Re: Business card template

[gordon cooper]

Hello Rich,
  Like you I ran into problems with cards and labels in LO.
Not yet found an easy method in Lyx so am using a free source app
'glabels'. Bit of a short learning curve but it provides for the standard
commercially available sizes.

Had previously used a package Delphi but have completely abandoned
working in Windows®, looked at Lazarus - and am still looking at it very
slowly.

Regards,
Gordon.



On 03/06/17 01:23, Rich Shepard wrote:
  A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business 
cards.
If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your 
thoughts

with me.

  In the past I've used the libreoffice business card template, but 
this last
time I ran into issues with font size, positioning of elements on the 
card,
and not being able to edit a cell. The only downloadable document for 
LO is

their 'starter guide' which is useless as a help (e.g., searching for
'business card' finds two references on how to find the 'print' button 
for

cards and nothing on how to edit or work with them.) Questions posted to
their mail list go unanswered. Color me disgusted because the lack of
documentation and responsiveness of the maillist is unlike any F/OSS
maillist to which I've subscribed over the past couple of decades.

  So, since I do most of my writing with LaTeX/LyX it's time to do the
business cards with them, too. I used to have them printed, but it seems
that now everyone keeps contact references digitally and not in a
Rolodex(TM) or shoe box, so printing cards here on stock equivalent to 
Avery

8376 (that's for the ivory paper) makes sense to me.

Comments encouraged,

Rich

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

[gordon cooper]

Hello Scott,
   Am running Lyx on Mx-Linux Version MX16.
Most of my Lyx tasks are  proofreading/editing of documents
written by others, so leave Lyx on Default.

Regards,

Gordon.

Re: Mouse pointer

[gordon cooper]

No, forget that suggestion, it only changes the cursor

Sorry,

Gordon.


On 29/03/17 14:08, gordon cooper wrote:

Steve,

Try :Tools>Preferences>Editing>Cursor Width

increase the pixels.

Gordon.


On 29/03/17 11:37, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

On my copy of LyX, (2.2.2), the mouse pointer is a text pointer and is
so thin and so small that I have to click or drag it to know where it
is. Can't you make it bigger or add an option or something?

The mouse pointer is much bigger on most other apps.

SteveT

Steve Litt
March 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother?
http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: Mouse pointer

[gordon cooper]

Steve,

Try :Tools>Preferences>Editing>Cursor Width

increase the pixels.

Gordon.


On 29/03/17 11:37, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

On my copy of LyX, (2.2.2), the mouse pointer is a text pointer and is
so thin and so small that I have to click or drag it to know where it
is. Can't you make it bigger or add an option or something?

The mouse pointer is much bigger on most other apps.

SteveT

Steve Litt
March 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother?
http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: Question

[gordon cooper]

 tex-live full certainly does have everything, including many 'other 
language'

packages that you may not need.  If disk space is a problem then it may be
better to work through the associated repository and delete the unwanted.

Gordon.


On 15/02/17 03:24, Maria Gouskova wrote:

$ sudo apt install texlive-full

it's a hefty install but it will have everything.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Dr.Islam El-Masry 
wrote:


Please I need help about installing unavailable packages for lyx in linux.
I cannot find package manager for linux as windows. Please help me to do
that.


*Best Regards*


*Islam Elmasry*

*Software Engineer*

Re: disabling coloured change highlights with change bars

[gordon cooper]

Will,
   You might be able to achieve this in Tools>Preferences>Colors,
changing them to black.

Did something similar by regarding the changes as being from another
author. May take a bit of trial and error.

Gordon.

Tauranga NZ.


On 01/02/17 07:42, Will Parsons wrote:

I'd like to produce a document that shows changes from the previous
revision using changebars.  I've imported the "Change bars" module,
enabled change tracking, and everything works, but the changed text is
highlighted in blue in addition to being indicated by the change
bars.

Since the change bars are already indicating the changed text, how do
I disable the changes also being indicated by changing the colour?

Re: Change bar

[gordon cooper]

Progress: The plot thickens!   As yet, have not been able to isolate the
problem area, but have found a possible bug in the Compare tool.

The January file was the reference for the Compare Tool, looking for
changes added since the previous December version.

A glitch in the comparison progress has promoted the work ‘Links’
from Standard to Sub-section, and although not obvious in the
copies shown, has inserted an extra } into the code for
that line. This } was found and listed as an error in the conversion to 
pdflatex.



1. Source code from earlier Dec_2016 file

 *

   When the Setup process is finished, the device should be working.


 0.1 Basic MX Tools

__

2. Source code from January file – where a set of three hyperlinks is added

 *

   When the Setup process is finished, the device should be working.

_Links_

 *

   Blueman Troubleshooting
   <https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/wiki/Troubleshooting>

 *

   Arch Wiki <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blueman>

 *

   Debian Wiki on Pairing <https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser#Pairing>


 0.1 Basic MX Tools

___

3. The Differences file source code is showing this :


 *

   When the Setup process is finished, the device should be working.


 0.1 _Links_

 *

   Blueman Troubleshooting
   <https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/wiki/Troubleshooting>

 *

   Arch Wiki <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blueman>

 *

   Debian Wiki on Pairing <https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser#Pairing>


 0.2 Basic MX Tools



Have tested this comparison again with type of the word Links in the 
January file changed

into a subparagraph.

The same error happens during Compare, Links is promoted to be a 
numbered Sub-section
with subsequent numbering changed in Section 3. Is this case, an extra } 
was _not_ added.


This fault in a comparison may be contributing to the Change bar errors. 
Will continue

working on the problem as time permits and report progress.

Gordon.


On 25/01/17 08:28, gordon cooper wrote:

Dear Gunter,
   You have given me a guide as to the possible 
error.

Providing a minimum example is difficult as there is no error report
provided, so the problem could be anywhere. and I am not aware of
any non-standard settings.  This document is a User Manual with
many images and hyperlinks.

So, my next step will be to isolate the fault, using the old slow method
of halving, testing, then halving again etc., and hoping I can see it in
the source pane.  Will report progress.

Many thanks,
Gordon.


On 24/01/17 22:58, Guenter Milde wrote:

Dear Gordon,

On 2017-01-24, gordon cooper wrote:

Have added the Change bar module (Document>Settings>) to couple of
documents so that any Changes will be more obvious in the pdf copies
of Difference files sent to our translators.
The result is erratic. A few times lyx has produced a pdf with the 
desired
bars, but usually it appears to go into an internal loop, then 
crashes after

abou20-30 minutes.  If I remove the Change Bar module, then pdf copies
produced by exporting to pdflatex, are generated in a few minutes.
Add the Change bar module and the crashes return.
This looks very much like an incompatibility between the change bar 
latex

package and some of the other settings/packages you use.

Could you please send a *minimal example* (take a failing document and
remove every non-standard setting and every content that does not 
trigger

the error).


Have read through everything that seemed related in the User List
Archive, but no clues found.

Another good search point is the LyX bug tracker
https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome
but in this case the only "change bar ticket" is not relevant.

Sometimes also trackexchange or a generic internet search helps. d

Günter

Re: opening the same file in two different tabs

[gordon cooper]

 Had not thought about a New Window, I have been saving
the file with slightly different name, so that lyx does not
recognise it for a second tab.  Guess that one needs plenty
of disk room for this - I do have that on the elderly desktop.

Gordon.


On 25/01/17 11:59, Richard Heck wrote:

On 01/24/2017 05:24 PM, Julien SCORDIA wrote:

Hello,

Usually I edit a large document by splitting the view horizontally.
However I would like to open the document in two different tabs. When
opening an already open file, LyX only switches to the tab of this
file. Is this possible to change this behavior so as to open the file
in as many tabs as wanted?

Probably, so feel free to file an enhancement request. But what you can
do, for now (what I do), is do File> New Window, then open the file in
the new window.

Richard

Re: strange

[gordon cooper]

  You are not alone Wolfgang, I have been getting them too.

Gordon.

Re: Change bar

[gordon cooper]

Dear Gunter,
   You have given me a guide as to the possible error.
Providing a minimum example is difficult as there is no error report
provided, so the problem could be anywhere. and I am not aware of
any non-standard settings.  This document is a User Manual with
many images and hyperlinks.

So, my next step will be to isolate the fault, using the old slow method
of halving, testing, then halving again etc., and hoping I can see it in
the source pane.  Will report progress.

Many thanks,
Gordon.


On 24/01/17 22:58, Guenter Milde wrote:

Dear Gordon,

On 2017-01-24, gordon cooper wrote:

Have added the Change bar module (Document>Settings>) to couple of
documents so that any Changes will be more obvious in the pdf copies
of Difference files sent to our translators.
The result is erratic. A few times lyx has produced a pdf with the desired
bars, but usually it appears to go into an internal loop, then crashes after
abou20-30 minutes.  If I remove the Change Bar module, then pdf copies
produced by exporting to pdflatex, are generated in a few minutes.
Add the Change bar module and the crashes return.

This looks very much like an incompatibility between the change bar latex
package and some of the other settings/packages you use.

Could you please send a *minimal example* (take a failing document and
remove every non-standard setting and every content that does not trigger
the error).


Have read through everything that seemed related in the User List
Archive, but no clues found.

Another good search point is the LyX bug tracker
https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome
but in this case the only "change bar ticket" is not relevant.

Sometimes also trackexchange or a generic internet search helps.

Günter

Change bar

[gordon cooper]

Have added the Change bar module (Document>Settings>) to couple of
documents so that any Changes will be more obvious in the pdf copies
of Difference files sent to our translators.

The result is erratic. A few times lyx has produced a pdf with the desired
bars, but usually it appears to go into an internal loop, then crashes after
abou20-30 minutes.  If I remove the Change Bar module, then pdf copies
produced by exporting to pdflatex, are generated in a few minutes.

Add the Change bar module and the crashes return.  Have read through
everything that seemed related in the User List Archive, but no clues found.

A fix and or suggestions would be very welcome.

Using lyx 2.2.2, on MX16-Linux.  Change bar works perfectly in the Lyx 
difference

files.

Gordon

Tauranga N.Z.

Colours in HTML conversions.

[gordon cooper]

We have been successfully using the Lyx 'Compare' tool to identify/locate
changes in documents that are frequently updated,  also using a
Colour choice available in Preferences to make these changes easier to see.

A difficulty arises because some of the translation team, are working
with html copies.  Regardless of the preferences setting, html copies
always show deletions in red and insertions in dark blue - which is
unfortunately close to black.   Are there settings/adjustments available
in the html converter?

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Latex Error.

[gordon cooper]

Happy New Year to All.

This has been solved (after some detective work) but am reporting
it, just in case it happens to others.

Had a recent mysterious error when trying an Lyx to pdf conversion.
The program reported a Latex error but gave no error report.

The same Lyx file converted to html immediately, no errors. I had
a coding error, ignored by one converter. A look at the source code
was not a success.

So,  used the traditional system of halving the file, testing halving 
again,
until there only a single line of code left. There was the problem, a 
Hyperlink

with a irreconcilable character, a beginning  itemize dot, like this :


• http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html

Removing the dot fixed the problem, but an hour or two wasted looking
for it.

Gordon.

Re: LyX Spell Checker Sanity Check

[gordon cooper]

The   question was about baed, not bead.
G.


On 07/01/17 20:08, Michael Berger wrote:


On 01/06/2017 09:08 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote:

Colleagues,

Does anyone know what "baed" means?  With all lower case, I cannot 
find any reasonable definition.


However, the spell checker (dialog and interactive) in LyX doesn't 
flag it as misspelled (though it's a case of me wanting to type 
"based").


I am using LyX 2.2.2 on OS X 10.11.6 with the as-distributed spell 
checker.  Is different behavior observed on other OSs and/or spell 
checkers?


Thanks,
Joel

The verb: to bead = auffädeln, Perlen aufziehen, Kügelchen formen etc.
The noun: bead = e. g. Glasperle (English 'pearl o fglas') etc.

see: http://www.dict.cc/?s=bead

Michael

Re: LyX Spell Checker Sanity Check

[gordon cooper]

Joel,

'baed' did appear in the Urban Dictionary a few years ago. It was explained
as the mis-pronunication of the word 'bad'. Surprised that it seems be 
in  a

spell-checker.

Gordon.

Re: lyx error

[gordon cooper]

On 13/12/16 14:29, Kornel Benko wrote:

Am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2016 um 01:12:49, schrieb Shangbo Wang 


Dear Sir


I would like to ask you about lyx problem: It occurs a package graphics error 
when I create the PDF file from lyx.


The error message is:


Package graphics error: No driver specified

Package color error: No driver specified

Latex error: File 'boxedminipage.sty' not found


Looks more like missing latex package problem. If you happen to be on a debian 
system, you should
download the package texlive-latex-extra.
# sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra


Description:

You should make a default driver option in a file

graphics.cfg

eg: \ExecuteOptions{textures}


Please show me the detail information how to solve this problem


Br

Wang

Kornel
Think I needed texlive-latex-base to fix the color error.  To be honest, 
was running short
of time for experimenting with dependencies for PDF copies, so with 
plenty of room available
on the HD, I actually installed everything from texlive that might have 
been relevant.


Gordon.

Re: [SPAM] Re: Default directory for backups

[gordon cooper]

Okay, maybe I did not make my situation clear enough: I have *never* 
saved the document anywhere before. So there is no specific folder for it.


Daniel



Ok, now I understand, but can not offer more advice.  I always create a 
save path for a new document

before writing anything.

Sorry,
Gordon.

Re: Default directory for backups

[gordon cooper]

By related file (and I was not quite sure how to describe it), I mean a 
copy of the file
that I am working on. Most of my work in Lyx  is documentation for an 
operating system,
MX-Linux.  Two of us write/edit the user manual. There are annual major 
updates, plus
bug fixing etc during the year. Therefore I use a separate folder for 
each version of the
project, and find that Lyx will save a copy of the present workfile into 
that folder, if I

forget to do a save myself.

Gordon.




On 05/12/16 21:00, racoon wrote:

On 05.12.2016 01:40, gordon cooper wrote:

On 05/12/16 12:19, racoon wrote:

Does someone know where LyX puts backups of unsaved documents?


 I find Lyx copies in the folder that I am using for the related Lyx 
file.


Thanks.

What is the "related LyX file" you are using? (As I mentioned, I have 
not saved my document yet, so I guess my document isn't the file you 
refer to.)


My guess is that the backups are stored in some temp directory but I 
cannot remember which one. I am on Windows 7.


Maybe it would be nice to list that path somewhere in LyX. Maybe in 
the About dialog together with the library and user directory?

Re: Default directory for backups

[gordon cooper]

 I find Lyx copies in the folder that I am using for the related Lyx file.

Gordon.


On 05/12/16 12:19, racoon wrote:

Hi,

Does someone know where LyX puts backups of unsaved documents?

Best,
Daniel

Re: LyX 2.2 -- logo in headers?

[gordon cooper]

 We are working in Koma script. Logo on first page is inserted as an image,
at the cursor position on the page.  No additional coding needed.

Insert>Graphics> , with image file in the same folder as the Lyx file.

We have about 100 images in one document, a manual, so have a graphics
sub-folder for them all.

Gordon.


On 23/11/16 04:30, Bernt Lie wrote:

From: Anders Ekberg [mailto:a...@me.com]
Sent: tirsdag 22. november 2016 16.21
To: Bernt Lie 
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: LyX 2.2 -- logo in headers?

On 2016Nov22, at 16:16, Bernt Lie > 
wrote:


-Original Message-
From: Anders Ekberg [mailto:a...@me.com]
Sent: tirsdag 22. november 2016 15.45
To: Bernt Lie >
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: LyX 2.2 -- logo in headers?


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.
---
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.

-B

This is my example document. It’s a letter, so there are no Title. Could be 
that a title messes it up.
/@nders
--
OK – I’ll check it tomorrow.
-B

Re: HTML conversions [Resolved]

[gordon cooper]

 This problem has been fixed. A work-around from my colleague was
simple. The function with a double dash that could not be converted
to html is now displayed as an image copied from the screen.

Thanks to those who offered advice.

Gordon.

Re: HTML conversions

[gordon cooper]

On 15/11/16 08:41, gordon cooper wrote:



On 14/11/16 22:28, Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2016-11-13, gordon cooper wrote:


[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 8bit --]
/
Several months ago when we were using lyx 2.1.*, the expression
/LyX Document
"-*rw-r‑‑r‑‑ *newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc" exported
correctly to an html file.
We are now working with lyx 2.2.2. The same export gives this result,
"-/rw-r\SpecialChar nobreakdash\SpecialChar nobreakdashr\SpecialChar
nobreakdash\SpecialChar nobreakdash /newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 
.asoundrc"
The double hypen is not being recognised, it is a legitimate piece 
of code.


The string you sent uses 2011NON-BREAKING HYPHEN for the double 
dashes.
This is correctly converted to \nobreakdash- in the generated LaTeX 
file.


What happens, if you use only 002DHYPHEN-MINUS

   -*rw-r--r-- *newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc
   which LyX 2.2 converts to

   -{*}rw-r-{}-r-{}- {*}newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc
   ?



This happened when exporting to html.
Something has changed.
Yes, there was some work on the dashes and double dashes. However 
this was

meant to be an improvement.

Depending on how the no-break-hyphens got into your document, your
problem may turn out to be an actual improvement (uncover a hithero
hidden problem) or an unwanted side-effect.


An export to Lyx html does give a correct result.

So using this route is a possible workaround/solution.


Günter

 Yes, that is a work around.  Also we could use an html editor, 
probably Bluefish
to correct the errors in the document. So we are not up against a 
brick wall.

Thanks,
Gordon.


  Sadly, using LyXHTML is not a workaround, the images are held in a 
separate
file and get lost when we convert to odt for our translators.  So the 
only present
solution is a correction with an html editor after exporting with HTML.  
I have looked at
an intermediate step using LateX but the short double dash is likely to 
be converted

into an 'en' dash.

Gordon.

Re: HTML conversions

[gordon cooper]

On 14/11/16 22:28, Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2016-11-13, gordon cooper wrote:


[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 8bit --]
/
Several months ago when we were using lyx 2.1.*, the expression
/LyX Document
"-*rw-r‑‑r‑‑ *newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc"  exported
correctly to an html file.
We are now working with lyx 2.2.2. The same export gives this result,
"-/rw-r\SpecialChar nobreakdash\SpecialChar nobreakdashr\SpecialChar
nobreakdash\SpecialChar nobreakdash /newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc"
The double hypen is not being recognised, it is a legitimate piece of code.


The string you sent uses 2011   NON-BREAKING HYPHEN for the double dashes.
This is correctly converted to \nobreakdash- in the generated LaTeX file.

What happens, if you use only 002D  HYPHEN-MINUS

   -*rw-r--r-- *newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc
   
which LyX 2.2 converts to


   -{*}rw-r-{}-r-{}- {*}newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc
   
?




This happened when exporting to html.
Something has changed.

Yes, there was some work on the dashes and double dashes. However this was
meant to be an improvement.

Depending on how the no-break-hyphens got into your document, your
problem may turn out to be an actual improvement (uncover a hithero
hidden problem) or an unwanted side-effect.


An export to Lyx html does give a correct result.

So using this route is a possible workaround/solution.


Günter

 Yes, that is a work around.  Also we could use an html editor, 
probably Bluefish
to correct the errors in the document. So we are not up against a brick 
wall.

Thanks,
Gordon.

Re: HTML conversions

[gordon cooper]

On 14/11/16 07:46, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 07:43:10AM +1300, gordon cooper wrote:


We are using the converters available from File>Export within Lyx. Something
changed there perhaps?

Many of those converters use external tools. For example when you export
to PDF (pdflatex), LyX calls the program "pdflatex". When you export to
HTML, LyX calls usually the program "htlatex" I believe. If the version
of the htlatex changed on your system, this would explain it. Note that
LyX does not control the version of external tools (except in some
specific cases on Windows I think).

Scott

P.S. Please respond to the list.

Sorry, thought I had replied to the list, had one ear on the radio and not,
concentrating. A big quake down country in the early hours. My in-box
currently has over 150 reports of after-shocks.

Have not intentionally changed any of the tools but one of our team may have
picked up a new version when he packaged Lyx 2.2.2 for the MX-Linux 
repository.


Gordon.

HTML conversions

[gordon cooper]

/
Several months ago when we were using lyx 2.1.*, the expression

/LyX Document
"-*rw-r‑‑r‑‑ *newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc"  exported
correctly to an html file.


We are now working with lyx 2.2.2. The same export gives this result,
"-/rw-r\SpecialChar nobreakdash\SpecialChar nobreakdashr\SpecialChar 
nobreakdash\SpecialChar nobreakdash /newbie users 277 Jan 7 14:42 .asoundrc"


The double hypen is not being recognised, it is a legitimate piece of code.

This happened when exporting to html. An export to Lyx html does
give a correct result. Something has changed. We have checked the
Lyx dependencies to see if anything in LateX or LiveteX was missing,
but nothing apparent.

Where are we missing something?

Gordon Cooper
MX-Linux Documentation Team.
Tauranga, N.Z.
/
/

Re: PNG to EPS conversion creating huge temporary files

[gordon cooper]

 Adding to my previous comment. Deleted that html, made another and
Lyx created a new list of image files, this time in the html sub folder, in
addition to repeating the grafix subfolder with all the image files in it.
Will contact my co-editor on this, see if it's happening to him too.

Gordon.


On 09/11/16 14:39, gordon cooper wrote:


On 08/11/16 14:44, Tyler Grummett wrote:

Dear Lynx users,

Im currently having the problem where all the .png files in my 
document are converted to .eps (and stored in the cache folder) every 
time I copy them or try to convert them to the latex or tex format. 
The main issue of this is that it creates massive temporary files and 
the eps files in the cache folder also fill up my harddrive space 
dramatically.


I read as much as I could find online. I have made my default output 
pdflatex, and I have given it the extra flag "latex = pdflatex". 
There was one guide who suggested deleting the converters section in 
preferences file.


I cant think of what else I can do.

Please help.
Tyler

I have not had this problem before today, but now I have. Working 
with a 100+
page technical manual, editing and replacing some hyperlinks. Went 
back to

my work folder to chose a file for comparison, only to find some 90 odd
.eps files, representing the images in the project, had appeared in 
the folder.

This appears to have happened when an export to html  was made.

Not completely certain, but believe this may be the first time I have 
made
an html copy with Lyx 2.2.2.Am certain that the generation of 
.eps never

happened with previous versions of Lyx.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Re: PNG to EPS conversion creating huge temporary files

[gordon cooper]

On 08/11/16 14:44, Tyler Grummett wrote:

Dear Lynx users,

Im currently having the problem where all the .png files in my document are 
converted to .eps (and stored in the cache folder) every time I copy them or 
try to convert them to the latex or tex format. The main issue of this is that 
it creates massive temporary files and the eps files in the cache folder also 
fill up my harddrive space dramatically.

I read as much as I could find online. I have made my default output pdflatex, and I have 
given it the extra flag "latex = pdflatex". There was one guide who suggested 
deleting the converters section in preferences file.

I cant think of what else I can do.

Please help.
Tyler

I have not had this problem before today, but now I have. Working with 
a 100+

page technical manual, editing and replacing some hyperlinks. Went back to
my work folder to chose a file for comparison, only to find some 90 odd
.eps files, representing the images in the project, had appeared in 
the folder.

This appears to have happened when an export to html  was made.

Not completely certain, but believe this may be the first time I have made
an html copy with Lyx 2.2.2.Am certain that the generation of .eps 
never

happened with previous versions of Lyx.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Re: lost all menus, toolbars etc. in okular

[gordon cooper]

Hi Michael,


The Menu Bar can be turned off in the Settings sub-menu, but as you have 
found, the Settings menu then disappears
and apparently there is no way to get it back again. However as you have 
found by accident, a secondary (right) click in
the empty page gives you the option of restoring the Menu Bar.  This is 
the standard way to restore the bar.


Gordon.

Re: wrapfig

[gordon cooper]

Richard and Paul,

   Thank you for this discussion and the 
detailed reporting.

Have been thinking about wrapping, without actually doing anything.
Now I know what to do.

Regards,

Gordon

Tauranga N.Z.

Koma script

[gordon cooper]

On 30/08/16 23:48, CarLaTeX wrote:
Is it easy to use with LyX? 

Been using Koma Script for several years with no problems and like
el, we do not use the standard Article/Report/Book.

Gordon.

Re: feedback on middle-clicking tab behavior

[gordon cooper]

1a & 1b  also 2a & 2b.  I wold not expect anything to happen.

With my present mouse, which has a fairly light touch, I would
prefer things to stay as they are - nothing.  The scroll and middle
button are combined and as I tend to scroll often, another function
(as happens in another application where middle button activates
paste)  could be annoying. or else I develop a lighter touch.

Gordon.

Re: Minor upgrade Issue

[gordon cooper]

On 04/07/16 03:17, Guillaume Munch wrote:

Le 03/07/2016 04:35, gordon cooper a écrit :

My colleague on
this project commented :

" --a hundred or more red hard return icons in the lyx file that
showed up as "\begin_inset Separator latexpar\end_inset" in
the html (took me over an hour to find and delete them!) "


As explained in <http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22#parbreak>, your
colleague can remove all latexpar separators using the command:

  inset-forall Separator:latexpar char-delete-forward

to be input in the command bar (Alt-x)



Thanks for all the replies. Neither of us had read the release info,
which is one disadvantage of having a packaging team who do the hard
work, leaving us with a simple download and install from the MX repository.
Will be more careful and read the notes next time.

Apart from the separator issue, 2.2 is working well.

Gordon.
Tauranga NZ.

Re: Minor upgrade Issue

[gordon cooper]

On 03/07/16 17:45, Richard Heck wrote:

On 07/02/2016 10:35 PM, gordon cooper wrote:

Been using Lyx 2.2.0 without any real problems but a small issue
appeared in a  Koma article that had been upgraded from 2.1.

Whenever a nesting level was changed, a hyperlink inserted
into a nested list, or we went from nesting back to normal text
layout, Lyx inserted an arrow head with a red vertical curly tail
at the end of the last line before the change.

This is due to the change from a Separator paragraph style to a
Separator inset, as explained in the release notes.


This had no effect
on the formatting in the Lyx file nor on the pdf's derived from it

Good. That was our intention.


but did give some strife in the conversion to html. My colleague on
this project commented :

" --a hundred or more red hard return icons in the lyx file that
showed up as "\begin_inset Separator latexpar\end_inset" in
the html (took me over an hour to find and delete them!) "

How was this HTML produced?


They were not apparent in the Lyx source pane.

Possibly because you used a different method to produce the HTML
from the one displayed in the source pane?

Richard


Many thanks for that response Richard. I will admit to not reading
the release notes. Not too sure about the html conversion but think
that elyxer was being used.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Minor upgrade Issue

[gordon cooper]

Been using Lyx 2.2.0 without any real problems but a small issue
appeared in a  Koma article that had been upgraded from 2.1.

Whenever a nesting level was changed, a hyperlink inserted
into a nested list, or we went from nesting back to normal text
layout, Lyx inserted an arrow head with a red vertical curly tail
at the end of the last line before the change.  This had no effect
on the formatting in the Lyx file nor on the pdf's derived from it but
did give some strife in the conversion to html. My colleague on
this project commented :

" --a hundred or more red hard return icons in the lyx file that
showed up as "\begin_inset Separator latexpar\end_inset" in
the html (took me over an hour to find and delete them!) "

They were not apparent in the Lyx source pane.

We hope we have deleted them all and that, now we are using 2.2.
for all authoring and editing,  they will not return.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Re: Typing showing up slowly........

[gordon cooper]

 Not that this will assist your problem?  I'm running the  MX15 OS which is
based on Debian Jessie.  Use Lyx 2.2  often and have never seen this 
behaviour.


Gordon
Tauranga NZ.

Mageia

[gordon cooper]

Michael wrote:
PS: there must hardly be any people having installed Lyx 2.2 in Mageia 
because the response from the lyx user list is almost zero.



Hi Michael,
   Yes, that looks like a valid comment. I had never 
heard of Mageia
until you popped up on this mail list. Reading through your posts, it 
seems that
you are almost a lone star.  I am also using a small Linux distro, 
MX-Linux. It is a

development from Mepis and antiX, based upon Debian stable, and run by a
group of enthusiastic volunteers.  One advantage that I am enjoying, is 
that we
have a (small) packaging team who have put Lyx 2.2 into a single package 
for users
to download.  From this, I have added a few extra Texlive units, mainly 
for some
experimentation, but the 2.2 package was downloaded and installed in 
less than

five minutes and is managing a technical documentation project very well.

Best wishes,
Gordon.
N.Z.

OD conversions

[gordon cooper]

"In Lyx 2.2.0,  Documents tab, there is the option to view
Open Document (elyxer)

An error?  Selecting this certainly does a conversion, the heading says 
.odt, but the converted file does not look like open doc format, and 
if the file is saved, it saves as an html, which is what I would expect 
from an elyxer conversion. "



I wrote the above a few days ago, but do not seem to have triggered
any comment. There is more to it, I see. In that same menu is
the option to view as MS Word - but the file looks like html and saves
as html.

Am I being mislead?

Gordon.

Re: Exporting to ODF or MS Office ignores any bibliography styles

[gordon cooper]

On 16/06/16 09:03, Nikola Ivan Leder wrote:

gordon cooper  kinect.co.nz> writes:


   We have had reasonable success with Lyx exports to ODF by using
html as an intermediate step, then copy pasting the html into
open document.   Although we have not tested bib styles, and
have had some problems with table frames.  Numbering and
heading styles are preserved.

Gordon.




Yes, I have used this approach on occasion, but it really "show HTML"
gives pretty much the same output as "OpenOffice tex4ht" export...   the
references are always sorted aplhabetically and bib styles ignored.

 Thank you for that comment Nikola.  Our projects are related to
   IT system documentation and have not required to use bib. We do
   use many external references and the html method does this without
   errors.  Have needed to create a new index at the ODT copy stage
   otherwise it tries to link back.  Experience so far has been that what
   ever method is used, there will always be a need for some editing of
   the converted documents.

Re: Exporting to ODF or MS Office ignores any bibliography styles

[gordon cooper]

 We have had reasonable success with Lyx exports to ODF by using
html as an intermediate step, then copy pasting the html into
open document.   Although we have not tested bib styles, and
have had some problems with table frames.  Numbering and
heading styles are preserved.

Gordon.

Re: LyX questions on LaTeX-community.org

[gordon cooper]

Thanks for the response Steve.  I'm a junior member of a team
developing documentation for a Linux OS. We are authoring
in lyx then using other systems to handle translations into several,
in fact many, languages.  I prefer the forum for keeping track of
discussions and will admit to not using something like Fetchmail to
make a mail list easier.  Perhaps I should look again.

Cheers,
Gordon.



On 10/06/16 08:52, Steve Litt wrote:

On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 16:50:16 +1200
gordon cooper <gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz> wrote:


On 09/06/16 02:59, Richard Heck wrote:

Alternatively---here's a crazy idea---we could suspend the mailing
list and send people to the forum

Richard

  

 Perhaps not really crazy at all.  I  work in both mail lists and
forums and I definitely prefer working in a forum.

Although, a big problem here could be how best use the
existing mail-list archive.

As soon as Fetchmail and a mail client and filters are set up, every
message of every mailing list to which one subscribes is presented, in
its proper folder, without human intervention.

With forums, one needs to remember to browse each forum, usually
requiring a login with a password. Often, much more often than mailing
lists, you're required to agree to pretty iffy legal terms, often
including your indemnifying (acting as an unpaid insurance company for)
the forum owners, and perhaps binding arbitration.

There's a reason mailing lists have gotten the Free Software movement
from 1992-present: It's easy, it's automatic, and the information comes
to you instead of having to go out and get it.

I can understand adding a Forum, but can't fathom the logic behind in
any way demoting an existing and well used mailing list.

I'm copying the Devuan mailing list because some of these same issues
have come up there.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt
June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother?
http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: LyX questions on LaTeX-community.org

[gordon cooper]

On 09/06/16 02:59, Richard Heck wrote:


Alternatively---here's a crazy idea---we could suspend the mailing list
and send people to the forum

Richard


   Perhaps not really crazy at all.  I  work in both mail lists and 
forums and I definitely prefer working in a forum.


Although, a big problem here could be how best use the
existing mail-list archive.

Gordon.

Re: Upgrading to Lyx 2.2

[gordon cooper]

Many thanks to all those involved with 2.2.0. It has been
packaged by the team and added to the MX-Linux test repos.
My own installation on MX-15 went without any issues.

Have not found any bugs nor backwards compatibility problems,
Lyx 2.2.0 should soon be upgraded to the main MX repository.

Again thanks,
Gordon

NZ.

Re: Fwd: Re: Question on creating layouts

[gordon cooper]

 You are right! Many thanks Michael.

Gordon.


On 27/04/16 01:33, Michael Berger wrote:

Gordon probably forgot to address the list!?
Michael Berger


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Re: Question on creating layouts
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:27:25 +1200
From: gordon cooper <gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz>
To: Michael Berger <id...@online.de>



Have successfully done this style of class using Koma Article for a

100+ page technical manual.

Gordon.



On 26/04/16 19:13, Michael Berger wrote:



On 04/26/2016 12:15 AM, Ryan Nicholl wrote:

Hello! I have a problem, I need to create a custom class, but I can't
figure out how to do this using the online documentation. It's rather
confusing to me...

I need several levels of organization:

Title
Chapter
Article
Part
Section
Subsection

All of these need to show up in the table of contents, each is nested
except subsection which does not nest within a section.

A section would look like:

Section -- Foo

in the document, and subsection like:


Section
--. Foo

Could anyone point me towards guide(s) for doing this type of thing?

Thank you,
Ryan P. Nicholl
(678)358-7765
r.p.nich...@gmail.com <mailto:r.p.nich...@gmail.com>


Hi Ryan,
may be this will help:
http://stefaanlippens.net/customLaTeXclassesinLyX

Don't you think one of the KOMA classes offered by LyX can satisfy
your requirements?

Michael Berger

Re: Automatic save of LaTeX

[Gordon Cooper]

On 07/04/16 02:18, David L. Johnson wrote:
I notice that, when I export repeatedly to pdf, the command will 
actually run and the pdf will not update unless the buffer has been 
changed.  So that's probably why your pdf doesn't always run --- you 
have to change the document, then it will all run.

I can confirm that, happens here too.

Gordon.
Tauranga N.Z.

Re: Page numbering

[Gordon Cooper]

On 30/03/16 01:08, Maria Gouskova wrote:

Section 17 on page 16 of the fancyhdr manual talks about this.

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fancyhdr


Thank you Maria,  package chappg  should
solve my problem.

Gordon.

Page numbering

[Gordon Cooper]

This has probably been asked and answered before. Have spent
half the afternoon looking in Help and User Archives without success.
Apologies for asking again.

We are working on technical manuals,  authored in Lyx and published
in html and pdf.  Authoring language is English, with translations happening
as we find volunteers.  Russian is already done and three more European
languages are in progress.

Would like the page numbering (in the pdf's) to relate to Sections of the
manual. Rather than a 1,2,3,4. sequence, I am looking (hoping?)
for 1-1, 1-2, 1-3,. etc., for the first Section then 2-1,2-2... etc. 
for the

next, and so on.  These sequences to be recognised in the TOC.

The separation characters do not have to be hyphens, 1.1,
1.2 etc, or 1_1, 1_2  would be great.

Why? Briefly, these manuals will be used over several years and most
certainly have updates/additions. Sectional page numbers will make life
easier for the editors. Me for one.

Possible?

Gordon
Tauranga
New Zealand.

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Gordon Cooper]

  Am using Compare right now and have not had a repeat of the
reported problem.

  Found a small error,  here are the related extracts.  Note that the
 numbered lines were correctly classed as Enumerate in both texts.

1. /Original lines/:


   "3.6.3 Troubleshooting

 * No sound, though speaker icon is in the Notification Area.
 o Try raising all controls to a higher level.
 o Edit the configuration file directly: see Section 7.4.
 * No sound, and no speaker icon is in the Notification Area. It could
   be that the sound card is missing or unrecognized, but the most
   common problem is that of multiple soundcards, which we address here.
1. Solution 1: click *Start menu > Settings > MX Sound Card*, and
   follow the screen to select and test the card you want to use.
2. Solution 2: use the volume control of PulseAudio (pavucontrol)
   to select the correct sound card
3. Solution 3: enter the BIOS and turn off HDMI"

LyX Document
LyX Document 2. /The update/:


   "3.6.3 Troubleshooting

 * No sound, though speaker icon is in the Notification Area.
 o Try raising all controls to a higher level.
 o Edit the configuration file directly: see Section 7.4.
 * No sound, and no speaker icon is in the Notification Area. It could
   be that the sound card is missing or unrecognized, but the most
   common problem is that of multiple soundcards, which we address here.
1. Solution 1: click *Start menu > Settings > MX Sound Card*, and
   follow the screen to select and test the card you want to use.
2. Solution 2: use the volume control of PulseAudio (pavucontrol)
   to select the correct sound card
3. Solution 3: enter the BIOS and turn off HDMI
4. Check the ALSA sound card matrix listed below."

3. /Differences File/:

LyX Document


   "3.6.3 Troubleshooting renumbers those following

 * No sound, though speaker icon is in the Notification Area.
 o Try raising all controls to a higher level.
 o Edit the configuration file directly: see Section 7.4.
 * No sound, and no speaker icon is in the Notification Area. It could
   be that the sound card is missing or unrecognized, but the most
   common problem is that of multiple soundcards, which we address here.
1. Solution 1: click *Start menu > Settings > MX Sound Card*, and
   follow the screen to select and test the card you want to use.
2. Solution 2: use the volume control of PulseAudio (pavucontrol)
   to select the correct sound card
3. Solution 3: enter the BIOS and turn off HDMI


   3.6.4 Check the ALSA sound card matrix listed below"


  Instead of adding another enumerated line, Compare has created a
  new Subsubsection which then automatically renumbered the following
  Subsubsections.


Just about to work on more comparisons, will report on any errors later.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

LyX Document

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Gordon Cooper]

Hello Liviu,

 My use of Compare is fairly frequent.  Document is the User
Manual for an operating system which may be changed/updated
several times a year, then released in html and pdf.

Manual is written in Lyx. My task is producing the pdf and because
of aspect ratio differences between images in html on a screen
and in pdf for possible printing, we have a separate Lyx master
for pdf conversion.  Compare is used to update this master.

Compare is excellent for finding changes, including  minor
punctuation and in hyperlinks. Twice I have had the same
problem as Bert where the synchronisation between documents
is lost and Compare thinks that every character has changed.

Regards,
Gordon.

On 11/16/2015 08:35 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:


What was the interest for this particular Compare? Did you want to
see/edit changes within LyX, or simply to visualize differences
between files. If it is the latter, then one approach that could help
would be to use an intermediary file.

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Gordon Cooper]

Certainly, will do.  Files are a software manual and readily
available.

Gordon.

On 11/15/2015 06:57 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


If you come up with an example where Compare fails, and if the files 
are not confidential, we'd appreciate to have a copy (at least in 
private if this is better for you).


JMarc

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Gordon Cooper]

 Dear Bert,
   I have had this problem, without finding the cause. 
I use

Compare quite often on a 100 page document (which has multiple
maintainers and regular updates), and usually, the Differences
file is generated in a few minutes.

Twice, Compare has behaved as you describe and when I stopped the
process  then restarted it the problem had gone.  I came to the
conclusion that synchronisation had been lost between the two copies,
and that every character was then considered as having changed.

Perhaps that idea is incorrect, but Compare is working properly more
than 90% of the time.

Regards,
Gordon.



On 11/14/2015 04:15 AM, Bert Lloyd wrote:

Dear LyX users,

I am attempting to compare two versions of a LyX document using Tools
- Compare. The document is roughly 60,000 characters including spaces,
and my rough estimate is that 5% of the document has been changed
between the two versions.

I suspect I am doing something wrong, because the tool has been
running for over an hour, reports 40,000+ differences, and that it is
0% complete.

Any advice?

Thanks,

BL

PS - LyX 2.1.4 with MikTeX 2.9 on W10 Pro 64-bit.

Re: Converting from chm to Lyx

[Gordon Cooper]

Thanks for the replies.  The file is the help section of
a CAD programme with 400 pages and many graphics.
I can print  it directly to pdf but it needs editing, which
would be easier in Lyx, hence the question.

Richard,  will look at importing into LO.

Gordon.

Converting from chm to Lyx

[Gordon Cooper]

 I need to edit an elderly .chm help file and produce it in pdf. The
easiest edit  looks to be with Lyx.

 Has anyone done this conversion? I have looked in the archive,
 with a negative result.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Lyx 2.1.4

[Gordon Cooper]

The Lyx Team,

Have upgraded from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4 on MX14 Linux.  Had an initial problem
with a graphic being misplaced but this error disappeared after a reboot.
All is now behaving.

Many thanks for the work put into 2.1.4

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Lyx 2.1.4

[Gordon Cooper]

The Lyx Team,

Have upgraded from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4 on MX14 Linux.  Had an initial problem
with a graphic being misplaced but this error disappeared after a reboot.
All is now behaving.

Many thanks for the work put into 2.1.4

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Re: [SPAM] Re: Reducing Overfull \hbox

[Gordon Cooper]

  Thanks for that Steve, although I've been working with Koma
 Script with the only extra step  needed to prevent overlong
 lines in PDF was to allow hyperlinks to break over a line end.

Gordon.

Re: [SPAM] Re: Reducing Overfull \hbox

[Gordon Cooper]

  Thanks for that Steve, although I've been working with Koma
 Script with the only extra step  needed to prevent overlong
 lines in PDF was to allow hyperlinks to break over a line end.

Gordon.

Re: [SPAM] Re: Reducing Overfull \hbox

[Gordon Cooper]

  Thanks for that Steve, although I've been working with Koma
 Script with the only extra step  needed to prevent overlong
 lines in PDF was to allow hyperlinks to break over a line end.

Gordon.

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

Thanks for the advice to use apt, I should thought of that earlier.
In fact I did use the GUI version :  Package Search which is in the
repos.

Gordon

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

Thanks for the advice to use apt, I should thought of that earlier.
In fact I did use the GUI version :  Package Search which is in the
repos.

Gordon

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

Thanks for the advice to use apt, I should thought of that earlier.
In fact I did use the GUI version :  Package Search which is in the
repos.

Gordon

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

HI Michael,
   I am running Mx-Linux 14.4. There is no sign of ulem
in any of the repositories.

Thanks,
Gordon.


Hi Gordon,
no idea about your platform etc.

If you use openSUSE see the screenshot.

Michael

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

 Thanks for the suggestion Michael. MX-Linux is Debian based
so the RPM search did not work.  However, I have  learned a lot
more about the ulem package, and am now looking for a
method of finding it in the repository packages.

Gordon
N.Z.




Gordo, you may try an RPM Search: http://rpm.pbone.net/

and set the search filter to your respective OS / Linux package.

Michael

Re: ulem.sty- Found

[Gordon Cooper]

 For Debian based systems ulem.sty is in the package

texlive-generic-recommended.

Gordon
N,Z,

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

HI Michael,
   I am running Mx-Linux 14.4. There is no sign of ulem
in any of the repositories.

Thanks,
Gordon.


Hi Gordon,
no idea about your platform etc.

If you use openSUSE see the screenshot.

Michael

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

 Thanks for the suggestion Michael. MX-Linux is Debian based
so the RPM search did not work.  However, I have  learned a lot
more about the ulem package, and am now looking for a
method of finding it in the repository packages.

Gordon
N.Z.




Gordo, you may try an RPM Search: http://rpm.pbone.net/

and set the search filter to your respective OS / Linux package.

Michael

Re: ulem.sty- Found

[Gordon Cooper]

 For Debian based systems ulem.sty is in the package

texlive-generic-recommended.

Gordon
N,Z,

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

HI Michael,
   I am running Mx-Linux 14.4. There is no sign of ulem
in any of the repositories.

Thanks,
Gordon.


Hi Gordon,
no idea about your platform etc.

If you use openSUSE see the screenshot.

Michael

Re: ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

 Thanks for the suggestion Michael. MX-Linux is Debian based
so the RPM search did not work.  However, I have  learned a lot
more about the ulem package, and am now looking for a
method of finding it in the repository packages.

Gordon
N.Z.




Gordo, you may try an RPM Search: http://rpm.pbone.net/

and set the search filter to your respective OS / Linux package.

Michael

Re: ulem.sty- Found

[Gordon Cooper]

 For Debian based systems ulem.sty is in the package

texlive-generic-recommended.

Gordon
N,Z,

ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

Greetings to all,

The ulem.sty  filename  appears several times in the lyx-users archive
with most  requests reporting that the file was absent.  It happened to
 me today when a conversion to pdf stalled because ulem was missing.

All the dependency files were present and the problem difficult to find,
so I eventually re-installed everything that might be related. That 
fixed it.


I would be grateful if someone could advise just which package contains
ulem.sty so that if it happens again there'll be a quicker repair.

Thanks,
Gordon.

ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

Greetings to all,

The ulem.sty  filename  appears several times in the lyx-users archive
with most  requests reporting that the file was absent.  It happened to
 me today when a conversion to pdf stalled because ulem was missing.

All the dependency files were present and the problem difficult to find,
so I eventually re-installed everything that might be related. That 
fixed it.


I would be grateful if someone could advise just which package contains
ulem.sty so that if it happens again there'll be a quicker repair.

Thanks,
Gordon.

ulem.sty

[Gordon Cooper]

Greetings to all,

The ulem.sty  filename  appears several times in the lyx-users archive
with most  requests reporting that the file was absent.  It happened to
 me today when a conversion to pdf stalled because ulem was missing.

All the dependency files were present and the problem difficult to find,
so I eventually re-installed everything that might be related. That 
fixed it.


I would be grateful if someone could advise just which package contains
ulem.sty so that if it happens again there'll be a quicker repair.

Thanks,
Gordon.

Re: Strategies for locating errors

[Gordon Cooper]

On 06/05/15 09:57, Will Furnass wrote:

That works perfectly if the error is in the master document but not if
the error is in a child document (of which I have quite a few).


I have been having similar problems with errors, mainly relating to 
producing printable pdf versions
of a Software User Manual that has fairly frequent updates and changes. 
This manual is a team effort
written with Lyx with an on-line HTML version being the primary release 
format. The HTML does not
show some Latex errors but they do appear when a pdf conversion is 
attempted, and my team task

is to deal with the pdfs.

Error reports give a line number, which has been difficult to translate 
into a location in the Lyx file.
However, I'm now experimenting with the Latex Editor, Texmaker.  It 
appears to happily present the
Lyx files, all with line numbers. Perhaps this will help my error 
finding, we can but see.


Gordon
Tauranga
New Zealand.

Re: Strategies for locating errors

[Gordon Cooper]

On 06/05/15 09:57, Will Furnass wrote:

That works perfectly if the error is in the master document but not if
the error is in a child document (of which I have quite a few).


I have been having similar problems with errors, mainly relating to 
producing printable pdf versions
of a Software User Manual that has fairly frequent updates and changes. 
This manual is a team effort
written with Lyx with an on-line HTML version being the primary release 
format. The HTML does not
show some Latex errors but they do appear when a pdf conversion is 
attempted, and my team task

is to deal with the pdfs.

Error reports give a line number, which has been difficult to translate 
into a location in the Lyx file.
However, I'm now experimenting with the Latex Editor, Texmaker.  It 
appears to happily present the
Lyx files, all with line numbers. Perhaps this will help my error 
finding, we can but see.


Gordon
Tauranga
New Zealand.

Re: Strategies for locating errors

[Gordon Cooper]

On 06/05/15 09:57, Will Furnass wrote:

That works perfectly if the error is in the master document but not if
the error is in a child document (of which I have quite a few).


I have been having similar problems with errors, mainly relating to 
producing printable pdf versions
of a Software User Manual that has fairly frequent updates and changes. 
This manual is a team effort
written with Lyx with an on-line HTML version being the primary release 
format. The HTML does not
show some Latex errors but they do appear when a pdf conversion is 
attempted, and my team task

is to deal with the pdfs.

Error reports give a line number, which has been difficult to translate 
into a location in the Lyx file.
However, I'm now experimenting with the Latex Editor, Texmaker.  It 
appears to happily present the
Lyx files, all with line numbers. Perhaps this will help my error 
finding, we can but see.


Gordon
Tauranga
New Zealand.

Re: em dash doesn't display

[Gordon Cooper]

 A comment.
Running Lyx on MX-Linux 14.4,  to write a user manual about
the said 14.4, we have had the reverse problem with ems.

 In examples of command line instructions we needed multiple
dashes to be separate, only to find that they became ems in the
pdf copy.

The fix is simple, use Ctrl+Alt+dash (Protected Dash), no more
ems of any size.

Gordon.

Re: caption above a table

[Gordon Cooper]

Hi Timo,
   This is possible in some Scripts. Suggest you look at 
Section 3.10 of

Embedded Objects in Lyx Help.

Gordon.

On 19/04/15 09:41, Langer, Tino wrote:

Hello,

I have to put the caption of a table (using a floating object) at the 
top of the table. Is this possible using lyx (version 2.1.1)?


Many thanks! - Tino

Re: em dash doesn't display

[Gordon Cooper]

 A comment.
Running Lyx on MX-Linux 14.4,  to write a user manual about
the said 14.4, we have had the reverse problem with ems.

 In examples of command line instructions we needed multiple
dashes to be separate, only to find that they became ems in the
pdf copy.

The fix is simple, use Ctrl+Alt+dash (Protected Dash), no more
ems of any size.

Gordon.

Re: caption above a table

[Gordon Cooper]

Hi Timo,
   This is possible in some Scripts. Suggest you look at 
Section 3.10 of

Embedded Objects in Lyx Help.

Gordon.

On 19/04/15 09:41, Langer, Tino wrote:

Hello,

I have to put the caption of a table (using a floating object) at the 
top of the table. Is this possible using lyx (version 2.1.1)?


Many thanks! - Tino

Re: em dash doesn't display

[Gordon Cooper]

 A comment.
Running Lyx on MX-Linux 14.4,  to write a user manual about
the said 14.4, we have had the reverse problem with ems.

 In examples of command line instructions we needed multiple
dashes to be separate, only to find that they became ems in the
pdf copy.

The fix is simple, use Ctrl+Alt+dash (Protected Dash), no more
ems of any size.

Gordon.

Re: caption above a table

[Gordon Cooper]

Hi Timo,
   This is possible in some Scripts. Suggest you look at 
Section 3.10 of

Embedded Objects in Lyx Help.

Gordon.

On 19/04/15 09:41, Langer, Tino wrote:

Hello,

I have to put the caption of a table (using a floating object) at the 
top of the table. Is this possible using lyx (version 2.1.1)?


Many thanks! - Tino

Re: {SPAM} Does child inherit from master when only child is compiled?

[Gordon Cooper]

On 12/04/15 10:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

I have not made heavy use of child/master documents so I'm just getting
started with the basics.

If I compile only the child then is the LaTeX preamble still inherited
from the master?

Scott


Hi Scott,

  Adding to Richard's reply, I'm using a Master/child system on
a current project,  one that is regularly being updated/amended.

After several trials and tribulations,  have settled on a system
where the Master, is usually loaded while I'm working on one
of the children. This ensures that results of any test compilation
will be controlled by the Master preamble.   Children are treated
as separate units, always finishing with a page break and thus
can be edited, shrunk or enlarged, or even deleted with affecting
 page breaks in another child.  New sections can be added as
needed, just need to alter the list of inclusions in the Master.

When it's ready to release the whole document, Lyx very tidily
 sorts out the numbering for pages, Sections, subs.,  etc.,
and I'm finding it to be an easy way to work.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Re: {SPAM} Re: {SPAM} Does child inherit from master when only child is compiled?

[Gordon Cooper]

On 12/04/15 16:43, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

I still don't completely understand. You're saying that if you have the
master document load (so say you have both the master and child open in
tabs) then if you're on the child and you click on preview, then the
child is compiled with the master's preamble?


No. If you preview the child from the tab, it does not use the
Master's settings.   The only work-around if you were to be
spending some considerable time on the child document is
remove the other children from the Master's Include list.

Guess it depends on the size of the children and the amount of
work to be done on each.  The thing that I like is that although
the child files may be closed and dormant, Lyx knows their
framework so that it only takes a click on the Index to open
a child for viewing/work.

Gordon.

Re: {SPAM} Does child inherit from master when only child is compiled?

[Gordon Cooper]

On 12/04/15 10:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

I have not made heavy use of child/master documents so I'm just getting
started with the basics.

If I compile only the child then is the LaTeX preamble still inherited
from the master?

Scott


Hi Scott,

  Adding to Richard's reply, I'm using a Master/child system on
a current project,  one that is regularly being updated/amended.

After several trials and tribulations,  have settled on a system
where the Master, is usually loaded while I'm working on one
of the children. This ensures that results of any test compilation
will be controlled by the Master preamble.   Children are treated
as separate units, always finishing with a page break and thus
can be edited, shrunk or enlarged, or even deleted with affecting
 page breaks in another child.  New sections can be added as
needed, just need to alter the list of inclusions in the Master.

When it's ready to release the whole document, Lyx very tidily
 sorts out the numbering for pages, Sections, subs.,  etc.,
and I'm finding it to be an easy way to work.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Re: {SPAM} Re: {SPAM} Does child inherit from master when only child is compiled?

[Gordon Cooper]

On 12/04/15 16:43, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

I still don't completely understand. You're saying that if you have the
master document load (so say you have both the master and child open in
tabs) then if you're on the child and you click on preview, then the
child is compiled with the master's preamble?


No. If you preview the child from the tab, it does not use the
Master's settings.   The only work-around if you were to be
spending some considerable time on the child document is
remove the other children from the Master's Include list.

Guess it depends on the size of the children and the amount of
work to be done on each.  The thing that I like is that although
the child files may be closed and dormant, Lyx knows their
framework so that it only takes a click on the Index to open
a child for viewing/work.

Gordon.

Re: {SPAM} Does child inherit from master when only child is compiled?

[Gordon Cooper]

On 12/04/15 10:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

I have not made heavy use of child/master documents so I'm just getting
started with the basics.

If I compile only the child then is the LaTeX preamble still inherited
from the master?

Scott


Hi Scott,

  Adding to Richard's reply, I'm using a Master/child system on
a current project,  one that is regularly being updated/amended.

After several trials and tribulations,  have settled on a system
where the Master, is usually loaded while I'm working on one
of the children. This ensures that results of any test compilation
will be controlled by the Master preamble.   Children are treated
as separate units, always finishing with a page break and thus
can be edited, shrunk or enlarged, or even deleted with affecting
 page breaks in another child.  New sections can be added as
needed, just need to alter the list of inclusions in the Master.

When it's ready to release the whole document, Lyx very tidily
 sorts out the numbering for pages, Sections, subs.,  etc.,
and I'm finding it to be an easy way to work.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

Re: {SPAM} Re: {SPAM} Does child inherit from master when only child is compiled?

[Gordon Cooper]

On 12/04/15 16:43, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

I still don't completely understand. You're saying that if you have the
master document load (so say you have both the master and child open in
tabs) then if you're on the child and you click on preview, then the
child is compiled with the master's preamble?


No. If you preview the child from the tab, it does not use the
Master's settings.   The only work-around if you were to be
spending some considerable time on the child document is
remove the other children from the Master's Include list.

Guess it depends on the size of the children and the amount of
work to be done on each.  The thing that I like is that although
the child files may be closed and dormant, Lyx knows their
framework so that it only takes a click on the Index to open
a child for viewing/work.

Gordon.

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

 Blacklisting  'lithasa' has worked for me.

Gordon.

On 29/03/15 10:04, Gordon Cooper wrote:

  I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.

Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve 
though because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list. It is SPAM 
sent to you directly. So it is not a question of blocking the user 
from sending email to the list.


Scott

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

On 28/03/15 22:04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
If I send a mail to the Lyx User Group, each time I am getting 
immediately afterward this:



 Weitergeleitete Nachricht 
Datum:  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:46:01 +0100
Von:Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de



m...@lithasa.ru
 XX IXX.
Упсэу. Хъыбар уэдгъэщIэжынщ.


Am I the only one, and how can I avoid it?
Wolfgang


  I have been getting them too Wolfgang, for several weeks.
Have reported it.

Gordon.

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

  I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.

Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve though 
because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list. It is SPAM sent to 
you directly. So it is not a question of blocking the user from 
sending email to the list.


Scott

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

On 28/03/15 22:04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
If I send a mail to the Lyx User Group, each time I am getting 
immediately afterward this:



 Weitergeleitete Nachricht 
Datum:  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:46:01 +0100
Von:Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de



m...@lithasa.ru
 XX IXX.
Упсэу. Хъыбар уэдгъэщIэжынщ.


Am I the only one, and how can I avoid it?
Wolfgang


  I have been getting them too Wolfgang, for several weeks.
Have reported it.

Gordon.

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

  I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.

Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve though 
because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list. It is SPAM sent to 
you directly. So it is not a question of blocking the user from 
sending email to the list.


Scott

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

 Blacklisting  'lithasa' has worked for me.

Gordon.

On 29/03/15 10:04, Gordon Cooper wrote:

  I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.

Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve 
though because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list. It is SPAM 
sent to you directly. So it is not a question of blocking the user 
from sending email to the list.


Scott

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

On 28/03/15 22:04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
If I send a mail to the Lyx User Group, each time I am getting 
immediately afterward this:



 Weitergeleitete Nachricht 
Datum:  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:46:01 +0100
Von:Wolfgang Engelmann 



m...@lithasa.ru
 XX IXX.
Упсэу. Хъыбар уэдгъэщIэжынщ.


Am I the only one, and how can I avoid it?
Wolfgang


  I have been getting them too Wolfgang, for several weeks.
Have reported it.

Gordon.

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

  I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.

Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve though 
because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list. It is SPAM sent to 
you directly. So it is not a question of blocking the user from 
sending email to the list.


Scott

Re: ???

[Gordon Cooper]

 Blacklisting  'lithasa' has worked for me.

Gordon.

On 29/03/15 10:04, Gordon Cooper wrote:

  I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.

Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve 
though because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list. It is SPAM 
sent to you directly. So it is not a question of blocking the user 
from sending email to the list.


Scott

Re: Disable editing / read only menu option?

[Gordon Cooper]

 I would certainly use it. Have had a couple of instances
when I have been comparing  documents with shared
authorship and accidentally edited the wrong one.

Thanks,
Gordon

On 24/03/15 05:57, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
 Dear LyX users,

 What are your thoughts on having an option in the menu called
 something like Disable editing or Read only, which would make it
 so you could not edit the current document?

 The idea would be that sometimes you just want to read a .lyx file
 without being able to edit it.

 The disadvantage is adding another option to an already cluttered
 menu. This feature can always be activated on the command buffer (alt
 + x) with buffer-toggle-read-only.

 Note that this is http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6692.

 Best,

 Scott

Re: Disable editing / read only menu option?

[Gordon Cooper]

 I would certainly use it. Have had a couple of instances
when I have been comparing  documents with shared
authorship and accidentally edited the wrong one.

Thanks,
Gordon

On 24/03/15 05:57, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
 Dear LyX users,

 What are your thoughts on having an option in the menu called
 something like Disable editing or Read only, which would make it
 so you could not edit the current document?

 The idea would be that sometimes you just want to read a .lyx file
 without being able to edit it.

 The disadvantage is adding another option to an already cluttered
 menu. This feature can always be activated on the command buffer (alt
 + x) with buffer-toggle-read-only.

 Note that this is http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6692.

 Best,

 Scott

Re: "Disable editing" / "read only" menu option?

[Gordon Cooper]

 I would certainly use it. Have had a couple of instances
when I have been comparing  documents with shared
authorship and accidentally edited the wrong one.

Thanks,
Gordon

On 24/03/15 05:57, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> Dear LyX users,
>
> What are your thoughts on having an option in the menu called
> something like "Disable editing" or "Read only", which would make it
> so you could not edit the current document?
>
> The idea would be that sometimes you just want to read a .lyx file
> without being able to edit it.
>
> The disadvantage is adding another option to an already cluttered
> menu. This feature can always be activated on the command buffer (alt
> + x) with buffer-toggle-read-only.
>
> Note that this is http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6692.
>
> Best,
>
> Scott
>

Re: Math Symbols

[Gordon Cooper]

Hello Anders, (also Guenter and Chris)

 The platform is Mx-Linux using Lyx 2.1.3.  Mx
is based upon Debian.  Am actually
working on a 100+ page user manual for Mx, being written in Lyx. Koma
script and published in
 html and pdf.
 
  (Refer the Lyx Users post from Jerry Bond on 25 February about
html id tag)

We are working in text mode typing in the   from the keyboard.
These are used in
 command sequences, a Lyx example could be :  DocumentSettings Text
Layout. These
are correct in the lyx file but converting to pdf gives the wrong
symbols.  Have tried inserting
  from Lyx Insert Special CharacterSymbols, but the same errors
happen in pdf.

Other tests so far.  The same pdf reader - Okular - used for all tests.

1.  Output from the Lyx to .odt format  gave the same errors.

2. Working in Kubuntu 14.04  which uses Lyx 2.0.6  theare correct
in pdf.

3.  The | symbol also converts an error, gives a long dash. The quote symbol
sometimes gives an error but inserting from the Symbols menu is
correct.

Edit: Have just read Guenter's post.  Not sure about the OT1 font
encoding, will
follow that up.

My apology for the delay in reply, blame it on the world time zones.

Thanks,
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.