Re: list of figures / subfigures

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
 Rather than me torturing the LyX list with this, can anyone recommend a
 good LaTeX list (newsgroup?) where I can get help (beginner's) for the
 caption and subfigure packages?

comp.text.tex
de.comp.text.tex (German)

Jürgen

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Bo == Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I just published the version 0.6 of the LyX installer for Windows.
Bo Just tried the complete version of the installer on a fresh winXP
Bo VM: installation goes fine and everything works as expected. Thank
Bo you for the great work!

Bo I think this installer is ready to go public or even become
Bo official. Would you add the link to lyx/wiki, for example,
Bo http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136? It will be good if you can
Bo upload the installers to ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.7/ .

As Angus pointed out, the installer will go official when 1.3.7 goes
official.

Anyway you guys have to decide whether the two installers are kept (I
guess it makes sense, but somebody has to volunteer to maintain them)
hand to agree on a naming scheme for them (in order to avoid
confusion).

JMarc

adding short caption to subfigure [Was Re: list of figures / subfigures]

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
 Kevin Pfeiffer writes:

 [concerning the List of Figures page]

  1. I need something like tocleft to move the subfigures to the
  far left side (since their are no figures).

Found this one... (why I couldn't find this in the subfigure docs? Who 
knows, probably user-error. This time I'm printing out all 55 of the 
damn pages and will more intensively peruse them.) 

To use short captions for _subfigures_ in the List of Figures:

\subfigure[Here the short caption][Here the caption that appears 
directly under the subfigure.]{Here the imageHere the cross-ref. 
label}

I will add this to the subfigure page in the Wiki (after Christmas, 
after the book).

All the best,

Kevin




-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: adding short caption to subfigure [Was Re: list of figures / subfigures]

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
   1. I need something like tocleft to move the subfigures to the
   far left side (since their are no figures).

Oops -- too tired. Wrong question to right answer (tocleft for lof I 
am still working on -- printer is running as we speak.)

 To use short captions for _subfigures_ in the List of Figures:

-K






-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: TeX version is 3.141592. pi?

[Roy Schestowitz]

_/ On Thu 22 Dec 2005 18:03:55 GMT, [Angus Leeming] wrote : \_


John E. Harbold wrote:


Hi,

Has anyone noticed that the current
version of TeX is 3.141592. I'm having
adversed reaction to this because I
can't access the aastex macros.  Has TeX
been hacked yet?


I'm not sure what you're trying to say. If you're asking is the above TeX
version number expected, then yes, it's expected. Knuth it would be funny
(and probably reasonable) to indicate improvements in TeX by arriving at
the exact answer asymptotically.

That's mathematicians for you.


I once noticed the same thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Trivia

Also listen to:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4532247

Maths humour.

Roy

Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

All,

I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.

Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just skipped through during initial installation. Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says

LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

Check the contents of the file textclass.lst
Sorry, has to exist :-(

[OK]

I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful. I attempted to manually run configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

John
- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:


I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.


The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but 
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.


Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just skipped through during initial installation.


Were the skipped packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using 
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?



Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says

LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

Check the contents of the file textclass.lst
Sorry, has to exist :-(

[OK]

I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful.


There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system. 
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's 
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and 
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx.  Which did you look at 
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero 
bytes)?  The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on 
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length 
file as a result of something going wrong.



I attempted to manually run configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.


By manually run, do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program 
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory?  If so, does that spew a lot of 
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it 
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?


Paul

RE: Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the global
one to the local one but that didn't work.

When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.

John

- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 2:18 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installation Problem


John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:

 I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot
on
 the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to
be
 able to find what I am looking for.

The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.

 Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
 everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
 just skipped through during initial installation.

Were the skipped packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?

 Now, when I run lyx, I
 instantly get a popup message that says

 LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

 Check the contents of the file textclass.lst
 Sorry, has to exist :-(

 [OK]

 I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
 and don't see anything useful.

There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system.
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx.  Which did you look at
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero
bytes)?  The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length
file as a result of something going wrong.

 I attempted to manually run configure, but
 that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and
reinstall,
 but nothing changes.

By manually run, do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory?  If so, does that spew a lot of
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?

Paul

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: John W. Sheppard, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Windows Installation Problem



To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the 
global

one to the local one but that didn't work.

When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.

John



That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH

Suppose that you have Msys etc installed in C:\Msys\1.0\bin
and bin is where sh.exe is located. Then you should try from

C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure  [using the dos cmd prompt]

you would be in your ~lyx\resources\lyx directory which contains
the configure file, and type in C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure enter
(but no quotes when you type it) from the lyx\resources\lyx directory.

For me this looks like:
C:\Lyx\resources\lyx C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure enter

But you want to substitute your actual installation location,
maybe c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx, in place of my location.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:

To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the global
one to the local one but that didn't work.


That's a bit curious.  I take it that you still got the unable to find 
layout description/check textclass.lst message after you copied the 
global textclass.lst file over the broken local one?


Other than comments, the contents of the textclass.lst file is a list of 
LaTeX document classes, each line culminating with true or false 
according to whether a layout was found.  Is anybody in the (global) 
list flagged true?  In particular, you should have the following line:


article article article true

which signals that the basic article class has a layout.  If nobody is 
flagged true (don't know if that's even possible), it might signal a 
fundamental problem with MiKTeX.


Speaking of MiKTeX, have you verified that it's working post-update?


When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.


LyX 1.3.6 contains a path prefix that it prepends to your system path. 
 The path prefix contains (should contain?) the path to the MinSYS bin 
directory, where sh and related programs live.  So you don't need that 
on your system path for LyX to work.


In any case, the main purpose of running the configure script would be 
to generate the global textclass.lst file, which you already have.  The 
secondary purpose would be to verify that latex works (and that LyX can 
find it).


So the immediate mystery is why LyX won't settle for the global 
textclass.lst file.  Best guess from here would be that something is 
amiss with the file (corrupted, or doesn't show any usable layouts).


Paul

RE: Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

This is all very strange. I copied the file again, and it now seems to be
working.

Sorry for the false alarm, and thanks for the advice.

John

- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: Stephen Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 5:23 PM
To: John W. Sheppard, PhD; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installation Problem



- Original Message -
From: John W. Sheppard, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Windows Installation Problem


 To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
 MiKTeX.

 I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
 Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
 not check (in C:\Documents and
 Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the
 global
 one to the local one but that didn't work.

 When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
 to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
 it would get me anywhere.

 John


That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH

Suppose that you have Msys etc installed in C:\Msys\1.0\bin
and bin is where sh.exe is located. Then you should try from

C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure  [using the dos cmd prompt]

you would be in your ~lyx\resources\lyx directory which contains
the configure file, and type in C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure enter
(but no quotes when you type it) from the lyx\resources\lyx directory.

For me this looks like:
C:\Lyx\resources\lyx C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure enter

But you want to substitute your actual installation location,
maybe c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx, in place of my location.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: list of figures / subfigures

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
 Rather than me torturing the LyX list with this, can anyone recommend a
 good LaTeX list (newsgroup?) where I can get help (beginner's) for the
 caption and subfigure packages?

comp.text.tex
de.comp.text.tex (German)

Jürgen

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Bo == Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I just published the version 0.6 of the LyX installer for Windows.
Bo Just tried the complete version of the installer on a fresh winXP
Bo VM: installation goes fine and everything works as expected. Thank
Bo you for the great work!

Bo I think this installer is ready to go public or even become
Bo official. Would you add the link to lyx/wiki, for example,
Bo http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136? It will be good if you can
Bo upload the installers to ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.7/ .

As Angus pointed out, the installer will go official when 1.3.7 goes
official.

Anyway you guys have to decide whether the two installers are kept (I
guess it makes sense, but somebody has to volunteer to maintain them)
hand to agree on a naming scheme for them (in order to avoid
confusion).

JMarc

adding short caption to subfigure [Was Re: list of figures / subfigures]

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
 Kevin Pfeiffer writes:

 [concerning the List of Figures page]

  1. I need something like tocleft to move the subfigures to the
  far left side (since their are no figures).

Found this one... (why I couldn't find this in the subfigure docs? Who 
knows, probably user-error. This time I'm printing out all 55 of the 
damn pages and will more intensively peruse them.) 

To use short captions for _subfigures_ in the List of Figures:

\subfigure[Here the short caption][Here the caption that appears 
directly under the subfigure.]{Here the imageHere the cross-ref. 
label}

I will add this to the subfigure page in the Wiki (after Christmas, 
after the book).

All the best,

Kevin




-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: adding short caption to subfigure [Was Re: list of figures / subfigures]

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
   1. I need something like tocleft to move the subfigures to the
   far left side (since their are no figures).

Oops -- too tired. Wrong question to right answer (tocleft for lof I 
am still working on -- printer is running as we speak.)

 To use short captions for _subfigures_ in the List of Figures:

-K






-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations

Re: TeX version is 3.141592. pi?

[Roy Schestowitz]

_/ On Thu 22 Dec 2005 18:03:55 GMT, [Angus Leeming] wrote : \_


John E. Harbold wrote:


Hi,

Has anyone noticed that the current
version of TeX is 3.141592. I'm having
adversed reaction to this because I
can't access the aastex macros.  Has TeX
been hacked yet?


I'm not sure what you're trying to say. If you're asking is the above TeX
version number expected, then yes, it's expected. Knuth it would be funny
(and probably reasonable) to indicate improvements in TeX by arriving at
the exact answer asymptotically.

That's mathematicians for you.


I once noticed the same thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Trivia

Also listen to:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4532247

Maths humour.

Roy

Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

All,

I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.

Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just skipped through during initial installation. Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says

LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

Check the contents of the file textclass.lst
Sorry, has to exist :-(

[OK]

I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful. I attempted to manually run configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

John
- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:


I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.


The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but 
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.


Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just skipped through during initial installation.


Were the skipped packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using 
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?



Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says

LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

Check the contents of the file textclass.lst
Sorry, has to exist :-(

[OK]

I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful.


There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system. 
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's 
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and 
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx.  Which did you look at 
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero 
bytes)?  The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on 
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length 
file as a result of something going wrong.



I attempted to manually run configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.


By manually run, do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program 
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory?  If so, does that spew a lot of 
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it 
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?


Paul

RE: Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the global
one to the local one but that didn't work.

When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.

John

- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 2:18 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installation Problem


John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:

 I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot
on
 the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to
be
 able to find what I am looking for.

The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.

 Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
 everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
 just skipped through during initial installation.

Were the skipped packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?

 Now, when I run lyx, I
 instantly get a popup message that says

 LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

 Check the contents of the file textclass.lst
 Sorry, has to exist :-(

 [OK]

 I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
 and don't see anything useful.

There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system.
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx.  Which did you look at
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero
bytes)?  The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length
file as a result of something going wrong.

 I attempted to manually run configure, but
 that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and
reinstall,
 but nothing changes.

By manually run, do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory?  If so, does that spew a lot of
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?

Paul

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: John W. Sheppard, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Windows Installation Problem



To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the 
global

one to the local one but that didn't work.

When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.

John



That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH

Suppose that you have Msys etc installed in C:\Msys\1.0\bin
and bin is where sh.exe is located. Then you should try from

C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure  [using the dos cmd prompt]

you would be in your ~lyx\resources\lyx directory which contains
the configure file, and type in C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure enter
(but no quotes when you type it) from the lyx\resources\lyx directory.

For me this looks like:
C:\Lyx\resources\lyx C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure enter

But you want to substitute your actual installation location,
maybe c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx, in place of my location.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:

To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the global
one to the local one but that didn't work.


That's a bit curious.  I take it that you still got the unable to find 
layout description/check textclass.lst message after you copied the 
global textclass.lst file over the broken local one?


Other than comments, the contents of the textclass.lst file is a list of 
LaTeX document classes, each line culminating with true or false 
according to whether a layout was found.  Is anybody in the (global) 
list flagged true?  In particular, you should have the following line:


article article article true

which signals that the basic article class has a layout.  If nobody is 
flagged true (don't know if that's even possible), it might signal a 
fundamental problem with MiKTeX.


Speaking of MiKTeX, have you verified that it's working post-update?


When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.


LyX 1.3.6 contains a path prefix that it prepends to your system path. 
 The path prefix contains (should contain?) the path to the MinSYS bin 
directory, where sh and related programs live.  So you don't need that 
on your system path for LyX to work.


In any case, the main purpose of running the configure script would be 
to generate the global textclass.lst file, which you already have.  The 
secondary purpose would be to verify that latex works (and that LyX can 
find it).


So the immediate mystery is why LyX won't settle for the global 
textclass.lst file.  Best guess from here would be that something is 
amiss with the file (corrupted, or doesn't show any usable layouts).


Paul

RE: Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

This is all very strange. I copied the file again, and it now seems to be
working.

Sorry for the false alarm, and thanks for the advice.

John

- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: Stephen Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 5:23 PM
To: John W. Sheppard, PhD; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installation Problem



- Original Message -
From: John W. Sheppard, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Windows Installation Problem


 To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
 MiKTeX.

 I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
 Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
 not check (in C:\Documents and
 Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the
 global
 one to the local one but that didn't work.

 When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
 to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
 it would get me anywhere.

 John


That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH

Suppose that you have Msys etc installed in C:\Msys\1.0\bin
and bin is where sh.exe is located. Then you should try from

C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure  [using the dos cmd prompt]

you would be in your ~lyx\resources\lyx directory which contains
the configure file, and type in C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure enter
(but no quotes when you type it) from the lyx\resources\lyx directory.

For me this looks like:
C:\Lyx\resources\lyx C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure enter

But you want to substitute your actual installation location,
maybe c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx, in place of my location.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: list of figures / subfigures

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> Rather than me torturing the LyX list with this, can anyone recommend a
> good LaTeX list (newsgroup?) where I can get help (beginner's) for the
> caption and subfigure packages?

comp.text.tex
de.comp.text.tex (German)

Jürgen

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> I just published the version 0.6 of the LyX installer for Windows.
Bo> Just tried the complete version of the installer on a fresh winXP
Bo> VM: installation goes fine and everything works as expected. Thank
Bo> you for the great work!

Bo> I think this installer is ready to go public or even become
Bo> official. Would you add the link to lyx/wiki, for example,
Bo> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136? It will be good if you can
Bo> upload the installers to ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.7/ .

As Angus pointed out, the installer will go official when 1.3.7 goes
official.

Anyway you guys have to decide whether the two installers are kept (I
guess it makes sense, but somebody has to volunteer to maintain them)
hand to agree on a naming scheme for them (in order to avoid
confusion).

JMarc

adding short caption to subfigure [Was Re: list of figures / subfigures]

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
> Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
>
> [concerning the List of Figures page]
>
> > 1. I need something like "tocleft" to move the subfigures to the
> > far left side (since their are no figures).

Found this one... (why I couldn't find this in the subfigure docs? Who 
knows, probably user-error. This time I'm printing out all 55 of the 
damn pages and will more intensively peruse them.) 

To use "short captions" for _subfigures_ in the List of Figures:

\subfigure["Here the short caption"]["Here the caption that appears 
directly under the subfigure.]{"Here the image""Here the cross-ref. 
label}

I will add this to the subfigure page in the Wiki (after Christmas, 
after the book).

All the best,

Kevin




-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations

Re: adding short caption to subfigure [Was Re: list of figures / subfigures]

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
> > > 1. I need something like "tocleft" to move the subfigures to the
> > > far left side (since their are no figures).

Oops -- too tired. Wrong question to right answer ("tocleft" for "lof" I 
am still working on -- printer is running as we speak.)

> To use "short captions" for _subfigures_ in the List of Figures:

-K






-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations

Re: TeX version is 3.141592. pi?

[Roy Schestowitz]

_/ On Thu 22 Dec 2005 18:03:55 GMT, [Angus Leeming] wrote : \_


John E. Harbold wrote:


Hi,

Has anyone noticed that the current
version of TeX is 3.141592. I'm having
adversed reaction to this because I
can't access the aastex macros.  Has TeX
been hacked yet?


I'm not sure what you're trying to say. If you're asking is the above TeX
version number expected, then yes, it's expected. Knuth it would be funny
(and probably reasonable) to indicate improvements in TeX by arriving at
the exact answer asymptotically.

That's mathematicians for you.


I once noticed the same thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Trivia

Also listen to:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4532247

Maths humour.

Roy

Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

All,

I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.

Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just "skipped through" during initial installation. Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says

LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
Sorry, has to exist :-(

[OK]

I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful. I attempted to "manually run" configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

John
- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:


I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.


The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but 
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.


Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just "skipped through" during initial installation.


Were the "skipped" packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using 
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?



Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says

LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
Sorry, has to exist :-(

[OK]

I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful.


There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system. 
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's 
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and 
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx.  Which did you look at 
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero 
bytes)?  The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on 
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length 
file as a result of something going wrong.



I attempted to "manually run" configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.


By "manually run", do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program 
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory?  If so, does that spew a lot of 
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it 
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?


Paul

RE: Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the global
one to the local one but that didn't work.

When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.

John

- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 2:18 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installation Problem


John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:
>
> I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot
on
> the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to
be
> able to find what I am looking for.

The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.
>
> Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
> everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
> just "skipped through" during initial installation.

Were the "skipped" packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?

> Now, when I run lyx, I
> instantly get a popup message that says
>
> LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!
>
> Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
> Sorry, has to exist :-(
>
> [OK]
>
> I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
> and don't see anything useful.

There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system.
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx.  Which did you look at
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero
bytes)?  The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length
file as a result of something going wrong.

> I attempted to "manually run" configure, but
> that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and
reinstall,
> but nothing changes.

By "manually run", do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory?  If so, does that spew a lot of
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?

Paul

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "John W. Sheppard, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Windows Installation Problem



To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the 
global

one to the local one but that didn't work.

When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.

John



That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH

Suppose that you have Msys etc installed in C:\Msys\1.0\bin
and bin is where sh.exe is located. Then you should try from

C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure  [using the dos cmd prompt]

you would be in your ~lyx\resources\lyx directory which contains
the configure file, and type in "C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure" 
(but no quotes when you type it) from the lyx\resources\lyx directory.

For "me" this looks like:
C:\Lyx\resources\lyx> C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure 

But you want to substitute your actual installation location,
maybe c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx, in place of "my" location.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:

To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the global
one to the local one but that didn't work.


That's a bit curious.  I take it that you still got the "unable to find 
layout description/check textclass.lst" message after you copied the 
global textclass.lst file over the broken local one?


Other than comments, the contents of the textclass.lst file is a list of 
LaTeX document classes, each line culminating with true or false 
according to whether a layout was found.  Is anybody in the (global) 
list flagged true?  In particular, you should have the following line:


"article" "article" "article" "true"

which signals that the basic article class has a layout.  If nobody is 
flagged true (don't know if that's even possible), it might signal a 
fundamental problem with MiKTeX.


Speaking of MiKTeX, have you verified that it's working post-update?


When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.


LyX 1.3.6 contains a "path prefix" that it prepends to your system path. 
 The path prefix contains (should contain?) the path to the MinSYS bin 
directory, where sh and related programs live.  So you don't need that 
on your system path for LyX to work.


In any case, the main purpose of running the configure script would be 
to generate the global textclass.lst file, which you already have.  The 
secondary purpose would be to verify that latex works (and that LyX can 
find it).


So the immediate mystery is why LyX won't settle for the global 
textclass.lst file.  Best guess from here would be that something is 
amiss with the file (corrupted, or doesn't show any usable layouts).


Paul

RE: Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

This is all very strange. I copied the file again, and it now seems to be
working.

Sorry for the false alarm, and thanks for the advice.

John

- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: Stephen Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 5:23 PM
To: John W. Sheppard, PhD; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installation Problem



- Original Message -
From: "John W. Sheppard, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Windows Installation Problem


> To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
> MiKTeX.
>
> I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
> Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
> not check (in C:\Documents and
> Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the
> global
> one to the local one but that didn't work.
>
> When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
> to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
> it would get me anywhere.
>
> John
>

That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH

Suppose that you have Msys etc installed in C:\Msys\1.0\bin
and bin is where sh.exe is located. Then you should try from

C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure  [using the dos cmd prompt]

you would be in your ~lyx\resources\lyx directory which contains
the configure file, and type in "C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure" 
(but no quotes when you type it) from the lyx\resources\lyx directory.

For "me" this looks like:
C:\Lyx\resources\lyx> C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure 

But you want to substitute your actual installation location,
maybe c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx, in place of "my" location.

Regards,
Stephen