Change between latex distributions

[Max Funk]

Hallo,

 

I installed the new lyx 1.6.9 and texlive 2010 in cygwin.

However, lyx uses always the old tetex-distribution.contained in cygwin.

 

Is there a possibility to change between distributions? 

 

AFAIK, there must be a setting path to latex.exe or similar... But I
absolutely didn't find it.

 

Regards

 

Re: Removing figure numbers

[Kristoffer Lawson]

On 3 Feb 2011, at 16:54, Richard Heck wrote:

 Oh, sorry, I didn't see that you want the caption but not the label.
 
 If that's what you want, then you will have to do something like redefine the 
 \@makecaption macro that is used to set the caption. I tried redefining 
 \fnum@figure to do nothing, but that leaves the : in front of the caption. 
 Here's the definition from article.cls:
 
 \long\def\@makecaption#1#2{%
  \vskip\abovecaptionskip
  \sbox\@tempboxa{#1: #2}%
  \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa \hsize
#1: #2\par
  \else
\global \@minipagefalse
\hb@xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}%
  \fi
  \vskip\belowcaptionskip}
 
 #1 is what you don't want. If you never want it, then you can just replace 
 #1: #2 with #2 and be done with it. If you want it in some cases but not 
 others, that is more complicated.

Thanks, I'll experiment with this. Possibly worth considering some option for 
this in LyX at some point?

I also notice a lot of people want to have images with captions which don't act 
as floats.

-- 
Kristoffer Lawson, Co-Founder, Scred // http://www.scred.com/
http://travellingsalesman.mobi - 1km  The world's most arctic startups

error on configuration

[abdelkader belahcene]

Hi every body

I tried to compile the last  version of lyx2 ( beta), I always got the error
:

* The following problems have been detected by configure.
 Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
 (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)

** qt 4 library not found !


I am using debian 6.0,  I have installed almost all packages relate to qt4 ,

here is the list ( sorry it is long)


dpkg  -S   libqt4 | awk '{print $1}'

libqt4-assistant
libqt4-core
libqt4-dbus
libqt4-designer
libqt4-dev
libqt4-gui
libqt4-help
libqt4-multimedia
libqt4-network
libqt4-opengl
libqt4-opengl-dev
libqt4-qt3support
libqt4-script
libqt4-scripttools
libqt4-sql
libqt4-sql-mysql
libqt4-sql-sqlite
libqt4-svg
libqt4-test
libqt4-webkit
libqt4-xml
libqt4-xmlpatterns


what is missing
thanks for help
regards

Re: error on configuration

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 01:14 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

Hi every body

I tried to compile the last  version of lyx2 ( beta), I always got the 
error :


* The following problems have been detected by configure.
 Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
 (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)

** qt 4 library not found !


I am using debian 6.0,  I have installed almost all packages relate to 
qt4 ,

here is the list ( sorry it is long)


dpkg  -S   libqt4 | awk '{print $1}'

I don't know debian specifically, but you need to devel versions of 
these packages, e.g., libqt4-core-devel, or something like that.


Richard

Re: Change between latex distributions

[Enrico Forestieri]

Max Funk writes:

 I installed the new lyx 1.6.9 and texlive 2010 in
 cygwin.
 
 However, lyx uses always the old tetex-distribution.contained
 in cygwin.
 
 Is there a possibility to change between distributions?
 
 AFAIK, there must be a setting “path to latex.exe”
 or similar... But I absolutely didn’t find it…

You have to add that path to Tools-Preferences-Paths-PATH prefix,
such that it appears before /usr/bin. Pay attention to use posix paths,
i.e., use /cygdrive/c/whatever instead of C:/whatever, as the colon is
the path separator in cygwin.

-- 
Enrico

how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[John]

Hello:
I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing, 
then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the 
Lyx text to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some 
other part of the document.  For example, I might be editing the end of 
the document, and after returning to Lyx and clicking on a sentence the 
screen will jump to the first page, or somewhere else.  It seems to 
happen about 25% of the time.  Its very annoying, as I have to scroll 
around to re-find the sentence I want to edit.  Sometimes the screen 
even jumps again when I try to put the cursor on my desired sentence.  I 
don't know if it is related to having floating picture frames on some of 
my pages.  Maybe the problem would not occur if I had only plain text.  
Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a fix? My document is about 
60 pages long.

Thanks, John.

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

John wrote:
 Has anyone else had this problem? 

yes

Is there a fix?

it should be fixed in newer versions.

pavel

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John j200...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello:
 I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing, then
 click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the Lyx text
 to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some other part
 of the document.

There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].
Liviu

[1] http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/08/17/lyx167
[2] https://launchpad.net/~lyx-outline-devel/+archive/lyx-stable



 For example, I might be editing the end of the document,
 and after returning to Lyx and clicking on a sentence the screen will jump
 to the first page, or somewhere else.  It seems to happen about 25% of the
 time.  Its very annoying, as I have to scroll around to re-find the sentence
 I want to edit.  Sometimes the screen even jumps again when I try to put the
 cursor on my desired sentence.  I don't know if it is related to having
 floating picture frames on some of my pages.  Maybe the problem would not
 occur if I had only plain text.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there
 a fix? My document is about 60 pages long.
 Thanks, John.




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Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Ernesto Posse]

I have noticed a similar problem when editing tables, specially tables
that contain formulas.

Whenever I have a table with many rows and math formulas
inside, and only part of the table is visible in the writing area, if
the cursor is outside the table, and I click inside a math formula,
the focus changes, and LyX rearranges the view so that the row where I
clicked goes to (near) the top of the writing area (sometimes to the
bottom). Actually this happens also when I click in some cell without
a math formula, but not always for some reason. I find this extremely
annoying, as I have to do this sort of editing very often so I get the
text bouncing around.

So my questions are:
1) is this a bug, or by design?
2) if by design, what is the reason for this behaviour?
3) Is there anyway to make LyX stop doing this?

(I'm using lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10)

Thanks.



On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 John wrote:
 Has anyone else had this problem?

 yes

Is there a fix?

 it should be fixed in newer versions.

 pavel




-- 
Ernesto Posse

Modelling and Analysis in Software Engineering
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 16:02:08 Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John j200...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hello:
  I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing,
  then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the
  Lyx text to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some
  other part of the document.
 
 There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
 shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].
 Liviu

Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic library in 
the future?

SteveT

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

SV: Including SAS output in latex

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi

. If I use sas.sty generated by SAS, where do I put it so Lyx will recognize 
it? I put in a folder and Refreshed FCNB on MikTex as per the help manual, but 
Lyx still couldn't find it.

This file needs to be recognised by LaTeX and should go somewhere MikTeX could 
find it. I guess this works?

The next you have top tell lyx that it needs to use it. This is done in the 
LaTeX preamble in Document-settings. just add on these two lines::
\usepackage{sas}
\usepackage{longtable}

This will give you the sas specific commands that are used by sas.( And the 
longtableenvironment, may not be necessary if you import the file).

Even if Lyx did find it, I think there would still be some issues because of 
the code in the latex file.
 get a million compilation errors like  misplaced \noalign with any of the 
 four latex files that can be
generated by SAS. I have attached tablesonly.tex
because I think this is the simplest file and also simple.tex.

Most of the errors should go away if you add the \usepackage{longtable}.

However the latex you send was also wrong. it should look something like this:

\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
  1  1 1 \\
\hline
  1 1  1 \\
\hline
   1 1 \\
\hline
\end{longtable}

You must move the \begin{longtable} to the start of the file.

So I guess you have to make sas produce correct latex to make it work, or 
massage it in an editor. Then it should be easy to import it as a latex file in 
lyx. Or you could copy it into a ERT-box.

I hope this helps.

Ingar

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:42:24PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Tuesday 08 February 2011 16:02:08 Liviu Andronic wrote:
  On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John j200...@gmail.com wrote:
   Hello: I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I
   am editing, then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then
   click back on the Lyx text to make a change, all too often the
   screen wildly jumps to some other part of the document.
  
  There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
  shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].  Liviu
 
 Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
 library in the future?

xforms was being discussed lately.

Andre'

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
library in the future?

xforms was being discussed lately.

Andre'


Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

Vincent

ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single spacing in
my document.

LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.

From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between
packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the
conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the thesis
class for my university which I'm including and it looks like it installs
the following packages:

\documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

\usepackage{units}

\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{nomencl}


Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any help?
 Thanks in advance.


Danny


msuthesis.cls
Description: Binary data

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 06:23 PM, Danny Parker wrote:
I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single 
spacing in my document.


LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.

From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between 
packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the 
conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the 
thesis class for my university which I'm including and it looks like 
it installs the following packages:


\documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

\usepackage{units}

\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{nomencl}


Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any 
help?  Thanks in advance.



If you look in your cls file, you will see that it does define a 
\singlespacing command. When you try to change to single spacing, LyX 
includes setspace.sty, which I think also defines a command by that 
name. The solution, for our purposes, is probably to change the command 
in the class file to something else, and then search and replace the 
other occurrences.


Richard

LyX 2.0beta4 windows installer (unofficial) is there!

[Michal Skrzypek]

 Pre-release of LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 4)
 ==
In case anyone is interested, I've created windows 'alternate'
installer of 2.0 beta4 (actually, it is slightly newer r37563, because
of the grave regression fixed there). It can be installed simultaneously
with previous betas, but some settings seem to be cleared while
'switching' between versions. Look there:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/unofficial/

WARNING: as I'm not a LyX developer, I'm not really sure about the
quality of this installer. It worked for me, though, and finally the
frequent crashes of beta3 are now gone.

I've created it because the official maintainer (Uwe Stöhr) is
currently offline, so there will be no official windows installers for
the time being.

I'm not subscribed there, so please cc me at ms (at) msys.info.

Regards,
Michał Skrzypek

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

Thanks a lot for the help.

Is that the line that says \newcommand{\singlespacing}{1}?  So I could
just replace all \singlespacing with something like \snglspcing?

If so, I'm not sure if that will address what I'm ultimately trying to do.
 My root problem is that when I insert a float figure, lyx's
\inlcudegraphics command has a caption that has the figure number and
caption on separate lines.  Where the thesis.cls defines a function \Figure
that supposedly does it all on one line (per the guidelines).  However, when
I insert ERT and call the classes function I get an error LaTeX Error:
Unknown graphics extension: .eps. which I don't know what to do with.  Any
suggestions there?

Danny



On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 02/08/2011 06:23 PM, Danny Parker wrote:

 I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single spacing in
 my document.

 LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.

 From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between
 packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the
 conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the thesis
 class for my university which I'm including and it looks like it installs
 the following packages:

 \documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}

 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

 \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

 \usepackage{units}

 \usepackage{textcomp}

 \usepackage{graphicx}

 \usepackage{setspace}

 \usepackage{nomencl}


 Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any help?
  Thanks in advance.


  If you look in your cls file, you will see that it does define a
 \singlespacing command. When you try to change to single spacing, LyX
 includes setspace.sty, which I think also defines a command by that name.
 The solution, for our purposes, is probably to change the command in the
 class file to something else, and then search and replace the other
 occurrences.

 Richard

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
 library in the future?
 xforms was being discussed lately.

 Andre'

 Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

finally we can get rid of unicode. hopefully! :)
p

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
 Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic library 
 in 
 the future?

big part of this issue is that there is no lyx maintainer in ubuntu so the
result is orphaned lyx package using wrong dependencies.
poor ubuntu users ;)

pavel

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 06:40 PM, Danny Parker wrote:

Thanks a lot for the help.

Is that the line that says \newcommand{\singlespacing}{1}?  So I 
could just replace all \singlespacing with something like \snglspcing?


Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the 
class file to \snglspcing.


If so, I'm not sure if that will address what I'm ultimately trying to 
do.  My root problem is that when I insert a float figure, lyx's 
\inlcudegraphics command has a caption that has the figure number and 
caption on separate lines.  Where the thesis.cls defines a function 
\Figure that supposedly does it all on one line (per the guidelines). 
 However, when I insert ERT and call the classes function I get an 
error LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. which I don't 
know what to do with.  Any suggestions there?


I'm less sure about that one, as I don't use graphics much in my own 
work. Try re-posting that particular problem. Someone else will know.


Richard

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Ernesto Posse wrote:
 So my questions are:
 1) is this a bug, or by design?

sounds like bug, but its unrelated to the previous report.

 2) if by design, what is the reason for this behaviour?
 3) Is there anyway to make LyX stop doing this?

try to scream in bug tracker...

pavel

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:17:07AM +0100, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 
 Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
 library in the future?
 xforms was being discussed lately.
 
 Andre'
 
 Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

Super cool cross-platform toolkit. Runs on several version of Unix, even
in parallel, with multiple users logged in, on Fridays. Also available
on Mac using darwin ports, and probably even on properly configured
Windows machines (i.e. with X server running)

Comes with a feature rich gui designer called 'fdesign' and incredible
unicode support. Lightweight by design, robust, mature, and easily 
maintainable by core LyX contributors.

Oh, and it uses git: git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/xforms.git 

Andre'

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

 Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the
 class file to \snglspcing.


Understood.  Thanks for all the help.

Danny

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the
 class file to \snglspcing.

Change between latex distributions

[Max Funk]

Hallo,

 

I installed the new lyx 1.6.9 and texlive 2010 in cygwin.

However, lyx uses always the old tetex-distribution.contained in cygwin.

 

Is there a possibility to change between distributions? 

 

AFAIK, there must be a setting path to latex.exe or similar... But I
absolutely didn't find it.

 

Regards

 

Re: Removing figure numbers

[Kristoffer Lawson]

On 3 Feb 2011, at 16:54, Richard Heck wrote:

 Oh, sorry, I didn't see that you want the caption but not the label.
 
 If that's what you want, then you will have to do something like redefine the 
 \@makecaption macro that is used to set the caption. I tried redefining 
 \fnum@figure to do nothing, but that leaves the : in front of the caption. 
 Here's the definition from article.cls:
 
 \long\def\@makecaption#1#2{%
  \vskip\abovecaptionskip
  \sbox\@tempboxa{#1: #2}%
  \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa \hsize
#1: #2\par
  \else
\global \@minipagefalse
\hb@xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}%
  \fi
  \vskip\belowcaptionskip}
 
 #1 is what you don't want. If you never want it, then you can just replace 
 #1: #2 with #2 and be done with it. If you want it in some cases but not 
 others, that is more complicated.

Thanks, I'll experiment with this. Possibly worth considering some option for 
this in LyX at some point?

I also notice a lot of people want to have images with captions which don't act 
as floats.

-- 
Kristoffer Lawson, Co-Founder, Scred // http://www.scred.com/
http://travellingsalesman.mobi - 1km  The world's most arctic startups

error on configuration

[abdelkader belahcene]

Hi every body

I tried to compile the last  version of lyx2 ( beta), I always got the error
:

* The following problems have been detected by configure.
 Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
 (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)

** qt 4 library not found !


I am using debian 6.0,  I have installed almost all packages relate to qt4 ,

here is the list ( sorry it is long)


dpkg  -S   libqt4 | awk '{print $1}'

libqt4-assistant
libqt4-core
libqt4-dbus
libqt4-designer
libqt4-dev
libqt4-gui
libqt4-help
libqt4-multimedia
libqt4-network
libqt4-opengl
libqt4-opengl-dev
libqt4-qt3support
libqt4-script
libqt4-scripttools
libqt4-sql
libqt4-sql-mysql
libqt4-sql-sqlite
libqt4-svg
libqt4-test
libqt4-webkit
libqt4-xml
libqt4-xmlpatterns


what is missing
thanks for help
regards

Re: error on configuration

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 01:14 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

Hi every body

I tried to compile the last  version of lyx2 ( beta), I always got the 
error :


* The following problems have been detected by configure.
 Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
 (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)

** qt 4 library not found !


I am using debian 6.0,  I have installed almost all packages relate to 
qt4 ,

here is the list ( sorry it is long)


dpkg  -S   libqt4 | awk '{print $1}'

I don't know debian specifically, but you need to devel versions of 
these packages, e.g., libqt4-core-devel, or something like that.


Richard

Re: Change between latex distributions

[Enrico Forestieri]

Max Funk writes:

 I installed the new lyx 1.6.9 and texlive 2010 in
 cygwin.
 
 However, lyx uses always the old tetex-distribution.contained
 in cygwin.
 
 Is there a possibility to change between distributions?
 
 AFAIK, there must be a setting “path to latex.exe”
 or similar... But I absolutely didn’t find it…

You have to add that path to Tools-Preferences-Paths-PATH prefix,
such that it appears before /usr/bin. Pay attention to use posix paths,
i.e., use /cygdrive/c/whatever instead of C:/whatever, as the colon is
the path separator in cygwin.

-- 
Enrico

how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[John]

Hello:
I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing, 
then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the 
Lyx text to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some 
other part of the document.  For example, I might be editing the end of 
the document, and after returning to Lyx and clicking on a sentence the 
screen will jump to the first page, or somewhere else.  It seems to 
happen about 25% of the time.  Its very annoying, as I have to scroll 
around to re-find the sentence I want to edit.  Sometimes the screen 
even jumps again when I try to put the cursor on my desired sentence.  I 
don't know if it is related to having floating picture frames on some of 
my pages.  Maybe the problem would not occur if I had only plain text.  
Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a fix? My document is about 
60 pages long.

Thanks, John.

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

John wrote:
 Has anyone else had this problem? 

yes

Is there a fix?

it should be fixed in newer versions.

pavel

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John j200...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello:
 I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing, then
 click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the Lyx text
 to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some other part
 of the document.

There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].
Liviu

[1] http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/08/17/lyx167
[2] https://launchpad.net/~lyx-outline-devel/+archive/lyx-stable



 For example, I might be editing the end of the document,
 and after returning to Lyx and clicking on a sentence the screen will jump
 to the first page, or somewhere else.  It seems to happen about 25% of the
 time.  Its very annoying, as I have to scroll around to re-find the sentence
 I want to edit.  Sometimes the screen even jumps again when I try to put the
 cursor on my desired sentence.  I don't know if it is related to having
 floating picture frames on some of my pages.  Maybe the problem would not
 occur if I had only plain text.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there
 a fix? My document is about 60 pages long.
 Thanks, John.




-- 
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Ernesto Posse]

I have noticed a similar problem when editing tables, specially tables
that contain formulas.

Whenever I have a table with many rows and math formulas
inside, and only part of the table is visible in the writing area, if
the cursor is outside the table, and I click inside a math formula,
the focus changes, and LyX rearranges the view so that the row where I
clicked goes to (near) the top of the writing area (sometimes to the
bottom). Actually this happens also when I click in some cell without
a math formula, but not always for some reason. I find this extremely
annoying, as I have to do this sort of editing very often so I get the
text bouncing around.

So my questions are:
1) is this a bug, or by design?
2) if by design, what is the reason for this behaviour?
3) Is there anyway to make LyX stop doing this?

(I'm using lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10)

Thanks.



On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 John wrote:
 Has anyone else had this problem?

 yes

Is there a fix?

 it should be fixed in newer versions.

 pavel




-- 
Ernesto Posse

Modelling and Analysis in Software Engineering
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 16:02:08 Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John j200...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hello:
  I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing,
  then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the
  Lyx text to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some
  other part of the document.
 
 There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
 shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].
 Liviu

Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic library in 
the future?

SteveT

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

SV: Including SAS output in latex

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi

. If I use sas.sty generated by SAS, where do I put it so Lyx will recognize 
it? I put in a folder and Refreshed FCNB on MikTex as per the help manual, but 
Lyx still couldn't find it.

This file needs to be recognised by LaTeX and should go somewhere MikTeX could 
find it. I guess this works?

The next you have top tell lyx that it needs to use it. This is done in the 
LaTeX preamble in Document-settings. just add on these two lines::
\usepackage{sas}
\usepackage{longtable}

This will give you the sas specific commands that are used by sas.( And the 
longtableenvironment, may not be necessary if you import the file).

Even if Lyx did find it, I think there would still be some issues because of 
the code in the latex file.
 get a million compilation errors like  misplaced \noalign with any of the 
 four latex files that can be
generated by SAS. I have attached tablesonly.tex
because I think this is the simplest file and also simple.tex.

Most of the errors should go away if you add the \usepackage{longtable}.

However the latex you send was also wrong. it should look something like this:

\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
  1  1 1 \\
\hline
  1 1  1 \\
\hline
   1 1 \\
\hline
\end{longtable}

You must move the \begin{longtable} to the start of the file.

So I guess you have to make sas produce correct latex to make it work, or 
massage it in an editor. Then it should be easy to import it as a latex file in 
lyx. Or you could copy it into a ERT-box.

I hope this helps.

Ingar

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:42:24PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Tuesday 08 February 2011 16:02:08 Liviu Andronic wrote:
  On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John j200...@gmail.com wrote:
   Hello: I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I
   am editing, then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then
   click back on the Lyx text to make a change, all too often the
   screen wildly jumps to some other part of the document.
  
  There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
  shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].  Liviu
 
 Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
 library in the future?

xforms was being discussed lately.

Andre'

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
library in the future?

xforms was being discussed lately.

Andre'


Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

Vincent

ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single spacing in
my document.

LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.

From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between
packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the
conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the thesis
class for my university which I'm including and it looks like it installs
the following packages:

\documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

\usepackage{units}

\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{nomencl}


Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any help?
 Thanks in advance.


Danny


msuthesis.cls
Description: Binary data

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 06:23 PM, Danny Parker wrote:
I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single 
spacing in my document.


LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.

From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between 
packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the 
conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the 
thesis class for my university which I'm including and it looks like 
it installs the following packages:


\documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

\usepackage{units}

\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{nomencl}


Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any 
help?  Thanks in advance.



If you look in your cls file, you will see that it does define a 
\singlespacing command. When you try to change to single spacing, LyX 
includes setspace.sty, which I think also defines a command by that 
name. The solution, for our purposes, is probably to change the command 
in the class file to something else, and then search and replace the 
other occurrences.


Richard

LyX 2.0beta4 windows installer (unofficial) is there!

[Michal Skrzypek]

 Pre-release of LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 4)
 ==
In case anyone is interested, I've created windows 'alternate'
installer of 2.0 beta4 (actually, it is slightly newer r37563, because
of the grave regression fixed there). It can be installed simultaneously
with previous betas, but some settings seem to be cleared while
'switching' between versions. Look there:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/unofficial/

WARNING: as I'm not a LyX developer, I'm not really sure about the
quality of this installer. It worked for me, though, and finally the
frequent crashes of beta3 are now gone.

I've created it because the official maintainer (Uwe Stöhr) is
currently offline, so there will be no official windows installers for
the time being.

I'm not subscribed there, so please cc me at ms (at) msys.info.

Regards,
Michał Skrzypek

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

Thanks a lot for the help.

Is that the line that says \newcommand{\singlespacing}{1}?  So I could
just replace all \singlespacing with something like \snglspcing?

If so, I'm not sure if that will address what I'm ultimately trying to do.
 My root problem is that when I insert a float figure, lyx's
\inlcudegraphics command has a caption that has the figure number and
caption on separate lines.  Where the thesis.cls defines a function \Figure
that supposedly does it all on one line (per the guidelines).  However, when
I insert ERT and call the classes function I get an error LaTeX Error:
Unknown graphics extension: .eps. which I don't know what to do with.  Any
suggestions there?

Danny



On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 02/08/2011 06:23 PM, Danny Parker wrote:

 I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single spacing in
 my document.

 LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.

 From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between
 packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the
 conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the thesis
 class for my university which I'm including and it looks like it installs
 the following packages:

 \documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}

 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

 \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

 \usepackage{units}

 \usepackage{textcomp}

 \usepackage{graphicx}

 \usepackage{setspace}

 \usepackage{nomencl}


 Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any help?
  Thanks in advance.


  If you look in your cls file, you will see that it does define a
 \singlespacing command. When you try to change to single spacing, LyX
 includes setspace.sty, which I think also defines a command by that name.
 The solution, for our purposes, is probably to change the command in the
 class file to something else, and then search and replace the other
 occurrences.

 Richard

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
 library in the future?
 xforms was being discussed lately.

 Andre'

 Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

finally we can get rid of unicode. hopefully! :)
p

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
 Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic library 
 in 
 the future?

big part of this issue is that there is no lyx maintainer in ubuntu so the
result is orphaned lyx package using wrong dependencies.
poor ubuntu users ;)

pavel

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 06:40 PM, Danny Parker wrote:

Thanks a lot for the help.

Is that the line that says \newcommand{\singlespacing}{1}?  So I 
could just replace all \singlespacing with something like \snglspcing?


Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the 
class file to \snglspcing.


If so, I'm not sure if that will address what I'm ultimately trying to 
do.  My root problem is that when I insert a float figure, lyx's 
\inlcudegraphics command has a caption that has the figure number and 
caption on separate lines.  Where the thesis.cls defines a function 
\Figure that supposedly does it all on one line (per the guidelines). 
 However, when I insert ERT and call the classes function I get an 
error LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. which I don't 
know what to do with.  Any suggestions there?


I'm less sure about that one, as I don't use graphics much in my own 
work. Try re-posting that particular problem. Someone else will know.


Richard

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Ernesto Posse wrote:
 So my questions are:
 1) is this a bug, or by design?

sounds like bug, but its unrelated to the previous report.

 2) if by design, what is the reason for this behaviour?
 3) Is there anyway to make LyX stop doing this?

try to scream in bug tracker...

pavel

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:17:07AM +0100, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 
 Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
 library in the future?
 xforms was being discussed lately.
 
 Andre'
 
 Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

Super cool cross-platform toolkit. Runs on several version of Unix, even
in parallel, with multiple users logged in, on Fridays. Also available
on Mac using darwin ports, and probably even on properly configured
Windows machines (i.e. with X server running)

Comes with a feature rich gui designer called 'fdesign' and incredible
unicode support. Lightweight by design, robust, mature, and easily 
maintainable by core LyX contributors.

Oh, and it uses git: git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/xforms.git 

Andre'

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

 Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the
 class file to \snglspcing.


Understood.  Thanks for all the help.

Danny

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the
 class file to \snglspcing.

Change between latex distributions

[Max Funk]

Hallo,

 

I installed the new lyx 1.6.9 and texlive 2010 in cygwin.

However, lyx uses always the old tetex-distribution.contained in cygwin.

 

Is there a possibility to change between distributions? 

 

AFAIK, there must be a setting "path to latex.exe" or similar... But I
absolutely didn't find it.

 

Regards

 

Re: Removing figure numbers

[Kristoffer Lawson]

On 3 Feb 2011, at 16:54, Richard Heck wrote:

> Oh, sorry, I didn't see that you want the caption but not the label.
> 
> If that's what you want, then you will have to do something like redefine the 
> \@makecaption macro that is used to set the caption. I tried redefining 
> \fnum@figure to do nothing, but that leaves the ":" in front of the caption. 
> Here's the definition from article.cls:
> 
> \long\def\@makecaption#1#2{%
>  \vskip\abovecaptionskip
>  \sbox\@tempboxa{#1: #2}%
>  \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize
>#1: #2\par
>  \else
>\global \@minipagefalse
>\hb@xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}%
>  \fi
>  \vskip\belowcaptionskip}
> 
> #1 is what you don't want. If you never want it, then you can just replace 
> "#1: #2" with "#2" and be done with it. If you want it in some cases but not 
> others, that is more complicated.

Thanks, I'll experiment with this. Possibly worth considering some option for 
this in LyX at some point?

I also notice a lot of people want to have images with captions which don't act 
as floats.

-- 
Kristoffer Lawson, Co-Founder, Scred // http://www.scred.com/
http://travellingsalesman.mobi - 1km & The world's most arctic startups

error on configuration

[abdelkader belahcene]

Hi every body

I tried to compile the last  version of lyx2 ( beta), I always got the error
:

* The following problems have been detected by configure.
 Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
 (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)

** qt 4 library not found !


I am using debian 6.0,  I have installed almost all packages relate to qt4 ,

here is the list ( sorry it is long)


dpkg  -S   libqt4 | awk '{print $1}'

libqt4-assistant
libqt4-core
libqt4-dbus
libqt4-designer
libqt4-dev
libqt4-gui
libqt4-help
libqt4-multimedia
libqt4-network
libqt4-opengl
libqt4-opengl-dev
libqt4-qt3support
libqt4-script
libqt4-scripttools
libqt4-sql
libqt4-sql-mysql
libqt4-sql-sqlite
libqt4-svg
libqt4-test
libqt4-webkit
libqt4-xml
libqt4-xmlpatterns


what is missing
thanks for help
regards

Re: error on configuration

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 01:14 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

Hi every body

I tried to compile the last  version of lyx2 ( beta), I always got the 
error :


* The following problems have been detected by configure.
 Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
 (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)

** qt 4 library not found !


I am using debian 6.0,  I have installed almost all packages relate to 
qt4 ,

here is the list ( sorry it is long)


dpkg  -S   libqt4 | awk '{print $1}'

I don't know debian specifically, but you need to devel versions of 
these packages, e.g., libqt4-core-devel, or something like that.


Richard

Re: Change between latex distributions

[Enrico Forestieri]

Max Funk writes:

> I installed the new lyx 1.6.9 and texlive 2010 in
> cygwin.
> 
> However, lyx uses always the old tetex-distribution.contained
> in cygwin.
> 
> Is there a possibility to change between distributions?
> 
> AFAIK, there must be a setting “path to latex.exe”
> or similar... But I absolutely didn’t find it…

You have to add that path to Tools->Preferences->Paths->PATH prefix,
such that it appears before /usr/bin. Pay attention to use posix paths,
i.e., use /cygdrive/c/whatever instead of C:/whatever, as the colon is
the path separator in cygwin.

-- 
Enrico

how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[John]

Hello:
I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing, 
then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the 
Lyx text to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some 
other part of the document.  For example, I might be editing the end of 
the document, and after returning to Lyx and clicking on a sentence the 
screen will jump to the first page, or somewhere else.  It seems to 
happen about 25% of the time.  Its very annoying, as I have to scroll 
around to re-find the sentence I want to edit.  Sometimes the screen 
even jumps again when I try to put the cursor on my desired sentence.  I 
don't know if it is related to having floating picture frames on some of 
my pages.  Maybe the problem would not occur if I had only plain text.  
Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a fix? My document is about 
60 pages long.

Thanks, John.

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

John wrote:
> Has anyone else had this problem? 

yes

>Is there a fix?

it should be fixed in newer versions.

pavel

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John  wrote:
> Hello:
> I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing, then
> click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the Lyx text
> to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some other part
> of the document.
>
There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].
Liviu

[1] http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/08/17/lyx167
[2] https://launchpad.net/~lyx-outline-devel/+archive/lyx-stable



> For example, I might be editing the end of the document,
> and after returning to Lyx and clicking on a sentence the screen will jump
> to the first page, or somewhere else.  It seems to happen about 25% of the
> time.  Its very annoying, as I have to scroll around to re-find the sentence
> I want to edit.  Sometimes the screen even jumps again when I try to put the
> cursor on my desired sentence.  I don't know if it is related to having
> floating picture frames on some of my pages.  Maybe the problem would not
> occur if I had only plain text.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there
> a fix? My document is about 60 pages long.
> Thanks, John.
>



-- 
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Do you know how to write?
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Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Ernesto Posse]

I have noticed a similar problem when editing tables, specially tables
that contain formulas.

Whenever I have a table with many rows and math formulas
inside, and only part of the table is visible in the writing area, if
the cursor is outside the table, and I click inside a math formula,
the focus changes, and LyX rearranges the view so that the row where I
clicked goes to (near) the top of the writing area (sometimes to the
bottom). Actually this happens also when I click in some cell without
a math formula, but not always for some reason. I find this extremely
annoying, as I have to do this sort of editing very often so I get the
text bouncing around.

So my questions are:
1) is this a bug, or by design?
2) if by design, what is the reason for this behaviour?
3) Is there anyway to make LyX stop doing this?

(I'm using lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10)

Thanks.



On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> John wrote:
>> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> yes
>
>>Is there a fix?
>
> it should be fixed in newer versions.
>
> pavel
>



-- 
Ernesto Posse

Modelling and Analysis in Software Engineering
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 16:02:08 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John  wrote:
> > Hello:
> > I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I am editing,
> > then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then click back on the
> > Lyx text to make a change, all too often the screen wildly jumps to some
> > other part of the document.
> 
> There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
> shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].
> Liviu

Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic library in 
the future?

SteveT

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

SV: Including SAS output in latex

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi

>. If I use sas.sty generated by SAS, where do I put it so Lyx will recognize 
>it? I put in a folder and Refreshed FCNB on MikTex as per the help manual, but 
>Lyx still couldn't find it.

This file needs to be recognised by LaTeX and should go somewhere MikTeX could 
find it. I guess this works?

The next you have top tell lyx that it needs to use it. This is done in the 
LaTeX preamble in Document->settings. just add on these two lines::
\usepackage{sas}
\usepackage{longtable}

This will give you the sas specific commands that are used by sas.( And the 
longtableenvironment, may not be necessary if you import the file).

>Even if Lyx did find it, I think there would still be some issues because of 
>the code in the latex file.
> get a million compilation errors like  misplaced "\noalign" with any of the 
> four latex files that can be
>generated by SAS. I have attached tablesonly.tex
>because I think this is the simplest file and also simple.tex.

Most of the errors should go away if you add the \usepackage{longtable}.

However the latex you send was also wrong. it should look something like this:

\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
 & 1 & 1 &1 \\
\hline
 & 1 &1  &1 \\
\hline
 &  1& 1 &\\
\hline
\end{longtable}

You must move the \begin{longtable} to the start of the file.

So I guess you have to make sas produce correct latex to make it work, or 
massage it in an editor. Then it should be easy to import it as a latex file in 
lyx. Or you could copy it into a ERT-box.

I hope this helps.

Ingar

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:42:24PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 February 2011 16:02:08 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John  wrote:
> > > Hello: I use Lyx 1.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. Lyx works fine, but if I
> > > am editing, then click the pdf icon to view the pdf output, then
> > > click back on the Lyx text to make a change, all too often the
> > > screen wildly jumps to some other part of the document.
> > 
> > There are known incompatibilities between the LyX and Qt versions
> > shipped in 10.04. Try [1][2].  Liviu
> 
> Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
> library in the future?

xforms was being discussed lately.

Andre'

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
library in the future?

xforms was being discussed lately.

Andre'


Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

Vincent

ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single spacing in
my document.

LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.

>From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between
packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the
conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the thesis
class for my university which I'm including and it looks like it installs
the following packages:

\documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

\usepackage{units}

\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{nomencl}


Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any help?
 Thanks in advance.


Danny


msuthesis.cls
Description: Binary data

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 06:23 PM, Danny Parker wrote:
I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single 
spacing in my document.


LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.

From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between 
packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the 
conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the 
thesis class for my university which I'm including and it looks like 
it installs the following packages:


\documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

\usepackage{units}

\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{nomencl}


Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any 
help?  Thanks in advance.



If you look in your cls file, you will see that it does define a 
\singlespacing command. When you try to change to single spacing, LyX 
includes setspace.sty, which I think also defines a command by that 
name. The solution, for our purposes, is probably to change the command 
in the class file to something else, and then search and replace the 
other occurrences.


Richard

LyX 2.0beta4 windows installer (unofficial) is there!

[Michal Skrzypek]

> Pre-release of LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 4)
> ==
In case anyone is interested, I've created windows 'alternate'
installer of 2.0 beta4 (actually, it is slightly newer r37563, because
of the grave regression fixed there). It can be installed simultaneously
with previous betas, but some settings seem to be cleared while
'switching' between versions. Look there:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/unofficial/

WARNING: as I'm not a LyX developer, I'm not really sure about the
quality of this installer. It worked for me, though, and finally the
frequent crashes of beta3 are now gone.

I've created it because the official maintainer (Uwe Stöhr) is
currently offline, so there will be no official windows installers for
the time being.

I'm not subscribed there, so please cc me at ms (at) msys.info.

Regards,
Michał Skrzypek

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

Thanks a lot for the help.

Is that the line that says "\newcommand{\singlespacing}{1}"?  So I could
just replace all \singlespacing with something like \snglspcing?

If so, I'm not sure if that will address what I'm ultimately trying to do.
 My root problem is that when I insert a float figure, lyx's
\inlcudegraphics command has a caption that has the figure number and
caption on separate lines.  Where the thesis.cls defines a function \Figure
that supposedly does it all on one line (per the guidelines).  However, when
I insert ERT and call the classes function I get an error "LaTeX Error:
Unknown graphics extension: .eps." which I don't know what to do with.  Any
suggestions there?

Danny



On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:

> On 02/08/2011 06:23 PM, Danny Parker wrote:
>
>> I'm getting the following error when trying to switch to single spacing in
>> my document.
>>
>> LaTeX Error: Command \singlespacing already defined.
>>
>> From reading up on similar errors I think it may be a conflict between
>> packages but I'm not experienced enough to know which ones cause the
>> conflict and which ones can be deleted.  My document class is the thesis
>> class for my university which I'm including and it looks like it installs
>> the following packages:
>>
>> \documentclass[oneside,english]{msuthesis}
>>
>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>>
>> \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
>>
>> \usepackage{units}
>>
>> \usepackage{textcomp}
>>
>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>>
>> \usepackage{setspace}
>>
>> \usepackage{nomencl}
>>
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction since Google wasn't any help?
>>  Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>  If you look in your cls file, you will see that it does define a
> \singlespacing command. When you try to change to single spacing, LyX
> includes setspace.sty, which I think also defines a command by that name.
> The solution, for our purposes, is probably to change the command in the
> class file to something else, and then search and replace the other
> occurrences.
>
> Richard
>
>

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
>>> Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
>>> library in the future?
>> xforms was being discussed lately.
>>
>> Andre'
>
> Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

finally we can get rid of unicode. hopefully! :)
p

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
> Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic library 
> in 
> the future?

big part of this issue is that there is no lyx maintainer in ubuntu so the
result is orphaned lyx package using wrong dependencies.
poor ubuntu users ;)

pavel

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Richard Heck]

On 02/08/2011 06:40 PM, Danny Parker wrote:

Thanks a lot for the help.

Is that the line that says "\newcommand{\singlespacing}{1}"?  So I 
could just replace all \singlespacing with something like \snglspcing?


Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the 
class file to \snglspcing.


If so, I'm not sure if that will address what I'm ultimately trying to 
do.  My root problem is that when I insert a float figure, lyx's 
\inlcudegraphics command has a caption that has the figure number and 
caption on separate lines.  Where the thesis.cls defines a function 
\Figure that supposedly does it all on one line (per the guidelines). 
 However, when I insert ERT and call the classes function I get an 
error "LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps." which I don't 
know what to do with.  Any suggestions there?


I'm less sure about that one, as I don't use graphics much in my own 
work. Try re-posting that particular problem. Someone else will know.


Richard

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Pavel Sanda]

Ernesto Posse wrote:
> So my questions are:
> 1) is this a bug, or by design?

sounds like bug, but its unrelated to the previous report.

> 2) if by design, what is the reason for this behaviour?
> 3) Is there anyway to make LyX stop doing this?

try to scream in bug tracker...

pavel

Re: how to stop annoying screen jumps?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:17:07AM +0100, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
> 
> >>Ah yes, Qt4 issues again. Any thoughts of using a different graphic
> >>library in the future?
> >xforms was being discussed lately.
> >
> >Andre'
> 
> Interesting. Could you tell a bit more about xforms ?

Super cool cross-platform toolkit. Runs on several version of Unix, even
in parallel, with multiple users logged in, on Fridays. Also available
on Mac using darwin ports, and probably even on properly configured
Windows machines (i.e. with X server running)

Comes with a feature rich gui designer called 'fdesign' and incredible
unicode support. Lightweight by design, robust, mature, and easily 
maintainable by core LyX contributors.

Oh, and it uses git: git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/xforms.git 

Andre'

Re: ERROR: \singlespacing already defined when using paragraph settings

[Danny Parker]

>
> Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the
> class file to \snglspcing.


Understood.  Thanks for all the help.

Danny

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:

> Yes, but then you have to change all the \singlespacing commands in the
> class file to \snglspcing.