roller (OpaqueControlRef *&)'
../../../src/frontends/controllers/ViewBase.h:53: candidates are: void
ViewBase::setController(ControlButtons &)
make[2]: *** [Dialogs.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
I'd welcome further suggestions. Regards,
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e[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
I'll be glad to supply additional information if anyone could suggest
a workaround to this glitch. Thanks,
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l be helpful to you, but I use LyX-1.3.2/Qt on
MacOS-10.2.6, have no problem with ispell, and none of the GUI
elements are "horrifically slow." You may want to check your ispell
installation, and make sure the LyX configuration could find it when
you built LyX.
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in no hurry to fix them. Write the Apple Developer
connection and tell them you're desperate for a fix to "6G30 gcc 3.1
header problem Bug ID # 3162512".
In the meantime you can install LyX-1.2.3. See
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html .
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it-yourself guides that tell you can match the resources and
distribution of a Random House, Knopf, or St. Martins -- it just ain't
so!
Your comments on using LyX for self-published manuscripts seem very
apt.
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aks compiles of
Lyx-1.3.x. The Apple bug is ID # 3162425 and if enough of us complain
often enough to Developer Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> their engineers
might get around to fixing it.
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Trade publishers always reset whatever an author submits, so
the formatting is lost in any case.
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trade books. That said, I'm working on yet another
book with LyX!
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the
beautiful typesetting ability of the LaTeX engine is lost, as I end
submitting hard-copy.
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on on keyboards.
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t a popup with the line, word,
and character counts.
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ing text and looks better?
How about paragraph type "quote" or "quotation"?
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servers are down, so I can't try out the latest source.
There's a binary of Lyx-1.2.2 compiled for MacOSX available. See
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html .
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ologize in advance for
troubling the list for something I ought to be able to find myself.)
Thanks,
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A switch to sockets would require at
least perl for the scripts.
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r problem Bug ID # 3162512] but have not announced when an
upgrade or patch will be available. (See
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html, click on Installing LyX in
the Table of Contents.)
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I've released a new version of OpenLyX.app, which provides drag & drop
and double-clicking for LyX files on MacOS with X11. See
http://www.18james.com/code/OpenLyX.tar.gz for the application, or
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html#integrate for info.
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to have fixed many bugs in gcc-3.1, produces the same error when
trying to compile Lyx-1.3.0pre3.
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.
Is there a way to unbind the Option (Alt_L) key so it will again work
with the default Apple key-mapping? Thanks.
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for those who want to stick with that implementation of X11.
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days, I had to kill LyX to free slots in the process table.
Is there a fix, or anything I can do to help debug the problem? Thanks,
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you might find the specifics on LyX
and CUPS in http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html and
http://www.18james.com/osx_printer_sharing.html useful.
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www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html .
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This is quicker and cleaner than a TeX insert.
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c and the
ability to open files by double-clicking from the Finder instead of
using the cumbersome LyX/xforms interface.
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file-open:$1" >~/.lyx/.lyxpipe.in
read a <~/.lyx/.lyxpipe.out
echo $a
else
echo "Hmmm. LyX is running but there is no server pipe."
fi
fi
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Peter Rexigel wrote:
>Is there a helper application that will check for a running LyX, open
>the file there if it is available, or start LyX if there is none
>running? Gimp-remote, which does the same for gimp, is the model I'm
>thinking of.
Use the LyxServer-pipe:
1) in the menu-entry "Bearbe
Is there a helper application that will check for a running LyX, open
the file there if it is available, or start LyX if there is none
running? Gimp-remote, which does the same for gimp, is the model I'm
thinking of. Thanks,
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My thanks to those who kindly pointed out that the geometry package is
still alive and well in LyX-1.2.1. Regards,
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Am I missing something, or is the geometry input not in LyX-1.2.1? I
remember from earlier versions that it was possible to select margins
from the Layout -> Page menu. With LyX-1.2.1 I ended up putting some
geometry parameters in the Preamble.
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nt, $ptsize, and/or $clear variables or their command-line
equivalents to suit your printer. For documentation, do `perldoc
envelope'.
Enjoy!
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ping of keys from other X11 programs.
Try adding
clear mod1
add mod1 = Meta_L
to your ~/.Xmodmap file, then make sure your X-server/window-manager
combination run xmodmap incorporating those settings.
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LyX itself.
- To use the Mac command key as a Meta key, put the following lines
in .Xmodmap:
clear mod1
add mod1 = Meta_L
and make sure your X-windows window manager runs xmodmap during startup.
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are fast, the option-key functions as a
native Mac compose key for foreign and special characters, and the Mac
display and fonts are easy on the eyes.
I hope these notes are useful.
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> ()
> #35 0x2187a8 in C_Toolbar_ToolbarCB ()
> #36 0xff2a6dc0 in fl_object_qread ()
> #37 0xff2b8fc0 in fl_check_forms ()
> #38 0x210ed8 in GUIRunTime::runTime ()
> #39 0xa4b00 in LyXGUI::runTime ()
> #40 0xa5660 in LyX::LyX ()
> #41 0xe4460 in main ()
> (gdb)
>
I hope this is useful in debugging.
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ry to load a file into lyx it crashes
with the message I posted earlier.
it seem that with gdb the program exits because of the command line
option. Or am I missing something?
Thanks for the attention to my query.
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t; ?
After the command `run' in gdb I get:
Failed to share colors. Using private colormap.
Wrong command line option `-visual truecolor -sync'. Exiting.
(program terminated normally)
Ronald Florence
-bit display. Running
-depth 8 doesn't work.
Thanks,
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;>to work. Thanks,
>
>
> What Windowmanager/DTE do you use?
The window-manager is OroborOSX, used with XDarwin, which is the MacOSX
version of Xfree86.
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.Xdefaults, Lyx opens in the center of the screen with a window that
is about 720x450.
If I put lyx.height and lyx.width parameters in .Xdefaults, LyX seems to
follow them.
How do I get the geometry parameters, including position on the screen,
to work. Thanks,
Ronald Florence
local/share/lyx before starting LyX, but no joy
there. Is there a way to configure full paths before LyX is built or
installed? Thanks,
Ronald Florence www.18james.com
I'm in the midst of migrating from Solaris-8 to a MacOS 10.2 box, and
for an old Unix hand the learning curve is steep.
I set up teTeX, xdvi, and LyX, and have run into an apparent impass. If
I set the environment variable TEXMF to /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf
xdvi runs perfectly and can gene
It was always so easy on the Solaris boxes!
After some struggle, I've gotten LyX to work on a MacOS 10.2 PowerMac,
but the teTeX installation is refusing to generate some fonts. Here's
typical error output:
xdvi: can't find font phvr8t; using cmr10 instead at 467 dpi.
- mktexpk --mfmo
ure this LyX to
behave like the version I'm accustomed to on Solaris, but with a working
LyX the PowerMac finally feels like a real workstation!
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After failing to get LyX working on MacOS 10.2 with the various fink
offerings, I decided to try myself, by getting xforms-0.89.6 from the
xforms page, and building LyX-1.2.1 from the source. It gets close --
as far as the final link, which fails with the following error message:
ld: Undef
I'd welcome hearing from anyone who has successfully gotten LyX
(preferably version 1.2.x) working on Mac OS. I've tried following the
instructions on the LyX page and the pages they point to, but have not
been successful in getting the xforms library. I can run LyX from a
remote host, but wo
Has lyx-1.2.0 or newer been ported to Mac OS X. If not, it there any
special trick to building and installing a new version of Lyx on Mac
OS X? Thanks,
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Fix: fetch the xforms-0.88 libraries and install libforms.so and
libforms.so.0.88 in /usr/local/lib on the machine(s) where you plan to
run LyX. We use an NFS-shared /usr/local/lib for all of our Solaris
machines.
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thout problems.
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Is this a bug? With Lyx-1.2.0 I tried Insert->Ascii-Paragraphs and
found that all of the upper-case letters at the start of sentences or
in proper names in the ascii had been changed to lower case when the
material was inserted.
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missions in a
monotype font with a ragged right edge -- as if it came from a
typewriter. Arrgh!)
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still using xforms-0.88.1, despite the graphics
limitations, because the compose key code does not work with
xforms-0.89.6 on sparc-solaris-8.
Nice job for the release.
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agree with Max. The misbehavior of LyX after pasting is the single
most annoying feature of what is otherwise my favorite document
processor. After pasting, it should be possible to immediately edit
the inserted material without having it suddenly disappear and require
multiple presses of t
tely, the crash-recovery component of LyX is robust, and I've
lost no work. I'll try to keep track of what triggers these crashes
and see if I can find a reproducible pattern.
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work, albeit
quite a bit slower, with the earlier xforms library.
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ut to Postscript (and presumably .pdf) is
handled automagically and gracefully by LyX. What a delight!
Bravo! If any of you developers ever come to Providence, RI, look me
up. The beer/wine/champagne is on me! Regards,
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n first set to [90]
meta_fake_bit is [0]
action now set to [90]
Key [action=90][equal]
Cannot decode: =
SelfInsert arg[`=']
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Arghh! The compose key, which worked perfectly with earlier versions
of LyX, does not work with Lyx-1.2.0pre4 [Sparc-Solaris-8,
xforms-89.6].
I'd appreciate help or suggestions on getting this to work. Thanks,
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especially for an emacs/xemacs user. I'd
welcome suggestions on how to get these key bindings to work
correctly. Thanks,
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use it.
I'd welcome suggestions of how to get M-d to delete the word ahead of
the cursor again. Thanks,
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command{\close}[1]{\def\fromaddress{\ }\closing{#1}}
EndPreamble
End
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lyx looks like this:
\begin_inset Figure size 226 180
file photos/80-1092.ps
width 1 8
angle 270
flags 9
\end_inset
the image is rendered but not properly rotated, and the error output
is:
In RotateMatrix [image_rotate.c 239] InternalError: bad special angle
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roprietary
Linux/GNU tools. If I recall correctly, Lyx-1.1.5 and before could be
built with standard Unix utilities and a good C++ compiler. Restoring
that portability might go a long way toward wider acceptance and use
of LyX.
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ake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
It appears that -I is not an option in the Solaris m4. I'd welcome a
workaround suggestion. (I hope LyX hasn't become so Linux-oriented
that it no longer compiles with standard Unix utilities.)
Thanks,
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hose of us making the
transition from older versions of LyX can test LyX-1.2.0 before
shifting over or venturing into LD_LIBRARY_PATH kluges to use two
versions of xforms simultaneously.
Many thanks for your generous help with this.
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.
Can I configure Lyx-1.2.0 to use ghostscript to directly render the
on-screen images in the manner of Lyx-1.1.5? Or is the use of
intermediate file formats (xpm or ppm) just a fact-of-life for the new
version of LyX?
Thanks,
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of
LyX (1.1.5 and before) used only ghostscript. We prefer the Solaris
viewers for Postscript files, but if it's needed by LyX to render
on-screen images, I can install ghostview.
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es in LyX-1.1.5 documents on screen. Thanks,
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?
/usr/local, where I was building LyX, had 795mb available after the
build. If I use gnumake and /usr/local/bin/ar (gnu ar) in the insets
subdirectory, Lyx-1.2.0pre4 builds without protest.
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rc/insets'
gnumake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gnumake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/src'
gnumake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lyx-1.2.0pre4/src'
gnumake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
---[eof]-
ause trade and university publication is a collaborative process
involving copy-editors, line editors, indexers, and others, publishers
aren't as impressed with LyX as we are.
* Trade publishers are those who publish for the general public, like
Random House, Simon & Schuster,
Latex
documents is the files shalom.sty, which you put somewhere that Latex
can find, and README.shalom, which explains how to use the package.
I've included the README below. Shalom.sty and other Hebrew fonts
which you can use with the package should be available from CTAN.
Regards,
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configuration for the base langauge of the document. I
believe shalom is available from CTAN.
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versatile in emacs/xemacs and would allow so much of the xemacs/emacs
extensions to be easily ported to LyX. Or perhaps the developers
could borrow from Apache mod_perl and allow users to code extensions
in perl.
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will query you about each
replacement of `circ' with the ° symbol.
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in the individual chapter files, then set the
final spacing in the master.lyx file that `includes' the chapters.
You'll get your preferred spacing on the screen while you're writing
or editing, and the final spacing when you send the text to xdvi,
dvips, or pdflatex.
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se key may not be marked
`compose' on some systems.
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u may find that
originals like Times-Roman are more attractive than the Times New
Roman that Microsoft uses to avoid royalties to Adobe.
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ption of a newsgroup
for LyX, some subscribers argued that they preferred a mailing list
because there is too much spam on newsgroups. Hmmm?
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ure of the beast that unmoderated
mailing lists are vulnerable to viruses and spam.
In any case I'm not in favor of eliminating the mailing list, only of
also offering the more efficient alternative of a newsgroup for those
who prefer it.
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Juergen Fenn writes:
I just would like to ask everyone on the list whether you would be
interested in setting up a newsgroup for LyX instead of or besides the
lyx-users mailing list.
I would much prefer a newsgroup to the list.
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the other accents on your list are
produced with similar syntax in ERT:
\d{h} for h with a dot under
\u{o} for o with a breve accent
\b{o} for o with a bar under
\H{o} for o with a Hungarian umlaut
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tware for you.
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key to work with LyX with Sparc-Solaris-8, using
CDE, I had to set LANG=en_US in ~/.dtprofile. No other programs
needed that setting, but it didn't seem to cause any problems with
others either.
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sender writes:
i know how to open math mode, but i cant find the math panel
anywhere.
In the menues across the top of LyX, click on Math, then on Math-Panel
in that menu listing.
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solution than using LyX
for these specialized items. I'm generally a LyX fan, but I found
these packages so quick and easy to use for mailing labels and for
business cards that I didn't bother with LyX.
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sn't productive to report to a mailing list that `XYZ core dumped
when I tried to run it.' Posting a backtrace would be far more
useful.
Regards,
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acter.
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HTML OCTL HEX CMP CHR MEANING
-- + + --- + --- + --- + --
¡ | \241 | =A1 | ! ! | (¡) | Inverted exclam
. This works, along with
most commonly used accents and other special characters, in Solaris.
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efine PRINTER as hplj and INIT as "" if you have an HP-pcl printer.
Sorry for the screwed-up earlier postings.
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Ronald Florence writes:
You can try http://www.18james.com/utilities#icon
Un-uh. It's http://www.18james.com/utilities.html#icon which points
to http://www.18james.com/code/envelope.icn . Works with Postscript
or HP-PCL printers.
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nt an envelope, with the USPS barcode, from LyX,
LaTeX, or troff. I meant to translate the program to perl long ago,
and never got around to it. Icon is available from
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ for most operating systems.
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nding replies to as many or as few people as you want.
Could we please return to our regularly scheduled discussion of using
LyX instead of continuing this noise about how the list should be run?
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table-stability of 1.1.5 will be available? Thanks,
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n't work with the standard versions
of Unix that many readers of this list use. As Richard Stallman has
so often said, Gnu isn't Unix.
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er is relatively easy.
(I take it vim is some Linux variant of the Unix vi editor?)
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linked, even when rendering the
images on the screen. The online version of the paper at
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/sdhs/journal/98fall/palomar.htm doesn't do
justice to the original LyX-generated camera-ready copy or to the
photos.
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ith LyX is with my agent, and I'm
in the midst of a work of historical narrative, also written with LyX,
that will probably be ~400 pages when published.
* see http://www.18james.com/thelastseason.html
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don't mention your operating system, but on Solaris you can type
` r o' to get the ® registered trademark symbol, just as
` c o' yields the © copyright symbol. I assume that any
X-server can be configured to do the same. This works on both the LyX
display and in the Postscript output.
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