Richard Heck rgheck at lyx.org writes:
I've seen this error a lot in the logs. I think the version of pmwiki
we're using is old. Can you report this as a bug on trac?
Ticket #8298
Richard Heck lyx.org> writes:
> I've seen this error a lot in the logs. I think the version of pmwiki
> we're using is old. Can you report this as a bug on trac?
Ticket #8298
On wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals I get:
Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in
/home/lyx/www/wiki.lyx.org/farm.d/cookbook/uploadlist.php
Maybe PHP got upgraded there?
It'd be handy to have easy access to PDF versions of LyX manuals. Is there a
place where current LyX manuals are posted on the web in PDF, or could PDFs be
included with the installer?
On wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals I get:
Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in
/home/lyx/www/wiki.lyx.org/farm.d/cookbook/uploadlist.php
Maybe PHP got upgraded there?
It'd be handy to have easy access to PDF versions of LyX manuals. Is there a
place where current LyX manuals are posted on the web in PDF, or could PDFs be
included with the installer?
On Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:57:22 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
These look like bugs in the tex4ht package you're using to do the
export. tex4ht is known to be problematic on Windows. (It's a bit
flaky sometimes on other platforms, too.)
I've now spent about 12 hours trying to get tex4ht to work.
On Saturday, July 21, 2012 2:28:06 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
Have you talked to John (another philosopher!) about the LaTeX issues?
I'm sure he'd be interested in fixing them.
I didn't, but only because I found this message, which makes it look
like he knows about the issues already:
On Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:57:22 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
These look like bugs in the tex4ht package you're using to do the
export. tex4ht is known to be problematic on Windows. (It's a bit
flaky sometimes on other platforms, too.)
I've now spent about 12 hours trying to get tex4ht to work.
On Saturday, July 21, 2012 2:28:06 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
Have you talked to John (another philosopher!) about the LaTeX issues?
I'm sure he'd be interested in fixing them.
I didn't, but only because I found this message, which makes it look
like he knows about the issues already:
On my LyX 2.0.4, Windows, export to odt and HTML (Word) is very broken. For
example, at times I get this in messages:
23:14:21.748:
C:\Users\lunacy\AppData\Local\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.Hp8096\lyx_tmpbuf3t4ht my-doc.tex
-cooxtpipes -coo -ewin32/tex4ht.env
23:14:21.751: --- error --- Illegal storage
On my LyX 2.0.4, Windows, export to odt and HTML (Word) is very broken. For
example, at times I get this in messages:
23:14:21.748:
C:\Users\lunacy\AppData\Local\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.Hp8096\lyx_tmpbuf3>t4ht my-doc.tex
"-cooxtpipes -coo" -ewin32/tex4ht.env
23:14:21.751: --- error --- Illegal storage
So long as we're talking about bibliography workflow: could LyX integrate better
with Zotero?
Zotero is historically a Firefox add-on that has expanded to other platforms. It
can collect references, files that go with those references, and it can plug in
to Word and other word processors to
So long as we're talking about bibliography workflow: could LyX integrate better
with Zotero?
Zotero is historically a Firefox add-on that has expanded to other platforms. It
can collect references, files that go with those references, and it can plug in
to Word and other word processors to
Niklas Burtscheid Niklas.Burtscheid at gmx.de writes:
Lyx 2.0.2. on Windows 7. Qt I don't know.
Works for me using LyX 2.0.2 on Windows 7 x64.
Niklas Burtscheid gmx.de> writes:
>
> Lyx 2.0.2. on Windows 7. Qt I don't know.
Works for me using LyX 2.0.2 on Windows 7 x64.
Scott Kostyshak skostysh at Princeton.EDU writes:
Would it be desirable to have questions posted there forwarded
to the lyx-users list?
I like (and occasionally use) tex.stackexchange.com. I don't see the point in
forwarding questions. But it is a really nice QA site. In some ways the format
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I
suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really
need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?
I never understood the need for the
Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com writes:
Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters.
Do you know of situations where one needs both the word count and the character
count?
Scott Kostyshak Princeton.EDU> writes:
> Would it be desirable to have questions posted there forwarded
> to the lyx-users list?
I like (and occasionally use) tex.stackexchange.com. I don't see the point in
forwarding questions. But it is a really nice Q site. In some ways the format
is much
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
>
> If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I
> suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really
> need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?
I never understood the need for the
Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes:
>
> Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters.
Do you know of situations where one needs both the word count and the character
count?
Niklas Burtscheid Niklas.Burtscheid at gmx.de writes:
There should be an option to (vertically) center the line with the cursor.
There's the F5 key (at least when using CUA key bindings). Until I saw your
question, I didn't know that it existed, but I found it by going to
Niklas Burtscheid Niklas.Burtscheid at gmx.de writes:
There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics
(number of characters number
of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the right side of it).
Recent versions of Word do exactly this, and it's pretty handy.
Niklas Burtscheid gmx.de> writes:
>
> There should be an option to (vertically) center the line with the cursor.
There's the F5 key (at least when using CUA key bindings). Until I saw your
question, I didn't know that it existed, but I found it by going to
Niklas Burtscheid gmx.de> writes:
>
> There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics
(number of characters & number
> of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the right side of it).
Recent versions of Word do exactly this, and it's pretty handy. Implementing
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
The default is 0 - dynamic scaling. It depends on the text height then.
This can also be controlled, to some extent, via Qt.
Perhaps the point here is to increase the default scaling factor (in the case of
0 - dynamic scaling) to make the cursor a
Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net writes:
And how much? And when this is done, the next person steps up and says it's
too wide and the world was better before that change. I think one can adjust
the cursor width and that's not bad.
That's also true. But I do think the the prefs dialog should
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
If you want to have some paragraphs that are indented, then the way to
do it is to write something like an Indented style. This can be put in
a module or just in Local Layout. The LaTeX needed to do it should be
fairly straightforward: I would
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
I'd be happy to include such a document, actually, if you or someone
else wanted to create it. I'd suggest using the layouts package, which
of course the user would need to have installed. It'd be a simple
document---perhaps a template---that one
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
>
> > The default is 0 - dynamic scaling. It depends on the text height then.
> This can also be controlled, to some extent, via Qt.
Perhaps the point here is to increase the default scaling factor (in the case of
0 - dynamic scaling) to make the cursor a bit
Stephan Witt gmx.net> writes:
>
> And how much? And when this is done, the next person steps up and says it's
> too wide and the world was better before that change. I think one can adjust
> the cursor width and that's not bad.
That's also true. But I do think the the prefs dialog should
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
>
> If you want to have some paragraphs that are indented, then the way to
> do it is to write something like an "Indented" style. This can be put in
> a module or just in Local Layout. The LaTeX needed to do it should be
> fairly straightforward: I would
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
> I'd be happy to include such a document, actually, if you or someone
> else wanted to create it. I'd suggest using the layouts package, which
> of course the user would need to have installed. It'd be a simple
> document---perhaps a template---that one
Pascal Fischer pascal.fischer.ac at googlemail.com writes:
In addition to today's spellchecker there should be the possibility to
activate spell-checking as you type. (With those red wavy lines under
This is available as Tools - Preferences - Language Settings - Spellchecker
- Spellcheck
Pascal Fischer pascal.fischer.ac at googlemail.com writes:
For headers (section, subsection,...) the paragraph settings (e.g.
left, right, center) are greyed out. So you can't place headlines of
Traditionally, in TeX land, this is the job of the document class and style. So
you don't change
Pascal Fischer pascal.fischer.ac at googlemail.com writes:
narrow. There should be an option in the general settings where you
can change the cursor-width between 4 values: narrow (todays width),
middle, broad and extra-broad. In addition wiith another color that
Why is 4 options better than
Pascal Fischer pascal.fischer.ac at googlemail.com writes:
In the margin-settings, the fields are greyed out when the standard is
activated. They should show the values of this standard-setting, so
that the user sees them.
That would require interrogating the document class to see what the
Pascal Fischer googlemail.com> writes:
>
> In addition to today's spellchecker there should be the possibility to
> activate spell-checking as you type. (With those red wavy lines under
This is available as Tools -> Preferences -> Language Settings -> Spellchecker
-> Spellcheck continuously.
Pascal Fischer googlemail.com> writes:
>
> For headers (section, subsection,...) the paragraph settings (e.g.
> left, right, center) are greyed out. So you can't place headlines of
Traditionally, in TeX land, this is the job of the document class and style. So
you don't change justification
Pascal Fischer googlemail.com> writes:
> narrow. There should be an option in the general settings where you
> can change the cursor-width between 4 values: narrow (todays width),
> middle, broad and extra-broad. In addition wiith another color that
Why is 4 options better than a cursor that is
Pascal Fischer googlemail.com> writes:
>
> In the margin-settings, the fields are greyed out when the standard is
> activated. They should show the values of this standard-setting, so
> that the user sees them.
That would require interrogating the document class to see what the default
margins
5) A usability evaluation of a few of the most important LyX workflows to
ferret out what trips up users.
6) A better left-side pane: replace the sort and keep checkboxes and slider
with something usable.
7) A better left-side pane: replace the filter search box with a search
across all
5) A usability evaluation of a few of the most important LyX workflows to
ferret out what trips up users.
6) A better left-side pane: replace the sort and keep checkboxes and slider
with something usable.
7) A better left-side pane: replace the "filter" search box with a search
across all
Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com writes:
Can the 'timeout' be configured? Or is it possible to treat
Sweave/knitr documents differently? Regards
One Sweave/knitr computation is different from another. I'd expect 1+1 to be
computed quickly, but I also have some simulations that take
Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name writes:
The time-out restriction is from LyX, so Sweave/knitr cannot do
anything about it.
You're right; what I meant to say was that I'd want to tell LyX to allow longer
Sweave/knitr runs for particular chunks.
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org writes:
It is probably doable to set the timeout value per converter. This would
be the best solution IMO.
I can be convinced that setting the timeout value on a chunk-by-chunk basis is
excessive, but per converter is too coarse. Maybe per
Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes:
>
> Can the 'timeout' be configured? Or is it possible to treat
> Sweave/knitr documents differently? Regards
One Sweave/knitr computation is different from another. I'd expect 1+1 to be
computed quickly, but I also have some simulations that take hours, and
Yihui Xie yihui.name> writes:
>
> The time-out restriction is from LyX, so Sweave/knitr cannot do
> anything about it.
You're right; what I meant to say was that I'd want to tell LyX to allow longer
Sweave/knitr runs for particular chunks.
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes:
>
> It is probably doable to set the timeout value per converter. This would
> be the best solution IMO.
I can be convinced that setting the timeout value on a chunk-by-chunk basis is
excessive, but per converter is too coarse. Maybe per document?
Over the last week or so, I've been playing with the new knitr
integration (#7887), with really nice results.
There's a very handy Chunk environment for sweave / knitr code. But is
there any support for inline knitr in LyX? I'm thinking of, e.g.,
As our experiments showed, the sum of 1 and
Ha! It's like magic. I think of something, and it's already there.
There's some sort of a UI bug, though. Insert-Custom Insets-Sexpr
creates the inset, but I can't type or paste into it. If I click outside
of the inset and then back into the inset, I can type then. Maybe it has
to do with me
On Sunday, January 29, 2012 3:29:01 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
There's some sort of a UI bug, though. Insert-Custom Insets-Sexpr creates
the inset, but I can't type or paste into it. If I click outside of the
inset and then back into the inset, I can type then. Maybe it has to do with
me using knitr
Over the last week or so, I've been playing with the new knitr
integration (#7887), with really nice results.
There's a very handy Chunk environment for sweave / knitr code. But is
there any support for inline knitr in LyX? I'm thinking of, e.g.,
As our experiments showed, the sum of 1 and
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Liviu Andronic<landronim...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jack Tanner<i...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Over the last week
On Sunday, January 29, 2012 3:29:01 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
There's some sort of a UI bug, though. Insert->Custom Insets->Sexpr creates
the inset, but I can't type or paste into it. If I click outside of the
inset and then back into the inset, I can type then. Maybe it has to do with
me using
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
Comments welcome. I guess maybe I'd suggest this is trunk only, rather
than changing this kind of thing in a maintenance release.
The current behavior is so bizarre, I never use the toggle feature. I'd be happy
to see it on branch.
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
>
> Comments welcome. I guess maybe I'd suggest this is trunk only, rather
> than changing this kind of thing in a maintenance release.
The current behavior is so bizarre, I never use the toggle feature. I'd be happy
to see it on branch.
Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name writes:
The first version of knitr was just released to CRAN yesterday, so you
will need to wait for one or two days for the Windows build on CRAN,
and probably a few days for your local CRAN mirror to sync.
I just knew that you were going to release knitr the
Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name writes:
See http://yihui.github.com/knitr/demo/lyx/
Since you are using Windows, it is recommended to use the first
approach (it is difficult and very time-consuming to compile LyX from
source under Windows, as the second approach requires). Basically you
Yihui Xie yihui.name> writes:
>
> The first version of knitr was just released to CRAN yesterday, so you
> will need to wait for one or two days for the Windows build on CRAN,
> and probably a few days for your local CRAN mirror to sync.
I just knew that you were going to release knitr the
Yihui Xie yihui.name> writes:
>
> See http://yihui.github.com/knitr/demo/lyx/
>
> Since you are using Windows, it is recommended to use the first
> approach (it is difficult and very time-consuming to compile LyX from
> source under Windows, as the second approach requires). Basically you
>
Sweave works beautifully in 2.0.2, huge thanks to Yihui Xie et al. But the
situation beyond Sweave seems problematic. Ticket #7887 is stalled. There's
neither a pgfSweave module nor a knitr module. knitr is not even available for
2.24.1 for Windows.
RFE: could we have pgfSweave support in 2.0.3?
Sweave works beautifully in 2.0.2, huge thanks to Yihui Xie et al. But the
situation "beyond" Sweave seems problematic. Ticket #7887 is stalled. There's
neither a pgfSweave module nor a knitr module. knitr is not even available for
2.24.1 for Windows.
RFE: could we have pgfSweave support in
Just got an assertion trying to paste some text into a table. Not sure how to
reproduce it, so not filing a bug, but thought you might like to know.
C:\LyX\lyx-2.0.2\src\support\lassert.cpp(35): ASSERTION anchor_.depth() =
depth() VIOLATED IN C:\LyX\lyx-2.0.2\src\Cursor.cpp:1065
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
Was this in a list somehow?
No list. Sorry, wish I had a way to reproduce it.
Just got an assertion trying to paste some text into a table. Not sure how to
reproduce it, so not filing a bug, but thought you might like to know.
C:\LyX\lyx-2.0.2\src\support\lassert.cpp(35): ASSERTION anchor_.depth() >=
depth() VIOLATED IN C:\LyX\lyx-2.0.2\src\Cursor.cpp:1065
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
>
> Was this in a list somehow?
No list. Sorry, wish I had a way to reproduce it.
Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org writes:
we want old links eg ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/
to remain working.
This seems achievable by using ProFTPD as an FTP daemon and its mod_rewrite,
which is similar to the Apache httpd mod_rewrite. That is, if any old machine
(or virtual machine) can be
Pavel Sanda lyx.org> writes:
> we want old links eg ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/
> to remain working.
This seems achievable by using ProFTPD as an FTP daemon and its mod_rewrite,
which is similar to the Apache httpd mod_rewrite. That is, if any old machine
(or virtual machine) can be
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
The FTP server has been down for some time. We can't release until it's
back up, or else we decide to find a new one, or whatever. The intention
is to release 2.0.1 as soon after that as we can.
Sorry to hear about the server. This is probably one of
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
> The FTP server has been down for some time. We can't release until it's
> back up, or else we decide to find a new one, or whatever. The intention
> is to release 2.0.1 as soon after that as we can.
Sorry to hear about the server. This is probably one of
There's been a great deal of work done on branch since 2.0.0 came out. (Thanks
for that!) What are the plans for a 2.0.1?
There's been a great deal of work done on branch since 2.0.0 came out. (Thanks
for that!) What are the plans for a 2.0.1?
I wonder if this is on somebody's to-do list: it'd be nice to be able to find
and replace but only inside (outside) certain kinds of insets, e.g., only in
program listings, or e.g., everywhere except in notes.
I wonder if this is on somebody's to-do list: it'd be nice to be able to find
and replace but only inside (outside) certain kinds of insets, e.g., only in
program listings, or e.g., everywhere except in notes.
Have there been fixes for LyXHTML export since 2.0.0? I have export errors like
the one below. If this sounds like a new issue, let me know, and I'll try to
produce a minimal test case.
!-- Output Error: Tags still open in closeFontTags().
Probably not a problem, but you might want to check
Filed as http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7634
Have there been fixes for LyXHTML export since 2.0.0? I have export errors like
the one below. If this sounds like a new issue, let me know, and I'll try to
produce a minimal test case.
Filed as http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7634
Rick Dearman rick at rdearman.org writes:
- A script that will check for passive vs active language.
- A script to find –ly adverbs, especially in dialogue tags. Let's me remove
strengthener adverbs and replace with stronger verbs
These two sound like grammar checker type features. Aside
Rick Dearman rdearman.org> writes:
>
> - A script that will check for passive vs active language.
> - A script to find –ly adverbs, especially in dialogue tags. Let's me remove
strengthener adverbs and replace with stronger verbs
These two sound like "grammar checker" type features. Aside from
Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org writes:
- libreoffice
+1
Neither Libreoffice nor Oxygen are ideal, but it'd be nice to have
a visual refresh.
The important piece is of course not icons, it's the how the UI
supports workflows via menus, dialogs, icons, status bars, and
other affordances. Maybe
Pavel Sanda lyx.org> writes:
> - libreoffice
+1
Neither Libreoffice nor Oxygen are ideal, but it'd be nice to have
a visual refresh.
The important piece is of course not icons, it's the how the UI
supports workflows via menus, dialogs, icons, status bars, and
other affordances. Maybe a
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
This is a good idea, and it wouldn't be that hard to do: (i) When we
open the file, set a Buffer flag if we have to convert from an older
format; (ii) when we try to save, check the flag, and pop a dialog if
it's set.
Can you add this to
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes:
>
> This is a good idea, and it wouldn't be that hard to do: (i) When we
> open the file, set a Buffer flag if we have to convert from an older
> format; (ii) when we try to save, check the flag, and pop a dialog if
> it's set.
>
> Can you add this to trac,
Paul A. Rubin rubin at msu.edu writes:
My document is full-justified, which I like. This means that my program
listings (LyX 1.6.8) are also full-justified, but that makes no sense.
Should I file a bug?
I've not seen this myself. Maybe you should post a minimal example first, in
case
Thanks for confirming. Filed as http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7282
Paul A. Rubin msu.edu> writes:
> > My document is full-justified, which I like. This means that my program
> > listings (LyX 1.6.8) are also full-justified, but that makes no sense.
> > Should I file a bug?
>
> I've not seen this myself. Maybe you should post a minimal example first, in
>
Thanks for confirming. Filed as http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7282
My document is full-justified, which I like. This means that my program
listings (LyX 1.6.8) are also full-justified, but that makes no sense.
Should I file a bug?
My document is full-justified, which I like. This means that my program
listings (LyX 1.6.8) are also full-justified, but that makes no sense.
Should I file a bug?
In LyX 1.6.8,
1. Create a new document.
2. Type in two words, word1 and word2.
3. Select and copy word2.
4. Highlight word1 and Insert, Note, LyX Note. word1 will be placed
inside a new note.
5. Paste.
Expected: paste outputs word2, as copied in (3)
Actual: paste outputs word1, from (4)
Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org writes:
Jack Tanner wrote:
1. Create a new document.
2. Type in two words, word1 and word2.
3. Select and copy word2.
4. Highlight word1 and Insert, Note, LyX Note. word1 will be placed inside
a new note.
5. Paste.
Expected: paste outputs word2
In LyX 1.6.8,
1. Create a new document.
2. Type in two words, word1 and word2.
3. Select and copy word2.
4. Highlight word1 and Insert, Note, LyX Note. word1 will be placed
inside a new note.
5. Paste.
Expected: paste outputs word2, as copied in (3)
Actual: paste outputs word1, from (4)
Pavel Sanda lyx.org> writes:
>
> Jack Tanner wrote:
> > 1. Create a new document.
> > 2. Type in two words, word1 and word2.
> > 3. Select and copy word2.
> > 4. Highlight word1 and Insert, Note, LyX Note. word1 will be placed inside
> > a new note
I see that Uwe has kindly uploaded the alternative 1.6.8 installer for Windows.
Is anyone preparing the official one also?
I see that Uwe has kindly uploaded the alternative 1.6.8 installer for Windows.
Is anyone preparing the official one also?
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