Re: hiding the menu bar

[Jose Quesada]

This is great.
Thanks!

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 11/05/2010 09:26 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:

 Jose Quesada wrote:


 I finf the ability of most KDE apps of hiding the menu bar very useful.
 You
 can assign a shortcut to toggle it.
 Is this possible in lyx? If not, is it worth a feature request?


 alt+x
 ui-toggle menubar
 enter



 And of course you can assign a shortcut to ui-toggle menubar.

 rh




-- 
Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Research scientist,
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada

Re: Latex error in

[Richard Heck]

On 11/06/2010 12:23 AM, Sandhya wrote:

Hi all

I am using the IJCGA Latex class and Lyx layout files from the LyX 
wiki page on MacOSX. I copied the *.cls and *.layout files to 
~/tex/latex/ and /Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/ 
respectively. I also reconfigured LyX. Now when I use the sample LyX 
document, it terminates with an error:


LaTeX Error: Unknown option `english' for package `graphics'.

I am unable to figure out a way of solving this. I have not used Latex 
before, and am stuck here. It would be great if you could give me some 
suggestions in this regard. Thanks in advance.



This layout file is very old, by the way.

I'm not sure I fully understand what's causing this bug, but perhaps 
someone else will. Even the totally trivial file attached throws this 
error. I think the problem is that they do this:


\InputIfFileExists{epsfig.sty}{...}{...}

This seems to have the effect that epsfig.sty tries to process all the 
options that have been passed to the document class, including, in this 
case, english. That ends up getting passed to graphics.sty somewhere 
down the road, and it chokes. So the problem here is with the class 
file. That is not really the right way to do things.


Richard



t.tex
Description: TeX document

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Manveru]

2010/11/5 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:
[...]
 Once again, I'd recommend you do experimentation on a trivial (and quick to
 compile) experimental LyX file.

I just had to set page style to fancy, and redefine everything.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
     gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

lyx single instance

[Jack Tanner]

Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past, but
has anything come of it?

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html

Re: lyx single instance

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

No.

Op 6 nov 2010 17:02 schreef Jack Tanner i...@hotmail.com:

Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past,
but
has anything come of it?

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Stephan Witt]

Am 05.11.2010 um 04:46 schrieb Christopher Menzel:

 On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 Greetings LyX users,
 
 The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy 
 checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the 
 character ú.  Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty 
 seriously off balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words 
 that occur in the document a word or two *after* a word that it 
 apparently isn't recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I 
 wanted to replace the word that with bisection, where that 
 occurred two words after bijection, which was clearly the word it had 
 stopped on internally.  Is there a solution to this beyond avoiding 
 non-English unicode characters?
 
 Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
 You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
 
 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
 
 Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
 What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
 
 IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
 that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.
 
 I'd guess it is cocoaSpell...
 
 Yes, that is correct.
 
 After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it anymore.
 I'll check it on another system...
 
 To be sure: are you able to send me a test case?
 
 Sent to you directly.

I tried it and I cannot reproduce your problem.

What I did:
* install cocoaSpell
* start LyX 1.6.7
* open preferences, goto language - spellcheck
* select aspell and apply
* press F7 then Ignore until end of document
* reopen preferences, goto language - spellcheck
* select aspell(library) and apply
* F7 = error message: no word lists for en_US
* paste into the Alternative language field of spellcheck preferences:
/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias
* F7 = error message: no word lists for 
* so aspell(library) seems to not work here

Please tell me, which way is yours?

To be sure I checked in Terminal.app my LANG value = de_DE.UTF-8

 I can't get LyX 2.0alpha6 running on my iMac; crashes almost immediately.  

That's bad. Is it Intel Snow Leopard?
What's the first few dozen lines of the crash report contents?

Stephan

Re: How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-05, Richard Heck wrote:
 On 11/04/2010 11:08 PM, Vasily Letov wrote:
 Hello, people!

 In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we
 have ---, --~, --* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools
 collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX
 converts  into \char`\{},

 Or to \textquotedbl if the encoding is T1.

 My question is how to configure LYX to use such sortcuts directly
 without ERT?

Bind the  key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting  as ERT?

 I'm not sure why we output '' as something other than '', but I expect 
 there is a good reason

I expect the very reason is because it is an active character in some
cases. The LyX philosophy is to hide such things which will become
unpleasant surprises for the LaTeX-agnostic (even at the expense of
the TeXperts). 

Günter

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather SOLVED

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 06 November 2010 09:45:47 Manveru wrote:

 
 I just had to set page style to fancy, and redefine everything.

   * *
\ o /
 \|/ 
  |T O O   C O O L
 / \  _  
/   \/
   /
  -
 
SteveT

Re: lyx single instance

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 06 November 2010 12:01:03 Jack Tanner wrote:
 Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past,
  but has anything come of it?
 
 http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html
 

Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found 
single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially 
if you use lots of desktops.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: lyx single instance

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
 Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found
 single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially
 if you use lots of desktops.

Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
your file manager for that.

Regards
Liviu

Re: lyx single instance

[Richard Heck]

On 11/06/2010 03:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com  wrote:
   

Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found
single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially
if you use lots of desktops.

 
Note that even a single instance LyX would support multiple windows, via 
FileNew Window.



Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
your file manager for that.

   
If you're on Linux (or perhaps other *nices?), this is fairly easy to 
do. I'm attaching a simple script that looks for a running instance of 
LyX and tries to open the file there via the lyxpipe. If you set up for 
your file manager to call this script for .lyx files, then you have the 
best of both worlds. You can always launch a separate instance in the 
usual way.


Obviously, you will need to adjust some of the settings for your own use 
(and you may want to remove the kdialog bit). Better would be to make it 
more general purpose. E.g., we'd need to parse the command line for 
LyX's own options; use them if we find them; find the location of the 
lyxpipe by grepping $USERDIR/preferences; etc. Then we could even 
distribute it with LyX.


Richard

#!/bin/bash

LYX=/usr/local/bin/lyx;
if [ ! -f $LYX ]; then LYX=/usr/bin/lyx; fi
SYSDIR=${LYX%/bin*}/share/lyx;
USERDIR=$HOME/.lyx;
LYXFULL=$LYX -sysdir $SYSDIR -userdir $USERDIR -geometry 1024x1024+100+100;
LYXPIPE=$HOME/.lyxpipe
LYXPIPEIN=$LYXPIPE.in;
LYXPIPEOUT=$LYXPIPE.out;
CMD=file-open;

PROG=$(basename $0);
function printUsage {
cat EOF
###
USAGE: $PROG [-c] [LYX-COMMANDS]
$PROG is a simple script to run LyX. Its main purpose is that it will 
open a requested file in a running instance of LyX, if it can find one.

Argument:
LYX-COMMANDS: Anything you could pass to LyX.

Options:
-c: Re-configure LyX before launching.
-h: Print this message
EOF
}


CONFIG=;
#Option processing
while getopts :c opt; do
case $opt in
c )   CONFIG=true;;
h )   printUsage; exit 0;;
\? )  printUsage; exit 1;;
esac
done

shift $(($OPTIND - 1));

if [ ! -x $LYX ]; then
LYX=$(which lyx);
if [ ! -x $LYX ]; then
echo Can't find LyX!;
exit 1;
fi
fi

if [ -n $CONFIG ]; then
pushd $USERDIR /dev/null 21; 
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
echo Couldn't change to user directory $USERDIR!!;
exit 1;
fi
$SYSDIR/configure.py
popd /dev/null 21;
fi

if [ -e $LYXPIPEIN ]; then
if [ -n $1 ]; then 
echo LYXCMD:lyx-script:$CMD:$1  $LYXPIPEIN;
exit 0;
fi
kdialog --title LyX Running --warningcontinuecancel LyX appears to 
be running. Click Continue to delete the lyxpipe and force a run.;
if [ $? != 0 ]; then exit 0; fi
rm -f $LYXPIPE
fi

$LYXFULL $1;

Re: How to use babel quot;-shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Vasily Letov]

Guenter Milde milde at users.berlios.de writes:

 
 
 Bind the  key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting  as ERT?
 

Is it possible to bind something already within ERT?! I don't know this :(


  I'm not sure why we output '' as something other than '', but I expect 
  there is a good reason
 
 I expect the very reason is because it is an active character in some
 cases. The LyX philosophy is to hide such things which will become
 unpleasant surprises for the LaTeX-agnostic (even at the expense of
 the TeXperts). 
 

But we type --- or -- in LyX as is, yes? --- etc. are similar things, 
but for other languages. Of course, TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LyX were made 
for english-speaking users, but now we want to make them for all people 
in the world, isn't it?

Spell checking stopped working

[Andras Toth]

Hello,

The spell-check (aspell-library) in my LyX installation stopped working: if I 
hit F7 (or click on the icon), just a status message (dialog-show 
spellchecker: F7) is shown, but nothing happens.
I am not sure, whether it is a bug, since I tried it before a few times, and 
it was working; however I do not remember changing any settings either.
Did anyone already experience this problem?

Regards,

Andras



P.S.: details:

Using LyX v. 1.6.4 on OpenSUSE 11.2

Language: English

Other spelling engines: ispell, aspell, hspell, aspell (library).
aspell yields the same result, hspell executable is not installed as far as I 
know, and with ispell I get the error: The spellchecker could not be started
ispell:  unrecognized formatter type 'latin9'

Spelling in other programs (OpenOffice, KMail, Firefox) is working fine.

Re: How to use babel quot;-shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 6 nov. 10 à 22:20, Vasily Letov a écrit :

But we type --- or -- in LyX as is, yes? --- etc. are similar things,
but for other languages. Of course, TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LyX were made
for english-speaking users, but now we want to make them for all  
people

in the world, isn't it?


The idea qt the time is that, while nice tricks like that are good for  
human users,
it is a pain to handle at LyX level (like the infamous `? ligature). I  
would be
much more comfortable with an old-fashionned \macro to the same effect  
that LyX could

output. This avoids lots of stupid checks on output of plain characters.

The problem is that people with a LaTeX background do not make the same
assumtions as people with a word background.

Another example: in spanish ~n gives you ñ. Since ~ is used for  
unbreakable space

I let you imagine the nice consequences.

JMarc

Re: How to use babel quot;-shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Pavel Sanda]

Vasily Letov wrote:
 I think, LYX must provide the mechanism to configure such things by user:

and since all lyx developers are basically its users, we are eagerly waiting for
the patch implementing it from you. :)

  Bind the  key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting  as ERT?
  
 
 Is it possible to bind something already within ERT?! I don't know this :(

command-sequence ert-insert;self-insert my-string; char-forward

pavel

Re: lyx single instance

[Pavel Sanda]

Richard Heck wrote:
 Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
 single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
 opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
 your file manager for that.


 If you're on Linux (or perhaps other *nices?), this is fairly easy to do. 

since we know pipe even on windows now, simple third party launcher should
be doable there. just associate it with .lyx files then...

pavel

Re: hiding the menu bar

[Jose Quesada]

This is great.
Thanks!

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 11/05/2010 09:26 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:

 Jose Quesada wrote:


 I finf the ability of most KDE apps of hiding the menu bar very useful.
 You
 can assign a shortcut to toggle it.
 Is this possible in lyx? If not, is it worth a feature request?


 alt+x
 ui-toggle menubar
 enter



 And of course you can assign a shortcut to ui-toggle menubar.

 rh




-- 
Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Research scientist,
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada

Re: Latex error in

[Richard Heck]

On 11/06/2010 12:23 AM, Sandhya wrote:

Hi all

I am using the IJCGA Latex class and Lyx layout files from the LyX 
wiki page on MacOSX. I copied the *.cls and *.layout files to 
~/tex/latex/ and /Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/ 
respectively. I also reconfigured LyX. Now when I use the sample LyX 
document, it terminates with an error:


LaTeX Error: Unknown option `english' for package `graphics'.

I am unable to figure out a way of solving this. I have not used Latex 
before, and am stuck here. It would be great if you could give me some 
suggestions in this regard. Thanks in advance.



This layout file is very old, by the way.

I'm not sure I fully understand what's causing this bug, but perhaps 
someone else will. Even the totally trivial file attached throws this 
error. I think the problem is that they do this:


\InputIfFileExists{epsfig.sty}{...}{...}

This seems to have the effect that epsfig.sty tries to process all the 
options that have been passed to the document class, including, in this 
case, english. That ends up getting passed to graphics.sty somewhere 
down the road, and it chokes. So the problem here is with the class 
file. That is not really the right way to do things.


Richard



t.tex
Description: TeX document

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Manveru]

2010/11/5 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:
[...]
 Once again, I'd recommend you do experimentation on a trivial (and quick to
 compile) experimental LyX file.

I just had to set page style to fancy, and redefine everything.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
     gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

lyx single instance

[Jack Tanner]

Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past, but
has anything come of it?

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html

Re: lyx single instance

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

No.

Op 6 nov 2010 17:02 schreef Jack Tanner i...@hotmail.com:

Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past,
but
has anything come of it?

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Stephan Witt]

Am 05.11.2010 um 04:46 schrieb Christopher Menzel:

 On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 Greetings LyX users,
 
 The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy 
 checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the 
 character ú.  Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty 
 seriously off balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words 
 that occur in the document a word or two *after* a word that it 
 apparently isn't recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I 
 wanted to replace the word that with bisection, where that 
 occurred two words after bijection, which was clearly the word it had 
 stopped on internally.  Is there a solution to this beyond avoiding 
 non-English unicode characters?
 
 Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
 You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
 
 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
 
 Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
 What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
 
 IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
 that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.
 
 I'd guess it is cocoaSpell...
 
 Yes, that is correct.
 
 After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it anymore.
 I'll check it on another system...
 
 To be sure: are you able to send me a test case?
 
 Sent to you directly.

I tried it and I cannot reproduce your problem.

What I did:
* install cocoaSpell
* start LyX 1.6.7
* open preferences, goto language - spellcheck
* select aspell and apply
* press F7 then Ignore until end of document
* reopen preferences, goto language - spellcheck
* select aspell(library) and apply
* F7 = error message: no word lists for en_US
* paste into the Alternative language field of spellcheck preferences:
/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias
* F7 = error message: no word lists for 
* so aspell(library) seems to not work here

Please tell me, which way is yours?

To be sure I checked in Terminal.app my LANG value = de_DE.UTF-8

 I can't get LyX 2.0alpha6 running on my iMac; crashes almost immediately.  

That's bad. Is it Intel Snow Leopard?
What's the first few dozen lines of the crash report contents?

Stephan

Re: How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-05, Richard Heck wrote:
 On 11/04/2010 11:08 PM, Vasily Letov wrote:
 Hello, people!

 In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we
 have ---, --~, --* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools
 collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX
 converts  into \char`\{},

 Or to \textquotedbl if the encoding is T1.

 My question is how to configure LYX to use such sortcuts directly
 without ERT?

Bind the  key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting  as ERT?

 I'm not sure why we output '' as something other than '', but I expect 
 there is a good reason

I expect the very reason is because it is an active character in some
cases. The LyX philosophy is to hide such things which will become
unpleasant surprises for the LaTeX-agnostic (even at the expense of
the TeXperts). 

Günter

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather SOLVED

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 06 November 2010 09:45:47 Manveru wrote:

 
 I just had to set page style to fancy, and redefine everything.

   * *
\ o /
 \|/ 
  |T O O   C O O L
 / \  _  
/   \/
   /
  -
 
SteveT

Re: lyx single instance

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 06 November 2010 12:01:03 Jack Tanner wrote:
 Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past,
  but has anything come of it?
 
 http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html
 

Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found 
single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially 
if you use lots of desktops.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: lyx single instance

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
 Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found
 single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially
 if you use lots of desktops.

Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
your file manager for that.

Regards
Liviu

Re: lyx single instance

[Richard Heck]

On 11/06/2010 03:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com  wrote:
   

Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found
single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially
if you use lots of desktops.

 
Note that even a single instance LyX would support multiple windows, via 
FileNew Window.



Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
your file manager for that.

   
If you're on Linux (or perhaps other *nices?), this is fairly easy to 
do. I'm attaching a simple script that looks for a running instance of 
LyX and tries to open the file there via the lyxpipe. If you set up for 
your file manager to call this script for .lyx files, then you have the 
best of both worlds. You can always launch a separate instance in the 
usual way.


Obviously, you will need to adjust some of the settings for your own use 
(and you may want to remove the kdialog bit). Better would be to make it 
more general purpose. E.g., we'd need to parse the command line for 
LyX's own options; use them if we find them; find the location of the 
lyxpipe by grepping $USERDIR/preferences; etc. Then we could even 
distribute it with LyX.


Richard

#!/bin/bash

LYX=/usr/local/bin/lyx;
if [ ! -f $LYX ]; then LYX=/usr/bin/lyx; fi
SYSDIR=${LYX%/bin*}/share/lyx;
USERDIR=$HOME/.lyx;
LYXFULL=$LYX -sysdir $SYSDIR -userdir $USERDIR -geometry 1024x1024+100+100;
LYXPIPE=$HOME/.lyxpipe
LYXPIPEIN=$LYXPIPE.in;
LYXPIPEOUT=$LYXPIPE.out;
CMD=file-open;

PROG=$(basename $0);
function printUsage {
cat EOF
###
USAGE: $PROG [-c] [LYX-COMMANDS]
$PROG is a simple script to run LyX. Its main purpose is that it will 
open a requested file in a running instance of LyX, if it can find one.

Argument:
LYX-COMMANDS: Anything you could pass to LyX.

Options:
-c: Re-configure LyX before launching.
-h: Print this message
EOF
}


CONFIG=;
#Option processing
while getopts :c opt; do
case $opt in
c )   CONFIG=true;;
h )   printUsage; exit 0;;
\? )  printUsage; exit 1;;
esac
done

shift $(($OPTIND - 1));

if [ ! -x $LYX ]; then
LYX=$(which lyx);
if [ ! -x $LYX ]; then
echo Can't find LyX!;
exit 1;
fi
fi

if [ -n $CONFIG ]; then
pushd $USERDIR /dev/null 21; 
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
echo Couldn't change to user directory $USERDIR!!;
exit 1;
fi
$SYSDIR/configure.py
popd /dev/null 21;
fi

if [ -e $LYXPIPEIN ]; then
if [ -n $1 ]; then 
echo LYXCMD:lyx-script:$CMD:$1  $LYXPIPEIN;
exit 0;
fi
kdialog --title LyX Running --warningcontinuecancel LyX appears to 
be running. Click Continue to delete the lyxpipe and force a run.;
if [ $? != 0 ]; then exit 0; fi
rm -f $LYXPIPE
fi

$LYXFULL $1;

Re: How to use babel quot;-shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Vasily Letov]

Guenter Milde milde at users.berlios.de writes:

 
 
 Bind the  key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting  as ERT?
 

Is it possible to bind something already within ERT?! I don't know this :(


  I'm not sure why we output '' as something other than '', but I expect 
  there is a good reason
 
 I expect the very reason is because it is an active character in some
 cases. The LyX philosophy is to hide such things which will become
 unpleasant surprises for the LaTeX-agnostic (even at the expense of
 the TeXperts). 
 

But we type --- or -- in LyX as is, yes? --- etc. are similar things, 
but for other languages. Of course, TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LyX were made 
for english-speaking users, but now we want to make them for all people 
in the world, isn't it?

Spell checking stopped working

[Andras Toth]

Hello,

The spell-check (aspell-library) in my LyX installation stopped working: if I 
hit F7 (or click on the icon), just a status message (dialog-show 
spellchecker: F7) is shown, but nothing happens.
I am not sure, whether it is a bug, since I tried it before a few times, and 
it was working; however I do not remember changing any settings either.
Did anyone already experience this problem?

Regards,

Andras



P.S.: details:

Using LyX v. 1.6.4 on OpenSUSE 11.2

Language: English

Other spelling engines: ispell, aspell, hspell, aspell (library).
aspell yields the same result, hspell executable is not installed as far as I 
know, and with ispell I get the error: The spellchecker could not be started
ispell:  unrecognized formatter type 'latin9'

Spelling in other programs (OpenOffice, KMail, Firefox) is working fine.

Re: How to use babel quot;-shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 6 nov. 10 à 22:20, Vasily Letov a écrit :

But we type --- or -- in LyX as is, yes? --- etc. are similar things,
but for other languages. Of course, TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LyX were made
for english-speaking users, but now we want to make them for all  
people

in the world, isn't it?


The idea qt the time is that, while nice tricks like that are good for  
human users,
it is a pain to handle at LyX level (like the infamous `? ligature). I  
would be
much more comfortable with an old-fashionned \macro to the same effect  
that LyX could

output. This avoids lots of stupid checks on output of plain characters.

The problem is that people with a LaTeX background do not make the same
assumtions as people with a word background.

Another example: in spanish ~n gives you ñ. Since ~ is used for  
unbreakable space

I let you imagine the nice consequences.

JMarc

Re: How to use babel quot;-shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Pavel Sanda]

Vasily Letov wrote:
 I think, LYX must provide the mechanism to configure such things by user:

and since all lyx developers are basically its users, we are eagerly waiting for
the patch implementing it from you. :)

  Bind the  key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting  as ERT?
  
 
 Is it possible to bind something already within ERT?! I don't know this :(

command-sequence ert-insert;self-insert my-string; char-forward

pavel

Re: lyx single instance

[Pavel Sanda]

Richard Heck wrote:
 Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
 single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
 opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
 your file manager for that.


 If you're on Linux (or perhaps other *nices?), this is fairly easy to do. 

since we know pipe even on windows now, simple third party launcher should
be doable there. just associate it with .lyx files then...

pavel

Re: hiding the menu bar

[Jose Quesada]

This is great.
Thanks!

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:

> On 11/05/2010 09:26 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>
>> Jose Quesada wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I finf the ability of most KDE apps of hiding the menu bar very useful.
>>> You
>>> can assign a shortcut to toggle it.
>>> Is this possible in lyx? If not, is it worth a feature request?
>>>
>>>
>> alt+x
>> ui-toggle menubar
>> enter
>>
>>
>>
> And of course you can assign a shortcut to "ui-toggle menubar".
>
> rh
>
>


-- 
Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Research scientist,
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada

Re: Latex error in

[Richard Heck]

On 11/06/2010 12:23 AM, Sandhya wrote:

Hi all

I am using the IJCGA Latex class and Lyx layout files from the LyX 
wiki page on MacOSX. I copied the *.cls and *.layout files to 
~/tex/latex/ and /Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/ 
respectively. I also reconfigured LyX. Now when I use the sample LyX 
document, it terminates with an error:


LaTeX Error: Unknown option `english' for package `graphics'.

I am unable to figure out a way of solving this. I have not used Latex 
before, and am stuck here. It would be great if you could give me some 
suggestions in this regard. Thanks in advance.



This layout file is very old, by the way.

I'm not sure I fully understand what's causing this bug, but perhaps 
someone else will. Even the totally trivial file attached throws this 
error. I think the problem is that they do this:


\InputIfFileExists{epsfig.sty}{...}{...}

This seems to have the effect that epsfig.sty tries to process all the 
options that have been passed to the document class, including, in this 
case, "english". That ends up getting passed to graphics.sty somewhere 
down the road, and it chokes. So the problem here is with the class 
file. That is not really the right way to do things.


Richard



t.tex
Description: TeX document

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Manveru]

2010/11/5 Steve Litt :
[...]
> Once again, I'd recommend you do experimentation on a trivial (and quick to
> compile) experimental LyX file.

I just had to set page style to fancy, and redefine everything.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
     gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

lyx single instance

[Jack Tanner]

Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past, but
has anything come of it?

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html

Re: lyx single instance

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

No.

Op 6 nov 2010 17:02 schreef "Jack Tanner" :

Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past,
but
has anything come of it?

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Stephan Witt]

Am 05.11.2010 um 04:46 schrieb Christopher Menzel:

> On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
>> Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
>> On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
> On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
>> Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
>> 
>>> Greetings LyX users,
>>> 
>>> The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy 
>>> checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the 
>>> character ú.  Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty 
>>> seriously off balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words 
>>> that occur in the document a word or two *after* a word that it 
>>> apparently isn't recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I 
>>> wanted to replace the word "that" with "bisection", where "that" 
>>> occurred two words after "bijection", which was clearly the word it had 
>>> stopped on internally.  Is there a solution to this beyond avoiding 
>>> non-English unicode characters?
>>> 
>> Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
>> You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
>> 
> 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
 
 Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
 What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
>>> 
>>> IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
>>> that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.
>> 
>> I'd guess it is cocoaSpell...
> 
> Yes, that is correct.
> 
>> After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it anymore.
>> I'll check it on another system...
>> 
>> To be sure: are you able to send me a test case?
> 
> Sent to you directly.

I tried it and I cannot reproduce your problem.

What I did:
* install cocoaSpell
* start LyX 1.6.7
* open preferences, goto language -> spellcheck
* select aspell and apply
* press F7 then Ignore until end of document
* reopen preferences, goto language -> spellcheck
* select aspell(library) and apply
* F7 => error message: no word lists for en_US
* paste into the "Alternative language" field of spellcheck preferences:
/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias
* F7 => error message: no word lists for ""
* so aspell(library) seems to not work here

Please tell me, which way is yours?

To be sure I checked in Terminal.app my LANG value => de_DE.UTF-8

> I can't get LyX 2.0alpha6 running on my iMac; crashes almost immediately.  

That's bad. Is it Intel Snow Leopard?
What's the first few dozen lines of the crash report contents?

Stephan

Re: How to use babel "-shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-05, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 11:08 PM, Vasily Letov wrote:
>> Hello, people!

>> In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we
>> have "---, "--~, "--* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools
>> collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX
>> converts " into \char`\"{},

> Or to \textquotedbl if the encoding is T1.

>> My question is how to configure LYX to use such sortcuts directly
>> without ERT?

Bind the " key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting " as ERT?

> I'm not sure why we output '"' as something other than '"', but I expect 
> there is a good reason

I expect the very reason is because it is an active character in some
cases. The LyX philosophy is to hide such things which will become
unpleasant surprises for the LaTeX-agnostic (even at the expense of
the TeXperts). 

Günter

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 06 November 2010 09:45:47 Manveru wrote:

> 
> I just had to set page style to fancy, and redefine everything.

   * *
\ o /
 \|/ 
  |T O O   C O O L
 / \  _  
/   \/
   /
  -
 
SteveT

Re: lyx single instance

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 06 November 2010 12:01:03 Jack Tanner wrote:
> Single-instance support for LyX on Windows has been discussed in the past,
>  but has anything come of it?
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg105402.html
> 

Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found 
single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially 
if you use lots of desktops.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: lyx single instance

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Steve Litt  wrote:
> Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found
> single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially
> if you use lots of desktops.
>
Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
your file manager for that.

Regards
Liviu

Re: lyx single instance

[Richard Heck]

On 11/06/2010 03:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Steve Litt  wrote:
   

Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found
single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially
if you use lots of desktops.

 
Note that even a single instance LyX would support multiple windows, via 
File>New Window.



Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
your file manager for that.

   
If you're on Linux (or perhaps other *nices?), this is fairly easy to 
do. I'm attaching a simple script that looks for a running instance of 
LyX and tries to open the file there via the lyxpipe. If you set up for 
your file manager to call this script for .lyx files, then you have the 
best of both worlds. You can always launch a separate instance in the 
usual way.


Obviously, you will need to adjust some of the settings for your own use 
(and you may want to remove the kdialog bit). Better would be to make it 
more general purpose. E.g., we'd need to parse the command line for 
LyX's own options; use them if we find them; find the location of the 
lyxpipe by grepping $USERDIR/preferences; etc. Then we could even 
distribute it with LyX.


Richard

#!/bin/bash

LYX="/usr/local/bin/lyx";
if [ ! -f "$LYX" ]; then LYX="/usr/bin/lyx"; fi
SYSDIR="${LYX%/bin*}/share/lyx";
USERDIR="$HOME/.lyx";
LYXFULL="$LYX -sysdir $SYSDIR -userdir $USERDIR -geometry 1024x1024+100+100";
LYXPIPE="$HOME/.lyxpipe"
LYXPIPEIN="$LYXPIPE.in";
LYXPIPEOUT="$LYXPIPE.out";
CMD="file-open";

PROG=$(basename $0);
function printUsage {
cat &1; 
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
echo "Couldn't change to user directory $USERDIR!!";
exit 1;
fi
$SYSDIR/configure.py
popd >/dev/null 2>&1;
fi

if [ -e $LYXPIPEIN ]; then
if [ -n "$1" ]; then 
echo "LYXCMD:lyx-script:$CMD:$1" > $LYXPIPEIN;
exit 0;
fi
kdialog --title "LyX Running" --warningcontinuecancel "LyX appears to 
be running. Click Continue to delete the lyxpipe and force a run.";
if [ $? != 0 ]; then exit 0; fi
rm -f $LYXPIPE
fi

$LYXFULL $1;

Re: How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Vasily Letov]

Guenter Milde  users.berlios.de> writes:

> 
> 
> Bind the " key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting " as ERT?
> 

Is it possible to bind something already within ERT?! I don't know this :(


> > I'm not sure why we output '"' as something other than '"', but I expect 
> > there is a good reason
> 
> I expect the very reason is because it is an active character in some
> cases. The LyX philosophy is to hide such things which will become
> unpleasant surprises for the LaTeX-agnostic (even at the expense of
> the TeXperts). 
> 

But we type --- or -- in LyX as is, yes? "--- etc. are similar things, 
but for other languages. Of course, TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LyX were made 
for english-speaking users, but now we want to make them for all people 
in the world, isn't it?

Spell checking stopped working

[Andras Toth]

Hello,

The spell-check (aspell-library) in my LyX installation stopped working: if I 
hit F7 (or click on the icon), just a status message "(dialog-show 
spellchecker: F7)" is shown, but nothing happens.
I am not sure, whether it is a bug, since I tried it before a few times, and 
it was working; however I do not remember changing any settings either.
Did anyone already experience this problem?

Regards,

Andras



P.S.: details:

Using LyX v. 1.6.4 on OpenSUSE 11.2

Language: English

Other spelling engines: ispell, aspell, hspell, aspell (library).
aspell yields the same result, hspell executable is not installed as far as I 
know, and with ispell I get the error: "The spellchecker could not be started
ispell:  unrecognized formatter type 'latin9'"

Spelling in other programs (OpenOffice, KMail, Firefox) is working fine.

Re: How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 6 nov. 10 à 22:20, Vasily Letov a écrit :

But we type --- or -- in LyX as is, yes? "--- etc. are similar things,
but for other languages. Of course, TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LyX were made
for english-speaking users, but now we want to make them for all  
people

in the world, isn't it?


The idea qt the time is that, while nice tricks like that are good for  
human users,
it is a pain to handle at LyX level (like the infamous `? ligature). I  
would be
much more comfortable with an old-fashionned \macro to the same effect  
that LyX could

output. This avoids lots of stupid checks on output of plain characters.

The problem is that people with a LaTeX background do not make the same
assumtions as people with a word background.

Another example: in spanish ~n gives you ñ. Since ~ is used for  
unbreakable space

I let you imagine the nice consequences.

JMarc

Re: How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Pavel Sanda]

Vasily Letov wrote:
> I think, LYX must provide the mechanism to configure such things by user:

and since all lyx developers are basically its users, we are eagerly waiting for
the patch implementing it from you. :)

> > Bind the " key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting " as ERT?
> > 
> 
> Is it possible to bind something already within ERT?! I don't know this :(

command-sequence ert-insert;self-insert my-string; char-forward

pavel

Re: lyx single instance

[Pavel Sanda]

Richard Heck wrote:
>> Personally I'd much prefer if LyX could be configured for
>> single-instance use; this is where tabs are useful. At the moment
>> opening additional files can be a pain since you cannot simply use
>> your file manager for that.
>>
>>
> If you're on Linux (or perhaps other *nices?), this is fairly easy to do. 

since we know pipe even on windows now, simple third party launcher should
be doable there. just associate it with .lyx files then...

pavel