Re: Windows users: can you test the 2.3.0 installer?

2018-02-28 Thread Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian
This problem looks as if it may be related to the experiences of Elloh Van. (I'm a Linux user, and dread to boot to Windows.) On 02/27/2018 11:06 PM, Emile Lunardon wrote: I had a big problem with the use of the new LyX 2.3 bundle. The installation by itself went fine, side by side with the

Re: Text output encodings

2018-02-19 Thread Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian
On 02/19/2018 04:43 PM, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: On 02/19/2018 10:44 AM, F M Salter wrote: To explain in more detail.    LyX uses utf-8.   utf-8 is standard on most operating systems. RTF is obsolescent and is not a text file. If I insert utf-8 italic characters into a

Re: Text output encodings

2018-02-19 Thread Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian
On 02/19/2018 02:25 AM, F M Salter wrote: On 19/02/18 08:06, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: The very definition of “plain text” precludes what you're hoping toget. The closest thing of which I know to what you want is RTF(rich-text format) Plain text is the export option offered by LyX.

Re: Just Do It! — Long Export Process Halted to Query Continuation

2018-02-16 Thread Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian
On 02/16/2018 05:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: You do not need to babysit it. Actually the process should keep going even if you don't click a button. Perhaps you're correct, but the process seems to stop, based upon the reported actions in the lower left-hand field.

Re: Chicago-Style Citations and Bibliography

2018-02-14 Thread Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian
I use BibTeX, because that's what LyX first embraced; and the version of LyX ported for Fedora still does not support BibLaTeX. Switching to BibLaTeX would involve more time and effort than playing with the .tex file, because I would need to revise the bibliographic database. If LyX is not

Re: Chicago-Style Citations and Bibliography

2018-02-14 Thread Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian
That is a signally absurd response. A minimal example would be an empty LyX document. I could show you a screen-shot of an empty preamble, but you presumably know how that looks. Likewise for the Bibliography dialog. I could go a bit further, and post a bibtex file, and a LyX document