Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[stefano franchi]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Andrew Rodgers pandy1...@hotmail.co.uk
 wrote:
  Hello,
 
  I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not, then I
  apologise.
 
  I would like to know how compatible the Windows and Mac versions of LyX
 are.
 
 Very.


  Is it easy to start writing a LyX document on one platform and then save
 it,
  open it on the other platform, and continue to work on it. Also, are
 there
  any common problems associated with doing this? Any information you can
 give
  me on this would be greatly appreciated.
 
 Editing should just work. Compiling to LaTeX is a different matter and
 will depend on the local LaTeX distribution.


Hi Andrew,

I'd like to expand on Liviu's and Richard's answer. If you are already
well-versed with LaTeX, ignore what follows. Perhaps it may help other
users with similar questions.

LyX files will be perfectly compatible across different operating systems.
You will be able to move them across platforms without ever worrying about
losing anything. However, things get more complicated when you want to
produce a pdf file from LyX. LyX converts  its source file to a  Latex file
and then compiles it into pdf with the help of the local TeX installation.
TeX is a very large system including literally hundreds of package and it
is always possible that the installation on one platform lacks some
packages present on the other one. Sometimes you may get errors because the
two platforms you are working on have different versions of the same
package(s) installed. I use LyX on 4 different machines (2 Linux, 2 Macs)
and I periodically need  to spend some time managing the four TeX
installations and keeping them into a reasonably synchronized state. You'll
have less problems if you stick to standard LaTeX engines, classes,  and
packages. Be prepared to invest more time if you decide to use
cutting-edge portions of the TeX system (i.e. LuaTeX, Biblatex, etc.)


Cheers,

Stefano

-- 
__
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: Compilation problem

[stefano franchi]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Emil Pavlov emil.p.pav...@gmail.comwrote:

  На 29.04.2013 23:43, curtis osterhoudt написа:

  I ran into this problem just this weekend (using the 2.1.0 dev version
 of LyX on a debian-based system). I happen to have figured out what I did
 wrong, though it didn't have anything to do with forward/reverse searches;
 I thought the condition was interesting: I put some ERT into my document to
 change some enumeration settings (explicitly, the following command to
 change numbering to a lowercase letter surrounded by parentheses:
 \renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\alph{enumi})}). Later on, though, in playing
 with that command, I changed it to the following:
 \renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\theenumi)}. This, I think, is a sort of
 circular definition, and pdflatex chokes on it, and LyX appears to be
 frozen (I think it's waiting for pdflatex to finish its compilation).

If you haven't started LyX from the command line (so that you can
 simply ctrl-c it), then you can use the following to kill the process:

  From a command window, run top or htop, and find the process
 (likely gs or pdflatex) which is eating up resources and kill it that way.
 OR
 run the command ps -ef | grep pdflatex (or whatever process you suspect
 of hanging), which will return the process number of the program running.
 Then you can run kill process number (or, for extreme maliciousness,
 kill -9 process number) to make LyX useable again.

Hope that helps!



--
  *From:* Emil Pavlov emil.p.pav...@gmail.com emil.p.pav...@gmail.com
 *To:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 *Sent:* Monday, April 29, 2013 1:15 PM
 *Subject:* Compilation problem

 I have a large lyx document (several child documents, together around 60
 pages) and sometimes I have problems compiling the pdf. I even cannot
 close lyx, because it says it is still compiling.
 1. How can I interrupt the compilation?
 2. How can I fix this?

 I have Lyx 2.0.5.1 on Linux mint 13. The problem usually occurs when I
 enable forward/reverse search (I really need this feature).

 Best regards,
 Emil



 OK, this happened again. But I cannot find any process called
 pdflatex. This time forward/reverse search was off.



You may not be using pdflatex (there are other backends that produce pdf:
XeLatex. :LuaTeX, Latex with ps2pdf, and so on). When it hangs, try opening
up a terminal and searching for a process containing the tex string in
its name. For example with this command: ps aux | grep tex
Alternatively, you may want to double-check which command you are using to
produce the pdf file from the View menu (you should see it in parentheses
next to the various View pdf items.

It may also be the case that your compilation hangs not on latex but while
processing references (in which case bibtex or biber would be to blame), or
while indexing (texindy, makeindex, xindy).

Stefano
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College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
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Re: Problems with Undefined control sequence - \newfloat \float \floatstyle

[stefano franchi]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:42 PM, caio rodrigues 
caiorss.rodrig...@gmail.com wrote:


 %% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
 \providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
 \floatstyle{}
 \newfloat{}{}{}
 \providecommand{\name}{}
 \floatname{}{\protect\name}


The first line is inserted automatically as soon as you start a new table
float. But I have never seen the following 4 lines. Did LyX insert them in
the preamble? Have you tried inserting a table into  a new test file?


Cheers,

Stefano


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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: LyX on PC and Mac

[Andrew Rodgers]

Hi Stefano,
Thanks a lot for your answer. I'm not very familiar with LaTeX, so it was very 
helpful. Is it easier to keep certain TeX distributions synced than it is for 
others, or is it just a case of updating them both regularly? I currently use 
MikTex on Windows and I am planing to use MacTex on Mac.
Also, it has occurred to me that there may be problems using an imported BibTex 
bibliography across two different operating systems. Assuming the same .bib 
file was present on both systems, would there be problems with LyX locating it 
on one OS if it had been imported on the other OS? I would think that the 
directory the .bib file is located in is important, but I don't know any 
specifics. Any experience you may have of this would be very welcome. Thanks 
again for your help.
Thanks,
Andrew

Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 08:02:47 -0500
Subject: Re: LyX on PC and Mac
From: stefano.fran...@gmail.com
To: landronim...@gmail.com
CC: pandy1...@hotmail.co.uk; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org




On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Andrew Rodgers pandy1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:


 Hello,



 I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not, then I

 apologise.



 I would like to know how compatible the Windows and Mac versions of LyX are.



Very.





 Is it easy to start writing a LyX document on one platform and then save it,

 open it on the other platform, and continue to work on it. Also, are there

 any common problems associated with doing this? Any information you can give

 me on this would be greatly appreciated.



Editing should just work. Compiling to LaTeX is a different matter and

will depend on the local LaTeX distribution.



Hi Andrew,

I'd like to expand on Liviu's and Richard's answer. If you are already 
well-versed with LaTeX, ignore what follows. Perhaps it may help other users 
with similar questions.


LyX files will be perfectly compatible across different operating systems. You 
will be able to move them across platforms without ever worrying about losing 
anything. However, things get more complicated when you want to produce a pdf 
file from LyX. LyX converts  its source file to a  Latex file and then compiles 
it into pdf with the help of the local TeX installation. TeX is a very large 
system including literally hundreds of package and it is always possible that 
the installation on one platform lacks some packages present on the other one. 
Sometimes you may get errors because the two platforms you are working on have 
different versions of the same package(s) installed. I use LyX on 4 different 
machines (2 Linux, 2 Macs) and I periodically need  to spend some time managing 
the four TeX installations and keeping them into a reasonably synchronized 
state. You'll have less problems if you stick to standard LaTeX engines, 
classes,  and packages. Be prepared to invest more time if you decide to use 
cutting-edge portions of the TeX system (i.e. LuaTeX, Biblatex, etc.)



Cheers,

Stefano

-- 
__
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: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.6 Released

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote:
 Public release of LyX version 2.0.6

Ubuntu binaries are available on the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release .

For Raring and Saucy, I dropped the 'defoma' dep. Those using those
distros, please let me know if all works as expected.

Regards,
Liviu

Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[Richard Heck]

On 05/10/2013 11:17 AM, Andrew Rodgers wrote:
Also, it has occurred to me that there may be problems using an 
imported BibTex bibliography across two different operating systems. 
Assuming the same .bib file was present on both systems, would there 
be problems with LyX locating it on one OS if it had been imported on 
the other OS? I would think that the directory the .bib file is 
located in is important, but I don't know any specifics.


It all depends upon what kind of path you set to the bib file. If the 
path is absolute, you will have a problem. If you keep it in the same 
directory as the LyX file, I think you are usually OK. But the better 
solution is to put it in an appropriate system location. You can find 
out on each machine where TeX looks for bib files by running:

 kpsepath bib
You can also set an environment variable, like:
export BIBINPUTS=/home/rgheck/files/bibtex::
to tell TeX another place to look.

Richard

Problem producing tables with knitr and xtable

[John Kane]

I have been playing with LyX and knitr.  I have had no problem generating 
figures generally using ggplot2 I cannot get LyX to generate a table with knitr 
and xtable.  


The file table.knitr one is my last attempt to generate a table.  Not a success 
though there is something there.  table.kniter2.lyx is a successful  example of 
my running the same code in R and then just cutting and pasting the resulting 
LaTeX code (minus the \begin{table}[ht]  \end{table} of course.  


Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I am doing wrong?  I seem to have 
spent about 2 hours trying to find some useful examples without much success.

Thanks.


table.knitr1.lyx
Description: application/lyx


table.kniter2.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Problem producing tables with knitr and xtable

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:55 PM, John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca wrote:
 I have been playing with LyX and knitr.  I have had no problem generating
 figures generally using ggplot2 I cannot get LyX to generate a table with
 knitr and xtable.

See attached. Two issues:
- You need to use chunk option results=asis (similar to results=tex
for Sweave)
- By default xtable() outputs the table in a floating environment; it
makes little sense to put that in a table float. Use print.xtable(...,
floating=F) to avoid this.

Liviu


 The file table.knitr one is my last attempt to generate a table.  Not a
 success though there is something there.  table.kniter2.lyx is a successful
 example of my running the same code in R and then just cutting and pasting
 the resulting LaTeX code (minus the \begin{table}[ht]  \end{table} of
 course.

 Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I am doing wrong?  I seem to
 have spent about 2 hours trying to find some useful examples without much
 success.

 Thanks.



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Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[stefano franchi]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Rodgers pandy1...@hotmail.co.ukwrote:

 Hi Stefano,

 Thanks a lot for your answer. I'm not very familiar with LaTeX, so it was
 very helpful. Is it easier to keep certain TeX distributions synced than it
 is for others, or is it just a case of updating them both regularly? I
 currently use MikTex on Windows and I am planing to use MacTex on Mac.



I cannot tell you anything about MikTeX, because I don't use Windows. From
what I read here on the list, it should make your life simpler, to a
certain extent, because it is capable of downloading packages on the fly if
they are not not present in your current installation. More generally,
though: it is a good idea to keep your Tex installations in reasonable
sync. TeXLive (which MacTeX is based upon) comes out with a new major
version once a year. When, and if,  you upgrade, be sure to do it on all
your machines.
As I mentioned, the only real problems I ever ran into where with new
packages with very fast development cycles. In particular, Biblatex and
biber (bib reference packages that replace bibtex) were progressing so
rapidly that keeping track of new versions and keeping them in sync gave me
some trouble over the last couple of years. They are much more stable now,
and the situation has improved. LuaTeX (a backend that replaces the
standard TeX engine) is now in a similar situation. But if you stay away
from cutting edge packages, you should not have any serious problems.
BTW, there is TeXLive for Windows as well. A very brief comparison with
MikTeX is here, in case you are interested:

http://www.texdev.net/2011/11/19/tex-on-windows-miktex-or-tex-live/

The author (Joseph Wright) is a *very* reliable source on all TeX-related
matters.

Cheers,

S.
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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: Problem specifying a new converter

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 10/05/2013 1:13 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/08/2013 05:34 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:



On 9/05/2013 1:34 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/07/2013 05:10 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:



On 8/05/2013 4:39 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/07/2013 10:17 AM, Stephen Brooking wrote:

Hi,

I have specified a new converter to convert Visio drawings into PDF
(using
some VBScript borrowed from elsewhere on the web), but have run into
issues.
  My converter is specified like this:

cscript path/vsd2pdf.vbs $$i $$o

When Visio runs, it can't access the file to convert because the
current
directory is not the temp directory that LyX created (I'm not
familiar
enough with VBScript to know why or where).

So my question is this: is there a '$$' variable that specifies the
temporary directory in use, so that I can form an absolute path to
the
$$i and $$o files?


No, but you should not need this. LyX ought to be running the
converter
in the temporary directory, but perhaps the cscript thingy resets the
current directory?

Richard



No? I hesitate to contradict you Richard but in my tinkering with
Python scripts I've run converters using *all* the following:
[snip]
$$p The full directory path of the LyX temporary directory. On my
Windows system one day this was

C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.gq2540/lyx_tmpbuf5/


OK, thanks. This is in the documentation as the path to the input
file, which usually would be the temporary directory. Perhaps that
should be clarified.

Richard



The path that is missing from these $$ variables is that to the
*back-up* directory. At present I have a script where I have to put
that in by hand, even though LyX knows the path and it should be
retrievable (in my opinion) by a script. Worth an enhancement request?


You mean the directory where LyX stores backups, yes?

Should be pretty easy to do.

Richard



Enhancement ticket #8667.

Andrew

Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[stefano franchi]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Andrew Rodgers pandy1...@hotmail.co.uk
 wrote:
  Hello,
 
  I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not, then I
  apologise.
 
  I would like to know how compatible the Windows and Mac versions of LyX
 are.
 
 Very.


  Is it easy to start writing a LyX document on one platform and then save
 it,
  open it on the other platform, and continue to work on it. Also, are
 there
  any common problems associated with doing this? Any information you can
 give
  me on this would be greatly appreciated.
 
 Editing should just work. Compiling to LaTeX is a different matter and
 will depend on the local LaTeX distribution.


Hi Andrew,

I'd like to expand on Liviu's and Richard's answer. If you are already
well-versed with LaTeX, ignore what follows. Perhaps it may help other
users with similar questions.

LyX files will be perfectly compatible across different operating systems.
You will be able to move them across platforms without ever worrying about
losing anything. However, things get more complicated when you want to
produce a pdf file from LyX. LyX converts  its source file to a  Latex file
and then compiles it into pdf with the help of the local TeX installation.
TeX is a very large system including literally hundreds of package and it
is always possible that the installation on one platform lacks some
packages present on the other one. Sometimes you may get errors because the
two platforms you are working on have different versions of the same
package(s) installed. I use LyX on 4 different machines (2 Linux, 2 Macs)
and I periodically need  to spend some time managing the four TeX
installations and keeping them into a reasonably synchronized state. You'll
have less problems if you stick to standard LaTeX engines, classes,  and
packages. Be prepared to invest more time if you decide to use
cutting-edge portions of the TeX system (i.e. LuaTeX, Biblatex, etc.)


Cheers,

Stefano

-- 
__
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: Compilation problem

[stefano franchi]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Emil Pavlov emil.p.pav...@gmail.comwrote:

  На 29.04.2013 23:43, curtis osterhoudt написа:

  I ran into this problem just this weekend (using the 2.1.0 dev version
 of LyX on a debian-based system). I happen to have figured out what I did
 wrong, though it didn't have anything to do with forward/reverse searches;
 I thought the condition was interesting: I put some ERT into my document to
 change some enumeration settings (explicitly, the following command to
 change numbering to a lowercase letter surrounded by parentheses:
 \renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\alph{enumi})}). Later on, though, in playing
 with that command, I changed it to the following:
 \renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\theenumi)}. This, I think, is a sort of
 circular definition, and pdflatex chokes on it, and LyX appears to be
 frozen (I think it's waiting for pdflatex to finish its compilation).

If you haven't started LyX from the command line (so that you can
 simply ctrl-c it), then you can use the following to kill the process:

  From a command window, run top or htop, and find the process
 (likely gs or pdflatex) which is eating up resources and kill it that way.
 OR
 run the command ps -ef | grep pdflatex (or whatever process you suspect
 of hanging), which will return the process number of the program running.
 Then you can run kill process number (or, for extreme maliciousness,
 kill -9 process number) to make LyX useable again.

Hope that helps!



--
  *From:* Emil Pavlov emil.p.pav...@gmail.com emil.p.pav...@gmail.com
 *To:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 *Sent:* Monday, April 29, 2013 1:15 PM
 *Subject:* Compilation problem

 I have a large lyx document (several child documents, together around 60
 pages) and sometimes I have problems compiling the pdf. I even cannot
 close lyx, because it says it is still compiling.
 1. How can I interrupt the compilation?
 2. How can I fix this?

 I have Lyx 2.0.5.1 on Linux mint 13. The problem usually occurs when I
 enable forward/reverse search (I really need this feature).

 Best regards,
 Emil



 OK, this happened again. But I cannot find any process called
 pdflatex. This time forward/reverse search was off.



You may not be using pdflatex (there are other backends that produce pdf:
XeLatex. :LuaTeX, Latex with ps2pdf, and so on). When it hangs, try opening
up a terminal and searching for a process containing the tex string in
its name. For example with this command: ps aux | grep tex
Alternatively, you may want to double-check which command you are using to
produce the pdf file from the View menu (you should see it in parentheses
next to the various View pdf items.

It may also be the case that your compilation hangs not on latex but while
processing references (in which case bibtex or biber would be to blame), or
while indexing (texindy, makeindex, xindy).

Stefano
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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: Problems with Undefined control sequence - \newfloat \float \floatstyle

[stefano franchi]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:42 PM, caio rodrigues 
caiorss.rodrig...@gmail.com wrote:


 %% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
 \providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
 \floatstyle{}
 \newfloat{}{}{}
 \providecommand{\name}{}
 \floatname{}{\protect\name}


The first line is inserted automatically as soon as you start a new table
float. But I have never seen the following 4 lines. Did LyX insert them in
the preamble? Have you tried inserting a table into  a new test file?


Cheers,

Stefano


-- 
__
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: LyX on PC and Mac

[Andrew Rodgers]

Hi Stefano,
Thanks a lot for your answer. I'm not very familiar with LaTeX, so it was very 
helpful. Is it easier to keep certain TeX distributions synced than it is for 
others, or is it just a case of updating them both regularly? I currently use 
MikTex on Windows and I am planing to use MacTex on Mac.
Also, it has occurred to me that there may be problems using an imported BibTex 
bibliography across two different operating systems. Assuming the same .bib 
file was present on both systems, would there be problems with LyX locating it 
on one OS if it had been imported on the other OS? I would think that the 
directory the .bib file is located in is important, but I don't know any 
specifics. Any experience you may have of this would be very welcome. Thanks 
again for your help.
Thanks,
Andrew

Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 08:02:47 -0500
Subject: Re: LyX on PC and Mac
From: stefano.fran...@gmail.com
To: landronim...@gmail.com
CC: pandy1...@hotmail.co.uk; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org




On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Andrew Rodgers pandy1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:


 Hello,



 I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not, then I

 apologise.



 I would like to know how compatible the Windows and Mac versions of LyX are.



Very.





 Is it easy to start writing a LyX document on one platform and then save it,

 open it on the other platform, and continue to work on it. Also, are there

 any common problems associated with doing this? Any information you can give

 me on this would be greatly appreciated.



Editing should just work. Compiling to LaTeX is a different matter and

will depend on the local LaTeX distribution.



Hi Andrew,

I'd like to expand on Liviu's and Richard's answer. If you are already 
well-versed with LaTeX, ignore what follows. Perhaps it may help other users 
with similar questions.


LyX files will be perfectly compatible across different operating systems. You 
will be able to move them across platforms without ever worrying about losing 
anything. However, things get more complicated when you want to produce a pdf 
file from LyX. LyX converts  its source file to a  Latex file and then compiles 
it into pdf with the help of the local TeX installation. TeX is a very large 
system including literally hundreds of package and it is always possible that 
the installation on one platform lacks some packages present on the other one. 
Sometimes you may get errors because the two platforms you are working on have 
different versions of the same package(s) installed. I use LyX on 4 different 
machines (2 Linux, 2 Macs) and I periodically need  to spend some time managing 
the four TeX installations and keeping them into a reasonably synchronized 
state. You'll have less problems if you stick to standard LaTeX engines, 
classes,  and packages. Be prepared to invest more time if you decide to use 
cutting-edge portions of the TeX system (i.e. LuaTeX, Biblatex, etc.)



Cheers,

Stefano

-- 
__
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: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.6 Released

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote:
 Public release of LyX version 2.0.6

Ubuntu binaries are available on the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release .

For Raring and Saucy, I dropped the 'defoma' dep. Those using those
distros, please let me know if all works as expected.

Regards,
Liviu

Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[Richard Heck]

On 05/10/2013 11:17 AM, Andrew Rodgers wrote:
Also, it has occurred to me that there may be problems using an 
imported BibTex bibliography across two different operating systems. 
Assuming the same .bib file was present on both systems, would there 
be problems with LyX locating it on one OS if it had been imported on 
the other OS? I would think that the directory the .bib file is 
located in is important, but I don't know any specifics.


It all depends upon what kind of path you set to the bib file. If the 
path is absolute, you will have a problem. If you keep it in the same 
directory as the LyX file, I think you are usually OK. But the better 
solution is to put it in an appropriate system location. You can find 
out on each machine where TeX looks for bib files by running:

 kpsepath bib
You can also set an environment variable, like:
export BIBINPUTS=/home/rgheck/files/bibtex::
to tell TeX another place to look.

Richard

Problem producing tables with knitr and xtable

[John Kane]

I have been playing with LyX and knitr.  I have had no problem generating 
figures generally using ggplot2 I cannot get LyX to generate a table with knitr 
and xtable.  


The file table.knitr one is my last attempt to generate a table.  Not a success 
though there is something there.  table.kniter2.lyx is a successful  example of 
my running the same code in R and then just cutting and pasting the resulting 
LaTeX code (minus the \begin{table}[ht]  \end{table} of course.  


Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I am doing wrong?  I seem to have 
spent about 2 hours trying to find some useful examples without much success.

Thanks.


table.knitr1.lyx
Description: application/lyx


table.kniter2.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Problem producing tables with knitr and xtable

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:55 PM, John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca wrote:
 I have been playing with LyX and knitr.  I have had no problem generating
 figures generally using ggplot2 I cannot get LyX to generate a table with
 knitr and xtable.

See attached. Two issues:
- You need to use chunk option results=asis (similar to results=tex
for Sweave)
- By default xtable() outputs the table in a floating environment; it
makes little sense to put that in a table float. Use print.xtable(...,
floating=F) to avoid this.

Liviu


 The file table.knitr one is my last attempt to generate a table.  Not a
 success though there is something there.  table.kniter2.lyx is a successful
 example of my running the same code in R and then just cutting and pasting
 the resulting LaTeX code (minus the \begin{table}[ht]  \end{table} of
 course.

 Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I am doing wrong?  I seem to
 have spent about 2 hours trying to find some useful examples without much
 success.

 Thanks.



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Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[stefano franchi]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Rodgers pandy1...@hotmail.co.ukwrote:

 Hi Stefano,

 Thanks a lot for your answer. I'm not very familiar with LaTeX, so it was
 very helpful. Is it easier to keep certain TeX distributions synced than it
 is for others, or is it just a case of updating them both regularly? I
 currently use MikTex on Windows and I am planing to use MacTex on Mac.



I cannot tell you anything about MikTeX, because I don't use Windows. From
what I read here on the list, it should make your life simpler, to a
certain extent, because it is capable of downloading packages on the fly if
they are not not present in your current installation. More generally,
though: it is a good idea to keep your Tex installations in reasonable
sync. TeXLive (which MacTeX is based upon) comes out with a new major
version once a year. When, and if,  you upgrade, be sure to do it on all
your machines.
As I mentioned, the only real problems I ever ran into where with new
packages with very fast development cycles. In particular, Biblatex and
biber (bib reference packages that replace bibtex) were progressing so
rapidly that keeping track of new versions and keeping them in sync gave me
some trouble over the last couple of years. They are much more stable now,
and the situation has improved. LuaTeX (a backend that replaces the
standard TeX engine) is now in a similar situation. But if you stay away
from cutting edge packages, you should not have any serious problems.
BTW, there is TeXLive for Windows as well. A very brief comparison with
MikTeX is here, in case you are interested:

http://www.texdev.net/2011/11/19/tex-on-windows-miktex-or-tex-live/

The author (Joseph Wright) is a *very* reliable source on all TeX-related
matters.

Cheers,

S.
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Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

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Re: Problem specifying a new converter

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 10/05/2013 1:13 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/08/2013 05:34 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:



On 9/05/2013 1:34 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/07/2013 05:10 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:



On 8/05/2013 4:39 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/07/2013 10:17 AM, Stephen Brooking wrote:

Hi,

I have specified a new converter to convert Visio drawings into PDF
(using
some VBScript borrowed from elsewhere on the web), but have run into
issues.
  My converter is specified like this:

cscript path/vsd2pdf.vbs $$i $$o

When Visio runs, it can't access the file to convert because the
current
directory is not the temp directory that LyX created (I'm not
familiar
enough with VBScript to know why or where).

So my question is this: is there a '$$' variable that specifies the
temporary directory in use, so that I can form an absolute path to
the
$$i and $$o files?


No, but you should not need this. LyX ought to be running the
converter
in the temporary directory, but perhaps the cscript thingy resets the
current directory?

Richard



No? I hesitate to contradict you Richard but in my tinkering with
Python scripts I've run converters using *all* the following:
[snip]
$$p The full directory path of the LyX temporary directory. On my
Windows system one day this was

C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.gq2540/lyx_tmpbuf5/


OK, thanks. This is in the documentation as the path to the input
file, which usually would be the temporary directory. Perhaps that
should be clarified.

Richard



The path that is missing from these $$ variables is that to the
*back-up* directory. At present I have a script where I have to put
that in by hand, even though LyX knows the path and it should be
retrievable (in my opinion) by a script. Worth an enhancement request?


You mean the directory where LyX stores backups, yes?

Should be pretty easy to do.

Richard



Enhancement ticket #8667.

Andrew

Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[stefano franchi]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Andrew Rodgers 
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not, then I
> > apologise.
> >
> > I would like to know how compatible the Windows and Mac versions of LyX
> are.
> >
> Very.
>
>
> > Is it easy to start writing a LyX document on one platform and then save
> it,
> > open it on the other platform, and continue to work on it. Also, are
> there
> > any common problems associated with doing this? Any information you can
> give
> > me on this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> Editing should just work. Compiling to LaTeX is a different matter and
> will depend on the local LaTeX distribution.
>
>
Hi Andrew,

I'd like to expand on Liviu's and Richard's answer. If you are already
well-versed with LaTeX, ignore what follows. Perhaps it may help other
users with similar questions.

LyX files will be perfectly compatible across different operating systems.
You will be able to move them across platforms without ever worrying about
losing anything. However, things get more complicated when you want to
produce a pdf file from LyX. LyX converts  its source file to a  Latex file
and then compiles it into pdf with the help of the local TeX installation.
TeX is a very large system including literally hundreds of package and it
is always possible that the installation on one platform lacks some
packages present on the other one. Sometimes you may get errors because the
two platforms you are working on have different versions of the same
package(s) installed. I use LyX on 4 different machines (2 Linux, 2 Macs)
and I periodically need  to spend some time managing the four TeX
installations and keeping them into a reasonably synchronized state. You'll
have less problems if you stick to standard LaTeX engines, classes,  and
packages. Be prepared to invest more time if you decide to use
"cutting-edge" portions of the TeX system (i.e. LuaTeX, Biblatex, etc.)


Cheers,

Stefano

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__
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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
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Re: Compilation problem

[stefano franchi]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Emil Pavlov wrote:

>  На 29.04.2013 23:43, curtis osterhoudt написа:
>
>  I ran into this problem just this weekend (using the 2.1.0 dev version
> of LyX on a debian-based system). I happen to have figured out what I did
> wrong, though it didn't have anything to do with forward/reverse searches;
> I thought the condition was interesting: I put some ERT into my document to
> change some enumeration settings (explicitly, the following command to
> change numbering to a lowercase letter surrounded by parentheses:
> \renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\alph{enumi})}). Later on, though, in playing
> with that command, I changed it to the following:
> \renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\theenumi)}. This, I think, is a sort of
> circular definition, and pdflatex chokes on it, and LyX appears to be
> frozen (I think it's waiting for pdflatex to finish its compilation).
>
>If you haven't started LyX from the command line (so that you can
> simply ctrl-c it), then you can use the following to kill the process:
>
>  >From a command window, run "top" or "htop", and find the process
> (likely gs or pdflatex) which is eating up resources and kill it that way.
> OR
> run the command "ps -ef | grep pdflatex" (or whatever process you suspect
> of hanging), which will return the process number of the program running.
> Then you can run "kill " (or, for extreme maliciousness,
> "kill -9 ") to make LyX useable again.
>
>Hope that helps!
>
>
>
>--
>  *From:* Emil Pavlov  
> *To:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> *Sent:* Monday, April 29, 2013 1:15 PM
> *Subject:* Compilation problem
>
> I have a large lyx document (several child documents, together around 60
> pages) and sometimes I have problems compiling the pdf. I even cannot
> close lyx, because it says it is still compiling.
> 1. How can I interrupt the compilation?
> 2. How can I fix this?
>
> I have Lyx 2.0.5.1 on Linux mint 13. The problem usually occurs when I
> enable forward/reverse search (I really need this feature).
>
> Best regards,
> Emil
>
>
>
> OK, this happened again. But I cannot find any process called
> pdflatex. This time forward/reverse search was off.
>


You may not be using pdflatex (there are other backends that produce pdf:
XeLatex. :LuaTeX, Latex with ps2pdf, and so on). When it hangs, try opening
up a terminal and searching for a process containing the "tex" string in
its name. For example with this command: ps aux | grep tex
Alternatively, you may want to double-check which command you are using to
produce the pdf file from the View menu (you should see it in parentheses
next to the various "View pdf" items.

It may also be the case that your compilation hangs not on latex but while
processing references (in which case bibtex or biber would be to blame), or
while indexing (texindy, makeindex, xindy).

Stefano
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Re: Problems with Undefined control sequence - \newfloat \float \floatstyle

[stefano franchi]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:42 PM, caio rodrigues <
caiorss.rodrig...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> %% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
> \providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
> \floatstyle{}
> \newfloat{}{}{}
> \providecommand{\name}{}
> \floatname{}{\protect\name}
>

The first line is inserted automatically as soon as you start a new table
float. But I have never seen the following 4 lines. Did LyX insert them in
the preamble? Have you tried inserting a table into  a new test file?


Cheers,

Stefano


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Associate Research Professor
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Texas A University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

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

RE: LyX on PC and Mac

[Andrew Rodgers]

Hi Stefano,
Thanks a lot for your answer. I'm not very familiar with LaTeX, so it was very 
helpful. Is it easier to keep certain TeX distributions synced than it is for 
others, or is it just a case of updating them both regularly? I currently use 
MikTex on Windows and I am planing to use MacTex on Mac.
Also, it has occurred to me that there may be problems using an imported BibTex 
bibliography across two different operating systems. Assuming the same .bib 
file was present on both systems, would there be problems with LyX locating it 
on one OS if it had been imported on the other OS? I would think that the 
directory the .bib file is located in is important, but I don't know any 
specifics. Any experience you may have of this would be very welcome. Thanks 
again for your help.
Thanks,
Andrew

Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 08:02:47 -0500
Subject: Re: LyX on PC and Mac
From: stefano.fran...@gmail.com
To: landronim...@gmail.com
CC: pandy1...@hotmail.co.uk; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org




On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Liviu Andronic  wrote:

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Andrew Rodgers  wrote:


> Hello,

>

> I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not, then I

> apologise.

>

> I would like to know how compatible the Windows and Mac versions of LyX are.

>

Very.





> Is it easy to start writing a LyX document on one platform and then save it,

> open it on the other platform, and continue to work on it. Also, are there

> any common problems associated with doing this? Any information you can give

> me on this would be greatly appreciated.

>

Editing should just work. Compiling to LaTeX is a different matter and

will depend on the local LaTeX distribution.



Hi Andrew,

I'd like to expand on Liviu's and Richard's answer. If you are already 
well-versed with LaTeX, ignore what follows. Perhaps it may help other users 
with similar questions.


LyX files will be perfectly compatible across different operating systems. You 
will be able to move them across platforms without ever worrying about losing 
anything. However, things get more complicated when you want to produce a pdf 
file from LyX. LyX converts  its source file to a  Latex file and then compiles 
it into pdf with the help of the local TeX installation. TeX is a very large 
system including literally hundreds of package and it is always possible that 
the installation on one platform lacks some packages present on the other one. 
Sometimes you may get errors because the two platforms you are working on have 
different versions of the same package(s) installed. I use LyX on 4 different 
machines (2 Linux, 2 Macs) and I periodically need  to spend some time managing 
the four TeX installations and keeping them into a reasonably synchronized 
state. You'll have less problems if you stick to standard LaTeX engines, 
classes,  and packages. Be prepared to invest more time if you decide to use 
"cutting-edge" portions of the TeX system (i.e. LuaTeX, Biblatex, etc.)



Cheers,

Stefano

-- 
__
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: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.6 Released

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:
> Public release of LyX version 2.0.6
>
Ubuntu binaries are available on the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release .

For Raring and Saucy, I dropped the 'defoma' dep. Those using those
distros, please let me know if all works as expected.

Regards,
Liviu

Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[Richard Heck]

On 05/10/2013 11:17 AM, Andrew Rodgers wrote:
Also, it has occurred to me that there may be problems using an 
imported BibTex bibliography across two different operating systems. 
Assuming the same .bib file was present on both systems, would there 
be problems with LyX locating it on one OS if it had been imported on 
the other OS? I would think that the directory the .bib file is 
located in is important, but I don't know any specifics.


It all depends upon what kind of path you set to the bib file. If the 
path is absolute, you will have a problem. If you keep it in the same 
directory as the LyX file, I think you are usually OK. But the better 
solution is to put it in an appropriate "system" location. You can find 
out on each machine where TeX looks for bib files by running:

> kpsepath bib
You can also set an environment variable, like:
export BIBINPUTS=/home/rgheck/files/bibtex::
to tell TeX another place to look.

Richard

Problem producing tables with knitr and xtable

[John Kane]

I have been playing with LyX and knitr.  I have had no problem generating 
figures generally using ggplot2 I cannot get LyX to generate a table with knitr 
and xtable.  


The file table.knitr one is my last attempt to generate a table.  Not a success 
though there is something there.  table.kniter2.lyx is a successful  example of 
my running the same code in R and then just cutting and pasting the resulting 
LaTeX code (minus the \begin{table}[ht] & \end{table} of course.  


Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I am doing wrong?  I seem to have 
spent about 2 hours trying to find some useful examples without much success.

Thanks.


table.knitr1.lyx
Description: application/lyx


table.kniter2.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Problem producing tables with knitr and xtable

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:55 PM, John Kane  wrote:
> I have been playing with LyX and knitr.  I have had no problem generating
> figures generally using ggplot2 I cannot get LyX to generate a table with
> knitr and xtable.
>
See attached. Two issues:
- You need to use chunk option results="asis" (similar to results=tex
for Sweave)
- By default xtable() outputs the table in a floating environment; it
makes little sense to put that in a table float. Use print.xtable(...,
floating=F) to avoid this.

Liviu


> The file table.knitr one is my last attempt to generate a table.  Not a
> success though there is something there.  table.kniter2.lyx is a successful
> example of my running the same code in R and then just cutting and pasting
> the resulting LaTeX code (minus the \begin{table}[ht] & \end{table} of
> course.
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I am doing wrong?  I seem to
> have spent about 2 hours trying to find some useful examples without much
> success.
>
> Thanks.



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Re: LyX on PC and Mac

[stefano franchi]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Rodgers wrote:

> Hi Stefano,
>
> Thanks a lot for your answer. I'm not very familiar with LaTeX, so it was
> very helpful. Is it easier to keep certain TeX distributions synced than it
> is for others, or is it just a case of updating them both regularly? I
> currently use MikTex on Windows and I am planing to use MacTex on Mac.
>


I cannot tell you anything about MikTeX, because I don't use Windows. From
what I read here on the list, it should make your life simpler, to a
certain extent, because it is capable of downloading packages on the fly if
they are not not present in your current installation. More generally,
though: it is a good idea to keep your Tex installations in reasonable
sync. TeXLive (which MacTeX is based upon) comes out with a new major
version once a year. When, and if,  you upgrade, be sure to do it on all
your machines.
As I mentioned, the only real problems I ever ran into where with new
packages with very fast development cycles. In particular, Biblatex and
biber (bib reference packages that replace bibtex) were progressing so
rapidly that keeping track of new versions and keeping them in sync gave me
some trouble over the last couple of years. They are much more stable now,
and the situation has improved. LuaTeX (a backend that replaces the
standard TeX engine) is now in a similar situation. But if you stay away
from "cutting edge" packages, you should not have any serious problems.
BTW, there is TeXLive for Windows as well. A very brief comparison with
MikTeX is here, in case you are interested:

http://www.texdev.net/2011/11/19/tex-on-windows-miktex-or-tex-live/

The author (Joseph Wright) is a *very* reliable source on all TeX-related
matters.

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: Problem specifying a new converter

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 10/05/2013 1:13 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/08/2013 05:34 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:



On 9/05/2013 1:34 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/07/2013 05:10 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:



On 8/05/2013 4:39 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:

On 05/07/2013 10:17 AM, Stephen Brooking wrote:

Hi,

I have specified a new converter to convert Visio drawings into PDF
(using
some VBScript borrowed from elsewhere on the web), but have run into
issues.
  My converter is specified like this:

cscript /vsd2pdf.vbs "$$i" "$$o"

When Visio runs, it can't access the file to convert because the
current
directory is not the temp directory that LyX created (I'm not
familiar
enough with VBScript to know why or where).

So my question is this: is there a '$$' variable that specifies the
temporary directory in use, so that I can form an absolute path to
the
$$i and $$o files?


No, but you should not need this. LyX ought to be running the
converter
in the temporary directory, but perhaps the cscript thingy resets the
current directory?

Richard



No? I hesitate to contradict you Richard but in my tinkering with
Python scripts I've run converters using *all* the following:
[snip]
$$p The full directory path of the LyX temporary directory. On my
Windows system one day this was

C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.gq2540/lyx_tmpbuf5/


OK, thanks. This is in the documentation as "the path to the input
file", which usually would be the temporary directory. Perhaps that
should be clarified.

Richard



The path that is missing from these $$ variables is that to the
*back-up* directory. At present I have a script where I have to put
that in by hand, even though LyX knows the path and it should be
retrievable (in my opinion) by a script. Worth an enhancement request?


You mean the directory where LyX stores backups, yes?

Should be pretty easy to do.

Richard



Enhancement ticket #8667.

Andrew