Re: advices for layout modification

2022-08-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2022-08-21 at 11:04 +0800, pierig wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Lyx for years, and I am very happy with it. I am > writing novels, so my needs are pretty simple. (I would happily share > the novels here, but they are in French [Sci Fi]) > > In a novel, I have two main type of

Re: lyx2lyx fails to convert

2022-08-20 Thread Tim Garrett
Sorry, probably being dense here but this is what I get after finding the function /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx -v Contrast\ paper.lyx zsh: permission denied: /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx Thanks for helping out

advices for layout modification

2022-08-20 Thread pierig
Hello, I have been using Lyx for years, and I am very happy with it. I am writing novels, so my needs are pretty simple. (I would happily share the novels here, but they are in French [Sci Fi]) In a novel, I have two main type of text. The main one, and dialogues. I was using "Quote" for

Re: Replacing .tex file fonts

2022-08-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/20/22 17:16, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: Okay. I'll post results. Paul, What's displayed on screen is the first few lines (\put ...) between \begin and \end document. The preamble has the entire .tex file. Sigh, I've not worked before writing a

Re: Replacing .tex file fonts

2022-08-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: I've not worked before writing a plain .tex document. Long ago I had a book on TeX, but that's been gone for a while. So, I've no idea how to translate that flavor of .tex file to .pdftex or .pdflatex. Looking at my business book case I see that I have

Re: Replacing .tex file fonts

2022-08-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: Okay. I'll post results. Paul, What's displayed on screen is the first few lines (\put ...) between \begin and \end document. The preamble has the entire .tex file. Sigh, I've not worked before writing a plain .tex document. Long ago I had a book

Re: Replacing .tex file fonts

2022-08-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I can't do much with your .tex file for a variety of reasons (including the fact that the graphic files were not included, but mostly due to my not using xetex, luatex or several of the more "exotic" packages involved). Paul, I don't use those,

Re: Replacing .tex file fonts

2022-08-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/20/22 14:06, Rich Shepard wrote: I have a .tex file designed for a4 paper and a font family I don't have (and don't want) that I want to convert to letterpaper (done) and my lyx default typeface. Or, another appropriate typeface found in a .lyx file. Looking at one of my .lyx files I

Replacing .tex file fonts

2022-08-20 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a .tex file designed for a4 paper and a font family I don't have (and don't want) that I want to convert to letterpaper (done) and my lyx default typeface. Or, another appropriate typeface found in a .lyx file. Looking at one of my .lyx files I see: \font_roman "default" "default"

Re: lyx2lyx fails to convert

2022-08-20 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 18.08.2022 um 18:07 schrieb Paul A. Rubin : > > On 8/18/22 11:15, Tim J Garrett wrote: >> Running MacOS Monterrey and getting this error message trying to open old >> lyx files as recent as 2016: >> >> “file.lyx is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to >> convert

Re: tmp/lyx_tmpdir. can't be opened

2022-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 19.08.22 um 16:35 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: On 8/19/22 02:37, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I get this message: „file:///tmp/lyx_tmpdir.YXomcmJypLKa/lyx_tmpbuf0/xxx.pdf“ kann nicht geöffnet werden () I have reinstalled texlive, now at my home, and not in /usr/local/texlive/2022 any more.