[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.10 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Public release of LyX version 1.6.10


We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.10. This is the 11th
and final maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.

LyX 1.6.10 concludes the successful 1.6 series, which has been our stable
series for the past two and a half years. The most notable new feature of
this version is that it is able to read and import documents of our new
stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit of users who want to
stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want to cooperate with
users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still writes the 1.6 format,
so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's new features.

Read on below what has been changed and fixed in this version apart from that.
Remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.

Anyone who intends to stick with the 1.6 series is strongly encouraged to
upgrade to this version.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software/Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

You can download LyX 1.6.10 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
also host the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz

http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.10/

If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.8), you may
want to apply one of the following patches instead:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.bz2

Note that for this release, some binaries have been added that are not 
produced
by the patch.

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.10, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org),
or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.6.10?


** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Read files produced by LyX 2.0.

- Run biber instead of bibtex if requested (bug 7281).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- New Swedish translation of the Splash and the Shortcuts manual.

- Updated French translation of the Tutorial and the User Guide.

- Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian,Italian, Japanese, Portuguese,
  Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian User Interface Localization.


** Bug fixes:
*

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Protect the math commands \overset and \underset in fragile context
  (bug 7252).

- When exporting, alert about uncodable characters in ERT insets (bug 7310).

- When exporting, alert about uncodable characters in child docs (bug 7326).

- Prevent LaTeX error when toggling hyperref (bug 7344).


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix corruption of localized messages while changing color preferences,
  which could result in a non-functional lyx 

LyX, index and Hyperef

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I use Lyx 2.0 to manage multiple index. Since I want that some page numbers 
appear in italic in the index, I add to several index declaration the option 
|textit. Strangely, in the generated PDF file, these page numbers written in 
italic are not hyperlinks (such as the normal page numbers).
-- 

Dr. Ir. Pascal Francq
BELGIUM


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Re: LyX, index and Hyperef

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Pascal Francq wrote:
 I use Lyx 2.0 to manage multiple index. Since I want that some page
 numbers  appear in italic in the index, I add to several index declaration
 the option |textit. Strangely, in the generated PDF file, these page
 numbers written in italic are not hyperlinks (such as the normal page
 numbers).

You use xindy, right?

I think there are incompatibilities between current hyperref and xindy 
versions. Look here for a workaround:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:LaTeX/Indexing#Texindy.2C_hyperref_and_textbf.2C_textit_modifiers

Jürgen

Re: Regular expression documentation

[Pavel Sanda]

Richard Heck wrote:
 I do not myself know exactly what regex syntax is supported, but maybe
 experimentation is the best way to find out, anyway.

some regexp examples can be found in the context menu if you are inside
advanced search window.

pavel

Re: LyX 2.0 on Windows

[Pavel Sanda]

Jim Oldfield wrote:
 You should use LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer-Bundle.exe (whereas the one for those 
 with 
 LaTeX already installed is LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer.exe).
 
 Make sure you are using LyX-2.0.0-2 and NOT LyX-2.0.0-1, which seems to still 
 be 
 on at least one mirror.

i see, cybermirror.org just adds new files, but won't delete old ones. just 
killed
it from the list.

pavel

Portable LyX

[Drazick]

Hello.
Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?

I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing programs 
(Use only portable programs).

Thanks.

Re: Portable LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Drazick drazic...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello.
 Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?

 I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing 
 programs
 (Use only portable programs).

You cannot produce PDF from TeX files without a LaTeX distribution
such as MiKTeX. Otherwise, LyX is not exactly a TeX editor.

Regards
Liviu


 Thanks.





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Re: Portable LyX

[Ganesh Sundaram]

On 5/9/2011 6:43 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Drazickdrazic...@gmail.com  wrote:

Hello.
Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?

I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing programs
(Use only portable programs).

You cannot produce PDF from TeX files without a LaTeX distribution
such as MiKTeX. Otherwise, LyX is not exactly a TeX editor.

Regards
Liviu


Thanks.


One however install (i.e., download and uncompress) MiKTeX portable 
version, and point to the MiKTeX bin directory while installing LyX.


If all the Lyx settings files are stored in the Lyx installation 
directory itself, then the entire Lyx installation folder can be copied 
and used as Lyx portable version so long the computer to which it is 
copied to has MiKTeX portable. If the directories are different, one 
much change the path variable in the Lyx paths and, if needed, 
reconfigure Lyx.


The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in 
the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, 
etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more 
specific question.


Regards
Ganesh
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Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
second one.

In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
use it in other child document.

In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
everything perfectly.

But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
to do without insert the math macros again, which in painful).

My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
handy.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 10:22 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:
 I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
 second one.

 In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
 child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
 use it in other child document.

 In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
 everything perfectly.

 But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
 AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
 defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
 document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
 to do without insert the math macros again, which in painful).

 My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
 While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
 document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
 handy.

If you ask to compile just the child, then you are asking to compile it
as a standalone document, so it is no surprise that this does not work.
If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
DocumentSettings.

rh

Re: Portable LyX

[Diego Queiroz]

 The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the
 installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc).
 Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific
 question.


LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows register.
AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way
to achieve this without changing the code.

But since there is a portable version MiKTeX, it would be a good to provide
a portable version of LyX.

Vincent,
Goals for 2.1? :-)

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Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 If you ask to compile just the child, then you are asking to compile it
  as a standalone document, so it is no surprise that this does not work.


Exactly. :-)


 If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
 then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
 DocumentSettings.


I was not aware of this feature. Thanks for the hint.

But it is also painful to select the document I want to compile everytime.
:/
When I am working in a document, I work on it as a standalone document, I
don't handle with the Master document before I want to compile the whole
set.

Of course there are several workarounds, i.e you can create a document with
all your macros and insert it on the beggining of all documents. This is a
not so elegant solution, but it does the job. Probably one can suggest a
better solution as well.

But I really think LyX can do this automatically.
Since LyX already stores all defined macros in somewhere for the editor, it
is not so hard to dinamically include them in a document when needed.

Cheers,
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 11:05 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:

 If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
 then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
 DocumentSettings.
 I was not aware of this feature. Thanks for the hint.

It's new in 2.0.0.

 But it is also painful to select the document I want to compile everytime.
 :/
 When I am working in a document, I work on it as a standalone document, I
 don't handle with the Master document before I want to compile the whole
 set.

 Of course there are several workarounds, i.e you can create a document with
 all your macros and insert it on the beggining of all documents. This is a
 not so elegant solution, but it does the job. Probably one can suggest a
 better solution as well.

 But I really think LyX can do this automatically.
 Since LyX already stores all defined macros in somewhere for the editor, it
 is not so hard to dinamically include them in a document when needed.

But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document?
People do this.

Richard

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document?
 People do this.

 Richard


But if it was really a standalone document, I would have to unset master
document property, right?

Anyway, in my case, the problem is that my child document with the macros
also define Nomenclatures. When I include it on all files and decide to
generate the Master document, the list of Nomenclatures repeats its entries
several times (obviously because the entry was indeed included several
times).

I am just looking for a more user oriented behavior. I mean, if I can see
everything right on the screen, what's the problem?
This is how I feel about the current behavior. LyX is handling everything on
the editor, since all math macros are interpreted correctly when I open any
document, but I can't generate the file because of its internal structure.

We should try to avoid consistency errors in LyX. If people decide to use
ERT, we should expect unwanted behavior, but in a document using only LyX
resources, it must never generate errors (or they should be rare, at least),
doesn't matter what the user decides to do.


Cheers,
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 10:22 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
second one.

In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
use it in other child document.

In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
everything perfectly.

But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
to do without insert the math macros again, which in painful).

My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
handy.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz



This works like a charm for me on 1.6.9 right now. My setup is

Thesis.lyx:
 Frontmatter stuff
 Include: LyX-macros.lyx
 Table of Contents
 List of Tables
 List of Figures
 Include: Chapter-1.lyx
 Include: Chapter-2.lyx
...
 Start Appendix here
 Include: Appendix-1.lyx
 BibTeX Generated Bibliography

Each child doc has the default master document set to Thesis.lyx and I 
use a branch named child only, which is activated in child docs but 
deactivated in the master, to include BibTeX bib in the childs. Math 
macros are defined in LyX-macros.lyx and are available when compiling 
each child individually without hassle.


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and 
stuff that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master 
and child docs.


--
Julien

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
 that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
 docs.
 --
 Julien


Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 1:44 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
docs.
--
Julien



Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego



Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I 
say they work for me. No workaround necessary.


There must be something in your setup that we're missing at the moment 
and prevents math macros for working.


Maybe you mean that the math macros in your preamble don't work?

Regards,
Julien

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 1:44 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
docs.
--
Julien



Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego



Hi Diego,

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the use x math 
package automatically option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of 
your child doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX 
should detect that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is 
needed: check use x math package in document settings.


Regards,
Julien

Re: Portable LyX

[Drazick]

The perfect idea would be a portable LyX which includes any library needed
within it.

I think the guys over Portable Apps http://portableapps.com/ will be
helpful.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.comwrote:

 The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the
 installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc).
 Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific
 question.


 LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows
 register.
 AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no
 way to achieve this without changing the code.

 But since there is a portable version MiKTeX, it would be a good to provide
 a portable version of LyX.

 Vincent,
 Goals for 2.1? :-)

 ---
 Diego Queiroz

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I say
 they work for me. No workaround necessary.


Maybe I misunderstood you.
I was citing your workaround to include bibtex in the childs.

 I use a branch named child only, which is activated in child docs but
deactivated in the master

Anyway, never mind. Sorry.

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the use x math package
 automatically option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of your child
 doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX should detect
 that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is needed: check
 use x math package in document settings.


I just tested and this is not enough.
I am not able to generate child files in LyX 2.0 at all.
If I include a simple macro in a document (the master), create another file
(the child), link them and use the macro in the child. The standalone child
don't compile, only the master document.

Are you able to do this in LyX 1.6?
If so, this is a bug report and not a feature request.

Can someone confirm this / create ticket?

I've attached two files: the child and the master document.
I can't compile the child document. Can you try?


Cheers,
---
Diego


child.lyx
Description: Binary data


master.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 2:23 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I say
they work for me. No workaround necessary.



Maybe I misunderstood you.
I was citing your workaround to include bibtex in the childs.


I use a branch named child only, which is activated in child docs but

deactivated in the master

Anyway, never mind. Sorry.

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the use x math package

automatically option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of your child
doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX should detect
that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is needed: check
use x math package in document settings.



I just tested and this is not enough.
I am not able to generate child files in LyX 2.0 at all.
If I include a simple macro in a document (the master), create another file
(the child), link them and use the macro in the child. The standalone child
don't compile, only the master document.

Are you able to do this in LyX 1.6?
If so, this is a bug report and not a feature request.

Can someone confirm this / create ticket?

I've attached two files: the child and the master document.
I can't compile the child document. Can you try?


Cheers,
---
Diego



Hi Diego,

Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child doc, 
you did not set the master setting, did you? But anyway, I corrected it 
and still in 2.1.0svn the compilation of the child is broken:


Undefined control sequence \anymacro

A bug.

Regards,
Julien

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 is released

[Jacob Bishop]

Just wanted to add my congratulations to those already expressed. This is a
great milestone.

A big thanks to all who worked on this.

Jacob

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 02:38 PM, Julien Rioux wrote:

 Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child
 doc, you did not set the master setting, did you? But anyway, I
 corrected it and still in 2.1.0svn the compilation of the child is
 broken:

 Undefined control sequence \anymacro

 A bug.

It's due to the fact that the clone of the child buffer has no parent.
Enrico wins again. ;-)

It would seem we must always clone the entire set of documents. I.e.,
start with:
buf.masterBuffer()-clone();
or something to that effect. But then we need back a pointer to buf's
clone, so clone() probably needs to return something like a map from
Buffers to their clones. Note that, if we pass this around, we can
perhaps avoid multiple clones of a single Buffer included multiple
times, which I suspect we now have.

Richard

Re: caption in listings

[Paul Rubin]

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com writes:

 
 View source says:
 
 \begin{lstlisting}[caption={Inverse Parabolic Timing 
 Interpolation},label={lis:Inverse-Parabolic-

Timing},basicstyle=
{\footnotesize},breaklines=true,float,frame=lines,language=Python]
 
 So, sounds like problem with lstlisting package?
 

Guess so.  It might be worth posting a minimal example, in case it works on some
platforms but not others, or it's a version issue, or some such silliness.

Paul

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child doc,
 you did not set the master setting, did you?


Indeed.
I was in a hurry and I forgot it. ;/
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Diego Queiroz

how to separate pdf file?

[Hady Ariwibowo Teguh]

Dear all,
i wanna write thesis report in separate pdf file (ex. chap1.pdf, cover.pdf so 
on). but i dont know how to do it. Any body help me please.
Thank you
Teguh
CFD Engineer

Re: Portable LyX

[Ganesh Sundaram]

On 5/9/2011 8:08 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files
in the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for
windows, etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to
this more specific question.


LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows 
register.
AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's 
no way to achieve this without changing the code.




I am not able to fully understand the part
the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way 
to achieve this without changing the code.


I have following facts:

1. During installation, in Windows OS, I am able to change the directory 
of installation during installation.


2. I recently changed my computer, but attached the old hard disk to the 
current one. I ran the Lyx that I had been installed in that hard disk. 
It runs perfectly well. But with one difference. It opened all the files 
that was open when I closed the application that is currently installed 
in the new computer. So some common data specific to the user is being 
accessed from some common area specific to the user for Lyx1.6. This 
user profile data set location is different for Lyx 2.0 and Lyx 1.6.


So this means that whatever changes that was required in this regard 
when moving from Lyx 1.6 to Lyx 2.0 may be reimplemented so that all the 
settings files are stored in the LyX installation folder itself for a 
portable version.


Just as in the software called IrfanView image viewer, we could 
provide an option of storing the common data in a user profile directory 
or in the installation directory itself. In the latter case, 
installation directory becomes self contained and portable. This can be 
handy if the computer is used by only one person.


Thanks.
Regards
Ganesh

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[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.10 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Public release of LyX version 1.6.10


We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.10. This is the 11th
and final maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.

LyX 1.6.10 concludes the successful 1.6 series, which has been our stable
series for the past two and a half years. The most notable new feature of
this version is that it is able to read and import documents of our new
stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit of users who want to
stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want to cooperate with
users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still writes the 1.6 format,
so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's new features.

Read on below what has been changed and fixed in this version apart from that.
Remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.

Anyone who intends to stick with the 1.6 series is strongly encouraged to
upgrade to this version.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software/Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

You can download LyX 1.6.10 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
also host the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz

http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.10/

If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.8), you may
want to apply one of the following patches instead:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.bz2

Note that for this release, some binaries have been added that are not 
produced
by the patch.

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.10, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org),
or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.6.10?


** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Read files produced by LyX 2.0.

- Run biber instead of bibtex if requested (bug 7281).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- New Swedish translation of the Splash and the Shortcuts manual.

- Updated French translation of the Tutorial and the User Guide.

- Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian,Italian, Japanese, Portuguese,
  Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian User Interface Localization.


** Bug fixes:
*

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Protect the math commands \overset and \underset in fragile context
  (bug 7252).

- When exporting, alert about uncodable characters in ERT insets (bug 7310).

- When exporting, alert about uncodable characters in child docs (bug 7326).

- Prevent LaTeX error when toggling hyperref (bug 7344).


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix corruption of localized messages while changing color preferences,
  which could result in a non-functional lyx 

LyX, index and Hyperef

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I use Lyx 2.0 to manage multiple index. Since I want that some page numbers 
appear in italic in the index, I add to several index declaration the option 
|textit. Strangely, in the generated PDF file, these page numbers written in 
italic are not hyperlinks (such as the normal page numbers).
-- 

Dr. Ir. Pascal Francq
BELGIUM


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Re: LyX, index and Hyperef

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Pascal Francq wrote:
 I use Lyx 2.0 to manage multiple index. Since I want that some page
 numbers  appear in italic in the index, I add to several index declaration
 the option |textit. Strangely, in the generated PDF file, these page
 numbers written in italic are not hyperlinks (such as the normal page
 numbers).

You use xindy, right?

I think there are incompatibilities between current hyperref and xindy 
versions. Look here for a workaround:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:LaTeX/Indexing#Texindy.2C_hyperref_and_textbf.2C_textit_modifiers

Jürgen

Re: Regular expression documentation

[Pavel Sanda]

Richard Heck wrote:
 I do not myself know exactly what regex syntax is supported, but maybe
 experimentation is the best way to find out, anyway.

some regexp examples can be found in the context menu if you are inside
advanced search window.

pavel

Re: LyX 2.0 on Windows

[Pavel Sanda]

Jim Oldfield wrote:
 You should use LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer-Bundle.exe (whereas the one for those 
 with 
 LaTeX already installed is LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer.exe).
 
 Make sure you are using LyX-2.0.0-2 and NOT LyX-2.0.0-1, which seems to still 
 be 
 on at least one mirror.

i see, cybermirror.org just adds new files, but won't delete old ones. just 
killed
it from the list.

pavel

Portable LyX

[Drazick]

Hello.
Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?

I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing programs 
(Use only portable programs).

Thanks.

Re: Portable LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Drazick drazic...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello.
 Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?

 I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing 
 programs
 (Use only portable programs).

You cannot produce PDF from TeX files without a LaTeX distribution
such as MiKTeX. Otherwise, LyX is not exactly a TeX editor.

Regards
Liviu


 Thanks.





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Re: Portable LyX

[Ganesh Sundaram]

On 5/9/2011 6:43 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Drazickdrazic...@gmail.com  wrote:

Hello.
Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?

I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing programs
(Use only portable programs).

You cannot produce PDF from TeX files without a LaTeX distribution
such as MiKTeX. Otherwise, LyX is not exactly a TeX editor.

Regards
Liviu


Thanks.


One however install (i.e., download and uncompress) MiKTeX portable 
version, and point to the MiKTeX bin directory while installing LyX.


If all the Lyx settings files are stored in the Lyx installation 
directory itself, then the entire Lyx installation folder can be copied 
and used as Lyx portable version so long the computer to which it is 
copied to has MiKTeX portable. If the directories are different, one 
much change the path variable in the Lyx paths and, if needed, 
reconfigure Lyx.


The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in 
the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, 
etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more 
specific question.


Regards
Ganesh
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Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
second one.

In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
use it in other child document.

In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
everything perfectly.

But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
to do without insert the math macros again, which in painful).

My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
handy.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 10:22 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:
 I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
 second one.

 In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
 child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
 use it in other child document.

 In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
 everything perfectly.

 But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
 AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
 defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
 document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
 to do without insert the math macros again, which in painful).

 My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
 While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
 document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
 handy.

If you ask to compile just the child, then you are asking to compile it
as a standalone document, so it is no surprise that this does not work.
If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
DocumentSettings.

rh

Re: Portable LyX

[Diego Queiroz]

 The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the
 installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc).
 Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific
 question.


LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows register.
AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way
to achieve this without changing the code.

But since there is a portable version MiKTeX, it would be a good to provide
a portable version of LyX.

Vincent,
Goals for 2.1? :-)

---
Diego Queiroz

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 If you ask to compile just the child, then you are asking to compile it
  as a standalone document, so it is no surprise that this does not work.


Exactly. :-)


 If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
 then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
 DocumentSettings.


I was not aware of this feature. Thanks for the hint.

But it is also painful to select the document I want to compile everytime.
:/
When I am working in a document, I work on it as a standalone document, I
don't handle with the Master document before I want to compile the whole
set.

Of course there are several workarounds, i.e you can create a document with
all your macros and insert it on the beggining of all documents. This is a
not so elegant solution, but it does the job. Probably one can suggest a
better solution as well.

But I really think LyX can do this automatically.
Since LyX already stores all defined macros in somewhere for the editor, it
is not so hard to dinamically include them in a document when needed.

Cheers,
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 11:05 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:

 If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
 then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
 DocumentSettings.
 I was not aware of this feature. Thanks for the hint.

It's new in 2.0.0.

 But it is also painful to select the document I want to compile everytime.
 :/
 When I am working in a document, I work on it as a standalone document, I
 don't handle with the Master document before I want to compile the whole
 set.

 Of course there are several workarounds, i.e you can create a document with
 all your macros and insert it on the beggining of all documents. This is a
 not so elegant solution, but it does the job. Probably one can suggest a
 better solution as well.

 But I really think LyX can do this automatically.
 Since LyX already stores all defined macros in somewhere for the editor, it
 is not so hard to dinamically include them in a document when needed.

But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document?
People do this.

Richard

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document?
 People do this.

 Richard


But if it was really a standalone document, I would have to unset master
document property, right?

Anyway, in my case, the problem is that my child document with the macros
also define Nomenclatures. When I include it on all files and decide to
generate the Master document, the list of Nomenclatures repeats its entries
several times (obviously because the entry was indeed included several
times).

I am just looking for a more user oriented behavior. I mean, if I can see
everything right on the screen, what's the problem?
This is how I feel about the current behavior. LyX is handling everything on
the editor, since all math macros are interpreted correctly when I open any
document, but I can't generate the file because of its internal structure.

We should try to avoid consistency errors in LyX. If people decide to use
ERT, we should expect unwanted behavior, but in a document using only LyX
resources, it must never generate errors (or they should be rare, at least),
doesn't matter what the user decides to do.


Cheers,
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 10:22 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
second one.

In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
use it in other child document.

In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
everything perfectly.

But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
to do without insert the math macros again, which in painful).

My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
handy.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz



This works like a charm for me on 1.6.9 right now. My setup is

Thesis.lyx:
 Frontmatter stuff
 Include: LyX-macros.lyx
 Table of Contents
 List of Tables
 List of Figures
 Include: Chapter-1.lyx
 Include: Chapter-2.lyx
...
 Start Appendix here
 Include: Appendix-1.lyx
 BibTeX Generated Bibliography

Each child doc has the default master document set to Thesis.lyx and I 
use a branch named child only, which is activated in child docs but 
deactivated in the master, to include BibTeX bib in the childs. Math 
macros are defined in LyX-macros.lyx and are available when compiling 
each child individually without hassle.


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and 
stuff that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master 
and child docs.


--
Julien

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
 that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
 docs.
 --
 Julien


Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 1:44 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
docs.
--
Julien



Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego



Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I 
say they work for me. No workaround necessary.


There must be something in your setup that we're missing at the moment 
and prevents math macros for working.


Maybe you mean that the math macros in your preamble don't work?

Regards,
Julien

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 1:44 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
docs.
--
Julien



Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego



Hi Diego,

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the use x math 
package automatically option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of 
your child doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX 
should detect that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is 
needed: check use x math package in document settings.


Regards,
Julien

Re: Portable LyX

[Drazick]

The perfect idea would be a portable LyX which includes any library needed
within it.

I think the guys over Portable Apps http://portableapps.com/ will be
helpful.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.comwrote:

 The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the
 installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc).
 Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific
 question.


 LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows
 register.
 AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no
 way to achieve this without changing the code.

 But since there is a portable version MiKTeX, it would be a good to provide
 a portable version of LyX.

 Vincent,
 Goals for 2.1? :-)

 ---
 Diego Queiroz

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I say
 they work for me. No workaround necessary.


Maybe I misunderstood you.
I was citing your workaround to include bibtex in the childs.

 I use a branch named child only, which is activated in child docs but
deactivated in the master

Anyway, never mind. Sorry.

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the use x math package
 automatically option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of your child
 doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX should detect
 that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is needed: check
 use x math package in document settings.


I just tested and this is not enough.
I am not able to generate child files in LyX 2.0 at all.
If I include a simple macro in a document (the master), create another file
(the child), link them and use the macro in the child. The standalone child
don't compile, only the master document.

Are you able to do this in LyX 1.6?
If so, this is a bug report and not a feature request.

Can someone confirm this / create ticket?

I've attached two files: the child and the master document.
I can't compile the child document. Can you try?


Cheers,
---
Diego


child.lyx
Description: Binary data


master.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 2:23 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I say
they work for me. No workaround necessary.



Maybe I misunderstood you.
I was citing your workaround to include bibtex in the childs.


I use a branch named child only, which is activated in child docs but

deactivated in the master

Anyway, never mind. Sorry.

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the use x math package

automatically option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of your child
doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX should detect
that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is needed: check
use x math package in document settings.



I just tested and this is not enough.
I am not able to generate child files in LyX 2.0 at all.
If I include a simple macro in a document (the master), create another file
(the child), link them and use the macro in the child. The standalone child
don't compile, only the master document.

Are you able to do this in LyX 1.6?
If so, this is a bug report and not a feature request.

Can someone confirm this / create ticket?

I've attached two files: the child and the master document.
I can't compile the child document. Can you try?


Cheers,
---
Diego



Hi Diego,

Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child doc, 
you did not set the master setting, did you? But anyway, I corrected it 
and still in 2.1.0svn the compilation of the child is broken:


Undefined control sequence \anymacro

A bug.

Regards,
Julien

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 is released

[Jacob Bishop]

Just wanted to add my congratulations to those already expressed. This is a
great milestone.

A big thanks to all who worked on this.

Jacob

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 02:38 PM, Julien Rioux wrote:

 Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child
 doc, you did not set the master setting, did you? But anyway, I
 corrected it and still in 2.1.0svn the compilation of the child is
 broken:

 Undefined control sequence \anymacro

 A bug.

It's due to the fact that the clone of the child buffer has no parent.
Enrico wins again. ;-)

It would seem we must always clone the entire set of documents. I.e.,
start with:
buf.masterBuffer()-clone();
or something to that effect. But then we need back a pointer to buf's
clone, so clone() probably needs to return something like a map from
Buffers to their clones. Note that, if we pass this around, we can
perhaps avoid multiple clones of a single Buffer included multiple
times, which I suspect we now have.

Richard

Re: caption in listings

[Paul Rubin]

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com writes:

 
 View source says:
 
 \begin{lstlisting}[caption={Inverse Parabolic Timing 
 Interpolation},label={lis:Inverse-Parabolic-

Timing},basicstyle=
{\footnotesize},breaklines=true,float,frame=lines,language=Python]
 
 So, sounds like problem with lstlisting package?
 

Guess so.  It might be worth posting a minimal example, in case it works on some
platforms but not others, or it's a version issue, or some such silliness.

Paul

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

 Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child doc,
 you did not set the master setting, did you?


Indeed.
I was in a hurry and I forgot it. ;/
---
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how to separate pdf file?

[Hady Ariwibowo Teguh]

Dear all,
i wanna write thesis report in separate pdf file (ex. chap1.pdf, cover.pdf so 
on). but i dont know how to do it. Any body help me please.
Thank you
Teguh
CFD Engineer

Re: Portable LyX

[Ganesh Sundaram]

On 5/9/2011 8:08 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files
in the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for
windows, etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to
this more specific question.


LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows 
register.
AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's 
no way to achieve this without changing the code.




I am not able to fully understand the part
the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way 
to achieve this without changing the code.


I have following facts:

1. During installation, in Windows OS, I am able to change the directory 
of installation during installation.


2. I recently changed my computer, but attached the old hard disk to the 
current one. I ran the Lyx that I had been installed in that hard disk. 
It runs perfectly well. But with one difference. It opened all the files 
that was open when I closed the application that is currently installed 
in the new computer. So some common data specific to the user is being 
accessed from some common area specific to the user for Lyx1.6. This 
user profile data set location is different for Lyx 2.0 and Lyx 1.6.


So this means that whatever changes that was required in this regard 
when moving from Lyx 1.6 to Lyx 2.0 may be reimplemented so that all the 
settings files are stored in the LyX installation folder itself for a 
portable version.


Just as in the software called IrfanView image viewer, we could 
provide an option of storing the common data in a user profile directory 
or in the installation directory itself. In the latter case, 
installation directory becomes self contained and portable. This can be 
handy if the computer is used by only one person.


Thanks.
Regards
Ganesh

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[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.10 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Public release of LyX version 1.6.10


We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.10. This is the 11th
and final maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.

LyX 1.6.10 concludes the successful 1.6 series, which has been our stable
series for the past two and a half years. The most notable new feature of
this version is that it is able to read and import documents of our new
stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit of users who want to
stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want to cooperate with
users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still writes the 1.6 format,
so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's new features.

Read on below what has been changed and fixed in this version apart from that.
Remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.

Anyone who intends to stick with the 1.6 series is strongly encouraged to
upgrade to this version.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software/Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

You can download LyX 1.6.10 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
also host the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz

http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.10/

If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.8), you may
want to apply one of the following patches instead:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.bz2

Note that for this release, some binaries have been added that are not 
produced
by the patch.

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.10, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel  lists.lyx.org),
or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users  lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.6.10?


** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Read files produced by LyX 2.0.

- Run biber instead of bibtex if requested (bug 7281).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- New Swedish translation of the Splash and the Shortcuts manual.

- Updated French translation of the Tutorial and the User Guide.

- Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian,Italian, Japanese, Portuguese,
  Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian User Interface Localization.


** Bug fixes:
*

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Protect the math commands \overset and \underset in fragile context
  (bug 7252).

- When exporting, alert about uncodable characters in ERT insets (bug 7310).

- When exporting, alert about uncodable characters in child docs (bug 7326).

- Prevent LaTeX error when toggling hyperref (bug 7344).


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix corruption of localized messages while changing color preferences,
  which could result in a non-functional lyx 

LyX, index and Hyperef

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I use Lyx 2.0 to manage multiple index. Since I want that some page numbers 
appear in italic in the index, I add to several index declaration the option 
"|textit". Strangely, in the generated PDF file, these page numbers written in 
italic are not hyperlinks (such as the "normal" page numbers).
-- 

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Re: LyX, index and Hyperef

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Pascal Francq wrote:
> I use Lyx 2.0 to manage multiple index. Since I want that some page
> numbers  appear in italic in the index, I add to several index declaration
> the option "|textit". Strangely, in the generated PDF file, these page
> numbers written in italic are not hyperlinks (such as the "normal" page
> numbers).

You use xindy, right?

I think there are incompatibilities between current hyperref and xindy 
versions. Look here for a workaround:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:LaTeX/Indexing#Texindy.2C_hyperref_and_textbf.2C_textit_modifiers

Jürgen

Re: Regular expression documentation

[Pavel Sanda]

Richard Heck wrote:
> I do not myself know exactly what regex syntax is supported, but maybe
> experimentation is the best way to find out, anyway.

some regexp examples can be found in the context menu if you are inside
advanced search window.

pavel

Re: LyX 2.0 on Windows

[Pavel Sanda]

Jim Oldfield wrote:
> You should use LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer-Bundle.exe (whereas the one for those 
> with 
> LaTeX already installed is LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer.exe).
> 
> Make sure you are using LyX-2.0.0-2 and NOT LyX-2.0.0-1, which seems to still 
> be 
> on at least one mirror.

i see, cybermirror.org just adds new files, but won't delete old ones. just 
killed
it from the list.

pavel

Portable LyX

[Drazick]

Hello.
Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?

I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing programs 
(Use only portable programs).

Thanks.

Re: Portable LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Drazick  wrote:
> Hello.
> Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?
>
> I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing 
> programs
> (Use only portable programs).
>
You cannot produce PDF from TeX files without a LaTeX distribution
such as MiKTeX. Otherwise, LyX is not exactly a TeX editor.

Regards
Liviu


> Thanks.
>
>



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Re: Portable LyX

[Ganesh Sundaram]

On 5/9/2011 6:43 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Drazick  wrote:

Hello.
Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?

I want to be able to edit TeX files and produce PDF without installing programs
(Use only portable programs).

You cannot produce PDF from TeX files without a LaTeX distribution
such as MiKTeX. Otherwise, LyX is not exactly a TeX editor.

Regards
Liviu


Thanks.


One however "install" (i.e., download and uncompress) MiKTeX portable 
version, and point to the MiKTeX bin directory while installing LyX.


If all the Lyx settings files are stored in the Lyx installation 
directory itself, then the entire Lyx installation folder can be copied 
and used as Lyx portable version so long the computer to which it is 
copied to has MiKTeX portable. If the directories are different, one 
much change the path variable in the Lyx paths and, if needed, 
reconfigure Lyx.


The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in 
the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, 
etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more 
specific question.


Regards
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Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
second one.

In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
use it in other child document.

In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
everything perfectly.

But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
to do without insert the math macros "again", which in painful).

My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
handy.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 10:22 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
> second one.
>
> In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
> child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
> use it in other child document.
>
> In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
> everything perfectly.
>
> But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
> AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
> defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
> document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
> to do without insert the math macros "again", which in painful).
>
> My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
> While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
> document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
> handy.
>
If you ask to compile just the child, then you are asking to compile it
as a standalone document, so it is no surprise that this does not work.
If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
Document>Settings.

rh

Re: Portable LyX

[Diego Queiroz]

>
> The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the
> installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc).
> Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific
> question.
>

LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows register.
AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way
to achieve this without changing the code.

But since there is a portable version MiKTeX, it would be a good to provide
a portable version of LyX.

Vincent,
Goals for 2.1? :-)

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Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

>
> If you ask to compile just the child, then you are asking to compile it
>  as a standalone document, so it is no surprise that this does not work.
>

Exactly. :-)


> If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
> then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
> Document>Settings.


I was not aware of this feature. Thanks for the hint.

But it is also painful to select the document I want to compile everytime.
:/
When I am working in a document, I work on it as a standalone document, I
don't handle with the Master document before I want to compile the whole
set.

Of course there are several workarounds, i.e you can create a document with
all your macros and insert it on the beggining of all documents. This is a
not so elegant solution, but it does the job. Probably one can suggest a
better solution as well.

But I really think LyX can do this automatically.
Since LyX already stores all defined macros in somewhere for the editor, it
is not so hard to dinamically include them in a document when needed.

Cheers,
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 11:05 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:
>
>> If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document,
>> then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from
>> Document>Settings.
> I was not aware of this feature. Thanks for the hint.
>
It's new in 2.0.0.

> But it is also painful to select the document I want to compile everytime.
> :/
> When I am working in a document, I work on it as a standalone document, I
> don't handle with the Master document before I want to compile the whole
> set.
>
> Of course there are several workarounds, i.e you can create a document with
> all your macros and insert it on the beggining of all documents. This is a
> not so elegant solution, but it does the job. Probably one can suggest a
> better solution as well.
>
> But I really think LyX can do this automatically.
> Since LyX already stores all defined macros in somewhere for the editor, it
> is not so hard to dinamically include them in a document when needed.
>
But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document?
People do this.

Richard

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

>
> But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document?
> People do this.
>
> Richard
>

But if it was really a standalone document, I would have to unset master
document property, right?

Anyway, in my case, the problem is that my child document with the macros
also define Nomenclatures. When I include it on all files and decide to
generate the Master document, the list of Nomenclatures repeats its entries
several times (obviously because the entry was indeed included several
times).

I am just looking for a more "user oriented behavior". I mean, "if I can see
everything right on the screen, what's the problem?"
This is how I feel about the current behavior. LyX is handling everything on
the editor, since all math macros are interpreted correctly when I open any
document, but I can't generate the file because of its internal structure.

We should try to avoid consistency errors in LyX. If people decide to use
ERT, we should expect unwanted behavior, but in a document using only LyX
resources, it must never generate errors (or they should be rare, at least),
doesn't matter what the user decides to do.


Cheers,
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 10:22 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the
second one.

In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a
child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and
use it in other child document.

In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles
everything perfectly.

But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone.
AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros
defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master
document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how
to do without insert the math macros "again", which in painful).

My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone.
While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the
document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very
handy.


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz



This works like a charm for me on 1.6.9 right now. My setup is

Thesis.lyx:
 Frontmatter stuff
 Include: LyX-macros.lyx
 Table of Contents
 List of Tables
 List of Figures
 Include: Chapter-1.lyx
 Include: Chapter-2.lyx
...
 Start Appendix here
 Include: Appendix-1.lyx
 BibTeX Generated Bibliography

Each child doc has the default master document set to Thesis.lyx and I 
use a branch named "child only", which is activated in child docs but 
deactivated in the master, to include BibTeX bib in the childs. Math 
macros are defined in LyX-macros.lyx and are available when compiling 
each child individually without hassle.


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and 
stuff that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master 
and child docs.


--
Julien

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

>
> So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
> that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
> docs.
> --
> Julien
>

Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 1:44 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
docs.
--
Julien



Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego



Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I 
say they work for me. No workaround necessary.


There must be something in your setup that we're missing at the moment 
and prevents math macros for working.


Maybe you mean that the math macros in your preamble don't work?

Regards,
Julien

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 1:44 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff
that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child
docs.
--
Julien



Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem.
Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-)

As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this
limitation (I am not searching for one).
I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself.


Cheers,
---
Diego



Hi Diego,

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the "use x math 
package automatically" option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of 
your child doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX 
should detect that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is 
needed: check "use x math package" in document settings.


Regards,
Julien

Re: Portable LyX

[Drazick]

The perfect idea would be a portable LyX which includes any library needed
within it.

I think the guys over Portable Apps  will be
helpful.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:

> The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the
>> installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc).
>> Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific
>> question.
>>
>
> LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows
> register.
> AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no
> way to achieve this without changing the code.
>
> But since there is a portable version MiKTeX, it would be a good to provide
> a portable version of LyX.
>
> Vincent,
> Goals for 2.1? :-)
>
> ---
> Diego Queiroz
>

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

>
> Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I say
> they work for me. No workaround necessary.
>

Maybe I misunderstood you.
I was citing your workaround to include bibtex in the childs.

>> "I use a branch named "child only", which is activated in child docs but
deactivated in the master"

Anyway, never mind. Sorry.

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the "use x math package
> automatically" option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of your child
> doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX should detect
> that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is needed: check
> "use x math package" in document settings.
>

I just tested and this is not enough.
I am not able to generate child files in LyX 2.0 at all.
If I include a simple macro in a document (the master), create another file
(the child), link them and use the macro in the child. The standalone child
don't compile, only the master document.

Are you able to do this in LyX 1.6?
If so, this is a bug report and not a feature request.

Can someone confirm this / create ticket?

I've attached two files: the child and the master document.
I can't compile the child document. Can you try?


Cheers,
---
Diego


child.lyx
Description: Binary data


master.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Julien Rioux]

On 09/05/2011 2:23 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I say
they work for me. No workaround necessary.



Maybe I misunderstood you.
I was citing your workaround to include bibtex in the childs.


"I use a branch named "child only", which is activated in child docs but

deactivated in the master"

Anyway, never mind. Sorry.

Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the "use x math package

automatically" option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of your child
doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX should detect
that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is needed: check
"use x math package" in document settings.



I just tested and this is not enough.
I am not able to generate child files in LyX 2.0 at all.
If I include a simple macro in a document (the master), create another file
(the child), link them and use the macro in the child. The standalone child
don't compile, only the master document.

Are you able to do this in LyX 1.6?
If so, this is a bug report and not a feature request.

Can someone confirm this / create ticket?

I've attached two files: the child and the master document.
I can't compile the child document. Can you try?


Cheers,
---
Diego



Hi Diego,

Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child doc, 
you did not set the master setting, did you? But anyway, I corrected it 
and still in 2.1.0svn the compilation of the child is broken:


Undefined control sequence \anymacro

A bug.

Regards,
Julien

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 is released

[Jacob Bishop]

Just wanted to add my congratulations to those already expressed. This is a
great milestone.

A big thanks to all who worked on this.

Jacob

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Richard Heck]

On 05/09/2011 02:38 PM, Julien Rioux wrote:
>
> Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child
> doc, you did not set the master setting, did you? But anyway, I
> corrected it and still in 2.1.0svn the compilation of the child is
> broken:
>
> Undefined control sequence \anymacro
>
> A bug.
>
It's due to the fact that the clone of the child buffer has no parent.
Enrico wins again. ;-)

It would seem we must always clone the entire set of documents. I.e.,
start with:
buf.masterBuffer()->clone();
or something to that effect. But then we need back a pointer to buf's
clone, so clone() probably needs to return something like a map from
Buffers to their clones. Note that, if we pass this around, we can
perhaps avoid multiple clones of a single Buffer included multiple
times, which I suspect we now have.

Richard

Re: caption in listings

[Paul Rubin]

Neal Becker  gmail.com> writes:

> 
> View source says:
> 
> \begin{lstlisting}[caption={Inverse Parabolic Timing 
> Interpolation},label={lis:Inverse-Parabolic-
>
Timing},basicstyle=
{\footnotesize},breaklines=true,float,frame=lines,language=Python]
> 
> So, sounds like problem with lstlisting package?
> 

Guess so.  It might be worth posting a minimal example, in case it works on some
platforms but not others, or it's a version issue, or some such silliness.

Paul

Re: Math macros inside child documents

[Diego Queiroz]

>
> Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child doc,
> you did not set the master setting, did you?
>

Indeed.
I was in a hurry and I forgot it. ;/
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how to separate pdf file?

[Hady Ariwibowo Teguh]

Dear all,
i wanna write thesis report in separate pdf file (ex. chap1.pdf, cover.pdf so 
on). but i dont know how to do it. Any body help me please.
Thank you
Teguh
CFD Engineer

Re: Portable LyX

[Ganesh Sundaram]

On 5/9/2011 8:08 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:


The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files
in the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for
windows, etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to
this more specific question.


LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows 
register.
AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's 
no way to achieve this without changing the code.




I am not able to fully understand the part
"the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way 
to achieve this without changing the code".


I have following facts:

1. During installation, in Windows OS, I am able to change the directory 
of installation during installation.


2. I recently changed my computer, but attached the old hard disk to the 
current one. I ran the Lyx that I had been installed in that hard disk. 
It runs perfectly well. But with one difference. It opened all the files 
that was open when I closed the application that is currently installed 
in the new computer. So some common data specific to the user is being 
accessed from some common area specific to the user for Lyx1.6. This 
user profile data set location is different for Lyx 2.0 and Lyx 1.6.


So this means that whatever changes that was required in this regard 
when moving from Lyx 1.6 to Lyx 2.0 may be reimplemented so that all the 
settings files are stored in the LyX installation folder itself for a 
portable version.


Just as in the software called "IrfanView" image viewer, we could 
provide an option of storing the common data in a user profile directory 
or in the installation directory itself. In the latter case, 
installation directory becomes self contained and portable. This can be 
handy if the computer is used by only one person.


Thanks.
Regards
Ganesh

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