Re: Show changes in output
On Jan 14, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Kurt wrote: Hi ! I use LyX on a Mac and on a PC. I use the track changes function and would now like to include the changes in the output file (pdf). Unfortunately I don't manage to. The wiki page http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2 says one needs to install dvipost, which does not install on my Mac, and I don't have an idea of how to install dvipost on a PC. Any suggestions please? When you try installing dvipost on Mac, do you get the following error (after ./configure, make, sudo make install)? -- /opt/local/bin/ginstall: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/gwTeX/ texmf.texlive/tex/latex/misc/dvipost.sty': No such file or directory make: *** [install-data] Error 1 If this is what happens, you need to create the relevant directory that it says does not exist: simply enter (in the terminal) sudo mkdir /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/misc (or whatever it is for your distribution of latex). Then you can do a "sudo make install" from within the dvipost directory, and it should work. Bennett
Re: long-time LyX user needs install help on Mac OSX 10.4.8
On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following documents (the rest of the data from this thread) how I got the PDF and DVI viewers and PDF and HTML exports all working on Mac OSX 10.4.8 (just as I have them in my Slackware Linux setup) -- with much thanks to Jens Noeckel's help. -- On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Jens Noeckel wrote: On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Jens Noeckel wrote: 2 of the 3 pdf conversions work. On viewing or exporting with dvipdfm, I get the following error: ... error running dvipdfmx -p letter -o 'newfile1.pdf' 'newfile1.dvi' dvipdfmx exists. So is the command line wrong? I've always had simply dvipdfm as the driver (had not installed dvipdfmx at all because I didn't need it). Now I tried that using fink and got the same error as you. The error was, as you suggested, that I was using the dvipdfmx command but didn't actually have it installed -- only dvipdfm from fink. So I installed dvipdfmx and it uninstalled other things which caused some of the viewers to stop working. So I uninstalled dvipdfmx and took the 'x' off of the command line leaving dvipdfm to do the work, and viola! -- all three pdf viewers and exports now work. thanks! Also, it seems that I have to have X11 running to use the DVI. So do I need to start X11 before running the DVI viewer? And which? And should I remove the other X11? I wouldn't worry about it. The X11's can coexist, as far as I know. But you're right, there is a "bug" in open-x11 which doesn't let it automatically start X11.app, as I had intended (it works if you provide an argument to open-x11). Another thing I never noticed, because I have X11 running all the time, anyway... So the better way to do this is: replace "open-x11" by "open -a X11" in the line I sent you earlier, i.e., open -a X11 && export DISPLAY=:0.0 && /sw/bin/xdvik Yes, adding the -a works for opening X11 automatically. So the DVI viewer is all smooth and nice now too! :-) And oops -- to bring this up to the functionality I depend on in linux on the Mac, I mostly need to be able to export to html as well as pdf. For that, I would suggest doing a "fink install tex4ht" (I don't think you can get tth from fink, but tex4ht is extremely good in my opinion; there's also "hevea"). You may have to run Reconfigure in LyX after the installation. I guess I assumed that I got a new html export when I upgraded to 1.4.3 in slackware. But I've been using TTH for years now which I installed a couple years back. So I guess that wasn't part of the upgrade then. But it sure does work seamlessly in LyX 1.4.3 on linux if it's from that old install. The exported files retain the important parts of the lyx formatting I need and require little or no modification thereafter. I had trouble with tex4ht -- I guess because it's converting from DVI and I couldn't figure out the command line. I may re- investigate this later. So I went to TTH's website and downloaded the latest source. http:// hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth Then I installed all the Xcode stuff from OSX, and the OSX gcc. Then tth compilied quite simply. I moved the executable to /usr/ local/bin. And then I replicated the command line my linux setup has for the html export in preferences - converters - LaTeX (plain) -> HTML: tth -t -e2 -L$$b <$$i >$$o And it works beautifully as it does in linux. :-) As for importing from Word, I'm not sure I'll need this but I'm using a package I got some years ago -- wv. Command line in MS Word -> LaTeX exports is wvCleanLatex $$i $$o The package is wv. Though the one I have is old and I suspect there are better options. And here one more stupid question from a long-time LyX user: what's a "wiki"? <:-O I've seen it and probably should know what it is. Is it an acronym? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Boy was THAT ever a complete definition! Thanks for bringing me out of the dark on this one too! And thanks much for all the other help! jamie faunt Jamie, good to know the setup is basically working now. For HTML export, all I can say is that I only do that from the command line (since LyX to me is simply an editor, not a swiss army knife), and tex4ht works fine for me. Just in case you want to revisit it later: One thing that could be a problem is if tex4ht encounters a figure whose conversion is faulty - then it is unable to complete the process and you get a message like what you reported. To be on the safe side, the latex file that gets passed to htlatex should have the figures included in eps, png or jpg format. I prefer to have my own bitmap versions of the figures already prepared, but you can also use an eps file and leave the conversion to bitmap up to t4ht (if you don't care about details of the compression and color ma
Accessing style menu from keyboard
Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the "File" menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This second step seems to work already.) Neil
Re: Allowing multiple empty lines and spaces in the Lyx editor...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, lamikr wrote: >> >>> Thanks, I did not know these hard spaces and hard lines before. But >>> actually I think I was searching something opposite, like "soft lines" >>> which would be visible in the editor but not anymore in the final >>> text. >>> Buf this was just an idea I got to my mind while writing text. If >>> it is >>> against the fundamental ideas of Lyx, I can live without it. :-) >> >> Please bring up the question on the users' list. Others might have >> ideas about it. I think I understand what you want, but it's probably >> better to first discuss it on the other list. > > Oops - my mistake. I didn't notice this was cross-posted or something. > > Anyway... if I understand you correctly, you are looking for something > that inserts visual space only on the screen in LyX in order to help > your thinking process? Did I get that right? Yes, that's exactly what I was asking for... Jean-Marc and Helge both suggested using Notes instead and that's has helped me a much as they will not be visible in the final output. But also with notes I was first searching for the spaces and enters inside the notes texts. In there the hard-spaces (c-space) and hard-enters (c-enter) do what I want as they will not appear in final output as the whole note will anyway remain invisible. I still argue that it would be a good to have these "soft spaces" and "soft enters" which would be allowed only in editor but not in the final output. Hopefully I have time in future to hack and test that kind of patch myself, but now I just need to avoid of giving up for these kind of hacking temptations for a while :-) Mika
Show changes in output
Hi ! I use LyX on a Mac and on a PC. I use the track changes function and would now like to include the changes in the output file (pdf). Unfortunately I don't manage to. The wiki page http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2 says one needs to install dvipost, which does not install on my Mac, and I don't have an idea of how to install dvipost on a PC. Any suggestions please? Best regards, Kurt
Consecutive math environments
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to have two instances of the same math environment without separation. Eg: Definition 1.3 (foo) Definition 1.4 (foo2) However, the two definitions merge into a single one. This can be very handy in some situations, but it's not what I'm looking for. I googled and found this was already a problem in LyX 1.1's days, and it can be solved by inserting some dummy environment (LyX-Note) between. Has any better solution been developed? Thanks. Marc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFqmcku4rFT+k3kmQRAj08AKCevd6TbTe2wSHLburRWLCZFx35kgCfXOF7 +zSblUu4Zg4OPyMEg35plUA= =TX8A -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Help with mis-converted accents
Quoting Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I could but most of the time that is not a problem. Notice also that recent versions of python are becoming faster. :-) When installed on newer machines. I konw _that_ trick... You don't fool me with those Jedi tricks. ;-) Read it from the source: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/highlights/ http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4/highlights/ http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3/highlights/ Or run the benchmarks if you want to. PS: May the Force be with you. :-D -- José Abílio - A FCUP utiliza o sistema de webmail Horde/IMP (www.horde.org) Visite: http://www.fc.up.pt/
Re: How do I suppress date from body of document class letter?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] LaTeX fills in the date on the "title" page before it parses any text on the title page (other than maybe the title itself), so putting it in ERT on the first page is slamming the barn door after the cow has bolted. [...] Just so, but it does work if you put the ERT immediately after the title. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
