Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Wolfgang Keller]

  perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
  demonstrate its merrit to those who care
 
 Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
 on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
 installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.

I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
install TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Piero Faustini]

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:

 Document format conversion is lossy by a natural law.

...the Wise know this.

Anyway, @LyxLyght's oppositors: I 

not-LyX-nor-even-LaTeX (i.e. Word) collaborators are of 3 kind:

A. Those who will never use anything different than Word (or OOo), say 50%
B. Those who may try something different, but only if really simple, say the 
greatest part of the remaining people
C. Those who may try LyX if worth trying, i.e. some lonely hero.

IMHO, each kind will need a different strategy. Let's start from the latter.

C. LyX, full stop (with improved project/bundle/version-control features). 
B. LyXLight, i.e. a non-scaring non-LaTeX very-friendly lightweight (non-
installing portable?) LyX pack.
A. Flexible, powerful converters, and maybe PDF-commenting compatibility.

these should be the 3 corps of our army: we should use all of them in the 
attack against M$ rule, but their use and cost is very different (please, have 
mercy of my war-metaphors!):

C. Behind our lines, let's just show our colleagues how powerful is to use a 
clean version-control system in clean documents etc. etc. Let's develop more 
advertising and info in different languages, fields and difficoulty levels 
(propaganda).

B. LyXlight is almost already done without doing anything. As David pointed 
out, A Lyx Latexless installation already works, it need only a restyle or 
simply a make-up, and, if possible, with a greater effort, also a portable 
version which don't require installation. This would be our best propaganda 
weapon. Ads too should therefore be basic-user-oriented, VERY friendly, and 
again, differentiated in languages, fields (maths, engineering, sciences, 
economics, law, humanities, textual-criticism-editions...) but a very basic 
level.

A. Conversion-software-trimming is a neverending task. I think it could be a 
very difficoult and annoying work, but we need it. Let's say converters labs 
should anyway take the 90% of the war costs. But we need them to bomb our 
collaborators with accettable rtf docs in order to invade our departments with 
our LyX papers. Needles to say, these could be a hard dirty guerrilla war 
since with LyX and LaTeX improvements, we will need better and better 
converters to handle growing features, and there will be always some problems 
in the conversions.

With this strategy in mind, LyX and Lyx users could advance a lot.

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Adam Treverrow wrote:

You might be able to get LyX 1.3.7 from here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/13x


Or here:
http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/

/Konrad

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
The authors of aspell must be really parochial.  To them, English 
means American, Canadian is a distinct language, and British English just 
does not exist.  There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller user 
base than British English.



Wrong. Using aspell and having the relevant dictionaries installed, I 
see in LyX 1.6.1, Document Settings- Language


English
English (Canada)
English (UK)
English (USA)
(the first accpets both UK and US spelling).

In LyX 1.5.7, these are called:
American
British
Canadian
English


Is there any way of getting around this


Yes, make sure your aspell installation is alright.

/Konrad

Re: Bessere Darstellung von eingefügten PDF-S eiten

[Konrad Hofbauer]

a b wrote:

ich möchte meiner Arbeit ein Deckblatt voranstellen, dass im PDF-Format
vorliegt. Wenn ich die Datei über Externes Material  pdfpages einfüge,
wird sie allerdings als Rastergrafik eingefügt und sieht sehr verpixelt aus.


The preview you see in LyX is pixelated, but the PDF output should be 
OK. Is this the case?


/Konrad

P.S. If possivle, please post in English.

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

[rgheck]

John White wrote:
I lied.  The 0.1 is not in Section numbering in article class.  Rather 
0.1 numbering comes up, in 1.6.1 at least, only if I go directly to 
Subsection, without first putting something in section. I got out of 
the habit of doing this (using Section) in earlier versions as the 
font in Section was very large.  That is no longer the case.


You can adjust the sizes as they appear in LyX, if you like, by editing 
the layout files. Copy stdsections.inc to your local LyX directory, open 
it up in a text editor, and you'll see where the sizes and other aspects 
of the font are set. Change them as you wish. The details on font 
setting are in the Customization manual.


If you want to adjust the sizes in LaTeX, then use the titlesec package.

rh

header title and numbering

[Piero Faustini]

A pair of question which I seem to remember to have been already discussed, but 
couldn't find them.
I'm writing (with Koma-book) a dissertation with this structure (hope it's 
quite 
clear):

Addchap introduction
text
  Addsec sec 1
text
  Addsec sec 2
text
  Addsec sec 3
text

Part (I)
 text
   Chapter 1
text
  Section 1.1
text
  Section 1.2
text
   Chapter 2
 text

Part (II)
text
Chapter 3
  text
   Section 3.1
  text

Addchap the final big picture
   text
---appendix--
Addpart Appendixes
   Appeendix Chapter A
   Appeendix Chapter B


In the first pages of a part, say Part I, I still have in the header, the short 
titles introduction and sec 3, as if the part environment didn't end 
previous chapter / sections. How to avoid this?

The use of Parts get to strange behaviours, expecially in LyX: If I use Part* 
or 
Addpart (as for the appendixes), I obtain my Parts not to be numbered, but the 
navigator tree now think it's not a part on its own at all, just some chapter 
of 
Part II. The PDF seems ok, but I wonder what will happen to bibliography whene 
one 
tries sectioned ones and so on - who knows?

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote:

I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and 
that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows 
and not by booting into eg Knoppix.


Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem 
of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM.


And the whole thing has to be dead simple. We are mainly talking about 
Word users, and nothing can be assumed about their computer skills. It 
would be even nicer to have the whole thing on a USB stick.


A USB stick is even better than a CD. Then the directory .lyx/ can stay on 
the USB stick. I just bought a 4GB stick for about 10 EUR, so it's not 
exactly pricey either...


/Christian

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Re: References in floats come first?

[rettie]

I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have
a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the floats DO
come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a work-around? I've
been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor job! Someone MUST have
come across this before!

Cheers

Alex


rgheck wrote:
 
 Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This
 reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of
 tables, then the same problem will affect it.
 
 I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else
 will.
 
 rh
 



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Re: References in floats come first?

[rettie]

Apologies! I know this is bad etiquette, I am new to mailing lists and just
found that my question had been answered, sorry and thanks for the rapid
response! Won't happen again.

Cheers!

Alex


rettie wrote:
 
 I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I
 have a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the
 floats DO come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a
 work-around? I've been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor
 job! Someone MUST have come across this before!
 
 Cheers
 
 Alex
 
 
 rgheck wrote:
 
 Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This
 reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of
 tables, then the same problem will affect it.
 
 I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else
 will.
 
 rh
 
 
 
 
 

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Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

[Uwe Stöhr]

christiaan pauw schrieb:


Thanks, I'll try using a eps image. The reason I used ps2pdf is because the
resulting pdf file is much smaller (the pdflatex  file is 27M for a 50 page
document). Why is there such a big difference between the size of the pdf
files?


This is because PDF can only embed JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, and PDF images. When you used other image 
formats, they needs to be converted to one of these formats. (LyX does this for you in the 
background.) Postscript and DVI can only embed EPS images. So it seems that in your case the images 
converted to EPS (because you are using ps2pdf) are much smaller than the original images. So either 
your original images are much too big. This is the case when you have an image with e.g. 1280x1024. 
This is much too wide for an A4 paper. Therefore it is shrinked to fit the page width. While the 
conversion, the image is converted in this shrinked size.


Nevertheless I prefer pdflatex, because it has many advantages against the ps2pdf method like PDF 
support options you find in the document settings of your LyX file.


regards Uwe

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote:


perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
demonstrate its merrit to those who care


Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.


I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
install TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.


When you use it, do you have to install anything on the Windows machine?

/C



Sincerely,

Wolfgang




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Re: New way for SVG graphics

[Uwe Stöhr]

Manveru schrieb:


I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics
from LyX to pdflatex.


Many thanks, also for your Wiki contributions.


I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new
method solved my problem.


On Windows it works very well when Inkscape is installed. LyX's alternative Windows installer 
prepare everything needed four you automatically when LyX is installed and Inkscape was installed 
before.


regards Uwe

Windows bundle 1.6.1; path questions about spaces and paths

[Paul Johnson]

I'm a linux user, but I have students who have this thing called MS
Windows.  I've not heard of that system before, I pretended to the
students that they were using some weird, minority operating system
:).  I noticee Lyx 1.6.1 had an installer for that Windoze thing.  We
installed the lyx bundle that has MixTeX included with it, not the
alternative Windows installer, but the one from the LyX team itself.

As far as I can tell, that bundle already has ghostscript and python
inside the MikTeX part.  Is that correct?

When I installed the bundle, I did not change settings, except I
removed the spaces from the proposed paths, i.e., it went into
c:\ProgramFiles\Lyx161 and so forth.  After making the install, we
start LyX and there is the usual long delay while additional LaTeX
packages are downloaded.

I've done this on 4 different systems, all seem to be Windows XP, but
I don't know which Service Pack is applied.

The systems do not all work in the same way.  2 especiall peculiar
things have happened so far.

1. On some systems, spaces in directory structure of LyX document
causes view to bomb.  On 2 of the student systems, when we try to view
a LyX file, we get a window popping up saying spaces in file names are
not allowed.  If I move the user's lyx files to c:\whatever, then LyX
does work.

I understand that, I think, because spaces in directories  file names
are bad. Generally.

However, I made the exact same install on another Windows XP system
while I was standing in front of the class. Guess What?  The LyX
default structure was the same a before, C:\Documents and
Settings\whatever\whatever .  LyX Created newfile.lyx in there, and
I was saying to the class Now this view will fail because of spaces
in the file name, and after I hit View/PDF(pdflatex), guess what
happened?  The pdf file popped up on the screen.

Why would it work on one system and not another?  How is LyX/LaTeX
dealing with spaces?

As far as I know, no previous version of LyX was ever installed on
these systems.

2. I wanted to view an eps file that R produced on one of these
systems.  From looking at the MikTeX install, it appears to me that
the bundle included ghostscript and python. Yes?

I got that idea from reading posts in the Lyx-help list about the
windows installer bundle. A post by Uwe Stohr about a previous version
of the LyX installer bundle included a Change log excerpt

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.09
- LyX 1.6rc3
 (list of current regressions: http://tinyurl.com/yu4the )
 (list of current crashes and critical bugs: http://tinyurl.com/653prg)
- updated to MiKTeX 2.7 (build 3164)
- updated to Python 2.5.2
- updated to Ghostscript 8.63
- updated to ImageMagick 6.4.4-1
-


After installing LyX, I wanted to install gsview32 so students can
view eps files generated from R, but the gsview installer fails,
claiming that ghostscript was not installed.  But ghostscript is part
of the LyX bundle? I don't think latex would be working at all without
ghostscript.

This made me wonder what the LyX Windows installer is supposed to be
doing to the Windows environment.  Is it supposed to put LyX and gs
and latex and pdflatex and everything else into the PATH variable?  I
tried to run LyX from a command shell, but the system does not find
the executable (I looked in the bin directory to find out the correct
exe file name, still no go).   So perhaps the gsview32 install fails
because it runs gs in a shell and doesn't find it in the path.

Do you think the LyX installer should add those directories to the path?

PJ

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Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas

LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Greetings all,

I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
simple solution.

First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.

I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 distribution. 
After struggling with 
LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and 
installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:

Unable to determine the system directory having searched 
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.

Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?

LyX Newbie

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Neil Hepburn]

When you installed LyX did you run the installer as well as copying  
the LyX file to your applications folder?


-Neil
On 8-Feb-09, at 2:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote:


Greetings all,

I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if  
there is a simple solution.


First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v.  
10.4.11.


I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008  
distribution. After struggling with
LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a  
try. I downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and

installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:

Unable to determine the system directory having searched
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.

Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me  
what to do?


LyX Newbie






=
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Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty
University of Alberta
4901-46 Avenue
Camrose, Alberta  T4V 2R3

Phone (780) 679-1588
email nhepb...@augustana.ca

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Yes, I ran the installer when I installed LyX. I tried running it again, and 
when I opened LyX I got the 
same error message.

Blaine

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

[Doug Laidlaw]

Not wrong.  Different.  My eyes are not deceiving me; neither are yours. 

Because Mandriva won't configure to use DVIs, it clearly has other problems.  
So I tried in SimplyMepis.  The version is newer, but the language selection 
is identical.

In the circumstances, it is useless taking the point any further.

Doug.

On Monday 09 February 2009 12:11:39 am Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
 Doug Laidlaw wrote:
  The authors of aspell must be really parochial.  To them, English
  means American, Canadian is a distinct language, and British English
  just does not exist.  There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller
  user base than British English.

 Wrong. Using aspell and having the relevant dictionaries installed, I
 see in LyX 1.6.1, Document Settings- Language

 English
 English (Canada)
 English (UK)
 English (USA)
 (the first accpets both UK and US spelling).

 In LyX 1.5.7, these are called:
 American
 British
 Canadian
 English

  Is there any way of getting around this

 Yes, make sure your aspell installation is alright.

 /Konrad

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Andrew Thomson]

Hi all

I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.

I am using the LyXWinInstaller version of LyX 1.5.6, and the Preferences
box shows that I am using the aspell ('library') version. I have
specified a file path for my personal dictionary, but the file remains
empty.

I have installed the aspell6-en-6.0-0 and aspell6-uk-1.4.0-0 dictionary
files,
and these have sent files to ApplicationData in my profile. I am set up
using
a roaming profile, but I have set LyX to save documents and my personal
dictionary to a folder in my (out-of-profile) C:\ directory.

Any tips on how to debug this problem? Can I do something to make LyX tell
me when it's failed to save my personal dictionary, and why it might have
failed?

Regrads,


Andy

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Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Bennett Helm]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson
erick...@piercingsuit.com wrote:
 Greetings all,

 I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
 simple solution.

 First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.

 I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 
 distribution. After struggling with
 LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
 downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and
 installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:

 Unable to determine the system directory having searched
 /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
 Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
 or set the environment variable
 LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
 containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.

 Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?

This says that LyX is looking for the file, chkconfig.ltx, in
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources (which is where it should
be). That file is a script that checks on your LaTeX installation so
that LyX knows what packages, etc. you have installed. It gets run
automatically the first time you launch LyX.

The implication is that you put LyX.app in a LyX folder inside your
Applications folder, right? If so, it looks as though your copy of
LyX.app is incomplete or corrupted. I'd suggest deleting it and
downloading again.

Bennett

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested, and got the same error 
message. However, when 
I dragged the icon onto the desktop and double-clicked it, I got the Welcome 
to LyX! window, 
proclaiming LyX: The Document Processor version 1.6.1 I got the same positive 
result after 
dragging LyX to my Applications folder, so at least it doesn't have to live on 
the desktop.

Apparently, LyX doesn't like being nestled inside of too many folders.

Thank you very much for solving my problem.

Best wishes,

Blaine

-- Original Message ---
From: Bennett Helm bewih...@gmail.com
To: Blaine Erickson erick...@piercingsuit.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:53:04 -0500
Subject: Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

 On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson
 erick...@piercingsuit.com wrote:
  Greetings all,
 
  I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
  simple solution.
 
  First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.
 
  I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 
  distribution. After 
struggling with
  LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
  downloaded LyX 1.6.1 
and
  installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:
 
  Unable to determine the system directory having searched
  /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
  Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
  or set the environment variable
  LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
  containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.
 
  Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?
 
 This says that LyX is looking for the file, chkconfig.ltx, in
 /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources (which is where it should
 be). That file is a script that checks on your LaTeX installation so
 that LyX knows what packages, etc. you have installed. It gets run
 automatically the first time you launch LyX.
 
 The implication is that you put LyX.app in a LyX folder inside your
 Applications folder, right? If so, it looks as though your copy of
 LyX.app is incomplete or corrupted. I'd suggest deleting it and
 downloading again.
 
 Bennett
--- End of Original Message ---

setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

[John White]

I use Vector Linux (slackware 12) an lyx ver 1.6.1.

I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1.  My current 
(and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a 
minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of 
the box.  Rather I get an error message no action defined. 

Since switching to 1.6.1 I have been using a table with one column and 
one row in lieu of mini-pages, but that is somewhat cumbersome.


Can someone tell me how to get back the box allowing me to change the 
width of a minipage?


Thx

John

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Wolfgang Keller]

  perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
  demonstrate its merrit to those who care
 
 Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
 on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
 installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.

I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
install TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Piero Faustini]

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:

 Document format conversion is lossy by a natural law.

...the Wise know this.

Anyway, @LyxLyght's oppositors: I 

not-LyX-nor-even-LaTeX (i.e. Word) collaborators are of 3 kind:

A. Those who will never use anything different than Word (or OOo), say 50%
B. Those who may try something different, but only if really simple, say the 
greatest part of the remaining people
C. Those who may try LyX if worth trying, i.e. some lonely hero.

IMHO, each kind will need a different strategy. Let's start from the latter.

C. LyX, full stop (with improved project/bundle/version-control features). 
B. LyXLight, i.e. a non-scaring non-LaTeX very-friendly lightweight (non-
installing portable?) LyX pack.
A. Flexible, powerful converters, and maybe PDF-commenting compatibility.

these should be the 3 corps of our army: we should use all of them in the 
attack against M$ rule, but their use and cost is very different (please, have 
mercy of my war-metaphors!):

C. Behind our lines, let's just show our colleagues how powerful is to use a 
clean version-control system in clean documents etc. etc. Let's develop more 
advertising and info in different languages, fields and difficoulty levels 
(propaganda).

B. LyXlight is almost already done without doing anything. As David pointed 
out, A Lyx Latexless installation already works, it need only a restyle or 
simply a make-up, and, if possible, with a greater effort, also a portable 
version which don't require installation. This would be our best propaganda 
weapon. Ads too should therefore be basic-user-oriented, VERY friendly, and 
again, differentiated in languages, fields (maths, engineering, sciences, 
economics, law, humanities, textual-criticism-editions...) but a very basic 
level.

A. Conversion-software-trimming is a neverending task. I think it could be a 
very difficoult and annoying work, but we need it. Let's say converters labs 
should anyway take the 90% of the war costs. But we need them to bomb our 
collaborators with accettable rtf docs in order to invade our departments with 
our LyX papers. Needles to say, these could be a hard dirty guerrilla war 
since with LyX and LaTeX improvements, we will need better and better 
converters to handle growing features, and there will be always some problems 
in the conversions.

With this strategy in mind, LyX and Lyx users could advance a lot.

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Adam Treverrow wrote:

You might be able to get LyX 1.3.7 from here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/13x


Or here:
http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/

/Konrad

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
The authors of aspell must be really parochial.  To them, English 
means American, Canadian is a distinct language, and British English just 
does not exist.  There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller user 
base than British English.



Wrong. Using aspell and having the relevant dictionaries installed, I 
see in LyX 1.6.1, Document Settings- Language


English
English (Canada)
English (UK)
English (USA)
(the first accpets both UK and US spelling).

In LyX 1.5.7, these are called:
American
British
Canadian
English


Is there any way of getting around this


Yes, make sure your aspell installation is alright.

/Konrad

Re: Bessere Darstellung von eingefügten PDF-S eiten

[Konrad Hofbauer]

a b wrote:

ich möchte meiner Arbeit ein Deckblatt voranstellen, dass im PDF-Format
vorliegt. Wenn ich die Datei über Externes Material  pdfpages einfüge,
wird sie allerdings als Rastergrafik eingefügt und sieht sehr verpixelt aus.


The preview you see in LyX is pixelated, but the PDF output should be 
OK. Is this the case?


/Konrad

P.S. If possivle, please post in English.

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

[rgheck]

John White wrote:
I lied.  The 0.1 is not in Section numbering in article class.  Rather 
0.1 numbering comes up, in 1.6.1 at least, only if I go directly to 
Subsection, without first putting something in section. I got out of 
the habit of doing this (using Section) in earlier versions as the 
font in Section was very large.  That is no longer the case.


You can adjust the sizes as they appear in LyX, if you like, by editing 
the layout files. Copy stdsections.inc to your local LyX directory, open 
it up in a text editor, and you'll see where the sizes and other aspects 
of the font are set. Change them as you wish. The details on font 
setting are in the Customization manual.


If you want to adjust the sizes in LaTeX, then use the titlesec package.

rh

header title and numbering

[Piero Faustini]

A pair of question which I seem to remember to have been already discussed, but 
couldn't find them.
I'm writing (with Koma-book) a dissertation with this structure (hope it's 
quite 
clear):

Addchap introduction
text
  Addsec sec 1
text
  Addsec sec 2
text
  Addsec sec 3
text

Part (I)
 text
   Chapter 1
text
  Section 1.1
text
  Section 1.2
text
   Chapter 2
 text

Part (II)
text
Chapter 3
  text
   Section 3.1
  text

Addchap the final big picture
   text
---appendix--
Addpart Appendixes
   Appeendix Chapter A
   Appeendix Chapter B


In the first pages of a part, say Part I, I still have in the header, the short 
titles introduction and sec 3, as if the part environment didn't end 
previous chapter / sections. How to avoid this?

The use of Parts get to strange behaviours, expecially in LyX: If I use Part* 
or 
Addpart (as for the appendixes), I obtain my Parts not to be numbered, but the 
navigator tree now think it's not a part on its own at all, just some chapter 
of 
Part II. The PDF seems ok, but I wonder what will happen to bibliography whene 
one 
tries sectioned ones and so on - who knows?

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote:

I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and 
that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows 
and not by booting into eg Knoppix.


Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem 
of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM.


And the whole thing has to be dead simple. We are mainly talking about 
Word users, and nothing can be assumed about their computer skills. It 
would be even nicer to have the whole thing on a USB stick.


A USB stick is even better than a CD. Then the directory .lyx/ can stay on 
the USB stick. I just bought a 4GB stick for about 10 EUR, so it's not 
exactly pricey either...


/Christian

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Re: References in floats come first?

[rettie]

I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have
a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the floats DO
come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a work-around? I've
been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor job! Someone MUST have
come across this before!

Cheers

Alex


rgheck wrote:
 
 Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This
 reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of
 tables, then the same problem will affect it.
 
 I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else
 will.
 
 rh
 



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Re: References in floats come first?

[rettie]

Apologies! I know this is bad etiquette, I am new to mailing lists and just
found that my question had been answered, sorry and thanks for the rapid
response! Won't happen again.

Cheers!

Alex


rettie wrote:
 
 I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I
 have a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the
 floats DO come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a
 work-around? I've been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor
 job! Someone MUST have come across this before!
 
 Cheers
 
 Alex
 
 
 rgheck wrote:
 
 Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This
 reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of
 tables, then the same problem will affect it.
 
 I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else
 will.
 
 rh
 
 
 
 
 

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Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

[Uwe Stöhr]

christiaan pauw schrieb:


Thanks, I'll try using a eps image. The reason I used ps2pdf is because the
resulting pdf file is much smaller (the pdflatex  file is 27M for a 50 page
document). Why is there such a big difference between the size of the pdf
files?


This is because PDF can only embed JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, and PDF images. When you used other image 
formats, they needs to be converted to one of these formats. (LyX does this for you in the 
background.) Postscript and DVI can only embed EPS images. So it seems that in your case the images 
converted to EPS (because you are using ps2pdf) are much smaller than the original images. So either 
your original images are much too big. This is the case when you have an image with e.g. 1280x1024. 
This is much too wide for an A4 paper. Therefore it is shrinked to fit the page width. While the 
conversion, the image is converted in this shrinked size.


Nevertheless I prefer pdflatex, because it has many advantages against the ps2pdf method like PDF 
support options you find in the document settings of your LyX file.


regards Uwe

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote:


perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
demonstrate its merrit to those who care


Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.


I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
install TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.


When you use it, do you have to install anything on the Windows machine?

/C



Sincerely,

Wolfgang




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Re: New way for SVG graphics

[Uwe Stöhr]

Manveru schrieb:


I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics
from LyX to pdflatex.


Many thanks, also for your Wiki contributions.


I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new
method solved my problem.


On Windows it works very well when Inkscape is installed. LyX's alternative Windows installer 
prepare everything needed four you automatically when LyX is installed and Inkscape was installed 
before.


regards Uwe

Windows bundle 1.6.1; path questions about spaces and paths

[Paul Johnson]

I'm a linux user, but I have students who have this thing called MS
Windows.  I've not heard of that system before, I pretended to the
students that they were using some weird, minority operating system
:).  I noticee Lyx 1.6.1 had an installer for that Windoze thing.  We
installed the lyx bundle that has MixTeX included with it, not the
alternative Windows installer, but the one from the LyX team itself.

As far as I can tell, that bundle already has ghostscript and python
inside the MikTeX part.  Is that correct?

When I installed the bundle, I did not change settings, except I
removed the spaces from the proposed paths, i.e., it went into
c:\ProgramFiles\Lyx161 and so forth.  After making the install, we
start LyX and there is the usual long delay while additional LaTeX
packages are downloaded.

I've done this on 4 different systems, all seem to be Windows XP, but
I don't know which Service Pack is applied.

The systems do not all work in the same way.  2 especiall peculiar
things have happened so far.

1. On some systems, spaces in directory structure of LyX document
causes view to bomb.  On 2 of the student systems, when we try to view
a LyX file, we get a window popping up saying spaces in file names are
not allowed.  If I move the user's lyx files to c:\whatever, then LyX
does work.

I understand that, I think, because spaces in directories  file names
are bad. Generally.

However, I made the exact same install on another Windows XP system
while I was standing in front of the class. Guess What?  The LyX
default structure was the same a before, C:\Documents and
Settings\whatever\whatever .  LyX Created newfile.lyx in there, and
I was saying to the class Now this view will fail because of spaces
in the file name, and after I hit View/PDF(pdflatex), guess what
happened?  The pdf file popped up on the screen.

Why would it work on one system and not another?  How is LyX/LaTeX
dealing with spaces?

As far as I know, no previous version of LyX was ever installed on
these systems.

2. I wanted to view an eps file that R produced on one of these
systems.  From looking at the MikTeX install, it appears to me that
the bundle included ghostscript and python. Yes?

I got that idea from reading posts in the Lyx-help list about the
windows installer bundle. A post by Uwe Stohr about a previous version
of the LyX installer bundle included a Change log excerpt

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.09
- LyX 1.6rc3
 (list of current regressions: http://tinyurl.com/yu4the )
 (list of current crashes and critical bugs: http://tinyurl.com/653prg)
- updated to MiKTeX 2.7 (build 3164)
- updated to Python 2.5.2
- updated to Ghostscript 8.63
- updated to ImageMagick 6.4.4-1
-


After installing LyX, I wanted to install gsview32 so students can
view eps files generated from R, but the gsview installer fails,
claiming that ghostscript was not installed.  But ghostscript is part
of the LyX bundle? I don't think latex would be working at all without
ghostscript.

This made me wonder what the LyX Windows installer is supposed to be
doing to the Windows environment.  Is it supposed to put LyX and gs
and latex and pdflatex and everything else into the PATH variable?  I
tried to run LyX from a command shell, but the system does not find
the executable (I looked in the bin directory to find out the correct
exe file name, still no go).   So perhaps the gsview32 install fails
because it runs gs in a shell and doesn't find it in the path.

Do you think the LyX installer should add those directories to the path?

PJ

-- 
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Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas

LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Greetings all,

I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
simple solution.

First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.

I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 distribution. 
After struggling with 
LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and 
installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:

Unable to determine the system directory having searched 
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.

Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?

LyX Newbie

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Neil Hepburn]

When you installed LyX did you run the installer as well as copying  
the LyX file to your applications folder?


-Neil
On 8-Feb-09, at 2:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote:


Greetings all,

I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if  
there is a simple solution.


First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v.  
10.4.11.


I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008  
distribution. After struggling with
LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a  
try. I downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and

installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:

Unable to determine the system directory having searched
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.

Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me  
what to do?


LyX Newbie






=
Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor
Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty
University of Alberta
4901-46 Avenue
Camrose, Alberta  T4V 2R3

Phone (780) 679-1588
email nhepb...@augustana.ca

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Yes, I ran the installer when I installed LyX. I tried running it again, and 
when I opened LyX I got the 
same error message.

Blaine

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

[Doug Laidlaw]

Not wrong.  Different.  My eyes are not deceiving me; neither are yours. 

Because Mandriva won't configure to use DVIs, it clearly has other problems.  
So I tried in SimplyMepis.  The version is newer, but the language selection 
is identical.

In the circumstances, it is useless taking the point any further.

Doug.

On Monday 09 February 2009 12:11:39 am Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
 Doug Laidlaw wrote:
  The authors of aspell must be really parochial.  To them, English
  means American, Canadian is a distinct language, and British English
  just does not exist.  There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller
  user base than British English.

 Wrong. Using aspell and having the relevant dictionaries installed, I
 see in LyX 1.6.1, Document Settings- Language

 English
 English (Canada)
 English (UK)
 English (USA)
 (the first accpets both UK and US spelling).

 In LyX 1.5.7, these are called:
 American
 British
 Canadian
 English

  Is there any way of getting around this

 Yes, make sure your aspell installation is alright.

 /Konrad

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Andrew Thomson]

Hi all

I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.

I am using the LyXWinInstaller version of LyX 1.5.6, and the Preferences
box shows that I am using the aspell ('library') version. I have
specified a file path for my personal dictionary, but the file remains
empty.

I have installed the aspell6-en-6.0-0 and aspell6-uk-1.4.0-0 dictionary
files,
and these have sent files to ApplicationData in my profile. I am set up
using
a roaming profile, but I have set LyX to save documents and my personal
dictionary to a folder in my (out-of-profile) C:\ directory.

Any tips on how to debug this problem? Can I do something to make LyX tell
me when it's failed to save my personal dictionary, and why it might have
failed?

Regrads,


Andy

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Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Bennett Helm]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson
erick...@piercingsuit.com wrote:
 Greetings all,

 I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
 simple solution.

 First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.

 I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 
 distribution. After struggling with
 LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
 downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and
 installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:

 Unable to determine the system directory having searched
 /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
 Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
 or set the environment variable
 LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
 containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.

 Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?

This says that LyX is looking for the file, chkconfig.ltx, in
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources (which is where it should
be). That file is a script that checks on your LaTeX installation so
that LyX knows what packages, etc. you have installed. It gets run
automatically the first time you launch LyX.

The implication is that you put LyX.app in a LyX folder inside your
Applications folder, right? If so, it looks as though your copy of
LyX.app is incomplete or corrupted. I'd suggest deleting it and
downloading again.

Bennett

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested, and got the same error 
message. However, when 
I dragged the icon onto the desktop and double-clicked it, I got the Welcome 
to LyX! window, 
proclaiming LyX: The Document Processor version 1.6.1 I got the same positive 
result after 
dragging LyX to my Applications folder, so at least it doesn't have to live on 
the desktop.

Apparently, LyX doesn't like being nestled inside of too many folders.

Thank you very much for solving my problem.

Best wishes,

Blaine

-- Original Message ---
From: Bennett Helm bewih...@gmail.com
To: Blaine Erickson erick...@piercingsuit.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:53:04 -0500
Subject: Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

 On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson
 erick...@piercingsuit.com wrote:
  Greetings all,
 
  I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
  simple solution.
 
  First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.
 
  I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 
  distribution. After 
struggling with
  LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
  downloaded LyX 1.6.1 
and
  installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:
 
  Unable to determine the system directory having searched
  /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
  Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
  or set the environment variable
  LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
  containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.
 
  Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?
 
 This says that LyX is looking for the file, chkconfig.ltx, in
 /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources (which is where it should
 be). That file is a script that checks on your LaTeX installation so
 that LyX knows what packages, etc. you have installed. It gets run
 automatically the first time you launch LyX.
 
 The implication is that you put LyX.app in a LyX folder inside your
 Applications folder, right? If so, it looks as though your copy of
 LyX.app is incomplete or corrupted. I'd suggest deleting it and
 downloading again.
 
 Bennett
--- End of Original Message ---

setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

[John White]

I use Vector Linux (slackware 12) an lyx ver 1.6.1.

I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1.  My current 
(and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a 
minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of 
the box.  Rather I get an error message no action defined. 

Since switching to 1.6.1 I have been using a table with one column and 
one row in lieu of mini-pages, but that is somewhat cumbersome.


Can someone tell me how to get back the box allowing me to change the 
width of a minipage?


Thx

John

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Wolfgang Keller]

> > perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
> > demonstrate its merrit to those who care
> 
> Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
> on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
> installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.

I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
"install" TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Piero Faustini]

Guenter Milde  writes:

> Document format conversion is lossy "by a natural law".

...the Wise know this.

Anyway, @LyxLyght's "oppositors": I 

not-LyX-nor-even-LaTeX (i.e. Word) collaborators are of 3 kind:

A. Those who will never use anything different than Word (or OOo), say >50%
B. Those who may try something different, but only if really simple, say the 
greatest part of the remaining people
C. Those who may try LyX if worth trying, i.e. some lonely hero.

IMHO, each kind will need a different strategy. Let's start from the latter.

C. LyX, full stop (with improved project/bundle/version-control features). 
B. LyXLight, i.e. a non-scaring non-LaTeX very-friendly lightweight (non-
installing portable?) LyX pack.
A. Flexible, powerful converters, and maybe PDF-commenting compatibility.

these should be the 3 corps of our army: we should use all of them in the 
attack against M$ rule, but their use and cost is very different (please, have 
mercy of my war-metaphors!):

C. Behind our lines, let's just show our colleagues how powerful is to use a 
clean version-control system in clean documents etc. etc. Let's develop more 
advertising and info in different languages, fields and difficoulty levels 
("propaganda").

B. LyXlight is almost already done without doing anything. As David pointed 
out, A Lyx "Latexless" installation already works, it need only a restyle or 
simply a make-up, and, if possible, with a greater effort, also a "portable 
version" which don't require installation. This would be our best "propaganda" 
weapon. Ads too should therefore be basic-user-oriented, VERY friendly, and 
again, differentiated in languages, fields (maths, engineering, sciences, 
economics, law, humanities, textual-criticism-editions...) but a very basic 
level.

A. Conversion-software-trimming is a neverending task. I think it could be a 
very difficoult and annoying work, but we need it. Let's say converters "labs" 
should anyway take the 90% of the "war" costs. But we need them to "bomb" our 
collaborators with accettable rtf docs in order to invade our departments with 
our LyX papers. Needles to say, these could be a hard "dirty guerrilla war" 
since with LyX and LaTeX improvements, we will need better and better 
converters to handle growing features, and there will be always some problems 
in the conversions.

With this strategy in mind, LyX and Lyx users could advance a lot.

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Adam Treverrow wrote:

You might be able to get LyX 1.3.7 from here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/13x


Or here:
http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/

/Konrad

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
The authors of aspell must be really parochial.  To them, "English" 
means "American", Canadian is a distinct language, and British English just 
does not exist.  There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller user 
base than British English.



Wrong. Using aspell and having the relevant dictionaries installed, I 
see in LyX 1.6.1, Document Settings-> Language


English
English (Canada)
English (UK)
English (USA)
(the first accpets both UK and US spelling).

In LyX 1.5.7, these are called:
American
British
Canadian
English


Is there any way of getting around this


Yes, make sure your aspell installation is alright.

/Konrad

Re: Bessere Darstellung von eingefügten PDF-S eiten

[Konrad Hofbauer]

a b wrote:

ich möchte meiner Arbeit ein Deckblatt voranstellen, dass im PDF-Format
vorliegt. Wenn ich die Datei über "Externes Material" > pdfpages einfüge,
wird sie allerdings als Rastergrafik eingefügt und sieht sehr verpixelt aus.


The preview you see in LyX is pixelated, but the PDF output should be 
OK. Is this the case?


/Konrad

P.S. If possivle, please post in English.

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

[rgheck]

John White wrote:
I lied.  The 0.1 is not in Section numbering in article class.  Rather 
0.1 numbering comes up, in 1.6.1 at least, only if I go directly to 
Subsection, without first putting something in section. I got out of 
the habit of doing this (using Section) in earlier versions as the 
font in Section was very large.  That is no longer the case.


You can adjust the sizes as they appear in LyX, if you like, by editing 
the layout files. Copy stdsections.inc to your local LyX directory, open 
it up in a text editor, and you'll see where the sizes and other aspects 
of the font are set. Change them as you wish. The details on font 
setting are in the Customization manual.


If you want to adjust the sizes in LaTeX, then use the titlesec package.

rh

header title and numbering

[Piero Faustini]

A pair of question which I seem to remember to have been already discussed, but 
couldn't find them.
I'm writing (with Koma-book) a dissertation with this structure (hope it's 
quite 
clear):

Addchap "introduction"
text
  Addsec "sec 1"
text
  Addsec "sec 2"
text
  Addsec "sec 3"
text

Part (I)
 text
   Chapter 1
text
  Section 1.1
text
  Section 1.2
text
   Chapter 2
 text

Part (II)
text
Chapter 3
  text
   Section 3.1
  text

Addchap "the final big picture"
   text
---appendix--
Addpart "Appendixes"
   Appeendix Chapter A
   Appeendix Chapter B


In the first pages of a part, say Part I, I still have in the header, the short 
titles "introduction" and "sec 3", as if the "part" environment didn't end 
previous chapter / sections. How to avoid this?

The use of Parts get to strange behaviours, expecially in LyX: If I use Part* 
or 
Addpart (as for the appendixes), I obtain my Parts not to be numbered, but the 
navigator tree now think it's not a part on its own at all, just some chapter 
of 
Part II. The PDF seems ok, but I wonder what will happen to bibliography whene 
one 
tries sectioned ones and so on - who knows?

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote:

I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and 
that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows 
and not by booting into eg Knoppix.


Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem 
of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM.


And the whole thing has to be dead simple. We are mainly talking about 
Word users, and nothing can be assumed about their computer skills. It 
would be even nicer to have the whole thing on a USB stick.


A USB stick is even better than a CD. Then the directory .lyx/ can stay on 
the USB stick. I just bought a 4GB stick for about 10 EUR, so it's not 
exactly pricey either...


/Christian

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Re: References in floats come first?

[rettie]

I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have
a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the floats DO
come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a work-around? I've
been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor job! Someone MUST have
come across this before!

Cheers

Alex


rgheck wrote:
> 
> Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This
> reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of
> tables, then the same problem will affect it.
> 
> I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else
> will.
> 
> rh
> 



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Re: References in floats come first?

[rettie]

Apologies! I know this is bad etiquette, I am new to mailing lists and just
found that my question had been answered, sorry and thanks for the rapid
response! Won't happen again.

Cheers!

Alex


rettie wrote:
> 
> I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I
> have a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the
> floats DO come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a
> work-around? I've been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor
> job! Someone MUST have come across this before!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> rgheck wrote:
>> 
>> Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This
>> reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of
>> tables, then the same problem will affect it.
>> 
>> I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else
>> will.
>> 
>> rh
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

[Uwe Stöhr]

christiaan pauw schrieb:


Thanks, I'll try using a eps image. The reason I used ps2pdf is because the
resulting pdf file is much smaller (the pdflatex  file is 27M for a 50 page
document). Why is there such a big difference between the size of the pdf
files?


This is because PDF can only embed JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, and PDF images. When you used other image 
formats, they needs to be converted to one of these formats. (LyX does this for you in the 
background.) Postscript and DVI can only embed EPS images. So it seems that in your case the images 
converted to EPS (because you are using ps2pdf) are much smaller than the original images. So either 
your original images are much too big. This is the case when you have an image with e.g. 1280x1024. 
This is much too wide for an A4 paper. Therefore it is shrinked to fit the page width. While the 
conversion, the image is converted in this shrinked size.


Nevertheless I prefer pdflatex, because it has many advantages against the ps2pdf method like PDF 
support options you find in the document settings of your LyX file.


regards Uwe

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote:


perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
demonstrate its merrit to those who care


Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.


I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even
"install" TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD.


When you use it, do you have to install anything on the Windows machine?

/C



Sincerely,

Wolfgang




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Re: New way for SVG graphics

[Uwe Stöhr]

Manveru schrieb:


I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics
from LyX to pdflatex.


Many thanks, also for your Wiki contributions.


I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new
method solved my problem.


On Windows it works very well when Inkscape is installed. LyX's alternative Windows installer 
prepare everything needed four you automatically when LyX is installed and Inkscape was installed 
before.


regards Uwe

Windows bundle 1.6.1; path questions about spaces and paths

[Paul Johnson]

I'm a linux user, but I have students who have this thing called MS
Windows.  I've not heard of that system before, I pretended to the
students that they were using some weird, minority operating system
:).  I noticee Lyx 1.6.1 had an installer for that Windoze thing.  We
installed the lyx bundle that has MixTeX included with it, not the
alternative Windows installer, but the one from the LyX team itself.

As far as I can tell, that bundle already has ghostscript and python
inside the MikTeX part.  Is that correct?

When I installed the bundle, I did not change settings, except I
removed the spaces from the proposed paths, i.e., it went into
c:\ProgramFiles\Lyx161 and so forth.  After making the install, we
start LyX and there is the usual long delay while additional LaTeX
packages are downloaded.

I've done this on 4 different systems, all seem to be Windows XP, but
I don't know which Service Pack is applied.

The systems do not all work in the same way.  2 especiall peculiar
things have happened so far.

1. On some systems, spaces in directory structure of LyX document
causes view to bomb.  On 2 of the student systems, when we try to view
a LyX file, we get a window popping up saying spaces in file names are
not allowed.  If I move the user's lyx files to c:\whatever, then LyX
does work.

I understand that, I think, because spaces in directories & file names
are bad. Generally.

However, I made the exact same install on another Windows XP system
while I was standing in front of the class. Guess What?  The LyX
default structure was the same a before, C:\Documents and
Settings\whatever\whatever .  LyX Created "newfile.lyx" in there, and
I was saying to the class "Now this view will fail because of spaces
in the file name," and after I hit View/PDF(pdflatex), guess what
happened?  The pdf file popped up on the screen.

Why would it work on one system and not another?  How is LyX/LaTeX
dealing with spaces?

As far as I know, no previous version of LyX was ever installed on
these systems.

2. I wanted to view an eps file that R produced on one of these
systems.  From looking at the MikTeX install, it appears to me that
the bundle included ghostscript and python. Yes?

I got that idea from reading posts in the Lyx-help list about the
windows installer bundle. A post by Uwe Stohr about a previous version
of the LyX installer bundle included a Change log excerpt

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.09
- LyX 1.6rc3
 (list of current regressions: http://tinyurl.com/yu4the )
 (list of current crashes and critical bugs: http://tinyurl.com/653prg)
- updated to MiKTeX 2.7 (build 3164)
- updated to Python 2.5.2
- updated to Ghostscript 8.63
- updated to ImageMagick 6.4.4-1
-


After installing LyX, I wanted to install gsview32 so students can
view eps files generated from R, but the gsview installer fails,
claiming that ghostscript was not installed.  But ghostscript is part
of the LyX bundle? I don't think latex would be working at all without
ghostscript.

This made me wonder what the LyX Windows installer is supposed to be
doing to the Windows environment.  Is it supposed to put LyX and gs
and latex and pdflatex and everything else into the PATH variable?  I
tried to run LyX from a command shell, but the system does not find
the executable (I looked in the bin directory to find out the correct
exe file name, still no go).   So perhaps the gsview32 install fails
because it runs "gs" in a shell and doesn't find it in the path.

Do you think the LyX installer should add those directories to the path?

PJ

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LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Greetings all,

I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
simple solution.

First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.

I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 distribution. 
After struggling with 
LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and 
installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:

"Unable to determine the system directory having searched 
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.

Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?

LyX Newbie

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Neil Hepburn]

When you installed LyX did you run the installer as well as copying  
the LyX file to your applications folder?


-Neil
On 8-Feb-09, at 2:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote:


Greetings all,

I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if  
there is a simple solution.


First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v.  
10.4.11.


I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008  
distribution. After struggling with
LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a  
try. I downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and

installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:

"Unable to determine the system directory having searched
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.

Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me  
what to do?


LyX Newbie






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Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Yes, I ran the installer when I installed LyX. I tried running it again, and 
when I opened LyX I got the 
same error message.

Blaine

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

[Doug Laidlaw]

Not wrong.  Different.  My eyes are not deceiving me; neither are yours. 

Because Mandriva won't configure to use DVIs, it clearly has other problems.  
So I tried in SimplyMepis.  The version is newer, but the language selection 
is identical.

In the circumstances, it is useless taking the point any further.

Doug.

On Monday 09 February 2009 12:11:39 am Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> > The authors of aspell must be really parochial.  To them, "English"
> > means "American", Canadian is a distinct language, and British English
> > just does not exist.  There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller
> > user base than British English.
>
> Wrong. Using aspell and having the relevant dictionaries installed, I
> see in LyX 1.6.1, Document Settings-> Language
>
> English
> English (Canada)
> English (UK)
> English (USA)
> (the first accpets both UK and US spelling).
>
> In LyX 1.5.7, these are called:
> American
> British
> Canadian
> English
>
> > Is there any way of getting around this
>
> Yes, make sure your aspell installation is alright.
>
> /Konrad

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Andrew Thomson]

Hi all

I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.

I am using the LyXWinInstaller version of LyX 1.5.6, and the Preferences
box shows that I am using the aspell ('library') version. I have
specified a file path for my personal dictionary, but the file remains
empty.

I have installed the aspell6-en-6.0-0 and aspell6-uk-1.4.0-0 dictionary
files,
and these have sent files to ApplicationData in my profile. I am set up
using
a roaming profile, but I have set LyX to save documents and my personal
dictionary to a folder in my (out-of-profile) C:\ directory.

Any tips on how to debug this problem? Can I do something to make LyX tell
me when it's failed to save my personal dictionary, and why it might have
failed?

Regrads,


Andy

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Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Bennett Helm]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson
 wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
> simple solution.
>
> First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.
>
> I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 
> distribution. After struggling with
> LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
> downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and
> installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:
>
> "Unable to determine the system directory having searched
> /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
> Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
> or set the environment variable
> LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
> containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.
>
> Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?

This says that LyX is looking for the file, chkconfig.ltx, in
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources (which is where it should
be). That file is a script that checks on your LaTeX installation so
that LyX knows what packages, etc. you have installed. It gets run
automatically the first time you launch LyX.

The implication is that you put LyX.app in a LyX folder inside your
Applications folder, right? If so, it looks as though your copy of
LyX.app is incomplete or corrupted. I'd suggest deleting it and
downloading again.

Bennett

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

[Blaine Erickson]

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested, and got the same error 
message. However, when 
I dragged the icon onto the desktop and double-clicked it, I got the "Welcome 
to LyX!" window, 
proclaiming "LyX: The Document Processor version 1.6.1" I got the same positive 
result after 
dragging LyX to my Applications folder, so at least it doesn't have to live on 
the desktop.

Apparently, LyX doesn't like being nestled inside of too many folders.

Thank you very much for solving my problem.

Best wishes,

Blaine

-- Original Message ---
From: Bennett Helm 
To: Blaine Erickson 
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:53:04 -0500
Subject: Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson
>  wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a 
> > simple solution.
> >
> > First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11.
> >
> > I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 
> > distribution. After 
struggling with
> > LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I 
> > downloaded LyX 1.6.1 
and
> > installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message:
> >
> > "Unable to determine the system directory having searched
> > /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
> > Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter
> > or set the environment variable
> > LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory
> > containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'.
> >
> > Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?
> 
> This says that LyX is looking for the file, chkconfig.ltx, in
> /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources (which is where it should
> be). That file is a script that checks on your LaTeX installation so
> that LyX knows what packages, etc. you have installed. It gets run
> automatically the first time you launch LyX.
> 
> The implication is that you put LyX.app in a LyX folder inside your
> Applications folder, right? If so, it looks as though your copy of
> LyX.app is incomplete or corrupted. I'd suggest deleting it and
> downloading again.
> 
> Bennett
--- End of Original Message ---

setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

[John White]

I use Vector Linux (slackware 12) an lyx ver 1.6.1.

I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1.  My current 
(and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a 
minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of 
the box.  Rather I get an error message "no action defined." 

Since switching to 1.6.1 I have been using a table with one column and 
one row in lieu of mini-pages, but that is somewhat cumbersome.


Can someone tell me how to get back the box allowing me to change the 
width of a minipage?


Thx

John