pdflatex & MacOS X

[David Philp]

Hi

This is along the lines of the recent "lyx MacOS" thread.  I have the
same problem with the following symptoms:

(1) "View PDF (pdflatex)" does nothing
(nothing means it grinds away a little bit and then does nothing.  Lyx
is responsive.)
(2) "File -> Export -> PDF (pdflatex)" does nothing (produces no file
in appropriate directory)
(3) other methods of viewing do not work because the document uses "pdfpages"
but
(4) "File -> Export -> Latex" works, and produces a latex document
that works when compiled in texshop using pdflatex.
and more confusing
(5) other documents that do NOT use "pdfpages" work as expected with pdflatex.

So I know that my document isn't broken at any stage, and that my
latex probably isn't broken either...

I have tried fiddling as in the recent "lyx MacOS" thread (i.e.
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg42267.html )
with no success.

I am using the most recent version of Lyx 1.3.6-2, on OS 10.4.  I
originally wrote this file in Lyx a few weeks ago... and it worked
fine then too!

TIA, David

Re: CMR font

[mywebs2005-lyx]

I recommend the latin modern fonts. They are based on
computern modern and under the GPL. You find them in
OpenType format here:

ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/lm/fonts/opentype/public/lm/
 
the equivalent for CMR is lmroman.
 
regards Uwe
-

GREAT! I'm too happy, that's exactly what I need!
Thanks a lot!
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Re: Symbol in ERT

[mywebs2005-lyx]

> Québec, le 11 octobre 2005
> (...)
> \item Calque -> Couleurs -> Désaturer
> 
> 
> 
> I want to replace "->" with \triangleright between
> Calque, Couleurs and Désaturer but then LyX refuses
> to compile the pdf.
> 
> Raymond

--
The \triangleright is a math symbol, then you must use
it between '$', as below:

%
\begin{enumerate}

\item faire un double du calque, le travail se fait à
partir du double

\item Calque $\triangleright$ Couleurs
$\triangleright$ Désaturer

[blabla]

\end{enumerate}
%

Did I help you? :)
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jurabib from within lyx

[Lachlan]

Hi,

I am a science student, and so the standard NatBib stuff within Lyx has been 
all I have ever used.  However, I am doing a history subject and want more 
humanity-friendly references (full references as footnotes).

After a while browsing and searching online, it seems that the jurabib package 
is what I need, but I can't get it to work.  Nor can I find a useful howto 
anywhere.

Following bits of advice from all over the place, this is what I have done:
- turned off NatBib in the document preferences.
- added the following line to the Preamble under document preferences: 
\usepackage[bibformat=numbered]{jurabib}
- selected jurabib as the style for the bibtex generated references

I have created a test document with only one reference from a database of about 
10 entries.  I now have it down to one Latex error when I try to produce DVI 
output (I started with many many more).  This error occurs in the line where 
the reference is cited, and says:

"Paragraph ended before \org@@citex was complete
I suspect you've forgotten a "}", causing me to apply this control sequence to 
too much text.  How can we recover?  My plan is to forget the whole thing and 
hope for the best."

I would greatly appreciate assistance with this problem.

Symbol in ERT

[Raymond Ouellette]

Québec, le 11 octobre 2005

I'm using beamer class for a pdf presentation of Gimp next week. In a slide, I 
use a block box written using ERT. My problem is that I want to insert a right 
triangle to mimic a right arrow. The symbol is \triangleright but I dont't know 
how to insert it inside the ERT?

Here is the ERT text of the box:

\begin{block}<2->{La technique du calque désaturé et inversé}
\begin{enumerate}
\item faire un double du calque, le travail se fait à partir du double
\item Calque -> Couleurs -> Désaturer

[blabla]

\end{enumerate}
\end{block}


I want to relace "->" with \triangleright between Calque, Couleurs and 
Désaturer but then LyX refuses to compile the pdf.

Raymond


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Re: FW: space between single and right double quote marks

[Daniel Watkins]

>   ``The word was `foo' ''[I'll call E style] style.

Try using C-Shift-Space to create a thin space. The LyX is as follows:

\begin_body

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

The word was 'foo'\InsetSpace \thinspace{}

\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset


\end_layout

\end_body

Hoping this helps,
Dan

Re: converting tex to lyx; layouts

[Paul Smith]

On 10/11/05, Tomoki Tsuchiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am using win32 lyx 1.3.6.
> I am wondering why I can't convert tex file to lyx file. is it possible at
> all?

Have a look at:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx

> As well as that, I am searching for a good site, explaining how to create
> layout files.

See:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts

And, good luck, Tomoki!

Paul

converting tex to lyx; layouts

[Tomoki Tsuchiya]

Hi there,
I am using win32 lyx 1.3.6.
I am wondering why I can't convert tex file to lyx file. is it possible at 
all?


As well as that, I am searching for a good site, explaining how to create 
layout files.
How can one make cls files for tex, usable in lyx? Related to this question. 
How can
one open .ins file using lyx? (This has to be done apparently to get cls 
out.)


I spent hours searching the net, and frankly, I am fed up with fiddling 
around with lyx
all the time to make is more useful. Is there any good web site which I can 
go and rest

my tired mind...?

Cheers!

Re: space between single and right double quote marks

[Jim Osborn]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:11:39AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> This is easy in lyx-1.4... Correct spacing is added as needed, at
> least that happened for me with this sort of quoting style:
> «The word was  » he said. 
> 
> It is also possible (but cumbersome) in lyx 1.3:
> Set quoting style to double qoutes. Write everything, but skip
> the single quotes.  Change quoting style to single quotes.
> (That won't affect the existing double quotes in there.)
> Now type the single quotes.  Then, change the style back if you need.

Thanks, Helge,

It does exactly as you say with the
   «The word was  » [I'll call F style]
quoting style, but not with the 
  ``The word was `foo' ''[I'll call E style]
style.

Here's the lyx for my E style example:

   \begin_inset Quotes eld
   \end_inset 
   
   The word was
   \begin_inset Quotes els
   \end_inset 
   
   foo
   \begin_inset Quotes ers
   \end_inset 
   
   \begin_inset Quotes erd
   \end_inset 
   
he said.

And here's the dvi:
...foo

The lyx for the F style has "fld" in place of "eld" etc., and it does
indeed produce this dvi with LyX 1.3.6:
...foo

So, apparently it's a bug, at least in LyX 1.3.6, with the E style quotes
but not the F style; I didn't test all the other possibilities.

If you have time, could you verify whether the bug exists in LyX 1.4
for the E style quotes?


> The spacing should be correct too.  If it isn't note that both
> lyx 1.3 and lyx 1.4 have "small spaces" in the insert menu.

I can't find a "small space" in my LyX 1.3.6 Insert->Special Character
menu.  I have these choices:
  Superscript
  Subscript
  Hfill
  Hyphenation Point
  Ligature Break
  Protected Blank
  Line Break
  Ellipsis
  End of Sentence
  Ordinary Quote
  Menu Separator

Protected Blank puts this in the lyx:
  \SpecialChar ~
and produces exactly the same size space as an ordinary space, one em,
as my eyes measure it.  An ERT \ does the same.

The  that appears between the single and double quotes
in my examples looks like about one-third of an em. 

Am I looking on the wrong menu for the "small spaces" you mention?

Thanks again for the help.

Jim

Re: CMR font

[Gour]

Uwe Stöhr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I recommend the latin modern fonts. They are based on computern modern 
> and under the GPL. You find them in OpenType format here:

This is a new stuff, it is not part of tetex?

Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: pagebreaks and labeling

[Uwe Stöhr]

Jose Capco wrote:


Is there something like pagebreak or newpage the lyx
way?


For \newpage you can use the shortcut "Strg-ENTER" (or "C-ENTER").
\pagebreak is actually not supported in LyX, so that you have to use ERT 
for this.


regards Uwe

Re: CMR font

[Uwe Stöhr]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Do you know any version of CMR font or similar to
be used at Corel Draw, Photoshop, etc. (with
'regular', 'bold', 'italic', 'bold italic' bundle)?


I recommend the latin modern fonts. They are based on computern modern 
and under the GPL. You find them in OpenType format here:


ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/lm/fonts/opentype/public/lm/

the equivalent for CMR is lmroman.

regards Uwe

Instant Preview very slow in 1.4pre2

[Marius Ionescu]

Hi.

I have been using the cvs and now the pre2 version of LyX for some time now.
I think it is a wonderful program. I compile it on Ubuntu 5.04 and I use the
qt frontend. Recently I noticed that LyX is very slow when the "Instant
Preview" option is set to "On". For a three page document (with lots of
mathematical formulas), it takes about 30 to 45 seconds to load the
previews. During this process, LyX stops responding, so I have to wait until
finishes loading the images. For a 10 page document it might take up to 2
minutes for this. So I had to set "off" this option in order to be able to
use LyX. With the 1.3.6 version of LyX, it usually takes a few seconds to
load the same files, but I really like the new features in 1.4.

Thank you,
Marius

Re: Guess? Aspell working!

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Lyx Contribute" 
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:24 PM
Subject: Guess? Aspell working!



   Hey people! Thanks a lot for help me!

   Well, now I know why was not working before:

   It is necessary to download the 'lean' Aspell --
not the spanish or the portuguese version.

   After installing that one, you can download the
Aspell for your tongues, and to install over it! What
a mess! :)

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Peace!
   Douglas

I am not sure what you say is totally correct. I refer everyone to the 
Aspell website


http://aspell.net/win32/

What you have to do is

1) Install Aspell (this is merely the program that checks the spelling and 
is language independent)

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe

2) Give Aspell a dictionary to use. This requires installing one of the 
dictionaries.

For example Breton
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-br-0.50-2-3.exe

Downloading a dictionary does not install Aspell again over the top of step 
1.


If you follow the steps above you can have a working spell checker in no 
time at all (depending on your connection speed)


BTW all this is explained on the Aspell site..


Geoff

Guess? Aspell working!

[mywebs2005-lyx]

Hey people! Thanks a lot for help me!

Well, now I know why was not working before:

It is necessary to download the 'lean' Aspell --
not the spanish or the portuguese version.

After installing that one, you can download the
Aspell for your tongues, and to install over it! What
a mess! :)

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Re: "Oh-oh --- Aspell is not working!"

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Oh --- I see!

Aspell is not working! Now I know! There is no
'aspell.com' or 'aspel.exe' or some aspell executable,
and I can't use the command line aspell (DOS prompt),
neither inside the exact path (c:\aspell), because the
single executable there is the 'aspell-uninstall'!

I tried to install it many times, what seems to be
the matter?


C:\Aspell should contain just the uninstallers (one for aspell and one 
for the dictionary, I think) plus the readme file and some other 
miscellaneous stuff.  It should also be parent to subdirectories bin, 
data, dict, and doc, with the actual executables (aspell.exe, dlls, 
etc.) in the bin folder.


If that's not the case, perhaps you run the uninstaller, remove any 
residual directories, reinstall and, if unsuccessful, post details of 
what you did here.


Paul

Re: pagebreaks and labeling

[Michael-E. Voges]

Hey Jose,

Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 11:56 schrieb Jose Capco:
> Is there something like pagebreak or newpage the lyx
> way? or do I have to write a latex code when I want to
> pagebreak or newpage. 

Just put the cursor in the (wanted) last paragraph of your page, open 'Format' 
'Paragraph' of the menue, choose the third label, I guess 'Lines and 
pagebreak', mark I guess 'below' and hit .
That should do it.

> I also have problems with 
> labels, whenever I make a reference with label and
> produce the dvi I get ?? instead of the label (eg.
> instead of "see Proposition 2.3.1" I get "see
> Proposition ??"), I thought that this may be a latex
> compilation problem,

I do think it is a problem of compilation.
LaTeX doesn't find the reference ...

> (I will try to export the latex and see if that can
> help). 

Right, you ought to try first (it probably fails,
though).

Micha-E.

Bugs in 1.4.0pre2

[Daniel Watkins]

All the developers will be glad to hear that this isn't actually a bug
report! :P One of the developers is likely to say this sooner or later
(and I've seen it said in a few individual bug reports), but I thought
I'd add this now, to save them time (scarce resources being what they
are).

Bug reports are very useful, and the developers are most grateful for
you finding them and reporting them. However, your reports can be twice
as useful to them if, before reporting them, you search for them at
http://bugzilla.lyx.org. If you don't find your problem on there, then
create a new bug there as well as posting up on here (or, better,
lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org).

This saves a lot of time for the developers as well as ensuring that
your problem doesn't get lost in the ether.

Obviously, if you aren't sure, dump a message up here and someone will
help you out.

Hoping he's not sounding too self-righteous,
Dan

"Oh-oh --- Aspell is not working!"

[mywebs2005-lyx]

Oh --- I see!

Aspell is not working! Now I know! There is no
'aspell.com' or 'aspel.exe' or some aspell executable,
and I can't use the command line aspell (DOS prompt),
neither inside the exact path (c:\aspell), because the
single executable there is the 'aspell-uninstall'!

I tried to install it many times, what seems to be
the matter?

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some observations about lyx1.4pre2

[Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)]

Hi,
 
I am just playing a bit with lyx1.4pre2. some observations:
 
1) Compiling goes easy on Mandrake 2005
 
2) I did an open, modify and save from my previous docs, a master doc
with several input's (this converts to the new format?). Using lyx2lyx
warns:
 
warning: malformed lyx file: missing 'collapsed'
warning: malformed lyx file: missing 'wide'
 
3) I have segmentation faults whenever I touch the Navigate menu item
with my 'original' documents. New documents seem OK.
 
4) I have hyperref package included in my layout preamble, but no
bookmarks appear in the pdflatex'ed PDF. The latex log file however
speaks about my hyperref options (set in layout preamble). Also when I
create a new document the first time I invoke a pdf I see the bookmarks
but they all point to page '0'. The next time all bookmarks are gone.
 
5) Branches, extremly useful feature. Unfortunatly the settings of a
branch in a master document are not propagated to child documents having
branches with the same name. Also, it is not possible - I mean I did not
succeed - to put an item of a numbered list in a branch. e.g.
 
1. One
branch 2. two
3. Three (or two)
 
Hope this helps,
 
Maarten
 
 
 
 

Re: xdvi slow preview

[Alain Leroux]

Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez a écrit :

> Hello all,
>
> I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several
> figures, usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in float figures,
> and I want to preview it as DVI, it takes a lot of time to render
> (depending on the number of figures) and sometimes it is really slow
> to appear the first page of the document. But when I look at the
> different pages and there is a figure in it, it takes also a lot of
> time to render it. In this way it is really annoying to look at the
> document every time a change is made.
>
> Is there a direct or indirect solution for this problem ?

I found that the problem was without solution as far as the pictures
were true images (i.e. raster images). But the rendering is very fast if
one use eps pictures coming from xfig (or directly xfig).
You may extract such pictures from ps ones by using pstoedit (with linux):

pstoedit -f fig  toto.ps >toto.fig

The main advantage of this method (apart from the speed of the loading
of pictures) is that you may edit the pictures  to your taste.

You may do the same thing with ps files with embedded postscript figures
by fractionning your file in pages:

psselect -p 1 blabla.ps page1.ps
pstoedit -f fig page1.ps >page1.fig

and by removing the superfluous text with xfig

I use frequently this method, which works correctly if the ps files are
not in fact  raster pictures.

A.Leroux

pagebreaks and labeling

[Jose Capco]

Dear List,

Is there something like pagebreak or newpage the lyx
way? or do I have to write a latex code when I want to
pagebreak or newpage. I also have problems with
labels, whenever I make a reference with label and
produce the dvi I get ?? instead of the label (eg.
instead of "see Proposition 2.3.1" I get "see
Proposition ??"), I thought that this may be a latex
compilation problem, but no matter how many times I
ask lyx to make the dvi I dont get the right reference
(I will try to export the latex and see if that can
help). Please advise.

Sincerely,
Jose Capco




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Re: xdvi slow preview

[Angus Leeming]

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
> As for compiling the pdf, this does contain all the figures from the
> outset, but first they must be converted from .eps or .jpg to .pdf. In my
> experience this takes a long time, again longer for complicated figures.
> The solution to this one is to have all your figures as .pdf from the
> outset.

This advice holds true if the pdf document is generated using pdflatex to
go from lyx->latex->pdf but not if it is generated using the
lyx->latex->dvi->ps->pdf compilation chain.

-- 
Angus

Re: xdvi slow preview

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: "Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:17 AM
Subject: xdvi slow preview



Hello all,

I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several figures, 
usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in float figures, and I want 
to preview it as DVI, it takes a lot of time to render (depending on the 
number of figures) and sometimes it is really slow to appear the first 
page of the document. But when I look at the different pages and there is 
a figure in it, it takes also a lot of time to render it. In this way it 
is really annoying to look at the document every time a change is made.


Is there a direct or indirect solution for this problem ?

Sometimes I use the rendering to a PDF file, but I don't like it because 
it takes a lot of time to start the acroread program. The same to the 
other preview options.


Thanks in advance.

I think, but am willing to stand corrected, that this is occuring for the 
following reasons.


.dvi files do not contain any information about the figures apart from their 
path. So when the dvi loads up it has to load the images separately when you 
view a page. As such looking at page 2 will load the figures on page 2, but 
then when you go to page 3 it has to load those figures, etc, etc..If 
the figures are complicated this will take time. There is no solution to 
this as whichever image file type you have the figures still need to be 
loaded in and rendered each time you view a page.


As for compiling the pdf, this does contain all the figures from the outset, 
but first they must be converted from .eps or .jpg to .pdf. In my experience 
this takes a long time, again longer for complicated figures. The solution 
to this one is to have all your figures as .pdf from the outset.


Hope this helps

Geoff

Re: xdvi slow preview

[Blaise Li]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:

Sometimes I use the rendering to a PDF file, but I don't like it because it 
takes a lot of time to start the acroread program.


Perhaps you could use a lighter pdf viewer, like xpdf ?

Blaise Li

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.0pre2

[Georg Kö]

Dear Bennet!

Many thank's for that build. Everything works fine so far, except  
that the german umlauts dont show up correctly in the menus and  
preferences dialogues. In the text-window I can type umlauts and  
other special chars without any troubles. I have attached an example  
screenshot.


regards, G.




Am 10.10.2005 um 20:08 schrieb Bennett Helm:

With LyX-1.4.0pre2 being released, I've created a Mac version for  
testing purposes, which you can find here:  (8.3 MB).


I am not sure if this runs on anything other than Mac OS X 10.4,  
since I don't have anything else to test it with. From what I can  
tell it should work on 10.3.x, though I suspect that it does *not*  
work on 10.2 or earlier. If you're willing to test pre-release  
software, please let me know whether you have success or not and on  
what version of Mac OS X. (I need to look further into getting it  
to work on 10.2, but that may require feedback from brave testers.)


Standard disclaimer: This is pre-release software, and you are  
likely to encounter bugs. Indeed, that's the point: please report  
them!


Bennett

xdvi slow preview

[Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez]

Hello all,

I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several figures, 
usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in float figures, and I want to 
preview it as DVI, it takes a lot of time to render (depending on the 
number of figures) and sometimes it is really slow to appear the first page 
of the document. But when I look at the different pages and there is a 
figure in it, it takes also a lot of time to render it. In this way it is 
really annoying to look at the document every time a change is made.


Is there a direct or indirect solution for this problem ?

Sometimes I use the rendering to a PDF file, but I don't like it because it 
takes a lot of time to start the acroread program. The same to the other 
preview options.


Thanks in advance.

Re: Re: Both Linux and Windows

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Lyx Contribute" 
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Both Linux and Windows



Sorry! I think I sent it to another email! :)
--


Did you check Aspell independently of LyX to see
that it
was correctly installed with the correct dictionary?
So that
you created some small file containing a few
deliberately
misspelled words and Aspell corrected them? If the
test file
is once corrected then test with LyX. 'No words were
found'
means no words were misspelled in the opinion of the
spellchecker. Also within a document, the
spellchecker
checks from the cursor location and on towards left
and
end of the document. If you haven't repositioned the
cursor
to the beginning of the document, and the cursor
happens
to be at the end or near the end, of course it won't
find any
misspelled words and will say "No words are found",
when
you run the spellchecker. At least that is how it
works for me.


   What's the way to test Aspell without lyx? When I
install it, its program group only shows the
uninstaller. No other executable app. How can I do it?

   Thanks to help me!

Abraços!
Douglas



I would create a test.txt file with a couple of deliberately
wrong spelled words in it.
"I am speled wron"

You can save this file on the desktop so that
if you have made a desktop icon which says
Aspell (drop files here) you can drag the
test.txt file into it and it should work.
Using Windows, and if you installed Aspell
into c:\aspell you can also save test.txt
in C:\Aspell. then from c:\aspell type
"aspell check test.txt"
This information is available by reading the
documentation.

Good luck,
Stephen 

Re: Chapter with no title.

[Helge Hafting]

Pupeno wrote:


Hello,
How do I make Chapters with no title ? by using a protected space ? Anything 
better ?
 


Yes.  I know of no better way.  Use "Chapter*" if you also want
to get rid of the chapter number and the entry in the table of contents.

Helge Hafting

Re: space between single and right double quote marks

[Helge Hafting]

Jim Osborn wrote:


I can't seem to find a way to typeset the following text correctly:

"The word was `foo,'" he said.

The default result is:
 ...foo,
 


This is easy in lyx-1.4, where you do this:
Set the quoting style to double qoutes.  You probably have that already.
Then write the sentence. Use "insert->special character->single quote"
when you need a single quote for the inner citation.  Correct spacing
is added as needed, at least that happende for me with this sort
of quoting style:  «The word was  » he said.

It is also possible (but cumbersome) in lyx 1.3:
Set quoting style to double qoutes. Write everything, but skip
the single quotes.  Change quoting style to single quotes.
(That won't affect the existing double quotes in there.)
Now type the single quotes.  Then, change the style back if you need.

The spacing should be correct too.  If it isn't note that both
lyx 1.3 and lyx 1.4 have "small spaces" in the insert menu.

Helge Hafting

Re: Using Bibtex in windows - How?

[Angus Leeming]

David Dean wrote:
> Bibfile: C:/data/David/PhD/Annual Report - 2005/research.bib
> TextCache: BufferView::buffer
> [/debug]

Sorry, David. I'm very busy ATM. Could you file BOTH bug reports on
bugzilla.lyx.org so that I don't forget it.

Meantime, but your research.bib file somewhere without a space...

-- 
Angus

Re: 1.4pre2 - windows

[Angus Leeming]

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
> I am keen to lend a hand testing this release but sadly do not know how
> to go about compiling the source on a WinXP box.

I do :-)

However, there're currently a couple of bugs in our (and Qt/WinFree's) font
loading code which prevent lyx from firing up.

> Has anyone got a compiled version I could have to install.?
> 
> If not could someone email me detailed instructions of how to compile my
> on (on or off list)

You should use CVS to grab the lyx and Qt/WinFree repositories. See
http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/index.php

How you proceed thereafter depends on which compiler you want to use. LyX
is known to work with both MSVC (can't help you there) and with MinGW. If
you go with the latter, then be prepared for really *long* compile times.
About 1 hour to compile Qt/WinFree and 2 hours to subsequently compile LyX
on this 2.7GHz machine...

-- 
Angus

Re: Both Linux and Windows

[Helge Hafting]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Sorry! I think I sent it to another email! :)
--

 


Did you check Aspell independently of LyX to see
that it
was correctly installed with the correct dictionary?
So that
you created some small file containing a few
deliberately 
misspelled words and Aspell corrected them? If the
test file 
is once corrected then test with LyX. 'No words were

found'
means no words were misspelled in the opinion of the
spellchecker. Also within a document, the
spellchecker 
checks from the cursor location and on towards left

and
end of the document. If you haven't repositioned the
cursor
to the beginning of the document, and the cursor
happens
to be at the end or near the end, of course it won't
find any
misspelled words and will say "No words are found",
when
you run the spellchecker. At least that is how it
works for me.
   



   What's the way to test Aspell without lyx? When I
install it, its program group only shows the
uninstaller. No other executable app. How can I do it?
 


Aspell does not have a graphical user interface.
Open a command line window (bash or xterm in linux,
or run "cmd.exe" in windows)

Then type the command:
aspell -c filename

Where filename is a _text_ file  you want to spellcheck.

Top see all the options aspell support:
aspell -?

To see more documentation (on linux):
man aspell

Helge Hafting

Re: Increase features!

[Helge Hafting]

Stephen Harris wrote:


Even as easy as it has become, LyX 1.3.6 for Windows is beyond
99% of Windows users. They are not used to reading, nor do they
want to learn, to read documentation.


Then they shouldn't bother with computers . . .
Seriously, even new versions of the windows os itself tends to change
so much that the user needs to learn a lot.


I can't remember if the content of http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136
is repeated in an Install or Readme file accompanying the release. Also
since it is the first officially supported release of Lyx for windows, 
there

should be no expectation of being even nearly "fully featured".


Of course, it is possible to make an alternative lyx for windows package
wich includes everything, even latex.  That'd be a "lyx for dummies" 
package,

while the current package still is nice for those who have latex and
other stuff already.  Windows could use a decent package management 
system. :-)


Helge Hafting