back to LyX1.5.6, and debug
Dear list sorry for a lengthy letter, I have marked the important parts with ##: after having spent in vain days to export my document to a pdf file using 1.6.2 I would like to use 1.5.6 (1.5.5 gave no problems, but does not take ## the 1.5.X lyx-export of 1.6.X). I remember there is a way to install it in addition to 1.6.X, but forgot how to do this. I am using 1.6.3svn (and 1.6.1 /2 before) and Debian Lenny, koma script book and Jabref for creating the bib-files and inserting the references. I have several times described the problems (pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pd) and got various proposals, but haven't managed to get it done. There was one proposal to use a more recent ghostscript (I had 8.62), but by upgrading Debian Lenny (which does not offer 8.64) to Squeeze I got troubles and reinstalled Lenny. ##Question: is anybody using LyX1.6.X successfully under Debian using gs8.62? I still do not know why I can't get the pdf output. As a result of all my trials I assumed that it has to do with some of the references, but it might perhaps be a more basic problem. ##Question: Where are the background files to be found and is it possible that the storage space is not sufficient? > I had as a last trial used a master and 20 child inputs (for each chapter one) and I noticed that after removing some offending references they were all working separately, but not if run from the master. I then started to add one after the other to the master and ran only this one file. It worked until I added chapter 12 (that was about 300 pages, and 220 figures, and about 600 references). Some references gave errors, and if I removed them, I got new errors of references which were alright before -even at places in earlier chapters. I then used chapter 12 as a starter and added the next chapters (altogether again about 300 pages and 160 figures) and got it to work. But when I fused the two large parts I got again reference errors, and now at the begin of the large document where there used to be no problems before. All this took a lot of time, because if I found the reference and removed it, the error would still be there (probably because the old aux file is used) and I had to finish LyX and restart it again. As a question to the LyX developers: Could one include a way to kill the aux file after a LyX run? I was asked to give a minimal example, but I am afraid there is no way of doing it. It has probably to do with the large document, since I had never problems with smaller books (around 200 to 300 pages each, 200 to 300 references, 100 to 200 figures). ##Question: Is there a way to check the (in my case 1500) citations in the bib file for uncorrect (coding?) characters independent of LyX? ## I have not been able to figure out how the debug works. The description in the extended help file was not precise enough for me. Could somebody give me a detailed description? If I use, as proposed, lyx -dbg all (or font or any) nothing happens. ddd/gdb debugger: are those two debuggers or do they work together? It says, one should start at the place in question (an aktueller Position) in program command shift+⁺v and add edit>preferences>helpers> echo... send it to the lyx pipe and so on. I am confused and don't know what to do. Once I have understood it I am willing and glad to try to describe it in a way that underdeveloped (and over-aged) people like me will know what to do in order to debug a LyX session. Thanks, Wolfgang
index question(s)
I use lyx 1.6.2 on a slackware 12.0 system. When I finish a brief (article class), lyx makes a beautiful table of contents. It also makes an index. To make the index, I use the index machine, highlighting the cases cited in the brief. Then I fool around to make the second index, which is of statutes cited and then usually a third index of "other authorities". It (the index) is supposed to then be printed on the Table of Cases page, following the Table of Contents. If I fool and fool with the index entries I can usually get it right. However, indexing is the last thing done to a brief, as cases and statutes etc are often changed. And the index prints out in two columns. There ought to be an easier way. Due to time considerations, I usually don't have time to fool with the index page enough. So I index everything using just the index machine and, right before the brief is filed, I print it to text, open with Open Office, and then manually move the index entries to the required place. This often requires that I add a page following the index just so the page references are accurate when I later insert the Open Office index. Though I much prefer doing the brief in lyx, in part as it is so easy to navigate and in part because I can't figure out how to turn off all the complicated "help" in Open Office, I don't like this last (indexing) step. I would like to do the whole brief, including index, in lyx. Does anyone have some ideas on how a user not familiar with evil red text 1) I can get lyx to print the index to a single column (normal) page and b) how, other than going through a time consuming process of adding exclamation marks within the index and putting hard blanks at the beginning of some of them, I can fairly automatically and simply get three indexes, printed out one after the other, i.e. first the cases, then the statutes and finally the "other authorities"? I have seen other references to this situation but yet no good, easy answer. Thanks for taking the time to read through this. It has been a problem for a long time. John
Re: frozen lyx are more frequents
> > with lyx 1.6.2 I get frozen lyx more frequent than > previous version. > > Only 1 hour of work and get a frozen (without lost of > data). > > I can´t get reproduce it, but I suspect that the > trigger of frozen is the > > event of an automatic backup while I typing quickly. > > What do you mean by "frozen lyx"? The application > does not respond anymore? > Could you elaborate a bit more? > > > Plus, I have a sudden > > disappearance of lyx when I press ctrl + home. > > Similar crashes have been reported. However, a reproducable > testcase or a > backtrace would certainly help fixing this. > > Jürgen With "frozen lyx" I mean that lyx not respond anymore except for F2 key for save the document. With 1.6.1 I encountered this bug after 3 or 4 hours of work. Now, I have this problem in 1 hour (but, with 1.6.2 I changed Linux from opensuse 11.1 to debian lenny 5.0. I don´t konw if maybe a difference) In addition, with 1.6.2, I have stranges behaviour. 1) Sometimes, when I make a change in preferences, when I click in save, suddenly view source or outline are open by itself. 2) Sometimes, when I have several files open, when I close it by clicking in tag and choose close, outline is closed by itself. (icon of outline is far of tag) Regards Marcelo ¡Viví la mejor experiencia en la web! Descargá gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8 http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=ar
Lyx+Miktex+Windows7RC (Works!)
Hi, Just to continue my previous post on my experiments with W7RC, installing it under VirtualPC and doing first a complete Miktex install have allowed me to run LyX under WIndows 7 RC. I have not played a lot with it but it seems to work and to compile my documents. Good news! Has anybody had any time to look at the Maple compatibility problem that I have submitted to you (have you received the sample latex file I have attached to mu last mail about this topic?)? Regards, Murat -- *** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! *** Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) Centre de la Vieille Charité 2, rue de la Charité 13236 Marseille cedex 02 Bureau 320 Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu __
Re: Sectioned bibliographies
E.Kaplan wrote: > What I am discovering is, perhaps, some problem with my (original, > large) bibtex file, which is several mb. When I use the small test.lyx > file it works fine with the test.bib file (once I removed the \putbib > etc.). The large bibtex file, however, does not work, even though it > now produces no error messages, and it works perfectly (and did for > years) with normal, non-sectioned bibliographies. I have never tried it > before with sectioned bibliographies, and there must be something in it > which the bibtopic package gags on. > I shall continue to explore it. If worse comes to worse, I can make > small bibtex files for each section, or break up the main article into > two parts, and compile them separately, which will work for sure. > Thanks for your help, Jurgen. There might be helpful error messages if you run LyX from a console. Jürgen
