lyx2lyx

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise

Sincerely,
Jose Capco



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updating dvi's and using package

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.

And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm ...etc. and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
Thanks in advance

Sincerely,
Jose Capco





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Re: lyx2lyx

[Sven Schreiber]

Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise
At least I don't know of any other way to make it work. But given that 
it's supposed to work according to Ruurd's page, I may simply have 
missed the workaround/fix. Maybe somebody else knows.

-sven

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

[Sven Schreiber]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
- I can view .jpg and .ppm images inside LyX
- I can not view .eps or .pdf images inside LyX
- I can view the DVI, PDF(pdflatex)and Postscript outputs fine (but not
the PDF (dvipdfm) output)
I can run convert from the command line (convert eps:c:\aulogo.eps
ppm:c:\test.ppm), and was able to convert the .eps image that LyX was
having trouble with to a .ppm

OK, the instalation seems to be fine.
Any more ideas on what might be wrong??

Maybe your problem is already solved, but if not, did you make sure that 
lyx is calling the imagemagick-convert instead of the 
windows-filesystem-convert?

How to pronounce LyX?

[V.Yumashev]

Hi,

I am quite satisfied with LyX.
But how shall I pronounce LyX ([liks] or [lik] or ...)?

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Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

[nburgan]

Hi Uwe,

Thanks again for your reply. I'm still having a few problems. On the
weekend (using Image Magick version 6.1.9) I turned my computer on,
started LyX and everything worked fine - I could view .eps and .eps files
within LyX. I turned my computer off though and came back a few hours
later and it wasn't working again - very strange !

To try and fix the problem I tried a different version of Ghostscript. I
tried GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (this was recommended on the Image Magick
website). However now I can't get Image Magick to work properly. If I try
to view .eps or .pdf images using Image Magick's Display program I get an
error. I get the same error using covert from the command line;

C:\Documents\graphicsconvert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.

Obviously I need to sort out Image Magick before worrying about LyX.

I tried to unintsall Image Magick (via Add/Remove programs) and reinstall
it several times but it didn't help. I also tried a slightly older version
of Image Magick but they are all giving me the same problem.

I think that maybe changing my Ghostscript version has messed Image Magick
up. Even when I uninstall Image Magick I can still find references to it
in the registry. I think that Image Magick may be trying to use the
version of Ghostscript that I no longer have installed.

I want to get rid of Image Magick (and possibly Ghostscript) completely so
that I can start afresh and install the versions which you are using
successfully together.

Any ideas ??

Maybe I will send a more general email to the list about Image Magick on
Windows 2000

Thanks again in advance
Nick Burgan

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I was originally using Image Magick 6.0.2 (I think). I upgraded it to
 6.1.9 but I am still having the same problem!

 I am using AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and LyXWin 1.3.5 win32 nc.

 Hmm I'm using these versions too, but without problems.

 - I can view .jpg and .ppm images inside LyX
 - I can not view .eps or .pdf images inside LyX

 - I can view the DVI, PDF(pdflatex)and Postscript outputs fine (but not
 the PDF (dvipdfm) output)

 I can run convert from the command line (convert eps:c:\aulogo.eps
 ppm:c:\test.ppm), and was able to convert the .eps image that LyX was
 having trouble with to a .ppm

 OK, the instalation seems to be fine.

 Any more ideas on what might be wrong??

 - assure that the installation folder of LyX and all files and
 subfolders have full permissions for everybody

 - assure that you don't use self defined convertes in the menu Edit -
 Preferences. (There should be only nine converters defined.) The
 converter EPS - PDF should use the command

 epstopdf --outfile=$$o $$i

 If this doesn't help, I have no idea what is going wrong.

 regards Uwe

Re: Image Magick on Windows 2000

[nburgan]

Hello All,

I'm having some trouble with Image Magick on Windows 2000.

To be able to view .eps and .pdf within LyX I need to get Image Magick
working.

I was using Image Magick version 6.1.9
(ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe) and AFPL Ghostscript 8.50. After
some fiddling around I was able to view .eps/.pdf images withing LyX on
one occasion but I came back to my computer a few hours later, turned it
on again and I could no longer view .eps/.pdf within LyX. I thought there
might be a conflict between I.M. and Ghostscript so to try and fix the
problem I removed AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and installed GNU Ghostscript7.05
(this version is recommended on the Image Magick website).

However now I'm having trouble with Image Magick. I can no longer view
.eps or .pdf files using Image Magick Display. I also get the same error
trying to use convert from the command line e.g.

C:\Documents\graphicsconvert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.

I have uninstalled Image Magick (via Add/Remove programs) and tried to
reinstall it several times but I still get the same error. I have also
tried a slightly older version. When I have uninstalled Image Magick I can
still find references to it in the registry. I think Image Magick may be
trying to call the version of Ghostscript that I no longer have installed.

Does anyone have any tips on getting Image Magick working?

Or on how I can get rid of it (and possible Ghostscript) completely so
that I can install them afresh?

Thanks in advance
Nick Burgan

Re: How to pronounce LyX?

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

V.Yumashev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| Hi,

| I am quite satisfied with LyX.
| But how shall I pronounce LyX ([liks] or [lik] or ...)?

We have been down this road before... once I even created a sound file
to explain how I pronounced it. But people (esp. american) could not
hear the difference between my 'y' sound and 'ee'. :-)

(my 'y' sound is almost like 'ee' but a bit more closed and a bit
further back in the mouth...)

But I don't have the right to declare how LyX should be pronounced
anyway. Find something you are comfortable with and use that.

-- 
Lgb

Re: lyx2lyx

[ocw]

I have the same problem also. I import the latex file but it says lyx2lyx is 
not recognized as a command and not operable. My path has included the path 
to the python.exe that comes with lyx. Can someone please help and point me 
in the right direction. Thanks.

- Original Message - 
From: Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jose Capco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: lyx2lyx


Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise
At least I don't know of any other way to make it work. But given that 
it's supposed to work according to Ruurd's page, I may simply have 
missed the workaround/fix. Maybe somebody else knows.

-sven
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Re: lyx2lyx

[Sven Schreiber]

ocw wrote:
I have the same problem also. I import the latex file but it says 
lyx2lyx is not recognized as a command and not operable. My path has 
included the path to the python.exe that comes with lyx. Can someone 
please help and point me in the right direction. Thanks.

That's a different issue; windows cannot associate files w/o extension 
(like lyx2lyx) to certain apps. You would have to run python on lyx2lyx 
explicitly (from the command line). Then the other problem sets in and 
you need a full python install... or maybe it doesn't for you? That 
would be interesting.

lyx2lyx

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Ok I think I narrowed down the problem. The Ruurd's
installation needed (in order for the 1.4 version of
lyx2lyx to work)

zlib.pyd which is in the dll directory 
and
something in the Lib directory (I just copied the
whole Lib of python directory into the lib of the
lyx/bin directory).

I couldn't figure out what exactly was missing (I
don't program in python), and I have spent half my day
on it already. I suggest Angus or someone from the
developers team to put up a zip file containing these
files if it's not much of trouble.

The lyx2lyx did the job... but my 1.3.5 lyx still
thinks that the lyx is a new one, and I don't think I
see much changes as compared to when I opened it
before lyx2lyxing.

Sincerely,
Jose Capco



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Adding Figure To Book Title Page

[Rich Shepard]

  I am not having success adding the cover figure to the title page of my
book. Placing the cursor at the end of the title and pressing ctrl-enter,
then inserting the figure (centered) displays it on the obverse of the title
page.
  Is there a way to do this?
Thanks,
Rich
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Shrinking Page Count

[Rich Shepard]

   What could possibly cause pdflatex output to decrease from 288 pages to
280 pages when the content has not been changed? The page size is custom
(6.128x9.25 inches). When I first produced pdflatex output the total page
count was 288. I made a couple of typographical corrections and the count is
down to 280. I'm completely puzzled.
TIA,
Rich
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Re: Shrinking Page Count

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 07 February 2005 11:51 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
 What could possibly cause pdflatex output to decrease from 288 pages to
 280 pages when the content has not been changed? The page size is custom
 (6.128x9.25 inches). When I first produced pdflatex output the total page
 count was 288. I made a couple of typographical corrections and the count
 is down to 280. I'm completely puzzled.

 TIA,

 Rich

My first question is this -- is it just pdflatex, or is it any rendering 
method? Second question -- does your table of contents agree with actual 
content? Third question -- using your table of contents, can you discern 
something that's been left out. Fourth question -- have your fonts or margins 
changed?

If it's all rendering methods, the TOC agrees with the content, and nothing's 
been left out, and your font/margins are unchanged, perhaps it's the 
stoplight phenominon.

Here in Orlando, their response to every traffic problem is to add a new 
stoplight. None are timed. If you catch a redlight, you often see the light 
ahead of that one go green, and then red. Same at the next one. I've seen 
cases where missing a redlight caused me to miss the next six. It was just 
the wrong redlight at the wrong time.

If you think of every float as a redlight, maybe the tiny copyedit caused you 
to miss a page, and everything cascaded. One would think the cascade would be 
stopped at the first chapter boundary, but if you have several copy edits in 
several chapters, it's conceivable that it could make the difference. In your 
case I guess you hit a strategic greenlight :-)

The hypothesis in the preceding page could be tested by creating a copy of 
the .lyx file, backing out your copy edits, and seeing if it went back up to 
288.

STeveT

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Re: Shrinking Page Count -- FIXED

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Steve Litt wrote:
My first question is this -- is it just pdflatex, or is it any rendering
method? Second question -- does your table of contents agree with actual
content? Third question -- using your table of contents, can you discern
something that's been left out. Fourth question -- have your fonts or
margins changed?
Steve,
  I've used only pdflatex each time with the shortcut of ctrl-h. Otherwise,
the only changes were a one-letter typo correction and adding a space
between paragraphs, all in the Preface. The file size went from 1,430,xxx to
1,404,xxx bytes.
  Rats! Found it, thank you. The bibliograph is not being generated! After
submitting all the files I changed the directory name. So, the bibliography
could not be found (book.bib) because the path had changed.
  I hadn't noticed this. I'm glad you got me looking at details again.
Thanks,
Rich
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Re: updating dvi's and using package

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.
This happens to me when I open a LyX file by double-clicking the 
document icon.  It does not happen if I open the document using the LyX 
file open command, nor if I open a command window in the directory 
containing the document and start LyX with lyx document -userdir my 
user directory.

I can identify the problem, but not the cure.  If I open a file named 
test.lyx, located in C:\dir1\dir2, either via the file open command or 
from a command prompt, in the LyX temp directory the temporary files are 
named test.tex, test.dvi etc.  If I open the same file by double 
clicking the icon, the temporary files are named _dir1_dir2_test.tex, 
_dir1_dir2_test.dvi, etc.  The path information embedded in the file 
names seems to be throwing off LyX when it does a View-Update; I'm 
guessing that it looks for test.dvi rather than _dir1_dir2_test.dvi.

The only work-around I can see is to avoid double-clicking file icons.
And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm ...etc.
I highly recommend Herbert Voss's math-mode guide 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/).

-- Paul
and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
Thanks in advance
Sincerely,
Jose Capco

Re: updating dvi's and using package

[Uwe Stöhr]

Jose Capco wrote:
Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.
No, it works fine. Press Ctrl-d to open the dvi and the dvi-viewer. If 
you changed your text, press Ctrl-d again for a new dvi-viewer window 
with the actualized dvi, or better, press Ctrl-Shift-d to see the 
updated dvi in the same dvi-viewer window.
(This doesn't always work if you change an image inside LyX if you meant 
that.)

And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm
The package amsthm is preinstalled on every LaTeX-distribution, so take 
a look at its documentation. To use package with LyX, use the command

\usepackage[options]{package-name}
in the preamble.
But as you can read in the official LaTeX-package catalogue:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amsthm.html
amsthm is part of all AMS-classes like amsbook.
You only need this package, if you want to use its theorem-style in 
other document classes.

 ...etc. and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
I don't understand you. You request for the theorem style of the 
amsthm-package, but don't like its style. So don't use it, if you don't 
like it.
Another possibility for own theorem styles is to use the package ntheorem.

regards Uwe
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Re: Image Magick on Windows 2000

[Uwe Stöhr]

nburgan mecheng wrote:
To be able to view .eps and .pdf within LyX I need to get Image Magick
working.
I was using Image Magick version 6.1.9
(ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe) and AFPL Ghostscript 8.50. After
some fiddling around I was able to view .eps/.pdf images withing LyX on
one occasion but I came back to my computer a few hours later, turned it
on again and I could no longer view .eps/.pdf within LyX.
As Windows user you should better restart Windows in such cases before 
become panic and before re/installing programs.

I thought there
might be a conflict between I.M. and Ghostscript so to try and fix the
problem I removed AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and installed GNU Ghostscript7.05
No,no,no,no,no! Don't play around without concept! I tested ghostscript 
8.50 and Imagemagick 6.1.9 on several machines (Win200 and XP) with 
success. I can only help you, when you follow my advices.

But OK, let's restart the whole thing:
1. deinstall ghostscript 7.05 AND Imagemagick
2. install ghostscript 8.50 (as admin!)
3. install Imagemagick 6.1.9 (ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe)
4. restart your computer
5. reconfigure LyX
6. restart LyX
7. try to insert an pdf/eps-image
if an error occured again but you are able to see png/jpg/gif-images 
inside LyX, then:

8. assure that all LyX-folders have write permissions for everybody
9. start LyX from the command line with the command:
lyx -dbg 3
10. try again to load an /pdf/eps-image and look what happens in the 
console window
10. send the output of the console window together with the path to the 
file convert.exe (the Imagemagick installation folder) to the list.

 GNU Ghostscript 7.05
 (this version is recommended on the Image Magick website).
Where did you found this?
C:\Documents\graphicsconvert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.
As I wrote you in one of the previous emails, the actual Imagemagick has 
problems to work with older ghostscript versions (only on windows).

Uwe

Re: layout for a PhD thesis

[Fernando Perez]

Paolo Valente wrote:

 Hi everybody,
 I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis.
 Could someone suggest me a nice layout including
 chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments?
 
 Thanks,
 Paolo Valente

U. Colorado has a thesis style with lyx support, since one of the lyx
developers was a CU grad student.

Best,

f

LyX stopped working after computer upgrade

[Stefano Franchi]

H all,
	I recently upgraded my system to a new PowerBook and had to reinstall 
LyX,  TeX and all the other packages I use, including Jurabib. 
Unfortunately, I am no longer able to compile a file that gave me no 
problems before. LyX chokes on every bibtex reference. For each  
reference it gives me two errors of the following kind:

First error:
You can't use `\relax' after \the.
\bibitem{Wedin1997}
Second error:
Undefined control sequence.
 \bibitem{Wedin1997}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

LyX is capable of producing a pdf file --errors notwithstanding-- but 
all the references are missing.
I tried  to remove the references and the problems disappeared. But of 
course I need them...

I suppose there must be some configuration problem, but haven't been 
able to track it down yet.
I am using LyX/Mac-Qt with TeX installed with Fink. The bibliography is 
managed by Jurabib.

Suggestions are most welcome...
Best,
Stefano

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lyx2lyx

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise

Sincerely,
Jose Capco



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updating dvi's and using package

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.

And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm ...etc. and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
Thanks in advance

Sincerely,
Jose Capco





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Re: lyx2lyx

[Sven Schreiber]

Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise
At least I don't know of any other way to make it work. But given that 
it's supposed to work according to Ruurd's page, I may simply have 
missed the workaround/fix. Maybe somebody else knows.

-sven

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

[Sven Schreiber]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
- I can view .jpg and .ppm images inside LyX
- I can not view .eps or .pdf images inside LyX
- I can view the DVI, PDF(pdflatex)and Postscript outputs fine (but not
the PDF (dvipdfm) output)
I can run convert from the command line (convert eps:c:\aulogo.eps
ppm:c:\test.ppm), and was able to convert the .eps image that LyX was
having trouble with to a .ppm

OK, the instalation seems to be fine.
Any more ideas on what might be wrong??

Maybe your problem is already solved, but if not, did you make sure that 
lyx is calling the imagemagick-convert instead of the 
windows-filesystem-convert?

How to pronounce LyX?

[V.Yumashev]

Hi,

I am quite satisfied with LyX.
But how shall I pronounce LyX ([liks] or [lik] or ...)?

-- 
Best regards,
 V.Yumashev  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

[nburgan]

Hi Uwe,

Thanks again for your reply. I'm still having a few problems. On the
weekend (using Image Magick version 6.1.9) I turned my computer on,
started LyX and everything worked fine - I could view .eps and .eps files
within LyX. I turned my computer off though and came back a few hours
later and it wasn't working again - very strange !

To try and fix the problem I tried a different version of Ghostscript. I
tried GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (this was recommended on the Image Magick
website). However now I can't get Image Magick to work properly. If I try
to view .eps or .pdf images using Image Magick's Display program I get an
error. I get the same error using covert from the command line;

C:\Documents\graphicsconvert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.

Obviously I need to sort out Image Magick before worrying about LyX.

I tried to unintsall Image Magick (via Add/Remove programs) and reinstall
it several times but it didn't help. I also tried a slightly older version
of Image Magick but they are all giving me the same problem.

I think that maybe changing my Ghostscript version has messed Image Magick
up. Even when I uninstall Image Magick I can still find references to it
in the registry. I think that Image Magick may be trying to use the
version of Ghostscript that I no longer have installed.

I want to get rid of Image Magick (and possibly Ghostscript) completely so
that I can start afresh and install the versions which you are using
successfully together.

Any ideas ??

Maybe I will send a more general email to the list about Image Magick on
Windows 2000

Thanks again in advance
Nick Burgan

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I was originally using Image Magick 6.0.2 (I think). I upgraded it to
 6.1.9 but I am still having the same problem!

 I am using AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and LyXWin 1.3.5 win32 nc.

 Hmm I'm using these versions too, but without problems.

 - I can view .jpg and .ppm images inside LyX
 - I can not view .eps or .pdf images inside LyX

 - I can view the DVI, PDF(pdflatex)and Postscript outputs fine (but not
 the PDF (dvipdfm) output)

 I can run convert from the command line (convert eps:c:\aulogo.eps
 ppm:c:\test.ppm), and was able to convert the .eps image that LyX was
 having trouble with to a .ppm

 OK, the instalation seems to be fine.

 Any more ideas on what might be wrong??

 - assure that the installation folder of LyX and all files and
 subfolders have full permissions for everybody

 - assure that you don't use self defined convertes in the menu Edit -
 Preferences. (There should be only nine converters defined.) The
 converter EPS - PDF should use the command

 epstopdf --outfile=$$o $$i

 If this doesn't help, I have no idea what is going wrong.

 regards Uwe

Re: Image Magick on Windows 2000

[nburgan]

Hello All,

I'm having some trouble with Image Magick on Windows 2000.

To be able to view .eps and .pdf within LyX I need to get Image Magick
working.

I was using Image Magick version 6.1.9
(ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe) and AFPL Ghostscript 8.50. After
some fiddling around I was able to view .eps/.pdf images withing LyX on
one occasion but I came back to my computer a few hours later, turned it
on again and I could no longer view .eps/.pdf within LyX. I thought there
might be a conflict between I.M. and Ghostscript so to try and fix the
problem I removed AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and installed GNU Ghostscript7.05
(this version is recommended on the Image Magick website).

However now I'm having trouble with Image Magick. I can no longer view
.eps or .pdf files using Image Magick Display. I also get the same error
trying to use convert from the command line e.g.

C:\Documents\graphicsconvert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.

I have uninstalled Image Magick (via Add/Remove programs) and tried to
reinstall it several times but I still get the same error. I have also
tried a slightly older version. When I have uninstalled Image Magick I can
still find references to it in the registry. I think Image Magick may be
trying to call the version of Ghostscript that I no longer have installed.

Does anyone have any tips on getting Image Magick working?

Or on how I can get rid of it (and possible Ghostscript) completely so
that I can install them afresh?

Thanks in advance
Nick Burgan

Re: How to pronounce LyX?

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

V.Yumashev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| Hi,

| I am quite satisfied with LyX.
| But how shall I pronounce LyX ([liks] or [lik] or ...)?

We have been down this road before... once I even created a sound file
to explain how I pronounced it. But people (esp. american) could not
hear the difference between my 'y' sound and 'ee'. :-)

(my 'y' sound is almost like 'ee' but a bit more closed and a bit
further back in the mouth...)

But I don't have the right to declare how LyX should be pronounced
anyway. Find something you are comfortable with and use that.

-- 
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Re: lyx2lyx

[ocw]

I have the same problem also. I import the latex file but it says lyx2lyx is 
not recognized as a command and not operable. My path has included the path 
to the python.exe that comes with lyx. Can someone please help and point me 
in the right direction. Thanks.

- Original Message - 
From: Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jose Capco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: lyx2lyx


Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise
At least I don't know of any other way to make it work. But given that 
it's supposed to work according to Ruurd's page, I may simply have 
missed the workaround/fix. Maybe somebody else knows.

-sven
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Re: lyx2lyx

[Sven Schreiber]

ocw wrote:
I have the same problem also. I import the latex file but it says 
lyx2lyx is not recognized as a command and not operable. My path has 
included the path to the python.exe that comes with lyx. Can someone 
please help and point me in the right direction. Thanks.

That's a different issue; windows cannot associate files w/o extension 
(like lyx2lyx) to certain apps. You would have to run python on lyx2lyx 
explicitly (from the command line). Then the other problem sets in and 
you need a full python install... or maybe it doesn't for you? That 
would be interesting.

lyx2lyx

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Ok I think I narrowed down the problem. The Ruurd's
installation needed (in order for the 1.4 version of
lyx2lyx to work)

zlib.pyd which is in the dll directory 
and
something in the Lib directory (I just copied the
whole Lib of python directory into the lib of the
lyx/bin directory).

I couldn't figure out what exactly was missing (I
don't program in python), and I have spent half my day
on it already. I suggest Angus or someone from the
developers team to put up a zip file containing these
files if it's not much of trouble.

The lyx2lyx did the job... but my 1.3.5 lyx still
thinks that the lyx is a new one, and I don't think I
see much changes as compared to when I opened it
before lyx2lyxing.

Sincerely,
Jose Capco



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Adding Figure To Book Title Page

[Rich Shepard]

  I am not having success adding the cover figure to the title page of my
book. Placing the cursor at the end of the title and pressing ctrl-enter,
then inserting the figure (centered) displays it on the obverse of the title
page.
  Is there a way to do this?
Thanks,
Rich
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Shrinking Page Count

[Rich Shepard]

   What could possibly cause pdflatex output to decrease from 288 pages to
280 pages when the content has not been changed? The page size is custom
(6.128x9.25 inches). When I first produced pdflatex output the total page
count was 288. I made a couple of typographical corrections and the count is
down to 280. I'm completely puzzled.
TIA,
Rich
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Re: Shrinking Page Count

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 07 February 2005 11:51 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
 What could possibly cause pdflatex output to decrease from 288 pages to
 280 pages when the content has not been changed? The page size is custom
 (6.128x9.25 inches). When I first produced pdflatex output the total page
 count was 288. I made a couple of typographical corrections and the count
 is down to 280. I'm completely puzzled.

 TIA,

 Rich

My first question is this -- is it just pdflatex, or is it any rendering 
method? Second question -- does your table of contents agree with actual 
content? Third question -- using your table of contents, can you discern 
something that's been left out. Fourth question -- have your fonts or margins 
changed?

If it's all rendering methods, the TOC agrees with the content, and nothing's 
been left out, and your font/margins are unchanged, perhaps it's the 
stoplight phenominon.

Here in Orlando, their response to every traffic problem is to add a new 
stoplight. None are timed. If you catch a redlight, you often see the light 
ahead of that one go green, and then red. Same at the next one. I've seen 
cases where missing a redlight caused me to miss the next six. It was just 
the wrong redlight at the wrong time.

If you think of every float as a redlight, maybe the tiny copyedit caused you 
to miss a page, and everything cascaded. One would think the cascade would be 
stopped at the first chapter boundary, but if you have several copy edits in 
several chapters, it's conceivable that it could make the difference. In your 
case I guess you hit a strategic greenlight :-)

The hypothesis in the preceding page could be tested by creating a copy of 
the .lyx file, backing out your copy edits, and seeing if it went back up to 
288.

STeveT

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Re: Shrinking Page Count -- FIXED

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Steve Litt wrote:
My first question is this -- is it just pdflatex, or is it any rendering
method? Second question -- does your table of contents agree with actual
content? Third question -- using your table of contents, can you discern
something that's been left out. Fourth question -- have your fonts or
margins changed?
Steve,
  I've used only pdflatex each time with the shortcut of ctrl-h. Otherwise,
the only changes were a one-letter typo correction and adding a space
between paragraphs, all in the Preface. The file size went from 1,430,xxx to
1,404,xxx bytes.
  Rats! Found it, thank you. The bibliograph is not being generated! After
submitting all the files I changed the directory name. So, the bibliography
could not be found (book.bib) because the path had changed.
  I hadn't noticed this. I'm glad you got me looking at details again.
Thanks,
Rich
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Re: updating dvi's and using package

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.
This happens to me when I open a LyX file by double-clicking the 
document icon.  It does not happen if I open the document using the LyX 
file open command, nor if I open a command window in the directory 
containing the document and start LyX with lyx document -userdir my 
user directory.

I can identify the problem, but not the cure.  If I open a file named 
test.lyx, located in C:\dir1\dir2, either via the file open command or 
from a command prompt, in the LyX temp directory the temporary files are 
named test.tex, test.dvi etc.  If I open the same file by double 
clicking the icon, the temporary files are named _dir1_dir2_test.tex, 
_dir1_dir2_test.dvi, etc.  The path information embedded in the file 
names seems to be throwing off LyX when it does a View-Update; I'm 
guessing that it looks for test.dvi rather than _dir1_dir2_test.dvi.

The only work-around I can see is to avoid double-clicking file icons.
And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm ...etc.
I highly recommend Herbert Voss's math-mode guide 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/).

-- Paul
and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
Thanks in advance
Sincerely,
Jose Capco

Re: updating dvi's and using package

[Uwe Stöhr]

Jose Capco wrote:
Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.
No, it works fine. Press Ctrl-d to open the dvi and the dvi-viewer. If 
you changed your text, press Ctrl-d again for a new dvi-viewer window 
with the actualized dvi, or better, press Ctrl-Shift-d to see the 
updated dvi in the same dvi-viewer window.
(This doesn't always work if you change an image inside LyX if you meant 
that.)

And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm
The package amsthm is preinstalled on every LaTeX-distribution, so take 
a look at its documentation. To use package with LyX, use the command

\usepackage[options]{package-name}
in the preamble.
But as you can read in the official LaTeX-package catalogue:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amsthm.html
amsthm is part of all AMS-classes like amsbook.
You only need this package, if you want to use its theorem-style in 
other document classes.

 ...etc. and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
I don't understand you. You request for the theorem style of the 
amsthm-package, but don't like its style. So don't use it, if you don't 
like it.
Another possibility for own theorem styles is to use the package ntheorem.

regards Uwe
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Re: Image Magick on Windows 2000

[Uwe Stöhr]

nburgan mecheng wrote:
To be able to view .eps and .pdf within LyX I need to get Image Magick
working.
I was using Image Magick version 6.1.9
(ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe) and AFPL Ghostscript 8.50. After
some fiddling around I was able to view .eps/.pdf images withing LyX on
one occasion but I came back to my computer a few hours later, turned it
on again and I could no longer view .eps/.pdf within LyX.
As Windows user you should better restart Windows in such cases before 
become panic and before re/installing programs.

I thought there
might be a conflict between I.M. and Ghostscript so to try and fix the
problem I removed AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and installed GNU Ghostscript7.05
No,no,no,no,no! Don't play around without concept! I tested ghostscript 
8.50 and Imagemagick 6.1.9 on several machines (Win200 and XP) with 
success. I can only help you, when you follow my advices.

But OK, let's restart the whole thing:
1. deinstall ghostscript 7.05 AND Imagemagick
2. install ghostscript 8.50 (as admin!)
3. install Imagemagick 6.1.9 (ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe)
4. restart your computer
5. reconfigure LyX
6. restart LyX
7. try to insert an pdf/eps-image
if an error occured again but you are able to see png/jpg/gif-images 
inside LyX, then:

8. assure that all LyX-folders have write permissions for everybody
9. start LyX from the command line with the command:
lyx -dbg 3
10. try again to load an /pdf/eps-image and look what happens in the 
console window
10. send the output of the console window together with the path to the 
file convert.exe (the Imagemagick installation folder) to the list.

 GNU Ghostscript 7.05
 (this version is recommended on the Image Magick website).
Where did you found this?
C:\Documents\graphicsconvert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.
As I wrote you in one of the previous emails, the actual Imagemagick has 
problems to work with older ghostscript versions (only on windows).

Uwe

Re: layout for a PhD thesis

[Fernando Perez]

Paolo Valente wrote:

 Hi everybody,
 I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis.
 Could someone suggest me a nice layout including
 chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments?
 
 Thanks,
 Paolo Valente

U. Colorado has a thesis style with lyx support, since one of the lyx
developers was a CU grad student.

Best,

f

LyX stopped working after computer upgrade

[Stefano Franchi]

H all,
	I recently upgraded my system to a new PowerBook and had to reinstall 
LyX,  TeX and all the other packages I use, including Jurabib. 
Unfortunately, I am no longer able to compile a file that gave me no 
problems before. LyX chokes on every bibtex reference. For each  
reference it gives me two errors of the following kind:

First error:
You can't use `\relax' after \the.
\bibitem{Wedin1997}
Second error:
Undefined control sequence.
 \bibitem{Wedin1997}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

LyX is capable of producing a pdf file --errors notwithstanding-- but 
all the references are missing.
I tried  to remove the references and the problems disappeared. But of 
course I need them...

I suppose there must be some configuration problem, but haven't been 
able to track it down yet.
I am using LyX/Mac-Qt with TeX installed with Fink. The bibliography is 
managed by Jurabib.

Suggestions are most welcome...
Best,
Stefano

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lyx2lyx

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise

Sincerely,
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updating dvi's and using package

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.

And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm ...etc. and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
Thanks in advance

Sincerely,
Jose Capco





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Re: lyx2lyx

[Sven Schreiber]

Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise
At least I don't know of any other way to make it work. But given that 
it's "supposed to work" according to Ruurd's page, I may simply have 
missed the workaround/fix. Maybe somebody else knows.

-sven

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

[Sven Schreiber]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
- I can view .jpg and .ppm images inside LyX
- I can not view .eps or .pdf images inside LyX
- I can view the DVI, PDF(pdflatex)and Postscript outputs fine (but not
the PDF (dvipdfm) output)
I can run convert from the command line ("convert eps:c:\aulogo.eps
ppm:c:\test.ppm"), and was able to convert the .eps image that LyX was
having trouble with to a .ppm

OK, the instalation seems to be fine.
Any more ideas on what might be wrong??

Maybe your problem is already solved, but if not, did you make sure that 
lyx is calling the imagemagick-convert instead of the 
windows-filesystem-convert?

How to pronounce LyX?

[V.Yumashev]

Hi,

I am quite satisfied with LyX.
But how shall I pronounce LyX ([liks] or [lik] or ...)?

-- 
Best regards,
 V.Yumashev  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

[nburgan]

Hi Uwe,

Thanks again for your reply. I'm still having a few problems. On the
weekend (using Image Magick version 6.1.9) I turned my computer on,
started LyX and everything worked fine - I could view .eps and .eps files
within LyX. I turned my computer off though and came back a few hours
later and it wasn't working again - very strange !

To try and fix the problem I tried a different version of Ghostscript. I
tried GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (this was recommended on the Image Magick
website). However now I can't get Image Magick to work properly. If I try
to view .eps or .pdf images using Image Magick's Display program I get an
error. I get the same error using covert from the command line;

C:\Documents\graphics>convert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.

Obviously I need to sort out Image Magick before worrying about LyX.

I tried to unintsall Image Magick (via Add/Remove programs) and reinstall
it several times but it didn't help. I also tried a slightly older version
of Image Magick but they are all giving me the same problem.

I think that maybe changing my Ghostscript version has messed Image Magick
up. Even when I uninstall Image Magick I can still find references to it
in the registry. I think that Image Magick may be trying to use the
version of Ghostscript that I no longer have installed.

I want to get rid of Image Magick (and possibly Ghostscript) completely so
that I can start afresh and install the versions which you are using
successfully together.

Any ideas ??

Maybe I will send a more general email to the list about "Image Magick on
Windows 2000"

Thanks again in advance
Nick Burgan

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I was originally using Image Magick 6.0.2 (I think). I upgraded it to
>> 6.1.9 but I am still having the same problem!
>>
>> I am using AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and LyXWin 1.3.5 win32 nc.
>
> Hmm I'm using these versions too, but without problems.
>
>> - I can view .jpg and .ppm images inside LyX
>> - I can not view .eps or .pdf images inside LyX
>>
>> - I can view the DVI, PDF(pdflatex)and Postscript outputs fine (but not
>> the PDF (dvipdfm) output)
>>
>> I can run convert from the command line ("convert eps:c:\aulogo.eps
>> ppm:c:\test.ppm"), and was able to convert the .eps image that LyX was
>> having trouble with to a .ppm
>
> OK, the instalation seems to be fine.
>
>> Any more ideas on what might be wrong??
>
> - assure that the installation folder of LyX and all files and
> subfolders have full permissions for "everybody"
>
> - assure that you don't use self defined convertes in the menu Edit ->
> Preferences. (There should be only nine converters defined.) The
> converter "EPS -> PDF" should use the command
>
> "epstopdf --outfile=$$o $$i"
>
> If this doesn't help, I have no idea what is going wrong.
>
> regards Uwe
>

Re: Image Magick on Windows 2000

[nburgan]

Hello All,

I'm having some trouble with Image Magick on Windows 2000.

To be able to view .eps and .pdf within LyX I need to get Image Magick
working.

I was using Image Magick version 6.1.9
(ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe) and AFPL Ghostscript 8.50. After
some fiddling around I was able to view .eps/.pdf images withing LyX on
one occasion but I came back to my computer a few hours later, turned it
on again and I could no longer view .eps/.pdf within LyX. I thought there
might be a conflict between I.M. and Ghostscript so to try and fix the
problem I removed AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and installed GNU Ghostscript7.05
(this version is recommended on the Image Magick website).

However now I'm having trouble with Image Magick. I can no longer view
.eps or .pdf files using Image Magick Display. I also get the same error
trying to use convert from the command line e.g.

C:\Documents\graphics>convert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.

I have uninstalled Image Magick (via Add/Remove programs) and tried to
reinstall it several times but I still get the same error. I have also
tried a slightly older version. When I have uninstalled Image Magick I can
still find references to it in the registry. I think Image Magick may be
trying to call the version of Ghostscript that I no longer have installed.

Does anyone have any tips on getting Image Magick working?

Or on how I can get rid of it (and possible Ghostscript) completely so
that I can install them afresh?

Thanks in advance
Nick Burgan

Re: How to pronounce LyX?

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

"V.Yumashev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Hi,
>
| I am quite satisfied with LyX.
| But how shall I pronounce LyX ([liks] or [lik] or ...)?

We have been down this road before... once I even created a sound file
to explain how I pronounced it. But people (esp. american) could not
hear the difference between my 'y' sound and 'ee'. :-)

(my 'y' sound is almost like 'ee' but a bit more closed and a bit
further back in the mouth...)

But I don't have the right to declare how LyX should be pronounced
anyway. Find something you are comfortable with and use that.

-- 
Lgb

Re: lyx2lyx

[ocw]

I have the same problem also. I import the latex file but it says lyx2lyx is 
not recognized as a command and not operable. My path has included the path 
to the python.exe that comes with lyx. Can someone please help and point me 
in the right direction. Thanks.

- Original Message - 
From: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jose Capco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "lyx" 
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: lyx2lyx


Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Ok from the last posts regarding tex2lyx I learned
that I can't used lyx2lyx because the window port I
downloaded did not installed python correctly. I had
like to get this working, am I then supposed to
install python? When I looked python is like 10Mb (the
latest stable version), and I am not sure if I need
all that stuff for making lyx2lyx work. Please advise
At least I don't know of any other way to make it work. But given that 
it's "supposed to work" according to Ruurd's page, I may simply have 
missed the workaround/fix. Maybe somebody else knows.

-sven
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Re: lyx2lyx

[Sven Schreiber]

ocw wrote:
I have the same problem also. I import the latex file but it says 
lyx2lyx is not recognized as a command and not operable. My path has 
included the path to the python.exe that comes with lyx. Can someone 
please help and point me in the right direction. Thanks.

That's a different issue; windows cannot associate files w/o extension 
(like lyx2lyx) to certain apps. You would have to run python on lyx2lyx 
explicitly (from the command line). Then the other problem sets in and 
you need a full python install... or maybe it doesn't for you? That 
would be interesting.

lyx2lyx

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Ok I think I narrowed down the problem. The Ruurd's
installation needed (in order for the 1.4 version of
lyx2lyx to work)

zlib.pyd which is in the dll directory 
and
something in the Lib directory (I just copied the
whole Lib of python directory into the lib of the
lyx/bin directory).

I couldn't figure out what exactly was missing (I
don't program in python), and I have spent half my day
on it already. I suggest Angus or someone from the
developers team to put up a zip file containing these
files if it's not much of trouble.

The lyx2lyx did the job... but my 1.3.5 lyx still
thinks that the lyx is a new one, and I don't think I
see much changes as compared to when I opened it
before lyx2lyxing.

Sincerely,
Jose Capco



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Adding Figure To Book Title Page

[Rich Shepard]

  I am not having success adding the cover figure to the title page of my
book. Placing the cursor at the end of the title and pressing ctrl-enter,
then inserting the figure (centered) displays it on the obverse of the title
page.
  Is there a way to do this?
Thanks,
Rich
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Shrinking Page Count

[Rich Shepard]

   What could possibly cause pdflatex output to decrease from 288 pages to
280 pages when the content has not been changed? The page size is "custom"
(6.128x9.25 inches). When I first produced pdflatex output the total page
count was 288. I made a couple of typographical corrections and the count is
down to 280. I'm completely puzzled.
TIA,
Rich
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Re: Shrinking Page Count

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 07 February 2005 11:51 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
> What could possibly cause pdflatex output to decrease from 288 pages to
> 280 pages when the content has not been changed? The page size is "custom"
> (6.128x9.25 inches). When I first produced pdflatex output the total page
> count was 288. I made a couple of typographical corrections and the count
> is down to 280. I'm completely puzzled.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich

My first question is this -- is it just pdflatex, or is it any rendering 
method? Second question -- does your table of contents agree with actual 
content? Third question -- using your table of contents, can you discern 
something that's been left out. Fourth question -- have your fonts or margins 
changed?

If it's all rendering methods, the TOC agrees with the content, and nothing's 
been left out, and your font/margins are unchanged, perhaps it's the 
stoplight phenominon.

Here in Orlando, their response to every traffic problem is to add a new 
stoplight. None are timed. If you catch a redlight, you often see the light 
ahead of that one go green, and then red. Same at the next one. I've seen 
cases where missing a redlight caused me to miss the next six. It was just 
the wrong redlight at the wrong time.

If you think of every float as a redlight, maybe the tiny copyedit caused you 
to miss a page, and everything cascaded. One would think the cascade would be 
stopped at the first chapter boundary, but if you have several copy edits in 
several chapters, it's conceivable that it could make the difference. In your 
case I guess you hit a strategic greenlight :-)

The hypothesis in the preceding page could be tested by creating a copy of 
the .lyx file, backing out your copy edits, and seeing if it went back up to 
288.

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Re: Shrinking Page Count -- FIXED

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Steve Litt wrote:
My first question is this -- is it just pdflatex, or is it any rendering
method? Second question -- does your table of contents agree with actual
content? Third question -- using your table of contents, can you discern
something that's been left out. Fourth question -- have your fonts or
margins changed?
Steve,
  I've used only pdflatex each time with the shortcut of ctrl-h. Otherwise,
the only changes were a one-letter typo correction and adding a space
between paragraphs, all in the Preface. The file size went from 1,430,xxx to
1,404,xxx bytes.
  Rats! Found it, thank you. The bibliograph is not being generated! After
submitting all the files I changed the directory name. So, the bibliography
could not be found (book.bib) because the path had changed.
  I hadn't noticed this. I'm glad you got me looking at details again.
Thanks,
Rich
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Re: updating dvi's and using package

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.
This happens to me when I open a LyX file by double-clicking the 
document icon.  It does not happen if I open the document using the LyX 
file open command, nor if I open a command window in the directory 
containing the document and start LyX with "lyx  -userdir ".

I can identify the problem, but not the cure.  If I open a file named 
test.lyx, located in C:\dir1\dir2, either via the file open command or 
from a command prompt, in the LyX temp directory the temporary files are 
named test.tex, test.dvi etc.  If I open the same file by double 
clicking the icon, the temporary files are named _dir1_dir2_test.tex, 
_dir1_dir2_test.dvi, etc.  The path information embedded in the file 
names seems to be throwing off LyX when it does a View->Update; I'm 
guessing that it looks for test.dvi rather than _dir1_dir2_test.dvi.

The only work-around I can see is to avoid double-clicking file icons.
And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm ...etc.
I highly recommend Herbert Voss's math-mode guide 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/).

-- Paul
and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
Thanks in advance
Sincerely,
Jose Capco

Re: updating dvi's and using package

[Uwe Stöhr]

Jose Capco wrote:
Why doesn't my dvi update whenever I try to (I'm using
Ruurd's port). I need to always exit lyx and then open
lyx again and view the dvi by pressing control-d and I
see the updates.. something looks buggy here.
No, it works fine. Press Ctrl-d to open the dvi and the dvi-viewer. If 
you changed your text, press Ctrl-d again for a new dvi-viewer window 
with the actualized dvi, or better, press Ctrl-Shift-d to see the 
updated dvi in the same dvi-viewer window.
(This doesn't always work if you change an image inside LyX if you meant 
that.)

And could someone advise how I can use packages like
amsthm
The package amsthm is preinstalled on every LaTeX-distribution, so take 
a look at its documentation. To use package with LyX, use the command

\usepackage[options]{package-name}
in the preamble.
But as you can read in the official LaTeX-package catalogue:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amsthm.html
amsthm is part of all AMS-classes like amsbook.
You only need this package, if you want to use its theorem-style in 
other document classes.

 ...etc. and finally make my own layout
(document class). I just don't like the way theorems,
definitions, ... etc. appear in the available layouts.
I don't understand you. You request for the theorem style of the 
amsthm-package, but don't like its style. So don't use it, if you don't 
like it.
Another possibility for own theorem styles is to use the package "ntheorem".

regards Uwe
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Re: Image Magick on Windows 2000

[Uwe Stöhr]

nburgan mecheng wrote:
To be able to view .eps and .pdf within LyX I need to get Image Magick
working.
I was using Image Magick version 6.1.9
(ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe) and AFPL Ghostscript 8.50. After
some fiddling around I was able to view .eps/.pdf images withing LyX on
one occasion but I came back to my computer a few hours later, turned it
on again and I could no longer view .eps/.pdf within LyX.
As Windows user you should better restart Windows in such cases before 
become panic and before re/installing programs.

I thought there
might be a conflict between I.M. and Ghostscript so to try and fix the
problem I removed AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and installed GNU Ghostscript7.05
No,no,no,no,no! Don't play around without concept! I tested ghostscript 
8.50 and Imagemagick 6.1.9 on several machines (Win200 and XP) with 
success. I can only help you, when you follow my advices.

But OK, let's restart the whole thing:
1. deinstall ghostscript 7.05 AND Imagemagick
2. install ghostscript 8.50 (as admin!)
3. install Imagemagick 6.1.9 (ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe)
4. restart your computer
5. reconfigure LyX
6. restart LyX
7. try to insert an pdf/eps-image
if an error occured again but you are able to see png/jpg/gif-images 
inside LyX, then:

8. assure that all LyX-folders have write permissions for "everybody"
9. start LyX from the command line with the command:
lyx -dbg 3
10. try again to load an /pdf/eps-image and look what happens in the 
console window
10. send the output of the console window together with the path to the 
file "convert.exe" (the Imagemagick installation folder) to the list.

> GNU Ghostscript 7.05
> (this version is recommended on the Image Magick website).
Where did you found this?
C:\Documents\graphics>convert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm
convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'.
convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.
As I wrote you in one of the previous emails, the actual Imagemagick has 
problems to work with older ghostscript versions (only on windows).

Uwe

Re: layout for a PhD thesis

[Fernando Perez]

Paolo Valente wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I'm a new Lyx users and I'd like to use it to write my PhD thesis.
> Could someone suggest me a nice layout including
> chapter, theorem, lemma, proof environments?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paolo Valente

U. Colorado has a thesis style with lyx support, since one of the lyx
developers was a CU grad student.

Best,

f

LyX stopped working after computer upgrade

[Stefano Franchi]

H all,
	I recently upgraded my system to a new PowerBook and had to reinstall 
LyX,  TeX and all the other packages I use, including Jurabib. 
Unfortunately, I am no longer able to compile a file that gave me no 
problems before. LyX chokes on every bibtex reference. For each  
reference it gives me two errors of the following kind:

First error:
You can't use `\relax' after \the.
\bibitem{Wedin1997}
Second error:
Undefined control sequence.
 \bibitem{Wedin1997}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

LyX is capable of producing a pdf file --errors notwithstanding-- but 
all the references are missing.
I tried  to remove the references and the problems disappeared. But of 
course I need them...

I suppose there must be some configuration problem, but haven't been 
able to track it down yet.
I am using LyX/Mac-Qt with TeX installed with Fink. The bibliography is 
managed by Jurabib.

Suggestions are most welcome...
Best,
Stefano

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