Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Ignacio García]

Alasdair Reed alasdair at iprimus.com.au writes:



 I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
 use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
 Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
 http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
 in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
 Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
 Code
 This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
 Code ends
 I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
 in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default?

Not need configure lyx, lyx deals with it.
As the output of xetex in the terminal is 2011, lyx use this version
You can check it in the latex log file produced when lyx run the output

ig

Re: hanging indentation in bibiography (using lyx bibtex)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/4/26 Peter Coles coleszi...@gmail.com:
 Stefano, Richard thanks.  After some toying, the following worked:

 1) I added to the preamble the full block Richard described, replacing the
 at's with at symbols (this replacement was probably obvious to everyone 
 except
 me.) I also changed the first line as you suggested.

 2) I added   \setlength\itemindent{-.5in} to the block, and changed
 \leftmargin\labelwidth to \setlength\leftmargin{.5in}

 The bibliography style I am using, aea.bst, seems to use empty labels rather
 than, for example, numbers to enumerate bibliography items. Hence, rather than
 playing with the labelwidth, which had no effect for me, I indented by a
 negative amount and then shoved the whole list back to the right the same
 amount.

 A pain, but it's done!  Thanks, all.

Actually, since you use natbib, a simple
\setlength\bibhang{.5in}
would have probably sufficed as well.

Jürgen

Re: Symbols in 2.0.3

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/4/26 Sebastian Stein gebu...@gmx.net:
 Hi.

 I tried to insert different symbols in an standard environment (not math 
 mode) within KOMA article using utf8.
 While the handbook claims otherwise it doesn't work.


 Error messages:
 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:⇓ not set up for use with LaTeX.
 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:↠ not set up for use with LaTeX.

 Any ideas or workarounds?

The problem here is that inputenc's utf8 does not cover the whole
range of all existing unicode glyphs (yet and probably will never).
Yours obviously aren't covered.

Two options (non-exclusive):

* Select Use non-TeX fonts in Document  Fonts and try if some font
covers these symbols (I tried; the symbols seem to be rather exotic.
Here, only Arial Unicode MS had them, but you might have more
comprehensive fonts)

* Look if you can find the symbols here:
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
Depending on how they are provided, if at all, we can add some support
to LyX.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Felix Krawehl]

I had this one pretty regularly, also working parallely on two systems.  
You don't have to touch every single citation. You have to go into the  
bibliography-entry in your lyx file (i. e., the field linking to the  
bibtex-file, the one you insert at the place where you want the  
bibliography to appear) and delete the bibtex-file-reference, probably  
close and save, open again and re-insert the link to your local  
bibtex-file. Eventually, the entries will show up again after processing  
your lyx-file. Quite annoying one, this procedure, but at least for me  
this worked.


Kind regards,
Felix



Am 28.04.2012, 06:19 Uhr, schrieb Jane Shevtsov jane@gmail.com:


I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every  
single

citation?

Thanks,
Jane




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Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:15:10 +0200
Ignacio García ignacio.gmora...@gmail.com wrote:

 Alasdair Reed alasdair at iprimus.com.au writes:
 
 
 
  I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
  use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
  Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
  http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
  in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
  Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
  Code
  This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
   restricted \write18 enabled.
  Code ends
  I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
  in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default?
 
 Not need configure lyx, lyx deals with it.
 As the output of xetex in the terminal is 2011, lyx use this version
 You can check it in the latex log file produced when lyx run the
 output
 
 ig

Hi,

Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via XeTex/LuaTex,
is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be installed to use this
dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty) on
my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
\usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use XeTex ? 

Alasdair

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:

 Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The

You can check the Latex log by going to DocumentLatex Log
The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using

 dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via XeTex/LuaTex,
 is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be installed to use this
 dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
 (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty) on
 my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
 \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use XeTex ?


ToolsTex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
If you check the box
called show path it will tell you where the packages are.

the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
ViewSource, and checking the box Full source. Scroll back to the
beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
\fontspec command.

Hope it helps,

Stefano


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Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

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http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Jurabib's Bibliography and the use of et al

[Julio Rojas]

Two cents: Have you checked that the path to the bibtex file is absolute
and full? Can you leave biber out and try biblatex alone?

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


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:31 PM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Brett Randall brett.rand...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:34 AM, stefano franchi
  stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I am not sure starting to use Jurabib is such a great choice. Jurabib
  is basically a dead project, as far as I know. It would better to
  start with biblatex.
 
 
  Thanks Stefano - I have tried biblatex and just can't get it to work. If
 I
  was still using Linux I'm sure it would be easy, but running LyX 2.0.2 on
  Windows with MikTeX 2.9, I just can't get bibtex/biber to spit out
 anything.
  I'm having the same result as this person:
 
  http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19t=11317
 
  (i.e. bold keys in place of citations, and no bibliography printing out).

 Brett,

 I'm sorry to hear that biblatex is not working for you. Unfortunately
 I have no idea why that would be the case, except that it seems from
 the log snippet you posted that biber may not be running at all.
 Debugging requires more info on your part, I am afraid. Can you post a
 minimal lyx example, minimal bib file, and the complete latex log.  Or
 send them to me privately. By minimal I really mean minimal: one or
 two lines for the lyx file, one ref for the bib file.
 On the other hand, if you are working against deadline, it may be
 better to keep working on Jurabib and switch to biblatex later. BTW,
 there used to be a jurabib-only mailing list, have you tried it? Or
 you may try comp.text.tex (via the google interface).

 Cheers,

 S.



 --
 __
 Stefano Franchi
 Associate Research Professor
 Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
 Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
 College Station, Texas, USA

 stef...@tamu.edu
 http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
 alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
 
  Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
 
 You can check the Latex log by going to DocumentLatex Log
 The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using
 
  dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
  XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
  installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
  (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
  on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
  \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use
  XeTex ?
 
 
 ToolsTex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
 If you check the box
 called show path it will tell you where the packages are.
 
 the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
 non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
 ViewSource, and checking the box Full source. Scroll back to the
 beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
 \fontspec command.
 
 Hope it helps,
 
 Stefano
 
 

Thanks Stefano,
Document  Latex Log is greyed out
Tools  Tex with show path is showing packages
from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/

Any ideas?

Re: Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Jane Shevtsov]

Thanks, that worked. (I also had to install the bibliography style file I
had used.)

Jane

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Felix Krawehl kraw...@googlemail.comwrote:

 I had this one pretty regularly, also working parallely on two systems.
 You don't have to touch every single citation. You have to go into the
 bibliography-entry in your lyx file (i. e., the field linking to the
 bibtex-file, the one you insert at the place where you want the
 bibliography to appear) and delete the bibtex-file-reference, probably
 close and save, open again and re-insert the link to your local
 bibtex-file. Eventually, the entries will show up again after processing
 your lyx-file. Quite annoying one, this procedure, but at least for me this
 worked.

 Kind regards,
 Felix



 Am 28.04.2012, 06:19 Uhr, schrieb Jane Shevtsov jane@gmail.com:


  I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
 computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
 for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
 marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every single
 citation?

 Thanks,
 Jane



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 http://www.opera.com/mail/




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systems ecologist, or an immunologist is inferior, both for the individual
and for society, than that intended to produce a broadly educated person
who has also written a dissertation. --John Janovy, Jr., On Becoming a
Biologist

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Alasdair Reed alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
 On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
 stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
 alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:

  Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The

 You can check the Latex log by going to DocumentLatex Log
 The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using

  dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
  XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
  installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
  (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
  on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
  \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use
  XeTex ?
 

 ToolsTex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
 If you check the box
 called show path it will tell you where the packages are.

 the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
 non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
 ViewSource, and checking the box Full source. Scroll back to the
 beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
 \fontspec command.

 Hope it helps,

 Stefano



 Thanks Stefano,
 Document  Latex Log is greyed out

It won't be activated until you comiple something. Create a new Lyx
file with just a word in in it and then do Viewpdflatex (for
instance). After successful compilaiton you should be able to see the
log file


 Tools  Tex with show path is showing packages
 from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
 so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/

Right, I guess the problem is that lyx finds the ubuntu packages
before it hits texlive.

First of all: have you reconfigured Lyx (ToolsReconfigure)? It may
be all you need.

If that does not work, a couple of options:

1. Uninstall the Ubuntu text-live package. This may not be feasible,
though, because you probably have it as a dependence of Lyx and
possibly other packages
There is a way to replace Ubuntu's outdated texlive with a dummy
package but I am afraid I forget how to do it. Other people on the
list may know (I left Ubuntu some time ago).

2. Check the order of your executable path in your $PATH environmental
variable. In fact, open a terminal and do

$which pdflatex

you should get something like:
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex


and then do something like:

$kpsewhich fontspec.sty


and you shoud get
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty

 If not, try

$printenv $PATH

Do you see the path to the texlive2011 installation occurring before
the path to the Ubuntu installed executables?

S.


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Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Compilation problem

[Emil Pavlov]

На 26.04.2012 16:09, Richard Heck написа:


I had to take out the figures to get it to work, since I don't have 
those, but then it complied fine for me. I guess I'd suggest 
continuing to bisect it. Alternatively, export to LaTeX and compile 
manually. That may give more information.


rh

On 04/26/2012 10:04 AM, Emil Pavlov wrote:

На 26.04.2012 14:07, Richard Heck написа:

On 04/25/2012 06:44 PM, Emil Pavlov wrote:
I have a problem with compiling my bachelor thesis and do not know 
what to do. Can you take a look and give me some ideas?


Erase the last half of it, and see if it compiles. If so, put that 
back and erase the first half. Keep going until you isolate the 
problem.


Obviously, do this on a copy, not on the original!

Richard


Ok, I have located the problem just to one section, but I still 
cannot figure out what is wrong.


Here is the error log and the file is the attachment:

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

}

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.


Emil




Well, I removed all the figures but I still have the problem. Exporting 
to latex didn't help either.


Emil

Re: Symbols in 2.0.3

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-04-28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 2012/4/26 Sebastian Stein gebu...@gmx.net:
 Hi.

 I tried to insert different symbols in an standard environment (not
 math mode) within KOMA article using utf8. While the handbook claims
 otherwise it doesn't work.


 Error messages:
 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:⇓ not set up for use with LaTeX.
 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:↠ not set up for use with LaTeX.

 Any ideas or workarounds?

 The problem here is that inputenc's utf8 does not cover the whole
 range of all existing unicode glyphs (yet and probably will never).

 Yours obviously aren't covered.


 * Select Use non-TeX fonts in Document  Fonts and try if some font
 covers these symbols (I tried; the symbols seem to be rather exotic.
 Here, only Arial Unicode MS had them, but you might have more
 comprehensive fonts)

 * Look if you can find the symbols here:
 http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
 Depending on how they are provided, if at all, we can add some support
 to LyX.


* Try if there is a definition for the respective symbols in LyX's
  unicodesymbols file (residing in the LyXdir which you can find out
  under HelpAbout LyX). 

  - If yes, see if there is a force flag. If not, try setting the
LaTeX encoding to ASCII instead of utf8 - then LyX will translate
the Unicodesymbols to a LaTeX command.

BTW: despite LyX telling you otherwise, setting the LaTeX encoding 
to utf8 almost never helps: LyX Unicode-TeX conversion is more 
comprehensive than the standard inputenc utf8 mappings.

  - If no, you can customize the unicodesymbols file. Copy it to your
LyX userdir (~/.lyx on Unix) and add the missing definitions
(if you found some in
 http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
)

* If you keep the LaTeX encoding at utf8, you can also add the missing
  definitions in the LaTeX preamble similar to e.g.
  
  \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00A8}{\textasciidieresis}  % ¨


Günter

macro for repeating a theorem statement in appendix

[Qiqi Yan]

Hi all,

So I have a (complicated) theorem statement in the main text of a paper, 
which I want to repeat in the appendix right before the proof.


Is there a macro-way of doing this instead of copy-pasting? (\newcommand 
is probably not good as the theorem is complicated to write in latex)



Thanks a lot!

-Qiqi

Re: macro for repeating a theorem statement in appendix

[Qiqi Yan]

Cool! Thanks! -Qiqi
On 04/28/2012 02:46 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 04/28/2012 05:34 PM, Qiqi Yan wrote:

Hi all,

So I have a (complicated) theorem statement in the main text of a 
paper, which I want to repeat in the appendix right before the proof.


Is there a macro-way of doing this instead of copy-pasting? 
(\newcommand is probably not good as the theorem is complicated to 
write in latex)


Thanks a lot!


You know, you can do things like this:

[ERT]\newcommand\mytheorem{[/ERT]This is the statement of a very 
complicated theorem, using lots and lots of LaTeX, and maybe even some 
other stuff like tikz.[ERT]}[\ERT]


On export, this will define \mytheorem just as you want it. Now you 
can use it in ERT twice: Once in the statement of the main theorem, 
and again in the appendix.


Richard

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version Solved

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:56:08 -0500
stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Alasdair Reed
 alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
  On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
  stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
  alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
 
   Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
 
  You can check the Latex log by going to DocumentLatex Log
  The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is
  using
 
   dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
   XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
   installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in
   TexLive2011
   (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
   on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to
   put \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to
   use XeTex ?
  
 
  ToolsTex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is
  Toolsaware.
  If you check the box
  called show path it will tell you where the packages are.
 
  the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
  non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
  ViewSource, and checking the box Full source. Scroll back to
  Viewthe
  beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
  \fontspec command.
 
  Hope it helps,
 
  Stefano
 
 
 
  Thanks Stefano,
  Document  Latex Log is greyed out
 
 It won't be activated until you comiple something. Create a new Lyx
 file with just a word in in it and then do Viewpdflatex (for
 instance). After successful compilaiton you should be able to see the
 log file
 
 
  Tools  Tex with show path is showing packages
  from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
  so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/
 
 Right, I guess the problem is that lyx finds the ubuntu packages
 before it hits texlive.
 
 First of all: have you reconfigured Lyx (ToolsReconfigure)? It may
 be all you need.
 
 If that does not work, a couple of options:
 
 1. Uninstall the Ubuntu text-live package. This may not be feasible,
 though, because you probably have it as a dependence of Lyx and
 possibly other packages
 There is a way to replace Ubuntu's outdated texlive with a dummy
 package but I am afraid I forget how to do it. Other people on the
 list may know (I left Ubuntu some time ago).
 
 2. Check the order of your executable path in your $PATH environmental
 variable. In fact, open a terminal and do
 
 $which pdflatex
 
 you should get something like:
 /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex
 
 
 and then do something like:
 
 $kpsewhich fontspec.sty
 
 
 and you shoud get
 /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
 
  If not, try
 
 $printenv $PATH
 
 Do you see the path to the texlive2011 installation occurring before
 the path to the Ubuntu installed executables?
 
 S.
 
 

Hi, The paths are all correct,  Starting lyx from the terminal and
reconfiguring did the trick as far as using TexLive2011 goes I just
can't start Lyx from the desktop icon if I want to use TexLive2011,
but I can live with that. It can be done but time is short . There are
other problems but I will post separate question about them. \

Alasdair

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Ignacio García]

Alasdair Reed alasdair at iprimus.com.au writes:



 I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
 use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
 Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
 http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
 in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
 Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
 Code
 This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
 Code ends
 I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
 in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default?

Not need configure lyx, lyx deals with it.
As the output of xetex in the terminal is 2011, lyx use this version
You can check it in the latex log file produced when lyx run the output

ig

Re: hanging indentation in bibiography (using lyx bibtex)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/4/26 Peter Coles coleszi...@gmail.com:
 Stefano, Richard thanks.  After some toying, the following worked:

 1) I added to the preamble the full block Richard described, replacing the
 at's with at symbols (this replacement was probably obvious to everyone 
 except
 me.) I also changed the first line as you suggested.

 2) I added   \setlength\itemindent{-.5in} to the block, and changed
 \leftmargin\labelwidth to \setlength\leftmargin{.5in}

 The bibliography style I am using, aea.bst, seems to use empty labels rather
 than, for example, numbers to enumerate bibliography items. Hence, rather than
 playing with the labelwidth, which had no effect for me, I indented by a
 negative amount and then shoved the whole list back to the right the same
 amount.

 A pain, but it's done!  Thanks, all.

Actually, since you use natbib, a simple
\setlength\bibhang{.5in}
would have probably sufficed as well.

Jürgen

Re: Symbols in 2.0.3

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/4/26 Sebastian Stein gebu...@gmx.net:
 Hi.

 I tried to insert different symbols in an standard environment (not math 
 mode) within KOMA article using utf8.
 While the handbook claims otherwise it doesn't work.


 Error messages:
 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:⇓ not set up for use with LaTeX.
 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:↠ not set up for use with LaTeX.

 Any ideas or workarounds?

The problem here is that inputenc's utf8 does not cover the whole
range of all existing unicode glyphs (yet and probably will never).
Yours obviously aren't covered.

Two options (non-exclusive):

* Select Use non-TeX fonts in Document  Fonts and try if some font
covers these symbols (I tried; the symbols seem to be rather exotic.
Here, only Arial Unicode MS had them, but you might have more
comprehensive fonts)

* Look if you can find the symbols here:
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
Depending on how they are provided, if at all, we can add some support
to LyX.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Felix Krawehl]

I had this one pretty regularly, also working parallely on two systems.  
You don't have to touch every single citation. You have to go into the  
bibliography-entry in your lyx file (i. e., the field linking to the  
bibtex-file, the one you insert at the place where you want the  
bibliography to appear) and delete the bibtex-file-reference, probably  
close and save, open again and re-insert the link to your local  
bibtex-file. Eventually, the entries will show up again after processing  
your lyx-file. Quite annoying one, this procedure, but at least for me  
this worked.


Kind regards,
Felix



Am 28.04.2012, 06:19 Uhr, schrieb Jane Shevtsov jane@gmail.com:


I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every  
single

citation?

Thanks,
Jane




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Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:15:10 +0200
Ignacio García ignacio.gmora...@gmail.com wrote:

 Alasdair Reed alasdair at iprimus.com.au writes:
 
 
 
  I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
  use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
  Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
  http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
  in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
  Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
  Code
  This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
   restricted \write18 enabled.
  Code ends
  I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
  in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default?
 
 Not need configure lyx, lyx deals with it.
 As the output of xetex in the terminal is 2011, lyx use this version
 You can check it in the latex log file produced when lyx run the
 output
 
 ig

Hi,

Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via XeTex/LuaTex,
is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be installed to use this
dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty) on
my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
\usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use XeTex ? 

Alasdair

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:

 Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The

You can check the Latex log by going to DocumentLatex Log
The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using

 dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via XeTex/LuaTex,
 is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be installed to use this
 dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
 (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty) on
 my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
 \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use XeTex ?


ToolsTex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
If you check the box
called show path it will tell you where the packages are.

the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
ViewSource, and checking the box Full source. Scroll back to the
beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
\fontspec command.

Hope it helps,

Stefano


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Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

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http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Jurabib's Bibliography and the use of et al

[Julio Rojas]

Two cents: Have you checked that the path to the bibtex file is absolute
and full? Can you leave biber out and try biblatex alone?

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


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:31 PM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Brett Randall brett.rand...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:34 AM, stefano franchi
  stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I am not sure starting to use Jurabib is such a great choice. Jurabib
  is basically a dead project, as far as I know. It would better to
  start with biblatex.
 
 
  Thanks Stefano - I have tried biblatex and just can't get it to work. If
 I
  was still using Linux I'm sure it would be easy, but running LyX 2.0.2 on
  Windows with MikTeX 2.9, I just can't get bibtex/biber to spit out
 anything.
  I'm having the same result as this person:
 
  http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19t=11317
 
  (i.e. bold keys in place of citations, and no bibliography printing out).

 Brett,

 I'm sorry to hear that biblatex is not working for you. Unfortunately
 I have no idea why that would be the case, except that it seems from
 the log snippet you posted that biber may not be running at all.
 Debugging requires more info on your part, I am afraid. Can you post a
 minimal lyx example, minimal bib file, and the complete latex log.  Or
 send them to me privately. By minimal I really mean minimal: one or
 two lines for the lyx file, one ref for the bib file.
 On the other hand, if you are working against deadline, it may be
 better to keep working on Jurabib and switch to biblatex later. BTW,
 there used to be a jurabib-only mailing list, have you tried it? Or
 you may try comp.text.tex (via the google interface).

 Cheers,

 S.



 --
 __
 Stefano Franchi
 Associate Research Professor
 Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
 Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
 College Station, Texas, USA

 stef...@tamu.edu
 http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
 alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
 
  Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
 
 You can check the Latex log by going to DocumentLatex Log
 The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using
 
  dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
  XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
  installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
  (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
  on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
  \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use
  XeTex ?
 
 
 ToolsTex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
 If you check the box
 called show path it will tell you where the packages are.
 
 the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
 non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
 ViewSource, and checking the box Full source. Scroll back to the
 beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
 \fontspec command.
 
 Hope it helps,
 
 Stefano
 
 

Thanks Stefano,
Document  Latex Log is greyed out
Tools  Tex with show path is showing packages
from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/

Any ideas?

Re: Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Jane Shevtsov]

Thanks, that worked. (I also had to install the bibliography style file I
had used.)

Jane

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Felix Krawehl kraw...@googlemail.comwrote:

 I had this one pretty regularly, also working parallely on two systems.
 You don't have to touch every single citation. You have to go into the
 bibliography-entry in your lyx file (i. e., the field linking to the
 bibtex-file, the one you insert at the place where you want the
 bibliography to appear) and delete the bibtex-file-reference, probably
 close and save, open again and re-insert the link to your local
 bibtex-file. Eventually, the entries will show up again after processing
 your lyx-file. Quite annoying one, this procedure, but at least for me this
 worked.

 Kind regards,
 Felix



 Am 28.04.2012, 06:19 Uhr, schrieb Jane Shevtsov jane@gmail.com:


  I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
 computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
 for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
 marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every single
 citation?

 Thanks,
 Jane



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 http://www.opera.com/mail/




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systems ecologist, or an immunologist is inferior, both for the individual
and for society, than that intended to produce a broadly educated person
who has also written a dissertation. --John Janovy, Jr., On Becoming a
Biologist

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Alasdair Reed alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
 On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
 stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
 alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:

  Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The

 You can check the Latex log by going to DocumentLatex Log
 The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using

  dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
  XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
  installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
  (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
  on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
  \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use
  XeTex ?
 

 ToolsTex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
 If you check the box
 called show path it will tell you where the packages are.

 the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
 non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
 ViewSource, and checking the box Full source. Scroll back to the
 beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
 \fontspec command.

 Hope it helps,

 Stefano



 Thanks Stefano,
 Document  Latex Log is greyed out

It won't be activated until you comiple something. Create a new Lyx
file with just a word in in it and then do Viewpdflatex (for
instance). After successful compilaiton you should be able to see the
log file


 Tools  Tex with show path is showing packages
 from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
 so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/

Right, I guess the problem is that lyx finds the ubuntu packages
before it hits texlive.

First of all: have you reconfigured Lyx (ToolsReconfigure)? It may
be all you need.

If that does not work, a couple of options:

1. Uninstall the Ubuntu text-live package. This may not be feasible,
though, because you probably have it as a dependence of Lyx and
possibly other packages
There is a way to replace Ubuntu's outdated texlive with a dummy
package but I am afraid I forget how to do it. Other people on the
list may know (I left Ubuntu some time ago).

2. Check the order of your executable path in your $PATH environmental
variable. In fact, open a terminal and do

$which pdflatex

you should get something like:
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex


and then do something like:

$kpsewhich fontspec.sty


and you shoud get
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty

 If not, try

$printenv $PATH

Do you see the path to the texlive2011 installation occurring before
the path to the Ubuntu installed executables?

S.


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Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Compilation problem

[Emil Pavlov]

На 26.04.2012 16:09, Richard Heck написа:


I had to take out the figures to get it to work, since I don't have 
those, but then it complied fine for me. I guess I'd suggest 
continuing to bisect it. Alternatively, export to LaTeX and compile 
manually. That may give more information.


rh

On 04/26/2012 10:04 AM, Emil Pavlov wrote:

На 26.04.2012 14:07, Richard Heck написа:

On 04/25/2012 06:44 PM, Emil Pavlov wrote:
I have a problem with compiling my bachelor thesis and do not know 
what to do. Can you take a look and give me some ideas?


Erase the last half of it, and see if it compiles. If so, put that 
back and erase the first half. Keep going until you isolate the 
problem.


Obviously, do this on a copy, not on the original!

Richard


Ok, I have located the problem just to one section, but I still 
cannot figure out what is wrong.


Here is the error log and the file is the attachment:

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

}

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.

to be read again

\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.

inserted text

}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the inserted text above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.


Emil




Well, I removed all the figures but I still have the problem. Exporting 
to latex didn't help either.


Emil

Re: Symbols in 2.0.3

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-04-28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 2012/4/26 Sebastian Stein gebu...@gmx.net:
 Hi.

 I tried to insert different symbols in an standard environment (not
 math mode) within KOMA article using utf8. While the handbook claims
 otherwise it doesn't work.


 Error messages:
 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:⇓ not set up for use with LaTeX.
 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:↠ not set up for use with LaTeX.

 Any ideas or workarounds?

 The problem here is that inputenc's utf8 does not cover the whole
 range of all existing unicode glyphs (yet and probably will never).

 Yours obviously aren't covered.


 * Select Use non-TeX fonts in Document  Fonts and try if some font
 covers these symbols (I tried; the symbols seem to be rather exotic.
 Here, only Arial Unicode MS had them, but you might have more
 comprehensive fonts)

 * Look if you can find the symbols here:
 http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
 Depending on how they are provided, if at all, we can add some support
 to LyX.


* Try if there is a definition for the respective symbols in LyX's
  unicodesymbols file (residing in the LyXdir which you can find out
  under HelpAbout LyX). 

  - If yes, see if there is a force flag. If not, try setting the
LaTeX encoding to ASCII instead of utf8 - then LyX will translate
the Unicodesymbols to a LaTeX command.

BTW: despite LyX telling you otherwise, setting the LaTeX encoding 
to utf8 almost never helps: LyX Unicode-TeX conversion is more 
comprehensive than the standard inputenc utf8 mappings.

  - If no, you can customize the unicodesymbols file. Copy it to your
LyX userdir (~/.lyx on Unix) and add the missing definitions
(if you found some in
 http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
)

* If you keep the LaTeX encoding at utf8, you can also add the missing
  definitions in the LaTeX preamble similar to e.g.
  
  \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00A8}{\textasciidieresis}  % ¨


Günter

macro for repeating a theorem statement in appendix

[Qiqi Yan]

Hi all,

So I have a (complicated) theorem statement in the main text of a paper, 
which I want to repeat in the appendix right before the proof.


Is there a macro-way of doing this instead of copy-pasting? (\newcommand 
is probably not good as the theorem is complicated to write in latex)



Thanks a lot!

-Qiqi

Re: macro for repeating a theorem statement in appendix

[Qiqi Yan]

Cool! Thanks! -Qiqi
On 04/28/2012 02:46 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 04/28/2012 05:34 PM, Qiqi Yan wrote:

Hi all,

So I have a (complicated) theorem statement in the main text of a 
paper, which I want to repeat in the appendix right before the proof.


Is there a macro-way of doing this instead of copy-pasting? 
(\newcommand is probably not good as the theorem is complicated to 
write in latex)


Thanks a lot!


You know, you can do things like this:

[ERT]\newcommand\mytheorem{[/ERT]This is the statement of a very 
complicated theorem, using lots and lots of LaTeX, and maybe even some 
other stuff like tikz.[ERT]}[\ERT]


On export, this will define \mytheorem just as you want it. Now you 
can use it in ERT twice: Once in the statement of the main theorem, 
and again in the appendix.


Richard

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version Solved

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:56:08 -0500
stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Alasdair Reed
 alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
  On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
  stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
  alasd...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
 
   Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
 
  You can check the Latex log by going to DocumentLatex Log
  The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is
  using
 
   dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
   XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
   installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in
   TexLive2011
   (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
   on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to
   put \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to
   use XeTex ?
  
 
  ToolsTex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is
  Toolsaware.
  If you check the box
  called show path it will tell you where the packages are.
 
  the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
  non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
  ViewSource, and checking the box Full source. Scroll back to
  Viewthe
  beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
  \fontspec command.
 
  Hope it helps,
 
  Stefano
 
 
 
  Thanks Stefano,
  Document  Latex Log is greyed out
 
 It won't be activated until you comiple something. Create a new Lyx
 file with just a word in in it and then do Viewpdflatex (for
 instance). After successful compilaiton you should be able to see the
 log file
 
 
  Tools  Tex with show path is showing packages
  from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
  so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/
 
 Right, I guess the problem is that lyx finds the ubuntu packages
 before it hits texlive.
 
 First of all: have you reconfigured Lyx (ToolsReconfigure)? It may
 be all you need.
 
 If that does not work, a couple of options:
 
 1. Uninstall the Ubuntu text-live package. This may not be feasible,
 though, because you probably have it as a dependence of Lyx and
 possibly other packages
 There is a way to replace Ubuntu's outdated texlive with a dummy
 package but I am afraid I forget how to do it. Other people on the
 list may know (I left Ubuntu some time ago).
 
 2. Check the order of your executable path in your $PATH environmental
 variable. In fact, open a terminal and do
 
 $which pdflatex
 
 you should get something like:
 /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex
 
 
 and then do something like:
 
 $kpsewhich fontspec.sty
 
 
 and you shoud get
 /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
 
  If not, try
 
 $printenv $PATH
 
 Do you see the path to the texlive2011 installation occurring before
 the path to the Ubuntu installed executables?
 
 S.
 
 

Hi, The paths are all correct,  Starting lyx from the terminal and
reconfiguring did the trick as far as using TexLive2011 goes I just
can't start Lyx from the desktop icon if I want to use TexLive2011,
but I can live with that. It can be done but time is short . There are
other problems but I will post separate question about them. \

Alasdair

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Ignacio García]

Alasdair Reed  iprimus.com.au> writes:

>
>
> I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
> use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
> Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
> http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
> in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
> Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
> Code
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> Code ends
> I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
> in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default?

Not need configure lyx, lyx deals with it.
As the output of xetex in the terminal is 2011, lyx use this version
You can check it in the latex log file produced when lyx run the output

ig

Re: hanging indentation in bibiography (using lyx & bibtex)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/4/26 Peter Coles :
> Stefano, Richard thanks.  After some toying, the following worked:
>
> 1) I added to the preamble the full block Richard described, replacing the
> 's with at symbols (this replacement was probably obvious to everyone 
> except
> me.) I also changed the first line as you suggested.
>
> 2) I added   \setlength\itemindent{-.5in} to the block, and changed
> \leftmargin\labelwidth to \setlength\leftmargin{.5in}
>
> The bibliography style I am using, aea.bst, seems to use empty labels rather
> than, for example, numbers to enumerate bibliography items. Hence, rather than
> playing with the labelwidth, which had no effect for me, I indented by a
> negative amount and then shoved the whole list back to the right the same
> amount.
>
> A pain, but it's done!  Thanks, all.

Actually, since you use natbib, a simple
\setlength\bibhang{.5in}
would have probably sufficed as well.

Jürgen

Re: Symbols in 2.0.3

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/4/26 Sebastian Stein :
> Hi.
>
> I tried to insert different symbols in an standard environment (not math 
> mode) within KOMA article using utf8.
> While the handbook claims otherwise it doesn't work.
>
>
> Error messages:
> Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:⇓ not set up for use with LaTeX.
> Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:↠ not set up for use with LaTeX.
>
> Any ideas or workarounds?

The problem here is that inputenc's utf8 does not cover the whole
range of all existing unicode glyphs (yet and probably will never).
Yours obviously aren't covered.

Two options (non-exclusive):

* Select "Use non-TeX fonts" in Document > Fonts and try if some font
covers these symbols (I tried; the symbols seem to be rather exotic.
Here, only Arial Unicode MS had them, but you might have more
comprehensive fonts)

* Look if you can find the symbols here:
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
Depending on how they are provided, if at all, we can add some support
to LyX.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Felix Krawehl]

I had this one pretty regularly, also working parallely on two systems.  
You don't have to touch every single citation. You have to go into the  
bibliography-entry in your lyx file (i. e., the field linking to the  
bibtex-file, the one you insert at the place where you want the  
bibliography to appear) and delete the bibtex-file-reference, probably  
close and save, open again and re-insert the link to your local  
bibtex-file. Eventually, the entries will show up again after processing  
your lyx-file. Quite annoying one, this procedure, but at least for me  
this worked.


Kind regards,
Felix



Am 28.04.2012, 06:19 Uhr, schrieb Jane Shevtsov :


I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every  
single

citation?

Thanks,
Jane




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Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:15:10 +0200
Ignacio García  wrote:

> Alasdair Reed  iprimus.com.au> writes:
> 
> >
> >
> > I would like to configure Lyx to use Texlive2011 in ubuntu 11.10, to
> > use the latest version of Xetex. My system installed Texlive  is
> > Texlive2009 I have installed Texlive2011 as per the Texlive page
> > http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-170003.1.1
> > in /usr/local/texlive. Added all the suggested lines to my .bashrc.
> > Starting Xetex in the terminal produces the message
> > Code
> > This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
> >  restricted \write18 enabled.
> > Code ends
> > I imagine this is ok. How do I configure lyx to find texlive2011
> > in /usr/local/ instead of using the system default?
> 
> Not need configure lyx, lyx deals with it.
> As the output of xetex in the terminal is 2011, lyx use this version
> You can check it in the latex log file produced when lyx run the
> output
> 
> ig

Hi,

Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via XeTex/LuaTex,
is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be installed to use this
dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty) on
my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
\usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use XeTex ? 

Alasdair

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed  wrote:

> Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The

You can check the Latex log by going to Document>>Latex Log
The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using

> dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via XeTex/LuaTex,
> is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be installed to use this
> dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty) on
> my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
> \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use XeTex ?
>

Tools>>Tex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
If you check the box
called "show path" it will tell you where the packages are.

the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
View>>Source, and checking the box "Full source." Scroll back to the
beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
\fontspec command.

Hope it helps,

Stefano


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Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
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Re: Jurabib's Bibliography and the use of "et al"

[Julio Rojas]

Two cents: Have you checked that the path to the bibtex file is absolute
and full? Can you leave biber out and try biblatex alone?

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


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:31 PM, stefano franchi  wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Brett Randall 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:34 AM, stefano franchi
> >  wrote:
> >>
> >> I am not sure starting to use Jurabib is such a great choice. Jurabib
> >> is basically a dead project, as far as I know. It would better to
> >> start with biblatex.
> >
> >
> > Thanks Stefano - I have tried biblatex and just can't get it to work. If
> I
> > was still using Linux I'm sure it would be easy, but running LyX 2.0.2 on
> > Windows with MikTeX 2.9, I just can't get bibtex/biber to spit out
> anything.
> > I'm having the same result as this person:
> >
> > http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19=11317
> >
> > (i.e. bold keys in place of citations, and no bibliography printing out).
>
> Brett,
>
> I'm sorry to hear that biblatex is not working for you. Unfortunately
> I have no idea why that would be the case, except that it seems from
> the log snippet you posted that biber may not be running at all.
> Debugging requires more info on your part, I am afraid. Can you post a
> minimal lyx example, minimal bib file, and the complete latex log.  Or
> send them to me privately. By "minimal" I really mean minimal: one or
> two lines for the lyx file, one ref for the bib file.
> On the other hand, if you are working against deadline, it may be
> better to keep working on Jurabib and switch to biblatex later. BTW,
> there used to be a jurabib-only mailing list, have you tried it? Or
> you may try comp.text.tex (via the google interface).
>
> Cheers,
>
> S.
>
>
>
> --
> __
> Stefano Franchi
> Associate Research Professor
> Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
> Texas A University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
> College Station, Texas, USA
>
> stef...@tamu.edu
> http://stefano.cleinias.org
>

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
stefano franchi  wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
>  wrote:
> 
> > Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
> 
> You can check the Latex log by going to Document>>Latex Log
> The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using
> 
> > dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
> > XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
> > installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
> > (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
> > on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
> > \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use
> > XeTex ?
> >
> 
> Tools>>Tex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
> If you check the box
> called "show path" it will tell you where the packages are.
> 
> the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
> non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
> View>>Source, and checking the box "Full source." Scroll back to the
> beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
> \fontspec command.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> 
> Stefano
> 
> 

Thanks Stefano,
Document >> Latex Log is greyed out
Tools >> Tex with "show path" is showing packages
from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/

Any ideas?

Re: Citations after changing Bibtex files

[Jane Shevtsov]

Thanks, that worked. (I also had to install the bibliography style file I
had used.)

Jane

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Felix Krawehl wrote:

> I had this one pretty regularly, also working parallely on two systems.
> You don't have to touch every single citation. You have to go into the
> bibliography-entry in your lyx file (i. e., the field linking to the
> bibtex-file, the one you insert at the place where you want the
> bibliography to appear) and delete the bibtex-file-reference, probably
> close and save, open again and re-insert the link to your local
> bibtex-file. Eventually, the entries will show up again after processing
> your lyx-file. Quite annoying one, this procedure, but at least for me this
> worked.
>
> Kind regards,
> Felix
>
>
>
> Am 28.04.2012, 06:19 Uhr, schrieb Jane Shevtsov :
>
>
>  I'm making some final changes to my dissertation, written on another
>> computer. I have a copy of my Bibtex library file and told Lyx to use it
>> for the bibliography, but now all my citations are showing up as question
>> marks in the PDF. How can I fix this without manually redoing every single
>> citation?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jane
>>
>>
>
> --
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> http://www.opera.com/mail/
>



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co-founder, www.worldbeyondborders.org

"In the long run, education intended to produce a molecular geneticist, a
systems ecologist, or an immunologist is inferior, both for the individual
and for society, than that intended to produce a broadly educated person
who has also written a dissertation." --John Janovy, Jr., "On Becoming a
Biologist"

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Alasdair Reed  wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
> stefano franchi  wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
>>  wrote:
>>
>> > Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
>>
>> You can check the Latex log by going to Document>>Latex Log
>> The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is using
>>
>> > dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
>> > XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
>> > installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in TexLive2011
>> > (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
>> > on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to put
>> > \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to use
>> > XeTex ?
>> >
>>
>> Tools>>Tex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is aware.
>> If you check the box
>> called "show path" it will tell you where the packages are.
>>
>> the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
>> non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
>> View>>Source, and checking the box "Full source." Scroll back to the
>> beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
>> \fontspec command.
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>>
>> Stefano
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Stefano,
> Document >> Latex Log is greyed out

It won't be activated until you comiple something. Create a new Lyx
file with just a word in in it and then do View>>pdflatex (for
instance). After successful compilaiton you should be able to see the
log file


> Tools >> Tex with "show path" is showing packages
> from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
> so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/

Right, I guess the problem is that lyx finds the ubuntu packages
before it hits texlive.

First of all: have you reconfigured Lyx (Tools>>Reconfigure)? It may
be all you need.

If that does not work, a couple of options:

1. Uninstall the Ubuntu text-live package. This may not be feasible,
though, because you probably have it as a dependence of Lyx and
possibly other packages
There is a way to replace Ubuntu's outdated texlive with a "dummy"
package but I am afraid I forget how to do it. Other people on the
list may know (I left Ubuntu some time ago).

2. Check the order of your executable path in your $PATH environmental
variable. In fact, open a terminal and do

$which pdflatex

you should get something like:
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex


and then do something like:

$kpsewhich fontspec.sty


and you shoud get
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty

 If not, try

$printenv $PATH

Do you see the path to the texlive2011 installation occurring before
the path to the Ubuntu installed executables?

S.


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Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
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Re: Compilation problem

[Emil Pavlov]

На 26.04.2012 16:09, Richard Heck написа:


I had to take out the figures to get it to work, since I don't have 
those, but then it complied fine for me. I guess I'd suggest 
continuing to bisect it. Alternatively, export to LaTeX and compile 
manually. That may give more information.


rh

On 04/26/2012 10:04 AM, Emil Pavlov wrote:

На 26.04.2012 14:07, Richard Heck написа:

On 04/25/2012 06:44 PM, Emil Pavlov wrote:
I have a problem with compiling my bachelor thesis and do not know 
what to do. Can you take a look and give me some ideas?


Erase the last half of it, and see if it compiles. If so, put that 
back and erase the first half. Keep going until you isolate the 
problem.


Obviously, do this on a copy, not on the original!

Richard


Ok, I have located the problem just to one section, but I still 
cannot figure out what is wrong.


Here is the error log and the file is the attachment:

! Missing { inserted.



}

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.



}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the  above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.



\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.



}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the  above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.



\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.



}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the  above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.



\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.



}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the  above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

! Missing { inserted.



\egroup

l.193 \end{document}

A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.

You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections

so that I will find a matching right brace soon.

(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)

! Missing } inserted.



}

l.193 \end{document}

I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.

(See the  above.)

With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you

really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then

my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.


Emil




Well, I removed all the figures but I still have the problem. Exporting 
to latex didn't help either.


Emil

Re: Symbols in 2.0.3

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-04-28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> 2012/4/26 Sebastian Stein :
>> Hi.

>> I tried to insert different symbols in an standard environment (not
>> math mode) within KOMA article using utf8. While the handbook claims
>> otherwise it doesn't work.


>> Error messages:
>> Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:⇓ not set up for use with LaTeX.
>> Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:↠ not set up for use with LaTeX.

>> Any ideas or workarounds?

> The problem here is that inputenc's utf8 does not cover the whole
> range of all existing unicode glyphs (yet and probably will never).

> Yours obviously aren't covered.


> * Select "Use non-TeX fonts" in Document > Fonts and try if some font
> covers these symbols (I tried; the symbols seem to be rather exotic.
> Here, only Arial Unicode MS had them, but you might have more
> comprehensive fonts)

> * Look if you can find the symbols here:
> http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
> Depending on how they are provided, if at all, we can add some support
> to LyX.


* Try if there is a definition for the respective symbols in LyX's
  "unicodesymbols" file (residing in the "LyXdir" which you can find out
  under Help>About LyX). 

  - If yes, see if there is a "force" flag. If not, try setting the
"LaTeX encoding" to ASCII instead of utf8 - then LyX will translate
the Unicodesymbols to a LaTeX command.

BTW: despite LyX telling you otherwise, setting the "LaTeX encoding" 
to utf8 almost never helps: LyX Unicode->TeX conversion is more 
comprehensive than the standard inputenc utf8 mappings.

  - If no, you can customize the "unicodesymbols" file. Copy it to your
"LyX userdir" (~/.lyx on Unix) and add the missing definitions
(if you found some in
 http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf.
)

* If you keep the "LaTeX encoding" at utf8, you can also add the missing
  definitions in the LaTeX preamble similar to e.g.
  
  \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00A8}{\textasciidieresis}  % ¨


Günter

macro for repeating a theorem statement in appendix

[Qiqi Yan]

Hi all,

So I have a (complicated) theorem statement in the main text of a paper, 
which I want to repeat in the appendix right before the proof.


Is there a macro-way of doing this instead of copy-pasting? (\newcommand 
is probably not good as the theorem is complicated to write in latex)



Thanks a lot!

-Qiqi

Re: macro for repeating a theorem statement in appendix

[Qiqi Yan]

Cool! Thanks! -Qiqi
On 04/28/2012 02:46 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 04/28/2012 05:34 PM, Qiqi Yan wrote:

Hi all,

So I have a (complicated) theorem statement in the main text of a 
paper, which I want to repeat in the appendix right before the proof.


Is there a macro-way of doing this instead of copy-pasting? 
(\newcommand is probably not good as the theorem is complicated to 
write in latex)


Thanks a lot!


You know, you can do things like this:

[ERT]\newcommand\mytheorem{[/ERT]This is the statement of a very 
complicated theorem, using lots and lots of LaTeX, and maybe even some 
other stuff like tikz.[ERT]}[\ERT]


On export, this will define \mytheorem just as you want it. Now you 
can use it in ERT twice: Once in the statement of the main theorem, 
and again in the appendix.


Richard

Re: configuring lyx to use an alternative Texlive version Solved

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:56:08 -0500
stefano franchi  wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Alasdair Reed
>  wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:20:23 -0500
> > stefano franchi  wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alasdair Reed
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is that right?  Which logfile should I check?  The
> >>
> >> You can check the Latex log by going to Document>>Latex Log
> >> The first line will tell you which version of of Texlive LyX is
> >> using
> >>
> >> > dialogue /documents/settings/fonts/use non-Tex fonts via
> >> > XeTex/LuaTex, is greyed out. The package fontspec needs to be
> >> > installed to use this dialogue box, it is installed in
> >> > TexLive2011
> >> > (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty)
> >> > on my system, but the box is still greyed out. Do you need to
> >> > put \usepackage{fontspec} in the preamble of every document to
> >> > use XeTex ?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Tools>>Tex information will tell you which Tex packages Lyx is
> >> Tools>>aware.
> >> If you check the box
> >> called "show path" it will tell you where the packages are.
> >>
> >> the fontspec package should be loaded automatically if you choose
> >> non-TeX fonts. You can check if that's the case by choosing
> >> View>>Source, and checking the box "Full source." Scroll back to
> >> View>>the
> >> beginning of the source doc and you should be able to see the
> >> \fontspec command.
> >>
> >> Hope it helps,
> >>
> >> Stefano
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Thanks Stefano,
> > Document >> Latex Log is greyed out
> 
> It won't be activated until you comiple something. Create a new Lyx
> file with just a word in in it and then do View>>pdflatex (for
> instance). After successful compilaiton you should be able to see the
> log file
> 
> 
> > Tools >> Tex with "show path" is showing packages
> > from /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/foo/foo.sty (for example)
> > so it would seem lyx is not aware of TexLive2011 in /usr/local/
> 
> Right, I guess the problem is that lyx finds the ubuntu packages
> before it hits texlive.
> 
> First of all: have you reconfigured Lyx (Tools>>Reconfigure)? It may
> be all you need.
> 
> If that does not work, a couple of options:
> 
> 1. Uninstall the Ubuntu text-live package. This may not be feasible,
> though, because you probably have it as a dependence of Lyx and
> possibly other packages
> There is a way to replace Ubuntu's outdated texlive with a "dummy"
> package but I am afraid I forget how to do it. Other people on the
> list may know (I left Ubuntu some time ago).
> 
> 2. Check the order of your executable path in your $PATH environmental
> variable. In fact, open a terminal and do
> 
> $which pdflatex
> 
> you should get something like:
> /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex
> 
> 
> and then do something like:
> 
> $kpsewhich fontspec.sty
> 
> 
> and you shoud get
> /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
> 
>  If not, try
> 
> $printenv $PATH
> 
> Do you see the path to the texlive2011 installation occurring before
> the path to the Ubuntu installed executables?
> 
> S.
> 
> 

Hi, The paths are all correct,  Starting lyx from the terminal and
reconfiguring did the trick as far as using TexLive2011 goes I just
can't start Lyx from the desktop icon if I want to use TexLive2011,
but I can live with that. It can be done but time is short . There are
other problems but I will post separate question about them. \

Alasdair