Re: Lost some work in 1.6.2. :-(

[James Mansion]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:

Where is your backup that is made every 5 minutes ?


I don't know - is there one?

It was a new document so I hadn't explicitly saved it anywhere yet.  I 
restarted Lyx hoping it would offer to recover but it didn't.


If it is saving the work in progress, maybe such an offer could be made 
more prominently?


James

Re: Consecutive numeration of lists also after a section in standard-format

[Florian Rubach]

jezZiFeR schrieb:

I could not download that module, I just get a textfile opened in my browser
if click the link of the enumitem module (
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/attachment.cgi?id=3167action=view)

I have already tried to save that file and changed its name to
enumitem.module, but this does not work.

How have I got to do that?

Tahnk you!
What platform are you on? On Windows, you have to make sure that your 
file extensions aren't hidden and you renamed it to 
enumitem.module.cgi without seeing the .cgi extension...
I did not have to run any texhash command like Steve suggested, because 
I am using Miktex, which updates it's filename-database when you install 
the package enumitem through the Miktex Package Manager.


Greetings,
Florian

Re: Lost some work in 1.6.2. :-(

[Florian Rubach]

James Mansion schrieb:

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:

Where is your backup that is made every 5 minutes ?


I don't know - is there one?

It was a new document so I hadn't explicitly saved it anywhere yet.  I 
restarted Lyx hoping it would offer to recover but it didn't.


If it is saving the work in progress, maybe such an offer could be 
made more prominently?


James


I think LyX is always making those backups, and usually, when it detects 
the backup file being newer than the original, it suggests you to open 
the backup-file. But when you create a new document, it will temporarily 
be saved in a directory depending on your platform and installation, 
until you save it to a specific location. So  in your case,  there may 
be a  backup of  newfile1.lyx somewhere around, but I think it could 
have been overwritten in the meantime.


Greetings,
Florian

Re: Math letters become boxes.

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-03-18, Hoikwang Kim wrote:

 I just installed lyx to my new laptop but the math letters are all seen as
 boxes.

In the LyX window or in the output?

 Can anybody help me to solve this problem?

Not without more info (OS, LaTeX distribution, locale) 
It looks much like missing or wrong fonts.

Günter

Slowness Question

[rgheck]

Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people 
who are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do 
they?


rh

Re: Slowness Question

[Ethan Metsger]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:36:36 -0400, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:

Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people  
who are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do  
they?


I haven't.  I noticed a bit of slowness in 1.6.0 (I haven't upgraded since  
then), but I just adjusted the window size to be smaller, and it sped up  
for me considerably.  (I'm using LyX 1.6.0 on Intrepid Ibex, 1GB RAM and a  
Core2Duo clocked at 1.8GHz.)


Best,

Ethan

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 unusably slow on the Mac

[Dirk Materlik]

On 18.03.2009, at 15:57, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
Do you by any chance have your documents stored on a network drive  
or

an external drive ?


No, it's all on the internal disk.


I noticed that I have a lot of network traffic between the moment I
start typing and the moment that all text is drawn on screen.

Could you confirm the increased network traffic within this period ?



No, I do not see any increased network traffic in this period.

Dirk.

Re: Max single-file book size

[Helge Hafting]

Sophie (itsme213) wrote:
What is a rough page-size limit for a single-file Lyx book (assuming pretty 
current hardware, plenty of RAM etc)?


There should be no limit really. I wrote a 384-page book in 2002. LyX 
was fine for editing it. Actually making the PDF took some 5 minutes on 
that machine (512MB memory). But that didn't matter - the editing was 
fine. PDFs were only made occationally so the publisher could look at 
the material.


There should be no need to worry about text. If you have hundreds and 
hundreds of high-resolution images, then perhaps it pays off breaking 
the book up into several files. Many people do that anyway in order to 
avoid very long scrolling.


Helge Hafting

Re: upload a custom layout

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, nckg wrote:


If this layout could be of any use for other people, I would like to upload
it to LyX website.
(However I haven't found a register option there, so I am writing here.)


Hi Nick,

If you´d like, I can send you the password for uploading files off-list. 
Othewise Uwe´s suggestion is good :-)


Best regards
/Christian



With best regards,
Nick.



--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44

fig script

[Niko Schwarz]

Ok, this is interesting. I have 2 mac machines. Apparantly, their  
setup is not entirely identical.


One of them prings the .fig images perfectly, the other one makes them  
pixely and turned 90 °. Turns out that the fig2pdftex.py script fails.


Here's what I see on the command line:

bash-3.2$ python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/scripts/ 
fig2pdftex.py combinatorical\ explosion.fig explo.pdft

File combinatorical does not exist
Command 'fig2dev -Lpdftex -p1 combinatorical explosion.fig explo.pdf'  
fails.

bash-3.2$

Ok, so I immediately guessed that renaming the file to combi.fig would  
fix the problem and it was true. Just funny that on my other Mac  
machine can handle spaces in file names while the other cannot. Both  
use Lyx 1.6.1.


Niko

No number below PART (book class)

[Ellesmere]

I'm using the standard book (not KOMA-script) class to put together a book.
So far I'm very happy with it, but I am unable to remove the page numbering
from PART sections. I've searched this mailing list far and wide for answers
and so far have not found a solution.

I've tried:

\thispagestyle{empty} on both sides of PART.

And I've tried a few other recommendations, but I think they only apply to
KOMA-script. For example, if I switch to KOMA, the following command works
great:

\renewcommand*{\partpagestyle}{empty}

But I don't want to switch because I'm happy with the book class otherwise.
It's very simple (I following a free PDF tutorial) and I don't want to play
around KOMA-script to get the headings to look like the book class. I was on
a roll entering in all my chapters and doing the basic editing.

Any help appreciated.
-- 
View this message in context: 
http://n2.nabble.com/No-number-below-PART-%28book-class%29-tp2504116p2504116.html
Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Figure and its caption side by side

[E.Kaplan]

  1.   How do I place a figure caption near the figure, /not /above or
 below it?  I know how to do it in Latex, but not in Lyx
  2. Since I am sure many of our questions are repeats, how does one
 search the list archive?

Thanks,
Ehud Kaplan

Re: No number below PART (book class)

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 19/03/2009, a las 18:05, Ellesmere escribió:



I'm using the standard book (not KOMA-script) class to put together  
a book.
So far I'm very happy with it, but I am unable to remove the page  
numbering
from PART sections. I've searched this mailing list far and wide for  
answers

and so far have not found a solution.

I've tried:

\thispagestyle{empty} on both sides of PART. [...]


I've started putting together a standard book and wanted to use the  
fancyhdr package. I also had some page numbers showing up spuriously  
and reading some documentation it said that the pages where the page  
number was showing up were using the plain style. Thus, I added the  
following to my preamble which resets the style for those pages:


\fancypagestyle{plain}{}

Maybe this guides you in the right direction.

Re: Consecutive numeration of lists also after a section in standard-format

[jezZiFeR]

 I could not download that module, I just get a textfile opened in my
 browser
 if click the link of the enumitem module (
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/attachment.cgi?id=3167action=view)

 I have already tried to save that file and changed its name to
 enumitem.module, but this does not work.


  What platform are you on? On Windows, you have to make sure that your
 file extensions aren't hidden and you renamed it to enumitem.module.cgi
 without seeing the .cgi extension...
 I did not have to run any texhash command like Steve suggested, because I
 am using Miktex, which updates it's filename-database when you install the
 package enumitem through the Miktex Package Manager.



Well, now, after running texhash it works – on OSX.
Thank you all!

Jess

Hey

[Adrian Diaz]

I am checking the mailing lis

Hi comunity of lyx

[Adrian Diaz]

I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.5.6  and when i want to watch it by pdf, i
have noticed
that : index of figures, index of tables, general index, and all cross
references (
among chapters, sections etc. and bibligraphy) have a bounding box.

My question is: how can i manage in lyx editor *to not appearing the
bounding box* in the
pdf editor print.


 My best regard  Adrian

Re: Figure and its caption side by side

[Uwe Stöhr]

E.Kaplan schrieb:


  1.   How do I place a figure caption near the figure, /not /above or
 below it?  I know how to do it in Latex, but not in Lyx


See sec. 3.9 Caption Placement of LyX's EmbeddedObjects manual that you find 
in the Help menu of LyX.

regards Uwe

Re: Hi comunity of lyx

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 19/03/2009, a las 20:39, Adrian Diaz escribió:

I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.5.6  and when i want to watch it  
by pdf, i

have noticed
that : index of figures, index of tables, general index, and all cross
references (
among chapters, sections etc. and bibligraphy) have a bounding box.

My question is: how can i manage in lyx editor *to not appearing the
bounding box* in the
pdf editor print.


Go to your document's configuration. In the PDF properties section,  
select the hyperlink tab and check the option that removes these  
bounding boxes.

Reporting bugs of macosx binary builds

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

I've started working with lyx 1.6.2 under macosx, and sometimes the  
application crashes randomly. I've been unable to reproduce these  
crashes, but when I open macosx' bug report window there is a stack  
trace with the C++ code calls that happened before the crash.


I was wondering if this information is useful to somebody, since I  
read on the lyx' website that unreproducible bugs are ignored.

Re: Hi comunity of lyx

[Uwe Stöhr]

Adrian Diaz schrieb:


I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.5.6  and when i want to watch it by pdf, i
have noticed
that : index of figures, index of tables, general index, and all cross
references (
among chapters, sections etc. and bibligraphy) have a bounding box.


The boxes visualizes the links in your PDF. They appear when you have loaded the package hyperref 
in the preamble of your document. To use hyperref, but without the boxes, then load hyperref with 
the option


pdfborder={0 0 0}

Btw. LyX 1.6.x has native support for hyperref and allows you to (de)activate its options by check 
boxes in the document settings dialog.


regards Uwe

Re: Reporting bugs of macosx binary builds

[rgheck]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
I've started working with lyx 1.6.2 under macosx, and sometimes the 
application crashes randomly. I've been unable to reproduce these 
crashes, but when I open macosx' bug report window there is a stack 
trace with the C++ code calls that happened before the crash.


I was wondering if this information is useful to somebody, since I 
read on the lyx' website that unreproducible bugs are ignored.


You could post the backtrace, but if you're not using a debug-enabled 
build, it might not mean much.


Bugs we can't reproduce aren't so much ignored as, well, hard to work 
on. I.e., impossible to work on.


Richard

Bibtex?

[Adrian Diaz]

Friends

I have a problem with Bibtex, cos when i want to check my thesis by Adobe
Acrobat R/W editor

all references to bibliography ( made  by BibTex in lyx editor ) do not
appear and the bibligraphy section is not generated.
However during the process of making a copy in PDF, my lyx editor does not
send any error message.


   Grettings Adrian

Lilypond converter - broken?

[Piero Faustini]

I'm using LyX 1.6.1 in Windows XP and latest Lilypond version.
I had no troubles with including Lilypond files as external material till some 
weeks, but I can't assure the problem started when I upgraded from 1.6.0
Anyway, this is the problem:
When I compile, after including a external lilypond files which I still NEVER 
used, I receive this error message:


LyX: Cannot convert file

An error occurred whilst running lilypond -b eps -ps 
7F__DiLavoro_Tesi_files_lily


being the last line a (broken?) representation of Lilypond file path (which, by 
instance, is F:\DiLavoro\Tesi\files\lilypond\filename.ly): I leave it as an 
example of the corruption (?) of file path. The message is similar for every 
path I try to put my files. changing between LaTeX/Pdflatex (even in the 
include file options) doesn't solve anything.

(The error is given also if I try the show in LyX option, just after leaving 
the include file box.)

If it helps, I didn't realize the problem till today because old Lilypond files 
always work well, as if there were somewhere in a temp directory the 
corresponding ps or pdf, allowing LyX not to run Lilypond. (I couldn't find 
them, and I already DELETED any pdf or ps in the working dirs... VERY 
strange!!!)

I'm puzzled, any idea???
Thanks,
Pier

Re: Bibtex?

[rgheck]

Adrian Diaz wrote:

Friends

I have a problem with Bibtex, cos when i want to check my thesis by Adobe
Acrobat R/W editor

all references to bibliography ( made  by BibTex in lyx editor ) do not
appear and the bibligraphy section is not generated.
However during the process of making a copy in PDF, my lyx editor does not
send any error message.

  

What does appear? Question marks?

rh

Lyx and Jabref

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Hello,
I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?

Thank you in advance for you help.

Murat

-- 
*** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! ***

Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
13236 Marseille cedex 02

Bureau 320
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau)
Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27

e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
__

Re: Slowness Question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:
 Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people who
 are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do they?

I haven't followed the slowness discussions, so please ignore if off-toic.

There's one behaviour I wanted to report (for either 1.5.7 or 1.6.1).
Generally LyX is quite OK on speed, but one specific instance where it
gets slow---regarding the responsiveness of the UI---is when tables
are used in the document (if of use, I could send certain of my files
off-list). As  soon as tables are inserted, especially longer tables
or several smaller ones, the user interface becomes slow (mostly?) on
the parts of the document where the tables are present.

The View Source widget was *not* open at slowness times. I could
easily reproduce the bug on my system.
Liviu

li...@localhost ~ $ eix -e lyx
[I] app-office/lyx
 Installed versions:  1.6.1!t(21:45:06 21/12/08)(X cups docbook
dot html latex nls rtf -debug -linguas_ar -linguas_ca -linguas_cs
-linguas_de -linguas_en -linguas_es -linguas_eu -linguas_fi
-linguas_fr -linguas_gl -linguas_he -linguas_hu -linguas_it
-linguas_ja -linguas_nb -linguas_nn -linguas_pl -linguas_pt
-linguas_ro -linguas_ru -linguas_tr -linguas_uk -linguas_zh_CN
-linguas_zh_TW -monolithic-build)
li...@localhost ~ $ eix -e qt
[I] x11-libs/qt
 Installed versions:  4.4.2(4)(15:57:16 16/02/09)(dbus opengl qt3support)
li...@localhost ~ $ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.22-gentoo-r5-0.5 #3 Sat Mar 14 12:22:37 CET 2009
i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux




-- 
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: Slowness Question

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 19/03/2009, a las 22:14, Liviu Andronic escribió:


There's one behaviour I wanted to report (for either 1.5.7 or 1.6.1).
Generally LyX is quite OK on speed, but one specific instance where it
gets slow---regarding the responsiveness of the UI---is when tables
are used in the document (if of use, I could send certain of my files
off-list). As  soon as tables are inserted, especially longer tables
or several smaller ones, the user interface becomes slow (mostly?) on
the parts of the document where the tables are present.


Happens also for me under Macosx. I thought that was normal, so I  
solved the problem putting each table in a separate file that is  
inserted into the main document as an external file reference.

Floating wrapper figure with image drawn out of page

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

I'm usiing Lyx 1.6.2 under Macosx to put a floating wrapped figure  
with a .tiff image inside a framed box. I don't know what I'm doing  
wrong, but the image is being placed near the bottom of the page so  
that it is half drawn outside, and the next page also contains the  
space reserved for the float, but with no image.


Difficult to explain, so here's the test case and generated pdf:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/145894/floating.lyx
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/145894/floating.pdf

Any ideas on what could I do?

Re: Bibtex?

[rgheck]

Adrian Diaz wrote:

In every place referenced to bibliography, appear  ??

Then LyX for some reason isn't finding your bibliography file. If you're 
able, in LyX, to add citations, then there's probably a problem with the 
path you've given LyX to your BibTeX file. Another possibility is that 
there's some kind of error in the BibTeX file that's causing this. The 
way to debug is to export to LaTeX and then, preferably, compile by hand 
or, at least, look for the \bibliography command and see what the path 
is there.


rh

PS Keep the discussion on the list in case someone else is having 
similar issues.



2009/3/19 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com mailto:rgh...@bobjweil.com

Adrian Diaz wrote:

Friends

I have a problem with Bibtex, cos when i want to check my
thesis by Adobe
Acrobat R/W editor

all references to bibliography ( made  by BibTex in lyx editor
) do not
appear and the bibligraphy section is not generated.
However during the process of making a copy in PDF, my lyx
editor does not
send any error message.

 


What does appear? Question marks?

rh

Re: Lyx and Jabref

[rgheck]

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hello,
I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?

  
I don't understand. What do you mean LyX cant see JabRef? LyX and JabRef 
do not interact on Windows, so far as I know. Where you put the .bib 
files is an entirely different issue. You can put them where you like.


rh

Re: Slowness Question

[rgheck]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:


El 19/03/2009, a las 22:14, Liviu Andronic escribió:


There's one behaviour I wanted to report (for either 1.5.7 or 1.6.1).
Generally LyX is quite OK on speed, but one specific instance where it
gets slow---regarding the responsiveness of the UI---is when tables
are used in the document (if of use, I could send certain of my files
off-list). As  soon as tables are inserted, especially longer tables
or several smaller ones, the user interface becomes slow (mostly?) on
the parts of the document where the tables are present.


Happens also for me under Macosx. I thought that was normal, so I 
solved the problem putting each table in a separate file that is 
inserted into the main document as an external file reference.


I'd suggest adding this to bugzilla. I don't know why the problem 
exists. Maybe a drawing issue? But I'm sure someone will give it some 
attention.


rh

Re: Lilypond converter - broken?

[Piero Faustini]

Piero Faustini pierofaust...@... writes:
 
 corresponding ps or pdf, allowing LyX not to run Lilypond. (I couldn't find 
 them, and I already DELETED any pdf or ps in the working dirs... VERY 
 strange!!!)


Uhm, I found them, in a cache dir in LyX application Data.
About my problem, I'm still puzzled and need help.

Re: Floating wrapper figure with image drawn out of page

[Ignacio García]

19 Mar 2009 14:29:29
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote

  I'm usiing Lyx 1.6.2 under Macosx to put a floating wrapped figure with a 
 .tiff image inside   framed box. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but the 
 image is being placed near the
 bottom of the page so that it is half drawn outside, and the next page also 
 contains the
 space reserved for the float, but with no image.

 Difficult to explain, so here's the test case and generated pdf:

 http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/145894/floating.lyx
 http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/145894/floating.pdf

Right clic on the wrap:Figure inset box, and then Settings and check
Allow floating

I hope this fix the issue

Regards
Ignacio García

Re: Floating wrapper figure with image drawn out of page

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 19/03/2009, a las 23:06, Ignacio García escribió:


Right clic on the wrap:Figure inset box, and then Settings and check
Allow floating


Yes, it works now.

Re: Lyx and Jabref

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:43 -0400, rgheck wrote:
 Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
  Hello,
  I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
  for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
  on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
  visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?
 

 I don't understand. What do you mean LyX cant see JabRef? LyX and JabRef 
 do not interact on Windows, so far as I know. Where you put the .bib 
 files is an entirely different issue. You can put them where you like.
 
 rh
 
I normally use JabRef and it creates the standard BibTeX file.

In LyX, the BibTeX file (*.bib) is called from Insert  List/TOC 
BibTeX Bibliography... 
In the document, it can be refered from Insert  citation...

Regards
was

GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Robert Betz]

Installed the new Lyx 1.6.2 the other day on a Windows XP x64 machine, but 
found that there are problems with the GUI.  If on moves one of the toolbars to 
somewhere else on the toolbar area then stop and restart the program it the 
toolbar is at a different position.  Also when the program installed it did not 
find my Miktex distribution, location even though it indicated that the 
distribution existed.  Finally the program started by opening a command console 
and then closing it after the main Lyx program started.  Seems that there have 
been a number of bug issues introduced with this bug maintenance release.
 
Have other users experienced there issues?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
 
 
 


Regards


Bob Betz



-

Dr. Robert Betz
Ampcontrol Professor of Power Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Chief Technical Consultant
ResTech Pty Ltd
Deputy Head of Faculty,
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
University of Newcastle, Australia.

email: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au 
TEL: +61-2-4921-6091
FAX: +61-2-4921-6993
Mobile: (+61)-(0)419249948
Web: http://eecsbobb.uncle.newcastle.edu.au/rebetz

-

RE: GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

Hi Bob

Installed the new Lyx 1.6.2 the other day on a Windows XP
x64 machine, but found that there are problems with the GUI.
If on moves one of the toolbars to somewhere else on the
toolbar area then stop and restart the program it the toolbar
is at a different position. 

This is a known bug indeed, but it is in the qt-library we use, so we
can't do much about this. In the most recent release of qt (4.5), this
bug is solved, but we did not include it yet in the distribution.

Also when the program installed it did not find my Miktex distribution,
location even though it indicated that the distribution existed.

I don't really understand what you want to say here.

Finally the program started by opening a command console and then
closing it after the main Lyx program started.  Seems that there
have been a number of bug issues introduced with this bug maintenance
release.

The 'official' LyX 1.6.2 installer is not yet available (which I
regret), so you probably have used the 'alternative' installer to
install LyX. This installer for instance installs a lyx.bat file which
is used to start LyX. That's why it looks like the behaviour has
changed.

Have other users experienced there issues?
 
Thanks in advance.

Regards, 

Vincent

Re: Lyx and Jabref

[rgheck]

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:43 -0400, rgheck wrote:
  

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:


Hello,
I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?

  
  
I don't understand. What do you mean LyX cant see JabRef? LyX and JabRef 
do not interact on Windows, so far as I know. Where you put the .bib 
files is an entirely different issue. You can put them where you like.


rh



I normally use JabRef and it creates the standard BibTeX file.

In LyX, the BibTeX file (*.bib) is called from Insert  List/TOC 
BibTeX Bibliography... 
In the document, it can be refered from Insert  citation...


  
Yes, indeed. And what's the problem then? Are you unable to choose the 
bib file for some reason?


rh

Smart single quotes in LyX (1.6.1, Mac OS X 10.5.6)

[Grant Jacobs]

Is there a means to make smart *single* quotes the default in the 
same way as is done for double quotes?


Or, alternatively, is there a simple means to have LyX recognise that 
if a user enters ' LyX should treat it as if the user had entered 
shift-alt-' (or shift-ctrl-')?


I suspect that they might be some way of persuading this to happen 
from the key mapping files, but I've already wasted too much time 
trying to figure this out. (In any event locate doesn't report any 
.kdef files, so I have no idea where to look for them them yet!)



Grant

--
---
Grant Jacobs Ph.D. BioinfoTools
ph. +64 3 478 0095  (office, after 10am)   PO Box 6129,
or  +64 27 601 5917 (mobile)   Dunedin,
gjac...@bioinfotools.com   NEW ZEALAND.
   Bioinformatics tools: deriving knowledge from biological data
Bioinformatics tools - software development - consulting - training
 18 years experience in bioinformatics ready to solve your problem
Check out the website for more details: http://www.bioinfotools.com

RE: GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Robert Betz]

Vincent,
 
Thanks for the reply.  I noted that the GUI bug was in an earlier release, 
(V1.6.0 I think),  but it seemed to disappear in V1.6.1-1.  Well at least is 
does not occur in my installation.
 
The statement about the finding Miktex was to indicate that there appears to be 
an issue with the installer in that it finds that there is a Miktex 
distribution but is unable to fill in the path to the latex.exe file.  Probably 
the wrong list to be talking about this anyway.
 
Looking forward to the final official distribution.
 
 
 


Regards


Bob Betz



-

Dr. Robert Betz
Ampcontrol Professor of Power Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Chief Technical Consultant
ResTech Pty Ltd
Deputy Head of Faculty,
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
University of Newcastle, Australia.

email: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au 
TEL: +61-2-4921-6091
FAX: +61-2-4921-6993
Mobile: (+61)-(0)419249948
Web: http://eecsbobb.uncle.newcastle.edu.au/rebetz

-






 On 20/03/2009 at 11:23 am, in message 
 c546d37f214ddb42aa01f512af0bfd99562...@srv502.tudelft.net, Vincent van 
 Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote:
Hi Bob

Installed the new Lyx 1.6.2 the other day on a Windows XP
x64 machine, but found that there are problems with the GUI.
If on moves one of the toolbars to somewhere else on the
toolbar area then stop and restart the program it the toolbar
is at a different position. 

This is a known bug indeed, but it is in the qt-library we use, so we
can't do much about this. In the most recent release of qt (4.5), this
bug is solved, but we did not include it yet in the distribution.

Also when the program installed it did not find my Miktex distribution,
location even though it indicated that the distribution existed.

I don't really understand what you want to say here.

Finally the program started by opening a command console and then
closing it after the main Lyx program started.  Seems that there
have been a number of bug issues introduced with this bug maintenance
release.

The 'official' LyX 1.6.2 installer is not yet available (which I
regret), so you probably have used the 'alternative' installer to
install LyX. This installer for instance installs a lyx.bat file which
is used to start LyX. That's why it looks like the behaviour has
changed.

Have other users experienced there issues?
 
Thanks in advance.

Regards, 

Vincent

Re: Lyx and Jabref

[Paul A. Rubin]

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hello,
I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?

Thank you in advance for you help.

Murat



If you're thinking about the alleged ability to push references from 
JabRef into LyX, that only works on Linux (or Linux-like) systems. 
There's a problem with the use of named pipes on Windows that keeps it 
from working there.  But, as mentioned elsewhere, JabRef stores its data 
in approximately standard BibTeX (.bib) files, so you can just include 
the .bib file in your LyX doc.  (Depending on the BibTeX style you use, 
you may find things like Note fields creeping into your reference list. 
 IIRC, I had to clone my JabRef file and strip nonstandard fields out 
of the clone for use in one paper.  Details are sketchy, though, as most 
of my memory cells are tied up trying to remember back when I had a 
retirement portfolio.)


/Paul

Re: GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Paul A. Rubin]

Robert Betz wrote:


The statement about the finding Miktex was to indicate that there
appears to be an issue with the installer in that it finds that there
is a Miktex distribution but is unable to fill in the path to the
latex.exe file.  Probably the wrong list to be talking about this
anyway.



Is the MikTeX /bin directory on your system command path?  It's possible 
the installer sees that MikTeX is installed by checking a registry 
entry, whereas the configuration script tries to run latex.exe (and may 
fail if it's not on the command path).


/Paul

Re: GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Robert Betz]

Rubin,
 
Yes the path is in the environment.  The problem may be that the
installer cannot handle the space in the path — Miktex is installed in:
 
c:\Program Files(x86)\Miktex 2.7\Miktex\bin
 
Note: It is an x64 machine hence the (x86) in the path for 32 bit
programs.
 
This problem was not in the official installer for V1.6.1-1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Regards


Bob Betz



-

Dr. Robert Betz
Ampcontrol Professor of Power Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Chief Technical Consultant
ResTech Pty Ltd
Deputy Head of Faculty,
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
University of Newcastle, Australia.

email: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au 
TEL: +61-2-4921-6091
FAX: +61-2-4921-6993
Mobile: (+61)-(0)419249948
Web: http://eecsbobb.uncle.newcastle.edu.au/rebetz

-

Re: Smart single quotes in LyX (1.6.1, Mac OS X 10.5.6)

[BH]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Grant Jacobs gjac...@bioinfotools.com wrote:

 Is there a means to make smart *single* quotes the default in the same way
 as is done for double quotes?

LyX  Preferences  Editing  Shortcuts

1. Enter quote in the Show key-bindings containing field
2. select quote-insert single
3. click the Modify button
4. click the Clear button on the dialog that pops up
5. type the key you want to bind smart single quotes to
6. click OK
7. click Save

Bennett

Re: Re: No number below PART (book class)

[Ellesmere]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
I've started putting together a standard book and wanted to use the  
fancyhdr package. I also had some page numbers showing up spuriously  
and reading some documentation it said that the pages where the page  
number was showing up were using the plain style. Thus, I added the  
following to my preamble which resets the style for those pages:


\fancypagestyle{plain}{}

Maybe this guides you in the right direction.


Thanks for your reply.

The problem is that I'm using \pagestyle{myheadings} with markboth. I 
like what it produces -- I don't need anything fancy. It looks quite 
fine for the book I'm putting together.

Re: Lost some work in 1.6.2. :-(

[James Mansion]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:

Where is your backup that is made every 5 minutes ?


I don't know - is there one?

It was a new document so I hadn't explicitly saved it anywhere yet.  I 
restarted Lyx hoping it would offer to recover but it didn't.


If it is saving the work in progress, maybe such an offer could be made 
more prominently?


James

Re: Consecutive numeration of lists also after a section in standard-format

[Florian Rubach]

jezZiFeR schrieb:

I could not download that module, I just get a textfile opened in my browser
if click the link of the enumitem module (
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/attachment.cgi?id=3167action=view)

I have already tried to save that file and changed its name to
enumitem.module, but this does not work.

How have I got to do that?

Tahnk you!
What platform are you on? On Windows, you have to make sure that your 
file extensions aren't hidden and you renamed it to 
enumitem.module.cgi without seeing the .cgi extension...
I did not have to run any texhash command like Steve suggested, because 
I am using Miktex, which updates it's filename-database when you install 
the package enumitem through the Miktex Package Manager.


Greetings,
Florian

Re: Lost some work in 1.6.2. :-(

[Florian Rubach]

James Mansion schrieb:

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:

Where is your backup that is made every 5 minutes ?


I don't know - is there one?

It was a new document so I hadn't explicitly saved it anywhere yet.  I 
restarted Lyx hoping it would offer to recover but it didn't.


If it is saving the work in progress, maybe such an offer could be 
made more prominently?


James


I think LyX is always making those backups, and usually, when it detects 
the backup file being newer than the original, it suggests you to open 
the backup-file. But when you create a new document, it will temporarily 
be saved in a directory depending on your platform and installation, 
until you save it to a specific location. So  in your case,  there may 
be a  backup of  newfile1.lyx somewhere around, but I think it could 
have been overwritten in the meantime.


Greetings,
Florian

Re: Math letters become boxes.

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-03-18, Hoikwang Kim wrote:

 I just installed lyx to my new laptop but the math letters are all seen as
 boxes.

In the LyX window or in the output?

 Can anybody help me to solve this problem?

Not without more info (OS, LaTeX distribution, locale) 
It looks much like missing or wrong fonts.

Günter

Slowness Question

[rgheck]

Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people 
who are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do 
they?


rh

Re: Slowness Question

[Ethan Metsger]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:36:36 -0400, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:

Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people  
who are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do  
they?


I haven't.  I noticed a bit of slowness in 1.6.0 (I haven't upgraded since  
then), but I just adjusted the window size to be smaller, and it sped up  
for me considerably.  (I'm using LyX 1.6.0 on Intrepid Ibex, 1GB RAM and a  
Core2Duo clocked at 1.8GHz.)


Best,

Ethan

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 unusably slow on the Mac

[Dirk Materlik]

On 18.03.2009, at 15:57, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
Do you by any chance have your documents stored on a network drive  
or

an external drive ?


No, it's all on the internal disk.


I noticed that I have a lot of network traffic between the moment I
start typing and the moment that all text is drawn on screen.

Could you confirm the increased network traffic within this period ?



No, I do not see any increased network traffic in this period.

Dirk.

Re: Max single-file book size

[Helge Hafting]

Sophie (itsme213) wrote:
What is a rough page-size limit for a single-file Lyx book (assuming pretty 
current hardware, plenty of RAM etc)?


There should be no limit really. I wrote a 384-page book in 2002. LyX 
was fine for editing it. Actually making the PDF took some 5 minutes on 
that machine (512MB memory). But that didn't matter - the editing was 
fine. PDFs were only made occationally so the publisher could look at 
the material.


There should be no need to worry about text. If you have hundreds and 
hundreds of high-resolution images, then perhaps it pays off breaking 
the book up into several files. Many people do that anyway in order to 
avoid very long scrolling.


Helge Hafting

Re: upload a custom layout

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, nckg wrote:


If this layout could be of any use for other people, I would like to upload
it to LyX website.
(However I haven't found a register option there, so I am writing here.)


Hi Nick,

If you´d like, I can send you the password for uploading files off-list. 
Othewise Uwe´s suggestion is good :-)


Best regards
/Christian



With best regards,
Nick.



--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44

fig script

[Niko Schwarz]

Ok, this is interesting. I have 2 mac machines. Apparantly, their  
setup is not entirely identical.


One of them prings the .fig images perfectly, the other one makes them  
pixely and turned 90 °. Turns out that the fig2pdftex.py script fails.


Here's what I see on the command line:

bash-3.2$ python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/scripts/ 
fig2pdftex.py combinatorical\ explosion.fig explo.pdft

File combinatorical does not exist
Command 'fig2dev -Lpdftex -p1 combinatorical explosion.fig explo.pdf'  
fails.

bash-3.2$

Ok, so I immediately guessed that renaming the file to combi.fig would  
fix the problem and it was true. Just funny that on my other Mac  
machine can handle spaces in file names while the other cannot. Both  
use Lyx 1.6.1.


Niko

No number below PART (book class)

[Ellesmere]

I'm using the standard book (not KOMA-script) class to put together a book.
So far I'm very happy with it, but I am unable to remove the page numbering
from PART sections. I've searched this mailing list far and wide for answers
and so far have not found a solution.

I've tried:

\thispagestyle{empty} on both sides of PART.

And I've tried a few other recommendations, but I think they only apply to
KOMA-script. For example, if I switch to KOMA, the following command works
great:

\renewcommand*{\partpagestyle}{empty}

But I don't want to switch because I'm happy with the book class otherwise.
It's very simple (I following a free PDF tutorial) and I don't want to play
around KOMA-script to get the headings to look like the book class. I was on
a roll entering in all my chapters and doing the basic editing.

Any help appreciated.
-- 
View this message in context: 
http://n2.nabble.com/No-number-below-PART-%28book-class%29-tp2504116p2504116.html
Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Figure and its caption side by side

[E.Kaplan]

  1.   How do I place a figure caption near the figure, /not /above or
 below it?  I know how to do it in Latex, but not in Lyx
  2. Since I am sure many of our questions are repeats, how does one
 search the list archive?

Thanks,
Ehud Kaplan

Re: No number below PART (book class)

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 19/03/2009, a las 18:05, Ellesmere escribió:



I'm using the standard book (not KOMA-script) class to put together  
a book.
So far I'm very happy with it, but I am unable to remove the page  
numbering
from PART sections. I've searched this mailing list far and wide for  
answers

and so far have not found a solution.

I've tried:

\thispagestyle{empty} on both sides of PART. [...]


I've started putting together a standard book and wanted to use the  
fancyhdr package. I also had some page numbers showing up spuriously  
and reading some documentation it said that the pages where the page  
number was showing up were using the plain style. Thus, I added the  
following to my preamble which resets the style for those pages:


\fancypagestyle{plain}{}

Maybe this guides you in the right direction.

Re: Consecutive numeration of lists also after a section in standard-format

[jezZiFeR]

 I could not download that module, I just get a textfile opened in my
 browser
 if click the link of the enumitem module (
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/attachment.cgi?id=3167action=view)

 I have already tried to save that file and changed its name to
 enumitem.module, but this does not work.


  What platform are you on? On Windows, you have to make sure that your
 file extensions aren't hidden and you renamed it to enumitem.module.cgi
 without seeing the .cgi extension...
 I did not have to run any texhash command like Steve suggested, because I
 am using Miktex, which updates it's filename-database when you install the
 package enumitem through the Miktex Package Manager.



Well, now, after running texhash it works – on OSX.
Thank you all!

Jess

Hey

[Adrian Diaz]

I am checking the mailing lis

Hi comunity of lyx

[Adrian Diaz]

I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.5.6  and when i want to watch it by pdf, i
have noticed
that : index of figures, index of tables, general index, and all cross
references (
among chapters, sections etc. and bibligraphy) have a bounding box.

My question is: how can i manage in lyx editor *to not appearing the
bounding box* in the
pdf editor print.


 My best regard  Adrian

Re: Figure and its caption side by side

[Uwe Stöhr]

E.Kaplan schrieb:


  1.   How do I place a figure caption near the figure, /not /above or
 below it?  I know how to do it in Latex, but not in Lyx


See sec. 3.9 Caption Placement of LyX's EmbeddedObjects manual that you find 
in the Help menu of LyX.

regards Uwe

Re: Hi comunity of lyx

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 19/03/2009, a las 20:39, Adrian Diaz escribió:

I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.5.6  and when i want to watch it  
by pdf, i

have noticed
that : index of figures, index of tables, general index, and all cross
references (
among chapters, sections etc. and bibligraphy) have a bounding box.

My question is: how can i manage in lyx editor *to not appearing the
bounding box* in the
pdf editor print.


Go to your document's configuration. In the PDF properties section,  
select the hyperlink tab and check the option that removes these  
bounding boxes.

Reporting bugs of macosx binary builds

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

I've started working with lyx 1.6.2 under macosx, and sometimes the  
application crashes randomly. I've been unable to reproduce these  
crashes, but when I open macosx' bug report window there is a stack  
trace with the C++ code calls that happened before the crash.


I was wondering if this information is useful to somebody, since I  
read on the lyx' website that unreproducible bugs are ignored.

Re: Hi comunity of lyx

[Uwe Stöhr]

Adrian Diaz schrieb:


I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.5.6  and when i want to watch it by pdf, i
have noticed
that : index of figures, index of tables, general index, and all cross
references (
among chapters, sections etc. and bibligraphy) have a bounding box.


The boxes visualizes the links in your PDF. They appear when you have loaded the package hyperref 
in the preamble of your document. To use hyperref, but without the boxes, then load hyperref with 
the option


pdfborder={0 0 0}

Btw. LyX 1.6.x has native support for hyperref and allows you to (de)activate its options by check 
boxes in the document settings dialog.


regards Uwe

Re: Reporting bugs of macosx binary builds

[rgheck]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
I've started working with lyx 1.6.2 under macosx, and sometimes the 
application crashes randomly. I've been unable to reproduce these 
crashes, but when I open macosx' bug report window there is a stack 
trace with the C++ code calls that happened before the crash.


I was wondering if this information is useful to somebody, since I 
read on the lyx' website that unreproducible bugs are ignored.


You could post the backtrace, but if you're not using a debug-enabled 
build, it might not mean much.


Bugs we can't reproduce aren't so much ignored as, well, hard to work 
on. I.e., impossible to work on.


Richard

Bibtex?

[Adrian Diaz]

Friends

I have a problem with Bibtex, cos when i want to check my thesis by Adobe
Acrobat R/W editor

all references to bibliography ( made  by BibTex in lyx editor ) do not
appear and the bibligraphy section is not generated.
However during the process of making a copy in PDF, my lyx editor does not
send any error message.


   Grettings Adrian

Lilypond converter - broken?

[Piero Faustini]

I'm using LyX 1.6.1 in Windows XP and latest Lilypond version.
I had no troubles with including Lilypond files as external material till some 
weeks, but I can't assure the problem started when I upgraded from 1.6.0
Anyway, this is the problem:
When I compile, after including a external lilypond files which I still NEVER 
used, I receive this error message:


LyX: Cannot convert file

An error occurred whilst running lilypond -b eps -ps 
7F__DiLavoro_Tesi_files_lily


being the last line a (broken?) representation of Lilypond file path (which, by 
instance, is F:\DiLavoro\Tesi\files\lilypond\filename.ly): I leave it as an 
example of the corruption (?) of file path. The message is similar for every 
path I try to put my files. changing between LaTeX/Pdflatex (even in the 
include file options) doesn't solve anything.

(The error is given also if I try the show in LyX option, just after leaving 
the include file box.)

If it helps, I didn't realize the problem till today because old Lilypond files 
always work well, as if there were somewhere in a temp directory the 
corresponding ps or pdf, allowing LyX not to run Lilypond. (I couldn't find 
them, and I already DELETED any pdf or ps in the working dirs... VERY 
strange!!!)

I'm puzzled, any idea???
Thanks,
Pier

Re: Bibtex?

[rgheck]

Adrian Diaz wrote:

Friends

I have a problem with Bibtex, cos when i want to check my thesis by Adobe
Acrobat R/W editor

all references to bibliography ( made  by BibTex in lyx editor ) do not
appear and the bibligraphy section is not generated.
However during the process of making a copy in PDF, my lyx editor does not
send any error message.

  

What does appear? Question marks?

rh

Lyx and Jabref

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Hello,
I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?

Thank you in advance for you help.

Murat

-- 
*** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! ***

Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
13236 Marseille cedex 02

Bureau 320
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau)
Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27

e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
__

Re: Slowness Question

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:
 Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people who
 are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do they?

I haven't followed the slowness discussions, so please ignore if off-toic.

There's one behaviour I wanted to report (for either 1.5.7 or 1.6.1).
Generally LyX is quite OK on speed, but one specific instance where it
gets slow---regarding the responsiveness of the UI---is when tables
are used in the document (if of use, I could send certain of my files
off-list). As  soon as tables are inserted, especially longer tables
or several smaller ones, the user interface becomes slow (mostly?) on
the parts of the document where the tables are present.

The View Source widget was *not* open at slowness times. I could
easily reproduce the bug on my system.
Liviu

li...@localhost ~ $ eix -e lyx
[I] app-office/lyx
 Installed versions:  1.6.1!t(21:45:06 21/12/08)(X cups docbook
dot html latex nls rtf -debug -linguas_ar -linguas_ca -linguas_cs
-linguas_de -linguas_en -linguas_es -linguas_eu -linguas_fi
-linguas_fr -linguas_gl -linguas_he -linguas_hu -linguas_it
-linguas_ja -linguas_nb -linguas_nn -linguas_pl -linguas_pt
-linguas_ro -linguas_ru -linguas_tr -linguas_uk -linguas_zh_CN
-linguas_zh_TW -monolithic-build)
li...@localhost ~ $ eix -e qt
[I] x11-libs/qt
 Installed versions:  4.4.2(4)(15:57:16 16/02/09)(dbus opengl qt3support)
li...@localhost ~ $ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.22-gentoo-r5-0.5 #3 Sat Mar 14 12:22:37 CET 2009
i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux




-- 
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: Slowness Question

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 19/03/2009, a las 22:14, Liviu Andronic escribió:


There's one behaviour I wanted to report (for either 1.5.7 or 1.6.1).
Generally LyX is quite OK on speed, but one specific instance where it
gets slow---regarding the responsiveness of the UI---is when tables
are used in the document (if of use, I could send certain of my files
off-list). As  soon as tables are inserted, especially longer tables
or several smaller ones, the user interface becomes slow (mostly?) on
the parts of the document where the tables are present.


Happens also for me under Macosx. I thought that was normal, so I  
solved the problem putting each table in a separate file that is  
inserted into the main document as an external file reference.

Floating wrapper figure with image drawn out of page

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

I'm usiing Lyx 1.6.2 under Macosx to put a floating wrapped figure  
with a .tiff image inside a framed box. I don't know what I'm doing  
wrong, but the image is being placed near the bottom of the page so  
that it is half drawn outside, and the next page also contains the  
space reserved for the float, but with no image.


Difficult to explain, so here's the test case and generated pdf:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/145894/floating.lyx
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/145894/floating.pdf

Any ideas on what could I do?

Re: Bibtex?

[rgheck]

Adrian Diaz wrote:

In every place referenced to bibliography, appear  ??

Then LyX for some reason isn't finding your bibliography file. If you're 
able, in LyX, to add citations, then there's probably a problem with the 
path you've given LyX to your BibTeX file. Another possibility is that 
there's some kind of error in the BibTeX file that's causing this. The 
way to debug is to export to LaTeX and then, preferably, compile by hand 
or, at least, look for the \bibliography command and see what the path 
is there.


rh

PS Keep the discussion on the list in case someone else is having 
similar issues.



2009/3/19 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com mailto:rgh...@bobjweil.com

Adrian Diaz wrote:

Friends

I have a problem with Bibtex, cos when i want to check my
thesis by Adobe
Acrobat R/W editor

all references to bibliography ( made  by BibTex in lyx editor
) do not
appear and the bibligraphy section is not generated.
However during the process of making a copy in PDF, my lyx
editor does not
send any error message.

 


What does appear? Question marks?

rh

Re: Lyx and Jabref

[rgheck]

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hello,
I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?

  
I don't understand. What do you mean LyX cant see JabRef? LyX and JabRef 
do not interact on Windows, so far as I know. Where you put the .bib 
files is an entirely different issue. You can put them where you like.


rh

Re: Slowness Question

[rgheck]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:


El 19/03/2009, a las 22:14, Liviu Andronic escribió:


There's one behaviour I wanted to report (for either 1.5.7 or 1.6.1).
Generally LyX is quite OK on speed, but one specific instance where it
gets slow---regarding the responsiveness of the UI---is when tables
are used in the document (if of use, I could send certain of my files
off-list). As  soon as tables are inserted, especially longer tables
or several smaller ones, the user interface becomes slow (mostly?) on
the parts of the document where the tables are present.


Happens also for me under Macosx. I thought that was normal, so I 
solved the problem putting each table in a separate file that is 
inserted into the main document as an external file reference.


I'd suggest adding this to bugzilla. I don't know why the problem 
exists. Maybe a drawing issue? But I'm sure someone will give it some 
attention.


rh

Re: Lilypond converter - broken?

[Piero Faustini]

Piero Faustini pierofaust...@... writes:
 
 corresponding ps or pdf, allowing LyX not to run Lilypond. (I couldn't find 
 them, and I already DELETED any pdf or ps in the working dirs... VERY 
 strange!!!)


Uhm, I found them, in a cache dir in LyX application Data.
About my problem, I'm still puzzled and need help.

Re: Floating wrapper figure with image drawn out of page

[Ignacio García]

19 Mar 2009 14:29:29
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote

  I'm usiing Lyx 1.6.2 under Macosx to put a floating wrapped figure with a 
 .tiff image inside   framed box. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but the 
 image is being placed near the
 bottom of the page so that it is half drawn outside, and the next page also 
 contains the
 space reserved for the float, but with no image.

 Difficult to explain, so here's the test case and generated pdf:

 http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/145894/floating.lyx
 http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/145894/floating.pdf

Right clic on the wrap:Figure inset box, and then Settings and check
Allow floating

I hope this fix the issue

Regards
Ignacio García

Re: Floating wrapper figure with image drawn out of page

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 19/03/2009, a las 23:06, Ignacio García escribió:


Right clic on the wrap:Figure inset box, and then Settings and check
Allow floating


Yes, it works now.

Re: Lyx and Jabref

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:43 -0400, rgheck wrote:
 Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
  Hello,
  I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
  for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
  on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
  visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?
 

 I don't understand. What do you mean LyX cant see JabRef? LyX and JabRef 
 do not interact on Windows, so far as I know. Where you put the .bib 
 files is an entirely different issue. You can put them where you like.
 
 rh
 
I normally use JabRef and it creates the standard BibTeX file.

In LyX, the BibTeX file (*.bib) is called from Insert  List/TOC 
BibTeX Bibliography... 
In the document, it can be refered from Insert  citation...

Regards
was

GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Robert Betz]

Installed the new Lyx 1.6.2 the other day on a Windows XP x64 machine, but 
found that there are problems with the GUI.  If on moves one of the toolbars to 
somewhere else on the toolbar area then stop and restart the program it the 
toolbar is at a different position.  Also when the program installed it did not 
find my Miktex distribution, location even though it indicated that the 
distribution existed.  Finally the program started by opening a command console 
and then closing it after the main Lyx program started.  Seems that there have 
been a number of bug issues introduced with this bug maintenance release.
 
Have other users experienced there issues?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
 
 
 


Regards


Bob Betz



-

Dr. Robert Betz
Ampcontrol Professor of Power Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Chief Technical Consultant
ResTech Pty Ltd
Deputy Head of Faculty,
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
University of Newcastle, Australia.

email: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au 
TEL: +61-2-4921-6091
FAX: +61-2-4921-6993
Mobile: (+61)-(0)419249948
Web: http://eecsbobb.uncle.newcastle.edu.au/rebetz

-

RE: GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

Hi Bob

Installed the new Lyx 1.6.2 the other day on a Windows XP
x64 machine, but found that there are problems with the GUI.
If on moves one of the toolbars to somewhere else on the
toolbar area then stop and restart the program it the toolbar
is at a different position. 

This is a known bug indeed, but it is in the qt-library we use, so we
can't do much about this. In the most recent release of qt (4.5), this
bug is solved, but we did not include it yet in the distribution.

Also when the program installed it did not find my Miktex distribution,
location even though it indicated that the distribution existed.

I don't really understand what you want to say here.

Finally the program started by opening a command console and then
closing it after the main Lyx program started.  Seems that there
have been a number of bug issues introduced with this bug maintenance
release.

The 'official' LyX 1.6.2 installer is not yet available (which I
regret), so you probably have used the 'alternative' installer to
install LyX. This installer for instance installs a lyx.bat file which
is used to start LyX. That's why it looks like the behaviour has
changed.

Have other users experienced there issues?
 
Thanks in advance.

Regards, 

Vincent

Re: Lyx and Jabref

[rgheck]

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:43 -0400, rgheck wrote:
  

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:


Hello,
I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?

  
  
I don't understand. What do you mean LyX cant see JabRef? LyX and JabRef 
do not interact on Windows, so far as I know. Where you put the .bib 
files is an entirely different issue. You can put them where you like.


rh



I normally use JabRef and it creates the standard BibTeX file.

In LyX, the BibTeX file (*.bib) is called from Insert  List/TOC 
BibTeX Bibliography... 
In the document, it can be refered from Insert  citation...


  
Yes, indeed. And what's the problem then? Are you unable to choose the 
bib file for some reason?


rh

Smart single quotes in LyX (1.6.1, Mac OS X 10.5.6)

[Grant Jacobs]

Is there a means to make smart *single* quotes the default in the 
same way as is done for double quotes?


Or, alternatively, is there a simple means to have LyX recognise that 
if a user enters ' LyX should treat it as if the user had entered 
shift-alt-' (or shift-ctrl-')?


I suspect that they might be some way of persuading this to happen 
from the key mapping files, but I've already wasted too much time 
trying to figure this out. (In any event locate doesn't report any 
.kdef files, so I have no idea where to look for them them yet!)



Grant

--
---
Grant Jacobs Ph.D. BioinfoTools
ph. +64 3 478 0095  (office, after 10am)   PO Box 6129,
or  +64 27 601 5917 (mobile)   Dunedin,
gjac...@bioinfotools.com   NEW ZEALAND.
   Bioinformatics tools: deriving knowledge from biological data
Bioinformatics tools - software development - consulting - training
 18 years experience in bioinformatics ready to solve your problem
Check out the website for more details: http://www.bioinfotools.com

RE: GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Robert Betz]

Vincent,
 
Thanks for the reply.  I noted that the GUI bug was in an earlier release, 
(V1.6.0 I think),  but it seemed to disappear in V1.6.1-1.  Well at least is 
does not occur in my installation.
 
The statement about the finding Miktex was to indicate that there appears to be 
an issue with the installer in that it finds that there is a Miktex 
distribution but is unable to fill in the path to the latex.exe file.  Probably 
the wrong list to be talking about this anyway.
 
Looking forward to the final official distribution.
 
 
 


Regards


Bob Betz



-

Dr. Robert Betz
Ampcontrol Professor of Power Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Chief Technical Consultant
ResTech Pty Ltd
Deputy Head of Faculty,
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
University of Newcastle, Australia.

email: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au 
TEL: +61-2-4921-6091
FAX: +61-2-4921-6993
Mobile: (+61)-(0)419249948
Web: http://eecsbobb.uncle.newcastle.edu.au/rebetz

-






 On 20/03/2009 at 11:23 am, in message 
 c546d37f214ddb42aa01f512af0bfd99562...@srv502.tudelft.net, Vincent van 
 Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote:
Hi Bob

Installed the new Lyx 1.6.2 the other day on a Windows XP
x64 machine, but found that there are problems with the GUI.
If on moves one of the toolbars to somewhere else on the
toolbar area then stop and restart the program it the toolbar
is at a different position. 

This is a known bug indeed, but it is in the qt-library we use, so we
can't do much about this. In the most recent release of qt (4.5), this
bug is solved, but we did not include it yet in the distribution.

Also when the program installed it did not find my Miktex distribution,
location even though it indicated that the distribution existed.

I don't really understand what you want to say here.

Finally the program started by opening a command console and then
closing it after the main Lyx program started.  Seems that there
have been a number of bug issues introduced with this bug maintenance
release.

The 'official' LyX 1.6.2 installer is not yet available (which I
regret), so you probably have used the 'alternative' installer to
install LyX. This installer for instance installs a lyx.bat file which
is used to start LyX. That's why it looks like the behaviour has
changed.

Have other users experienced there issues?
 
Thanks in advance.

Regards, 

Vincent

Re: Lyx and Jabref

[Paul A. Rubin]

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hello,
I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using
for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref
on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it
visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16 ?

Thank you in advance for you help.

Murat



If you're thinking about the alleged ability to push references from 
JabRef into LyX, that only works on Linux (or Linux-like) systems. 
There's a problem with the use of named pipes on Windows that keeps it 
from working there.  But, as mentioned elsewhere, JabRef stores its data 
in approximately standard BibTeX (.bib) files, so you can just include 
the .bib file in your LyX doc.  (Depending on the BibTeX style you use, 
you may find things like Note fields creeping into your reference list. 
 IIRC, I had to clone my JabRef file and strip nonstandard fields out 
of the clone for use in one paper.  Details are sketchy, though, as most 
of my memory cells are tied up trying to remember back when I had a 
retirement portfolio.)


/Paul

Re: GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Paul A. Rubin]

Robert Betz wrote:


The statement about the finding Miktex was to indicate that there
appears to be an issue with the installer in that it finds that there
is a Miktex distribution but is unable to fill in the path to the
latex.exe file.  Probably the wrong list to be talking about this
anyway.



Is the MikTeX /bin directory on your system command path?  It's possible 
the installer sees that MikTeX is installed by checking a registry 
entry, whereas the configuration script tries to run latex.exe (and may 
fail if it's not on the command path).


/Paul

Re: GUI issues in V1.6.2

[Robert Betz]

Rubin,
 
Yes the path is in the environment.  The problem may be that the
installer cannot handle the space in the path — Miktex is installed in:
 
c:\Program Files(x86)\Miktex 2.7\Miktex\bin
 
Note: It is an x64 machine hence the (x86) in the path for 32 bit
programs.
 
This problem was not in the official installer for V1.6.1-1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Regards


Bob Betz



-

Dr. Robert Betz
Ampcontrol Professor of Power Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Chief Technical Consultant
ResTech Pty Ltd
Deputy Head of Faculty,
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
University of Newcastle, Australia.

email: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au 
TEL: +61-2-4921-6091
FAX: +61-2-4921-6993
Mobile: (+61)-(0)419249948
Web: http://eecsbobb.uncle.newcastle.edu.au/rebetz

-

Re: Smart single quotes in LyX (1.6.1, Mac OS X 10.5.6)

[BH]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Grant Jacobs gjac...@bioinfotools.com wrote:

 Is there a means to make smart *single* quotes the default in the same way
 as is done for double quotes?

LyX  Preferences  Editing  Shortcuts

1. Enter quote in the Show key-bindings containing field
2. select quote-insert single
3. click the Modify button
4. click the Clear button on the dialog that pops up
5. type the key you want to bind smart single quotes to
6. click OK
7. click Save

Bennett

Re: Re: No number below PART (book class)

[Ellesmere]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
I've started putting together a standard book and wanted to use the  
fancyhdr package. I also had some page numbers showing up spuriously  
and reading some documentation it said that the pages where the page  
number was showing up were using the plain style. Thus, I added the  
following to my preamble which resets the style for those pages:


\fancypagestyle{plain}{}

Maybe this guides you in the right direction.


Thanks for your reply.

The problem is that I'm using \pagestyle{myheadings} with markboth. I 
like what it produces -- I don't need anything fancy. It looks quite 
fine for the book I'm putting together.

Re: Lost some work in 1.6.2. :-(

[James Mansion]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:

Where is your backup that is made every 5 minutes ?


I don't know - is there one?

It was a new document so I hadn't explicitly saved it anywhere yet.  I 
restarted Lyx hoping it would offer to recover but it didn't.


If it is saving the work in progress, maybe such an offer could be made 
more prominently?


James

Re: Consecutive numeration of lists also after a section in standard-format

[Florian Rubach]

jezZiFeR schrieb:

I could not download that module, I just get a textfile opened in my browser
if click the link of the "enumitem module" (
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/attachment.cgi?id=3167=view)

I have already tried to save that file and changed its name to
"enumitem.module", but this does not work.

How have I got to do that?

Tahnk you!
What platform are you on? On Windows, you have to make sure that your 
file extensions aren't hidden and you renamed it to 
"enumitem.module.cgi" without seeing the .cgi extension...
I did not have to run any texhash command like Steve suggested, because 
I am using Miktex, which updates it's filename-database when you install 
the package enumitem through the Miktex Package Manager.


Greetings,
Florian

Re: Lost some work in 1.6.2. :-(

[Florian Rubach]

James Mansion schrieb:

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:

Where is your backup that is made every 5 minutes ?


I don't know - is there one?

It was a new document so I hadn't explicitly saved it anywhere yet.  I 
restarted Lyx hoping it would offer to recover but it didn't.


If it is saving the work in progress, maybe such an offer could be 
made more prominently?


James


I think LyX is always making those backups, and usually, when it detects 
the backup file being newer than the original, it suggests you to open 
the backup-file. But when you create a new document, it will temporarily 
be saved in a directory depending on your platform and installation, 
until you save it to a specific location. So  in your case,  there may 
be a  backup of  "newfile1.lyx" somewhere around, but I think it could 
have been overwritten in the meantime.


Greetings,
Florian

Re: Math letters become boxes.

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-03-18, Hoikwang Kim wrote:

> I just installed lyx to my new laptop but the math letters are all seen as
> boxes.

In the LyX window or in the output?

> Can anybody help me to solve this problem?

Not without more info (OS, LaTeX distribution, locale) 
It looks much like missing or wrong fonts.

Günter

Slowness Question

[rgheck]

Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people 
who are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do 
they?


rh

Re: Slowness Question

[Ethan Metsger]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:36:36 -0400, rgheck  wrote:

Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people  
who are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do  
they?


I haven't.  I noticed a bit of slowness in 1.6.0 (I haven't upgraded since  
then), but I just adjusted the window size to be smaller, and it sped up  
for me considerably.  (I'm using LyX 1.6.0 on Intrepid Ibex, 1GB RAM and a  
Core2Duo clocked at 1.8GHz.)


Best,

Ethan

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 unusably slow on the Mac

[Dirk Materlik]

On 18.03.2009, at 15:57, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
Do you by any chance have your documents stored on a network drive  
or

an external drive ?


No, it's all on the internal disk.


I noticed that I have a lot of network traffic between the moment I
start typing and the moment that all text is drawn on screen.

Could you confirm the increased network traffic within this period ?



No, I do not see any increased network traffic in this period.

Dirk.

Re: Max single-file book size

[Helge Hafting]

Sophie (itsme213) wrote:
What is a rough page-size limit for a single-file Lyx book (assuming pretty 
current hardware, plenty of RAM etc)?


There should be no limit really. I wrote a 384-page book in 2002. LyX 
was fine for editing it. Actually making the PDF took some 5 minutes on 
that machine (512MB memory). But that didn't matter - the editing was 
fine. PDFs were only made occationally so the publisher could look at 
the material.


There should be no need to worry about text. If you have hundreds and 
hundreds of high-resolution images, then perhaps it pays off breaking 
the book up into several files. Many people do that anyway in order to 
avoid very long scrolling.


Helge Hafting

Re: upload a custom layout

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, nckg wrote:


If this layout could be of any use for other people, I would like to upload
it to LyX website.
(However I haven't found a "register" option there, so I am writing here.)


Hi Nick,

If you´d like, I can send you the password for uploading files off-list. 
Othewise Uwe´s suggestion is good :-)


Best regards
/Christian



With best regards,
Nick.



--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44

fig script

[Niko Schwarz]

Ok, this is interesting. I have 2 mac machines. Apparantly, their  
setup is not entirely identical.


One of them prings the .fig images perfectly, the other one makes them  
pixely and turned 90 °. Turns out that the fig2pdftex.py script fails.


Here's what I see on the command line:

bash-3.2$ python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/scripts/ 
fig2pdftex.py combinatorical\ explosion.fig explo.pdft

File "combinatorical" does not exist
Command 'fig2dev -Lpdftex -p1 combinatorical explosion.fig explo.pdf'  
fails.

bash-3.2$

Ok, so I immediately guessed that renaming the file to combi.fig would  
fix the problem and it was true. Just funny that on my other Mac  
machine can handle spaces in file names while the other cannot. Both  
use Lyx 1.6.1.


Niko