Question on cross-reference dialog window

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with
an input field called Name which is always grayed out so that no input is
possible.

Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it?

BTW: IMHO there should be more explication in the User'sGuide how to use the
package prettyref. In the German version even the important message Note:
This feature is only available when you have the LaTeX-package prettyref
installed is missing. Where can I report this desire?

Thanks,
Peter

Re: No Input after Ctrl-W

[Martin Görg]

rgheck wrote:
 Martin Görg wrote:
 When I have two documents open and I close one of them using Ctrl-w,
 then I cannot input anything into the remaining document with the
 keyboard. There is no reaction to the keyboard in that document
 whatsoever.

   
 Is that true even if you click into the document?

Yes, the cursor is not even text-style, but a regular arrow pointer. I
found out that opening a new or another document fixes the problem. Then
, after some more testing I managed to disable the keyboard in LyX
altogether and now I'm thinking it might not be related to LyX but to my
system because I get this error sometimes in some other apps, as well.

 It's hard to know for sure, but it sounds to me as if you might have
 incompatible binaries somewhere. I see this kind of behavior, for
 example, when I upgrade firefox while its running---and after the
 upgrade, it won't work right. I'd make sure, first, that the old version
 of LyX really has been removed from your system, and that there isn't
 anything lying around. Check /usr/share/lyx/, I'd guess, but maybe
 someone on Ubuntu would know better.

Alright, I'll try to remove everything again. Thanks for your suggestions.

Martin

using lyx with Texlive in windows.

[Muhammad moosavy]

Hi

As a default, Lyx run on Miktex in windows. Can I run it on the texlive
distribution. I love Texlive.

Thanks

 

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

rgheck wrote:
 Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be
 a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know
 that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means
 not running into weird problems.

You have a point there. It's just that I was anticipating 1.6 so much
and didn't get a chance to use it, yet.

 And 1.6.1 is available in intrepid-backports:
 http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-backports/lyx.

Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
for that hint! I'll try it out.

Martin

Re: Errors using vref and hyperref package on Ubuntu

[karlrt]

Shawn Willden-9 wrote:
 
 I have two machines, one running Debian unstable, the other running Ubuntu 
 7.10.  Both have the texlive-full package installed from their respective 
 repository.  On the Debian box, pdflatex handles my document just fine,
 but 
 on the Ubuntu box, I get errors on every /vref, unless I comment out 
 the /usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble.  The error says that an 
 unexpected '}' was found.
 
 Can anyone help me narrow down where in the massive pile of stuff that is 
 LyX+texlive full the problem comes from?  Or give me any suggestions on
 how 
 to debug this?
 
 The Debian box has LyX 1.5.3, while Ubuntu is 1.5.1.  Texlive versions are 
 2007-3 and 2007-10, respectively.
 
 Thanks,
 
   Shawn
 
 

I just can tell that i have the same problem as you with lyx 1.6.1 on ubuntu
8.04 i386. If i start on a blank document, everything is fine, just if i
want to turn my (allready written) document to a hyperref enabled document,
i get that a lot of errors like you!

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Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

thank you, Bennett.

I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the  
instructions from:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX

But I just get as far as you should find a new item under the View  
menu, which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?

That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.

Best*
Jessika



Am 08.01.2009 um 14:17 schrieb Bennett Helm:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:30 AM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com  
wrote:

I tried to install with the 0.995-version
of this site:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=xetex_download
but it didn´t work, I got the message: preflight script for xetex


Not sure what that message means on its own. But use MacTeX to  
install

a more current version of XeTeX if needed.


I don´t know how that works. The MacTex-installer I have is from  
August
2008, and obviously too old. Should I download the whole installer?  
The
problm is, that when I run the installer I do not get the  
possibility to
install XeTex separately. There is Ghostscript 8.62, GUI  
Applications,

imageMagickConvert, some fonts, and TexLive. On this site
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/mactex/
I find various files, but can´t figure out, which one installs XeTex.


For updating MacTeX, see:

http://www.tug.org/mactex/tlmgr.html

(Your version of XeTeX is up to date.)

Bennett

Re: using lyx with Texlive in windows.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Muhammad moosavy wrote:


As a default, Lyx run on Miktex in windows. Can I run it on the texlive
distribution. I love Texlive.



It should.  LyX just wants a working LaTeX distribution; it's agnostic 
as to which distribution.  (Disclaimer:  I've used it with TeXLive on 
Ubuntu, but only with MiKTeX on Windows.)


/Paul

Re: Errors using vref and hyperref package on Ubuntu

[Pavel Sanda]

 I just can tell that i have the same problem as you with lyx 1.6.1 on ubuntu
 8.04 i386. If i start on a blank document, everything is fine, just if i
 want to turn my (allready written) document to a hyperref enabled document,
 i get that a lot of errors like you!

have you removed \usepackage{hyperref} from preamble when switching to hyperref
support in 1.6?
pavel

Re: Question on cross-reference dialog window

[rgheck]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:

Hello,

In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with
an input field called Name which is always grayed out so that no input is
possible.

Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it?

  

This is only used with docbook-based classes. Hence its being grayed out.


BTW: IMHO there should be more explication in the User'sGuide how to use the
package prettyref. In the German version even the important message Note:
This feature is only available when you have the LaTeX-package prettyref
installed is missing. Where can I report this desire?

  
Perhaps on the doc list? Or directly to the maintainer of the German 
User's Guide.


As for using prettyref, you should look at the prettyref documentation.

rh

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[rgheck]

Martin Görg wrote:

rgheck wrote:
  

Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be
a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know
that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means
not running into weird problems.



You have a point there. It's just that I was anticipating 1.6 so much
and didn't get a chance to use it, yet.

  

1.6 rocks, if I do say so myself.


And 1.6.1 is available in intrepid-backports:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-backports/lyx.



Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
for that hint! I'll try it out.

  
I think the backports stuff is more or less inherited from Debian. 
Debian, anyway, doesn't do major version upgrades but only what's 
required for security and stability---bug fixes. The backports 
repository gives you the option of upgrading.


rh

Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also  
other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script):
I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without  
serifs.


Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like to change  
the fontsize also.


Best*
Jess

pixelated output

[Tao Cumplido]

Hi,

I am new to Lyx and still experimenting but it seems really good so far.

One thing I noticed though, when I process a new file the letters are somewhat 
pixelated if scaled to high resolutions whereas the pdf from files like 
Tutorial.lyx for example looks perfect.

Now my question is of course, what do I have to do so that the output from 
files I create also looks that smooth.

I attached a file to demonstrate what I mean.

regards,

Tao
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Re: pixelated output

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Tao Cumplido wrote:
 One thing I noticed though, when I process a new file the letters are
 somewhat pixelated if scaled to high resolutions whereas the pdf from files
 like Tutorial.lyx for example looks perfect.

 Now my question is of course, what do I have to do so that the output from
 files I create also looks that smooth.

The standard LaTeX fonts are bitmap fonts. The tutorial uses PostScript fonts 
instead, which scale nicer.

Go to DocumentSettingsFonts and select other fonts, for instance Latin 
Modern (this is what the Tutorial uses).

Jürgen

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Martin Görg wrote:
 Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
 for that hint! I'll try it out.

I managed to get up and running with LyX 1.6.1 from the backports, but
the references are still messed up. Interestingly, only the provided
help documents had the problem of not showing any labels and crashing on
update. It worked just fine with my own documents. Are the help docs
maybe using some older commands which cause the error?

Anyway, I removed the whole thing again and settled with the regular
1.5.6 version packaged with Ubuntu. It seems to be much more responsive,
too. Only the problem with LyX not accepting any keyboard input after
some Ctrl+ actions remains (see my other post [1]).

Cheers
Martin

[1] Message-ID: 4967f91a.3080...@cs.tu-berlin.de

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Martin Görg wrote:
 Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
 for that hint! I'll try it out.

I managed to get up and running with LyX 1.6.1 from the backports, but
the references are still messed up. Interestingly, only the provided
help documents had the problem of not showing any labels and crashing on
update. It worked just fine with my own documents. Are the help docs
maybe using some older commands which cause the error?

Anyway, I removed the whole thing again and settled with the regular
1.5.6 version packaged with Ubuntu. It seems to be much more responsive,
too. Only the problem with LyX not accepting any keyboard input after
some Ctrl+ actions remains (see my other post [1]).

Cheers
Martin

[1] Message-ID: 4967f91a.3080...@cs.tu-berlin.de

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[Bennett Helm]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:57 AM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 thank you, Bennett.

 I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the instructions
 from:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX

 But I just get as far as you should find a new item under the View menu,
 which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?
 That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.

Did you check the Document format box when creating the xetex file
format? The wiki says to do that for 1.5, but it should say 1.5 *or
later*. (I've updated the wiki.)

Bennett

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Pavel Sanda]

Martin Görg wrote:
 I open the LyX User's Guide (or any other document) and klick on a
 reference. The pop-up dialog is empty showing none of the existing
 labels and when I click 'Update' LyX crashes with the message
 lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught.

this is known problem already solved in the forthcoming 1.6.2.
pavel

Install LyX separately

[Martin Görg]

Hello again,

on my pursuit of happiness (install LyX) I bumped into something most
inconvenient. When I try to install LyX using aptitude, apt-get, a .deb
package, or the Synaptic Package Manager - just to name a few - the
whatever manager does not realize that I already have a pretty and
working installation of Texlive 2008 on my system. I'm inclined to
assume this is true even for an existing Texlive 2007 installation.
Granted, I did not use any package manager to install Texlive 2008. I
used the network installation provided by Texlive, which IMHO is the
better way because it directly follows the Texlive documentation and
leaves me with a pretty texmf tree where I know what's where (or at
least I can look it up in the docs). Anyway, I think when installing
LyX, it should be aware that most parts needed are there, already. LyX
should just install the remainder.

Am I being too naive having this wish? Should I just compile and install
my own LyX? Would that actually change anything? Can I just
force-install a standalone installation of LyX and tell it where my
texmf paths are?

On an additional note:
I also installed texmaker and it, too, installed some texlive stuff. Now
I have texmf and texmf-texlive in /usr/share/. I don't like it. Why
can't I have one central texlive and all other apps use it? I just came
from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole business of
interrelated apps just worked. Maybe I should ask this in a different
mailing list.

Happy to get your thoughts on this.

Martin

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
 this is known problem already solved in the forthcoming 1.6.2.
 pavel

Ah, now there's an answer! Thanks so much for this info. That's kind-of
what I was expecting.

Martin

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[jezZiFeR]

I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the  
instructions

from:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX

But I just get as far as you should find a new item under the View  
menu,

which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?
That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.


Did you check the Document format box when creating the xetex file
format? The wiki says to do that for 1.5, but it should say 1.5 *or
later*. (I've updated the wiki.)


No, I didn´t do that before. Thanks a lot – now it works!

Best*
Jess

Re: Install LyX separately

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 10, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Martin Görg wrote:

...
on my pursuit of happiness (install LyX) I bumped into something  
most inconvenient. When I try to install LyX using aptitude, apt- 
get, a .deb package, or the Synaptic Package Manager - just to name  
a few - the whatever manager does not realize that I already have a  
pretty and working installation of Texlive 2008 on my system. I'm  
inclined to assume this is true even for an existing Texlive 2007  
installation. Granted, I did not use any package manager to install  
Texlive 2008. I used the network installation provided by  
Texlive...I think when installing LyX, it should be aware that most  
parts needed are there, already. LyX should just install the  
remainder.


But just how is it supposed to do that?  Package managers have to  
consult a database of installed packages in order to know what is on  
your system; they can't just go out searching aimlessly to see if  
you've got all the necessary binaries, libraries, config files etc  
that are required by a given piece of software that you want to  
install.  So if you don't install TexLive via the package management  
system for your distribution, the package managers (which all consult  
the same database) won't know it's there.  A disadvantage of this, of  
course, is that you don't typically get bleeding edge versions of your  
favorite software.  (Notably, Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux  
distros are still waiting for TexLive 2008.)  The advantage is that it  
works. ;-)


Am I being too naive having this wish? Should I just compile and  
install my own LyX?


You should be able to do this quite easily.  With Debian-based  
distributions (as well as most (?) others) you can always use the /usr/ 
local hierarchy to install your own software, and my hunch is that  
that is where your TeXLive 2008 installation resides.  Just set the  
prefix for your LyX compilation to /usr/local and then point LyX to  
your TeXLive hierarchy in the appropriate settings.



On an additional note:
I also installed texmaker and it, too, installed some texlive stuff.  
Now I have texmf and texmf-texlive in /usr/share/. I don't like it.   
Why can't I have one central texlive and all other apps use it?


You can, if you install it via the package mgt system.  (Yeah yeah,  
it's not the current super ultra whizziest version...)


I just came from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole  
business of interrelated apps just worked.


Done right, it does. :-)

Chris Menzel

Re: Install LyX separately

[Martin Görg]

Christopher Menzel wrote:
 But just how is it supposed to do that? 

Yeah, that's what I figured.

 You should be able to do this quite easily.  With Debian-based
 distributions (as well as most (?) others) you can always use the
 /usr/local hierarchy to install your own software, and my hunch is that
 that is where your TeXLive 2008 installation resides.  Just set the
 prefix for your LyX compilation to /usr/local and then point LyX to your
 TeXLive hierarchy in the appropriate settings.

I also got the impression that compiling should not be that hard. I will
try this ... not sure when.

 You can, if you install it via the package mgt system.  (Yeah yeah, it's
 not the current super ultra whizziest version...)

But that's just what I did in the end - I think. I used aptitude for
both LyX and Texmaker but still ended up with two texlives. Strange. Oh
well - just try again maybe. I think the set-up now is bound to lead to
complications as soon as I start installing fonts, packages, etc.

 I just came from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole
 business of interrelated apps just worked.
 
 Done right, it does. :-)

I haven't given up hope, yet.

Martin

XeTex again, and language encoding / mutated vowels / Lyx 1.6.1

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,here is another question I have on XeTex. In the wiki I found the following instruction:You need to select the encoding utf8-plain (in Document→Settings→Language→Encoding) for XeTeX. If you select utf8-plain…Did I do that right? I tried the following two encodings:In this case I get loads of "Package inputenc"-errors.Like this I get some errors, like"Paragraph ended before \...@chapter was complete."And added this to the preamble:\...@ifundefined{xetexversion}{}{% \usepackage{fontspec}%  \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Day Roman}% \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Gill Sans}% \setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text]{Courier New}%  }% \usepackage{xunicode}  \usepackage{xltxtra}If I choose the prefs for the chosen language I could compile the file, butin the text there are displayed spaces instead of mutated vowels now.Did I do something wrong? Do I have to enter the encoding elsewhere?Best*Jess

Re: Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

[cmiramon]

jezZiFeR wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also
 other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script):
 I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without
 serifs.
 
 Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like to change
 the fontsize also.
 
 Best*
 Jess

I do not understand what you mean with fontsize of margins but KOMA has a
very good and extensive German documentation. It is even printed as a book.

You will find there how to change fonts size for the different elements of
the page.

Cheers,
Charles

[announce] fix for LyX installtions on Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

As reported on this list, some users had problems to open older LyX files with LyX 1.6.x. The 
problem was a corrupted file of the scripting language Python that is used by LyX for file conversions.


When you are affected by this problem, replace the file unicodedata.pyd that you find in LyX's 
installation folder under ~\bin\DLLs with this one:

https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=9949

For new LyX installations I fixed this in the new alternative installer version 
4.17:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=15676
In this version I upgraded also from Python 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 to fix some other 
potential problems.

Please report me when there are still problems.
regards Uwe

lyx templates site?

[Sindhu]

hi

i have never made lyx templates before, but am about to graduate and
lately i have doing a lot of resumes, SRS (software requirement
specifications) and other such documents. my question is, if i put the
templates together for the above said documents, can i post it up here
on lyx mailing list? so that everyone can benefit from it

-Sindhu

PS: we could have a page on the lyx site listing these user made
templates, couldn't we?

Question on cross-reference dialog window

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with
an input field called Name which is always grayed out so that no input is
possible.

Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it?

BTW: IMHO there should be more explication in the User'sGuide how to use the
package prettyref. In the German version even the important message Note:
This feature is only available when you have the LaTeX-package prettyref
installed is missing. Where can I report this desire?

Thanks,
Peter

Re: No Input after Ctrl-W

[Martin Görg]

rgheck wrote:
 Martin Görg wrote:
 When I have two documents open and I close one of them using Ctrl-w,
 then I cannot input anything into the remaining document with the
 keyboard. There is no reaction to the keyboard in that document
 whatsoever.

   
 Is that true even if you click into the document?

Yes, the cursor is not even text-style, but a regular arrow pointer. I
found out that opening a new or another document fixes the problem. Then
, after some more testing I managed to disable the keyboard in LyX
altogether and now I'm thinking it might not be related to LyX but to my
system because I get this error sometimes in some other apps, as well.

 It's hard to know for sure, but it sounds to me as if you might have
 incompatible binaries somewhere. I see this kind of behavior, for
 example, when I upgrade firefox while its running---and after the
 upgrade, it won't work right. I'd make sure, first, that the old version
 of LyX really has been removed from your system, and that there isn't
 anything lying around. Check /usr/share/lyx/, I'd guess, but maybe
 someone on Ubuntu would know better.

Alright, I'll try to remove everything again. Thanks for your suggestions.

Martin

using lyx with Texlive in windows.

[Muhammad moosavy]

Hi

As a default, Lyx run on Miktex in windows. Can I run it on the texlive
distribution. I love Texlive.

Thanks

 

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

rgheck wrote:
 Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be
 a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know
 that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means
 not running into weird problems.

You have a point there. It's just that I was anticipating 1.6 so much
and didn't get a chance to use it, yet.

 And 1.6.1 is available in intrepid-backports:
 http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-backports/lyx.

Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
for that hint! I'll try it out.

Martin

Re: Errors using vref and hyperref package on Ubuntu

[karlrt]

Shawn Willden-9 wrote:
 
 I have two machines, one running Debian unstable, the other running Ubuntu 
 7.10.  Both have the texlive-full package installed from their respective 
 repository.  On the Debian box, pdflatex handles my document just fine,
 but 
 on the Ubuntu box, I get errors on every /vref, unless I comment out 
 the /usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble.  The error says that an 
 unexpected '}' was found.
 
 Can anyone help me narrow down where in the massive pile of stuff that is 
 LyX+texlive full the problem comes from?  Or give me any suggestions on
 how 
 to debug this?
 
 The Debian box has LyX 1.5.3, while Ubuntu is 1.5.1.  Texlive versions are 
 2007-3 and 2007-10, respectively.
 
 Thanks,
 
   Shawn
 
 

I just can tell that i have the same problem as you with lyx 1.6.1 on ubuntu
8.04 i386. If i start on a blank document, everything is fine, just if i
want to turn my (allready written) document to a hyperref enabled document,
i get that a lot of errors like you!

-- 
View this message in context: 
http://n2.nabble.com/Errors-using-vref-and-hyperref-package-on-Ubuntu-tp477100p2137723.html
Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

thank you, Bennett.

I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the  
instructions from:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX

But I just get as far as you should find a new item under the View  
menu, which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?

That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.

Best*
Jessika



Am 08.01.2009 um 14:17 schrieb Bennett Helm:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:30 AM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com  
wrote:

I tried to install with the 0.995-version
of this site:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=xetex_download
but it didn´t work, I got the message: preflight script for xetex


Not sure what that message means on its own. But use MacTeX to  
install

a more current version of XeTeX if needed.


I don´t know how that works. The MacTex-installer I have is from  
August
2008, and obviously too old. Should I download the whole installer?  
The
problm is, that when I run the installer I do not get the  
possibility to
install XeTex separately. There is Ghostscript 8.62, GUI  
Applications,

imageMagickConvert, some fonts, and TexLive. On this site
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/mactex/
I find various files, but can´t figure out, which one installs XeTex.


For updating MacTeX, see:

http://www.tug.org/mactex/tlmgr.html

(Your version of XeTeX is up to date.)

Bennett

Re: using lyx with Texlive in windows.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Muhammad moosavy wrote:


As a default, Lyx run on Miktex in windows. Can I run it on the texlive
distribution. I love Texlive.



It should.  LyX just wants a working LaTeX distribution; it's agnostic 
as to which distribution.  (Disclaimer:  I've used it with TeXLive on 
Ubuntu, but only with MiKTeX on Windows.)


/Paul

Re: Errors using vref and hyperref package on Ubuntu

[Pavel Sanda]

 I just can tell that i have the same problem as you with lyx 1.6.1 on ubuntu
 8.04 i386. If i start on a blank document, everything is fine, just if i
 want to turn my (allready written) document to a hyperref enabled document,
 i get that a lot of errors like you!

have you removed \usepackage{hyperref} from preamble when switching to hyperref
support in 1.6?
pavel

Re: Question on cross-reference dialog window

[rgheck]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:

Hello,

In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with
an input field called Name which is always grayed out so that no input is
possible.

Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it?

  

This is only used with docbook-based classes. Hence its being grayed out.


BTW: IMHO there should be more explication in the User'sGuide how to use the
package prettyref. In the German version even the important message Note:
This feature is only available when you have the LaTeX-package prettyref
installed is missing. Where can I report this desire?

  
Perhaps on the doc list? Or directly to the maintainer of the German 
User's Guide.


As for using prettyref, you should look at the prettyref documentation.

rh

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[rgheck]

Martin Görg wrote:

rgheck wrote:
  

Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be
a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know
that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means
not running into weird problems.



You have a point there. It's just that I was anticipating 1.6 so much
and didn't get a chance to use it, yet.

  

1.6 rocks, if I do say so myself.


And 1.6.1 is available in intrepid-backports:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-backports/lyx.



Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
for that hint! I'll try it out.

  
I think the backports stuff is more or less inherited from Debian. 
Debian, anyway, doesn't do major version upgrades but only what's 
required for security and stability---bug fixes. The backports 
repository gives you the option of upgrading.


rh

Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also  
other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script):
I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without  
serifs.


Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like to change  
the fontsize also.


Best*
Jess

pixelated output

[Tao Cumplido]

Hi,

I am new to Lyx and still experimenting but it seems really good so far.

One thing I noticed though, when I process a new file the letters are somewhat 
pixelated if scaled to high resolutions whereas the pdf from files like 
Tutorial.lyx for example looks perfect.

Now my question is of course, what do I have to do so that the output from 
files I create also looks that smooth.

I attached a file to demonstrate what I mean.

regards,

Tao
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Re: pixelated output

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Tao Cumplido wrote:
 One thing I noticed though, when I process a new file the letters are
 somewhat pixelated if scaled to high resolutions whereas the pdf from files
 like Tutorial.lyx for example looks perfect.

 Now my question is of course, what do I have to do so that the output from
 files I create also looks that smooth.

The standard LaTeX fonts are bitmap fonts. The tutorial uses PostScript fonts 
instead, which scale nicer.

Go to DocumentSettingsFonts and select other fonts, for instance Latin 
Modern (this is what the Tutorial uses).

Jürgen

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Martin Görg wrote:
 Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
 for that hint! I'll try it out.

I managed to get up and running with LyX 1.6.1 from the backports, but
the references are still messed up. Interestingly, only the provided
help documents had the problem of not showing any labels and crashing on
update. It worked just fine with my own documents. Are the help docs
maybe using some older commands which cause the error?

Anyway, I removed the whole thing again and settled with the regular
1.5.6 version packaged with Ubuntu. It seems to be much more responsive,
too. Only the problem with LyX not accepting any keyboard input after
some Ctrl+ actions remains (see my other post [1]).

Cheers
Martin

[1] Message-ID: 4967f91a.3080...@cs.tu-berlin.de

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Martin Görg wrote:
 Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
 for that hint! I'll try it out.

I managed to get up and running with LyX 1.6.1 from the backports, but
the references are still messed up. Interestingly, only the provided
help documents had the problem of not showing any labels and crashing on
update. It worked just fine with my own documents. Are the help docs
maybe using some older commands which cause the error?

Anyway, I removed the whole thing again and settled with the regular
1.5.6 version packaged with Ubuntu. It seems to be much more responsive,
too. Only the problem with LyX not accepting any keyboard input after
some Ctrl+ actions remains (see my other post [1]).

Cheers
Martin

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Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[Bennett Helm]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:57 AM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 thank you, Bennett.

 I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the instructions
 from:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX

 But I just get as far as you should find a new item under the View menu,
 which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?
 That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.

Did you check the Document format box when creating the xetex file
format? The wiki says to do that for 1.5, but it should say 1.5 *or
later*. (I've updated the wiki.)

Bennett

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Pavel Sanda]

Martin Görg wrote:
 I open the LyX User's Guide (or any other document) and klick on a
 reference. The pop-up dialog is empty showing none of the existing
 labels and when I click 'Update' LyX crashes with the message
 lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught.

this is known problem already solved in the forthcoming 1.6.2.
pavel

Install LyX separately

[Martin Görg]

Hello again,

on my pursuit of happiness (install LyX) I bumped into something most
inconvenient. When I try to install LyX using aptitude, apt-get, a .deb
package, or the Synaptic Package Manager - just to name a few - the
whatever manager does not realize that I already have a pretty and
working installation of Texlive 2008 on my system. I'm inclined to
assume this is true even for an existing Texlive 2007 installation.
Granted, I did not use any package manager to install Texlive 2008. I
used the network installation provided by Texlive, which IMHO is the
better way because it directly follows the Texlive documentation and
leaves me with a pretty texmf tree where I know what's where (or at
least I can look it up in the docs). Anyway, I think when installing
LyX, it should be aware that most parts needed are there, already. LyX
should just install the remainder.

Am I being too naive having this wish? Should I just compile and install
my own LyX? Would that actually change anything? Can I just
force-install a standalone installation of LyX and tell it where my
texmf paths are?

On an additional note:
I also installed texmaker and it, too, installed some texlive stuff. Now
I have texmf and texmf-texlive in /usr/share/. I don't like it. Why
can't I have one central texlive and all other apps use it? I just came
from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole business of
interrelated apps just worked. Maybe I should ask this in a different
mailing list.

Happy to get your thoughts on this.

Martin

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
 this is known problem already solved in the forthcoming 1.6.2.
 pavel

Ah, now there's an answer! Thanks so much for this info. That's kind-of
what I was expecting.

Martin

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[jezZiFeR]

I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the  
instructions

from:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX

But I just get as far as you should find a new item under the View  
menu,

which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?
That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.


Did you check the Document format box when creating the xetex file
format? The wiki says to do that for 1.5, but it should say 1.5 *or
later*. (I've updated the wiki.)


No, I didn´t do that before. Thanks a lot – now it works!

Best*
Jess

Re: Install LyX separately

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 10, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Martin Görg wrote:

...
on my pursuit of happiness (install LyX) I bumped into something  
most inconvenient. When I try to install LyX using aptitude, apt- 
get, a .deb package, or the Synaptic Package Manager - just to name  
a few - the whatever manager does not realize that I already have a  
pretty and working installation of Texlive 2008 on my system. I'm  
inclined to assume this is true even for an existing Texlive 2007  
installation. Granted, I did not use any package manager to install  
Texlive 2008. I used the network installation provided by  
Texlive...I think when installing LyX, it should be aware that most  
parts needed are there, already. LyX should just install the  
remainder.


But just how is it supposed to do that?  Package managers have to  
consult a database of installed packages in order to know what is on  
your system; they can't just go out searching aimlessly to see if  
you've got all the necessary binaries, libraries, config files etc  
that are required by a given piece of software that you want to  
install.  So if you don't install TexLive via the package management  
system for your distribution, the package managers (which all consult  
the same database) won't know it's there.  A disadvantage of this, of  
course, is that you don't typically get bleeding edge versions of your  
favorite software.  (Notably, Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux  
distros are still waiting for TexLive 2008.)  The advantage is that it  
works. ;-)


Am I being too naive having this wish? Should I just compile and  
install my own LyX?


You should be able to do this quite easily.  With Debian-based  
distributions (as well as most (?) others) you can always use the /usr/ 
local hierarchy to install your own software, and my hunch is that  
that is where your TeXLive 2008 installation resides.  Just set the  
prefix for your LyX compilation to /usr/local and then point LyX to  
your TeXLive hierarchy in the appropriate settings.



On an additional note:
I also installed texmaker and it, too, installed some texlive stuff.  
Now I have texmf and texmf-texlive in /usr/share/. I don't like it.   
Why can't I have one central texlive and all other apps use it?


You can, if you install it via the package mgt system.  (Yeah yeah,  
it's not the current super ultra whizziest version...)


I just came from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole  
business of interrelated apps just worked.


Done right, it does. :-)

Chris Menzel

Re: Install LyX separately

[Martin Görg]

Christopher Menzel wrote:
 But just how is it supposed to do that? 

Yeah, that's what I figured.

 You should be able to do this quite easily.  With Debian-based
 distributions (as well as most (?) others) you can always use the
 /usr/local hierarchy to install your own software, and my hunch is that
 that is where your TeXLive 2008 installation resides.  Just set the
 prefix for your LyX compilation to /usr/local and then point LyX to your
 TeXLive hierarchy in the appropriate settings.

I also got the impression that compiling should not be that hard. I will
try this ... not sure when.

 You can, if you install it via the package mgt system.  (Yeah yeah, it's
 not the current super ultra whizziest version...)

But that's just what I did in the end - I think. I used aptitude for
both LyX and Texmaker but still ended up with two texlives. Strange. Oh
well - just try again maybe. I think the set-up now is bound to lead to
complications as soon as I start installing fonts, packages, etc.

 I just came from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole
 business of interrelated apps just worked.
 
 Done right, it does. :-)

I haven't given up hope, yet.

Martin

XeTex again, and language encoding / mutated vowels / Lyx 1.6.1

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,here is another question I have on XeTex. In the wiki I found the following instruction:You need to select the encoding utf8-plain (in Document→Settings→Language→Encoding) for XeTeX. If you select utf8-plain…Did I do that right? I tried the following two encodings:In this case I get loads of "Package inputenc"-errors.Like this I get some errors, like"Paragraph ended before \...@chapter was complete."And added this to the preamble:\...@ifundefined{xetexversion}{}{% \usepackage{fontspec}%  \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Day Roman}% \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Gill Sans}% \setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text]{Courier New}%  }% \usepackage{xunicode}  \usepackage{xltxtra}If I choose the prefs for the chosen language I could compile the file, butin the text there are displayed spaces instead of mutated vowels now.Did I do something wrong? Do I have to enter the encoding elsewhere?Best*Jess

Re: Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

[cmiramon]

jezZiFeR wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also
 other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script):
 I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without
 serifs.
 
 Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like to change
 the fontsize also.
 
 Best*
 Jess

I do not understand what you mean with fontsize of margins but KOMA has a
very good and extensive German documentation. It is even printed as a book.

You will find there how to change fonts size for the different elements of
the page.

Cheers,
Charles

[announce] fix for LyX installtions on Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

As reported on this list, some users had problems to open older LyX files with LyX 1.6.x. The 
problem was a corrupted file of the scripting language Python that is used by LyX for file conversions.


When you are affected by this problem, replace the file unicodedata.pyd that you find in LyX's 
installation folder under ~\bin\DLLs with this one:

https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=9949

For new LyX installations I fixed this in the new alternative installer version 
4.17:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=15676
In this version I upgraded also from Python 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 to fix some other 
potential problems.

Please report me when there are still problems.
regards Uwe

lyx templates site?

[Sindhu]

hi

i have never made lyx templates before, but am about to graduate and
lately i have doing a lot of resumes, SRS (software requirement
specifications) and other such documents. my question is, if i put the
templates together for the above said documents, can i post it up here
on lyx mailing list? so that everyone can benefit from it

-Sindhu

PS: we could have a page on the lyx site listing these user made
templates, couldn't we?

Question on cross-reference dialog window

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with
an input field called "Name" which is always grayed out so that no input is
possible.

Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it?

BTW: IMHO there should be more explication in the User'sGuide how to use the
package prettyref. In the German version even the important message "Note:
This feature is only available when you have the LaTeX-package prettyref
installed" is missing." Where can I report this desire?

Thanks,
Peter

Re: No Input after Ctrl-W

[Martin Görg]

rgheck wrote:
> Martin Görg wrote:
>> When I have two documents open and I close one of them using Ctrl-w,
>> then I cannot input anything into the remaining document with the
>> keyboard. There is no reaction to the keyboard in that document
>> whatsoever.
>>
>>   
> Is that true even if you click into the document?

Yes, the cursor is not even text-style, but a regular arrow pointer. I
found out that opening a new or another document fixes the problem. Then
, after some more testing I managed to disable the keyboard in LyX
altogether and now I'm thinking it might not be related to LyX but to my
system because I get this error sometimes in some other apps, as well.

> It's hard to know for sure, but it sounds to me as if you might have
> incompatible binaries somewhere. I see this kind of behavior, for
> example, when I upgrade firefox while its running---and after the
> upgrade, it won't work right. I'd make sure, first, that the old version
> of LyX really has been removed from your system, and that there isn't
> anything lying around. Check /usr/share/lyx/, I'd guess, but maybe
> someone on Ubuntu would know better.

Alright, I'll try to remove everything again. Thanks for your suggestions.

Martin

using lyx with Texlive in windows.

[Muhammad moosavy]

Hi

As a default, Lyx run on Miktex in windows. Can I run it on the texlive
distribution. I love Texlive.

Thanks

 

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

rgheck wrote:
> Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be
> a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know
> that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means
> not running into weird problems.

You have a point there. It's just that I was anticipating 1.6 so much
and didn't get a chance to use it, yet.

> And 1.6.1 is available in intrepid-backports:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-backports/lyx.

Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
for that hint! I'll try it out.

Martin

Re: Errors using vref and hyperref package on Ubuntu

[karlrt]

Shawn Willden-9 wrote:
> 
> I have two machines, one running Debian unstable, the other running Ubuntu 
> 7.10.  Both have the texlive-full package installed from their respective 
> repository.  On the Debian box, pdflatex handles my document just fine,
> but 
> on the Ubuntu box, I get errors on every /vref, unless I comment out 
> the /usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble.  The error says that an 
> unexpected '}' was found.
> 
> Can anyone help me narrow down where in the massive pile of stuff that is 
> LyX+texlive full the problem comes from?  Or give me any suggestions on
> how 
> to debug this?
> 
> The Debian box has LyX 1.5.3, while Ubuntu is 1.5.1.  Texlive versions are 
> 2007-3 and 2007-10, respectively.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Shawn
> 
> 

I just can tell that i have the same problem as you with lyx 1.6.1 on ubuntu
8.04 i386. If i start on a blank document, everything is fine, just if i
want to turn my (allready written) document to a hyperref enabled document,
i get that a lot of errors like you!

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Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

thank you, Bennett.

I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the  
instructions from:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX

But I just get as far as "you should find a new item under the View  
menu", which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?

That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.

Best*
Jessika



Am 08.01.2009 um 14:17 schrieb Bennett Helm:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:30 AM, jezZiFeR   
wrote:

I tried to install with the 0.995-version
of this site:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi_id=xetex_download
but it didn´t work, I got the message: "preflight script for xetex"


Not sure what that message means on its own. But use MacTeX to  
install

a more current version of XeTeX if needed.


I don´t know how that works. The MacTex-installer I have is from  
August
2008, and obviously too old. Should I download the whole installer?  
The
problm is, that when I run the installer I do not get the  
possibility to
install XeTex separately. There is "Ghostscript 8.62", "GUI  
Applications",

"imageMagickConvert", some fonts, and "TexLive". On this site
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/mactex/
I find various files, but can´t figure out, which one installs XeTex.


For updating MacTeX, see:

http://www.tug.org/mactex/tlmgr.html

(Your version of XeTeX is up to date.)

Bennett

Re: using lyx with Texlive in windows.

[Paul A. Rubin]

Muhammad moosavy wrote:


As a default, Lyx run on Miktex in windows. Can I run it on the texlive
distribution. I love Texlive.



It should.  LyX just wants a working LaTeX distribution; it's agnostic 
as to which distribution.  (Disclaimer:  I've used it with TeXLive on 
Ubuntu, but only with MiKTeX on Windows.)


/Paul

Re: Errors using vref and hyperref package on Ubuntu

[Pavel Sanda]

> I just can tell that i have the same problem as you with lyx 1.6.1 on ubuntu
> 8.04 i386. If i start on a blank document, everything is fine, just if i
> want to turn my (allready written) document to a hyperref enabled document,
> i get that a lot of errors like you!

have you removed \usepackage{hyperref} from preamble when switching to hyperref
support in 1.6?
pavel

Re: Question on cross-reference dialog window

[rgheck]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:

Hello,

In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with
an input field called "Name" which is always grayed out so that no input is
possible.

Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it?

  

This is only used with docbook-based classes. Hence its being grayed out.


BTW: IMHO there should be more explication in the User'sGuide how to use the
package prettyref. In the German version even the important message "Note:
This feature is only available when you have the LaTeX-package prettyref
installed" is missing." Where can I report this desire?

  
Perhaps on the doc list? Or directly to the maintainer of the German 
User's Guide.


As for using prettyref, you should look at the prettyref documentation.

rh

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[rgheck]

Martin Görg wrote:

rgheck wrote:
  

Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be
a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know
that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means
not running into weird problems.



You have a point there. It's just that I was anticipating 1.6 so much
and didn't get a chance to use it, yet.

  

1.6 rocks, if I do say so myself.


And 1.6.1 is available in intrepid-backports:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-backports/lyx.



Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
for that hint! I'll try it out.

  
I think the backports stuff is more or less inherited from Debian. 
Debian, anyway, doesn't do major version upgrades but only what's 
required for security and stability---bug fixes. The backports 
repository gives you the option of upgrading.


rh

Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also  
other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script):
I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without  
serifs.


Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like to change  
the fontsize also.


Best*
Jess

pixelated output

[Tao Cumplido]

Hi,

I am new to Lyx and still experimenting but it seems really good so far.

One thing I noticed though, when I process a new file the letters are somewhat 
pixelated if scaled to high resolutions whereas the pdf from files like 
Tutorial.lyx for example looks perfect.

Now my question is of course, what do I have to do so that the output from 
files I create also looks that smooth.

I attached a file to demonstrate what I mean.

regards,

Tao
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Re: pixelated output

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Tao Cumplido wrote:
> One thing I noticed though, when I process a new file the letters are
> somewhat pixelated if scaled to high resolutions whereas the pdf from files
> like Tutorial.lyx for example looks perfect.
>
> Now my question is of course, what do I have to do so that the output from
> files I create also looks that smooth.

The standard LaTeX fonts are bitmap fonts. The tutorial uses PostScript fonts 
instead, which scale nicer.

Go to Document>Settings>Fonts and select other fonts, for instance "Latin 
Modern" (this is what the Tutorial uses).

Jürgen

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Martin Görg wrote:
> Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
> for that hint! I'll try it out.

I managed to get up and running with LyX 1.6.1 from the backports, but
the references are still messed up. Interestingly, only the provided
help documents had the problem of not showing any labels and crashing on
update. It worked just fine with my own documents. Are the help docs
maybe using some older commands which cause the error?

Anyway, I removed the whole thing again and settled with the regular
1.5.6 version packaged with Ubuntu. It seems to be much more responsive,
too. Only the problem with LyX not accepting any keyboard input after
some Ctrl+ actions remains (see my other post [1]).

Cheers
Martin

[1] Message-ID: <4967f91a.3080...@cs.tu-berlin.de>

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Martin Görg wrote:
> Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks
> for that hint! I'll try it out.

I managed to get up and running with LyX 1.6.1 from the backports, but
the references are still messed up. Interestingly, only the provided
help documents had the problem of not showing any labels and crashing on
update. It worked just fine with my own documents. Are the help docs
maybe using some older commands which cause the error?

Anyway, I removed the whole thing again and settled with the regular
1.5.6 version packaged with Ubuntu. It seems to be much more responsive,
too. Only the problem with LyX not accepting any keyboard input after
some Ctrl+ actions remains (see my other post [1]).

Cheers
Martin

[1] Message-ID: <4967f91a.3080...@cs.tu-berlin.de>

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[Bennett Helm]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:57 AM, jezZiFeR  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thank you, Bennett.
>
> I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the instructions
> from:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX
>
> But I just get as far as "you should find a new item under the View menu",
> which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?
> That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.

Did you check the "Document format" box when creating the xetex file
format? The wiki says to do that for 1.5, but it should say 1.5 *or
later*. (I've updated the wiki.)

Bennett

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Pavel Sanda]

Martin Görg wrote:
> I open the LyX User's Guide (or any other document) and klick on a
> reference. The pop-up dialog is empty showing none of the existing
> labels and when I click 'Update' LyX crashes with the message
> "lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught".

this is known problem already solved in the forthcoming 1.6.2.
pavel

Install LyX separately

[Martin Görg]

Hello again,

on my pursuit of happiness (install LyX) I bumped into something most
inconvenient. When I try to install LyX using aptitude, apt-get, a .deb
package, or the Synaptic Package Manager - just to name a few - the
whatever manager does not realize that I already have a pretty and
working installation of Texlive 2008 on my system. I'm inclined to
assume this is true even for an existing Texlive 2007 installation.
Granted, I did not use any package manager to install Texlive 2008. I
used the network installation provided by Texlive, which IMHO is the
better way because it directly follows the Texlive documentation and
leaves me with a pretty texmf tree where I know what's where (or at
least I can look it up in the docs). Anyway, I think when installing
LyX, it should be aware that most parts needed are there, already. LyX
should just install the remainder.

Am I being too naive having this wish? Should I just compile and install
my own LyX? Would that actually change anything? Can I just
force-install a standalone installation of LyX and tell it where my
texmf paths are?

On an additional note:
I also installed texmaker and it, too, installed some texlive stuff. Now
I have texmf and texmf-texlive in /usr/share/. I don't like it. Why
can't I have one central texlive and all other apps use it? I just came
from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole business of
interrelated apps just worked. Maybe I should ask this in a different
mailing list.

Happy to get your thoughts on this.

Martin

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

[Martin Görg]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
> this is known problem already solved in the forthcoming 1.6.2.
> pavel

Ah, now there's an answer! Thanks so much for this info. That's kind-of
what I was expecting.

Martin

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

[jezZiFeR]

I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the  
instructions

from:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX

But I just get as far as "you should find a new item under the View  
menu",

which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem?
That´s why I thought that I would have to update XeTex.


Did you check the "Document format" box when creating the xetex file
format? The wiki says to do that for 1.5, but it should say 1.5 *or
later*. (I've updated the wiki.)


No, I didn´t do that before. Thanks a lot – now it works!

Best*
Jess

Re: Install LyX separately

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 10, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Martin Görg wrote:

...
on my pursuit of happiness (install LyX) I bumped into something  
most inconvenient. When I try to install LyX using aptitude, apt- 
get, a .deb package, or the Synaptic Package Manager - just to name  
a few - the whatever manager does not realize that I already have a  
pretty and working installation of Texlive 2008 on my system. I'm  
inclined to assume this is true even for an existing Texlive 2007  
installation. Granted, I did not use any package manager to install  
Texlive 2008. I used the network installation provided by  
Texlive...I think when installing LyX, it should be aware that most  
parts needed are there, already. LyX should just install the  
remainder.


But just how is it supposed to do that?  Package managers have to  
consult a database of installed packages in order to know what is on  
your system; they can't just go out searching aimlessly to see if  
you've got all the necessary binaries, libraries, config files etc  
that are required by a given piece of software that you want to  
install.  So if you don't install TexLive via the package management  
system for your distribution, the package managers (which all consult  
the same database) won't know it's there.  A disadvantage of this, of  
course, is that you don't typically get bleeding edge versions of your  
favorite software.  (Notably, Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux  
distros are still waiting for TexLive 2008.)  The advantage is that it  
works. ;-)


Am I being too naive having this wish? Should I just compile and  
install my own LyX?


You should be able to do this quite easily.  With Debian-based  
distributions (as well as most (?) others) you can always use the /usr/ 
local hierarchy to install your own software, and my hunch is that  
that is where your TeXLive 2008 installation resides.  Just set the  
prefix for your LyX compilation to /usr/local and then point LyX to  
your TeXLive hierarchy in the appropriate settings.



On an additional note:
I also installed texmaker and it, too, installed some texlive stuff.  
Now I have texmf and texmf-texlive in /usr/share/. I don't like it.   
Why can't I have one central texlive and all other apps use it?


You can, if you install it via the package mgt system.  (Yeah yeah,  
it's not the current super ultra whizziest version...)


I just came from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole  
business of interrelated apps just worked.


Done right, it does. :-)

Chris Menzel

Re: Install LyX separately

[Martin Görg]

Christopher Menzel wrote:
> But just how is it supposed to do that? 

Yeah, that's what I figured.

> You should be able to do this quite easily.  With Debian-based
> distributions (as well as most (?) others) you can always use the
> /usr/local hierarchy to install your own software, and my hunch is that
> that is where your TeXLive 2008 installation resides.  Just set the
> prefix for your LyX compilation to /usr/local and then point LyX to your
> TeXLive hierarchy in the appropriate settings.

I also got the impression that compiling should not be that hard. I will
try this ... not sure when.

> You can, if you install it via the package mgt system.  (Yeah yeah, it's
> not the current super ultra whizziest version...)

But that's just what I did in the end - I think. I used aptitude for
both LyX and Texmaker but still ended up with two texlives. Strange. Oh
well - just try again maybe. I think the set-up now is bound to lead to
complications as soon as I start installing fonts, packages, etc.

>> I just came from Windows to Linux because I thought this whole
>> business of interrelated apps just worked.
> 
> Done right, it does. :-)

I haven't given up hope, yet.

Martin

XeTex again, and language encoding / mutated vowels / Lyx 1.6.1

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,here is another question I have on XeTex. In the wiki I found the following instruction:You need to select the encoding utf8-plain (in Document→Settings→Language→Encoding) for XeTeX. If you select utf8-plain…Did I do that right? I tried the following two encodings:In this case I get loads of "Package inputenc"-errors.Like this I get some errors, like"Paragraph ended before \...@chapter was complete."And added this to the preamble:\...@ifundefined{xetexversion}{}{% \usepackage{fontspec}%  \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Day Roman}% \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Gill Sans}% \setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text]{Courier New}%  }% \usepackage{xunicode}  \usepackage{xltxtra} If I choose the prefs for the chosen language I could compile the file, but in the text there are displayed spaces instead of mutated vowels now.Did I do something wrong? Do I have to enter the encoding elsewhere?Best*Jess

Re: Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

[cmiramon]

jezZiFeR wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also
> other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script):
> I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without
> serifs.
> 
> Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like to change
> the fontsize also.
> 
> Best*
> Jess

I do not understand what you mean with "fontsize of margins" but KOMA has a
very good and extensive German documentation. It is even printed as a book.

You will find there how to change fonts size for the different elements of
the page.

Cheers,
Charles

[announce] fix for LyX installtions on Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

As reported on this list, some users had problems to open older LyX files with LyX 1.6.x. The 
problem was a corrupted file of the scripting language Python that is used by LyX for file conversions.


When you are affected by this problem, replace the file "unicodedata.pyd" that you find in LyX's 
installation folder under ~\bin\DLLs with this one:

https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=9949

For new LyX installations I fixed this in the new alternative installer version 
4.17:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=15676
In this version I upgraded also from Python 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 to fix some other 
potential problems.

Please report me when there are still problems.
regards Uwe

lyx templates site?

[Sindhu]

hi

i have never made lyx templates before, but am about to graduate and
lately i have doing a lot of resumes, SRS (software requirement
specifications) and other such documents. my question is, if i put the
templates together for the above said documents, can i post it up here
on lyx mailing list? so that everyone can benefit from it

-Sindhu

PS: we could have a page on the lyx site listing these user made
templates, couldn't we?