How does it work? It is easy: for 1/, we make sure that dummy menu
entries are added at the beginning of each menu containing the
About/Preferences/Quit entries. They are then 'stolen' by Qt/Mac and
go to the LyX menu/ I suspect that the current code does not work in
all cases, but we'll see this l
Never mind... I forgot abt autogen.sh.. sorry!
nirmal
Nirmal Govind wrote:
Hi folks.. I just pulled the source from cvs... the configure script
seems to be missing..
Thanks,
nirmal
Hi folks.. I just pulled the source from cvs... the configure script
seems to be missing..
Thanks,
nirmal
The original name was LyriX, as described here:
http://www.lyx.org/news/20001220.php3#item1
Thanks JMarc for the link... if the company that's named there is
the same as the one that's currently in the middle of the Linux
controversy, then I guess it's very fortunate that the name was changed!
Hi all.. just curious - how did the name "LyX" come about? Do "L"
and "X" come from LaTeX? If so, what does "y" stand for? Or does it
not stand for anything?
Thanks,
nirmal
> There is a file lyx.spec in development/, which is generated from
> lyx.spec.in. Please do not use the lyx.spec which is in the
> distribution, but rather run configure to have a proper one.
Got it! Thanks JMarc..
I tried the 'make dist' method suggested by Lars but looks like I
messed up somew
> Take the tarball, put it into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> put the spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and add
latex-xft-fonts as a
Where is this lyx.spec file? Can't find it in the source and I don't
seem to have an earlier version either.. is this part of cvs? If
yes, can I download it from so
Hi,
Currently, the export to ASCII converts the displayed equations into
latex code and the tables into "text tables" .. However, the
converted displayed equations aren't exactly very useful since it's
just latex code. The smaller tables seem to come out OK but larger
tables are not formatted
The reports ok... (the figures really help). Which reminds me that I was
going to find a quicker way of taking a screenshot than starting gimp.
I use KSnapshot, on KDE i.e. ... there is something similar on gnome
if I remember right...
I thought I'd see what happens in the CVS version of LyX, bu
Nirmal, attach the jpgs to the bugzilla page.
Done!
nirmal
Sounds fine by me. (I'm still planning on reading your post before this
one, but hasn't gotten around to it yet :-/
:-) Thanks for checking it out, Christian..
I've filed it on bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489
A rather long report, hopefully the reader won't get bored read
Since I haven't seen any posts that this is on bugzilla, I'll assume
that it's not and will file this as a bug.. hope this is OK.
Thanks,
nirmal
Is this for Qt or Xforms (I'm trying it under Qt).
Qt..
1. If I hit "New" to define a new converter, then the selection
jumps to the last converter defined instead of showing me maybe
something like "Empty -> Empty".
It does, seems kind of pointless doesn't it ;-) I think you
should bugzilla
Hi.. I had reported this a while back but then failed to follow-up
on it... the problem is with the Converters interface in Edit ->
Preferences. Multiple problems actually:
1. If I hit "New" to define a new converter, then the selection
jumps to the last converter defined instead of showing me
Feel free. As I said in reply to Christian, it's on my mental radar. But then
again, it has been for a year or so ;-)
:-) .. I've filed it on bugzilla...
Thanks,
nirmal
X11string, then it would be trivial to define cite_bg colour etc and
get correctly rendered bevelled edges to the button.
The code to do all this exists. It's just a matter of juggling it
around.
Thanks for your mail, Angus.. this sounds very good.. should I add
this to bugzilla (just to ensure
Hi.. would it be possible to distinguish the inset that appears when
a cross reference is inserted from the inset for a citation
reference? Maybe by changing the color of the inset from grey to
something else for the citation reference? It would be easier for
one to find the citation references
When you mean "comment", do you mean that the latex file contains
%% This is the code in a comment
%% with a \includegraphics{foobar}
It's a \begin{comment} as Juergen pointed out..
rather than just a LyX-note that outputs nothing at all?
Nope.. it's there in the tex file alright..
Could you fil
Hi... I have a figure float in my document and this float is
commented... so it doesn't show up in the ouput.. but when LyX tries to
view pdflatex then it tries to convert this eps figure to pdf and gives
me an error saying epstopdf couldn't convert the eps to pdf.. this file
was created in Ado
Nirmal> Hi.. I just tried defining a converter for the
Nirmal> bundledoc/snapshot method of packaging a .tex file that was
Nirmal> suggested by Mark van Rossum. Both of us ran into the same
Nirmal> problem - after defining a converter, the View and Export
Nirmal> menus do not have the option for D
Hi.. I just tried defining a converter for the bundledoc/snapshot method
of packaging a .tex file that was suggested by Mark van Rossum. Both of
us ran into the same problem - after defining a converter, the View and
Export menus do not have the option for DVI, PS, PDF or PDF (dvipdfm)..
we're
Andre Poenitz wrote:
You can do the s&r on the .lyx as well. Should be better, as re-import
from .tex is likely to fail.
Yes, that works well...
I know. But I don't have the time.
That's completely understandable...
Thanks,
nirmal
Hi.. is there any plan for a search/replace for math stuff within LyX?
For example, if I need to change all the L_{abc} to L_{A} then I could
maybe do this with a search/replace feature that looks at math
characters and replaces all such occurences.. I guess I could also
convert to Latex and th
Hi.. you may want to take a look at a request I made some time back.. I
think the idea is similar... there're also a couple of links to useful
packages...
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303
nirmal
Mark van Rossum wrote:
I found that the package 'snapshot' and 'bundledoc'
produce dep
Garst R. Reese wrote:
You're welcome,
I gave up on cvs because it cleared my tables when I tried to insert a
row, then crashed. Do you not have this problem?
I most certainly do... I also ended up going back to 1.3.3 due to
this... I tried to work around this by creating the table in 1.3.3 and
Thanks Garst... that script works great! I think I'm still going to
stick with cvs, I feel a little more secure knowing that this script can
(hopefully) get me out of trouble if I do run into major problems with
cvs and need to go back to 1.3...
nirmal
Garst R. Reese wrote:
See the attached, n
reason I need to go back to 1.3.3 is cos the table editing is broken now
in cvs - can't center the field, undo magically deletes all the entries
in the table etc..
Sorry, let me quickly retract some of what I said.. the centering does
work in the output, just not in the lyx window...
nirmal
Hi.. so I need to port a couple of documents back to 1.3.3 from 1.4cvs..
and looks like 1.3.3 can't read the 1.4cvs doc, not in any decent
manner... is there any way to restore my document so that I can start
editing it in 1.3.3 again? I converted to .tex and then imported it and
that did almos
| To be honest, we were just refilling our stocks of arsenic for the
| quick solution of user induced problems.
*ss* you were not supposed to tell!
:-).. btw, I really like the new interface modifications and the error
spotting feature.. I was thinking abt writing in to request this feature
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
Please update from cvs.
I have no problems now.
Yes, updated and it compiled fine interesting startup banner btw..
:-) ... is this the LyX devel team on a mining expedition?
nirmal
> It probably isn't a feature that would be used very often, and I know
> that I should have structured my document correctly from the beginning,
> but I am just suggesting that it might be useful occasionally.
I beg to differ.. I think it's a feature that might be used quite
frequently by student
Hi.. I'm trying to compile cvs with gcc 3.3 and Qt 3.2.1 and I'm getting
the following error. Something to do wtih Qt?
Thanks,
nirmal
In file included from ../../../src/debug.h:18,
from ../../../src/frontends/controllers/BCView.tmpl:20,
from ../../../src/frontend
John Levon wrote:
> This makes no logical sense to me. Either you want changes tracked or
> you don't.
Well, I will try to explain my logic (whether it will make any logical sense
after this or not, I do not know.. :-)) .. if I'm trying to collaborate
with someone and I'm making changes to text t
Hi... Is there a way by which I can temporarily de-activate change tracking
within a document? There's a tick mark next to Track Changes in the submenu
of the Edit menu.. however when I click on it (hoping that the tick mark
would now disappear) I get the Merge Changes dialog.. reason this would be
> The document is hopelessly corrupted, the author ID is crap.
You mean the line that starts with \author doesn't look as it should? I have
it as \author "" .. what should this look like?
> then you should be able to recover your document.
Great! Yes, that did it.. thanks John...
> BTW, the or
I edited the lyx file to have the following lines:
\tracking_changes 1
\author "Nirmal Govind" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and I edited my preferences file to have:
\user_name "Nirmal Govind"
\user_email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
However, LyX still crashes if I open th
> Check also your ~/.lyx/preferences file and make sure the \user_name and
> \user_email are set correctly.
Aah.. I checked and this is probably the problem:
\user_name "Nirmal Govind,Home,,"
\user_email \screen_font_roman
I have no clue as to how the second line got there?!
nirmal
That message ended prematurely.. just wanted to add that I think the
offending lines in my file are the following:
\tracking_changes 1
\author "Nirmal Govind,Home,," \screen_font_roman
\author "Nirmal Govind,Home,,"
\author "root"
thanks,
nirmal
o debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...Read name
Nirmal Govind,Home,, email
aid is 1
listed aid is 0
Read name root email
> that's the problem. You have to properly install Qt first.
Well I did compile Qt 3.1.2 from source and it compiled fine.. maybe
compiler incompatibility I guess cos I may have compiled Qt with gcc < 3.3
.. will try recompiling lyx with gcc 3.2...
nirmal
hi.. I'm getting the following error while compiling 1.3.2 with Qt 3.1.2
using gcc 3.3.. I'd reported a similar error earlier but that was fixed by
setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Now I do have this env. var. set (to /opt/qt/lib)
but still no luck.. please let me know how this can be resolved.
Thanks,
ni
> It would be relatively easy to work well for 80% of cases. File it as an
> enhancement.
Great!! I've filed the enhancement request..
> Context menu stuff has been wanted for a long time. It requires some
> very careful design, and I'm not looking at doing anything in the
> current tree right
Hi.. I've just started using the change tracking feature (thanks to
Johnathan Burchill's adaptation of John's patch for 1.3.2).. it's a great
feature.. thanks John.. Two suggestions that would improve the useability:
1. In the Merge Changes box, would it be possible to show the changed stuff
(eith
>
> His patch is broken, or you didn't apply it properly
Think it may be the former cos I checked the code and it does include a file
called changes.h which Angus pointed out doesn't exist in the 1.3.2
source.. so missing file I guess.. I've emailed Johnathan...
Thanks,
nirmal
Hi.. I tried compiling 1.3.2 for the first time last night (I was using
1.3.1 till now) and the compile failed with the following error:
In file included from ../../src/buffer.h:28,
from insetbib.C:17:
../../src/paragraph.h:23:21: changes.h: No such file or directory
In file inclu
Hi.. when a math expression is present on a line, if I use Ctrl+Right Arrow
just before the word that precedes the math expression, to skip to the
beginning of the math expression, the cursor skips the math expression and
stops at the beginning of the first non-math-expression word that it finds.
O
Hi.. I'm writing a paper using the article class. It's in the 2-column
format. However the abstract and KEYWORDS need to be in a single column,
centered on the page. How can I do this?
Thanks,
nirmal
>
> Why don't you add it to bugzilla?
>
Done.. it's at:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303
nirmal
This request is based on experiences with trying to send LaTeX files
generated by LyX to other "pure" LaTeX users and a conference that required
a single LaTeX file which had everything in it.. So the request is to have
LyX convert the LyX document to a .tex file which would have the .eps
figures,
Hi.. I wrote up a short document on how one can configure the metafont modes
to generate darker fonts for printed output... this is useful when printing
documents written in certain fonts (especially CM) to low resolution
printers where the output may be a little too light.. I'd promised to write
t
> The kernel is currently being ripped apart. Slow keystokes are just one
> visible result. Do not use current cvs for real work.
Aah I see.. thanks Angus..
nirmal
I just compiled the latest cvs version and the response to keystrokes is
really slow in the editor.. any setting that I need to change to get
rid of this behavior? I'm using Qt 3.0.7 on a Debian ppc machine..
Thanks,
nirmal
>
> I see no problems here with
Thanks Lars.. it looks like the problem was due to some file in Qt 3.1.2
.. it compiled successfully with Qt 3.0.7... I'm pretty sure I compiled
Qt 3.1.2 with the same gcc version but I'm not 100% sure..
Thanks,
nirmal
Hi.. I'm getting the following error while trying to compile the latest
cvs with Qt 3.1.2 on Debian ppc with gcc 3.2.3.. is this a code problem
or a problem with the compiler that I'm using?
Thanks,
nirmal
--
BiblioModuleBase.C:27: syntax error before `::' token
BiblioModuleBase.C:32: ISO C++ for
> Yes, but beware that wv2 requires libgsf from gtk, which requrires
> glib2
I got wv to work.. the conversion from .doc to .tex is good for the
text part but not for the math part. I find that rtf2latex does a much
better job at this since it looks like wv replaces math with
"placeholder.eps" fil
> Given that nobody is keen to take up 88maintenance of reLyX and given
> that an alternative, tex2lyx, exists, at least in current cvs, I'd
> suggest you try this latter program.
Thanks Angus.. I compiled it as you directed and it worked...
actually the original file was a Word doc which I conver
Hi.. I was trying to import a latex file using the Import -> Latex
option but it gave me an error and stopped. Here's the error:
Reading LaTeX command syntax
(SLIM-O_report00.tex: Splitting Preamble
Creating LyX preamble
Reading layout file
Cleaning... Expecting `$', got \end in `
' at /usr/local/
I'm not sure why you resorted to the article class.. the CV class
included with LyX can produce something very similar.. I created mine
using the CV class.. it's at:
www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/CV_Nirmal_Govind.pdf
I can send you the lyx file in case you want to take a look at it..
Btw, I have a
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/qt/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> make
>
Thanks John.. that did it.. so make went on and exited with this error
later on:
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../src -I../../../../src/
-I../../../../src/frontends/ -I../../../../src/frontends/controllers
-I../../../../src
Hi... I just did a cvs update and tried compiling with Qt 3.1.2.. I get
the following error:
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../src -I../../../../src
-I../../../../src/frontends -I../../../../src/frontends/qt2 -I./qt2
-I/opt/qt//include -I../../../../boost
-I../../../../src/frontends/contro
> Are you sure LxY can find kpsewhich? Check your PATHs.
> I got caught by that. My ~/.profile did not have a PATH to kpesewhich.
>
I'm not sure this is the problem.. looks like it just gives warnings as
Jean-Pierre pointed out..
Folks, the problem still persists - none of my bibliographies ar
I did some more experimentation... when I do a View -> DVI (with all
the files in the directory deleted except the lyx file), I don't get the
references or citations as I mentioned in the earlier mail.. but if I do
a View-> HTML, it shows all the references and everything's fine.. and
after this if
> then in ert \colorbox{red}{some text}
> with a \usepackage{color} in the preamble
Thanks Herbet... Yes, I guess ERT is the only way.. I tried soul and
that's pretty neat too but again in ERT..
Maybe I should put in a feature request for text highlighting in Lyx??
it would be nice to be able t
Hi, I was wondering if there's some latex package that enables highlighting of
text (the equivalent of highlighting using a highlighter on paper)? If not, it
would be a useful feature to add to LyX.. it's very helpful when you want the
reader to only look at certain parts of the text..
Thanks,
ni
> Easiest... soon you're going to want the 'optimal' way ;-)
As long as optimal is easy.. :-)
> AFAIK, you have to do \nocite{Author98a} in ERT.
I was hoping to avoid ERT.. I had to use ERT earlier also when I used
bibentry.. the main problem with ERT is that one needs to remember (or
lookup) th
> In this case it might be the \mathrm in your equation which then
> includes \mathbf (maybe you pressed C-m by mistake within the equation?).
Thanks Amir.. after reading your post, I looked more carefully and there was a
C-m in there for no reason..
> I should add however, that when I deleted
Hi.. I'm having trouble with some simple math in the math editor.. I'm getting
errors saying there are missing $, } etc.. I'm attaching a sample file here
which has 2 lines of math text that gives me 15 errors. Please let me know what
needs to be done to correct this (if it can be corrected by the
> I installed the preview-latex-common rpm from sourceforge. There was
> no dependency on xemacs or fsfemacs. After it was installed the
> previews just burst into life.
Hmm.. I tried that but it ended up crashing my lyx 1.3.0 with Qt.. so I
decided to download and compile from source and that s
David,
I just downloaded preview-latex.. it seems to require xemacs or some
sort of emacs with image support.. do I really need to install xemacs if
I only intend to use it with LyX? Does preview-latex depend on emacs to
do what it does?
Thanks,
nirmal
> You should set LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately if you want to override
> the default linking directories.
>
Thanks John.. it might be nice to mention this somewhere in the INSTALL
file...
nirmal
Hi.. I had reported a problem earlier where lyx didn't start up... I
emailed the debian-powerpc list and was asked to check using ldd if lyx
was using the correct qt library when it started.. turns out it wasn't..
I compiled qt 3.0.7 in /usr/local/qt and configure lyx using the
--with-qt-dir=/usr/
Which version of gcc did you use and which version of Qt? I used to get
the sigsev error when I used gcc 2.95 but after compiling qt 3.0.7 with
gcc 3.2.1 and then compiling lyx also with 3.2.1, I don't get that
anymore but I get the new error I reported in my last thread... I'll
also try posting o
>
> Does your link error tell you what tries to access this symbol?
> Do Debian have a help forum? Is there a powerpc news group?
No, the only error I get is what I reported in the earlier mail.. is
there a way to get more information on the error??
debian-powerpc is a forum that I'm on but usu
Hi.. based on suggestions from this list, I upgraded to gcc3.2 and
recompiled QT 3 and then compiled lyx 1.3.0. I still can't startup
Lyx.. gives the following error:
src/lyx: relocation error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN5QChar4nullE
I'm using gcc/g++ 3.2.1 with Qt 3.0.7 on a Debian powerpc pl
> I think there is a way to force it, but gcc 3.2 compiles pretty
> easily.
OK.. I'm trying to compile it now rather than depend on binaries...
>
> I'm using Debian 3.0, and have found that gcc2.95 compiles lyx fine,
> with the qt front. gcc 3.2 won't unless you compile your qt libs with
> it as
> Known issue... although it seems to work fine with GCC 3.2. Although I
> think the newer Qt might be causing some issues.
Thanks Owen.. I'm trying to upgrade to gcc 3.2.. having trouble with
Debian cribbing abt dependencies for binutils which supposedly clashes
with modutils! Wonder if there's a
Hi.. I compiled lyx 1.3.0 with the qt frontend.. since earlier I was
getting crashes on startup with the cvs version, I decided to get a
fresh version of QT also and compiled qt 3.1.1. Please let me know if
there's a fix to this... thanks...
Here's the error I get:
nirmalg@ibook:/opt/lyx-1.3.0$
Hi folks.. I'd reported this problem earlier but haven't found the
solution to the problem yet.. I compiled the CVS version on my
Debian powerpc linux.. compile goes fine but when I try starting lyx
from src/lyx, it crashes immediately... my configuration is as follows:
LyX 1.4.0cvs of Thu, Jan 30
> What compiler is this?
> (and version?)
gcc, g++.. version is 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
glib-config --version gives 1.2.10
Thanks,
nirmal
Hi.. I updated and compiled the cvs version today and lyx still crashes
on startup.. looks like some incompatibility with libc.. I'm running
Debian on a powerpc based machine... below is the backtrace from the
crash.. I had the same problem when I tried earlier a month or so back..
Please let me k
> trying to recover from xmas...
Yup that's true.. sorry for the impatience.. :-)
> Stupid question: did you try 'make clean && make'?
I actually downloaded the cvs for the first time on this computer and
compiled... so wouldn't that be a 'clean' make by default?
nirmal
Folks.. any idea what's going wrong here in this crash?
Thanks,
nirmal
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:49:34 -0500
Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.. I compiled the cvs version on my ibook yesterday.. I'm running
> Debian Woody (with a modified kernel).. compilation
Hi.. I compiled the cvs version on my ibook yesterday.. I'm running
Debian Woody (with a modified kernel).. compilation went fine but when I
start the program it crashes immediately.. looks like some problem with
libc.. glib-config --version says 1.2.10 and gcc --version says
2.95.4... below is the
Hi.. if I want to compile without the language catalogs, then should I
just delete all the catalogs from the Makefile under the CATALOGS =
section? Also, is there a way to do a cvs update without getting the .po
files for all the languages? These files are slightly bigger than the
rest so it would
>
> It should be up now... My machine was being rebuilt. :-(
>
thanks for letting me know Kavyan..
nirmal
Hi.. I'm trying to update my cvs but after entering the passwd, it just
waits and doesn't do anything...
Thanks,
nirmal
Sure.. I'll do this in a couple of days.. I just noticed that on the
very same day (12/12) a thread was started by Juergen on how pdflatex
doesn't convert xfig figures.. so is this being fixed already?
nirmal
>
> Actually, we should have the possibility in external insets to add a
> rule for for
Hi.. I ran into trouble while cross-referencing sections which had the
same names and hence same label names but belonged to different
documents. Say I have two docs, and there's a section with exactly the
same name in each of these docs. If I insert labels in each of these
docs, they both have the
> I have a patch for that (and other forgotten keys). I'll apply it
> asap.
>
> JMarc
>
Great! Thanks a lot..
nirmal
In the Qt version, when I hit "|" (the pipe or the vertical bar obtained
by hitting Shift and "\") I see "unknown function" at the bottom.. and
of course, the bar isn't displayed.. same thing happens in math mode
also..
Thanks,
nirmal
Hi... the 1.2.1 version crashed while I was trying to open a file that
was last saved in the cvs version of lyx. I've opened this file several
times before in 1.2.1 after editing in 1.3cvs so I don't know what
changed that caused this to happen. I'm attaching below the backtrace
from the crash of 1
>
> This only happens for me if I include the other documents. And the
Yes, I just noticed this after reading your message.. only when I have a
document that includes the other docs does the dialog show all the
labels no matter which doc you select and no matter which doc you're
currently in.. wo
Hi.. there's a problem with the cross reference dialog - in the dialog
for inserting cross-references, if I have multiple documents open, this
dialog shows me the labels for ALL the documents even though I've
selected only one of the documents from the drop down menu.
thanks,
nirmal
> Maybe it would help sell GNU/Linux in general to your workmates.
The problem in the engineering environment is that several software
packages that are used are available only on Windows... precisely the
reason why I still have a Windows partition on my computer.. things
have improved in the rec
> > AFAIK you can use QT for Windows in GPL projects (LyX _is_ GPL,
> > right?), so maybe QT port will run without problems?
>
> There are patches from somebody (sorry I've forgotten your name !) but
> we haven't heard from them for a while ...
Wow.. I would really love to get my hands on that if
Hi.. I'm guessing someone's asked this before but anyways - is there any
plan to have a Windows version of LyX, i.e. a native Win version (so
that one doesn't need Cygwin and an X server).. reason I ask is I made a
presentation on LyX (actually, more of a demo) in my department here and
a LOT of pe
>
> The dialog does not work yet (apart from a few functions).
> I'm currently implementing it.
>
> Jürgen.
>
Aah.. thanks..
nirmal
Hi.. I can't seem to set the borders on cells in tables... the dialog
seems to work (as in it shows me the border in the dialog when I click
on it) but when I set a border (or unset it) nothing happens to the
actual table in the document..
Thanks,
nirmal
I just set my display font in LyX to Verdene and this font just looks
awesome! Really nice that the display font can be selected from a menu
and has a preview.. Great work folks!
nirmal
Hi.. the Preferences dialog doesn't seem to exist in the QT frontend..
has this already been reported or is it only me with this problem?
Thanks,
nirmal
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