Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that, I think there at least used to be a pretty good reason for why the documentation was split the way it is. So I suggest you raise this question on the development list. best regards /Christian I think the end of the splash.lyx intro screen could

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Detlev Humann
Zitat von Holger Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I try to build a RPM-Package from Lyx 1.4.2 for Suse Linux 10.1. but I have some problems with this. I following the instructions from lyx.rpm READMEA 1. I installed the xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse Linux 9.1 only as a

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Holger Schmidt wrote: 1. I installed the  xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse  Linux 9.1 only as a RPM-Package) Why xforms? You should build the qt frontend instead. 2. The LaTeX - Package are also complete 3.  The file lyx.spec is in /usr/src/packages/SPECS 4. The file lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-18 Thread Richard Downing
Ed Gatzke wrote: Why can't computer people come up with pronounceable names like Windows, Word, and Excel? You do know that they are pronounced: Windowz, Wierd, and ExChill - don't you? R

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Martin A. Hansen
I sincerely feel that the tutorial should also be included in a single documentation file consisting of UG, extended etc. the reason for this is that you can then cross-link from the tutorial to the parts of the UG explaining a feature in depth. also, you can search the entire document for

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Dear Paul, Thank you for your response. I can post a minimal example, but I don't know how to attach a (graphic) file to this post? Can anyone give me a hint! Mukhtar

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Dear Paul, Thank you for your response. I can post a minimal example, but I don't know how to attach a (graphic) file to this post? Can anyone give me a hint! Mukhtar Use you email client to attach your minimal example file. Then use your email client to attach the

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-18 Thread Nicolás
Hi! First of all, I am sorry for not having followed the discussion until now. I did not see all your messages because they were under the fancyhdr thread (my fault when sending the email reporting the problem) Thank you for the help Bo, but I did not need to do what you suggested.

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document consisting of User's guide + extended features in one document. Just paste one into the other, perhaps as part I and part II. Perhaps

Re: 1.4.x (bin) on Dapper?

2006-07-18 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:28:43 +0100 Sam Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main? Somewhere? Anyone, any idea? Cheers, Sam I have made some debs for Lyx1.4.1 in Dapper which are here : http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits As for

Problem with Check Tex in Lyx142 windows

2006-07-18 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I have discovered another problem with LyX142 (installed using the small version of the windows installer). When I run Check TeX the following error message is shown: Could not run chktex successfully You can find the debug messages below. I think the problem is that I do not have the

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Martin A. Hansen
nice plan sven! crisp and simple :o) and yes - the documentation should be a lyx document so you see for yourself how the lyx formatting is actually done - with the help of notes and cross-references. i myself would always read the documentation in lyx and not as pdf or dvi - i only use those to

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Dear Stephen, Thank you so much for your help. What I did not know was the email address lyx-users@lists.lyx.org. I only check the list and post thing there. Dear Paul, I have attached the two files: a LyX example and a graphic file. When I use pdflatex, everything goes fine. The problem is

Re: 1.4.x (bin) on Dapper?

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:41:06PM +1000, Russell Davie wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:28:43 +0100 Sam Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main? Somewhere? Anyone, any idea? I have made some debs for Lyx1.4.1 in Dapper which

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Holger Schmidt
Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 09:14 schrieb Georg Baum: Holger Schmidt wrote: 1. I installed the  xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse  Linux 9.1 only as a RPM-Package) Why xforms? You should build the qt frontend instead. I don't no the different between xforms and the qt frontend. If there

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-18 Thread Andrea Censi
On 7/17/06, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Andrea Censi wrote: Hello, is there a Mac binary version available somewhere? Not yet. I was away when 1.4.2 came out, and when I got back I had a hard disk failure requiring complete re-installation of a whole

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:57:05 +0200 From: Mukhtar Ullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LyX142 DVI Dear Stephen, Thank you so much for your help. What I did not know was the email address

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Holger Schmidt
Hi Detlev, Thanks for your information, but I want to now how is the way to build a rpm-package from lyx. Later comes another update an I get the same problem again. I want to know the correct way for the future. Holger Hi Holger, some weeks ago Gunnar Hellmund showed how to install Lyx

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Paul wrote First, setting the width of the document to 80% of the page width shows that the converted pdf is not properly cropped (a small drawing at the bottom of the page). pdf2ps fig_chapman.pdf; ps2eps fig_chapman.ps creates a properly cropped eps file to be used with dvi. If

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Holger Schmidt wrote: I don't no the different between xforms and the qt frontend. xforms and qt are both so called toolkits for graphical programs. LyX is able to use eitehr of them. xforms is older, faster and uglier than qt and has less features (at least as far as LyX is concerned), so

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Helge Hafting schrieb: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document consisting of User's guide + extended features in one document. Just paste one into the other, perhaps

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: For people interested in helping with the documentation, please read the links at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc5 Especially look at this page http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwiki.php/Devel/MiscNotes

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: and yes - the documentation should be a lyx document so you see for yourself how the lyx formatting is actually done - with the help of notes and cross-references. Agreed while the lyx documentation should contain all the relevant documentation

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: I sincerely feel that the tutorial should also be included in a single documentation file consisting of UG, extended etc. the reason for this is that you can then cross-link from the tutorial to the parts of the UG explaining a feature in depth.

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: As for the problem of searching all the help documentation, couldn't we ask the developers for a special help menu entry that says something like: Search help documents This seems to me like it would solve the problems you are talking about. Are there any

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having said that, I think that what the LyX documentation mainly needs is an editor - someone to guide/decide what should go into the documentation. As far as I know there is no editor today (please correct me if I'm wrong!) No, you're right. The last editor was

Uploading large files to the wiki

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The issue of uploading large files to the wiki has popped up a few times recently so I thought I'd explain what the problem is and how we work around it. I've tried to document uploading in general on this page http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading The problem with using the wiki's

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: Well, I made the Wiki Entry under Manuals, but the Wiki complained the file was too large to accept = almost 4mb Ok. (It might also fit under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation ) As for the file, could you try using YouSendIt to send it to me? (See

Re: Problem with Check Tex in Lyx142 windows

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
Nicolás wrote: Hi! I have discovered another problem with LyX142 (installed using the small version of the windows installer). When I run Check TeX the following error message is shown: Could not run chktex successfully You can find the debug messages below. I think the problem is that I

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that, I think there at least used to be a pretty good reason for why the documentation was split the way it is. So I suggest you raise this question on the development list. best regards /Christian I think the

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Angus Leeming wrote: No, you're right. The last editor was Mike Ressler and the last time that he was actively involved was in the middle of 2002... Just out curiosity, who were editors before him? (I thought I'd write it down here)

Wiki editors (Was: please consolidate the documentation)

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Angus Leeming wrote: If the editor(s) would also take up the job of maintaining the wiki, that would be even more valuable IMO. The editor(s) can definitely also maintain (guide, be in charge of) the wiki as well. However, if editor(s) prefer I think it's quite doable to

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Gatzke
You may need to run the latex and bibtex commands two or three times to make sure labels take as well. I usually run something like: latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex bibtex file bibtex file !!! Make modifiation to file.tex here using file.bbl latex file.tex latex file.tex latex

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file. Good point. To summarize: * We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some kind of table of contents for the whole thing. * We'd like to be able to search all the

dvipdfm vs ... (Was: ...)

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: To answer your question, I think that the Pdf FAQ is a good place, I added your text here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#dvipdfm-vs-pdflatex It's certainly an improvement even if it isn't 100% complete or correct :-) /Christian -- Christian

Indexing (Was: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released)

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: Which brings me to indexical software. I was impressed with Steve Litt's indexing method ... Hi Steve. Yes, it certainly seems useful. I hope Steve sees this and responds. (Slightly confusing with two Steves here :-) Anyway if he writes up his

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: please consolidate the documentation Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:24:33 +0200 X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file. Good point. To

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Richard, thanks for the help. I really appreciate it. I see you're now at Brown, my alma mater (mathematics). Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Gatzke
But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right? I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough. I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP to 127.0.0.1:0.0 You need X running in the background, but that is always running for

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
An easier solution may be to View-DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? On Jul 17, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
Thank you for the help Bo, but I did not need to do what you suggested. Instead, as Steve mentioned, I deleted the python package that the LyX installer installed and the Tex Info Rescan function works fine now. The problem seems to be with the bundled python, which misses some module to

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Ed Gatzke wrote: It might be nice to have an option to bundle everything into a single tar file, all your obj, eps, bib files into a single tgz file, but it is not much for me to do that myself when needed. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700 Georg

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Gatzke
My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not work, but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like /usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. I straightened out some of the path problems, adding

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
Bo Peng wrote: Thank you for the help Bo, but I did not need to do what you suggested. Instead, as Steve mentioned, I deleted the python package that the LyX installer installed and the Tex Info Rescan function works fine now. The problem seems to be with the bundled python, which misses some

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file. Good point. To summarize: * We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some kind of table of contents for the whole thing. * We'd

PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-18 Thread Andreas Busch
Hi, eagerly waiting for the 1.4.2 binary for Mac OS X that Bennett has kindly compiled and put on the ftp site in the /incoming directory (see his message in the developer list). Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it in the /bin directory. Could someone

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Paul wrote No, that was Jean-Pierre. I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View-DVI. It worked correctly. I'm attaching the modified document (when I loaded it there was no

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: An easier solution may be to View-DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? You use one of those Mac thingies, right?

Lyx-1.4.2: SIGSEGV during math edition

2006-07-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Hello LyXers, I got a SIGSEGV while editing math, happily with an emergency save. As lyx is talkative in the calling shell while editing math, I give an extractt of this log, I hope it may help... I was copy/pasting a vector of variables with indices when this happened. wrong pos 8, max is 5 at

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-18 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Andrea Censi wrote: On 7/17/06, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Andrea Censi wrote: Hello, is there a Mac binary version available somewhere? Not yet. I was away when 1.4.2 came out, and when I got back I had a hard disk

Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
Dear all, I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input. Has anyone experienced the same

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-18 Thread Andrea Censi
On 7/18/06, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For LyX-1.4.x, you must use Qt-3.x (latest is 3.3.6) and gcc-3.3. I've never tried building Qt except as static, though I don't see why that wouldn't work. If I used a shared version, the linker complained (sorry, didn't keep the error). I

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input. Follow up: I can use Alt-F etc to invoke menu and

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:01:40 -0500 From: Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX Developers List lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Sudden lose of keyboard input. Dear all, I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably reproduce

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Bo Peng schrieb: I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input. Follow up: I can use Alt-F

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
Any hidden window (perhaps iconified ? but this one has been solved long ago) ? You mean a hidden lyx dialog that is accepting keyboard input? Last time this happened, I was typing without doing anything special. Also, Alt-F etc works... I will minimize all windows and check next time it

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Lorenzo Paulatto
Daniel Watkins ha scritto: Sven Schreiber wrote: So please consolidate the documentation into one file (or let me do it). I promise you, no-one here is going to hold you back, if you're volunteering[*]. :p There is a problem you may have missed: in some languages (italian at least) only the

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ed Gatzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right? I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough. I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP to 127.0.0.1:0.0 Oh... I meant adding

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ed Gatzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not work, but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like /usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. I

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-18 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Andrea Censi wrote: On 7/18/06, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For LyX-1.4.x, you must use Qt-3.x (latest is 3.3.6) and gcc-3.3. I've never tried building Qt except as static, though I don't see why that wouldn't work. If I used a shared version, the

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
You use one of those Mac thingies, right? Isn't there a way to rub the machine's case and then tell the genie what you need? I love the Mac genie, in part because she protects me from things that I _generally_ don't need or want to see, like this /tmp folder. A mac guru friend has taught

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: As far as pasting the .bbl file into the LaTeX file goes, here's how we do that. (I'd suggest you NOT try this with the LyX file.) As an experiment, I did try pasting the .bbl file into an ERT inset of a small text LyX file, and this

Merged manuals

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: I am not subscribed to this list and the gmane interface doesn't allow attachments, but if you reply to this mail putting me in CC, I can, in turn, reply to it and can thus attach the above files for everyone interested here. Or you could

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sven Schreiber schrieb: Well isn't there a documentation team? Unfortunately there is no team. At the moment the developers add new docs sections if they implemented a new feature. Therefore the docs aren't consistent in style and not always well verbalized. The last time I cleaned up the

Suggesting Hyphenation Within URL

2006-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I must be missing something simple here, so please be gentle when you clue me in. The mechanism for providing hyphenation hints to LaTeX is to put {\-} at acceptable word breaks. However, when a URL is entered (\usepackage{url} in the preamble) with \url{some/long/text/here.html}, the

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Paul wrote No, that was Jean-Pierre. I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View-DVI. It worked correctly. I'm attaching the modified document (when I loaded it

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian The .lyx version was done by Ed Gatzke and included the Introduction so I uploaded Intro.pdf to ~/Manuals

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it in the /bin directory. Could someone kindly move the file? JMarc is on vacation, and I do not know whoelse can do this... Lars? Bo

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Harris wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Paul wrote No, that was Jean-Pierre. I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View-DVI. It worked correctly. I'm attaching the modified

Re: Suggesting Hyphenation Within URL

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I must be missing something simple here, so please be gentle when you clue me in. The mechanism for providing hyphenation hints to LaTeX is to put {\-} at acceptable word breaks. However, when a URL is entered (\usepackage{url} in the preamble) with

Re: Suggesting Hyphenation Within URL

2006-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't think hyphenating a URL is a good idea, since the dash character is legal in a URL (so is that a hyphen, or a dash, asks the reader). Paul, I agree totally. But, I don't what the URL hanging out in the right margin, either.

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Paul wrote No, that was Jean-Pierre. I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View-DVI. It worked correctly. I'm

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Holger Schmidt
It works now. It was a mistake from me. It was the wrong directory witch I used to start with the command rpmbuild -ba lyx.spec I am ashamed of... How is it possible to give my RPM-Package called: lyx-1.4.2-1_qt.i586.rpm for Suse Linux 10.1 the community? It haves 5,8 MB Thank you xhosch

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that, I think there at least used to be a pretty good reason for why the documentation was split the way it is. So I suggest you raise this question on the development list. best regards /Christian I think the end of the splash.lyx intro screen could

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Detlev Humann
Zitat von Holger Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I try to build a RPM-Package from Lyx 1.4.2 for Suse Linux 10.1. but I have some problems with this. I following the instructions from lyx.rpm READMEA 1. I installed the xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse Linux 9.1 only as a

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Holger Schmidt wrote: 1. I installed the  xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse  Linux 9.1 only as a RPM-Package) Why xforms? You should build the qt frontend instead. 2. The LaTeX - Package are also complete 3.  The file lyx.spec is in /usr/src/packages/SPECS 4. The file lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-18 Thread Richard Downing
Ed Gatzke wrote: Why can't computer people come up with pronounceable names like Windows, Word, and Excel? You do know that they are pronounced: Windowz, Wierd, and ExChill - don't you? R

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Martin A. Hansen
I sincerely feel that the tutorial should also be included in a single documentation file consisting of UG, extended etc. the reason for this is that you can then cross-link from the tutorial to the parts of the UG explaining a feature in depth. also, you can search the entire document for

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Dear Paul, Thank you for your response. I can post a minimal example, but I don't know how to attach a (graphic) file to this post? Can anyone give me a hint! Mukhtar

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Dear Paul, Thank you for your response. I can post a minimal example, but I don't know how to attach a (graphic) file to this post? Can anyone give me a hint! Mukhtar Use you email client to attach your minimal example file. Then use your email client to attach the

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-18 Thread Nicolás
Hi! First of all, I am sorry for not having followed the discussion until now. I did not see all your messages because they were under the fancyhdr thread (my fault when sending the email reporting the problem) Thank you for the help Bo, but I did not need to do what you suggested.

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document consisting of User's guide + extended features in one document. Just paste one into the other, perhaps as part I and part II. Perhaps

Re: 1.4.x (bin) on Dapper?

2006-07-18 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:28:43 +0100 Sam Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main? Somewhere? Anyone, any idea? Cheers, Sam I have made some debs for Lyx1.4.1 in Dapper which are here : http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits As for

Problem with Check Tex in Lyx142 windows

2006-07-18 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I have discovered another problem with LyX142 (installed using the small version of the windows installer). When I run Check TeX the following error message is shown: Could not run chktex successfully You can find the debug messages below. I think the problem is that I do not have the

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Martin A. Hansen
nice plan sven! crisp and simple :o) and yes - the documentation should be a lyx document so you see for yourself how the lyx formatting is actually done - with the help of notes and cross-references. i myself would always read the documentation in lyx and not as pdf or dvi - i only use those to

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Dear Stephen, Thank you so much for your help. What I did not know was the email address lyx-users@lists.lyx.org. I only check the list and post thing there. Dear Paul, I have attached the two files: a LyX example and a graphic file. When I use pdflatex, everything goes fine. The problem is

Re: 1.4.x (bin) on Dapper?

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:41:06PM +1000, Russell Davie wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:28:43 +0100 Sam Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main? Somewhere? Anyone, any idea? I have made some debs for Lyx1.4.1 in Dapper which

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Holger Schmidt
Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 09:14 schrieb Georg Baum: Holger Schmidt wrote: 1. I installed the  xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse  Linux 9.1 only as a RPM-Package) Why xforms? You should build the qt frontend instead. I don't no the different between xforms and the qt frontend. If there

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-18 Thread Andrea Censi
On 7/17/06, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Andrea Censi wrote: Hello, is there a Mac binary version available somewhere? Not yet. I was away when 1.4.2 came out, and when I got back I had a hard disk failure requiring complete re-installation of a whole

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:57:05 +0200 From: Mukhtar Ullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LyX142 DVI Dear Stephen, Thank you so much for your help. What I did not know was the email address

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Holger Schmidt
Hi Detlev, Thanks for your information, but I want to now how is the way to build a rpm-package from lyx. Later comes another update an I get the same problem again. I want to know the correct way for the future. Holger Hi Holger, some weeks ago Gunnar Hellmund showed how to install Lyx

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-18 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Paul wrote First, setting the width of the document to 80% of the page width shows that the converted pdf is not properly cropped (a small drawing at the bottom of the page). pdf2ps fig_chapman.pdf; ps2eps fig_chapman.ps creates a properly cropped eps file to be used with dvi. If

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Holger Schmidt wrote: I don't no the different between xforms and the qt frontend. xforms and qt are both so called toolkits for graphical programs. LyX is able to use eitehr of them. xforms is older, faster and uglier than qt and has less features (at least as far as LyX is concerned), so

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Helge Hafting schrieb: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document consisting of User's guide + extended features in one document. Just paste one into the other, perhaps

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: For people interested in helping with the documentation, please read the links at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc5 Especially look at this page http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwiki.php/Devel/MiscNotes

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: and yes - the documentation should be a lyx document so you see for yourself how the lyx formatting is actually done - with the help of notes and cross-references. Agreed while the lyx documentation should contain all the relevant documentation

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: I sincerely feel that the tutorial should also be included in a single documentation file consisting of UG, extended etc. the reason for this is that you can then cross-link from the tutorial to the parts of the UG explaining a feature in depth.

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: As for the problem of searching all the help documentation, couldn't we ask the developers for a special help menu entry that says something like: Search help documents This seems to me like it would solve the problems you are talking about. Are there any

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having said that, I think that what the LyX documentation mainly needs is an editor - someone to guide/decide what should go into the documentation. As far as I know there is no editor today (please correct me if I'm wrong!) No, you're right. The last editor was

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