Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Ignacio García]

Diego Queiroz wrote
 The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful.
 Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator.

 In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document
 configuration some place to determine these regional configurations.

This behavior is available in 2.0. There is an option in the table settings
See you please Embedded Objects manual sec. 2.12.2 for more details

Ignacio G.

Lyx error

[Stan]

Hi everybody,

i changed the language package in lyx properties from automatic to custom and 
added the needed languages manually: 
\usepackage[greek,english,british,ngerman]{babel}. Now it woks.

Thanks.
Stan

Natbib Citation Style (\citet command) mandatory with Biblatex module and LyX 2.0 (even RC3)

[Jesper Stemann Andersen]

Hi,

In contrast to LyX 1.6, with LyX 2.0 (even RC3), when selecting the 
Biblatex-citation-styles module [1], the Bibliography - Citation Style 
preference is forced to Natbib and all citations are set with a \citet instead 
of a \cite in the source code.

Without the natbib=true option for biblatex in the LaTeX Preamble errors occur. 
The wiki documentation [1] does not mention natbib=true as a mandatory option, 
so has an error been introduced in the LyX 2.0 source code or should the wiki 
documentation merely be updated to indicate natbib=true as mandatory?

[1]: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex

A minimal LyX-file displaying the problem is attached.

Best regards,
Jesper Stemann Andersen


Biblatex-natbib-problem.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: A basic requested feature

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-04-13, Diego Queiroz wrote:

 Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something in
 all of them and hit Save all.
 With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file
 (based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each
 document.
 I bet I can't do the same if newfile or Untitled was the result.

You loose. LyX adds a number.

And for me, a bunch fo newfilen.lyx is easier to recognize as
wanting a proper filename or needs to be removed than any other
wild guess.

 IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas.

But we need to avoid featuritis and sort the good from the not so
good ideas. If not for complete rejection, so at least to priorize on
what is important. Feel free to file an enhancement request at track
with a link to the thread.

Günter

Pdf problem

[Ville Iiskola]

Hi

I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader just opened 
but the file did not open..
What could be the problem?

Ville

Re: Pdf problem

[Richard Heck]

On 04/13/2011 05:03 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote:

Hi
I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader 
just opened but the file did not open..

What could be the problem?
This probably means there was an error and the file was not produced. I 
guess the next question is: What was the error?


Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

 Hey LyX developers!

 As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the
 \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file
 should be saved as.



In principle, I could live with proposing the title as the file name.
That sort of makes sense if you are used to create documents with
short meaningful titles. However, the titles in my case are usually 2
lines long and it's way too clumsy to use that as the file name.

I can see the use case here, but I don't know yet how I can prevent
from getting it annoy me by proposing file names that are way too
long.

I absolutely do not want LyX to use the first line of the doc. I
imagine I will end up with tons of documents with nonsense names. Then
I'd rather have newfile1...newfile100. If I don't care enough to give
them a proper name they probably can be marked as to-be-removed.

I would encourage people to think a few seconds how to call their
documents. That will save some time in searching for them later on.

Vincent

Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
packages:

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

Data: 
C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
Line: 120
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
Invokers: explorer
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
anybody know how to solve it?

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Problem solved. PDFLatex doesn't die after a problematic run due to an
uninstalled package. It was blocking some files which, I guess, needed
to be modified by the Package Manager. After killing PDFLatex
installation run smoothly.

This was an undocumented error as far as I know. I hope this message
will be stored in Google's indexes for all eternity, making
troubleshooting a simpler task. ;)

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
 1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
 packages:

 MiKTeX Problem Report
 Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

 Data: 
 C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
 Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
 Line: 120
 MiKTeX: 2.9
 OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
 Invokers: explorer
 SystemAdmin: yes
 PowerUser: no
 Root0: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root1: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
 UserInstall: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 UserConfig: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 UserData: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
 CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

 I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
 anybody know how to solve it?

 Regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: A basic requested feature

[Sam Lewis]

 IMO, we need to improve the functionality of
 LyX, and not block good ideas.

Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on 
functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs 
to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.

Cheers, Sam

LyX Outline

[Chris Hulme-Lowe]

Hello LyXers,

I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though  
I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across  
one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of  
the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38  
characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline  
window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been  
corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this  
might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just  
a setting somewhere in the program?


I'm running OSX Leopard (10.5.8) and LyX 2.0.0rc2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Chris Hulme-Lowe
University of Minnesota
Department of Psychology

Re: LyX Outline

[Richard Heck]

On 04/13/2011 10:26 AM, Chris Hulme-Lowe wrote:

Hello LyXers,

I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though 
I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across 
one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of 
the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38 
characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline 
window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been 
corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this 
might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just 
a setting somewhere in the program?


This limit is hardcoded, so as not to overwhelm the outline view. That 
view is really intended more as a navigation tool than as an outline in 
the sense you mean. You can use LyX to construct outlines, of course, 
but that would all happen in the main window.


Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

[Diego Queiroz]

 You loose. LyX adds a number.

It was just an example. If LyX adds an ID or not, it doesn't really matter.
There is no link between the number and the contents of the document.

 If not for complete rejection, so at least to priorize on what is
important.

You're right. But I'm not trying to convince this is the most important
feature. I am just telling this is a good feature.

 I absolutely do not want LyX to use the first line of the doc. I imagine I
will end up with tons of documents with nonsense names. Then I'd rather have
newfile1...newfile100. If I don't care enough to give them a proper name
they probably can be marked as to-be-removed.

You're not the only one that write papers with very long titles (I also do
the same). But other softwares that suggest a filename (like MS Word) does
not have problems with this right? Of course LyX will need to handle these
things (limit the filename, remove illegal characters, and other things as
well). This is not a big concern.

You're right that sometimes we don't care to give good names for our files
just because they are to-be-removed files. But I'm sure you do care to open
various files to find something just because you decided to not give a
proper filename in the past.

 I would encourage people to think a few seconds how to call
their documents. That will save some time in searching for them later on.

You get the point!
And how can LyX aid users to achieve this? Yes, you guessed right! Proposing
filenames!
The title is easy to get, but in a higher level of discussion we may also
want to discuss if the title/first sentence/etc is the better string to get.
Maybe some info based on the master document or the document structure? (as
Chapter-5, Appendix, etc). I dunno.
There are lots of things to consider and this basic requested feature
could be improved to a most wanted feature.

 Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas
on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it
needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.

You're absolutely right.
Someone may suggest that we include an embedded SVG editor in LyX. Of course
it would be handy, but before implement it we need to talk if does make
sense, given the difficuties to implement. how important and desired the
feature is, if there alternatives, and so on.
However, we are not talking about an embedded SVG editor and nobody is
saying this feature should be implemented independent of the community
opinion. I am just trying to defend that this idea is good.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Sam Lewis stroboscopicallyconflu...@yahoo.co.uk

  IMO, we need to improve the functionality of
  LyX, and not block good ideas.

 Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on
 functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it
 needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.

 Cheers, Sam

Re: LyX Outline

[Steve Litt]

Wrong tool. To outline LyX documents you need VimOutliner 
(http://www.vimoutliner.net). Much faster outlining, much more useful 
outlining. Then, when your outline is done, you can convert it to LyX. 
Attached is the conversion tool I use, along with a sample level-environment-
table file. It spits out LyX code out stdout, you capture that in a file, and 
paste it into a dummy LyX file. That gives you your outline in the proper LyX 
environments.

I've used VimOutliner to outline the following books:

* Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist (  100,000 words)
* Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting
* Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
* Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
* Learn Vim Tonight
* Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business
* Thriving in Tough Times (  85,000 words)
* My new so far untitled book due in May (  100,000 words)

VimOutliner's the only outlining tool I've seen fast enough to keep up with my 
mental activities, so I never forget an idea while messing with my outliner. I 
can't imagine outlining a book using any other software.

SteveT


On Wednesday 13 April 2011 10:26:47 Chris Hulme-Lowe wrote:
 Hello LyXers,
 
 I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though
 I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across
 one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of
 the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38
 characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline
 window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been
 corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this
 might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just
 a setting somewhere in the program?
 
 I'm running OSX Leopard (10.5.8) and LyX 2.0.0rc2.
 
 Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
 Chris Hulme-Lowe
 University of Minnesota
 Department of Psychology

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



otl2lyx.awk
Description: application/awk
0: Part   
1: Chapter
2: Section
3: Subsection
4: Subsubsection
5: Paragraph
6: Subparagraph  
7: Garbage7
bodytext: Standard

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Diego Queiroz]

I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!

Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.
---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Ignacio García ignacio.gmora...@gmail.com

 Diego Queiroz wrote
  The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful.
  Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator.

  In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document
  configuration some place to determine these regional configurations.

 This behavior is available in 2.0. There is an option in the table settings
 See you please Embedded Objects manual sec. 2.12.2 for more details



 Ignacio G.

Re: Pdf problem

[Diego Queiroz]

This is due a bug in in LyX.

The workaround is at this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86089.html


I don't know what causes this and why changing this configuration solves the
problem, but I am forwarding this again to devel list.

---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net

  On 04/13/2011 05:03 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote:

 Hi

 I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader just
 opened but the file did not open..
 What could be the problem?


 This probably means there was an error and the file was not produced. I
 guess the next question is: What was the error?

 Richard

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Stephan Witt]

Am 13.04.2011 um 18:58 schrieb Diego Queiroz:

 I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!
 
 Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.

Globally you may set it in the Preferences = Language Settings pane.

Stephan

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Ignacio García]

13 de abril de 2011 18:58, Diego Queiroz escribió:

 I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!

 Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.


I think this option is in
PreferencesLanguage SettingsLanguageDefault Decimal Point
but it doesn't work for me. Putting 'comma'  ',' as Default Decimal Point
the terminal writes the message:

*LyX: Unknown tag `aspell' [around line 264 of file  current token: 'aspell'
context: '']*

and the /.lyx-2.0.0rc3/preferences file writes:

*# LANGUAGE SUPPORT SECTION ##
#
\default_decimal_point \spellchecker*

And ViewPDF gives LaTeX Error:

*Undefined control sequence

...@{\extracolsep{0pt}\spellchecker}l|c|c|c|}*

Opening again the
 PreferencesLanguage SettingsLanguageDefault Decimal Point
the box shows a backslash sign '\' .

Setting the decimal point manually in Table SettingMore
the output turn on right.

Regards
Ignacio García

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

[Rudi Gaelzer]

Ok, Pavel.
With RC3, everything seems to be working with the translations of theorem 
environments to brazilian portuguese.
I'll let you know should anything untoward happens...
Thanks a lot for your effort!

On Friday 08 April 2011 12:35:13 Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
  Moreover, I would like to suggest some different translations that should
  sound better in brazilian portuguese (in fact, they don't even appear in
  modern dictionaries of pt_br):
  
  Assumption = Suposiç?o
  Fact = Fato
 
 Rudi, please check with RC3 that the output looks like you proposed.
 just committed the changes in http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/38309 .
 pavel

-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered linux user # 153741

Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Yang Zhang]

I put this in my user.bind:

\bind M-m M-m S-Bar math-delim Vert Vert

This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools 
Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
dialog, instead of Shift-| I see Shift- followed by an (Asian?)
Unicode character.

After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:

\bind M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar math-delim Vert Vert

This works.  How come?

Thanks,

-- 
Yang Zhang
http://yz.mit.edu/

Re: Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Yang Zhang wrote:
 I put this in my user.bind:
 
 \bind M-m M-m S-Bar math-delim Vert Vert
 
 This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools 
 Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
 dialog, instead of Shift-| I see Shift- followed by an (Asian?)
 Unicode character.
 
 After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
 
 \bind M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar math-delim Vert Vert
 
 This works.  How come?

the problem is in Bar instead of bar. how exactly did you obtain Bar?

pavel

Re: Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Yang Zhang wrote:
  I put this in my user.bind:
  
  \bind M-m M-m S-Bar math-delim Vert Vert
  
  This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools 
  Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
  dialog, instead of Shift-| I see Shift- followed by an (Asian?)
  Unicode character.
  
  After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
  
  \bind M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar math-delim Vert Vert
  
  This works.  How come?
 
 the problem is in Bar instead of bar. how exactly did you obtain Bar?

maybe from lyx 1.6.x? Richard, we may have new candidate for pref2pref, cf 
#6966, r35797.
pavel

TOC entry font size- memoir class

[Richard Opheim]

Hello again.
The problem that I have is as follows:
I have a TOC whose entries are bolded and the chapter name font size is
Large
I want to de-bold and change the chapter name font size to /normalsize
So, I insert

\renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\normalsize}

in the preamble.
This has the effect of debolding all of the entries. Not what I expected,
but I'll take it.
However, the font size of the chapter name has not changed and remains
Large.
My question is, if chapter is not the K value for the chapter name entry,
what is?

Richard Opheim

Re: Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Yang Zhang]

Thanks.  Yeah, using 1.6.5 (in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Yang Zhang wrote:
  I put this in my user.bind:
 
  \bind M-m M-m S-Bar math-delim Vert Vert
 
  This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools 
  Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
  dialog, instead of Shift-| I see Shift- followed by an (Asian?)
  Unicode character.
 
  After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
 
  \bind M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar math-delim Vert Vert
 
  This works.  How come?

 the problem is in Bar instead of bar. how exactly did you obtain Bar?

 maybe from lyx 1.6.x? Richard, we may have new candidate for pref2pref, cf 
 #6966, r35797.
 pavel




-- 
Yang Zhang
http://yz.mit.edu/

Re: Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Yang Zhang wrote:
 Thanks.  Yeah, using 1.6.5 (in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).

heh, this must be pretty crashy version when outliner is used
ubuntu never cared to bump newer version for stability reasons :)

anyway this fix never got into 1.6, only to 2.0 somehow...
pavel

A few suggestions for fixes in LyX 2.0

[James C. Sutherland]

I have very much enjoyed using LyX 2.0!  Thanks to the development team for
your efforts!

A few minor things that I have found recently regarding forward/reverse PDF
search on Mac with Skim:

In section 5.6 of Additional.lyx on the Skim directions for reverse
search, there is a problem with the status quo.  It should read:

Skim-Preferences-Sync choose 'custom' preset and enter
command /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor


I have not had success in getting forward search to work with Skim on Mac
(using the default commands supplied with LyX for forward search with Skim).
 It opens a file, but does not position itself anywhere near the requested
line.  Can anyone duplicate this?

Best wishes,

James

article-koma script

[ozgul sokmen]

Hello,
I have a problem with Koma-Script title page. I would like to see `Abstract`
title in my output file with `Article-Koma Script `document type. When I
choose `abstract` environment , I can not see `abstract` title in the output
file.
How can i add `abstract` title to my document.
I appreciate any answer,
Thanks in advance,

Ozgul

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Ignacio García]

Diego Queiroz wrote
 The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful.
 Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator.

 In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document
 configuration some place to determine these regional configurations.

This behavior is available in 2.0. There is an option in the table settings
See you please Embedded Objects manual sec. 2.12.2 for more details

Ignacio G.

Lyx error

[Stan]

Hi everybody,

i changed the language package in lyx properties from automatic to custom and 
added the needed languages manually: 
\usepackage[greek,english,british,ngerman]{babel}. Now it woks.

Thanks.
Stan

Natbib Citation Style (\citet command) mandatory with Biblatex module and LyX 2.0 (even RC3)

[Jesper Stemann Andersen]

Hi,

In contrast to LyX 1.6, with LyX 2.0 (even RC3), when selecting the 
Biblatex-citation-styles module [1], the Bibliography - Citation Style 
preference is forced to Natbib and all citations are set with a \citet instead 
of a \cite in the source code.

Without the natbib=true option for biblatex in the LaTeX Preamble errors occur. 
The wiki documentation [1] does not mention natbib=true as a mandatory option, 
so has an error been introduced in the LyX 2.0 source code or should the wiki 
documentation merely be updated to indicate natbib=true as mandatory?

[1]: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex

A minimal LyX-file displaying the problem is attached.

Best regards,
Jesper Stemann Andersen


Biblatex-natbib-problem.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: A basic requested feature

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-04-13, Diego Queiroz wrote:

 Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something in
 all of them and hit Save all.
 With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file
 (based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each
 document.
 I bet I can't do the same if newfile or Untitled was the result.

You loose. LyX adds a number.

And for me, a bunch fo newfilen.lyx is easier to recognize as
wanting a proper filename or needs to be removed than any other
wild guess.

 IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas.

But we need to avoid featuritis and sort the good from the not so
good ideas. If not for complete rejection, so at least to priorize on
what is important. Feel free to file an enhancement request at track
with a link to the thread.

Günter

Pdf problem

[Ville Iiskola]

Hi

I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader just opened 
but the file did not open..
What could be the problem?

Ville

Re: Pdf problem

[Richard Heck]

On 04/13/2011 05:03 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote:

Hi
I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader 
just opened but the file did not open..

What could be the problem?
This probably means there was an error and the file was not produced. I 
guess the next question is: What was the error?


Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

 Hey LyX developers!

 As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the
 \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file
 should be saved as.



In principle, I could live with proposing the title as the file name.
That sort of makes sense if you are used to create documents with
short meaningful titles. However, the titles in my case are usually 2
lines long and it's way too clumsy to use that as the file name.

I can see the use case here, but I don't know yet how I can prevent
from getting it annoy me by proposing file names that are way too
long.

I absolutely do not want LyX to use the first line of the doc. I
imagine I will end up with tons of documents with nonsense names. Then
I'd rather have newfile1...newfile100. If I don't care enough to give
them a proper name they probably can be marked as to-be-removed.

I would encourage people to think a few seconds how to call their
documents. That will save some time in searching for them later on.

Vincent

Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
packages:

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

Data: 
C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
Line: 120
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
Invokers: explorer
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
anybody know how to solve it?

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Problem solved. PDFLatex doesn't die after a problematic run due to an
uninstalled package. It was blocking some files which, I guess, needed
to be modified by the Package Manager. After killing PDFLatex
installation run smoothly.

This was an undocumented error as far as I know. I hope this message
will be stored in Google's indexes for all eternity, making
troubleshooting a simpler task. ;)

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
 1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
 packages:

 MiKTeX Problem Report
 Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

 Data: 
 C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
 Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
 Line: 120
 MiKTeX: 2.9
 OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
 Invokers: explorer
 SystemAdmin: yes
 PowerUser: no
 Root0: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root1: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
 UserInstall: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 UserConfig: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 UserData: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
 CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

 I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
 anybody know how to solve it?

 Regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: A basic requested feature

[Sam Lewis]

 IMO, we need to improve the functionality of
 LyX, and not block good ideas.

Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on 
functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs 
to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.

Cheers, Sam

LyX Outline

[Chris Hulme-Lowe]

Hello LyXers,

I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though  
I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across  
one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of  
the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38  
characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline  
window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been  
corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this  
might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just  
a setting somewhere in the program?


I'm running OSX Leopard (10.5.8) and LyX 2.0.0rc2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Chris Hulme-Lowe
University of Minnesota
Department of Psychology

Re: LyX Outline

[Richard Heck]

On 04/13/2011 10:26 AM, Chris Hulme-Lowe wrote:

Hello LyXers,

I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though 
I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across 
one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of 
the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38 
characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline 
window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been 
corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this 
might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just 
a setting somewhere in the program?


This limit is hardcoded, so as not to overwhelm the outline view. That 
view is really intended more as a navigation tool than as an outline in 
the sense you mean. You can use LyX to construct outlines, of course, 
but that would all happen in the main window.


Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

[Diego Queiroz]

 You loose. LyX adds a number.

It was just an example. If LyX adds an ID or not, it doesn't really matter.
There is no link between the number and the contents of the document.

 If not for complete rejection, so at least to priorize on what is
important.

You're right. But I'm not trying to convince this is the most important
feature. I am just telling this is a good feature.

 I absolutely do not want LyX to use the first line of the doc. I imagine I
will end up with tons of documents with nonsense names. Then I'd rather have
newfile1...newfile100. If I don't care enough to give them a proper name
they probably can be marked as to-be-removed.

You're not the only one that write papers with very long titles (I also do
the same). But other softwares that suggest a filename (like MS Word) does
not have problems with this right? Of course LyX will need to handle these
things (limit the filename, remove illegal characters, and other things as
well). This is not a big concern.

You're right that sometimes we don't care to give good names for our files
just because they are to-be-removed files. But I'm sure you do care to open
various files to find something just because you decided to not give a
proper filename in the past.

 I would encourage people to think a few seconds how to call
their documents. That will save some time in searching for them later on.

You get the point!
And how can LyX aid users to achieve this? Yes, you guessed right! Proposing
filenames!
The title is easy to get, but in a higher level of discussion we may also
want to discuss if the title/first sentence/etc is the better string to get.
Maybe some info based on the master document or the document structure? (as
Chapter-5, Appendix, etc). I dunno.
There are lots of things to consider and this basic requested feature
could be improved to a most wanted feature.

 Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas
on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it
needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.

You're absolutely right.
Someone may suggest that we include an embedded SVG editor in LyX. Of course
it would be handy, but before implement it we need to talk if does make
sense, given the difficuties to implement. how important and desired the
feature is, if there alternatives, and so on.
However, we are not talking about an embedded SVG editor and nobody is
saying this feature should be implemented independent of the community
opinion. I am just trying to defend that this idea is good.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Sam Lewis stroboscopicallyconflu...@yahoo.co.uk

  IMO, we need to improve the functionality of
  LyX, and not block good ideas.

 Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on
 functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it
 needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.

 Cheers, Sam

Re: LyX Outline

[Steve Litt]

Wrong tool. To outline LyX documents you need VimOutliner 
(http://www.vimoutliner.net). Much faster outlining, much more useful 
outlining. Then, when your outline is done, you can convert it to LyX. 
Attached is the conversion tool I use, along with a sample level-environment-
table file. It spits out LyX code out stdout, you capture that in a file, and 
paste it into a dummy LyX file. That gives you your outline in the proper LyX 
environments.

I've used VimOutliner to outline the following books:

* Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist (  100,000 words)
* Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting
* Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
* Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
* Learn Vim Tonight
* Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business
* Thriving in Tough Times (  85,000 words)
* My new so far untitled book due in May (  100,000 words)

VimOutliner's the only outlining tool I've seen fast enough to keep up with my 
mental activities, so I never forget an idea while messing with my outliner. I 
can't imagine outlining a book using any other software.

SteveT


On Wednesday 13 April 2011 10:26:47 Chris Hulme-Lowe wrote:
 Hello LyXers,
 
 I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though
 I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across
 one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of
 the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38
 characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline
 window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been
 corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this
 might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just
 a setting somewhere in the program?
 
 I'm running OSX Leopard (10.5.8) and LyX 2.0.0rc2.
 
 Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
 Chris Hulme-Lowe
 University of Minnesota
 Department of Psychology

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



otl2lyx.awk
Description: application/awk
0: Part   
1: Chapter
2: Section
3: Subsection
4: Subsubsection
5: Paragraph
6: Subparagraph  
7: Garbage7
bodytext: Standard

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Diego Queiroz]

I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!

Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.
---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Ignacio García ignacio.gmora...@gmail.com

 Diego Queiroz wrote
  The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful.
  Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator.

  In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document
  configuration some place to determine these regional configurations.

 This behavior is available in 2.0. There is an option in the table settings
 See you please Embedded Objects manual sec. 2.12.2 for more details



 Ignacio G.

Re: Pdf problem

[Diego Queiroz]

This is due a bug in in LyX.

The workaround is at this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86089.html


I don't know what causes this and why changing this configuration solves the
problem, but I am forwarding this again to devel list.

---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net

  On 04/13/2011 05:03 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote:

 Hi

 I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader just
 opened but the file did not open..
 What could be the problem?


 This probably means there was an error and the file was not produced. I
 guess the next question is: What was the error?

 Richard

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Stephan Witt]

Am 13.04.2011 um 18:58 schrieb Diego Queiroz:

 I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!
 
 Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.

Globally you may set it in the Preferences = Language Settings pane.

Stephan

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Ignacio García]

13 de abril de 2011 18:58, Diego Queiroz escribió:

 I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!

 Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.


I think this option is in
PreferencesLanguage SettingsLanguageDefault Decimal Point
but it doesn't work for me. Putting 'comma'  ',' as Default Decimal Point
the terminal writes the message:

*LyX: Unknown tag `aspell' [around line 264 of file  current token: 'aspell'
context: '']*

and the /.lyx-2.0.0rc3/preferences file writes:

*# LANGUAGE SUPPORT SECTION ##
#
\default_decimal_point \spellchecker*

And ViewPDF gives LaTeX Error:

*Undefined control sequence

...@{\extracolsep{0pt}\spellchecker}l|c|c|c|}*

Opening again the
 PreferencesLanguage SettingsLanguageDefault Decimal Point
the box shows a backslash sign '\' .

Setting the decimal point manually in Table SettingMore
the output turn on right.

Regards
Ignacio García

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

[Rudi Gaelzer]

Ok, Pavel.
With RC3, everything seems to be working with the translations of theorem 
environments to brazilian portuguese.
I'll let you know should anything untoward happens...
Thanks a lot for your effort!

On Friday 08 April 2011 12:35:13 Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
  Moreover, I would like to suggest some different translations that should
  sound better in brazilian portuguese (in fact, they don't even appear in
  modern dictionaries of pt_br):
  
  Assumption = Suposiç?o
  Fact = Fato
 
 Rudi, please check with RC3 that the output looks like you proposed.
 just committed the changes in http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/38309 .
 pavel

-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered linux user # 153741

Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Yang Zhang]

I put this in my user.bind:

\bind M-m M-m S-Bar math-delim Vert Vert

This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools 
Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
dialog, instead of Shift-| I see Shift- followed by an (Asian?)
Unicode character.

After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:

\bind M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar math-delim Vert Vert

This works.  How come?

Thanks,

-- 
Yang Zhang
http://yz.mit.edu/

Re: Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Yang Zhang wrote:
 I put this in my user.bind:
 
 \bind M-m M-m S-Bar math-delim Vert Vert
 
 This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools 
 Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
 dialog, instead of Shift-| I see Shift- followed by an (Asian?)
 Unicode character.
 
 After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
 
 \bind M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar math-delim Vert Vert
 
 This works.  How come?

the problem is in Bar instead of bar. how exactly did you obtain Bar?

pavel

Re: Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Yang Zhang wrote:
  I put this in my user.bind:
  
  \bind M-m M-m S-Bar math-delim Vert Vert
  
  This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools 
  Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
  dialog, instead of Shift-| I see Shift- followed by an (Asian?)
  Unicode character.
  
  After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
  
  \bind M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar math-delim Vert Vert
  
  This works.  How come?
 
 the problem is in Bar instead of bar. how exactly did you obtain Bar?

maybe from lyx 1.6.x? Richard, we may have new candidate for pref2pref, cf 
#6966, r35797.
pavel

TOC entry font size- memoir class

[Richard Opheim]

Hello again.
The problem that I have is as follows:
I have a TOC whose entries are bolded and the chapter name font size is
Large
I want to de-bold and change the chapter name font size to /normalsize
So, I insert

\renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\normalsize}

in the preamble.
This has the effect of debolding all of the entries. Not what I expected,
but I'll take it.
However, the font size of the chapter name has not changed and remains
Large.
My question is, if chapter is not the K value for the chapter name entry,
what is?

Richard Opheim

Re: Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Yang Zhang]

Thanks.  Yeah, using 1.6.5 (in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Yang Zhang wrote:
  I put this in my user.bind:
 
  \bind M-m M-m S-Bar math-delim Vert Vert
 
  This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools 
  Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
  dialog, instead of Shift-| I see Shift- followed by an (Asian?)
  Unicode character.
 
  After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
 
  \bind M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar math-delim Vert Vert
 
  This works.  How come?

 the problem is in Bar instead of bar. how exactly did you obtain Bar?

 maybe from lyx 1.6.x? Richard, we may have new candidate for pref2pref, cf 
 #6966, r35797.
 pavel




-- 
Yang Zhang
http://yz.mit.edu/

Re: Shortcut for math-delim Vert Vert not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Yang Zhang wrote:
 Thanks.  Yeah, using 1.6.5 (in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).

heh, this must be pretty crashy version when outliner is used
ubuntu never cared to bump newer version for stability reasons :)

anyway this fix never got into 1.6, only to 2.0 somehow...
pavel

A few suggestions for fixes in LyX 2.0

[James C. Sutherland]

I have very much enjoyed using LyX 2.0!  Thanks to the development team for
your efforts!

A few minor things that I have found recently regarding forward/reverse PDF
search on Mac with Skim:

In section 5.6 of Additional.lyx on the Skim directions for reverse
search, there is a problem with the status quo.  It should read:

Skim-Preferences-Sync choose 'custom' preset and enter
command /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor


I have not had success in getting forward search to work with Skim on Mac
(using the default commands supplied with LyX for forward search with Skim).
 It opens a file, but does not position itself anywhere near the requested
line.  Can anyone duplicate this?

Best wishes,

James

article-koma script

[ozgul sokmen]

Hello,
I have a problem with Koma-Script title page. I would like to see `Abstract`
title in my output file with `Article-Koma Script `document type. When I
choose `abstract` environment , I can not see `abstract` title in the output
file.
How can i add `abstract` title to my document.
I appreciate any answer,
Thanks in advance,

Ozgul

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Ignacio García]

Diego Queiroz wrote
> The "Align on decimal" feature in tables are really very useful.
> Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator.

> In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document
> configuration some place to determine these regional configurations.

This behavior is available in 2.0. There is an option in the table settings
See you please Embedded Objects manual sec. 2.12.2 for more details

Ignacio G.

Lyx error

[Stan]

Hi everybody,

i changed the language package in lyx properties from automatic to custom and 
added the needed languages manually: 
\usepackage[greek,english,british,ngerman]{babel}. Now it woks.

Thanks.
Stan

Natbib Citation Style (\citet command) mandatory with Biblatex module and LyX 2.0 (even RC3)

[Jesper Stemann Andersen]

Hi,

In contrast to LyX 1.6, with LyX 2.0 (even RC3), when selecting the 
Biblatex-citation-styles module [1], the Bibliography -> Citation Style 
preference is forced to Natbib and all citations are set with a \citet instead 
of a \cite in the source code.

Without the natbib=true option for biblatex in the LaTeX Preamble errors occur. 
The wiki documentation [1] does not mention natbib=true as a mandatory option, 
so has an error been introduced in the LyX 2.0 source code or should the wiki 
documentation merely be updated to indicate natbib=true as mandatory?

[1]: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex

A minimal LyX-file displaying the problem is attached.

Best regards,
Jesper Stemann Andersen


Biblatex-natbib-problem.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: A basic requested feature

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-04-13, Diego Queiroz wrote:

> Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something in
> all of them and hit "Save all".
> With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file
> (based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each
> document.
> I bet I can't do the same if "newfile" or "Untitled" was the result.

You loose. LyX adds a number.

And for me, a bunch fo newfile.lyx is easier to recognize as
"wanting a proper filename" or "needs to be removed" than any other
"wild" guess.

> IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas.

But we need to avoid "featuritis" and sort the good from the not so
good ideas. If not for complete rejection, so at least to priorize on
what is important. Feel free to file an enhancement request at track
with a link to the thread.

Günter

Pdf problem

[Ville Iiskola]

Hi

I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader just opened 
but the file did not open..
What could be the problem?

Ville

Re: Pdf problem

[Richard Heck]

On 04/13/2011 05:03 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote:

Hi
I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader 
just opened but the file did not open..

What could be the problem?
This probably means there was an error and the file was not produced. I 
guess the next question is: What was the error?


Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

>> Hey LyX developers!
>>
>> As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the
>> \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file
>> should be saved as.
>>


In principle, I could live with proposing the title as the file name.
That sort of makes sense if you are used to create documents with
short meaningful titles. However, the titles in my case are usually 2
lines long and it's way too clumsy to use that as the file name.

I can see the use case here, but I don't know yet how I can prevent
from getting it annoy me by proposing file names that are way too
long.

I absolutely do not want LyX to use the first line of the doc. I
imagine I will end up with tons of documents with nonsense names. Then
I'd rather have newfile1...newfile100. If I don't care enough to give
them a proper name they probably can be marked as to-be-removed.

I would encourage people to think a few seconds how to call their
documents. That will save some time in searching for them later on.

Vincent

Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
packages:

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

Data: 
C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
Line: 120
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
Invokers: explorer
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
anybody know how to solve it?

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Problem solved. PDFLatex doesn't die after a problematic run due to an
uninstalled package. It was blocking some files which, I guess, needed
to be modified by the Package Manager. After killing PDFLatex
installation run smoothly.

This was an undocumented error as far as I know. I hope this message
will be stored in Google's indexes for all eternity, making
troubleshooting a simpler task. ;)

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julio Rojas  wrote:
> Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
> 1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
> packages:
>
> MiKTeX Problem Report
> Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.
>
> Data: 
> C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
> Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
> Line: 120
> MiKTeX: 2.9
> OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
> Invokers: explorer
> SystemAdmin: yes
> PowerUser: no
> Root0: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root1: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
> UserInstall: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> UserConfig: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> UserData: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
> CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
> CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
> CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
>
> I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
> anybody know how to solve it?
>
> Regards.
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>

Re: A basic requested feature

[Sam Lewis]

> IMO, we need to improve the functionality of
> LyX, and not block good ideas.

Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on 
functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs 
to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.

Cheers, Sam

LyX Outline

[Chris Hulme-Lowe]

Hello LyXers,

I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though  
I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across  
one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of  
the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38  
characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline  
window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been  
corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this  
might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just  
a setting somewhere in the program?


I'm running OSX Leopard (10.5.8) and LyX 2.0.0rc2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Chris Hulme-Lowe
University of Minnesota
Department of Psychology

Re: LyX Outline

[Richard Heck]

On 04/13/2011 10:26 AM, Chris Hulme-Lowe wrote:

Hello LyXers,

I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though 
I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across 
one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of 
the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38 
characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline 
window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been 
corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this 
might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just 
a setting somewhere in the program?


This limit is hardcoded, so as not to overwhelm the outline view. That 
view is really intended more as a navigation tool than as an outline in 
the sense you mean. You can use LyX to construct outlines, of course, 
but that would all happen in the main window.


Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

[Diego Queiroz]

> You loose. LyX adds a number.

It was just an example. If LyX adds an ID or not, it doesn't really matter.
There is no link between the number and the contents of the document.

> If not for complete rejection, so at least to priorize on what is
important.

You're right. But I'm not trying to convince this is the most important
feature. I am just telling this is a good feature.

> I absolutely do not want LyX to use the first line of the doc. I imagine I
will end up with tons of documents with nonsense names. Then I'd rather have
newfile1...newfile100. If I don't care enough to give them a proper name
they probably can be marked as to-be-removed.

You're not the only one that write papers with very long titles (I also do
the same). But other softwares that suggest a filename (like MS Word) does
not have problems with this right? Of course LyX will need to handle these
things (limit the filename, remove illegal characters, and other things as
well). This is not a big concern.

You're right that sometimes we don't care to give good names for our files
just because they are to-be-removed files. But I'm sure you do care to open
various files to find something just because you decided to not give a
proper filename in the past.

> I would encourage people to think a few seconds how to call
their documents. That will save some time in searching for them later on.

You get the point!
And how can LyX aid users to achieve this? Yes, you guessed right! Proposing
filenames!
The title is easy to get, but in a higher level of discussion we may also
want to discuss if the title/first sentence/etc is the better string to get.
Maybe some info based on the master document or the document structure? (as
"Chapter-5", "Appendix", etc). I dunno.
There are lots of things to consider and this "basic requested feature"
could be improved to a "most wanted feature".

> Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas
on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it
needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.

You're absolutely right.
Someone may suggest that we include an embedded SVG editor in LyX. Of course
it would be handy, but before implement it we need to talk if does make
sense, given the difficuties to implement. how important and desired the
feature is, if there alternatives, and so on.
However, we are not talking about an embedded SVG editor and nobody is
saying this feature should be implemented independent of the community
opinion. I am just trying to defend that this idea is good.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Sam Lewis 

> > IMO, we need to improve the functionality of
> > LyX, and not block good ideas.
>
> Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on
> functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it
> needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers.
>
> Cheers, Sam
>

Re: LyX Outline

[Steve Litt]

Wrong tool. To outline LyX documents you need VimOutliner 
(http://www.vimoutliner.net). Much faster outlining, much more useful 
outlining. Then, when your outline is done, you can convert it to LyX. 
Attached is the conversion tool I use, along with a sample level-environment-
table file. It spits out LyX code out stdout, you capture that in a file, and 
paste it into a dummy LyX file. That gives you your outline in the proper LyX 
environments.

I've used VimOutliner to outline the following books:

* Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist ( > 100,000 words)
* Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting
* Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
* Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
* Learn Vim Tonight
* Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business
* Thriving in Tough Times ( > 85,000 words)
* My new so far untitled book due in May ( > 100,000 words)

VimOutliner's the only outlining tool I've seen fast enough to keep up with my 
mental activities, so I never forget an idea while messing with my outliner. I 
can't imagine outlining a book using any other software.

SteveT


On Wednesday 13 April 2011 10:26:47 Chris Hulme-Lowe wrote:
> Hello LyXers,
> 
> I'm trying to use LyX to outline a paper I'm working on, and though
> I'm generally very satisfied with the way it works I'm coming across
> one little problem. When I open the outline window LyX cuts off all of
> the names of my sections, subsections, and paragraphs after 38
> characters. Does anyone know if there's a way to allow the outline
> window to print out more characters? Moreover, someone I've been
> corresponding with through a LyX user forum has suggested that this
> might be a bug. Is anyone aware of whether it is indeed a bug, or just
> a setting somewhere in the program?
> 
> I'm running OSX Leopard (10.5.8) and LyX 2.0.0rc2.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Chris Hulme-Lowe
> University of Minnesota
> Department of Psychology

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



otl2lyx.awk
Description: application/awk
0: Part   
1: Chapter
2: Section
3: Subsection
4: Subsubsection
5: Paragraph
6: Subparagraph  
7: Garbage7
bodytext: Standard

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Diego Queiroz]

I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!

Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.
---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Ignacio García 

> Diego Queiroz wrote
> > The "Align on decimal" feature in tables are really very useful.
> > Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator.
>
> > In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document
> > configuration some place to determine these regional configurations.
>
> This behavior is available in 2.0. There is an option in the table settings
> See you please Embedded Objects manual sec. 2.12.2 for more details
>
>
>
> Ignacio G.
>
>

Re: Pdf problem

[Diego Queiroz]

This is due a "bug" in in LyX.

The workaround is at this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86089.html


I don't know what causes this and why changing this configuration solves the
problem, but I am forwarding this again to devel list.

---
Diego Queiroz



2011/4/13 Richard Heck 

>  On 04/13/2011 05:03 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader just
> opened but the file did not open..
> What could be the problem?
>
>
> This probably means there was an error and the file was not produced. I
> guess the next question is: What was the error?
>
> Richard
>
>

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Stephan Witt]

Am 13.04.2011 um 18:58 schrieb Diego Queiroz:

> I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!
> 
> Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.

Globally you may set it in the Preferences => Language Settings pane.

Stephan

Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)

[Ignacio García]

13 de abril de 2011 18:58, Diego Queiroz escribió:

> I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks!
>
> Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally.
>

I think this option is in
Preferences>Language Settings>Language>Default Decimal Point
but it doesn't work for me. Putting 'comma'  ',' as Default Decimal Point
the terminal writes the message:

*LyX: Unknown tag `aspell' [around line 264 of file  current token: 'aspell'
context: '']*

and the /.lyx-2.0.0rc3/preferences file writes:

*# LANGUAGE SUPPORT SECTION ##
#
\default_decimal_point \spellchecker*

And View>PDF gives LaTeX Error:

*Undefined control sequence

...@{\extracolsep{0pt}\spellchecker}l|c|c|c|}*

Opening again the
 Preferences>Language Settings>Language>Default Decimal Point
the box shows a backslash sign '\' .

Setting the decimal point manually in Table Setting>More
the output turn on right.

Regards
Ignacio García

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

[Rudi Gaelzer]

Ok, Pavel.
With RC3, everything seems to be working with the translations of theorem 
environments to brazilian portuguese.
I'll let you know should anything untoward happens...
Thanks a lot for your effort!

On Friday 08 April 2011 12:35:13 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
> > Moreover, I would like to suggest some different translations that should
> > sound better in brazilian portuguese (in fact, they don't even appear in
> > modern dictionaries of pt_br):
> > 
> > Assumption => Suposiç?o
> > Fact => Fato
> 
> Rudi, please check with RC3 that the output looks like you proposed.
> just committed the changes in http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/38309 .
> pavel

-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered linux user # 153741

Shortcut for "math-delim Vert Vert" not working

[Yang Zhang]

I put this in my user.bind:

\bind "M-m M-m S-Bar" "math-delim Vert Vert"

This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools >
Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
dialog, instead of "Shift-|" I see "Shift-" followed by an (Asian?)
Unicode character.

After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:

\bind "M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar" "math-delim Vert Vert"

This works.  How come?

Thanks,

-- 
Yang Zhang
http://yz.mit.edu/

Re: Shortcut for "math-delim Vert Vert" not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Yang Zhang wrote:
> I put this in my user.bind:
> 
> \bind "M-m M-m S-Bar" "math-delim Vert Vert"
> 
> This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools >
> Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
> dialog, instead of "Shift-|" I see "Shift-" followed by an (Asian?)
> Unicode character.
> 
> After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
> 
> \bind "M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar" "math-delim Vert Vert"
> 
> This works.  How come?

the problem is in "Bar" instead of "bar". how exactly did you obtain "Bar"?

pavel

Re: Shortcut for "math-delim Vert Vert" not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Yang Zhang wrote:
> > I put this in my user.bind:
> > 
> > \bind "M-m M-m S-Bar" "math-delim Vert Vert"
> > 
> > This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools >
> > Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
> > dialog, instead of "Shift-|" I see "Shift-" followed by an (Asian?)
> > Unicode character.
> > 
> > After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
> > 
> > \bind "M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar" "math-delim Vert Vert"
> > 
> > This works.  How come?
> 
> the problem is in "Bar" instead of "bar". how exactly did you obtain "Bar"?

maybe from lyx 1.6.x? Richard, we may have new candidate for pref2pref, cf 
#6966, r35797.
pavel

TOC entry font size- memoir class

[Richard Opheim]

Hello again.
The problem that I have is as follows:
I have a TOC whose entries are bolded and the chapter name font size is
Large
I want to de-bold and change the chapter name font size to /normalsize
So, I insert

\renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\normalsize}

in the preamble.
This has the effect of debolding all of the entries. Not what I expected,
but I'll take it.
However, the font size of the chapter name has not changed and remains
Large.
My question is, if "chapter" is not the K value for the chapter name entry,
what is?

Richard Opheim

Re: Shortcut for "math-delim Vert Vert" not working

[Yang Zhang]

Thanks.  Yeah, using 1.6.5 (in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> Pavel Sanda wrote:
>> Yang Zhang wrote:
>> > I put this in my user.bind:
>> >
>> > \bind "M-m M-m S-Bar" "math-delim Vert Vert"
>> >
>> > This was actually auto-generated by adding a new shortcut in Tools >
>> > Preferences.  But after closing and going back to that Preferences
>> > dialog, instead of "Shift-|" I see "Shift-" followed by an (Asian?)
>> > Unicode character.
>> >
>> > After looking at the built-in math.bind I changed the above to:
>> >
>> > \bind "M-m M-m ~C-~M-~S-bar" "math-delim Vert Vert"
>> >
>> > This works.  How come?
>>
>> the problem is in "Bar" instead of "bar". how exactly did you obtain "Bar"?
>
> maybe from lyx 1.6.x? Richard, we may have new candidate for pref2pref, cf 
> #6966, r35797.
> pavel
>



-- 
Yang Zhang
http://yz.mit.edu/

Re: Shortcut for "math-delim Vert Vert" not working

[Pavel Sanda]

Yang Zhang wrote:
> Thanks.  Yeah, using 1.6.5 (in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).

heh, this must be pretty crashy version when outliner is used
ubuntu never cared to bump newer version for "stability reasons" :)

anyway this fix never got into 1.6, only to 2.0 somehow...
pavel

A few suggestions for fixes in LyX 2.0

[James C. Sutherland]

I have very much enjoyed using LyX 2.0!  Thanks to the development team for
your efforts!

A few minor things that I have found recently regarding forward/reverse PDF
search on Mac with Skim:

In section 5.6 of "Additional.lyx" on the "Skim" directions for reverse
search, there is a problem with the status quo.  It should read:

"Skim->Preferences->Sync choose 'custom' preset and enter
command /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor"


I have not had success in getting forward search to work with Skim on Mac
(using the default commands supplied with LyX for forward search with Skim).
 It opens a file, but does not position itself anywhere near the requested
line.  Can anyone duplicate this?

Best wishes,

James

article-koma script

[ozgul sokmen]

Hello,
I have a problem with Koma-Script title page. I would like to see `Abstract`
title in my output file with `Article-Koma Script `document type. When I
choose `abstract` environment , I can not see `abstract` title in the output
file.
How can i add `abstract` title to my document.
I appreciate any answer,
Thanks in advance,

Ozgul