Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-02-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Miki Dovrat wrote: > There was no log created, so my guess is that latex isn't even being run. > From the command line, Latex has no problem with the file and creates the > dvi, so the preview file is "sane" latex. > > Do you want to pursue this further? Sure. When you say "Latex has no problem

Re: more tex2lyx

2005-02-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: >> The build process continues. However, it does not end successfully; >> errors occur during the make process. > > After having replaced "foo", which you have just said you don't need to do... > I get the following errors: > > make[3]: *** [convenience.lo] Error 1 > make[3]:

Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-02-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Miki Dovrat wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason, the lyxpreview2ppm.py shipped with lyx 1.3.5 for windows > fails on my computer. > > The lyxpreview2ppm.py from the Wiki pages (which is shorter, maybe less > documentation) works well. . > > While it isn't a "real" problem, isn't the script from 1.

Re: more tex2lyx

2005-02-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:50:47 +0000, Angus Leeming > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've just uploaded a version for Fedora Core 3 to the wiki page. >> http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx >> Happy converting. > > Angus, > >

more tex2lyx

2005-02-16 Thread Angus Leeming
I've just uploaded a version for Fedora Core 3 to the wiki page. http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx Happy converting. -- Angus

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

2005-02-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: >> Alternatively, you might consider using tex2lyx. Read about it here: >> >>http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx >> > Great page! This addresses essentially all my latex-import suggestions > and problems that made me start this thread. Thanks for making tex2lyx > access

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

2005-02-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Colin J. Williams wrote: > > When I attempt to open the created Hello.lyx, I get the "Can't open > conversion script" message. > > I have Python 2.3.5 installed and had deleted the Python 2.2 stuff from > the lyx\bin.  In  view  of your  comments  above,  I  reinstalled  LyX > 1.3.5  and then re

Re: Attempt to use lyxpreview

2005-02-15 Thread Angus Leeming
Colin J. Williams wrote: What is missing from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview other than an up-to-date version of the script itself? (Even this is not an issue if you're using LyX 1.3.5) I think it's pretty much all there now Angus - that is apart from the fact we're having to change the

Re: Attempt to use lyxpreview

2005-02-15 Thread Angus Leeming
Colin J. Williams wrote: > Thanks to Angus and Paul, the preview is now functional for me. It's a > complex error prone process, I hope that it will all be built into the > next release. What is missing from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview other than an up-to-date version of the script i

Re: Attempt to use lyxpreview

2005-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
Colin J. Williams wrote: >>Ok. I've obviously updated the version of lyxpreview2ppm.py. Grab the >>most recent version from >> >>http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/lyx-devel/lib/scripts/Attic/lyxpreview2ppm.py?rev=1.1.2.5&only_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_X >>Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.co

Re: Attempt to use lyxpreview

2005-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
Colin J. Williams wrote: > Angus, > > Thanks for the pointer to preview.sty. I have obtained the > preview-latex.tar file but am not clear as to where it should be > installed. LyX doesn't need the whole thing. Here I have: $ ls /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/preview prauctex.cfgpreview.sty

Re: Attempt to use lyxpreview

2005-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
Colin J. Williams wrote: > Attempt to use lyxpreview. This appears to fail because there is no > fontsize in the C4.log file. Strange. If you look at the code around line 222 in lyxpreview2ppm.py, you'll see that fontsize is initialised to a non-zero value. Does your logfile contain any lines

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-03 Thread Angus Leeming
G. Milde wrote: > On 3.02.05, Angus Leeming wrote: >> >> Here's what I did on Windows. > > Maybe I missed the start of this thread, but at least the last 7+ > messages did not reveal where I can find tex2lyx for *Linux*. You can't *find* it. Read my reply

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Angus, for your reply to my question. Meanwhile, I had the > idea of installing LyX 1.4 cvs and getting tex2lyx. Afterwards, can I > get back to LyX 1.3.5 and using tex2lyx without LyX 1.4? Does my idea > make some sense? Here's what I did on Windows. Checked out the

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: Overall I'm quite impressed! But it still required some corrections afterwards, although I suspect some problems may be windows-specific (e.g. because of line-ending characters -- although I used an editor to try both unixish and windowsish settings without any difference!?

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: > btw, another thing I very much appreciate is your tex2lyx snapshot. In > fact I am using it right now to avoid my earlier relyx-problems. What > I'm not sure about: Would you like users (like me) to give feedback now, > or will testing start later on? Feedback is good. Apar

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: >>>ImportError: No module named getopt >> >> Last time we saw this error this was the result of a bad or incomplete >> python installation. >> > Actually it's the stripped-down python version always installed by the > LyxWin package. Due to PATH settings it can get called ev

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 13:31, you wrote: > No! Ach! > In fact I even installed Ruurd Reitsma's port just > to test this and it didnt worked Why did you think you needed this? > I installed the windows port in C:\Lyx directory.. and > then extracted the file in the tex2lyx zipfile you >

Re: Viewing eps/pdf within LyXWin on Windows 2000

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I have installed LyXWin ((lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) on Windows 2000 > following the instructions on the LyW WikiWiki – LyX.WindowsSetup > webpage. > > Despite quite a bit of fiddling around I can’t get .eps or .pdf files to > display within LyX when I inse

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: > I would be interested too.. I would also be interested > in a tex2lyx standalone (ie. would run without one > having lyx in his system) if this is possible. I just > downloaded Angus's tex2lyx but Im not sure if it works > for window users who installed lyx using cygwin (I > di

Re: tex2lyx for Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I remember Angus has recently produced a version of tex2lyx for MS > Windows. Is there a Linux version of it to run autonomously, that is, > without having LyX 1.4 cvs installed? No, because different flavours of linux have different run time libraries and a sing

Re: Files Submitted to Publisher -- RESOLVED

2005-02-01 Thread Angus Leeming
G. Milde wrote: > On 1.02.05, Georg Baum wrote: >> G. Milde wrote: >> >> > IMHO, sending a tmp-dir is not a very transparent solution. >> >> True, but IHMO the best one currently available. > > I do not think so -- LyX has two kinds of latex export: "internal" (with > some debugging stuff inse

Re: how to set default "citation style" ?

2005-02-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hello again > > > i use the qt-frontend, but still the Layout->Document dialog contains > only two "Cite styles" Author-year and Numerical. i guess these are the > main switches of style layout, but if i go to Insert->Citation Reference > and choose a citation, then the

Re: how to set default "citation style" ?

2005-02-01 Thread Angus Leeming
ybe you should read the entire line, including the part in parenthesis? Anyway, you've found the solution. Well done. > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:15:06AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: >> Martin A. Hansen wrote: >> > how do i set the citation style? >> > >> >

Re: how to set default "citation style" ?

2005-02-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > how do i set the citation style? > > Insert->Citation Reference opens the citation menu > here i can set the citation style to eg: > Auther al. [#ID] > i would like to set default to #ID in lyx 1.3.4 Layout->Document dialog. Extra tab, Citation Style (XForms frontend) Bi

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: > Jose Capco wrote: >> Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands >> similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write > > Commands are not that similar to LaTeX and moreover there are many perils > which can bite you. For example (my personal pet peeve), contrary to y

tex2lyx for Windows

2005-01-31 Thread Angus Leeming
As promised earlier this afternoon, I have built a snapshot of today's tex2lyx from the 1.4.x tree. It was built on a WIndows XP machine. Find it at http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/tex2lyx_win32_31Jan05.zip I'm afraid that it's frighteningly large at 2.8MBytes, but that's probably because I forgo

Re: Equation Too Long for Text Width

2005-01-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> You've got Goosens et al.'s "The Latex Companion", no? See pp235-239 >> "Alignment structures for equations". Is multiline what you want? >> Assuming that it is, I just

Re: Equation Too Long for Text Width

2005-01-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> Go into the rightmost of the three boxes and press ctrl-enter again. > > Angus, > >I really dislike appearing so dense, but I just cannot get this >working as > it should. I've start

Re: Equation Too Long for Text Width

2005-01-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote: > >> Strange. It works here (LyX-Qt 1.2.4 on Debian Gnu/Linux). > > Günter, > >I'm using LyX-1.3.4-qt on Slackware-10.0. > >> Well, you probabely have to create a new multiline equation inset and >> copy the stuff there. > >Wh

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: > Dear Mailing List, > > Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands > similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write > in LyX using an ordinary text editor? I am already > very much used to writing in LaTeX and personally I > prefer LaTeX than LyX... but I need to w

Re: how to export lyx files to ascii with bibtex references ?

2005-01-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > I would like to save my document to ascii text, but bibtex references > are not saved. is there a way to solve this? You mean that they are cited in the text, but that there's no "Reference" section at the end of the document with the cited entries? That's not easy. You

Re: accents no work

2005-01-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Christopher Winkler wrote: > Kile is able to do it, so there must be a solution. I don't think that the two statements can be connected Kile is a pure Qt-app so all the magic is handled internally by Qt. LyX is not a pure Qt app so everything must be translated at the boundary bwtween the LyX cor

Re: Installing Lyx from source, without root.

2005-01-27 Thread Angus Leeming
Bren Mochocki wrote: > However, when I went to run lyx, it couldn't find the files > libflimage.so.1 or libflimage.so.1 Hi, Bren. Is it me, or did you type the same file name twice? Perhaps you mean that one of them is libforms.so.1? > the exact when attempting to run lyx is: > > lyx: error whi

Re: How to cross reference a float

2005-01-26 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote: >> They can be referenced as >> "... as seen in the following figure." > This is not a wise solution, because floats are floats because they can > float, i.e., "following" figure may actually get before its reference > (AFAIK). Indeed. That's what the pret

Re: Latex output of xfig

2005-01-26 Thread Angus Leeming
LB wrote: > Hello, > > When I generate Latex part (.pstex_t) of a xfig picture, xfig inserts: > \color[rgb]{0,0,0} in front of every line of text in the pstex_t > document. > Lyx seem to have a problem with \color[rgb]{0,0,0}. As soon as edit > .pstex_t file and remove \color[rgb]{0,0,0} Lyx bec

Re: Xfig with specialtext

2005-01-24 Thread Angus Leeming
LB wrote: > Herbert, > > There is no problem with .ps. I use it all the time. What I meant was > that the .pstex_t file does not need to be generated by xfig. So if one > has a .ps file produced by some other software one can add latex text to > it and preview the whole image in Lyx. I think t

Re: Xfig with specialtext

2005-01-24 Thread Angus Leeming
LB wrote: > What I'm wondering is whether there is a better way of doing it? Are > there plans of making Lyx recognize graphics+text combination and > somehow (probably not very easy?) precompile them to show the result > inside the document? You mean like this ;-) Excuse the poor resolution

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

2005-01-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Georg> Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> My guess is that relyx has problems with the latex file and >>> produces a bad lyx-file which lyx2lyx cannot handle. Too bad that >>> the relyx > > Georg> The guess is probably correct. > > Another guess is that lyx2lyx fails to run.

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

2005-01-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:03:50 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you have the 'bzip2' (or maybe just bzip2-libs or something like >> that) installed? > > I think not, Jean-Marc, as the command > > locate bzip | grep aurus > > produces nothing as an

Re: Importing and displaying graphic files

2005-01-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Mike Reeks wrote: > Having problems importing eps files and displaying them on the screen in > lyx - I get 'error converting to loadable format' and doing a straight > latex pdf fails. However the graphics files appear in the dvi text using > YAP viewer and a readable pdf file is generated clicki

Re: Searching In Index References

2005-01-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: >As I develop the index for my book I see some index references that I >want > to change. Is there a way quicker than searching for each term from the > beginning of the document and checking the contents of the gray "idx" box > to find the ones I want? There's a reaso

Re: LyX on WinXP

2005-01-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Carlos Knauer wrote: > Hi. > How do I install LyX on WinXP ? Ihave MikTeX installed and works OK. Hi, Carlos http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Windows http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Be prepared for a bit of a bumpy ride, but ask questions and they'll get answered. Good luck!

Re: Fix for LaTeXconfig in LyX 1.3.5 for Win32

2005-01-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: > The link >http://www.semverteilung.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/links/LyX1.3.5_LaTeXConfigFix.zip Hi, Ekkehart. Perhaps you could add this to the wiki? http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup With an explanatory paragraph about who will find it useful. > privides an easy

Re: Weird Inconsitencies in handling of xfig drawings (converter preference question)

2005-01-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg Baum wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > >> Urg! Why go to a bitmap image when you don't need to? Modern versions of >> XFig support direct conversion to PDF format. > > Because this is hardcoded in the graphics inset :-( I assumed he used > that, if he use

Re: Weird Inconsitencies in handling of xfig drawings (converter preference question)

2005-01-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg Baum wrote: >> I HYPOTHESIZE that, in order to get the pdf (pdflatex) output correct, I >> need a filter configured for XFig->PDF(pdflatex). Is that right? What >> should I put down? > > You need a converter xfig -> png. This can actually be a converter chain: > xfig -> eps -> png or someth

Re: scripting support via lyxserver

2005-01-19 Thread Angus Leeming
G. Milde wrote: > Dear LyXers, > > IMHO, LyX clearly lacks a decent support for a scripting language. As > this topic is not new but discussion about which language to choose is > endless, I tried to set up a script interface via the lyxserver. Dear Günter, this looks very promising. Why not post

Re: lyx2lyx on LyXWin

2005-01-19 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello LyX Users, > > I’m trying to get LyXWin running on Windows 2000. I have installed > lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe according to the instructions on the LyX WikiWiki > – LyX.WindowsSetup webpage. > > After a bit of fiddling around all appeared to be working OK. I seem to

Re: Instant Preview and ImageMagick on Windows 1.3.5

2005-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Luke Stutters wrote: > Hello all. I've just got Instant Preview working on a 1.3.5 Windows XP > Home install. Together with a working image preview, this makes LyX a > very nice system for preparing Maths documents indeed. Well done. > However, installation was very difficult. I'd like to share

Re: ispell or aspell for french spelling

2005-01-17 Thread Angus Leeming
belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to check the spelling for a french document, I want to use aspell > ( because there is aspell-fr package) but the lyx always chosses the > ispell ( I coudn't find ispell for french). > thanks for help > bela Hi, Bela. LyX uses two different ways to try and check

Re: Convert lyx to ascii

2005-01-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Daniel wrote: > Somebody can tell me how can I convert a lyx document to an ascii > document, in command mode. lyx -e text yourfile.lyx will create a file yourfile.txt -- Angus

Re: Fwd: [Fwd: LyX and multiple-author corrections]

2005-01-15 Thread Angus Leeming
> Original Message > Subject: LyX and multiple-author corrections > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:45:01 +0100 > From: Simon Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Since I have to incorporate the corrections done by different co-authors > into my doc

Re: Steve Litt's gripes against LyX and Docbook

2005-01-14 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: > Comments? I can't comment on the ability of the script to do the task you set it, but here's some comments on the script itself: Isn't "function" a bash-ism? You can just use "lyxvalue" here. function lyxvalue() You should enclose $2 in double quotes. It might contain spaces

Re: Inserting Photoshop EPS Files

2005-01-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Buonopane wrote: >> If I scan a line drawing into Photoshop, save it in eps format, and >> insert it into a LyX document, should I expect any difficulties? I >> have a hazy memory of reading somewhere that Photoshop's eps files >> contain "extra stuff" which causes problems for LyX. > It n

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Windows - no preview

2005-01-13 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for your quick response! > Unfortunately, it didn't help. The preview box is checked. Sorry, I wan't clear. UNCHECK it. You're not using it. See here for what InstantPreview is. http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview Trust me, you don't need this to

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Windows - no preview

2005-01-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Rob S wrote: > But moving on--- > > I cannot now view .pdf images in 1.3.5 under windoze > I'm seeing a > convertDefault.sh Error > The script cannot find the ppm file in the temp dir > > any ideas? Yes. See this from Enrico Forestieri http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general:19523 =

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Windows - no preview

2005-01-13 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm getting the same error message. When I started lyx with -dbg > graphics I got: > PreviewLoader::startLoading() > Could not fork: Exec format error > PreviewLoader::startLoading() > Unable to start process > > Is there a remedy for this? There are two parts to this

Re: LyX donation

2005-01-10 Thread Angus Leeming
Dan Levin wrote: > Wow! I just discovered LyX. This is a truly great project---one I'd > like to support with a modest donation. How can I do this? There I was, suffering from Cold, Wet, Winter Monday Afternoon Blues, and you just brought a huge grin to my face. Thank you! Drop Lars an email

Re: error loading .ps graphics

2005-01-06 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Buonopane wrote: >> LyX 1.3.5 Mac OS 10.3.7 >> >> When trying to load a postscript graphic, my graphic insert says >> "Error converting to loadable format" >> >> and my console spits out the following: >> >> PreviewLoader::startLoading() >> No converter from "lyxpreview" format has been de

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-06 Thread Angus Leeming
Kent Kostuk wrote: > First, I checked textclass.lst: it's there and non-zero. > > Second, I replace sed. > > Third, I type configure at the c:\lyx32\share\lyx> DOS prompt and get: a > lot of text and then "configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script" I would type "sh configure" if you ar

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Windows - no preview

2005-01-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Regarding the error when trying to preview formulas ("Could not fork: > Exec format error"), I noticed that the copy of the 1.3.5 port I just > downloaded from Sourceforge lacks the lyxpreview2bitmap.sh script in the > scripts directory. I copied the script from 1.3.3, but

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released - a nasty bug

2005-01-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> many many thanks for this new version. It works very well. > > except of the mentioned bug: > > > - The blue boxes in the math insets are too small and the cursor too > > big, see the two attached screenshots. > > Due to the too small and too high boxes, all math insets loo

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Charles de Miramon wrote: > For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I > think that LyX should show the shortcuts in the same Windowish way that > Gnome or KDE. Who is using a Sun keyboard anyway ? key bindings are all configurable. See $PREFIX/share/lyx/bind. Personall

Re: No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote: > > >>However, when I press ctrl-f I see a dialog box that has two text >>entry >> widgets (for search string and replace string) and four buttons: "Find >> next", "Replace", "Replace all" and "Close". I've used it extensively. >> Works fi

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Matej> Is there such list available somewhere -- I would be interested > Matej> even if it is vaporware for some time. Lars keeps a reasonably up to date list of things he would like here: http://www.devel.lyx.org/roadmap.php3 http://www.devel.lyx.org/tasks.php3 I d

Re: LyX is not running with QT interface!

2005-01-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Yousef Raffah wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have just installed (USE="qt" emerge lyx) LyX on my Gentoo Linux > with qt as a configure option in order to run it with the QT > interface, at least that is what I think! Unfortunately, whenever I > run lyx from the command line, it runs with the XFor

Re: Spell-checker crashes LyX

2004-12-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I have upgraded from Mandrake 10 Official to Mandrake 10.1 Official > and I used the rpm for Mandrake 10 to install LyX on Mandrake 10.1. > LyX works fine, except regarding the spell-checker: whenever I run the > spell-checker, LyX crashes. > > Any ideas? Should

Re: How to use METAPOST figures in LyX?

2004-12-15 Thread Angus Leeming
Karsten Heymann wrote: >> R S Ananda Murthy wrote: >>> I want to use figures created in MetaPost in LyX. > >> You need to define a MetaPost format. > [...] >> You'll also need to define a converter from MetaPost to PNG (for the >> LyX screen) and from MetaPost to EPS (for Latex). > > Couldn't thi

Re: How to use METAPOST figures in LyX?

2004-12-15 Thread Angus Leeming
R S Ananda Murthy wrote: > Hello: > > I want to use figures created in MetaPost in LyX. When I put them in > LyX document, I get the error message: "Error converting to loadable > format". What is the solution? Hi, Anand. You need to define a MetaPost format. See the "File formats" pane of the

Re: preview-latex

2004-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Fred Nastos wrote: > > Hi, I am using Lyx 1.3.5 on linux. > > I installed preview-latex (preview-latex.sourceforge.net) , and > it seems to work fine, but I'd like to be able to customize it. > In particular, I would like the resulting graphics image that > is displayed in LyX to be a little lar

Re: View PS

2004-12-10 Thread Angus Leeming
Steffen Ganschow wrote: > I'm using LyX 1.2.4 now. In older versions there was always a menu entry > (and shortcut) to View (Update) PostScript. Where has this functionality > gone? When working with PSTricks you need to view the PostScript. > Steffen Was there a LyX 1.2.4? LyX 1.2.3 was released

Re: LyX-1.3.5-qt and memory-leak?

2004-12-10 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "M" == M B Schiekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: > > M> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: >>> It seems that the problem here is that the memory leaked is in the >>> X server (since it needs restarting). >>> >>> Bernhard, do you use preview for math formulas?

Re: Counting Words

2004-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: >> - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc yourfile.lyx" >> to estimate the (relative?!) number of words $ lyx -export ascii yourfile.lyx; wc -w yourfile.txt; rm -f yourfile.txt -- Angus

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: >For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. >I'd > like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these > shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acrorea

Re: [Q] how do to hierarchical descriptions on lyx

2004-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Johannes Behr wrote: > Hi, > > I know you can do it in latex but I just > can not figure out how to do hierarchical > descriptions or items in lyx. Something > like: > > * foo1 > * bar1 > * bar2 > * foo2 > > Could somebody please give me a hint. > Johannes Hi, Johannes. To create an ite

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:48:23AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: >> Not many people seem to use the XForms frontend. Ahh well. > > I did as long as it worked. Lately there had been so problems with > spurious mouse events, though, that made the thing u

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg Baum wrote: > Paul Medwell wrote: > >> If it's new in 1.3.5, then I can see why this seemed like a wank of a >> question. If not then I must be a bigger idiot than I thought, in which >> case other than upgrading (which I'll probably do anyway), just out of >> interest how would it be possi

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Medwell wrote: >> Yes, it is possible. Define the PICT format, and automatic conversion >> will work. >> >> >> Georg > > > Thank you for your reply, and sorry for being ignorant, but the question > of how to define a new format still stands. In other words, how do I > define PICT format (o

Re: \underrrightarrow not working

2004-11-25 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voss wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> Johannes Behr wrote: >> >>>I tried to use the \underrightarrow Frame decorator from >>>the math-panel inside of a display formula. >> >> >> Check the 'Use AMS math' button in the '

Re: \underrrightarrow not working

2004-11-25 Thread Angus Leeming
Johannes Behr wrote: > Hi Angus, > > thanks for the fast help > >> > I tried to use the \underrightarrow Frame decorator from >> > the math-panel inside of a display formula. >> >> Check the 'Use AMS math' button in the 'Packages' pane of the >> 'Layout->Document' dialog. >> > > OK, works! Bu

Re: \underrrightarrow not working

2004-11-25 Thread Angus Leeming
Johannes Behr wrote: > I tried to use the \underrightarrow Frame decorator from > the math-panel inside of a display formula. Check the 'Use AMS math' button in the 'Packages' pane of the 'Layout->Document' dialog. -- Angus

Re: Math Symbols Not Displayed: 1.3.5

2004-11-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Paul Smith wrote: > >> It seems (almost sure) that you need to install the latex-xft-fonts >> package. You can download the source of it from >> >> http://movementarian.org/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz > > Paul, > >No Slackware package for it. However

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voss wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > >>>>I forgot to say. When using XFig and exporting to a (.pstex_t, > > Angus, this maybe intersting for you. > > http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler > > Herbert Herbert, this is indeed very interesting

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voss wrote: >> I forgot to say. When using XFig and exporting to a (.pstex_t, >> .eps) pair, XFig will specify font size and shape UNLESS a LaTeX >> macro is set already. Thus, in order to use exactly the same LaTeX >> fonts in your document and in your figures, you need to insert a >> litt

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: > > > I don't think that this option is better than using gnuplot with my > gnuplot2fig.sh script to build a .fig file. Gnuplot is an extremely > powerful tool for scientific data preparation, something that PSTricks > can never hope to be. That's

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voss wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > >> I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions >> (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial >> picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple to >> produce those graphs, but Maple pictures

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions > (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial > picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple > to produce those graphs, but Maple pictures are bitmaps...

Re: error loading pdf images

2004-11-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote: > I am running Mac OS 10.3.5 and LyX 1.3.5. > I get an error when I try to incorporate a pdf image into a LyX file. > In place of the image it states > > "Error converting to loadable format." > > The error message I get when trying to convert to postscript reads >

Re: start lyx without toolbar or minibuffer

2004-11-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Ben Hourigan wrote: > I'd like to know whether there's a way of editing the default.ui > file so that LyX/Mac starts without either the minibuffer or toolbar > visible, since I don't use either of them. I don't think that this is possible in LyX 1.3.x, although you can change the contents of the

Re: error converting to loadable format

2004-10-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > shavawn donoghue schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> I have recently downloaded Lyx to my Windows 2000 machine (following >> wiki windows setup page though did install ghostscript at the end as was >> not sure if I needed it). > > Why that? On the first line of "Files needed" I rea

Re: Saving and converting LyX Files

2004-10-25 Thread Angus Leeming
Philipp Fleig wrote: > Dear LyX Users, > a few days ago I started with LyX, so I'm a beginner. I installed LyX > 1.3.3-Win32 on my PC with Windows XP. But now I have got a problem and I > hope that one of you might be able to help me! Here is the problem: > > For a test I created a LyX File and t

Re: Math fonts on Windows

2004-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Vaclav Smidl wrote: > I always get a little bit scared when hearing "cygwin". I remember trying > to get Claus Hentschel's version running few years ago. > After tons of downloaded files and one weekend of work I was still > staring at my ugly default windows desktop ;-) I believe that this Q

Re: where can I find lyx 1.3.5 for debian?

2004-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
belahcene abdelkader wrote: > Hi, every body > I want to install the new release lyx-1.3.5, > unfortunatly there is no binary for debian > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lyx-1.3.5# ./configure > --with-frontend=qt Why are you building as root? Don't do that ever. Build as a normal user and then in

Re: Math fonts on Windows

2004-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Vaclav Smidl wrote: > Hi, > I am happily running LyX on linux. Recently, I have installed Ruurd's > win32 port for my colleague. The installation was smooth and lyx is > running as it should. > However, there is one issue I can not get rid of: the characters for > \sum and > \int are displayed m

Re: captions in LYX

2004-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
RENARD Francois 144138 wrote: > Hello, > > Does somebody know how to modify the apparence of all legends in LYX ? > (modify size of characters, of margins etc.) > I found no option in LYX to do that. > > I tried to use the package "caption", but it had no effects on the > legends in my document

Re: LyX for Conectiva

2004-10-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:58:20 -0200, Carlos Knauer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi. >> Is there a LyX 1.3.5 for Conectiva Linux ? Where do I found here ? > > Carlos, > > The rpms of LyX are built by volunteers. It seems (from what you > say) that nobody has built one yet. S

Re: How to tune the latex for different compilers?

2004-10-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: > My question: Is there a way to wrap these two definitions inside > if () > \newenvironment{mypicture}{\Picture*{}}{\EndPicture} > else > \newenvironment{mypicture}{}{} > > so I don't need to edit my

How to tune the latex for different compilers?

2004-10-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Reading the 'tex4ht' documentation, I find that I should wrap my 'XFig' pictures inside a '\begin{mypicture}...\end{mypicture}' block so that 'tex4ht' can recognize the contents as a single image and therefore generate a .'gif' file containing the compiled '(.pstex_t, .eps)' image. (Works well

Re: Command line export format

2004-10-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Roger Light wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know how I can find the formats that are available for > the --export command line option? > > I wish to replicate the behaviour of File->Export->PDF (pdflatex) > but on the command line. Using "--export pdf" does not seem to use > pdflatex. "--export pd

Re: lyx 1.3.5 binary rpm for RedHat Enterprise Linux 3

2004-10-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Jan Sykora wrote: > I would be happy to compile binary one for RH-EL if somebody > provides the src.rpm for RH-FC2 (this must exist if fc2 bin rpm > exists) for me (or to ftp.lyx.org) to be modified for RH-EL Jan, grab the tar ball, unpack it, and run configure. Now type 'make rpmdist'. Upload t

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