Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:55:47 -0700, Zan said: On Nov 24, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Alan L Tyree alanty...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/11/12 13:27, Charlie wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:15:32 -0500 David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu suggested this: That is the way I treat is now, by simply

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: This happens to me occasionally, when I try and open an old lyx file (usually about 11 months old as its always revising lecture/tutorials for the current year). I cannot open it either, with latest trunk. And this is

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Liviu That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the Document Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac, indeed the file preview in the Mac file Manager (Pathfinder) reads it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.5

Hi, I built the latest LyX2.1 with the latest Qt-4.8.4 and the scroll problem in OS X is still obvious in my opinion. As before the problem goes largely away with \force_paint_single_char false, but then the cursor positioning is offset. I thought that maybe the latter problem was solved, but

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the Document Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac,

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Thanks Liviu If you ever manually edit your .lyx files in a text editor, try to make sure that the result is accessible on both your platforms. So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just using a text editor here, because I wanted to have a look at the file when

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just Then the question is whether LyX produces identical .lyx source files on different platforms. Perhaps other Mac OS X users could chip in. Liviu

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On 11/25/2012 08:05 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Liviu That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the Document Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac, indeed the file

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Richard, so I will just be more cautious in future. This file is definitley corrupt. Here's the result of hexdump -c | head -n 25: If you've had this problem more than once, you may want to think about whether you have a hardware problem that is corrupting your files. It has happened

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On 11/25/2012 11:11 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Richard, so I will just be more cautious in future. This file is definitley corrupt. Here's the result of hexdump -c | head -n 25: If you've had this problem more than once, you may want to think about whether you have a

Re: Not a readable lyx document

David, My students would testify that many of my notes are far, far more than 8-12 months old when I open and revise them for the current term, and this has never happened to me [except on very, very old files whose format is no longer supported directly by lyx]. Thinking about it the

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: Hard drives have all recently had some form of hardware check run on them in the last few weeks, and this may in fact be the first file to go wrong with my current computer set up, so maybe its a legacy of a past hard

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Liviu, I have 100+Gb on Dropbox that I use, and it gives me version control for 30 days, which is good for falling back on a previous version, but the Dropbox version will have long been replaced by the corrupt version. This then syncs to a few computers in different locations But, I do need a

Re: complex renewcommand \cite

On 2012-11-24 18:20:45 +, Richard Heck said: On 11/23/2012 09:59 AM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: I want to get a different \cite command in the document. If i put \renewcommand{\cite}{\texorpdfstring{\cite{%}}{} } in the preamble i get an emergency stop. This causes an infinite loop. \cite

Re: The documentclass Book (AMS) adds unnumbered sections to ToC

Hi This is a feature of the AMS style. I had the same problem and AMS wrote to me: the ams document classes differ in several significant respects from the basic latex classes, since their purpose is to support ams style. one of these differences is in the handling of chapter and

Re: complex renewcommand \cite

On 11/25/2012 04:32 PM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: On 2012-11-24 18:20:45 +, Richard Heck said: On 11/23/2012 09:59 AM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: I want to get a different \cite command in the document. If i put \renewcommand{\cite}{\texorpdfstring{\cite{%}}{} } in the preamble i get an

Re: Bibdesk BibLaTeX

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark Hempelmann mhe...@o2online.de wrote: Hi Stefano, Dear list members - - changed preamble to *\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}* *\addbibresource{/Users/mhem23/Documents/Uni/Dissertation/Bibliothek/bibdesk/DissBib1} * If I

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Never had a problem. I exchange regularly between Ubuntu and the Mac and on and off with Windoze. el On 2012-11-25 17:29 , Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just

Re: Not a readable lyx document

What is wrong with Time Machine? BTW, the DropBox people might be able to dig up a version from 8 months or so back, if you are a paying client. el On 2012-11-25 21:17 , Graham Smith wrote: Liviu, I have 100+Gb on Dropbox that I use, and it gives me version control for 30 days, which is

How to wrap text around a figure?

Hi, I am trying to wrap some text around a figure. Example the figure should be a third the way down the page up against the left margin, with the text flowing along the top of the figure and down the right hand side of the figure resuming from the left hand margin once the bottom of the figure

Re: Sweave Chunk inset

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: Sorry I'm not aware of such a functionality, or perhaps we are using different terminologies. What is a command sequence? And how to define one to do the task I described? Thanks! Check Help LyX LFUN_COMMAND_SEQUENCE. This

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Thanks to everyone for the further comments, good to hear that it seems I am unusual in having corrupt files. Time Machine is, as Liviu says, a Mac solution and I share with Ubuntu and occasionally Windows. Dropbox will retain files indefinitely, for an extra fee, but I didn't know that SiderOak

Re: Bibdesk BibLaTeX

Dear Stefano, Thank you for your help, that did the job. I really appreciate your help. I think the wiki should really be updated. Greetings Mark Am 26.11.2012 um 00:58 schrieb stefano franchi: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark Hempelmann mhe...@o2online.de wrote: Hi Stefano,

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:55:47 -0700, Zan said: On Nov 24, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Alan L Tyree alanty...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/11/12 13:27, Charlie wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:15:32 -0500 David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu suggested this: That is the way I treat is now, by simply

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: This happens to me occasionally, when I try and open an old lyx file (usually about 11 months old as its always revising lecture/tutorials for the current year). I cannot open it either, with latest trunk. And this is

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Liviu That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the Document Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac, indeed the file preview in the Mac file Manager (Pathfinder) reads it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.5

Hi, I built the latest LyX2.1 with the latest Qt-4.8.4 and the scroll problem in OS X is still obvious in my opinion. As before the problem goes largely away with \force_paint_single_char false, but then the cursor positioning is offset. I thought that maybe the latter problem was solved, but

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the Document Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac,

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Thanks Liviu If you ever manually edit your .lyx files in a text editor, try to make sure that the result is accessible on both your platforms. So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just using a text editor here, because I wanted to have a look at the file when

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just Then the question is whether LyX produces identical .lyx source files on different platforms. Perhaps other Mac OS X users could chip in. Liviu

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On 11/25/2012 08:05 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Liviu That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the Document Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac, indeed the file

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Richard, so I will just be more cautious in future. This file is definitley corrupt. Here's the result of hexdump -c | head -n 25: If you've had this problem more than once, you may want to think about whether you have a hardware problem that is corrupting your files. It has happened

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On 11/25/2012 11:11 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Richard, so I will just be more cautious in future. This file is definitley corrupt. Here's the result of hexdump -c | head -n 25: If you've had this problem more than once, you may want to think about whether you have a

Re: Not a readable lyx document

David, My students would testify that many of my notes are far, far more than 8-12 months old when I open and revise them for the current term, and this has never happened to me [except on very, very old files whose format is no longer supported directly by lyx]. Thinking about it the

Re: Not a readable lyx document

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: Hard drives have all recently had some form of hardware check run on them in the last few weeks, and this may in fact be the first file to go wrong with my current computer set up, so maybe its a legacy of a past hard

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Liviu, I have 100+Gb on Dropbox that I use, and it gives me version control for 30 days, which is good for falling back on a previous version, but the Dropbox version will have long been replaced by the corrupt version. This then syncs to a few computers in different locations But, I do need a

Re: complex renewcommand \cite

On 2012-11-24 18:20:45 +, Richard Heck said: On 11/23/2012 09:59 AM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: I want to get a different \cite command in the document. If i put \renewcommand{\cite}{\texorpdfstring{\cite{%}}{} } in the preamble i get an emergency stop. This causes an infinite loop. \cite

Re: The documentclass Book (AMS) adds unnumbered sections to ToC

Hi This is a feature of the AMS style. I had the same problem and AMS wrote to me: the ams document classes differ in several significant respects from the basic latex classes, since their purpose is to support ams style. one of these differences is in the handling of chapter and

Re: complex renewcommand \cite

On 11/25/2012 04:32 PM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: On 2012-11-24 18:20:45 +, Richard Heck said: On 11/23/2012 09:59 AM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: I want to get a different \cite command in the document. If i put \renewcommand{\cite}{\texorpdfstring{\cite{%}}{} } in the preamble i get an

Re: Bibdesk BibLaTeX

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark Hempelmann mhe...@o2online.de wrote: Hi Stefano, Dear list members - - changed preamble to *\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}* *\addbibresource{/Users/mhem23/Documents/Uni/Dissertation/Bibliothek/bibdesk/DissBib1} * If I

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Never had a problem. I exchange regularly between Ubuntu and the Mac and on and off with Windoze. el On 2012-11-25 17:29 , Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just

Re: Not a readable lyx document

What is wrong with Time Machine? BTW, the DropBox people might be able to dig up a version from 8 months or so back, if you are a paying client. el On 2012-11-25 21:17 , Graham Smith wrote: Liviu, I have 100+Gb on Dropbox that I use, and it gives me version control for 30 days, which is

How to wrap text around a figure?

Hi, I am trying to wrap some text around a figure. Example the figure should be a third the way down the page up against the left margin, with the text flowing along the top of the figure and down the right hand side of the figure resuming from the left hand margin once the bottom of the figure

Re: Sweave Chunk inset

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: Sorry I'm not aware of such a functionality, or perhaps we are using different terminologies. What is a command sequence? And how to define one to do the task I described? Thanks! Check Help LyX LFUN_COMMAND_SEQUENCE. This

Re: Not a readable lyx document

Thanks to everyone for the further comments, good to hear that it seems I am unusual in having corrupt files. Time Machine is, as Liviu says, a Mac solution and I share with Ubuntu and occasionally Windows. Dropbox will retain files indefinitely, for an extra fee, but I didn't know that SiderOak

Re: Bibdesk BibLaTeX

Dear Stefano, Thank you for your help, that did the job. I really appreciate your help. I think the wiki should really be updated. Greetings Mark Am 26.11.2012 um 00:58 schrieb stefano franchi: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark Hempelmann mhe...@o2online.de wrote: Hi Stefano,

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:55:47 -0700, Zan said: > On Nov 24, 2012, at 5:56 PM, "Alan L Tyree" > wrote: > > > On 25/11/12 13:27, Charlie wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:15:32 -0500 "David L. Johnson > >> d...@lehigh.edu" suggested this: > >> > >>> That is the way I treat

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Graham Smith wrote: > This happens to me occasionally, when I try and open an old lyx file > (usually about 11 months old as its always revising lecture/tutorials for > the current year). > I cannot open it either, with latest trunk. And this

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Liviu > That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the > Document > Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. > What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac, indeed the file preview in the Mac file Manager (Pathfinder) reads

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.5

Hi, I built the latest LyX2.1 with the latest Qt-4.8.4 and the scroll problem in OS X is still obvious in my opinion. As before the problem goes largely away with "\force_paint_single_char false", but then the cursor positioning is offset. I thought that maybe the latter problem was solved, but

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Graham Smith wrote: >> That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the >> Document > Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. > > What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text > editor on the

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Thanks Liviu If you ever manually edit your .lyx files in a text editor, try to > make sure that the result is accessible on both your platforms. So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just using a text editor here, because I wanted to have a look at the file when

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just > Then the question is whether LyX produces identical .lyx source files on different platforms. Perhaps other Mac OS X users could chip in. Liviu

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

On 11/25/2012 08:05 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Liviu That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the Document > Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac, indeed the file

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Richard, so I will just be more cautious in future. >> >> This file is definitley corrupt. Here's the result of "hexdump -c | head > -n 25": > > > If you've had this problem more than once, you may want to think about > whether you have a hardware problem that is corrupting your files. It has

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

On 11/25/2012 11:11 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Richard, so I will just be more cautious in future. This file is definitley corrupt. Here's the result of "hexdump -c | head -n 25": If you've had this problem more than once, you may want to think about whether you have a

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

David, > My students would testify that many of my notes are far, far more than > 8-12 months old when I open and "revise" them for the current term, and > this has never happened to me [except on very, very old files whose format > is no longer supported directly by lyx]. > > > Thinking about

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > Hard drives have all recently had some form of hardware check run on them in > the last few weeks, and this may in fact be the first file to go wrong with > my current computer set up, so maybe its a legacy of a past hard

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Liviu, I have 100+Gb on Dropbox that I use, and it gives me version control for 30 days, which is good for falling back on a previous version, but the Dropbox version will have long been replaced by the corrupt version. This then syncs to a few computers in different locations But, I do need a

Re: complex renewcommand \cite

On 2012-11-24 18:20:45 +, Richard Heck said: On 11/23/2012 09:59 AM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: I want to get a different \cite command in the document. If i put \renewcommand{\cite}{\texorpdfstring{\cite{%}}{} } in the preamble i get an emergency stop. This causes an infinite loop. \cite

Re: The documentclass "Book (AMS)" adds unnumbered sections to ToC

Hi This is a "feature" of the AMS style. I had the same problem and AMS wrote to me: "the ams document classes differ in several significant respects from the "basic" latex classes, since their purpose is to support ams style. one of these differences is in the handling of chapter and

Re: complex renewcommand \cite

On 11/25/2012 04:32 PM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: On 2012-11-24 18:20:45 +, Richard Heck said: On 11/23/2012 09:59 AM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: I want to get a different \cite command in the document. If i put \renewcommand{\cite}{\texorpdfstring{\cite{%}}{} } in the preamble i get an

Re: Bibdesk BibLaTeX

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark Hempelmann wrote: > Hi Stefano, Dear list members - - changed preamble to > *\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}* > *\addbibresource{/Users/mhem23/Documents/Uni/Dissertation/Bibliothek/bibdesk/DissBib1} > * >

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Never had a problem. I exchange regularly between Ubuntu and the Mac and on and off with Windoze. el On 2012-11-25 17:29 , Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Graham Smith wrote: >> So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

What is wrong with Time Machine? BTW, the DropBox people might be able to dig up a version from 8 months or so back, if you are a paying client. el On 2012-11-25 21:17 , Graham Smith wrote: > Liviu, > > I have 100+Gb on Dropbox that I use, and it gives me version control for > 30 days, which

How to wrap text around a figure?

Hi, I am trying to wrap some text around a figure. Example the figure should be a third the way down the page up against the left margin, with the text flowing along the top of the figure and down the right hand side of the figure resuming from the left hand margin once the bottom of the figure

Re: Sweave Chunk inset

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Yihui Xie wrote: > Sorry I'm not aware of such a functionality, or perhaps we are using > different terminologies. What is a command sequence? And how to define > one to do the task I described? Thanks! > Check Help > LyX > LFUN_COMMAND_SEQUENCE.

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Thanks to everyone for the further comments, good to hear that it seems I am unusual in having corrupt files. Time Machine is, as Liviu says, a Mac solution and I share with Ubuntu and occasionally Windows. Dropbox will retain files indefinitely, for an extra fee, but I didn't know that SiderOak

Re: Bibdesk BibLaTeX

Dear Stefano, Thank you for your help, that did the job. I really appreciate your help. I think the wiki should really be updated. Greetings Mark Am 26.11.2012 um 00:58 schrieb stefano franchi: > > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark Hempelmann wrote: > Hi