Re: Extremely slow to save file (2.3.4, Windows)

[Jim Rockford]

Thank you for the information that this was (is) a recognized problem.
However, after the update to 2.3.4.2, I am still experiencing the exact
same slow file saving problem on Windows 10.  I rebooted just to be sure,
and I did check that I had the newest version installed.  Anyone else
notice that this problem persists?

Jim

On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 8:44 PM Scott Kostyshak  wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 08:30:35PM -0500, Jim Rockford wrote:
> > Since v.2.3.4 (Windows 10) Lyx is extremely slow to save Lyx files.  I'll
> > click the save button and have to wait 3-5 seconds for the file saving
> > process to complete, during which time the cursor is basically frozen
> (i.e.
> > I cannot click back into the document and edit).
> >
> > At first I thought my computer may have needed a reboot, but that didn't
> > help.  In v.2.3.3 file saving was practically instantaneous.  As far as I
> > can tell this hangup is specifically a v.2.3.4 issue.
>
> I Jim, I think you ran into this issue:
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11728. There will be a new LyX release
> soon that fixes it.
>
> Best,
>
> Scott
>
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Extremely slow to save file (2.3.4, Windows)

[Jim Rockford]

Since v.2.3.4 (Windows 10) Lyx is extremely slow to save Lyx files.  I'll
click the save button and have to wait 3-5 seconds for the file saving
process to complete, during which time the cursor is basically frozen (i.e.
I cannot click back into the document and edit).

At first I thought my computer may have needed a reboot, but that didn't
help.  In v.2.3.3 file saving was practically instantaneous.  As far as I
can tell this hangup is specifically a v.2.3.4 issue.

Jim
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WYSIWYG aspects of multiple integral limits

[Jim Rockford]

What I wish to do is center a lower multiple integral limit below the
integrals instead of beside the integrals (the default).  I'm aware from
the documentation that the following works for double integrals:
 \iint\limits _S

This successfully produces the pdf output I want, but within the Lyx
document I still see \limits in red font.  I don't want to see the remnants
of raw latex within the Lyx window.  What are the keystrokes required to
WYSIWIG this so that I see the appropriate double integral within the Lyx
window?

In case it matters, I'm doing this within an equation array environment.

Much thanks,
JR
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Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

[Jim Rockford]

I remember from a long while back - years ago - that the Lyx installer on
Windows would ask you to point to the directory of your Latex
distribution.  I think a good accommodation would be a message indicating
that a Latex distribution has been identified (if one has), with a prompt
asking users whether they'd like to use the detected distribution or if
they'd like to point the installer to another.



On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Julio Rojas  wrote:

> What I wanted to say is that the installer automatically gives the option
> to use/download/install Texlive. Is it possible?
>
>
>

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

[Jim Rockford]

People are still taunting about this like schoolyard infants?  Well, here's
a few reasons for you that apply to my case, Johnny boy:

(1)  I work in a scientific field and a specific laboratory that uses data
analysis software for which there are only Windows versions.  I used Linux
exclusively prior to joining this lab.  I'd rather not quit this job
because of a Linux snobbery affliction.
(2)  Gaming.  I have a Windows machine at home because I like to play
modern video games.  Good luck trying to get them to run on WINE, which is
a cheat anyway if you're a Linux purist.
(3)  There's nothing wrong with having a dual boot Windows/Linux system for
the sake of convenience.  I'm not going to waste time booting into Linux
just to write scientific documents if I'm already in Windows.

Jim


On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:03 PM, John White 
wrote:

> Why are people still using Windows?  My firm gets along without Gates just
> fine.
>
> John White
>
>
>
>

The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

[Jim Rockford]

My understanding from the Lyx developers forum is that the MiKTeX bugs that
were the main cause of the delayed release for Windows users has been
fixed.  The issue now seems to be how to communicate possible MiKTeeX
issues to users during the 2.3.0 installation process.

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?  My opinion is that you're making far too big a deal of this.  I
don't think putting this minor bit of extra responsibility in the hands of
the users will go as badly as some have suggested.  If users ignore this
warning and find Lyx to be disfunctional as a result, well...too bad.
You'd have done your due diligence with a simple warning message.  If you
have another prompt asking users whether they'd like to update their MiKTeX
distribution, I think that'd be fine too.

I realize that there are unofficial binaries available.  Nonetheless,
2.30rc2 is working well enough for me on Windows 10. I'll await the
official release.

Jim

2.3.0 Windows binaries

[Jim Rockford]

Will the Windows binaries for the official 2.3.0 release be available soon?

Using esint package within Lyx environment

[Jim Rockford]

Can somebody explain how to implement the esint package style integral
symbols within Lyx?  In particular, I'd like to be able to use keyboard
shortcuts to create these nicer looking integration symbols with nicer
looking bounds of integration.

I have the Math Options set to automatically load the esint package.
However, I cannot find any documentation about how to implement something
like esint within Lyx.  For example, how does one write a double integral
with a "D" (i.e. a generic 2D domain) centered beneath both integral
signs?  Is there any non-opaque documentation anywhere that spells it out?

Much thanks,
Jim

Open Office export failure

[Jim Rockford]

I'm getting some strange behavior in exporting a Lyx file to the Open
Office format (Windows 7, Lyx version 2.1.1)

I get a message indicating that the export was successful, but no file
emerges, at least not in the present working directory.  It's as if I did
nothing.

The seemingly most relevant messages from the message pane are below.  I
don't know what the --- error --- Illegal storage address  is all about,
nor why if there is an error the reason that Lyx reports the export as
successful.

23:37:26.151: t4ht.c (2012-07-25-19:28 MiKTeX)

23:37:26.151: t4ht fileExample.tex

23:37:26.152: -cooxtpipes

23:37:26.152: -coo

23:37:26.152: -ewin32/tex4ht.env

23:37:26.153: (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/tex4ht/base/win32/tex4ht.env)

23:37:26.153: Entering fileExample.lg

23:37:26.154: --- error --- Illegal storage address

23:37:26.154: Successful export to format: OpenDocument

Open Office export failure

[Jim Rockford]

I'm getting some strange behavior in exporting a Lyx file to the Open
Office format (Windows 7, Lyx version 2.1.1)

I get a message indicating that the export was successful, but no file
emerges, at least not in the present working directory.  It's as if I did
nothing.

The seemingly most relevant messages from the message pane are below.  I
don't know what the --- error --- Illegal storage address  is all about,
nor why if there is an error the reason that Lyx reports the export as
successful.

23:37:26.151: t4ht.c (2012-07-25-19:28 MiKTeX)

23:37:26.151: t4ht fileExample.tex

23:37:26.152: -cooxtpipes

23:37:26.152: -coo

23:37:26.152: -ewin32/tex4ht.env

23:37:26.153: (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/tex4ht/base/win32/tex4ht.env)

23:37:26.153: Entering fileExample.lg

23:37:26.154: --- error --- Illegal storage address

23:37:26.154: Successful export to format: OpenDocument

Open Office export failure

[Jim Rockford]

I'm getting some strange behavior in exporting a Lyx file to the Open
Office format (Windows 7, Lyx version 2.1.1)

I get a message indicating that the export was successful, but no file
emerges, at least not in the present working directory.  It's as if I did
nothing.

The seemingly most relevant messages from the message pane are below.  I
don't know what the "--- error --- Illegal storage address"  is all about,
nor why if there is an error the reason that Lyx reports the export as
successful.

23:37:26.151: t4ht.c (2012-07-25-19:28 MiKTeX)

23:37:26.151: t4ht fileExample.tex

23:37:26.152: -cooxtpipes

23:37:26.152: -coo

23:37:26.152: -ewin32/tex4ht.env

23:37:26.153: (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/tex4ht/base/win32/tex4ht.env)

23:37:26.153: Entering fileExample.lg

23:37:26.154: --- error --- Illegal storage address

23:37:26.154: Successful export to format: OpenDocument

Feature request

[Jim Rockford]

MathType has the nice feature that when you click to insert a matrix, one
has the choice of immediately inserting a typical low-dimensional matrix
(i.e. 2x2, 3x3, 3x1, etc), in addition to the option of setting the row and
column numbers manually.  As far as I can tell, in Lyx you must always
specify the dimension explicitly.  I find this a bit of a nuisance and thus
make the feature request.

Thanks to the Lyx team for their great work and their consideration of user
feature requests.

Jim

Feature request

[Jim Rockford]

MathType has the nice feature that when you click to insert a matrix, one
has the choice of immediately inserting a typical low-dimensional matrix
(i.e. 2x2, 3x3, 3x1, etc), in addition to the option of setting the row and
column numbers manually.  As far as I can tell, in Lyx you must always
specify the dimension explicitly.  I find this a bit of a nuisance and thus
make the feature request.

Thanks to the Lyx team for their great work and their consideration of user
feature requests.

Jim

Feature request

[Jim Rockford]

MathType has the nice feature that when you click to insert a matrix, one
has the choice of immediately inserting a typical low-dimensional matrix
(i.e. 2x2, 3x3, 3x1, etc), in addition to the option of setting the row and
column numbers manually.  As far as I can tell, in Lyx you must always
specify the dimension explicitly.  I find this a bit of a nuisance and thus
make the feature request.

Thanks to the Lyx team for their great work and their consideration of user
feature requests.

Jim

Re: lyx 3.0.1 (.exe for windows)

[Jim Rockford]

In 10 years time. Perhaps 15, tops. As for 2.0.1, our Windows Installer
maintainer is currently off-line so there will be no binaries (very) soon.
You may want to try Uwe's installer [1], which is currently unofficial but
potentially the official installer in the future.
---

I hope this doesn't indicate disinterest in the lyx Windows user base by the
lyx development team.  Some of us were basically forced to migrate to
Windows for work reasons and ease of collaboration.  In the past, when a new
release was issued the Windoze binaries were up within a day or two

Re: lyx 3.0.1 (.exe for windows)

[Jim Rockford]

In 10 years time. Perhaps 15, tops. As for 2.0.1, our Windows Installer
maintainer is currently off-line so there will be no binaries (very) soon.
You may want to try Uwe's installer [1], which is currently unofficial but
potentially the official installer in the future.
---

I hope this doesn't indicate disinterest in the lyx Windows user base by the
lyx development team.  Some of us were basically forced to migrate to
Windows for work reasons and ease of collaboration.  In the past, when a new
release was issued the Windoze binaries were up within a day or two

Re: lyx 3.0.1 (.exe for windows)

[Jim Rockford]

"In 10 years time. Perhaps 15, tops. As for 2.0.1, our Windows Installer
maintainer is currently off-line so there will be no binaries (very) soon.
You may want to try Uwe's installer [1], which is currently unofficial but
potentially the official installer in the future."
---

I hope this doesn't indicate disinterest in the lyx Windows user base by the
lyx development team.  Some of us were basically forced to migrate to
Windows for work reasons and ease of collaboration.  In the past, when a new
release was issued the Windoze binaries were up within a day or two

Hello Windows Branch

[Jim Rockford]

Any word on when the Windows binaries might be available for 2.0.1?  I've
been eagerly awaiting the first bug fix before installing the 2.x family.
Thanks for all your great work.

Jim

Hello Windows Branch

[Jim Rockford]

Any word on when the Windows binaries might be available for 2.0.1?  I've
been eagerly awaiting the first bug fix before installing the 2.x family.
Thanks for all your great work.

Jim

Hello Windows Branch

[Jim Rockford]

Any word on when the Windows binaries might be available for 2.0.1?  I've
been eagerly awaiting the first bug fix before installing the 2.x family.
Thanks for all your great work.

Jim

Problem with standard installer for version 1.6.8-1 (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

I just tried installing the 1.6.8 update using the standard installer bundle
LyX-1.6.8-1-Installer-Bundle on Windows 7 (64 bit).  Although it appeared
to install without any problems, upon trying to start Lyx I get the
following popup message:

Lyx: no system directory
 Unable to determine the system directory having searched
   C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX16/bin/../Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the Lyx system directory containing the file
'chkconfig.Itx'.


The problem appears to be the  'chkconfig.Itx' file.  I don't see it
anywhere within the Lyx installation directory tree.

Jim

Problem with standard installer for version 1.6.8-1 (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

I just tried installing the 1.6.8 update using the standard installer bundle
LyX-1.6.8-1-Installer-Bundle on Windows 7 (64 bit).  Although it appeared
to install without any problems, upon trying to start Lyx I get the
following popup message:

Lyx: no system directory
 Unable to determine the system directory having searched
   C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX16/bin/../Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the Lyx system directory containing the file
'chkconfig.Itx'.


The problem appears to be the  'chkconfig.Itx' file.  I don't see it
anywhere within the Lyx installation directory tree.

Jim

Problem with standard installer for version 1.6.8-1 (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

I just tried installing the 1.6.8 update using the standard installer bundle
"LyX-1.6.8-1-Installer-Bundle" on Windows 7 (64 bit).  Although it appeared
to install without any problems, upon trying to start Lyx I get the
following popup message:

"Lyx: no system directory
 Unable to determine the system directory having searched
   C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX16/bin/../Resources/
Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment variable
LYX_DIR_16x to the Lyx system directory containing the file
'chkconfig.Itx'."


The problem appears to be the  'chkconfig.Itx' file.  I don't see it
anywhere within the Lyx installation directory tree.

Jim

How to show the citations without the bibliography in lyx output?

[Jim Rockford]

What I'd like to do is generate a PDF document from my lyx source that shows
all the reference citations in the main body, but does not produce the
detailed list of references at the end, where the \bibliography command is
placed.  Is there a quick and easy way to do this in Lyx?  Simply commenting
out the \bibliography doesn't work because it messes up the citations, and
other tricks I have seen (i.e.
http://groups.google.com/group/latexusersgroup/browse_thread/thread/330d7dda163dcd91)
cannot be implemented in an obvious way so far as I can tell.

Thanks,
Jim

How to show the citations without the bibliography in lyx output?

[Jim Rockford]

What I'd like to do is generate a PDF document from my lyx source that shows
all the reference citations in the main body, but does not produce the
detailed list of references at the end, where the \bibliography command is
placed.  Is there a quick and easy way to do this in Lyx?  Simply commenting
out the \bibliography doesn't work because it messes up the citations, and
other tricks I have seen (i.e.
http://groups.google.com/group/latexusersgroup/browse_thread/thread/330d7dda163dcd91)
cannot be implemented in an obvious way so far as I can tell.

Thanks,
Jim

How to show the citations without the bibliography in lyx output?

[Jim Rockford]

What I'd like to do is generate a PDF document from my lyx source that shows
all the reference citations in the main body, but does not produce the
detailed list of references at the end, where the \bibliography command is
placed.  Is there a quick and easy way to do this in Lyx?  Simply commenting
out the \bibliography doesn't work because it messes up the citations, and
other tricks I have seen (i.e.
http://groups.google.com/group/latexusersgroup/browse_thread/thread/330d7dda163dcd91)
cannot be implemented in an obvious way so far as I can tell.

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010)

[Jim Rockford]

This issue has come up in older threads, and I was curious to know where it
stands today.  As a long-time lyx user, I am in the unfortunate position of
being in a Windoze-only (XP) environment without administrator privileges.
Can anyone offer some insight as to whether I could expect a smooth-running
lyx experience with Lyx and MikTex installed to a directory of choice for
just a plain old ordinary Windoze user?  Does Aspell still require
installation to the C:\  directory?

If I can overcome this hurdle, the next one will involve the seamless
conversion of lyx/latex to MS Word and back, which I understand is a far
more challenging issue without commercial software.

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010)

[Jim Rockford]

This issue has come up in older threads, and I was curious to know where it
stands today.  As a long-time lyx user, I am in the unfortunate position of
being in a Windoze-only (XP) environment without administrator privileges.
Can anyone offer some insight as to whether I could expect a smooth-running
lyx experience with Lyx and MikTex installed to a directory of choice for
just a plain old ordinary Windoze user?  Does Aspell still require
installation to the C:\  directory?

If I can overcome this hurdle, the next one will involve the seamless
conversion of lyx/latex to MS Word and back, which I understand is a far
more challenging issue without commercial software.

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010)

[Jim Rockford]

This issue has come up in older threads, and I was curious to know where it
stands today.  As a long-time lyx user, I am in the unfortunate position of
being in a Windoze-only (XP) environment without administrator privileges.
Can anyone offer some insight as to whether I could expect a smooth-running
lyx experience with Lyx and MikTex installed to a directory of choice for
just a plain old ordinary Windoze user?  Does Aspell still require
installation to the C:\  directory?

If I can overcome this hurdle, the next one will involve the seamless
conversion of lyx/latex to MS Word and back, which I understand is a far
more challenging issue without commercial software.

Thanks,
Jim

Suppressing page numbers in lyx 1.6.5

[Jim Rockford]

I'm running Lyx on Windoze 7 (64bit).  I was under the impression that the
following document style setting will suppress page numbers:

Document -- Settings -- Page Layout -- Headings Style -- empty

However, in the single-page document (article style) that I'm currently
working on, I still get the page number 1 at the bottom of the page when I
generate the PDF.  Am I doing something wrong?  Are there alternative
methods for suppressing page numbers?

Thanks,
Jim

Suppressing page numbers in lyx 1.6.5

[Jim Rockford]

I'm running Lyx on Windoze 7 (64bit).  I was under the impression that the
following document style setting will suppress page numbers:

Document -- Settings -- Page Layout -- Headings Style -- empty

However, in the single-page document (article style) that I'm currently
working on, I still get the page number 1 at the bottom of the page when I
generate the PDF.  Am I doing something wrong?  Are there alternative
methods for suppressing page numbers?

Thanks,
Jim

Suppressing page numbers in lyx 1.6.5

[Jim Rockford]

I'm running Lyx on Windoze 7 (64bit).  I was under the impression that the
following document style setting will suppress page numbers:

Document --> Settings --> Page Layout --> Headings Style --> empty

However, in the single-page document (article style) that I'm currently
working on, I still get the page number 1 at the bottom of the page when I
generate the PDF.  Am I doing something wrong?  Are there alternative
methods for suppressing page numbers?

Thanks,
Jim

Text overlapping table float wrap

[Jim Rockford]

Hello.  I have a problem with table wraps that seems to have occurred for
other people as well.  On occasion, somewhat unpredictably, the document
text will not respect the presence of a table float (wrap mode) and will
overlap the table.  My understanding from reading this forum and others is
that this is primarily a problem with latex, not necessarily Lyx.  There
were some posts on the Lyx forum, prior to the release of the 1.6x family,
suggesting that this problem might be fixed.  As of version 1.6.2 I am still
having the problem.

I'm just wondering if this is of no surprise to the Lyx community.  Should I
expect to have these problems with table and figure wraps still, as of
version 1.6.2?

Thanks,
Jim

Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or symbols)

[Jim Rockford]

Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would like to
do this quickly in Lyx, so...

What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like

a  S  b
c  T  d

and so forth.  I just need the analog of the usual 3 column equation array
environment so that the various inequality symbols match up properly.  In
the above example I want 5 columns instead of the usual 3.  I tried to use
the AMS align environment, but had trouble adding the columns (the results
came out with way too much spacing).

How do I do this in Lyx?

Thanks,
Jim

Text overlapping table float wrap

[Jim Rockford]

Hello.  I have a problem with table wraps that seems to have occurred for
other people as well.  On occasion, somewhat unpredictably, the document
text will not respect the presence of a table float (wrap mode) and will
overlap the table.  My understanding from reading this forum and others is
that this is primarily a problem with latex, not necessarily Lyx.  There
were some posts on the Lyx forum, prior to the release of the 1.6x family,
suggesting that this problem might be fixed.  As of version 1.6.2 I am still
having the problem.

I'm just wondering if this is of no surprise to the Lyx community.  Should I
expect to have these problems with table and figure wraps still, as of
version 1.6.2?

Thanks,
Jim

Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or symbols)

[Jim Rockford]

Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would like to
do this quickly in Lyx, so...

What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like

a  S  b
c  T  d

and so forth.  I just need the analog of the usual 3 column equation array
environment so that the various inequality symbols match up properly.  In
the above example I want 5 columns instead of the usual 3.  I tried to use
the AMS align environment, but had trouble adding the columns (the results
came out with way too much spacing).

How do I do this in Lyx?

Thanks,
Jim

Text overlapping table float wrap

[Jim Rockford]

Hello.  I have a problem with table wraps that seems to have occurred for
other people as well.  On occasion, somewhat unpredictably, the document
text will not respect the presence of a table float (wrap mode) and will
overlap the table.  My understanding from reading this forum and others is
that this is primarily a problem with latex, not necessarily Lyx.  There
were some posts on the Lyx forum, prior to the release of the 1.6x family,
suggesting that this problem might be fixed.  As of version 1.6.2 I am still
having the problem.

I'm just wondering if this is of no surprise to the Lyx community.  Should I
expect to have these problems with table and figure wraps still, as of
version 1.6.2?

Thanks,
Jim

Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or <> symbols)

[Jim Rockford]

Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would like to
do this quickly in Lyx, so...

What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like

a < S < b
c < T < d

and so forth.  I just need the analog of the usual "3 column" equation array
environment so that the various inequality symbols match up properly.  In
the above example I want 5 columns instead of the usual 3.  I tried to use
the AMS align environment, but had trouble adding the columns (the results
came out with way too much spacing).

How do I do this in Lyx?

Thanks,
Jim

Change tracker continues to have problems

[Jim Rockford]

I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited.  With
the change tracker, when I elect to
Show Changes In Output I get the following error:

Package soul Error:  Reconstruction failed.

I do have the soul package installed in MikTex.

Is it possible to fix this problem?

Jim

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

[Jim Rockford]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Jim Rockford schrieb:

  I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited.  With
  the change tracker, when I elect to
  Show Changes In Output I get the following error:
 
  Package soul Error:  Reconstruction failed.
 

 What exactly is the problem? I don't get this package error. Have you
 reported the problem on bugzilla.lyx.org?

 regards Uwe



Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered:  this
problem only occurs with pdflatex output.  No problems with dvipdfm,
postscript, and so forth.  Just pdflatex.  Also, I am running lyx on WinXP.
I haven't tried to see whether this problem occurs on a linux machine.

Best,
Jim

Change tracker continues to have problems

[Jim Rockford]

I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited.  With
the change tracker, when I elect to
Show Changes In Output I get the following error:

Package soul Error:  Reconstruction failed.

I do have the soul package installed in MikTex.

Is it possible to fix this problem?

Jim

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

[Jim Rockford]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Jim Rockford schrieb:

  I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited.  With
  the change tracker, when I elect to
  Show Changes In Output I get the following error:
 
  Package soul Error:  Reconstruction failed.
 

 What exactly is the problem? I don't get this package error. Have you
 reported the problem on bugzilla.lyx.org?

 regards Uwe



Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered:  this
problem only occurs with pdflatex output.  No problems with dvipdfm,
postscript, and so forth.  Just pdflatex.  Also, I am running lyx on WinXP.
I haven't tried to see whether this problem occurs on a linux machine.

Best,
Jim

Change tracker continues to have problems

[Jim Rockford]

I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited.  With
the change tracker, when I elect to
"Show Changes In Output" I get the following error:

"Package soul Error:  Reconstruction failed."

I do have the "soul" package installed in MikTex.

Is it possible to fix this problem?

Jim

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

[Jim Rockford]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jim Rockford schrieb:
>
>  I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited.  With
> > the change tracker, when I elect to
> > "Show Changes In Output" I get the following error:
> >
> > "Package soul Error:  Reconstruction failed."
> >
>
> What exactly is the problem? I don't get this package error. Have you
> reported the problem on bugzilla.lyx.org?
>
> regards Uwe



Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered:  this
problem only occurs with pdflatex output.  No problems with dvipdfm,
postscript, and so forth.  Just pdflatex.  Also, I am running lyx on WinXP.
I haven't tried to see whether this problem occurs on a linux machine.

Best,
Jim

Mail forum question (not lyx related)

[Jim Rockford]

How do I reply to responses to my posts on the lyx mail archive?  When I
click

Reply via email to
somebody

I get the message

'The document has moved here'

and when I click 'here' nothing happens in my firefox browser.

My apologies for all the past requests for clarification or code examples
that have
gone unanswered!

Jim

Mail forum question (not lyx related)

[Jim Rockford]

How do I reply to responses to my posts on the lyx mail archive?  When I
click

Reply via email to
somebody

I get the message

'The document has moved here'

and when I click 'here' nothing happens in my firefox browser.

My apologies for all the past requests for clarification or code examples
that have
gone unanswered!

Jim

Mail forum question (not lyx related)

[Jim Rockford]

How do I reply to responses to my posts on the lyx mail archive?  When I
click

"Reply via email to"


I get the message

'The document has moved here'

and when I click 'here' nothing happens in my firefox browser.

My apologies for all the past requests for clarification or code examples
that have
gone unanswered!

Jim

Small bug in change tracker (1.5.0rc2)

[Jim Rockford]

This is a minor annoyance, possibly even something designed to be part of
the document change tracking (though I can't
imagine why), but when one elects to show changes in output with the
change tracker, the generated PDF file jams together
the old, soon-to-be deleted text with the newer text.  This happens even
though there are, correctly, spaces between the deleted
text and the new text in the lyx window itself.  I nominate this for a minor
fix.

Thanks,
Jim

Small bug in change tracker (1.5.0rc2)

[Jim Rockford]

This is a minor annoyance, possibly even something designed to be part of
the document change tracking (though I can't
imagine why), but when one elects to show changes in output with the
change tracker, the generated PDF file jams together
the old, soon-to-be deleted text with the newer text.  This happens even
though there are, correctly, spaces between the deleted
text and the new text in the lyx window itself.  I nominate this for a minor
fix.

Thanks,
Jim

Small bug in change tracker (1.5.0rc2)

[Jim Rockford]

This is a minor annoyance, possibly even something designed to be part of
the document change tracking (though I can't
imagine why), but when one elects to "show changes in output" with the
change tracker, the generated PDF file jams together
the old, soon-to-be deleted text with the newer text.  This happens even
though there are, correctly, spaces between the deleted
text and the new text in the lyx window itself.  I nominate this for a minor
fix.

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx cv class

[Jim Rockford]

In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the lyx
curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough lyx apparently
installed it in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/.

How (in linux) do I make this class available?  I didn't find the
Customization documentation particularly clear on this point.  I tried

texhash /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/

in the hope that this directory would then be part of the latex search path,
but this failed.  The cv class is still listed by lyx as unavailable.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx cv class

[Jim Rockford]

In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the lyx
curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough lyx apparently
installed it in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/.

How (in linux) do I make this class available?  I didn't find the
Customization documentation particularly clear on this point.  I tried

texhash /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/

in the hope that this directory would then be part of the latex search path,
but this failed.  The cv class is still listed by lyx as unavailable.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx cv class

[Jim Rockford]

In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the lyx
curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough lyx apparently
installed it in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/.

How (in linux) do I make this class available?  I didn't find the
Customization documentation particularly clear on this point.  I tried

texhash /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/

in the hope that this directory would then be part of the latex search path,
but this failed.  The cv class is still listed by lyx as "unavailable."

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Jim

1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

[Jim Rockford]

For version 1.5.0 release candidate 2:
When I use the Windoze installer I get the mysterious message

InetLoad plug-in
Your internet connection seems to have dropped out!
Please reconnect and clock Retry to resume downloading...


I'm certain that my internet connection didn't drop out.  Is this a bug in
the installer?  It happened, suspiciously enough, while it was downloading
the aspell
dictionary, and the last installer had some weird bug associated with the
dictionary
as well.  It seems to me that ASPELL is again presenting trouble with the
installer.
I soldiered through this error and the installation (apparently) completed
successfully.


Jim

1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

[Jim Rockford]

For version 1.5.0 release candidate 2:
When I use the Windoze installer I get the mysterious message

InetLoad plug-in
Your internet connection seems to have dropped out!
Please reconnect and clock Retry to resume downloading...


I'm certain that my internet connection didn't drop out.  Is this a bug in
the installer?  It happened, suspiciously enough, while it was downloading
the aspell
dictionary, and the last installer had some weird bug associated with the
dictionary
as well.  It seems to me that ASPELL is again presenting trouble with the
installer.
I soldiered through this error and the installation (apparently) completed
successfully.


Jim

1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

[Jim Rockford]

For version 1.5.0 release candidate 2:
When I use the Windoze installer I get the mysterious message

InetLoad plug-in
"Your internet connection seems to have dropped out!
Please reconnect and clock Retry to resume downloading..."


I'm certain that my internet connection didn't "drop out."  Is this a bug in
the installer?  It happened, suspiciously enough, while it was downloading
the aspell
dictionary, and the last installer had some weird bug associated with the
dictionary
as well.  It seems to me that ASPELL is again presenting trouble with the
installer.
I soldiered through this error and the installation (apparently) completed
successfully.


Jim

intersectingStaticSet message with 1.5.0rc1 (linux)

[Jim Rockford]

When running 1.5.0 release candidate 1 on linux (Fedora Core 5, both 32 bit
or 64 bit) I get the warning message

intersectingStaticSet: row X was invalid

where X is some integer.  This message appears something like 30 times in
succession, X ranging from 1 to 30.

I suspect this must be a warning from QT, and not Lyx's fault, but I'm
curious to know if any other Linux users see this
annoying message and whether I can do anything about it.  I am using the
latest QT4 packages available from the Fedora Core
repositories.

Thanks,
Jim

intersectingStaticSet message with 1.5.0rc1 (linux)

[Jim Rockford]

When running 1.5.0 release candidate 1 on linux (Fedora Core 5, both 32 bit
or 64 bit) I get the warning message

intersectingStaticSet: row X was invalid

where X is some integer.  This message appears something like 30 times in
succession, X ranging from 1 to 30.

I suspect this must be a warning from QT, and not Lyx's fault, but I'm
curious to know if any other Linux users see this
annoying message and whether I can do anything about it.  I am using the
latest QT4 packages available from the Fedora Core
repositories.

Thanks,
Jim

"intersectingStaticSet" message with 1.5.0rc1 (linux)

[Jim Rockford]

When running 1.5.0 release candidate 1 on linux (Fedora Core 5, both 32 bit
or 64 bit) I get the warning message

"intersectingStaticSet: row X was invalid"

where X is some integer.  This message appears something like 30 times in
succession, X ranging from 1 to 30.

I suspect this must be a warning from QT, and not Lyx's fault, but I'm
curious to know if any other Linux users see this
annoying message and whether I can do anything about it.  I am using the
latest QT4 packages available from the Fedora Core
repositories.

Thanks,
Jim

1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

I have installed the 1.5 release candidate 1 on two Windows XP machines (one
32 bit and the other 64 bit).  Each time, the installation gave me a message
that it couldn't download the English spellchecker.  Otherwise, the
installation went smoothly.  What's the deal though with the spellchecker
warning?

Jim

1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

I have installed the 1.5 release candidate 1 on two Windows XP machines (one
32 bit and the other 64 bit).  Each time, the installation gave me a message
that it couldn't download the English spellchecker.  Otherwise, the
installation went smoothly.  What's the deal though with the spellchecker
warning?

Jim

1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

I have installed the 1.5 release candidate 1 on two Windows XP machines (one
32 bit and the other 64 bit).  Each time, the installation gave me a message
that it couldn't download the English spellchecker.  Otherwise, the
installation went smoothly.  What's the deal though with the spellchecker
warning?

Jim

Suppress figures in output

[Jim Rockford]

Sorry, not a lyx specific question, but more of a latex one.  What I want to
do is preserve my figure captions and labels, so that they can be properly
referred to in the latex (lyx) document, but I do not want the figure
graphics shown in the final output.  Is there any way to do this, some extra
flag in the float environment that says don't show this figure?  I need to
do this because some journals have very annoying automated systems for
taking uploaded latex and generating documents for reviewers, but yet they
want figures uploaded separately.  I want to avoid having the generated
output showing my figures twice!

Generally, is there any way to add figure labels (that is, labels within the
figure float environment) without actually showing any figures?  No matter
how I do it, I seem to find some residue in the final output related to my
attempts to do this (for instance, if I do a \begin{figure} and
\end{figure}, and put a caption label in between, I will still see  figure
1:  etcetera in the final output).

Thanks,
Jim

Suppress figures in output

[Jim Rockford]

Sorry, not a lyx specific question, but more of a latex one.  What I want to
do is preserve my figure captions and labels, so that they can be properly
referred to in the latex (lyx) document, but I do not want the figure
graphics shown in the final output.  Is there any way to do this, some extra
flag in the float environment that says don't show this figure?  I need to
do this because some journals have very annoying automated systems for
taking uploaded latex and generating documents for reviewers, but yet they
want figures uploaded separately.  I want to avoid having the generated
output showing my figures twice!

Generally, is there any way to add figure labels (that is, labels within the
figure float environment) without actually showing any figures?  No matter
how I do it, I seem to find some residue in the final output related to my
attempts to do this (for instance, if I do a \begin{figure} and
\end{figure}, and put a caption label in between, I will still see  figure
1:  etcetera in the final output).

Thanks,
Jim

Suppress figures in output

[Jim Rockford]

Sorry, not a lyx specific question, but more of a latex one.  What I want to
do is preserve my figure captions and labels, so that they can be properly
referred to in the latex (lyx) document, but I do not want the figure
graphics shown in the final output.  Is there any way to do this, some extra
flag in the float environment that says "don't show this figure?"  I need to
do this because some journals have very annoying automated systems for
taking uploaded latex and generating documents for reviewers, but yet they
want figures uploaded separately.  I want to avoid having the generated
output showing my figures twice!

Generally, is there any way to add figure labels (that is, labels within the
figure float environment) without actually showing any figures?  No matter
how I do it, I seem to find some residue in the final output related to my
attempts to do this (for instance, if I do a \begin{figure} and
\end{figure}, and put a caption label in between, I will still see  figure
1:  etcetera in the final output).

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx and selinux

[Jim Rockford]

Lyx version:  1.4.4
OS:  Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit)

I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to view my document as PDF or DVI.  I
kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like

-
convert: zlib error
/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR
Execution of convert failed
FAILED to find the default font: ' ', 'Sans'
--

I had zlib installed, and seemingly everything else necessary.  I finally
discovered an unholy intrusion of the selinux (security enhanced linux)
policy.  By manually disabling selinux (System-Administration-Security
Level and Firewall) I was able to get all of these problems to magically
disappear, and Lyx now seems
to function flawlessly.

Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux?  I'm not really savvy
enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my druthers
I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly great)
document processing program!  Perhaps someone can tell me how to allow Lyx
to access
certain libraries without raising some sort of security flag or encountering
permission problems.

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx and selinux

[Jim Rockford]

Lyx version:  1.4.4
OS:  Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit)

I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to view my document as PDF or DVI.  I
kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like

-
convert: zlib error
/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR
Execution of convert failed
FAILED to find the default font: ' ', 'Sans'
--

I had zlib installed, and seemingly everything else necessary.  I finally
discovered an unholy intrusion of the selinux (security enhanced linux)
policy.  By manually disabling selinux (System-Administration-Security
Level and Firewall) I was able to get all of these problems to magically
disappear, and Lyx now seems
to function flawlessly.

Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux?  I'm not really savvy
enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my druthers
I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly great)
document processing program!  Perhaps someone can tell me how to allow Lyx
to access
certain libraries without raising some sort of security flag or encountering
permission problems.

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx and selinux

[Jim Rockford]

Lyx version:  1.4.4
OS:  Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit)

I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to "view" my document as PDF or DVI.  I
kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like

-
convert: zlib error
/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR
Execution of "convert" failed
FAILED to find the default font: ' ', 'Sans'
--

I had zlib installed, and seemingly everything else necessary.  I finally
discovered an unholy intrusion of the selinux (security enhanced linux)
policy.  By manually disabling selinux (System->Administration->Security
Level and Firewall) I was able to get all of these problems to magically
disappear, and Lyx now seems
to function flawlessly.

Anyone else encountered this with Lyx and linux?  I'm not really savvy
enough to know what selinux is really doing for me, but if I had my druthers
I wouldn't disable it completely for the sake of a (admittedly great)
document processing program!  Perhaps someone can tell me how to allow Lyx
to access
certain libraries without raising some sort of security flag or encountering
permission problems.

Thanks,
Jim

Success with lyx-144-4 standard installer (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

Just reporting that the newest standard installer lyx-144-4 works on all of
my windoze XP machines, whether 32 or 64 bit.
None of the previous installers worked for me (lyxc.exe error).  In case
some of you Windoze users have been hesitant to upgrade,
my bet is that this one will work for you.

Jim

Success with lyx-144-4 standard installer (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

Just reporting that the newest standard installer lyx-144-4 works on all of
my windoze XP machines, whether 32 or 64 bit.
None of the previous installers worked for me (lyxc.exe error).  In case
some of you Windoze users have been hesitant to upgrade,
my bet is that this one will work for you.

Jim

Success with lyx-144-4 standard installer (Windoze)

[Jim Rockford]

Just reporting that the newest standard installer lyx-144-4 works on all of
my windoze XP machines, whether 32 or 64 bit.
None of the previous installers worked for me (lyxc.exe error).  In case
some of you Windoze users have been hesitant to upgrade,
my bet is that this one will work for you.

Jim

Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work

[Jim Rockford]

This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling
troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to
get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4.  Like many others, I've been
encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to
launch Lyx.  The newest installer  'lyx-144-2.exe'  failed for me as well as
the previous one.  Following Uwe's suggestion, I tried the installer from

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall

The small installer I used was 'LyXWin144Small-2-11.exe'

I am happy to report that this actually worked for me on Windows XP (32
bit).  My initial installs failed on two different 32-bit Windoze machines,
but this other installer worked on both of them. There is just one mildly
annoying message I see whenever
I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex.  Maybe this is to be
expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying
that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx
file.  It's not a crippling error.  I can generate a
PDF view and all the references are there correctly.  Is this message simply
due to the fact that lyx initially looks for .bbl files that aren't there? I
never quite understood this feature of lyx.  I remember the days when a
latex compilation resulted in a .bbl file being created locally (which makes
it easier to collaborate, since you could send the .bbl along with the
document and your co-writer could see the references without needing the
bibtex databases).

One final thing.  My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for
64-bit XP was dashed.  It didn't work.  When I attempted to launch lyx I
would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear,
and no lyx window would appear.

In fact, I seem to have quite a bit more trouble with lyx in a 64-bit
environment.  In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert
PDF figures.  I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like
ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as
'/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'.  I could use a bit of help
with this, actually.

Thanks for your help.

Jim

Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work

[Jim Rockford]

This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling
troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to
get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4.  Like many others, I've been
encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to
launch Lyx.  The newest installer  'lyx-144-2.exe'  failed for me as well as
the previous one.  Following Uwe's suggestion, I tried the installer from

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall

The small installer I used was 'LyXWin144Small-2-11.exe'

I am happy to report that this actually worked for me on Windows XP (32
bit).  My initial installs failed on two different 32-bit Windoze machines,
but this other installer worked on both of them. There is just one mildly
annoying message I see whenever
I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex.  Maybe this is to be
expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying
that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx
file.  It's not a crippling error.  I can generate a
PDF view and all the references are there correctly.  Is this message simply
due to the fact that lyx initially looks for .bbl files that aren't there? I
never quite understood this feature of lyx.  I remember the days when a
latex compilation resulted in a .bbl file being created locally (which makes
it easier to collaborate, since you could send the .bbl along with the
document and your co-writer could see the references without needing the
bibtex databases).

One final thing.  My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for
64-bit XP was dashed.  It didn't work.  When I attempted to launch lyx I
would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear,
and no lyx window would appear.

In fact, I seem to have quite a bit more trouble with lyx in a 64-bit
environment.  In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert
PDF figures.  I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like
ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as
'/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'.  I could use a bit of help
with this, actually.

Thanks for your help.

Jim

Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work

[Jim Rockford]

This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling
troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to
get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4.  Like many others, I've been
encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to
launch Lyx.  The newest installer  'lyx-144-2.exe'  failed for me as well as
the previous one.  Following Uwe's suggestion, I tried the installer from

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall

The small installer I used was 'LyXWin144Small-2-11.exe'

I am happy to report that this actually worked for me on Windows XP (32
bit).  My initial installs failed on two different 32-bit Windoze machines,
but this other installer worked on both of them. There is just one mildly
annoying message I see whenever
I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex.  Maybe this is to be
expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying
that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx
file.  It's not a crippling error.  I can generate a
PDF view and all the references are there correctly.  Is this message simply
due to the fact that lyx initially looks for .bbl files that aren't there? I
never quite understood this feature of lyx.  I remember the days when a
latex compilation resulted in a .bbl file being created locally (which makes
it easier to collaborate, since you could send the .bbl along with the
document and your co-writer could see the references without needing the
bibtex databases).

One final thing.  My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for
64-bit XP was dashed.  It didn't work.  When I attempted to launch lyx I
would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear,
and no lyx window would appear.

In fact, I seem to have quite a bit more trouble with lyx in a 64-bit
environment.  In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert
PDF figures.  I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like
ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as
'/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'.  I could use a bit of help
with this, actually.

Thanks for your help.

Jim

Lyx 1.4.4 Windows Installer fails for me

[Jim Rockford]

On Windows XP I had a working 1.4.3-5 installation, which I got working only
with a great deal of pain (owing to missing Miktex files, which one-by-one I
had to install at Miktex's behest).  I thought I'd try out 1.4.4-1 just for
fun, hoping for some enhanced (faster!) performance.  In this effort I first
uninstalled Lyx (keeping my existing and apparently sufficient Miktex,
ghostscript, ImageMagick, etc installations).  After an extended delay while
the Lyx installer did some heavy ruminations on my XP system, Lyx
1.4.4-1finally installed.  I fired up the executable and was treated
to nothing
except a message about lyxc.exe crashing.  It just didn't work out of the
box, even though a reinstallation of 1.4.3-5 worked perfectly.  Oh well.
With each successive Lyx update, the installation seems to be taking longer
and longer, with more and more glitches.  I was able to install the
1.3series on Windows with no trouble.

I'm curious if anyone else out there is having similar problems.  Why does
the installer take so long anyway?  It seems to take 5 minutes, even if I
already have Miktex and all the other stuff installed.

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx 1.4.4 Windows Installer fails for me

[Jim Rockford]

On Windows XP I had a working 1.4.3-5 installation, which I got working only
with a great deal of pain (owing to missing Miktex files, which one-by-one I
had to install at Miktex's behest).  I thought I'd try out 1.4.4-1 just for
fun, hoping for some enhanced (faster!) performance.  In this effort I first
uninstalled Lyx (keeping my existing and apparently sufficient Miktex,
ghostscript, ImageMagick, etc installations).  After an extended delay while
the Lyx installer did some heavy ruminations on my XP system, Lyx
1.4.4-1finally installed.  I fired up the executable and was treated
to nothing
except a message about lyxc.exe crashing.  It just didn't work out of the
box, even though a reinstallation of 1.4.3-5 worked perfectly.  Oh well.
With each successive Lyx update, the installation seems to be taking longer
and longer, with more and more glitches.  I was able to install the
1.3series on Windows with no trouble.

I'm curious if anyone else out there is having similar problems.  Why does
the installer take so long anyway?  It seems to take 5 minutes, even if I
already have Miktex and all the other stuff installed.

Thanks,
Jim

Lyx 1.4.4 Windows Installer fails for me

[Jim Rockford]

On Windows XP I had a working 1.4.3-5 installation, which I got working only
with a great deal of pain (owing to missing Miktex files, which one-by-one I
had to install at Miktex's behest).  I thought I'd try out 1.4.4-1 just for
fun, hoping for some enhanced (faster!) performance.  In this effort I first
uninstalled Lyx (keeping my existing and apparently sufficient Miktex,
ghostscript, ImageMagick, etc installations).  After an extended delay while
the Lyx installer did some heavy ruminations on my XP system, Lyx
1.4.4-1finally installed.  I fired up the executable and was treated
to nothing
except a message about "lyxc.exe" crashing.  It just didn't work out of the
box, even though a reinstallation of 1.4.3-5 worked perfectly.  Oh well.
With each successive Lyx update, the installation seems to be taking longer
and longer, with more and more glitches.  I was able to install the
1.3series on Windows with no trouble.

I'm curious if anyone else out there is having similar problems.  Why does
the installer take so long anyway?  It seems to take 5 minutes, even if I
already have Miktex and all the other stuff installed.

Thanks,
Jim

Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable

[Jim Rockford]

I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it
useful to define the environment variable

BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles

My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib
files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib
files to my document I didn't have to go hunting around directories to
include them.  These .bib files conveniently showed up as clickable items.

However, I recently had the following problem.  I put a few .bib files in a
different directory and wished to include them for bibtex in some document.
Since they weren't in the directory specified by BIBINPUTS, I had to click
through a directory tree and specify their absolute path when I included
them.  Everything worked fine within the document itself.  I was able to add
citations and choose from a list that corresponded to the .bib files I had
included.  The citations appeared to show up correctly in the lyx window
itself.  However, when it came to viewing the document (DVI or PDF) the
references were not properly included (just a bunch of ??).  Lyx complained
that it couldn't find the .bib files I specified, although lyx didn't
complain whatsoever when I added these .bib files after my insertion of the
Bibtek Generated Bibliography (from Insert -- List/TOC -- Bibtex
Bibliography).

To see what the problem was, I eliminated the BIBINPUTS environment variable
and rebooted.  After this, lyx was able to find properly the .bib files I
had previously tried to include with no success.  Thus, it appears that
unless you double-click one of the .bib files specified in the directory of
BIBINPUTS, then lyx (or bibtex) fails to find the corresponding .bib
files.  The solution seems to be to remove the BIBINPUTS environment
variable altogether.

Why is this?  Shouldn't I be able to define a default BIBINPUTS directory,
but still add whatever .bib files I wish from other directories?

Thanks,
Jim

Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable

[Jim Rockford]

I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it
useful to define the environment variable

BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles

My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib
files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib
files to my document I didn't have to go hunting around directories to
include them.  These .bib files conveniently showed up as clickable items.

However, I recently had the following problem.  I put a few .bib files in a
different directory and wished to include them for bibtex in some document.
Since they weren't in the directory specified by BIBINPUTS, I had to click
through a directory tree and specify their absolute path when I included
them.  Everything worked fine within the document itself.  I was able to add
citations and choose from a list that corresponded to the .bib files I had
included.  The citations appeared to show up correctly in the lyx window
itself.  However, when it came to viewing the document (DVI or PDF) the
references were not properly included (just a bunch of ??).  Lyx complained
that it couldn't find the .bib files I specified, although lyx didn't
complain whatsoever when I added these .bib files after my insertion of the
Bibtek Generated Bibliography (from Insert -- List/TOC -- Bibtex
Bibliography).

To see what the problem was, I eliminated the BIBINPUTS environment variable
and rebooted.  After this, lyx was able to find properly the .bib files I
had previously tried to include with no success.  Thus, it appears that
unless you double-click one of the .bib files specified in the directory of
BIBINPUTS, then lyx (or bibtex) fails to find the corresponding .bib
files.  The solution seems to be to remove the BIBINPUTS environment
variable altogether.

Why is this?  Shouldn't I be able to define a default BIBINPUTS directory,
but still add whatever .bib files I wish from other directories?

Thanks,
Jim

Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable

[Jim Rockford]

I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it
useful to define the environment variable

BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles

My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib
files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib
files to my document I didn't have to go hunting around directories to
include them.  These .bib files conveniently showed up as clickable items.

However, I recently had the following problem.  I put a few .bib files in a
different directory and wished to include them for bibtex in some document.
Since they weren't in the directory specified by BIBINPUTS, I had to click
through a directory tree and specify their absolute path when I included
them.  Everything worked fine within the document itself.  I was able to add
citations and choose from a list that corresponded to the .bib files I had
included.  The citations appeared to show up correctly in the lyx window
itself.  However, when it came to viewing the document (DVI or PDF) the
references were not properly included (just a bunch of ??).  Lyx complained
that it couldn't find the .bib files I specified, although lyx didn't
complain whatsoever when I added these .bib files after my insertion of the
Bibtek Generated Bibliography (from Insert --> List/TOC --> Bibtex
Bibliography).

To see what the problem was, I eliminated the BIBINPUTS environment variable
and rebooted.  After this, lyx was able to find properly the .bib files I
had previously tried to include with no success.  Thus, it appears that
unless you double-click one of the .bib files specified in the directory of
BIBINPUTS, then lyx (or bibtex) fails to "find" the corresponding .bib
files.  The solution seems to be to remove the BIBINPUTS environment
variable altogether.

Why is this?  Shouldn't I be able to define a default BIBINPUTS directory,
but still add whatever .bib files I wish from other directories?

Thanks,
Jim