Re: Zoom in LyX (like in firefox)
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: So I would suggest to invert the zoom in and out. I wonder if others consider this issue the same way. This doesn't look logical to me but I can do the change if that's the trend.. It is the same on the Mac for system-wide 'optical' (loop-type) zomm. Do you mean same as LyX-1.6b4 or as Firefox-3? Abdel.
Re: Zoom in LyX (like in firefox)
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: So I would suggest to invert the zoom in and out. I wonder if others consider this issue the same way. This doesn't look logical to me but I can do the change if that's the trend.. It is the same on the Mac for system-wide 'optical' (loop-type) zomm. Do you mean same as LyX-1.6b4 or as Firefox-3? Scroll-up zooms in. So as in Firefox-3, I presume. OK, I'll do the change then. Thanks, Abdel.
Re: [Fwd: [CMake] Using CMake? Please tell us about it]
Yegor Yefremov wrote: Hello, what about adding Lyx to this list? Feel free to do that. Abdel.
Re: export to latex(plain) not working in lyx1.6.0Beta4
Olivier Ripoll wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This will be fixed for 1.6.0 eventually. But there is a work-around as Uwe said in his announcement: Important note: Due to a bug in LyX you are first be able to export documents to e.g. PDF after opening the preferences dialog and clicking there on the save button. I guess nobody reads the announcement :-) Or nobody can understand what this sentence means (you are first be able) ;-) I have by the way no problem to export to pdf (pdflatex or ps2pdf) on Windows. Olivier, Could you please look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4693 There is a question for you. Thanks in advance, Abdel.
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
Steve Litt wrote: Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create 1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can continue to be done in the 1.5.x format. I'm presuming that the LyX developers will create the 1.5.x to XML converter so users can upgrade their old docs, and hopefully they would keep that converter updated for each new LyX version, so that you and I wouldn't need to worry about coding the 1.5.x to XML. Yes, switching to XML doesn't mean abandoning lyx2lyx. The difference is that we will be able to use simpler XSL templates for the conversion. The advantage being that the XSL templates will be available to all, not being specificy to python or lyx2lyx. By the way, the switch to XML is not going to happen with 1.6 but with 1.7, that is at least one year from now ;-) The only thing you and I would have to do is the XML to 1.5.x converter. This will be provided by lyx2lyx too. 1.7-XML will export to all 1.x formats with x = 6. I'm pretty darned good with C, and if necessary I can do C++ (but with a C accent). If we pick an XML parser with full schema/dtd capability, that doesn't have many dependencies, then if you know how to write 1.5.x, I can feed you whatever data is needed to write the 1.5.x. As I said above, this 1.7 to 1.6 will be supported via a simple XSL stylesheet. It's really the other direction 1.6 to 1.7 that will be difficult to implement. But hey, all help is welcome, the development of 1.7 is going to begin in a couple of months so if you want to have a say in the new XML format, come along on the devel list ;-) Abdel.
Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle
José Matos wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Thanks SteeveT I am not sure we have this in bigzilla but I agree it would be nice to have both in LyX and in bugzilla (if it is not there yet). Something that I had the need to recently was to find where a given bibliographic citation was used. Again another search issue. He he, in 1.6 you can use the navigator, there is a list of citation there in case you didn't notice :-) As for character style naigation, we could have something similar in 1.6.x. Abdel.
Re: Math in a footnote
Marwan Boustany wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:16:56 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan Peace, By the way my other email above on the lyx list Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI Was sent yesterday... and it was somehow delayed. This posting is from today where i have found what stopped my document being converted to pdf etc.. I see it today. The mailing lists were down over the week-end apparently. My apologies for the inconvenience. It is not your fault :-) Cheers, Abdel.
Re: Math in a footnote
Yago wrote: Peace Are you going to pollute the list with your empty replies each time Marwan send something? Humour is best appreciated when done once... Abdel.
Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following error message: Hi Steve, Not directly related to this bug but, FYI, you might want to try the listings inset instead of lyxcode; you would get syntax highlightting for free thanks to the listings LateX package if that's what you are intented to do with your tailored lyxcode styles. As a side note, the lyxcode environment is a hack and a fragile one. You'd better off using the listings inset, really. Abdel.
Re: Finding Bad characters
G. Milde wrote: On 25.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: I assume unicode is a 16 bit representation of characters. Actually, unicode is a character-- number mapping without an upper limit to the numbers. Once upon a time, 16 bit where enough to represent all defined unicode characters, but even then several different encodings into a computer readable format existed. Programs that relied on unicode == 16 bit (including LaTeX) have problems now with higher unicode numbers. FYI, LyX uses utf32 internally, that is the 32 bit version, and utf8 as its file format. Abdel.
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
G. Milde wrote: On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see why it would be harder if we just replace \begin...\end with.../. Trouble is, replacing \begin..\end with.../ is a hack. ... There's no such requirement in XML, and if we require it, that's a hack. I'd call it a layout convention. IMO it is perfectly legal to define the lyx file format as ... uses XML ... ... is laid out in a manner to facilitate processing by tools that operate on a line basis (grep, merge, sed, awk, ...) ... Right, but LyX should not depend on this human friendly format. IOW LyX will be able to parse non nicely formatted .lyx file but will always output nicely formatted .lyx file. We could add an option to lyx2lyx so that badly formatted LyX files generated by some external tool would be transformed into a nicely formatted .lyx file. See? I don't forecast any parsing problem :-) Abdel.
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team projects? How often they have to merge text files from different branches? Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see why it would be harder if we just replace \begin...\end with.../. I think LyX cannot exist with XML data format without build-in document merge functionality. This would be nice in any case. Shameless plug: http://www.lyx.org/Donate#sponsorship Abdel.
Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND
rgheck wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this error? Yes. Overwrite the Preamble definiton by defining a replacement (maybe empty) in your copy. FYI: LyX 1.6 has a new AddToPreamble tag for cases where you don't LyX 1.6 _will_ have... I just realized that we (me included) keep evangelizing how great 1.6 is (will be) but firt we should release it ;-) Abdel.
Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 03:22, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following error message: Hi Steve, Not directly related to this bug but, FYI, you might want to try the listings inset instead of lyxcode; you would get syntax highlightting for free thanks to the listings LateX package if that's what you are intented to do with your tailored lyxcode styles. As a side note, the lyxcode environment is a hack and a fragile one. You'd better off using the listings inset, really. Abdel. Thanks Abdel, Several months ago I made a policy decision not to use the listings inset, and I don't remember why I made that decision :-) Hum... I have a strong feeling of déjà vu: me suggesting the very same advice and you answering with the very same answer... getting old :-) Abdel.
Re: Excel graphs into Lyx
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I tried this and it works with an excellent quality (vector format). It seems that it doesn't work with excel 2007. Copy the graph as an image ( press shift and go in the edit menu then choose something like save an image ). You'll have a little dialog where you choose the appearance like in print. Then you open PowerPoint, copy the image in an empty slide ( control-V does it ). An finally you save the slide in WMF, the office vector format (Windows Metafiles). This file is quite short and in a vector format, you can use it in LyX without any problem. ( I think it's better to have at least 1.5.5 ). Just FYI, 1.6 _will_ have native graphics clipboard support. On Windows the emf and wmf formats will also be supported. This means that all you _will_ need to do is: - select the graph in Excel - copy to clipboard (Ctrl-c) - paste in LyX (Ctrl-v) LyX will ask you were to put the emf file. Abdel.
Re: Double-click inside math mode
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Do you think this new requested feature would be helpful http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5095 I confirmed it. Abdel.
Re: Excel graphs into Lyx
Les Denham wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 01:55 -0700, timtheenchanter wrote: Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best way to import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for example the quality of the finished document is poor. The new capabilities in 1.6 will be very nice, but meanwhile ... 1. Install PDFCreator (it's a GPL opensource package). 2. Print your Excel spreadsheet to PDF using PDFCreator as the printer. 3. Include the PDF page in your LyX document. I haven't done this with Excel, but I have done it with other programs, and it works very nicely, especially if you take the trouble to format your output to fill a single page nicely. Right, I also often use this very method because it gives pdf graphics instead of emf. That being said, an automatic emf to pdf conversion is possible too. Abdel.
Re: Math in a footnote
Marwan Boustany wrote: -Original Message- From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OK. Try the attached. What happens? Please run LyX from a terminal, thus: lyx -dbg latex and post whatever LyX produces when you try to ViewDVI. Then delete the footnote, and do it again. Let's see what differences there are. rh Peace, I am not running a linux machine... You don't need to. Open a Windows console (DOS command if you prefer), cd C:\Program Files\LyX16\bin lyx -dbg latex Abdel. PS: By the way Marwan, please try to indent the replied message with '' character as above. Your mailer should be able to do this automatically. This helps to sort who is saying what quickly.
Re: [Fwd: Re: Holy Moly!]
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Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/7/30 Steve Litt[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 Having read most of the responses, they can all be summed up thusly: LaTeX (and LyX) is a committment. If you put a lot into it, you get a lot out of it. If you put very little into it, you get less than zero out of it. LaTeX (and LyX) isn't for everyone. IMHO if you're only going to write one book, it's not worth learning LaTeX or LyX. For me, the payoff has come over multiple books. Is LyX only good for writing books, then? That is Steve's opinion :-) I use LyX for all my writings: letters, invoices, articles, technical documents, now also CV, etc. I am currently an OOo Writer user. I am always frustrated with styles and I wish that I could just edit the source of the document like I edit HTML. In fact, I have often considered just using HTML but it does not translate well to PDF, and there is no good equations editing capability. I understood from the /. post that LyX would let me work with a document, and edit the source where I see necessary. Is this not so? Yes, this is possible but not really recommended. Although power user like Steeve do it. A better alternative to editing .lyx format is the ability to insert raw LateX directly from the LyX window. Although I have invested in learning a bit of PHP, a bit of C, a bit of HTML/CSS, etc, I don't have the resources at the moment to spend more than a few hours learning a new tool. And full LaTeX will take more than a few good hours :) I've been a LyX user for more than 10 years and I never took the time to learn LateX :-) Abdel.
Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: technical documents, Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO. I beg to differ, quite strongly. The moment you write something else than text (e.g. math). You just can't beat LyX. Oh and I also use LyX for taking note when I am at a conference or in a meeting. I am so used to LyX typing that my notes look nice and well structured from the very beginning, nicer than if I hand-write them :-) now also CV, etc. I wouldn't use LyX for resumes. Fine-tuned layout is very important in resumes, because they need to be 1 page or 2 pages, and aesthetically pleasing. A resume is much more like an advertisement than like an article. In advertisements, putting this block of text just in this place with that font is essential. IMHO the tool to use for resumes is OO Writer or MS Word or even Inkscape or Gimp, but not LyX, LaTeX or TeX. Well, for people like me who didn't change his CV layout for years, the modern CV class gave a refreshing look to my CV :-) Although I have invested in learning a bit of PHP, a bit of C, a bit of HTML/CSS, etc, I don't have the resources at the moment to spend more than a few hours learning a new tool. And full LaTeX will take more than a few good hours :) I've been a LyX user for more than 10 years and I never took the time to learn LateX :-) Abdel -- when you need to get an environment's appearance just so, how do you do it without LaTeX? How do you make new environments? I don't :-) I almost never have strong idea of what appearance should be. I think I know. There are people who know hundreds of LaTeX packages and what they do, so they can accomplish any kind of look just by including an additional package and using it correctly. Abdel -- is that how you get the look you want without being a LaTeX expert? Not really. OK, I know more or less my way around some packages but the real answer is that I am pretty satisfied with LyX official document classes. _I_ don't feel the need to tweak them. The bigger tweaking I do is adding vertical space, horizontal space or page break, that's all. I also do use characters style now (the 1.6 incarnation of it). Abdel.
Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot
rgheck wrote: Denné Reed wrote: I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). LyX does have change tracking. I've used it. Unfamiliarity is of course something we can change. ;-) Right, it does work but is not as easy to use as Word'. But I think Denné was more talking about collaboration tools with other word processors. This is not really possible I'm afraid. Concrete suggestions for how we could improve collaboration would be more than welcome. Post them here for comment, or on lyx-devel, and then add them to bugzilla once we have some clarity. I know that this is a big issue for a lot of people, and it's something a lot of us think about. It's way too late to do anything on this score for 1.6, but for 1.7 Yep, I also have some ideas how to improve it, hopefully for 1.7 :-) I've tried sharing drafts with PDF but that requires colleagues to purchase full versions of Acrobat, and still the tools are tracking changes are not as good. I'm puzzled by this remark. Why does that require Acrobat? Is this for notating PDFs and the like? If so, you might want to look into AREnable: http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/. And my understanding is that there are FOSS pdf viewers on the near horizon that will do this. Right, Acrobat is a mammoth; On Windows there are also a number of free as in beer pdf manipulation tool wich allows annotation and such. I like Foxit for example. Abdel.
Re: numbered environments of section, etc. not working in LyX 1.6 beta4
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Soe Naung schrieb: I have been testing the LyX 1.6 beta4 and I have found that numbered environments do not respond while unnumbered ones (e.g., section*, etc) do work. This has been fixed in the meantime. Can someone help me to find a workaround? No, but why? Beta versions are for testing only. Well, there is nonetheless a work around: use the 'Alt-m number' kerboard shortcuts. Abdel.
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't expect the switch to XML to cause me any problems, and to be honest I'm a bit puzzled by all the worrying. /me too :-) Abdel.
Re: CopyStyle applied?
Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hello, I am very intrigued by the keyword CopyStyle recently discussed and I would like to create a layout for the class exam (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exam/) I don't want to refrain your enthusiasm but, just for your information, you can achieve almost the same result using branches in LyX. [...] The questions are automatically numbered like in the png attached. So, I would be very grateful for suggestions of how to handle this environments (questions,solution) and the command question in the layout with the CopyStyle keyword! That'd be interesting to know in any case :-) Abdel.
Re: Labelling equations
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Christopher Stowasser wrote: I admit, that my last sentence is very confusing. Just forget about it. What I meant was: If I put the cursor before or behind the math box, i.e in the normal text, I can use the label function. As soon as I put the cursor in the math box the label function is inactive. Therefore I cannot label the equation in the math box. As long as I cannot asign a label to the equation it makes no sense to look at the pdf I guess. Just to make sure we're all on the same page, you're talking about a displayed math inset (on its own line), right? If you have a math inset in the middle of a line of text, you won't be able to insert a label (the label item on the insert menu is grayed out), because inserting a label there makes no sense. A label in a math inset refers to the equation number, and in-line math insets don't get numbered. I can understand that this behavior is confusing for a new comer that haven't read the tutorial :-). Maybe we should authorize label insertion also for inline formulas and automatically switch to displayed formula if a label is inserted. Maybe with a warning box that explains what LyX did and what the user should do in order to avoid this warning box. Abdel.
Re: feature request
Rodrigo Fresneda wrote: hi, it would be nice if, when editing a document part of a master document, it would be possible to toggle the lyx cross-reference dialog to only show equation labels from the child document being edited. Do you mean in 1.6? I've seen someone else requesting this already (Abe?) All I can say is Maybe :-) Abdel.
Re: Pseudocode in LyX?
Pascal Francq wrote: Crtl+L I guess bigblop is searching an alternative for exactly that ;-) On Jeudi 7 Août 2008, bigblop wrote: Are there any build in pseudocode editor in LyX or is it only possible to write pseudocode by inserting a raw latex environment in the lyx file? Two ways: 1) Insert - Programming listing 2) Layout Combo - LyX-Code environment. Abdel.
Re: Changing language from English to British
Hassan Khater wrote: I have 7 child documents, the first four of these were created with English language set as default. Changing the spell check to British only underlines text as written by different language. This is done by changing both: Document - Settings - Language to British and Tools - Preferences - Default Language to British Already written text keep their language, independently of the above settings. The language still English as seen in the source code and spell check still apply American dictionary. More funny thing is that, I copied the text into a new LYX file with the new language settings but text is still checked using the English (American) dictionary while added text to same file is checked using British dictionary. For example it suggests some times to change (neighbor to neighbour) and some times (neighbour to neighbor) Hassan Khater Language is a text property, you must change it using the text style dialog (Edit - Text Style - Customized) or using the minibuffer: 1) Select some text 2) Alt-x 3) language englishenter Abdel
Re: math tool
Michael Wojcik wrote: rgheck wrote: nisa wrote: how math editor is implemented in lyx? how does it automatically format text? pls tell the technical aspects of it in the coding part etc Why would you think this was simple enough to be explained in an email message? Now that part is complicated! You can see it here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/src/mathed. Not many of us developers even understand it, though. Andre Poenitz is the master I just browsed a bit of it, and it doesn't look all that hard. Basically a polymorphic model/view system where each sort of math object knows how to render itself, which is what I'd expect. That's a standard idiom - it's the main example in the original Gang of Four _Design Patterns_ book, after all. I'd think someone with decent C++ knowledge and a reasonable grasp of software design could figure the architecture out with a little browsing through the code and perhaps following a few examples through the debugger. (Which is not to say anything against any of the LyX developers - I don't see why anyone would do that unless they need to know how it works. I'm sure all of you *could* if you felt the need.) Or am I missing something? I only read through four or five source files. I don't think you missed anything. And we'd be delighted to have you within the development team :-) Abdel.
Re: How to make some paragraphs uselesstermporally?
Marcelo Acuña wrote: Does anyone know how to make some paragraphs useless termporally? Now I want some paragraphs disappear termporally?. But I dont want to delete them, because I will use it in future. In WinEdt, the symbol % can do the job. Which symbol in lyx is charge of this function? This is just my experience, it might be useful: I save the unused paragraph, but may be considered later, including the equations, in note : Insert Note LyX Note When I need this, I can copy to the standard environment. Or click in Disolve Inset. Is more easy than copy. Or move the cursor at the very beginning of the note inset and hit backspace. Abdel.
Re: tab through eqnarray environment - bug in 1.6rc1?
James Sutherland wrote: Has anyone noticed that in 1.6rc1 using the tab key to skip through the three fields in the eqnarray environment does not function properly? Shift-Tab cycles in reverse as it has in the past, but Tab does not cycle forward... This is a known problem that we intend to fix before 1.6.0. The problem is that the completion framework monopolize the tab key for requesting completion. We need to find a good key in replacement for tab but we didn't reach a consensus yet. Feel free to suggest something. Abdel.
Re: auto context menu bug in 1.6rc1?
James Sutherland wrote: Kudos to the development team for a fabulous 1.6! I particularly like the word completion and math macro features. Forgive me if this bug is already well known, but the context menus for You mean the context toolbars aren't you? math, macros, and tables all do not appear when those environments are active. I can turn them on but then they are always present. I really liked the auto feature in 1.5x, but it seems to be broken in 1.6rc1. I can't remember seeing this bug but I'll check it out. Please create a bugzilla entry for this. Thanks for the report, Abdel.
Re: tab through eqnarray environment - bug in 1.6rc1?
On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: James Sutherland wrote: Has anyone noticed that in 1.6rc1 using the tab key to skip through the three fields in the eqnarray environment does not function properly? Shift-Tab cycles in reverse as it has in the past, but Tab does not cycle forward... This is a known problem that we intend to fix before 1.6.0. The problem is that the completion framework monopolize the tab key for requesting completion. We need to find a good key in replacement for tab but we didn't reach a consensus yet. Feel free to suggest something. Abdel. For convenience, I would suggest Ctrl-Tab for forward-cycling through eqnarray fields Can't do that as Ctrl-Tab is reserved to document switching. and Shift-Tab for reverse-cycling. This maintains the current reverse-cycling key bindings and is only a minor change for forward-cycling. James
Re: tab through eqnarray environment - bug in 1.6rc1?
For convenience, I would suggest Ctrl-Tab for forward-cycling through eqnarray fields Can't do that as Ctrl-Tab is reserved to document switching. Isn't that Ctrl-` ? Not on Windows and on KDE AFAIK. And Alt-Tab (on Mac, Command-Tab) is for application switching. Yes, same on Windows and KDE. Abdel.
Re: plug: LyX article on Linux.com
killermike wrote: José Matos wrote: That is a nice article. :-) I second that :-) Thanks. And thanks to you for advertising LyX, we will need more of this when 1.6.0 is finally out. Abdel.
Re: tab through eqnarray environment - bug in 1.6rc1?
G. Milde wrote: On 29.08.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: James Sutherland wrote: Shift-Tab cycles in reverse as it has in the past, but Tab does not cycle forward... This is a known problem that we intend to fix before 1.6.0. The problem is that the completion framework monopolize the tab key for requesting completion. Just courious: * even if the completion feature is switched off? This is hard-coded right now so yes, I think so, not sure though. * is the Tab binding hard-coded or configurable? hard-coded :-/ We need to find a good key in replacement for tab but we didn't reach a consensus yet. Feel free to suggest something. In my favourite text editor, I use Ctrl-A for completion and Tab for indenting. But IMO, there is need for configurable adaptive keybindings: user configurable: This is already possible (via the *.bind files and since 1.6 also via GUI) adaptive: smart bindings that take into account the context, e.g. the same key should be configurable to different lfuns in math and text mode. There are simply too few keys for too many actions, so we should avoid bindings that result in command disabled. Right. We try to do that with Tab related keys. Abdel.
Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings
Manveru wrote: 2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing Reply-to: header in messages coming from the list. This causes that when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few times replying directly to people asking something. Could this be repaired? It is considered bad practice, see e.g. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html JMarc You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to correct address every time I reply. Google mail allows you to reply all and that's what you should always do when replying to a message in this list. You should hit reply only if you want to answer privately. Abdel.
Re: toolbar customization
Tariq Abdullah wrote: Hi, Is there a way to customize Lyx toolbars? I want to add/remove buttons from toolbar. How can I do that? Look at lib/ui/stdtoolbars.inc, you can put a copy of that in your .lyx directory and modify it. If you are on Windows replace 'lib' with 'Resource' and '.lyx' with 'AppData' or such. Abdfel.
Re: splitting a cell in Lyx
Tariq Abdullah wrote: Hi, I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that? (Attached file pdf file contains the same table) In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can do it using ERT of course. Abdel.
Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings
Manveru wrote: 2008/9/4 Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Manveru wrote: 2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing Reply-to: header in messages coming from the list. This causes that when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few times replying directly to people asking something. Could this be repaired? It is considered bad practice, see e.g. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html JMarc You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to correct address every time I reply. Google mail allows you to reply all and that's what you should always do when replying to a message in this list. You should hit reply only if you want to answer privately. Google then put maillist address into CC: field which is completely stupid. Why is that stupid? You are replying first and foremost to this person and you are kind enough to let the list be aware of what are replying. And leaves sender in To: field. Still needs manual operation. The end result is basically the same. If the original sender don't want to be replied directly he can set his own reply-to to the list before sending. Abdel.
Re: splitting a cell in Lyx
Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Tariq Abdullah wrote: Hi, I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that? (Attached file pdf file contains the same table) In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can do it using ERT of course. Abdel. I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table. Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells. You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6). Abdel.
Re: splitting a cell in Lyx
Niklas Huldén wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Tariq Abdullah wrote: Hi, I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that? (Attached file pdf file contains the same table) In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can do it using ERT of course. Abdel. I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table. Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells. You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6). Abdel. Sorry, I didn't read this properly. You can make something similar with a table in a table Excellent! Can you imagine that after 12 years using LyX and maybe 2 years developing it I never knew that this was possible? One always learns :-) but the borders will be different. The borders can be adjusted I think. Abdel.
Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues
Hello Matthew, Matthew wrote: I've been trying to use the candidate release for 1.6. While there are some nice new features, like the ability to cut and paste graphics there are some changes and perhaps bugs which negatively impact lyx. My first pet peeve is that the export document command doesn't appear to generate any output, unless it's doing so in an unknown directory different from the directory of the .lyx source. In particular I'm trying to convert a lyx 1.6 file back into a 1.5.3 file so that I can run a more 'stable' version. Are you using WinXP? If yes, this is a known bug that was detailled in Uwe's announcement: !Important note!: Due to a bug in LyX you are first be able to export documents to e.g. PDF after opening the preferences dialog and clicking there on the save button. [...] My next peeve that I've found is that tab no longer navigates through the cells in an eqnarray. I haven't tried it with tables yet, but if it has the same behavior there, that would also be bad. This is being worked on. Hopefully fixed in the next rc. After these problems I will stop testing 1.6 because I need to actually get some work done. Now if I could just convert my document back.. Try the Prefs dialog work around. In general 1.6rc is pretty stable but that is not a dot zero yet so, unless you know what you are doing, I suggest to keep using 1.5.x. Abdel.
Re: newbie question: output and get lyxpipe, and extra field codes
Russell J. Wilson wrote: Just in first days of trying to learn to use JabRef/Lyx on Windows Vista with Word 2007. Trying to output and I get the error message that says ensure lyx is running (it is) and that the lyxpipe is valid (don't know how to do that). The lyxpipe doesn't work on Windows. Abdel.
Re: Unknown software exception (1.6.0rc2)
Máté Salát wrote: Hello, I tried to use LyX 1.6.0rc2, but it break down after mostly every usage of copy and cut even it is performed by short key or by the toolbar button. Before the shut down of LyX the attached window turns up, always with the same numbers. I'm in a trouble now, because it prevent me from using LyX and doing my work. It could be related to this bug: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5099 Abdel.
Re: LyX 1.6rc2 crashes when navigating in the outline panel (MAC OS X)
George G. Szegö wrote: Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.6rc2 repeatedly crashes when trying to open child documents from a master document by clicking in the toggle outline panel (see details from the Apple's crash reporter in the attached file). Hello George, Could you please create a bugzilla entry (bugzilla.lyx.org) for this issue and attach a minimal test document? That would help us to solve this bug (which I can't reproduce with my documents). Besides this minor problem I am loving the features of this new version. Congratulations for all of those involved. In the name of all involved developers, thank you :-) Abdel.
Re: List of cross references for a label
Martin Görg wrote: Hi there, is it correct that there is no functionality in LyX to show all cross references pointing to a specific label? Other LaTeX editors (e.g. WinShell) provide this functionality and it is quite handy. When I modify a figure I would like to find all places where the figure is referenced. LyX only puts two question marks (??) in the output for broken references (actually, LaTeX does it, right?). I'll file a feature request in case this functionality is really missing. No need to, this feature is coming soon in 1.6.0 :-) Abdel.
Re: List of cross references for a label
Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 18.09.2008, at 15:13, rgheck wrote: Martin Görg wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:27:31 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: is it correct that there is no functionality in LyX to show all cross references pointing to a specific label? [...] I'll file a feature request in case this functionality is really missing. No need to, this feature is coming soon in 1.6.0 :-) Great, is it already included in the current RC? Yes. And will it work across child documents (given that the master is loaded, so LyX knows about the relationship)? Yes. Daniel, who just had to write a sed script to get several labels renamed throughout his thesis. Too bad, you could have used the rc for that ;-) Abdel.
LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008
Dear all, LyX enthusiasts, users and developers, I have the pleasure to announce you all that LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008! I am going to the next OpenSource manifestation in Paris (details below). As they asked for candidature for innovative projects I had the idea to inscribe LyX and we are nominated :-) Abdel. PS: Pour les Français, la remise du prix (je ne sais pas encore lequel ça sera) se fera le mercredi 24 septembre à la Mairie du 13ème arrondissement de Paris, si quelqu'un veux venir avec moi (JMarc ou Edwin?), je dois l'annoncer je pense. Details for the Paris manifestion: Paris Capitale du Libre 24 et 25 septembre 2008 http://www.paris-libre.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=blogsectionid=6Itemid=58 Bonjour, Vous vous êtes inscrit à Paris Capitale du Libre et nous vous en remercions ! Nous serons ravis de vous accueillir le 24 septembre dès 08h30 à la Maison Internationale de Paris. Votre badge sera disponible à l'accueil de la manifestation. Paris Capitale du Libre 2008, c'est : * Plus de 3000 participants attendus ; * Un nouveau lieu : la Maison Internationale de Paris ; * 2 journées de conférences de haut niveau sur les enjeux économiques stratégiques liés aux logiciels libres, animées par les meilleurs experts du moment ; * Un thème principal : Construire l'Europe de l'Open Source et bâtir l'avenir de l'Economie Numérique ; * L'organisation du premier European Opensource Lawyers Event le 24 septembre : http://eolevent.eu/?q=fr/node/15 ; * Des espaces dédies à l'emploi (plus de 500 offres) et à la formation, aux solutions professionnelles et à la découverte du logiciel libre ; * La remise des trophées des Lutèce d’Or qui aura lieu au cours d’un dîner réunissant les 350 personnalités du logiciel libre au niveau mondial (uniquement sur invitation). Le programme des conférences MERCREDI 24 SEPTEMBRE 2008 08h30 : Accueil des participants 09h00-09h15 : Ouverture du forum par Alexandre Zapolsky, Président de la FniLL 09h15-10h45 : Le logiciel libre : où en est la France ? Animateur : Bertrand Lemaire, rédacteur en chef, CIO-onLine Président : Benoît Sibaud, Président April Intervenants : - Yvon Rastetter, écrivain - Jean-Pierre Corniou, Directeur, general Adjoint, SIA Conseil - David Jonglez, Directeur, Camp To Camp - Fabien Potencier, PDG Sensio, creator of Symphonie 10h45-11h15 : Pause 11h15-12h45 : Quoi de neuf dans le monde de l'Open Source ? Animateur : Jean Rognetta, Journaliste, Les Echos Président : Tristan Nitot, Président, Mozilla Europe Intervenants : - Sander Striker, Vice Président, Apache Foundation - Ross Turk, Community Manager, Sourceforge - Emma McGrattan, Vice Président, Ingres - Cyrille Béraud, PDG, Savoir-Faire Linux 12h45-14h30 : Déjeuner (uniquement sur invitation) 14h30-16h00 : Etats-Unis : le logiciel libre, roi de l'économie numérique ? Animateur : Dominique Piotet, CEO, Atelier BNP Paribas à San Francisco Président : Bdale Garbee, Responsable de la Stratégie Open Source, HP Intervenants : - Andrew Aitken, CEO, Olliance, organisateur de l'Open Source Think Tank - Mark Radcliff, Avocat DLA Piper, expert - Ismael Ghalimi, CEO Intellio - Nick Halsey, Jaspersoft 16h00-16h30 : Pause 16h30-16h45 : Grand témoin - Alix Cazenave, April 16h45-18h15 : L'Europe peut-elle encore gagner la bataille du Libre ? Animateur : Guillaume Sierres, journaliste, Journal du Net Président : Elmar Geese, Président, Linux Verband Intervenants : - Roberto Galoppini, Atlantica - Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Director EU Management Consulting, Unisys Belgium- Elmar Geese, Président, Linux Verband - Jean-Pierre Laisné, Président, OW2 - Jean-Marie André, Senior VP Corporate Development, PurpleLabs 18h15-18h45 : Clôture de la journée JEUDI 25 SEPTEMBRE 2008 09h15-10h45 : Entreprise, Logiciel Libre : « Je t'aime... Moi aussi ! » Quelles gouvernances pour les projets libres en entreprise ? Animateur : Yann Serra, Journaliste, 01 Informatique Président : Bruno Annick, DSI de TDF Intervenants : - Yves de Talhouet, Directeur Général, HP France - René Kraft, Directeur Général Adjoint, I-CDC - Boris Auché, Responsable Offre Open Source, BULL - Frédéric Lau, Animateur Groupe de Travail, CIGREF 10h30-11h15 : Pause 11h15-12h45 : Editeurs, et si vous tiriez partie de l'Open Source ? Animateur : François Tonic, journaliste, Programmez Président : Roger Burkhardt, ancien DSI du NYSE et CEO d'Ingres Intervenants : - Dave McAllister, Directeur, Standards and Open Source - Guth Rich, VP Actuate - Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, Mindtouch - Konstantin Papaxanthis, CEO, PrimeKey 12h45-14h15 : Déjeuner (uniquement sur invitation) 14h15-14h30 : Grand témoin - Bernard Benhamou, Délégué aux usages Internet 14h30-16h00 : Le secteur public en croque pour les logiciels libres Animateur : Ludovic Nachury, journaliste, 01net.com (en attente de confirmation) Président : Jean-Séverin Lair, DSI Ministère de la Culture Intervenants : -
Re: LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008
Bob Lounsbury wrote: 2008/9/18 Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear all, LyX enthusiasts, users and developers, I have the pleasure to announce you all that LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008! Could you give a quick translation (for us not up to snuff Americans) of what Lutèce d'Or 2008 means? FYI Lutèce is the old pre-roman name for Paris. Literally this means Golden Lutèce 2008 prices. These prices are distributed each year at the occasion of this open source manifestation. http://www.paris-libre.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=18Itemid=44 I inscribed LyX for these categories: - Meilleur projet d'innovation et de développement Libre réalisé Most innovative free software project. - Meilleure projet Libre réalisé au niveau mondial (hors France) Greatest world-wide free software project (outside France) I couldn't attach the candidature dossier that I filled in (in French of course) but I can send it to whoever is wanting it (I just copied and pasted stuff from LyX web site and wikipedia french entry for LyX). Abdel.
Re: LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the pleasure to announce you all that LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008! First for english speakers, you can look at this page: http://en.paris-libre.org/ Doh! I am going to the next OpenSource manifestation in Paris (details below). As they asked for candidature for innovative projects I had the idea to inscribe LyX and we are nominated :-) Considering that Paris Capitale du Libre is really oriented towards companies, the fact that LyX is nominated is quite a feat. Congrats, Adbel! Well, congrats to us all :-) Concerning the price, I would be surprised to be nominated in the 'innovation' trophy (since innovation in current newspeak really means ``something vaguely new but sold by a company''). So it has to be IMO ``The best foreign project in Open Source Software carried out''. Of course, keep in mind that there is quite a step between being nominated and getting a prize ;) There's also the special jury price... we'll see. In any case, as you said, it's already nice to be nominated :-) Abdel.
Re: LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, keep in mind that there is quite a step between being nominated and getting a prize ;) There's also the special jury price... we'll see. In any case, as you said, it's already nice to be nominated :-) Yes, there is the special jury prize indeed. But the real question is: do we win something besides the ugly glass penguin? Don't know... I guess not. If there's money I'll put that in our PayPal account. At least there is a dinner :-) Abdel.
Re: RC2 and graphics
On 21/09/2008 17:35, Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Paul, Are you sure that it is LyX that is slow, as opposed to the graphics conversions? I can't tell and I didn't try to give it a look. Apart from not knowing how to analyse a situation of this kind I have to finish my document today ,-( Maybe this bug? http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5002 ... RC2 downloaded and compiled yesterday hoping that it would be better than the svn I had been using the last weeks. That might be occasionally and punctually true put not in general. I did some work on graphics some days ago, you might try again with latest svn. Abdel.
Re: LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008
On 18/09/2008 21:34, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Dear all, LyX enthusiasts, users and developers, I have the pleasure to announce you all that LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008! I am going to the next OpenSource manifestation in Paris (details below). As they asked for candidature for innovative projects I had the idea to inscribe LyX and we are nominated :-) So, LyX was nominated in 'The best foreign project in Open Source Software carried out' category, together with OpenOffice and OpenSuze. OpenOffice won of course. But it is already very good that we were nominated in this very corporate and commercial events. Abdel.
Re: LyX... questions/ideas/wishes
On 25/09/2008 02:39, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 02:14 +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Hi all! Don't know whether this is the correct place to drop ideas but I have some questions/ideas/wishes. [...] In addition I would like to ask if it is possible to load different document in a split view? In 1.6 it will be possible, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 Abdel.
Re: LyX is Nominated for the Lutèce d'Or 2008
On 25/09/2008 10:19, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, LyX was nominated in 'The best foreign project in Open Source Software carried out' category, together with OpenOffice and OpenSuze. OpenOffice won of course. But it is already very good that we were nominated in this very corporate and commercial events. I wonder how many other projects like ours filled out the forms. I don't have the number but quite a few apparently. That's what the guy at my table told me. He is a journalist at 01-informatique and was a member of the jury. He told me he voted for us but we didn't really have a chance against OpenOffice. And did you get to drink a glass of OpenSuze? ;) Lapsus révélateur :-) Is it open suse? Abdel.
Re: toolbars gone
On 29/09/2008 15:11, Pavel Sanda wrote: I don't think it can be an SP3 issue, because LyX was running perfectly earlier today. What am I overlooking? have you been in fullscreen mode when setting this? http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5274 anyway the session info you are looking for deletion is under qt handling - on linux it is saved in ~/.config/LyX/LyX-1.6.0rc2.conf, you have to find something similar in windows. That's in the registery: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LyX\LyX-1.6 or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LyX\LyX-1.6svn Just delete the complete node. Alternatively you can try to disable the window geometry session management in the preferences. Abdel.
Re: PS file, orientation and bounding box
On 30/09/2008 09:34, Manveru wrote: 2008/9/27 Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/27 Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have a problem with Postscript file which I would like to include as a vector graphics in LyX document. The problem I have is that orientation of PS is landscape, but preview images shown in LyX are portrait. This causes a lot of problems with settings of bounding box (I have to set it up manually, as these files are exported from KiCad and I do not want to edit them). Additional problem, but much less related to LyX is importing SVG files through Inkscape. Settings of bounding box for preview image does not reflect real clipping in generated PDF file. All is related to LyX 1.5.4 on Windows XP. Was there any improvements in versions up to 1.5.6 which may help with two issues described above? I do not see any difference as I upgraded to LyX 1.5.6. So it looks like bugs. Should I fill a bugzilla as nobody replies about this? Yes, with test documents so that we can reproduce the issues. One entry per bug please. Abdel.
Re: PS file, orientation and bounding box
On 01/10/2008 12:16, Manveru wrote: 2008/9/30 Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Should I fill a bugzilla as nobody replies about this? Yes, with test documents so that we can reproduce the issues. One entry per bug please. First problem reported here is filled: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5302 For second I need to reconfigure SVG support with Inkscape in LyX on my [EMAIL PROTECTED] or do it from home. Hope to be repaired soon. OK, thanks. Abdel.
Re: File open bug persists in 1.6rc3 - Mac
On 02/10/2008 19:20, Johannes Knaus wrote: Am 02.10.2008 um 18:42 schrieb James Sutherland: To reproduce this problem (on Mac): From Finder, right-click (ctrl-click) on a file and choose Open With and then open using 1.6rc3. This opens the file, but the lyx window that it opens in has none of the toolbars available. The regular LyX window is also opened, but is empty. If I close the file and re-open it from the Open Recent menu, then it works fine. I seem to remember discussion of this topic when rc1 was released. It persists with rc2 and rc3. Can any other Mac users verify this??? James Hello James, Yes, the bugs in the Mac version I reported some time ago (and added them to the bugtracker after the rc1or rc2 release) still persist. Hopefully this will be resolved in the final release. By the way even rc3 seems not to be very stable on my G4 (Lyx crashed while testing out if the bugs still remain). However, this is not the final candidate and I'll stick with 1.5.6 for my thesis. When these little problems will be resolved in 1.6final, I'll switch immediately, as it has some very nice features. The problem is that we have only one Mac developer so it's quite difficult for us to fix Mac specific bugs. The strange thing if I remember well the bug with the strange special menu wasn't there in the early betas before 1.6b4. Yes, we (I) are aware of that. Abdel.
Re: Navigate through a List of insets possible?
On 03/10/2008 03:26, rgheck wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nikos Alexandris schrieb: The best is here to open your LyX file with a text editor and do the change there. Hmmm? I might have not been clear in my question: For the Program Listing inset one can set (in the Settings dialog) the option Broke long lines. I would like to know if it is possible to activate this option in one step for all Program Listing insets in one document. No. That's why I proposed the text editor solution. FYI, this feature exists for graphics in 1.6, perhaps you can create an an enhancement entry in bugzilla for doing the same with listings. In case it's not clear, what Uwe means is this. LyX documents are just text documents, and you can open them in any text editor (notepad, under windows; Not Notepad as it doesn't handle unix end of line. Try Wordpad instead. Abdel.
[Fwd: Illegal IMail List Server Command!]
Hello, I receive this bullshit whenever I send something to the user list. Could you inform Mate about this please? Abdel. Original Message Subject:Illegal IMail List Server Command! Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 00:03:29 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (List Server) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMail List Server for Windows NT, Ipswitch, Inc. Valid Commands are: To subscribe to a list, send a mail message to imailsrv at this address with the following in the body of the message: subscribe listname your_full_name To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to imailsrv at this address with the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe listname To receive a list of the lists supported here: list To receive a list of users on a given list (If enabled for that particular list): list listname To receive help send: help [listname] To change to digest mode, send a mail message to imailsrv at this address with the following in the body of the message: set mode digest listname To change back to standard mode, send a mail message to imailsrv at this address with the following in the body of the message: set mode standard listname
Re: 1.6rc3 on Mac - no tabbed windows?
On 09/10/2008 14:27, James Sutherland wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:23 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot get tabbed windows working on Mac for RC3. I had the same problem with RC2. Each additional file I open will open in its own window (which is a nice feature), but sometimes I would like to have them tabbed in the same window... Any other Mac users seeing this??? It's a feature, not a bug! Nonetheless, you can turn it off: LyX Preferences Look and Feel Open documents in tabs. Bennett Bennett, Is there a way to have the best of both worlds - to be able to dock a window and have it show up as a tab - without having to have it either all tabbed or all separate??? Put an enhancement request in bugzilla for a new menu item Open document in new Tab. Should be easy to implement. Abdel.
Re: 1.6rc3 on Mac - no tabbed windows?
On 09/10/2008 16:42, Bennett Helm wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Konrad Hofbauer[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: All in all I have the feeling that multiple tabs/windows/views (and also session management) are (at least on the Mac) not fully worked out, yet. I feel like we miss an underlying concept when what opens where, and how this is represented in the Gui/Menus. I agree and have raised some of these issues on the developer's list. But as I'm not a programmer myself, I'm not going to complain too much: things are improving and I appreciate especially Abdel's attentiveness to my complaints thus far. (Thanks Abdel!) Well, I have not been very attentive lately... too busy for any deep investigation. I had hoped that some other Mac developer would take the lead but it didn't happen unfortunately. I think we'll have access to some Mac machines at the Berlin meeting so I'll make sure that all Mac issues are fixed then. Abdel.
Re: 1.6rc3 on Mac - no tabbed windows?
On 09/10/2008 20:15, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:13:54PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 09/10/2008 16:42, Bennett Helm wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Konrad Hofbauer[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: All in all I have the feeling that multiple tabs/windows/views (and also session management) are (at least on the Mac) not fully worked out, yet. I feel like we miss an underlying concept when what opens where, and how this is represented in the Gui/Menus. I agree and have raised some of these issues on the developer's list. But as I'm not a programmer myself, I'm not going to complain too much: things are improving and I appreciate especially Abdel's attentiveness to my complaints thus far. (Thanks Abdel!) Well, I have not been very attentive lately... too busy for any deep investigation. I had hoped that some other Mac developer would take the lead but it didn't happen unfortunately. I think we'll have access to some Mac machines at the Berlin meeting so I'll make sure that all Mac issues are fixed then. Is that magical appearance of Macs something I am supposed to put on my ToDo list? That would be nice indeed. Sorry I took for granted that 'Qt Software' has some Macs lying around... Abdel.
Re: RTL documents?
On 10/10/2008 09:28, Dotan Cohen wrote: My language runs from Right to Left. How do I configure LyX to handle this properly? Thanks. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew and http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux Abdel.
Re: Export not working?
On 13/10/2008 03:13, Mitchell Mebane wrote: I've installed LyX 1.6.0-rc3 (the bundle) on Windows and have been playing around with it. I just tried exporting a document to PDF, but I don't think it's working properly. I was confused at first about not getting a file dialog asking me to save the file, but I found in the user's guide that The resulting files are placed in the directory of your LyX-file. However, this definitely isn't the case! I don't seem to get any result. I even tried copying my LyX file to C:\a.lyx (to eliminate the possibility of filename/path issues) and opening it from there, but export still seems to do absolutely nothing. Is this a bug I should report, or am I doing/understanding something wrong? I've tried PDF (pdflatex) and also exporting as Plain text. This is a known bug on WinXP that will be fixed for 1.6.0. Please have a look at Uwe's announcement: !Important note!: Due to a bug in LyX you are first be able to export documents to e.g. PDF after opening the preferences dialog and clicking there on the save button. Abdel.
Re: Opening LyX files under Windows
On 13/10/2008 07:57, Alex wrote: Is there a way to make LyX not open a whole new copy of itself whenever I double-click on a .lyx file in Windows explorer? (I use XP and LyX 1.5.6 or 1.6.0) No, this feature is not implemented yet. I believe that if Lyx is already open on the computer, a new file should open a new document tab, but not yet another instance of LyX. I suggest to use dragdrop instead as a work around the problem, this works fine. This can be an incredible waste of resources on my computer, especially when LyX is already very slow! (though I have a dual-core Intel processor at 3.2 GHz with 3.2 Gb or RAM). Well, LyX has a reputation of being very fast on Windows and Linux platform. So, if you can describe in what way you think it is slow or if there is a reproducible test case that exhibits the slowness, I'd be interested to know. LyX (1.5 and 1.6 release candidates) are very fast here on my slower machines. Abdel.
Re: Lyx is slow while typing documents (Windows)
On 13/10/2008 09:06, Alex wrote: 2nd attempt at posting this ... This one succeeded. I can send you the file I'm currently working on, if anyone wants to reproduce the problem. You say below that the slowdown appears with any document from the help menu so that's not a problem of your document. I was smart enough to split my thesis into chapters in separate files, so right now I have something like 10 pages of text and about 10 figures (imported from .eps files). The typing speed was ok at the beginning but eventually I had to type my stuff in MS Word and then copy into LyX. Now I'm just trying to edit a few minor details in LyX and it's being impossible... I admit, I have had many programs open at the same time (like MS Office, Matlab, Remote Desktop, Acrobat) when I first noticed the slowness, but now even after a fresh restart, LyX is too slow for me to type anything... That's weird. Could you please look at the memory occupied by LyX (look at memory tab of the task manager). Matlab is a real memory hog... What about 'Remote Desktop'? Are you saying that you use LyX from and external computer and not locally? That may explain the slowness. ... I can live with smaller bugs in LyX, but this one above is currently preventing me from using all the other capabilities of this program. Please don't hesitate to report any bug, small or big, in 'http://bugzilla.lyx.org'. That's the only way we can fix the bugs. Abdel.
Re: Lyx is slow while typing documents (Windows)
On 13/10/2008 13:15, Alex wrote: fast if I uncheck the same box). I assume that in order to convert any 1.6.0 .lyx files to make them readable by 1.5.6, I have to export them as plain Latex and then import them again in the older version. File - Export as LyX-1.5 Abdel.
Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?
On 15/10/2008 17:55, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? jfig is nice (clone of xfig written in Java). And LyX has direct support for fig format... Abdel.
Re: LYX will crash when changing the Toolbar icon's size
On 21/10/2008 09:18, asm23 wrote: Hi, I'm using Lyx 1.6RC3. I install the Lyx with Chinese language UI. When I right click on the ToolBar, and try to select another size of icons. Lyx will crash. It seems that not all the menu's were fully translated from English to Chinese. I cannot reproduce the crash with current svn version so I guess the bug will be fixed in the next RC. Please create a bugzilla entry in any case so that we can track this bug (bugzilla.lyx.org). Make sure to answer those questions in the entry: Question 1: did you use the diplay language preference dialog or did you set the LANGUAGE environment variable? Question 2: which platform? Thanks, Abdel.
Re: LYX will crash when changing the Toolbar icon's size
On 21/10/2008 13:22, asm23 wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 21/10/2008 09:18, asm23 wrote: Hi, I'm using Lyx 1.6RC3. I install the Lyx with Chinese language UI. When I right click on the ToolBar, and try to select another size of icons. Lyx will crash. It seems that not all the menu's were fully translated from English to Chinese. I cannot reproduce the crash with current svn version so I guess the bug will be fixed in the next RC. Please create a bugzilla entry in any case so that we can track this bug (bugzilla.lyx.org). Make sure to answer those questions in the entry: Question 1: did you use the diplay language preference dialog or did you set the LANGUAGE environment variable? Question 2: which platform? Thanks, Abdel. Thanks Abdelrazak for your help. My platform is windows XP EN.For testing, I reinstall Lyx 1.6RC3.In the SETUP step, I select Chinese(simplified) as the Lyx's interface. But this time I can't reproduce the crash again. I guess this problem happens when I just overwrite the previous version from Lyx 1.5 to Lyx 1.6RC3. Anyway, it works in Chinese interface Now! Good! Don't hesitate to contribute further translation of the interface ;-) FYI, you can change the display language at runtime without reinstalling nor restarting. Abdel.
Re: Toolbar will always slide to the right side on start up
On 21/10/2008 15:30, asm23 wrote: How can I demonstrate this problem. I just snap the screen. I'm using window xp en. Lyx 1.6RC3. This is the toolbar before I close: http://zyh23.diinoweb.com/files/openPic/good1.jpg And ,this is the toolbar when I restart Lyx: the toolbars will slide to the right corner. http://zyh23.diinoweb.com/files/openPic/error.jpg I test it in Big icons, normal icons and small icons mode, and they all have this problem. This is a known Qt bug. I was hoping that it get fixed with Qt4.4.3 but no. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4967 Abdel.
Re: Frustrated user
On 22/10/2008 08:04, Jonathan Suit wrote: Hello, Hello Jonathan, I'm a new user of LyX. For the first couple of days, everything went well. But now I'm running into trouble. First thing first: this is the documentation development list. I put the correct list in copy. Second: which platform? I am guessing Windows here but the fact that you talk about ispell is an indication of Linux. Third: which version of LyX? First, no matter what I do I can't run spellcheck. It says something about it being unable to run ispell. That's interesting since I've set my preferences to run something other than ispell. I can't export documents to latex, even though I'm told I just need to click on the relevant export button to latex (i've have the latex stuff and i've been telling it to export to latexplain (or something like that). I don't know what else I could export to. If you run one of the 1.6 release candidates on WinXP, that's a known bug. Please use stable 1.5.6 instead. And the bibliography has been a complete mess. I have Bibtex up and running. But LyX never recognizes any new entries. If you are on Windows, the Bibtex 'push' feature does not work. You have to save your bibtex file and reload it in LyX for the new entries to be recognized. I'm going to have to use Microsoft Word to do my bibliography. To be honest, I'm quite fed up with this Latex/Lyx thing. I've spend many more hours just trying to format/figure out what the formatting means than writing my papers. The fact that the finished product looks nice does not justify anything. Fourth: LyX is a free software developed by people on their spare time, the user list is very helpful and this is *gratis*, provided that you ask gently and that you give more information. Abdel. Furthermore, I find it incomprehensible that there isn't a much more user friendly decent word processer/typesetting program. Seriously, what is wrong with having a program that the hardest thing is pointing and clicking. Why do I keep running into computer codes!? I just want to download a package that is good for X, and perhaps one that is good for Y. I can't believe that we can put out iPhones but we can't get a good word procesing program/typesetting program. Ridiculous. Jonathan Suit
Re: How to customize the Caption label Figure?
On 24/10/2008 05:06, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 05:04 +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 04:54 +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Dear advanced LyX users, I would like to have Εικόνα (=image) instead of Figure as the description of figure floats. Can I modify this by inserting some command in the Preamble or is the layout modification the only way to achieve that? I am not sure if I found it but has the Labeltype or the GuiName [string=””] anything to do with this? If yes, how can I force Εικόνα? Thank you for your attention, Nikos OK, I have found something [*] in the Embedded objects document. But it does not work. I guess it has to do with the Greek characters (?). [*] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Youhoo!! I got it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] \char236na}~\thefigure} LyX is awesome!! Sorry for the mailtraffic. Don't be, this is the very purpose of the users list. Abdel.
Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On 25/10/2008 00:17, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users, we'd be talking about thousands of documents prepared with LyX. I've written tens of technical documents, training course and teaching materials and a PhD thesis; I am not counting letters. I guess most LyX developers are at least in the same league. Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... So, I am pretty sure that 'hundreds of documents' is a vast under-estimate. We are most probably talking about hundreds of documents per year just in France. I guess that you can multiply this number by three or four in Germany... Actually... I wonder how many users are subscribed just to the users' list? I also always wanted to know. But that won't count gmane or nabble users (like me). Web traffic is also a good indication. http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel.LyXGeography Abdel.
Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On 25/10/2008 11:49, Liviu Andronic wrote: Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing French professors (or students) that LyX is a tool that deserves attention? Well, in French engineer schools a lot of professors and students know already about LateX and LyX, I don't know the situation in university to tell you the truth. Perhaps you have some links to (good) French-language documentation for beginners? Not really, sorry. Abdel.
Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On 25/10/2008 13:06, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without switching to it (I was using pure LateX and Scientific Word). LyX has really become a powerful platform now, I think it deserves much more publicity. You are most certainly right for economics and mathematics students. But French engineer school students have a (deserved) reputation of laziness; so the first thing they would do when they are confronted to LateX is to look for a Wysiwig interface to it. The first item in google when you look for 'latex wysiwyg' is of course LyX :-) I have a small blog where I advise tools around Latex and friends. That's interesting, do you have a link? It is mainly used by students. I am waiting the final version of LyX 1.6 to post a presentation of it, since I consider now that it has become the most powerful LaTeX editor, wit a lot of advantages over the competition. I agree ;-) Abdel.
Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document
On 25/10/2008 17:49, William Seager wrote: Hi all. I'm not sure this is a problem or just reflects the unfinished state of lyx 1.6. But I have a large-ish document (about 140 pages when output to pdf). On my old slow laptop running lyx 1.5.6 (under gentoo linux btw) this loads in 2 seconds. On my fast, dual core amd64 architecture (also gentoo) the same document takes 37 seconds to load. Is this just debugging code or something slowing down the rc, or should I be worried? How long the UserGuide takes to load? If anything 1.6 should be faster to load any 1.6 document than 1.5 to load 1.5 documents, unless it was compiled with stdlib debug. I guess the 37 seconds you are seeing is probably due to lyx2lyx conversion. Please try to save your document in 1.6 format and then load it again. Be warned though that this won't be openable in 1.5 anymore, so make a backup. Abdel.
Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document
On 25/10/2008 19:26, William Seager wrote: On October 25, 2008 12:34:14 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess the 37 seconds you are seeing is probably due to lyx2lyx conversion OK, I'm an idiot. You are not. We should probably indicate more prominently that a conversion is taking place. Of course that was the problem - instant loading once the 1.6 format version was in place :) Always nice to please philosophers ;-) Abdel.
Re: Displaymath at the bottom (LyX1.6RC5)
On 30/10/2008 18:33, rgheck wrote: Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Dear LyX users and developers, It occurs to me that when I am entering display math at a point where the LyX window has nothing to show below (at the bottom of your screen), leaving the display-math takes me back to part before the display-math (instead of moving forward). This problem does not occur if you have written the text to follow. It is only when you have blank to follow. Could you confirm this behaviour please? Let me know if I have been unable to express the problem (I am not a native english speaker). I understand what you mean, but I don't see this problem. If I create a new document, type Hi there, Ctrl-Shift-M for display math, enter x, then hit space, I am behind the inset, and if I now type Hi again, it's on the next line. Maybe Mukhtar is using math in an arabic document? In which case Mukhtar I suggest that you switch to visual cursor movement in the preference settings. Abdel.
Re: Displaymath at the bottom (LyX1.6RC5)
On 30/10/2008 18:40, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: rgheck[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand what you mean, but I don't see this problem. If I create a new document, type Hi there, Ctrl-Shift-M for display math, enter x, then hit space, I am behind the inset, and if I now type Hi again, it's on the next line. rh Your reply suggests that I have been unable to explain properly. When you start a new document, type Hi there, and start display math, LyX can accomodate the new stuff you write on the screen. Try to type some more text until you are at the bottom of your screen so that you need to scroll in order to see down. Now do Ctrl-Shift-M for display math, and I can reproduce this bug. Could you please put it in bugzilla.lyx.org ? Thanks, Abdel.
Re: Skim, pdfsync and child documents in LyX. Possible?
On 31/10/2008 19:21, Christopher Reeve wrote: Also being able to search for occurences label names - both when they are defined and or when they are refered to. This would make debugging much easier when LyX refuses to compile. Didn't you notice the 'Labels References' item in the outline pane? You can even sort the labels now... Abdel.
Re: Scroll below last text line in document window
On 09/11/2008 09:43, Frank Grimm wrote: Hello List! With Lyx 1.6 it's possible to set the width of the document (text) window when working in full-screen mode. It is possible to do this in 'normal' (not full-screen) mode? Not at this point but if there's enough interest, it could be done easily. Please put an enhancement request in bugzilla.lyx.org. I'm asking because when working on a Lyx document the bottom of the document is always on the bottom of the Lyx window (when the document's height exceeds the heigh of the Lyx window). I find this a bit annoying. Thus, I think it would be cool if one could scroll below the end of the document (probably until the last line hits the top of the document window). There's already an bugzilla entry about that... Not sure why you think this is related to the first item though. Abdel.
Re: LyX 1.6.0 is released
On 11/11/2008 06:11, Alex wrote: José Matos[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can download LyX 1.6.0 from http://www.lyx.org/Download The source can be found at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable and binary packages for the different systems can be found at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.0 ... Known issues with LyX 1.6 compared to the previous stable release (LyX 1.5.6) can be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes The download page still had the link for 1.5.6 and the 1.6.0 release notes aren't yet up at the link below, but I was able to download the latest version from: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/ I've cleaned up things there. Good job to the whole devel team! Thanks :-) Abdel.
Re: Cursor in LyX 2 beta4
On 03/04/2011 02:01 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/03/2011 11:09 PM, Greg Kise wrote: Hi, Any way to increase the cursor size--or improve visibility in LyX 2 beta4? I would love to have a cursor that is easier to find. This is controlled by Qt4 configuration, however that is done on your platform. No, this is hardcoded in LyX, in GuiWorkArea.cpp, 2 pixel wide for Windows platform and 1 pixel for the rest of the world: #ifdef Q_WS_WIN int const CursorWidth = 2; #else int const CursorWidth = 1; #endif Abdel.
Re: Printer Dialog Linux
On 03/08/2011 02:50 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/08/2011 04:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 08.03.2011 um 10:38 schrieb Marco Möller: Hi, does someone know, if there are plans to improve the printer dialog? I don't know of any plan. Actually, there's a plan to remove it altogether, because I have multiple printers and currently I mostly have to export the pdf first and print from acroread/ocular to enable/disable duplex/multiside printing /... You can use view-pdf and print from it. this is what everyone does. You know what wouuld be very nice? A comand line option to okular so that it show its printer dialog on a given file... In the good old time we had a cups-gui or something but it doesn't exist anymore it seems. There is 'cupsdoprint' though... Abdel. CUPSDOPRINT(1)printing tool CUPSDOPRINT(1) NAME cupsdoprint - KDE command line tool to print files via CUPS SYNOPSIS cupsdoprint [-H host[:port]] [-P dest] [-J name] [-o opt=value[,...]] [-U login[:password]] files... DESCRIPTION cupsdoprint is a command line tool to print files using the CUPS printing system. cupsdoprint does not support printing from stdin. You can use lpoptions -l -p Printername to discover the options a certain printer supports. OPTIONS -? show help options -H host:port cups host to print to -J name print job name default: KDE Print System -o opt=value options to use -P dest printer to use -U login:password login and password to use EXAMPLE cupsdoprint -P HPLaserJet4L -H localhost:631 -U john -o Copies=10,PageSize=A4 /tmp/file.ps Prints 10 copies in format A4 of the file /tmp/file.ps as user john via localhost:631 on the printer HPLaserJet4L. SEE ALSO www.linuxprinting.org Information about printing under UNIX lp(1), lpr(1), lpoptions(1) AUTHORS Michael Goffioul kdepr...@swing.be Please use http://bugs.kde.org to report bugs, do not mail the author directly. This manual page was written by Holger Hartmann holger_hartm...@gmx.de for the Debian Project (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Gen‐ eral Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/com‐ mon-licenses/GPL. K Desktop EnvironmentJun 2006 CUPSDOPRINT(1)
Re: LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 1 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
On 03/16/2011 04:14 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote: If someone try it, please give some feedback about how it is working. Repeating, these are non official binaries, The LyX Team has nothing to do with it. Hello Diego, We really need volunteers to help with Windows packaging so you are very welcome to contribute to this. There is also Michal that recently contributed something... Abdel.
Re: Default label???
On 03/22/2011 11:26 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA! First of all, there's no hotkey -- I have to do Insert-Label on every one. What about Alt+I+L ? I guess you know that all menu items are accessible via the keyboard. We developers are very careful that all LyX features can be used without the keyboard. Abdel.
Re: Default label???
On 03/25/2011 03:48 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hellmut Weberm...@hellmutweber.de wrote: What about Alt+I+L ? I guess you know that all menu items are accessible via the keyboard. We developers are very careful that all LyX features can be used without the keyboard. Hi Abdel, do you really mean without ? I'm confident Abdel meant 'with'. Yes, of course, sorry for the confusion. Abdel.
Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite
On 04/05/2011 18:42, Pavel Sanda wrote: Andrew Parsloe wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. (To take matters to extremes, you this is the same as request that we should introduce some 'simple' graphics editor for pictures. after simple editor is introduced another next requests appear and at the end we will have the whole office suite as you propose. i think we should be good at editing text and typesetting. preparing the basic material like drawings, tables, computing numbers etc should do different apps which do it much better then we will ever do. we can create some reasonable binding to them, but thats all i would propose... Indeed. But I could well imagine a simple OctaveInset that would get the table cell indexes as arguments and automatically call Octave to compute the result. Similar what we can do with Octave in math. Abdel.
Re: Lyx file format ?
On 14/07/2011 02:08, Stephen George wrote: On 13/07/2011 12:31 PM, steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final editing/touch-ups before generating my final book? Is their some documentation on the Lyx file format somewhere? Will the Lyx format be easier or harder to manage than dealing directly with Latex format? Thanks Steve Thanks everyone for the great hints. A couple of you asked what I intend to do (how complicated). I'll be dragging data from a data base populated with genealogy data. It's not fully formulated in my mind yet, but I see: - for each person a new section - sub sections for various details of the person (marriages, children, notes etc) - maybe a table to summarize various details of a person (life events) - possibly the inclusion of a picture if the records contains a picture. I was considering targeting Lyx as the generated files rather than Latex, as I will need to tweak the data, and potentially add more details, introductions, explanations etc. that are not included in the data base. I was wanting to use the pull from the data base as a starting base to which I need to do more work. As pointed out by Trevor I could import Latex files to lyx, this is under consideration but I would still need to generate the Latex files. In the mean time I've been playing around with the lyx2lyx python code and created a simple class that can write basic lyx files, I might try and push this a bit more and see if I can get the elements of lyx that I'll need to use to work. Another option with greater flexibility IMHO would be to create an external inset that would pull the database directly from within LyX. Abdel.
Re: LyX-Produced Book
On 29/11/2011 22:33, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Op 29-11-2011 22:23, Richard Heck schreef: On 11/29/2011 04:17 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.11.2011 um 22:07 schrieb Richard Heck: My book, /Frege's Theorem/, which was both written with and typeset from LyX, has just recently been published by Oxford University Press. You can have a look at the pages, if you wish, from its page on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Freges-Theorem-Richard-G-Heck/dp/0199695644/ LyX gets mentioned on p. xii, which seems currently to be part of the preview. The font is just New Century Schoolbook. The document class was written by me to OUP's specifications and will go up on CTAN when I get some time. Thanks to everyone in the LyX community for such a great program, and for all the help I got on the user's list when I was starting out! Cool. You're really productive! Well, it's twenty years worth of work Congratulations with the finishing of the work. As it looks more like mathematics than philosophy, I'll certainly read it (if you send me the pdf ;)). Me too! Congrats Richard. Abdel
Re: Happy new year dear Lyxer friends!
On 01/01/2012 01:51, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hello, For the first time on this list, I wanted to clutter your mail boxes by sending you my best wishes. Thinking it over again, this year has been a Lyx year for me. From an occasional Lyx user, I became a Lyx addict who exclusively uses it for all LateX and text needs. All my courses have been converted to Lyx and writing with it has become a second nature for me (even if I am not completely using all of its possibilities yet). Thank you very much all. Lyx community is a very efficient, helpful and kind one. Happy new year! Happy new year to all users, contributors and developers. Hopefully this will be another successful year for LyX. Continue to spread the word about LyX! Abdel.
Re: Slow scrolling
On 06/01/2012 12:02, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 06/01/2012 09:47, Olivier Ripoll a écrit : - 2.0.2 pristine jumps in 2 to 3 steps (text and scrollbar): top of the document, sometimes an intermediate step, and bottom of the document. * Adding \use_pixmap_cache and setting to false or true has no effect * Adding \force_paint_single_char, set to false has a slight effect, Note that \use_pixmap_cache is not supported in 2.0.2, only in trunk (2.1.0svn) for now. You are mixing up \use_qimage and \use_pixmap_cache. \use_pixmap_cache is an old setting that I created to speed up text rendering on MAC. But apparently MAC users cannot bare the on screen side effect so we can get rid of this in trunk maybe. Abdel.
Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing
On 04/02/2012 19:07, slitt wrote: One more question: You sure you want to go in-memory? What happens if a guy has a 1200 page book with 100 chapters each containing 10 sections, each containing 10 subsections, and tries to parse it on a machine with 512 MB RAM? You in a heap of trouble son. I am almost sure LyX is able to do that. Abdel.
Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing
On 04/02/2012 18:03, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear eLyXer Users and Developers, I'm still at work on the import/export module for Microsoft Word documents. I'm making pretty good progress. I've got a rough prototype that works pretty well and I'm now starting to refine it. My approach up to now has been to use regular expressions to match portions of the document and then use a library to translate those to the corresponding Word XML structures. It's working pretty well with my simple test documents. Before going too far with this approach, though, I wanted to post (another general query). In the eLyXer library, there is already a robust set of tools used for converting LyX documents to HTML. Does anyone know if the library is written in such as way that getting a generic in-memory representation of the document would be possible? It would be awesome to re-use as much existing code for the Word document export as possible. That would allow me to support a broader number of features, and gives me a framework for working with maths. Strong suggestion: use LyX proper. I am quite sure you already know that because I saw some patches from you in this area but I'll explain anyway: LyX's html own export is so good and fast because it effectively knows the in-memory representation of the document. You can't be faster nor more accurate than that. I mean, unless you want to rewrite LyX in python. IIUC you want a single module in python for both import and export in python. But I don't think this is a valid argument. As for the word to lyx format conversion, if you want to use this epub library there must be a way to use that in C++ I'm sure... Any thoughts Alex (and others)? I've downloaded the sources and have begun to work through them, but before spending hours to days trying to wrap my head around them, I thought I would ask. AFAIK, eLyXer doesn't construct a document model. So you'd better spend this time reading the C++ code for exporting to html/xhtml ;-) Abdel.
Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing
On 05/02/2012 17:48, Rob Oakes wrote: My current script is about 50 lines long, and can be used with either native XHTML or eLyXer. To add new features, you add additional cases describing how to translate the XHTML. Which brings us to an important point: there's already a pretty good LyX - XHTML - LibreOffice - Word pathway for translating documents. Unless I directly implement Word as another backend (which, while a lot of work, isn't difficult), I'm not sure there's much reason for a direct MS Word export. The real need seems to be for an MS Word import, anyway. The native MSWord backend would be very interesting to have and useful and much better than anything you could produce with your python script. But I agree with you that the docx import looks more useful. And if the thing can be extended to pptx, it will be even more useful :-) Cheers, Abdel.
