Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

[Bernd Kulawik]

Finally, I re-installed LaTeX - this time with MacTex, not i- 
Installer, then LyX - which worked even without running the Mac LyX- 
installer: Now, all the classes are available, I can create output -  
though, instead of Preview, Safari pops up and wants to show the  
PDFs ... but that's not important. I can also use DVI - which did not  
work in the old installation - which is turned into PDFs and shown by  
TeXmaker that came with MacTeX. So, everything is almost even better  
than before. Somehow I must have broken my LaTeX installation - don't  
know how, but doesn't matter anymore :-)


Thanks for all the helping suggestions  - keep on happy lyxing
;-)

Bernd



Am 21.07.2006 um 17:47 schrieb Bennett Helm:



On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote:

Also, regarding the hints by Anders, if I become su or use sudo  
and type texhash I get: command not found -- of course, I  
first updated in installed everything i-Installer knows of or  
shows as available packages ... :-/


This indicates that something is wrong with your teTeX installation.


but i-Installer updated everything fine ... and it worked already,  
as I wrote earlier, and then broke without any changes to the OS  
or parts of the system, of course especially no changes on the TeX  
installation have been made (before the update with i-Installer  
today)


(Can you use LyX to generate a .tex file and then run latex  
manually on that?)


no, unfortunately, not even that: File export only as ASCII or  
Lyx-1.3, preview only as ASCII ...


The point is that if using the Terminal you can't find texhash (or  
latex or kpsewhich, e.g.), then you can't expect LyX to find them  
either. (Try entering which latex from in the Terminal to see if  
that gives you a path to a working latex.) For your installation,  
it should return:


/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/latex

Bennett

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

[Bennett Helm]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 5:36 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote:

Finally, I re-installed LaTeX - this time with MacTex, not i- 
Installer, then LyX - which worked even without running the Mac LyX- 
installer: Now, all the classes are available, I can create output  
- though, instead of Preview, Safari pops up and wants to show  
the PDFs ... but that's not important. I can also use DVI - which  
did not work in the old installation - which is turned into PDFs  
and shown by TeXmaker that came with MacTeX. So, everything is  
almost even better than before. Somehow I must have broken my LaTeX  
installation - don't know how, but doesn't matter anymore :-)


I'd recommend running the LyX installer anyway. It installs some  
LaTeX style files in your teTeX directories, and you wouldn't notice  
their absence on a casual testing of LyX.


To fix the Preview problem, you need explicitly to define a .pdf  
viewer in MacOS X. To do this, select any .pdf file in the Finder, do  
File  Get Info..., and change the Open with drop down menu to the  
application of your choice (Preview.app, e.g.). Then click on the  
Change All... button. After that, LyX should open .pdf files with  
Preview.app.


Bennett

More class files by default

[Ed Gatzke]

I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and
getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run something to reconfigure
latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me)

It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option.

Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or
some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others).

1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get
installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that
were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using).  Why not have a install option
for extended latex.  

I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the
way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost 
us... 

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 binary user interface question

[Enrico Forestieri]

Andreas Busch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have been running it for the last couple of days, and do enjoy the  
 fact that the user interface is now available in German (the language  
 my Powerbook prefers . However, there is one nuisance, and it  
 concerns the German umlauts (a,o,u with little dots on top: ä,ö,ü).  
 In LyX, they are displayed as a,o and u. So the Insert menu item  
 is Einfügen in German, but LyX displays it as Einfugen.

Have a look here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg92247.html

-- 
Enrico

RE: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

[Jean-Claude Garreau]

Hi,

I installed the Win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2; it works nicely, and in
particular
the conversion from tex to lyx (finally!). However, I have a great problem:
after a latex compilation
to DVI (Ctrl+D), the latex logfile cannot be viewed. Is it a bug of the Lyx
version,
or a bug of my installation? Are there known solutions?

Thanks in advance

Jean-Claude Garreau

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 -Message d'origine-
 De : Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Envoyé : jeudi 13 juillet 2006 10:53
 À : LyX Announce
 Objet : ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released
 
 
 Public release of LyX version 1.4.2
 ===
 
 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix
 release that improves performance, stability and native OS support.
 Notable new features include:
 
 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
   [Windows and Mac OS X only].
 
 - The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
 
 - A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry in
   the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will be
   compressed on disk or not.
 
 - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output
   format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
   figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
 
 See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release.
 
 In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
 http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
 
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
 
LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing 
 around with page
boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. 
 Knuth's legendary
TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
 
On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed 
 output -- or
richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
different on different printer drivers. Gone are the 
 crashes 'eating'
your dissertation the evening before going to press.
 
LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 
 
 You can download LyX 1.4.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
 which yields smaller files):
 
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2
   ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2
 
 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors 
 (which will also host
 the .bz2 versions):
 
 http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 
 ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 
 Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
 installers) should soon be available at
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/
 
 If you already have the LyX 1.4.1 sources, you may want to apply one
 of the following patches instead
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.gz
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.bz2
 
 Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since
 some binary files have been added for this release.
 
 If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.2, you may either
 e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel  at  
 lists.lyx.org), or open
 a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
 
 If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or 
 have a question,
 first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find 
 the answer there,
 e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users  at  lists.lyx.org).
 
 Enjoy!
 
 The LyX team.
 
 What's new in version 1.4.2?
  
 
 ** Updates
 
 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
   [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
 
 - Add a new function 

RE: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

[Georg Baum]

Jean-Claude Garreau wrote:

 to DVI (Ctrl+D), the latex logfile cannot be viewed. Is it a bug of the
 Lyx version,
 or a bug of my installation? Are there known solutions?

This is a known problem: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2687


Georg

Greek issues

[Vangelis Mihalopoulos]

Hello,

i have downloaded and installed lyx-142-1-bundle.exe on WinXP. To put 
it simply, i just can't get Lyx to produce greek output I change the 
document's language setting, but this throws a cannot find 
iso-8859-7.def. Got the file, placed it in texmf\tex\generic\babel, 
texmf\tex\latex\base, and texmf\tex\latex\greek.. executed 
texmf\miktex\bin\texhash.exe. This made the View-DVI options in 
Lyx to disappear. And now, with DraftDVI, i get an error:


\begin{document}
   
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,

so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.
--

i thought Lyx supports greek out-of-the-box... :-(
Thanks for any help guys i'm getting desperate here.

Re: More class files by default

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 10:01 am, Ed Gatzke wrote:
 I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex
 installation and getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run
 something to reconfigure latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth
 sailing for me)

You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run the texhash program.

SteveT
 
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numerical references and hyphenation

[André Rygh]

I am using Lyx 1.4.2 under windows and a standard tau.bib file I have
editet to suit my references.

For some reason the bibliography will not show in up numerical order as
used in the text, but seems like articles are first and then books.This 
is under the default plain style. After a while I found a style that 
shows references in numerical order, I would prefer the plain style for 
how my references look, but it has to be numerical. Any suggestions to 
where I can find styles that suit this?



Thanks for all help!
Andre

Big problem with notes

[Isaac Pante]

Hello everybody!I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes, as you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy way to solve this. Isaac Pante 

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Isaac Pante]

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created  
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the  
footnote button.
It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the  
following versions of lyx.


So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number).  
Is there a TeX command for this?


Thanks for your help.

Isaac Pante


Le 25 juil. 06 à 18:16, Isaac Pante a écrit :


Hello everybody!

I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes,  
as you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy  
way to solve this.


Isaac Pante

Image 3.png

Re: More class files by default

[Ed Gatzke]

 You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
 anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run  the texhash 
 program.
 

The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some
strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating.  One time dvis and 
fonts got fouled up as well.

There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex,
one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well.   There are two
or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a 
bit screwy having option.

There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, 
but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB,
especially if you zip the text files initially.  Give the user an option 
to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from 
a contrib site if you want.  

It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed
to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...

Re: More class files by default

[Stephen Harris]

Ed Gatzke wrote:

I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and
getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run something to reconfigure
latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me)

It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option.

Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or
some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others).

1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get
installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that
were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using).  Why not have a install option
for extended latex.  


I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the
way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost us... 





There are a few more on the Wiki and instruction on how to make
a simple one that will probably work for you. Layout files aren't
as abundant as you might think because authors don't make them.
The Wiki has Beamer and Powerdot layouts and a small collection.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts [roll your own]

Regards,
Stephen

Re: More class files by default

[Paul A. Rubin]

Ed Gatzke wrote:
You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run  the texhash 
program.




The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some
strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating.  One time dvis and 
fonts got fouled up as well.


There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex,
one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well.   There are two
or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a 
bit screwy having option.


There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, 
but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB,
especially if you zip the text files initially.  Give the user an option 
to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from 
a contrib site if you want.  


It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed
to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...





I'm a bit fuzzy on what you're proposing here.  If you add a bunch of 
LaTeX classes that don't have layout files, they won't be usable from 
LyX.  So we're down to classes for which someone has donated a layout 
file.  There are a few floating around that are not part of the LyX 
package (I think there might be a few on the Wiki), but my impression is 
that the number of layout files publicly available but not shipping with 
LyX is a bit small.


As far as the classes/styles themselves (ones that don't come with your 
LaTeX distribution), using LyX rather than the LaTeX distro to install 
them might create some compatibility adventures (if an updated version 
of your distro changes the package installation procedure), and I think 
would be a bit of a pain to program (since installation procedures are 
somewhat platform- and distribution-specific).


What might work would be a wizard that would walk you through the steps.

/Paul

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Stephen Harris]

Isaac Pante wrote:
I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created 
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the footnote 
button.
It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the following 
versions of lyx.


So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number). Is 
there a TeX command for this?


Thanks for your help.

Isaac Pante


Le 25 juil. 06 à 18:16, Isaac Pante a écrit :


Hello everybody!

I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes, as 
you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy way 
to solve this.


Isaac Pante

Image 3.png




I've heard people recommending The Latex Companion 2nd Edition
for awhile now. I noticed it on the Safari ebook service. There
is a 14 day free trial period. A person can download several
sections or a chapter, it is allowed. Also in the US, most
libraries have a subscription and many educational institutions
(international too) have access.

I downloaded all of Chapter 11 because the Xindy people said
that was the best Howto around, using the browser's save as.
There is a keyword search engine for the book.

Knuth used to give $2.56 to anyone who caught an error in
his book/Tex. The authors give away a computer book every
six months to whoever finds the most errors. I already
found a typo just reading the book online. Chapter 6.

There is no implication about asking on the list, just
sharing a way I found to spread my hustle.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 binary user interface question

[Anders Ekberg]

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:35:58 -0700 Bennett Helm


On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Andreas Busch wrote:

Bennett -- many thanks again for compiling the LyX 1.4.2 binary  
for the Mac and making it available on your college's website --  
much appreciated!


I have been running it for the last couple of days, and do enjoy  
the fact that the user interface is now available in German (the  
language my Powerbook prefers ;-). However, there is one nuisance,  
and it concerns the German umlauts (a,o,u with little dots on top:  
ä,ö,ü). In LyX, they are displayed as a,o and u. So the  
Insert menu item is Einfügen in German, but LyX displays it as  
Einfugen.


Is there a way this could be corrected? Or does it have something  
to do with the QT toolkit? I seem to recall that no such problems  
existed in the LyX 1.3.x branch, but there may have been changes  
in the toolkit since.


That's a known problem with LyX on Mac, and we haven't figured out  
a good solution. Georg Kö reports (and I can confirm) that setting  
OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso8859-1 in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist works. (See  
the wiki for instructions on how to change things in  
environment.plist.) Doing this, however, changes the setting for  
*all* programs you launch, not just LyX, and that may have negative  
side effects. Clearly, a better solution is needed.

Bennett
Maybe a very stupid idea, but would it be possible to add something  
to lyx.org.plist ?


Anders Ekberg

Postscript preview

[LB]

Hello

I have been inserting figures in Lyx (1.4.2 Windows XP) dozens of times and 
never had any problems with their previews. Until this time... I created a 
PostScript figure in Matlab ( the same procedure as I always use) and this 
figure would not get displayed in Lyx.  The place holder for the figure 
shows Converting to loadable format... and does not proceed from there. 
This stops all the other figures to be shown. When I kill convert.exe 
process the rest of the document figures get displayed.


The figure displays fine when the full document is displayed as a pdf or 
postscript.  I ran convert figure.ps figure.pgn outside Lyx.  That worked 
fine.When I open the file Lyx document with Lyx 1.4.1 the image is previewed 
fine also.


The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much
Leo 


test.ps
Description: PostScript document


test.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: ***SPAM*** Postscript preview

[Bo Peng]

The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.


I can view the figure (converted successfully) under windows, using lyx 1.4.2.

Bo

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Uwe Stöhr]

Isaac Pante wrote:

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created 
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the footnote 
button.

 It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the following
 versions of lyx.

Please report such issues to bugzilla.lyx.org to assure that they don't 
get lost.



So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number). Is 
there a TeX command for this?


Yes there is:

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-170.html

regards Uwe

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Isaac Pante]

Thanks for your answers!

I tried the addtocontents command. It writes my chapter in the  
table of contents but not the page number. Is there another command  
allowing me to add the page number too?


Thanks anyway!


Le 25 juil. 06 à 23:43, Uwe Stöhr a écrit :


Isaac Pante wrote:

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created  
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the  
footnote button.
 It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the  
following

 versions of lyx.

Please report such issues to bugzilla.lyx.org to assure that they  
don't get lost.



So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page  
number). Is there a TeX command for this?


Yes there is:

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/ 
latex2e-html/ltx-170.html


regards Uwe

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Uwe Stöhr]

Isaac Pante schrieb:


Thanks for your answers!

I tried the addtocontents command. It writes my chapter in the table 
of contents but not the page number. Is there another command allowing 
me to add the page number too?


Try the command \addcontentsline:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-171.html

For more infos google and have a look at the TeX-FAQ:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

regards Uwe

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

You mean a hidden lyx dialog that is accepting keyboard input? Last
time this happened, I was typing without doing anything special. Also,
Alt-F etc works...

I will minimize all windows and check next time it happens.


The problem strikes again. I can not enter anything in the main
windows, but I can open a dialog and input. I minimize lyx and do not
find anything.

Bo

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Bo Peng wrote:


The problem strikes again. I can not enter anything in the main windows,
but I can open a dialog and input. I minimize lyx and do not find
anything.


Bo,

  What OS? What other processes are running?

Rich

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Re: Postscript preview

[Paul A. Rubin]

Bo Peng wrote:

The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.


I can view the figure (converted successfully) under windows, using lyx 
1.4.2.


Bo



Same here (LyX 1.4.2, WinXP).  It takes a couple of seconds on my laptop 
for the image to convert, but convert it does.


/Paul

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

   What OS? What other processes are running?


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.

Bo

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Bo Peng wrote:


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.


Bo,

  Oh. I cannot help as I've used only linux the past nine years. Happily,
I've forgotten all I knew about Microsoft's OSes. :-)

Rich

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Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Bo Peng wrote:

   What OS? What other processes are running?


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.

Bo



Bo,

There's an earlier thread (started with message 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dated 7/11 from Sven Schreiber, subject 
bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left) that describes a bug 
causing keyboard lock-out.  When this one occurs, you can still use 
alt-F etc. to get to the menu, but you can't type (or cursor around) in 
the document pane.


When you lose keyboard control, does that include menu commands?

/Paul

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

There's an earlier thread (started with message
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dated 7/11 from Sven Schreiber, subject
bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left) that describes a bug
causing keyboard lock-out.  When this one occurs, you can still use
alt-F etc. to get to the menu, but you can't type (or cursor around) in
the document pane.


I will check that.


When you lose keyboard control, does that include menu commands?


No. Menu items work well, I can even type in dialogs like file-settings.

Bo

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

[Bernd Kulawik]

Finally, I re-installed LaTeX - this time with MacTex, not i- 
Installer, then LyX - which worked even without running the Mac LyX- 
installer: Now, all the classes are available, I can create output -  
though, instead of Preview, Safari pops up and wants to show the  
PDFs ... but that's not important. I can also use DVI - which did not  
work in the old installation - which is turned into PDFs and shown by  
TeXmaker that came with MacTeX. So, everything is almost even better  
than before. Somehow I must have broken my LaTeX installation - don't  
know how, but doesn't matter anymore :-)


Thanks for all the helping suggestions  - keep on happy lyxing
;-)

Bernd



Am 21.07.2006 um 17:47 schrieb Bennett Helm:



On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote:

Also, regarding the hints by Anders, if I become su or use sudo  
and type texhash I get: command not found -- of course, I  
first updated in installed everything i-Installer knows of or  
shows as available packages ... :-/


This indicates that something is wrong with your teTeX installation.


but i-Installer updated everything fine ... and it worked already,  
as I wrote earlier, and then broke without any changes to the OS  
or parts of the system, of course especially no changes on the TeX  
installation have been made (before the update with i-Installer  
today)


(Can you use LyX to generate a .tex file and then run latex  
manually on that?)


no, unfortunately, not even that: File export only as ASCII or  
Lyx-1.3, preview only as ASCII ...


The point is that if using the Terminal you can't find texhash (or  
latex or kpsewhich, e.g.), then you can't expect LyX to find them  
either. (Try entering which latex from in the Terminal to see if  
that gives you a path to a working latex.) For your installation,  
it should return:


/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/latex

Bennett

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

[Bennett Helm]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 5:36 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote:

Finally, I re-installed LaTeX - this time with MacTex, not i- 
Installer, then LyX - which worked even without running the Mac LyX- 
installer: Now, all the classes are available, I can create output  
- though, instead of Preview, Safari pops up and wants to show  
the PDFs ... but that's not important. I can also use DVI - which  
did not work in the old installation - which is turned into PDFs  
and shown by TeXmaker that came with MacTeX. So, everything is  
almost even better than before. Somehow I must have broken my LaTeX  
installation - don't know how, but doesn't matter anymore :-)


I'd recommend running the LyX installer anyway. It installs some  
LaTeX style files in your teTeX directories, and you wouldn't notice  
their absence on a casual testing of LyX.


To fix the Preview problem, you need explicitly to define a .pdf  
viewer in MacOS X. To do this, select any .pdf file in the Finder, do  
File  Get Info..., and change the Open with drop down menu to the  
application of your choice (Preview.app, e.g.). Then click on the  
Change All... button. After that, LyX should open .pdf files with  
Preview.app.


Bennett

More class files by default

[Ed Gatzke]

I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and
getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run something to reconfigure
latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me)

It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option.

Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or
some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others).

1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get
installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that
were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using).  Why not have a install option
for extended latex.  

I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the
way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost 
us... 

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 binary user interface question

[Enrico Forestieri]

Andreas Busch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have been running it for the last couple of days, and do enjoy the  
 fact that the user interface is now available in German (the language  
 my Powerbook prefers . However, there is one nuisance, and it  
 concerns the German umlauts (a,o,u with little dots on top: ä,ö,ü).  
 In LyX, they are displayed as a,o and u. So the Insert menu item  
 is Einfügen in German, but LyX displays it as Einfugen.

Have a look here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg92247.html

-- 
Enrico

RE: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

[Jean-Claude Garreau]

Hi,

I installed the Win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2; it works nicely, and in
particular
the conversion from tex to lyx (finally!). However, I have a great problem:
after a latex compilation
to DVI (Ctrl+D), the latex logfile cannot be viewed. Is it a bug of the Lyx
version,
or a bug of my installation? Are there known solutions?

Thanks in advance

Jean-Claude Garreau

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 -Message d'origine-
 De : Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Envoyé : jeudi 13 juillet 2006 10:53
 À : LyX Announce
 Objet : ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released
 
 
 Public release of LyX version 1.4.2
 ===
 
 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix
 release that improves performance, stability and native OS support.
 Notable new features include:
 
 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
   [Windows and Mac OS X only].
 
 - The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
 
 - A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry in
   the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will be
   compressed on disk or not.
 
 - A LaTeX (pdflatex) output format has been added. This new output
   format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
   figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
 
 See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release.
 
 In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
 http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
 
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
 
LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing 
 around with page
boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. 
 Knuth's legendary
TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
 
On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed 
 output -- or
richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
different on different printer drivers. Gone are the 
 crashes 'eating'
your dissertation the evening before going to press.
 
LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 
 
 You can download LyX 1.4.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
 which yields smaller files):
 
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2
   ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2
 
 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors 
 (which will also host
 the .bz2 versions):
 
 http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 
 ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
 
 Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
 installers) should soon be available at
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/
 
 If you already have the LyX 1.4.1 sources, you may want to apply one
 of the following patches instead
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.gz
   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.bz2
 
 Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since
 some binary files have been added for this release.
 
 If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.2, you may either
 e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel  at  
 lists.lyx.org), or open
 a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
 
 If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or 
 have a question,
 first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find 
 the answer there,
 e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users  at  lists.lyx.org).
 
 Enjoy!
 
 The LyX team.
 
 What's new in version 1.4.2?
  
 
 ** Updates
 
 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
   [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
 
 - Add a new function 

RE: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

[Georg Baum]

Jean-Claude Garreau wrote:

 to DVI (Ctrl+D), the latex logfile cannot be viewed. Is it a bug of the
 Lyx version,
 or a bug of my installation? Are there known solutions?

This is a known problem: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2687


Georg

Greek issues

[Vangelis Mihalopoulos]

Hello,

i have downloaded and installed lyx-142-1-bundle.exe on WinXP. To put 
it simply, i just can't get Lyx to produce greek output I change the 
document's language setting, but this throws a cannot find 
iso-8859-7.def. Got the file, placed it in texmf\tex\generic\babel, 
texmf\tex\latex\base, and texmf\tex\latex\greek.. executed 
texmf\miktex\bin\texhash.exe. This made the View-DVI options in 
Lyx to disappear. And now, with DraftDVI, i get an error:


\begin{document}
   
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,

so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.
--

i thought Lyx supports greek out-of-the-box... :-(
Thanks for any help guys i'm getting desperate here.

Re: More class files by default

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 10:01 am, Ed Gatzke wrote:
 I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex
 installation and getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run
 something to reconfigure latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth
 sailing for me)

You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run the texhash program.

SteveT
 
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numerical references and hyphenation

[André Rygh]

I am using Lyx 1.4.2 under windows and a standard tau.bib file I have
editet to suit my references.

For some reason the bibliography will not show in up numerical order as
used in the text, but seems like articles are first and then books.This 
is under the default plain style. After a while I found a style that 
shows references in numerical order, I would prefer the plain style for 
how my references look, but it has to be numerical. Any suggestions to 
where I can find styles that suit this?



Thanks for all help!
Andre

Big problem with notes

[Isaac Pante]

Hello everybody!I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes, as you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy way to solve this. Isaac Pante 

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Isaac Pante]

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created  
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the  
footnote button.
It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the  
following versions of lyx.


So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number).  
Is there a TeX command for this?


Thanks for your help.

Isaac Pante


Le 25 juil. 06 à 18:16, Isaac Pante a écrit :


Hello everybody!

I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes,  
as you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy  
way to solve this.


Isaac Pante

Image 3.png

Re: More class files by default

[Ed Gatzke]

 You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
 anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run  the texhash 
 program.
 

The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some
strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating.  One time dvis and 
fonts got fouled up as well.

There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex,
one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well.   There are two
or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a 
bit screwy having option.

There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, 
but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB,
especially if you zip the text files initially.  Give the user an option 
to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from 
a contrib site if you want.  

It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed
to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...

Re: More class files by default

[Stephen Harris]

Ed Gatzke wrote:

I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and
getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run something to reconfigure
latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me)

It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option.

Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or
some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others).

1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get
installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that
were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using).  Why not have a install option
for extended latex.  


I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the
way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost us... 





There are a few more on the Wiki and instruction on how to make
a simple one that will probably work for you. Layout files aren't
as abundant as you might think because authors don't make them.
The Wiki has Beamer and Powerdot layouts and a small collection.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts [roll your own]

Regards,
Stephen

Re: More class files by default

[Paul A. Rubin]

Ed Gatzke wrote:
You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run  the texhash 
program.




The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some
strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating.  One time dvis and 
fonts got fouled up as well.


There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex,
one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well.   There are two
or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a 
bit screwy having option.


There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, 
but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB,
especially if you zip the text files initially.  Give the user an option 
to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from 
a contrib site if you want.  


It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed
to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...





I'm a bit fuzzy on what you're proposing here.  If you add a bunch of 
LaTeX classes that don't have layout files, they won't be usable from 
LyX.  So we're down to classes for which someone has donated a layout 
file.  There are a few floating around that are not part of the LyX 
package (I think there might be a few on the Wiki), but my impression is 
that the number of layout files publicly available but not shipping with 
LyX is a bit small.


As far as the classes/styles themselves (ones that don't come with your 
LaTeX distribution), using LyX rather than the LaTeX distro to install 
them might create some compatibility adventures (if an updated version 
of your distro changes the package installation procedure), and I think 
would be a bit of a pain to program (since installation procedures are 
somewhat platform- and distribution-specific).


What might work would be a wizard that would walk you through the steps.

/Paul

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Stephen Harris]

Isaac Pante wrote:
I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created 
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the footnote 
button.
It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the following 
versions of lyx.


So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number). Is 
there a TeX command for this?


Thanks for your help.

Isaac Pante


Le 25 juil. 06 à 18:16, Isaac Pante a écrit :


Hello everybody!

I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes, as 
you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy way 
to solve this.


Isaac Pante

Image 3.png




I've heard people recommending The Latex Companion 2nd Edition
for awhile now. I noticed it on the Safari ebook service. There
is a 14 day free trial period. A person can download several
sections or a chapter, it is allowed. Also in the US, most
libraries have a subscription and many educational institutions
(international too) have access.

I downloaded all of Chapter 11 because the Xindy people said
that was the best Howto around, using the browser's save as.
There is a keyword search engine for the book.

Knuth used to give $2.56 to anyone who caught an error in
his book/Tex. The authors give away a computer book every
six months to whoever finds the most errors. I already
found a typo just reading the book online. Chapter 6.

There is no implication about asking on the list, just
sharing a way I found to spread my hustle.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 binary user interface question

[Anders Ekberg]

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:35:58 -0700 Bennett Helm


On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Andreas Busch wrote:

Bennett -- many thanks again for compiling the LyX 1.4.2 binary  
for the Mac and making it available on your college's website --  
much appreciated!


I have been running it for the last couple of days, and do enjoy  
the fact that the user interface is now available in German (the  
language my Powerbook prefers ;-). However, there is one nuisance,  
and it concerns the German umlauts (a,o,u with little dots on top:  
ä,ö,ü). In LyX, they are displayed as a,o and u. So the  
Insert menu item is Einfügen in German, but LyX displays it as  
Einfugen.


Is there a way this could be corrected? Or does it have something  
to do with the QT toolkit? I seem to recall that no such problems  
existed in the LyX 1.3.x branch, but there may have been changes  
in the toolkit since.


That's a known problem with LyX on Mac, and we haven't figured out  
a good solution. Georg Kö reports (and I can confirm) that setting  
OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso8859-1 in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist works. (See  
the wiki for instructions on how to change things in  
environment.plist.) Doing this, however, changes the setting for  
*all* programs you launch, not just LyX, and that may have negative  
side effects. Clearly, a better solution is needed.

Bennett
Maybe a very stupid idea, but would it be possible to add something  
to lyx.org.plist ?


Anders Ekberg

Postscript preview

[LB]

Hello

I have been inserting figures in Lyx (1.4.2 Windows XP) dozens of times and 
never had any problems with their previews. Until this time... I created a 
PostScript figure in Matlab ( the same procedure as I always use) and this 
figure would not get displayed in Lyx.  The place holder for the figure 
shows Converting to loadable format... and does not proceed from there. 
This stops all the other figures to be shown. When I kill convert.exe 
process the rest of the document figures get displayed.


The figure displays fine when the full document is displayed as a pdf or 
postscript.  I ran convert figure.ps figure.pgn outside Lyx.  That worked 
fine.When I open the file Lyx document with Lyx 1.4.1 the image is previewed 
fine also.


The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much
Leo 


test.ps
Description: PostScript document


test.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: ***SPAM*** Postscript preview

[Bo Peng]

The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.


I can view the figure (converted successfully) under windows, using lyx 1.4.2.

Bo

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Uwe Stöhr]

Isaac Pante wrote:

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created 
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the footnote 
button.

 It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the following
 versions of lyx.

Please report such issues to bugzilla.lyx.org to assure that they don't 
get lost.



So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number). Is 
there a TeX command for this?


Yes there is:

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-170.html

regards Uwe

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Isaac Pante]

Thanks for your answers!

I tried the addtocontents command. It writes my chapter in the  
table of contents but not the page number. Is there another command  
allowing me to add the page number too?


Thanks anyway!


Le 25 juil. 06 à 23:43, Uwe Stöhr a écrit :


Isaac Pante wrote:

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created  
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the  
footnote button.
 It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the  
following

 versions of lyx.

Please report such issues to bugzilla.lyx.org to assure that they  
don't get lost.



So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page  
number). Is there a TeX command for this?


Yes there is:

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/ 
latex2e-html/ltx-170.html


regards Uwe

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Uwe Stöhr]

Isaac Pante schrieb:


Thanks for your answers!

I tried the addtocontents command. It writes my chapter in the table 
of contents but not the page number. Is there another command allowing 
me to add the page number too?


Try the command \addcontentsline:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-171.html

For more infos google and have a look at the TeX-FAQ:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

regards Uwe

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

You mean a hidden lyx dialog that is accepting keyboard input? Last
time this happened, I was typing without doing anything special. Also,
Alt-F etc works...

I will minimize all windows and check next time it happens.


The problem strikes again. I can not enter anything in the main
windows, but I can open a dialog and input. I minimize lyx and do not
find anything.

Bo

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Bo Peng wrote:


The problem strikes again. I can not enter anything in the main windows,
but I can open a dialog and input. I minimize lyx and do not find
anything.


Bo,

  What OS? What other processes are running?

Rich

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Re: Postscript preview

[Paul A. Rubin]

Bo Peng wrote:

The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.


I can view the figure (converted successfully) under windows, using lyx 
1.4.2.


Bo



Same here (LyX 1.4.2, WinXP).  It takes a couple of seconds on my laptop 
for the image to convert, but convert it does.


/Paul

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

   What OS? What other processes are running?


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.

Bo

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Bo Peng wrote:


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.


Bo,

  Oh. I cannot help as I've used only linux the past nine years. Happily,
I've forgotten all I knew about Microsoft's OSes. :-)

Rich

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Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Bo Peng wrote:

   What OS? What other processes are running?


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.

Bo



Bo,

There's an earlier thread (started with message 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dated 7/11 from Sven Schreiber, subject 
bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left) that describes a bug 
causing keyboard lock-out.  When this one occurs, you can still use 
alt-F etc. to get to the menu, but you can't type (or cursor around) in 
the document pane.


When you lose keyboard control, does that include menu commands?

/Paul

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

There's an earlier thread (started with message
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dated 7/11 from Sven Schreiber, subject
bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left) that describes a bug
causing keyboard lock-out.  When this one occurs, you can still use
alt-F etc. to get to the menu, but you can't type (or cursor around) in
the document pane.


I will check that.


When you lose keyboard control, does that include menu commands?


No. Menu items work well, I can even type in dialogs like file-settings.

Bo

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

[Bernd Kulawik]

Finally, I re-installed LaTeX - this time with MacTex, not i- 
Installer, then LyX - which worked even without running the Mac LyX- 
installer: Now, all the classes are available, I can create output -  
though, instead of "Preview", Safari pops up and wants to show the  
PDFs ... but that's not important. I can also use DVI - which did not  
work in the old installation - which is turned into PDFs and shown by  
TeXmaker that came with MacTeX. So, everything is almost even better  
than before. Somehow I must have broken my LaTeX installation - don't  
know how, but doesn't matter anymore :-)


Thanks for all the helping suggestions  - keep on "happy lyxing"
;-)

Bernd



Am 21.07.2006 um 17:47 schrieb Bennett Helm:



On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote:

Also, regarding the hints by Anders, if I become su or use sudo  
and type "texhash" I get: "command not found" -- of course, I  
first updated in installed everything i-Installer knows of or  
shows as available packages ... :-/


This indicates that something is wrong with your teTeX installation.


but i-Installer updated everything fine ... and it worked already,  
as I wrote earlier, and then "broke" without any changes to the OS  
or parts of the system, of course especially no changes on the TeX  
installation have been made (before the update with i-Installer  
today)


(Can you use LyX to generate a .tex file and then run latex  
manually on that?)


no, unfortunately, not even that: File export only as ASCII or  
Lyx-1.3, preview only as ASCII ...


The point is that if using the Terminal you can't find texhash (or  
latex or kpsewhich, e.g.), then you can't expect LyX to find them  
either. (Try entering "which latex" from in the Terminal to see if  
that gives you a path to a working latex.) For your installation,  
it should return:


/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/latex

Bennett

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

[Bennett Helm]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 5:36 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote:

Finally, I re-installed LaTeX - this time with MacTex, not i- 
Installer, then LyX - which worked even without running the Mac LyX- 
installer: Now, all the classes are available, I can create output  
- though, instead of "Preview", Safari pops up and wants to show  
the PDFs ... but that's not important. I can also use DVI - which  
did not work in the old installation - which is turned into PDFs  
and shown by TeXmaker that came with MacTeX. So, everything is  
almost even better than before. Somehow I must have broken my LaTeX  
installation - don't know how, but doesn't matter anymore :-)


I'd recommend running the LyX installer anyway. It installs some  
LaTeX style files in your teTeX directories, and you wouldn't notice  
their absence on a casual testing of LyX.


To fix the Preview problem, you need explicitly to define a .pdf  
viewer in MacOS X. To do this, select any .pdf file in the Finder, do  
File > Get Info..., and change the "Open with" drop down menu to the  
application of your choice (Preview.app, e.g.). Then click on the  
"Change All..." button. After that, LyX should open .pdf files with  
Preview.app.


Bennett

More class files by default

[Ed Gatzke]

I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and
getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run something to reconfigure
latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me)

It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option.

Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or
some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others).

1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get
installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that
were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using).  Why not have a install option
for "extended latex".  

I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the
way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost 
us... 

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 binary user interface question

[Enrico Forestieri]

Andreas Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have been running it for the last couple of days, and do enjoy the  
> fact that the user interface is now available in German (the language  
> my Powerbook prefers . However, there is one nuisance, and it  
> concerns the German umlauts (a,o,u with little dots on top: ä,ö,ü).  
> In LyX, they are displayed as "a,"o and "u. So the "Insert" menu item  
> is "Einfügen" in German, but LyX displays it as "Einf"ugen".

Have a look here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg92247.html

-- 
Enrico

RE: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

[Jean-Claude Garreau]

Hi,

I installed the Win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2; it works nicely, and in
particular
the conversion from tex to lyx (finally!). However, I have a great problem:
after a latex compilation
to DVI (Ctrl+D), the latex logfile cannot be viewed. Is it a bug of the Lyx
version,
or a bug of my installation? Are there known solutions?

Thanks in advance

Jean-Claude Garreau

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> -Message d'origine-
> De : Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Envoyé : jeudi 13 juillet 2006 10:53
> À : LyX Announce
> Objet : ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released
> 
> 
> Public release of LyX version 1.4.2
> ===
> 
> We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix
> release that improves performance, stability and native OS support.
> Notable new features include:
> 
> - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
>   [Windows and Mac OS X only].
> 
> - The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
> 
> - A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry in
>   the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will be
>   compressed on disk or not.
> 
> - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
>   format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
>   figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
> 
> See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release.
> 
> In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
> http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
> 
>LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
>based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
>is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
> 
>LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
>right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
>details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing 
> around with page
>boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. 
> Knuth's legendary
>TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
> 
>On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed 
> output -- or
>richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
>nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
>looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
>different on different printer drivers. Gone are the 
> crashes 'eating'
>your dissertation the evening before going to press.
> 
>LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
>internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
>Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 
> 
> You can download LyX 1.4.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
> which yields smaller files):
> 
>   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
>   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2
>   ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
>   ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2
> 
> and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors 
> (which will also host
> the .bz2 versions):
> 
> http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
> 
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
> 
> Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
> installers) should soon be available at
>   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/
> 
> If you already have the LyX 1.4.1 sources, you may want to apply one
> of the following patches instead
>   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.gz
>   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.bz2
> 
> Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since
> some binary files have been added for this release.
> 
> If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.2, you may either
> e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel
> lists.lyx.org), or open
> a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
> 
> If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or 
> have a question,
> first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find 
> the answer there,
> e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-userslists.lyx.org).
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> The LyX team.
> 
> What's new in version 1.4.2?
>  
> 
> ** Updates
> 
> - LyX now automatically uses file viewers 

RE: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

[Georg Baum]

Jean-Claude Garreau wrote:

> to DVI (Ctrl+D), the latex logfile cannot be viewed. Is it a bug of the
> Lyx version,
> or a bug of my installation? Are there known solutions?

This is a known problem: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2687


Georg

Greek issues

[Vangelis Mihalopoulos]

Hello,

i have downloaded and installed "lyx-142-1-bundle.exe" on WinXP. To put 
it simply, i just can't get Lyx to produce greek output I change the 
document's language setting, but this throws a "cannot find 
iso-8859-7.def". Got the file, placed it in "texmf\tex\generic\babel", 
"texmf\tex\latex\base", and "texmf\tex\latex\greek".. executed 
"texmf\miktex\bin\texhash.exe". This made the "View->DVI" options in 
Lyx to disappear. And now, with DraftDVI, i get an error:


\begin{document}
   
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,

so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\font='.
--

i thought Lyx supports greek "out-of-the-box"... :-(
Thanks for any help guys i'm getting desperate here.

Re: More class files by default

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 10:01 am, Ed Gatzke wrote:
> I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex
> installation and getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run
> something to reconfigure latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth
> sailing for me)

You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run the texhash program.

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numerical references and hyphenation

[André Rygh]

I am using Lyx 1.4.2 under windows and a standard tau.bib file I have
editet to suit my references.

For some reason the bibliography will not show in up numerical order as
used in the text, but seems like articles are first and then books.This 
is under the default plain style. After a while I found a style that 
shows references in numerical order, I would prefer the plain style for 
how my references look, but it has to be numerical. Any suggestions to 
where I can find styles that suit this?



Thanks for all help!
Andre

Big problem with notes

[Isaac Pante]

Hello everybody!I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes, as you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy way to solve this. Isaac Pante 

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Isaac Pante]

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created  
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the  
footnote button.
It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the  
following versions of lyx.


So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number).  
Is there a TeX command for this?


Thanks for your help.

Isaac Pante


Le 25 juil. 06 à 18:16, Isaac Pante a écrit :


Hello everybody!

I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes,  
as you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy  
way to solve this.


Isaac Pante

Re: More class files by default

[Ed Gatzke]

> You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
> anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run  the texhash 
> program.
> 

The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some
strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating.  One time dvis and 
fonts got fouled up as well.

There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex,
one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well.   There are two
or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a 
bit screwy having option.

There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, 
but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB,
especially if you zip the text files initially.  Give the user an option 
to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from 
a contrib site if you want.  

It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed
to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...

Re: More class files by default

[Stephen Harris]

Ed Gatzke wrote:

I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and
getting them to work with lyx.  (I know, install, run something to reconfigure
latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me)

It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default or as an option.

Some to consider include things like prosper (for pretty powerpoint slides) or
some widely used professional styles (IEEE, IFAC, others).

1.4.2 already has .layout files for a lot of things that apparently did not get
installed in the latex default package (or maybe 1.42 added more layouts that
were not included in the 1.4.1 latex I am using).  Why not have a install option
for "extended latex".  


I know originally they limited the extra stuff in LaTeX distributions, but the
way HD space and bandwidth is now days, how much does an extra few MB cost us... 





There are a few more on the Wiki and instruction on how to make
a simple one that will probably work for you. Layout files aren't
as abundant as you might think because authors don't make them.
The Wiki has Beamer and Powerdot layouts and a small collection.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts [roll your own]

Regards,
Stephen

Re: More class files by default

[Paul A. Rubin]

Ed Gatzke wrote:
You've probably done this already, but when you add a style or layout or 
anything to the  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ tree, run  the texhash 
program.




The couple of times I have done this, my latex'ing time quadrupled for some
strange reason, so the performance hit was frustrating.  One time dvis and 
fonts got fouled up as well.


There are like three different ways listed to get classes added to latex,
one involves setting a bunch of environment vars as well.   There are two
or three programs that can fix your paths when you make mods, so it is a 
bit screwy having option.


There must be a crapload of cls files for journals and theses out there, 
but I can't see a large portion of them adding up to more than 5 - 10 MB,
especially if you zip the text files initially.  Give the user an option 
to pick the ones they want to install early on, then download them from 
a contrib site if you want.  


It is much easier to have the well-written installer handle it as opposed
to idiot users like me mucking it all up later...





I'm a bit fuzzy on what you're proposing here.  If you add a bunch of 
LaTeX classes that don't have layout files, they won't be usable from 
LyX.  So we're down to classes for which someone has donated a layout 
file.  There are a few floating around that are not part of the LyX 
package (I think there might be a few on the Wiki), but my impression is 
that the number of layout files publicly available but not shipping with 
LyX is a bit small.


As far as the classes/styles themselves (ones that don't come with your 
LaTeX distribution), using LyX rather than the LaTeX distro to install 
them might create some compatibility adventures (if an updated version 
of your distro changes the package installation procedure), and I think 
would be a bit of a pain to program (since installation procedures are 
somewhat platform- and distribution-specific).


What might work would be a "wizard" that would walk you through the steps.

/Paul

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Stephen Harris]

Isaac Pante wrote:
I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created 
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the footnote 
button.
It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the following 
versions of lyx.


So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number). Is 
there a TeX command for this?


Thanks for your help.

Isaac Pante


Le 25 juil. 06 à 18:16, Isaac Pante a écrit :


Hello everybody!

I dont' know why, but I get an orrendous rendering of my footnotes, as 
you can see in the file joined. Please, tell me there is an easy way 
to solve this.


Isaac Pante






I've heard people recommending "The Latex Companion" 2nd Edition
for awhile now. I noticed it on the Safari ebook service. There
is a 14 day free trial period. A person can download several
sections or a chapter, it is allowed. Also in the US, most
libraries have a subscription and many educational institutions
(international too) have access.

I downloaded all of Chapter 11 because the Xindy people said
that was the best Howto around, using the browser's "save as".
There is a keyword search engine for the book.

Knuth used to give $2.56 to anyone who caught an error in
his book/Tex. The authors give away a computer book every
six months to whoever finds the most errors. I already
found a typo just reading the book online. Chapter 6.

There is no implication about asking on the list, just
sharing a way I found to spread my hustle.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 binary user interface question

[Anders Ekberg]

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:35:58 -0700 Bennett Helm


On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Andreas Busch wrote:

Bennett -- many thanks again for compiling the LyX 1.4.2 binary  
for the Mac and making it available on your college's website --  
much appreciated!


I have been running it for the last couple of days, and do enjoy  
the fact that the user interface is now available in German (the  
language my Powerbook prefers ;-). However, there is one nuisance,  
and it concerns the German umlauts (a,o,u with little dots on top:  
ä,ö,ü). In LyX, they are displayed as "a,"o and "u. So the  
"Insert" menu item is "Einfügen" in German, but LyX displays it as  
"Einf"ugen".


Is there a way this could be corrected? Or does it have something  
to do with the QT toolkit? I seem to recall that no such problems  
existed in the LyX 1.3.x branch, but there may have been changes  
in the toolkit since.


That's a known problem with LyX on Mac, and we haven't figured out  
a good solution. Georg Kö reports (and I can confirm) that setting  
OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso8859-1 in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist works. (See  
the wiki for instructions on how to change things in  
environment.plist.) Doing this, however, changes the setting for  
*all* programs you launch, not just LyX, and that may have negative  
side effects. Clearly, a better solution is needed.

Bennett
Maybe a very stupid idea, but would it be possible to add something  
to lyx.org.plist ?


Anders Ekberg

Postscript preview

[LB]

Hello

I have been inserting figures in Lyx (1.4.2 Windows XP) dozens of times and 
never had any problems with their previews. Until this time... I created a 
PostScript figure in Matlab ( the same procedure as I always use) and this 
figure would not get displayed in Lyx.  The place holder for the figure 
shows "Converting to loadable format..." and does not proceed from there. 
This stops all the other figures to be shown. When I kill "convert.exe" 
process the rest of the document figures get displayed.


The figure displays fine when the full document is displayed as a pdf or 
postscript.  I ran "convert figure.ps figure.pgn" outside Lyx.  That worked 
fine.When I open the file Lyx document with Lyx 1.4.1 the image is previewed 
fine also.


The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much
Leo 


test.ps
Description: PostScript document


test.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: ***SPAM*** Postscript preview

[Bo Peng]

The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.


I can view the figure (converted successfully) under windows, using lyx 1.4.2.

Bo

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Uwe Stöhr]

Isaac Pante wrote:

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created 
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the footnote 
button.

> It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the following
> versions of lyx.

Please report such issues to bugzilla.lyx.org to assure that they don't 
get lost.



So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page number). Is 
there a TeX command for this?


Yes there is:

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-170.html

regards Uwe

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Isaac Pante]

Thanks for your answers!

I tried the "addtocontents" command. It writes my chapter in the  
table of contents but not the page number. Is there another command  
allowing me to add the page number too?


Thanks anyway!


Le 25 juil. 06 à 23:43, Uwe Stöhr a écrit :


Isaac Pante wrote:

I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created  
highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the  
footnote button.
> It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the  
following

> versions of lyx.

Please report such issues to bugzilla.lyx.org to assure that they  
don't get lost.



So, let's go with another question:
How can I add content to the table of content (Name and page  
number). Is there a TeX command for this?


Yes there is:

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/ 
latex2e-html/ltx-170.html


regards Uwe

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

[Uwe Stöhr]

Isaac Pante schrieb:


Thanks for your answers!

I tried the "addtocontents" command. It writes my chapter in the table 
of contents but not the page number. Is there another command allowing 
me to add the page number too?


Try the command \addcontentsline:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-171.html

For more infos google and have a look at the TeX-FAQ:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

regards Uwe

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

You mean a hidden lyx dialog that is accepting keyboard input? Last
time this happened, I was typing without doing anything special. Also,
Alt-F etc works...

I will minimize all windows and check next time it happens.


The problem strikes again. I can not enter anything in the main
windows, but I can open a dialog and input. I minimize lyx and do not
find anything.

Bo

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Bo Peng wrote:


The problem strikes again. I can not enter anything in the main windows,
but I can open a dialog and input. I minimize lyx and do not find
anything.


Bo,

  What OS? What other processes are running?

Rich

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Re: Postscript preview

[Paul A. Rubin]

Bo Peng wrote:

The Lyx document and the postscript file are attached.


I can view the figure (converted successfully) under windows, using lyx 
1.4.2.


Bo



Same here (LyX 1.4.2, WinXP).  It takes a couple of seconds on my laptop 
for the image to convert, but convert it does.


/Paul

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

   What OS? What other processes are running?


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.

Bo

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Bo Peng wrote:


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.


Bo,

  Oh. I cannot help as I've used only linux the past nine years. Happily,
I've forgotten all I knew about Microsoft's OSes. :-)

Rich

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Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Bo Peng wrote:

   What OS? What other processes are running?


Windows 2k. Other processes include cygwin/x, vnc, explorer, firefox.

Bo



Bo,

There's an earlier thread (started with message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dated 7/11 from Sven Schreiber, subject 
"bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left") that describes a bug 
causing keyboard lock-out.  When this one occurs, you can still use 
alt-F etc. to get to the menu, but you can't type (or cursor around) in 
the document pane.


When you lose keyboard control, does that include menu commands?

/Paul

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

[Bo Peng]

There's an earlier thread (started with message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dated 7/11 from Sven Schreiber, subject
"bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left") that describes a bug
causing keyboard lock-out.  When this one occurs, you can still use
alt-F etc. to get to the menu, but you can't type (or cursor around) in
the document pane.


I will check that.


When you lose keyboard control, does that include menu commands?


No. Menu items work well, I can even type in dialogs like file->settings.

Bo