Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Dear Listers
I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
latex2rtf on my system 
Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
also not been able to use this.
I'd be very grateful for any help.
Best regards
MG
 

Re: Missing Header (File, Edit,View,Preferences) of Lyx Tool Bar in Ubuntu 10.10

[Pavel Sanda]

Ajay Ohri wrote:
 Dear List
 
 Please forgive my ignorance but I am just not able to see the menu header in
 Lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/619811 ?
pavel

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Mathias GIREL mathias.gi...@ens.fr wrote:
 Dear Listers
 I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
 Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
 I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
 latex2rtf on my system
 Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
 also not been able to use this.
 I'd be very grateful for any help.

What exactly is the problem? latex2rtf is included in MacTex 2010.
Moreover, a latex to rtf file converter preference is already set by
default. So it should just work to select (in LyX-1.6) View  Rich
Text Format. If that's not true, try quitting LyX, moving aside your
user's directory (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) and
restarting LyX to see if any preference settings you have made are
interfering.

BH

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Thanks for the answer!

I did that, but alas to no avail. I have the export to RTF in the File menu, 
but when I try that, even with the standard splash.lyx file, I have the error 
message: 

Une erreur s'est produite lors de l'exécution :
latex2rtf splash.tex.

(Something like: An error occurred while processing)

I have tried to move the user folder. Didn't change the error message.
(The export to opendocument does not work also, but in that case it is 
different: I have an odt output, but Ooo is not able to open it).

I have texlive2010 installed with MacTex. Is there a way to check that 
latex2rtf is actually installed? 

Best 
MG


Le 31 janv. 2011 à 14:03, BH a écrit :

 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Mathias GIREL mathias.gi...@ens.fr wrote:
 Dear Listers
 I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
 Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
 I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
 latex2rtf on my system
 Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
 also not been able to use this.
 I'd be very grateful for any help.
 
 What exactly is the problem? latex2rtf is included in MacTex 2010.
 Moreover, a latex to rtf file converter preference is already set by
 default. So it should just work to select (in LyX-1.6) View  Rich
 Text Format. If that's not true, try quitting LyX, moving aside your
 user's directory (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) and
 restarting LyX to see if any preference settings you have made are
 interfering.
 
 BH

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Dear all
I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think it 
was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html

I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but 
this seems to work smoothly now.
Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent, I'll 
be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
Best
MG

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Mathias GIREL mathias.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all
 I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think
 it was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.
 http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html
 I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but
 this seems to work smoothly now.
 Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent,
 I'll be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
 Best
 MG

Checking again, I was wrong about latex2rtf being a part of MacTeX, so
you do need to install it some other way. I'm glad it works for you
now.

(By the way, you can check if latex2rtf is installed by opening
Terminal.app and typing which latex2rtf. If it returns a path, then
you have it; if you get nothing back, then you don't.)

BH

no instant preview (do I need dv2dt?)

[Neal Becker]

linux fedora 14 lyx 2.0.0beta3.  Used to have instant preview, but not anymore.

I do see Unable to find executable from 'dv2dt' on console.

Is dv2dt the only way to get instant preview?  Doesn't seem to be available
for fedora 14 via yum.

lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Neal Becker]

This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010 package from  Jindrich Novy 
jn...@redhat.com

checking for a Latex2e program...
+checking for latex...  yes
checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
+checking for pplatex...  no
checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
+checking for platex...  yes

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt platex.fmt

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)

What's the deal?

 latex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2011/dev)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
**

Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[stefano franchi]

Dear all,

I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
environment, I am afraid. Two questions:

1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
support auto-reload?

2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
Viewer, I mean)?

Thanks for the help,

Stefano

Re: lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Marcelo Acuña]

 This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010
 package from  Jindrich Novy 
 jn...@redhat.com
 
 checking for a Latex2e program...
 +checking for latex...  yes

texlive 2010 work very well for me, with all 2.0 alphas and betas and 1.6.8 
versions.
I have debian lenny.

Marcelo

Re: lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Neal Becker]

On Monday 31 January 2011, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
  This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010
  package from  Jindrich Novy
  jn...@redhat.com
  
  checking for a Latex2e program...
  +checking for latex...  yes
 
 texlive 2010 work very well for me, with all 2.0 alphas and betas and 1.6.8
 versions. I have debian lenny.
 
 Marcelo

Can you please tell me if you have:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jan 16 11:17 /usr/bin/latex - pdftex

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all,

 I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
 way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
 reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
 environment, I am afraid. Two questions:

 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
 support auto-reload?

 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
 respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
 Viewer, I mean)?

Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
on previously.

I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.

An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
external editor).

BH

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[stefano franchi]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:39 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
 stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all,

 I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
 way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
 reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
 environment, I am afraid. Two questions:

 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
 support auto-reload?

 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
 respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
 Viewer, I mean)?

 Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
 reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
 did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
 also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
 on previously.

Thanks Bennett,

I'll check the Preview.app version.


 I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.

 An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
 works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
 external editor).


Is this the app made by the same developers as BibDesk? That's an excellent app.

Cheers,

Stefano

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of
the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you
want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
without asking this question).

2011/1/31 BH bewih...@gmail.com

 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
 stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
  Dear all,
 
  I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
  way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
  reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
  environment, I am afraid. Two questions:
 
  1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
  support auto-reload?
 
  2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
  respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
  Viewer, I mean)?

 Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
 reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
 did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
 also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
 on previously.

 I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.

 An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
 works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
 external editor).

 BH




-- 
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: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr wrote:
 I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of
 the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you
 want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
 without asking this question).

Skim.app  Preferences  Sync ... and check the Check for file changes box.

BH

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

It is already checked in my case, but Skims asks if it must auto load the
pdf if I change it the first time. Afterwards, it does it automatically.

2011/1/31 BH bewih...@gmail.com

 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
 murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr wrote:
  I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view
 of
  the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that
 you
  want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
  without asking this question).

 Skim.app  Preferences  Sync ... and check the Check for file changes
 box.

 BH




-- 
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: Is there a way keep hyperlinks in pasted text?

[Manveru]

2011/1/12 Joel Schwartz j...@joelschwartz.com:
 Let's say I copy a block of text on a web page. Some of the words in this
 block of text include hyperlinks to other URLs (web pages, pdf files, etc.).
 When I copy and paste this text block into lyx, the hyperlinks are gone and
 just the text gets pasted. Is there a way to paste the text into lyx so that
 the hyperlinks are also included, or do I need to recreate the hyperlinks
 manually? The users' guide doesn't mention a way to keep the hyperlinks, so
 I'm guessing the answer is no, but I thought I'd check here just to make
 sure.

I think you say about pasting HTML text, so I think is not implemented
in LyX. I think this could be considered as feature request.


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

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias Girel]

Dear BH

Thanks! I have check on my second computer, my macbook, on which I had
not already performed the latex2rtf setup and the terminal command did
not return anything.
So this means that Mac users in general, with MacTeX and Lyx  cannot
in general use the export to rtf command?
Maybe the dmg in the link below should be mirrored in case it is
erased? It seems to be the only location for the pkg file.
Best regards
MG

So unless I'm
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:45 PM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Mathias GIREL mathias.gi...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 Dear all
 I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think
 it was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.
 http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html
 I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but
 this seems to work smoothly now.
 Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent,
 I'll be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
 Best
 MG

 Checking again, I was wrong about latex2rtf being a part of MacTeX, so
 you do need to install it some other way. I'm glad it works for you
 now.

 (By the way, you can check if latex2rtf is installed by opening
 Terminal.app and typing which latex2rtf. If it returns a path, then
 you have it; if you get nothing back, then you don't.)

 BH

Can Beamer convert to HTML also?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm making a Lua presentation for Linux Enthusiasts and Professionals of 
Central Florida (http://www.leap-cf.org) to be given on 2/17/2011. I'd like to 
make the presentation in Beamer because I think Beamer's the easiest authoring 
environment, especially now that I created my outline to beamer converter.

But because I need to rapidly copy and paste material from the presentation 
into source files, I want the presentation to be HTML and not PDF. Is there an 
option by which Beamer can be converted to HTML?

Also, is there a way to put source code in Beamer, kind of like lyx-code in 
LyX?

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

[Gabriel Kniffin]

I opened the script with python via command line. Here's the result:

E:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\Resources\scriptsE:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\python\python
TeXFiles.py
Indexing files of type cls
Indexing files of type sty
Indexing files of type bst
Indexing files of type bib

The python files do show up with the python icon in explorer. When I click
Tools  TeX Information I get the same error indicating TexFiles.py failed
and the window that opens to display the file list is empty (see attached
image).

Thanks,
-Gabe


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 01/28/2011 05:35 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote:

 Thanks Richard,

 I just reinstalled LyX using LyX-1.6.8-2-Installer.exe but I'm still
 having the same problem.

 I also checked to make sure TeXFiles.py file is there, which it is.

 I also noticed the same error happens when I go to Tools  TeX
 Information.

 Any suggestions? Should I try installing a full version of python?

  I've changed the subject to try to attract the attention of the Windows
 crowd. It certainly looks as if there is some problem with your python
 installation. You might want to try the alternate installer, which I think
 also installs a usable version of python.

 Richard


attachment: Empty Box.png

Re: no instant preview (do I need dv2dt?)

[José Matos]

On Monday 31 January 2011 15:06:03 Neal Becker wrote:
 linux fedora 14 lyx 2.0.0beta3.  Used to have instant preview, but not
 anymore.
 
 I do see Unable to find executable from 'dv2dt' on console.
 
 Is dv2dt the only way to get instant preview?  Doesn't seem to be available
 for fedora 14 via yum.

Yes, it is. :-)

# repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/dv2dt
texlive-dtl-bin-0:2011-0.1.20110128.svn18336.fc14.i686
texlive-dviutils-0:2007-56.fc14.x86_64
texlive-dtl-bin-0:2011-0.1.20110128.svn18336.fc14.x86_64

Either you install texlive-dviutils from texlive-2007 or texlive-dtl-bin from 
texlive-20[10|11].

I will add this dependency automatically for the next version.
-- 
José Abílio

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

[Paul Rubin]

Gabriel Kniffin gabekniffin at gmail.com writes:
 
 I opened the script with python via command line. Here's the
 result:
E:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\Resources\scriptsE:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\python\
python TeXFiles.py
Indexing files of type cls
Indexing files of type sty
Indexing files of type bst
Indexing files of type bib

 The python files do show up with the python icon in explorer. When I click
 Tools  TeX Information I get the same error indicating TexFiles.py
 failed and the window that opens to display the file list is empty
 (see attached image).Thanks,-Gabe


The output from the script is correct, and obviously the Python installation
that the LyX installer deposited on your system is working.  I noticed that LyX
is installed on your E: drive.  Is this a partition of one of your hard drives,
or is this a mapped network drive?  Perhaps more importantly, where is your LyX
user directory (Help  About LyX  Version, user directory)?  Once upon a time
there were problems with running LyX from a Windows roaming profile (home
directory on a mapped server); I don't know if that's still an issue.

/Paul

Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Dear Listers
I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
latex2rtf on my system 
Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
also not been able to use this.
I'd be very grateful for any help.
Best regards
MG
 

Re: Missing Header (File, Edit,View,Preferences) of Lyx Tool Bar in Ubuntu 10.10

[Pavel Sanda]

Ajay Ohri wrote:
 Dear List
 
 Please forgive my ignorance but I am just not able to see the menu header in
 Lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/619811 ?
pavel

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Mathias GIREL mathias.gi...@ens.fr wrote:
 Dear Listers
 I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
 Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
 I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
 latex2rtf on my system
 Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
 also not been able to use this.
 I'd be very grateful for any help.

What exactly is the problem? latex2rtf is included in MacTex 2010.
Moreover, a latex to rtf file converter preference is already set by
default. So it should just work to select (in LyX-1.6) View  Rich
Text Format. If that's not true, try quitting LyX, moving aside your
user's directory (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) and
restarting LyX to see if any preference settings you have made are
interfering.

BH

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Thanks for the answer!

I did that, but alas to no avail. I have the export to RTF in the File menu, 
but when I try that, even with the standard splash.lyx file, I have the error 
message: 

Une erreur s'est produite lors de l'exécution :
latex2rtf splash.tex.

(Something like: An error occurred while processing)

I have tried to move the user folder. Didn't change the error message.
(The export to opendocument does not work also, but in that case it is 
different: I have an odt output, but Ooo is not able to open it).

I have texlive2010 installed with MacTex. Is there a way to check that 
latex2rtf is actually installed? 

Best 
MG


Le 31 janv. 2011 à 14:03, BH a écrit :

 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Mathias GIREL mathias.gi...@ens.fr wrote:
 Dear Listers
 I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
 Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
 I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
 latex2rtf on my system
 Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
 also not been able to use this.
 I'd be very grateful for any help.
 
 What exactly is the problem? latex2rtf is included in MacTex 2010.
 Moreover, a latex to rtf file converter preference is already set by
 default. So it should just work to select (in LyX-1.6) View  Rich
 Text Format. If that's not true, try quitting LyX, moving aside your
 user's directory (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) and
 restarting LyX to see if any preference settings you have made are
 interfering.
 
 BH

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Dear all
I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think it 
was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html

I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but 
this seems to work smoothly now.
Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent, I'll 
be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
Best
MG

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Mathias GIREL mathias.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all
 I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think
 it was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.
 http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html
 I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but
 this seems to work smoothly now.
 Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent,
 I'll be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
 Best
 MG

Checking again, I was wrong about latex2rtf being a part of MacTeX, so
you do need to install it some other way. I'm glad it works for you
now.

(By the way, you can check if latex2rtf is installed by opening
Terminal.app and typing which latex2rtf. If it returns a path, then
you have it; if you get nothing back, then you don't.)

BH

no instant preview (do I need dv2dt?)

[Neal Becker]

linux fedora 14 lyx 2.0.0beta3.  Used to have instant preview, but not anymore.

I do see Unable to find executable from 'dv2dt' on console.

Is dv2dt the only way to get instant preview?  Doesn't seem to be available
for fedora 14 via yum.

lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Neal Becker]

This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010 package from  Jindrich Novy 
jn...@redhat.com

checking for a Latex2e program...
+checking for latex...  yes
checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
+checking for pplatex...  no
checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
+checking for platex...  yes

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt platex.fmt

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)

What's the deal?

 latex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2011/dev)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
**

Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[stefano franchi]

Dear all,

I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
environment, I am afraid. Two questions:

1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
support auto-reload?

2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
Viewer, I mean)?

Thanks for the help,

Stefano

Re: lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Marcelo Acuña]

 This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010
 package from  Jindrich Novy 
 jn...@redhat.com
 
 checking for a Latex2e program...
 +checking for latex...  yes

texlive 2010 work very well for me, with all 2.0 alphas and betas and 1.6.8 
versions.
I have debian lenny.

Marcelo

Re: lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Neal Becker]

On Monday 31 January 2011, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
  This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010
  package from  Jindrich Novy
  jn...@redhat.com
  
  checking for a Latex2e program...
  +checking for latex...  yes
 
 texlive 2010 work very well for me, with all 2.0 alphas and betas and 1.6.8
 versions. I have debian lenny.
 
 Marcelo

Can you please tell me if you have:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jan 16 11:17 /usr/bin/latex - pdftex

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all,

 I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
 way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
 reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
 environment, I am afraid. Two questions:

 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
 support auto-reload?

 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
 respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
 Viewer, I mean)?

Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
on previously.

I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.

An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
external editor).

BH

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[stefano franchi]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:39 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
 stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all,

 I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
 way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
 reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
 environment, I am afraid. Two questions:

 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
 support auto-reload?

 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
 respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
 Viewer, I mean)?

 Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
 reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
 did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
 also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
 on previously.

Thanks Bennett,

I'll check the Preview.app version.


 I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.

 An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
 works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
 external editor).


Is this the app made by the same developers as BibDesk? That's an excellent app.

Cheers,

Stefano

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of
the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you
want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
without asking this question).

2011/1/31 BH bewih...@gmail.com

 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
 stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
  Dear all,
 
  I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
  way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
  reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
  environment, I am afraid. Two questions:
 
  1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
  support auto-reload?
 
  2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
  respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
  Viewer, I mean)?

 Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
 reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
 did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
 also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
 on previously.

 I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.

 An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
 works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
 external editor).

 BH




-- 
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: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr wrote:
 I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of
 the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you
 want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
 without asking this question).

Skim.app  Preferences  Sync ... and check the Check for file changes box.

BH

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

It is already checked in my case, but Skims asks if it must auto load the
pdf if I change it the first time. Afterwards, it does it automatically.

2011/1/31 BH bewih...@gmail.com

 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
 murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr wrote:
  I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view
 of
  the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that
 you
  want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
  without asking this question).

 Skim.app  Preferences  Sync ... and check the Check for file changes
 box.

 BH




-- 
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: Is there a way keep hyperlinks in pasted text?

[Manveru]

2011/1/12 Joel Schwartz j...@joelschwartz.com:
 Let's say I copy a block of text on a web page. Some of the words in this
 block of text include hyperlinks to other URLs (web pages, pdf files, etc.).
 When I copy and paste this text block into lyx, the hyperlinks are gone and
 just the text gets pasted. Is there a way to paste the text into lyx so that
 the hyperlinks are also included, or do I need to recreate the hyperlinks
 manually? The users' guide doesn't mention a way to keep the hyperlinks, so
 I'm guessing the answer is no, but I thought I'd check here just to make
 sure.

I think you say about pasting HTML text, so I think is not implemented
in LyX. I think this could be considered as feature request.


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

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias Girel]

Dear BH

Thanks! I have check on my second computer, my macbook, on which I had
not already performed the latex2rtf setup and the terminal command did
not return anything.
So this means that Mac users in general, with MacTeX and Lyx  cannot
in general use the export to rtf command?
Maybe the dmg in the link below should be mirrored in case it is
erased? It seems to be the only location for the pkg file.
Best regards
MG

So unless I'm
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:45 PM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Mathias GIREL mathias.gi...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 Dear all
 I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think
 it was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.
 http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html
 I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but
 this seems to work smoothly now.
 Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent,
 I'll be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
 Best
 MG

 Checking again, I was wrong about latex2rtf being a part of MacTeX, so
 you do need to install it some other way. I'm glad it works for you
 now.

 (By the way, you can check if latex2rtf is installed by opening
 Terminal.app and typing which latex2rtf. If it returns a path, then
 you have it; if you get nothing back, then you don't.)

 BH

Can Beamer convert to HTML also?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm making a Lua presentation for Linux Enthusiasts and Professionals of 
Central Florida (http://www.leap-cf.org) to be given on 2/17/2011. I'd like to 
make the presentation in Beamer because I think Beamer's the easiest authoring 
environment, especially now that I created my outline to beamer converter.

But because I need to rapidly copy and paste material from the presentation 
into source files, I want the presentation to be HTML and not PDF. Is there an 
option by which Beamer can be converted to HTML?

Also, is there a way to put source code in Beamer, kind of like lyx-code in 
LyX?

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

[Gabriel Kniffin]

I opened the script with python via command line. Here's the result:

E:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\Resources\scriptsE:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\python\python
TeXFiles.py
Indexing files of type cls
Indexing files of type sty
Indexing files of type bst
Indexing files of type bib

The python files do show up with the python icon in explorer. When I click
Tools  TeX Information I get the same error indicating TexFiles.py failed
and the window that opens to display the file list is empty (see attached
image).

Thanks,
-Gabe


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 01/28/2011 05:35 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote:

 Thanks Richard,

 I just reinstalled LyX using LyX-1.6.8-2-Installer.exe but I'm still
 having the same problem.

 I also checked to make sure TeXFiles.py file is there, which it is.

 I also noticed the same error happens when I go to Tools  TeX
 Information.

 Any suggestions? Should I try installing a full version of python?

  I've changed the subject to try to attract the attention of the Windows
 crowd. It certainly looks as if there is some problem with your python
 installation. You might want to try the alternate installer, which I think
 also installs a usable version of python.

 Richard


attachment: Empty Box.png

Re: no instant preview (do I need dv2dt?)

[José Matos]

On Monday 31 January 2011 15:06:03 Neal Becker wrote:
 linux fedora 14 lyx 2.0.0beta3.  Used to have instant preview, but not
 anymore.
 
 I do see Unable to find executable from 'dv2dt' on console.
 
 Is dv2dt the only way to get instant preview?  Doesn't seem to be available
 for fedora 14 via yum.

Yes, it is. :-)

# repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/dv2dt
texlive-dtl-bin-0:2011-0.1.20110128.svn18336.fc14.i686
texlive-dviutils-0:2007-56.fc14.x86_64
texlive-dtl-bin-0:2011-0.1.20110128.svn18336.fc14.x86_64

Either you install texlive-dviutils from texlive-2007 or texlive-dtl-bin from 
texlive-20[10|11].

I will add this dependency automatically for the next version.
-- 
José Abílio

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

[Paul Rubin]

Gabriel Kniffin gabekniffin at gmail.com writes:
 
 I opened the script with python via command line. Here's the
 result:
E:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\Resources\scriptsE:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\python\
python TeXFiles.py
Indexing files of type cls
Indexing files of type sty
Indexing files of type bst
Indexing files of type bib

 The python files do show up with the python icon in explorer. When I click
 Tools  TeX Information I get the same error indicating TexFiles.py
 failed and the window that opens to display the file list is empty
 (see attached image).Thanks,-Gabe


The output from the script is correct, and obviously the Python installation
that the LyX installer deposited on your system is working.  I noticed that LyX
is installed on your E: drive.  Is this a partition of one of your hard drives,
or is this a mapped network drive?  Perhaps more importantly, where is your LyX
user directory (Help  About LyX  Version, user directory)?  Once upon a time
there were problems with running LyX from a Windows roaming profile (home
directory on a mapped server); I don't know if that's still an issue.

/Paul

Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Dear Listers
I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
latex2rtf on my system 
Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
also not been able to use this.
I'd be very grateful for any help.
Best regards
MG
 

Re: Missing Header (File, Edit,View,Preferences) of Lyx Tool Bar in Ubuntu 10.10

[Pavel Sanda]

Ajay Ohri wrote:
> Dear List
> 
> Please forgive my ignorance but I am just not able to see the menu header in
> Lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/619811 ?
pavel

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Mathias GIREL  wrote:
> Dear Listers
> I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
> Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
> I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
> latex2rtf on my system
> Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
> also not been able to use this.
> I'd be very grateful for any help.

What exactly is the problem? latex2rtf is included in MacTex 2010.
Moreover, a latex to rtf file converter preference is already set by
default. So it should just work to select (in LyX-1.6) View > Rich
Text Format. If that's not true, try quitting LyX, moving aside your
user's directory (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) and
restarting LyX to see if any preference settings you have made are
interfering.

BH

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Thanks for the answer!

I did that, but alas to no avail. I have the export to RTF in the "File" menu, 
but when I try that, even with the standard "splash.lyx" file, I have the error 
message: 

"Une erreur s'est produite lors de l'exécution :
latex2rtf "splash.tex"."

(Something like: An error occurred while processing)

I have tried to move the user folder. Didn't change the error message.
(The export to opendocument does not work also, but in that case it is 
different: I have an odt output, but Ooo is not able to open it).

I have texlive2010 installed with MacTex. Is there a way to check that 
latex2rtf is actually installed? 

Best 
MG


Le 31 janv. 2011 à 14:03, BH a écrit :

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Mathias GIREL  wrote:
>> Dear Listers
>> I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow 
>> Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution.
>> I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install 
>> latex2rtf on my system
>> Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have 
>> also not been able to use this.
>> I'd be very grateful for any help.
> 
> What exactly is the problem? latex2rtf is included in MacTex 2010.
> Moreover, a latex to rtf file converter preference is already set by
> default. So it should just work to select (in LyX-1.6) View > Rich
> Text Format. If that's not true, try quitting LyX, moving aside your
> user's directory (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) and
> restarting LyX to see if any preference settings you have made are
> interfering.
> 
> BH

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias GIREL]

Dear all
I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think it 
was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html

I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but 
this seems to work smoothly now.
Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent, I'll 
be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
Best
MG

Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Mathias GIREL  wrote:
> Dear all
> I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think
> it was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.
> http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html
> I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but
> this seems to work smoothly now.
> Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent,
> I'll be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
> Best
> MG

Checking again, I was wrong about latex2rtf being a part of MacTeX, so
you do need to install it some other way. I'm glad it works for you
now.

(By the way, you can check if latex2rtf is installed by opening
Terminal.app and typing "which latex2rtf". If it returns a path, then
you have it; if you get nothing back, then you don't.)

BH

no instant preview (do I need dv2dt?)

[Neal Becker]

linux fedora 14 lyx 2.0.0beta3.  Used to have instant preview, but not anymore.

I do see "Unable to find executable from 'dv2dt'" on console.

Is dv2dt the only way to get instant preview?  Doesn't seem to be available
for fedora 14 via yum.

lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Neal Becker]

This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010 package from  Jindrich Novy 


checking for a Latex2e program...
+checking for "latex"...  yes
checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
+checking for "pplatex"...  no
checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
+checking for "platex"...  yes

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt platex.fmt

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)

What's the deal?

 latex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2011/dev)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
**

Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[stefano franchi]

Dear all,

I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
environment, I am afraid. Two questions:

1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
support auto-reload?

2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
Viewer, I mean)?

Thanks for the help,

Stefano

Re: lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Marcelo Acuña]

> This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010
> package from  Jindrich Novy 
> 
> 
> checking for a Latex2e program...
> +checking for "latex"...  yes

texlive 2010 work very well for me, with all 2.0 alphas and betas and 1.6.8 
versions.
I have debian lenny.

Marcelo

Re: lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

[Neal Becker]

On Monday 31 January 2011, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
> > This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010
> > package from  Jindrich Novy
> > 
> > 
> > checking for a Latex2e program...
> > +checking for "latex"...  yes
> 
> texlive 2010 work very well for me, with all 2.0 alphas and betas and 1.6.8
> versions. I have debian lenny.
> 
> Marcelo

Can you please tell me if you have:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jan 16 11:17 /usr/bin/latex -> pdftex

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
 wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
> way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
> reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
> environment, I am afraid. Two questions:
>
> 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
> support auto-reload?
>
> 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
> respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
> Viewer, I mean)?

Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
on previously.

I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.

An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
external editor).

BH

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[stefano franchi]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:39 AM, BH  wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
>  wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
>> way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
>> reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
>> environment, I am afraid. Two questions:
>>
>> 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
>> support auto-reload?
>>
>> 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
>> respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
>> Viewer, I mean)?
>
> Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
> reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
> did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
> also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
> on previously.
>
Thanks Bennett,

I'll check the Preview.app version.


> I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.
>
> An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
> works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
> external editor).
>

Is this the app made by the same developers as BibDesk? That's an excellent app.

Cheers,

Stefano

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of
the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you
want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
without asking this question).

2011/1/31 BH 

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi
>  wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a
> > way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically
> > reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac
> > environment, I am afraid. Two questions:
> >
> > 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both)
> > support auto-reload?
> >
> > 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their
> > respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File
> > Viewer, I mean)?
>
> Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to
> reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions
> did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it
> also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it
> on previously.
>
> I have no real experience with Adobe Reader.
>
> An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also
> works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an
> external editor).
>
> BH
>



-- 
Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
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Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[BH]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
 wrote:
> I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of
> the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you
> want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
> without asking this question).

Skim.app > Preferences > Sync ... and check the "Check for file changes" box.

BH

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

It is already checked in my case, but Skims asks if it must auto load the
pdf if I change it the first time. Afterwards, it does it automatically.

2011/1/31 BH 

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Murat Yildizoglu
>  wrote:
> > I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view
> of
> > the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that
> you
> > want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load
> > without asking this question).
>
> Skim.app > Preferences > Sync ... and check the "Check for file changes"
> box.
>
> BH
>



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Re: Is there a way keep hyperlinks in pasted text?

[Manveru]

2011/1/12 Joel Schwartz :
> Let's say I copy a block of text on a web page. Some of the words in this
> block of text include hyperlinks to other URLs (web pages, pdf files, etc.).
> When I copy and paste this text block into lyx, the hyperlinks are gone and
> just the text gets pasted. Is there a way to paste the text into lyx so that
> the hyperlinks are also included, or do I need to recreate the hyperlinks
> manually? The users' guide doesn't mention a way to keep the hyperlinks, so
> I'm guessing the answer is no, but I thought I'd check here just to make
> sure.

I think you say about pasting HTML text, so I think is not implemented
in LyX. I think this could be considered as feature request.


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Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)

[Mathias Girel]

Dear BH

Thanks! I have check on my second computer, my macbook, on which I had
not already performed the latex2rtf setup and the terminal command did
not return anything.
So this means that Mac users in general, with MacTeX and Lyx  cannot
in general use the export to rtf command?
Maybe the dmg in the link below should be mirrored in case it is
erased? It seems to be the only location for the pkg file.
Best regards
MG

So unless I'm
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:45 PM, BH  wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Mathias GIREL  
> wrote:
>> Dear all
>> I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think
>> it was missing from my distribution). You will find it here.
>> http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html
>> I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but
>> this seems to work smoothly now.
>> Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent,
>> I'll be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround.
>> Best
>> MG
>
> Checking again, I was wrong about latex2rtf being a part of MacTeX, so
> you do need to install it some other way. I'm glad it works for you
> now.
>
> (By the way, you can check if latex2rtf is installed by opening
> Terminal.app and typing "which latex2rtf". If it returns a path, then
> you have it; if you get nothing back, then you don't.)
>
> BH
>

Can Beamer convert to HTML also?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm making a Lua presentation for Linux Enthusiasts and Professionals of 
Central Florida (http://www.leap-cf.org) to be given on 2/17/2011. I'd like to 
make the presentation in Beamer because I think Beamer's the easiest authoring 
environment, especially now that I created my outline to beamer converter.

But because I need to rapidly copy and paste material from the presentation 
into source files, I want the presentation to be HTML and not PDF. Is there an 
option by which Beamer can be converted to HTML?

Also, is there a way to put source code in Beamer, kind of like lyx-code in 
LyX?

Thanks

SteveT

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Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

[Gabriel Kniffin]

I opened the script with python via command line. Here's the result:

"E:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\Resources\scripts>E:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\python\python
TeXFiles.py
Indexing files of type cls
Indexing files of type sty
Indexing files of type bst
Indexing files of type bib"

The python files do show up with the python icon in explorer. When I click
Tools > TeX Information I get the same error indicating TexFiles.py failed
and the window that opens to display the file list is empty (see attached
image).

Thanks,
-Gabe


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:

> On 01/28/2011 05:35 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote:
>
>> Thanks Richard,
>>
>> I just reinstalled LyX using LyX-1.6.8-2-Installer.exe but I'm still
>> having the same problem.
>>
>> I also checked to make sure TeXFiles.py file is there, which it is.
>>
>> I also noticed the same error happens when I go to Tools > TeX
>> Information.
>>
>> Any suggestions? Should I try installing a full version of python?
>>
>>  I've changed the subject to try to attract the attention of the Windows
> crowd. It certainly looks as if there is some problem with your python
> installation. You might want to try the alternate installer, which I think
> also installs a usable version of python.
>
> Richard
>
>
<>

Re: no instant preview (do I need dv2dt?)

[José Matos]

On Monday 31 January 2011 15:06:03 Neal Becker wrote:
> linux fedora 14 lyx 2.0.0beta3.  Used to have instant preview, but not
> anymore.
> 
> I do see "Unable to find executable from 'dv2dt'" on console.
> 
> Is dv2dt the only way to get instant preview?  Doesn't seem to be available
> for fedora 14 via yum.

Yes, it is. :-)

# repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/dv2dt
texlive-dtl-bin-0:2011-0.1.20110128.svn18336.fc14.i686
texlive-dviutils-0:2007-56.fc14.x86_64
texlive-dtl-bin-0:2011-0.1.20110128.svn18336.fc14.x86_64

Either you install texlive-dviutils from texlive-2007 or texlive-dtl-bin from 
texlive-20[10|11].

I will add this dependency automatically for the next version.
-- 
José Abílio

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

[Paul Rubin]

Gabriel Kniffin  gmail.com> writes:
 
> I opened the script with python via command line. Here's the
> result:
"E:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\Resources\scripts>E:\ProgramFiles\LyX16\python\
python TeXFiles.py
Indexing files of type cls
Indexing files of type sty
Indexing files of type bst
Indexing files of type bib"

> The python files do show up with the python icon in explorer. When I click
> Tools > TeX Information I get the same error indicating TexFiles.py
> failed and the window that opens to display the file list is empty
> (see attached image).Thanks,-Gabe


The output from the script is correct, and obviously the Python installation
that the LyX installer deposited on your system is working.  I noticed that LyX
is installed on your E: drive.  Is this a partition of one of your hard drives,
or is this a mapped network drive?  Perhaps more importantly, where is your LyX
user directory (Help > About LyX > Version, "user directory")?  Once upon a time
there were problems with running LyX from a Windows roaming profile (home
directory on a mapped server); I don't know if that's still an issue.

/Paul