Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] Fair enough, but I wouldn't like to see this pass without putting in my strongest possible support for the existing policy of forbidding extra white spaces. Allowing extra white space, knowing that it will be wiped out by LaTeX, is at best useless, at worst misleading. [...] In fact you can insert white space that won't be ignored by LaTeX by inserting the sort of space you get by pressing the Alt-255 key combination. This can sometimes be useful for fine formatting of tables, for example. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mail forum question (not lyx related)
Hello Jim, as a test, using Firefox, I went to your message in the archive, clicked on it and then clicked on 'reply'. This produced the 'the document has moved here' message but it also started up Thunderbird in message compose mode with your e-mail address and the subject all in place (I'm using this to reply to you). I've carbon-copied this to the list as well. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks
Sorry, I managed to reply to Uwe and not the list.
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Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Nick and Anne Hopton schrieb:
is that the drive letter (F:) is hard wired into the link. However,
what I want to do is put the PDF file containing the link and the HTML
file at which the link points onto a CD, but it doesn't seem possible
to use relative paths in PDF links.
Besides what Todd explained you can also simply put the html file in the
same folder where the PDF is located. The \href call ise then simply
\href{index.html}{name}
I tried that Uwe, but it didn't work. However, I *think* I might have
found a vile work-around by editing the URL in the PDF using a binary
file editor, as follows:
./Subtype/Link/A<>.>>
endobj.20 0 obj <<./D [18
Where the target is 'front_page.htm'. I have to test the CDs on a couple
of other machines before I can be sure.
Thanks to all,
Nick.
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[Fwd: Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks]
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Todd Denniston wrote:
[...]
putting
./front_page.htm
in a LyX URL box should have generated the pdf line you have above.
Output from the attached lyx file:
The ERT generates:
in LaTeX
\href{./test/index.html}{ERT}
in PDF
/Subtype/Link/A<>
the LyX box generates
in LaTeX
\url{./test/index.html}
in PDF
/Subtype/Link/A<>
at least on my Linux box.
So I think you should be able to get where you want to go by using LyX's
internal URL insert.
[...]
Thanks for your interest Todd, in fact your test file worked. But what
on earth could I have been doing wrong before? I thought I'd tried
everything (the heap of trashed CDs in my waste bin is embarrassing).
Many thanks,
Nick.
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Re: LyX crashes using LyX150svn builds for Windows
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] 4. Choose View > PDF (pdflatex) --> Error: Windows cannot find PDViewWin --> Error: Cannot view file This is a tipo it should be "PDFViewWin". Change this in the preferences for the PDF-formats or wait until tuesday when I'll publish the next version that also includes other bugfixes related to the installer. [...] Ha, that's the reason, I had this problem too. In my case I changed the PDF-viewer to 'acrord32' and everything worked as it should. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
LyX and QPainter error messages...
Hello All, Running LyX for Windows Version 1.5.0svn (Thu Dec 14 01:49:58 2006) on XP-Pro. At start-up I get the following messages in the terminal window: lyx: Disabling LyX socket. QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2 QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted Can anyone tell me what is happening here, LxY appears to be looking for QPainter but not finding it even though I have installed Qt 4.2.2 Open Source Edition? Most of the features of LyX still seem to work okay, but I'm curious about the messages. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: LyX and QPainter error messages...
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 21:17 schrieb Nick Hopton: QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2 QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted Can anyone tell me what is happening here, LxY appears to be looking for QPainter but not finding it even though I have installed Qt 4.2.2 Open Source Edition? Most of the features of LyX still seem to work okay, but I'm curious about the messages. This is a programming error, it has nothing to do with your setup. AFAIK people are aware of that, and it will be fixed for the final release. [...] Many thanks for this, Georg. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Footnote crash...
Friends All, I've been experimenting with the current alpha releases of LyX for Windows, just at present I'm using the latest one, LyX Version 1.5.0svn (Sat Dec 23 01:34:44 2006). For most of what I want to do this works well, for which thanks to the team, the work you guys put into this project is above and beyond the call of duty. One thing I have noticed with the latest version is that if I move the cursor to immediately before a footnote, LyX dies instantly. Here is a test file, I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this phenomenon? Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #LyX 1.5.0svn created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 255 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \font_roman default \font_sans default \font_typewriter default \font_default_family default \font_sc false \font_osf false \font_sf_scale 100 \font_tt_scale 100 \graphics default \paperfontsize default \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \use_esint 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \author "Nick Hopton" \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard Besides what I myself have seen, I have learnt a great many particulars from my neophytes, several of whom work in porcelain, while others do a great trade in it. I also confirmed the truth of the information they had given me by a study of the Chinese books on the subject, so that I believe I have obtained a pretty exact knowledge of all that concerns this beautiful art, so that I can talk about it with some confidence. Among these books I examined the history of Fuliang \begin_inset Foot status collapsed \begin_layout Standard Jingdezhen was in Fuliang county. \end_layout \end_inset , and I have read carefully, in the fourth volume, the article on porcelain. \end_layout \end_body \end_document
Re: Footnote crash...
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. One thing I have noticed with the latest version is that if I move the cursor to immediately before a footnote, LyX dies instantly. Here is a test file, I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this phenomenon? This problem has been fixed yesterday. Thanks for this. I have another problem with View -> HTML, but I'll start another thread on this one (to keep things neat). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
View HTML
Still with LyX for Windows Version 1.5.0svn (Sat Dec 23 01:34:44 2006). For me, LyX works pretty well straight out of the box, with a few exceptions. However, one problem I have is with View -> HTML. When I do this I get the following (I've shortened this to the last 25-odd lines of output): ==SHOWN IN THE TERMINAL WINDOW== (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5/tex4ht/ht-fonts/unicode/lm/lm-ec.htf) (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ecsx2074.tfm) (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5/tex4ht/ht-fonts/alias/ec/ec.htf) Searching `lm-ec.htf' for `ecsx2074.htf' (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5/tex4ht/ht-fonts/unicode/lm/lm-ec.htf) (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ecrm1095.tfm) (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5/tex4ht/ht-fonts/alias/ec/ec.htf) Searching `lm-ec.htf' for `ecrm1095.htf' (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5/tex4ht/ht-fonts/unicode/lm/lm-ec.htf) [1 file C:/temp/lyx_tmpdir1636a01692/lyx_tmpbuf0/entrecolles.htm ] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] Execute script `C:/temp/lyx_tmpdir1636a01692/lyx_tmpbuf0/entrecolles.lg' C:\documents and settings\nick hopton\my documents>t4ht C:/temp/lyx_tmpdir1636a0 1692/lyx_tmpbuf0/entrecolles.tex -ec:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env t4ht.c (2006-09-13-14:28 Windows MiKTeX) t4ht C:/temp/lyx_tmpdir1636a01692/lyx_tmpbuf0/entrecolles.tex -ec:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env (C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.5/tex4ht/base/win32/tex4ht.env) Entering C:/temp/lyx_tmpdir1636a01692/lyx_tmpbuf0/entrecolles.lg ==END SHOWN IN THE TERMINAL WINDOW== Then a box pops up informing me that: LyX: Cannot view file File does not exist: C:/temp/lyx_tmpdir1636a01692/lyx_tmpbuf0/entrecolles.html Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: View HTML
[...] However, one problem I have is with View -> HTML. [...] Hi All, the answer to my problem was here all along, see: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg45635.html which works for me, even though I'm using LyX on an XP machine, rather than a Mac. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Footnote crash...
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. One thing I have noticed with the latest version is that if I move the cursor to immediately before a footnote, LyX dies instantly. Here is a test file, I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this phenomenon? This problem has been fixed yesterday. [...] Hello Bo, do we have any idea about when the fixed binaries will appear on BerliOS? Thanks for all of the good work. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: How do I suppress date from body of document class letter?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul A. Rubin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
How do I suppress date from body of document class letter?
What happens if you put \date{} in the preamble? Works for other classes.
[...]
This same string inserted as ERT works in the document class, for sure.
Regards,
Nick.
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Re: long-time LyX user needs install help on Mac OSX 10.4.8
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] LyX 1.5.0 will have a View->Source menu entry, I believe that this is a good solution to examine LaTeX problems. [...] Already implemented in the latest Alpha release for Windows. It shows the LaTeX source, of course. A killer feature, for which many thanks. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: How do I suppress date from body of document class letter?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] LaTeX fills in the date on the "title" page before it parses any text on the title page (other than maybe the title itself), so putting it in ERT on the first page is slamming the barn door after the cow has bolted. [...] Just so, but it does work if you put the ERT immediately after the title. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tobias Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \"Y? [...] Hello Tobias, on my Windows system Alt-0255 produces the little 'y' with the dots over the top and Alt-0159 produces the big 'y' with dots over the top, for example, hold down the Alt-key and type 0159 on the *number keypad*. This works out of the box for me, using the latest Windows alpha release with all of the default setting left intact. Very pretty PDFs. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] Note that LyX 1.5.0 will allow normal paste from the windows clipboard with Ctrl-V. Whether middle mouse button paste will still work is not yet clear. [...] The middle-button paste still works in the latest Windows alpha release and as you say Georg, it is now possible to copy and then paste into LyX directly by the usual Windows means (Ctl-C -> Ctl-V). It just gets better and better. Did you try the Alt-0255 and Alt-0159 methods, Tobias? Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Y" without ERT (\"Y)?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tobias Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. Did you try the Alt-0255 and Alt-0159 methods, Tobias? It works, thanks! In Win-XP all of the character codes accessible to me can be displayed as follows. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map. When the character map box pops up select your LyX screen font from the 'Font' options (Times New Roman, in my case) and then tick 'Advanced view'. Then click on any character in the map box and use the arrow keys to navigate to the one you want to use. As you move over the characters keep an eye on the bottom right-hand corner of the box. You'll see that for some characters (but not all) a key code will be displayed in the form 'Keystroke: Alt-'. This is the code you use for producing the character required. I've made a little list of the few key-codes I use most frequently, for reference. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: A question about fonts
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. This is going to sound like a bit of a stupid question. I have quite a few fonts installed in Windows (XP) which are available to pretty much all of my programmes. LyX uses its own set of fonts, which aren't available to any other programmes and does not (appear) to be able to use the other fonts on the system. Why is this? And can LyX use the fonts installed in Windows? [...] I haven't tried it, but you're supposed to be able to use True Type fonts in LyX, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc5 Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: putting image on first page of pdf
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] Hi Uwe, No special settings, just the default "vanilla" article. Its so I can send images of pages in a text to an instructor who works a different uni to to one I borrow library books from. cheers Russell [ A MIME application / x-lyx part was included here. ] [ A MIME image / jpeg part was included here. ] These files work exactly in the way you want on my system (Latest LyX alpha release, Win-XP). -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nutritional-epi-text-preview.pdf Description: nutritional-epi-text-preview.pdf
Re: horizontal rule before every section unless at top or bottom of page?
In a recent message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeremy C. Reed
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.
Any ideas on how to get a horizontal rule before every section unless at
top or bottom of page?
Hi Jeremy, do you mean something like the attached file? I'm not sure if
the spacing would suit you, though. If you want to do this, the way to
do it is by means of \hrule in a TeX box (ERT). The secret is this, at
the very end of the previous section type Ctrl-Return and then open up a
TeX box and insert '\hrule' (without the quotes) into it.
Regards,
Nick.
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#LyX 1.5.0svn created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 256
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass scrartcl
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{hyperref}
% \usepackage{pandora}
% \usepackage{yfonts}
% \usepackage{color}
\end_preamble
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman default
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter default
\font_default_family default
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\papersize a4paper
\use_geometry false
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes true
\author "Nick Hopton"
\end_header
\begin_body
\begin_layout Title
A few notes for Cathy and Laurie
\end_layout
\begin_layout Date
\begin_inset ERT
status collapsed
\begin_layout Standard
{}
\end_layout
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
This is just a quick guide to using the TV, radio, DVD, satellite receiver
and the Squeezebox, but we'll leave all of the instruction books as well.
In my usual way, I've made it all sound more complicated than it actually
is, so don't worry, there is nothing you can do to harm this kit by pressing
the wrong buttons.
\newline
\begin_inset ERT
status open
\begin_layout Standard
\backslash
hrule
\end_layout
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section*
Television and Freeview box (FV)
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
The TV has a 26-inch wide-screen and is HD ready.
For normal viewing this is fed by a SCART lead with signals from the Freeview
box.
Freeview is a digital terrestrial system that carries all of the BBC and
commercial channels.
In Figure
\begin_inset LatexCommand ref
reference "fig:AV-equipment"
\end_inset
the Freeview box is marked `FV'.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
The TV has a built-in analogue tuner but we don't use this, the digital
Freeview box connects to the TV and gives us all of the locally available
TV channels, in better quality than that provided by analogue signals.
A list of Freeview channels is available here:
\begin_inset ERT
status collapsed
\begin_layout Standard
\backslash
url{http://www.freeview.co.uk/channels}
\end_layout
\end_inset
.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
We'll leave the television set up for Freeview, that way all you'll need
to do is turn on the TV and the Freeview box.
Neither of these boxes have buttons on the front, they are both controlled
by remotes which are pretty much standard and don't need much explaining.
On rare occasions the Freeview box crashes; if it does this all you have
to do is turn it, and the TV, off at the mains for a few seconds and then
turn them back on again.
\newline
\begin_inset ERT
status open
\begin_layout Standard
\backslash
hrule
\end_layout
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section*
Satellite receiver (SR)
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
The satellite receiver is for free-to-air TV and radio broadcasts, it doesn't
do Sky or any other subscription services.
We feed the audio output of the satellite box into the amplifier (AMP)
and listen to radio this way, mainly the BBC, but the satellite box will
also bring in about 600 other European radio channels, including those
from the mainstream European broadcasters, in fair quality (as an alternative
to BBC Radio-3, for example, we sometimes listen to
\emph on
France Musiques
\emph default
or
\emph on
Bayern-4 Klassik
\emph default
).
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
The satellite box also brings in about a 800 European TV channels, most
of them rubbish, but including all of the BBC channels, as well as the
those of the mainstream French, German, Italian, Spanish and other European
broadcasters.
There is a small dish in the back garden that moves automatically to point
at the satellite broadcasting the required channel.
\newline
\begin_inset ERT
status open
\begin_layout Standard
\backslash
hrule
\end_layout
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section*
DVD player (DVD)
\end_layout
\begin_layout
Re: horizontal rule before every section unless at top or bottom of page?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] > Any ideas on how to get a horizontal rule before every section unless at > top or bottom of page? Hi Jeremy, do you mean something like the attached file? I'm not sure if the spacing would suit you, though. If you want to do this, the way to do it is by means of \hrule in a TeX box (ERT). The secret is this, at the very end of the previous section type Ctrl-Return and then open up a TeX box and insert '\hrule' (without the quotes) into it. Thanks for the reply. I am using LyX 1.4.3 and it wouldn't open your newe format file. I tried to do the same with using Ctrl-Return at the end of each section and putting \hrule in a TeX box. But I still had horizontal rules at the top of pages and end of pages. I compared my lyx code with yours for that and it appeared to be identical. What is the Ctrl-Return supposed to do with the context of the \hrule? And where is this documented? [...] Hi Jeremy, it looks as if we have a backwards-compatibility problem here. On my system (Win-XP, most recent LyX alpha release for Windows) the file produces the output shown in this PDF file. http://www.hopton.dsl.pipex.com/hrule_test-preview.pdf I've run out of ideas now I'm afraid, I don't have any of the earlier versions of LyX to experiment with. I'm afraid I don't know whether or not the Ctrl-return, \hrule, thing is documented anywhere. It's what you might call 'original research'; sorry. Afterword: I did try and post the PDF to the group, but I guess it was too big. This was a really stupid thing to do on my part, sorry about this too. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: horizontal rule before every section unless at top or bottom of page?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. Hi Jeremy, it looks as if we have a backwards-compatibility problem here. On my system (Win-XP, most recent LyX alpha release for Windows) the file produces the output shown in this PDF file. http://www.hopton.dsl.pipex.com/hrule_test-preview.pdf Thanks again for your reply and assistance. But your example doesn't show any section at the top or bottom of the page, so I can't tell if the hrule is not shown at top or bottom. For example, if your page 2 began with "DVD player (DVD)" section header at top, I don't want to see any horizontal rule at top of that page or at bottom of preceding page. [...] Okay, I think that if the PDF showed a horizontal rule in the wrong place you'd have to go back into LyX and try deleting the offending \hrule statement. This worked here in the example I tried, but of course it might not *always* work. They don't call it 'Evil Red Text' for nothing, I think. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_ id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system and use Acrobat 8/Adobe reader 8 please test out the following: 1. Copy this file to LyX's \bin folder: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyXWinInstaller/PDFViewWin.exe and rename it to PDFViewWin8.exe 2. Start LyX 3. Open the User's Guide, go there to e.g. section 3 and add a charater 4. Press the toolbar button for viewing PDF Adobe reader 8 should then be opened showing your file 5. delete the just added character and press the view PDF button again Adobe reader should not crash and show the beginning of the file. In Adobe reader you can now turn back to the last shown PDF document part using the feature to go to the last view (via the corresponding button or the menu). Does this work as I described it? [...] Hello Uwe, Win XP-Pro, latest Alpha release of LyX for Windows, 1.5.0svn, Tue Jan 23-01-2007. Everything works up to Step 5. After I delete the character I added and press the view-PDF button, Adobe Reader crashes with the following message: "Adobe Reader 8.0 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Are there any logs or anything else that you'd like? Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] So there is no other solution for this crash other then the one I shipped with LyX1.5svn as PDFViewWin8.exe :-( [...] But how big a problem is this, Uwe? When I'm working on a document and I want to see what it looks like I can do 'Update DVI' and when it's right I can press the PDF-button. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olivier Ripoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is this message: C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my documents/hrule_test.lyx is from a different version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is this message: C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my documents/hrule_test.lyx is from a different version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it. Oh shit! Could you please send me this file please? I'll have a llok what's going wrong. For me it works. regards Uwe Don't worry, Uwe, it's Alpha software and I'm pleased to be testing it. Here's a short little file (a letter) below. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #LyX 1.5.0svn created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 256 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass letter \language english \inputencoding auto \font_roman default \font_sans default \font_typewriter default \font_default_family default \font_sc false \font_osf false \font_sf_scale 100 \font_tt_scale 100 \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize a4paper \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \use_esint 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \author "Nick Hopton" \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout My Address 17 The Ridgeway, \newline Caversham, \newline Reading, \newline RG4 8NX \end_layout \begin_layout Telephone 0118 947 7375 \end_layout \begin_layout Send To Address Reading Borough Council, \newline Traffic Management and Road Safety, \newline Civic Centre, \newline Reading, \newline RG1 7TD. \end_layout \begin_layout Opening Dear Sirs, \end_layout \begin_layout Signature Nick Hopton. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard I am writing to complain about the lack of provision for pedestrians crossing the roads at the junction of the Henley Road, Prospect Street, Westbrook Road and Peppard Road. This is the junction near to the \emph on Prince of Wales \emph default public house, in Caversham. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard The junction is controlled by traffic lights but these do not allow time for pedestrians to cross the roads at the junction in safety. \emph on All \emph default of the crossing-points at the junction pose a serious hazard to pedestrians and the one from the Balmore Park steps across the Peppard Road is dangerous beyond belief. Here the view is very limited and cars travelling up Prospect Street frequently speed-up when approaching the lights, often driving through them at high speed even though they have turned to red. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Unless something is done, I am convinced that sooner or later there will be a serious and possibly fatal accident at the junction. I am not an expert in traffic-management, but I feel that at the very least the delay on the lights should be increased to hold the traffic back in all directions while pedestrians cross. My preferred solution would be the installation of four proper pedestrian-contr olled crossings. \end_layout \begin_layout Closing Yours faithfully, \end_layout \begin_layout cc Cllr. Isobel Ballsdon, \newline Cllr. Andrew Cumpsty, \newline Cllr. Jeanette Skeats, \newline Cllr. Sue Stainthorpe, \newline Cllr. David Stevens, \newline Cllr. Steve Waite. \end_layout \end_body \end_document
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source. [...] Yes, this works here. It crashes when trying to use the default PDF viewer, but works fine when I tell LyX to use AcroRd32. Thanks for all the hard work. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.
[...]
(Sometimes everything goes wrong.)
The file "LyX.py" was not updated in my build system for an unknown
reason so I shipped an outdated version. Please replace the one on your
LyX 1.5svn system by the attached one.
[...]
Hello Uwe, Okay, I copied the new LyX.py to 'C:\Program Files\LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx', started LyX, ran reconfigure a
couple of times, restarted LyX and then tried to load a file that worked
with the previous Alpha version. This didn't work and produced the
following:
===TERMINAL WINDOW OUTPUT===
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Program Files/LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", lin
e 91, in
sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
File "C:/Program Files/LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", lin
e 84, in main
file.convert()
File "C:\Program Files\LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\LyX.py", line 3
80, in convert
steps = getattr(__import__("lyx_" + step), mode)
File "C:\Program Files\LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx_1_5.py", li
ne 23, in
import unicodedata
ImportError: No module named unicodedata
Error: Conversion script failed
C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my documents/linthouse_twins.lyx
is from a
different version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.
===END OF TERMINAL WINDOW OUTPUT===
Do you think I installed 'LyX.py' properly. In the directory I see that
a 'LyX.pyc' has appeared, with today's date.
All good fun, don't get disheartened.
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton
Caversham, Reading, England
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.
[...]
Do you think I installed 'LyX.py' properly. In the directory I see that
a 'LyX.pyc' has appeared, with today's date.
Yes, you did. LyX.pyc is a compiled version of LyX.py, generated by python.
This us used to speed up subsequent runs of lyx2lyx.
Your problem is that your python installation is crippled. Get yourself a
full python installation (2.3 or above), and it will work.
[...]
I've just installed Python 2.5, reconfigured everything and tried again,
with the following results:
=TERMINAL WINDOW OUTPUT=
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Program Files/LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", lin
e 91, in
sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
File "C:/Program Files/LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", lin
e 84, in main
file.convert()
File "C:\Program Files\LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\LyX.py", line 3
80, in convert
steps = getattr(__import__("lyx_" + step), mode)
File "C:\Program Files\LyX
1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx_1_5.py", li
ne 23, in
import unicodedata
ImportError: No module named unicodedata
Error: Conversion script failed
C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my documents/linthouse_twins.lyx
is from a
different version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.
==END OF TERMINAL WINDOW OUTPUT
My old Python was Version 2.4. I've put the path to the new version into
LyX.
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton
Caversham, Reading, England
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] ImportError: No module named unicodedata This module is part of python since many years. If lyx2lyx cannot find it then there is still someting wrong with your installation. Maybe LyX still uses the old one? [...] This is very odd, Georg, I did an absolutely standard installation of Python25, using all of the defaults. I have the following two files installed, if this is any help: C:\Python25\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd C:\Python25\libs\unicodedata.lib Oh, I ought to mention that I had similar errors using Python24. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_ id=12174 This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in the last release from 01-02-2007. [...] Looking good here Uwe, so far. Old documents that wouldn't open in the last Alpha release open just fine now, as do the 'help' files. One tiny but curious thing, I'm using Adobe Reader to view PDFs. When I press the PDF-button the PDF is produced, but the Reader window doesn't open, it stays closed on the taskbar. It's easy enough to pop this up to view the document, of course. Regards and thanks, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Hopton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_ id=12174 This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in the last release from 01-02-2007. [...] Looking good here Uwe, so far. Old documents that wouldn't open in the last Alpha release open just fine now, as do the 'help' files. [...] I spoke too soon! The help document 'LyX's detailed Figure, Table, Floats, Notes, and Boxes manual, by the LyX Team Version 1.5.0-1' loads into LyX all right, but it won't produce a DVI or a PDF. It fails with a LaTeX Errors Box saying 'LaTeX Error: File `45C__Program_Files_LyX_1_5alpha-04-02-2007_Resources___doc'. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: tables: multirow ok, but multiline?
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] The I can recommend to recompile LyX and test out a more recent LyX 1.5 version, we made big efforts the last weeks. There's also a manual version for LyX 1.5: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx [...] It might be easier to get the PDF from: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#EmbeddedObjects Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anders Ekberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. I have a more and more annoying problem. The pdf-files I create works for about 90% of the colleagues I send them to. But on some computers (or rather installations) the fonts get messed up. This has always been on Windows machines (but that could be because almost all my colleagues use that). The problem can be that all text is typeset in a mono-spaced font, or that the math-fonts disappear, or in printing (mainly I get described by mail, so I can not get the details of the problem, but it seems to differ). An example is the file on http://homepage.mac.com/anek/Download/ Litteratur_utm_brottmek.pdf which, when I brought it up in Acrobat Viewer (via IE) on a Windows machine, looked fine on screen, but then printed with a mono-spaced font. The problem has occurred with various versions of LyX 1.4 and with different templates and ways to generate pdf (pdflatex, via dvi, via postscript, etc). Has anyone experienced anything similar. Or better still, does anyone know about a cure?! (The one I have is opening the file in GraphicConverter, saving as Tif, re-opening and printing as pdf, but this is not really ideal...) [...] Hello Anders, your file printed fine here using Adobe Reader 7. Everything lined up neatly on the RH margin and printed nicely with a proportionally-spaced Roman font. Perhaps it's not a LyX/LaTeX problem? Tell you what, it might be worth changing the language settings in Adobe Reader to English, this is what I'm using. Just a thought. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
View HTML
LyX for Windows, latest Alpha release (1.5.0svn) If I want to view a document as HTML (View -> HTML) I have to first go to Preferences and delete 'originaldir,needaux' from the 'LaTeX (plain) -> HTML', 'Extra flag:' box. Would it be possible for new Alpha versions to be shipped without these extra flags so that View -> HTML would work out of the box? Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: View HTML
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] LyX for Windows, latest Alpha release (1.5.0svn) If I want to view a document as HTML (View -> HTML) I have to first go to Preferences and delete 'originaldir,needaux' from the 'LaTeX (plain) -> HTML', 'Extra flag:' box. Would it be possible for new Alpha versions to be shipped without these extra flags so that View -> HTML would work out of the box? Sure, but then Export->HTML would be broken, take a look at bug #643 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643 The question seems still open... [...] But the thing is that with these two flags in place Export -> HTML stalls. Take them out and it works fine; after a some disk activity up pops the HTML file in Firefox (my default browser). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Koma-script letter, address problem
Hello All, I've almost got a template for letters worked out, using the Koma-script scrlttr2 document class. However, what I want to do is to shift the (to) address over to the right so that it lines-up with the text of the letter. I'm stuck here, can anyone help? It would be nice if the horizontal rule at the top of the letter only extended to the width of the letter text too. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Koma-script letter, address problem
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Marie Pacquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] However, what I want to do is to shift the (to) address over to the right so that it lines-up with the text of the letter. I'm stuck here, can anyone help? It would be nice if the horizontal rule at the top of the letter only extended to the width of the letter text too. To shift the (to) address over to the right look at the "SN.lco" template. To specify the width of the horizontal rule at the top of the letter, you could set something like that in the lco file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Thanks for the help, on-list and off, it pointed me in the right direction. Just for the record, I've found a not very elegant way of doing what I want, without re-writing *.lco files. So, for the record, inserting these two lines into the document preamble does the trick: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change the dimensions to suit your needs, of course. Quick and dirty, like me. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Problem with LyXWin144Small-2-10.exe after upgrading to MikTex 2.5
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] I tried to upgrade MikTex to version 2.5. As a result pdflatex in LyX version LyXWin144Small-2-10.exe didn't work anymore. You have to reconfigure LyX when you made changes to LaTeX. It is highliy recommended to reupgrade to MiKTeX 2.5. Run MiKTeX's update program twice when one run is not enough. Then reconfigure LyX. [...] You need to do this because by default MiKTex 2.5 installs in a different directory from MiKTex 2.4. MiKTex 2.4 installs in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.4 and MiKTex 2.5 installs in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5. So LyX was looking for MikTex in a directory that didn't exist any longer after the upgrade. When you run LyX reconfigure it hunts the new version of MikTex down and makes the necessary adjustments. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: pdflatex doesn't work any more after switching to miktex 2.5 with texnikcenter and lyx
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] I have installed miktex 2.5, but now pdflatex doesn't work any more ... pdflatex with Miktex 2.4 worked fine. You have to run MiKTeX's update program eventually twice. This is not often needed but test it out if it then works. [...] Also see the current thread starting with 'Problem with LxYWin144Small...'. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Export from LyX to HTML
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Dear specialists, I have not been able export from LyX to html. The error messages (see below) on the LyX-console seem to suggest that htlatex cannot deal with paths containing spaces. Is this true, oand if so, there a way to circumvent this ? Thanks, H.Peter Hello Peter, Before you do anything else, try this. Go Tools -> Preferences -> Converters, them click on 'LaTeX (plain) -> HTML'. Then delete 'originaldir,needaux' from the Extra Flag box. Then try View HTML or Export HTML. This has always worked for me, but I think it leaves a number of temporary files behind that have to be cleaned-up by hand. Let me know how you get on. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] The new Update installer version allows you to update your existing LyX installation to the latest version. To use this installer you must have my last development snaphot LyX 1.5svn-09-04-2007 installed. [...] After updating using this installer I now have problems with converting images. For example, when trying to use pdflatex to view the help document 'EmbeddedObjects.lyx' I get 'No information for converting xpm format files to png. Define a converter in preferences'. This also happens with documents of my own that contain images. Everything was working properly using the 09-04-2007 snapshot. The same problem occurs if I try to view a DVI. Keep up the good work, it is greatly appreciated. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] The update didn't screw up anything for me; I can view EmbeddedObjects.lyx as either DVI or PDF. Is the path to ImageMagick on Tools -> Preferences... -> Paths -> PATH prefix? [...] Thanks for this. In the end I downloaded a new ImageMagick and set the path in LyX to point to the new location (and then did a reconfigure, of course). This works, but the thing is that it wasn't broken before I did the upgrade. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] Are you sure that you were getting image conversions with an earlier 1.5.0? [...] Hello Paul, yes, definitely. As new snapshots are released I install them and then test them with the help file and with some of my own documents, before I do anything else. The problem only occurred after installing the update to the latest release. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (15-04-2007)
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] I'm sure Uwe will want to fix the updater, but the question now is whether we can isolate what caused the problem. This is always an adventure, particularly on Windows systems, because differences in system configuration often turn out to be the difference. This I can believe. I shouldn't worry about it too much at this stage, it might just be an isolated glitch. No one else seems to be having this problem by the look of it. Did you ascertain before reinstalling IM that IM itself was damaged (as opposed to simply being lost from the path)? I didn't, Paul. Also, before the upgrade, was IM on the LyX path prefix or on the system command path (or both), and after the upgrade was it missing from those paths? After the upgrade the LyX path pointed to the version of IM that gets installed within the LyX hierarchy. I'm not sure where the pointer was pointing (I can't believe I wrote that) before the update. I've now set the path within LyX to point to my new IM installation. I'm not sure this matters, but do you have a full version of Python installed? (I don't know if the updater uses Python, but the regular installer does, and apparently I avoided a known bug in an earlier installer because I have Python 2.3 rather than 2.5 installed.) I have the full version of Python 2.5 installed, which LyX finds and adjusts the path accordingly. Just an afterthought, does installing LyX make changes to the registry? I didn't think it did, but I do have software installed that is supposed to protect the registry from changes. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [announce] LyX 1.5beta2 (21-04-2007) for Windows
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. Hello LyXers, the installer for Lyx 1.5beta2 can be found here: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release _id=12671 [...] Just to let you know that the update went fine and without the image conversion problems I had using the last update installer. As usual, many thanks for your efforts. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Lyx in ubuntu
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Jorge, Easy: apt-get install lyx See man page (man apt-get). The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4, at present, not Version 1.5. Perhaps that ought to be 'sudo apt-get install lyx', by the way . Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Lyx in ubuntu
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] Easy: apt-get install lyx See man page (man apt-get). The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4, at present, not Version 1.5. Perhaps that ought to be 'sudo apt-get install lyx', by the way . Eh... 1.5 hasn't been released yet... [...] Yes, sorry, I've been using the 1.5 beta releases on XP. One other problem is (if I remember rightly) that on the Ubuntu side if you use 'apt-get' or the Synaptic Package Manager to install LyX it also installs, without the option, a load of other stuff that you don't necessarily want, like TeTeX. Some people might prefer to work with TeXlive, for example. This might be heresy, but to be honest I much prefer the way that LyX installs and works under XP. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Lyx in ubuntu
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] but you can run Texlive instead of Tetex on Ubuntu easily. IIRC Texlive packages are in the universe repositories. [...] They are, but they are also old. I set up my TeXlive 2007 from a DVD downloaded from TeXlive. This seems to work quite well with Kile, but I'm not installing LyX until Version 1.5 is available. Even installing Kile landed me with TeTeX, without the option (sigh). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unicode font Gentium
Hello All, I came across a free, Unicode TTF font called 'Gentium' the other day. Has anyone managed to get this font working on a recent release of LyX for Windows? It does look pretty. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
LyX to HTML
I've been playing with ways of converting LyX to HTML under XP. One way of doing this is by exporting the LyX document as LaTeX, loading it into Texmaker and then using the Texmaker function to convert to HTML. This produces HTML pages with the LyX/LaTeX formatting preserved. Perhaps this might be useful for HTML pages with advanced mathematics. The conversion does have overheads, but some might find that these are outweighed by the benefits. So far I've only tried this using an old LyX multi-page document, see what you think: http://www.hopton.dsl.pipex.com/page1.html Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: LyX to HTML
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. That doesn't look like HTML. It looks like a page image. It is of course, in a roundabout way. As I mentioned, there are overheads, but the output is nicely rendered (on my screen, at least) and it loads quite quickly into a browser. What I haven't tried yet is inserting links, but there are instructions for doing this. For web purposes it could be a useful alternative to using PDFs. The engine that Texmaker uses to do the conversion is I believe a Perl script called 'ttwp', but I haven't had much luck in making this work under XP. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Table - cell vertical alignment
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] You have to set middle alignment in the fixed-width column. [...] I sometimes find it useful to format tables using the spaces you get by pressing Alt-255. See the attached. Regards, N. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #LyX 1.5.0beta3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 271 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \language italian \inputencoding auto \font_roman default \font_sans default \font_typewriter default \font_default_family default \font_sc false \font_osf false \font_sf_scale 100 \font_tt_scale 100 \graphics default \paperfontsize default \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \use_esint 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \author "Nick Hopton" \author "FMenoncin" \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Tabular \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \emph on Proposition \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \emph on True or false \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard  \end_layout \begin_layout Standard When John snores Janet hallucinates \end_layout \begin_layout Standard  \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard  \end_layout \begin_layout Standard  \end_layout \begin_layout Standard TRUE \end_layout \end_inset \end_inset \end_layout \end_body \end_document
