Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread M-L
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: --} --} M-L-2 wrote: --} --} On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: --} --} --} --} When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its --} meant --} to do? --} --} If you start it from a root shell, and

Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread bigblop
M-L-2 wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: --} --} When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its meant --} to do? If you start it from a root shell, and have it display on the users X server. Using something like KDE might allow you to

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Martin Görg
Hello Julio Rojas, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have the commenting feature enabled? I mean, is it posible for pdflatex or ps2pdf to generate pdf's in which you can add comments with Acrobat Reader? It's amazing how often this question comes up. I just

Re: cross referencing chapters as opposed to sections?

2008-02-21 Thread Martin Görg
Hello Scott Otterson, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: However, when I label chapters and try to reference them, I get question marks instead of chapter numbers when I print.The chapter labels show up in the cross-reference popup just like the section labels do, and there are no error messages

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Julio Rojas wrote: Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have the commenting feature enabled? I mean, is it posible for pdflatex or ps2pdf to generate pdf's in which you can add comments with Acrobat Reader? No: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc9 Jürgen

Re: cross referencing chapters as opposed to sections?

2008-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Scott Otterson wrote: Could anyone suggest a place to look? Could it be this bug? http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2154 Jürgen

Package cite does not work

2008-02-21 Thread Gaul, Holger
Hello, to finish my work, I need the package cite. I've tested it, and it worked fine with a small document. But when I try to use it in the whole document (approx. 130 p. and 140 references), I cannot create a pdf. The following error shows up six times: Paragraph ended before \org@@citex was

Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 21.02.08, M-L wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its meant to do? Not really (if you do not start it from a root account or with sudo). To see if it is really owned by root, have a look at the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:43:12 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I've promised to keep out of this thread but this is again plain FUD, LyX-1.5 is perfectly compilable with Qt-4.1.0. The INSTALL file only says that it has been _tested_ with Qt-4.1.5. All version of Qt-4.1.x are course binary and

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections. Pavel

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? --- /home/m/INSTALL 2008-02-21 13:56:56.0 +0100 +++ /home/m/INSTALL.old 2008-02-21 13:58:20.0 +0100 @@

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for specifying the qt4 dir. Actually, the variable we use is QT4DIR. JMarc

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? Sure, thanks. Abdel.

Re: Version Control

2008-02-21 Thread rgheck
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: James Mansion wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). It was actually - I was hoping there was a hidden configuration option somewhere. No, unfortunately. Should be easy to implement if you know a bit

Blurred printout and AMS paragraph classes internationalization

2008-02-21 Thread Alvin Abdagic
Hi everyone, I recently tried LyX but I'm quite experienced with LaTeX. I must say that I really liked the program and is much faster to use than plain LaTeX, especially if you know LaTeX from before. However, I encountered a couple of problems. One is that when I generate a PDF file, it looks

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread rgheck
Martin Görg wrote: Hello Julio Rojas, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have the commenting feature enabled? I mean, is it posible for pdflatex or ps2pdf to generate pdf's in which you can add comments with Acrobat Reader? It's amazing how often this

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:48, Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: So I'd add something like: WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! And then add a sentence saying why. make clean is not enough? I am asking although I suspect that the

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Julio Rojas
Sorry for not RTFM!!! Done and solved... Thanks guys!!! On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx guys. Now the question: can anyone send me a comment enabled sample pdf file which I can use for the key? On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, rgheck [EMAIL

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 07:47, Helge Hafting wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Makes perfect sense to me, and I couldn't have said it better myself. A person should not have to upgrade their distro every few months in order to compile the latest apps. If you want to compile the very _latest_

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. What do you mean? JMarc

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 08:10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for specifying the qt4 dir. Actually, the variable we use is QT4DIR. JMarc That reminds me of one more thing: After what

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanx guys. Now the question: can anyone send me a comment enabled sample pdf file which I can use for the key? On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Görg wrote: Hello Julio Rojas, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have

Re: Grapics not shown in Lyx

2008-02-21 Thread Mario Braun
Hello, thank you for answering. ImageMagick is installed. the Graphics show up in the pdf-files, but not in the Lyx-frontend... I have selected the show in Lyx Option in the graphics-context menu... I have included a screenshot of the problem, maybe that helps. thank you Mario attachment:

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:27:25AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 08:10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for specifying the qt4 dir. Actually, the variable we use

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:54:05PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: LyX makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL). This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this version of LyX. I'd drop this paragraph. If at all it's the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:48:43PM +, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: So I'd add something like: WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! And then add a sentence saying why.

Is import of LaTeX files working in v. 1.5.3?

2008-02-21 Thread sutovsky
I am always getting error when I try to import latex file into Lyx. It does not import back even the Latex file that was exported to LaTeX from Lyx. Thank you.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:54 +0100 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of Lyx

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:03:04 Steve Litt wrote:   --with-version-suffix=1.5.3 You can simply use --with-version-suffix and configure will put the right version for you. :-) -- José Abílio

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. What do you mean? JMarc UIC4=/usr/lib/qt4/bin/uic \

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 11:48, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: So I'd add something like: WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! And then add a sentence saying why. make

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: On my box, every make, whether successful or failure, takes about 25 minutes, and ./configure takes 5 minutes. I'm not going to have time to do that for at least a couple weeks. In such cases ccache is really useful. :-) The answer to

Re: Is import of LaTeX files working in v. 1.5.3?

2008-02-21 Thread rgheck
sutovsky wrote: I am always getting error when I try to import latex file into Lyx. It does not import back even the Latex file that was exported to LaTeX from Lyx. We'll need a bit more detail to try to sort this out. rh

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:09:12PM -0200, John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:54 +0100 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:53:25 +0100 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are talking about Qt 4._1_ and that's quite a bit more than a year old. So this fits well into your concept of 'grace period'. Mmmm... Sorry about that. Twice confused. I was convinced having read somewhere that LyX

Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-21 Thread James Mansion
Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James

Cannot import LaTeX file to Lyx

2008-02-21 Thread sutovsky
Lyx creates pdf file without problem from file below. File exported LaTeX file compiles fine in latex. But, when I try to import it back I get error: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f ecai 08_pokus for import New.texecai Could it be problem with layout file? Any suggestions

Re: Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them in wikipedia. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the

Re: Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-21 Thread James Mansion
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them in wikipedia. Try here: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X28

Re: Cannot import LaTeX file to Lyx

2008-02-21 Thread Andreas K .
sutovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lyx creates pdf file without problem from file below. File exported LaTeX file compiles fine in latex. But, when I try to import it back I get error: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f ecai 08_pokus for import New.texecai Could it be

Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread M-L
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: --} --} M-L-2 wrote: --} --} On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: --} --} --} --} When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its --} meant --} to do? --} --} If you start it from a root shell, and

Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread bigblop
M-L-2 wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: --} --} When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its meant --} to do? If you start it from a root shell, and have it display on the users X server. Using something like KDE might allow you to

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Martin Görg
Hello Julio Rojas, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have the commenting feature enabled? I mean, is it posible for pdflatex or ps2pdf to generate pdf's in which you can add comments with Acrobat Reader? It's amazing how often this question comes up. I just

Re: cross referencing chapters as opposed to sections?

2008-02-21 Thread Martin Görg
Hello Scott Otterson, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: However, when I label chapters and try to reference them, I get question marks instead of chapter numbers when I print.The chapter labels show up in the cross-reference popup just like the section labels do, and there are no error messages

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Julio Rojas wrote: Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have the commenting feature enabled? I mean, is it posible for pdflatex or ps2pdf to generate pdf's in which you can add comments with Acrobat Reader? No: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc9 Jürgen

Re: cross referencing chapters as opposed to sections?

2008-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Scott Otterson wrote: Could anyone suggest a place to look? Could it be this bug? http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2154 Jürgen

Package cite does not work

2008-02-21 Thread Gaul, Holger
Hello, to finish my work, I need the package cite. I've tested it, and it worked fine with a small document. But when I try to use it in the whole document (approx. 130 p. and 140 references), I cannot create a pdf. The following error shows up six times: Paragraph ended before \org@@citex was

Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 21.02.08, M-L wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its meant to do? Not really (if you do not start it from a root account or with sudo). To see if it is really owned by root, have a look at the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:43:12 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I've promised to keep out of this thread but this is again plain FUD, LyX-1.5 is perfectly compilable with Qt-4.1.0. The INSTALL file only says that it has been _tested_ with Qt-4.1.5. All version of Qt-4.1.x are course binary and

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections. Pavel

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? --- /home/m/INSTALL 2008-02-21 13:56:56.0 +0100 +++ /home/m/INSTALL.old 2008-02-21 13:58:20.0 +0100 @@

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for specifying the qt4 dir. Actually, the variable we use is QT4DIR. JMarc

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? Sure, thanks. Abdel.

Re: Version Control

2008-02-21 Thread rgheck
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: James Mansion wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). It was actually - I was hoping there was a hidden configuration option somewhere. No, unfortunately. Should be easy to implement if you know a bit

Blurred printout and AMS paragraph classes internationalization

2008-02-21 Thread Alvin Abdagic
Hi everyone, I recently tried LyX but I'm quite experienced with LaTeX. I must say that I really liked the program and is much faster to use than plain LaTeX, especially if you know LaTeX from before. However, I encountered a couple of problems. One is that when I generate a PDF file, it looks

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread rgheck
Martin Görg wrote: Hello Julio Rojas, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have the commenting feature enabled? I mean, is it posible for pdflatex or ps2pdf to generate pdf's in which you can add comments with Acrobat Reader? It's amazing how often this

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:48, Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: So I'd add something like: WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! And then add a sentence saying why. make clean is not enough? I am asking although I suspect that the

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Julio Rojas
Sorry for not RTFM!!! Done and solved... Thanks guys!!! On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx guys. Now the question: can anyone send me a comment enabled sample pdf file which I can use for the key? On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, rgheck [EMAIL

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 07:47, Helge Hafting wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Makes perfect sense to me, and I couldn't have said it better myself. A person should not have to upgrade their distro every few months in order to compile the latest apps. If you want to compile the very _latest_

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. What do you mean? JMarc

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 08:10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for specifying the qt4 dir. Actually, the variable we use is QT4DIR. JMarc That reminds me of one more thing: After what

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanx guys. Now the question: can anyone send me a comment enabled sample pdf file which I can use for the key? On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Görg wrote: Hello Julio Rojas, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have

Re: Grapics not shown in Lyx

2008-02-21 Thread Mario Braun
Hello, thank you for answering. ImageMagick is installed. the Graphics show up in the pdf-files, but not in the Lyx-frontend... I have selected the show in Lyx Option in the graphics-context menu... I have included a screenshot of the problem, maybe that helps. thank you Mario attachment:

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:27:25AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 08:10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for specifying the qt4 dir. Actually, the variable we use

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:54:05PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: LyX makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL). This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this version of LyX. I'd drop this paragraph. If at all it's the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:48:43PM +, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: So I'd add something like: WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! And then add a sentence saying why.

Is import of LaTeX files working in v. 1.5.3?

2008-02-21 Thread sutovsky
I am always getting error when I try to import latex file into Lyx. It does not import back even the Latex file that was exported to LaTeX from Lyx. Thank you.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:54 +0100 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of Lyx

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:03:04 Steve Litt wrote:   --with-version-suffix=1.5.3 You can simply use --with-version-suffix and configure will put the right version for you. :-) -- José Abílio

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. What do you mean? JMarc UIC4=/usr/lib/qt4/bin/uic \

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 11:48, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: So I'd add something like: WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! And then add a sentence saying why. make

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: On my box, every make, whether successful or failure, takes about 25 minutes, and ./configure takes 5 minutes. I'm not going to have time to do that for at least a couple weeks. In such cases ccache is really useful. :-) The answer to

Re: Is import of LaTeX files working in v. 1.5.3?

2008-02-21 Thread rgheck
sutovsky wrote: I am always getting error when I try to import latex file into Lyx. It does not import back even the Latex file that was exported to LaTeX from Lyx. We'll need a bit more detail to try to sort this out. rh

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:09:12PM -0200, John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:54 +0100 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:53:25 +0100 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are talking about Qt 4._1_ and that's quite a bit more than a year old. So this fits well into your concept of 'grace period'. Mmmm... Sorry about that. Twice confused. I was convinced having read somewhere that LyX

Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-21 Thread James Mansion
Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James

Cannot import LaTeX file to Lyx

2008-02-21 Thread sutovsky
Lyx creates pdf file without problem from file below. File exported LaTeX file compiles fine in latex. But, when I try to import it back I get error: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f ecai 08_pokus for import New.texecai Could it be problem with layout file? Any suggestions

Re: Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them in wikipedia. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the

Re: Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-21 Thread James Mansion
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them in wikipedia. Try here: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X28

Re: Cannot import LaTeX file to Lyx

2008-02-21 Thread Andreas K .
sutovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lyx creates pdf file without problem from file below. File exported LaTeX file compiles fine in latex. But, when I try to import it back I get error: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f ecai 08_pokus for import New.texecai Could it be

Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread M-L
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: >--} >--} M-L-2 wrote: >--} > >--} > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: >--} >>--} >--} >>--} When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what > its --} >> meant --} to do? >--} > >--} > If you start it from

Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread bigblop
M-L-2 wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: >>--} >>--} When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its >> meant --} to do? > > If you start it from a root shell, and have it display on the users X > server. > Using something like KDE might

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Martin Görg
Hello Julio Rojas, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: > Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have the commenting feature > enabled? I mean, is it posible for pdflatex or ps2pdf to generate pdf's in > which you can add comments with Acrobat Reader? It's amazing how often this question comes up. I just

Re: cross referencing chapters as opposed to sections?

2008-02-21 Thread Martin Görg
Hello Scott Otterson, on 2/21/2008 you wrote: > However, when I label chapters and try > to reference them, I get question marks instead of chapter numbers when > I print.The chapter labels show up in the cross-reference popup just > like the section labels do, and there are no error messages

Re: Enabling PDF comments

2008-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Julio Rojas wrote: > Hi, is there any way LyX generated PDF's have the commenting feature > enabled? I mean, is it posible for pdflatex or ps2pdf to generate pdf's in > which you can add comments with Acrobat Reader? No: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc9 Jürgen

Re: cross referencing chapters as opposed to sections?

2008-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Scott Otterson wrote: > Could anyone suggest a place to look? Could it be this bug? http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2154 Jürgen

Package "cite" does not work

2008-02-21 Thread Gaul, Holger
Hello, to finish my work, I need the package "cite". I've tested it, and it worked fine with a small document. But when I try to use it in the whole document (approx. 130 p. and 140 references), I cannot create a pdf. The following error shows up six times: Paragraph ended before \org@@citex was

Re: LyX starting in root mode

2008-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 21.02.08, M-L wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all: > > When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its > > meant to do? Not really (if you do not start it from a root account or with sudo). To see if it is really owned by root, have a look at

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:43:12 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I've promised to keep out of this thread but this is again plain FUD, > LyX-1.5 is perfectly compilable with Qt-4.1.0. The INSTALL file only > says that it has been _tested_ with Qt-4.1.5. All version of Qt-4.1.x > are course binary

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to > cure > the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README & INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections. Pavel

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README & INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see > attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? --- /home/m/INSTALL 2008-02-21 13:56:56.0 +0100 +++ /home/m/INSTALL.old 2008-02-21 13:58:20.0 +0100 @@

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for >specifying the qt4 dir. Actually, the variable we use is QT4DIR. JMarc

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? Sure, thanks. Abdel.

Re: Version Control

2008-02-21 Thread rgheck
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: James Mansion wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). It was actually - I was hoping there was a hidden configuration option somewhere. No, unfortunately. Should be easy to implement if you know a bit

Blurred printout and AMS paragraph classes internationalization

2008-02-21 Thread Alvin Abdagic
Hi everyone, I recently tried LyX but I'm quite experienced with LaTeX. I must say that I really liked the program and is much faster to use than plain LaTeX, especially if you know LaTeX from before. However, I encountered a couple of problems. One is that when I generate a PDF file, it looks

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