tex2lyx and 1.3.6pre

2005-07-09 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am aware that tex2lyx will be invoked as of 1.4.0 but wondered whether, as it is already stable and far more powerful than relyx, whether it might be added to the 1.3.6pre version. If not is there a reason for its exclusion. Geoff

Re: tex2lyx and 1.3.6pre

2005-07-09 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am aware that tex2lyx will be invoked as of 1.4.0 but wondered whether, as it is already stable and far more powerful than relyx, whether it might be added to the 1.3.6pre version. No. If not is there a reason for its exclusion. Yes. LyX 1.3.6 is a bug fix

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar j. singh
On Friday 08 July 2005 17:33, Angus Leeming wrote: That's why I say on the wiki: ...LyX 1.3.6 cannot really be classified as a minor bug fix release, especially for Windows users. Large chunks of the code base have been touched in an attempt to resolve those problems that Windows users have

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
samar j. singh wrote: In response to that stirring confidence, I have with great temerity setup Lyx on my windows laptop. Undoubtedly it is a great advance over Ruuards port, which was a great advance on the Cygwin altenative. I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
samar j. singh wrote: In response to that stirring confidence, I have with great temerity setup Lyx on my windows laptop. Undoubtedly it is a great advance over Ruuards port, which was a great advance on the Cygwin altenative. I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I think is on the Path. However, could not seem to get it to work as it wanted to look in C for it. However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar j. singh
On Saturday 09 July 2005 15:23, Paul A. Rubin wrote: samar wrote: However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly this sort of change does not require reconfiguring. Do you think this is something obvious for most people - other than yours truly - or

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I think is on the Path. However, could not seem to get it to work as it wanted to look in C for it. However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:02:32PM -0700, Stephen P. Harris wrote: I changed this pdf format viewer with C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe EDit -- Preferences -- modify --apply --save and it fails to stick using 1.3.6pre (I think 18 or 19) when I reopen Lyx it is

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows It seems to me that questions about viewing PDFs come up periodically, but usually from people who don't know they need

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
I've added a blurb near the bottom of http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup describing this. Feel free to edit it if you find it less than clear (or, worse, inaccurate). -- Paul This works a bit curiously in 1.3.6pre. Pdf = acrobat will bring up the doc at half-page size. Pdflatex

tex2lyx and 1.3.6pre

2005-07-09 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am aware that tex2lyx will be invoked as of 1.4.0 but wondered whether, as it is already stable and far more powerful than relyx, whether it might be added to the 1.3.6pre version. If not is there a reason for its exclusion. Geoff

Re: tex2lyx and 1.3.6pre

2005-07-09 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am aware that tex2lyx will be invoked as of 1.4.0 but wondered whether, as it is already stable and far more powerful than relyx, whether it might be added to the 1.3.6pre version. No. If not is there a reason for its exclusion. Yes. LyX 1.3.6 is a bug fix

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar j. singh
On Friday 08 July 2005 17:33, Angus Leeming wrote: That's why I say on the wiki: ...LyX 1.3.6 cannot really be classified as a minor bug fix release, especially for Windows users. Large chunks of the code base have been touched in an attempt to resolve those problems that Windows users have

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
samar j. singh wrote: In response to that stirring confidence, I have with great temerity setup Lyx on my windows laptop. Undoubtedly it is a great advance over Ruuards port, which was a great advance on the Cygwin altenative. I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
samar j. singh wrote: In response to that stirring confidence, I have with great temerity setup Lyx on my windows laptop. Undoubtedly it is a great advance over Ruuards port, which was a great advance on the Cygwin altenative. I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I think is on the Path. However, could not seem to get it to work as it wanted to look in C for it. However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar j. singh
On Saturday 09 July 2005 15:23, Paul A. Rubin wrote: samar wrote: However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly this sort of change does not require reconfiguring. Do you think this is something obvious for most people - other than yours truly - or

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I think is on the Path. However, could not seem to get it to work as it wanted to look in C for it. However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:02:32PM -0700, Stephen P. Harris wrote: I changed this pdf format viewer with C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe EDit -- Preferences -- modify --apply --save and it fails to stick using 1.3.6pre (I think 18 or 19) when I reopen Lyx it is

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows It seems to me that questions about viewing PDFs come up periodically, but usually from people who don't know they need

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
I've added a blurb near the bottom of http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup describing this. Feel free to edit it if you find it less than clear (or, worse, inaccurate). -- Paul This works a bit curiously in 1.3.6pre. Pdf = acrobat will bring up the doc at half-page size. Pdflatex

tex2lyx and 1.3.6pre

2005-07-09 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am aware that tex2lyx will be invoked as of 1.4.0 but wondered whether, as it is already stable and far more powerful than relyx, whether it might be added to the 1.3.6pre version. If not is there a reason for its exclusion. Geoff

Re: tex2lyx and 1.3.6pre

2005-07-09 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am aware that tex2lyx will be invoked as of 1.4.0 but wondered whether, as it is already stable and far more powerful than relyx, whether it might be added to the 1.3.6pre version. No. If not is there a reason for its exclusion. Yes. LyX 1.3.6 is a bug fix

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar j. singh
On Friday 08 July 2005 17:33, Angus Leeming wrote: > That's why I say on the wiki: > ...LyX 1.3.6 cannot really be classified as a minor bug fix release, > especially for Windows users. Large chunks of the code base have been > touched in an attempt to resolve those problems that Windows users

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
samar j. singh wrote: In response to that stirring confidence, I have with great temerity setup Lyx on my windows laptop. Undoubtedly it is a great advance over Ruuards port, which was a great advance on the Cygwin altenative. I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
samar j. singh wrote: In response to that stirring confidence, I have with great temerity setup Lyx on my windows laptop. Undoubtedly it is a great advance over Ruuards port, which was a great advance on the Cygwin altenative. I have however the problem that when I set the viewer for

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I think is on the Path. However, could not seem to get it to work as it wanted to look in C for it. However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar j. singh
On Saturday 09 July 2005 15:23, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > samar wrote: > > However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. > > Interestingly this sort of change does not require reconfiguring. > > > > Do you think this is something obvious for most people - other than > > yours truly

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
samar wrote: Many thanks indeed for that quick response. I had already tried just putting in AcroRd32.exe which I think is on the Path. However, could not seem to get it to work as it wanted to look in C for it. However, putting quotes on either side of the FSP did the trick. Interestingly

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:02:32PM -0700, Stephen P. Harris wrote: > > I changed this pdf format viewer with > "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe" > EDit --> Preferences --> modify -->apply -->save > and it fails to stick using 1.3.6pre (I think 18 or 19) when I reopen Lyx >

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows It seems to me that questions about viewing PDFs come up periodically, but usually from people who don't know

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-09 Thread samar
I've added a blurb near the bottom of http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup describing this. Feel free to edit it if you find it less than clear (or, worse, inaccurate). -- Paul This works a bit curiously in 1.3.6pre. Pdf = acrobat will bring up the doc at half-page size. Pdflatex