LyXWin1.3.6pre installer issue [VERY minor]

2005-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus, I'm installing the prerelease now. Apologies if this has been reported -- I scanned the list but didn't see it. The first several installer screens worked fine, found all the utilities (I have most of what LyX wants already installed). When I got to the Ghostscript screen, it

Re: LyXWin1.3.6pre installer issue [VERY minor]

2005-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: The first several installer screens worked fine, found all the utilities (I have most of what LyX wants already installed). When I got to the Ghostscript screen, it defaulted to Folder containing gswin32c.exe with the path correctly detected, but the path itself

[LyXWin 1.3.6pre9] Crash on Save As

2005-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I must be slipping -- took me the better part of 10 minutes to crash it! I created a trivial document and clicked File | Save As ... I then clicked the up arrow button to move up one directory level, and then double clicked on another directory. Note that when the dialog first opens, the

[LyXWin 1.3.6pre9] Default screen fonts and DPI

2005-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Two minor issues regarding the default preferences. First, on my system the screen fonts defaulted to (in order) AgencyFB, AgencyFB, and Courier. AgencyFB is apparently the first font on my PC both alphabetically (as listed in the drop-down list in the preferences dialog) and ordered by

[LyXWin 1.3.6pre9] Spell-checking works, but...

2005-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Edit | Preferences | Language settings | Spellchecker lists ispell as the program, but it's grayed out and cannot be changed. I have aspell (in C:\Aspell). I don't have ispell. On the other hand, spell-checking somehow works ... ... except for the bug, reported long ago for other versions,

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre9] Spell-checking works, but...

2005-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Edit | Preferences | Language settings | Spellchecker lists ispell as the program, but it's grayed out and cannot be changed. I have aspell (in C:\Aspell). I don't have ispell. On the other hand, spell-checking somehow works ... The *nix

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre9] Spell-checking works, but...

2005-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'm attaching two files from one of my classes. Well, that was the theory, anyway. Perhaps I'll get it right this time. hw10.lyx Description: application/lyx mgt914syllabus.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre9] Crash on Save As

2005-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: This one looks and feels like a Qt/WinFree bug. (The dialog is a Qt built in.) Bugger! So I have to go back and try again to find a bug that's yours? ;-) Will you notify the Qt/WinFree folks of the bug, or do I need to do that? -- Paul

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

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 1.3.6pre12] 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: 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 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

2005-06-16 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: 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: 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: [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: 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

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: 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

2005-06-30 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

[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,

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

2005-07-07 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: 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

2005-07-09 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: 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

2005-07-13 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

[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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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

Paste over text

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

Menu hotkeys in Italian

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

Re: Menu hotkeys in Italian

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

Re: Menu hotkeys in Italian

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

Re: Bundle everything into lyx windows installer.

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Wrong characters in math (CVS)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2005-10-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Should someone report this to the Qt developers, Feel free. Screenshots always help. However, Christian does know about something similar. It might be the bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1330978group_id=49109atid

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

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

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

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

Support for equationarray

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

Re: lyx win1.3.6

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

Re: William Leeming

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

Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

2005-11-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus, Nothing here to keep you awake at night (that's what William is for :-), but I just installed 1.3.7pre4 (after uninstalling prior versions) and had a mild adventure. During installation, I got a message to the effect that the configuration script had failed (and, indeed, it did not

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

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

Re: mathed script oddity

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

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

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

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

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

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7pre4 (Win XP)

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

Re: Failure to launch Lyx after successful installation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

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

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

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

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

2006-01-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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Re: Found a bug when exporting to pdf with jpeg images

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

Re: help needed for LyX's configure script

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

Re: help needed for LyX's configure script

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

Re: help needed for LyX's configure script

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

Re: Compiling LyX for Windows - free MSVC available

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

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.0

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

Re: LyX/Win 1.4.0

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

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