GSOC 2013 Aspirant

[Abhishek Sharma]

Good day to you.

I'm currently a B.Tech student in Jaypee University of Information
Technology, HP, India.

I'm interested in your GSOC projects:
 Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math ,
Toolbar customization dialog
 and have read resources provided at your site.

I'm fluent in C, C++ and Java.I haven't contributed to a open source
project before. I'm willing to put in extra work required for this
project.

Kindly advise me if this project is suitable for me and how to get started.

Yours sincerely
Abhishek
abhios...@gmail.com

Re: Spellchecking not working on Mac OS X

[Gregory Jefferis]

On 19 Apr 2013, at 08:25, Grant Jacobs wrote:

 A work-around seems to be to select the document language to be what you
 want (e.g. English (UK)) and select that to become LyX's default
 document language.

This isn't particularly intuitive (one might expect it to be accessible from 
the main Preferences window, Language tab, perhaps it isn't because it is 
somehow tied to different document classes) but it does work just fine for me 
with 2.0.5-1 with English (UK). Is there an outstanding issue that this doesn't 
solve?

Best wishes,

Greg.

Re: wrong viewer

[Michael]

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at princeton.edu writes:

 
 On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Michael
 michael.h.bechtold at t-online.de wrote:
  I get HTML displayed as conversion format instead of PDF. And I find no way
  to change this. In ToolsOptionsOutput I cannot save my changes, the button
  is not active.
 
 It's strange that you can't change your preferences. Can you say
 exactly what you're changing there? Can you change other preferences?
 
 To export to PDF, you can do File  Export  PDF (pdflatex).
 
 You can also try changing Document  Settings  Output  Default Output.
 
 Scott
 

Hi Scott,

no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
Document  Settings  Output  Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
no save option offered.

Once upon a Time (  Dec 18, 2012) everything worked well with this file,
but not now. I have no idea what I made wrong.

kind regards

Michael

Re: Citations are not working.

[Jacob Bishop]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 21 April 2013 21:28, John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca wrote:
  I seem to be rapidly losing any ability to work with LyX.  In the
 attached
  example I cannot get citations to work. I originally added the citations
  using the Lyz plug-in for Zotero but a quick and non-expert look at the
 bib
  file suggests it's okay and JabRef seems happy with it.
 
  I obviously am doing something stupid but what?
 
  Or, have I really managed to muck up some settings on my system since my
  less than sucessful attempt to switch to biblatex?


This latter option seems most likely to me. This is the major drawback in
my opinion of the current way of using biblatex. As I recall, you have to
set your biblatex options under
tools-preferences-output-LaTeX-Bibliography generation. What I would
personally prefer is the ability to set this option on a per-document
basis. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case. I'm guessing that
setting the processor back to bibtex should solve the problem.

Ray's suggestion will probably work, but it would be good to check those
preferences to see if that is in fact the source of the problem.

I hope this helps,

Jacob

Not installing on windows 7

[Adam Healy]

Good day

I'm trying to install LyX on my windows 7, 64 bit machine. When I tried to run 
the installer I get a Windows error message:

The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're 
running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 
(32-bit) or x 64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software 
publisher.

I couldn't find any mention of whether it was a 32 bit or 64 bit installer. I 
can't imagine it would be a problem though if it is a 32 bit installer. How 
should I proceed?

Thanks
Adam
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Re: wrong viewer

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Michael michael.h.becht...@t-online.de wrote:
 no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
 Document  Settings  Output  Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
 no save option offered.

 Once upon a Time (  Dec 18, 2012) everything worked well with this file,
 but not now. I have no idea what I made wrong.

Hi Michael,

This is a good example for learning how to give a better email or bug
report. You gave very little information in your first email. In
general, it would be great when reporting a problem if you always gave
your OS and OS version, your LyX version, and sent a minimal example:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample
I know it's hard to understand what information helps if you don't
know what the problem is, I would recommend this advice for most
bugs/strange behavior and most software. This is just advice that I've
learned myself when asking questions. I get more responses when I
include more information (if in doubt, give too much information).

For example, it's very useful information that you only have the
problem with this file (I'm gathering that from you saying everything
worked well with this file). Or am I wrong and you have the problem
with a new document?

Once you send a Minimal Example and give more information it should be
easier to figure out if the problem is document specific.

Best,

Scott

Re: Not installing on windows 7

[Paul A . Rubin]

Try running the installer in compatibility mode.

Paul

Re: wrong viewer

[Paul A . Rubin]

Michael michael.h.bechtold at t-online.de writes:

 no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
 Document  Settings  Output  Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
 no save option offered.

Does this happen with just one file or does it happen with all files.
Lack of a PDF output option could mean that there its a problem with 
your LaTeX installation (or that LyX thinks there is).

As to the inability to save changes, could it be that the account 
under which you are running LyX lacks write permission in the 
directory where the configuration file lives? There also have 
been problems on Windows systems when the user its using
a roaming profile (home directory on a network server). I don't 
know if those issues have been cured in recent releases.

All else failing, you might try hiding your LyX user directory 
(by renaming it). The next time you start LyX, it will create a 
new one. I've heard of instances of a user profile becoming corrupted.

Paul

Keep custom insets open

[John Doe]

Hi!

I'm using some custom insets in my documents. However, whenever I move out of a 
new custom inset, Lyx automatically closes it for me. Is there any way to tell 
Lyx to never automatically close custom insets?

Thank you. 

GSOC 2013 Aspirant

[Abhishek Sharma]

Good day to you.

I'm currently a B.Tech student in Jaypee University of Information
Technology, HP, India.

I'm interested in your GSOC projects:
 Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math ,
Toolbar customization dialog
 and have read resources provided at your site.

I'm fluent in C, C++ and Java.I haven't contributed to a open source
project before. I'm willing to put in extra work required for this
project.

Kindly advise me if this project is suitable for me and how to get started.

Yours sincerely
Abhishek
abhios...@gmail.com

Re: Spellchecking not working on Mac OS X

[Gregory Jefferis]

On 19 Apr 2013, at 08:25, Grant Jacobs wrote:

 A work-around seems to be to select the document language to be what you
 want (e.g. English (UK)) and select that to become LyX's default
 document language.

This isn't particularly intuitive (one might expect it to be accessible from 
the main Preferences window, Language tab, perhaps it isn't because it is 
somehow tied to different document classes) but it does work just fine for me 
with 2.0.5-1 with English (UK). Is there an outstanding issue that this doesn't 
solve?

Best wishes,

Greg.

Re: wrong viewer

[Michael]

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at princeton.edu writes:

 
 On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Michael
 michael.h.bechtold at t-online.de wrote:
  I get HTML displayed as conversion format instead of PDF. And I find no way
  to change this. In ToolsOptionsOutput I cannot save my changes, the button
  is not active.
 
 It's strange that you can't change your preferences. Can you say
 exactly what you're changing there? Can you change other preferences?
 
 To export to PDF, you can do File  Export  PDF (pdflatex).
 
 You can also try changing Document  Settings  Output  Default Output.
 
 Scott
 

Hi Scott,

no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
Document  Settings  Output  Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
no save option offered.

Once upon a Time (  Dec 18, 2012) everything worked well with this file,
but not now. I have no idea what I made wrong.

kind regards

Michael

Re: Citations are not working.

[Jacob Bishop]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 21 April 2013 21:28, John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca wrote:
  I seem to be rapidly losing any ability to work with LyX.  In the
 attached
  example I cannot get citations to work. I originally added the citations
  using the Lyz plug-in for Zotero but a quick and non-expert look at the
 bib
  file suggests it's okay and JabRef seems happy with it.
 
  I obviously am doing something stupid but what?
 
  Or, have I really managed to muck up some settings on my system since my
  less than sucessful attempt to switch to biblatex?


This latter option seems most likely to me. This is the major drawback in
my opinion of the current way of using biblatex. As I recall, you have to
set your biblatex options under
tools-preferences-output-LaTeX-Bibliography generation. What I would
personally prefer is the ability to set this option on a per-document
basis. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case. I'm guessing that
setting the processor back to bibtex should solve the problem.

Ray's suggestion will probably work, but it would be good to check those
preferences to see if that is in fact the source of the problem.

I hope this helps,

Jacob

Not installing on windows 7

[Adam Healy]

Good day

I'm trying to install LyX on my windows 7, 64 bit machine. When I tried to run 
the installer I get a Windows error message:

The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're 
running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 
(32-bit) or x 64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software 
publisher.

I couldn't find any mention of whether it was a 32 bit or 64 bit installer. I 
can't imagine it would be a problem though if it is a 32 bit installer. How 
should I proceed?

Thanks
Adam
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Re: wrong viewer

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Michael michael.h.becht...@t-online.de wrote:
 no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
 Document  Settings  Output  Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
 no save option offered.

 Once upon a Time (  Dec 18, 2012) everything worked well with this file,
 but not now. I have no idea what I made wrong.

Hi Michael,

This is a good example for learning how to give a better email or bug
report. You gave very little information in your first email. In
general, it would be great when reporting a problem if you always gave
your OS and OS version, your LyX version, and sent a minimal example:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample
I know it's hard to understand what information helps if you don't
know what the problem is, I would recommend this advice for most
bugs/strange behavior and most software. This is just advice that I've
learned myself when asking questions. I get more responses when I
include more information (if in doubt, give too much information).

For example, it's very useful information that you only have the
problem with this file (I'm gathering that from you saying everything
worked well with this file). Or am I wrong and you have the problem
with a new document?

Once you send a Minimal Example and give more information it should be
easier to figure out if the problem is document specific.

Best,

Scott

Re: Not installing on windows 7

[Paul A . Rubin]

Try running the installer in compatibility mode.

Paul

Re: wrong viewer

[Paul A . Rubin]

Michael michael.h.bechtold at t-online.de writes:

 no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
 Document  Settings  Output  Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
 no save option offered.

Does this happen with just one file or does it happen with all files.
Lack of a PDF output option could mean that there its a problem with 
your LaTeX installation (or that LyX thinks there is).

As to the inability to save changes, could it be that the account 
under which you are running LyX lacks write permission in the 
directory where the configuration file lives? There also have 
been problems on Windows systems when the user its using
a roaming profile (home directory on a network server). I don't 
know if those issues have been cured in recent releases.

All else failing, you might try hiding your LyX user directory 
(by renaming it). The next time you start LyX, it will create a 
new one. I've heard of instances of a user profile becoming corrupted.

Paul

Keep custom insets open

[John Doe]

Hi!

I'm using some custom insets in my documents. However, whenever I move out of a 
new custom inset, Lyx automatically closes it for me. Is there any way to tell 
Lyx to never automatically close custom insets?

Thank you. 

GSOC 2013 Aspirant

[Abhishek Sharma]

Good day to you.

I'm currently a B.Tech student in Jaypee University of Information
Technology, HP, India.

I'm interested in your GSOC projects:
 "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" ,
"Toolbar customization dialog"
 and have read resources provided at your site.

I'm fluent in C, C++ and Java.I haven't contributed to a open source
project before. I'm willing to put in extra work required for this
project.

Kindly advise me if this project is suitable for me and how to get started.

Yours sincerely
Abhishek
abhios...@gmail.com

Re: Spellchecking not working on Mac OS X

[Gregory Jefferis]

On 19 Apr 2013, at 08:25, Grant Jacobs wrote:

> A work-around seems to be to select the document language to be what you
> want (e.g. English (UK)) and select that to become LyX's default
> document language.

This isn't particularly intuitive (one might expect it to be accessible from 
the main Preferences window, Language tab, perhaps it isn't because it is 
somehow tied to different document classes) but it does work just fine for me 
with 2.0.5-1 with English (UK). Is there an outstanding issue that this doesn't 
solve?

Best wishes,

Greg.

Re: wrong viewer

[Michael]

Scott Kostyshak  princeton.edu> writes:

> 
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Michael
>  t-online.de> wrote:
> > I get HTML displayed as conversion format instead of PDF. And I find no way
> > to change this. In Tools>Options>Output I cannot save my changes, the button
> > is not active.
> 
> It's strange that you can't change your preferences. Can you say
> exactly what you're changing there? Can you change other preferences?
> 
> To export to PDF, you can do File > Export > PDF (pdflatex).
> 
> You can also try changing Document > Settings > Output > Default Output.
> 
> Scott
> 
>
Hi Scott,

no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
Document > Settings > Output > Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
no save option offered.

Once upon a Time ( < Dec 18, 2012) everything worked well with this file,
but not now. I have no idea what I made wrong.

kind regards

Michael

Re: Citations are not working.

[Jacob Bishop]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Ray Rashif  wrote:

> On 21 April 2013 21:28, John Kane  wrote:
> > I seem to be rapidly losing any ability to work with LyX.  In the
> attached
> > example I cannot get citations to work. I originally added the citations
> > using the Lyz plug-in for Zotero but a quick and non-expert look at the
> bib
> > file suggests it's okay and JabRef seems happy with it.
> >
> > I obviously am doing something stupid but what?
> >
> > Or, have I really managed to muck up some settings on my system since my
> > less than sucessful attempt to switch to biblatex?
>

This latter option seems most likely to me. This is the major drawback in
my opinion of the current way of using biblatex. As I recall, you have to
set your biblatex options under
tools->preferences->output->LaTeX->Bibliography generation. What I would
personally prefer is the ability to set this option on a per-document
basis. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case. I'm guessing that
setting the processor back to bibtex should solve the problem.

Ray's suggestion will probably work, but it would be good to check those
preferences to see if that is in fact the source of the problem.

I hope this helps,

Jacob

Not installing on windows 7

[Adam Healy]

Good day

I'm trying to install LyX on my windows 7, 64 bit machine. When I tried to run 
the installer I get a Windows error message:

"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're 
running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 
(32-bit) or x 64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software 
publisher."

I couldn't find any mention of whether it was a 32 bit or 64 bit installer. I 
can't imagine it would be a problem though if it is a 32 bit installer. How 
should I proceed?

Thanks
Adam
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Re: wrong viewer

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Michael  wrote:
> no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
> Document > Settings > Output > Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
> no save option offered.
>
> Once upon a Time ( < Dec 18, 2012) everything worked well with this file,
> but not now. I have no idea what I made wrong.

Hi Michael,

This is a good example for learning how to give a better email or bug
report. You gave very little information in your first email. In
general, it would be great when reporting a problem if you always gave
your OS and OS version, your LyX version, and sent a minimal example:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample
I know it's hard to understand what information helps if you don't
know what the problem is, I would recommend this advice for most
bugs/strange behavior and most software. This is just advice that I've
learned myself when asking questions. I get more responses when I
include more information (if in doubt, give too much information).

For example, it's very useful information that you only have the
problem with this file (I'm gathering that from you saying "everything
worked well with this file"). Or am I wrong and you have the problem
with a new document?

Once you send a Minimal Example and give more information it should be
easier to figure out if the problem is document specific.

Best,

Scott

Re: Not installing on windows 7

[Paul A . Rubin]

Try running the installer in "compatibility mode".

Paul

Re: wrong viewer

[Paul A . Rubin]

Michael  t-online.de> writes:
>
> no, i get pdf not offered in the export list. And yes I tried changing
> Document > Settings > Output > Default Output, which doesn`nt work as I get
> no save option offered.
>
Does this happen with just one file or does it happen with all files.
Lack of a PDF output option could mean that there its a problem with 
your LaTeX installation (or that LyX thinks there is).

As to the inability to save changes, could it be that the account 
under which you are running LyX lacks write permission in the 
directory where the configuration file lives? There also have 
been problems on Windows systems when the user its using
a roaming profile (home directory on a network server). I don't 
know if those issues have been cured in recent releases.

All else failing, you might try hiding your LyX user directory 
(by renaming it). The next time you start LyX, it will create a 
new one. I've heard of instances of a user profile becoming corrupted.

Paul

Keep custom insets open

[John Doe]

Hi!

I'm using some custom insets in my documents. However, whenever I move out of a 
new custom inset, Lyx automatically closes it for me. Is there any way to tell 
Lyx to never automatically close custom insets?

Thank you.