Re: Convert Mac Word and Thesis to LyX

[Anders Ekberg via lyx-users]

> 18 apr. 2024 kl. 17:20 skrev Jean-Marc Lasgouttes :
> 
> Le 18/04/2024 à 16:59, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :
>>> On 4/17/24 16:57, Brian Kneller via lyx-users wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I hope I am in the correct space. — I have prepared a thesis for a PhD  
>>> (75K words)and approx 80 figures, the text in Mac-word and the figures are 
>>> in Adobe Illustrator so I have some flexibility in Format. Also there are 
>>> many references. I hold all my references and comments on them in Bookends. 
>>> I regret not looking at lyx/latex and using them much earlier so I am 
>>> looking for an easy way to migrate this info into Lyx and I am also looking 
>>> for a Thesis  template. I have dowloaded and installed Lyx on my Macbook 
>>> Pro (Mavericks) and been thro the intro etc. I am trying to minimise the 
>>> effort in migration to Lyx so any comments and advice is most welcome.
>> It should not be difficult to convert the main bulk of the text. You can 
>> export LaTeX from LibreOffice or use Pandoc to convert Word to LaTeX, then 
>> import the LaTeX document into LyX.
> 
> I will add that this is true if your Word document uses styles for things 
> like sections. Also, I am not sure what is going to happen if you have math 
> equations.
> 
> JMarc

Math equations at least work fine the other way around I.e. LyX to Word if you 
follow the approach on the lyx wiki
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Re: Watermark

[Anders Ekberg via lyx-users]

> On 10 Feb 2024, at 18:17, Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
> 
> On 2/10/24 05:45, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users wrote:
>> How do you include a watermark in LyX.
>> It can be done in the preamble, but I think I used a module option or 
>> similar before, but can’t see it in 2.4RC1.
> 
> It's possible that your user directory has changed, and that the module has 
> not been copied over to the new one. I did find this:
> 
> https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/add-watermark-to-document-in-lyx-a-guide.988197/
> 
> Riki

Thanks Riki 
I saw that one too. The problem is
"Go to "Insert" and select "Formatting" from the drop-down menu Click on 
“Watermark”"
There is no Watermark item under Formatting…

Anders

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Watermark

[Anders Ekberg via lyx-users]

How do you include a watermark in LyX.
It can be done in the preamble, but I think I used a module option or similar 
before, but can’t see it in 2.4RC1.

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Re: lyx 2.3.7 running on a Mac Ventura 13.6.1

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On 10 Jan 2024, at 13:35, mark salmon  wrote:
> 
> An urgent request for advice please. My apologies but I dropped of the edge 
> of the planet for some time- and have slowly been able to get back in 
> gear.when I was last active there were problems - both graphics and 
> slowness running Lyx on Macs with Ventura. I last understood the graphics 
> problem had been resolved in the latest version of Lyx 2.4??? beta but that 
> this beta had problems with Ventura above13.6.1. The latest MacOS is Sonoma 
> 14.. DO I RISK UPDATING MY MAC OS and ARE THERE CONTINUING PROBLEMS 
> WITH LYX 13.6.1- graphics insert and slowdown??
> I have lecture notes to write for Monday next week and cannot risk making a 
> mistake- DO I UPDATE MY SYSTEM AND LYX???  PLEASE!!
> 
> thanks 
> Mark
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Hi Mark 
I run LyX 2.4.0 b5 with MacTeX 2023 and Inkscape 1.3.2 on MacOSX 14.2.1 on my 
production (writing notes, compendia etc but very seldom using beamer) computer 
(MacBook Pro 2019). Works fine, but of course no guarantee it will for you…

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Re: Beta2 on Mac OS X 13.2

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> On 6 Feb 2023, at 15:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  wrote:
> 
> Le 06/02/2023 à 14:19, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users a écrit :
>> Here is where it differs. More digging shows it to be a problem in 
>> reconfiguration. Did a reconfiguration from the Terminal. Now it opens, but 
>> wants to reconfigure, but fails. Doing the big dig now and reinstall MacTeX…
> 
> Do you have a working python3 installed?

Yes, but I think for some reason it wasn’t found (even though "which python" 
indicated anaconda’s python3). Bit after installing from python.org and 
reinstalling Anaconda twice it now works as it should. Unfortunately I am not 
quite sure what was wrong. There were a Terminal message that I did not use the 
default shell that perhaps could be related. But I am not really sure. Still, 
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Re: Beta2 on Mac OS X 13.2

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> Am 06.02.23 um 11:15 schrieb Anders Ekberg via lyx-users:
>> Trying to install Beta2 on Mac OSX 13.2 on my iMac, but after going through 
>> the usual hassle with allowing open in System settings, the program does not 
>> load. It displays “LyX24b2.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check 
>> it for malicious software. And when clicking Open it just closes.
>> I get the same for both qt5 and qt6 versions. Have tried to spot error in 
>> console, but can’t see anything.
>> On my MacBook Pro it works fine (as does the alpha3). Python 3 installed 
>> through Anaconda on both. Only difference I can see is that the Python 
>> detected is python3 -tt on Pro, but python -tt on iMac.
> 
> 
> - downloading 
> http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.4/LyX-2.4.0-beta2+qt6-x86_64-arm64-cocoa.dmg
> 
> - installing it and running. As usual mac doesn't allow it
> 
> - System Prefences->Security   scrolling to the end and allowing
>   to open LyX anyway
> 
> - macOs again ask if it should really be open
> 
> - after password everything is fine (Ventura 13.2 on iMac):

Here is where it differs. More digging shows it to be a problem in 
reconfiguration. Did a reconfiguration from the Terminal. Now it opens, but 
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Re: Beta2 on Mac OS X 13.2

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> Trying to install Beta2 on Mac OSX 13.2 on my iMac, but after going through 
> the usual hassle with allowing open in System settings, the program does not 
> load. It displays “LyX24b2.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it 
> for malicious software. And when clicking Open it just closes.
> I get the same for both qt5 and qt6 versions. Have tried to spot error in 
> console, but can’t see anything. 
> On my MacBook Pro it works fine (as does the alpha3). Python 3 installed 
> through Anaconda on both. Only difference I can see is that the Python 
> detected is python3 -tt on Pro, but python -tt on iMac.
> 
> /Anders
To clarify: alpha3 works on the iMac where beta2 refuses to install.
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Beta2 on Mac OS X 13.2

[Anders Ekberg via lyx-users]

Trying to install Beta2 on Mac OSX 13.2 on my iMac, but after going through the 
usual hassle with allowing open in System settings, the program does not load. 
It displays “LyX24b2.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for 
malicious software. And when clicking Open it just closes.
I get the same for both qt5 and qt6 versions. Have tried to spot error in 
console, but can’t see anything. 
On my MacBook Pro it works fine (as does the alpha3). Python 3 installed 
through Anaconda on both. Only difference I can see is that the Python detected 
is python3 -tt on Pro, but python -tt on iMac.

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Writing paper for a SAGE journal

[Anders Ekberg via lyx-users]

Has anyone written a paper for a SAGE journal?
There is a TeX-template and a .cls file available on the sagepub website. Has 
anyone managed to use these for writing the paper in LyX?

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Re: How to set editor for external edit of preamble

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 2019Aug15, at 22:16, Daniel  wrote:
> 
> On 2019-08-15 07:07, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
>> On 15/08/2019 1:28 PM, Daniel wrote:
>>> On 2019-08-14 20:23, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 On 8/14/19 7:35 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> Me three :-)-O
> 
> el
> 
> On 14/08/2019 07:15, Daniel wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just discovered the new feature to edit the preamble externally.
>> However, I couldn't find where to set the editor for this of any
>> documentation about it.  On MacOS it opens XCode which asks me to
>> install additional application or Quit.  This renders the function
>> pretty useless for me.  I have set a different application as default
>> for TeX files but LyX seems ignore this.  How can I make LyX open my
>> favorite editor?
>> 
>> Best,
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
 Tools > Preferences > File Formats > LaTeX (plain) > Editor.
 
 Paul
 
>>> 
>>> Thanks. So, I take it, there is no documentation of this.
>>> 
>>> Next, question: how do I set a Custom editor then? I tried 
>>> "/Applications/texmaker.app" but nothing happens though "open 
>>> /Applications/texmaker.app" in the terminal works just fine.
>>> 
>>> Daniel
>>> 
>> Following Paul's response, I chose Custom and entered notepad++ (my 
>> preferred text editor) in the adjacent window. I've included C:\Program 
>> Files\Notepad++ (preceded and followed by semicolons) in the path string at 
>> Tools > Settings > Paths. It works (at least in windows).
>> Andrew
> Thanks for checking. Might be a macos bug then.
> 
> Daniel
Tried to get it to work on MacOS (with BBEdit, but didn’t succeed. I think what 
I get wrong is what to put in the path (tried bot Application and into the 
BBEdit package) and what to put in the command. 

Anders

Re: Lyx v 2.3.X - severe Problems on OSX

[Anders Ekberg]

On 2019Aug16, at 05:28, Richard Kimberly Heck  wrote:
> 
> On 8/15/19 5:00 PM, Matthias Görlach wrote:
>> Hi,
>> after running and using Lyx for maybe 10 years, I finally tried to upgrade 
>> from v 2.2.4 to 2.3.2 and 2.3.3.
>> 
>> This resulted in unusability or continuously repeated error messages 
>> relating to "missing document classes", something about "missing library" 
>> and finally to "LyX will only have minimal functionality because no text 
>> classes have been found. You can either try to configure LyX normally, try 
>> to reconfigure without checking your LaTeX installation, or continue." 
>> 
>> 
>> I tried a lot - to no avail - incl newsgroups, Wiki etc etc
>> Reconfigure didnt do a thing - neither a complete new install of the recent 
>> MacTEX suite, reinstall of Lyx etc etc. Other TEX distribs (e.g. mac 
>> texmaker) worked flawlessly.
>> My System MacOS X, 10.12.6 Sierra incl latest patches on a MacBook Pro 
>> (MacBookPro9,2).
>> 
>> ONLY completely removing any traces of Lyx and reinstalling Lyx 2.2.4 solved 
>> the problem - its running fine.
>> 
>> Accd to the Lyx web site, the latest release of Lyx (2.3.3) should be 
>> running fine on my system - so what is the issue???
>> 
>> Any hints/help available??
> There are some OSX folks around, so I'm updating the subject and cc'ing our 
> Mac guru. We've not had any other reports of this problem, so we know 2.3.x 
> will run on OSX. Not that that's any help to you!
> 
> Is it possible to install 2.3.x alongside 2.2.4? Possibly as a different 
> user? If so, it'd be interesting to see the output of the reconfiguration 
> script. That might give us some hint what's going wrong.
> Riki
> 
I can’t help much. 2.3.3 is running fine here (High Sierra) and I often have 
multiple versions alongside when I upgrade.
The only thing I can think of that isn’t mentioned is to perform a sudo texhash 
from the Terminal.

Anders

Re: Exporting ePub / XML: always SIGSEV

[Anders Ekberg]

On 25 Apr 2019, at 21:36, jezZiFeR  wrote:
> 
> Hello Anders,
> 
> thanks a lot! This sounds good, but I do normally only use LyX and run into 
> new problems. First I tried several possibilities to export to TeX is with 
> also with »weitere Formate und Optionen« (more formats and options) – here it 
> worked. In all other cases (file – export – LaTeX (plain) or export – export 
> as – LaTeX (normal) or export – export as – LaTeX (XeTeX)) I have got a 
> SIGSEV-signal again. 
> 
> Well, then I opened the TeX-file in TeXShop (I dont have TeX Studio). In the 
> prefs there is no build, and I did not know ho to continue from here.
>  Then I just tried:
> 
> export – XML text
> 
> This produced an XML-file. I do not know if the file would work, because I do 
> not know how to continue from here. Did Could I also use calibre for 
> converting from XML to ePub?
> 
> Thanks, best
> Jess

Looks like you have a problem with your installation. I would try to reinstall 
(and if problems remain to a Tools > Reconfigure and open Terminal and run sudo 
texhash).
Anyway, to your question: Calibre is free to download, so you can download it 
and then add the xml-file to Calibre (Add book…) and then convert to EPUB 
(Convert books…). If it works or not should depend on the status the XML-file, 
but that is outside my knowledge (I was just happy when the recipe I posted 
worked ;-)

All the best!
Anders

Re: Exporting ePub / XML: always SIGSEV

[Anders Ekberg]

25 apr. 2019 kl. 18:56 skrev jezZiFeR :
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I try to export ePubs for a while now and it never worked in different 
> configurations. LyX was always freezing. In the moment I use OS 10.14.3, 
> Intel and LyX 2.3.2 with TeXLive 2018.
> 
> When I do the following:
> + file – export as – DocBook (XML) and then try to save I get the follwing 
> error:
> »Keine Informationen vorhanden, um das Format DocBook (XML) zu exportieren.«
> In English this means something like »There is no information to export the 
> format DocBook (XML).
> + Now I click »cancel« and get a SIGSEV-signal, like every time.
> 
> Does anybody have a hint what I could do? Would be very good to use XML, 
> maybe there is a workaround.
> 
> Thanks, all best
> Jess

Also on Mac. I never really got the XML to work. So unfortunately no 
workaround. Instead I use

\usepackage{pxfonts} in preamble
Pictures as eps
No non-standard letters in picture names etc
Export to plain tex
Open in TeX-studio
Create user-command htlatex %.tex (in Preferences > Build)
Add html-file to Calibre (Add book...)
Convert to EPUB (Convert books...)

Has worked very well also for complex documents.

/Anders

Re: Would LyX be a lot more popular if it were marketed as a note taking app?

[Anders Ekberg]

> 10 jan. 2019 kl. 22:50 skrev Amir Michail :
> 
> I find it really nice to use for that purpose. And there’s no need to install 
> TeX and/or export to LaTeX if all you are using it for is to take notes.
> 
> Anyone else think LyX is great for taking notes and should be marketed as 
> such?
> 
Took 9 pages notes at a 2.5h PhD presentation yesterday.  The nice thing is you 
get the formatting done directly (eg use Description for Q) and can even make 
shorter equations if you know the shortcuts. 
After, press cmd R and you have nicely formatted documentation of the event.

You can of course do the same e.g. in Word, but I never manage to get 
formatting to look good, and equations (even simple) are out of the question if 
you do it on-the-fly.

Re: Lyx V2.3.2 - Issues with svgs snippets on Mac OS X

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 23 Dec 2018, at 13:05, Stephan Witt  wrote:
> 
> Am 22.12.2018 um 23:59 schrieb Robert Betz :
>> 
>> Daniel,
>> 
>> I have tired all sorts of things on Mac OS X Mojave but I cannot get either 
>> SVG or SVGZ files to render in Lyx.  Just get error generating loadable 
>> format.
>> 
>> I was wondering if any other users on Mac OS X Mojave are having problems 
>> with rendering SVG and/or SVGZ?  An easy way to test this is to load up the 
>> User Manual in Lyx and scroll down until you hit the small svgs snippets in 
>> the text (used to store pictures of screen buttons in the file).
> 
> I’m sure it worked for me in the past. So I gave it a try on Mojave and it 
> works.
> 
> Then I tried to break it and this is easy. My converter configuration does 
> the SVG to PNG conversion with rsvg-convert because I’ve installed it from 
> MacPorts. But the idea was to have a reasonable fallback for those not having 
> it. It looks like not working anymore. I changed my system to make 
> rsvg-convert unavailable and now I cannot display SVG anymore too.
> 
> I’ll investigate the issue and report back.
> 
> Stephan

F.Y.I. svgs in the LyX 2.3.2 User’s guide do not render for me on Mojave with 
Inkscape installed, but no special converters defined. (No idea how it was 
before upgrading though…)

/Anders


> @Daniel: Does it work on Windows without inkscape?
> 
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> PROFESSOR ROBERT BETZ
>> School of Electrical Engineering and Computing
>> Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
>> 
>> T: +61 2 4921 6091
>> M: +61 (0)419 249 948
>> E: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au
>> 
>> The University of Newcastle (UoN)
>> University Drive
>> Callaghan NSW 2308
>> Australia
>> 
>> CRICOS Provider 00109J
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 20 Dec 2018, at 2:20 pm, Daniel  wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 20/12/2018 12:00, Robert Betz wrote:
 I don’t know whether anyone else is having trouble with the snippets in 
 the Lyx User Guide, but on my Machine (Mac OS X V10.14.2 Mojave) the svgz 
 snippets all get errors as below
 I anyone else having this problem.  The Inkscape converter seems to be 
 having problems with these.  Works fine in Ubuntu.
 Regards,
 Bob
>>> 
>>> Works fine under Win10.
>>> 
>>> Daniel
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.3 Released

[Anders Ekberg]

On 16 Dec 2018, at 08:28, Dr Eberhard W Lisse  wrote:
> 
> Will do.
> 
> But, can you reproduce?
> 
> el
> 
> Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad mini 4
> On 16 Dec 2018, 04:24 +0200, Richard Kimberly Heck , wrote:
>> On 12/15/18 7:48 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> but I noticed a real nuisance on Mojave 10.14.1
>>> 
>>> When I click on the Text Style button it uses default which I do not
>>> like (and not the default one :-)-O). When I manually change them and
>>> click on marked text it makes the change as requested. When I mark some
>>> other text for the same formatting it resets this again.
>>> 
>>> This is a serious change from previous behavioir and not a feature.
>>> 
>>> How can I fix that?
>> 
>> Please file a bug report about this. We will investigate it for 2.3.3.
>> 
>> Riki
>> 
To see if I get this right:
I have the text “Some text”. I click on the Text Style button (without marking 
any text) and it is marked Medium. I alter to Bold, double click on “text". It 
reverts to Medium (as is the format of “text”. I change to Bold and click apply 
and “text" becomes bold. I then double click on “Some”, the dialogue box 
reverts to Medium (which is the style of “Some”. Change to Bold and click apply 
turns “Some” to bold. This is what I see on Mojave 10.14.2 with (works great 
for me, but don’t use with Dark Appearance…).

Anders

Re: Articles Class missing from Lyx 2.3.2

[Anders Ekberg]

Which OS?
Tried to reconfigure?

/Anders

> 16 dec. 2018 kl. 01:03 skrev Roger :
> 
> After installing LyX 2.3.2 all of the Articles Class and many other document 
> classes are no longer available.
> Regards
> Roger
> 

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

[Anders Ekberg]

1 agree, but censor a list is not really good either (most posts, such as this 
one) are not by developers

2 see the discussion on the developers list, suggestions like this have been 
thoroughly discussed

> 13 maj 2018 kl. 14:16 skrev Bernt Lie <bernt@usn.no>:
> 
> 1: I agree, and I didn't say so. Essentially, my point is that developers can 
> not do that without compromising its OS agnostics. For various reasons, I use 
> Windows myself. And I have full respect for others making different choices. 
> I don't think the LyX list should be used for negative description of OSes 
> not used by oneself.
> 
> 2: I see the point. If there are no negative side effects of upgrading to the 
> latest version of MikTeX, I'd do the following:
> * Put in a LyX 2.3.0 installation link.
> * Start by checking if the latest MikTeX version is installed. If yes, 
> proceed and install LyX 2.3.0
> * If not, explain why, and point to a link (youtube, or whatever) on how the 
> user can upgrade MikTeX and say "retry after you have upgraded MikTeX".
> 
> Maybe a solution?
> B
> 
> Get Outlook for Android
> 
> 
> 
> From: Anders Ekberg
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 13:33
> Subject: Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries
> To: Bernt Lie
> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> 
> 
> 1 I haven’t seen any developer having any opinion on which os users are 
> running, they are simply stating what they are running in order to explain 
> the problem
> 
> 2 the question is if you should update software (other than lyx) *without 
> asking the user*
> 
> All the best!
> Anders
> 
> 13 maj 2018 kl. 10:48 skrev Bernt Lie <bernt@usn.no>:
> 
> > Why are people still using Windows?  My firm gets along without Gates just 
> > fine.
>  
> I use Windows, almost all of my colleagues use Windows. I know of 1 colleague 
> who uses Linux - he is very computer savvy, sets up his own system, hacks 
> LaTeX classes, and is not interested in using LyX -- he manages fine with his 
> own set-up. Many LaTeX users use alternative tools (TeXnicCenter, etc.).
> --
> "Why are people still using Windows?"
>  
> Well, fact is: our IT infrastructure is so tied up into Windows based tools, 
> that if the choice comes between Windows and LyX, it is LyX that will sink -- 
> our management thinks that Word is just fine... I have no problems with LyX 
> developers preferring another OS (ref: statement that none of the developers 
> use Windows). But if people associated with developing a software tool goes 
> public with opinions like “why on earth do people still use Windows”, that 
> would make it impossible to advocate the use of that software to Windows 
> users.
> --
> Regarding the delay of LyX 2.3.0 for Windows -- v 2.2.3 serves me fine, so I 
> can wait. Still, the reason for the problem is not entirely clear to me.
> * Yes, I understand that there is a problem with MikTeX in that MikTeX must 
> be updated for some technical reason.
> * What is not clear is why it is a problem to update MikTeX. My MikTeX 
> console says
>  
> Is there a newer MikTeX version? Is the problem that a (possible) newer 
> version will not be backwards compatible?If I can update MikTeX to the latest 
> version, install LyX v. 2.3.0, and face no problem of backwards 
> compatibility, then I don’t see any problem. 
>  
> BL
>  
>  
>  
>  
> -Original Message-
> From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> On Behalf Of Steve 
> Litt
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 7:49
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries
>  
> ROFLMAO, I ask myself this all the time, on multiple mailing lists.
>  
> On the bright side, 90% of the heartache doesn't apply to me.
>  
> SteveT
>  
>  
> On Sat, 12 May 2018 20:03:09 -0700
> John White <j...@whitelawchartered.com> wrote:
>  
> > Why are people still using Windows?  My firm gets along without Gates 
> > just fine.
> > 
> > John White
> > 
> > On Friday, May 11, 2018 4:18:17 PM PDT Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> > > On 05/11/2018 03:37 PM, Jim Rockford wrote:  
> > > > In my 20+ years in the world of science, I have not known a single 
> > > > user of Lyx (~50 in total) who wasn't computer savvy.  Why not 
> > > > just include a warning message that Lyx 2.3.0 may not function 
> > > > properly with MiKTeX distributions that have not been updated as 
> > > > recently as some specific date?
> > > 
> > > That is more or less what was proposed by most of the development
> > > team: A warning at start-up, that LyX was goin

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

[Anders Ekberg]

1 I haven’t seen any developer having any opinion on which os users are 
running, they are simply stating what they are running in order to explain the 
problem

2 the question is if you should update software (other than lyx) *without 
asking the user*

All the best!
Anders

> 13 maj 2018 kl. 10:48 skrev Bernt Lie :
> 
> > Why are people still using Windows?  My firm gets along without Gates just 
> > fine.
>  
> I use Windows, almost all of my colleagues use Windows. I know of 1 colleague 
> who uses Linux - he is very computer savvy, sets up his own system, hacks 
> LaTeX classes, and is not interested in using LyX -- he manages fine with his 
> own set-up. Many LaTeX users use alternative tools (TeXnicCenter, etc.).
> --
> "Why are people still using Windows?"
>  
> Well, fact is: our IT infrastructure is so tied up into Windows based tools, 
> that if the choice comes between Windows and LyX, it is LyX that will sink -- 
> our management thinks that Word is just fine... I have no problems with LyX 
> developers preferring another OS (ref: statement that none of the developers 
> use Windows). But if people associated with developing a software tool goes 
> public with opinions like “why on earth do people still use Windows”, that 
> would make it impossible to advocate the use of that software to Windows 
> users.
> --
> Regarding the delay of LyX 2.3.0 for Windows -- v 2.2.3 serves me fine, so I 
> can wait. Still, the reason for the problem is not entirely clear to me.
> * Yes, I understand that there is a problem with MikTeX in that MikTeX must 
> be updated for some technical reason.
> * What is not clear is why it is a problem to update MikTeX. My MikTeX 
> console says
>  
> Is there a newer MikTeX version?
> Is the problem that a (possible) newer version will not be backwards 
> compatible?
> If I can update MikTeX to the latest version, install LyX v. 2.3.0, and face 
> no problem of backwards compatibility, then I don’t see any problem.
>  
> BL
>  
>  
>  
>  
> -Original Message-
> From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  On Behalf Of Steve 
> Litt
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 7:49
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries
>  
> ROFLMAO, I ask myself this all the time, on multiple mailing lists.
>  
> On the bright side, 90% of the heartache doesn't apply to me.
>  
> SteveT
>  
>  
> On Sat, 12 May 2018 20:03:09 -0700
> John White  wrote:
>  
> > Why are people still using Windows?  My firm gets along without Gates
> > just fine.
> >
> > John White
> >
> > On Friday, May 11, 2018 4:18:17 PM PDT Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> > > On 05/11/2018 03:37 PM, Jim Rockford wrote: 
> > > > In my 20+ years in the world of science, I have not known a single
> > > > user of Lyx (~50 in total) who wasn't computer savvy.  Why not
> > > > just include a warning message that Lyx 2.3.0 may not function
> > > > properly with MiKTeX distributions that have not been updated as
> > > > recently as some specific date?
> > >
> > > That is more or less what was proposed by most of the development
> > > team: A warning at start-up, that LyX was going to update MikTeX,
> > > with an option for the user to abort the install if they wish. The
> > > person responsible for the Windows packages refused to include such
> > > a warning, and we did not think updating people's other software
> > > without asking permission to do so was something we should do. So
> > > that has left us in a bad position.
> > >
> > > We are working now to try to produce a Windows installer.
> > > Unfortunately, none of the active development team use Windows, so
> > > it is taking longer than it otherwise might. We'd certainly welcome
> > > help from someone who does use Windows.
> > >
> > > Riki
> >
>  

Re: LyX & article style?

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 6 Apr 2018, at 14:48, Bernt Lie  wrote:
> 
>  How can I suppress the date?

\date{} in the LaTeX Preamble (Document > Settings)

Re: Have you tested 2.3.0beta1?

[Anders Ekberg]

Tested briefly on Mac latest OS and fresh TeX installation. Only problem was 
that the welcome document complains about unknown image format (svgz?)
If that is ignored the document compiles fine except for that image, but it 
should preferably be fixed.

Anders

> 6 sep. 2017 kl. 01:25 skrev Scott Kostyshak :
> 
> I have not seen many bugs that have been reported regarding 2.3.0beta1.
> I would like to know whether this means that 2.3.0beta1 can be
> considered stable, which is what I believe, or whether it is just that
> not many people have tested it and that is why there have not been many
> bug reports.
> 
> If you've tested, it would be useful if you just respond with e.g. "yes
> I briefly tested and didn't find any issues".
> 
> If you're interested in testing, please back up all of your files.
> 
> One useful way to test is to compile your current .lyx files. If you get
> a LaTeX error where with a previous .lyx file you did not, then that
> could be a bug.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott

Re: Lyx on Mac: Preferences problems

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 2017May29, at 18:45, Joel Kulesza  wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:44 AM, David Pesetsky  > wrote:
> 
> 1. Open a Lyx file in the editor window.
> 2. Change any setting, for example, Screen Font (but it can be anything, on 
> any submenu
> 3. Click "Apply"
> 4. A white box appears and the program freezes.
> 5. Also: if you click on the editor window while the program is in its frozen 
> state, that window turns black.  
> 
> Thanks for the detailed steps.  Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce with LyX 
> 2.2.3 on OS X 10.12.5.  However, there is some differing behavior I 
> experience which might explain why you see different things.
> 
> When I do NOT have a document open, I can tweak a preference, Apply, Save, 
> and all is well. This is also the behavior I'd expect relative to my next 
> point.
> 
> When I do have a document open, I can tweak a preference, Apply, *the dialog 
> window goes to the background*, I retrieve the dialog, Save, and all is well. 
>  
> 
> I wonder if someone can track down why the dialog focus changes depending on 
> whether a document is open or not. 

Can’t track down why the dialog focus changes, but can confirm the behaviour 
that Apply with a document open sends the dialog window to the background (OSX 
10.12.5 here too if that is any clue).
/Anders

Re: Bug using BibTex and IEEEtran with author name containing And

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 2017Jan12, at 10:48, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:
> 
> 2017-01-12 9:28 GMT+01:00 Anders Ekberg <a...@me.com <mailto:a...@me.com>>:
> I discovered a very strange bug:
> Using Lyx on Mac and inserting a reference file created by BibDesk using the 
> IEEEtran format. The reference file has two entries that have the same 
> authors. One author has a name containing And that I suspect can be related 
> to the problem. In the output the first reference is fine, but in the second 
> the author is missing. If I change the bibliography format to plain 
> everything works. I can also get it to work by tweaking with the authors’ 
> names (e.g. removing the second author). LyX, bib and pdf-files for a minimum 
> example are enclosed.
> 
> Don’t know if it is a bug in LyX, TeX, BibDesk, BibTeX or something else, but 
> it is definitely the strangest bug I have seen for a long time… 
> Any ideas of the cause?
> 
> It's not a bug but a feature of IEEEtran.bst:
> 
> % This function detects entries with names that are identical to that of
> % the previous entry and replaces the repeated names with dashes (if the
> % "is.dash.repeated.names" user control is nonzero).
> FUNCTION {name.or.dash}
> { 's :=
>oldname empty$
>  { s 'oldname := s }
>  { s oldname =
>  { is.dash.repeated.names
>   { repeated.name.dashes }
>   { s 'oldname := s }
> if$
>  }
>  { s 'oldname := s }
>if$
>  }
>if$
> }
> 
> You can switch it off by 
> 
> 1. adding the following entry to your bib file:
> 
> @IEEEtranBSTCTL{IEEEexample:BSTcontrol,
> CTLdash_repeated_names = "no",
> }
> 2. then adding the following to your preamble
> 
> \usepackage{IEEEtrantools}
> 3. and finally, this somewhere in your document:
> 
> \bstctlcite{IEEEexample:BSTcontrol} <>
> 
> HTH
> Jürgen
Thanks, that explained it perfectly!

Anders

Re: LyX 2.2 -- logo in headers?

[Anders Ekberg]

On 2016Nov22, at 16:16, Bernt Lie <bernt@hit.no> wrote:-Original Message-From: Anders Ekberg [mailto:a...@me.com] Sent: tirsdag 22. november 2016 15.45To: Bernt Lie <bernt@hit.no>Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.orgSubject: Re: LyX 2.2 -- logo in headers?On 2016Nov22, at 15:28, Bernt Lie <bernt@hit.no> wrote:Using LyX 2.2.1 on Windows 10...* Is there a way to put a logo in the header of a standard LaTeX article class? ... or a similar class?I'm drafting an exam problem, and would like to insert the logo of my university in the header...-BerntFor footer I put \cfoot{{\includegraphics{LetterFoot.png}}}\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}in the footer (no idea why I have the second line, but it works). I guess a similar version for \chead would work.For logos on the front page I found it more easy to just include the logo in the text as graphic and modify the margins.---Thanks Anders. I tried to insert a figure in the *title* field of the first page, but that figure is simply ignored... Perhaps I can put it in the text, and specify it to show on the top of the page... Hm. I may try the "\chead" command.-BThis is my example document. It’s a letter, so there are no Title. Could be that a title messes it up./@nders

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Re: LyX 2.2 -- logo in headers?

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 2016Nov22, at 15:28, Bernt Lie  wrote:
> 
> Using LyX 2.2.1 on Windows 10...
> 
> * Is there a way to put a logo in the header of a standard LaTeX article 
> class? ... or a similar class?
> 
> I'm drafting an exam problem, and would like to insert the logo of my 
> university in the header...
> 
> -Bernt

For footer I put 
\cfoot{{\includegraphics{LetterFoot.png}}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
in the footer (no idea why I have the second line, but it works). I guess a 
similar version for \chead would work.
For logos on the front page I found it more easy to just include the logo in 
the text as graphic and modify the margins.

/Anders

Re: macOS Sierra

[Anders Ekberg]

I wouldn't bet on that (I.e. minor update). mathworks sent out an email that 
MATLAB currently was incompatible (for some language settings). So kudos to the 
developers!

Anders



Den 21 sep. 2016 02:48, kI 02:48, Anders Host-Madsen  
skrev:
>So, I did the upgrade, and as you said, everything works fine. Even the
>BIBINPUT environment variable is fine. I guess Sierra really was a
>minor update that did not change the interior workings of OS X. 
>
>On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 8:21 AM, Christopher Menzel
> wrote:
> 
>
>On 20 Sep 2016, at 2:16 PM, Anders Host-Madsen 
>wrote:
>> Has anyone tried LyX on MacOS Sierra? Any issues?
>
>LyX (currently 2.2) with MacTeX 2015 is rock solid for me under Sierra,
>and has been since the early public betas. Will upgrade to MacTeX 2016
>one of these days but don't expect any problems at all.
>
>-chris
>
>
>   

Re: problem with toolbars in Mac

[Anders Ekberg]

On 2016Sep14, at 11:27, Sergio Celani  wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply. 
> 
> One more question. To install Lyx, I must first install the GPG signature 
> file? What is the utility of this file ?
> 
> Sorry, I'm just learning to use this operating system
> 
> Sergio

No, but you need to allow Mac OS to install programs that are not from the 
Apple Store in System Preferences > General > Allow Apps downloaded from:. 
Chose Anywhere, install Lyx and then select what you like to have as your 
standard security level. 

Anders

Re: problem with toolbars in Mac

[Anders Ekberg]

The toolbars remain for me (tried with the Fonts toolbar on El Capitan, LyX 
2.2.1). Have you tried to remove the preferences file (in ~Library/Preferences/ 
)

Anders

> On 2016Sep13, at 19:00, Sergio Celani  wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a Macbook Air, recently purchased. I am totally newbie, I've always 
> used computers with windows. 
> 
> I have installed Lyx and MacTeX and without   difficulty.  But I can not fix 
> some of the toolbars. Every time I leave fixed a toolbar (for example, the 
> Font toolbar, or the Arrows, etc)), I close the program and go back to run 
> and the toolbar disappears, and returns to the standard toolbar.  In Windows 
> I never had this problem. 
> Would appreciate any help
> 
> 
> Sergio
> 

Re: Mac Shortcuts

[Anders Ekberg]

Hi Paola

Where did you find the ^S notion?
For me (on the Mac, latest LyX, latest OS) Ctrl s N gives normal size, but it 
could perhaps be due to my keyboard (Swedish).

All the best!
Anders

> On 2016Jun03, at 10:13, Paola Manzini  wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> a really silly question, but I am stumped: using Mac OS, what does “^” stand 
> for? For instance, if I want to go for “font-size Normal” the set shortcuts 
> are ^S N : what combination of keys is “^S”? If I am not mistaken:
> C stands for “command”, 
> A stands for “option”, 
> S stands for “Shift” 
> M stands or “Ctrl” 
> 
> but does “^” stand for? 
> 
> Many thanks,
> paola
> 
> 

LyX2.2rc1 hidden windows bug(?) on Mac

[Anders Ekberg]

In the newly released 2.2rc1 on Mac (latest OS) open two documents in two 
windows. Select the frontmost and select View > Hidden and the document in the 
background. LyX will shift focus to the background window, but (in contrast to 
2.1) not raise it to the foreground. Is this intended?
(As a sidenote, the numbering of tabs in the menu starts from 0. I guess this 
is due to C+ numbering? Should perhaps be changed to starting from 1?)

Regardless 2.2 is fantastic. The only negative thing I can say about it is that 
it gets worse and worse for me when I have to use MS Word…

All the best!
Anders

Re: graphical output

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 2016Mar24, at 21:22, Les  wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:21:56 +
> Muhammad Yahya  wrote:
> 
>> I am encountering a problem with the LyX output as pdf. Upon
>> exporting the file from LyX to pdf, the resolution of the document is
>> significantly lower. It is clearly visible when you “zoom in” the
>> document. Also, whenever I am printing the document the lower quality
>> of the document is visible. I have tried several ways to improve the
>> resolution, however, I am unable to improve the quality. I am
>> attaching the files herewith this email for your review. In addition,
>> I am attaching the “tutorial” document which is available through the
>> help tab. The resolution of tutorial document is clear and finest.
> 
> Muhammad,
> 
> On my system they are both very good, but that's probably because my
> default font is different.
> 
> But you can get the very good results with the tutorial, so it can be
> done on your system.
> 
> The only difference I can see that might make a difference is in the
> LaTeX Preamble under Settings. Try copying the lines:
> 
> % set fonts for nicer pdf view
> \IfFileExists{lmodern.sty}{\usepackage{lmodern}}{}
> 
> from the preamble in the tutorial to the preamble in your document.
> 
> Les
> -- 
> L. R. Denham

Looks fine her also (on Mac). 
You can also test by explicitly selecting fonts and see which ones that work on 
your system. 
To do this go to: Documents > Settings… Select fonts and then change 
(especially the Roman font).
Good luck and please report back on your progress to the list (preferably 
stating your system setup).

All the best!
Anders

Re: Splitting long eqution

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 04 Dec 2015, at 02:30, Jacob Bishop <bisho...@byui.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Anders Ekberg <a...@me.com 
> <mailto:a...@me.com>> wrote:
> see the extended minimal example attached.
>  
> This example is really good, and Anders' response was on the spot, but I 
> thought I'd take the opportunity to point out something that took me quite a 
> while to realize. When using the equation array environment (what happens 
> when you push ctrl+enter), the spacing around the equal sign is different 
> than what it is for a "display formula." This leads to a document that has 
> inconsistent spacing, which can be seen in this example. The spacing around 
> the equals sign in equation (1) is a lot less than the spacing around the 
> equals signs in the other equations. The solution is to use AMS environments. 
> Check the spacing produced in the attached document. I also used \mathrm for 
> multi-letter subscripts, which I would recommend. Finally, you should check 
> out the different reference types. I use the one with parentheses to do 
> equations.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Jacob
> 

Thanks Jacob, that was helpful! 
I like that you point out the use of \mathrm. I “preach” to all students and 
everyone else who wants to hear (and to everyone else too ;-) that indices that 
are not variables should be roman. So for those who use LyX or LaTeX and write 
equations \mathrm is one of the best commands to know…

Anders 

Re: Splitting long eqution

[Anders Ekberg]

On 01 Dec 2015, at 00:16, Steve Burnham  wrote:I have a long numbered formula that I am trying to split into two lines. I am using 2.1.4 on OSX 10.11. Following the instructions in the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/FormulaOnMultipleLines) I should be able to hit control+enter to begin a multiline equation, move the cursor to where I want a new line and hit control+enter again. This command appears to be disabled for some reason. I have found however that if I type Command+enter a new line is inserted and I can type the remaining portion of the equation. The problem is that this new line also gets a new equation number when it should all be part of the same equation. See attached minimal working example. Thanks,-Steve
Steve, that will depend on where you insert your label, see the extended minimal example attached.All the best!Anders

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Re: A Problem with Lyx Math Mode

[Anders Ekberg]

On 14 Nov 2015, at 15:20, Jun Ma  wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm a researcher in China and writing documents using Lyx. I use mac OSX and 
> updated to OSX El Capitan recently. But after the update, I encounter a 
> problem when using Lyx and its math editor mode. I think the Lyx interface 
> fails to display it properly. Please take a look at the attached screen shot 
> (the first line). It should be blue instead of black. 
> 
> It there any way to fix it?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Jun 
> 

Set LyX > Preferences > Display > Instant Preview to No math.
That should give what you want (if I understand you correctly).

/Anders

Re: Lyx and Windows 10

[Anders Ekberg]

I don't know about certified, but I installed and it seems to work fine under 
windows 10 (didn't do any massive testing though).

All the best!
Anders

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Den 9 aug 2015 20:10, kI 20:10, Kevin Jones kevinpjon...@outlook.com skrev:
I had a Lyx 2.1.3 installation on Windows 8.1. I have now upgraded to
Windows 10 - is Lyx 2.1.3 certified on Windows 10?

Re: Lyx and Windows 10

[Anders Ekberg]

I don't know about certified, but I installed and it seems to work fine under 
windows 10 (didn't do any massive testing though).

All the best!
Anders

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Den 9 aug 2015 20:10, kI 20:10, Kevin Jones  skrev:
>I had a Lyx 2.1.3 installation on Windows 8.1. I have now upgraded to
>Windows 10 - is Lyx 2.1.3 certified on Windows 10?

Re: Math Symbols

[Anders Ekberg]

 On 05 Mar 2015, at 04:27, Gordon Cooper gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz wrote:
 
 Hello Chris,
No, they don't, we get an inverted exclamation
 mark for  and inverted question mark for . The font that
 appears to display them correctly in pdf is Typewriter.
 
 I tried   from Lyx to Open Document format and had
 the same result ! and ? inverted.
 
 Gordon.
 
 On 05/03/15 11:08, Christopher Menzel wrote:
 Are you saying they do not print properly for you?
 

How are you inserting the  and  symbols, and in which context? 
Which platform are you on, which LyX-version? Have you specified any particular 
fonts.
FYI it works just fine on Mac on all versions of operating systems and LyX that 
I have tried (probably back to at least first OS X version and LyX 1.6) by just 
typing  and  on the keyboard in all contexts (plain text, math etc) and for 
all fonts I have tried.

All the best!
Anders

Re: Math Symbols

[Anders Ekberg]

 On 05 Mar 2015, at 04:27, Gordon Cooper gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz wrote:
 
 Hello Chris,
No, they don't, we get an inverted exclamation
 mark for  and inverted question mark for . The font that
 appears to display them correctly in pdf is Typewriter.
 
 I tried   from Lyx to Open Document format and had
 the same result ! and ? inverted.
 
 Gordon.
 
 On 05/03/15 11:08, Christopher Menzel wrote:
 Are you saying they do not print properly for you?
 

How are you inserting the  and  symbols, and in which context? 
Which platform are you on, which LyX-version? Have you specified any particular 
fonts.
FYI it works just fine on Mac on all versions of operating systems and LyX that 
I have tried (probably back to at least first OS X version and LyX 1.6) by just 
typing  and  on the keyboard in all contexts (plain text, math etc) and for 
all fonts I have tried.

All the best!
Anders

Re: Math Symbols

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 05 Mar 2015, at 04:27, Gordon Cooper  wrote:
> 
> Hello Chris,
>No, they don't, we get an inverted exclamation
> mark for < and inverted question mark for >. The font that
> appears to display them correctly in pdf is Typewriter.
> 
> I tried < > from Lyx to Open Document format and had
> the same result ! and ? inverted.
> 
> Gordon.
> 
> On 05/03/15 11:08, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> Are you saying they do not print properly for you?
> 

How are you inserting the < and > symbols, and in which context? 
Which platform are you on, which LyX-version? Have you specified any particular 
fonts.
FYI it works just fine on Mac on all versions of operating systems and LyX that 
I have tried (probably back to at least first OS X version and LyX 1.6) by just 
typing < and > on the keyboard in all contexts (plain text, math etc) and for 
all fonts I have tried.

All the best!
Anders

Re: Texteditor to open and resave .lyx in MacOS

[Anders Ekberg]

I tend to use TextWrangler for such tasks (available for free in Apple store). 
Plenty of options to select encoding and line breaks etc so it suits your needs.

/Anders

 On 28 Jan 2015, at 12:02, Restidealist restideal...@gmx.de wrote:
 
 TL:DR: Document corrupted, want to copy parts from [corrupt document] to 
 [working document] - textedit doesn't work
 
 Hi everybody, 
 
 my thesis-document (due in 2 days) is corrupted. As I can't figure out how to 
 fix this I want to try a manual approach: 
 I got my corrupt file with all the latest contents and I also got a backup of 
 a working file. 
 I now want to copy parts from the corrupt file to the backup file to see 
 where things don't work out anymore and maybe fix this within the corrupted 
 file. 
 I would also like to edit within the corrupt file which isn't possible in lyx 
 as it quits saying File corrupt
 
 When I'm opening the .lyx file with textedit, I am able to edit it but after 
 reimporting / reopening it with lyx, preview doesn't work. I suppose textedit 
 changed something in formatting etc. 
 
 So which program can I use to open a .lyx file, edit it, save it as .lyx, 
 open it IN lyx and preview it without producing an error message? 
 
 Any help is appreciated, thanks a lot
 R.
 
 Specs:
 Lyx 2.0.4., also tried 2.1.2.2., file obviously still corrupted
 Macos 10.6.8.
 everything worked fine until today.

Re: Texteditor to open and resave .lyx in MacOS

[Anders Ekberg]

I tend to use TextWrangler for such tasks (available for free in Apple store). 
Plenty of options to select encoding and line breaks etc so it suits your needs.

/Anders

 On 28 Jan 2015, at 12:02, Restidealist restideal...@gmx.de wrote:
 
 TL:DR: Document corrupted, want to copy parts from [corrupt document] to 
 [working document] - textedit doesn't work
 
 Hi everybody, 
 
 my thesis-document (due in 2 days) is corrupted. As I can't figure out how to 
 fix this I want to try a manual approach: 
 I got my corrupt file with all the latest contents and I also got a backup of 
 a working file. 
 I now want to copy parts from the corrupt file to the backup file to see 
 where things don't work out anymore and maybe fix this within the corrupted 
 file. 
 I would also like to edit within the corrupt file which isn't possible in lyx 
 as it quits saying File corrupt
 
 When I'm opening the .lyx file with textedit, I am able to edit it but after 
 reimporting / reopening it with lyx, preview doesn't work. I suppose textedit 
 changed something in formatting etc. 
 
 So which program can I use to open a .lyx file, edit it, save it as .lyx, 
 open it IN lyx and preview it without producing an error message? 
 
 Any help is appreciated, thanks a lot
 R.
 
 Specs:
 Lyx 2.0.4., also tried 2.1.2.2., file obviously still corrupted
 Macos 10.6.8.
 everything worked fine until today.

Re: Texteditor to open and resave .lyx in MacOS

[Anders Ekberg]

I tend to use TextWrangler for such tasks (available for free in Apple store). 
Plenty of options to select encoding and line breaks etc so it suits your needs.

/Anders

> On 28 Jan 2015, at 12:02, Restidealist  wrote:
> 
> TL:DR: Document corrupted, want to copy parts from [corrupt document] to 
> [working document] - textedit doesn't work
> 
> Hi everybody, 
> 
> my thesis-document (due in 2 days) is corrupted. As I can't figure out how to 
> fix this I want to try a manual approach: 
> I got my corrupt file with all the latest contents and I also got a backup of 
> a working file. 
> I now want to copy parts from the corrupt file to the backup file to see 
> where things don't work out anymore and maybe fix this within the corrupted 
> file. 
> I would also like to edit within the corrupt file which isn't possible in lyx 
> as it quits saying "File corrupt"
> 
> When I'm opening the .lyx file with textedit, I am able to edit it but after 
> reimporting / reopening it with lyx, preview doesn't work. I suppose textedit 
> changed something in formatting etc. 
> 
> So which program can I use to open a .lyx file, edit it, save it as .lyx, 
> open it IN lyx and preview it without producing an error message? 
> 
> Any help is appreciated, thanks a lot
> R.
> 
> Specs:
> Lyx 2.0.4., also tried 2.1.2.2., file obviously still corrupted
> Macos 10.6.8.
> everything worked fine until today.

Re: Open File problem

[Anders Ekberg]

 On 23 Nov 2014, at 16:43, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Dear LyXers,
 
 My wife has LyX 2.1.1 under OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). When she tries to open a 
 file, LyX pops a new LyX document up, which is immediately closed. No Open 
 File dialog is shown. The same happens with New From Template. Is there a way 
 to diagnose (and fix) this problem? Is it related to the Yosemite problems 
 arising left and right? I wouldn't like to upgrade to Yosemite and thus to 
 2.1.1.2, unless it would be totally unavoidably, as remote user support is 
 not my strong feature, and she would be left in dire straits.
 
 Thanks in advance. Regards,
 -
 Julio Rojas

Try to open up Console, note the error messages and see if you can deduce the 
error from there.
(b.t.w. the newest version is 2.1.2.2)

/Anders

Re: Open File problem

[Anders Ekberg]

 On 23 Nov 2014, at 16:43, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Dear LyXers,
 
 My wife has LyX 2.1.1 under OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). When she tries to open a 
 file, LyX pops a new LyX document up, which is immediately closed. No Open 
 File dialog is shown. The same happens with New From Template. Is there a way 
 to diagnose (and fix) this problem? Is it related to the Yosemite problems 
 arising left and right? I wouldn't like to upgrade to Yosemite and thus to 
 2.1.1.2, unless it would be totally unavoidably, as remote user support is 
 not my strong feature, and she would be left in dire straits.
 
 Thanks in advance. Regards,
 -
 Julio Rojas

Try to open up Console, note the error messages and see if you can deduce the 
error from there.
(b.t.w. the newest version is 2.1.2.2)

/Anders

Re: Open File problem

[Anders Ekberg]

> On 23 Nov 2014, at 16:43, Julio Rojas  wrote:
> 
> Dear LyXers,
> 
> My wife has LyX 2.1.1 under OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). When she tries to open a 
> file, LyX pops a new LyX document up, which is immediately closed. No Open 
> File dialog is shown. The same happens with New From Template. Is there a way 
> to diagnose (and fix) this problem? Is it related to the Yosemite problems 
> arising left and right? I wouldn't like to upgrade to Yosemite and thus to 
> 2.1.1.2, unless it would be totally unavoidably, as remote user support is 
> not my strong feature, and she would be left in dire straits.
> 
> Thanks in advance. Regards,
> -
> Julio Rojas

Try to open up Console, note the error messages and see if you can deduce the 
error from there.
(b.t.w. the newest version is 2.1.2.2)

/Anders

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Anders Ekberg]

For me (with pdf generated from Word on a pre-Yosemite Mac) the rendering
within LyX does not work well (it puts the two pages on top of each other).
Creating a pdf (pdf-latex) works fine though. If it could be of any help in
pin-pointing the problem the pdf inserted here are two pages in one file
inserted using Insert  file  external material.

When inserting as graphics (including within a float) rendering of a pdf
also works although the preview gets an ²Error converting to loadable
format²

/Anders

From:  Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com
Date:  Wednesday 12 November 2014 22:23
To:  LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Cc:  LyX Developers lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org
Subject:  Re: Yosemite problems...

 I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 2.1.1.
 (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from the CL.)
 
 -chris
 
 Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
 Hi,
 I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version (2.1.2.1).
 This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure LyX after having
 launched it from the command line.
 But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not loaded in
 LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable format. I have both
 ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via MacPorts (that I have also
 updated), and, when I launch LyX from the terminal, it can convert the
 graphics and show them on the screen.
 
 Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting back the
 functionality of LyX?
 
 An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that KnitR
 files compile without any problem.
 
 Any idea about the solution?
 
 Best regards,
 
 Murat

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Anders Ekberg]

For me (with pdf generated from Word on a pre-Yosemite Mac) the rendering
within LyX does not work well (it puts the two pages on top of each other).
Creating a pdf (pdf-latex) works fine though. If it could be of any help in
pin-pointing the problem the pdf inserted here are two pages in one file
inserted using Insert  file  external material.

When inserting as graphics (including within a float) rendering of a pdf
also works although the preview gets an ²Error converting to loadable
format²

/Anders

From:  Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com
Date:  Wednesday 12 November 2014 22:23
To:  LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Cc:  LyX Developers lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org
Subject:  Re: Yosemite problems...

 I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 2.1.1.
 (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from the CL.)
 
 -chris
 
 Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
 Hi,
 I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version (2.1.2.1).
 This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure LyX after having
 launched it from the command line.
 But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not loaded in
 LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable format. I have both
 ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via MacPorts (that I have also
 updated), and, when I launch LyX from the terminal, it can convert the
 graphics and show them on the screen.
 
 Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting back the
 functionality of LyX?
 
 An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that KnitR
 files compile without any problem.
 
 Any idea about the solution?
 
 Best regards,
 
 Murat

Re: Yosemite problems...

[Anders Ekberg]

For me (with pdf generated from Word on a pre-Yosemite Mac) the rendering
within LyX does not work well (it puts the two pages on top of each other).
Creating a pdf (pdf-latex) works fine though. If it could be of any help in
pin-pointing the problem the pdf inserted here are two pages in one file
inserted using Insert > file > external material.

When inserting as graphics (including within a float) rendering of a pdf
also works although the preview gets an ²Error converting to loadable
format²

/Anders

From:  Christopher Menzel 
Date:  Wednesday 12 November 2014 22:23
To:  LyX Users List 
Cc:  LyX Developers 
Subject:  Re: Yosemite problems...

> I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 2.1.1.
> (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from the CL.)
> 
> -chris
> 
> Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version (2.1.2.1).
>> This solves the problem of only being able to reconfigure LyX after having
>> launched it from the command line.
>> But I have now another problem, the figures in PDF format are not loaded in
>> LyX. It says that it cannot convert them to a loadable format. I have both
>> ImageMagick and GhostScript installed via MacPorts (that I have also
>> updated), and, when I launch LyX from the terminal, it can convert the
>> graphics and show them on the screen.
>> 
>> Is this an unsolvable problem, or can we do something for getting back the
>> functionality of LyX?
>> 
>> An aside, in case you are worrying about this: I have checked that KnitR
>> files compile without any problem.
>> 
>> Any idea about the solution?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Murat

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
To:  lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject:  how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

 Hi,
 I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
 model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
 instead of Lyx :-( .
 
 So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
 image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
 
 Can someone help me?
 
 TIA
 
 Renato

Try to include
\cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
(and similar for the head)
in Document  Settings  LaTeX Preamble
Don¹t forget to put Document  Settings  Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy

/Anders

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

Aah, my mistake!
Then you have to do a little detective work and find the file in your file
system I guess (or create a pdf and open in Inkscape).
Sorry for that.
/Anders

From:  renato renato.pontef...@gmail.com
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 17:44
To:  Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com
Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

 Hi Anders,
 
 maybe, there are a mistake. I want an image FROM the Latex (lyx) template. Not
 to insert an image on my footer (or header)
 
  
 
 Renato 
 
  
 
 On Thursday 30 October 2014 14:52:00 you wrote:
 
 From: Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
 mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com 
 
 Date: Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
 Subject: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
 
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
 model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
 instead of Lyx :-( .
 
 
 So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
 image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
 
 
 Can someone help me?
 
 
 TIA
 
 
 Renato
 
 
 
 Try to include
 
 \cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
 
 (and similar for the head)
 
 in Document  Settings  LaTeX Preamble
 
 Don¹t forget to put Document  Settings  Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy
 
 
 
 /Anders
 
 
 
 
 

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

You can open pdf in inkscape and cut the footer and/or export that part to a
png-file.
There are also other programs that can translate from pdf to e.g. png. Which
depends on your platform.

All the best!
Anders

From:  renato renato.pontef...@gmail.com
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 20:44
To:  Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com
Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

  
 
 
 So, it is not possible to get a different format of pdf. i.e a bitmap format,
 where do I can open it with inkscape (or another program like Gimp) to cut the
 footer (and the header)
 
 TIA
 
 
 RenatoOn Thursday 30 October 2014 19:42:43 you wrote:
 
 Aah, my mistake!
 
 Then you have to do a little detective work and find the file in your file
 system I guess (or create a pdf and open in Inkscape).
 
 Sorry for that.
 
 /Anders
 
 
 
 From:  renato renato.pontef...@gmail.com mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com
 
 Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 17:44
 To:  Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com mailto:a...@mac.com 
 Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
 
 
 
 Hi Anders,
 
 maybe, there are a mistake. I want an image FROM the Latex (lyx) template. Not
 to insert an image on my footer (or header)
 
  
 
 Renato 
 
  
 
 On Thursday 30 October 2014 14:52:00 you wrote:
 
 From: Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
 mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com 
 
 Date: Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
 Subject: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
 
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
 model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
 instead of Lyx :-( .
 
 
 So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
 image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
 
 
 Can someone help me?
 
 So, it is not possible to get a different format of pdf. i.e a bitmap format,
 where do I can open it with inkscape (or another program like Gimp) to cut the
 footer (and the header)
 
 TIA
 
 
 Renato
 
 
 
 Try to include
 
 \cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
 
 (and similar for the head)
 
 in Document  Settings  LaTeX Preamble
 
 Don¹t forget to put Document  Settings  Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy
 
 
 
 /Anders
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
To:  lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject:  how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

 Hi,
 I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
 model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
 instead of Lyx :-( .
 
 So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
 image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
 
 Can someone help me?
 
 TIA
 
 Renato

Try to include
\cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
(and similar for the head)
in Document  Settings  LaTeX Preamble
Don¹t forget to put Document  Settings  Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy

/Anders

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

Aah, my mistake!
Then you have to do a little detective work and find the file in your file
system I guess (or create a pdf and open in Inkscape).
Sorry for that.
/Anders

From:  renato renato.pontef...@gmail.com
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 17:44
To:  Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com
Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

 Hi Anders,
 
 maybe, there are a mistake. I want an image FROM the Latex (lyx) template. Not
 to insert an image on my footer (or header)
 
  
 
 Renato 
 
  
 
 On Thursday 30 October 2014 14:52:00 you wrote:
 
 From: Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
 mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com 
 
 Date: Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
 Subject: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
 
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
 model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
 instead of Lyx :-( .
 
 
 So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
 image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
 
 
 Can someone help me?
 
 
 TIA
 
 
 Renato
 
 
 
 Try to include
 
 \cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
 
 (and similar for the head)
 
 in Document  Settings  LaTeX Preamble
 
 Don¹t forget to put Document  Settings  Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy
 
 
 
 /Anders
 
 
 
 
 

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

You can open pdf in inkscape and cut the footer and/or export that part to a
png-file.
There are also other programs that can translate from pdf to e.g. png. Which
depends on your platform.

All the best!
Anders

From:  renato renato.pontef...@gmail.com
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 20:44
To:  Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com
Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

  
 
 
 So, it is not possible to get a different format of pdf. i.e a bitmap format,
 where do I can open it with inkscape (or another program like Gimp) to cut the
 footer (and the header)
 
 TIA
 
 
 RenatoOn Thursday 30 October 2014 19:42:43 you wrote:
 
 Aah, my mistake!
 
 Then you have to do a little detective work and find the file in your file
 system I guess (or create a pdf and open in Inkscape).
 
 Sorry for that.
 
 /Anders
 
 
 
 From:  renato renato.pontef...@gmail.com mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com
 
 Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 17:44
 To:  Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com mailto:a...@mac.com 
 Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
 
 
 
 Hi Anders,
 
 maybe, there are a mistake. I want an image FROM the Latex (lyx) template. Not
 to insert an image on my footer (or header)
 
  
 
 Renato 
 
  
 
 On Thursday 30 October 2014 14:52:00 you wrote:
 
 From: Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com
 mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com 
 
 Date: Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
 Subject: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
 
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
 model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
 instead of Lyx :-( .
 
 
 So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
 image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
 
 
 Can someone help me?
 
 So, it is not possible to get a different format of pdf. i.e a bitmap format,
 where do I can open it with inkscape (or another program like Gimp) to cut the
 footer (and the header)
 
 TIA
 
 
 Renato
 
 
 
 Try to include
 
 \cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
 
 (and similar for the head)
 
 in Document  Settings  LaTeX Preamble
 
 Don¹t forget to put Document  Settings  Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy
 
 
 
 /Anders
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Renato Pontefice 
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
To:  
Subject:  how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

> Hi,
> I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
> model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
> instead of Lyx :-( .
> 
> So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
> image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
> 
> Can someone help me?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Renato

Try to include
\cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
(and similar for the head)
in Document > Settings > LaTeX Preamble
Don¹t forget to put Document > Settings > Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy

/Anders

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

Aah, my mistake!
Then you have to do a little detective work and find the file in your file
system I guess (or create a pdf and open in Inkscape).
Sorry for that.
/Anders

From:  renato <renato.pontef...@gmail.com>
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 17:44
To:  Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com>
Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

> Hi Anders,
> 
> maybe, there are a mistake. I want an image FROM the Latex (lyx) template. Not
> to insert an image on my footer (or header)
> 
>  
> 
> Renato 
> 
>  
> 
> On Thursday 30 October 2014 14:52:00 you wrote:
> 
> From: Renato Pontefice <renato.pontef...@gmail.com
> <mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com> >
> 
> Date: Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> >
> Subject: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
> model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
> instead of Lyx :-( .
> 
> 
> So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
> image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
> 
> 
> Can someone help me?
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Renato
> 
> 
> 
> Try to include
> 
> \cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
> 
> (and similar for the head)
> 
> in Document > Settings > LaTeX Preamble
> 
> Don¹t forget to put Document > Settings > Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy
> 
> 
> 
> /Anders
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

[Anders Ekberg]

You can open pdf in inkscape and cut the footer and/or export that part to a
png-file.
There are also other programs that can translate from pdf to e.g. png. Which
depends on your platform.

All the best!
Anders

From:  renato <renato.pontef...@gmail.com>
Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 20:44
To:  Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com>
Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document

>  
> 
> 
> So, it is not possible to get a different format of pdf. i.e a bitmap format,
> where do I can open it with inkscape (or another program like Gimp) to cut the
> footer (and the header)
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> RenatoOn Thursday 30 October 2014 19:42:43 you wrote:
> 
> Aah, my mistake!
> 
> Then you have to do a little detective work and find the file in your file
> system I guess (or create a pdf and open in Inkscape).
> 
> Sorry for that.
> 
> /Anders
> 
> 
> 
> From:  renato <renato.pontef...@gmail.com <mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com>
> >
> Date:  Thursday 30 October 2014 17:44
> To:  Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com <mailto:a...@mac.com> >
> Subject:  Re: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Anders,
> 
> maybe, there are a mistake. I want an image FROM the Latex (lyx) template. Not
> to insert an image on my footer (or header)
> 
>  
> 
> Renato 
> 
>  
> 
> On Thursday 30 October 2014 14:52:00 you wrote:
> 
> From: Renato Pontefice <renato.pontef...@gmail.com
> <mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com> >
> 
> Date: Thursday 30 October 2014 12:21
> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> >
> Subject: how to obtain header and footer to insert in word document
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've created a good header and footer for my business card. I would create a
> model (.dot) on MS Word (and Libre(open office), because some people use it
> instead of Lyx :-( .
> 
> 
> So, I would capture the header and footer , save them as a jpg (or whathever
> image) then create a model where to insert the two images.
> 
> 
> Can someone help me?
> 
> So, it is not possible to get a different format of pdf. i.e a bitmap format,
> where do I can open it with inkscape (or another program like Gimp) to cut the
> footer (and the header)
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Renato
> 
> 
> 
> Try to include
> 
> \cfoot{{\includegraphics{Nameofyourpicturefile.png}}}
> 
> (and similar for the head)
> 
> in Document > Settings > LaTeX Preamble
> 
> Don¹t forget to put Document > Settings > Page Layout ­ Page style: to fancy
> 
> 
> 
> /Anders
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Anders Ekberg]

Have you installed TeX?

Anders

Sent from Blue Mail



On 24 sep 2014 16:30, at 16:30, Taimur taimurahm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,

I installed LyX on my MacBook Air.
 When I run LyX a window pops up, 
saying that LyX will only have 
minimal functionality because no 
textclasses have been found. 
You can either try to reconfigure LyX 
normally, try to reconfigure without
 checking your LaTeX installation, or continue.

Whatever option I choose, View (pdf view) 
option remains off, i.e., I cannot convert my 
LyX file to pdf 
after TeXing it. I reinstalled LyX but of no use. 
What should I do? 

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Anders Ekberg]

If reconfigure dies not help, try open a terminal and issue the command
sudo texhash
(You will need to give admin password)

Anders

Sent from Blue Mail



On 24 sep 2014 16:45, at 16:45, Taimur taimurahm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Anders, 

Yes, I did. 
When I select New File, error pops up saying 
The layout file:article could not be found. 
A default textclass with default layouts will be used. 
LyX will not be able to produce correct output.

I cannot figure out what should I do.

Thanks for your reply.

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Anders Ekberg]

Have you installed TeX?

Anders

Sent from Blue Mail



On 24 sep 2014 16:30, at 16:30, Taimur taimurahm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,

I installed LyX on my MacBook Air.
 When I run LyX a window pops up, 
saying that LyX will only have 
minimal functionality because no 
textclasses have been found. 
You can either try to reconfigure LyX 
normally, try to reconfigure without
 checking your LaTeX installation, or continue.

Whatever option I choose, View (pdf view) 
option remains off, i.e., I cannot convert my 
LyX file to pdf 
after TeXing it. I reinstalled LyX but of no use. 
What should I do? 

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Anders Ekberg]

If reconfigure dies not help, try open a terminal and issue the command
sudo texhash
(You will need to give admin password)

Anders

Sent from Blue Mail



On 24 sep 2014 16:45, at 16:45, Taimur taimurahm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Anders, 

Yes, I did. 
When I select New File, error pops up saying 
The layout file:article could not be found. 
A default textclass with default layouts will be used. 
LyX will not be able to produce correct output.

I cannot figure out what should I do.

Thanks for your reply.

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Anders Ekberg]

Have you installed TeX?

Anders

Sent from Blue Mail



On 24 sep 2014 16:30, at 16:30, Taimur  wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I installed LyX on my MacBook Air.
> When I run LyX a window pops up, 
>saying that "LyX will only have 
>minimal functionality because no 
>textclasses have been found. 
>You can either try to reconfigure LyX 
>normally, try to reconfigure without
> checking your LaTeX installation, or continue."
>
>Whatever option I choose, View (pdf view) 
>option remains off, i.e., I cannot convert my 
>LyX file to pdf 
>after TeXing it. I reinstalled LyX but of no use. 
>What should I do? 

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Anders Ekberg]

If reconfigure dies not help, try open a terminal and issue the command
sudo texhash
(You will need to give admin password)

Anders

Sent from Blue Mail



On 24 sep 2014 16:45, at 16:45, Taimur  wrote:
>Hi Anders, 
>
>Yes, I did. 
>When I select New File, error pops up saying 
>"The layout file:article could not be found. 
>A default textclass with default layouts will be used. 
>LyX will not be able to produce correct output".
>
>I cannot figure out what should I do.
>
>Thanks for your reply.

Re: lyx files created in OSX Mac could be edited in Windows?

[Anders Ekberg]

Yes, I do it all of the time when I write papers with coauthors.

/Anders

On 25 juli 2014 18:59:39 CEST, Toni Díaz Galindo tonidiazgali...@gmail.com 
wrote:
Good Morning

Please, tell me if is possible to edit in Windows a lyx file/document
that
has been created in a Mac (OSX). And vice-versa: Is possible to edit in
a
Mac (OSX) a lyx file that has been created in Windows?

Thank you very much.

Toni Díaz
Mataró (Barcelona)

-- 
Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet.

Re: lyx files created in OSX Mac could be edited in Windows?

[Anders Ekberg]

Yes, I do it all of the time when I write papers with coauthors.

/Anders

On 25 juli 2014 18:59:39 CEST, Toni Díaz Galindo tonidiazgali...@gmail.com 
wrote:
Good Morning

Please, tell me if is possible to edit in Windows a lyx file/document
that
has been created in a Mac (OSX). And vice-versa: Is possible to edit in
a
Mac (OSX) a lyx file that has been created in Windows?

Thank you very much.

Toni Díaz
Mataró (Barcelona)

-- 
Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet.

Re: lyx files created in OSX Mac could be edited in Windows?

[Anders Ekberg]

Yes, I do it all of the time when I write papers with coauthors.

/Anders

On 25 juli 2014 18:59:39 CEST, "Toni Díaz Galindo"  
wrote:
>Good Morning
>
>Please, tell me if is possible to edit in Windows a lyx file/document
>that
>has been created in a Mac (OSX). And vice-versa: Is possible to edit in
>a
>Mac (OSX) a lyx file that has been created in Windows?
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>Toni Díaz
>Mataró (Barcelona)

-- 
Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet.

Re: creating my first lyx doc

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org
Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 00:17
To: Barry Brent barrybr...@iphouse.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, sw...@lyx.org, Benjamin Piwowarski
bpiwo...@lyx.org
Subject: Re: creating my first lyx doc

On 05/07/2014 04:54 PM, Barry Brent wrote:
 As it happens I'm using version 2.1 with Mac OS 9.
 But in the Mac OS 9 version of Version 2.1, the
 menu

 Document ? View (Other Formats)

 is empty.

Did you install MacTeX prior to installing LyX? If so, then you might try
Reconfiguring LyX. I'm not sure where that is on the OSX menus. Here, it
is at Tools Reconfigure, but it might be elsewhere for you. (OSX has its
own way of doing things.)

It’s Tools  Reconfigure

Actually, it is very odd that the menu is completely empty. LyX has
certain
internal formats it can produce without external assistance, such as
XHTML,
so you should at least see that, even if LaTeX is not installed.

Is that menu still empty if you check it when the Tutorial is open?

As soon as you have any document open you should have the menu. If no
document is open the entire Document menu should be greyed out.

I would suggest to check that TeX is installed: open System preferences
and make sure you have an item TeX Distribution. If you open that item you
should see a that TeXLive-2013 is selected.

If you don’t have TeX installed, go to http://tug.org/mactex/ and get it.

If TeX is installed do a Tools  Reconfigure
If it still doesn’t work open the Terminal and do a sudo texhash (you need
administrative permissions).
If it still doesn’t work try to reinstall LyX
If it still doesn’t work I am out of advices…

All the best!
Anders

Re: creating my first lyx doc

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Barry Brent barrybr...@iphouse.com
Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 16:52
To: Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com
Cc: Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org,
sw...@lyx.org, Benjamin Piwowarski bpiwo...@lyx.org
Subject: Re: creating my first lyx doc

Anders, hi.

I checked and there is no file with the name ³TeX Distribution² on my
machine!

I¹ll get one. Not sure where I should put it however.

Barry

Jus so I understand you: You clicked the Apple menu, and then System
Preferences. 
In the System Preferences pane there was no TeX Distribution.

If this is the case, go to:
http://tug.org/mactex/
Download MacTeX.pkg
(direct link http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg )
Note: It is a BIG download (2.3 GB)
Once Downloaded double-click the Installation package and follow the
instructions (use the default options unless you are sure about something
else).
Once installed launch LyX.
Open Tutorial (Help  Tutorial)
If the Document  View other formats is still blank select Tools 
Reconfigure. Once the reconfiguring is done quit and then restart LyX.
Open Tutorial. Now you should be able to select Document  View [PDF
(pdflatex)] and the pdf document should open in Preview. If not we
continune from there.

All the best!
Anders

Re: creating my first lyx doc

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org
Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 00:17
To: Barry Brent barrybr...@iphouse.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, sw...@lyx.org, Benjamin Piwowarski
bpiwo...@lyx.org
Subject: Re: creating my first lyx doc

On 05/07/2014 04:54 PM, Barry Brent wrote:
 As it happens I'm using version 2.1 with Mac OS 9.
 But in the Mac OS 9 version of Version 2.1, the
 menu

 Document ? View (Other Formats)

 is empty.

Did you install MacTeX prior to installing LyX? If so, then you might try
Reconfiguring LyX. I'm not sure where that is on the OSX menus. Here, it
is at Tools Reconfigure, but it might be elsewhere for you. (OSX has its
own way of doing things.)

It’s Tools  Reconfigure

Actually, it is very odd that the menu is completely empty. LyX has
certain
internal formats it can produce without external assistance, such as
XHTML,
so you should at least see that, even if LaTeX is not installed.

Is that menu still empty if you check it when the Tutorial is open?

As soon as you have any document open you should have the menu. If no
document is open the entire Document menu should be greyed out.

I would suggest to check that TeX is installed: open System preferences
and make sure you have an item TeX Distribution. If you open that item you
should see a that TeXLive-2013 is selected.

If you don’t have TeX installed, go to http://tug.org/mactex/ and get it.

If TeX is installed do a Tools  Reconfigure
If it still doesn’t work open the Terminal and do a sudo texhash (you need
administrative permissions).
If it still doesn’t work try to reinstall LyX
If it still doesn’t work I am out of advices…

All the best!
Anders

Re: creating my first lyx doc

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Barry Brent barrybr...@iphouse.com
Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 16:52
To: Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com
Cc: Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org,
sw...@lyx.org, Benjamin Piwowarski bpiwo...@lyx.org
Subject: Re: creating my first lyx doc

Anders, hi.

I checked and there is no file with the name ³TeX Distribution² on my
machine!

I¹ll get one. Not sure where I should put it however.

Barry

Jus so I understand you: You clicked the Apple menu, and then System
Preferences. 
In the System Preferences pane there was no TeX Distribution.

If this is the case, go to:
http://tug.org/mactex/
Download MacTeX.pkg
(direct link http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg )
Note: It is a BIG download (2.3 GB)
Once Downloaded double-click the Installation package and follow the
instructions (use the default options unless you are sure about something
else).
Once installed launch LyX.
Open Tutorial (Help  Tutorial)
If the Document  View other formats is still blank select Tools 
Reconfigure. Once the reconfiguring is done quit and then restart LyX.
Open Tutorial. Now you should be able to select Document  View [PDF
(pdflatex)] and the pdf document should open in Preview. If not we
continune from there.

All the best!
Anders

Re: creating my first lyx doc

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Richard Heck 
Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 00:17
To: Barry Brent 
Cc: , , Benjamin Piwowarski

Subject: Re: creating my first lyx doc

>On 05/07/2014 04:54 PM, Barry Brent wrote:
>> As it happens I'm using version 2.1 with Mac OS 9.
>> But in the Mac OS 9 version of Version 2.1, the
>> menu
>>
>> Document ? View (Other Formats)
>>
>> is empty.
>
>Did you install MacTeX prior to installing LyX? If so, then you might try
>Reconfiguring LyX. I'm not sure where that is on the OSX menus. Here, it
>is at Tools> Reconfigure, but it might be elsewhere for you. (OSX has its
>own way of doing things.)

It’s Tools > Reconfigure

>Actually, it is very odd that the menu is completely empty. LyX has
>certain
>internal formats it can produce without external assistance, such as
>XHTML,
>so you should at least see that, even if LaTeX is not installed.
>
>Is that menu still empty if you check it when the Tutorial is open?

As soon as you have any document open you should have the menu. If no
document is open the entire Document menu should be greyed out.

I would suggest to check that TeX is installed: open System preferences
and make sure you have an item TeX Distribution. If you open that item you
should see a that TeXLive-2013 is selected.

If you don’t have TeX installed, go to http://tug.org/mactex/ and get it.

If TeX is installed do a Tools > Reconfigure
If it still doesn’t work open the Terminal and do a sudo texhash (you need
administrative permissions).
If it still doesn’t work try to reinstall LyX
If it still doesn’t work I am out of advices…

All the best!
Anders

Re: creating my first lyx doc

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Barry Brent <barrybr...@iphouse.com>
Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 16:52
To: Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com>
Cc: Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org>, <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>,
<sw...@lyx.org>, Benjamin Piwowarski <bpiwo...@lyx.org>
Subject: Re: creating my first lyx doc

>Anders, hi.
>
>I checked and there is no file with the name ³TeX Distribution² on my
>machine!
>
>I¹ll get one. Not sure where I should put it however.
>
>Barry

Jus so I understand you: You clicked the Apple menu, and then System
Preferences. 
In the System Preferences pane there was no TeX Distribution.

If this is the case, go to:
http://tug.org/mactex/
Download MacTeX.pkg
(direct link http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg )
Note: It is a BIG download (2.3 GB)
Once Downloaded double-click the Installation package and follow the
instructions (use the default options unless you are sure about something
else).
Once installed launch LyX.
Open Tutorial (Help > Tutorial)
If the Document > View other formats is still blank select Tools >
Reconfigure. Once the reconfiguring is done quit and then restart LyX.
Open Tutorial. Now you should be able to select Document > View [PDF
(pdflatex)] and the pdf document should open in Preview. If not we
continune from there.

All the best!
Anders

Re: launch incomplete

[Anders Ekberg]

Can partly confirm on MacBook Air 10.9.2.
Judging from Console there seems to be some font problems with messages on
the form:
2014-04-25 19:26:32,724 lyx[33795]: CoreText performance note: Client
called CTFontCreateWithName() using name Courier New and got font with
PostScript name CourierNewPSMT. For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

However the main error seems to be LuaTeX:

2014-04-25 19:28:35,338 ReportCrash[33894]: Saved crash report for
luatex[33204] version ??? to
/Users/anek/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/luatex_2014-04-25-192835_AM125.c
rash

BUT after working for four minutes, the program actually loaded and the
users guide seems to compile as it should.

So, many thanks for a great job (as always)!

Anders


-Original Message-
From: David Nuddleman da...@xsharp.com
Date: Friday 25 April 2014 19:04
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: launch incomplete

Download of LyX-2.1.0+qt4-cocoa.dmg after mounting, copying to
applications folder. Launch seems to abort.

OS X 10.9.2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Re: launch incomplete

[Anders Ekberg]

Can partly confirm on MacBook Air 10.9.2.
Judging from Console there seems to be some font problems with messages on
the form:
2014-04-25 19:26:32,724 lyx[33795]: CoreText performance note: Client
called CTFontCreateWithName() using name Courier New and got font with
PostScript name CourierNewPSMT. For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

However the main error seems to be LuaTeX:

2014-04-25 19:28:35,338 ReportCrash[33894]: Saved crash report for
luatex[33204] version ??? to
/Users/anek/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/luatex_2014-04-25-192835_AM125.c
rash

BUT after working for four minutes, the program actually loaded and the
users guide seems to compile as it should.

So, many thanks for a great job (as always)!

Anders


-Original Message-
From: David Nuddleman da...@xsharp.com
Date: Friday 25 April 2014 19:04
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: launch incomplete

Download of LyX-2.1.0+qt4-cocoa.dmg after mounting, copying to
applications folder. Launch seems to abort.

OS X 10.9.2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Re: launch incomplete

[Anders Ekberg]

Can partly confirm on MacBook Air 10.9.2.
Judging from Console there seems to be some font problems with messages on
the form:
2014-04-25 19:26:32,724 lyx[33795]: CoreText performance note: Client
called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Courier New" and got font with
PostScript name "CourierNewPSMT". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

However the main error seems to be LuaTeX:

2014-04-25 19:28:35,338 ReportCrash[33894]: Saved crash report for
luatex[33204] version ??? to
/Users/anek/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/luatex_2014-04-25-192835_AM125.c
rash

BUT after working for four minutes, the program actually loaded and the
users guide seems to compile as it should.

So, many thanks for a great job (as always)!

Anders


-Original Message-
From: David Nuddleman 
Date: Friday 25 April 2014 19:04
To: 
Subject: launch incomplete

>Download of LyX-2.1.0+qt4-cocoa.dmg after mounting, copying to
>applications folder. Launch seems to abort.
>
>OS X 10.9.2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Re: Compatibility between Maverick and Lyx

[Anders Ekberg]

With ²last version² I assume 2.0.7.1?
Works fine for me on two computers (although I have mainly changed to
2.1rc1-now).
Could you elaborate on does not want to open²?

/Anders

From:  Harold Mouras hmou...@gmail.com
Date:  söndag 6 april 2014 13:03
To:  lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject:  Compatibility between Maverick and Lyx

Dear Lyx Users, 
I just moved to OS X 10.9.2 and Lyx does not want to open anymore (last
version of Lyx available as a mac installable package). Have you heard about
some incompatibilities between LyX and Maverick ?
Thank you very much in a advance,
Sincerely yours, 
Harold MOURAS

Re: Compatibility between Maverick and Lyx

[Anders Ekberg]

With ²last version² I assume 2.0.7.1?
Works fine for me on two computers (although I have mainly changed to
2.1rc1-now).
Could you elaborate on does not want to open²?

/Anders

From:  Harold Mouras hmou...@gmail.com
Date:  söndag 6 april 2014 13:03
To:  lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject:  Compatibility between Maverick and Lyx

Dear Lyx Users, 
I just moved to OS X 10.9.2 and Lyx does not want to open anymore (last
version of Lyx available as a mac installable package). Have you heard about
some incompatibilities between LyX and Maverick ?
Thank you very much in a advance,
Sincerely yours, 
Harold MOURAS

Re: Compatibility between Maverick and Lyx

[Anders Ekberg]

With ²last version² I assume 2.0.7.1?
Works fine for me on two computers (although I have mainly changed to
2.1rc1-now).
Could you elaborate on "does not want to open²?

/Anders

From:  Harold Mouras 
Date:  söndag 6 april 2014 13:03
To:  
Subject:  Compatibility between Maverick and Lyx

Dear Lyx Users, 
I just moved to OS X 10.9.2 and Lyx does not want to open anymore (last
version of Lyx available as a mac installable package). Have you heard about
some incompatibilities between LyX and Maverick ?
Thank you very much in a advance,
Sincerely yours, 
Harold MOURAS

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

[Anders Ekberg]

Richard Heck skrev 2014-03-30 00:07:

On 03/29/2014 04:58 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net 
wrote:

Looks like someone wanted to be extra-smart, but this only prevents
people from being able to do what they need to do. Which, to me, is
compulsive, imperious and totally braindead, if you prefer these
adjectives to bullshittish.


Then come up with your own installer, or pay someone to do that for
you. LyX is provided by volunteers, and comes with absolutely no
warranty. Unhappy with what you get (for free), then don't use it. And
please don't insult the developers.


Really. What's with people these days? This is the second such episode 
we've had this week.
Hmm, my kindergarden-aged daughter behaves like that when she hasn't 
slept or eaten properly. Maybe an advice on the wiki to check nutrition 
and sleep status before posting to the list would help ;-)


/Anders

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

[Anders Ekberg]

Richard Heck skrev 2014-03-30 00:07:

On 03/29/2014 04:58 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net 
wrote:

Looks like someone wanted to be extra-smart, but this only prevents
people from being able to do what they need to do. Which, to me, is
compulsive, imperious and totally braindead, if you prefer these
adjectives to bullshittish.


Then come up with your own installer, or pay someone to do that for
you. LyX is provided by volunteers, and comes with absolutely no
warranty. Unhappy with what you get (for free), then don't use it. And
please don't insult the developers.


Really. What's with people these days? This is the second such episode 
we've had this week.
Hmm, my kindergarden-aged daughter behaves like that when she hasn't 
slept or eaten properly. Maybe an advice on the wiki to check nutrition 
and sleep status before posting to the list would help ;-)


/Anders

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

[Anders Ekberg]

Richard Heck skrev 2014-03-30 00:07:

On 03/29/2014 04:58 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Wolfgang Keller  
wrote:

Looks like someone wanted to be extra-smart, but this only prevents
people from being able to do what they need to do. Which, to me, is
compulsive, imperious and totally braindead, if you prefer these
adjectives to "bullshittish".


Then come up with your own installer, or pay someone to do that for
you. LyX is provided by volunteers, and comes with absolutely no
warranty. Unhappy with what you get (for free), then don't use it. And
please don't insult the developers.


Really. What's with people these days? This is the second such episode 
we've had this week.
Hmm, my kindergarden-aged daughter behaves like that when she hasn't 
slept or eaten properly. Maybe an advice on the wiki to check nutrition 
and sleep status before posting to the list would help ;-)


/Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org2014-03-28 14:58 GMT+01:00 Jürgen
Spitzmüller:
 Thanks for the report. This looks like another instance of
 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8643
 
 I've added a note to that ticket.
 
 And fixed the problem for the next release.
 
 Jürgen

Quoting myself ²Š  I suspect it could be a bit difficult to solve² shows
either my complete ignorance of programming (which I hope is not correct) or
your high abilities (which I hope is correct). I am impressed!

All the best!
Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org
Date:  fredag 28 mars 2014 16:16
To:  Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com
Cc:  LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject:  Re: Adding new class into LyX

 2014-03-28 16:11 GMT+01:00 Anders Ekberg:
 Quoting myself ²Š  I suspect it could be a bit difficult to solve² shows
 either my complete ignorance of programming (which I hope is not correct) or
 your high abilities (which I hope is correct). I am impressed!
 
 I wish you were right with your second statement, but this was really trivial
 (and not even a programming task).
 
 Jürgen

Ouch, that means I have to shape up significantly on my programming
knowledge ;-)

Have a nice weekend!
/Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

 2014-03-28 13:58 GMT+01:00 Mark Salmon markhsal...@gmail.com:
 Aplogies for lack of immediate  response - I had to teach. I have had
 frustrations with Lyx  ever since I moved from SciWord several years ago.
 Yesterday I upgraded to the latest beta and now when I try and load up a New
 file I get the error message that there is no begin document command when
 there clearly is in the source file- I wasted half a day trying to work out
 what was wrong- in fact I still don¹t know what was wrong but by removing use
 theme warsaw from the Latex preamble it works for some reason- secondly the
 installation on MacOSx does not drop the relevant files -templates  etc. in
 the right places where the system can find them ‹- so when I ask for a New
 from template I am told the file will not compile as it requires external
 files which are not available.etc. Etc. etc. can you understand how
 frustrating this is when you are under pressure???  I am not a TeX speaker
 but someone who needs to use the wonderful system that  you have helped to
 create in a professional context. HoweverŠ. It is just a real pain that it
 does not work properly on a Mac largely because of install problems I
 believe. I fully understand your effort and all those who along with you have
 helped create Lyx in the form it is today ­ thank you- but that is not the
 point ­ nobody should put any software out to the public which does not work
 as it should­ my time as yours is valuable. It is simply not professional.
 
 1. If you install beta software, be aware that it is beta software. The
 announcement of LyX 2.1beta and LyX 2.1rc clearly state that this release is
 for testing purposes only, users are encouraged to use current 2.0 stable
 release for any serious work.
 
 2. LyX is a community project, not a commercial product. The developers are
 all volunteers and have jobs (I am, as you, a researcher and teacher at the
 university). So if you do not have time to give at least constructive feedback
 (one way of participating), then use commercial software and pay for the
 support.
 
 Regards
 Jürgen

I completely agree with Jurgen when I ask for a New from template I am told
the file will not compile as it requires external files which are not
available.etc² is not really helpful for solving your problem. (A good idea
if you want someone to really help you is to make it as easy as possible for
them ­ if you just want to complain that is another thing ;-)

Anyway, if I try to reproduce on a freshly installed 2.1rc1 on a Mac by
taking the elsarticle template, i get an error that
../examples/biblioExample.bib is not found. (I assume the reason is that the
template resides in ~/Library/Application Support/Lyx-2.1/templates/ but
gets moved to ~/Documents/ when you create a new file.

If your problem is something like that (which, as said, I don¹t know) then
click on the gray box with BibTeX-generated bibliography, remove the current
database and add the biblioExample by browsing and selecting
~/Library/Application Support/Lyx-2.1/examples/biblioExample.bib
And now it works.
I agree that this is not really good, but I suspect it could be a bit
difficult to solve. Also you usually provide your own bibliography when
using the template.

As I said, I have no idea if your problem is similar (judging from the first
comment, I would suspect that you would also require a Reconfigure of LyX
and possible to do a sudo texhash from the Terminal to get things to work).
But as Jürgen pointed out: If you can¹t take time to explain what your
problem is, then buy commercial program/support (especially if they get paid
by the hour in supporting ;-)

Have a nice weekend!
Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org2014-03-28 14:58 GMT+01:00 Jürgen
Spitzmüller:
 Thanks for the report. This looks like another instance of
 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8643
 
 I've added a note to that ticket.
 
 And fixed the problem for the next release.
 
 Jürgen

Quoting myself ²Š  I suspect it could be a bit difficult to solve² shows
either my complete ignorance of programming (which I hope is not correct) or
your high abilities (which I hope is correct). I am impressed!

All the best!
Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org
Date:  fredag 28 mars 2014 16:16
To:  Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com
Cc:  LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject:  Re: Adding new class into LyX

 2014-03-28 16:11 GMT+01:00 Anders Ekberg:
 Quoting myself ²Š  I suspect it could be a bit difficult to solve² shows
 either my complete ignorance of programming (which I hope is not correct) or
 your high abilities (which I hope is correct). I am impressed!
 
 I wish you were right with your second statement, but this was really trivial
 (and not even a programming task).
 
 Jürgen

Ouch, that means I have to shape up significantly on my programming
knowledge ;-)

Have a nice weekend!
/Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

 2014-03-28 13:58 GMT+01:00 Mark Salmon markhsal...@gmail.com:
 Aplogies for lack of immediate  response - I had to teach. I have had
 frustrations with Lyx  ever since I moved from SciWord several years ago.
 Yesterday I upgraded to the latest beta and now when I try and load up a New
 file I get the error message that there is no begin document command when
 there clearly is in the source file- I wasted half a day trying to work out
 what was wrong- in fact I still don¹t know what was wrong but by removing use
 theme warsaw from the Latex preamble it works for some reason- secondly the
 installation on MacOSx does not drop the relevant files -templates  etc. in
 the right places where the system can find them ‹- so when I ask for a New
 from template I am told the file will not compile as it requires external
 files which are not available.etc. Etc. etc. can you understand how
 frustrating this is when you are under pressure???  I am not a TeX speaker
 but someone who needs to use the wonderful system that  you have helped to
 create in a professional context. HoweverŠ. It is just a real pain that it
 does not work properly on a Mac largely because of install problems I
 believe. I fully understand your effort and all those who along with you have
 helped create Lyx in the form it is today ­ thank you- but that is not the
 point ­ nobody should put any software out to the public which does not work
 as it should­ my time as yours is valuable. It is simply not professional.
 
 1. If you install beta software, be aware that it is beta software. The
 announcement of LyX 2.1beta and LyX 2.1rc clearly state that this release is
 for testing purposes only, users are encouraged to use current 2.0 stable
 release for any serious work.
 
 2. LyX is a community project, not a commercial product. The developers are
 all volunteers and have jobs (I am, as you, a researcher and teacher at the
 university). So if you do not have time to give at least constructive feedback
 (one way of participating), then use commercial software and pay for the
 support.
 
 Regards
 Jürgen

I completely agree with Jurgen when I ask for a New from template I am told
the file will not compile as it requires external files which are not
available.etc² is not really helpful for solving your problem. (A good idea
if you want someone to really help you is to make it as easy as possible for
them ­ if you just want to complain that is another thing ;-)

Anyway, if I try to reproduce on a freshly installed 2.1rc1 on a Mac by
taking the elsarticle template, i get an error that
../examples/biblioExample.bib is not found. (I assume the reason is that the
template resides in ~/Library/Application Support/Lyx-2.1/templates/ but
gets moved to ~/Documents/ when you create a new file.

If your problem is something like that (which, as said, I don¹t know) then
click on the gray box with BibTeX-generated bibliography, remove the current
database and add the biblioExample by browsing and selecting
~/Library/Application Support/Lyx-2.1/examples/biblioExample.bib
And now it works.
I agree that this is not really good, but I suspect it could be a bit
difficult to solve. Also you usually provide your own bibliography when
using the template.

As I said, I have no idea if your problem is similar (judging from the first
comment, I would suspect that you would also require a Reconfigure of LyX
and possible to do a sudo texhash from the Terminal to get things to work).
But as Jürgen pointed out: If you can¹t take time to explain what your
problem is, then buy commercial program/support (especially if they get paid
by the hour in supporting ;-)

Have a nice weekend!
Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Jürgen Spitzmüller 2014-03-28 14:58 GMT+01:00 Jürgen
Spitzmüller:
>> Thanks for the report. This looks like another instance of
>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8643
>> 
>> I've added a note to that ticket.
> 
> And fixed the problem for the next release.
> 
> Jürgen

Quoting myself ²Š  I suspect it could be a bit difficult to solve² shows
either my complete ignorance of programming (which I hope is not correct) or
your high abilities (which I hope is correct). I am impressed!

All the best!
Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

From:  Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org>
Date:  fredag 28 mars 2014 16:16
To:  Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com>
Cc:  LyX Users List <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Subject:  Re: Adding new class into LyX

> 2014-03-28 16:11 GMT+01:00 Anders Ekberg:
>> Quoting myself ²Š  I suspect it could be a bit difficult to solve² shows
>> either my complete ignorance of programming (which I hope is not correct) or
>> your high abilities (which I hope is correct). I am impressed!
> 
> I wish you were right with your second statement, but this was really trivial
> (and not even a "programming" task).
> 
> Jürgen

Ouch, that means I have to shape up significantly on my programming
knowledge ;-)

Have a nice weekend!
/Anders

Re: Adding new class into LyX

[Anders Ekberg]

> 2014-03-28 13:58 GMT+01:00 Mark Salmon :
>> Aplogies for lack of immediate  response - I had to teach. I have had
>> frustrations with Lyx  ever since I moved from SciWord several years ago.
>> Yesterday I upgraded to the latest beta and now when I try and load up a New
>> file I get the error message that there is no begin document command when
>> there clearly is in the source file- I wasted half a day trying to work out
>> what was wrong- in fact I still don¹t know what was wrong but by removing use
>> theme warsaw from the Latex preamble it works for some reason- secondly the
>> installation on MacOSx does not drop the relevant files -templates  etc. in
>> the right places where the system can find them ‹- so when I ask for a New
>> from template I am told the file will not compile as it requires external
>> files which are not available.etc. Etc. etc. can you understand how
>> frustrating this is when you are under pressure???  I am not a TeX speaker
>> but someone who needs to use the wonderful system that  you have helped to
>> create in a professional context. HoweverŠ. It is just a real pain that it
>> does not work properly on a Mac largely because of install problems I
>> believe. I fully understand your effort and all those who along with you have
>> helped create Lyx in the form it is today ­ thank you- but that is not the
>> point ­ nobody should put any software out to the public which does not work
>> as it should­ my time as yours is valuable. It is simply not professional.
> 
> 1. If you install beta software, be aware that it is beta software. The
> announcement of LyX 2.1beta and LyX 2.1rc clearly state that "this release is
> for testing purposes only, users are encouraged to use current 2.0 stable
> release for any serious work."
> 
> 2. LyX is a community project, not a commercial product. The developers are
> all volunteers and have jobs (I am, as you, a researcher and teacher at the
> university). So if you do not have time to give at least constructive feedback
> (one way of "participating"), then use commercial software and pay for the
> support.
> 
> Regards
> Jürgen

I completely agree with Jurgen "when I ask for a New from template I am told
the file will not compile as it requires external files which are not
available.etc² is not really helpful for solving your problem. (A good idea
if you want someone to really help you is to make it as easy as possible for
them ­ if you just want to complain that is another thing ;-)

Anyway, if I try to reproduce on a freshly installed 2.1rc1 on a Mac by
taking the elsarticle template, i get an error that
../examples/biblioExample.bib is not found. (I assume the reason is that the
template resides in ~/Library/Application Support/Lyx-2.1/templates/ but
gets moved to ~/Documents/ when you create a new file.

If your problem is something like that (which, as said, I don¹t know) then
click on the gray box with BibTeX-generated bibliography, remove the current
database and add the biblioExample by browsing and selecting
~/Library/Application Support/Lyx-2.1/examples/biblioExample.bib
And now it works.
I agree that this is not really good, but I suspect it could be a bit
difficult to solve. Also you usually provide your own bibliography when
using the template.

As I said, I have no idea if your problem is similar (judging from the first
comment, I would suspect that you would also require a Reconfigure of LyX
and possible to do a sudo texhash from the Terminal to get things to work).
But as Jürgen pointed out: If you can¹t take time to explain what your
problem is, then buy commercial program/support (especially if they get paid
by the hour in supporting ;-)

Have a nice weekend!
Anders

Re: Request for Feature on Mac

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Dr Eberhard Lisse nos...@lisse.na
Date: fredag 31 januari 2014 11:00
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Request for Feature on Mac

Where would I request the following feature:

Many Mac programs offer you the choice to Save, Don't Save/Discard,
Cancel in the way that is shown in the enclosed alpha.jpg, ie if you
use the Return/Enter key it'll save, if you use the Space key it'll
Not Save (Quit) and you have to use the mouse to click Cancel.

In Lyx I must use the mouse if I want to discard, because it doesn't
recognize the Space and it defaults to Save.

Since I work with the keyboard mostly it is a nuisance, hence this
request.

el

Hmm, Escape gives me Cancel; so you lost one, but gained one ;-)
More seriously: could this be keyboard/language dependent (Swedish
keyboard here).

/Anders

Re: Request for Feature on Mac

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Dr Eberhard Lisse nos...@lisse.na
Date: fredag 31 januari 2014 11:00
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Request for Feature on Mac

Where would I request the following feature:

Many Mac programs offer you the choice to Save, Don't Save/Discard,
Cancel in the way that is shown in the enclosed alpha.jpg, ie if you
use the Return/Enter key it'll save, if you use the Space key it'll
Not Save (Quit) and you have to use the mouse to click Cancel.

In Lyx I must use the mouse if I want to discard, because it doesn't
recognize the Space and it defaults to Save.

Since I work with the keyboard mostly it is a nuisance, hence this
request.

el

Hmm, Escape gives me Cancel; so you lost one, but gained one ;-)
More seriously: could this be keyboard/language dependent (Swedish
keyboard here).

/Anders

Re: Request for Feature on Mac

[Anders Ekberg]

-Original Message-
From: Dr Eberhard Lisse 
Date: fredag 31 januari 2014 11:00
To: 
Subject: Request for Feature on Mac

>Where would I request the following feature:
>
>Many Mac programs offer you the choice to Save, Don't Save/Discard,
>Cancel in the way that is shown in the enclosed alpha.jpg, ie if you
>use the Return/Enter key it'll save, if you use the Space key it'll
>Not Save (Quit) and you have to use the mouse to click Cancel.
>
>In Lyx I must use the mouse if I want to discard, because it doesn't
>recognize the Space and it defaults to Save.
>
>Since I work with the keyboard mostly it is a nuisance, hence this
>request.
>
>el

Hmm, Escape gives me Cancel; so you lost one, but gained one ;-)
More seriously: could this be keyboard/language dependent (Swedish
keyboard here).

/Anders

Re: menu bar lost in OS X

[Anders Ekberg]

Here too w OS X 10.9.1

/Anders


-Original Message-
From: David Nuddleman da...@xsharp.com
Date: tisdag 28 januari 2014 20:51
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: menu bar lost in OS X

Major disappointment LyX 2.0.7,  on OS X 10.7.5 Mac Pro 1,1: Full screen
causes application menu bar options list to go blank. Return from full
screen does not restore list.

1. Normal options present until fullscreen invoked.

2. LyX 2.0.6 performs normally.

Posted ticket tracker #8942 on January 25. Anyone else notice this?

--

Re: menu bar lost in OS X

[Anders Ekberg]

Here too w OS X 10.9.1

/Anders


-Original Message-
From: David Nuddleman da...@xsharp.com
Date: tisdag 28 januari 2014 20:51
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: menu bar lost in OS X

Major disappointment LyX 2.0.7,  on OS X 10.7.5 Mac Pro 1,1: Full screen
causes application menu bar options list to go blank. Return from full
screen does not restore list.

1. Normal options present until fullscreen invoked.

2. LyX 2.0.6 performs normally.

Posted ticket tracker #8942 on January 25. Anyone else notice this?

--

Re: menu bar lost in OS X

[Anders Ekberg]

Here too w OS X 10.9.1

/Anders


-Original Message-
From: David Nuddleman 
Date: tisdag 28 januari 2014 20:51
To: 
Subject: menu bar lost in OS X

>Major disappointment LyX 2.0.7,  on OS X 10.7.5 Mac Pro 1,1: Full screen
>causes application menu bar options list to go blank. Return from full
>screen does not restore list.
>
>1. Normal options present until fullscreen invoked.
>
>2. LyX 2.0.6 performs normally.
>
>Posted ticket tracker #8942 on January 25. Anyone else notice this?
>
>--
>&&

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.7 Released

[Anders Ekberg]

On 2014-01-25 19:07, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote:

On 01/24/2014 06:00 PM, Raja Almukahhal wrote:
 I love LyX. I have been using it extensively for over 10 years. The
only big issue that I have with it is the difficulties and complexities
of numbering equations. I wish there was a command for simply numbering
any displayed equations, with simple numbers 1, 2, 3 for each chapter.

At least here on Linux, it's not that hard to put numbers on equations:
Alt-m, n numbers (or unnumbers) the whole formula (every line if that's
relevant), and Alt-m, N numbers (or unnumbers) an individual line.

Do you mean you'd like to be able to set a default so this happens
automatically?

rh

Neat!
Raja: Ctrl-m n (or N) if you are on a Mac. However you cannot reference
the equation until you have assigned a label (but I had no problem to
assign a label to an already numbered equation). Note that due to bug 6209
all equations are assigned number 1 in preview mode (look good in output
or without preview though).

/Anders

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.7 Released

[Anders Ekberg]

On 2014-01-25 19:07, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote:

On 01/24/2014 06:00 PM, Raja Almukahhal wrote:
 I love LyX. I have been using it extensively for over 10 years. The
only big issue that I have with it is the difficulties and complexities
of numbering equations. I wish there was a command for simply numbering
any displayed equations, with simple numbers 1, 2, 3 for each chapter.

At least here on Linux, it's not that hard to put numbers on equations:
Alt-m, n numbers (or unnumbers) the whole formula (every line if that's
relevant), and Alt-m, N numbers (or unnumbers) an individual line.

Do you mean you'd like to be able to set a default so this happens
automatically?

rh

Neat!
Raja: Ctrl-m n (or N) if you are on a Mac. However you cannot reference
the equation until you have assigned a label (but I had no problem to
assign a label to an already numbered equation). Note that due to bug 6209
all equations are assigned number 1 in preview mode (look good in output
or without preview though).

/Anders

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.7 Released

[Anders Ekberg]

On 2014-01-25 19:07, "Richard Heck"  wrote:

>On 01/24/2014 06:00 PM, Raja Almukahhal wrote:
>> I love LyX. I have been using it extensively for over 10 years. The
>>only big issue that I have with it is the difficulties and complexities
>>of numbering equations. I wish there was a command for simply numbering
>>any displayed equations, with simple numbers 1, 2, 3 for each chapter.
>
>At least here on Linux, it's not that hard to put numbers on equations:
>Alt-m, n numbers (or unnumbers) the whole formula (every line if that's
>relevant), and Alt-m, N numbers (or unnumbers) an individual line.
>
>Do you mean you'd like to be able to set a default so this happens
>automatically?
>
>rh

Neat!
Raja: Ctrl-m n (or N) if you are on a Mac. However you cannot reference
the equation until you have assigned a label (but I had no problem to
assign a label to an already numbered equation). Note that due to bug 6209
all equations are assigned number 1 in preview mode (look good in output
or without preview though).

/Anders

Re: Are there problems with lyx-ftp-server?

[Anders Ekberg]

Try paste the link in Firefox address field and download with Firefox.
This works fine for me. (Could probably work also with other web browsers,
but I haven¹t tried that).

All the best!
Anders

Hello,

to test lyx 2.1.0 beta2 i tried several times download the program from

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.1/lyx-2.1.0beta2

Everytime there comes a Login screen. I chose login as guest. When i
tried to download the mac-Version the connection break down.

Perhaps I´m doing something wrong? But I don¹t know.

Any ideas?

uwe