Libertine support LyX version 2.1.0 (beta 1)

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

The latest version of libertine in MacTeX 2013 (updated with tlmgr)
lacks the file libertineMono-type1.sty.

I took libertineRoman-type1.sty, modified it accordingly, put it into my
local tree, texhashed, reconfigured LyX and it works.

Cool.

el

On 2013-08-01 10:40 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
 Vincent,
 
 on a current 10.8.4 moving from 2.0.6 to yesterday's 2.1.0beta1
 how do I get libertine's Mono font installed?
 
 These are the result of
 
 grep -i libertine ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.1
 
 styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/biolinum-type1.sty
 styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/biolinum.sty
 styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertine-type1.sty
 styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertine.sty
 styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertineMono.sty
 styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertineotf.sty
 styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertineRoman.sty
 
 but on the reconfigure it displays only libertine and biolinum, not the
 mono.
 
 If I add the plain
 
 \includepackage{libertine}
 
 in the preamble it continues to work.
 
 greetings, el
 
 
 

Re: [GSoC 2014]ODT--LyX Conversion

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Prannoy,

what's wrong with the LaTeX Export from ODT?

el

On 2014-07-03, 17:06 , Prannoy Pilligundla wrote:
[...]

 Now for getting back to LyX from ODT I am thinking of writing a python
 script which does this conversion. As of now I am planning to use the
 xml parsers expat library
 https://docs.python.org/2/library/pyexpat.html.I also had a look at
 lyx2lyx scripts. I tried using Writer2LaTeX but it doesn't suit our
 purpose of getting back the same LyX file. I am not very clear on how to
 go ahead from this juncture. For example I am not clear on how I will
 get information about all the packages used from the ODT file. I feel I
 am not aware of many issues which need to be taken care of during this
 conversion process. It would be great to hear your comments and
 suggestions on how to go ahead
 
 Thanks and Regards
 Prannoy Pilligundla

Re: about the domain lyx.de

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Why so complicated,

CNAME lyx.de to lyx.org in the DNS.

el

On 2014-10-16 19:53 , Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Dear deelopers,
 
 I now found the time to take care of the domain lyx.de that I bought a
 few months ago.
 
 - I set a redirect to lyx.org:
 http://lyx.org
 or
 http://www.lyx.org
 
 - to be redundant in case ftp.lyx.org is down I set up a directory to
 provide the windows installer independent of sourceforge:
 https://ftp.lyx.de/
 or
 http://ftp.lyx.de/
 
 If you like, I can upload more material or can even mirror ftp.lyx.org
 (if somebody can explain me how to do this).
 
 regards Uwe
 

Re: [GSoC 2014]ODT-->LyX Conversion

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Prannoy,

what's wrong with the LaTeX Export from ODT?

el

On 2014-07-03, 17:06 , Prannoy Pilligundla wrote:
[...]

> Now for getting back to LyX from ODT I am thinking of writing a python
> script which does this conversion. As of now I am planning to use the
> xml parsers expat library
> .I also had a look at
> lyx2lyx scripts. I tried using Writer2LaTeX but it doesn't suit our
> purpose of getting back the same LyX file. I am not very clear on how to
> go ahead from this juncture. For example I am not clear on how I will
> get information about all the packages used from the ODT file. I feel I
> am not aware of many issues which need to be taken care of during this
> conversion process. It would be great to hear your comments and
> suggestions on how to go ahead
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Prannoy Pilligundla

Re: about the domain lyx.de

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Why so complicated,

CNAME lyx.de to lyx.org in the DNS.

el

On 2014-10-16 19:53 , Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Dear deelopers,
> 
> I now found the time to take care of the domain lyx.de that I bought a
> few months ago.
> 
> - I set a redirect to lyx.org:
> http://lyx.org
> or
> http://www.lyx.org
> 
> - to be redundant in case ftp.lyx.org is down I set up a directory to
> provide the windows installer independent of sourceforge:
> https://ftp.lyx.de/
> or
> http://ftp.lyx.de/
> 
> If you like, I can upload more material or can even mirror ftp.lyx.org
> (if somebody can explain me how to do this).
> 
> regards Uwe
> 

Libertine support LyX version 2.1.0 (beta 1)

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

The latest version of libertine in MacTeX 2013 (updated with tlmgr)
lacks the file libertineMono-type1.sty.

I took libertineRoman-type1.sty, modified it accordingly, put it into my
local tree, texhashed, reconfigured LyX and it works.

Cool.

el

On 2013-08-01 10:40 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> Vincent,
> 
> on a current 10.8.4 moving from 2.0.6 to yesterday's 2.1.0beta1
> how do I get libertine's Mono font installed?
> 
> These are the result of
> 
> grep -i libertine ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.1
> 
> styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/biolinum-type1.sty
> styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/biolinum.sty
> styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertine-type1.sty
> styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertine.sty
> styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertineMono.sty
> styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertineotf.sty
> styFiles.lst:/usr/local/texlive/2013basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertineRoman.sty
> 
> but on the reconfigure it displays only libertine and biolinum, not the
> mono.
> 
> If I add the plain
> 
> \includepackage{libertine}
> 
> in the preamble it continues to work.
> 
> greetings, el
> 
> 
> 

Re: using older Lyx documents after upgrading

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

That seems to be a LaTeX issue,

export to LaTeX and look at the errors there.

el


On 2016-07-19 11:50, Michael Berger wrote:
> Hi all, this is to share my experience with other users and asking for
> help from the developers. ;-)
> 
> I have quite a number of LyX documents made in Mageia5 using LyX 2.1;
> TexLive 2013; classicthesis-LyX-v4.1, most of them with the module
> 'Linguistics' loaded and using different bibliography styles.
> 
> After upgrading to LyX 2.2.0; TexLive2016; classicthesis-LyX-v4.2 and
> loading those older documents I found the following when trying to
> export to PDF:
> 
>   * Beamer presentations > OK
>   * All types of Koma-Script documents >> basically OK with some minor
> adjustments, inter alia regarding the bibliography style, e.g. oscola
>   * classicthesis-LyX-v4.2_biblatex_biber and
> classicthesis-LyX-v4.2_biblatex_bibtex8 >> do compile all example
> files as well as their original 'ClassicThesis.lyx' template without
> any problem.
>   * but trying to compile any of my classicthesis-LyX-v4.1 documents I
> get either an endless loop or heaps of errors - there are so many
> different errors that I eventually gave up trying to fix them
> 
> I also started copying parts of my old documents into a new one but even
> text that I considered not very special produced errors.
> 
> Authoring everything entirely new seems to be the only way as far as I
> see now. Well is that it?
> 
> Any explanation, clue, advice etc. is highly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers and thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 

Re: Complaints about LyX on Mac

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Jean-Pierre,

I use a similar setup, just BasicTeX because of the smaller foot print
with additional packages loaded as needed and WIndows7 and Windows10
virtual machines in the latest Virtual Box.

buffer-view.sgvz is displayed as icon in the text without issues as are
all the others.

I don't use inkscape, but have librsvg installed (via homebrew).

Once that is done a reconfigure in LyX will find rsvg-convert which
does as well but with much smaller footprint (and I think also faster).

Inkscape on the Mac requires a X11 servier, ie XQuartz.

The Examples are in (and below)

 /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/examples/

I am an elderly Gynecologist, running my practice on LyX since 2004 and
find this extremely easy.

el

On 2017-08-14 08:43 , Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote:
> Hello Stephan
> 
> A French user complains sadly about a couple of problems with LyX
> (first experience).
> 
> His conf:
>  iMac 2011 (OSX 10.12.5), MacTeX (May 24th, 2017), LyX 2.2.3, virtual
> Windows versions WinXP and Win10 (Parallels Desktop).
> 
> His problems:
>  1) opening splash.lyx, gets a message
> 
>No information for converting svgz format files to pdf6.\n
>Define a converter in the preferences.
> 
> (this is the toolbar icon)
> 
> Seems that he has not inkscape installed, is this a common practice
> on Mac?  If this is the case, it would be perhaps better to avoid a
> need for conversion in the splash file.  Here on Debian, it seems that
> Inkscape is installed with gnome.
>
>  2) Opening the Tutorial, section 2.1, he fiddles about a lot to
> find the installation folder where are the examples, As he does not
> find it in the Mac directories, he finally opens the lyx package and
> uncompresses it in a local place.
>
> Two questions there: here I have a 'Examples' button wheb I select
> File>Open.  Is it true on Mac as well? Where is the installation
> folder on Mac?
>
>  3) Trying another document class, he selects Docbook (not a good
> choice for a beginner IMHO). And when he wants to open it, this
> triggers the firefox of his windows virtual box. Then he goes to
> Tools>Preferences>Converters and is quite sarcastic about the dialog
> window about LyXHTML, which he does not understand.  It's a bit
> curious in fact (no viewer defined), see attached.
>
> This guy is very self confident about his system configuration
> and negative about LyX in his mail, Personnally I think that his
> system configuration is not so good as he says, and that the Lyx
> configuration missed some important stuff..  I will ask him to
> reconfigure and send over the result. Is it easy on mac?
>

listing file without extension

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hi,

would it be unexpected that an included listing file without extension,
ie something like

 filename

would throw an error that filename.tex is not found?


el

Re: Windows + TeXLive + LyX 2.3.0

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Jürgen,

the correct command is tlmgr update --self --all :-)-O

el

On 2018-06-20 17:28 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Pavel Sanda mailto:sa...@lyx.org>> schrieb am Mi., 2. TL
> is stabilized & freezed. Once all coathors have, say TL 2017, then
> 
>    you can be sure that no packages versions would switch between
> computers.
>    It's much harder to check what version of latex packages are on the
>    computers when updates randomly occur.
> 
> 
> Not if one reguläres runs tlmgr update --all, while the other does not.
> 
> Jürgen 
> 

Re: No screen font smoothing in a Parallels VM

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Why on Earth would one want to run LyX on the Mac in a Virtual
Machine using linux which runs LyX in X-WIndows or whatnot?

Other than exploring the limits?

el


On 2018-11-01 20:04 , Chris Menzel wrote:
> Problem solved!  I upgraded to KDE Plasma version 5.14.2 (via the
> backports PPA) and LyX 2.3.1 and that solved the problem.  (Not sure
> if either of itself would have done the job.)  Thanks again to the LyX
> (and KDE) developers.
> 
> Chris Menzel
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 12:07 PM Chris Menzel  wrote:
> 
> Dear Lyx folk,
> 
> I've just installed Parallels on my iMac in part because LyX runs
> so well under Linux and Parallels creates very robust virtual
> machines (indeed, some things in Linux (like trackpad gestures)
> work *better* in a Parallels VM).  LyX looks fantastic running
> natively on my (hi-res) iMac (the current problems with boldface
> notwithstanding) and running natively on my Dell laptop under
> Linux.  But for some reason, when I run it under Linux in a
> Parallels VM on my iMac, I'm not getting any font smoothing;
> screen fonts are jaggy and pixelated.  All other Linux apps looks
> great in the VM, including those using the same screen font.  I've
> attached a couple of screensgrabs to illustrate the problem, one
> showing the lack of font smoothing in LyX and another showing how
> the same font looks in all other Linux apps.  Is this a known
> issue?  And, if so, is there a fix?  I haven't turned up anything
> after a lot of googling.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas here.
> 
> Chris Menzel
> 
>  

Re: Problem importing latex files

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Stephan

I came across this issue when using tex2lyx directly (in one of my
workflows) on MacOs 10.13.6

I can look on my laptop with Mojave tonight :-)-O, where LyX runs
otherwise without issues, I haven't finished testing all of my
workflows, but assume I'll upgrade the iMacs in the practice to Mojave
this weekend.


On 21/09/2018 18:12, Stephan Witt wrote:
[...]
> There was an error in the build procedure that went unnoticed.  I’ll
> have to change the build procedure to catch that.
> 
> What you can do for now to return to production (until a new package is 
> available):
> 1) open a terminal window
> 2) create the folder with the hard wired path name
> => enter: mkdir -p /Users/Shared/LyX/utilities/lib
> 3) copy the frame work library in question to this new folder
> => enter: cp -p 
> /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Frameworks/Hunspell.framework/libhunspell-1.3.0.dylib
>  /Users/Shared/LyX/utilities/lib
> 
> You probably can do this with the Finder too - but I cannot explain it so 
> easy.
[...]

I have done

sudo mkdir -p /Users/Shared/LyX/utilities/lib
sudo chown -Rv $(whoami):admin /Users/Shared/
pushd /Users/Shared/LyX/utilities/lib
ln -s
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Frameworks/Hunspell.framework/libhunspell-1.3.0.dylib
$(pwd)
ls -las
popd

which (the symlink part) achieves the same :-)-O

With regards to how to do this in FInder, one could look at making an
alias and moving that into the Shared directory.

I have, however hunspell 1.6 installed with homebrew which is not seen
after a Reconfigure.

I wonder while you are fixing the build procedure (I assume the library
could be accessed withing the application but don't undertstand those
things) if you could make it look for a system wide hunspell
installation and use that?

And, while I have your attention,would it be possible to give tex2lyx
(and lyx itself) a -q (--quiet) option?

greetings, el
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Re: serious bug (fedora issue?)

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I tried "buffer-anonymize"

and found that

\begin{enumerate}[resume, label={\arabic*}.]

becomes

\begin{enumerate}[resume, a={\aa*}.]


Should I raise a bug on the tracker for this?

el



On 2018-12-29 18:19 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
[...]
> Is it enough to obfuscate it with "buffer-anonymize"?
[...]

Re: Missing lyxeditor.cmd?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I can not confirm this.

I am a long time LyX user in production (I seem to have switched from
OpenOffice to LyX in 2005 according to what I can find in my operating
reports directory), regularly updating LyX and MacOs, and on an number
of different boxes (from iMini via the trashcan MacPro to a 5k iMac) and
laptops (12 and 13 inch airs).

The only issue I am having sometimes is LuaLaTeX being 3 times slower
than pdfLaTeX but of course it is the future :-)-O and there are many
ways around some of it.

Is there a way of measuring the startup time of a Mac application?

greetings, el

On 22/08/2019 19:08, Chris Menzel wrote:
[...]
> I'm not really a Windows user either, but I got so irked with recent
> Mac laptops that I bought the (quite lovely) Dell in a fit of pique.
> I have to say that, once you get it set up right, LyX under Windows
> (and Linux) works rather better than it does under macOS. It loads
> *much *faster and just seems snappier all around; forward/inverse
> searching in particular is faster and more accurate.  (Both startup
> and forward search on macOS have been glacial under the last few
> iterations, though they're improved in 2.3.3.)
[...]

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PO Box 8421  /
Bachbrecht, Namibia ;/  

Re: How to Specify PDF Attachments?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Yes, pdfpages works very well within LyX.

greetings, el

On 2020-02-26 14:22 , Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:47:40PM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote:
>> *If this is not currently possible, I want to solicit your thoughts on how
>> to incorporate such functionality.*  My immediate thought is by using the
> 
> I think the most obvious candidate is external material machinery.
[...]

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Re: How to Specify PDF Attachments?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

This is a very important suggestion.

I am keeping an Ops handbook for my setup which runs to 600 pages.

I use the listings package to include config files and program listings
and the like, but you can't copy and paste these from the PDF, or rather
they are mangled to be quite useless.

Any way of achieving this (either as attachment (or even via Copy &
Paste) would be rather great :-)-O

greetings, el

On 2020-02-26 15:19 , Joel Kulesza wrote:
>> On Feb 26, 2020, at 05:51, Jean-Pierre 
wrote:
>>> Le 26/02/2020 à 07:47, Joel Kulesza a écrit :
[...]
> I don’t just want to include PDFs.  I want to include text (or other,
> sound, image, etc.)  files, which I don’t want a reader to have to
> copy-and-paste to retrieve.
[...]

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Re: Python compiler infects "immutable" bundle - how to avoid it?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

On Catalina (10.15.3) /usr/bin/python is symlinged to
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7

Python (3 and/or 2) on the Mac is easily installed via Homebrew (i nto
/usr/local)

So is LyX (as what is called a Cask), and within Homebrew that could
lead to a dependency being defined so that if LyX is to be installed
Python must also be.

greetings, el

On 2020-02-22 19:46 , Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 22.02.2020 um 03:35 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck :
>> On 2/21/20 12:08 PM, Stephan Witt wrote:
>>> Am 21.02.2020 um 12:08 schrieb Stephan Witt :
[...]
> The standard on Mac is 2.7.17 with 10.14.6 (Mojave today) and I read
> somewhere with 10.15.x (Catalina) python3 is available.  But Apple has
> announced the removal of python from standard OS:
>
> "Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by
> default, and might require you to install additional packages.  If
> your software depends on scripting languages, it’s recommended that
> you bundle the runtime within the app."
>
> I’m not sure how difficult it would be to put the python universe into
> the LyX app.
>
> Stephan
>

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Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I have none of these problems but then I have been using LyX on a daily 
basis since 1998 (v0.12) (on Linux at first but since 2005 on the Mac 
in a busy Obstetrics and Gynecology practice) 

And, I have installed 4 systems recently which all work out of the 
box...

Here is what I have tested today:

MacOs 10.15.3
LyX 2.3.4.2

I don't install TeXLive 2019, not even MacTeX-2019, but BasicTeX
straight off of

http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html

At update time I run

tlmgr list --only-installed \
   | gawk '{gsub(/:/, ""); print $2}' \
   > ~/Downloads/texlive.$(date +%Y-%m-%d).installed.txt 

from the command line (which requires the GNU awk (homebrew) but you can
of course sed this) before the update and when done

tlmgr install $(cat ~/Downloads/texlive.$(date +%Y-%m-%d).installed.txt)

to make my additions survive.

After installation of LyX, I (re-)run Tool->Reconfigure which is 
probably unnecessary.

I change the default PDF format in

Document->Settings->Formats->Output Format->Default Output Format 

to

PDF (LuaTeX)

which results in a change in the document to something like

\default_output_format pdf5

and of course 

perl -i -p -e 's/(\\default_output_format)\W*(\w*)\W*$/$1 pdf5\n/g' 
*.lyx

or even

find ~/ -name '*.lyx' \
-exec perl -i -p -e 's/(\\default_output_format)\W*\w*\W*$/$1 
pdf5\n/g' \ ';'

will do that for all files

As I like to use Skim for all PDFs on the Mac I just open one with 

Command-I

and select 

Open With
Skim

Change All...

and have to do nothing within LyX.

If you like to use Preview for some and Skim for LyX PDFs, select

LyX-> Preferences -> File Handling -> ~File Formats -> Viewer -> Custom

and add something like

open -a skim $$i


As far as SyncTeX is concerned

https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX

is helpful, look for "displayline' which in my LyX is one of the pull 
down options anyway.

I change in

Document->Settings->Formats->Synchronize with output 

the pulldown to

\synctex=-1

which should be the default (but doesn't seem to be), save the LyX file,
preview (CMD-R) and it works.

In Skim in

Preferences->Sync->PDF-TeX Sync support:->Preset

I choose

LyX

and 

Shift-Command-Mouseclick

works in reverse.


Just a small note at the end, if you are looking for an "experience",
buy commercial software.  This is Open Source being maintained by very
helpful, responsive and competent volunteer developers (in their spare
time).

If you find that the Wiki is incorrect, feel free to contribute by
submitting changes or even amending accordingly.


Personally I find posts under initials (anonymous) only, extremely
annoying, especially when asking for help, even if an anonymous email
address is being used for de-spamming purposes, which is quite in order.
(That said, I hope that Thunderbird does indeed display my name in the
From line :-)-O)

greetings, el


On 12/02/2020 17:22, mn wrote:
> LyX 2.3.4.2, macOS 12
> 
> This is just a new user to LyX perspective: bad.
> 
> Newly setup system:
> 
> 1. install macOS
> 2. install TeXlive2019
> 3. install LyX 2.3.4.2
> 4. install Skim
> 5. read some docs for configuration
> 
> (as written previously: trying to read UserGuide.pdf will not work in
> this setup…)
> 
> - Changing default PDF output in
> 
>   Preferences > Output > General
> 
>   to 'Skim' results in pdflatex output being displayed in X11/xpdf
> 
>  (As
>  Preferences >  File Handling > File Formats > Viewers (PDF(pdflatex))
>  is indeed set per default to 'xpdf')
> 
> - trying to enable synctex support as per wiki is impossible
> 
> — **none** of the options under
> 
>  Preferences > File Handling > Converters
> 
>  enables any 'OK' or 'Apply' buttons. They always remain greyed out, no
> changes can be saved.
> 
> https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX  (says:
>> Enter Tools > Preferences > File Handling > Export programs [not existing]
>> Click "LaTeX (pdflatex) > PDF (pdflatex)" in the list. In the "Export
> program" box, it now says pdflatex $$i. Instead, put pdflatex
> -synctex=-1 $$i there.
>> Click Modify to the right of the list, then Apply. [Bug: 'nothing to
> click']
> 
> https://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac
> 
> Aim is to use LyX and Skim with synctex.
> Result is a not working as expected system, plus a bug?
> 
> New install experience on macOS hampered by bugs, inaccessible and
> confusing & outdated documentation (within bundle, on official wiki).
> 

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Re: [LyX/master] Put the LyX window frontmost automatically on Mac on successful reverse search

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

This is VERY helpful for some perl scripts of mine :-)-O

use Mac::AppleScript qw(RunAppleScript);
RunAppleScript(qq('tell application id "org.lyx.lyx" to activate'));

thanks, el

On 14/02/2020 08:39, Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 13.02.2020 um 18:24 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes :
[...]
> $ /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application id "org.lyx.lyx" to activate'
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Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

What license would the development team need?

el

On 2020-01-28 17:33 , Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Just FYI ( https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 ):
> 
> ...
> Long-term-supported (LTS) releases will become available to commercial 
> licensees only
> ...
> Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be available to
> commercial customers. This means open-source users will receive patch-level
> releases of 5.15 until the next minor release will become available. .. We are
> making this change to encourage open-source users to quickly adopt new
> versions. This helps maximize the feedback we can get form the community and 
> to
> emphasize the commercial support available to those with longer product life
> cycles that rely on a specific Qt version.
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Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

In the sense, of "how much would the crowdfunding be?"

el

On 2020-04-10 18:08 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> What license would the development team need?
> 
> el
> 
> On 2020-01-28 17:33 , Pavel Sanda wrote:
>> Just FYI ( https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 ):
>>
>> ...
>> Long-term-supported (LTS) releases will become available to commercial 
>> licensees only
>> ...
>> Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be available to
>> commercial customers. This means open-source users will receive patch-level
>> releases of 5.15 until the next minor release will become available. .. We 
>> are
>> making this change to encourage open-source users to quickly adopt new
>> versions. This helps maximize the feedback we can get form the community and 
>> to
>> emphasize the commercial support available to those with longer product life
>> cycles that rely on a specific Qt version.
>>
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Re: Seminar example fails on updated TL20

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Scott,

please let me have a MWE, as I reported the menukeys issue (under the
subject line "Changes to LaTeX" here.

el

On 28/10/2020 23:16, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
[...]
> To reproduce the error I only need to use the seminar class. I sent an
> email to the maintainer. I'll report back when I hear from him. Note
> that a temporary workaround is to add the following to the .tex file as
> the first line:
> 
>   \RequirePackage[2020-02-02]{latexrelease}
> 
> Perhaps it's a similar issue as reported here:
> 
>   https://github.com/tweh/menukeys/issues/59
> 
> Scott
> 
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Re: Feature Request from Doug Martin and Tom Philips

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RiKi,

that is fortunately very easy to do on the Mac and Linux with the bang 
and Rscript:

 #!/usr/bin/env Rscript --vanilla
 local({
r <- getOption("repos")
 r["CRAN"] <- "https://cloud.r-project.org/;
options(repos = r)
 })
 update.packages()

I have no idea whether Rscript even exists on Windows and if so, how to 
call it.

greetings, el

On 19/01/2021 00:12, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
[...] 
> Presumably one could script the R session itself so that the needed
> object was exported?  I.e., can one do that from the command line?
> That's the kind of thing that an external template would do.
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Re: Alpha 2? Beta 1?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Jürgen,

to be honest ePub support is a killer feature (even for non-publishing
users like me) and hence I'd really would like to see it making it into
2.4.

Alpha/Beta doesn't matter to me as I can't make the switch (new file
structure?) until it is production ready (or 2.3.7 (?)  can read 2.4
files), due to the nature of my day job.

Both my desktops (office/home) and both laptops (office/home) sync with
each other at least daily.

greetings, el

On 26/01/2021 09:51, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
[...]
> Me, too. I would add that we shouldn't wait too long for new features.
> So if the ePub support is not there within a to-be-specified time,
> postpone it to a later release.
> 
> OTOH I think a second alpha is fair if it is done soon.
> 
> For beta, I would suggest to freeze features.
> 
> Jürgen
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Re: [CONFIRMED] Delimiter issue in 2.3.6.1 and in master

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I do not see it on MacOS 11.1 with 2.3.6.2 either.

el


On 22/01/2021 18:22, Joel Kulesza wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:33 AM José Abílio Matos  > wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, January 21, 2021 9:44:09 PM WET Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I see it, and in master too. Screenshot attached.
> 
> >
> 
> > Riki
> 
> 
> Hi Riki,
> 
>   I do not see this on Fedora 33 using both 2.3.6.1 and alpha1 packages.
> 
> 
> I am just adding another data point to this report.
> 
> -- 
> 
> José Abílio
> 
> 
> Another data point: I do not see this on macOS 11.0.1 with 2.4.0a1.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joel 
> 


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Re: SSL certificate error

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

That is a Letsencrypt certificate and as such should be or have been
auto-renewed :-)-O


On 07/06/2021 23:03, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

On 6/7/21 4:53 PM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:

Hi, people,

Today, trying to enter https://www.lyx.org/  I
get a SSL certificate error:

SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE

Is it a known problem?

Regards,
Ricardo


I can confirm this.  Apparently it expired today (June 7) at 17:26:04
GMT. I'm cc-ing this to the dev list.

Paul




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Re: PDF Form

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Jean-Pierre

I just use the 'PDF Form' Module (which requires/loads hyperref) and the

Insert->Custom Insets

offers a number of choices such as

TextField.

Then you can put stuff like

width=9cm, charsize=9pt, bordercolor={0.94 0.97 1.0},
backgroundcolor={0.94 0.97 1.0}, name=company


That seems to work in any PDF Viewer, Preview and Skim on the Mac.

el

On 01/07/2021 15:31, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote:

Dear Developers

A French user draw my attention on the fact that the dynamic forms
documented in section 5 of the PDF_Form.lyx manual (in
examples/Modules) did not work as described.

After installing insdljs.sty, I could display the examples in the
output.  It took me a while to understand that they would only work
with acroread, which is not available in Linux since 2013 (I tried
Okular first).  I was able to install this last version on my Linux
box: the checkNumber function works and the radio button displays
correctly, but the forms do not disappear when I check "unlimited".

I'm going to document the need for Acrobat DC in the lyx file, but I
would like to know if the forms disappear in that case.  Is it the
case for any of you ?  If not, I will ask on the users' list.



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Re: PDF Form

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Jean-Pierre,

I "View" the file from the Help -> Specific Manual -> PDF-form.lyx
with Skim (on the Macs) and can confirm the forms display correctly,
in particular the From and Until fields.

el

On 02/07/2021 18:26, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote:

Le 02/07/2021 à 12:40, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit :

Jean-Pierre

I just use the 'PDF Form' Module (which requires/loads hyperref) and the

 Insert->Custom Insets

offers a number of choices such as

 TextField.

Then you can put stuff like

 width=9cm, charsize=9pt, bordercolor={0.94 0.97 1.0},
 backgroundcolor={0.94 0.97 1.0}, name=company


That seems to work in any PDF Viewer, Preview and Skim on the Mac.


Hello Eberhard,

OK, but my concern was with the JS dynamic forms described in section 5 of the
PDF-Form.lyx manual of the examples directory.

Could you confirm that the forms display correctly in this section and 
specifically that
  - if you select "unlimited" in the radio button combo box, the "From" and 
"Until" fields disappear;
  - if you type in a A in the bottom field, you get a warning (the field id 
dedicated to numbers).

You must have insdljs.sty installed (that is package acrotex).




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Re: Anyone on TeX Live 2021 pretest ? (to confirm a regression for ja LilyPond)

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

That is the archetypical question for comp.text.tex

el


On 18/03/2021 04:44, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

The ctests for the Japanese LilyPond example file are failing on TeX
Live 2021 pretest. Attached is a minimal example. It compiles for me on
TeX Live 2020 but not TeX LIve 2021 pretest. Is anyone using the pretest
and can confirm it fails for you?

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Re: Feature Request for tex2lyx

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Than you for unconfusing me :-)-O

Seems I have been using "English (US) unnecessarily for years :-)-O

el

On 21/02/2021 18:55, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Sonntag, dem 21.02.2021 um 18:42 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse:
>> Enclosed the input and output from
>>
>>  tex2lyx -c scrartcl mwe.tex
>>
>> mwe.lyx shows language "English" which in Babel terms is "british"
>> whereas I would rather be able to set it to produce "English (USA)"
>> which in babel terms would be "american".
> 
> No, LyX has language "English" which in babel terms is "english" which
> equals "american", not "british".
> 
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Re: Feature Request for tex2lyx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I case someone (on the Mac) has similar issues

find ~ \
 -not \( -path ~/Library -prune \) \
 -not \( -path ~/Downloads -prune \) \
 -not \( -path ~/.lyx -prune \) \
 -name '*.lyx' \
 -exec perl -i -p -e 's/\\language american/\\language english/g' {} ';'

does the trick.

greetings, el

On 22/02/2021 10:41, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> Than you for unconfusing me :-)-O
> 
> Seems I have been using "English (US) unnecessarily for years :-)-O
> 
> el
> 
> On 21/02/2021 18:55, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, dem 21.02.2021 um 18:42 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse:
>>> Enclosed the input and output from
>>>
>>> tex2lyx -c scrartcl mwe.tex
>>>
>>> mwe.lyx shows language "English" which in Babel terms is "british"
>>> whereas I would rather be able to set it to produce "English (USA)"
>>> which in babel terms would be "american".
>>
>> No, LyX has language "English" which in babel terms is "english" which
>> equals "american", not "british".
>>
>> Jürgen
>>
>>
> 
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Re: Feature Request for tex2lyx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

That I can do, but it adds additional steps (which are difficult for
some)

el


On 19/02/2021 08:01, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, dem 18.02.2021 um 22:30 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberhard W
> Lisse:
>> can we add an option to tex2lyx allowing to select the language?
>>
>> I use the writer2latex in LibreOffice a bit and can't export to
>> other than standard (English) whereas I use US English in Lyx/LaTeX.
>>
>> Would such a feature make sense/be helpful?
> 
> I think it is more apt to change the language in the tex file (which
> should be easy enough to do).
> 
> Jürgen
> 
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lua-widow-control

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Is this something that one would like as default, ie included by LyX?

el

On 11/10/2021 10:21, CTAN Announcements wrote:

Max Chernoff submitted the

 lua-widow-control

package.

Version:  1.0.0 2021-10-09
License:  other-free cc-by-sa-4

Summary description: Automatically remove widows and orphans from any
document

Announcement text:
--
  
  Lua-widow-control is a Plain TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt package that removes

  widows and orphans without any user intervention.  Using the power
  of LuaTeX, it does so without stretching any glue or shortening any
  pages.  Instead, lua-widow-control automatically lengthens a
  paragraph on a page where a widow or orphan would otherwise occur.

  Unmodified TeX has very few ways of preventing widows and orphans.
  In documents with figures, section headings, and equations, TeX can
  stretch the vertical glue between items in order to prevent widows
  and orphans, but many documents have no figures or headings.  TeX
  can also shorten the page by 1 line, but this will give each page a
  different length which can make a document look uneven.  The typical
  solution is to strategically insert \looseness=1, but this requires
  manual editing every time that the document is edited.
  Lua-widow-control is essentially an automation of the \looseness
  method: it uses Lua callbacks to find "stretchy" paragraphs, then it
  lengthens them to remove widows and orphans.

  Lua-widow-control is compatible with all LuaTeX-based formats.  All
  that is required is to load the package at the start of your
  document.  
  
  To load: 
- Plain LuaTeX: \input lua-widow-control

- LuaLaTeX: \usepackage{lua-widow-control}
- ConTeXt (LMTX): \usemodule[lua-widow-control]

--

The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
https://ctan.org/pkg/lua-widow-control

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/lua-widow-control/

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Re: lua-widow-control

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Jürgen,

sure, attached to a button like microtype is, perhaps even in the same
screen :-)-O

greetings, el

On 11/10/2021 13:57, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Am Montag, dem 11.10.2021 um 13:37 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse:

Is this something that one would like as default, ie included by LyX?


I think, similar to microtype et al., this is only sensible as an
(opt- in) option.  Total removal of widows and orphans (which also can
be achieved by tweaking TeX dimens) also has drawbacks.  There is no
one- fits-all solution (otherwise it would be default in TeX itself).

Jürgen




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Re: "Lyx must be updated"

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

As per our personal conversation, I have seen this too, over the
weekend.

The window offers two choices one (something like) "Learn more...", the
other "ok".

If you click on "Learn more..." it takes you to

https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2

Can it be that this is caused by something like

#!/usr/bin/python

instead of

#!/usr/bin/env python

the former will, in my case use the Mac Monterey python 2.7, the latter
Homebrew's python 3.9.

greetings, el

On 2021-12-17 08:24 , Stephan Witt wrote:

Am 17.12.2021 um 06:57 schrieb Daniel :

On 2021-12-16 22:16, Stephan Witt wrote:

Am 16.12.2021 um 09:56 schrieb Murat Yildizoglu via lyx-users 
:

[...]

""LyX" needs to be updated
This app will not work with future versions of macOS and needs to
be updated to improve compatibility.  Contact the developer for
more information.”


[...]

that’s probably because of the LyX-2.3.6.2 package is pure Intel
code and the friendly OS wants to warn you about the fact the Apple
company is on the way to drop the support for the Intel CPUs.


Searching on the wen for the warning, I've only found evidence for
the warning being triggered by the python version.  What makes you
think that this is not the case?

[...]

I didn’t say it’s not the case.  I said it’s probably because of the
CPU architecture.  Maybe I’m wrong.

I remember to see the very same warning with macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
for programs using 32bit Intel CPU code.

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2.3.6.2 compiled as Universal or M1 App?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hi,

I got me my new MacBook Air M1 BtO last night and LyX 2.3.6.2 works
well, as I had run

 softwareupdate --install-rosetta

already, for another package.

I now wonder if someone has a 2.6.3.2 production-ready Universal or M1
build that (s)he could part with so I can see how it work?

Please contact me off list (as below) if it is not of general interest.

I see however that is is an Intel app and I would like to have either
an Universal or Silicone build to play with.

greetings, el

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tex2lyx issue

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hi,

using the stock tex2lyx

 tex2lyx 2.3.6.2 (2021-01-07)
 Configuration
Host type:   x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
 [...]

I get this

 el@p:~/Desktop> tex2lyx -c beamer a
 Creating file /Users/el/Desktop/a.lyx
 Could not open input file "/Users/el/Desktop/a" for reading.
 el@p:~/Desktop> tex2lyx -c beamer a.tex
 Not overwriting existing file /Users/el/Desktop/a.lyx
 el@p:~/Desktop> tex2lyx -f -c beamer a.tex
 Overwriting existing file /Users/el/Desktop/a.lyx

Should it not check for reading before creating?

Never mind that appending a '.tex' if there is no extension in the
command but a file with the extension in the directory.

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Re: tex2lyx issue

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Done, for both, but the system created 4 tickets for the second one
:-(-O

el


On 21/07/2021 14:00, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
[...]

You are right at least for the first issue. Please open a ticket

For the second one, LyX itself does not add the .lyx, because it was
decided like that at a time.  I understand that tex2lyx could do it,
to be more in line with other TeX utilities.  You can open a second
ticket for that.

JMarc



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Cross References in the Manuals/Help Files

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hi,

I came across the reference in the UserGuide to Program Listings in the
Embedded Objects Manual, due to a recent thread, and noticed that that
reference is not a (Clickable) Cross Reference.

Would making all those references cross references be worth of a
request-for feature?

I realize the effort involved, as all those documents will need to
be(come) Child Documents, which might be a good idea anyway, because
then the whole manual can be printed as one.

And while considering it, would it be a good idea to ensure all of this
works as DocBook so it can become a Handbook on Kindle?

Perhaps with a little embellishment one could even publish this on
Amazon for a Euro or two and that way generate some funds for the
project.

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Re: LyX 2.3 and 2.4 have troubles displaying EPS images

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Thibaut,

I don't know. Try both of them

TeX has nothing to do with this, it's a LyX issue.

el

On 2022-02-10 03:22 , Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 22:45, Dr Eberhard Lisse  wrote:

Is the issue displaying it on the screen or in the resulting PDF?


For me, only the preview in LyX: LaTeX handles the EPS without troubles.

Try GraphicsMagick :-)-O


Isn't there a difference in the number of supported formats?  Both are
quite copious (https://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php#supported
vs.  http://www.graphicsmagick.org/formats.html, I'm not sure there's
any noticeable difference for a LyX user.

Digging deeper into Photoshop's behaviour, it seems that the TIFF
portion is a low-quality preview of the actual content (by default,
using only one bit per pixel).  Among the two images output by
ImageMagick (with a simple magick $$i.eps $$o.png), the preview is the
second file ($$o-1.png), while the expected one is the first
($$o-0.png).

As I understand, the standard behaviour with pdflatex is to go through
epstopdf, which internally uses GhostScript.  It doesn't care about
the preview and only outputs the image that corresponds to
ImageMagick's $$o-0.png.

(However, I'm really unfamiliar with TeX and derivatives' code source,
so I could not really triple check this.)



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Re: LyX 2.3 and 2.4 have troubles displaying EPS images

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

TBird does not allow me to respond to my own reply but GraphicsMagic to
the rescue:

 gm convert undisplayable.eps u.png

results in the enclosed :-)-O

el

On 09/02/2022 03:06, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:

Dear list,

A friend of mine noticed that LyX 2.3 has problems displaying the
attached EPS file.  All other EPS images can be previewed within LyX
without any problem.  All EPS files are displayed correctly in the PDF
(produced by pdflatex).  I can reproduce this issue with LyX 2.3.6.1.
Both of us are using Windows x64 (Windows 8 for her, Windows 10 for
me).  LyX shows the following error message (within the preview box):

Error converting to loadable format

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Re: LyX 2.3 and 2.4 have troubles displaying EPS images

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Thibaut,

it is not a (proper) EPS file.  On my Mac the command

 file undisplayable.eps

returns

 undisplayable.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte
 30252 length 40741791 TIFF starts at byte 30 length 30222

google shows 32 results:

 https://www.google.com/search?q=+%22DOS+EPS+Binary+File+Postscript%22

Make Photoshop export it to PNG or SVG for example...

el

On 09/02/2022 03:06, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:

Dear list,

A friend of mine noticed that LyX 2.3 has problems displaying the
attached EPS file.  All other EPS images can be previewed within LyX
without any problem.  All EPS files are displayed correctly in the PDF
(produced by pdflatex).  I can reproduce this issue with LyX 2.3.6.1.
Both of us are using Windows x64 (Windows 8 for her, Windows 10 for
me).  LyX shows the following error message (within the preview box):

Error converting to loadable format


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Re: LyX 2.3 and 2.4 have troubles displaying EPS images

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

The image is a graph of a few KB, instead of 40MB, it'll display just
fine, which is what was to be achieved.

el

On 09/02/2022 15:17, Daniel wrote:

On 09/02/2022 13:00, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:

TBird does not allow me to respond to my own reply but GraphicsMagic to
the rescue:

  gm convert undisplayable.eps u.png

results in the enclosed :-)-O

el


eps is a vector image, png is a bitmap.  so, this might not be a
desirable solution depending on what is to be achieved.

Also, the LaTeX output shows the eps just fine.  So why doesn't LyX?

Daniel



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Re: LyX 2.3 and 2.4 have troubles displaying EPS images

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Is the issue displaying it on the screen or in the resulting PDF?

Try GraphicsMagick :-)-O

el

On 2022-02-09 19:46 , Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
[...]

The bundled ImageMagick (7.0.10.43) takes roughly three seconds, but
produces a PDF with two pages: the first one is either perfect or
garbage, depending on the PDF reader (Acrobat doesn't like it, PDFium
doesn't care and just displays it); the second one is a low-quality
version of the image.  (If I ask for a PNG, ImageMagick works fine,
except the output image is far from nice, all pixelated.)

magick undisplayable.eps undisplayable.pdf

The main reason I'm taking this to the dev mailing list is that
pdflatex doesn't have any problem with this file, while LyX does
without any useful information for the user.  I believe some tool
fails when loading the image, it would be really nice to tell the user
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Re: cannot run lyx on MacOS 10.15 catalina

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

After having been running the (then) current LyX on several different
Linux distributions for since the late 1990's I have been running it in
production (my medical practice) since 2005 on Mac Minis, iMacs, MacPro,
almost every MacBook <= 13 inch since, including a 2021 Air M1, using
the (then) current (Mac)BasicTeX and can not recall any (major) issues,
even though there may have been some :-)-O

I switched from Fink to Homebrew many years ago and have not looked
back.

Currently I even install the LyX and BasicTeX "casks" from Homebrew,
which this week led to the update to the 2022 version of the
(Mac)BasicTeX.

I only noticed when LyX would not compile a document (due to missing
(front) packages).  However, my upgrade script writes down a file of all
installed TeX packages prior to the brew upgrade run, so I fired up the
tmlgr on the command line and all was back in order after a few minutes.

That said, from the Crash Log this appears to be a 2020 AirBook, so my
advice is:

Upgrade that sucker to Monterrey.

Move away from Fink and get Homebrew

Then trash

/Applications/LyX.app

and from a terminal window do something like

tlmgr list --only-installed | awk '{gsub(/:/, ""); print $2}' \
> $HOME/Downloads/tl.$(date +%F).txt
brew install --cask basictex lyx iterm2
perl -i -p -e \
s+\$SELFAUTOPARENT/+/usr/local/texlive/+' \
/usr/local/texlive/2022basic/texmf.cnf

In a window opened from /Applications/iTerm2.app enter

tlmgr install $(cat $HOME/Downloads/tl.$(date +%F).txt)

and ignore the error at the end (caused by some packages already
installed).

If you are bothered by the Security and Privacy squealing

sudo spctl --master-disable

el


On 2022-03-19 13:51 , Stephan Witt wrote:

Am 19.03.2022 um 09:04 schrieb Uwe Brauer :

Hi

I usually run LyX on Ubuntu, but I gave a MacOS laptop a try, so I
downloaded it from https://www.lyx.org/Download#toc4


There are two binaries.  Did you try both?


installed and started it.

The usually blocking message appeared (this is a 3rd pkg app) so I
gave permission to open it and it died unexpectedly.


Sorry for that, I’m afraid it’s not tested with Catalina.  (I’m
running Mojave because of depending on 32-bit apps.)

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Re: Propose pdflatex as default for preview

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Why not LuaLaTeX?

Which seems to be where the world is going now?

PDFLaTeX is of course faster.

el

On 11/10/2022 22:35, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:17:28 +0200 schrieb Enrico Forestieri :
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> As it is now, we have 'latex' as default for our previews. But at least
>>> opening UserGuide.lyx fails because
>>> 1.) call to dvipdf coredumpts
>>> 2.) calls to epstopdf fail (because underlined 'gs' coredumpts)
>>>
>>> The reason is probably that the created lyxpreviewXX.dvi-file seems to 
>>> contain
>>> invalid entries, so the (from dvips) created eps files are not readable 
>>> with gs.
>>>
>>> The simple change in src/graphics/PreviewLoader.cpp cures the preview.
>>> (Not changed the comments yet though)  
>>
>> I am against for the reasons explained in bug 9371. Sometimes external 
>> software introduces regressions and those should be corrected. We don't 
>> need changing our code to solve problems introduced by external 
>> software, otherwise we always have to continuosly change the code to 
>> track others' bugs.
>>
> 
> Since newest dvipdf, gs (from debian), dvipng (from ctan) show the same 
> reaction,
> the error is presumably in latex (TL2022) output. Maybe the dvi-output of 
> latex has not
> too much attention anymore.
> 
> Apropos, in ticket 9371, the default is first proposed to pdflatex too.
> Anyway, we suffer now for months from this behaviour.
> 
>   Kornel
> 
> 

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Re: About upgrading to MacOS 13

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I run Ventura on and Intel and on a M1 box and had no problems
whatsoever. I keep Monterey on an iMac and a MacPro (which don't want
to be upgrade to Ventura).

I think the issue is that each major version number upgrade requires a
new installation of the XCode command line tools which seem to include
python3. (There is no 'python' per se any more)

The gatekeeper issues is easily fixed by

sudo spctl --master-disable

and if you don't want to do that you can still authorize it in the
System Preferences after the first rejection and it will in future then
run without issues.

el

On 2022-12-07 18:21 , Stephan Witt wrote:
[...]

There is one report of having a problem after upgrade from Monterey to
Ventura (macOS 13) with Python again.  I couldn’t get the information
how this happened.  Probably the upgrade to Ventura breaks the
installed Python 3 from Apple.  One has to reinstall it manually.

[...]

There is another issue I’m aware of.  On some systems the gatekeeper
keeps nagging and says the LyX binary is a suspicious one.  Probably
it’s because of the bundle permissions, the certificate used for
signing or the security settings of users system.

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Re: Plug-in in Lyx?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

There is always LyXpipe

What is the actual task that you want to do?

I have done a bit of templating and (been shown how to do) simple LUA
scripting such as calculating the nearest Friday of exactly 24 weeks
after a date.

So depending on what you do, it could already be possible with "on-board
resources".

greetings, el

On 2023-05-22 19:25 , Claudio J. Chiabai wrote:

Hi.

Is there any way to make an internal plug-in for LyX?

I want to develop something like a plug-in to perform a complex task
when editing the document.  However, I can't find a way to do that.  I
can't find that LyX has a functionality like that, if not through
external scripts or through the server-client model.  I appreciate any
ideas or guidance you can give me.
  


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Re: What is missing for LyX 2.4?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

On the Mac GraphicsMagic is not available as default, but easily
installed with Homebrew (and I am sure MacPorts and similar ilk).

I have been using that for years.

Something like

ln -fs $(brew --prefix)/opt/graphicsmagick/bin/gm /usr/local/bin/convert

results in a 'convert' which does the work (as does 'gm convert'), is
version independent and work on both Intel and Silicon.

el


On 09/05/2023 21:38, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 05:49:46PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
[...]
> On debian only 'gm' binary is avaiable and you need to call 'gm
> convert' so we would need to change our configure script to deal wit
> this.
> 
> We need to check that opensuse (and fedora?) contain GM, and test it
> for some time to see possible side effects.
> 
> But otherwise it seems as a reasonable solution. We could just put
> into release notes that we urge all distro maintainers who were can't
> do anything with IM bans to give GM as a primary dependency.
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Re: 2.4.0~RC1 hangs on macOS

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Unload the macports python and install the XCode Command line tools
which has Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin/python3.

If that works, perhaps even unload Macports and install Homebrew. If
you have many packages installed, make a list.

I use Homebrew including basictex (plus some addtional stuff) and copied
2.4 RC1 over the 2.3.7 provided from Homebrew. On Ventura and Sonoma (on
the latter on Intel and Silicon)

greetings, el

On 2024-01-24 01:51 , list_em...@icloud.com wrote:
[...]
>>> While LyX is hanging as above, Activity Monitor indicates that 
>>> LyX has launched one instance of Python and repeatedly launches 
>>> and stops a second instance. My current Python is 3.9 but 
>>> versions up to 3.12 are installed by macports.
>>> 
>>> LyX 2.3.7 still works. I notice that I got this version through 
>>> MacPorts.
>>> 
>>> I just now updated all my macports stuff which includes Python 
>>> and texlive. 2.4 still hangs on launch.
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Re: 2.4.0~RC1 hangs on macOS

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

An alias is only evaluated by the shell, so you could always either

   ln -fs /opt/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python3
   ln -fs /opt/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python

and see if that works.

There is a way of setting environment variables like PATH with launchctl
so that Apps can find it but I don't know if that works for aliases.

And of course you can use the full path of python in the converters

el

On 2024-01-24 09:48 , list_em...@icloud.com wrote:
> Thanks, el.
> 
> Getting rid of macports for homebrew is not an option for me.
> 
> In my profile file, I have this:
> 
> alias python=/opt/local/bin/python3
> 
> which is macports. Does LyX see this? This alias points to Python 3.9.18. 
> There is a utility to switch to other versions.
> 
> I already have the command line tools installed, with Python 3.9.6 at 
> /usr/bin/phython3.
> 
> I just now tried switching to this line in my profile file:
> 
> alias python=/usr/bin/python3
> 
> with the same result.
> 
> Remember that LyX 2.3.7 works fine.
> 
> Jerry
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Re: 2.4.0~RC1 hangs on macOS

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Unload the macports python and install the XCode Command line tools
which has Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin/python3.

If that works, perhaps even unload Macports and install Homebrew. If
you have many packages installed, make a list.

I use Homebrew including basictex (plus some addtional stuff) and copied
2.4 RC1 over the 2.3.7 provided from Homebrew. On Ventura and Sonoma (on
the latter on Intel and Silicon)

greetings, el

On 2024-01-24 01:51 , list_em...@icloud.com wrote:
[...]
>>> While LyX is hanging as above, Activity Monitor indicates that 
>>> LyX has launched one instance of Python and repeatedly launches 
>>> and stops a second instance. My current Python is 3.9 but 
>>> versions up to 3.12 are installed by macports.
>>> 
>>> LyX 2.3.7 still works. I notice that I got this version through 
>>> MacPorts.
>>> 
>>> I just now updated all my macports stuff which includes Python 
>>> and texlive. 2.4 still hangs on launch.
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Re: LyX 2.4.0 RC3

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Is Python3 installed?

el

On 2024-02-13 07:59 , list_em...@icloud.com wrote:
> I’m sorry to report continuing problems on macOS 12.7.2, Monterey
> with LyX 2.4.0 RC3.
> 
> Hangs (pinwheel) on first launch with only Apple and LyX menu items,
> then same on second launch.  Very low CPU and memory use. Force quit
> both.
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Re: ARM vs Universal Etf

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Scott,

you are welcome.

Now that I have retired I can finally play in a non-production
environment :-)-O...

el

On 2024-01-15 04:24 , Scott Kostyshak wrote:
[...]
> Thanks, this is helpful. Indeed exporting to 2.3.x it works fine
> with 2.3.x and fails with current master. Because I'm on a newer
> compiler, I can only compile back to master as of late 2020 and I
> still see the bug there as well. So I can't bisect it. Hopefully
> someone else can take a look.
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Re: ARM vs Universal Etf

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

No, thank *you* :-)-O

And I learned now what bisect is :-)-O

greetings, el

On 2024-01-17 20:02 , Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 06:00:53PM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>> Scott,
>> 
>> you are welcome.
>> 
>> Now that I have retired I can finally play in a non-production
>> environment :-)-O...
> 
> Thanks to your report and MWE, the bug was fixed:
> 
>   https://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/b29b0f87/lyxgit
> 
> Scott
> 
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Re: Poor PDF preview quality - LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Didier,

which export are you using? I like pdf5 (lualatex which is powerful and
slow'ish) and then there is pdf4 (pdflatex).

el

On 2024-01-22 22:41 , didiergab...@free.fr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Compared to version 2.3.7 and from the default settings the
> difference is obvious. The PDF (graphic) option is set to pdfview...
> But by changing the parameters (custom, default system...) It's still
> just as ugly... On the other hand, the pdflatex export is very good.
> This is an installation under Windows 10. Do you have an idea?
> 
> Didier
> 
> ps: Thanks to the whole team for this great tool!
> 
> 


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Re: Poor PDF preview quality - LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

There is the latexdiff tool, but I do not know if it works on WIidoze.

el

On 2024-01-22 23:13 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
[...]
> Different font, maybe ? Do you have the possibility to find what is the 
> difference between 2.4 LaTeX output and 2.3 LaTeX output ?
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