Re: Lyx 1.5.2-1 (Windows) crashes on creatin new file, worked in Lyx 1.4.4

2007-10-31 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
The error disappeared again. The logging worked. So I know what to do when I try again! Thanks Ekkehart Martin Vermeer wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:53:33PM +0100, Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: It crashed again. I ran it with -dbg any and tried to pipe the output to a text file. This did

Re: Lyx 1.5.2-1 (Windows) crashes on creatin new file, worked in Lyx 1.4.4

2007-10-30 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
. Ekkehart Jürgen Spitzmüller Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:39:50 -0700 Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: > When issuing a "New File" command (from the Menu) or a "New File from > Template", lyx crashes. Can you post the output of "lyx -dbg any"? Jürgen

Re: Lyx 1.5.2-1 (Windows) crashes on creatin new file, worked in Lyx 1.4.4

2007-10-15 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: > When issuing a "New File" command (from the Menu) or a "New File from > Template", lyx crashes. Can you post the output of "lyx -dbg any"? Jürgen

Lyx 1.5.2-1 (Windows) crashes on creatin new file, worked in Lyx 1.4.4

2007-10-11 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
When issuing a "New File" command (from the Menu) or a "New File from Template", lyx crashes. Windows reports: "lyxc.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Lyx reports: "lyx: Disabling LyX socket. Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::suppor

Virus in Win-Installer 1.5.1-1?

2007-08-27 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, I have right now installed Lyx 1.5.1-1 on two Windows machines. During unpacking, Sophos Antivirus gave twice alarm. The warning was: ..\\Local\Temp\nsys371A.tmp\nsExec.dll belongs to Troj/Zlob-ADU. I guess this has to do with other problems than LyX, but just to make sure ... Cheers

Re: tex2lyx

2007-06-19 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Ekkehart" == Ekkehart Schlicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ekkehart> I just imported a manuscript from a Latex file that has been Ekkehart> produced from a Document file (.doc) by exporting from Ekkehart> OpenOffice Writer 2.2. The tex file compile

Suggestzion Search and replace for ERT inserts

2007-06-18 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
It would be good to implement a search-and-replace feature for ERT inserts. Or is this covered already? This would b e quite appropriate in case of working on imported Latex files that contain sometimes auite a lot of such things. It is comnbersome to do these edits directly in the lyx file wi

tex2lyx

2007-06-18 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I just imported a manuscript from a Latex file that has been produced from a Document file (.doc) by exporting from OpenOffice Writer 2.2. The tex file compiles well with Latex and the outpurt is the best from all doc2tex coverters I have tried. Lyx 1.4.4-4 imports, but the imported file canno

Re: [PATCH] development/Win32/runWithHiddenConsole.c primitive work around for Windows

2006-07-27 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, a quite primitive work around is to insert /MIN in the Lyx.bat file, which would read now SET LC_ALL=en_EN SET AIK_DATA_DIR=C:\Program Files\LyX14\aiksaurus start "LyX" /MIN "C:\Program Files\LyX14\bin\lyx.exe" %* Seems to work for me in the sense that there is only a small blinking visible

Wiki idea

2006-07-10 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, Here some links which I could use, once the Wiki page is established: http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/l.koczy/downloads.htm#edu http://kent.kellogg.northwestern.edu/bibtex/index.html#styles http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~presnell/Downloads/TeX/StatBib/ http://jo.irisson.free.fr/bstdatabase/ Ma

Re: Lyx 1.4.2svn Windows

2006-06-22 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Joost Verburg wrote: Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: I just found out that Lyx does not know the Latex command \limits which produces the limits of integrals etc. above and below the integral operator. Maybe it is worthwhile to implement it. With regard to tex2lyx it may be useful as well, as \intop

Lyx 1.4.2svn Windows

2006-06-22 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, I just found out that Lyx does not know the Latex command \limits which produces the limits of integrals etc. above and below the integral operator. Maybe it is worthwhile to implement it. With regard to tex2lyx it may be useful as well, as \intop which is an alias for \int\limits. Cheer

Lyx 142svn windows xp

2006-06-12 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, I am working with the new version for some time. Here some observations that may be of interest (if not already known): 1. Scrolling: Clickig on the scrollbar below or above the marker produces a scroll of only a few lines, rather than of the full window. 2. With the cursor in a math box, se

Re: [PATCH] major font selection redesign

2006-06-11 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Actually, I thought about "outsourcing" the hardcoding of the fonts to some external files (analoguous to our *.layout files). That way, it would even be possible for users to add new fonts themselves. I'm not sure if it's be worth it, though (and I also would need help on that task). This wou

aspell 6.0 data-files: link to wiki broken?

2006-06-08 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi the link for the Aspell 6.0 data files given in the Wiki-Aspell page http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/AspellData-0.60.4.exe does not work. Cheers Ekkehart

Re: compatibility problem lyx 137 - lyx 142svn - reduced example

2006-05-31 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Jean-Marc: I checked again. The problem seems to relate to the minipage at the beginning of the example file. If I delete it, the error is gone. Included not a minimal, but a reduced example that shows exactly the same error messages with Lyx 1.4.2svn Ekkehart paris-reduced.lyx Descripti

Re: compatibility problem lyx 137 - lyx 142svn

2006-05-31 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Ekkehart" == Ekkehart Schlicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ekkehart> Hi, now that the navigation problem (bug 2460) is mended, I Ekkehart> am happy to switch to the new version. My first impression Ekkehart> is very good. Ekkehart> M

compatibility problem lyx 137 - lyx 142svn

2006-05-31 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, now that the navigation problem (bug 2460) is mended, I am happy to switch to the new version. My first impression is very good. My fist suspected bug is this one: The attached file has been created by Lyx 137 and compiles fine with pdflatex, but this does not work with lyx 142svn. If I e

Re: babel error after switching document language - Lyx 137

2006-05-17 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I meant: The *second* solution (only deleting the aux file after changing the language) is better, theoretically speaking. Ekkehart

Re: babel error after switching document language - Lyx 137

2006-05-17 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Should we always remove the .aux file before running latex? Or remove it only if the document language has changed? The first solution may be a bit expensive in terms of runtime... I have just checked the difference in compiling time for a large manuscript (>250 pages in print) with extensive

Re: babel error after switching document language - Lyx 137

2006-05-17 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Martin Vermeer wrote: I've seen this too. Just compiling a second time helps too. Yes, I have replicated this. And José is correct, too: If I delete the aux file in the local directory before compiling in the new language, the error does not show up. Ekkehart

babel error after switching document language - Lyx 137

2006-05-17 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, Maybe that is a bug. If it's known, or mended, or intended, forget this post. I start a new document (paper) with language English, write something and compile with no error. I change the document language to German and try to compile again, but this time I get the error message:

system of equations

2006-04-06 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi Nick, maybe write it down by hand, scan it and attach it as a png to the post. It is very difficult for me to figure out what you want! Ekkehart

Re: WinLyx 1.4.1 svn: Very slow navigation response

2006-04-03 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >How is paragraph creation/deletion for you? Do you have a sensible delay when you press "Enter" at the end of a paragraph in your big document? >FYI, the difference in scrolling speed using PageDown key between 141 wo Natbib and 137 is not a good test WRT performan

Re: WinLyx 1.4.1 svn: Very slow navigation response

2006-04-03 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
>Do you use natbib citations? Yes, I do. This seems to explain a lot of the difference between 141 and 137, but not all. I am working now on a different computer. It gives the following results (Instant preview switched off, scrolling through the manuscript with page down pressed.): 141 wi

WinLyx 1.4.1 svn: Very slow navigation response

2006-04-02 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, I assume that the developers have tried the new version only on small papers where it seems to work flawlessly (as far as I can judge). With large manuscripts (I am writing a book) I have observed over the weekend some serious problems with 1.4.1. In other ways, 1.4.1 is definitely an impro

Re: LyxWin 1.4.1 svn (19 March 2006 snapshot of LyX 1.4.x)

2006-03-30 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Angus Leeming wrote: Could you try out the executable found at http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/ekkehart.exe Hi Angus, I tried the following: ekkehart.exe it exits here as follows: 1. with no drive associated with J: Exception caught: boost::filesystem::is_directory: "J:\foo": The

Re: LyxWin 1.4.1 svn (19 March 2006 snapshot of LyX 1.4.x)

2006-03-29 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Concerning Drive J: Just to reconfirm what I wrote, this time from the computer where the problem originally arose. I installed Lyxwin 1.4.1.svn right now from the Link in the Wiki LyxWin 1.4.x page. No problem this time with installing in C:\Program Files\Lyx1.4. I have a card reader attach

Re: LyxWin 1.4.1 svn (19 March 2006 snapshot of LyX 1.4.x)

2006-03-29 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: I created a virtual disk with drive letter J (with Microsoft's Virtual CD-Rom utility, no drive image mounted). The problem occurred just as described in my previous mail: Exception caught: boost::filesystem::is_director etc. A further observation: I moun

Re: LyxWin 1.4.1 svn (19 March 2006 snapshot of LyX 1.4.x)

2006-03-29 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
>Ekkehart, could you give details about what this J: disk is? The problem occured on my office computer which I cannot access from home. I shall report to-morrow. On my laptop (Win XP) I installed the current version from the Wiki page and updated my MIktex. The installation went smoothly (no

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.1 svn

2006-03-29 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Paul Rubin wrote: >Someone suggested this should go up on the Wiki. Is the problem >restricted to MiKTeX's version of dvipng, all Windows versions, or >dvipng on all platforms? I put it on the Wiki, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexBugs If somebody could add specifics about platforms etc.

LyxWin 1.4.1 svn (19 March 2006 snapshot of LyX 1.4.x)

2006-03-28 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I just wanted to check whether the removal of dvipng works on my other computer. To be up-to date, I deinstalled Lyx 1.4.1 svn, downloaded the most recent version from the LyX 1.4.x for Windows page. The Installation (in c:\Programme\Lyx1.4) went smoothly, but the program did not start. If I run

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.1 svn

2006-03-28 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Georg Baum wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. März 2006 16:11 schrieb Ekkehart Schlicht: > I tied it. It does not work. a+b=c simply vanishes on this computer (Win > XP) if preview is turned on, even if I close Lyx and open the file > again. I have dvipng installed. This could be another v

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.1 svn

2006-03-28 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Enrico Forestieri wrote >> 2. If I write a+b=c in a math insert and switch on instant preview, the >> insert sometimes disappears, and at other times it appears as a b c >> (with missing operators). >If you have dvipng installed, this may be due to the fact that when >a font is missing it is cre

Wiki-Server down?

2006-03-28 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
The Wiki Server seems to be down. Ekkehart

LyX/Win 1.4.1 svn

2006-03-27 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Thank you for making he new LyX/Win 1.4.1 svn available. I just tried it It installs smoothly. Great! Here some first observations about possible bugs: 1. The font size of the ERT-inserts is quite big (even after selecting another font), and so the inserts look unnecessarily ugly, as compared

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Helge Hafting wrote: It will obvoiusly take quite a while to get time for all of this. Please tell me if something isn't ok - so I can avoid doing it. Helge, this is all useful and interesting - nothing that seems redundant. Yet I have still a further proposal (without being able to help w

Problem with line-breaking in Lyx-Wiki

2006-03-20 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I just observed that line breaking seems not to work, neither in Firefox nor in Internet Explorer (both under Windows XP). Ekkehart Problem is gone - maybe it was idiosyncratic on my machine (?) Ekkehart

Problem with line-breaking in Lyx-Wiki

2006-03-20 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I just observed that line breaking seems not to work, neither in Firefox nor in Internet Explorer (both under Windows XP). Ekkehart

Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

2005-11-29 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Paul Rubin wrote I just installed 1.3.7pre4 (after uninstalling prior versions) and had a mild adventure. During installation, I got a message to the effect that the configuration script had failed (and, indeed, it did not appear to run). I had the box to start LyX at the end of the installati

[Fwd: Possible bug in Math panel-detach panel in LyxWincsv]

2005-08-02 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi If I detach the "greek" panel, I obtain "greek-panel.png" below. If I minimize it and then restore it, I obtain "greek-restored.png" which is incomplete. Cheers Ekkehart

Re: LyX 1.4.x: math is rendered with bitmap fonts

2005-07-20 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
>Do you have the ttf TeX fonts installed? it was ttf, but not tex, i.e. Bakoma (no symbols involved). More precisely, it was Garamont MT (GAR_.TTF). Ekkehart

Re: LyX 1.4.x: math is rendered with bitmap fonts

2005-07-20 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Just for comparison the Windows version 1.3.6 with vector fonts. Ekkehart

LyXWin 1.3.6 - or the installer "super GAU"

2005-07-18 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, it may be a good idea to give a list of files in the WiKi LyX 1.3.6 for Windows that are needed for running LyxWin, and tell people in advance that they should first install MinSys, Python, MikTex, Perl, Ghostscript, and ImageMagick. Ekkehart

Bug or feature in lyx-1.3.6_win32_setup_v1.exe language setting?

2005-07-18 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, I just wanted to write an BIG BIG thanks to Angus. So I opened the new Lyx, selected File -> New and started to type "Sehr geehrter Herr Sisyphus". To check the font I selected "View (pdflatex)". Everything was fine. It occurred to me, however, that I wrote in German. So I changed the Languag

bug in Window Layout document settings in lyx_setup_136_version23.exe

2005-07-14 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I feel uneasy about reporting again something that might be a bug. If I go to Layout -> Document... and then select some entries in sequence, the headline is not refreshed to the effect that different headings are printed one on top of the other. Ekkehart

Bug in lyx_setup_136_version22.exe - large monochrome graphics preview

2005-07-12 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, Another little bug - quite unimportant: If you insert a large monochrome graphic and scale it down, the preview in Lyx shows a black or brown rectangle. (I tried this with PNG and BMP monochrome graphics of size 2905x2374 and 2000x2000 pixels, scaled down to a display size of 10% of the origin

Integrating some Bibtex editor, and improving "itemize" - two suggestions

2005-06-25 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I suggest to include into the "Citation" window (that opens with the "citation-insert" command) a "refresh" button that makes the program re-read the current bib file. (It appears to me that re-issuing the "citation-insert" command would do.) This feature would be helpful if you want to insert a c

[math fonts] BaKoMa fonts are now free!

2005-06-19 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
>Ekkehart, I think we should change the License >file of the BaKoMa for LyX bundle. I shall do that within the next days and give our thanks to Basil. Ekkehart

Re: PDF viewer - suggestion for the Windows XP version

2005-06-16 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
That is much better indeed! Thanks! Ekkehart

PDF viewer - suggestion for the Windows XP version

2005-06-16 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I get crazy! (Some linebreaks missing again.) Yet another try TSkill AcroRd32 fpdelay 0.2 del "%~dpn1-tmp%~x1" copy %1 "%~dpn1-tmp%~x1" START /max AcroRd32.exe "%~dpn1-tmp%~x1" exit Ekkehart

PDF viewer - suggestion for the Windows XP version

2005-06-16 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Another try TSkill AcroRd32 fpdelay 0.2 del "%~dpn1-tmp%~x1" copy %1 "%~dpn1-tmp%~x1" START /max AcroRd32.exe "%~dpn1-tmp%~x1" exit (Sorry, I don't understand what went wrong.) Ekkehart

PDF viewer - suggestion for the Windows XP version

2005-06-16 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
The previous mail did not format correctly. Here is the correct version. Hi, the standard use of Acrobat as a viewer is quite cumpersome, as you have to close the previous view before running View PDF (pdflatex), go to the toolbar and maximize the new window. Hence I use the following: I create

PDF viewer - suggestion for the Windows XP version

2005-06-16 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, the standard use of Acrobat as a viewer is quite cumpersome, as you have to close the previous view before running View PDF (pdflatex), go to the toolbar and maximize the new window. Hence I use the following: I create the file |PDFview.cmd| containing TSkill AcroRd32 fpdelay 0.2

Lyx 1.3.6.csv (Window) bug with pictures

2005-06-16 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, as you asked for testing: The Lyx-file below works fine with LyxWin 1.3.5 (Ruurds version) but produces errors with the new one (for all picture formats I have tested). Cheers Ekkehart #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass article \languag

Re: lyx 1.3.6 cvs (Windows) Bug with binding file

2005-06-16 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Sorry, I just wanted to mention this in case you were not aware. I appreciate very much what you have done - I just wanted to help with debugging. Searching the binding file and adding double quotes does work, anyway, but it would be nice to make these tricks superfluous. Ekkehart

lyx 1.3.6 cvs (Windows) Bug with binding file

2005-06-16 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
I just tried to select some other bindings. If I do so, Lyx does not find any bindings at all, apparently because the space in c:\Program Files\Lyx\... causes problems. Maybe automatically put the path in double quotes would resolve the problem. Ekkehart

LyX 1.3 & MinGW on Win XP

2005-05-11 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
under 5.1 there is an instruction with (at) replaced by [EMAIL PROTECTED]. A hint how to do this correctly would be nice for the newbie. Ekkehart

LyX 1.3 & MinGW on Win XP

2005-05-11 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Thanks. This is a great idea. I noticed that links don't work. You have to remove the colons at the end of the url's. Ekkehart

Re: Request - relative paths for BibTeX references (maybe only relevant for Windows port)

2005-04-19 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Both file dialogs should work alike in theory: Return a relative filename if the file is in the document directory or a subdirectory thereof, and return an absolute filename if not. Do you get different behaviour? Yes, with LyX 1.3.5 qt (Windows port). Ekkehart

Request - relative paths for BibTeX references (maybe only relevant for Windows port)

2005-04-13 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Just a small suggestion: If BibTeX reference is inserted and the bibliography file is searched for and selected, its reference is given as the absolute path, rather than the relative path. To enhance portability, it would be good to take the relative path, as done with the graphics entries. Ekkeha

Re: tex2lyx on lyx/win qt 1.3.5

2005-02-20 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
> -Original Message- > From: Ekkehart Schlicht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 19:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Angus Leeming wrote: > Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: > > > The tex2lyx.exe alone seems not to work. I guess that the

tex2lyx on lyx/win qt 1.3.5

2005-02-17 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
The tex2lyx.exe alone seems not to work. I guess that the package is somewhat incomplete. The following worked for me: --Edit->Preferences->Converters->LaTeX to LyX: tex2lyx -f $$i --The file tex2lyx from the Linux package in LyX\bin and the test from the lyx2lyx win package. Ekkehart

Link on WiKi corrupted by spam

2005-01-31 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
The link to Robin Turner's manual on font usage on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals has been corrupted. Please correct or delete (would be a pity). Ekkehart If the author of the spam can be identified, it would be good to publish his name on this list.

Re: Fix for LaTeXconfig in LyX 1.3.5 for Win32]

2005-01-20 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
ote: "Ekkehart" == Ekkehart Schlicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ekkehart> Milos wrote: My feeling is that original LyX config files shouldn't be touched unless absolutely necessary, as that is difficult to follow and maintain. Ekkehart> Thanks. I ag

Re: solution for LyXWin's math font problems - license issues solved

2005-01-20 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
, and given this grumbling, I have put the distribution on my website at http://www.semverteilung.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/links/BaKoMa4LyX.zip for those who like to use them. The others should not quarrel. Ekkehart Schlicht Georg Baum wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: We only need the fonts to display math inside

Re: solution for LyXWin's math font problems - license issues solved

2005-01-19 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Thanks to Uwe for caring about these matters. Die licence is granted for all versions of LyX. I have referred to version 1.3.5. because other versions may require other mappings. Boris Malyshev has granted me permission to make such changes provided they are documented like in the present Readme

Re: solution for LyXWin's math font problems

2005-01-18 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
should not affect their function in other applications. Ekkehart Schlicht