Re: tex2lyx for MAC

[Angus Leeming]

Bennett Helm wrote:
 If you grab the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh script from
 http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/tex2lyx then everything should be
 done automatically.
 
 Fixed ... and the wiki updated.

Good man!

-- 
Angus

Re: Page Style Fancy Problem

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: Roger McMurtrie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 5:03 AM
Subject: Page Style Fancy Problem



I am using the document class book with page style fancy.
However, footnotes on Chapter pages don't appear when viewed.
My LaTeX book suggests that maybe I should use \pagestyle{fancyplain} 
which I

tried putting in the preamble but this didn't work.
I imagine there's a simple solution but I can't find it.


What you need to use is

\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
}

The first line defines a new style for {plain} which all chapter title pages 
use by default. The second removes the line under the header.


THe remaining commands are not necessary but allow you the flexibility to 
add bits like page numbers etc if you don't want the page totally plain.


Hope this helps - it works for me.

Geoff




Roger

Re: Heretical question?

[Axel Rasche]

Most of the mentioned projects seem to be quite young. Let us see how 
they develop.


What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic 
figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although 
not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open 
to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor 
like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But 
if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in 
typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.


Go on guys,
Axel


Mark Carroll wrote:


On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 

Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this 
thread?  You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I 
assume you see some advantages to LyX, right?
   



I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning curve. I
like LaTeX because it does a good job of figuring out the large-scale
typesetting (floats and things). I don't want to manually do typesetting
in a case-specific manner because whenever I modify the document I then
end up having to re-typeset it.

-- Mark


 

Re: Heretical question?

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote:
 What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic
 figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although
 not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open
 to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
 This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor
 like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But
 if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in
 typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.

  Do not forget also that LyX has also some other requirements that are not 
shared by any single user. If we support some package we should expect it 
to be available everywhere or else the same LyX document would not give a 
printable output if you change your system.

  Not only that but sometimes different packages have different calls across 
several versions. All this should be taken into account before providing 
the LyX support for any package.

 Go on guys,

  Thanks for your feedback,

 Axel

-- 
José Abílio

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

 What's surprising is that the same operation performed on the same file on
 Solaris works fine (and the lyx file is correct as the Solaris version
 includes your patch for bug #1910).

Sorry for the wrong track, I did not remember that I had edited the 
beamer.layout file used by tex2lyx:

-diff /usr/local/LyX/share/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout 
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout
16c16
 #MaxCounter   Counter_Section
---
 MaxCounterCounter_Section

This was not as complete as your changes, but enough to allow conversion to be 
successful on Solaris.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

adding section headings within a bibliography

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

I need some advice about preparing a bibliography. The author wants to 
include some section headers within the bibliography something like 
this:

*BOOKS ABOUT TREES*
Smith, John. The Life of Trees. New York, Pp. 230-232.
Henson, Tom, Another Book

*BOOKS ABOUT BIRDS*
Book 1
Book 2
etc.

To do this easily, would it make sense to use a separate bib-file for 
each section and then in LyX to use multiple BibTeX Generated 
References with the section headers between them?

-Kevin
-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: adding section headings within a bibliography

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
 I need some advice about preparing a bibliography. The author wants to
 include some section headers within the bibliography something like
 this:

http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/BibTeX#toc2

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: Heretical question?

[Herbert Voss]

Jose' Matos wrote:

On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote:


What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic
figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although
not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open
to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor
like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But
if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in
typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.



  Do not forget also that LyX has also some other requirements that are not 
shared by any single user. If we support some package we should expect it 
to be available everywhere or else the same LyX document would not give a 
printable output if you change your system.


  Not only that but sometimes different packages have different calls across 
several versions. All this should be taken into account before providing 
the LyX support for any package.


there is only _one_ rule: every TeX source should give
the same output on every system. This depends to the
core TeX, but not to the packages. If you want to be
_really_ sure, then you shouldn't support any package,
otherwise the above rule (from D. Knuth) is senseless.

Supporting packages is nowadays appropriate, but always
a kind of living on the edge ... because you do not
really know, what the package author has in mind. But
one is sure, TeX is the same ...

Herbert

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Georg Baum]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:

 Maybe the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh could reflect this by bundling in LyX-1.4
 instead of LyX ?

Good idea. Are you volunteering to do so?


Georg

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Angus Leeming]

Georg Baum wrote:
 Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
 Maybe the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh could reflect this by bundling in LyX-1.4
 instead of LyX ?
 
 Good idea. Are you volunteering to do so?

Sure he is ;-) It's just a case of changing the line
INSTALLDIR=LyX
after all...

-- 
Angus

1.3.6 problem on windows

[Martin Richtarsky]

Hello,

first I'm happy that there is an 'official' LyX for Windows now, 
especially as I have no Unix box here at the moment :)


But I'm having trouble rather early. The installer depacks the files and 
then gives me the message Failed attempting to execute configure 
script. It doesn't download anything, although I have chosen all 
components (Python, ...). Starting LyX then fails (Lyx wasn't able to 
find its layout descriptions).


Any ideas?


Thanks,
Martin

Re: 1.3.6 problem on windows

[Angus Leeming]

Martin Richtarsky wrote:

 Hello,
 
 first I'm happy that there is an 'official' LyX for Windows now,
 especially as I have no Unix box here at the moment :)
 
 But I'm having trouble rather early. The installer depacks the files and
 then gives me the message Failed attempting to execute configure
 script. It doesn't download anything, although I have chosen all
 components (Python, ...). Starting LyX then fails (Lyx wasn't able to
 find its layout descriptions).
 
 Any ideas?

H. You have installed a Unix shell (Eg MinSYS), right?

Can you run
sh.exe configure
from a cmd prompt in the C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ directory. You
may have to specify the full path to sh.exe.

-- 
Angus

Re: Mac installation problem

[Bennett Helm]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Lenore Horner wrote:

I thought I'd upgrade to the most recent version of LyX (from 1.3.3) 
on my iBook running 10.3.9.  I downloaded the binary, dragged the LyX 
icon to my Applications folder and then double clicked the LyX 
Installer icon whereupon I received the message: The operation could 
not be completed.  An unexpected error occurred (error code -10660).  
Any suggestions?  A cursory trial of LyX shows that it runs and 
displays pdf output.  I'm rather surprised at that because it should 
be looking the wrong place for preferences I thought.   I didn't try 
editing a file.


Lenore -

Doing a quick google search on 'error code -10660 mac os x' (minus 
the single quotes; the double quotes are needed if google is to search 
for the number rather than require that it's absent) reveals that this 
means OS X can't find the application that normally opens the document 
(in this case the installer script). One cause may be that you have 
deleted Terminal.app; another may be a corrupted cache somewhere.


Try either:

1. cleaning your caches with cocktail 
(http://www.macosxcocktail.com/) or onyx 
(http://www.titanium.free.fr/english.html) and double-clicking the 
LyX Installer again, or


2. opening a terminal session manually, and running the LyX Installer 
from there.


Bennett

Re: 1.3.6 problem on windows

[Angus Leeming]

On Friday 22 July 2005 13:56, you wrote:
 Angus Leeming wrote:
  H. You have installed a Unix shell (Eg MinSYS), right?

 Not yet; the installer tries to download and install all the
 components, starting with MinSys.

No, it doesn't try to download or install anything. It points your web 
browser to the web page where you can get the package. The rest is up 
to you.

Anyway, the configure script must be interpretted by sh.exe...

 I'm now trying to install these things manually and noticed that
 sourceforge.net, where MinSys is hosted, is down. Perhaps that
 causes the installer to fail?

Not finding sh.exe is what is causing your problems. Install MinSYS, 
then uninstall and reinstall LyX and everything will be well.

Angus

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Angus Leeming]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
 I copied the 1.4 *.py files in my 1.3.6 installation.
 I get one minor error:
 Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.
 Conversion seems  successful however.

This is a warning, not an error. Moreover, it's a bogus warning that José
is going to remove any day now.

 So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.

I'd remove it, given that it ain't a bug and it's going to be removed
anyway.

-- 
Angus

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 22 July 2005 15:53, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
 I copied the 1.4 *.py files in my 1.3.6 installation.
 I get one minor error:
 Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.

  You can ignore this warning. I committed a patch to cvs removing it since 
it is wrong.

 Conversion seems  successful however.

  Good.

 So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

 Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.
 Conversion seems  successful however.

This is a warning, not an error. Moreover, it's a bogus warning that José
is going to remove any day now.

 So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.

I'd remove it, given that it ain't a bug and it's going to be removed
anyway.

Sorry, I meant about the ability tp patch lyx-1.3.6 with lyx-1.4 py files.
Otherwise it's tedious for multipart docs to lyx2lyx all the created files.

(well I have written a wrapper script for this, but it's easier to just convert
and lyx the master file).

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Ant: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.6 is released, with native Windows support

[Udo Müller]

Thank you for the advise. :)
I tryed to build it at FreeBSD 4.11, works fine. 
But, I found still two things what are not repaired.

1st at previous versions (maybe 1.2.x) if I did use
Ctrl+F to find something, it was possible to replace
spaces, for instance if I want to replace _-_ with
_---_ (_ is for space) it was possible, it is very
comfortable for replacing wrong bars in lage files,
but now spaces are ignored in find/replace.

2nd it would be fine if I could input Ctrl+Shift+l for
deviding ligatures at find/replace. In German there
are a lot of ff, fff, fft, ft etc. which have to be
devided and are no ligatures. So, it would be a very
good idea to make this possible.

Thank you, best regards from Berlin.

Udo.




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Re: Ant: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.6 is released, with native Windows support

[Angus Leeming]

Udo Müller wrote:

 Thank you for the advise. :)
 I tryed to build it at FreeBSD 4.11, works fine.
 But, I found still two things what are not repaired.
 
 1st at previous versions (maybe 1.2.x) if I did use
 Ctrl+F to find something, it was possible to replace
 spaces, for instance if I want to replace _-_ with
 _---_ (_ is for space) it was possible, it is very
 comfortable for replacing wrong bars in lage files,
 but now spaces are ignored in find/replace.

Got it! This bug does not occur in the Qt frontend but does occur in the
XForms one. Thanks for the report.

-- 
Angus

Uniform Column Width

[Bruce Pourciau]

Table controls in LyX allow me to fix, one by one, the width of each 
individual column, but can I (without ERT) instruct LyX to make all the 
columns have the same width, with either me or LaTeX choosing the 
uniform width?


Bruce
LyX/Mac 1.3.4

Math Display and Graphics frustration in LyX 1.3.6 Tiger 10.4

[Kevin W Bowman]

Hello,

It's been a little while since I've used Lyx.  I've just installed it  
running Tiger 10.4.2.  The first odd behavior I'm seeing is with the  
Insert-Math-DisplayFormula.
Once I've issued the command, and get the red/blue box, I type the  
letter d and the box goes the left corner of the page.  If I type d  
again, it returns to a standard display formula.  If I type an f I  
get an additional horizontal box.  No matter what I type, I can't  
type in a simple formula like x=y. It's as if Lyx is in some special  
mode.


Now if I apply the following voodoo, I can input a formula:
Insert-Math-DisplayFormula, then put the cursor on any text outside  
of the math display box  followed by  putting the cursor back into  
the display box.


That seems to work.

I also get a similar behavior with the figure environment.  After  
inserting the environment, I can't type in the caption.  If I click  
outside the figure box and back in again, then I can type.


I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.  Is there some default mode that  
I'm missing?


Thanks,

Kevin

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Re: tex2lyx for MAC

[Angus Leeming]

Bennett Helm wrote:
 If you grab the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh script from
 http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/tex2lyx then everything should be
 done automatically.
 
 Fixed ... and the wiki updated.

Good man!

-- 
Angus

Re: Page Style Fancy Problem

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: Roger McMurtrie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 5:03 AM
Subject: Page Style Fancy Problem



I am using the document class book with page style fancy.
However, footnotes on Chapter pages don't appear when viewed.
My LaTeX book suggests that maybe I should use \pagestyle{fancyplain} 
which I

tried putting in the preamble but this didn't work.
I imagine there's a simple solution but I can't find it.


What you need to use is

\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
}

The first line defines a new style for {plain} which all chapter title pages 
use by default. The second removes the line under the header.


THe remaining commands are not necessary but allow you the flexibility to 
add bits like page numbers etc if you don't want the page totally plain.


Hope this helps - it works for me.

Geoff




Roger

Re: Heretical question?

[Axel Rasche]

Most of the mentioned projects seem to be quite young. Let us see how 
they develop.


What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic 
figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although 
not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open 
to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor 
like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But 
if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in 
typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.


Go on guys,
Axel


Mark Carroll wrote:


On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 

Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this 
thread?  You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I 
assume you see some advantages to LyX, right?
   



I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning curve. I
like LaTeX because it does a good job of figuring out the large-scale
typesetting (floats and things). I don't want to manually do typesetting
in a case-specific manner because whenever I modify the document I then
end up having to re-typeset it.

-- Mark


 

Re: Heretical question?

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote:
 What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic
 figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although
 not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open
 to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
 This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor
 like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But
 if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in
 typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.

  Do not forget also that LyX has also some other requirements that are not 
shared by any single user. If we support some package we should expect it 
to be available everywhere or else the same LyX document would not give a 
printable output if you change your system.

  Not only that but sometimes different packages have different calls across 
several versions. All this should be taken into account before providing 
the LyX support for any package.

 Go on guys,

  Thanks for your feedback,

 Axel

-- 
José Abílio

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

 What's surprising is that the same operation performed on the same file on
 Solaris works fine (and the lyx file is correct as the Solaris version
 includes your patch for bug #1910).

Sorry for the wrong track, I did not remember that I had edited the 
beamer.layout file used by tex2lyx:

-diff /usr/local/LyX/share/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout 
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout
16c16
 #MaxCounter   Counter_Section
---
 MaxCounterCounter_Section

This was not as complete as your changes, but enough to allow conversion to be 
successful on Solaris.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

adding section headings within a bibliography

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

I need some advice about preparing a bibliography. The author wants to 
include some section headers within the bibliography something like 
this:

*BOOKS ABOUT TREES*
Smith, John. The Life of Trees. New York, Pp. 230-232.
Henson, Tom, Another Book

*BOOKS ABOUT BIRDS*
Book 1
Book 2
etc.

To do this easily, would it make sense to use a separate bib-file for 
each section and then in LyX to use multiple BibTeX Generated 
References with the section headers between them?

-Kevin
-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: adding section headings within a bibliography

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
 I need some advice about preparing a bibliography. The author wants to
 include some section headers within the bibliography something like
 this:

http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/BibTeX#toc2

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: Heretical question?

[Herbert Voss]

Jose' Matos wrote:

On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote:


What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic
figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although
not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open
to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor
like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But
if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in
typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.



  Do not forget also that LyX has also some other requirements that are not 
shared by any single user. If we support some package we should expect it 
to be available everywhere or else the same LyX document would not give a 
printable output if you change your system.


  Not only that but sometimes different packages have different calls across 
several versions. All this should be taken into account before providing 
the LyX support for any package.


there is only _one_ rule: every TeX source should give
the same output on every system. This depends to the
core TeX, but not to the packages. If you want to be
_really_ sure, then you shouldn't support any package,
otherwise the above rule (from D. Knuth) is senseless.

Supporting packages is nowadays appropriate, but always
a kind of living on the edge ... because you do not
really know, what the package author has in mind. But
one is sure, TeX is the same ...

Herbert

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Georg Baum]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:

 Maybe the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh could reflect this by bundling in LyX-1.4
 instead of LyX ?

Good idea. Are you volunteering to do so?


Georg

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Angus Leeming]

Georg Baum wrote:
 Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
 Maybe the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh could reflect this by bundling in LyX-1.4
 instead of LyX ?
 
 Good idea. Are you volunteering to do so?

Sure he is ;-) It's just a case of changing the line
INSTALLDIR=LyX
after all...

-- 
Angus

1.3.6 problem on windows

[Martin Richtarsky]

Hello,

first I'm happy that there is an 'official' LyX for Windows now, 
especially as I have no Unix box here at the moment :)


But I'm having trouble rather early. The installer depacks the files and 
then gives me the message Failed attempting to execute configure 
script. It doesn't download anything, although I have chosen all 
components (Python, ...). Starting LyX then fails (Lyx wasn't able to 
find its layout descriptions).


Any ideas?


Thanks,
Martin

Re: 1.3.6 problem on windows

[Angus Leeming]

Martin Richtarsky wrote:

 Hello,
 
 first I'm happy that there is an 'official' LyX for Windows now,
 especially as I have no Unix box here at the moment :)
 
 But I'm having trouble rather early. The installer depacks the files and
 then gives me the message Failed attempting to execute configure
 script. It doesn't download anything, although I have chosen all
 components (Python, ...). Starting LyX then fails (Lyx wasn't able to
 find its layout descriptions).
 
 Any ideas?

H. You have installed a Unix shell (Eg MinSYS), right?

Can you run
sh.exe configure
from a cmd prompt in the C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ directory. You
may have to specify the full path to sh.exe.

-- 
Angus

Re: Mac installation problem

[Bennett Helm]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Lenore Horner wrote:

I thought I'd upgrade to the most recent version of LyX (from 1.3.3) 
on my iBook running 10.3.9.  I downloaded the binary, dragged the LyX 
icon to my Applications folder and then double clicked the LyX 
Installer icon whereupon I received the message: The operation could 
not be completed.  An unexpected error occurred (error code -10660).  
Any suggestions?  A cursory trial of LyX shows that it runs and 
displays pdf output.  I'm rather surprised at that because it should 
be looking the wrong place for preferences I thought.   I didn't try 
editing a file.


Lenore -

Doing a quick google search on 'error code -10660 mac os x' (minus 
the single quotes; the double quotes are needed if google is to search 
for the number rather than require that it's absent) reveals that this 
means OS X can't find the application that normally opens the document 
(in this case the installer script). One cause may be that you have 
deleted Terminal.app; another may be a corrupted cache somewhere.


Try either:

1. cleaning your caches with cocktail 
(http://www.macosxcocktail.com/) or onyx 
(http://www.titanium.free.fr/english.html) and double-clicking the 
LyX Installer again, or


2. opening a terminal session manually, and running the LyX Installer 
from there.


Bennett

Re: 1.3.6 problem on windows

[Angus Leeming]

On Friday 22 July 2005 13:56, you wrote:
 Angus Leeming wrote:
  H. You have installed a Unix shell (Eg MinSYS), right?

 Not yet; the installer tries to download and install all the
 components, starting with MinSys.

No, it doesn't try to download or install anything. It points your web 
browser to the web page where you can get the package. The rest is up 
to you.

Anyway, the configure script must be interpretted by sh.exe...

 I'm now trying to install these things manually and noticed that
 sourceforge.net, where MinSys is hosted, is down. Perhaps that
 causes the installer to fail?

Not finding sh.exe is what is causing your problems. Install MinSYS, 
then uninstall and reinstall LyX and everything will be well.

Angus

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Angus Leeming]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
 I copied the 1.4 *.py files in my 1.3.6 installation.
 I get one minor error:
 Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.
 Conversion seems  successful however.

This is a warning, not an error. Moreover, it's a bogus warning that José
is going to remove any day now.

 So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.

I'd remove it, given that it ain't a bug and it's going to be removed
anyway.

-- 
Angus

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 22 July 2005 15:53, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
 I copied the 1.4 *.py files in my 1.3.6 installation.
 I get one minor error:
 Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.

  You can ignore this warning. I committed a patch to cvs removing it since 
it is wrong.

 Conversion seems  successful however.

  Good.

 So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

 Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.
 Conversion seems  successful however.

This is a warning, not an error. Moreover, it's a bogus warning that José
is going to remove any day now.

 So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.

I'd remove it, given that it ain't a bug and it's going to be removed
anyway.

Sorry, I meant about the ability tp patch lyx-1.3.6 with lyx-1.4 py files.
Otherwise it's tedious for multipart docs to lyx2lyx all the created files.

(well I have written a wrapper script for this, but it's easier to just convert
and lyx the master file).

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Ant: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.6 is released, with native Windows support

[Udo Müller]

Thank you for the advise. :)
I tryed to build it at FreeBSD 4.11, works fine. 
But, I found still two things what are not repaired.

1st at previous versions (maybe 1.2.x) if I did use
Ctrl+F to find something, it was possible to replace
spaces, for instance if I want to replace _-_ with
_---_ (_ is for space) it was possible, it is very
comfortable for replacing wrong bars in lage files,
but now spaces are ignored in find/replace.

2nd it would be fine if I could input Ctrl+Shift+l for
deviding ligatures at find/replace. In German there
are a lot of ff, fff, fft, ft etc. which have to be
devided and are no ligatures. So, it would be a very
good idea to make this possible.

Thank you, best regards from Berlin.

Udo.




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Re: Ant: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.6 is released, with native Windows support

[Angus Leeming]

Udo Müller wrote:

 Thank you for the advise. :)
 I tryed to build it at FreeBSD 4.11, works fine.
 But, I found still two things what are not repaired.
 
 1st at previous versions (maybe 1.2.x) if I did use
 Ctrl+F to find something, it was possible to replace
 spaces, for instance if I want to replace _-_ with
 _---_ (_ is for space) it was possible, it is very
 comfortable for replacing wrong bars in lage files,
 but now spaces are ignored in find/replace.

Got it! This bug does not occur in the Qt frontend but does occur in the
XForms one. Thanks for the report.

-- 
Angus

Uniform Column Width

[Bruce Pourciau]

Table controls in LyX allow me to fix, one by one, the width of each 
individual column, but can I (without ERT) instruct LyX to make all the 
columns have the same width, with either me or LaTeX choosing the 
uniform width?


Bruce
LyX/Mac 1.3.4

Math Display and Graphics frustration in LyX 1.3.6 Tiger 10.4

[Kevin W Bowman]

Hello,

It's been a little while since I've used Lyx.  I've just installed it  
running Tiger 10.4.2.  The first odd behavior I'm seeing is with the  
Insert-Math-DisplayFormula.
Once I've issued the command, and get the red/blue box, I type the  
letter d and the box goes the left corner of the page.  If I type d  
again, it returns to a standard display formula.  If I type an f I  
get an additional horizontal box.  No matter what I type, I can't  
type in a simple formula like x=y. It's as if Lyx is in some special  
mode.


Now if I apply the following voodoo, I can input a formula:
Insert-Math-DisplayFormula, then put the cursor on any text outside  
of the math display box  followed by  putting the cursor back into  
the display box.


That seems to work.

I also get a similar behavior with the figure environment.  After  
inserting the environment, I can't type in the caption.  If I click  
outside the figure box and back in again, then I can type.


I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.  Is there some default mode that  
I'm missing?


Thanks,

Kevin

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Re: tex2lyx for MAC

[Angus Leeming]

Bennett Helm wrote:
>> If you grab the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh script from
>> http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/tex2lyx then everything should be
>> done automatically.
> 
> Fixed ... and the wiki updated.

Good man!

-- 
Angus

Re: Page Style Fancy Problem

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: "Roger McMurtrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 5:03 AM
Subject: Page Style Fancy Problem



I am using the document class book with page style fancy.
However, footnotes on Chapter pages don't appear when viewed.
My LaTeX book suggests that maybe I should use \pagestyle{fancyplain} 
which I

tried putting in the preamble but this didn't work.
I imagine there's a simple solution but I can't find it.


What you need to use is

\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
}

The first line defines a new style for {plain} which all chapter title pages 
use by default. The second removes the line under the header.


THe remaining commands are not necessary but allow you the flexibility to 
add bits like page numbers etc if you don't want the page totally plain.


Hope this helps - it works for me.

Geoff




Roger

Re: Heretical question?

[Axel Rasche]

Most of the mentioned projects seem to be quite young. Let us see how 
they develop.


What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic 
figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although 
not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open 
to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor 
like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But 
if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in 
typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.


Go on guys,
Axel


Mark Carroll wrote:


On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 

Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this 
thread?  You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I 
assume you see some advantages to LyX, right?
   



I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning curve. I
like LaTeX because it does a good job of figuring out the large-scale
typesetting (floats and things). I don't want to manually do typesetting
in a case-specific manner because whenever I modify the document I then
end up having to re-typeset it.

-- Mark


 

Re: Heretical question?

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote:
> What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic
> figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although
> not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open
> to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
> This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor
> like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But
> if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in
> typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.

  Do not forget also that LyX has also some other requirements that are not 
shared by any single user. If we support some package we should expect it 
to be available everywhere or else the same LyX document would not give a 
printable output if you change your system.

  Not only that but sometimes different packages have different calls across 
several versions. All this should be taken into account before providing 
the LyX support for any package.

> Go on guys,

  Thanks for your feedback,

> Axel

-- 
José Abílio

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

>>> What's surprising is that the same operation performed on the same file on
>>> Solaris works fine (and the lyx file is correct as the Solaris version
>>> includes your patch for bug #1910).

Sorry for the wrong track, I did not remember that I had edited the 
beamer.layout file used by tex2lyx:

->diff /usr/local/LyX/share/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout 
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout
16c16
< #MaxCounter   Counter_Section
---
> MaxCounterCounter_Section

This was not as complete as your changes, but enough to allow conversion to be 
successful on Solaris.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

adding section headings within a bibliography

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

I need some advice about preparing a bibliography. The author wants to 
include some section headers within the bibliography something like 
this:

*BOOKS ABOUT TREES*
Smith, John. The Life of Trees. New York, Pp. 230-232.
Henson, Tom, Another Book

*BOOKS ABOUT BIRDS*
Book 1
Book 2
etc.

To do this easily, would it make sense to use a separate bib-file for 
each section and then in LyX to use multiple "BibTeX Generated 
References" with the section headers between them?

-Kevin
-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations

Re: adding section headings within a bibliography

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> I need some advice about preparing a bibliography. The author wants to
> include some section headers within the bibliography something like
> this:

http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/BibTeX#toc2

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: Heretical question?

[Herbert Voss]

Jose' Matos wrote:

On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote:


What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic
figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although
not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open
to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor
like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But
if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in
typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.



  Do not forget also that LyX has also some other requirements that are not 
shared by any single user. If we support some package we should expect it 
to be available everywhere or else the same LyX document would not give a 
printable output if you change your system.


  Not only that but sometimes different packages have different calls across 
several versions. All this should be taken into account before providing 
the LyX support for any package.


there is only _one_ rule: every TeX source should give
the same output on every system. This depends to the
core TeX, but not to the packages. If you want to be
_really_ sure, then you shouldn't support any package,
otherwise the above rule (from D. Knuth) is senseless.

Supporting packages is nowadays appropriate, but always
a kind of living on the edge ... because you do not
really know, what the package author has in mind. But
one is sure, TeX is the same ...

Herbert

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Georg Baum]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:

> Maybe the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh could reflect this by bundling in LyX-1.4
> instead of LyX ?

Good idea. Are you volunteering to do so?


Georg

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Angus Leeming]

Georg Baum wrote:
> Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
>> Maybe the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh could reflect this by bundling in LyX-1.4
>> instead of LyX ?
> 
> Good idea. Are you volunteering to do so?

Sure he is ;-) It's just a case of changing the line
INSTALLDIR=LyX
after all...

-- 
Angus

1.3.6 problem on windows

[Martin Richtarsky]

Hello,

first I'm happy that there is an 'official' LyX for Windows now, 
especially as I have no Unix box here at the moment :)


But I'm having trouble rather early. The installer depacks the files and 
then gives me the message "Failed attempting to execute configure 
script". It doesn't download anything, although I have chosen all 
components (Python, ...). Starting LyX then fails ("Lyx wasn't able to 
find its layout descriptions").


Any ideas?


Thanks,
Martin

Re: 1.3.6 problem on windows

[Angus Leeming]

Martin Richtarsky wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> first I'm happy that there is an 'official' LyX for Windows now,
> especially as I have no Unix box here at the moment :)
> 
> But I'm having trouble rather early. The installer depacks the files and
> then gives me the message "Failed attempting to execute configure
> script". It doesn't download anything, although I have chosen all
> components (Python, ...). Starting LyX then fails ("Lyx wasn't able to
> find its layout descriptions").
> 
> Any ideas?

H. You have installed a Unix shell (Eg MinSYS), right?

Can you run
sh.exe configure
from a cmd prompt in the C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ directory. You
may have to specify the full path to sh.exe.

-- 
Angus

Re: Mac installation problem

[Bennett Helm]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Lenore Horner wrote:

I thought I'd upgrade to the most recent version of LyX (from 1.3.3) 
on my iBook running 10.3.9.  I downloaded the binary, dragged the LyX 
icon to my Applications folder and then double clicked the LyX 
Installer icon whereupon I received the message: "The operation could 
not be completed.  An unexpected error occurred (error code -10660)."  
Any suggestions?  A cursory trial of LyX shows that it runs and 
displays pdf output.  I'm rather surprised at that because it should 
be looking the wrong place for preferences I thought.   I didn't try 
editing a file.


Lenore -

Doing a quick google search on 'error code "-10660" mac os x' (minus 
the single quotes; the double quotes are needed if google is to search 
for the number rather than require that it's absent) reveals that this 
means OS X can't find the application that normally opens the document 
(in this case the installer script). One cause may be that you have 
deleted Terminal.app; another may be a corrupted cache somewhere.


Try either:

1. cleaning your caches with cocktail 
() or onyx 
() and double-clicking the 
LyX Installer again, or


2. opening a terminal session manually, and running the LyX Installer 
from there.


Bennett

Re: 1.3.6 problem on windows

[Angus Leeming]

On Friday 22 July 2005 13:56, you wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
> > H. You have installed a Unix shell (Eg MinSYS), right?
>
> Not yet; the installer tries to download and install all the
> components, starting with MinSys.

No, it doesn't try to download or install anything. It points your web 
browser to the web page where you can get the package. The rest is up 
to you.

Anyway, the configure script must be interpretted by sh.exe...

> I'm now trying to install these things manually and noticed that
> sourceforge.net, where MinSys is hosted, is down. Perhaps that
> causes the installer to fail?

Not finding sh.exe is what is causing your problems. Install MinSYS, 
then uninstall and reinstall LyX and everything will be well.

Angus

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Angus Leeming]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
> I copied the 1.4 *.py files in my 1.3.6 installation.
> I get one minor error:
> Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.
> Conversion seems  successful however.

This is a warning, not an error. Moreover, it's a bogus warning that José
is going to remove any day now.

> So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.

I'd remove it, given that it ain't a bug and it's going to be removed
anyway.

-- 
Angus

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 22 July 2005 15:53, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
> I copied the 1.4 *.py files in my 1.3.6 installation.
> I get one minor error:
> Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.

  You can ignore this warning. I committed a patch to cvs removing it since 
it is wrong.

> Conversion seems  successful however.

  Good.

> So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

>>> Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'.
>>> Conversion seems  successful however.
>>
>>This is a warning, not an error. Moreover, it's a bogus warning that José
>>is going to remove any day now.
>>
>>> So I added a few lines about this in the wiki page.
>>
>>I'd remove it, given that it ain't a bug and it's going to be removed
>>anyway.

Sorry, I meant about the ability tp patch lyx-1.3.6 with lyx-1.4 py files.
Otherwise it's tedious for multipart docs to lyx2lyx all the created files.

(well I have written a wrapper script for this, but it's easier to just convert
and lyx the master file).

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Ant: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.6 is released, with native Windows support

[Udo Müller]

Thank you for the advise. :)
I tryed to build it at FreeBSD 4.11, works fine. 
But, I found still two things what are not repaired.

1st at previous versions (maybe 1.2.x) if I did use
Ctrl+F to find something, it was possible to replace
spaces, for instance if I want to replace _-_ with
_---_ (_ is for space) it was possible, it is very
comfortable for replacing wrong bars in lage files,
but now spaces are ignored in find/replace.

2nd it would be fine if I could input Ctrl+Shift+l for
deviding ligatures at find/replace. In German there
are a lot of ff, fff, fft, ft etc. which have to be
devided and are no ligatures. So, it would be a very
good idea to make this possible.

Thank you, best regards from Berlin.

Udo.




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Re: Ant: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.6 is released, with native Windows support

[Angus Leeming]

Udo Müller wrote:

> Thank you for the advise. :)
> I tryed to build it at FreeBSD 4.11, works fine.
> But, I found still two things what are not repaired.
> 
> 1st at previous versions (maybe 1.2.x) if I did use
> Ctrl+F to find something, it was possible to replace
> spaces, for instance if I want to replace _-_ with
> _---_ (_ is for space) it was possible, it is very
> comfortable for replacing wrong bars in lage files,
> but now spaces are ignored in find/replace.

Got it! This bug does not occur in the Qt frontend but does occur in the
XForms one. Thanks for the report.

-- 
Angus

Uniform Column Width

[Bruce Pourciau]

Table controls in LyX allow me to fix, one by one, the width of each 
individual column, but can I (without ERT) instruct LyX to make all the 
columns have the same width, with either me or LaTeX choosing the 
uniform width?


Bruce
LyX/Mac 1.3.4

Math Display and Graphics frustration in LyX 1.3.6 Tiger 10.4

[Kevin W Bowman]

Hello,

It's been a little while since I've used Lyx.  I've just installed it  
running Tiger 10.4.2.  The first odd behavior I'm seeing is with the  
Insert->Math->DisplayFormula.
Once I've issued the command, and get the red/blue box, I type the  
letter d and the box goes the left corner of the page.  If I type d  
again, it returns to a standard display formula.  If I type an f I  
get an additional horizontal box.  No matter what I type, I can't  
type in a simple formula like x=y. It's as if Lyx is in some special  
mode.


Now if I apply the following voodoo, I can input a formula:
Insert->Math->DisplayFormula, then put the cursor on any text outside  
of the math display box  followed by  putting the cursor back into  
the display box.


That seems to work.

I also get a similar behavior with the figure environment.  After  
inserting the environment, I can't type in the caption.  If I click  
outside the figure box and back in again, then I can type.


I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.  Is there some default mode that  
I'm missing?


Thanks,

Kevin

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