Re: No way to convert latex to lyx in 1.4.1?

2006-06-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Raymond wrote: Hello, I couldn't find a menu entry to convert latex to lyx in lyx-1.4.1. Tex2lyx exists and works independently of lyx, but there seems to be no entry in the files->import menu. I'm probably doing something dumb as usual! If you're running Win XP, it could be an install

LyX 1.4.svn breaks 1.4.1 (Windows XP)

2006-06-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Not sure if this is a known phenomenon, but version 1.4.1 (which was working) is now broken, and I'm pretty sure the cause is my installing 1.4.svn (Joost's installer). Symptoms: View->Draft DVI results in a Windows error box saying "Windows can't find 'auto'." The LyX error message is "An e

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 1. It installed a bunch of Aspell files to C:\Program Files\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60. I already had Aspell installed (at C:\Aspell). I thought that Aspell *had* to be installed to C:\Aspell. Has this changed? The Aspell installer, which defaults to

Re: long standing annoyance with tables

2006-06-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Edwin Leuven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | is that it gets inserted with silly lines Why are they silly? I think it's generally considered bad form to have many horizontal lines, or *any* vertical lines, in a table. I confess that the first thing I do after inser

Re: New Windows Installer

2006-06-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: Thanks for all your comments and feature requests. A new version of the installer, again based on the latest 1.4.2svn, is now available. Hi, Joost, Great job with the installer. I just tried it out, and it worked great for the most part, with a few anomalies: 1. It

Re: Bug in preferences file

2006-05-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rui Prior wrote: Dear LyX developers, Under windows (at least), the paths to the viewers configured under Preferences->File_Formats->Viewer cannot contain spaces. In most installations, at least acrobat reader will be under "C:\Program Files", and cannot be used. As a workaround I created .b

Re: Another ct bug, or 2600 redux?

2006-05-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2006 17:26 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Should this go into bugzilla as a new bug, an extension of 2600, or not at all? If in doubt, Always! :-) file it as a new bug, mentioning that it could be related to 2600. If it turns out that it is the same problem

Another ct bug, or 2600 redux?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, Not sure if this is another manifestation of bug 2600 or a new CT bug. Someone on the user list posted a beamer file (containing CT markup) that no longer opens. More specifically (using LyX 1.4.1): 1. Try to open the doc either by File->Open or drag-and-drop. Status line changes to "

Re: Ctl-M Issue on windows port

2006-05-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Just noticed that Python 2.4 has a script crlf.py in the Tools\Scripts directory that strips out ^M (and apparently can be run against a group of files using wildcards in the file name). /Paul

Re: Ctl-M Issue on windows port

2006-05-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, we are working on a large LyX document and use CVS as a version control system. One of the authors uses LyX on windows. His LyX files contain an additional ^M on each line break. This is fine as long as nobody needs to merge a document with changes from the Lyx on

Aspell "personal" files on Win XP

2006-05-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, I just noticed that LyX 1.4.1 (Win XP) puts the .aspell.en.prepl and .aspell.en.pws files in the LyX root directory (C:\Program Files\LyX141) rather than in the user home directory (C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\Application Data\LyX1.4.x). No big deal, but I was wondering if t

Re: Qt/WinFree menu font?

2006-05-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks, Georg. Unfortunately, the Windows distribution of LyX (at least Angus's version) doesn't include qtconfig. I infer fro

Re: Qt/WinFree menu font?

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi, This is in regard to someone on the user list who's having interface problems (on a Windows system). Can someone tell me what font the Qt/WinFree GUI wants to use for the menu bar? This is configurable via qtconfig. AFAIK this program does

Qt/WinFree menu font?

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, This is in regard to someone on the user list who's having interface problems (on a Windows system). Can someone tell me what font the Qt/WinFree GUI wants to use for the menu bar? TIA, /Paul

Re: Development news for LyX under Windows - help needed

2006-05-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Your DVI is from LyX's temp directory so that the eps images aren't included. Could you send one eps-file and a LyX file to reproduce this? The mailing list bounced my first attempt at replying (I attached a zip archive that it apparently found threatening). I appear to h

Re: Development news for LyX under Windows - help needed

2006-05-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I couldn't reproduce the red line problem. But anyway, I attached a working version of the hyperref.cfg. Copy it to MiKTeX's install folder to the subfolder ~\tex\latex\00miktex and report me if this fixes your problem. The version of hyperref.cfg you attached matches th

Re: LyX 1.4.1 deleting lists: bug or feature?

2006-05-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose' Matos wrote: This has happened to me as well, cutting or deleting leaves those ghosts behind. I have just tested 1.4.2svn and the problem is still there. And certainly this falls under the bugs section. :-) So much for my bugzilla-searching skills. I think this is actually bug

Re: Development news for LyX under Windows - help needed

2006-04-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: A new really nasty problem appeared: LyX for Windows is after an update of MiKTeX no longer able to produce DVI or Postscript output. The reason is the clean_dvi.py script that invokes the programs dt2dv.exe and dv2dt.exe. These two programs need "hypertex" as driver but MiK

LyX 1.4.1 deleting lists: bug or feature?

2006-04-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, Before submitting this to bugzilla, I wanted to verify it was a bug and not a feature (i.e., not deliberate). Create an enumeration or itemization that contains some nesting, e.g., 1. blahx 2. blah (a) blah 3. blahy 4. blah. Now highlight some of it (say from the 'x' to the 'y'

Re: Windows USB LyX?

2006-04-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Russell Pierce wrote: I started using LyX for Windows version 1.3.7 earlier today. After some initial setup difficulties with aspell (I guess LyX wanted it in c:\aspell ... or my system was just retarded from previous installations of similar program using similar packages), I got it working a

Re: Unable to import LaTeX Documents in LyX 1.4.1 for Windows

2006-04-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there a reason why it's now named tex2lyx.1.4.x.exe, Yes. I wanted LyX 1.3.x to work alongside LyX 1.4. LyX 1.3.7 is the most stable version of LyX ever. LyX 1.4.1 isn't... By configuring the build process

Re: bug. lyx1.4.1 for windows crashes on this equation

2006-04-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Chunpeng Yan wrote: Can someone please look at the simple equation in attached the file? lyx1.4.1 for windows crashes when View->DVI. No such a problem for lyx1.3.7 windows. I can confirm that it 1.4.1 crashes. The LyX preamble window contains a lot of LaTeX preamble that does not belong the

Re: Unable to import LaTeX Documents in LyX 1.4.1 for Windows

2006-04-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: I've added a bullet on the Windows installation tips wiki page (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x) with the hard link work-around for now. I suggest that you change "ln" to "mv" as it is simply a waste of disk space leaving around tex2lyx1.4.x.exe (if "ln" simply ma

Re: Unable to import LaTeX Documents in LyX 1.4.1 for Windows

2006-04-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think this is a known bug: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2285. If I'm reading the report correctly, fixing it was deferred to 1.4.2. Here is the fix. Going into trunk tomorrow if nobody objects. That's elegant indeed!

Re: Unable to import LaTeX Documents in LyX 1.4.1 for Windows

2006-04-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It is a bug. Try the following work-around and see if it helps: 1. Replace the configure file in the LyX141\Resources directory with the newer version attached. So, my suggest

Re: Unable to import LaTeX Documents in LyX 1.4.1 for Windows

2006-04-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It is a bug. Try the following work-around and see if it helps: 1. Replace the configure file in the LyX141\Resources directory with the newer version attached. So, my suggested fix worked? Great! Um, yes and no. It

Re: Unable to import LaTeX Documents in LyX 1.4.1 for Windows

2006-04-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andreas Karlsson wrote: Dear List, I am new to LyX, and have installed LyX 1.4.1 for Windows. According to the Tutorial, "You can import a LaTeX file into LyX by using the File->Import->LaTeX command in LyX." Selecting File->Import, there is no entry for "LaTeX", only for "Plain Text as Li

Re: Windows Installer for LyX 1.4.1

2006-04-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I installed LyX 1.4.1 on my PC running under Windows XP Pro. I have a few comments to do on the Windows Installer: - language selection works properly inside the installer but only english LyX version is installed (tested with french and german; I am aware the lang

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 & windows - still no go

2006-04-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:33:35PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if this is a matter of how you filled in the preferences dialog. What works for me is this: 1. Install Enrico's lp.exe binary in the LyX bin directory. 2. In Tools->Preferences...-

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 & windows - still no go

2006-04-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
lyxuser wrote: Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Now it should work even when gsprint lives in a path with spaces. If not, please report it back to me, as this time I will use an axe to convince the command interpreter to do what it should do The space error when I call lp direc

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 & windows - still no go

2006-04-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 05:36:35PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: No printing is also typical. Printing under Windows is apparently a bit of an adventure. (I always print from either Yap or AR, so I've never bothered to set it up.) There have been some posts o

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 & windows - still no go

2006-04-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Helge Hafting wrote: And again - no path to the msys stuff. Added that temporarily, ran "sh configure" and a lot of things happened. So lyx starts, but no view->dvi, no view->pdf, no printing. And no time to figure it out. No View->DVI is odd. I assume your sister uses MiKTeX (?). If so, is

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Freitag, 14. April 2006 18:41 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 06:29:40PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: It simply should never be invoked by hand. This is unsupported. But the installer suggests doing that when it fails to run configure. I know. I still thin

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2006 21:34 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Well, the good news is that it no longer trips over a space. The bad news is that I get the following output: checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter... +checking for "tex2lyx"... no +checking for &quo

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:34:12PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Well, the good news is that it no longer trips over a space. The bad news is that I get the following output: checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter... +checking for "tex2lyx"... no

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Guys, the test will need to be rewritten as: PATHORIG="$PATH" PATH="$PWD/../src/tex2lyx:$PATH" export PATH for ac_prog in 'tex2lyx -f $$i $$o' \ 'tex2lyx'"$version_suffix"' -f $$i $$o' do ... done PATH="$PATHORIG" export PATH unset PATHORIG Paul, could y

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: The Windows installer can be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/lyx-1.4.1_win32_setup_v1.exe Tracked down the glitch I previously saw in the configuration output (which may well be harmless). It comes from line 482 in the configure script, which leads

Re: Some data

2006-04-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andre Poenitz wrote: A few entries from a recent data sheet: 2006-03-26, 04:12, 3150 g, 50 cm, "Paula". Andre' Congratulations! (Excellent choice of name, by the way.) /Paul

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

2006-03-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Abdelrazak Younes writes: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Things worked fine on LyX 1.3.x. Since then, however, Lars Angus> moved over a bunch of file and directory manipulation/checking Angus> utilities to use a l

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.1 svn

2006-03-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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 variant of http://b

LyX/Win 1.4.1 pre 1

2006-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Just installed 1.4.1pre1 on another machine (Win XP Pro) and noticed a couple of things. 1. While the configuration script was running, I noticed the following output: Checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter +checking for "/c/Program" ... no That 'no' doesn't surprise me. I'm not sure what i

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.1 pre1

2006-03-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Would interested parties please try this out? If it proves to work as advertised I'll put together a page on the wiki and we can advertise more widely. The installer ran fine. It picked up yap and notepad as viewers but not a PDF viewer. Haven't had time to futz aro

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.0

2006-03-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Paul" == Paul A Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> The new interface looks nice, but at my age adaptation takes Paul> time. (You can in fact teach an old dog new tricks, but Paul> typically a rolled-up newspaper is involved.) Note t

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.0

2006-03-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Hi, Stephen. This problem with the path_prefix stuff should now be fixed. Perhaps you'd like to test it out? http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX137/lyx-1.3.7_win32_setup_v4.exe http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX140pre/lyx-1.4.0pre_win32_setup_v2.exe I'm sti

Re: Compiling LyX for Windows - free MSVC available

2006-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Abshoff wrote: Only one more rants, I promise: For a living I port C++ code to Linux, OSX, Solaris, *BSD and sometimes HP/UX and AIX. I also need to get that code running under Windows using MSVC (MS SVU is not an option). 99% of my troubles stem from MSVC and Windows in general, so I h

Re: help needed for LyX's configure script

2006-02-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2006 18:07 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Btw. Where can I find informations about the configure script language? You don't want to learn that (it is a mixture of m4, bourne shell and various little helper programs) ;-) Have a look at the experimental configure.

Re: help needed for LyX's configure script

2006-02-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I used now the following code to assure that it will also work on Lunix: --- # Search something to view LaTeX-files echo $ac_n "checking for an editor to view LaTeX-files""... $ac_c" echo "$ac_t""(jEdit PSPad WinShell ConTEXT Crimson Editor Vim TeXnicCenter LaTeXEditor WinEdt

Re: help needed for LyX's configure script

2006-02-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I want to add a section in LyX's configure script to check for viewers of LaTeX-files. I used the following code: - # Search something to view LaTeX-files echo $ac_n "checking for an editor to view LaTeX-files""... $ac_c" echo "$ac_t""(jEdit WinShell TeXnicCenter WinEdt Win

Re: Found a bug when exporting to pdf with jpeg images

2006-01-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2006 16:54 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Poking around with this led me to what I think is a second, related bug. (I'm not sure the first problem is a LyX bug versus a LaTeX limitation, but I'm pretty sure the second one is a LyX bug.) I tri

Re: Found a bug when exporting to pdf with jpeg images

2006-01-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
e=jpg' option in the \includegraphics command. /Paul -- ****** Paul A. RubinPhone: (517) 432-3509 Department of Management

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Enrico Forestieri wrote: For some reason the dvipng distributed with miktex (at least the one I have installed) fails to generate the instant preview images: $ python /path/to/lyxpreview2bitmap.py png 0lyxpreview.tex 128 00 f0f0f0 makepk: METAFONT failed on "cmmi12".

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bo Peng wrote: If you View->LaTeX info->BibTeX styles, can you see the .bst file? No. The .bst file is under the same directory as the .lyx file. I use 'browse' in the bib tex dialog to use it. Under linux, this is enough. I can reproduce the problem (Win XP, LyX 1.3.7pre5) if the .bst file

Re: lyx configure fails (was Re: qt3-win: cannot compile with mingw)

2005-12-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Abdel wrote: My sed version is the one with MSYS-1.0.11 (GNU sed 3.02). Please note that I am not using MSYS DTK, I have hand installed the needed software (autoconf, automake, libtool, etc). Sorry, late arrival to this thread, so I apologize if I'm repeating something said elsewhere. The v

Re: Fwd: Re: Drag-and-drop dropped? [LyX 1.3.7pre4]

2005-12-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm reading, but I've nothing very useful to say. Instead, let me recap: It seems that the problems lie only with the Installer rather than with LyX itself and the only real problem in the Installer is that running the configure script can fail. I think that's correct, bu

Re: Fwd: Re: Drag-and-drop dropped? [LyX 1.3.7pre4]

2005-12-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Yet more on the installation issues. Brian Linfoot experienced some of the same installation issues I had, on both XP and 2K in his case, but it's not clear whether he had the same drag-and-drop problems before pre5 came out. (In any case, they seem to be fixed.) He had some other issues we'

Re: Fwd: Re: Drag-and-drop dropped? [LyX 1.3.7pre4]

2005-12-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Small bit more data on the installation glitch. First, I discovered I had the GNUWin32 bin directory (which contains the same version of sh and a more recent version of sed) ahead of the MinSYS bin directory on my path. I temporarily removed GNUWin32 from the path and had the same installatio

Re: Fwd: Re: Drag-and-drop dropped? [LyX 1.3.7pre4]

2005-12-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul, could you try out LyX 1.3.7pre5 please. Usual place. (Works for me...) The good news is that drag-and-drop works for me. The not as good news is that the same installation problem I experienced in pre4 is present in pre5. (Recap: the configuration script fails

Re: Drag-and-drop dropped? [LyX 1.3.7pre4]

2005-12-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Is it just me, or does drag-and-drop not work with 1.3.7pre4 (on Win XP)? I've tried two machines, and the LyX window just ignores attempts to drop a .lyx file on it. Does it work if you use the old Qt .dll? Yes. I wondered if this was an

Drag-and-drop dropped? [LyX 1.3.7pre4]

2005-12-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Is it just me, or does drag-and-drop not work with 1.3.7pre4 (on Win XP)? I've tried two machines, and the LyX window just ignores attempts to drop a .lyx file on it. Paul

Re: Failure to launch Lyx after successful installation

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tan Kai Meng wrote: Hi, I tried installing Lyx 1.3.6 for Windows for my machine running on Windows XP SP2, but was unable to launch Lyx after successful installation, with the following error message: "Lyx wasn't able to find its layout descriptions! Check that the file "textclass.lst" is insta

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: If so, maybe I can hack the script to pause right at the top, so that (maybe) I could see what if anything was painted in the DOS window that spawned (and died). It is. Try adding something like: $ cat trial.sh #! /bin/sh while true do echo

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

2005-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: It is. Try adding something like: $ cat trial.sh #! /bin/sh while true do echo "Hello!" done Will do. Meanwhile, I installed on my office PC (also XP Pro, same AV and firewall as the laptop), and encountered the same glitch that I saw on the laptop. Another clue,

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

2005-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: If the bug is reproducible consistently, that's great. You're half way there to diagnosing the cause. Ah, but there's the easy half and the hard half, isn't there? I've kinda lost track of the problem itself. The configur

Re: mathed script oddity

2005-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Helge Hafting wrote: Mathed can be brought into a strange state where the keys ^ and _ doesn't work as expected. 1. Activate math, type the word test 2. Press ^ to get superscript 3. Press space, this ought to cancel superscript 4. Press ^ again, note that instead of a superscript, the last

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

2005-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: (I have many stress testers now who help me a lot of fixing wierd problems.) I avoid these problems by deleting LyX's old config folders in ~\Application Data when my installer starts. OK this is not the fine way but there is no real reason why this could ha

Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

2005-11-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus, Nothing here to keep you awake at night (that's what William is for :-), but 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 ap

Re: William Leeming

2005-11-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Dear all, I'd like to announce the arrival of William who arrived on Tuesday 15 November, weighing in at 3.55kg (7lb 12oz in old money.) It wasn't easy getting him out (40 hours labour followed by a Cæsarian) but now he is out both he and Emma are doing really well. They fin

Re: lyx win1.3.6

2005-11-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: first i install software lyx, and run, but i had problem with view View→PDF or View--> PS, (view->dvi run) i search for resolver it i see http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 and old version lyx win page, but at the end, on the bar menu view, i not see view->dvi ), i thin

Support for equationarray

2005-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Will 1.4.0 support the equationarray environment? If not, is it possible to add it through LFUN calls (i.e., without modifying the source code and recompiling LyX)? What I'm looking for is an array-like input widget (basically, eqnarray with array's cability to add columns and set column alig

Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre

2005-10-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
In 1.3.7pre2 (on Win XP) S-C-M minimizes the application (and every other window) and "crashes" to the desktop (same as the "Show Desktop" shortcut). The LyX window is alive and well, just minimized. Didn't find this when I searched bugzilla (which proves nothing, given the number of variants

Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre

2005-10-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Christian Ehrlicher has told me that he's resolved many of the outstanding issues with the "Cue Tea"/Win code that were introduced by the backporting of some official Qt4 code into their code base. I thought, therefore, that I'd upload a snapshot of the current LyX 1.3.x

Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre

2005-10-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Should someone report this to the Qt developers, Feel free. Screenshots always help. However, Christian does know about something similar. It might be the bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1330978&group_id=49

Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre

2005-10-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus, is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows installations, so that this should work on all machines

Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre

2005-10-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Johann Kellerman wrote: My Lyx used exactly the same font! A simple solution is to delete the Algerian font from your windows\fonts directory. The next best is Arial, which looks decent. Algerian is an ugly font anyway... Johann Wish it were that simple. When I deleted Algerian, Allegro BT

Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre

2005-10-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Johann Kellerman wrote: Anyway, clearly more work needed :( Keep up the good work! Lyx 1.3.6 is very impressive already, got 3 windows people LyXing with it. The font issue is with the actual text in the dialogs. All the controls/widgets except the buttons use the strange font. The fonts in

Re: Wrong characters in math (CVS)

2005-10-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John C. Spray wrote: Hello, Just built LyX from CVS on FC4, and am getting erroneous characters in math: I write "\approx" and I get a kind of bottom-half-of-an-ellipse instead of a wiggly equals sign. The character comes out correctly in the postscript output though. John Have you got appro

Re: Paragraph environment missing from document class: article(AMS)

2005-10-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Scheffler, Thomas wrote: Dear developers, the document class article(AMS) does not include a Paragraph environment. It includes a Paragraph* and Subparagraph* environment though. If I convert a document formated unter document class article to article(AMS) the existing formatting from ist cha

Re: [Off-topic]: Borland Turbo C 2.0 or 3.0

2005-10-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi This might sound weird, but I'm looking for Borland Turbo C 3.0 (2.0 might work) in order to compile some special example drivers for DOS. Does anyone have an idea where TC30 or TC20 might be available? (My network is acting up right now... I can't even access Borlan

Re: Bundle everything into lyx windows installer.

2005-10-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Luis Rivera wrote: Perhaps it's easier to do something like the protext distribution for MiKTeX. Basically, you set up a pdf file with installation instructions and hyperlinks, pointing to the places you need to go to download whatever you need. See http://tug.org/protext/

Re: Menu hotkeys in Italian

2005-09-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Paul" == Paul A Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I guess this depends if Alt-m is really the classical shortcut for Modifica. Probably only italian users can solve this one. Paul> Makes sense to me.

Re: Menu hotkeys in Italian

2005-09-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I guess this depends if Alt-m is really the classical shortcut for Modifica. Probably only italian users can solve this one. Makes sense to me. I wonder, though: are there alternative bind files installed when you select Italian as the language? (I did a test ins

Menu hotkeys in Italian

2005-09-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, This came up in the general discussion group. It occurred with a Windows install, but I assume it's not platform-specific. In the English version, the edit menu is labeled 'Edit' and the hot key is Alt-E (M-E in general?). In the Italian version, however, the translation of 'Edit' is '

Paste over text

2005-08-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, In the Gatesian universe, if one highlights text and then pastes over it, the clipboard contents replace the selected text. In LyX, the clipboard contents is insert immediately after the selected text. Is this because that's how the sequence is typically handled in the *nix universe? (

Re: greeek panel ceases from math panel in Lyx 1.3.6 for Windows

2005-08-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Pota Gyorgy wrote: Dear Developers, When I click on the scrolling band of Greek panel within Math panel, the characters in the Greek panel partially or fully cease, only their empty place can be seen. At this stage clicking on "Detach panel" the Greek characters appear

Re: greeek panel ceases from math panel in Lyx 1.3.6 for Windows

2005-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Pota Gyorgy wrote: Dear Developers, When I click on the scrolling band of Greek panel within Math panel, the characters in the Greek panel partially or fully cease, only their empty place can be seen. At this stage clicking on "Detach panel" the Greek characters appear normally in a separa

Re: Bug inserting bracket in multiline equation

2005-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mark van Rossum wrote: Hi I try to insert brackets (e.g. \left{ and \right} in Latex lingo) in a multi-line equation (equation array). I would like the brackets to encompass multiple lines. I select multiple lines and with 'Math Panel' I insert the brackets. Next, what happens depends on the

Re: Lyx 1.3.6

2005-08-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sorry, I should have read your first post more carefully. Turns out this is a bug in the 1.3.6 port. Looks like someone forgot to tweak the scanning commands to allow spaces in the path. I'll post this to bugzilla. Meanwhile, as far as I can

Re: Lyx 1.3.6

2005-08-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084} wrote: Hi, Sh.exe is in the path for me. I am not sure whether this is the problem, but when I first installed lyx 1.3.6, I had 1.3.5 already installed. But subsequently, I uninstalled everything and started from scratch. There's no conflict between 1.3.5 and

Re: New Qt/Win Free DLL file

2005-08-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Just tell me of anything the new one doesn't do that the old one did ;-) In very limited use so far, the only change I've noted is that the business about overwriting labels on the Layout screens is gone. So far, no problems, but if I find any you can be sure I'll let

New Qt/Win Free DLL file

2005-08-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus, In side correspondence, Brian Linfoot asked why the existence of the new DLL wasn't more widely publicized (e.g., on the Wiki). I was going to edit the Wiki myself, but realized I lacked answers to two questions. The first is whether it's an official update from the Qt/Win Free develo

Re: Lyx 1.3.6

2005-08-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084} wrote: Hi, I noticed two things while installing Lyx 1.3.6 on Win XP 1. I went through the steps as described in wiki website. The problem is I am not able to assign the .sh files to open with sh.exe which in the minsys folder. Because of this, I am also not a

Changing bullet styles in a beamer presentation

2005-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I can't find any mention of this in bugzilla, and Googling it turned up nothing (I couldn't get a connection to GMANE's search engine). Searching the beamer user guide didn't turn up anything, either. I'm not sure if this is a LyX bug or a "feature" of the beamer package. In both LyX 1.3.5 an

Re: LyX 1.3.6 Installation Error

2005-08-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric May wrote: Hi- I get the following error upon completion of running the windows installer for lyx. Lyx wasn't able to find its layout descriptions! Check that the file "textclass.lst" is installed correctly. Sorry has to exit. The file does not exist on my system, is there a place to

Re: New bugzilla component please -- Windows installer

2005-07-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Levon wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:53:51PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: While you're at it, add "Windows" to the Platform and OS comboboxes. Windows is there (you're the second person to not see it ... weird). Hah! Vindication! Paul

Re: LyX Windows 1.3.6-1 Applying Preferences Changes Screen Fonts

2005-07-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Tim Harris wrote: Hi All, I've just installed LyX 1.3.6-1 and found a little bug. This is bug 3, here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136#qt_winfree_bugs Is it? I thought that bug only applied during the initial configuration, not after modifying preferences. More sp

Should I post this to bugzilla?

2005-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I'm encountering a problem with LyX 1.3.6 (Win XP) that's similar to but not the same as bug 1488. There's a notation at the end of 1488 that it's fixed in 1.4cvs, but I can't tell if that fix was applied to 1.3.6, and hence whether I should post this to bugzilla. When creating a new converte

Re: Question/feature suggestion: View->PDF

2005-07-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi, A common problem for those of us trapped on Planet Redmond (and using Acrobat Reader to view PDFs) is that View->PDF and View->PDF (xxx) will fail if Reader is already open. The PDF file is output, but Reader claims not to be able to fi

Question/feature suggestion: View->PDF

2005-07-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, A common problem for those of us trapped on Planet Redmond (and using Acrobat Reader to view PDFs) is that View->PDF and View->PDF (xxx) will fail if Reader is already open. The PDF file is output, but Reader claims not to be able to find the file. On the other hand, File->Export->Custo

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 - or the installer "super GAU"

2005-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
First, heartfelt thanks to all who helped bring LyX 1.3.6 to fruition (and continue to work on the sequels). Second, specifically to Angus, feel free to take the rest of the day off. :-) As far as the review article goes, I can't too worked about about the statement (arguably accurate but IM

[LyX Win] Drag-and-drop problem

2005-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
This happens with both 1.3.6pre24 and 1.3.5, so maybe I should feed it to Bugzilla? A problem in two parts: 1. If you drag-and-drop a document onto an open LyX window to open it, you cannot export it. (File->Export seems to do whatever processing is needed, e.g. running latex, but nothing i

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