Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP
Hi To be able to configure lyx, I've installed cygwin now. Then I deleted all the msys stuff from the lyx141\bin directory and added cygwin/bin to the PATH After this 'sh configure' worked fine I can start lyx now with a modified lyx.bat (again, I added cygwin\bin to the PATH EnvVar) Thus I'm able to work with lyx. At least I can edit lyx documents :-))) But now I have a problem to export the document to dvi or pdf format and it is not posible to get a dvi preview in yap. Trying do to so, I get an error dialog (I think from python) concerning the script directory :-( -- Gerhard
Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Hello, I'd like to see the Debian package in the archive back in sync with the upstream version. I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned state but just not marked beeing O. The other former maintainer, Rob Weir, is MIA. So I'm willing to take it over BUT my experience with Debian packaging is still quite low and limited to small packages[2]. Additional I've not followed the Lyx development for the last ~2 years. So any help would be highly appreciated. After a first look around I found that several people are hacking their own Debian packages so there must be some demand for new packages and people willing to do some work. Please raise your hand now guys! I would like to see the people interessted joining the pkg-lyx-devel mailinglist provided via alioth. If you don't like to join the mailinglist but like to contact me please do so. You can find information on how to contact me via IRC and several IM networks here [3]. Ok now let's go over to some more technical things :) ATM I'm looking for the lost ends while actualy using Lyx to get some university stuff done. Things I found out so far: - Lyx 1.4 compiles with the /debian/ dir from the 1.3.6 packages in the archive with only minor changes. One is about to change a Build-Dep from libaiksaurus-dev to libaiksaurus-1.2-dev and the other one was the 02. patch not to apply. Then it takes a lot of time to compile on my little bit aged Athlon 1,4Ghz *sigh* but in the end I got a working package for i386 *juhu*. - The /debian/ subdir from 1.3.6 seems to be in a good shape and is using dpatch so I will stay with it. There are some fix me notes in the rules file but that should not matter for the moment. - There is a patch for hppa in the patchlist from an NMU - would be nice to find out to which upstream this patch belongs. - There is a huge amount of old bugs in the Debian BTS which need to be checked. - I've read something about a gtk frontend and found it in the Lyx source but there is no configure option for it and it's not mentioned in the README/INSTALL files. What's that? How can we use it? Is it alpha stuff you should not use? Would be cool if someone could enlight me what's that all about. Things I haven't found out yet: - Is the lyx package maintained in a VCS? I'd like to go with subversion but I've to admit that I haven't had the time lately to find out how svn-buildpackage should be used. Hints for docs I should read are welcome :). - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? So I'm now getting back to my university stuff for a few hours and wait for some feedback. Cheers, Sven [1] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-lyx/ [2] http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [3] http://sven.stormbind.net -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven Hoexter wrote: Hello, I'd like to see the Debian package in the archive back in sync with the upstream version. That would be very nice indeed. I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned state but just not marked beeing O. The other former maintainer, Rob Weir, is MIA. What is MIA? - The /debian/ subdir from 1.3.6 seems to be in a good shape and is using dpatch so I will stay with it. There are some fix me notes in the rules file but that should not matter for the moment. The 1.3.6 debian subdir needs some more fixes for 1.4.x. I did those, and you can see the result at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian#toc6. Note that small tweaks are needed for 1.4.2svn, I can provide an update if needed. I suggest you start from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian insetad of the 1.3.6 version. - I've read something about a gtk frontend and found it in the Lyx source but there is no configure option for it and it's not mentioned in the README/INSTALL files. What's that? How can we use it? Is it alpha stuff you should not use? Would be cool if someone could enlight me what's that all about. It is not documented because it is experimental and not ready for use. - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? That is the biggest problem. I suggest you find somebody who is willing to do that before doing anything else, because we have enough unofficial packages already. Maybe it would help if Erinn Clark orphaned the package officially. Georg
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:24:06AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: Sven Hoexter wrote: Hello Georg, Wow that's a fast reply :) I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned state but just not marked beeing O. The other former maintainer, Rob Weir, is MIA. What is MIA? Missing in action, he's not reachable and does not fix bugs. - The /debian/ subdir from 1.3.6 seems to be in a good shape and is using dpatch so I will stay with it. There are some fix me notes in the rules file but that should not matter for the moment. The 1.3.6 debian subdir needs some more fixes for 1.4.x. I did those, and you can see the result at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian#toc6. Note that small tweaks are needed for 1.4.2svn, I can provide an update if needed. Ah ok. How far is 1.4.2 from beeing released? I would like to stay with the final releases. - I've read something about a gtk frontend and found it in the Lyx source but there is no configure option for it and it's not mentioned in the README/INSTALL files. What's that? How can we use it? Is it alpha stuff you should not use? Would be cool if someone could enlight me what's that all about. It is not documented because it is experimental and not ready for use. Ok so I count that as not relevant for the moment so that the debian package will stay with the qt and xforms frontend. Or is xforms finaly deprecated now? - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? That is the biggest problem. I suggest you find somebody who is willing to do that before doing anything else, because we have enough unofficial packages already. Well my intention is definetly not to prepare another package which will finaly end in /dev/null. I'm quite optimistic to find someone who is willing to sponsor it. Maybe it would help if Erinn Clark orphaned the package officially. To my experience not realy. Cheers, Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven == Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Ah ok. How far is 1.4.2 from beeing released? I would like to Sven stay with the final releases. I am not sure yet. We have two or three bad bugs to fix, we are waiting for a brand new windows installer and we have two larger patches that may or may not be applied now or later (view files through windows services; outline-like functionality). But considering that configuration mechanism are changing, I think you should target 1.4.2. JMarc
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven Hoexter wrote: Wow that's a fast reply :) I was waiting for a simulation to finish when your message came in. I am not always that fast. Ok so I count that as not relevant for the moment so that the debian package will stay with the qt and xforms frontend. Or is xforms finaly deprecated now? xforms works, but will probably not see any big amounts of new development. I expect it to be dropped if continued support would mean to invest much time. I'll upload an updated diff for 1.4.2svn to the wiki tonight. Georg
Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.
Sadat Chowdhury a écrit : Windows XP Professional. I installed LyX 1.4.1 as instructed. Everything works great...exceptexport to HTML just hangs forever. Anyone experience anything similar? There is a bug in htlatex with path containing space. There is a work around that that should work, choose a different temp directory in the lyx preferences dialog (one _without_ space). But I would suggest that you first export to LateX and then do the exporting by hand at the windows console. Abdel.
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Georg Baum wrote : I'll upload an updated diff for 1.4.2svn to the wiki tonight. I've got 1.4.1 packages for sid (amd64, i386) and for sarge (i386) for the qt frontend apt-gettable from http://lyxondebian.free.fr I can try to upload the source package tonight. I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also and made some little changes. I can send the files to you, if you want. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Charles de Miramon wrote: I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also and made some little changes. I'll have a look at tge gcc 4.1 problem. I can send the files to you, if you want. That would be nice. My intention is to have one diff on the wiki that should be considered semi-official and that works with as many .deb based distros as possible (and of course everybody is encouraged to upload fixes there, too). Georg PS: Thanks for doing the apt stuff.
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hi, I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also and made some little changes. IIRC setting CXX = g++-4.1 in the rules should work. I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? A pointer to the thread would be enough so that I can catch up on that problem aswell. Regarding g++ 4.1 I found this FTBFS bug in the Debian BTS http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357119 Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven Hoexter wrote: I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? I believe that this is the default compiler in unstable. Regarding g++ 4.1 I found this FTBFS bug in the Debian BTS http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357119 IIRC this is a boost bug that is fixed in 1.4.x. Georg
lyx-1.4.1 install problem
Hi, I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release then used /sbin/ldconfig then on using ./configure --with-frontend=xforms I get the following error message:- -- Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:compression jpeg-image-loader use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (3.2.2) C++ Compiler LyX flags: -fno-exceptions C++ Compiler flags: -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 Linker flags: Linker user flags: XForms Frontend: libXpm version: 4.11 libforms version: 1.0.0 Packaging: posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx The following problems have been detected by configure. Please check the messages below before running 'make'. (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file) ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library is correctly installed on your system. What could be the problem? Any help will be deeply appreciated. Regards, Subir
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
Subir == Subir Singh Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subir Hi, Subir I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed Subir rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release Could we see the config.log file? JMarc
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
Subir Singh Lamba wrote: I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. Or use the RPMS from kde-redhat, http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/redhat/9/RPMS.stable/ See http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ for details on apt/yum configuration. You'll want to fetch install lyx and one of lyx-qt, lyx-xforms (and xforms) (Just noticed that the latest lyx in the repo for rh9 was still at 1.4.0, so I queue'd up a 1.4.1 build, to to available shortly) -- Rex
popups stopping lyx (latex export)
As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? When the 'document-settings' panel is open, the above popup cannot be started. As a result, no latex export is produced, with non notification. I suspect it is a more general misbehaviour, certain popup windows blocking lyx. Can anybody confirm such behaviour? thank you pol
paste crash
Pasting text from a character terminal into lyx TABLES crashes the editor (using lyx 1.4.1 - that is the same as in my previous message on popups) Anybody can confirm? thank you --pol
Re: cv - another try
These kinds of custom-formatting issues always concern LaTeX, not LyX. But that said, yes, it's feasible, which is not to say that it is easy to do. One option (maybe a bit of a hack) would be to use a minipage for the contact details, creating the separation line with a \rule. Getting the rule in the right place may take some work. There's probably a better way, though. Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, Thanks for the helpful advice (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg47716.html). I'd like a custom layout for my cv, to suit a certain -- shall we say corporate -- convention. I hope Lyx can deliver. I need the contact details and other information to appear in the left margin (about 1.5-2) -- and I need it in a gray box or separated by a line going down the length of the paper. Is it feasible? Yours, Eran
Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)
On Friday 12 May 2006 15:19, Pol wrote: As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? When the 'document-settings' panel is open, the above popup cannot be started. As a result, no latex export is produced, with non notification. I suspect it is a more general misbehaviour, certain popup windows blocking lyx. Can anybody confirm such behaviour? thank you pol I can confirm similar behaviour. In my case, lyx is trying to rewrite .tex files which are included into the document using Include_file... Vasek
Re: paste crash
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: This is a known bug, and I think it is fixed in 1.4.2svn, although status.14x does not say so. Juergen? Yes, it should be (that's bug 2380, fixed collobaratively by Georg and, well, you). Jürgen
Re: paste crash
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: This is a known bug, and I think it is fixed in 1.4.2svn, although status.14x does not say so. Juergen? Juergen Yes, it should be (that's bug 2380, fixed collobaratively by Juergen Georg and, well, you). Could you check and update status.14x? JMarc
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hi, I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also and made some little changes. IIRC setting CXX = g++-4.1 in the rules should work. I wanted something that would work for sarge and sid, so we could keep one file. A rule, saying on sarge use gcc 3.3 and on sid gcc 4.1 I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? A pointer to the thread would be enough so that I can catch up on that problem aswell. I've uploaded the total source package here : http://mvdlugt.nerim.net/LyX/lyx_1.4.1-1.lyx.org.2.tar.gz (83 M) Only the debian directory : http://mvdlugt.nerim.net/LyX/LyXDebian.tar.gz Looking again at my packages. I found that there are some minor changes to be made to the control files. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: paste crash
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Could you check and update status.14x? Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Jürgen
Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are distinctly different from those of the former, and I'm considering how best to accommodate them. Right now I have no comprehensive science library database on my linux network, just books on shelves and journal articles/agency reports in file cabinets and other shelves. My initial thought is to build a new, separate natbib database for the lectures. Almost certainly, each citation database will be specific to an individual project, and entries in one would not be used for a different project. Regardless, I wanted to gain outside opinions from you fine folks who have solved this problem in many different ways. Your thoughts and suggestions are solicited. A while back I spent a little time seeking a bibliographic database that ran on linux and that I liked. Didn't find anything then that was worth the effort to build. TIA, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Quantifying subjectivity for the Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | benefit of business and society. http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: paste crash
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Could you check and update status.14x? Juergen Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Thanks for checking. JMarc
Re: paste crash
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Could you check and update status.14x? Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was already fixed in 1.4.1, and also documented in status.14x. Georg
Re: paste crash
Georg Baum wrote: Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was already fixed in 1.4.1, and also documented in status.14x. I'll do so. But I wonder why the OP still gets the crash with 1.4.1 Jürgen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lyx Problem]
Here is a question that was sent to me by accident. Mate - Forwarded message from Oh, Seung T [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Subject: Lyx Problem Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 00:15:06 +0100 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Lyx Problem Thread-Index: AcZwL4bAjNBpIcVQSmS5667WdRx2bAB/I0Db From: Oh, Seung T [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 May 2006 23:15:24.0514 (UTC) FILETIME=[1EA8BC20:01C6722C] Hi there. I'm a PhD student in U.K. currently writing up the thesis. I'am at entry level on Lyx and currently encountering lots of problems. The solution I've been trying to find was not on the website so I was wondering if I could get the solution from you. The problem I have is with the subfigures. I've used float:figure to create a page of 6 subfigures. Didn't use any minipages with in the float. Problem 1) After inserting the graphics, if you click on the image the graphics window pops out. On the first page, you can adjust the output size. How exactly does this sizing function work? Problem 2) Clicking on the next page on the window, I get clipping. After inserting the graphics, If I don't set this clipping thing (under the Right top section) I get error message while converting it to DVI. How does this Clipping work? Problem 3) Coming back to subfigures, I've managed to somehow place the six images in good arrangement without knowing how I've done it (encountering the problems above). But the problem is that, the subfigure counter that appears automatically under each subfigure, when I tick the subfigure function on the third page of the graphics window, is centered only on the left column of figures with respect to the figures. For the right column of figures, these are off-centered to the left. How do I overcome this problem? Thank you very much and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Yours Truly, Seung-Taek Oh - End forwarded message -
Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? Yes, I'd be willing to sponsor the package. What is a DD? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: paste crash
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I'll do so. But I wonder why the OP still gets the crash with 1.4.1 I don't know. Pol, is that really 1.4.1 or some prereleae? Can you give a detailed recipe to reproduce the crash? Georg
Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.
Thanks to both Stephen and Abdel. Yes, space seems to be the main culprit in the command line parameter that gets passed to htlatex. I got it to work eventually from the command line based on what you guys have suggested. There is a bug in htlatex with path containing space. There is a work around that that should work, choose a different temp directory in the lyx preferences dialog (one _without_ space). But I would suggest that you first export to LateX and then do the exporting by hand at the windows console. Abdel.
crash recipe (semi-exact)
Hello, just wanted to let everybody concerned know about a crash I've experienced and was (partly) able to reproduce. This is with Lyx 1.4.1 on winxp. 1. open my lyx document, edit something in a note in a multicolumn cell of a table, don't save the change (more on that below) 2. open the user guide 3. use the navigate menu to go to the explanation of the comment environment 4. choose close from the file menu Lyx disappears, emergency save seems to work. About step 1: It seems to have something to do with specifics of the document I'm opening, because I cannot reproduce with demo documents that I've tried to create. (Don't want to post the original document because it's an unfinished paper.) But with that document I have reproduced the crash several times. Maybe it's an already known bug? Please point me to possible candidates for cross-checking. Thanks, Sven
Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.
Sadat Chowdhury wrote: Windows XP Professional. I installed LyX 1.4.1 as instructed. Everything works great...exceptexport to HTML just hangs forever. Anyone experience anything similar? Your messages are showing up in unrelated threads. If you want to initiate a new topic, please do so by sending a fresh message, not by replying to someone else's message and changing the subject line (which leaves your message attached to the previous sender's thread). Thanks, /Paul
Re: lyx 1.4.1 user interface problem
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the installer you suggested with no success. Are there any tricks I can configure with the Q../Free framework? As I believe that is responsible for the drawing of the menu toolbar. Not that I know. The Qtwin version that is built in the installer runs perfectly on various systems so there must be another program on your computer that causes this; perhaps a former only partly deinstalled Qt development kit or so. Sorry that I couldn't help you. regards Uwe Uwe, Do you know what font the Qt interface uses for the menus? I'm wondering if maybe the font file is missing on Eric's system, and so Qt is progressing to the next font in some search order? /Paul
Re: paste crash
Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Could you check and update status.14x? Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Georg Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was Georg already fixed in 1.4.1, and also documented in status.14x. I did not find it in the 1.4.1 announcement... JMarc
Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP
SCHAFFER Gerhard wrote: But now I have a problem to export the document to dvi or pdf format and it is not posible to get a dvi preview in yap. Trying do to so, I get an error dialog (I think from python) concerning the script directory :-( What is the error message? Also, what happens if you try to View-DraftDVI (which should bypass the python script)? DraftDVI should display the text (images will be missing). /Paul
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
Rich Shepard wrote: I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are distinctly different from those of the former, and I'm considering how best to accommodate them. Right now I have no comprehensive science library database on my linux network, just books on shelves and journal articles/agency reports in file cabinets and other shelves. My initial thought is to build a new, separate natbib database for the lectures. Almost certainly, each citation database will be specific to an individual project, and entries in one would not be used for a different project. Regardless, I wanted to gain outside opinions from you fine folks who have solved this problem in many different ways. Your thoughts and suggestions are solicited. A while back I spent a little time seeking a bibliographic database that ran on linux and that I liked. Didn't find anything then that was worth the effort to build. TIA, Rich My first reaction comes from a database theory perspective: avoid redundant entries (same entry in two or more files). If you edit one and not the others, things will get out of synch. That said, I don't know that matters much whether you put everything in one large (backed up!) BibTeX file, or use separate BibTeX files by topic, so long as you can quickly determine which topic file would contain a particular citation. I keep my references in five (so far) BibTeX files, but their subject areas don't overlap, so it's unambiguous where to go for a particular reference. I've recently started using JabRef, and quite like it. (Previously I'd just used a plain text editor to maintain BibTeX files.) Although I haven't tried it, JabRef has a feature that will let you group references by categories of your choice. So presumably you could group yours by lecture. /Paul
Removing the date timestamp from a Title class
This one is probably pretty easy for you guys: How do I create a title at the beginning of my document without a date getting pasted in every time? ~~~ Eric Patton Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) Bedford Institute of Oceanography P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Canada B2Y 4A2 Telephone: (902)426-7732 Facsimile: (902)426-4104 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello Paul! Great, it worked. Problem was in fact the not installed path variable. (C:\Programme\LyX141\bin on my system) Maybe it wasn't installed, because my Wind2k is configured in German?! So PATH is PFAD on your Win2K system? I don't know how Uwe's installer works -- in particular, whether it adds the LyX bin directory to the PATH variable -- but it would be ironic if it failed on systems configured in German. I'm copying him on this so that he can respond. Glad it's fixed. /Paul
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: My first reaction comes from a database theory perspective: avoid redundant entries (same entry in two or more files). If you edit one and not the others, things will get out of synch. Paul, I'm quite familiar with that after building database applications for almost 20 years. :-) That said, I don't know that matters much whether you put everything in one large (backed up!) BibTeX file, or use separate BibTeX files by topic, so long as you can quickly determine which topic file would contain a particular citation. I keep my references in five (so far) BibTeX files, but their subject areas don't overlap, so it's unambiguous where to go for a particular reference. Mine are disparate, too. No overlap ... so far. I've recently started using JabRef, and quite like it. (Previously I'd just used a plain text editor to maintain BibTeX files.) Although I haven't tried it, JabRef has a feature that will let you group references by categories of your choice. So presumably you could group yours by lecture. I've looked again at RefDB and am in the process of building and installing it. It now supports PostgreSQL as well as SQLite and it can read/write BibTeX files. So I might as well bite the bullet and put everything in there. Since I can put in several key words (it uses the database-agnostic RIS format), I can search for appropriate references regardless of subject. Long ago, when I worked in the DOS world before migrating to linux, I had a great reference database that worked well for me. Like my old contact managment system, I never got around to porting it to linux. Sigh. Thanks very much, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Quantifying subjectivity for the Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | benefit of business and society. http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? Yes, I'd be willing to sponsor the package. What is a DD? Debian Developper. Debian has a full American-oriented lingo, like 'MIA' which is initially a US military acronym / euphemism for a killed soldier. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple
of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality
workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are
distinctly different from those of the former, and I'm considering how best
to accommodate them. Right now I have no comprehensive science library
database on my linux network, just books on shelves and journal
articles/agency reports in file cabinets and other shelves.
My initial thought is to build a new, separate natbib database for the
lectures. Almost certainly, each citation database will be specific to an
individual project, and entries in one would not be used for a different
project.
Regardless, I wanted to gain outside opinions from you fine folks who have
solved this problem in many different ways. Your thoughts and suggestions are
solicited. A while back I spent a little time seeking a bibliographic
database that ran on linux and that I liked. Didn't find anything then that
was worth the effort to build.
Hi Rich,
I presume the emphasis is on large and disparate databases here.
Within the remit of my ethnographic work, I'm involved in a diverse range of
projects that rely on a broad range of sources from applied practitioners'
literature to abstract academic writings. For some reports I write, I merely
resort to one type of literature, whereas for others I might have to cite a
completely different cannon. Nonetheless, all bibliographical entries are
lumped into one single large bibtex database.
This is very convenient, particularly since LyX has such an excellent 'Add
citation' interface with a very straight forward search function. If your bibtex
entries are organised by the author + year i.e.
@book{Shepard05,
[...]
}
then you might be able to find the relevant citation within LyX with two clicks.
For complying and managing a bibtex database I recommend Pybliographer.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Sam
Re: Removing the date timestamp from a Title class
Patton, Eric write:
How do I create a title at
the beginning of my document without a date getting pasted in every time?
Add this line to your document preamble:
\date{}
regards Uwe
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
Look Tellico. -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: lyx 1.4.1 user interface problem
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Do you know what font the Qt interface uses for the menus? No, I don't know. Uwe
Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello Paul! Great, it worked. Problem was in fact the not installed path variable. (C:\Programme\LyX141\bin on my system) Maybe it wasn't installed, because my Wind2k is configured in German?! So PATH is PFAD on your Win2K system? I don't know how Uwe's installer works -- in particular, whether it adds the LyX bin directory to the PATH variable This must be tipo, PATH is PATH or Path on german systems. (I develop the installer under a german Win2k and a german XPx64.) The name doesn't matter because it is read out from the registry. The installer don't register anything to the PATH variable, I assume that you have a program in your PATH variable that also comes with a file named the same as in C:\Programme\LyX141\bin. If two or more programs in the PATH use a file with the same name, the ones of the first in the PATH registered program are used. regards Uwe
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lyx Problem]
- Forwarded message from Oh, Seung T [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I've used float:figure to create a page of 6 subfigures. Didn't use any minipages with in the float. Problem 1) After inserting the graphics, if you click on the image the graphics window pops out. On the first page, you can adjust the output size. How exactly does this sizing function work? Have a look at this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Units and http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tips/paperLayout/paperDistances.png (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout) Problem 3) Coming back to subfigures, I've managed to somehow place the six images in good arrangement without knowing how I've done it (encountering the problems above). But the problem is that, the subfigure counter that appears automatically under each subfigure, when I tick the subfigure function on the third page of the graphics window, is centered only on the left column of figures with respect to the figures. For the right column of figures, these are off-centered to the left. How do I overcome this problem? Have a look at the manual of the LaTeX-package subfig: ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subfig/subfig.pdf I assume that you have to enter something to the LaTeX-preamble of your document to achieve this. regards Uwe
Re: crash recipe (semi-exact)
Sven Schreiber schrieb: just wanted to let everybody concerned know about a crash I've experienced and was (partly) able to reproduce. This is with Lyx 1.4.1 on winxp. 1. open my lyx document, edit something in a note in a multicolumn cell of a table, don't save the change (more on that below) 2. open the user guide 3. use the navigate menu to go to the explanation of the comment environment 4. choose close from the file menu I wasn't able to reproduce the crash. Without a testfile we couldn't help you. regards Uwe
Re: accent in jabref
Hi,
2006-05-11 14:34 +0200, Wolfgang Engelmann:
Offtopic:
How do I create in Jabref
Más (M´as) so that it is accepted by Lyx?
I tired M{\´a}s
and the like, but without success.
I have a finnish keyboard layout and use iso8859-1 encoding for my
Jabref bibliography. I just enter M-`-a-s and it appears as 'Màs' in
Jabref. When I inserted this entry in LyX, the output works fine, too. I
use fi_FI (=iso8859-1) - no utf8 - as language setting for LyX.
If I remember correctly, using utf8 encoding for the Jabref bibliography
results in problems with Lyx...
Kind regards,
Kimmo
Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)
Pol wrote: As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? LyX shouldn't overwrite existing images, please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org. When the 'document-settings' panel is open, the above popup cannot be started. As a result, no latex export is produced, with non notification. I suspect it is a more general misbehaviour, certain popup windows blocking lyx. Can anybody confirm such behaviour? I can confirm this on Windows, perhaps a side effect of bug 2423?: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2423 regards Uwe
Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Pol wrote: As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? LyX shouldn't overwrite existing images, please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org. LyX does only overwrite existing images after explicit confirmation. What is wrong with this behaviour? Georg
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lyx Problem]
- Forwarded message from Oh, Seung T [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I've used float:figure to create a page of 6 subfigures. Didn't use any minipages with in the float. Problem 1) After inserting the graphics, if you click on the image the graphics window pops out. On the first page, you can adjust the output size. How exactly does this sizing function work? Have a look at this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Units and http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tips/paperLayout/paperDistances.png (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout) Problem 3) Coming back to subfigures, I've managed to somehow place the six images in good arrangement without knowing how I've done it (encountering the problems above). But the problem is that, the subfigure counter that appears automatically under each subfigure, when I tick the subfigure function on the third page of the graphics window, is centered only on the left column of figures with respect to the figures. For the right column of figures, these are off-centered to the left. How do I overcome this problem? Have a look at the manual of the LaTeX-package subfig: ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subfig/subfig.pdf I assume that you have to enter something to the LaTeX-preamble of your document to achieve this. regards Uwe
Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)
Vaclav Smidl wrote: I can confirm similar behaviour. In my case, lyx is trying to rewrite .tex files which are included into the document using Include_file... Please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org. Uwe
chapter header
Hi There is this nice add bibliography in lyx which I did but now the space between the chapter header 'References' and the reference text is too large compared to the other headers. Does anyone know how to set it right, which command and where to put? Thank you very much Helena
Re: WG: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP
Hi Stephen Well, I think it is because the cygwin sh.exe and the msys sh.exe are not the same. I probably mentioned that earlier when I suggested taking Cygwin out of the windows Path. sed.exe can be a problem. But this way can work but takes more effort. To start with something easy, let us try pdflatex. Do you have Acrobat Reader installed? Then go to Tools-Preferences-left-click on File formats and then scroll down to PDF (pdflatex) in the window that opens to the right. In Viewer: which is to the right, type in acrord32, Apply and Save Close LyX and then open. I think you will have a pdflatex viewer. Maybe you might have to Reconfigure, which is also under Tools. Close LyX and reopen. I did the test with Acrobat Reader (it was not autoconfigured) and it did not work. I checked the paths shown in lyxrc.defaults and set them to the correct locations (it seems that there is still a problem in the configuration). Another test started Acrobat and loaded the file correctly - yeah !!!. The next test was of course to use dvi viewer yap. There I got again the python message and a backtrace on the shell. I mentioned that I had removed dv2dt.exe and dt2dv.exe from the bin directory too (when I removed all the msys files). After copying them back from the backup yap started as well. So I have to thank you a lot for your help and the tips you gave me. Now I can start working with lyx :- And I'm sure I'll enjoy it vey much -- Gerhard PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter
Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vaclav Smidl wrote: I can confirm similar behaviour. In my case, lyx is trying to rewrite .tex files which are included into the document using Include_file... Please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org. It is already there: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2434 -- Enrico
pdfpages LyX on Windows
Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document.
This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows.
I have in my preamble:
\usepackage{pdfpages}
Then in the document ERT:
\includepdf{testfile.pdf}
When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the
included file.
Any advice or working lyx files would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Eric Zollars
Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP
Hi To be able to configure lyx, I've installed cygwin now. Then I deleted all the msys stuff from the lyx141\bin directory and added cygwin/bin to the PATH After this 'sh configure' worked fine I can start lyx now with a modified lyx.bat (again, I added cygwin\bin to the PATH EnvVar) Thus I'm able to work with lyx. At least I can edit lyx documents :-))) But now I have a problem to export the document to dvi or pdf format and it is not posible to get a dvi preview in yap. Trying do to so, I get an error dialog (I think from python) concerning the script directory :-( -- Gerhard
Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Hello, I'd like to see the Debian package in the archive back in sync with the upstream version. I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned state but just not marked beeing O. The other former maintainer, Rob Weir, is MIA. So I'm willing to take it over BUT my experience with Debian packaging is still quite low and limited to small packages[2]. Additional I've not followed the Lyx development for the last ~2 years. So any help would be highly appreciated. After a first look around I found that several people are hacking their own Debian packages so there must be some demand for new packages and people willing to do some work. Please raise your hand now guys! I would like to see the people interessted joining the pkg-lyx-devel mailinglist provided via alioth. If you don't like to join the mailinglist but like to contact me please do so. You can find information on how to contact me via IRC and several IM networks here [3]. Ok now let's go over to some more technical things :) ATM I'm looking for the lost ends while actualy using Lyx to get some university stuff done. Things I found out so far: - Lyx 1.4 compiles with the /debian/ dir from the 1.3.6 packages in the archive with only minor changes. One is about to change a Build-Dep from libaiksaurus-dev to libaiksaurus-1.2-dev and the other one was the 02. patch not to apply. Then it takes a lot of time to compile on my little bit aged Athlon 1,4Ghz *sigh* but in the end I got a working package for i386 *juhu*. - The /debian/ subdir from 1.3.6 seems to be in a good shape and is using dpatch so I will stay with it. There are some fix me notes in the rules file but that should not matter for the moment. - There is a patch for hppa in the patchlist from an NMU - would be nice to find out to which upstream this patch belongs. - There is a huge amount of old bugs in the Debian BTS which need to be checked. - I've read something about a gtk frontend and found it in the Lyx source but there is no configure option for it and it's not mentioned in the README/INSTALL files. What's that? How can we use it? Is it alpha stuff you should not use? Would be cool if someone could enlight me what's that all about. Things I haven't found out yet: - Is the lyx package maintained in a VCS? I'd like to go with subversion but I've to admit that I haven't had the time lately to find out how svn-buildpackage should be used. Hints for docs I should read are welcome :). - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? So I'm now getting back to my university stuff for a few hours and wait for some feedback. Cheers, Sven [1] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-lyx/ [2] http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [3] http://sven.stormbind.net -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven Hoexter wrote: Hello, I'd like to see the Debian package in the archive back in sync with the upstream version. That would be very nice indeed. I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned state but just not marked beeing O. The other former maintainer, Rob Weir, is MIA. What is MIA? - The /debian/ subdir from 1.3.6 seems to be in a good shape and is using dpatch so I will stay with it. There are some fix me notes in the rules file but that should not matter for the moment. The 1.3.6 debian subdir needs some more fixes for 1.4.x. I did those, and you can see the result at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian#toc6. Note that small tweaks are needed for 1.4.2svn, I can provide an update if needed. I suggest you start from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian insetad of the 1.3.6 version. - I've read something about a gtk frontend and found it in the Lyx source but there is no configure option for it and it's not mentioned in the README/INSTALL files. What's that? How can we use it? Is it alpha stuff you should not use? Would be cool if someone could enlight me what's that all about. It is not documented because it is experimental and not ready for use. - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? That is the biggest problem. I suggest you find somebody who is willing to do that before doing anything else, because we have enough unofficial packages already. Maybe it would help if Erinn Clark orphaned the package officially. Georg
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:24:06AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: Sven Hoexter wrote: Hello Georg, Wow that's a fast reply :) I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned state but just not marked beeing O. The other former maintainer, Rob Weir, is MIA. What is MIA? Missing in action, he's not reachable and does not fix bugs. - The /debian/ subdir from 1.3.6 seems to be in a good shape and is using dpatch so I will stay with it. There are some fix me notes in the rules file but that should not matter for the moment. The 1.3.6 debian subdir needs some more fixes for 1.4.x. I did those, and you can see the result at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian#toc6. Note that small tweaks are needed for 1.4.2svn, I can provide an update if needed. Ah ok. How far is 1.4.2 from beeing released? I would like to stay with the final releases. - I've read something about a gtk frontend and found it in the Lyx source but there is no configure option for it and it's not mentioned in the README/INSTALL files. What's that? How can we use it? Is it alpha stuff you should not use? Would be cool if someone could enlight me what's that all about. It is not documented because it is experimental and not ready for use. Ok so I count that as not relevant for the moment so that the debian package will stay with the qt and xforms frontend. Or is xforms finaly deprecated now? - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? That is the biggest problem. I suggest you find somebody who is willing to do that before doing anything else, because we have enough unofficial packages already. Well my intention is definetly not to prepare another package which will finaly end in /dev/null. I'm quite optimistic to find someone who is willing to sponsor it. Maybe it would help if Erinn Clark orphaned the package officially. To my experience not realy. Cheers, Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven == Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Ah ok. How far is 1.4.2 from beeing released? I would like to Sven stay with the final releases. I am not sure yet. We have two or three bad bugs to fix, we are waiting for a brand new windows installer and we have two larger patches that may or may not be applied now or later (view files through windows services; outline-like functionality). But considering that configuration mechanism are changing, I think you should target 1.4.2. JMarc
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven Hoexter wrote: Wow that's a fast reply :) I was waiting for a simulation to finish when your message came in. I am not always that fast. Ok so I count that as not relevant for the moment so that the debian package will stay with the qt and xforms frontend. Or is xforms finaly deprecated now? xforms works, but will probably not see any big amounts of new development. I expect it to be dropped if continued support would mean to invest much time. I'll upload an updated diff for 1.4.2svn to the wiki tonight. Georg
Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.
Sadat Chowdhury a écrit : Windows XP Professional. I installed LyX 1.4.1 as instructed. Everything works great...exceptexport to HTML just hangs forever. Anyone experience anything similar? There is a bug in htlatex with path containing space. There is a work around that that should work, choose a different temp directory in the lyx preferences dialog (one _without_ space). But I would suggest that you first export to LateX and then do the exporting by hand at the windows console. Abdel.
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Georg Baum wrote : I'll upload an updated diff for 1.4.2svn to the wiki tonight. I've got 1.4.1 packages for sid (amd64, i386) and for sarge (i386) for the qt frontend apt-gettable from http://lyxondebian.free.fr I can try to upload the source package tonight. I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also and made some little changes. I can send the files to you, if you want. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Charles de Miramon wrote: I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also and made some little changes. I'll have a look at tge gcc 4.1 problem. I can send the files to you, if you want. That would be nice. My intention is to have one diff on the wiki that should be considered semi-official and that works with as many .deb based distros as possible (and of course everybody is encouraged to upload fixes there, too). Georg PS: Thanks for doing the apt stuff.
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hi, I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also and made some little changes. IIRC setting CXX = g++-4.1 in the rules should work. I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? A pointer to the thread would be enough so that I can catch up on that problem aswell. Regarding g++ 4.1 I found this FTBFS bug in the Debian BTS http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357119 Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven Hoexter wrote: I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? I believe that this is the default compiler in unstable. Regarding g++ 4.1 I found this FTBFS bug in the Debian BTS http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357119 IIRC this is a boost bug that is fixed in 1.4.x. Georg
lyx-1.4.1 install problem
Hi, I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release then used /sbin/ldconfig then on using ./configure --with-frontend=xforms I get the following error message:- -- Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:compression jpeg-image-loader use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (3.2.2) C++ Compiler LyX flags: -fno-exceptions C++ Compiler flags: -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 Linker flags: Linker user flags: XForms Frontend: libXpm version: 4.11 libforms version: 1.0.0 Packaging: posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx The following problems have been detected by configure. Please check the messages below before running 'make'. (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file) ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library is correctly installed on your system. What could be the problem? Any help will be deeply appreciated. Regards, Subir
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
Subir == Subir Singh Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subir Hi, Subir I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed Subir rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release Could we see the config.log file? JMarc
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
Subir Singh Lamba wrote: I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. Or use the RPMS from kde-redhat, http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/redhat/9/RPMS.stable/ See http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ for details on apt/yum configuration. You'll want to fetch install lyx and one of lyx-qt, lyx-xforms (and xforms) (Just noticed that the latest lyx in the repo for rh9 was still at 1.4.0, so I queue'd up a 1.4.1 build, to to available shortly) -- Rex
popups stopping lyx (latex export)
As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? When the 'document-settings' panel is open, the above popup cannot be started. As a result, no latex export is produced, with non notification. I suspect it is a more general misbehaviour, certain popup windows blocking lyx. Can anybody confirm such behaviour? thank you pol
paste crash
Pasting text from a character terminal into lyx TABLES crashes the editor (using lyx 1.4.1 - that is the same as in my previous message on popups) Anybody can confirm? thank you --pol
Re: cv - another try
These kinds of custom-formatting issues always concern LaTeX, not LyX. But that said, yes, it's feasible, which is not to say that it is easy to do. One option (maybe a bit of a hack) would be to use a minipage for the contact details, creating the separation line with a \rule. Getting the rule in the right place may take some work. There's probably a better way, though. Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, Thanks for the helpful advice (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg47716.html). I'd like a custom layout for my cv, to suit a certain -- shall we say corporate -- convention. I hope Lyx can deliver. I need the contact details and other information to appear in the left margin (about 1.5-2) -- and I need it in a gray box or separated by a line going down the length of the paper. Is it feasible? Yours, Eran
Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)
On Friday 12 May 2006 15:19, Pol wrote: As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? When the 'document-settings' panel is open, the above popup cannot be started. As a result, no latex export is produced, with non notification. I suspect it is a more general misbehaviour, certain popup windows blocking lyx. Can anybody confirm such behaviour? thank you pol I can confirm similar behaviour. In my case, lyx is trying to rewrite .tex files which are included into the document using Include_file... Vasek
Re: paste crash
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: This is a known bug, and I think it is fixed in 1.4.2svn, although status.14x does not say so. Juergen? Yes, it should be (that's bug 2380, fixed collobaratively by Georg and, well, you). Jürgen
Re: paste crash
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: This is a known bug, and I think it is fixed in 1.4.2svn, although status.14x does not say so. Juergen? Juergen Yes, it should be (that's bug 2380, fixed collobaratively by Juergen Georg and, well, you). Could you check and update status.14x? JMarc
Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hi, I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also and made some little changes. IIRC setting CXX = g++-4.1 in the rules should work. I wanted something that would work for sarge and sid, so we could keep one file. A rule, saying on sarge use gcc 3.3 and on sid gcc 4.1 I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? A pointer to the thread would be enough so that I can catch up on that problem aswell. I've uploaded the total source package here : http://mvdlugt.nerim.net/LyX/lyx_1.4.1-1.lyx.org.2.tar.gz (83 M) Only the debian directory : http://mvdlugt.nerim.net/LyX/LyXDebian.tar.gz Looking again at my packages. I found that there are some minor changes to be made to the control files. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: paste crash
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Could you check and update status.14x? Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Jürgen
Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are distinctly different from those of the former, and I'm considering how best to accommodate them. Right now I have no comprehensive science library database on my linux network, just books on shelves and journal articles/agency reports in file cabinets and other shelves. My initial thought is to build a new, separate natbib database for the lectures. Almost certainly, each citation database will be specific to an individual project, and entries in one would not be used for a different project. Regardless, I wanted to gain outside opinions from you fine folks who have solved this problem in many different ways. Your thoughts and suggestions are solicited. A while back I spent a little time seeking a bibliographic database that ran on linux and that I liked. Didn't find anything then that was worth the effort to build. TIA, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Quantifying subjectivity for the Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | benefit of business and society. http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: paste crash
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Could you check and update status.14x? Juergen Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Thanks for checking. JMarc
Re: paste crash
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Could you check and update status.14x? Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was already fixed in 1.4.1, and also documented in status.14x. Georg
Re: paste crash
Georg Baum wrote: Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was already fixed in 1.4.1, and also documented in status.14x. I'll do so. But I wonder why the OP still gets the crash with 1.4.1 Jürgen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lyx Problem]
Here is a question that was sent to me by accident. Mate - Forwarded message from Oh, Seung T [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Subject: Lyx Problem Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 00:15:06 +0100 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Lyx Problem Thread-Index: AcZwL4bAjNBpIcVQSmS5667WdRx2bAB/I0Db From: Oh, Seung T [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 May 2006 23:15:24.0514 (UTC) FILETIME=[1EA8BC20:01C6722C] Hi there. I'm a PhD student in U.K. currently writing up the thesis. I'am at entry level on Lyx and currently encountering lots of problems. The solution I've been trying to find was not on the website so I was wondering if I could get the solution from you. The problem I have is with the subfigures. I've used float:figure to create a page of 6 subfigures. Didn't use any minipages with in the float. Problem 1) After inserting the graphics, if you click on the image the graphics window pops out. On the first page, you can adjust the output size. How exactly does this sizing function work? Problem 2) Clicking on the next page on the window, I get clipping. After inserting the graphics, If I don't set this clipping thing (under the Right top section) I get error message while converting it to DVI. How does this Clipping work? Problem 3) Coming back to subfigures, I've managed to somehow place the six images in good arrangement without knowing how I've done it (encountering the problems above). But the problem is that, the subfigure counter that appears automatically under each subfigure, when I tick the subfigure function on the third page of the graphics window, is centered only on the left column of figures with respect to the figures. For the right column of figures, these are off-centered to the left. How do I overcome this problem? Thank you very much and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Yours Truly, Seung-Taek Oh - End forwarded message -
Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? Yes, I'd be willing to sponsor the package. What is a DD? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: paste crash
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I'll do so. But I wonder why the OP still gets the crash with 1.4.1 I don't know. Pol, is that really 1.4.1 or some prereleae? Can you give a detailed recipe to reproduce the crash? Georg
Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.
Thanks to both Stephen and Abdel. Yes, space seems to be the main culprit in the command line parameter that gets passed to htlatex. I got it to work eventually from the command line based on what you guys have suggested. There is a bug in htlatex with path containing space. There is a work around that that should work, choose a different temp directory in the lyx preferences dialog (one _without_ space). But I would suggest that you first export to LateX and then do the exporting by hand at the windows console. Abdel.
crash recipe (semi-exact)
Hello, just wanted to let everybody concerned know about a crash I've experienced and was (partly) able to reproduce. This is with Lyx 1.4.1 on winxp. 1. open my lyx document, edit something in a note in a multicolumn cell of a table, don't save the change (more on that below) 2. open the user guide 3. use the navigate menu to go to the explanation of the comment environment 4. choose close from the file menu Lyx disappears, emergency save seems to work. About step 1: It seems to have something to do with specifics of the document I'm opening, because I cannot reproduce with demo documents that I've tried to create. (Don't want to post the original document because it's an unfinished paper.) But with that document I have reproduced the crash several times. Maybe it's an already known bug? Please point me to possible candidates for cross-checking. Thanks, Sven
Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.
Sadat Chowdhury wrote: Windows XP Professional. I installed LyX 1.4.1 as instructed. Everything works great...exceptexport to HTML just hangs forever. Anyone experience anything similar? Your messages are showing up in unrelated threads. If you want to initiate a new topic, please do so by sending a fresh message, not by replying to someone else's message and changing the subject line (which leaves your message attached to the previous sender's thread). Thanks, /Paul
Re: lyx 1.4.1 user interface problem
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the installer you suggested with no success. Are there any tricks I can configure with the Q../Free framework? As I believe that is responsible for the drawing of the menu toolbar. Not that I know. The Qtwin version that is built in the installer runs perfectly on various systems so there must be another program on your computer that causes this; perhaps a former only partly deinstalled Qt development kit or so. Sorry that I couldn't help you. regards Uwe Uwe, Do you know what font the Qt interface uses for the menus? I'm wondering if maybe the font file is missing on Eric's system, and so Qt is progressing to the next font in some search order? /Paul
Re: paste crash
Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Could you check and update status.14x? Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Georg Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was Georg already fixed in 1.4.1, and also documented in status.14x. I did not find it in the 1.4.1 announcement... JMarc
Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP
SCHAFFER Gerhard wrote: But now I have a problem to export the document to dvi or pdf format and it is not posible to get a dvi preview in yap. Trying do to so, I get an error dialog (I think from python) concerning the script directory :-( What is the error message? Also, what happens if you try to View-DraftDVI (which should bypass the python script)? DraftDVI should display the text (images will be missing). /Paul
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
Rich Shepard wrote: I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are distinctly different from those of the former, and I'm considering how best to accommodate them. Right now I have no comprehensive science library database on my linux network, just books on shelves and journal articles/agency reports in file cabinets and other shelves. My initial thought is to build a new, separate natbib database for the lectures. Almost certainly, each citation database will be specific to an individual project, and entries in one would not be used for a different project. Regardless, I wanted to gain outside opinions from you fine folks who have solved this problem in many different ways. Your thoughts and suggestions are solicited. A while back I spent a little time seeking a bibliographic database that ran on linux and that I liked. Didn't find anything then that was worth the effort to build. TIA, Rich My first reaction comes from a database theory perspective: avoid redundant entries (same entry in two or more files). If you edit one and not the others, things will get out of synch. That said, I don't know that matters much whether you put everything in one large (backed up!) BibTeX file, or use separate BibTeX files by topic, so long as you can quickly determine which topic file would contain a particular citation. I keep my references in five (so far) BibTeX files, but their subject areas don't overlap, so it's unambiguous where to go for a particular reference. I've recently started using JabRef, and quite like it. (Previously I'd just used a plain text editor to maintain BibTeX files.) Although I haven't tried it, JabRef has a feature that will let you group references by categories of your choice. So presumably you could group yours by lecture. /Paul
Removing the date timestamp from a Title class
This one is probably pretty easy for you guys: How do I create a title at the beginning of my document without a date getting pasted in every time? ~~~ Eric Patton Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) Bedford Institute of Oceanography P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Canada B2Y 4A2 Telephone: (902)426-7732 Facsimile: (902)426-4104 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello Paul! Great, it worked. Problem was in fact the not installed path variable. (C:\Programme\LyX141\bin on my system) Maybe it wasn't installed, because my Wind2k is configured in German?! So PATH is PFAD on your Win2K system? I don't know how Uwe's installer works -- in particular, whether it adds the LyX bin directory to the PATH variable -- but it would be ironic if it failed on systems configured in German. I'm copying him on this so that he can respond. Glad it's fixed. /Paul
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: My first reaction comes from a database theory perspective: avoid redundant entries (same entry in two or more files). If you edit one and not the others, things will get out of synch. Paul, I'm quite familiar with that after building database applications for almost 20 years. :-) That said, I don't know that matters much whether you put everything in one large (backed up!) BibTeX file, or use separate BibTeX files by topic, so long as you can quickly determine which topic file would contain a particular citation. I keep my references in five (so far) BibTeX files, but their subject areas don't overlap, so it's unambiguous where to go for a particular reference. Mine are disparate, too. No overlap ... so far. I've recently started using JabRef, and quite like it. (Previously I'd just used a plain text editor to maintain BibTeX files.) Although I haven't tried it, JabRef has a feature that will let you group references by categories of your choice. So presumably you could group yours by lecture. I've looked again at RefDB and am in the process of building and installing it. It now supports PostgreSQL as well as SQLite and it can read/write BibTeX files. So I might as well bite the bullet and put everything in there. Since I can put in several key words (it uses the database-agnostic RIS format), I can search for appropriate references regardless of subject. Long ago, when I worked in the DOS world before migrating to linux, I had a great reference database that worked well for me. Like my old contact managment system, I never got around to porting it to linux. Sigh. Thanks very much, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Quantifying subjectivity for the Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | benefit of business and society. http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package? Yes, I'd be willing to sponsor the package. What is a DD? Debian Developper. Debian has a full American-oriented lingo, like 'MIA' which is initially a US military acronym / euphemism for a killed soldier. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple
of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality
workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are
distinctly different from those of the former, and I'm considering how best
to accommodate them. Right now I have no comprehensive science library
database on my linux network, just books on shelves and journal
articles/agency reports in file cabinets and other shelves.
My initial thought is to build a new, separate natbib database for the
lectures. Almost certainly, each citation database will be specific to an
individual project, and entries in one would not be used for a different
project.
Regardless, I wanted to gain outside opinions from you fine folks who have
solved this problem in many different ways. Your thoughts and suggestions are
solicited. A while back I spent a little time seeking a bibliographic
database that ran on linux and that I liked. Didn't find anything then that
was worth the effort to build.
Hi Rich,
I presume the emphasis is on large and disparate databases here.
Within the remit of my ethnographic work, I'm involved in a diverse range of
projects that rely on a broad range of sources from applied practitioners'
literature to abstract academic writings. For some reports I write, I merely
resort to one type of literature, whereas for others I might have to cite a
completely different cannon. Nonetheless, all bibliographical entries are
lumped into one single large bibtex database.
This is very convenient, particularly since LyX has such an excellent 'Add
citation' interface with a very straight forward search function. If your bibtex
entries are organised by the author + year i.e.
@book{Shepard05,
[...]
}
then you might be able to find the relevant citation within LyX with two clicks.
For complying and managing a bibtex database I recommend Pybliographer.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Sam
Re: Removing the date timestamp from a Title class
Patton, Eric write:
How do I create a title at
the beginning of my document without a date getting pasted in every time?
Add this line to your document preamble:
\date{}
regards Uwe
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
Look Tellico. -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: lyx 1.4.1 user interface problem
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Do you know what font the Qt interface uses for the menus? No, I don't know. Uwe
