Re: Extremely slow to save file (2.3.4, Windows)

this problem persists? Jim On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 8:44 PM Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 08:30:35PM -0500, Jim Rockford wrote: > > Since v.2.3.4 (Windows 10) Lyx is extremely slow to save Lyx files. I'll > > click the save button and have to wait 3-5

Extremely slow to save file (2.3.4, Windows)

ht my computer may have needed a reboot, but that didn't help. In v.2.3.3 file saving was practically instantaneous. As far as I can tell this hangup is specifically a v.2.3.4 issue. Jim -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

WYSIWYG aspects of multiple integral limits

What I wish to do is center a lower multiple integral limit below the integrals instead of beside the integrals (the default). I'm aware from the documentation that the following works for double integrals: \iint\limits _S This successfully produces the pdf output I want, but within the Lyx docu

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

I remember from a long while back - years ago - that the Lyx installer on Windows would ask you to point to the directory of your Latex distribution. I think a good accommodation would be a message indicating that a Latex distribution has been identified (if one has), with a prompt asking users wh

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

t. (3) There's nothing wrong with having a dual boot Windows/Linux system for the sake of convenience. I'm not going to waste time booting into Linux just to write scientific documents if I'm already in Windows. Jim On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:03 PM, John White wrote: > Why are peo

The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

igence with a simple warning message. If you have another prompt asking users whether they'd like to update their MiKTeX distribution, I think that'd be fine too. I realize that there are unofficial binaries available. Nonetheless, 2.30rc2 is working well enough for me on Windows 10. I'll await the official release. Jim

2.3.0 Windows binaries

Will the Windows binaries for the official 2.3.0 release be available soon?

Using esint package within Lyx environment

ere that spells it out? Much thanks, Jim

Biblatex listed as "package not found" but installed and shows up with kpsewhich

orted into LyX compiles without error using latex. So I'm pretty sure the problem is in a configuration with LyX Any suggestions would be appreciated. FWIW, I'm using LyX 2.1.2 and Linux Mint 17.1 Cheers, --Jim

RE: LyX 2.1.1 Cyrillic in ERT not possible

n also achieve \latincommand{non-latin text} by just putting "\latincommand{" and "}" in two separate ERTs on either side of the non-latin text. Jim

RE: using refstyle for on Page references

eftext#1:#2 {\csname#1ref\endcsname[vref]{#2}} > \def\vref#1{\formatreftext #1 } Glad to hear you got it working, and thanks for posting your solution to the list. Jim

RE: using refstyle for on Page references

xchange.com/ usually gets very good answers. Jim -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Hinterberger Sent: 25 September 2014 5:45 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: using refstyle for on Page references Hello, I woul

RE: pseudo TAB in lyx

I’m not sure. Could you perhaps send an example LyX file? BTW, it’s best to use “reply to all” to send replies to the whole list (assuming they contain nothing confidential). Jim From: Renato Pontefice [mailto:renato.pontef...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 September 2014 10:04 AM To: Jim

RE: pseudo TAB in lyx

ge the paragraph settings for the *outside* of the boxes to have no indent, otherwise the first paragraph may be different to the others. Jim From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Engelmann Sent: 24 September 2014 7:35 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org S

RE: Lyx and references

I believe it depends on what bibliography style you're using. For dcu, at least, you can change "and" by adding the following to your preamble: \renewcommand{\harvardand}{i} However, for "et al." and "in" (used for articles in collections) you would need to edit the style file. Note that "et al."

RE: Hyphenating a hyphenated word at a line break

tional but has become fashionable in recent decades. It seems to me that you do not want breaking for the first usage and you do for the second (and you'll always get it for the third because of the spaces), so neither type of dash is better in general. Since \textendash works with more fonts

RE: Hyphenating a hyphenated word at a line break

nd paste the result to LyX. 3. Within LyX there is the insert->special character dialogue. Under the "general punctuation" section you will find several dashes (which could really do with labelling). The fifth one (which says "code point: 2013" when you hover over it) is an en dash, and the one after is an em dash. Jim

Open Office export failure

I'm getting some strange behavior in exporting a Lyx file to the Open Office format (Windows 7, Lyx version 2.1.1) I get a message indicating that the export was successful, but no file emerges, at least not in the present working directory. It's as if I did nothing. The seemingly most relevant

RE: Make \slashed{} package render in Preview

in a math macro. Then you can put something somewhat similar in the "LyX" field, and the true command in the "TeX" field. Here's your example treated this way: http://imgur.com/It2EXg0 Jim

Change between split view panes with the keyboard

e mouse means I have to click in precisely the right place. I have searched the help, the web and this mailing list but I couldn't find the answer myself. Thanks in advance. Jim

Feature request

specify the dimension explicitly. I find this a bit of a nuisance and thus make the feature request. Thanks to the Lyx team for their great work and their consideration of user feature requests. Jim

Re: natbib error, \onehalfspacing

ks J == #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[bio]{article (bio)} # Input general definitions Input stdclass.inc = On 28 October 2012 08:51, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Jim Ma

inability to compile from bio.cls

. When I run lyx directly from icon on ubuntu linux screen, it compiles ok but gives a "file not found" error when I try to view the pdf. Any suggestions on how to fix/correct this? Must be something to do with the paths where lyx stores the pdf? Thanks J -- Dr. Jim Maas Universi

File does not exist error

the problem is? Seems rather strange considering the compiling stage seems to work. Thanks Jim -- Dr. Jim Maas Health Economics Group Rm 2.23 MED Norwich Medical School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park, NR4 7TJ United Kingdom T: +44 1603 591412 E: j.m...@uea.ac.uk jm_example.

problem installing new .cls file

#x27;ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. Any suggestions how to debug what is wrong and how to correct it? Toy .lyx file is attached. Thanks

Re: lyx 3.0.1 (.exe for windows)

"In 10 years time. Perhaps 15, tops. As for 2.0.1, our Windows Installer maintainer is currently off-line so there will be no binaries (very) soon. You may want to try Uwe's installer [1], which is currently unofficial but potentially the official installer in the future." -

Hello Windows Branch

Any word on when the Windows binaries might be available for 2.0.1? I've been eagerly awaiting the first bug fix before installing the 2.x family. Thanks for all your great work. Jim

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

gt; like > > > text, instead of objects. > > > > Jim > > > > > This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm. > http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/ > > Mukhtar > Looks interesting. However, it still has the same proble

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

roblem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text, instead of objects. Jim

Re: Lyx 2 problem

s does and LyX is just showing it through. Or, it could be a quirk of LyX. I don't know because I've never used this document class. Jim

Re: Lyx 2 problem

>> >>Thanks so much for the prompt reply. But I was unable to add it (Theorems >>(AMS, > >>Numbered by Type).) from left column to the right side to apply it. It seems >>that it is not available. >> >> You need to remove the "Theorems (AMS)" (or "Theorems") module before you can add the "Th

Re: Fixme (package/module)

uot;draft") in the \documentclass options would affect the fixme package, and not images? I haven't checked, this is just an idea. Jim

Re: LyX 2.0 on Windows

You should use LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer-Bundle.exe (whereas the one for those with LaTeX already installed is LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer.exe). Make sure you are using LyX-2.0.0-2 and NOT LyX-2.0.0-1, which seems to still be on at least one mirror. Jim > >From: Stephen Harwin >To: &

Re: LyX 1.6 and 2.0 side-by-side?

haps this printer gets removed? I'm not sure. If this happens though (assuming you use graphics and even notice), an uninstall/reinstall of the remaining version should fix it. To make sure your settings are unaffected, uncheck "delete settings" when uninstalling. Jim

Re: Install LyX in the wrong language

the Save button: this is the left-most of the three buttons. * Close and reopen LyX! Hope this helps. Jim

Re: ergonomics | cursor in the center of the screen

he middle of the screen by scrolling manually. To enable it look under Editing > Control in preferences. As for what you're actually requesting, I would find it very disconcerting if I pressed enter or got to the end of a line and the cursor stayed still, but the document moved up underneath. Jim

Re: Charactersstickingtooneanother (Memoire class)

> From: Frederick Noronha > > It is showing up in the PDF too and in the printed copy also! > On the screen it looks fine. > > > > > > > > > A peculiar problem: when I set a word in italics, it tends > > > tosticktothenextword, unless I manually place an inter-word space > > > between b

Re: Charactersstickingtooneanother (Memoire class)

output, which instead uses the font in Document>Settings. On the other hand, if you see the problem even in the PDF, and you're sure you entered spaces, please file a bug. Jim

Re: Single quotes don't pair up

really useful. You can even make it the default by adding to your user.bind file: \bind "apostrophe" "quote-insert single" And if you still want access to the normal straight apostrophe: \bind "C-apostrophe" "self-insert apostrophe" Jim

Re: Self-contained lyx documents

d on only changes point (2)? The first point is a LaTeX issue, which LyX has no control over. Jim

Re: RC3 installers for windows available on ftp (Re: Lyx 2 binary installer)

why is it so big? RC2 was 20ish MB, and this one is 70ish MB. Is it just the addition of dictionaries? Jim

Re: The Lyx Output Is So Pale

d (what you call "pale"), choose "Latin Modern Roman". Or, try experimenting with other fonts in that list. For example, my preferred choice is "Palatino". Jim > >From: Ahmed Gamal >To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >Sent: Wed, 20 April, 2011 2:04:36 &g

Re: spellchecker for lyx 2.0 rc2

report an error, so the user at least knows that there could be spelling mistakes. Should I file a bug report? Jim

Re: spellchecker for lyx 2.0 rc2

ven worse bug here: 3) When LyX could not spell check some (or all) text, it just claimed to have completed the spell check successfully. It should instead report an error, so the user at least knows that there could be spelling mistakes. Jim

problem with .cls file

Any suggestions most welcome. Thanks Jim #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[ba]{article (ba)} # Input general definitions Input stdclass.inc -- Jim Maas %% %% This is file `ba.cls', %% generated with the docstrip utility.

problem with new .cls file

=== is it just a bad style file ? Or have I not got it installed properly? Thanks Jim -- Jim Maas

Re: VS: Installation of Lyx Using Windows

will notice either way. (By the way the most recent stable version of LyX is 1.6.9 not 1.6.8. I'm guessing this is just a typo but I thought I'd mention it to be safe.) Jim

Re: SV: SV: Error in Latex output, LyX adds an extra brace

sagree, but maybe the devs will not. So I suggest you enter this into the bug tracker and let the devs decide. Jim

Re: SV: Error in Latex output, LyX adds an extra brace

ith margin note "yyy", followed by a paragraph-level heading "zzz". I think that perhaps \paragraph{\marginpar{\paragraph{ blah }}} could be disallowed in LyX, because it doesn't make any sense, but something like \paragraph{\marginpar{\itemize{ blah }}} makes sense and might one day work, if this LaTeX bug is fixed. So overall I don't think LyX should do anything about it. Jim

Re: Error in Latex output, LyX adds an extra brace

> From: Jim Oldfield > > From: Ingar Pareliussen > > I am working on a large document and there seem to be an error where LyX >adds > > >an extra brace to the LaTeX code. Removing the margin note from the > >paragraph-environment fixes the error, so

Re: Error in Latex output, LyX adds an extra brace

this is a bit strange. This problem doesn't happen to me in a fresh document, so I think something in your document's preamble or settings is having an effect here. I don't have time to look at it right now though. Jim

Re: table vertical alignment

n actual snippets of text, not on math e.g. that user has used it on the variable s (perhaps they were trying to get bold upright; use can get this with \mathbf) * You should not use \textrm to get upright prefixes like Re and Im. See the following link for how to do it properly: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/MathMacros#operators Jim

Re: how to input multiline equations

g on the right hand side, and prefixing all lines except the first with \qquad. Jim

Re: Make numeric keypad return act like main return

From: Pavel Sanda > > Jim Oldfield wrote: > > > > seem to work, and when I reopen the preferences dialog the mapping > > > > has > > > > disappeared. > > > > > > this "ctrl+enter" appears in keybinding dialog if you h

Re: Make numeric keypad return act like main return

> From: Pavel Sanda > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > > Jim Oldfield wrote: > > I notice in preferences that ctrl+return is bound to "newline-insert >newline", > > > and so I tried adding a key binding from ctrl+enter to that. But it > > doesn

Make numeric keypad return act like main return

eys identically. At least LyX recognises it for new paragraphs though! Thanks, Jim

Re: \square aligned to the right

t; text box. Note 2: You do not need the Theorems (AMS) module for this to work, but you do need the AMS math package loaded. To ensure this, go to document -> settings, go to the "math options" section, *untick* "Use AMS math package automatically", and *tick* "Use A

Re: \square aligned to the right

roof." in italics, and end with a \square. Sadly the square doesn't appear if the last line is an equation. If it's a single line, then add the command \qedhere at the end of the equation. If it's a multiline equation, see this message: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-

Re: Proofs ending with mathematical formulas

seemed interested, but I doubt they have the resources to fix it anytime soon. Jim > >From: Gustavo Milaré >To: Lyx Discussion List >Sent: Fri, 14 January, 2011 2:51:15 >Subject: Proofs ending with mathematical formulas > >Hello, > > >I'm having a bit tro

Re: Italic textual Greek with Palatino (mathpazo)

> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Jim Oldfield wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it out - made a short document with > > \usepackage{tgpagella} > > > I was referring to > \usepackage{qpxmath,tgpagella} > That shouldn't have any effe

Re: Italic textual Greek with Palatino (mathpazo)

be a lot more effort than it's probably worth. I will do my readers a favour and just spell out "pseudodifferential operator" in full when I need it! Thanks, jim - Original Message ---- > From: Liviu Andronic > To: Jim Oldfield > Cc: Lyx Users > Sent: Thu,

Italic textual Greek with Palatino (mathpazo)

(Font) using `LGR/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 181. LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `LGR/ppl/m/it' undefined (Font) using `LGR/ppl/m/n' instead on input line 186. Thanks in advance for any help, Jim

Re: [LyX2.0beta3] math preview broken?

It's working on my machine too, Windows 7 with MiKTeX 2.9, so it's not completely broken on Windows. - Original Message > From: Murat Yildizoglu > To: sa...@lyx.org; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Sent: Tue, 11 January, 2011 18:01:48 > Subject: Re: [LyX2.0beta3] math preview broken? > > I

Re: Captions... can't be justified

]{caption} For more information about the caption package, see this page: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/caption.html Jim > > I'm using 'tables' for placing some of my photos and captions into. Thanks! FN > > Frederick Noronha :: +91-982212243

Re: Integral sign stretch/expand to fit integrand

> I was misled by the LyX preview. The integral looks great to me in the > output. Thanks for the feedback! > > Gustavo Fair enough. By the way, if by "LyX preview" you just mean the LyX math editor, and not instant preview, then you might want to try instant preview (in preferences unde

Re: Integral sign stretch/expand to fit integrand

- Original Message > From: Uwe Stöhr > To: Gustavo Goretkin > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Sent: Sun, 28 November, 2010 20:52:45 > Subject: Re: Integral sign stretch/expand to fit integrand > > Am 28.11.2010 07:05, schrieb Gustavo Goretkin: > This works for me without using spe

Re: Converting Doc file to Lyx

One way would be to open the file in Word and from there save it as an HTML file. Then in LyX import that HTML file. I doubt the results would be very good, but they would probably at least preserve the italics. Jim - Original Message > From: Frederick Noronha > To: lyx

Re: strikeout math? (was: Re: Arrows: boldface, negated diagonal?)

elling variables, say because you're teaching this to high school students, then strikeout is correct. * Whatever stage your students are at, multiple-character variables should *definitely* not be in italics! Use \operatorname to enclose such variables (see attachment for an example of this, too). Jim Math strikeout.lyx Description: Binary data

Re: OT: LaTeX Help

elta\end{array}} \makebox[0pt][c]{\sim} Here's a version with a \sum vphantom (displayed, in case used inline) in each cell, and some horizontal space too. Quite a beast! \enskip\makebox[0pt][c]{\begin{array}{c} \vphantom{{\displaystyle \sum}}\gamma\\ \vphantom{{\displaystyle \sum}}\delta\end{array}}\makebox[0pt][c]{\sim}\enskip Jim

Re: Insert program listing: all code ends up on one line

console windows, but on Windows this just breaks 99% of non-LyX pastes. Maybe LyX could be changed, at least on Windows, to not join lines by default? I notice there is an explicit option in Paste Special to join lines, so that wouldn't be completely lost? Jim

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

terStylesWithColorPseudostyles >s > That is a dirty, nasty hack... and I love it! Even this would have been good enough for what I needed in my MSc project. Oh well, thanks for sharing. I'm sure the character styles knowledge will still save me plenty of time in future! Jim

Problem with standard installer for version 1.6.8-1 (Windoze)

o be the 'chkconfig.Itx' file. I don't see it anywhere within the Lyx installation directory tree. Jim

Re: Debug output in Lyx 2.0.0 beta 1

e GUI >application. > It's a pity we can't do both/ choose at run time. I'm glad we have Pavel's suggested method works for most cases (I can't believe I missed that!), although obviously it's no good for SIGSEGV. Perhaps if it had the option to write to a file, it would do. Jim

Debug output in Lyx 2.0.0 beta 1

way, why _is_ there still a LyxLauncher.exe? I thought that lyx.exe was being compiled as a native GUI application (annoying for this situation, but useful in general)? Is it because I've used the alternative installer? Thanks, Jim

How to show the citations without the bibliography in lyx output?

imply commenting out the \bibliography doesn't work because it messes up the citations, and other tricks I have seen (i.e. http://groups.google.com/group/latexusersgroup/browse_thread/thread/330d7dda163dcd91) cannot be implemented in an obvious way so far as I can tell. Thanks, Jim

Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010)

, which I understand is a far more challenging issue without commercial software. Thanks, Jim

Suppressing page numbers in lyx 1.6.5

ly working on, I still get the page number 1 at the bottom of the page when I generate the PDF. Am I doing something wrong? Are there alternative methods for suppressing page numbers? Thanks, Jim

Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or <> symbols)

nt so that the various inequality symbols match up properly. In the above example I want 5 columns instead of the usual 3. I tried to use the AMS align environment, but had trouble adding the columns (the results came out with way too much spacing). How do I do this in Lyx? Thanks, Jim

Text overlapping table float wrap

e Lyx community. Should I expect to have these problems with table and figure wraps still, as of version 1.6.2? Thanks, Jim

Index Problem on XP

to create a .ind file. I searched for, and found the .idx file, but couldn't find the .ind file: C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\Local Settings\lyx_tmpdir1208a00992\lyx_tmpbuf0\newfile1.idx The lyx_tmpbuf0 directory also contained several other files, including newfile1.log. It contained

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Rockford schrieb: > > I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited. With > > the change tracker, when I elect to > > "Show Changes In Output" I get the followi

Change tracker continues to have problems

t possible to fix this problem? Jim

Re: LyX logo

It is gorgeous. I like it. On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Andre Poenitz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:29:18AM +0200, G. Milde wrote: > > On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Mon, 31 Mar

Lyx shortcut key problem

reference.pdf and "A Simple Guide to Latex/Lyx" at www.stat.rice.edu/~helpdesk<http://www.stat.rice.edu/%7Ehelpdesk>carefully, I still cannot solve the problem. If anyone could help me, I would appreciate it. Thanks! Jim

Re: Adding sty files to path

Sorry everyone, please ignore this. My problems are to do with understanding the custom style (it does it's own thing about titles, and I shouldn't try to put one in the doc.) Jim On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 14:56 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With help from #latex I have got m

Re: Adding sty files to path

-- \maketitle The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was un

Re: Adding sty files to path

ere to look? I could always move this sty file into the place where the system ones are kept (if I knew where that was!) but I'm sure that's not sustainable. Thanks, Jim > Note that your tree here should be structured like your main TeX tree. So I > put my custom style files i

lyx2lyx conversion failure

re >> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg59950.html . There, Jorge says that the latest 1.4.x will do this but I'm using the package distributed with Ubuntu and want to stick with that for ease of package management. Where can I find a copy of lyx2lyx that will convert my file? Thanks, Jim

Mail forum question (not lyx related)

fication or code examples that have gone unanswered! Jim

Small bug in change tracker (1.5.0rc2)

the newer text. This happens even though there are, correctly, spaces between the deleted text and the new text in the lyx window itself. I nominate this for a minor fix. Thanks, Jim

all Lyx-xforms menus completely black

would get invisible text in the dialog boxes for choosing the bibliography files (the oroiginal problem that led to the secondary problem)? Thanks, Jim

Lyx cv class

ation particularly clear on this point. I tried texhash /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/ in the hope that this directory would then be part of the latex search path, but this failed. The cv class is still listed by lyx as "unavailable." Suggestions? Thanks, Jim

1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

I soldiered through this error and the installation (apparently) completed successfully. Jim

"intersectingStaticSet" message with 1.5.0rc1 (linux)

must be a warning from QT, and not Lyx's fault, but I'm curious to know if any other Linux users see this annoying message and whether I can do anything about it. I am using the latest QT4 packages available from the Fedora Core repositories. Thanks, Jim

1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

ellchecker warning? Jim

Suppress figures in output

stance, if I do a \begin{figure} and \end{figure}, and put a caption label in between, I will still see figure 1: etcetera in the final output). Thanks, Jim

Lyx and selinux

certain libraries without raising some sort of security flag or encountering permission problems. Thanks, Jim

Re: Authors in TOC, etc

nt to have the TOC be one font, the chapter heading another, and the text the font you selected. I know I can program around that, but I shouldn't have to. -- Jim Smith

Re: Authors in TOC, etc.

know know what version I'm using when I get in front of the machine tonight. -- Jim Smith

Re: Authors in TOC, etc.

d the chapter > > number in the header and the page number in the footer to be > > confusing to the reader. > > > > I've searched through the archives and the TeXnik pages, but > > really can't get a handle on this. > > > > -- > > Jim Smith

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