Re: [Important] New behavior for spam handling on this list

2022-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: In my opinion, this list is so welcoming that there's little remaining low hanging fruit remaining to make the list even more welcoming, so I still think enabling non-subscribers to post is unnecessary and has downsides. +1 Most mail lists r

Mail list headers have changed

2022-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
When I reply to a mail list message, including the lyx mail list, I select 'reply to all' in alpine. This has always sent the message to the mail list. Today, all responses to my Modern CV issue have reply to set to the individual while from is set to the sender's name at lyx-users@lists.lyx.org.

Re: Issue with ModernCV class

2022-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022, Jürgen Spitzmüller via lyx-users wrote: Language default for English in LyX 2.3 is latin9 (ISO-8859-15). This is independent of your OS defaults. IIRC ModernCV internally forces utf8, which causes an inputenc clash. Jürgen, Okay; I've no quibble with this. However, I've n

Re: Best reference manger

2022-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Lou via lyx-users wrote: Is jabref the best way to find and cite bibliography references in Lyx? Is there a better, easier way? Lou, 'Best way and better way' vary with each individual user. I've tried a couple of different ones over the decades, and found that while JabR

Re: Issue with ModernCV class

2022-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022, Jürgen Spitzmüller via lyx-users wrote: Try to set the encoding to "Unicode (utf8)" in Document > Language. Jürgen, The encoding is set to language default, and the system is set to UTF-8 for English. And it was the page headings not being set to 'Default' that caused th

Re: Issue with ModernCV class [FIXED]

2022-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users wrote: Compiling your MWE, I did not run into the error message you mentioned. I did get an "Undefined control sequence" error for the line "\pagestyle{headings}", which I believe is caused by the fact that the Modern CV class, unlike say the stan

Issue with ModernCV class

2022-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
In my resume using the Modern CV class the preamble has no fancyhdr package specified, yet there's still an error; the displayed message box shows, 'option class for package inputenc'. And it seems to find the fancyhdr package although it's not called for in the preamble. A MWE is attached. TIA,

Re: dictionary

2022-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, Patrick Dupre wrote: Unfortunately, the answer is negative. Patrick, Then you apparently have no personal word list/dictionary. On my system I have: $ find . -name pwl*.dict ./.lyx/pwl_american.dict ./.lyx/pwl_english.dict When you check spelling in a document have you e

Re: dictionary

2022-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: It is where I expected ~/.lyx I run linux But I do not see: Patrick, From your home directory (~/) use the command find . -name pwl*.dict and it should show you the location of all dictionaries. HTH, Rich -- lyx-users mailing

Re: pdflatex: cannot find scrpage2.sty

2021-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, Jürgen Spitzmüller via lyx-users wrote: (Whereas the original German version, l2tabu, is of 2016 and also correctly advises to replace scrpage2 by scrlayer-scrpage. Jürgen, I've downloaded both versions. Thanks very much, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.l

Re: pdflatex: cannot find scrpage2.sty

2021-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, Jürgen Spitzmüller via lyx-users wrote: Try \usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage} instead. This package has superseded scrpage2. It should work as a drop-in replacement. Jürgen, Yes, that helps. And it shows how long it's been since I used that template. Is there a list of super

pdflatex: cannot find scrpage2.sty

2021-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
Using the KOMA-Script letter template I've used before I cannot compile a letter using pdflatex. The LaTeX error is: File `scrpage2.sty' not found. The file is present in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-script/scrpage2.sty and the file's settings include it: \usepackage{scrpage2,url}. How do I d

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

2021-12-15 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Virgil Arrington Jr. via lyx-users wrote: And, then there was my even-older brother-in-law, who always ended his emails with LOL (as in Lots of Love) until my wife asked him what he was always laughing about. Virgil, If he were a reporter/journalist he would have ended hi

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

2021-12-15 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Virgil Arrington Jr. via lyx-users wrote: I do the same, but I think that Rich makes a valid point about using the keyboard vs. the mouse. Virgil, I don't know about others, but I'm a touch-typist (thanks to the Army decades ago) and I use a laptop-size keyboard with my d

Re: Bibliography not in ToC [RESOLVED]

2021-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: no, switching to biblatex (without natbib) and deleting the option below was what I changed. Look into the status bar, what the biber runs reports. Herbert, That's what I had done, too. Yet, I ran 'Reconfigure' and when I tried to compile

Re: Bibliography not in ToC

2021-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: not in my doc Herbert, Regardless, in your version of the .lyx file cite-engine is biblatex while in mine it's biblatex-natbib, but I changed the bibliography style from the latter to the former and saved the change. Do I need to reconfi

Re: Bibliography not in ToC

2021-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: then the biber run is missing. Try the following: you have a citation (the last one) which is not in the bib file. Delete it and run the document again. Does the TOC-entry appears? Herbert: I'm not following. There are four citations in t

Re: I think we need a better name than "MWE"

2021-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Here on the LyX list we use the word MWE to mean the simplest example that still exhibits the symptom. But MWE stands for Minimum *Working* Example, and by definition, the file that exhibits the symptom does not "work". Steve, However, the

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

2021-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Maybe because he didn't know about Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts. I didn't know it either, but now I do, and will use it. Thanks for the information! I frequently use Insert -> Formatting -> Superscripts (or Subscripts, but just type ctr

Re: Bibliography not in ToC

2021-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: You have a wrong option in the document->settings->bibliography: Delete the mergedate=compact. However, using the natbib mode is something from the last millenium ... you should simply use the authoryear style of biblatex. Herbert, Thanks

Bibliography not in ToC

2021-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
Running LyX-2.3.6.1 on Slackware64-14.2. The bibliography settings at the end of the paper indicate the bibliography should be added to the end of the Table of Contents. It's not. Do I need to explicitly add that command to the preamble? I don't recall having this issue before and find no refere

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users wrote: "For want of a nail the shoe was lost. ..." Here, substitute space for nail. You need to put a space between the ERT and the letter C. The error message is because LaTeX thinks you are invoking the nonexistent command \textdegreeC. Paul,

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users wrote: So methinks an MWE is needed. Paul, et al.: Attached is a screenshot of the error message box and caption highlighting. Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 (fwd)

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
Not sent to list by mistake. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 13:21:31 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Shepard To: parubi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users wrote: So methinks an MWE is needed. Paul, et al.:

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: \mu is onyl available in math: start inline mathmode and insert \mu There is also a \textmu for text mode. Herbert, I did change that to inline math. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mai

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Rich Shepard via lyx-users wrote: Closing that error box and repeating the command, ctrl-x/ctrl-h, presents the message that the pdf files's been created in the status bar. Er, confusing. I should have written, that the comand presents in the status bar the message

Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
I've encountered unusual behavior when compiling the document using pdflatex. When I've used an ERT within a float figure's caption lyx highlights the string containing that ERT and pops up an error box which tells me only that there's an error. Closing that error box and repeating the command, c

Re: Wrapping a long URL when in a URL environment [RESOLVED]

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: \usepackage{xurl} Herbert, Thanks for writing that package. In the current document it split the word, 'water,' after the 'a' and without a hyphen. Looks good! Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.

Wrapping a long URL when in a URL environment

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
In a URL environment the line extends past the right text area margin. Can I use the regular ERT \- within the URL string to split it, or is there an environment-specific way to so this? Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Graphic file formats

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: I understand Rich. I tend to think that when outliers are important, boxplots are maybe not the best way to represent such a data. For example, they easily get difficult to interpret because of the compression imposed by them on the boxes, given the ax

Re: Graphic file formats

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Murat Yildizoglu via lyx-users wrote: In Rich’s specific case, I suspect that the outliers of the boxplots crowd the plot. ggplot has an option for not plotting them, then you have just simple boxes left on the plot, and they do not need much memory, a few Ko only. Murat,

Re: Graphic file formats

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: Here: https://hvoss.org/document2.pdf is a pdf with your image, the first one as pdf the second one as png: -rw-r--r--   1 voss  wheel   108688  9 Dez 14:49 all-discharge-plots-1.png -rw-r--r--@  1 voss  wheel  3704503  9 Dez 14:45 all-disch

Re: Graphic file formats

2021-12-09 Thread Rich Shepard via lyx-users
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Neal Becker via lyx-users wrote: I've had some issues similar to this, although none of my timings are as long as you describe. I often create plots with matplotlib. I believe that if you draw, say a scatterplot with 10^6 data points, the resulting pdf will contain 10^6 instr