Re: XY-Pic and LyX

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

H. Peter Gumm wrote:
 rumors are that LyX 1.4 is not going to support XY-Pic
 anymore. I cannot believe that the developers are serious
 about this. If they were, the reasons for me to use LyX
 would be gone.

I guess the solution is then to stick with LyX 1.3.7 (which is a quite mature 
release) unless xymatrix has been reimplemented.
As you see from the reactions of the developers, there are chances that this 
will happen soon. Only now the moment is a bit unfortunate, since we are in a 
pre-release deep freeze.

Jürgen

Re: lyx 1.4.0pre minor problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 17 February 2006 23:54, Marcelo Acuña wrote:

 Yes, I found it. Thanks.
 Now, I can´t find Navigate to next error.
 Marcelo

  AFAIR the errors are now in their own list, there are no more error insets 
(totally obnoxious from an interface point of view, IMHO).
-- 
José Abílio

Re: software manuals using Lyx

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote:
 Hi there,

 Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using
 Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals?

  No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-(

 In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm'  files for Windows,
 and DocBook XML for GNOME ('yelp' help browser). Is this something that
 other people on the list are doing?

  You need to find a tool that converts docbook to chm, and then use the 
traditional way of configuring lyx.

  1) Add format, with its viewer
  2) Define how to convert from docbook to chm

 I found this but it's 5 years old, and hopefully things have become
 easier...
 http://bgu.chez-alice.fr/doc/db4lyx/

 If such a HOWTO /doesn't/ exist, maybe there'd be someone willing to
 collaborate on putting it together?

  I can explain why lots of things are the way they are, and if 
possible/necessary fix those bugs.

 Cheers
 JP

-- 
José Abílio

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

[Paul Smith]

On 2/17/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run

 View -- PDF (pdflatex)

 I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it
 appears the following:

 $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR
 Execution of convert failed.
 $

 Any clue?

 Well you know pdlatex reads jpeg, png and pdf image files.
 On windows, epstopdf.exe found in the Latex directory
 will convert: epstopdf image.eps will produce image.pdf

 Maybe Tetex has the command eps2pdf. But anyway I can
 view those files using the dvipdfm option, usually. First
 View-DVI then next View-dvipdfm

 This does some conversion and invokes the xpdf viewer.
 Then you can use File-Save copy as (iirc)
 to put the file where you want it. Works with LyX137

Thanks, Stephen. I have just tried the ps4pdf package, which works
fine with EPS pictures and pdflatex together.

Paul

Re: LyX on Cygwin

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: LyX on Cygwin



Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


 The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute
 the several ./configure switches in Enrico's Howto.
 
 Are you sure? The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded from

 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/ had one ...
 


Yes, I am sure that in both lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 (or tar.gz)
there is no configure file. Nor is there an autogen.sh file
nor a configure.ac. All of those files are missing, the ones
you would normally expect to see in lyx-devel.


Just to be sure I have downloaded again
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2
and those files are there...


  cd lyx-1.4.0pre5
  ./autogen.sh

I don't see how it is possible to run this command as the files
are non-existent. The files can be found in the cvs lyx-devel
directory, but your instructions don't say to use cvs for 
obtaining installation files which don't come as bz2 or tar.gz

you say Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src
 (replace x   ^ to match your archive name)


But the files *are* there...
Anyway, things do not change with a cvs version, simply replace
lyx-1.4.x with lyx-devel ;-)


I've already had the experience of not being able to compile
the cvs files, but I was able to compile Lyx1.4.0pre3, so it is
by no means certain that one can just adapt your configure
switches to the current cvs files.


Try it, it should work.


Lyx1.4.0pre3 came with about 20 files not contained in
Lyx1.4.0pre5. Since you say the files were contained 


The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded ... had one

it seems that somebody has deleted files from 
lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 and tar.gz for that matter and repackaged.

(no configure, configure.ac or autogen.sh plus many others)


I think that nobody did that ;-)
It may be a problem with the software you used to unpack the archive.
Try using the cygwin tools:

  cd /usr/local/src
  tar jxvf /path/to/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2
or
  tar zxvf /path/to/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.gz

if you downloaded the .gz version.


The problem I reported remains just as murky,


Don't be desperate, try again. I am sure it is not so difficult.
Did you succeeded in compiling Qt?

--
Enrico



I unpacked the archives with WinRar which is supposed to work
but apparently didn't because using tar worked to display the files.

I did not succeed in compiling Qt. I got the files in the right
directory with cvs, but the ./configure failed quickly with the error

make: *** [project.o] Error 1
qmake failed to build. Aborting

Is this line correctly typed?
./configure -platform cygwin-g++-win32 -v -release -static
also I didn't put a backslash \, at the end of the continued
configure lines of switches, but that didn't seem to matter.

I am not motivated to put much effort into troubleshooting as 
I wanted to look at Pre5 now, but the final release is due soon.


Thanks for your advice,
Stephen 

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

[Paul A. Rubin]

Paul Smith wrote:


Thanks, Paul. In fact, the command

convert myfile.eps myfile.pdf

does the job correctly. Probably, the problem has to be with LyX.

Paul



Ok.  I'm assuming you're not running Windows (if you are, there may be a 
problem with spaces in the path to the EPS file, although that doesn't 
create any problems for me).


A workaround is to convert the EPS file to something else (PDF?) outside 
LyX and insert the converted image into the LyX document.  If you want 
to pursue this further, try editing the convertDefault.sh script by 
inserting the following line immediately before 'exit 1':


echo Trying to convert \$1\ to \$2\. 2

With any luck, if you reproduce the error, this should tell which file 
it was trying to convert and where it was trying to store the result. 
That will let you check for correct paths, read/write permissions etc.


/Paul

--without break

[Marcelo Acuña]

Hello,
  In a line, How I can get
that a comment --like this
--  no be break by Latex?
Marcelo






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Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

[Marcelo Acuña]

 I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters
 and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell.
Common problem for unicode users, because
lyx doesn't support unicode.  That cause trouble
when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx
gives it iso8859 encoded text.
 echo $LANG
with this nothing is show.
export LANG=es_ES
 Then run lyx from the same xterm, so it uses the
 modified  language.  You should still get the lyx
 GUI in your language, assuming it is translated.
 And now the spellchecker works too. :-)
No work for me :-(
Lyx 1.4.0pre appears without menu, only
 
 Strange.  If the menu isn't translated, then you
 should get
 it in english instead.  This looks like a broken
 installation.
 
a icon bar, I clicked icon for file open
and, choose my file (saved with 1.4.0pre)
and I get error in conversion.
Then I open with lyx (from icon),
deleted list of fig,
repeat process and when I open the file
lyx go out (aborted) with an error message.
Which is the date when You expect lyx 1.5.0 will be
released?
  
 I can only guess - a year or two.  The spellchecker
 and rest of lyx is supposed to work fine when LANG
 doesn't contain the UTF-8 part though.
 
no work for me.
What can I do? I need run spellcheck.
Thanks
Marcelo






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Questions about koma script

[Rajil Saraswat]

Hi,
   I am trying to write an article using komascript, and have some questions 
as to its usage. It will be grateful if somebody can help me. I have attached 
a minimal lyx file.

1. How do i left align Title, Authors, Address (written in environment date). 
In short everything should be left aligned or justified.
2. How do i rename Figure to Fig.?  Using \renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}  in 
the preamble does not do anything!!

cheers,
Rajil


komatest.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Latest pre-release version

[Daniel Watkins]

Hey,
I'm just writing to confirm that 1.4.0pre3 is the latest pre-release version
(I've seen some mention of more recent versions), as I want to keep Gentoo
ebuilds as current as is possible.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Questions about koma script

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Rajil Saraswat writes:
I am trying to write an article using komascript, and have some
 questions as to its usage. It will be grateful if somebody can help
 me. I have attached a minimal lyx file.

 1. How do i left align Title, Authors, Address (written in
 environment date). In short everything should be left aligned or
 justified.

I don't recall the answer, but I would swear that this same question has 
been asked twice in the last four weeks, so if you are in a hurry, take 
a look at the archives.

 2. How do i rename Figure to Fig.?  Using
 \renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}  in the preamble does not do

I think you'll find that as well (or on the LyX site, maybe?)

-Kevin

-- 
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Tiros-Translations

Re: --without break

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Marcelo Acuña writes:
 Hello,
   In a line, How I can get
 that a comment --like this
 --  no be break by Latex?
 Marcelo

If I understand the question (you don't want LaTeX to break your line at 
with the dash or the space associated with it)?

Here are some ideas...

1. Use package amsmath and the command \nonbreakdash
2. Use a non-breaking space.

-Kevin




-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: XY-Pic and LyX

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

H. Peter Gumm wrote:
 rumors are that LyX 1.4 is not going to support XY-Pic
 anymore. I cannot believe that the developers are serious
 about this. If they were, the reasons for me to use LyX
 would be gone.

I guess the solution is then to stick with LyX 1.3.7 (which is a quite mature 
release) unless xymatrix has been reimplemented.
As you see from the reactions of the developers, there are chances that this 
will happen soon. Only now the moment is a bit unfortunate, since we are in a 
pre-release deep freeze.

Jürgen

Re: lyx 1.4.0pre minor problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 17 February 2006 23:54, Marcelo Acuña wrote:

 Yes, I found it. Thanks.
 Now, I can´t find Navigate to next error.
 Marcelo

  AFAIR the errors are now in their own list, there are no more error insets 
(totally obnoxious from an interface point of view, IMHO).
-- 
José Abílio

Re: software manuals using Lyx

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote:
 Hi there,

 Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using
 Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals?

  No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-(

 In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm'  files for Windows,
 and DocBook XML for GNOME ('yelp' help browser). Is this something that
 other people on the list are doing?

  You need to find a tool that converts docbook to chm, and then use the 
traditional way of configuring lyx.

  1) Add format, with its viewer
  2) Define how to convert from docbook to chm

 I found this but it's 5 years old, and hopefully things have become
 easier...
 http://bgu.chez-alice.fr/doc/db4lyx/

 If such a HOWTO /doesn't/ exist, maybe there'd be someone willing to
 collaborate on putting it together?

  I can explain why lots of things are the way they are, and if 
possible/necessary fix those bugs.

 Cheers
 JP

-- 
José Abílio

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

[Paul Smith]

On 2/17/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run

 View -- PDF (pdflatex)

 I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it
 appears the following:

 $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR
 Execution of convert failed.
 $

 Any clue?

 Well you know pdlatex reads jpeg, png and pdf image files.
 On windows, epstopdf.exe found in the Latex directory
 will convert: epstopdf image.eps will produce image.pdf

 Maybe Tetex has the command eps2pdf. But anyway I can
 view those files using the dvipdfm option, usually. First
 View-DVI then next View-dvipdfm

 This does some conversion and invokes the xpdf viewer.
 Then you can use File-Save copy as (iirc)
 to put the file where you want it. Works with LyX137

Thanks, Stephen. I have just tried the ps4pdf package, which works
fine with EPS pictures and pdflatex together.

Paul

Re: LyX on Cygwin

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: LyX on Cygwin



Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


 The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute
 the several ./configure switches in Enrico's Howto.
 
 Are you sure? The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded from

 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/ had one ...
 


Yes, I am sure that in both lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 (or tar.gz)
there is no configure file. Nor is there an autogen.sh file
nor a configure.ac. All of those files are missing, the ones
you would normally expect to see in lyx-devel.


Just to be sure I have downloaded again
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2
and those files are there...


  cd lyx-1.4.0pre5
  ./autogen.sh

I don't see how it is possible to run this command as the files
are non-existent. The files can be found in the cvs lyx-devel
directory, but your instructions don't say to use cvs for 
obtaining installation files which don't come as bz2 or tar.gz

you say Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src
 (replace x   ^ to match your archive name)


But the files *are* there...
Anyway, things do not change with a cvs version, simply replace
lyx-1.4.x with lyx-devel ;-)


I've already had the experience of not being able to compile
the cvs files, but I was able to compile Lyx1.4.0pre3, so it is
by no means certain that one can just adapt your configure
switches to the current cvs files.


Try it, it should work.


Lyx1.4.0pre3 came with about 20 files not contained in
Lyx1.4.0pre5. Since you say the files were contained 


The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded ... had one

it seems that somebody has deleted files from 
lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 and tar.gz for that matter and repackaged.

(no configure, configure.ac or autogen.sh plus many others)


I think that nobody did that ;-)
It may be a problem with the software you used to unpack the archive.
Try using the cygwin tools:

  cd /usr/local/src
  tar jxvf /path/to/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2
or
  tar zxvf /path/to/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.gz

if you downloaded the .gz version.


The problem I reported remains just as murky,


Don't be desperate, try again. I am sure it is not so difficult.
Did you succeeded in compiling Qt?

--
Enrico



I unpacked the archives with WinRar which is supposed to work
but apparently didn't because using tar worked to display the files.

I did not succeed in compiling Qt. I got the files in the right
directory with cvs, but the ./configure failed quickly with the error

make: *** [project.o] Error 1
qmake failed to build. Aborting

Is this line correctly typed?
./configure -platform cygwin-g++-win32 -v -release -static
also I didn't put a backslash \, at the end of the continued
configure lines of switches, but that didn't seem to matter.

I am not motivated to put much effort into troubleshooting as 
I wanted to look at Pre5 now, but the final release is due soon.


Thanks for your advice,
Stephen 

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

[Paul A. Rubin]

Paul Smith wrote:


Thanks, Paul. In fact, the command

convert myfile.eps myfile.pdf

does the job correctly. Probably, the problem has to be with LyX.

Paul



Ok.  I'm assuming you're not running Windows (if you are, there may be a 
problem with spaces in the path to the EPS file, although that doesn't 
create any problems for me).


A workaround is to convert the EPS file to something else (PDF?) outside 
LyX and insert the converted image into the LyX document.  If you want 
to pursue this further, try editing the convertDefault.sh script by 
inserting the following line immediately before 'exit 1':


echo Trying to convert \$1\ to \$2\. 2

With any luck, if you reproduce the error, this should tell which file 
it was trying to convert and where it was trying to store the result. 
That will let you check for correct paths, read/write permissions etc.


/Paul

--without break

[Marcelo Acuña]

Hello,
  In a line, How I can get
that a comment --like this
--  no be break by Latex?
Marcelo






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Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

[Marcelo Acuña]

 I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters
 and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell.
Common problem for unicode users, because
lyx doesn't support unicode.  That cause trouble
when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx
gives it iso8859 encoded text.
 echo $LANG
with this nothing is show.
export LANG=es_ES
 Then run lyx from the same xterm, so it uses the
 modified  language.  You should still get the lyx
 GUI in your language, assuming it is translated.
 And now the spellchecker works too. :-)
No work for me :-(
Lyx 1.4.0pre appears without menu, only
 
 Strange.  If the menu isn't translated, then you
 should get
 it in english instead.  This looks like a broken
 installation.
 
a icon bar, I clicked icon for file open
and, choose my file (saved with 1.4.0pre)
and I get error in conversion.
Then I open with lyx (from icon),
deleted list of fig,
repeat process and when I open the file
lyx go out (aborted) with an error message.
Which is the date when You expect lyx 1.5.0 will be
released?
  
 I can only guess - a year or two.  The spellchecker
 and rest of lyx is supposed to work fine when LANG
 doesn't contain the UTF-8 part though.
 
no work for me.
What can I do? I need run spellcheck.
Thanks
Marcelo






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Questions about koma script

[Rajil Saraswat]

Hi,
   I am trying to write an article using komascript, and have some questions 
as to its usage. It will be grateful if somebody can help me. I have attached 
a minimal lyx file.

1. How do i left align Title, Authors, Address (written in environment date). 
In short everything should be left aligned or justified.
2. How do i rename Figure to Fig.?  Using \renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}  in 
the preamble does not do anything!!

cheers,
Rajil


komatest.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Latest pre-release version

[Daniel Watkins]

Hey,
I'm just writing to confirm that 1.4.0pre3 is the latest pre-release version
(I've seen some mention of more recent versions), as I want to keep Gentoo
ebuilds as current as is possible.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Questions about koma script

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Rajil Saraswat writes:
I am trying to write an article using komascript, and have some
 questions as to its usage. It will be grateful if somebody can help
 me. I have attached a minimal lyx file.

 1. How do i left align Title, Authors, Address (written in
 environment date). In short everything should be left aligned or
 justified.

I don't recall the answer, but I would swear that this same question has 
been asked twice in the last four weeks, so if you are in a hurry, take 
a look at the archives.

 2. How do i rename Figure to Fig.?  Using
 \renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}  in the preamble does not do

I think you'll find that as well (or on the LyX site, maybe?)

-Kevin

-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: --without break

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Marcelo Acuña writes:
 Hello,
   In a line, How I can get
 that a comment --like this
 --  no be break by Latex?
 Marcelo

If I understand the question (you don't want LaTeX to break your line at 
with the dash or the space associated with it)?

Here are some ideas...

1. Use package amsmath and the command \nonbreakdash
2. Use a non-breaking space.

-Kevin




-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: XY-Pic and LyX

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

H. Peter Gumm wrote:
> rumors are that LyX 1.4 is not going to support XY-Pic
> anymore. I cannot believe that the developers are serious
> about this. If they were, the reasons for me to use LyX
> would be gone.

I guess the solution is then to stick with LyX 1.3.7 (which is a quite mature 
release) unless xymatrix has been reimplemented.
As you see from the reactions of the developers, there are chances that this 
will happen soon. Only now the moment is a bit unfortunate, since we are in a 
pre-release deep freeze.

Jürgen

Re: lyx 1.4.0pre minor problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 17 February 2006 23:54, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
>
> Yes, I found it. Thanks.
> Now, I can´t find Navigate to next error.
> Marcelo

  AFAIR the errors are now in their own list, there are no more error insets 
(totally obnoxious from an interface point of view, IMHO).
-- 
José Abílio

Re: software manuals using Lyx

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using
> Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals?

  No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-(

> In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm'  files for Windows,
> and DocBook XML for GNOME ('yelp' help browser). Is this something that
> other people on the list are doing?

  You need to find a tool that converts docbook to chm, and then use the 
traditional way of configuring lyx.

  1) Add format, with its viewer
  2) Define how to convert from docbook to chm

> I found this but it's 5 years old, and hopefully things have become
> easier...
> http://bgu.chez-alice.fr/doc/db4lyx/
>
> If such a HOWTO /doesn't/ exist, maybe there'd be someone willing to
> collaborate on putting it together?

  I can explain why lots of things are the way they are, and if 
possible/necessary fix those bugs.

> Cheers
> JP

-- 
José Abílio

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

[Paul Smith]

On 2/17/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run
>
> View --> PDF (pdflatex)
>
> I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it
> appears the following:
>
> $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR
> Execution of "convert" failed.
> $
>
> Any clue?
>
> Well you know pdlatex reads jpeg, png and pdf image files.
> On windows, epstopdf.exe found in the Latex directory
> will convert: "epstopdf image.eps" will produce image.pdf
>
> Maybe Tetex has the command eps2pdf. But anyway I can
> view those files using the dvipdfm option, usually. First
> View->DVI then next View->dvipdfm
>
> This does some conversion and invokes the xpdf viewer.
> Then you can use File->Save copy as (iirc)
> to put the file where you want it. Works with LyX137

Thanks, Stephen. I have just tried the ps4pdf package, which works
fine with EPS pictures and pdflatex together.

Paul

Re: LyX on Cygwin

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: LyX on Cygwin



Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


>> The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute
>> the several ./configure switches in Enrico's Howto.
> 
> Are you sure? The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded from

> ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/ had one ...
> 


Yes, I am sure that in both lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 (or tar.gz)
there is no configure file. Nor is there an autogen.sh file
nor a configure.ac. All of those files are missing, the ones
you would normally expect to see in lyx-devel.


Just to be sure I have downloaded again
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2
and those files are there...


>  cd lyx-1.4.0pre5
>  ./autogen.sh

I don't see how it is possible to run this command as the files
are non-existent. The files can be found in the cvs lyx-devel
directory, but your instructions don't say to use cvs for 
obtaining installation files which don't come as bz2 or tar.gz

you say "Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src
>> >(replace x   ^ to match your archive name)"


But the files *are* there...
Anyway, things do not change with a cvs version, simply replace
"lyx-1.4.x" with "lyx-devel" ;-)


I've already had the experience of not being able to compile
the cvs files, but I was able to compile Lyx1.4.0pre3, so it is
by no means certain that one can just adapt your configure
switches to the current cvs files.


Try it, it should work.


Lyx1.4.0pre3 came with about 20 files not contained in
Lyx1.4.0pre5. Since you say the files were contained 


"The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded ... had one"

it seems that somebody has deleted files from 
lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 and tar.gz for that matter and repackaged.

(no configure, configure.ac or autogen.sh plus many others)


I think that nobody did that ;-)
It may be a problem with the software you used to unpack the archive.
Try using the cygwin tools:

  cd /usr/local/src
  tar jxvf /path/to/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2
or
  tar zxvf /path/to/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.gz

if you downloaded the .gz version.


The problem I reported remains just as murky,


Don't be desperate, try again. I am sure it is not so difficult.
Did you succeeded in compiling Qt?

--
Enrico



I unpacked the archives with WinRar which is supposed to work
but apparently didn't because using tar worked to display the files.

I did not succeed in compiling Qt. I got the files in the right
directory with cvs, but the ./configure failed quickly with the error

make: *** [project.o] Error 1
qmake failed to build. Aborting

Is this line correctly typed?
./configure -platform cygwin-g++-win32 -v -release -static
also I didn't put a backslash \, at the end of the continued
configure lines of switches, but that didn't seem to matter.

I am not motivated to put much effort into troubleshooting as 
I wanted to look at Pre5 now, but the final release is due soon.


Thanks for your advice,
Stephen 

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

[Paul A. Rubin]

Paul Smith wrote:


Thanks, Paul. In fact, the command

convert myfile.eps myfile.pdf

does the job correctly. Probably, the problem has to be with LyX.

Paul



Ok.  I'm assuming you're not running Windows (if you are, there may be a 
problem with spaces in the path to the EPS file, although that doesn't 
create any problems for me).


A workaround is to convert the EPS file to something else (PDF?) outside 
LyX and insert the converted image into the LyX document.  If you want 
to pursue this further, try editing the convertDefault.sh script by 
inserting the following line immediately before 'exit 1':


echo "Trying to convert \"$1\" to \"$2\"." >&2

With any luck, if you reproduce the error, this should tell which file 
it was trying to convert and where it was trying to store the result. 
That will let you check for correct paths, read/write permissions etc.


/Paul

--without break

[Marcelo Acuña]

Hello,
  In a line, How I can get
that a comment --like this
--  no be break by Latex?
Marcelo






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Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

[Marcelo Acuña]

> >>>I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters
> >>>and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell.
>>Common problem for unicode users, because
>>lyx doesn't support unicode.  That cause trouble
>>when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx
>>gives it iso8859 encoded text.
> >>echo $LANG
>with this nothing is show.
>export LANG=es_ES
> >>Then run lyx from the same xterm, so it uses the
> >>modified  language.  You should still get the lyx
> >>GUI in your language, assuming it is translated.
> >>And now the spellchecker works too. :-)
>No work for me :-(
>Lyx 1.4.0pre appears without menu, only
> >
>> Strange.  If the menu isn't translated, then you
>> should get
>> it in english instead.  This looks like a broken
>> installation.
> 
>a icon bar, I clicked icon for file open
>and, choose my file (saved with 1.4.0pre)
>and I get error in conversion.
>Then I open with lyx (from icon),
>deleted list of fig,
>repeat process and when I open the file
>lyx go out (aborted) with an error message.
>Which is the date when You expect lyx 1.5.0 will be
>released?
>  
> I can only guess - a year or two.  The spellchecker
> and rest of lyx is supposed to work fine when LANG
> doesn't contain the UTF-8 part though.
> 
no work for me.
What can I do? I need run spellcheck.
Thanks
Marcelo






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Questions about koma script

[Rajil Saraswat]

Hi,
   I am trying to write an article using komascript, and have some questions 
as to its usage. It will be grateful if somebody can help me. I have attached 
a minimal lyx file.

1. How do i left align Title, Authors, Address (written in environment date). 
In short everything should be left aligned or justified.
2. How do i rename Figure to Fig.?  Using \renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}  in 
the preamble does not do anything!!

cheers,
Rajil


komatest.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Latest pre-release version

[Daniel Watkins]

Hey,
I'm just writing to confirm that 1.4.0pre3 is the latest pre-release version
(I've seen some mention of more recent versions), as I want to keep Gentoo
ebuilds as current as is possible.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Questions about koma script

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Rajil Saraswat writes:
>I am trying to write an article using komascript, and have some
> questions as to its usage. It will be grateful if somebody can help
> me. I have attached a minimal lyx file.
>
> 1. How do i left align Title, Authors, Address (written in
> environment date). In short everything should be left aligned or
> justified.

I don't recall the answer, but I would swear that this same question has 
been asked twice in the last four weeks, so if you are in a hurry, take 
a look at the archives.

> 2. How do i rename Figure to Fig.?  Using
> \renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}  in the preamble does not do

I think you'll find that as well (or on the LyX site, maybe?)

-Kevin

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Re: --without break

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Marcelo Acuña writes:
> Hello,
>   In a line, How I can get
> that a comment --like this
> --  no be break by Latex?
> Marcelo

If I understand the question (you don't want LaTeX to break your line at 
with the dash or the space associated with it)?

Here are some ideas...

1. Use package amsmath and the command \nonbreakdash
2. Use a non-breaking space.

-Kevin




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