Re:[SOLVED] lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 10, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: > The biggest problem should be that I have about a half dozen .lyx files > that I open all at once via a script when I work on the story. But > since that script finishes by backing up my .lyxfiles to a usbstick from > which I can

Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter

2009-03-10 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Alex: > So undeterred by the myriad of similar efforts I set to the task of > producing a simple, specialized tool for LyX -> HTML conversion, and > the result is eLyXer. It is meant to produce acceptable-to-beautiful > HTML code, depending on your browser's Unicode and CSS rendering > merits. D

pdfsync and tables clash

2009-03-10 Thread James C. Sutherland
If you use the pdfsync class and then create a table with a specified column width then the table column width becomes very wide. Removing the pdfsync package seems to fix the problem. Can anyone duplicate this? Is it a LyX bug or a LaTeX problem???

Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter

2009-03-10 Thread Alex Fernandez
Dear LyX users, LyX is a wonderful editor; its PDF output is perhaps unmatched by other graphical editors. But the most common interchange method of today is HTML, and LyX does not produce good HTML. There are some tools for TeX -> HTML conversion, and even LyX -> HTML, but the results tend to be

Re: \begin{definition}

2009-03-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Bickel schrieb: Thanks, Uwe. I filed a bug report. I think I fixed it, please test. (My bug description was wrong, not the graphicx package was or is the problem. There was a bug in the handling of the amsmath package. Unfortunately, adding the deleted \usepackage lines back to the L

Re: \begin{definition}

2009-03-10 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I understand now why I loose a lot of elements in my preambles during imports from SWP into Lyx. The idea is smart, but maybe too smart to work flawlessly ;-) Concerning your problem, maybe adding a newtheorem called definition in the preamble could solve it?. \newtheorem{definition}{Definition}

Re: \begin{definition}

2009-03-10 Thread David Bickel
Thanks, Uwe. I filed a bug report. Unfortunately, adding the deleted \usepackage lines back to the LyX file did not prevent the error. David On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > David Bickel schrieb: > >> Thanks, Uwe. I reproduced the error using the following file contents. > >

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
, It would appear that on Mar 9, Guenter Milde did say: > On 2009-03-09, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > One of my computers is running lyx 1.6.1 on which I > > recently wrote a couple of documents. Then I had occasion > > to modify one of the .lyx files on a different linux box. > > But the

Re: old document corrupted

2009-03-10 Thread rgheck
Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I don't mean take-your-vitamins-stay-in-school advice! I have a bunch of documents written in version 1.4.3, and 1.3.7 and lower, and they won't open. Have you tried running lyx2lyx from a terminal? Then at least you'll get error messages. rh

Re: old document corrupted

2009-03-10 Thread Witek Firlej
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: > I don't mean take-your-vitamins-stay-in-school advice! > I have a bunch of documents written in version 1.4.3, and 1.3.7 and lower, > and they won't open. >> >> >> >> Any advice? File->Import -- :: Witek Firlej :: :: Studencka wypraw

Re: \begin{definition}

2009-03-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Bickel schrieb: Thanks, Uwe. I reproduced the error using the following file contents. The problem is that the file exported from SWP has a huge amount of definitions in the document preamble that are not used in the further document. For example the counter "MaxMatrixCols" is set. Thi

Re: old document corrupted

2009-03-10 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I don't mean take-your-vitamins-stay-in-school advice! I have a bunch of documents written in version 1.4.3, and 1.3.7 and lower, and they won't open. Any advice?

Re: old document corrupted

2009-03-10 Thread Witek Firlej
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: > I opened a lyx file written in 2007 with 1.6.1. > > It failed to open. But worse, it now shows up as 0 bytes and won't open with > a text editor. > > > Any advice? > Get it from backup... ? -- :: Witek Firlej :: :: Studencka wyprawa

old document corrupted

2009-03-10 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I opened a lyx file written in 2007 with 1.6.1. It failed to open. But worse, it now shows up as 0 bytes and won't open with a text editor. Any advice? -- Dr Eran S. Kaplinsky Faculty of Law University of Alberta 447 Law Centre Edmonton · AB · T6G 2H5 C A N A D A

Re: \begin{definition}

2009-03-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Bickel schrieb: In Scientific Word, I saved my file as "portable LaTeX." From Lyx, I imported the file as plain LaTeX. When I try to compile it, "\begin{definition}" causes this error: "LaTeX error: environment definition undefined." Then the export from Scientific Word was incomplete. I

\begin{definition}

2009-03-10 Thread David Bickel
In Scientific Word, I saved my file as "portable LaTeX." From Lyx, I imported the file as plain LaTeX. When I try to compile it, "\begin{definition}" causes this error: "LaTeX error: environment definition undefined." That problem is not addressed here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportingFromSWP I

Re: biblatex in lyx

2009-03-10 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 11:30:52 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I am trying to use biblatex in lyx. The etoolbox.sty is not found. I tried > to find and install it with synaptics under Debian Lenny, but it is not > listed. Where can I find it? > > Wolfgang I downloaded from the CTAN archive, copied

Re: About your website

2009-03-10 Thread Florian Rubach
Webmaster V schrieb: > Hello > > We are http://www.desktopexchange.com > [...] > my idea is to exxchange links with your Site, > [...] for sure, mate you serious?!?!?

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

2009-03-10 Thread Ramon Flores
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 Sam Russell wrote: > You should note that there are approximately six versions of en-gb, at > least one of which approximates Australian standard use. Better > results could be had he you lobbied Macquarie Dictionary for an aspell > en-au is it possible to select any of the si

Re: Macros

2009-03-10 Thread Ignacio García
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:52:51 -0700 ray reeves wrote > I have learned enough LyX to prepare a math document but now I would like to > define some macros to abbreviate some commands. In Latex I can say: \define > \name{body} but how shall I do the same thing in LyX? I've had no success > with the TeX c

compressing citations with "cite" doesn't work?

2009-03-10 Thread James C. Sutherland
I typically include: \usepackage{cite} in my preamble to compress citations so that [1 2 3 4] becomes [1-4]. However, it seems to not work. I saw a thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg12977.html that suggests removing Babel. I did so (I think) and it

biblatex in lyx

2009-03-10 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am trying to use biblatex in lyx. The etoolbox.sty is not found. I tried to find and install it with synaptics under Debian Lenny, but it is not listed. Where can I find it? Wolfgang

Re: Cyrillic formatted text in mathmode

2009-03-10 Thread neGODnick
You have lines longer than 80 characters. Fix that.

Re: Macros

2009-03-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
ray reeves schrieb: I have learned enough LyX to prepare a math document but now I would like to define some macros to abbreviate some commands. Have a look at the Math manual (sec. 20) that you find in the help menu of LyX. regards Uwe

Re: Macros

2009-03-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
ray reeves wrote: I have learned enough LyX to prepare a math document but now I would like to define some macros to abbreviate some commands. In Latex I can say: \define \name{body} but how shall I do the same thing in LyX? I've had no success with the TeX code boxes. It depends. There's be

Macros

2009-03-10 Thread ray reeves
I have learned enough LyX to prepare a math document but now I would like to define some macros to abbreviate some commands. In Latex I can say: \define \name{body} but how shall I do the same thing in LyX? I've had no success with the TeX code boxes. -- View this message in context: http://n2.

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:44:46 +0200 Ronen Abravanel wrote: > Before you rush into this change - Consider the following usecase: > Switching to math - When I'm in math-mode, I always want my keyboard layout > to be English. While In windows, The current keyboard layout override the > global one (If

Re: Lilypond integration

2009-03-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-03-10, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > btw as a small poll - what version of lilypond you people use? > > (see http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5834 ) > > Version: 2.10.33-2.3 (Debian/testing). > > BTW: How much work would it be to copy/adapt the lilypond external

Re: Lilypond integration

2009-03-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-10, Pavel Sanda wrote: > btw as a small poll - what version of lilypond you people use? > (see http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5834 ) Version: 2.10.33-2.3 (Debian/testing). BTW: How much work would it be to copy/adapt the lilypond external inset to an inset for *.abc music fil

Lyx 1.6.1 - T1{fontenc} not generated under WIndows (but ok under OSX)

2009-03-10 Thread Hans-Georg.Stork
I am using LyX under Windows and OSX. For the same file (class: article) OSX-LyX generates \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} whereas Windows-LyX does not. Result: LaTeX/TeX don't not do their job (plenty of error messages apparently related to unrecognised characters in the bibliography) for the Windo

Re: Lilypond integration

2009-03-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
Johannes Asal wrote: > 1. It interrupts the creative process, because you need to prepare the > lilypond snippets in another editor and import them afterwards > 2. You don't have a preview and therefore it is a bit difficult to see > whether you have written something already or not you should be

Re: Lilypond integration

2009-03-10 Thread Johannes Asal
I know that you can include Lilypond material by External Material. That's ok when you have few notation examples in your text and I appreciate that someone took the time to implement it. But I'm trying to write a book about jazz harmonics and therefore I need many musical examples that have to be

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
Micha Feigin wrote: > system language for english and bind (f12 in this case) to language hebrew. It > makes things incosistent and non-intuitive, esspecially for new users. iirc one reason for the current way was to have crossplatform consistent behaviour. pavel

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-10 Thread rgheck
Gesualdo Scutari wrote: Thanks for your answer and your patience. Actually I did: I use the browse button to select the bib file. SO, I'm sure that I give a full path to it. I wouldn't be so sure. Look in the LaTeX file for the \bibliography command and see what's there. rh Thanks. ALdo

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-10 Thread Gesualdo Scutari
Thanks for your answer and your patience. Actually I did: I use the browse button to select the bib file. SO, I'm sure that I give a full path to it. Thanks. ALdo Il giorno 10/mar/09, alle ore 20:05, rgheck ha scritto: Gesualdo Scutari wrote: Thanks for your answer. I exported the lyx doc

Re: Specifying a Style Guild?

2009-03-10 Thread rgheck
charles reid wrote: It's a thesis class provided by my university... I've attached it. Where did you get a layout file for it? Anyway, this has nothing to do with LyX. You should ask whoever created the class file what a StyleGuild is and how to define one. rh On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:06

Re: Lilypond integration

2009-03-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
j.asal wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to write a music theory book with LyX. For musical examples I would > like to use Lilypond, but there seems to be no support for including and > displaying Lilypond snippets (apart from importing whole Lilypond files). I > know that one could use lilypond-book to

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-10 Thread rgheck
Gesualdo Scutari wrote: Thanks for your answer. I exported the lyx doc in tex and the only proble I see in the .log file is that there are undefined references. It seems that latex cannot find the bib file, which is in the same directory of the .tex file. In the tex file I call also other file

Re: Lilypond integration

2009-03-10 Thread Helge Hafting
j.asal wrote: Hi, I want to write a music theory book with LyX. For musical examples I would like to use Lilypond, but there seems to be no support for including and displaying Lilypond snippets (apart from importing whole Lilypond files). I know that one could use lilypond-book to postprocess f

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-10 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Before you rush into this change - Consider the following usecase: Switching to math - When I'm in math-mode, I always want my keyboard layout to be English. While In windows, The current keyboard layout override the global one (If you put the cursor in an Hebrew context, the language will switch t

Re: Query on new-chapters-not-on-new-page

2009-03-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: This may sound like a bizarre query: but is it possible to ensure that every new chapter doesn't start on a new page in a book format? Anything is possible. The easy way out is to use the 'article' class. It doesn't have chapters, instead "section" is

Re: Cyrillic formatted text in mathmode

2009-03-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, neGODnick wrote: > Guenter Milde writes: >> On 2009-03-08, neGODnick wrote: > Yes, but it is much less usefull, for example, to change all letters in > whole document :( >> What is an Эптнц? > Oh, just author's abbreviation, from Э_потенциальное (E_potential). But then птнц shou

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Guenter Milde schrieb: >> As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers >> and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser >> (save-file dialogue) with export. > I propose to export to "name-lyx15.lyx" ins

Re: Custom Paragraph Styles -- Can I add things to the preamble?

2009-03-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, Ross O'Connell wrote: > I'm trying to put together a LyX layout for JHEP3.cls. This is fairly > widely used in physics, and produces a nice titlepage and toc. It has > the peculiarity that all of the titlepage type material (title, authors, > abstract, etc.) has to appear /befor

Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Micha Feigin wrote: Sorry, sent off list by mistake On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:05:51 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: There are two issues. For running the dictionary you need to know the language. For hebrew and arabic it's another issue, you need to know the system language so that you know

Re: Include .fig files using Miktex

2009-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Niko Schwarz schrieb: While my Mac can easily include .fig files generated by xfig, my Windows machine cannot. How can I teach windows lyx to convert .fig files properly? We recently had this topic and came to the conclusions that this doesn't work correctly on Windows, be