Novell's Groupwise mail client at work. It does not have
the capability to reply in the style I (and you) prefer. My extreme
apologies. I am not going to insert '' characters by hand for every
line I am replying to.

If you know of a way to make the Groupwise mail client (I am using
version 6.5) reply in the proper fashion please let me know.

Cheers,

Johann

 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/11/2003 12:54:23 
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:06:41PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
 While on the topic of mailing lists.
 
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give
an
 indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to read
mails on this list if people were not top-posting and full-quoting.

This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Tysdag 25. november 2003 11:06, skreiv Johann Haarhoff:
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
 indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

 [LyX-users] Re: LyX - Mailing lists

It would be superfluous information for me as I filter the messages on the 
To/CC:[EMAIL PROTECTED] into a separate folder as they arrive. Maybe 
this would be a good idea for you as well ? It would make the inbox easier to 
organize :).

If you are uncertain how to filter, have a look at this page:
http://www.groupsense.co.nz/howtofilter.html

Ingar

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
 We have to use Novell's Groupwise mail client at work. It does not have
 the capability to reply in the style I (and you) prefer.

So you are not able to use any kind of text editor to write your mails?

 My extreme apologies. I am not going to insert '' characters by
 hand for every line I am replying to.

Just removing the lines you are _not_ replying would already help.
I guess. In this case here there were six lines left...

 If you know of a way to make the Groupwise mail client (I am using
 version 6.5) reply in the proper fashion please let me know.

I've never used that but a quick look around the net indicates that this
is not worse than any web-based mail client (i.e. you have a big editing
field) and I've seen readable messages coming that way...

Never mind,
Andre'

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Angus Leeming]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give
 an indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.
 
 While on the topic of mailing lists.
 
 It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
 read mails on this list if people were not top-posting and
 full-quoting.
 
 This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Hi, Johann.

André is grumpy on the devel list too. Don't worry about it ;-)

The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
the From field.

Regards,

-- 
Angus

RE : cannot export graphics

[melanie . bouroche]

I moved the Lyx file to the same folder, tried to convert the files to eps level 2, 
and also tried without using a tmp directory and it still doesn't work. I succeeded to 
pine it down to the path of the file: when I try to export the lyx file to pdf for 
example, in the tex file the picture is designed with an absolute path 
(C:/cygwin/home/Melanie/Event). This way, I cannot compile it with latex, but if I 
change the picture path to a relative path, it works. 

But I still don't know what I am supposed to change so that it works directly from lyx 
!

Melanie



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Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote:
 Hi.. is there a way by which I can clear the entries in a table? i.e. 
 preserve the number of rows, columns, formatting etc. but just delete 
 the contents of each cell.. if not, is this in cvs by any chance?

Select everything with the mouse and press 'Del'.

Andre'

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

Select everything with the mouse and press 'Del'.
Yes, I did try that but it doesn't work here. Probably cos I use 
Debian-ppc on an iBook which has one delete key that's mapped to 
backspace and so no real way of getting a delete as in a PC... is there 
a way by which I can specify the commands in some ui file and have it 
appear as a menu option in Edit - Tabular?

nirmal

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

M-x delete-forward   should works as a substitute to a 'real' delete key
press.
Awesome!

I put this in the ui file too and it all works great!

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Karsten Heymann]

Hi, 

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:24:34 +
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
 the From field.

if you mean the From: field, that won't work (the mail I'm replying to right now
 
 Regards,
 
 -- 
 Angus
 

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:24:34PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
 André is grumpy on the devel list too.

But that's only because nobody else is.

 Don't worry about it ;-)

We have settled that matter in private mail already...

Andre'

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Karsten Heymann]

I'm sorry! Sylpheed has Send mapped to C-Return. That's bad :((

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:24:34 +
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
 the From field.

if you mean the From: field, that won't work (the mail I'm replying to
right now has From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Better filter by
something like

  List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

These headers (there are some more) are inserted by the list manager
software and so give you exactly the mails you want.

Karsten

PS: Now pressing C-Retuen ;-)

Re: RE : cannot export graphics

[Angus Leeming]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I moved the Lyx file to the same folder, tried to convert the files
 to eps level 2, and also tried without using a tmp directory and it
 still doesn't work. I succeeded to pine it down to the path of the
 file: when I try to export the lyx file to pdf for example, in the
 tex file the picture is designed with an absolute path
 (C:/cygwin/home/Melanie/Event). This way, I cannot compile it with
 latex, but if I change the picture path to a relative path, it
 works.
 
 But I still don't know what I am supposed to change so that it works
 directly from lyx !
 
 Melanie

This is the Win32 port?

There is some horrible nastiness in the code that appears to bite 
Win32 users. Others have reported similar problems. Trouble is, to 
fix things the right way I'd have to have access to a Win32 machine 
with compiler environment. And some spare time of course...

-- 
Angus

display of greek letters

[Martijn Brouwer]

Hi,
When I insert greek letters in a document they are not diplayed correctly. I do not 
get the symbol but the name of letter. So when I type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red 
instead of the symbol alpha. Latex output is OK, so I think it is related to my 
mathfont. Another user in my system does not have this problem, so the cause is 
somewhere in my configuration. Does somebody have a clue where I can look? I tried 
moving away my ~/.lyx/preferences, but that did not help.

Bye,

Martijn Brouwer

display of greek letters

[Martijn Brouwer]

Hi,
When I insert greek letters in a document they are not diplayed correctly. I do not 
get the symbol but the name of letter. So when I type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red 
instead of the symbol alpha. Latex output is OK, so I think it is related to my 
mathfont. Another user in my system does not have this problem, so the cause is 
somewhere in my configuration. Does somebody have a clue where I can look? I tried 
moving away my ~/.lyx/preferences, but that did not help.

Bye,

Martijn Brouwer

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Karsten Heymann wrote:

 if you mean the From: field, that won't work (the mail I'm replying to
 right now has From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Better filter by
 something like

   List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Karsten,

  I don't know if this would help you as I've not followed this thread from
its beginning, but in my procmail/recipes.rc file I have the following:

:0:
* ^TO_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LYX

  This has worked flawlessly for years.

Rich

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Matej Cepl]

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 How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/?
 Specifically, I want to stick it in a subdirectory
 /Applications/Productivity/.

Guys, could you please always indicate which operating system you
are using (especially when it is Mac or Windows)? For us, Linux
people, this is really confusing ...

Thanks,

Matej

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Re: display of greek letters

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:27:22PM +0100, Martijn Brouwer wrote:
 Hi, When I insert greek letters in a document they are not diplayed
 correctly. I do not get the symbol but the name of letter. So when I
 type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red instead of the symbol alpha. Latex
 output is OK, so I think it is related to my mathfont. Another user in
 my system does not have this problem, so the cause is somewhere in my
 configuration. Does somebody have a clue where I can look? I tried
 moving away my ~/.lyx/preferences, but that did not help.

This comes up repeatedly here. Have you checked the archives?

Andre'

Re: display of greek letters

[Angus Leeming]

Martijn Brouwer wrote:

 Hi,
 When I insert greek letters in a document they are not diplayed
 correctly. I do not get the symbol but the name of letter. So when I
 type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red instead of the symbol alpha. Latex
 output is OK, so I think it is related to my mathfont. Another user
 in my system does not have this problem, so the cause is somewhere
 in my configuration. Does somebody have a clue where I can look? I
 tried moving away my ~/.lyx/preferences, but that did not help.
 
 Bye,
 
 Martijn Brouwer

Hello Martin.

Did me previous posting on this matter to you not help?

Angus



Re: rendering greek letters in 1.3.3 qt
From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday 21 November 2003 11:18:42 am
Groups: gmane.editors.lyx.general
XRef: main.gmane.org gmane.editors.lyx.general:13065
References: 1

Martijn Brouwer wrote:

 Hi since I upgraded lyx to 1.3.3 qt, greek letters are not rendered
 anymore in LyX (latex output is OK). The symbols are displayed as
 ERT. An equation with a lot of \varepsilons becomes very unreadable.
 Can anybody shed some light on this? Am I missing some X11 fonts, is
 something else wrong or is this a bug? It is WYGIWYM, but not
 WYSIWYM :(.
 
 Martijn

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Qt

Re: EPS figure not showing in output

[Vaclav Smidl]

Hi,
Are you using draft option? This is what draft mode does.

Vasek


On Tuesday 25 November 2003 06:55, Jeremy Buchmann wrote:
 Hello all,

 I am using LyX 1.3.3qt and am having trouble with a figure I made in Dia.
 It is an EPS file and displays perfectly in LyX, but doesn't show up in
 the output (PostScript).  All I get is a frame where the figure should be
 and a pathname to /tmp/lyx_tmpdir...stuff.../_home_me_path_to_eps_file. I
 checked the LaTeX logfile, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
 I've included it below in case it helps.  As an experiment, I saved the
 figure as a PNG and loaded it into LyX, but I got the same problem.  I've
 scaled the image to a small size, but it still doesn't show up.  Any
 ideas?

 Thanks,
 Jeremy

Re: EPS figure not showing in output

[Jeremy Buchmann]

Ahh...that must be it.  I'll set it back to final when I get
home.

Thanks!
Jeremy


On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Vaclav Smidl wrote:

 Hi,
 Are you using draft option? This is what draft mode does.
 
 Vasek
 
 
 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 06:55, Jeremy Buchmann wrote:
  Hello all,
 
  I am using LyX 1.3.3qt and am having trouble with a figure I made in Dia.
  It is an EPS file and displays perfectly in LyX, but doesn't show up in
  the output (PostScript).  All I get is a frame where the figure should be
  and a pathname to /tmp/lyx_tmpdir...stuff.../_home_me_path_to_eps_file. I
  checked the LaTeX logfile, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
  I've included it below in case it helps.  As an experiment, I saved the
  figure as a PNG and loaded it into LyX, but I got the same problem.  I've
  scaled the image to a small size, but it still doesn't show up.  Any
  ideas?
 
  Thanks,
  Jeremy
 

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Nirmal Govind wrote:

  
  M-x delete-forward   should works as a substitute to a 'real' delete key
  press.
 
 Awesome!
 
 I put this in the ui file too and it all works great!

Or you could bind it to M-C-Del . ;-)

/Christian

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Tables with columns with the same width

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. Could 
somebody here please help me?

Thank you a lot in advance!

Paul

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Sean]

I think I've fixed it. I don't know who makes LyX/Mac, but whoever does 
should really rethink the design a little. I'll start by describing how 
I was able to make LyX.app run anywhere. I don't know if anything else 
was broken, but it will certainly launch, edit, and save documents. If 
it breaks anything, though, it could rightly be regarded as a bug in 
LyX, since I am only calling the app with an argument that should 
remove the directory dependence.

First, I changed the property stored in Lyx.app/Contents/Info.plist to 
point to a shell script (LyX.sh) instead of the original executable. To 
make this take effect, I had to reboot (I believe that unmounting and 
remounting the disk LyX.app is on is sufficient, but when that's the 
startup disk). Note that the shell script must be placed in 
LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/.

Now, for the contents of said shell script:

#! /bin/sh

exec `$0_pathmaker`

It turns out that the exec command is the key to making LyX responsive 
upon launch from a shell script. $0 gives the command name of the 
script (in this case, the full path), and I concatenate that with 
_pathmaker in order to run a C app I coded to put together the 
command for launching LyX using the path to the command as a basis. If 
I knew how to do that string manipulation in the shell script, that 
would be preferable. Nevertheless, here is the source code for 
LyX.sh_pathmaker:

#include stdio.h
#include string.h
#include stdlib.h
int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
  char * command;
  int L = strlen(argv[0]);
  command = (char *) malloc((2*L + 30)*sizeof(char));
  if (command != NULL) {
strncpy(command, argv[0], L - strlen(LyX.sh_pathmaker));
strcat(command, LyX -sysdir );
strncat(command, argv[0], L - strlen(MacOS/LyX.sh_pathmaker));
strcat(command, Resources/LyX/);
printf(command);
  }
  else {
printf(echo \Error allocating command buffer\n\);
  }
  free(command);
  return 0;
}
There are, of course, lots of optimizations that could be performed, 
but this is the most bulletproof and readable implementation I could 
come up with.

Ideally, though, the maker of LyX/Mac would combine the run anywhere 
functionality I've scraped together above in to the code of Start-LyX 
(applescript can do the string munging I've done in C, I'm sure), and 
incorporate Start-LyX in to the LyX.app bundle.

Oh, yeah, note that the above breaks Start-LyX because it too uses hard 
coded directories.

Sean
On Nov 24, 2003, at 12:52, Sean wrote:
How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/? 
Specifically, I want to stick it in a subdirectory 
/Applications/Productivity/. LyX, for some reason, has the path 
/Applications/ internally hard coded (you can check this with a hex 
editor - just search for the path). I can get it to run from the 
command line by launching it with an absolute path an giving it the 
argument -sysdir, but I can't figure out how to make it back in to a 
double-clickable app. I've tried moving the executable and replacing 
with either a shell script and a compiled c executable (both just 
running the command I would enter in the CLI), but LyX will launch 
frozen (even if a attach an  to the end of the command).

Is there any way to get LyX to be a double clickable, run anywhere 
app? In theory, this would entail some kind of script (shell or apple) 
that would figure out the full path of the program, and launch it with 
the appropriate arguments. Even better would be if the executable 
itself did this, but there may be some obscure technical reasons I'm 
unaware of why it cannot.

Sean

Re: Converting latex to lyx with Lyx 1.3.x

[Frank Chu]

Thanks, Andres,

I just found a solution.  It maybe helpful to document it.  So, feel free to 
document it somewhere.

There is a proposed solution at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg29976.html
But there is an error there:

LYXDIR\lyx2lyx.bat foo.lyx  temp.lyx
should be==
LYXDIR\lyx2lyx foo.lyx  temp.lyx
After making the changes as described there, I am not sure if it solves the 
problem for all the systems.  For me, it needs a bit more work.  Basically I 
found a way manually convert latex to lyx with the native win32 lyx.  It 
takes two steps, in addition to the changes described in that link: 
(assuming your LYXDIR\bin is on PATH)

1. Convert Latex file to lyx file:

perl LYXDIR\bin\relyx xxx

Note: the latex filename is xxx.tex, above automatically produces xxx.lyx

for help:
perl LYXDIR\bin\relyx -h
Such an xxx.lyx file cannot be used yet, one should:

2. Convert Lyx accross different Lyx versions:

python -S LYXDIR\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx -o yyy.lyx xxx.lyx

Such a xxx.lyx file should be unix format (No need to change Enter key
to DOS format)
one can also add -t 1.3 -f 1.1.6
From ver1.1.6 to ver1.3  (I guess)  For detail look at the python script
LYXDIR\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx

For help:
python -S LYXDIR\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx -h
(For Win98, to get more space for env var, one may need to add one line in
config.sys: shell=C:\WINDOWS\command.com C:\WINDOWS /e:4096 /p)
Frank

From: Andres Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Frank Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Converting latex to lyx with Lyx 1.3.x
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:26:40 -0500
Hello,

The conversion from latex to lyx is complex, and the process has no 
guarantees to work perfectly.If the latex file is simple the conversion 
works, if it has lots of stuff it may fail.

Maybe you can split the latex document in order to convert the chunks 
partially.

If you want, you can send me the file to convert, I can't promess nothing, 
anyway :-)

Andres.

En Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:22:29 -0600, Frank Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
escribió:

Andres wrote:
Do you still have problems with lyx? What problems?
It seems I can guess some reasons: is it the problem of the conversion 
script in lyx 1.3.x ?  Just now I happened to use a Unix version of Lyx 
(but 1.3.x) and it can't convert my latex file to lyx file right (however 
lyx 1.1.6fixed does very good job -- never had a problem).  Do you know 
any compatibility problem in lyx version control, etc. ?  Sorry for my 
ignorance. Thanks!

Frank


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Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Not Pam Green]

Excuse the repetition - is this getting through to the list? Any ideas
about where else I might find help? 

Thanks


On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:41:01 -0800
Not Pam Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
 source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three attempts
 gives me this message:
 
 
 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.501
  
 lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
 Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting
 instructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if
 necessary. Thanks ! Bye.
 Aborted (core dumped)
 
 
 It happens as root or as not. 
 
 I recently upgraded my system from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2. Under
 9.0 it worked perfectly, and I used it to write a novel. Now my novel
 is on hold because of this problem. Can anyone help? I like Lyx much
 better than Openoffice for writing...but I may have to switch if I
 can't find a resolution to this.
 
 Thanks,
 Reuben
 

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Not Pam Green wrote:

 Excuse the repetition - is this getting through to the list?

Reuben,

  Yup.

 I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
 source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three attempts
 gives me this message:

 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.501

  Can we assume that you checked and confirmed that libgl.so.* exists? I
don't have such a library (and haven't seen a library numbered like that) on
my Red Hat 7.3 system.

 I recently upgraded my system from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2. Under
 9.0 it worked perfectly, and I used it to write a novel.

  Well, then. It's probably a Mandrake problem. I seem to recall reading
either on my local LUG mail list or some application-related mail lists,
that folks have found problems with mdk-9.2. I'd check that out first. I run
Slackware and a couple of legacy Red Hat systems so I know nothing about
Mandrake.

HTH,

Rich

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Re: Tables with columns with the same width

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:09:48PM +, Paul Smith wrote:
 Dear All
 
 I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width.
 Could somebody here please help me?

Column widths are set by using the right mouse button over any one you
wish to fix. A dialog will appear, with the width option near the
bottom. Be sure you hit the enter key after entering the number, so the
change takes place...

I don't know how to do it to all columns at once.  Sorry.  :(


Kenward
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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Ronald Florence]

Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I think I've fixed it. I don't know who makes LyX/Mac, but whoever
 does should really rethink the design a little. 

I'm not sure what was broken.  Early on Jean-Marc and I played with
an idea similar to yours for LyX/Mac.  Aside from being ugly, your
hack breaks Start-LyX, reLyX, noweb2lyx, and lyxeditor (which is used
for reverse DVI search with xdvi or MacDviX).  It may also break
starting LyX from the command line for batch processing and debugging.
I suppose with enough hacking you get get some of those features to
work, but in the process you would compromise the simple and reliable
installation, and lack of ugly hacks, that makes LyX/Mac appealing to
many Mac users.

As I noted earlier, if you have some compulsion to move LyX to a
different directory, you can make an alias anywhere you want.  The LyX
alias will function with all of the features your hack breaks.
-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Re: Tables with columns with the same width

[Nirmal Govind]

I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. Could 
somebody here please help me?
You can do this by setting the width of each column to be a percentage 
of the entire table width. So if you had 4 columns, then you can set 
each column's width to 25%..  To do this - with the cursor somewhere in 
a column, right click on the the column and in the box that pops up, put 
in 25 in the width box and select col% from the drop down menu to the 
right (I think it's col% that you want but you can play around with the 
other % options too to see what works best).. repeat for each column... 
not sure if there's a way to do this for all columns at one go - 
selecting all columns and doing the above doesn't seem to work...

nirmal

RE : cannot export graphics

[EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick]

What's happen if you move the LyX document to the same folder than the
graphics ? Anyelse, you can try to convert your files to EPS Level 2 with
this command : convert file.eps eps2:file.eps.

-Message d'origine-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Envoyé : lundi 24 novembre 2003 20:03
À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet : cannot export graphics


Hi,

I have just installed Lyx for win32  from Claus Hentschel, and I have a
problem using graphics. Everything (viewing, converting) works fine as long
as I do not insert graphics. If I insert a graphic and try to convert to
PDF, I have a latex error "latex error: file
tmp_directory/picture_directory_filename I could not locate the file with
any of these extensions .eps, .ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z". However, the
picture is in the specified temporary folder. 
When I export the lyx file into latex, it compiles without any problem, and
creates the .dvi.

Does anyone has suggestions ?

Thanks in advance,

Mélanie Bouroche

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Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:58:41AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2003 01:41, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> > > LyX: Cannot view file
> > >
> > > No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex).
> >
> > Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option ..
> > you can do this by going to Edit -> Preferences -> File Formats
> > (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the
> > xforms frontend but should be something similar) and then select the
> > PDF (pdflatex) option and define a viewer for it (xpdf or acroread
> > or any other viewer that you use). And you may need to do the same
> > for the other PDF options and for PS...
> No, you haven't installed xpdf. Install it and everything will work
> fine. BTW: can we consider this a bug in the lyx rpm? I mean should
> xpdf or any other viewer be a build require in the spec file? or
> should Mandrake install xpdf by default?

This is not a bug in the spec. LyX works without pdf just fine.
_Recommending_ a .pdf viewer is another thing, though...

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:35:33AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Sean wrote:
> 
> > How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/?
> 
>   Huh? I don't understand your problem. Here, the executable is in
> /usr/local/bin/ and, as long as X is running, I can bring it up in any
> desktop. Data can reside anywhere.
> 
>   What's not working for you?

It looks as if LyX on Apple has matured enough that we get Apple
sepcific questions without too much of a hint towards the used
platform. Not too mention a version number or such...

I find this rather amusing, though...

Andre'

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:41:01PM -0800, Not Pam Green wrote:
> I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
> source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three attempts
> gives me this message:
> 
> 
> Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.501
>  
> lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
> Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting
> instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if
> necessary. Thanks ! Bye.
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> 
> It happens as root or as not. 
> 
> I recently upgraded my system from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2. Under
> 9.0 it worked perfectly, and I used it to write a novel. Now my novel is
> on hold because of this problem. Can anyone help? I like Lyx much better
> than Openoffice for writing...but I may have to switch if I can't find a
> resolution to this.

As a workaround: what about the xforms frontend. I don't think the
choice of frontends makes much difference when writing a novel, i.e.
mostly 'flat text' (structurally, I hope ;-))

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Johann Haarhoff]

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

[LyX-users] Re: LyX - Mailing lists

instead of just

Re: LyX - Mailing lists.

Most of the other mailing lists I subscribe to have this ability, and I
wonder if the administrator of this list would consider implementing
it.

Thank you

Johann

p.s. this was not supposed to sound like a rant (it kind of came out
that way), but rather like a feature request.

>>> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25/11/2003 11:35:29 >>>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:35:33AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Sean wrote:
> 
> > How do I get LyX to work in a directory besides /Applications/?
> 
>   Huh? I don't understand your problem. Here, the executable is in
> /usr/local/bin/ and, as long as X is running, I can bring it up in
any
> desktop. Data can reside anywhere.
> 
>   What's not working for you?

It looks as if LyX on Apple has matured enough that we get Apple
sepcific questions without too much of a hint towards the used
platform. Not too mention a version number or such...

I find this rather amusing, though...

Andre'

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Re: Large algorithm in LyX

[Helge Hafting]

Aleksandar Donev wrote:
Hello,

Please include [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies.

I am aware one cannot have multipage floats. I have a paper with lots of 
algorithms floating around, a couple of which happen to be longer then a 
page. I would like to continue to use the nice LyX algorithm float, but 
somehow do something special about the long ones. I have found some advice on 
the web, but I am not sure what the best way is. I would appreciate a pointer 
to what the best approach with LyX is.

The simple approach I used is to break the long algorithm into two
separate algoritm floats.  Call them algorithm (part 1) and so on.
Helge Hafting

Re: cannot export graphics

[Nirmal Govind]

I have just installed Lyx for win32  from Claus Hentschel, and I have a problem using graphics. Everything (viewing, converting) works fine as long as I do not insert graphics. If I insert a graphic and try to convert to PDF, I have a latex error "latex error: file tmp_directory/picture_directory_filename I could not locate the file with any of these extensions .eps, .ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z". However, the picture is in the specified temporary folder. 
When I export the lyx file into latex, it compiles without any problem, and creates the .dvi.
Can you check if the "Use temporary directory" option in Edit -> 
Preferences -> Paths is checked? If so, you can try unchecking it so 
that things happen in your local directory.. maybe that'll help.. if 
this works then it's an alternative to the earlier suggestion of moving 
the graphics files to your local directory...

Btw, the "Win32" port is by Ruurd Reitsma and Claus Hentschel's is 
what's called the "Windows NT/9x" port I believe.. if you're using LyX 
via cygwin then you're using the latter...

nirmal

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:06:41PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
> While on the topic of mailing lists.
> 
> It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
> organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
> indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to read
mails on this list if people were not top-posting and full-quoting.

This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Andre'

clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. is there a way by which I can clear the entries in a table? i.e. 
preserve the number of rows, columns, formatting etc. but just delete 
the contents of each cell.. if not, is this in cvs by any chance?

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

[Ladislav Mecir]

On Tuesday 25 of November 2003 10:29, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:58:41AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > On Monday 24 November 2003 01:41, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> > > > LyX: Cannot view file
> > > >
> > > > No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex).
> > >
> > > Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option ..
> > > you can do this by going to Edit -> Preferences -> File Formats
> > > (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the
> > > xforms frontend but should be something similar) and then select the
> > > PDF (pdflatex) option and define a viewer for it (xpdf or acroread
> > > or any other viewer that you use). And you may need to do the same
> > > for the other PDF options and for PS...
> >
> > No, you haven't installed xpdf. Install it and everything will work
> > fine. BTW: can we consider this a bug in the lyx rpm? I mean should
> > xpdf or any other viewer be a build require in the spec file? or
> > should Mandrake install xpdf by default?
>
> This is not a bug in the spec. LyX works without pdf just fine.
> _Recommending_ a .pdf viewer is another thing, though...
>
> Andre'

I know how to adjust the LyX using xforms GUI to properly show documents like 
CS_tutorial containing ISO 8859-2 (ISO Latin 2) characters.

Can you tell me how to do it in LyX using QT?

Thanks in advance

-Ladislav

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Johann Haarhoff]

Dude,

We have to use Novell's Groupwise mail client at work. It does not have
the capability to reply in the style I (and you) prefer. My extreme
apologies. I am not going to insert '>' characters by hand for every
line I am replying to.

If you know of a way to make the Groupwise mail client (I am using
version 6.5) reply in the proper fashion please let me know.

Cheers,

Johann

>>> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25/11/2003 12:54:23 >>>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:06:41PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
> While on the topic of mailing lists.
> 
> It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
> organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give
an
> indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

While on the topic of mailing lists.

It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to read
mails on this list if people were not top-posting and full-quoting.

This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Andre'

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Tysdag 25. november 2003 11:06, skreiv Johann Haarhoff:
> It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
> organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
> indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.
>
> [LyX-users] Re: LyX - Mailing lists

It would be superfluous information for me as I filter the messages on the 
To/CC:[EMAIL PROTECTED] into a separate folder as they arrive. Maybe 
this would be a good idea for you as well ? It would make the inbox easier to 
organize :).

If you are uncertain how to filter, have a look at this page:
http://www.groupsense.co.nz/howtofilter.html

Ingar

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Johann Haarhoff wrote:
> We have to use Novell's Groupwise mail client at work. It does not have
> the capability to reply in the style I (and you) prefer.

So you are not able to use any kind of text editor to write your mails?

> My extreme apologies. I am not going to insert '>' characters by
> hand for every line I am replying to.

Just removing the lines you are _not_ replying would already help.
I guess. In this case here there were six lines left...

> If you know of a way to make the Groupwise mail client (I am using
> version 6.5) reply in the proper fashion please let me know.

I've never used that but a quick look around the net indicates that this
is not worse than any web-based mail client (i.e. you have a big editing
field) and I've seen readable messages coming that way...

Never mind,
Andre'

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Angus Leeming]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
>> It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
>> organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give
>> an indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.
> 
> While on the topic of mailing lists.
> 
> It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
> read mails on this list if people were not top-posting and
> full-quoting.
> 
> This, obviously, is a rant and no feature request ;-)

Hi, Johann.

André is grumpy on the devel list too. Don't worry about it ;-)

The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
the "From" field.

Regards,

-- 
Angus

RE : cannot export graphics

[melanie . bouroche]

I moved the Lyx file to the same folder, tried to convert the files to eps level 2, 
and also tried without using a tmp directory and it still doesn't work. I succeeded to 
pine it down to the path of the file: when I try to export the lyx file to pdf for 
example, in the tex file the picture is designed with an absolute path 
(C:/cygwin/home/Melanie/Event). This way, I cannot compile it with latex, but if I 
change the picture path to a relative path, it works. 

But I still don't know what I am supposed to change so that it works directly from lyx 
!

Melanie



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Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> Hi.. is there a way by which I can clear the entries in a table? i.e. 
> preserve the number of rows, columns, formatting etc. but just delete 
> the contents of each cell.. if not, is this in cvs by any chance?

Select everything with the mouse and press 'Del'.

Andre'

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

Select everything with the mouse and press 'Del'.
Yes, I did try that but it doesn't work here. Probably cos I use 
Debian-ppc on an iBook which has one "delete" key that's mapped to 
backspace and so no real way of getting a delete as in a PC... is there 
a way by which I can specify the commands in some ui file and have it 
appear as a menu option in Edit -> Tabular?

nirmal

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

[Nirmal Govind]

M-x delete-forward   should works as a substitute to a 'real' delete key
press.
Awesome!

I put this in the ui file too and it all works great!

Thanks,
nirmal

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Karsten Heymann]

Hi, 

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:24:34 +
"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
> the "From" field.

if you mean the "From:" field, that won't work (the mail I'm replying to right now
 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Angus
> 

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:24:34PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
> André is grumpy on the devel list too.

But that's only because nobody else is.

> Don't worry about it ;-)

We have settled that matter in private mail already...

Andre'

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Karsten Heymann]

I'm sorry! Sylpheed has Send mapped to C-Return. That's bad :((

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:24:34 +
"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The mailing lists are unlikely to change. You could instead filter on 
> the "From" field.

if you mean the "From:" field, that won't work (the mail I'm replying to
right now has From: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). Better filter by
something like

  List-Post: 

These headers (there are some more) are inserted by the list manager
software and so give you exactly the mails you want.

Karsten

PS: Now pressing C-Retuen ;-)

Re: RE : cannot export graphics

[Angus Leeming]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I moved the Lyx file to the same folder, tried to convert the files
> to eps level 2, and also tried without using a tmp directory and it
> still doesn't work. I succeeded to pine it down to the path of the
> file: when I try to export the lyx file to pdf for example, in the
> tex file the picture is designed with an absolute path
> (C:/cygwin/home/Melanie/Event). This way, I cannot compile it with
> latex, but if I change the picture path to a relative path, it
> works.
> 
> But I still don't know what I am supposed to change so that it works
> directly from lyx !
> 
> Melanie

This is the Win32 port?

There is some horrible nastiness in the code that appears to bite 
Win32 users. Others have reported similar problems. Trouble is, to 
fix things "the right way" I'd have to have access to a Win32 machine 
with compiler environment. And some spare time of course...

-- 
Angus