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

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

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: 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 tell

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 tell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 and

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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-Custom

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,

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

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

[LyX1.3.6pre24 on Windows] File navigation broken

2005-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
sigh Not sure if this is a LyX or Qt/Win Free bug. It's not listed (that I can see) on the Wiki page whence I downloaded version 24. In the File-Open dialog windows, double-clicking a folder icon causes LyX to exit the dialog and pop up an error message box saying that the folder is not a

[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

[LyX1.3.6pre24 on Windows] File navigation broken

2005-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Not sure if this is a LyX or Qt/Win Free bug. It's not listed (that I can see) on the Wiki page whence I downloaded version 24. In the File->Open dialog windows, double-clicking a folder icon causes LyX to exit the dialog and pop up an error message box saying that the folder is not a LyX

[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

Re: Thoughts on BibTeX and files with spaces

2005-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: The gurus at comp.text.tex or gmane.comp.tex.miktex are either silent or they're suggesting I avoid paths with spaces, so let's assume that BibTeX can't handle such paths. One suggestion, from Florian Schmitt

Re: Thoughts on BibTeX and "files with spaces"

2005-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: The gurus at comp.text.tex or gmane.comp.tex.miktex are either silent or they're suggesting I avoid "paths with spaces", so let's assume that BibTeX can't handle such paths. One suggestion, from Flori

Re: Thoughts on BibTeX and files with spaces

2005-07-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: The gurus at comp.text.tex or gmane.comp.tex.miktex are either silent or they're suggesting I avoid paths with spaces, so let's assume that BibTeX can't handle such paths. One suggestion, from Florian Schmitt on gmane.comp.tex.miktex is to use the DOS alias name of

Re: Thoughts on BibTeX and "files with spaces"

2005-07-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: The gurus at comp.text.tex or gmane.comp.tex.miktex are either silent or they're suggesting I avoid "paths with spaces", so let's assume that BibTeX can't handle such paths. One suggestion, from Florian Schmitt on gmane.comp.tex.miktex is to use the DOS alias name of

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: I've put the resulting installer here: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx_setup_136_paul.exe Oh, boy! My own personalized installer. Finally, I'm 'published'. Will that be its permanent name? If you can confirm that it fixes your problems then I'll move it onto the

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: I've put the resulting installer here: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx_setup_136_paul.exe Oh, boy! My own personalized installer. Finally, I'm 'published'. Will that be its permanent name? If you can confirm that it fixes your problems then I'll move it onto the

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: LyXWin 1.3.6 version 21 doesn't install. I get the error message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting. Oh, for [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s sake! Thanks for the report. Now have you any idea why not? Not yet. I need more time to

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Yes. LyXWin 1.3.6 version 21 doesn't install. I get the error message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting. To reproduce this, delete the folder lyx in the Win folder Documents and settings before you install LyX. (As if you have never

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: LyXWin 1.3.6 version 21 doesn't install. I get the error message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting. Oh, for [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s sake! Thanks for the report. Now have you any idea why not? Not yet. I need more time to

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Yes. LyXWin 1.3.6 version 21 doesn't install. I get the error message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting. To reproduce this, delete the folder "lyx" in the Win folder "Documents and settings" before you install LyX. (As if you have never

Re: [1.3.6pre19] Various problems displaying graphics

2005-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: The only thing that I can imagine is that yap is falling over because of the . in rubin.BUSINESS. Perhaps I can leave you to investigate further? I tried myself, copying lyx_tmpdir88a04036 to rubin.BUSINESS/lyx_tmpdir88a04036 and renaming the absolute paths to the

Re: [1.3.6pre19] Various problems displaying graphics

2005-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: The only thing that I can imagine is that yap is falling over because of the "." in "rubin.BUSINESS". Perhaps I can leave you to investigate further? I tried myself, copying lyx_tmpdir88a04036 to rubin.BUSINESS/lyx_tmpdir88a04036 and renaming the absolute paths to the

Re: [1.3.6pre19] Various problems displaying graphics

2005-07-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Don't know which of these are known so far: In an existing Beamer presentation (works fine with 1.3.5) containing .pdf and .png graphics, calling View-PDF (pdflatex) gets me a half dozen error messages, all Unknown graphics extension: .XXX where XXX

Re: [1.3.6pre19] Various problems displaying graphics

2005-07-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Don't know which of these are known so far: In an existing Beamer presentation (works fine with 1.3.5) containing .pdf and .png graphics, calling View->PDF (pdflatex) gets me a half dozen error messages, all "Unknown graphics extension: .XX

[1.3.6pre19] Various problems displaying graphics

2005-07-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Don't know which of these are known so far: In an existing Beamer presentation (works fine with 1.3.5) containing .pdf and .png graphics, calling View-PDF (pdflatex) gets me a half dozen error messages, all Unknown graphics extension: .XXX where XXX is either pdf or png. With the same file,

[1.3.6pre19] Various problems displaying graphics

2005-07-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Don't know which of these are known so far: In an existing Beamer presentation (works fine with 1.3.5) containing .pdf and .png graphics, calling View->PDF (pdflatex) gets me a half dozen error messages, all "Unknown graphics extension: .XXX" where XXX is either pdf or png. With the same

Re: 1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Version 18 is now uploaded. Please confirm that it works for you. I fear this is going to test our relationship. I found version 19 on the Wiki and installed it. Before installing, I replaced the ui and bind lines in my preference file with just default.ui and

Re: 1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Ahhh! GOT IT! The new install does not overwrite the old install. You have to uninstall first. From the installer: Section -Installation actions SecInstallation SetOverwrite off I take it you'd like me to change this? ;-) You're correct; I just

Re: 1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Version 18 is now uploaded. Please confirm that it works for you. I fear this is going to test our relationship. I found version 19 on the Wiki and installed it. Before installing, I replaced the ui and bind lines in my preference file with just "default.ui" and

Re: 1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Ahhh! GOT IT! The new install does not overwrite the old install. You have to "uninstall" first. From the installer: Section "-Installation actions" SecInstallation SetOverwrite off I take it you'd like me to change this? ;-) You're correct; I

Re: 1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi, Just tried to set the paths to the ui and bind files explicitly in Edit | Preferences. Both set ok, but when I restarted LyX, only the ui path was remembered correctly; the bind path was truncated to C:/Program. Same happens if I set just

Re: 1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul, can you try setting the path to the bind file again (so it's recognized incorrectly as C:\Program and post the line starting \bind_file in C:\Documents and Settings\Paul\Application Data\lyx\preferences \bind_file C:/Program Files/LyX/Resources

Re: LyX/Win 1.3.6 bug/wish

2005-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Boutillier wrote: I think this is more of a wish than a bug, but it would be cool if typing C-Backspace and C-Delete would delete the previous and next word respectively. If LyX is supposed to do this already, then the pre-release version that I'm using doesn't do it. You can customize

[LyX 1.3.6pre17] C-Backspace not working

2005-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus, I'm using pre17 with the cua.bind (with the path correctly set). Contrary to an earlier post (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-develm=111864240105275w=2) by Nicolás, text selection with S-left and S-right, and cursor movement with C-End, C-Home etc. work. So possibly what he

Re: 1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi, Just tried to set the paths to the ui and bind files explicitly in Edit | Preferences. Both set ok, but when I restarted LyX, only the ui path was remembered correctly; the bind path was truncated to C:/Program. Same happens if I set just

Re: 1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul, can you try setting the path to the bind file again (so it's recognized incorrectly as "C:\Program" and post the line starting "\bind_file" in C:\Documents and Settings\Paul\Application Data\lyx\preferences \bind_file

Re: LyX/Win 1.3.6 bug/wish

2005-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Boutillier wrote: I think this is more of a wish than a bug, but it would be cool if typing C-Backspace and C-Delete would delete the previous and next word respectively. If LyX is supposed to do this already, then the pre-release version that I'm using doesn't do it. You can customize

[LyX 1.3.6pre17] C-Backspace not working

2005-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus, I'm using pre17 with the cua.bind (with the path correctly set). Contrary to an earlier post (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-devel=111864240105275=2) by Nicolás, text selection with S-left and S-right, and cursor movement with C-End, C-Home etc. work. So possibly what he

1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, Just tried to set the paths to the ui and bind files explicitly in Edit | Preferences. Both set ok, but when I restarted LyX, only the ui path was remembered correctly; the bind path was truncated to C:/Program. Same happens if I set just the bind path and leave the ui alone. However,

1.3.6Win-pre17 mungs path to bind file

2005-06-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, Just tried to set the paths to the ui and bind files explicitly in Edit | Preferences. Both set ok, but when I restarted LyX, only the ui path was remembered correctly; the bind path was truncated to C:/Program. Same happens if I set just the bind path and leave the ui alone. However,

Re: Aspell failure w/pre1.3.6-16 install on windows

2005-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: I ran in a dos console C:\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe dump config C:\aspell-config and set ASPELL_CONF to conf C:\aspell-config without success. Aspell *does* work for Stephen Harris (from a private post), I'm checking with him and I'll keep devel-list posted. Works

Re: [1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: As an erstwhile mathematician, though, I am not going to leap blindly into the post hoc, ergo propter hoc pit. Ha, as an erstwhile engineer I think I should be upset by a mathematician accusing me of circular logic

Re: [1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: I tried his version 15 (I think), but then installed your v. 16, at which point fonts were intact. It was after installing your v. 17 that fonts disappeared. As an erstwhile mathematician, though, I am not going to leap blindly into the post hoc, ergo

Re: the new install for win32

2005-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Philip A. Viton wrote: I accepted all the suggestions except that I put Lyx into c:\ProgramFiles\Lyx instead of c:\Program Files\Lyx (with a space). 1.3.6pre17 can be installed to C:\Program Files and (mostly) works fine from there. This time the installer posted a message Failed attempting

Re: Aspell failure w/pre1.3.6-16 install on windows

2005-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: I ran in a dos console >C:\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe dump config >C:\aspell-config and set ASPELL_CONF to conf C:\aspell-config without success. Aspell *does* work for Stephen Harris (from a private post), I'm checking with him and I'll keep devel-list posted.

Re: [1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: As an erstwhile mathematician, though, I am not going to leap blindly into the "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" pit. Ha, as an erstwhile engineer I think I should be upset by a mathematician accusing me of circ

Re: [1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: > I tried his version 15 (I think), but then installed your v. 16, at > which point fonts were intact. It was after installing your v. 17 that > fonts disappeared. As an erstwhile mathematician, though, I am not > going to leap blindly into t

Re: the new install for win32

2005-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Philip A. Viton wrote: I accepted all the suggestions except that I put Lyx into c:\ProgramFiles\Lyx instead of "c:\Program Files\Lyx" (with a space). 1.3.6pre17 can be installed to C:\Program Files and (mostly) works fine from there. This time the installer posted a message "Failed

Re: [1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bit of a mystery here. All was working well on my laptop as of the last time I used LyX (yesterday or the day before). Installed pre17 today and math screen fonts were munged; \times displayed as a pound sign, so of course I suspected Angus's handy

Re: [1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bit of a mystery here. All was working well on my laptop as of the last time I used LyX (yesterday or the day before). Installed pre17 today and math screen fonts were munged; \times displayed as a pound sign, so of course I suspected Angus's handy

Re: Language selection

2005-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Eugenio Guevara wrote: 4.. Instant preview works fine if there is no spaces in pathnames - I think it's a problem of python or one of this support programs Again, this is odd. Others have reported that Instant preview works well. FWIW, I just opened a doc with

[1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bit of a mystery here. All was working well on my laptop as of the last time I used LyX (yesterday or the day before). Installed pre17 today and math screen fonts were munged; \times displayed as a pound sign, so of course I suspected Angus's handy work. :-) Ruurd's port was also affected.

Re: Language selection

2005-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: FWIW, I just opened a doc with spaces in the path (though not in the file name itself) and instant preview worked fine. I did have to scroll through the document to induce instant preview to update the display, but that seems to be normal modus operandi. (This was

Re: Language selection

2005-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Eugenio Guevara wrote: 4.. Instant preview works fine if there is no spaces in pathnames - I think it's a problem of python or one of this support programs Again, this is odd. Others have reported that Instant preview works well. FWIW, I just opened a doc with

[1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bit of a mystery here. All was working well on my laptop as of the last time I used LyX (yesterday or the day before). Installed pre17 today and math screen fonts were munged; \times displayed as a pound sign, so of course I suspected Angus's handy work. :-) Ruurd's port was also affected.

Re: Language selection

2005-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: FWIW, I just opened a doc with spaces in the path (though not in the file name itself) and instant preview worked fine. I did have to scroll through the document to induce instant preview to update the display, but that seems to be normal modus operandi. (This was

Re: LyX 1.3.6pre and cygwin

2005-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Angus Leeming leeming at ... writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Hi all, [snip] The second problem is that, in cygwin, python.exe is a soft link to the real program python2.4.exe and thus it is

Re: LyX 1.3.6pre and cygwin

2005-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Angus Leeming ...> writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Hi all, [snip] The second problem is that, in cygwin, python.exe is a soft link to the real program python2.4.exe and thus it is not

Re: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Sthr wrote: Hello Paul, I implement a solution that checks which program is associated to the .pdf file extension. Could you please thest if this installer finds Adobe Reader on your computer: http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/lyx_setup_136proposal-v15-2.exe thanks in advance and

Re: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello Paul, I implement a solution that checks which program is associated to the .pdf file extension. Could you please thest if this installer finds Adobe Reader on your computer: http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/lyx_setup_136proposal-v15-2.exe thanks in advance and

Re: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: - I need the registry path for Acroread. If anybody has installed it, please send it to me. Under HKLM I have Software\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe which stores C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe so perhaps you can use the same test for both? Don't know

Re: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: - I need the registry path for Acroread. If anybody has installed it, please send it to me. Under HKLM I have "Software\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe" which stores "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" so perhaps you can use the same test for both? Don't

Re: lyx 1.3.6pre/Win

2005-06-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
jorgen johansson wrote: Hello Developers, Thanks for providing the 1.3.6/pre. I installed on a win2000 machine which had be running 1.3.3 native qt version earlier. Seem to work out of the box now. Some comments/bugs 1) alt + letter does not work. E.g Alt+F should open the file menu but

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre12] View (pdflatex) dies at graphic

2005-06-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul, I just tried your files with the latest versions of latex-beamer, pgf and xcolor from the latex-beamer.sf.net web site. It works perfectly, all the way through to page 84. Granted, this is under linux, but could you upgrade and try again? Works perfectly in LyX

Re: lyx 1.3.6pre/Win

2005-06-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
jorgen johansson wrote: Hello Developers, Thanks for providing the 1.3.6/pre. I installed on a win2000 machine which had be running 1.3.3 native qt version earlier. Seem to work out of the box now. Some comments/bugs 1) "alt + letter" does not work. E.g Alt+F should open the file menu but

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre12] View (pdflatex) dies at graphic

2005-06-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul, I just tried your files with the latest versions of latex-beamer, pgf and xcolor from the latex-beamer.sf.net web site. It works perfectly, all the way through to page 84. Granted, this is under linux, but could you upgrade and try again? Works perfectly in LyX

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre12] View (pdflatex) dies at graphic

2005-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: In the .tex file emitted to the temp directory by View-PDF (pdflatex) (or, presumably, by File-Export-PDF (pdflatex), the extension .pdf is omitted from the name of the embedded graphic file. In constrast, the file produced by File-Export-LaTeX includes the extension.

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 + MiKTeX = dual nagging

2005-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Two suggestions: In the wonderful world of Windows, it's common (though far from universal) for an installer to give the user two choices: install for all users; or install for just the logged in user. The 1.3.6pre installer currently does the latter. No it

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre12] View (pdflatex) dies at graphic

2005-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: In the .tex file emitted to the temp directory by View->PDF (pdflatex) (or, presumably, by File->Export->PDF (pdflatex), the extension .pdf is omitted from the name of the embedded graphic file. In constrast, the file produced by File->Export->LaTeX includes the

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 + MiKTeX = dual nagging

2005-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Two suggestions: In the wonderful world of Windows, it's common (though far from universal) for an installer to give the user two choices: install for all users; or install for just the logged in user. The 1.3.6pre installer currently does the latter. No it

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 + MiKTeX = dual nagging

2005-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe Sthr wrote: I know now why: LyX's reconfiguration is indeed done twice, once by the installer and once if it is started the first time. That's correct. The installer updates the contents of c:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx. When you run lyx yourself it updates the

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre12] View (pdflatex) dies at graphic

2005-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ok, I think I've identified the problem. In the .tex file emitted to the temp directory by View-PDF (pdflatex) (or, presumably, by File-Export-PDF (pdflatex), the extension .pdf is omitted from the name of the embedded graphic file. In constrast, the file produced by File-Export-LaTeX

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 + MiKTeX = dual nagging

2005-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: I know now why: LyX's reconfiguration is indeed done twice, once by the installer and once if it is started the first time. That's correct. The installer updates the contents of c:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx. When you run lyx yourself it updates

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre12] View (pdflatex) dies at graphic

2005-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ok, I think I've identified the problem. In the .tex file emitted to the temp directory by View->PDF (pdflatex) (or, presumably, by File->Export->PDF (pdflatex), the extension .pdf is omitted from the name of the embedded graphic file. In constrast, the file produced by File->Export->LaTeX

Qt/Win Free DPI setting

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus, On the Wiki, you posted a test program for screen DPI detection and asked if it worked for others. I'm assuming this is the right place to answer. I ran it on my laptop, and it said 81 DPI (same thing LyX 1.3.6pre says). My display adapter is set for 96 DPI. -- Paul PS: Ok, you

LyXWin 1.3.6 + MiKTeX = dual nagging

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Not sure what's up with this, but ... I have MiKTeX set to prompt me any time something requires a LaTeX package I don't have installed. So each time I run the 1.3.6 installer, when the configuration script gets to the right place, I get a sequence of pop-up windows from MiKTeX asking if I

Qt/Win Free DPI setting

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus, On the Wiki, you posted a test program for screen DPI detection and asked if it worked for others. I'm assuming this is the right place to answer. I ran it on my laptop, and it said 81 DPI (same thing LyX 1.3.6pre says). My display adapter is set for 96 DPI. -- Paul PS: Ok, you

LyXWin 1.3.6 + MiKTeX = dual nagging

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Not sure what's up with this, but ... I have MiKTeX set to prompt me any time something requires a LaTeX package I don't have installed. So each time I run the 1.3.6 installer, when the configuration script gets to the right place, I get a sequence of pop-up windows from MiKTeX asking if I

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