Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[TechTonics]

Rob Davies wrote:

Russell Davie wrote:

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

Hi,
What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work  
for me on 1.4.3 with XP.

Thanks,
Bob Lounsbury

I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
Then from the command line htlatex foo.tex = foo.html
which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:
When I do: htlatex foo.tex=foo.html it returns: Please type  
another input file name so I type foo.tex and everything seems to  
work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like foo.log,  
foo.aux, foo.idv, but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package  
was already installed by MikTeX.


What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word  
(Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with  
pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be  
greatly appreciated. Thanks.


I apologise in advance for a completely different tack, but it is the OS 
X in me.


I export my documents as PDF (ps2pdf)which is a direct copy of LyX 
document. It can then be read using a PDF reader, Acrobat is free and 
actually allows one to add notes to original document.


Cheers!



Acrobat Reader is free but the program which enables making comments
in the pdf file is Adobe Writer (Pro) which is not free. A university
probably has a license in some department or other. The supervisor(s)
would have to be satisfied with including notes, not changing the text.
Conversion from Pro pdf to Word doc is fairly terrible, but the Note
making toolbar is a quite flexible alternative.

The certainty available in inductive generalization is the best of

all possible certainties! - László E. Szabó

Stephen

Re: Problem with Algorithm label language

[Ares]

Juergen wrote:

As I already said in my previous mail: Only by _not_ using the (native)
feature.

(cut)

P.S.: I know, the long term solution is a better package management in LyX.
The developers are aware of that, only nobody volunteered to implement it so
far


I merged your pieces of code in my document, thank you, it should be
ok for the moment, I'll go back to the algorithm-float later. By now I
will press the devel people to solve the problem by writing to the
list... I'm sorry not to be a TeXnician, there's many little things I
would be glad to be helpful with (even though I find LyX/LaTeX is an
extraordinary simple and powerful tool everybody should use!)

Thanks again,
Diego

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Russell Davie]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:36:22 -0700
TechTonics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Rob Davies wrote:
  Russell Davie wrote:
  On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
  Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:
 
  Bob Lounsbury wrote:
  Hi,
  What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work  
  for me on 1.4.3 with XP.
  Thanks,
  Bob Lounsbury
  I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
  Then from the command line htlatex foo.tex = foo.html
  which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
  htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:
  When I do: htlatex foo.tex=foo.html it returns: Please type  
  another input file name so I type foo.tex and everything seems to  
  work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like foo.log,  
  foo.aux, foo.idv, but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package  
  was already installed by MikTeX.
 
  What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word  
  (Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with  
  pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be  
  greatly appreciated. Thanks.
  
  I apologise in advance for a completely different tack, but it is the OS 
  X in me.
  
  I export my documents as PDF (ps2pdf)which is a direct copy of LyX 
  document. It can then be read using a PDF reader, Acrobat is free and 
  actually allows one to add notes to original document.
  
  Cheers!
  
 
 Acrobat Reader is free but the program which enables making comments
 in the pdf file is Adobe Writer (Pro) which is not free. A university
 probably has a license in some department or other. The supervisor(s)
 would have to be satisfied with including notes, not changing the text.
 Conversion from Pro pdf to Word doc is fairly terrible, but the Note
 making toolbar is a quite flexible alternative.


Writing comments in pdf files is possible, according to Adobe, only if
the permission is set by the author and has to be dome using Adobe Products.

/quote 
In Adobe Reader, you can add comments only if additional usage rights
that enable commenting are added to the PDF document by Adobe Acrobat 7.0
Professional or Acrobat server products. Otherwise, commenting tools aren't 
available.
/

Adobe outline it on page 95 of this:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrruserguide.pdf

Now this is something to have as an enhancement to LyX!

cheers

Russell








 
 The certainty available in inductive generalization is the best of
 
 all possible certainties! - László E. Szabó
 
 Stephen

LyX/Cygwin 1.4.3

[Enrico Forestieri]

LyX/Cygwin 1.4.3 is available here:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/lyx-1.4.3-cygwin.tar.gz

In this package, alongside the Qt/Win native GUI, you will find an Xforms/X11
version which should run better on Win98/ME. A Qt/X11 version should be
available soon as an official Cygwin package.

-- 
Enrico

Servers down?

[Maria Gouskova]

I haven't been able to access either http://www.lyx.org or http:// 
wiki.lyx.org since Friday. Are the servers down?


Maria

Re: Servers down?

[Georg Baum]

Maria Gouskova wrote:

 I haven't been able to access either http://www.lyx.org or http://
 wiki.lyx.org since Friday. Are the servers down?

Unfortunately yes. They were supposed to be fixed today, but maybe there are
some problems.


Georg

Re: acronyms in Lyx

[Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski]

Ciao,

I did it with the nomencl package. To add an entry I inserted an ERT

\nomenclature{bla}{short form for blablablabla}

Finally, put an ERT

\printnomenclature

where you want to have the list.

To generate my doc including the nomenclature, I failed to convince LyX to  
do that for me. I wrote a script:


#!/bin/bash
lyx --export latex thesis.lyx
latex thesis
bibtex thesis
makeindex thesis.idx
makeindex thesis.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls
latex thesis
latex thesis
dvipdf thesis.dvi

In this case, the essential line is the makeindex with the nomencl.ist and  
so on ...


Well, I have to confess, it could be easier but it works when I do it  
like this.


HTH,

Cz.


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:46:56 +0200, Francesco  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to  
introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code  
within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in  
the

manual. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks and regards
Francesco





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LyX/Mac Intel binaries now available

[Bennett Helm]

LyX/Mac Intel binaries are now available from the wiki, or you can  
download them directly from here:


ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/LyX-1.4.3-Mac-Intel.dmg.

(LyX/Mac PPC binaries were released a few days ago, and can be found  
here:


ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/LyX-1.4.3-Mac-PPC.dmg.)

Bennett

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:15 PM, Russell Davie wrote:


On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

Hi,
What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work
for me on 1.4.3 with XP.
Thanks,
Bob Lounsbury


I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
Then from the command line htlatex foo.tex = foo.html
which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:


When I do: htlatex foo.tex=foo.html it returns: Please type
another input file name so I type foo.tex and everything seems to
work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like foo.log,
foo.aux, foo.idv, but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package
was already installed by MikTeX.

What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word
(Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with
pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.




Hi
I have the same issue with my supervisor.
I have spent last two weekends and most of today looking for a way  
to do this and am at my wits end on how to do this smoothly.


Can anybody suggest a clean, efficient and reliable way to do this?

There are problems in graphics, tables, cross-references and  
bibliography. All of which make LyX a joy and conversion to .doc a  
pain.  I found that all had problems with this, ie: oolatex,  
htlatex, ConvTex, thh, hevea and the internal LyX html tools.


So far the most acceptable and least pain free was to use oolatex,  
but the .doc still needs to be edited in OOo as doc as cross  
references were incorrect and bibliography was left out.


why oolatex?
1) makes only one file whereas html conversion can make several   
(latex2html can make only 1 file);
2) made a .sxw which can be edited by OOo which can be later saved  
to doc

and why this one is the choice:
3) the only tool that embeds the graphics within the file whereas  
html can only link to outside files.


oolatex is a script from the tex4ht family which includes htlatex.

How I did this: (for Linux)
1) edit LyX file: to remove all paragraph ie change to standard
2) make graphics as eps or jpeg
3) if eps: correct image sizing though images are a bit blurry,  
slow response from OOo
4) if jpeg: very small image sizing, clear images and snappy  
reponse from OOo

5) set formatting of all graphic floats to justify
6) save LyX file in tmp directory eg ../tmp as this will make lots  
of temporary files

7) export LyX file: file - export - LaTeX(pdflatex)
8) open xterm and go to ../tmp as made above
9) run latex and bibtex on .tex: eg latex foo.tex; bibtex foo.tex;  
latex foo.tex; latex foo.tex

10) run oolatex on .tex: eg /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex foo.tex
11) run OOo and open .sxw: ie goto to ../tmp and open foo.sxw
12) check formatting and graphic sizing
13) save as .doc
14) close file, keep OOo running
15) open .doc and check formatting, graphics and referencing
16) may have to open .sxw to copy references to .doc
17) save .doc
18) open again in OOo for final check to see if graphics and  
references are present

19) final QA check with MSwordview2003 (via wine)
20) it works! celebrate!

I took notes on the pros and cons of the other tools and can post  
them on request.


HTH

Russell



That is a lot of work. I'm not even sure that I would be able to  
figure out how to do all that.


What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure  
that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an  
export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a  
few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them  
quickly and send the file out to my advisor.


Thanks for the response, I may try that when I have time to go  
through the instruction carefully.


Bob

lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Carlos]

The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.

Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is the program cannot be
executed.

Somebody else has the same problem?

Carlos.

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Neal Becker]

Bob Lounsbury wrote:

[...]
 What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure
 that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an
 export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a
 few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them
 quickly and send the file out to my advisor.

No export to rtf in my LyX(1.4.3).  What am I missing?

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Neal Becker wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

[...]

What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure
that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an
export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a
few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them
quickly and send the file out to my advisor.


No export to rtf in my LyX(1.4.3).  What am I missing?



If I remember correctly I had to specifically install 'latex2rtf'  
from within Fink then do a ToolsReconfigure in LyX to enable this  
option.


-Bob

Re: Numbering in Questions and Answers section

[Richard Heck]

I'd define two new counters that are reset within chapters:
\newcounter{answer}[chapter]
\newcounter{question}[chapter]
Then you can define an environment or command that uses these counters 
and automatically prints the counter number in whatever format you want, 
e.g.: \arabic{answer}. How exactly you do that will of course depend 
upon how you want things formatted. But for the questions you might just 
define a \newtheorem and use the built in formatting there.


Richard

Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

My next book will be in the form of a textbook, so after each chapter summary 
I'll have a Questions section, followed by an Answers section. In each of 
those two sections, I'll have a series of numbered (I assume Arabic) 
questions (or answers). The questions and answers should all restart at #1 in 
each chapter.


Before I spend 3 days figuring out how to do this, does anyone know a way? I'm 
considering using a modified memoir document class, or maybe book or some 
other book-derived document class.


Thanks

SteveT

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Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.
 
 Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is the program cannot be
 executed.
 
 Somebody else has the same problem?
 
 Carlos.
 
 
Carlos,
Can you tell the specs of your computer? I want to know if it has anything to do
with processor. As I mentioned in one of my posts, it works on my PC (AMD
XP2600+) but not on my laptop(Pentium III-M).

Mukhtar

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:


Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:



The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.

Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is the program  
cannot be

executed.

Somebody else has the same problem?

Carlos.



Carlos,
Can you tell the specs of your computer? I want to know if it has  
anything to do
with processor. As I mentioned in one of my posts, it works on my  
PC (AMD

XP2600+) but not on my laptop(Pentium III-M).

Mukhtar


I don't know if this will help anyone with 1.4.3 problems on XP, but  
it is working for me and this was my process:


1) I uninstalled all programs used by LyX and uninstalled LyX 1.4.2
2) Restarted
3) Ran LyX 1.4.3 bundle installer (ignored the MikTex error)
4) At the end of install there is an option to start LyX and I  
clicked for LyX to be started

5) Did a Tools  Reconfigure in LyX
6) Restarted
7) Ran LyX and did a Tools  Reconfigure

After that everything was working properly. This was on an Intel  
Pentium D 3GHz computer.


--Bob Lounsbury

Re: acronyms in Lyx

[Mike Barnsley]

Francesco,

Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in the
manual. Any help would be appreciated.
  
One route is to use the acronym package, by inserting 
\usepackage{acronym} in your preamble. References to specific acronyms 
can then be inserted in the text as ERTs, e.g. \ac{TLA}. At the end of 
the document, in another ERT insert, you need to add the corresponding 
list of acronym definitions, e.g.


\begin{acronym}
\acro{TLA}{Three Letter Acronym}
\end{acronym}

The default behaviour is that for the first occasion on which the 
acronym is referenced the acronym will be shown in full, i.e. Three 
Letter Acronym (TLA). Thereafter only the abbreviated form is given, 
i.e. TLA. It's possible to control this behaviour. For instance, 
\acf{TLA} repeats the full definition, \acs{TLA) forces the use of the 
abbreviated form, and \acp{TLA} gives the output as Three Letter 
Acronyms or TLAs depending on whether this is the first or subsequent 
time that the acronym has been referenced.


I keep a separate LaTeX file containing all of the acronyms that I 
commonly use and include this at the end of the document that I'm 
writing, calling the acronym package as follows, 
\usepackage[printonlyused]{acronym}. This prints out only those acronyms 
used in the body of the text.


The latest version of the acronym package can be found at 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/acronym/.


Good luck,

Mike

lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[sk]

just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.
 
 

The same problem here with LyX 143-2 for Windows-XP. What's going on here?

Mukhtar

How to use style file

[winson]

Hello there:

I am planning to submit a paper to a journal. The
format of the journal paper is provided as a style
file, say 'ndst.sty'. 

I am using LyX 1.42 on Windows XP. Following the
instructions in 'Customization' manual, I did the
following:

1)I made a copy of 'artical.layout', and renamed it to
'ndst.layout'.

2)I modified the top lines of 'ndst.layout' to
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on
this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,
ndst.sty]{article(ndst)}

Preamble
\usepackage{ndst}
EndPreamble

The remaining lines of 'ndst.layout' are kept
unchanged.

After I reconfigured LyX and re-started LyX, the
document classs Article(ndst) is still marked as
'UnAvailable'.

This may be caused by that the system could not locate
file 'ndst.sys', as I am not sure where to put it. I
would appreciate if anyone can give me some help on
how to configure LyX on Windows XP, so that the
document class in style file can be applied to my
paper.

Regards,

Winson 

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Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Russell Davie]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:55:57 -0600
Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 
 
 That is a lot of work. I'm not even sure that I would be able to  
 figure out how to do all that.
 
 What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure  
 that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an  
 export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a  
 few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them  
 quickly and send the file out to my advisor.
 
 Thanks for the response, I may try that when I have time to go  
 through the instruction carefully.
 
 Bob
 


Wow, thanks for that.

Worked like a charm!

All that had to be done was set the table floats to justify and change the 
references from \prettyref to \ref and \pageref.  All of which is easy to do in 
LyX

1) export - latex(pdflatex)
2) from an xterm: latex2rtf
3) open with OOo, and sort out formatting on tables

note: *everything* else is OK, that is bibliography, figure and table cross 
referencing, graphics (jpeg or eps). This it brilliant!

4) save as .doc
5) open with MSWordview: perfect!

too easy!

How can this be made to run from with in LyX (Linux) ?

- Russell

Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?

[Bhaskaran, Sreekumar]

I see that a new binary has been released but I am having the same
trouble with that. Any of you luckier???

Alphabetical List

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hi,
 I hope this isnt too much of a daft question as i am very new to lyx and latex,
and am still not sure the limits of what it can do and what i have to do...

 Is it possible to have latex/lyx sort a Description list based on alphabetical
ordering?

 Thanks for any help

joe

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Mukhtar Ullah wrote:

sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.




The same problem here with LyX 143-2 for Windows-XP. What's going on here?

Mukhtar




I just saw an announcement on the developer list that a -3 version of 
the Windows installer will be on the FTP server soon that purportedly 
solves the problem.  (Seems to be something relating to whether the 
right bits of Visual C++ already exist on your system?  Must be I got 
lucky on this one; 1.4.3-1 worked for me.)


/Paul

Re: How to use style file

[Paul A. Rubin]

winson wrote:

Hello there:

I am planning to submit a paper to a journal. The
format of the journal paper is provided as a style
file, say 'ndst.sty'. 


I am using LyX 1.42 on Windows XP. Following the
instructions in 'Customization' manual, I did the
following:

1)I made a copy of 'artical.layout', and renamed it to
'ndst.layout'.

2)I modified the top lines of 'ndst.layout' to
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on
this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,
ndst.sty]{article(ndst)}

Preamble
\usepackage{ndst}
EndPreamble

The remaining lines of 'ndst.layout' are kept
unchanged.

After I reconfigured LyX and re-started LyX, the
document classs Article(ndst) is still marked as
'UnAvailable'.

This may be caused by that the system could not locate
file 'ndst.sys', as I am not sure where to put it. I
would appreciate if anyone can give me some help on
how to configure LyX on Windows XP, so that the
document class in style file can be applied to my
paper.



If you have not already done so, you first need to put ndst.sty in a 
directory where LaTeX will find it and then refresh the LaTeX file name 
database.  After that, you need to reconfigure and restart LyX.


Where to put ndst.sys is somewhat up to you.  If you have a localtexmf 
directory defined, my suggestion would be to put it in a directory such 
as localtexmf\tex\latex\ndst (which you will need to create).  If you 
don't have a localtexmf, you can put it under texmf\tex\latex\ndst, 
where texmf is the root of your LaTeX distribution.  (If you're a 
MikTeX user, which is likely, try running


kpsewhich article.cls

from a DOS prompt.  It should cough up blah/blah/blah/base/article.cls. 
 Change 'base' to 'ndst' and put it there.)


As to how you refresh the file name database, that varies by LaTeX 
distribution.  If you're a MikTeX user, run the Options application from 
the Start menu and click 'Refresh FNDB' on the General tab.  Then 
reconfigure/restart LyX


/Paul

Textclass other errors on new install

[Russell W. Behne]

I just (re)installed Linux (Mandriva 2006) on cleanly formatted partitions, 
and when I open LyX (ver 1.3.5) I get an error message saying:

Textclass error
The document uses a missing TeX class article.
LyX will not be able to produce output.

Other documents give the same error, but for a different tex class, depending 
on whatever one that document is supposed to be using. I also noticed that 
there's no longer several menu items, things like previewing in PS or PDF, 
and exporting to anything other than ascii. 

I have another directory, /usr/local/texmf/tex/latex where I keep style files 
that I downloaded. (I keep them there to both make them available to all 
users, and to survive formats and reinstalls of other partitions.) After 
every reinstall I run this command sequence from a batch file:

rm -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
cp /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/usr/bin/mktexlsr

where /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf is a custom texmf.cnf that makes LyX 
recognize these files. (/usr/local is a separate partition, _all_ other 
partitions were formatted during this reinstall.) (Some files I wanted to 
keep were copied to another drive prior to doing the format.)

Unfortunately, in addition to the previously mentioned problems, LyX can't 
find these files anymore, even after I ran the batch file.  (This batch file 
has always worked for me prior to this latest install.)

I'm baffled. What's wrong, and what need I do?

-- 
Russ.
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Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?

[Eugenio Guevara]

Same problem here.

For some reason, Windows XP refuses to recognize the .exe file





From: Bhaskaran, Sreekumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:42:32 -0500

I see that a new binary has been released but I am having the same
trouble with that. Any of you luckier???




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Re: How to use style file

[winson]

Paul,

Thank you so much. Following what you said, the format is recognized now.

Winson

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[TechTonics]

Rob Davies wrote:

Russell Davie wrote:

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

Hi,
What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work  
for me on 1.4.3 with XP.

Thanks,
Bob Lounsbury

I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
Then from the command line htlatex foo.tex = foo.html
which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:
When I do: htlatex foo.tex=foo.html it returns: Please type  
another input file name so I type foo.tex and everything seems to  
work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like foo.log,  
foo.aux, foo.idv, but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package  
was already installed by MikTeX.


What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word  
(Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with  
pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be  
greatly appreciated. Thanks.


I apologise in advance for a completely different tack, but it is the OS 
X in me.


I export my documents as PDF (ps2pdf)which is a direct copy of LyX 
document. It can then be read using a PDF reader, Acrobat is free and 
actually allows one to add notes to original document.


Cheers!



Acrobat Reader is free but the program which enables making comments
in the pdf file is Adobe Writer (Pro) which is not free. A university
probably has a license in some department or other. The supervisor(s)
would have to be satisfied with including notes, not changing the text.
Conversion from Pro pdf to Word doc is fairly terrible, but the Note
making toolbar is a quite flexible alternative.

The certainty available in inductive generalization is the best of

all possible certainties! - László E. Szabó

Stephen

Re: Problem with Algorithm label language

[Ares]

Juergen wrote:

As I already said in my previous mail: Only by _not_ using the (native)
feature.

(cut)

P.S.: I know, the long term solution is a better package management in LyX.
The developers are aware of that, only nobody volunteered to implement it so
far


I merged your pieces of code in my document, thank you, it should be
ok for the moment, I'll go back to the algorithm-float later. By now I
will press the devel people to solve the problem by writing to the
list... I'm sorry not to be a TeXnician, there's many little things I
would be glad to be helpful with (even though I find LyX/LaTeX is an
extraordinary simple and powerful tool everybody should use!)

Thanks again,
Diego

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Russell Davie]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:36:22 -0700
TechTonics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Rob Davies wrote:
  Russell Davie wrote:
  On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
  Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:
 
  Bob Lounsbury wrote:
  Hi,
  What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work  
  for me on 1.4.3 with XP.
  Thanks,
  Bob Lounsbury
  I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
  Then from the command line htlatex foo.tex = foo.html
  which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
  htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:
  When I do: htlatex foo.tex=foo.html it returns: Please type  
  another input file name so I type foo.tex and everything seems to  
  work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like foo.log,  
  foo.aux, foo.idv, but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package  
  was already installed by MikTeX.
 
  What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word  
  (Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with  
  pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be  
  greatly appreciated. Thanks.
  
  I apologise in advance for a completely different tack, but it is the OS 
  X in me.
  
  I export my documents as PDF (ps2pdf)which is a direct copy of LyX 
  document. It can then be read using a PDF reader, Acrobat is free and 
  actually allows one to add notes to original document.
  
  Cheers!
  
 
 Acrobat Reader is free but the program which enables making comments
 in the pdf file is Adobe Writer (Pro) which is not free. A university
 probably has a license in some department or other. The supervisor(s)
 would have to be satisfied with including notes, not changing the text.
 Conversion from Pro pdf to Word doc is fairly terrible, but the Note
 making toolbar is a quite flexible alternative.


Writing comments in pdf files is possible, according to Adobe, only if
the permission is set by the author and has to be dome using Adobe Products.

/quote 
In Adobe Reader, you can add comments only if additional usage rights
that enable commenting are added to the PDF document by Adobe Acrobat 7.0
Professional or Acrobat server products. Otherwise, commenting tools aren't 
available.
/

Adobe outline it on page 95 of this:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrruserguide.pdf

Now this is something to have as an enhancement to LyX!

cheers

Russell








 
 The certainty available in inductive generalization is the best of
 
 all possible certainties! - László E. Szabó
 
 Stephen

LyX/Cygwin 1.4.3

[Enrico Forestieri]

LyX/Cygwin 1.4.3 is available here:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/lyx-1.4.3-cygwin.tar.gz

In this package, alongside the Qt/Win native GUI, you will find an Xforms/X11
version which should run better on Win98/ME. A Qt/X11 version should be
available soon as an official Cygwin package.

-- 
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Servers down?

[Maria Gouskova]

I haven't been able to access either http://www.lyx.org or http:// 
wiki.lyx.org since Friday. Are the servers down?


Maria

Re: Servers down?

[Georg Baum]

Maria Gouskova wrote:

 I haven't been able to access either http://www.lyx.org or http://
 wiki.lyx.org since Friday. Are the servers down?

Unfortunately yes. They were supposed to be fixed today, but maybe there are
some problems.


Georg

acronyms in Lyx

[Francesco]

Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in the
manual. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks and regards
Francesco

Re: acronyms in Lyx

[Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski]

Ciao,

I did it with the nomencl package. To add an entry I inserted an ERT

\nomenclature{bla}{short form for blablablabla}

Finally, put an ERT

\printnomenclature

where you want to have the list.

To generate my doc including the nomenclature, I failed to convince LyX to  
do that for me. I wrote a script:


#!/bin/bash
lyx --export latex thesis.lyx
latex thesis
bibtex thesis
makeindex thesis.idx
makeindex thesis.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls
latex thesis
latex thesis
dvipdf thesis.dvi

In this case, the essential line is the makeindex with the nomencl.ist and  
so on ...


Well, I have to confess, it could be easier but it works when I do it  
like this.


HTH,

Cz.


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:46:56 +0200, Francesco  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to  
introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code  
within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in  
the

manual. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks and regards
Francesco





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LyX/Mac Intel binaries now available

[Bennett Helm]

LyX/Mac Intel binaries are now available from the wiki, or you can  
download them directly from here:


ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/LyX-1.4.3-Mac-Intel.dmg.

(LyX/Mac PPC binaries were released a few days ago, and can be found  
here:


ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/LyX-1.4.3-Mac-PPC.dmg.)

Bennett

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:15 PM, Russell Davie wrote:


On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

Hi,
What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work
for me on 1.4.3 with XP.
Thanks,
Bob Lounsbury


I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
Then from the command line htlatex foo.tex = foo.html
which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:


When I do: htlatex foo.tex=foo.html it returns: Please type
another input file name so I type foo.tex and everything seems to
work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like foo.log,
foo.aux, foo.idv, but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package
was already installed by MikTeX.

What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word
(Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with
pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.




Hi
I have the same issue with my supervisor.
I have spent last two weekends and most of today looking for a way  
to do this and am at my wits end on how to do this smoothly.


Can anybody suggest a clean, efficient and reliable way to do this?

There are problems in graphics, tables, cross-references and  
bibliography. All of which make LyX a joy and conversion to .doc a  
pain.  I found that all had problems with this, ie: oolatex,  
htlatex, ConvTex, thh, hevea and the internal LyX html tools.


So far the most acceptable and least pain free was to use oolatex,  
but the .doc still needs to be edited in OOo as doc as cross  
references were incorrect and bibliography was left out.


why oolatex?
1) makes only one file whereas html conversion can make several   
(latex2html can make only 1 file);
2) made a .sxw which can be edited by OOo which can be later saved  
to doc

and why this one is the choice:
3) the only tool that embeds the graphics within the file whereas  
html can only link to outside files.


oolatex is a script from the tex4ht family which includes htlatex.

How I did this: (for Linux)
1) edit LyX file: to remove all paragraph ie change to standard
2) make graphics as eps or jpeg
3) if eps: correct image sizing though images are a bit blurry,  
slow response from OOo
4) if jpeg: very small image sizing, clear images and snappy  
reponse from OOo

5) set formatting of all graphic floats to justify
6) save LyX file in tmp directory eg ../tmp as this will make lots  
of temporary files

7) export LyX file: file - export - LaTeX(pdflatex)
8) open xterm and go to ../tmp as made above
9) run latex and bibtex on .tex: eg latex foo.tex; bibtex foo.tex;  
latex foo.tex; latex foo.tex

10) run oolatex on .tex: eg /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex foo.tex
11) run OOo and open .sxw: ie goto to ../tmp and open foo.sxw
12) check formatting and graphic sizing
13) save as .doc
14) close file, keep OOo running
15) open .doc and check formatting, graphics and referencing
16) may have to open .sxw to copy references to .doc
17) save .doc
18) open again in OOo for final check to see if graphics and  
references are present

19) final QA check with MSwordview2003 (via wine)
20) it works! celebrate!

I took notes on the pros and cons of the other tools and can post  
them on request.


HTH

Russell



That is a lot of work. I'm not even sure that I would be able to  
figure out how to do all that.


What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure  
that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an  
export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a  
few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them  
quickly and send the file out to my advisor.


Thanks for the response, I may try that when I have time to go  
through the instruction carefully.


Bob

lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Carlos]

The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.

Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is the program cannot be
executed.

Somebody else has the same problem?

Carlos.

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Neal Becker]

Bob Lounsbury wrote:

[...]
 What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure
 that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an
 export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a
 few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them
 quickly and send the file out to my advisor.

No export to rtf in my LyX(1.4.3).  What am I missing?

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Neal Becker wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

[...]

What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure
that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an
export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a
few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them
quickly and send the file out to my advisor.


No export to rtf in my LyX(1.4.3).  What am I missing?



If I remember correctly I had to specifically install 'latex2rtf'  
from within Fink then do a ToolsReconfigure in LyX to enable this  
option.


-Bob

Re: Numbering in Questions and Answers section

[Richard Heck]

I'd define two new counters that are reset within chapters:
\newcounter{answer}[chapter]
\newcounter{question}[chapter]
Then you can define an environment or command that uses these counters 
and automatically prints the counter number in whatever format you want, 
e.g.: \arabic{answer}. How exactly you do that will of course depend 
upon how you want things formatted. But for the questions you might just 
define a \newtheorem and use the built in formatting there.


Richard

Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

My next book will be in the form of a textbook, so after each chapter summary 
I'll have a Questions section, followed by an Answers section. In each of 
those two sections, I'll have a series of numbered (I assume Arabic) 
questions (or answers). The questions and answers should all restart at #1 in 
each chapter.


Before I spend 3 days figuring out how to do this, does anyone know a way? I'm 
considering using a modified memoir document class, or maybe book or some 
other book-derived document class.


Thanks

SteveT

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Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.
 
 Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is the program cannot be
 executed.
 
 Somebody else has the same problem?
 
 Carlos.
 
 
Carlos,
Can you tell the specs of your computer? I want to know if it has anything to do
with processor. As I mentioned in one of my posts, it works on my PC (AMD
XP2600+) but not on my laptop(Pentium III-M).

Mukhtar

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:


Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:



The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.

Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is the program  
cannot be

executed.

Somebody else has the same problem?

Carlos.



Carlos,
Can you tell the specs of your computer? I want to know if it has  
anything to do
with processor. As I mentioned in one of my posts, it works on my  
PC (AMD

XP2600+) but not on my laptop(Pentium III-M).

Mukhtar


I don't know if this will help anyone with 1.4.3 problems on XP, but  
it is working for me and this was my process:


1) I uninstalled all programs used by LyX and uninstalled LyX 1.4.2
2) Restarted
3) Ran LyX 1.4.3 bundle installer (ignored the MikTex error)
4) At the end of install there is an option to start LyX and I  
clicked for LyX to be started

5) Did a Tools  Reconfigure in LyX
6) Restarted
7) Ran LyX and did a Tools  Reconfigure

After that everything was working properly. This was on an Intel  
Pentium D 3GHz computer.


--Bob Lounsbury

Re: acronyms in Lyx

[Mike Barnsley]

Francesco,

Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in the
manual. Any help would be appreciated.
  
One route is to use the acronym package, by inserting 
\usepackage{acronym} in your preamble. References to specific acronyms 
can then be inserted in the text as ERTs, e.g. \ac{TLA}. At the end of 
the document, in another ERT insert, you need to add the corresponding 
list of acronym definitions, e.g.


\begin{acronym}
\acro{TLA}{Three Letter Acronym}
\end{acronym}

The default behaviour is that for the first occasion on which the 
acronym is referenced the acronym will be shown in full, i.e. Three 
Letter Acronym (TLA). Thereafter only the abbreviated form is given, 
i.e. TLA. It's possible to control this behaviour. For instance, 
\acf{TLA} repeats the full definition, \acs{TLA) forces the use of the 
abbreviated form, and \acp{TLA} gives the output as Three Letter 
Acronyms or TLAs depending on whether this is the first or subsequent 
time that the acronym has been referenced.


I keep a separate LaTeX file containing all of the acronyms that I 
commonly use and include this at the end of the document that I'm 
writing, calling the acronym package as follows, 
\usepackage[printonlyused]{acronym}. This prints out only those acronyms 
used in the body of the text.


The latest version of the acronym package can be found at 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/acronym/.


Good luck,

Mike

lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[sk]

just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.
 
 

The same problem here with LyX 143-2 for Windows-XP. What's going on here?

Mukhtar

How to use style file

[winson]

Hello there:

I am planning to submit a paper to a journal. The
format of the journal paper is provided as a style
file, say 'ndst.sty'. 

I am using LyX 1.42 on Windows XP. Following the
instructions in 'Customization' manual, I did the
following:

1)I made a copy of 'artical.layout', and renamed it to
'ndst.layout'.

2)I modified the top lines of 'ndst.layout' to
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on
this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,
ndst.sty]{article(ndst)}

Preamble
\usepackage{ndst}
EndPreamble

The remaining lines of 'ndst.layout' are kept
unchanged.

After I reconfigured LyX and re-started LyX, the
document classs Article(ndst) is still marked as
'UnAvailable'.

This may be caused by that the system could not locate
file 'ndst.sys', as I am not sure where to put it. I
would appreciate if anyone can give me some help on
how to configure LyX on Windows XP, so that the
document class in style file can be applied to my
paper.

Regards,

Winson 

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Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Russell Davie]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:55:57 -0600
Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 
 
 That is a lot of work. I'm not even sure that I would be able to  
 figure out how to do all that.
 
 What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure  
 that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an  
 export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a  
 few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them  
 quickly and send the file out to my advisor.
 
 Thanks for the response, I may try that when I have time to go  
 through the instruction carefully.
 
 Bob
 


Wow, thanks for that.

Worked like a charm!

All that had to be done was set the table floats to justify and change the 
references from \prettyref to \ref and \pageref.  All of which is easy to do in 
LyX

1) export - latex(pdflatex)
2) from an xterm: latex2rtf
3) open with OOo, and sort out formatting on tables

note: *everything* else is OK, that is bibliography, figure and table cross 
referencing, graphics (jpeg or eps). This it brilliant!

4) save as .doc
5) open with MSWordview: perfect!

too easy!

How can this be made to run from with in LyX (Linux) ?

- Russell

Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?

[Bhaskaran, Sreekumar]

I see that a new binary has been released but I am having the same
trouble with that. Any of you luckier???

Alphabetical List

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hi,
 I hope this isnt too much of a daft question as i am very new to lyx and latex,
and am still not sure the limits of what it can do and what i have to do...

 Is it possible to have latex/lyx sort a Description list based on alphabetical
ordering?

 Thanks for any help

joe

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Mukhtar Ullah wrote:

sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.




The same problem here with LyX 143-2 for Windows-XP. What's going on here?

Mukhtar




I just saw an announcement on the developer list that a -3 version of 
the Windows installer will be on the FTP server soon that purportedly 
solves the problem.  (Seems to be something relating to whether the 
right bits of Visual C++ already exist on your system?  Must be I got 
lucky on this one; 1.4.3-1 worked for me.)


/Paul

Re: How to use style file

[Paul A. Rubin]

winson wrote:

Hello there:

I am planning to submit a paper to a journal. The
format of the journal paper is provided as a style
file, say 'ndst.sty'. 


I am using LyX 1.42 on Windows XP. Following the
instructions in 'Customization' manual, I did the
following:

1)I made a copy of 'artical.layout', and renamed it to
'ndst.layout'.

2)I modified the top lines of 'ndst.layout' to
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on
this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,
ndst.sty]{article(ndst)}

Preamble
\usepackage{ndst}
EndPreamble

The remaining lines of 'ndst.layout' are kept
unchanged.

After I reconfigured LyX and re-started LyX, the
document classs Article(ndst) is still marked as
'UnAvailable'.

This may be caused by that the system could not locate
file 'ndst.sys', as I am not sure where to put it. I
would appreciate if anyone can give me some help on
how to configure LyX on Windows XP, so that the
document class in style file can be applied to my
paper.



If you have not already done so, you first need to put ndst.sty in a 
directory where LaTeX will find it and then refresh the LaTeX file name 
database.  After that, you need to reconfigure and restart LyX.


Where to put ndst.sys is somewhat up to you.  If you have a localtexmf 
directory defined, my suggestion would be to put it in a directory such 
as localtexmf\tex\latex\ndst (which you will need to create).  If you 
don't have a localtexmf, you can put it under texmf\tex\latex\ndst, 
where texmf is the root of your LaTeX distribution.  (If you're a 
MikTeX user, which is likely, try running


kpsewhich article.cls

from a DOS prompt.  It should cough up blah/blah/blah/base/article.cls. 
 Change 'base' to 'ndst' and put it there.)


As to how you refresh the file name database, that varies by LaTeX 
distribution.  If you're a MikTeX user, run the Options application from 
the Start menu and click 'Refresh FNDB' on the General tab.  Then 
reconfigure/restart LyX


/Paul

Textclass other errors on new install

[Russell W. Behne]

I just (re)installed Linux (Mandriva 2006) on cleanly formatted partitions, 
and when I open LyX (ver 1.3.5) I get an error message saying:

Textclass error
The document uses a missing TeX class article.
LyX will not be able to produce output.

Other documents give the same error, but for a different tex class, depending 
on whatever one that document is supposed to be using. I also noticed that 
there's no longer several menu items, things like previewing in PS or PDF, 
and exporting to anything other than ascii. 

I have another directory, /usr/local/texmf/tex/latex where I keep style files 
that I downloaded. (I keep them there to both make them available to all 
users, and to survive formats and reinstalls of other partitions.) After 
every reinstall I run this command sequence from a batch file:

rm -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
cp /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/usr/bin/mktexlsr

where /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf is a custom texmf.cnf that makes LyX 
recognize these files. (/usr/local is a separate partition, _all_ other 
partitions were formatted during this reinstall.) (Some files I wanted to 
keep were copied to another drive prior to doing the format.)

Unfortunately, in addition to the previously mentioned problems, LyX can't 
find these files anymore, even after I ran the batch file.  (This batch file 
has always worked for me prior to this latest install.)

I'm baffled. What's wrong, and what need I do?

-- 
Russ.
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Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?

[Eugenio Guevara]

Same problem here.

For some reason, Windows XP refuses to recognize the .exe file





From: Bhaskaran, Sreekumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:42:32 -0500

I see that a new binary has been released but I am having the same
trouble with that. Any of you luckier???




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Re: How to use style file

[winson]

Paul,

Thank you so much. Following what you said, the format is recognized now.

Winson

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[TechTonics]

Rob Davies wrote:

Russell Davie wrote:

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

Hi,
What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work  
for me on 1.4.3 with XP.

Thanks,
Bob Lounsbury

I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
Then from the command line "htlatex foo.tex" = foo.html
which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:
When I do: "htlatex foo.tex=foo.html" it returns: "Please type  
another input file name" so I type "foo.tex" and everything seems to  
work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like "foo.log,  
foo.aux, foo.idv", but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package  
was already installed by MikTeX.


What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word  
(Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with  
pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be  
greatly appreciated. Thanks.


I apologise in advance for a completely different tack, but it is the OS 
X in me.


I export my documents as PDF (ps2pdf)which is a direct copy of LyX 
document. It can then be read using a PDF reader, Acrobat is free and 
actually allows one to add notes to original document.


Cheers!



Acrobat Reader is free but the program which enables making comments
in the pdf file is Adobe Writer (Pro) which is not free. A university
probably has a license in some department or other. The supervisor(s)
would have to be satisfied with including notes, not changing the text.
Conversion from Pro pdf to Word doc is fairly terrible, but the Note
making toolbar is a quite flexible alternative.

"The certainty available in inductive generalization is the best of

all possible certainties!" -> László E. Szabó

Stephen

Re: Problem with Algorithm label language

[Ares]

Juergen wrote:

As I already said in my previous mail: Only by _not_ using the (native)
feature.

(cut)

P.S.: I know, the long term solution is a better package management in LyX.
The developers are aware of that, only nobody volunteered to implement it so
far


I merged your pieces of code in my document, thank you, it should be
ok for the moment, I'll go back to the algorithm-float later. By now I
will press the devel people to solve the problem by writing to the
list... I'm sorry not to be a TeXnician, there's many little things I
would be glad to be helpful with (even though I find LyX/LaTeX is an
extraordinary simple and powerful tool everybody should use!)

Thanks again,
Diego

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Russell Davie]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:36:22 -0700
TechTonics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Rob Davies wrote:
> > Russell Davie wrote:
> >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
> >> Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:
> >>>
>  Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> > Hi,
> > What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work  
> > for me on 1.4.3 with XP.
> > Thanks,
> > Bob Lounsbury
>  I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
>  Then from the command line "htlatex foo.tex" = foo.html
>  which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
>  htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:
> >>> When I do: "htlatex foo.tex=foo.html" it returns: "Please type  
> >>> another input file name" so I type "foo.tex" and everything seems to  
> >>> work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like "foo.log,  
> >>> foo.aux, foo.idv", but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package  
> >>> was already installed by MikTeX.
> >>>
> >>> What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word  
> >>> (Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with  
> >>> pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be  
> >>> greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> > 
> > I apologise in advance for a completely different tack, but it is the OS 
> > X in me.
> > 
> > I export my documents as PDF (ps2pdf)which is a direct copy of LyX 
> > document. It can then be read using a PDF reader, Acrobat is free and 
> > actually allows one to add notes to original document.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> 
> Acrobat Reader is free but the program which enables making comments
> in the pdf file is Adobe Writer (Pro) which is not free. A university
> probably has a license in some department or other. The supervisor(s)
> would have to be satisfied with including notes, not changing the text.
> Conversion from Pro pdf to Word doc is fairly terrible, but the Note
> making toolbar is a quite flexible alternative.


Writing comments in pdf files is possible, according to Adobe, only if
the permission is set by the author and has to be dome using Adobe Products.

/quote 
In Adobe Reader, you can add comments only if additional usage rights
that enable commenting are added to the PDF document by Adobe Acrobat 7.0
Professional or Acrobat server products. Otherwise, commenting tools aren't 
available.
/

Adobe outline it on page 95 of this:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrruserguide.pdf

Now this is something to have as an enhancement to LyX!

cheers

Russell








> 
> "The certainty available in inductive generalization is the best of
> 
> all possible certainties!" -> László E. Szabó
> 
> Stephen

LyX/Cygwin 1.4.3

[Enrico Forestieri]

LyX/Cygwin 1.4.3 is available here:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/lyx-1.4.3-cygwin.tar.gz

In this package, alongside the Qt/Win native GUI, you will find an Xforms/X11
version which should run better on Win98/ME. A Qt/X11 version should be
available soon as an official Cygwin package.

-- 
Enrico

Servers down?

[Maria Gouskova]

I haven't been able to access either http://www.lyx.org or http:// 
wiki.lyx.org since Friday. Are the servers down?


Maria

Re: Servers down?

[Georg Baum]

Maria Gouskova wrote:

> I haven't been able to access either http://www.lyx.org or http://
> wiki.lyx.org since Friday. Are the servers down?

Unfortunately yes. They were supposed to be fixed today, but maybe there are
some problems.


Georg

acronyms in Lyx

[Francesco]

Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in the
manual. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks and regards
Francesco

Re: acronyms in Lyx

[Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski]

Ciao,

I did it with the nomencl package. To add an entry I inserted an ERT

\nomenclature{bla}{short form for blablablabla}

Finally, put an ERT

\printnomenclature

where you want to have the list.

To generate my doc including the nomenclature, I failed to convince LyX to  
do that for me. I wrote a script:


#!/bin/bash
lyx --export latex thesis.lyx
latex thesis
bibtex thesis
makeindex thesis.idx
makeindex thesis.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls
latex thesis
latex thesis
dvipdf thesis.dvi

In this case, the essential line is the makeindex with the nomencl.ist and  
so on ...


Well, I have to confess, it could be easier but it works when I do it  
like this.


HTH,

Cz.


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:46:56 +0200, Francesco  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to  
introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code  
within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in  
the

manual. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks and regards
Francesco





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LyX/Mac Intel binaries now available

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LyX/Mac Intel binaries are now available from the wiki, or you can  
download them directly from here:


.

(LyX/Mac PPC binaries were released a few days ago, and can be found  
here:


.)

Bennett

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:15 PM, Russell Davie wrote:


On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600
Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

Hi,
What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work
for me on 1.4.3 with XP.
Thanks,
Bob Lounsbury


I don't think they work. Export the file as .tex from LyX.
Then from the command line "htlatex foo.tex" = foo.html
which can be directly imported into Word, = foo.doc
htlatex is part of the TeX4ht package:


When I do: "htlatex foo.tex=foo.html" it returns: "Please type
another input file name" so I type "foo.tex" and everything seems to
work except that I get a bunch of different foo files like "foo.log,
foo.aux, foo.idv", but no foo.html file anywhere. The TeX4ht package
was already installed by MikTeX.

What I'm really trying to do is get a good output from LyX into Word
(Since my advisors want a Word document to read for my thesis) with
pictures and most formatting complete. Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.




Hi
I have the same issue with my supervisor.
I have spent last two weekends and most of today looking for a way  
to do this and am at my wits end on how to do this smoothly.


Can anybody suggest a clean, efficient and reliable way to do this?

There are problems in graphics, tables, cross-references and  
bibliography. All of which make LyX a joy and conversion to .doc a  
pain.  I found that all had problems with this, ie: oolatex,  
htlatex, ConvTex, thh, hevea and the internal LyX html tools.


So far the most acceptable and least pain free was to use oolatex,  
but the .doc still needs to be edited in OOo as doc as cross  
references were incorrect and bibliography was left out.


why oolatex?
1) makes only one file whereas html conversion can make several   
(latex2html can make only 1 file);
2) made a .sxw which can be edited by OOo which can be later saved  
to doc

and why this one is the choice:
3) the only tool that embeds the graphics within the file whereas  
html can only link to outside files.


oolatex is a script from the tex4ht family which includes htlatex.

How I did this: (for Linux)
1) edit LyX file: to remove all "paragraph" ie change to "standard"
2) make graphics as eps or jpeg
3) if eps: correct image sizing though images are a bit blurry,  
slow response from OOo
4) if jpeg: very small image sizing, clear images and snappy  
reponse from OOo

5) set formatting of all graphic floats to "justify"
6) save LyX file in tmp directory eg ../tmp as this will make lots  
of temporary files

7) export LyX file: file -> export -> LaTeX(pdflatex)
8) open xterm and go to ../tmp as made above
9) run latex and bibtex on .tex: eg latex foo.tex; bibtex foo.tex;  
latex foo.tex; latex foo.tex

10) run oolatex on .tex: eg /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex foo.tex
11) run OOo and open .sxw: ie goto to ../tmp and open foo.sxw
12) check formatting and graphic sizing
13) save as .doc
14) close file, keep OOo running
15) open .doc and check formatting, graphics and referencing
16) may have to open .sxw to copy references to .doc
17) save .doc
18) open again in OOo for final check to see if graphics and  
references are present

19) final QA check with MSwordview2003 (via wine)
20) it works! celebrate!

I took notes on the pros and cons of the other tools and can post  
them on request.


HTH

Russell



That is a lot of work. I'm not even sure that I would be able to  
figure out how to do all that.


What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure  
that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an  
export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a  
few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them  
quickly and send the file out to my advisor.


Thanks for the response, I may try that when I have time to go  
through the instruction carefully.


Bob

lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Carlos]

The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.

Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is "the program cannot be
executed."

Somebody else has the same problem?

Carlos.

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Neal Becker]

Bob Lounsbury wrote:

[...]
> What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure
> that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an
> export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a
> few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them
> quickly and send the file out to my advisor.

No export to rtf in my LyX(1.4.3).  What am I missing?

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Neal Becker wrote:


Bob Lounsbury wrote:

[...]

What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure
that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an
export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a
few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them
quickly and send the file out to my advisor.


No export to rtf in my LyX(1.4.3).  What am I missing?



If I remember correctly I had to specifically install 'latex2rtf'  
from within Fink then do a Tools>Reconfigure in LyX to enable this  
option.


-Bob

Re: Numbering in Questions and Answers section

[Richard Heck]

I'd define two new counters that are reset within chapters:
\newcounter{answer}[chapter]
\newcounter{question}[chapter]
Then you can define an environment or command that uses these counters 
and automatically prints the counter number in whatever format you want, 
e.g.: \arabic{answer}. How exactly you do that will of course depend 
upon how you want things formatted. But for the questions you might just 
define a \newtheorem and use the built in formatting there.


Richard

Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

My next book will be in the form of a textbook, so after each chapter summary 
I'll have a Questions section, followed by an Answers section. In each of 
those two sections, I'll have a series of numbered (I assume Arabic) 
questions (or answers). The questions and answers should all restart at #1 in 
each chapter.


Before I spend 3 days figuring out how to do this, does anyone know a way? I'm 
considering using a modified memoir document class, or maybe book or some 
other book-derived document class.


Thanks

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Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.
> 
> Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is "the program cannot be
> executed."
> 
> Somebody else has the same problem?
> 
> Carlos.
> 
> 
Carlos,
Can you tell the specs of your computer? I want to know if it has anything to do
with processor. As I mentioned in one of my posts, it works on my PC (AMD
XP2600+) but not on my laptop(Pentium III-M).

Mukhtar

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Mukhtar Ullah wrote:


Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:



The error is the same as in the previous 143-1 version.

Trying to execute it from a dos window, the answer is "the program  
cannot be

executed."

Somebody else has the same problem?

Carlos.



Carlos,
Can you tell the specs of your computer? I want to know if it has  
anything to do
with processor. As I mentioned in one of my posts, it works on my  
PC (AMD

XP2600+) but not on my laptop(Pentium III-M).

Mukhtar


I don't know if this will help anyone with 1.4.3 problems on XP, but  
it is working for me and this was my process:


1) I uninstalled all programs used by LyX and uninstalled LyX 1.4.2
2) Restarted
3) Ran LyX 1.4.3 bundle installer (ignored the MikTex error)
4) At the end of install there is an option to start LyX and I  
clicked for LyX to be started

5) Did a Tools > Reconfigure in LyX
6) Restarted
7) Ran LyX and did a Tools > Reconfigure

After that everything was working properly. This was on an Intel  
Pentium D 3GHz computer.


--Bob Lounsbury

Re: acronyms in Lyx

[Mike Barnsley]

Francesco,

Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in the
manual. Any help would be appreciated.
  
One route is to use the acronym package, by inserting 
\usepackage{acronym} in your preamble. References to specific acronyms 
can then be inserted in the text as ERTs, e.g. \ac{TLA}. At the end of 
the document, in another ERT insert, you need to add the corresponding 
list of acronym definitions, e.g.


\begin{acronym}
\acro{TLA}{Three Letter Acronym}
\end{acronym}

The default behaviour is that for the first occasion on which the 
acronym is referenced the acronym will be shown in full, i.e. Three 
Letter Acronym (TLA). Thereafter only the abbreviated form is given, 
i.e. TLA. It's possible to control this behaviour. For instance, 
\acf{TLA} repeats the full definition, \acs{TLA) forces the use of the 
abbreviated form, and \acp{TLA} gives the output as Three Letter 
Acronyms or TLAs depending on whether this is the first or subsequent 
time that the acronym has been referenced.


I keep a separate LaTeX file containing all of the acronyms that I 
commonly use and include this at the end of the document that I'm 
writing, calling the acronym package as follows, 
\usepackage[printonlyused]{acronym}. This prints out only those acronyms 
used in the body of the text.


The latest version of the acronym package can be found at 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/acronym/.


Good luck,

Mike

lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[sk]

just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

sk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.
> 
> 

The same problem here with LyX 143-2 for Windows-XP. What's going on here?

Mukhtar

How to use style file

[winson]

Hello there:

I am planning to submit a paper to a journal. The
format of the journal paper is provided as a style
file, say 'ndst.sty'. 

I am using LyX 1.42 on Windows XP. Following the
instructions in 'Customization' manual, I did the
following:

1)I made a copy of 'artical.layout', and renamed it to
'ndst.layout'.

2)I modified the top lines of 'ndst.layout' to
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on
this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,
ndst.sty]{article(ndst)}

Preamble
\usepackage{ndst}
EndPreamble

The remaining lines of 'ndst.layout' are kept
unchanged.

After I reconfigured LyX and re-started LyX, the
document classs Article(ndst) is still marked as
'UnAvailable'.

This may be caused by that the system could not locate
file 'ndst.sys', as I am not sure where to put it. I
would appreciate if anyone can give me some help on
how to configure LyX on Windows XP, so that the
document class in style file can be applied to my
paper.

Regards,

Winson 

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Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

[Russell Davie]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:55:57 -0600
Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> 
> 
> That is a lot of work. I'm not even sure that I would be able to  
> figure out how to do all that.
> 
> What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure  
> that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an  
> export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a  
> few formatting concerns, but it is easy enough to correct them  
> quickly and send the file out to my advisor.
> 
> Thanks for the response, I may try that when I have time to go  
> through the instruction carefully.
> 
> Bob
> 


Wow, thanks for that.

Worked like a charm!

All that had to be done was set the table floats to "justify" and change the 
references from \prettyref to \ref and \pageref.  All of which is easy to do in 
LyX

1) export -> latex(pdflatex)
2) from an xterm: latex2rtf
3) open with OOo, and sort out formatting on tables

note: *everything* else is OK, that is bibliography, figure and table cross 
referencing, graphics (jpeg or eps). This it brilliant!

4) save as .doc
5) open with MSWordview: perfect!

too easy!

How can this be made to run from with in LyX (Linux) ?

- Russell

Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?

[Bhaskaran, Sreekumar]

I see that a new binary has been released but I am having the same
trouble with that. Any of you luckier???

Alphabetical List

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hi,
 I hope this isnt too much of a daft question as i am very new to lyx and latex,
and am still not sure the limits of what it can do and what i have to do...

 Is it possible to have latex/lyx sort a Description list based on alphabetical
ordering?

 Thanks for any help

joe

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Mukhtar Ullah wrote:

sk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows.




The same problem here with LyX 143-2 for Windows-XP. What's going on here?

Mukhtar




I just saw an announcement on the developer list that a -3 version of 
the Windows installer will be on the FTP server soon that purportedly 
solves the problem.  (Seems to be something relating to whether the 
right bits of Visual C++ already exist on your system?  Must be I got 
lucky on this one; 1.4.3-1 worked for me.)


/Paul

Re: How to use style file

[Paul A. Rubin]

winson wrote:

Hello there:

I am planning to submit a paper to a journal. The
format of the journal paper is provided as a style
file, say 'ndst.sty'. 


I am using LyX 1.42 on Windows XP. Following the
instructions in 'Customization' manual, I did the
following:

1)I made a copy of 'artical.layout', and renamed it to
'ndst.layout'.

2)I modified the top lines of 'ndst.layout' to
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on
this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,
ndst.sty]{article(ndst)}

Preamble
\usepackage{ndst}
EndPreamble

The remaining lines of 'ndst.layout' are kept
unchanged.

After I reconfigured LyX and re-started LyX, the
document classs Article(ndst) is still marked as
'UnAvailable'.

This may be caused by that the system could not locate
file 'ndst.sys', as I am not sure where to put it. I
would appreciate if anyone can give me some help on
how to configure LyX on Windows XP, so that the
document class in style file can be applied to my
paper.



If you have not already done so, you first need to put ndst.sty in a 
directory where LaTeX will find it and then refresh the LaTeX file name 
database.  After that, you need to reconfigure and restart LyX.


Where to put ndst.sys is somewhat up to you.  If you have a localtexmf 
directory defined, my suggestion would be to put it in a directory such 
as \tex\latex\ndst (which you will need to create).  If you 
don't have a localtexmf, you can put it under \tex\latex\ndst, 
where  is the root of your LaTeX distribution.  (If you're a 
MikTeX user, which is likely, try running


kpsewhich article.cls

from a DOS prompt.  It should cough up blah/blah/blah/base/article.cls. 
 Change 'base' to 'ndst' and put it there.)


As to how you refresh the file name database, that varies by LaTeX 
distribution.  If you're a MikTeX user, run the Options application from 
the Start menu and click 'Refresh FNDB' on the General tab.  Then 
reconfigure/restart LyX


/Paul

Textclass & other errors on new install

[Russell W. Behne]

I just (re)installed Linux (Mandriva 2006) on cleanly formatted partitions, 
and when I open LyX (ver 1.3.5) I get an error message saying:

Textclass error
The document uses a missing TeX class "article".
LyX will not be able to produce output.

Other documents give the same error, but for a different tex class, depending 
on whatever one that document is supposed to be using. I also noticed that 
there's no longer several menu items, things like previewing in PS or PDF, 
and exporting to anything other than ascii. 

I have another directory, /usr/local/texmf/tex/latex where I keep style files 
that I downloaded. (I keep them there to both make them available to all 
users, and to survive formats and reinstalls of other partitions.) After 
every reinstall I run this command sequence from a batch file:

rm -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
cp /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/usr/bin/mktexlsr

where /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf is a custom texmf.cnf that makes LyX 
recognize these files. (/usr/local is a separate partition, _all_ other 
partitions were formatted during this reinstall.) (Some files I wanted to 
keep were copied to another drive prior to doing the format.)

Unfortunately, in addition to the previously mentioned problems, LyX can't 
find these files anymore, even after I ran the batch file.  (This batch file 
has always worked for me prior to this latest install.)

I'm baffled. What's wrong, and what need I do?

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Russ.
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Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?

[Eugenio Guevara]

Same problem here.

For some reason, Windows XP refuses to recognize the .exe file





From: "Bhaskaran, Sreekumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Subject: Re: 1.4.3 windows binaries don't work?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:42:32 -0500

I see that a new binary has been released but I am having the same
trouble with that. Any of you luckier???




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Re: How to use style file

[winson]

Paul,

Thank you so much. Following what you said, the format is recognized now.

Winson