View-PDF lost

[Roger McMurtrie]

The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu.
I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit-reconfigure.
I have also recently added the Edit-Change tracking patch which seems to be 
working fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Roger

Re: 1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

[Georg Baum]

Rich Shepard wrote:

I've not before had a problem building lyx. The config.log is attached
 (gzipped). Make failed after 15.5 minutes when I did not specify the qt
 directories; now that I've specified them, it fails in 8 seconds:

I found nothing pertinent searching the gmane archive. Is this a STL
issue?

No, but the gmane search function seems to be not so powerful:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40655.html

 Patrick doesn't provide STL in Slackware and that's bitten me a couple of
 times recently.

Then he must provide a really old version of gcc (2.7 or something like
that) or a modified one (the STL is shipped as part of gcc since years). I
doubt that. Why would one want to do that?


Georg

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong

[Georg Baum]

Gilles Mioni wrote:

 When fakerout was compiling, errors ocurred as :
 
 *libtool: link: `package.lo' is not a valid libtool object*

That should be fixed by the latest version of
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Linux/lyx_1.3.6-0.lyx.org.1.diff (uploaded
yesterday). Did you use that?


Georg

Making Custom Symbol sets? IPA

[Stacia Hartleben]

I was looking at the math editor and I was wondering if I could add my
own symbol sets, particularly for the IPA (using tipa). I found a file
called symbol but I don't know how to edit the stuff in it. Will
support for phonetic alphabets and trees like with Qtree ever be added
like with the math?

I am really a total newbie to Lyx...but I was wondering too if there
is any way to make your own toolbar buttons for easy access to some
functions (finding ones on the menu that I use a lot is very time
consuming). Thanks!

Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

Hi there,

I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?

-Andre

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

[Andre Berger]

* Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-07-31 17:30 +0200:
 Andre Berger wrote:
  Maybe one could just make them
  available in the document layout font menu, for a start :)
 
 It's not that easy.
 We have to check if mathpazo is available, if not, fall back to mathpple, if 
 that is not available, fall back to palatino (same for mathptmx - mathptm - 
 times). And maybe generate a warning if a document is processed on a system 
 where an obsolete font package has to be used.
 Also we have to think about what to do with the sans serif and courier 
 families. It's certainly not a good idea to hardcode them.
 
 The whole output fonts handling of LyX needs an overhaul. But that will 
 presumerably not happen before v. 1.5.

I see, thanks for the explanation.

-Andre

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Andre Berger wrote:
 Hi there,

 I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
 to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
 would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
 keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?

You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding of 
(n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
problem has been discussed several times.

Jürgen 

Re: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections


More newbie questions from me that might be a little easier this time!

1. I have found that upon opening multiple documents, I can't seem to
get the previous documents back, although it does ask me if I'd like
to save them before quitting. I'm used to windows programs having
small little tabs or something to switch between documents.

Go to the Dovuments Tab on the Menu bar. It lists all open documents. Just 
click on the one you want.


2. This is probably a really stupid question, but how do I use the
section thing under the dropdown list without numbering? A friend of
mine gave me the LaTeX code, but it would be nice to see the headers
formatted like LyX does but just without numbers.


Select the environments with a * after. e.g. section*


Geoff

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

* Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-08-01 14:40 +0200:
 Andre Berger wrote:
  Hi there,
 
  I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
  to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
  would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
  keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?
 
 You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding of 
 (n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
 manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
 problem has been discussed several times.

Now that you mention it, there used to be a GUI encoding setting in
previous versions of LyX I had set to latin9, but it's no longer
available.

-Andre

Re: 1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Georg Baum wrote:


   I found nothing pertinent searching the gmane archive. Is this a STL
   issue?


No, but the gmane search function seems to be not so powerful:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40655.html


Georg,

  I _thought_ that I had recently read something on the list about this, but
I had not saved it and could not find it. Thank you very much.


Then he must provide a really old version of gcc (2.7 or something like
that) or a modified one (the STL is shipped as part of gcc since years). I
doubt that. Why would one want to do that?


  Well, gcc-3.3.4 is installed. I was told by developers of an application
that refused to build that it was a lack of stl that was the problem. I do C
and now Python so I just took them at their word.

  I'm off to build a working LyX-1.3.6.

Thank you very much,

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |  Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-08-01 15:30 +0200:
 * Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-08-01 14:40 +0200:
  Andre Berger wrote:
   Hi there,
  
   I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
   to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
   would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
   keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?
  
  You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding 
  of 
  (n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
  manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
  problem has been discussed several times.
 
 Now that you mention it, there used to be a GUI encoding setting in
 previous versions of LyX I had set to latin9, but it's no longer
 available.

But I found the file you mentioned, it's
LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/languages on Mac, for the archives.

-Andre

comparing lyx documents

[Micha Feigin]

Anyone has a good sujesion on how to compare two lyx documents?
I have given my thesis for review to several people in parallel and marked the
relevant versions in the CVS tree but in order to incorporate the changes back
I need to coherently compare them.
I have seen the ldiff script which compares too tex files, but it compares tex
and not lyx files in the first place and it also can't handle multi file
documents.

It doesn't seem like the lyx 1.4 track changes feature can do that so I didn't
try to compile it at the moment.
 
 +++
 This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
 at the Tel-Aviv University CC.

Re: View-PDF lost

[Paul A. Rubin]

Roger McMurtrie wrote:

The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu.
I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit-reconfigure.
I have also recently added the Edit-Change tracking patch which seems to be 
working fine.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Roger



Two possibilities:  either LyX lost the name of the viewer to use, or it 
lost the ability to produce PDF output.


First thing to check is Edit-Preferences-File formats-PDF and see if 
the Viewer: field is filled in.  If not, insert the name of the viewer 
there, click Modify and then Save, and see if life gets better.  I use 
Acrobat Reader, and I can type in just acrord32 (minus the quotes) and 
have it work.  Others, though, have reported that it doesn't work on 
their systems, and they have to type a full path to it.  If you need the 
full path, and if the path contains spaces, I think you'll need to 
enclose it in double quotes (but I'm not positive).  Note that if this 
is the problem, you may need to do the same for PDF (pdflatex) and PDF 
(dvipdfm).


If the viewer field is correctly filled in, check whether File-Export 
lists PDF as an option.  If not, LyX has lost track of how to generate a 
PDF.  Have a look in Edit-Preferences-Converters.  The usual route for 
plain PDF (as opposed to the other two PDF options) is 
LyX-LaTeX-DVI-Postscript-PDF prior to version 1.3.6, 
LyX-LaTeX-DraftDVI-DVI-Postscript-PDF as of version 1.3.6.  The 
first step (LyX-LaTeX) is built in, but you'll need converters for each 
of the remaining steps.  The Postscript-PDF converter on my system 
reads ps2pdf13 $$i (in the Converter: field).  You'll need to recreate 
any missing converters (or provide some other sequence that gets from 
LaTeX to PDF).


HTH,

Paul

Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[William F. Adams]

The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log?

Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century?

William

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

Re: Heretical question?

[Michael Wojcik]

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?


[This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have garnered much 
response.]


One LyX advantage: it isn't WYSIWYG.  I'm happy to argue that separating 
content and presentation is the right way to go, and that WYSIWYG has 
done tremendous damage to writing.  (Yes, some of my friends at MSU's 
WIDE (Writing in Digital Environments) center might disagree with that, 
but if we all agreed on everything we wouldn't have much to talk about 
at parties.)


--
Michael Wojcik

Re: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Georg Stacia Hartleben wrote:
 More newbie questions from me that might be a little easier this
 time!
 
 1. I have found that upon opening multiple documents, I can't seem
 to get the previous documents back, although it does ask me if I'd
 like to save them before quitting.

Georg Look in the Documents menu.

Since version 1.3.6, you can also use Ctrl-PageUp/Down to switch.

 I'm used to windows programs having small little tabs or something
 to switch between documents.

Georg This is currently not implemented, but recorded as a feature
Georg request: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212

I guess it would fairly easy to add to at Least Qt, don't you think?

JMarc

Background image at the top of each page

[samar j. singh]

Hi

I am trying to add a background image to appear at the top of each page of the 
document - like a sort of masthead.

I have tried pagestyle fancy but it does not let me insert a graphic at the 
head of the page even though I can insert text.

There is mention of the eso-pic.sty package but no documentation on how to use 
it to do this.

Would appreciate any advice

samar

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

[Juergen Fenn]

 From: Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:23:09 +0200

 It's not that easy.
 We have to check if mathpazo is available, if not, fall back to mathpple, if 
 that is not available, fall back to palatino (same for mathptmx - mathptm 
 - 
 times). And maybe generate a warning if a document is processed on a system 
 where an obsolete font package has to be used.
 Also we have to think about what to do with the sans serif and courier 
 families. It's certainly not a good idea to hardcode them.
 
 The whole output fonts handling of LyX needs an overhaul. But that will 
 presumerably not happen before v. 1.5.

 I see, thanks for the explanation.

Sorry, I think you are wrong. As we say in l2tabu/ l2tabuen, palatino
should not be used at all any more because it is obsolete. There is no
support for math fonts in palatino, and even if you do not need math
fonts in your documents at all mathpazo now is the package to use if
you want to typeset your document with Palatino. mathpazo has been a
part of PSNFSS for quite a while. So it should be available on most
systems. I think you should simply replace palatino by mathpazo. In
fact when I began using LyX on Windows I was rather surprised to find
palatino.sty still in use here...

Regards,
Juergen.

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[Roy Schestowitz]

Quoting William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log?

Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century?


All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under 
Windows 98 SE.

have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was
from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the
build has been updated since, but my bookmark points to:

http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm

The page looks different from the way I remember it, or perhaps I got a
different port from a different page.

Hope it helps,

Roy

--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Roy == Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Roy Quoting William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash
 log?
 
 Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this
 century?

Roy All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under
Roy Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it
Roy last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page
Roy offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the build has been
Roy updated since, but my bookmark points to:

Roy http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm

It was something very different at the time. Now LyX runs as a native
windows application.

JMarc

Indenting Text

[Stacia Hartleben]

Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I
can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!

Re: Indenting Text

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote:


Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I
can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!


  You can change it in two places: Layout-Document-Layout choose Indent or
Skip for paragraph spacing. Then, in Layout-Paragraph-General you can
select Don't skip.

  If you are referring to lists, then you can use Layout and Increase or
Decrease environment depth.

  However, if you're referring to something else you'll need to be more
specific.

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |  Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

View-PDF lost

[Roger McMurtrie]

The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu.
I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit-reconfigure.
I have also recently added the Edit-Change tracking patch which seems to be 
working fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Roger

Re: 1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

[Georg Baum]

Rich Shepard wrote:

I've not before had a problem building lyx. The config.log is attached
 (gzipped). Make failed after 15.5 minutes when I did not specify the qt
 directories; now that I've specified them, it fails in 8 seconds:

I found nothing pertinent searching the gmane archive. Is this a STL
issue?

No, but the gmane search function seems to be not so powerful:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40655.html

 Patrick doesn't provide STL in Slackware and that's bitten me a couple of
 times recently.

Then he must provide a really old version of gcc (2.7 or something like
that) or a modified one (the STL is shipped as part of gcc since years). I
doubt that. Why would one want to do that?


Georg

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong

[Georg Baum]

Gilles Mioni wrote:

 When fakerout was compiling, errors ocurred as :
 
 *libtool: link: `package.lo' is not a valid libtool object*

That should be fixed by the latest version of
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Linux/lyx_1.3.6-0.lyx.org.1.diff (uploaded
yesterday). Did you use that?


Georg

Making Custom Symbol sets? IPA

[Stacia Hartleben]

I was looking at the math editor and I was wondering if I could add my
own symbol sets, particularly for the IPA (using tipa). I found a file
called symbol but I don't know how to edit the stuff in it. Will
support for phonetic alphabets and trees like with Qtree ever be added
like with the math?

I am really a total newbie to Lyx...but I was wondering too if there
is any way to make your own toolbar buttons for easy access to some
functions (finding ones on the menu that I use a lot is very time
consuming). Thanks!

Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

Hi there,

I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?

-Andre

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

[Andre Berger]

* Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-07-31 17:30 +0200:
 Andre Berger wrote:
  Maybe one could just make them
  available in the document layout font menu, for a start :)
 
 It's not that easy.
 We have to check if mathpazo is available, if not, fall back to mathpple, if 
 that is not available, fall back to palatino (same for mathptmx - mathptm - 
 times). And maybe generate a warning if a document is processed on a system 
 where an obsolete font package has to be used.
 Also we have to think about what to do with the sans serif and courier 
 families. It's certainly not a good idea to hardcode them.
 
 The whole output fonts handling of LyX needs an overhaul. But that will 
 presumerably not happen before v. 1.5.

I see, thanks for the explanation.

-Andre

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Andre Berger wrote:
 Hi there,

 I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
 to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
 would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
 keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?

You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding of 
(n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
problem has been discussed several times.

Jürgen 

Re: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections


More newbie questions from me that might be a little easier this time!

1. I have found that upon opening multiple documents, I can't seem to
get the previous documents back, although it does ask me if I'd like
to save them before quitting. I'm used to windows programs having
small little tabs or something to switch between documents.

Go to the Dovuments Tab on the Menu bar. It lists all open documents. Just 
click on the one you want.


2. This is probably a really stupid question, but how do I use the
section thing under the dropdown list without numbering? A friend of
mine gave me the LaTeX code, but it would be nice to see the headers
formatted like LyX does but just without numbers.


Select the environments with a * after. e.g. section*


Geoff

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

* Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-08-01 14:40 +0200:
 Andre Berger wrote:
  Hi there,
 
  I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
  to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
  would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
  keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?
 
 You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding of 
 (n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
 manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
 problem has been discussed several times.

Now that you mention it, there used to be a GUI encoding setting in
previous versions of LyX I had set to latin9, but it's no longer
available.

-Andre

Re: 1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Georg Baum wrote:


   I found nothing pertinent searching the gmane archive. Is this a STL
   issue?


No, but the gmane search function seems to be not so powerful:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40655.html


Georg,

  I _thought_ that I had recently read something on the list about this, but
I had not saved it and could not find it. Thank you very much.


Then he must provide a really old version of gcc (2.7 or something like
that) or a modified one (the STL is shipped as part of gcc since years). I
doubt that. Why would one want to do that?


  Well, gcc-3.3.4 is installed. I was told by developers of an application
that refused to build that it was a lack of stl that was the problem. I do C
and now Python so I just took them at their word.

  I'm off to build a working LyX-1.3.6.

Thank you very much,

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |  Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-08-01 15:30 +0200:
 * Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-08-01 14:40 +0200:
  Andre Berger wrote:
   Hi there,
  
   I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
   to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
   would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
   keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?
  
  You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding 
  of 
  (n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
  manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
  problem has been discussed several times.
 
 Now that you mention it, there used to be a GUI encoding setting in
 previous versions of LyX I had set to latin9, but it's no longer
 available.

But I found the file you mentioned, it's
LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/languages on Mac, for the archives.

-Andre

comparing lyx documents

[Micha Feigin]

Anyone has a good sujesion on how to compare two lyx documents?
I have given my thesis for review to several people in parallel and marked the
relevant versions in the CVS tree but in order to incorporate the changes back
I need to coherently compare them.
I have seen the ldiff script which compares too tex files, but it compares tex
and not lyx files in the first place and it also can't handle multi file
documents.

It doesn't seem like the lyx 1.4 track changes feature can do that so I didn't
try to compile it at the moment.
 
 +++
 This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
 at the Tel-Aviv University CC.

Re: View-PDF lost

[Paul A. Rubin]

Roger McMurtrie wrote:

The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu.
I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit-reconfigure.
I have also recently added the Edit-Change tracking patch which seems to be 
working fine.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Roger



Two possibilities:  either LyX lost the name of the viewer to use, or it 
lost the ability to produce PDF output.


First thing to check is Edit-Preferences-File formats-PDF and see if 
the Viewer: field is filled in.  If not, insert the name of the viewer 
there, click Modify and then Save, and see if life gets better.  I use 
Acrobat Reader, and I can type in just acrord32 (minus the quotes) and 
have it work.  Others, though, have reported that it doesn't work on 
their systems, and they have to type a full path to it.  If you need the 
full path, and if the path contains spaces, I think you'll need to 
enclose it in double quotes (but I'm not positive).  Note that if this 
is the problem, you may need to do the same for PDF (pdflatex) and PDF 
(dvipdfm).


If the viewer field is correctly filled in, check whether File-Export 
lists PDF as an option.  If not, LyX has lost track of how to generate a 
PDF.  Have a look in Edit-Preferences-Converters.  The usual route for 
plain PDF (as opposed to the other two PDF options) is 
LyX-LaTeX-DVI-Postscript-PDF prior to version 1.3.6, 
LyX-LaTeX-DraftDVI-DVI-Postscript-PDF as of version 1.3.6.  The 
first step (LyX-LaTeX) is built in, but you'll need converters for each 
of the remaining steps.  The Postscript-PDF converter on my system 
reads ps2pdf13 $$i (in the Converter: field).  You'll need to recreate 
any missing converters (or provide some other sequence that gets from 
LaTeX to PDF).


HTH,

Paul

Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[William F. Adams]

The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log?

Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century?

William

--
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voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
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Re: Heretical question?

[Michael Wojcik]

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?


[This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have garnered much 
response.]


One LyX advantage: it isn't WYSIWYG.  I'm happy to argue that separating 
content and presentation is the right way to go, and that WYSIWYG has 
done tremendous damage to writing.  (Yes, some of my friends at MSU's 
WIDE (Writing in Digital Environments) center might disagree with that, 
but if we all agreed on everything we wouldn't have much to talk about 
at parties.)


--
Michael Wojcik

Re: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Georg Stacia Hartleben wrote:
 More newbie questions from me that might be a little easier this
 time!
 
 1. I have found that upon opening multiple documents, I can't seem
 to get the previous documents back, although it does ask me if I'd
 like to save them before quitting.

Georg Look in the Documents menu.

Since version 1.3.6, you can also use Ctrl-PageUp/Down to switch.

 I'm used to windows programs having small little tabs or something
 to switch between documents.

Georg This is currently not implemented, but recorded as a feature
Georg request: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212

I guess it would fairly easy to add to at Least Qt, don't you think?

JMarc

Background image at the top of each page

[samar j. singh]

Hi

I am trying to add a background image to appear at the top of each page of the 
document - like a sort of masthead.

I have tried pagestyle fancy but it does not let me insert a graphic at the 
head of the page even though I can insert text.

There is mention of the eso-pic.sty package but no documentation on how to use 
it to do this.

Would appreciate any advice

samar

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

[Juergen Fenn]

 From: Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:23:09 +0200

 It's not that easy.
 We have to check if mathpazo is available, if not, fall back to mathpple, if 
 that is not available, fall back to palatino (same for mathptmx - mathptm 
 - 
 times). And maybe generate a warning if a document is processed on a system 
 where an obsolete font package has to be used.
 Also we have to think about what to do with the sans serif and courier 
 families. It's certainly not a good idea to hardcode them.
 
 The whole output fonts handling of LyX needs an overhaul. But that will 
 presumerably not happen before v. 1.5.

 I see, thanks for the explanation.

Sorry, I think you are wrong. As we say in l2tabu/ l2tabuen, palatino
should not be used at all any more because it is obsolete. There is no
support for math fonts in palatino, and even if you do not need math
fonts in your documents at all mathpazo now is the package to use if
you want to typeset your document with Palatino. mathpazo has been a
part of PSNFSS for quite a while. So it should be available on most
systems. I think you should simply replace palatino by mathpazo. In
fact when I began using LyX on Windows I was rather surprised to find
palatino.sty still in use here...

Regards,
Juergen.

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[Roy Schestowitz]

Quoting William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log?

Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century?


All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under 
Windows 98 SE.

have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was
from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the
build has been updated since, but my bookmark points to:

http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm

The page looks different from the way I remember it, or perhaps I got a
different port from a different page.

Hope it helps,

Roy

--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Roy == Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Roy Quoting William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash
 log?
 
 Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this
 century?

Roy All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under
Roy Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it
Roy last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page
Roy offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the build has been
Roy updated since, but my bookmark points to:

Roy http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm

It was something very different at the time. Now LyX runs as a native
windows application.

JMarc

Indenting Text

[Stacia Hartleben]

Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I
can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!

Re: Indenting Text

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote:


Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I
can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!


  You can change it in two places: Layout-Document-Layout choose Indent or
Skip for paragraph spacing. Then, in Layout-Paragraph-General you can
select Don't skip.

  If you are referring to lists, then you can use Layout and Increase or
Decrease environment depth.

  However, if you're referring to something else you'll need to be more
specific.

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
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View->PDF lost

[Roger McMurtrie]

The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu.
I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit->reconfigure.
I have also recently added the Edit->Change tracking patch which seems to be 
working fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Roger

Re: 1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

[Georg Baum]

Rich Shepard wrote:

>I've not before had a problem building lyx. The config.log is attached
> (gzipped). Make failed after 15.5 minutes when I did not specify the qt
> directories; now that I've specified them, it fails in 8 seconds:

>I found nothing pertinent searching the gmane archive. Is this a STL
>issue?

No, but the gmane search function seems to be not so powerful:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40655.html

> Patrick doesn't provide STL in Slackware and that's bitten me a couple of
> times recently.

Then he must provide a really old version of gcc (2.7 or something like
that) or a modified one (the STL is shipped as part of gcc since years). I
doubt that. Why would one want to do that?


Georg

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong

[Georg Baum]

Gilles Mioni wrote:

> When fakerout was compiling, errors ocurred as :
> 
> *libtool: link: `package.lo' is not a valid libtool object*

That should be fixed by the latest version of
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Linux/lyx_1.3.6-0.lyx.org.1.diff (uploaded
yesterday). Did you use that?


Georg

Making Custom Symbol sets? IPA

[Stacia Hartleben]

I was looking at the math editor and I was wondering if I could add my
own symbol sets, particularly for the IPA (using tipa). I found a file
called "symbol" but I don't know how to edit the stuff in it. Will
support for phonetic alphabets and trees like with Qtree ever be added
like with the math?

I am really a total newbie to Lyx...but I was wondering too if there
is any way to make your own toolbar buttons for easy access to some
functions (finding ones on the menu that I use a lot is very time
consuming). Thanks!

Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

Hi there,

I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?

-Andre

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

[Andre Berger]

* Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-07-31 17:30 +0200:
> Andre Berger wrote:
> > Maybe one could just make them
> > available in the document layout font menu, for a start :)
> 
> It's not that easy.
> We have to check if mathpazo is available, if not, fall back to mathpple, if 
> that is not available, fall back to palatino (same for mathptmx -> mathptm -> 
> times). And maybe generate a warning if a document is processed on a system 
> where an obsolete font package has to be used.
> Also we have to think about what to do with the sans serif and courier 
> families. It's certainly not a good idea to hardcode them.
> 
> The whole output fonts handling of LyX needs an overhaul. But that will 
> presumerably not happen before v. 1.5.

I see, thanks for the explanation.

-Andre

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Andre Berger wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
> to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
> would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
> keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?

You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding of 
(n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
problem has been discussed several times.

Jürgen 

Re: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections


More newbie questions from me that might be a little easier this time!

1. I have found that upon opening multiple documents, I can't seem to
get the previous documents back, although it does ask me if I'd like
to save them before quitting. I'm used to windows programs having
small little tabs or something to switch between documents.

Go to the Dovuments Tab on the Menu bar. It lists all open documents. Just 
click on the one you want.


2. This is probably a really stupid question, but how do I use the
section thing under the dropdown list without numbering? A friend of
mine gave me the LaTeX code, but it would be nice to see the headers
formatted like LyX does but just without numbers.


Select the environments with a * after. e.g. section*


Geoff

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

* Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-08-01 14:40 +0200:
> Andre Berger wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
> > to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
> > would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
> > keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?
> 
> You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding of 
> (n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
> manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
> problem has been discussed several times.

Now that you mention it, there used to be a GUI encoding setting in
previous versions of LyX I had set to "latin9", but it's no longer
available.

-Andre

Re: 1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Georg Baum wrote:


   I found nothing pertinent searching the gmane archive. Is this a STL
   issue?


No, but the gmane search function seems to be not so powerful:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40655.html


Georg,

  I _thought_ that I had recently read something on the list about this, but
I had not saved it and could not find it. Thank you very much.


Then he must provide a really old version of gcc (2.7 or something like
that) or a modified one (the STL is shipped as part of gcc since years). I
doubt that. Why would one want to do that?


  Well, gcc-3.3.4 is installed. I was told by developers of an application
that refused to build that it was a lack of stl that was the problem. I do C
and now Python so I just took them at their word.

  I'm off to build a working LyX-1.3.6.

Thank you very much,

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic"
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

[Andre Berger]

* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-08-01 15:30 +0200:
> * Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-08-01 14:40 +0200:
> > Andre Berger wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign
> > > to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I
> > > would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac
> > > keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?
> > 
> > You can use the keyboard's Euro Symbol directly if you change the encoding 
> > of 
> > (n)german to iso8859-15 in lib/languages (you still need to load textcomp 
> > manually). It's a bit of a hassle though. Have a look at the archives, the 
> > problem has been discussed several times.
> 
> Now that you mention it, there used to be a GUI encoding setting in
> previous versions of LyX I had set to "latin9", but it's no longer
> available.

But I found the file you mentioned, it's
LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/languages on Mac, for the archives.

-Andre

comparing lyx documents

[Micha Feigin]

Anyone has a good sujesion on how to compare two lyx documents?
I have given my thesis for review to several people in parallel and marked the
relevant versions in the CVS tree but in order to incorporate the changes back
I need to coherently compare them.
I have seen the ldiff script which compares too tex files, but it compares tex
and not lyx files in the first place and it also can't handle multi file
documents.

It doesn't seem like the lyx 1.4 track changes feature can do that so I didn't
try to compile it at the moment.
 
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Re: View->PDF lost

[Paul A. Rubin]

Roger McMurtrie wrote:

The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu.
I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit->reconfigure.
I have also recently added the Edit->Change tracking patch which seems to be 
working fine.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Roger



Two possibilities:  either LyX lost the name of the viewer to use, or it 
lost the ability to produce PDF output.


First thing to check is Edit->Preferences->File formats->PDF and see if 
the Viewer: field is filled in.  If not, insert the name of the viewer 
there, click Modify and then Save, and see if life gets better.  I use 
Acrobat Reader, and I can type in just "acrord32" (minus the quotes) and 
have it work.  Others, though, have reported that it doesn't work on 
their systems, and they have to type a full path to it.  If you need the 
full path, and if the path contains spaces, I think you'll need to 
enclose it in double quotes (but I'm not positive).  Note that if this 
is the problem, you may need to do the same for PDF (pdflatex) and PDF 
(dvipdfm).


If the viewer field is correctly filled in, check whether File->Export 
lists PDF as an option.  If not, LyX has lost track of how to generate a 
PDF.  Have a look in Edit->Preferences->Converters.  The usual route for 
"plain" PDF (as opposed to the other two PDF options) is 
LyX->LaTeX->DVI->Postscript->PDF prior to version 1.3.6, 
LyX->LaTeX->DraftDVI->DVI->Postscript->PDF as of version 1.3.6.  The 
first step (LyX->LaTeX) is built in, but you'll need converters for each 
of the remaining steps.  The Postscript->PDF converter on my system 
reads "ps2pdf13 $$i" (in the Converter: field).  You'll need to recreate 
any missing converters (or provide some other sequence that gets from 
LaTeX to PDF).


HTH,

Paul

Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[William F. Adams]

The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log?

Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century?

William

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

Re: Heretical question?

[Michael Wojcik]

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?


[This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have garnered much 
response.]


One LyX advantage: it isn't WYSIWYG.  I'm happy to argue that separating 
content and presentation is the right way to go, and that WYSIWYG has 
done tremendous damage to writing.  (Yes, some of my friends at MSU's 
WIDE (Writing in Digital Environments) center might disagree with that, 
but if we all agreed on everything we wouldn't have much to talk about 
at parties.)


--
Michael Wojcik

Re: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Georg> Stacia Hartleben wrote:
>> More newbie questions from me that might be a little easier this
>> time!
>> 
>> 1. I have found that upon opening multiple documents, I can't seem
>> to get the previous documents back, although it does ask me if I'd
>> like to save them before quitting.

Georg> Look in the Documents menu.

Since version 1.3.6, you can also use Ctrl-PageUp/Down to switch.

>> I'm used to windows programs having small little tabs or something
>> to switch between documents.

Georg> This is currently not implemented, but recorded as a feature
Georg> request: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212

I guess it would fairly easy to add to at Least Qt, don't you think?

JMarc

Background image at the top of each page

[samar j. singh]

Hi

I am trying to add a background image to appear at the top of each page of the 
document - like a sort of masthead.

I have tried pagestyle fancy but it does not let me insert a graphic at the 
head of the page even though I can insert text.

There is mention of the eso-pic.sty package but no documentation on how to use 
it to do this.

Would appreciate any advice

samar

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

[Juergen Fenn]

> From: Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:23:09 +0200

>> It's not that easy.
>> We have to check if mathpazo is available, if not, fall back to mathpple, if 
>> that is not available, fall back to palatino (same for mathptmx -> mathptm 
>> -> 
>> times). And maybe generate a warning if a document is processed on a system 
>> where an obsolete font package has to be used.
>> Also we have to think about what to do with the sans serif and courier 
>> families. It's certainly not a good idea to hardcode them.
>> 
>> The whole output fonts handling of LyX needs an overhaul. But that will 
>> presumerably not happen before v. 1.5.
>
> I see, thanks for the explanation.

Sorry, I think you are wrong. As we say in l2tabu/ l2tabuen, palatino
should not be used at all any more because it is obsolete. There is no
support for math fonts in palatino, and even if you do not need math
fonts in your documents at all mathpazo now is the package to use if
you want to typeset your document with Palatino. mathpazo has been a
part of PSNFSS for quite a while. So it should be available on most
systems. I think you should simply replace palatino by mathpazo. In
fact when I began using LyX on Windows I was rather surprised to find
palatino.sty still in use here...

Regards,
Juergen.

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[Roy Schestowitz]

Quoting "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log?

Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century?


All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under 
Windows 98 SE.

have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was
from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the
build has been updated since, but my bookmark points to:

http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm

The page looks different from the way I remember it, or perhaps I got a
different port from a different page.

Hope it helps,

Roy

--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Roy" == Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Roy> Quoting "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash
>> log?
>> 
>> Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this
>> century?

Roy> All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under
Roy> Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it
Roy> last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page
Roy> offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the build has been
Roy> updated since, but my bookmark points to:

Roy> http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm

It was something very different at the time. Now LyX runs as a native
windows application.

JMarc

Indenting Text

[Stacia Hartleben]

Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I
can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!

Re: Indenting Text

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote:


Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I
can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!


  You can change it in two places: Layout->Document->Layout choose Indent or
Skip for paragraph spacing. Then, in Layout->Paragraph->General you can
select Don't skip.

  If you are referring to lists, then you can use Layout and Increase or
Decrease environment depth.

  However, if you're referring to something else you'll need to be more
specific.

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |  Author of "Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic"
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863