Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jan 2008, George De Bruin wrote: rgheck wrote: Try 1.5.3. Some work has been done on scrolling, and a LOT more is to come in 1.6. I would, but I don't see a .deb out there for it. (Either in the Ubuntu repos, or on ftp.lyx.org) And I really don't want to compile from the

ERT with cupbook.cls

2008-01-15 Thread Holliday, Ian E
Hi Lyx people I am a new user and am struggling to implement features of the Cambridge university press latex class cupbook.cls that I need to use. This includes alternative \authorindex and \subjectindex commands, and also \endnote. I've made a layout that invokes the cls OK, but having

Jumps in broad table

2008-01-15 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, I'm using 1.5.3 as of Dec 17, 2007 with documents of the kind attached. It contains a table broader than the screen. Navigating / Editing this table is sometimes surprising, The cursor jumps, selecting something is realized in jumps to the wrong side and then returning and evnetually

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread Ignacio García
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008, George De Bruin wrote: I tried grabbing the .deb for 1.5.2 from the lyx.org site, but couldn't get it to install. GDebi told me that it wasn't a valid package. Any hints or clues? What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the dapper

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread Charles de Miramon
rgheck wrote: Debian Etch. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion. I've thought about Debian, and it has a great reputation for stability. That said, while I don't want to be absolutely bleeding edge, I do like to be near it, and Debian at least has a reputation for being, well, stable. Just

LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Milen Ivanov
Dear All, Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version of LyX. Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop because Ubuntu setup program could not find its way around the

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Neal Becker
Uh, did you consider 'yum install lyx'? You don't need to build anything for lyx on F8.

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
Milen Ivanov wrote: Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop because Ubuntu setup program could not find its way around the chipset, Debian appears LARGE (4 DVDs! to have no worry) and no-one I know is

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs and what compile time you got when using e.g. two or three of the cores. But this is maybe better suited for the devel list. Actually, I'm still a newbie when it comes

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Oisin
On Jan 15, 2008 6:54 AM, Milen Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version of LyX. Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop

viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex

2008-01-15 Thread Hartmut Haase
Is there anyone except me who has problems with viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex?. It happens for me with all versions after 1.5, and with lyx154svn and lyx16svn, too. If I copy the table, where the error happens, into a new document, everything is fine. -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut

Re: [Solution] environment split over several ERTs -- LaTeX warning Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup.

2008-01-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, it took a while to figure out how to have environments split over several ERTs. [ERT] \begin{centering}[/ERT] what ever in normal LyX [ERT] \end{centering}[/ERT] ended with the LaTeX warning Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. For other who have the same

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Jan 14, 2008 8:56 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
Oisin wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 6:54 AM, Milen Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version of LyX. Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome)

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 13:14:45 rgheck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs and what compile time you got when using e.g. two or three of the cores. But this is maybe better suited for the

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, i followed your instructions. I got no error messages. thanks for all the help. Biao That's good. I still don't understand why the installer wasn't working for you, but since we haven't had other reports of troubles like this I won't

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Biao Wu
On Jan 15, 2008 8:51 AM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, I created ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. It did not change anything. I got the same error message. Biao I'm stumped. Try opening Terminal.app, and typing this: mkdir -p

RE: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Milen Ivanov
Dear Oisin, Thank you, it surely helps! Actually the first thing I tried was to find a .rpm for LyX 1.5.3 for Fedora 8, but from another computer running XP (I used Google) as it will take me few more days to connect the laptop to internet. I did find some .rpm's but for LyX 1.4.. and Fedora 6,

Re: viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex

2008-01-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hartmut Haase schrieb am 15.01.2008: Is there anyone except me who has problems with viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex?. It happens for me with all versions after 1.5, and with lyx154svn and lyx16svn, too. If I copy the table, where the error happens, into a new document, everything

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can

Please remove me from the list

2008-01-15 Thread Sourena Mohammadi
Hi, Please remove me from this list. I do not know how to me removed. --Sourena Mohammadi

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:46:02 Steve Litt wrote: IIRC the Mandriva 2007 I use defaults to KDE and has lots and lots of KDE programs (I'm writing this on kmail), but my hatred of KDE is so profound that my first step was to switch to IceWM, and my second step was to find non-KDE

Re: Please remove me from the list

2008-01-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Sourena Mohammadi wrote: Please remove me from this list. I do not know how to me removed. --Sourena Mohammadi You can remove yourself... the messages you get from this list contains the information you need. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread David Neeley
At the moment, I'm using Linux Mint, although there are a few nagging problems but no apparent show-stoppers on my HP laptop. However, I'm definitely looking forward to KDE4, now that it's out. From what I've seen, it should permit some outstanding integration with much reduced confusion from

Unable to set table column width

2008-01-15 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I'm using Lyx 1.52 on Vista. Every time I try to set a column width for a table, the value keeps disappearing and I'm unable to fix the desired width. Also, it will not let me change the default units to something else. The drop down list shows other unit but when I select one it stays

Re: ERT with cupbook.cls

2008-01-15 Thread Holliday, Ian E
OK - I sorted it out. It was of course simply that I'd tried to put ERT into a non-standard environment - paragraph - having forgotten that 'standard' is what I should normally use, and paragraph is a level in the section hierarchy. There have been a couple of others I noticed lower down the

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread George De Bruin
Ignacio García wrote: What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the dapper version with no problems. I'm using it from october. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb Okay, I tried the package you mentioned, and it installed.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
George De Bruin wrote: Ignacio García wrote: What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the dapper version with no problems. I'm using it from october. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb I tried the package you mentioned, and

LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-15 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I compiled LyX 1.5.3 for my Linux distro Ubuntu 7.10. I'm a long time user of LyX. But since QT4 version of LyX, it is impossible for me to select anything using my mouse in LyX. Even selecting with the cursor, holding shift, etc, has erratic behavior. The mouse select something, shade in blue,

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread George De Bruin
rgheck wrote: Probably unrelated. Can you create a new user and see if LyX works right for her? Okay, Interesting - now have it down to the root problem: window manager. I normally use pekwm as my window manager. However, when I set up the new user, it went to the system default: Xfce.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jan 2008, George De Bruin wrote: rgheck wrote: Try 1.5.3. Some work has been done on scrolling, and a LOT more is to come in 1.6. I would, but I don't see a .deb out there for it. (Either in the Ubuntu repos, or on ftp.lyx.org) And I really don't want to compile from the

ERT with cupbook.cls

2008-01-15 Thread Holliday, Ian E
Hi Lyx people I am a new user and am struggling to implement features of the Cambridge university press latex class cupbook.cls that I need to use. This includes alternative \authorindex and \subjectindex commands, and also \endnote. I've made a layout that invokes the cls OK, but having

Jumps in broad table

2008-01-15 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, I'm using 1.5.3 as of Dec 17, 2007 with documents of the kind attached. It contains a table broader than the screen. Navigating / Editing this table is sometimes surprising, The cursor jumps, selecting something is realized in jumps to the wrong side and then returning and evnetually

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread Ignacio García
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008, George De Bruin wrote: I tried grabbing the .deb for 1.5.2 from the lyx.org site, but couldn't get it to install. GDebi told me that it wasn't a valid package. Any hints or clues? What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the dapper

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread Charles de Miramon
rgheck wrote: Debian Etch. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion. I've thought about Debian, and it has a great reputation for stability. That said, while I don't want to be absolutely bleeding edge, I do like to be near it, and Debian at least has a reputation for being, well, stable. Just

LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Milen Ivanov
Dear All, Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version of LyX. Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop because Ubuntu setup program could not find its way around the

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Neal Becker
Uh, did you consider 'yum install lyx'? You don't need to build anything for lyx on F8.

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
Milen Ivanov wrote: Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop because Ubuntu setup program could not find its way around the chipset, Debian appears LARGE (4 DVDs! to have no worry) and no-one I know is

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs and what compile time you got when using e.g. two or three of the cores. But this is maybe better suited for the devel list. Actually, I'm still a newbie when it comes

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Oisin
On Jan 15, 2008 6:54 AM, Milen Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version of LyX. Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop

viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex

2008-01-15 Thread Hartmut Haase
Is there anyone except me who has problems with viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex?. It happens for me with all versions after 1.5, and with lyx154svn and lyx16svn, too. If I copy the table, where the error happens, into a new document, everything is fine. -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut

Re: [Solution] environment split over several ERTs -- LaTeX warning Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup.

2008-01-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, it took a while to figure out how to have environments split over several ERTs. [ERT] \begin{centering}[/ERT] what ever in normal LyX [ERT] \end{centering}[/ERT] ended with the LaTeX warning Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. For other who have the same

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Jan 14, 2008 8:56 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
Oisin wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 6:54 AM, Milen Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version of LyX. Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome)

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 13:14:45 rgheck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs and what compile time you got when using e.g. two or three of the cores. But this is maybe better suited for the

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, i followed your instructions. I got no error messages. thanks for all the help. Biao That's good. I still don't understand why the installer wasn't working for you, but since we haven't had other reports of troubles like this I won't

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Biao Wu
On Jan 15, 2008 8:51 AM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, I created ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. It did not change anything. I got the same error message. Biao I'm stumped. Try opening Terminal.app, and typing this: mkdir -p

RE: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Milen Ivanov
Dear Oisin, Thank you, it surely helps! Actually the first thing I tried was to find a .rpm for LyX 1.5.3 for Fedora 8, but from another computer running XP (I used Google) as it will take me few more days to connect the laptop to internet. I did find some .rpm's but for LyX 1.4.. and Fedora 6,

Re: viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex

2008-01-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hartmut Haase schrieb am 15.01.2008: Is there anyone except me who has problems with viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex?. It happens for me with all versions after 1.5, and with lyx154svn and lyx16svn, too. If I copy the table, where the error happens, into a new document, everything

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can

Please remove me from the list

2008-01-15 Thread Sourena Mohammadi
Hi, Please remove me from this list. I do not know how to me removed. --Sourena Mohammadi

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:46:02 Steve Litt wrote: IIRC the Mandriva 2007 I use defaults to KDE and has lots and lots of KDE programs (I'm writing this on kmail), but my hatred of KDE is so profound that my first step was to switch to IceWM, and my second step was to find non-KDE

Re: Please remove me from the list

2008-01-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Sourena Mohammadi wrote: Please remove me from this list. I do not know how to me removed. --Sourena Mohammadi You can remove yourself... the messages you get from this list contains the information you need. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread David Neeley
At the moment, I'm using Linux Mint, although there are a few nagging problems but no apparent show-stoppers on my HP laptop. However, I'm definitely looking forward to KDE4, now that it's out. From what I've seen, it should permit some outstanding integration with much reduced confusion from

Unable to set table column width

2008-01-15 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I'm using Lyx 1.52 on Vista. Every time I try to set a column width for a table, the value keeps disappearing and I'm unable to fix the desired width. Also, it will not let me change the default units to something else. The drop down list shows other unit but when I select one it stays

Re: ERT with cupbook.cls

2008-01-15 Thread Holliday, Ian E
OK - I sorted it out. It was of course simply that I'd tried to put ERT into a non-standard environment - paragraph - having forgotten that 'standard' is what I should normally use, and paragraph is a level in the section hierarchy. There have been a couple of others I noticed lower down the

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread George De Bruin
Ignacio García wrote: What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the dapper version with no problems. I'm using it from october. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb Okay, I tried the package you mentioned, and it installed.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
George De Bruin wrote: Ignacio García wrote: What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the dapper version with no problems. I'm using it from october. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb I tried the package you mentioned, and

LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-15 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I compiled LyX 1.5.3 for my Linux distro Ubuntu 7.10. I'm a long time user of LyX. But since QT4 version of LyX, it is impossible for me to select anything using my mouse in LyX. Even selecting with the cursor, holding shift, etc, has erratic behavior. The mouse select something, shade in blue,

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread George De Bruin
rgheck wrote: Probably unrelated. Can you create a new user and see if LyX works right for her? Okay, Interesting - now have it down to the root problem: window manager. I normally use pekwm as my window manager. However, when I set up the new user, it went to the system default: Xfce.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jan 2008, George De Bruin wrote: > rgheck wrote: >> >> Try 1.5.3. Some work has been done on scrolling, and a LOT more is to >> come in 1.6. > I would, but I don't see a .deb out there for it. (Either in the Ubuntu > repos, or on ftp.lyx.org) And I really don't want to compile from

ERT with cupbook.cls

2008-01-15 Thread Holliday, Ian E
Hi Lyx people I am a new user and am struggling to implement features of the Cambridge university press latex class cupbook.cls that I need to use. This includes alternative \authorindex and \subjectindex commands, and also \endnote. I've made a layout that invokes the cls OK, but having

Jumps in broad table

2008-01-15 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, I'm using 1.5.3 as of Dec 17, 2007 with documents of the kind attached. It contains a table broader than the screen. Navigating / Editing this table is sometimes surprising, The cursor jumps, selecting something is realized in jumps to the wrong side and then returning and evnetually

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread Ignacio García
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008, George De Bruin wrote: >> I tried grabbing the .deb for 1.5.2 from the lyx.org site, but couldn't get >> it to install. GDebi told me that it wasn't a valid package. >> Any hints or clues? What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread Charles de Miramon
rgheck wrote: > Debian Etch. >> >> [snip] > Thanks for the suggestion. I've thought about Debian, and it has a great > reputation for stability. That said, while I don't want to be absolutely > bleeding edge, I do like to be near it, and Debian at least has a > reputation for being, well, stable.

LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Milen Ivanov
Dear All, Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version of LyX. Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop because Ubuntu setup program could not find its way around the

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Neal Becker
Uh, did you consider 'yum install lyx'? You don't need to build anything for lyx on F8.

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
Milen Ivanov wrote: Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop because Ubuntu setup program could not find its way around the chipset, Debian appears LARGE (4 DVDs! to have no worry) and no-one I know is

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs and what compile time you got when using e.g. two or three of the cores. But this is maybe better suited for the devel list. Actually, I'm still a newbie when it comes

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Oisin
On Jan 15, 2008 6:54 AM, Milen Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > > > Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version > of LyX. > > > > Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few > days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome)

viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex

2008-01-15 Thread Hartmut Haase
Is there anyone except me who has problems with viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex?. It happens for me with all versions after 1.5, and with lyx154svn and lyx16svn, too. If I copy the table, where the error happens, into a new document, everything is fine. -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut

Re: [Solution] environment split over several ERTs --> LaTeX warning "Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup."

2008-01-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, it took a while to figure out how to have environments split over several ERTs. [ERT] \begin{centering}[/ERT] what ever in normal LyX [ERT] \end{centering}[/ERT] ended with the LaTeX warning "Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup." For other who have the same

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Jan 14, 2008 8:56 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Lounsbury wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the > >> second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm >

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
Oisin wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 6:54 AM, Milen Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear All, Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version of LyX. Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 13:14:45 rgheck wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] > > > > [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs and what compile > > time you got when using e.g. two or three of the cores. But this is > > maybe better

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, i followed your instructions. I got no error messages. thanks for all the help. Biao That's good. I still don't understand why the installer wasn't working for you, but since we haven't had other reports of troubles like this I won't

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Biao Wu
On Jan 15, 2008 8:51 AM, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Biao Wu wrote: > > > Bennett, I created ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. It did not change > > anything. I got > > the same error message. Biao > > I'm stumped. Try opening Terminal.app, and typing this: > >

RE: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-15 Thread Milen Ivanov
Dear Oisin, Thank you, it surely helps! Actually the first thing I tried was to find a .rpm for LyX 1.5.3 for Fedora 8, but from another computer running XP (I used Google) as it will take me few more days to connect the laptop to internet. I did find some .rpm's but for LyX 1.4.. and Fedora 6,

Re: viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex

2008-01-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hartmut Haase schrieb am 15.01.2008: Is there anyone except me who has problems with viewing the german UserGuide with pdflatex?. It happens for me with all versions after 1.5, and with lyx154svn and lyx16svn, too. If I copy the table, where the error happens, into a new document, everything

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can

Please remove me from the list

2008-01-15 Thread Sourena Mohammadi
Hi, Please remove me from this list. I do not know how to me removed. --Sourena Mohammadi

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:46:02 Steve Litt wrote: > > IIRC the Mandriva 2007 I use defaults to KDE and has lots and lots of KDE > programs (I'm writing this on kmail), but my hatred of KDE is so profound > that my first step was to switch to IceWM, and my second step was to find > non-KDE

Re: Please remove me from the list

2008-01-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Sourena Mohammadi wrote: Please remove me from this list. I do not know how to me removed. --Sourena Mohammadi You can remove yourself... the messages you get from this list contains the information you need. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread David Neeley
At the moment, I'm using Linux Mint, although there are a few nagging problems but no apparent show-stoppers on my HP laptop. However, I'm definitely looking forward to KDE4, now that it's out. From what I've seen, it should permit some outstanding integration with much reduced confusion from

Unable to set table column width

2008-01-15 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I'm using Lyx 1.52 on Vista. Every time I try to set a column width for a table, the value keeps disappearing and I'm unable to fix the desired width. Also, it will not let me change the default units to something else. The drop down list shows other unit but when I select one it stays

Re: ERT with cupbook.cls

2008-01-15 Thread Holliday, Ian E
OK - I sorted it out. It was of course simply that I'd tried to put ERT into a non-standard environment - paragraph - having forgotten that 'standard' is what I should normally use, and paragraph is a level in the section hierarchy. There have been a couple of others I noticed lower down the

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread George De Bruin
Ignacio García wrote: What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the dapper version with no problems. I'm using it from october. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb Okay, I tried the package you mentioned, and it installed.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread rgheck
George De Bruin wrote: Ignacio García wrote: What deb package are you trying? I have downloaded and installed on Ubuntu 7.10 the dapper version with no problems. I'm using it from october. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/lyx-1.5.2-1_dapper_i386.deb I tried the package you mentioned, and

LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-15 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I compiled LyX 1.5.3 for my Linux distro Ubuntu 7.10. I'm a long time user of LyX. But since QT4 version of LyX, it is impossible for me to select anything using my mouse in LyX. Even selecting with the cursor, holding shift, etc, has erratic behavior. The mouse select something, shade in blue,

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread George De Bruin
rgheck wrote: Probably unrelated. Can you create a new user and see if LyX works right for her? Okay, Interesting - now have it down to the root problem: window manager. I normally use pekwm as my window manager. However, when I set up the new user, it went to the system default: Xfce.