Re: No pdf reader
Hi Greg, I'm putting this back on the list because I have no knowledge of Windows. However, this seems like the same problem as http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg98064.html who is also using Windows 8. I'm wondering if this is an issue specific to users on Windows 8. Using Sumatra PDF worked for that user. What program is used to view DVI? What is the name of your Adobe Reader executable? If you're not sure how to find this out, let us know and we can explain. Best, Scott On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Greg Love wrote: > Well, this is a computer running Windows 8.1. I wonder if this is part of > the problem. My work computer runs Windows 7 and has no problem. > > There is something called Reader (I think this is a Microsoft product) and > Adobe Touch. BTW, I don't have trouble viewing as dvi format. > > > Greg > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Greg Love >> wrote: >> > Whenever I try to view an LyX document as a pdf, ie pdflatex, I get a >> > message that there is no pdf viewer installed. This just isn't true. >> > >> > The computer is running Windows 8.1 and LyX 2.07. I use another >> > computer >> > running Windows 7 and LyX 2.07 and do not get this error. >> > >> > Greg >> >> Hi Greg, >> >> This sounds like a frustrating issue. I have heard of users having >> good success with Sumatra PDF reader. You could give that a try. >> Whether you do or not, try going to Tools > Reconfigure. Restart LyX >> and see if you have the same problem. >> >> What PDF readers do you have installed? What is the name of their >> executable files? >> >> Scott > >
Re: Struggling again on lyx-->doc/odt conversion
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:37:05 +0100 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:03 PM, stefano franchi > wrote: [clip] > > > > Success! > > > Congratulations Stefano! > > Since this is a recurring issue even for veteran LyX users (as you no > doubt know), would you mind sharing your extensive experience on the > wiki? We already have a http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ConvertingFromWord , > which looks badly outdated though. We also have a > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf . But it > would be useful if we added a http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ConvertingToWord > , compiling tips on the various options available to users. And, after doing that, Stephano, it would be great if you responded to this thread again, adding to the subject, so people searching for the answer can easily find the solution. Your response could reference the Wiki entry. And congratulations!!! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
Re: Struggling again on lyx-->doc/odt conversion
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2014-02-12, stefano franchi wrote: > > > And switching from LuaTeX to pdflatex is not > > really an option, as the document and the bibliography have a mix of > > English, French, and Italian, with lots of diacritics. I would have to > > manually convert everything to Latex's codes, I guess. Or find a tool > that > > does it for me. > > As long as you do not include "esoteric" Unicode characters, also 8-bit > tex engines (pdflatex/latex) should work as long as you set the right > LaTeX input encoding. > > In LyX, this means Document>Settings>Language>Encoding: Unicode (utf8). > > In the LaTeX source, this translates to \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} > > Yes, that is true and now I remember going down this road in the past. I was mixing up TeX engines and bibtex engines. I actually had to switch to Xe|LuaTex for a big project where the publisher needed the final pdf in the font used by their book series (and misremembered what caused the transition). This would obviously not be an issue for a converter to doc, where font information are irrelevant, although it may be an issue for the round-trip if the final output is pdf. (I guess once could always switch engines before final typesetting, but it adds a further step to the process). > This should do the trick for Latin (including Latin-extended and many more > diacritics), Greek (with a not too old TeX distribution) and Cyrillic > script. > > BibTeX has some problems with Unicode, To put it lightly... but BibLaTeX should work with > 8-bit tex engines, too. > > Tes Biblatex works fine pdfLatex (I assume that's what you were referring to with "8-bit tex engines"). Biblatex works also with bibtex8, but biber is so much better, that I'd rather use it if possible. Among many other things, biber allows users to mix and match different reference formats, and that is going to be a big plus with Humanities users (where Endnote is prevalent and usually given away by all major US universities, with free training on top of it). As I am working on LaTeX Unicode support, I would be interested in > problem reports. > > Will keep that in mind. Cheers, Stefano -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: Struggling again on lyx-->doc/odt conversion
On 2014-02-12, stefano franchi wrote: > And switching from LuaTeX to pdflatex is not > really an option, as the document and the bibliography have a mix of > English, French, and Italian, with lots of diacritics. I would have to > manually convert everything to Latex's codes, I guess. Or find a tool that > does it for me. As long as you do not include "esoteric" Unicode characters, also 8-bit tex engines (pdflatex/latex) should work as long as you set the right LaTeX input encoding. In LyX, this means Document>Settings>Language>Encoding: Unicode (utf8). In the LaTeX source, this translates to \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} This should do the trick for Latin (including Latin-extended and many more diacritics), Greek (with a not too old TeX distribution) and Cyrillic script. BibTeX has some problems with Unicode, but BibLaTeX should work with 8-bit tex engines, too. As I am working on LaTeX Unicode support, I would be interested in problem reports. Günter
Re: Lyx 2.0 can\'t read Lyx 1.6.x documents
I did. Had no influence. Am 12.02.2014 23:57, schrieb Stephan Witt: Am 12.02.2014 um 10:25 schrieb "Ralf Glaser, track IT" : I tested adding the LyX PATH extension to the PATH variable and LyX works fine now. Unfortunately this results in cygwins's python version beeing no longer accessible as LyX's python is beeing used now. It's a workaround but i'd really like to make LyX add it's PATH prefix as intended. Did you try to add the path to the PATH-Prefix in LyX's preferences pane explicitely? I noticed that the PATH variable is actually called 'Path' instead of 'PATH' on my WinXP machine. Maybe this matters... Don't know this. Stephan