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

2020-02-13 Thread Jim Rockford
that 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 secon

Extremely slow to save file (2.3.4, Windows)

2020-02-09 Thread Jim Rockford
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 seconds for the file saving process to complete, during which time the cursor is basically frozen (i.e. I cannot click back into the document and edit). At first I thought my

WYSIWYG aspects of multiple integral limits

2020-01-16 Thread Jim Rockford
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

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

2018-05-16 Thread Jim Rockford
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

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

2018-05-15 Thread Jim Rockford
People are still taunting about this like schoolyard infants? Well, here's a few reasons for you that apply to my case, Johnny boy: (1) I work in a scientific field and a specific laboratory that uses data analysis software for which there are only Windows versions. I used Linux exclusively

The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

2018-05-11 Thread Jim Rockford
My understanding from the Lyx developers forum is that the MiKTeX bugs that were the main cause of the delayed release for Windows users has been fixed. The issue now seems to be how to communicate possible MiKTeeX issues to users during the 2.3.0 installation process. In my 20+ years in the

2.3.0 Windows binaries

2018-03-27 Thread Jim Rockford
Will the Windows binaries for the official 2.3.0 release be available soon?

Using esint package within Lyx environment

2017-04-19 Thread Jim Rockford
Can somebody explain how to implement the esint package style integral symbols within Lyx? In particular, I'd like to be able to use keyboard shortcuts to create these nicer looking integration symbols with nicer looking bounds of integration. I have the Math Options set to automatically load

Open Office export failure

2014-08-24 Thread Jim Rockford
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

Open Office export failure

2014-08-24 Thread Jim Rockford
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

Open Office export failure

2014-08-24 Thread Jim Rockford
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

Feature request

2014-01-31 Thread Jim Rockford
MathType has the nice feature that when you click to insert a matrix, one has the choice of immediately inserting a typical low-dimensional matrix (i.e. 2x2, 3x3, 3x1, etc), in addition to the option of setting the row and column numbers manually. As far as I can tell, in Lyx you must always

Feature request

2014-01-31 Thread Jim Rockford
MathType has the nice feature that when you click to insert a matrix, one has the choice of immediately inserting a typical low-dimensional matrix (i.e. 2x2, 3x3, 3x1, etc), in addition to the option of setting the row and column numbers manually. As far as I can tell, in Lyx you must always

Feature request

2014-01-31 Thread Jim Rockford
MathType has the nice feature that when you click to insert a matrix, one has the choice of immediately inserting a typical low-dimensional matrix (i.e. 2x2, 3x3, 3x1, etc), in addition to the option of setting the row and column numbers manually. As far as I can tell, in Lyx you must always

Re: lyx 3.0.1 (.exe for windows)

2011-09-18 Thread Jim Rockford
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.

Re: lyx 3.0.1 (.exe for windows)

2011-09-18 Thread Jim Rockford
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.

Re: lyx 3.0.1 (.exe for windows)

2011-09-18 Thread Jim Rockford
"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

2011-09-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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

Hello Windows Branch

2011-09-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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

Hello Windows Branch

2011-09-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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

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

2010-11-21 Thread Jim Rockford
I just tried installing the 1.6.8 update using the standard installer bundle LyX-1.6.8-1-Installer-Bundle on Windows 7 (64 bit). Although it appeared to install without any problems, upon trying to start Lyx I get the following popup message: Lyx: no system directory Unable to determine the

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

2010-11-21 Thread Jim Rockford
I just tried installing the 1.6.8 update using the standard installer bundle LyX-1.6.8-1-Installer-Bundle on Windows 7 (64 bit). Although it appeared to install without any problems, upon trying to start Lyx I get the following popup message: Lyx: no system directory Unable to determine the

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

2010-11-21 Thread Jim Rockford
I just tried installing the 1.6.8 update using the standard installer bundle "LyX-1.6.8-1-Installer-Bundle" on Windows 7 (64 bit). Although it appeared to install without any problems, upon trying to start Lyx I get the following popup message: "Lyx: no system directory Unable to determine the

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

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Rockford
What I'd like to do is generate a PDF document from my lyx source that shows all the reference citations in the main body, but does not produce the detailed list of references at the end, where the \bibliography command is placed. Is there a quick and easy way to do this in Lyx? Simply

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

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Rockford
What I'd like to do is generate a PDF document from my lyx source that shows all the reference citations in the main body, but does not produce the detailed list of references at the end, where the \bibliography command is placed. Is there a quick and easy way to do this in Lyx? Simply

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

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Rockford
What I'd like to do is generate a PDF document from my lyx source that shows all the reference citations in the main body, but does not produce the detailed list of references at the end, where the \bibliography command is placed. Is there a quick and easy way to do this in Lyx? Simply

Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010)

2010-06-27 Thread Jim Rockford
This issue has come up in older threads, and I was curious to know where it stands today. As a long-time lyx user, I am in the unfortunate position of being in a Windoze-only (XP) environment without administrator privileges. Can anyone offer some insight as to whether I could expect a

Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010)

2010-06-27 Thread Jim Rockford
This issue has come up in older threads, and I was curious to know where it stands today. As a long-time lyx user, I am in the unfortunate position of being in a Windoze-only (XP) environment without administrator privileges. Can anyone offer some insight as to whether I could expect a

Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010)

2010-06-27 Thread Jim Rockford
This issue has come up in older threads, and I was curious to know where it stands today. As a long-time lyx user, I am in the unfortunate position of being in a Windoze-only (XP) environment without administrator privileges. Can anyone offer some insight as to whether I could expect a

Suppressing page numbers in lyx 1.6.5

2010-03-17 Thread Jim Rockford
I'm running Lyx on Windoze 7 (64bit). I was under the impression that the following document style setting will suppress page numbers: Document -- Settings -- Page Layout -- Headings Style -- empty However, in the single-page document (article style) that I'm currently working on, I still get

Suppressing page numbers in lyx 1.6.5

2010-03-17 Thread Jim Rockford
I'm running Lyx on Windoze 7 (64bit). I was under the impression that the following document style setting will suppress page numbers: Document -- Settings -- Page Layout -- Headings Style -- empty However, in the single-page document (article style) that I'm currently working on, I still get

Suppressing page numbers in lyx 1.6.5

2010-03-17 Thread Jim Rockford
I'm running Lyx on Windoze 7 (64bit). I was under the impression that the following document style setting will suppress page numbers: Document --> Settings --> Page Layout --> Headings Style --> empty However, in the single-page document (article style) that I'm currently working on, I still

Text overlapping table float wrap

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Rockford
Hello. I have a problem with table wraps that seems to have occurred for other people as well. On occasion, somewhat unpredictably, the document text will not respect the presence of a table float (wrap mode) and will overlap the table. My understanding from reading this forum and others is

Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or symbols)

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Rockford
Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would like to do this quickly in Lyx, so... What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like a S b c T d and so forth. I just need the analog of the usual 3 column equation array environment so that the various

Text overlapping table float wrap

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Rockford
Hello. I have a problem with table wraps that seems to have occurred for other people as well. On occasion, somewhat unpredictably, the document text will not respect the presence of a table float (wrap mode) and will overlap the table. My understanding from reading this forum and others is

Question about eqnarray environment (multiple = or symbols)

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Rockford
Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would like to do this quickly in Lyx, so... What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like a S b c T d and so forth. I just need the analog of the usual 3 column equation array environment so that the various

Text overlapping table float wrap

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Rockford
Hello. I have a problem with table wraps that seems to have occurred for other people as well. On occasion, somewhat unpredictably, the document text will not respect the presence of a table float (wrap mode) and will overlap the table. My understanding from reading this forum and others is

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

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Rockford
Hello : this is probably more of a latex issue than Lyx, but I would like to do this quickly in Lyx, so... What I want is a neatly formatted set of relations like a < S < b c < T < d and so forth. I just need the analog of the usual "3 column" equation array environment so that the various

Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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 following error: Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed. I do have the soul package installed in MikTex. Is it possible to fix this problem? Jim

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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 following error: Package soul Error: Reconstruction

Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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 following error: Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed. I do have the soul package installed in MikTex. Is it possible to fix this problem? Jim

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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 following error: Package soul Error: Reconstruction

Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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 following error: "Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed." I do have the "soul" package installed in MikTex. Is it possible to fix this problem?

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-13 Thread Jim Rockford
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

Mail forum question (not lyx related)

2007-07-11 Thread Jim Rockford
How do I reply to responses to my posts on the lyx mail archive? When I click Reply via email to somebody I get the message 'The document has moved here' and when I click 'here' nothing happens in my firefox browser. My apologies for all the past requests for clarification or code examples

Mail forum question (not lyx related)

2007-07-11 Thread Jim Rockford
How do I reply to responses to my posts on the lyx mail archive? When I click Reply via email to somebody I get the message 'The document has moved here' and when I click 'here' nothing happens in my firefox browser. My apologies for all the past requests for clarification or code examples

Mail forum question (not lyx related)

2007-07-11 Thread Jim Rockford
How do I reply to responses to my posts on the lyx mail archive? When I click "Reply via email to" I get the message 'The document has moved here' and when I click 'here' nothing happens in my firefox browser. My apologies for all the past requests for clarification or code examples that

Small bug in change tracker (1.5.0rc2)

2007-07-10 Thread Jim Rockford
This is a minor annoyance, possibly even something designed to be part of the document change tracking (though I can't imagine why), but when one elects to show changes in output with the change tracker, the generated PDF file jams together the old, soon-to-be deleted text with the newer text.

Small bug in change tracker (1.5.0rc2)

2007-07-10 Thread Jim Rockford
This is a minor annoyance, possibly even something designed to be part of the document change tracking (though I can't imagine why), but when one elects to show changes in output with the change tracker, the generated PDF file jams together the old, soon-to-be deleted text with the newer text.

Small bug in change tracker (1.5.0rc2)

2007-07-10 Thread Jim Rockford
This is a minor annoyance, possibly even something designed to be part of the document change tracking (though I can't imagine why), but when one elects to "show changes in output" with the change tracker, the generated PDF file jams together the old, soon-to-be deleted text with the newer text.

Lyx cv class

2007-07-07 Thread Jim Rockford
In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the lyx curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough lyx apparently installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/. How (in linux) do I make this class available? I didn't find the Customization documentation

Lyx cv class

2007-07-07 Thread Jim Rockford
In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the lyx curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough lyx apparently installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/. How (in linux) do I make this class available? I didn't find the Customization documentation

Lyx cv class

2007-07-07 Thread Jim Rockford
In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the lyx curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough lyx apparently installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/. How (in linux) do I make this class available? I didn't find the Customization documentation

1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

2007-06-28 Thread Jim Rockford
For version 1.5.0 release candidate 2: When I use the Windoze installer I get the mysterious message InetLoad plug-in Your internet connection seems to have dropped out! Please reconnect and clock Retry to resume downloading... I'm certain that my internet connection didn't drop out. Is this

1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

2007-06-28 Thread Jim Rockford
For version 1.5.0 release candidate 2: When I use the Windoze installer I get the mysterious message InetLoad plug-in Your internet connection seems to have dropped out! Please reconnect and clock Retry to resume downloading... I'm certain that my internet connection didn't drop out. Is this

1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

2007-06-28 Thread Jim Rockford
For version 1.5.0 release candidate 2: When I use the Windoze installer I get the mysterious message InetLoad plug-in "Your internet connection seems to have dropped out! Please reconnect and clock Retry to resume downloading..." I'm certain that my internet connection didn't "drop out." Is

intersectingStaticSet message with 1.5.0rc1 (linux)

2007-06-07 Thread Jim Rockford
When running 1.5.0 release candidate 1 on linux (Fedora Core 5, both 32 bit or 64 bit) I get the warning message intersectingStaticSet: row X was invalid where X is some integer. This message appears something like 30 times in succession, X ranging from 1 to 30. I suspect this must be a

intersectingStaticSet message with 1.5.0rc1 (linux)

2007-06-07 Thread Jim Rockford
When running 1.5.0 release candidate 1 on linux (Fedora Core 5, both 32 bit or 64 bit) I get the warning message intersectingStaticSet: row X was invalid where X is some integer. This message appears something like 30 times in succession, X ranging from 1 to 30. I suspect this must be a

"intersectingStaticSet" message with 1.5.0rc1 (linux)

2007-06-07 Thread Jim Rockford
When running 1.5.0 release candidate 1 on linux (Fedora Core 5, both 32 bit or 64 bit) I get the warning message "intersectingStaticSet: row X was invalid" where X is some integer. This message appears something like 30 times in succession, X ranging from 1 to 30. I suspect this must be a

1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

2007-06-05 Thread Jim Rockford
I have installed the 1.5 release candidate 1 on two Windows XP machines (one 32 bit and the other 64 bit). Each time, the installation gave me a message that it couldn't download the English spellchecker. Otherwise, the installation went smoothly. What's the deal though with the spellchecker

1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

2007-06-05 Thread Jim Rockford
I have installed the 1.5 release candidate 1 on two Windows XP machines (one 32 bit and the other 64 bit). Each time, the installation gave me a message that it couldn't download the English spellchecker. Otherwise, the installation went smoothly. What's the deal though with the spellchecker

1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

2007-06-05 Thread Jim Rockford
I have installed the 1.5 release candidate 1 on two Windows XP machines (one 32 bit and the other 64 bit). Each time, the installation gave me a message that it couldn't download the English spellchecker. Otherwise, the installation went smoothly. What's the deal though with the spellchecker

Suppress figures in output

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Rockford
Sorry, not a lyx specific question, but more of a latex one. What I want to do is preserve my figure captions and labels, so that they can be properly referred to in the latex (lyx) document, but I do not want the figure graphics shown in the final output. Is there any way to do this, some

Suppress figures in output

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Rockford
Sorry, not a lyx specific question, but more of a latex one. What I want to do is preserve my figure captions and labels, so that they can be properly referred to in the latex (lyx) document, but I do not want the figure graphics shown in the final output. Is there any way to do this, some

Suppress figures in output

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Rockford
Sorry, not a lyx specific question, but more of a latex one. What I want to do is preserve my figure captions and labels, so that they can be properly referred to in the latex (lyx) document, but I do not want the figure graphics shown in the final output. Is there any way to do this, some

Lyx and selinux

2007-04-18 Thread Jim Rockford
Lyx version: 1.4.4 OS: Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit) I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to view my document as PDF or DVI. I kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like - convert: zlib error

Lyx and selinux

2007-04-18 Thread Jim Rockford
Lyx version: 1.4.4 OS: Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit) I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to view my document as PDF or DVI. I kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like - convert: zlib error

Lyx and selinux

2007-04-18 Thread Jim Rockford
Lyx version: 1.4.4 OS: Linux Fedora Core 6 (64 bit) I had quite a rough time getting Lyx to "view" my document as PDF or DVI. I kept getting errors related to the image conversions, errors like - convert: zlib error

Success with lyx-144-4 standard installer (Windoze)

2007-02-26 Thread Jim Rockford
Just reporting that the newest standard installer lyx-144-4 works on all of my windoze XP machines, whether 32 or 64 bit. None of the previous installers worked for me (lyxc.exe error). In case some of you Windoze users have been hesitant to upgrade, my bet is that this one will work for you.

Success with lyx-144-4 standard installer (Windoze)

2007-02-26 Thread Jim Rockford
Just reporting that the newest standard installer lyx-144-4 works on all of my windoze XP machines, whether 32 or 64 bit. None of the previous installers worked for me (lyxc.exe error). In case some of you Windoze users have been hesitant to upgrade, my bet is that this one will work for you.

Success with lyx-144-4 standard installer (Windoze)

2007-02-26 Thread Jim Rockford
Just reporting that the newest standard installer lyx-144-4 works on all of my windoze XP machines, whether 32 or 64 bit. None of the previous installers worked for me (lyxc.exe error). In case some of you Windoze users have been hesitant to upgrade, my bet is that this one will work for you.

Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work

2007-02-20 Thread Jim Rockford
This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4. Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer

Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work

2007-02-20 Thread Jim Rockford
This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4. Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer

Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work

2007-02-20 Thread Jim Rockford
This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4. Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer

Lyx 1.4.4 Windows Installer fails for me

2007-02-17 Thread Jim Rockford
On Windows XP I had a working 1.4.3-5 installation, which I got working only with a great deal of pain (owing to missing Miktex files, which one-by-one I had to install at Miktex's behest). I thought I'd try out 1.4.4-1 just for fun, hoping for some enhanced (faster!) performance. In this

Lyx 1.4.4 Windows Installer fails for me

2007-02-17 Thread Jim Rockford
On Windows XP I had a working 1.4.3-5 installation, which I got working only with a great deal of pain (owing to missing Miktex files, which one-by-one I had to install at Miktex's behest). I thought I'd try out 1.4.4-1 just for fun, hoping for some enhanced (faster!) performance. In this

Lyx 1.4.4 Windows Installer fails for me

2007-02-17 Thread Jim Rockford
On Windows XP I had a working 1.4.3-5 installation, which I got working only with a great deal of pain (owing to missing Miktex files, which one-by-one I had to install at Miktex's behest). I thought I'd try out 1.4.4-1 just for fun, hoping for some enhanced (faster!) performance. In this

Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable

2007-02-11 Thread Jim Rockford
I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it useful to define the environment variable BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib

Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable

2007-02-11 Thread Jim Rockford
I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it useful to define the environment variable BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib

Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable

2007-02-11 Thread Jim Rockford
I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it useful to define the environment variable BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib