Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Hi, I am using LyX 1.5.3 on Windows XP. My problem is that I cannot import any LaTeX files. I get the following error message: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f foo.tex foo.lyx However, with LyX 1.4.4 on the same computer I can import the same file without any problems. With LyX 1.4.4 I use MikTeX 2.5, and for LyX 1.5.3 I have tried both MiKTeX 2.5 and MiKTeX 2.7, with the same problem for both versions. Bug report here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4503 Any hints on what to do? Andreas _ Mörkt och kallt? Kanske Barcelona? http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Barcelona+reseguideform=QBRE
copy+paste table entries?
It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is this correct? Sure would be useful.
Keep LyX from editing the preample?
I don't like the way LyX semi-controls the preample. If you want to specify the geometry for a page with commands different from the LyX way they need to be inserted before the pagestyle, but this is currently impossible. Either the preample should be completely controlled by LyX or not at all, the current semi solution only results in confusion on what is specified and what is not in my case. Is there someway to have complete control over the preample without using the initial LyX commands? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Keep-LyX-from-editing-the-preample--tp14999696p14999696.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Andreas Karlsson wrote: Hi, I am using LyX 1.5.3 on Windows XP. My problem is that I cannot import any LaTeX files. I get the following error message: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f foo.tex foo.lyx However, with LyX 1.4.4 on the same computer I can import the same file without any problems. With LyX 1.4.4 I use MikTeX 2.5, and for LyX 1.5.3 I have tried both MiKTeX 2.5 and MiKTeX 2.7, with the same problem for both versions. Bug report here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4503 Any hints on what to do? Andreas I grabbed the file from the bug report that you said 1.4.4 could import but 1.5.3 could not. On my box (LyX 1.5.3, XP Home), I can import it (using File - Import - LaTeX (plain). I get a bunch of warnings about unrecognized commands and such (presumably because I'm not designating a document class), but I do not get the something went wrong error you encountered. I repeated the conversion from the command prompt and captured the output from the error stream. Again, it produced a loadable (if not necessarily correct) LyX file. /Paul
Re: copy+paste table entries?
It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is this correct? Depends on what you mean by group of table entries. I just opened a new article and put in two tables of the default 5x5, one on top of the other. I can copy and paste (Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V) single cells or selected groups of cells within and between both tables. WinXP, LyX 1.5.3 - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/copy%2Bpaste-table-entries--tp14999295p15002693.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: copy+paste table entries?
Neal Becker wrote: It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is this correct? Sure would be useful. This doesn't work on the Mac in 1.5.3 (fixed in 1.5.4). However, C-S-v seems to work. Jürgen
what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
In Fedora 8 Linux, I'm using the TexLive version of latex that is now
available fore testing. I can ask there about this trouble, but I'm
pretty sure they will send me back here to ask why does LyX do
that?.
The problem: I get weird output. In a simple document created from
the default everything--with no fancy features-- no preface items
inserted by me, then I have the problem that the xvi and pdf output is
jumbled. Instead of the default characters, the type font that is
used looks like an old Courier typewriter, but the characters are not
evenly spaced. Some are typed on top of each other, some have extra
spaces between them. I'm attaching this small lyx file to this note,
wondering if anybody sees something funny about it.
I output the lyx document to latex for experimentation, and I cut
lines from the pre-amble until the document came out correct. In all
of the troublesome files, the problem seems to be this one line:
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
What is it? What is latin9?
When I run pdflatex newfile1.tex, I see a lot of messages like this:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebbx10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebmo10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
...
Back tracking, I note no errors in the latex run, but when I view the
dvi file the output looks like hell, and in the terminal I see:
$ xdvi newfile1.dvi
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1200, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1728, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1000, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
After I delete that preamble line about latin9 input encoding, then
the document processes correctly! Looks great!
What do you think? Where is latin9 coming from?
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
newfile1.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
Paul Johnson wrote:
In Fedora 8 Linux, I'm using the TexLive version of latex that is now
available fore testing. I can ask there about this trouble, but I'm
pretty sure they will send me back here to ask why does LyX do
that?.
The problem: I get weird output. In a simple document created from
the default everything--with no fancy features-- no preface items
inserted by me, then I have the problem that the xvi and pdf output is
jumbled. Instead of the default characters, the type font that is
used looks like an old Courier typewriter, but the characters are not
evenly spaced. Some are typed on top of each other, some have extra
spaces between them. I'm attaching this small lyx file to this note,
wondering if anybody sees something funny about it.
Loads fine, output displays fine for me (on both Win XP with MiKTeX and
Ubuntu with TeXLive). I tried both DVI (xdvik on Ubuntu) and PDF
(Evince on Ubuntu), no problems.
I output the lyx document to latex for experimentation, and I cut
lines from the pre-amble until the document came out correct. In all
of the troublesome files, the problem seems to be this one line:
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
What is it? What is latin9?
The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented
characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols. (Note that I'm
including Mac users as foreigners, since the inputenc package supposedly
addresses them as well). When I was younger, everyone used ASCII and
damn well liked it. (Well, there was EBCDIC I suppose.)
Anyway, this just adds in a package to help cope with non-ASCII
characters in the input file (I think). You can find the documentation
for the inputenc style file at
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/base/inputenc.pdf (at least on my
Ubuntu box).
When I run pdflatex newfile1.tex, I see a lot of messages like this:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebbx10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebmo10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
...
I'm not sure why you're getting any messages about these fonts, since
they don't seem to be used in your document (unless they're set as
defaults in your TeXLive installation??). I have ebbx10 and ebmo10
installed (they're part of the cmbright font package), and they're not
listed (that I can find) in pdftex.map.
Font stuff makes my eyes water at the best of times. Whatever installed
the cmbright fonts should (I think) have updated the font maps to
include them. I can barely make that happen with MiKTeX; I have no idea
how to make it happen with TeXLive (nor why the issue arises in your
document) (nor what it could possibly have to do with the input encoding).
Back tracking, I note no errors in the latex run, but when I view the
dvi file the output looks like hell, and in the terminal I see:
$ xdvi newfile1.dvi
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1200, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1728, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1000, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
After I delete that preamble line about latin9 input encoding, then
the document processes correctly! Looks great!
What do you think? Where is latin9 coming from?
It's a default. In LyX, go into Document - Settings - Language. You
have the language set as English (good choice there, fewer funny
characters) and the options to use the language's default encoding set.
If you uncheck the latter, the Encoding control activates and you can
set LaTeX default, ASCII, utf8 or whatever you like. You might try one
of those and see if your output then looks better, although I don't see
why latin9 should be a problem.
/Paul
pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel.
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols In LyX, go into Document - Settings - Language. You have the language set as English (good choice there, fewer funny characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose American as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970)
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
David A. Case wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols In LyX, go into Document - Settings - Language. You have the language set as English (good choice there, fewer funny characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose American as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970) Good point -- although that might risk disenfranchising da Youpers. I'm not sure what (if any) character set they have, and many of them are Big 10 fans. :-) /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel. Are you using MiKTeX? (Not that it should matter.) Try exporting a smallish file from LyX to LaTeX (pdflatex) using File - Export. Make sure the MiKTeX (or whatever) bin directory is on your command path, then run 'pdflatex file.tex' from a DOS prompt and see if you get any informative diagnostic messages (or screams for mercy). In my experience, when MiKTeX grinds slowly on a less-than-Dickensian document, it's usually because it's cranking out fonts on the fly, so maybe font generation is hosed on your machine (?). /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? cheers, Joel.
Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Hi, I am using LyX 1.5.3 on Windows XP. My problem is that I cannot import any LaTeX files. I get the following error message: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f foo.tex foo.lyx However, with LyX 1.4.4 on the same computer I can import the same file without any problems. With LyX 1.4.4 I use MikTeX 2.5, and for LyX 1.5.3 I have tried both MiKTeX 2.5 and MiKTeX 2.7, with the same problem for both versions. Bug report here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4503 Any hints on what to do? Andreas _ Mörkt och kallt? Kanske Barcelona? http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Barcelona+reseguideform=QBRE
copy+paste table entries?
It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is this correct? Sure would be useful.
Keep LyX from editing the preample?
I don't like the way LyX semi-controls the preample. If you want to specify the geometry for a page with commands different from the LyX way they need to be inserted before the pagestyle, but this is currently impossible. Either the preample should be completely controlled by LyX or not at all, the current semi solution only results in confusion on what is specified and what is not in my case. Is there someway to have complete control over the preample without using the initial LyX commands? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Keep-LyX-from-editing-the-preample--tp14999696p14999696.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Andreas Karlsson wrote: Hi, I am using LyX 1.5.3 on Windows XP. My problem is that I cannot import any LaTeX files. I get the following error message: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f foo.tex foo.lyx However, with LyX 1.4.4 on the same computer I can import the same file without any problems. With LyX 1.4.4 I use MikTeX 2.5, and for LyX 1.5.3 I have tried both MiKTeX 2.5 and MiKTeX 2.7, with the same problem for both versions. Bug report here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4503 Any hints on what to do? Andreas I grabbed the file from the bug report that you said 1.4.4 could import but 1.5.3 could not. On my box (LyX 1.5.3, XP Home), I can import it (using File - Import - LaTeX (plain). I get a bunch of warnings about unrecognized commands and such (presumably because I'm not designating a document class), but I do not get the something went wrong error you encountered. I repeated the conversion from the command prompt and captured the output from the error stream. Again, it produced a loadable (if not necessarily correct) LyX file. /Paul
Re: copy+paste table entries?
It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is this correct? Depends on what you mean by group of table entries. I just opened a new article and put in two tables of the default 5x5, one on top of the other. I can copy and paste (Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V) single cells or selected groups of cells within and between both tables. WinXP, LyX 1.5.3 - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/copy%2Bpaste-table-entries--tp14999295p15002693.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: copy+paste table entries?
Neal Becker wrote: It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is this correct? Sure would be useful. This doesn't work on the Mac in 1.5.3 (fixed in 1.5.4). However, C-S-v seems to work. Jürgen
what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
In Fedora 8 Linux, I'm using the TexLive version of latex that is now
available fore testing. I can ask there about this trouble, but I'm
pretty sure they will send me back here to ask why does LyX do
that?.
The problem: I get weird output. In a simple document created from
the default everything--with no fancy features-- no preface items
inserted by me, then I have the problem that the xvi and pdf output is
jumbled. Instead of the default characters, the type font that is
used looks like an old Courier typewriter, but the characters are not
evenly spaced. Some are typed on top of each other, some have extra
spaces between them. I'm attaching this small lyx file to this note,
wondering if anybody sees something funny about it.
I output the lyx document to latex for experimentation, and I cut
lines from the pre-amble until the document came out correct. In all
of the troublesome files, the problem seems to be this one line:
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
What is it? What is latin9?
When I run pdflatex newfile1.tex, I see a lot of messages like this:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebbx10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebmo10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
...
Back tracking, I note no errors in the latex run, but when I view the
dvi file the output looks like hell, and in the terminal I see:
$ xdvi newfile1.dvi
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1200, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1728, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1000, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
After I delete that preamble line about latin9 input encoding, then
the document processes correctly! Looks great!
What do you think? Where is latin9 coming from?
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
newfile1.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
Paul Johnson wrote:
In Fedora 8 Linux, I'm using the TexLive version of latex that is now
available fore testing. I can ask there about this trouble, but I'm
pretty sure they will send me back here to ask why does LyX do
that?.
The problem: I get weird output. In a simple document created from
the default everything--with no fancy features-- no preface items
inserted by me, then I have the problem that the xvi and pdf output is
jumbled. Instead of the default characters, the type font that is
used looks like an old Courier typewriter, but the characters are not
evenly spaced. Some are typed on top of each other, some have extra
spaces between them. I'm attaching this small lyx file to this note,
wondering if anybody sees something funny about it.
Loads fine, output displays fine for me (on both Win XP with MiKTeX and
Ubuntu with TeXLive). I tried both DVI (xdvik on Ubuntu) and PDF
(Evince on Ubuntu), no problems.
I output the lyx document to latex for experimentation, and I cut
lines from the pre-amble until the document came out correct. In all
of the troublesome files, the problem seems to be this one line:
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
What is it? What is latin9?
The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented
characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols. (Note that I'm
including Mac users as foreigners, since the inputenc package supposedly
addresses them as well). When I was younger, everyone used ASCII and
damn well liked it. (Well, there was EBCDIC I suppose.)
Anyway, this just adds in a package to help cope with non-ASCII
characters in the input file (I think). You can find the documentation
for the inputenc style file at
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/base/inputenc.pdf (at least on my
Ubuntu box).
When I run pdflatex newfile1.tex, I see a lot of messages like this:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebbx10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebmo10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
...
I'm not sure why you're getting any messages about these fonts, since
they don't seem to be used in your document (unless they're set as
defaults in your TeXLive installation??). I have ebbx10 and ebmo10
installed (they're part of the cmbright font package), and they're not
listed (that I can find) in pdftex.map.
Font stuff makes my eyes water at the best of times. Whatever installed
the cmbright fonts should (I think) have updated the font maps to
include them. I can barely make that happen with MiKTeX; I have no idea
how to make it happen with TeXLive (nor why the issue arises in your
document) (nor what it could possibly have to do with the input encoding).
Back tracking, I note no errors in the latex run, but when I view the
dvi file the output looks like hell, and in the terminal I see:
$ xdvi newfile1.dvi
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1200, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1728, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1000, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
After I delete that preamble line about latin9 input encoding, then
the document processes correctly! Looks great!
What do you think? Where is latin9 coming from?
It's a default. In LyX, go into Document - Settings - Language. You
have the language set as English (good choice there, fewer funny
characters) and the options to use the language's default encoding set.
If you uncheck the latter, the Encoding control activates and you can
set LaTeX default, ASCII, utf8 or whatever you like. You might try one
of those and see if your output then looks better, although I don't see
why latin9 should be a problem.
/Paul
pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel.
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols In LyX, go into Document - Settings - Language. You have the language set as English (good choice there, fewer funny characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose American as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970)
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
David A. Case wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols In LyX, go into Document - Settings - Language. You have the language set as English (good choice there, fewer funny characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose American as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970) Good point -- although that might risk disenfranchising da Youpers. I'm not sure what (if any) character set they have, and many of them are Big 10 fans. :-) /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel. Are you using MiKTeX? (Not that it should matter.) Try exporting a smallish file from LyX to LaTeX (pdflatex) using File - Export. Make sure the MiKTeX (or whatever) bin directory is on your command path, then run 'pdflatex file.tex' from a DOS prompt and see if you get any informative diagnostic messages (or screams for mercy). In my experience, when MiKTeX grinds slowly on a less-than-Dickensian document, it's usually because it's cranking out fonts on the fly, so maybe font generation is hosed on your machine (?). /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? cheers, Joel.
Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Hi, I am using LyX 1.5.3 on Windows XP. My problem is that I cannot import any LaTeX files. I get the following error message: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f "foo.tex" "foo.lyx" However, with LyX 1.4.4 on the same computer I can import the same file without any problems. With LyX 1.4.4 I use MikTeX 2.5, and for LyX 1.5.3 I have tried both MiKTeX 2.5 and MiKTeX 2.7, with the same problem for both versions. Bug report here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4503 Any hints on what to do? Andreas _ Mörkt och kallt? Kanske Barcelona? http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Barcelona+reseguide=QBRE
copy+paste table entries?
It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is this correct? Sure would be useful.
Keep LyX from editing the preample?
I don't like the way LyX semi-controls the preample. If you want to specify the geometry for a page with commands different from the LyX way they need to be inserted before the pagestyle, but this is currently impossible. Either the preample should be completely controlled by LyX or not at all, the current semi solution only results in confusion on what is specified and what is not in my case. Is there someway to have complete control over the preample without using the initial LyX commands? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Keep-LyX-from-editing-the-preample--tp14999696p14999696.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Andreas Karlsson wrote: Hi, I am using LyX 1.5.3 on Windows XP. My problem is that I cannot import any LaTeX files. I get the following error message: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f "foo.tex" "foo.lyx" However, with LyX 1.4.4 on the same computer I can import the same file without any problems. With LyX 1.4.4 I use MikTeX 2.5, and for LyX 1.5.3 I have tried both MiKTeX 2.5 and MiKTeX 2.7, with the same problem for both versions. Bug report here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4503 Any hints on what to do? Andreas I grabbed the file from the bug report that you said 1.4.4 could import but 1.5.3 could not. On my box (LyX 1.5.3, XP Home), I can import it (using File -> Import -> LaTeX (plain). I get a bunch of warnings about unrecognized commands and such (presumably because I'm not designating a document class), but I do not get the "something went wrong" error you encountered. I repeated the conversion from the command prompt and captured the output from the error stream. Again, it produced a loadable (if not necessarily correct) LyX file. /Paul
Re: copy+paste table entries?
> It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is > this correct? > Depends on what you mean by "group of table entries". I just opened a new article and put in two tables of the default 5x5, one on top of the other. I can copy and paste (Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V) single cells or selected groups of cells within and between both tables. WinXP, LyX 1.5.3 - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/copy%2Bpaste-table-entries--tp14999295p15002693.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: copy+paste table entries?
Neal Becker wrote: > It doesn't seem possible to copy and paste a group of table entries. Is > this correct? Sure would be useful. This doesn't work on the Mac in 1.5.3 (fixed in 1.5.4). However, C-S-v seems to work. Jürgen
what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
In Fedora 8 Linux, I'm using the TexLive version of latex that is now
available fore testing. I can ask there about this trouble, but I'm
pretty sure they will send me back here to ask "why does LyX do
that?".
The problem: I get weird output. In a simple document created from
the default everything--with no fancy features-- no preface items
inserted by me, then I have the problem that the xvi and pdf output is
"jumbled". Instead of the default characters, the type font that is
used looks like an old Courier typewriter, but the characters are not
evenly spaced. Some are typed on top of each other, some have extra
spaces between them. I'm attaching this small lyx file to this note,
wondering if anybody sees something funny about it.
I output the lyx document to latex for experimentation, and I cut
lines from the pre-amble until the document came out correct. In all
of the troublesome files, the problem seems to be this one line:
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
What is it? What is latin9?
When I run "pdflatex newfile1.tex", I see a lot of messages like this:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebbx10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebmo10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
...
Back tracking, I note no errors in the latex run, but when I view the
dvi file the output looks like hell, and in the terminal I see:
$ xdvi newfile1.dvi
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1200, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1728, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1000, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
After I delete that preamble line about latin9 input encoding, then
the document processes correctly! Looks great!
What do you think? Where is "latin9" coming from?
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
newfile1.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
Paul Johnson wrote:
In Fedora 8 Linux, I'm using the TexLive version of latex that is now
available fore testing. I can ask there about this trouble, but I'm
pretty sure they will send me back here to ask "why does LyX do
that?".
The problem: I get weird output. In a simple document created from
the default everything--with no fancy features-- no preface items
inserted by me, then I have the problem that the xvi and pdf output is
"jumbled". Instead of the default characters, the type font that is
used looks like an old Courier typewriter, but the characters are not
evenly spaced. Some are typed on top of each other, some have extra
spaces between them. I'm attaching this small lyx file to this note,
wondering if anybody sees something funny about it.
Loads fine, output displays fine for me (on both Win XP with MiKTeX and
Ubuntu with TeXLive). I tried both DVI (xdvik on Ubuntu) and PDF
(Evince on Ubuntu), no problems.
I output the lyx document to latex for experimentation, and I cut
lines from the pre-amble until the document came out correct. In all
of the troublesome files, the problem seems to be this one line:
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
What is it? What is latin9?
The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented
characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols. (Note that I'm
including Mac users as foreigners, since the inputenc package supposedly
addresses them as well). When I was younger, everyone used ASCII and
damn well liked it. (Well, there was EBCDIC I suppose.)
Anyway, this just adds in a package to help cope with non-ASCII
characters in the input file (I think). You can find the documentation
for the inputenc style file at
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/base/inputenc.pdf (at least on my
Ubuntu box).
When I run "pdflatex newfile1.tex", I see a lot of messages like this:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebbx10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.ma
p): ambiguous entry for `ebmo10': font file present but not included, will be t
reated as font file not present
...
I'm not sure why you're getting any messages about these fonts, since
they don't seem to be used in your document (unless they're set as
defaults in your TeXLive installation??). I have ebbx10 and ebmo10
installed (they're part of the cmbright font package), and they're not
listed (that I can find) in pdftex.map.
Font stuff makes my eyes water at the best of times. Whatever installed
the cmbright fonts should (I think) have updated the font maps to
include them. I can barely make that happen with MiKTeX; I have no idea
how to make it happen with TeXLive (nor why the issue arises in your
document) (nor what it could possibly have to do with the input encoding).
Back tracking, I note no errors in the latex run, but when I view the
dvi file the output looks like hell, and in the terminal I see:
$ xdvi newfile1.dvi
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1200, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1728, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for ecrm1000, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).
After I delete that preamble line about latin9 input encoding, then
the document processes correctly! Looks great!
What do you think? Where is "latin9" coming from?
It's a default. In LyX, go into Document -> Settings -> Language. You
have the language set as "English" (good choice there, fewer funny
characters) and the options to use the language's default encoding set.
If you uncheck the latter, the Encoding control activates and you can
set LaTeX default, ASCII, utf8 or whatever you like. You might try one
of those and see if your output then looks better, although I don't see
why latin9 should be a problem.
/Paul
pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel.
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented > characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols > > In LyX, go into Document -> Settings -> Language. You > have the language set as "English" (good choice there, fewer funny > characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose "American" as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970)
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
David A. Case wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols In LyX, go into Document -> Settings -> Language. You have the language set as "English" (good choice there, fewer funny characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose "American" as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970) Good point -- although that might risk disenfranchising da Youpers. I'm not sure what (if any) character set they have, and many of them are Big 10 fans. :-) /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel. Are you using MiKTeX? (Not that it should matter.) Try exporting a smallish file from LyX to LaTeX (pdflatex) using File -> Export. Make sure the MiKTeX (or whatever) bin directory is on your command path, then run 'pdflatex ' from a DOS prompt and see if you get any informative diagnostic messages (or screams for mercy). In my experience, when MiKTeX grinds slowly on a less-than-Dickensian document, it's usually because it's cranking out fonts on the fly, so maybe font generation is hosed on your machine (?). /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? cheers, Joel.
