Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

John Culleton wrote:
 Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica.

I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew 
Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to 
Helvetica.

Jürgen

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Olivier Ripoll]

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hi,
I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed
the instructions in the list given by Olivier:


I managed to get elyxer working by doing the following:

- copy elyxer.py to the script folder (C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.3\Resources\scripts)
on my machine,- in Preferences - Converters, in the LyX - HTML, modify the
command to be:


python $$s/scripts/elyxer.py $$i $$o


I have installed the last version (0.29) of the elyxer.py script in the
folder indicated by Olivier and changed Lyx-HTML conversion command as
indicated.
I have done a reconfigure, just incase.


Hi,

First, in the same thread, I was indicating that I had a problem with 
reconfigure:


To have it to work, I have to reconfigure, then close lyx, reopen, 
reconfigure, close again, and only at the second restart, I had it to 
work. Try that, and perhaps the problem will be solved.


If it still fails, then you should follow the instructions given by Uwe 
in the same thread, namely:
But even now, LyX will recognize eLyXer when you have it installed. All 
you have to do is to add the path to the file elyxer.py in the PATH 
prefix in LyX's preferences. Then reconfigure LyX and eLyXer should work.


I think that if you install in the lyx resources script folder, you 
should not need to do it, but in case, you may try it.



I actually have a different situation, so if everything still fail, here 
it is: elyxer is installed in Program Files, and this folder was added 
to LyX path. So it's the one seen by reconfigure script (I think). Then 
only, I copy the script in LyX's script folder.


Good luck !

Best regards,

Olivier.




But, when I do View/HTML or Export/HTML Lyx continues to try to run htlatex.
I am probably missing something but I do not know what :-(

Sorry if I am making a stupid mistake but I would appreciate a lot your help
at this point, since I am just blocked...

Regards,

Murat

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Richard Talley]

Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial)
have little in common with Verdana.

Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of
Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces
and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography. Verdana is
in the realist family of typefaces and was designed and hinted
specifically to be clear at small sizes on a computer screen.

I see that Wikipedia and Bringhurst disagree on the classification of
Helvetica (Wikipedia putting it among the early sans serif or
Grotesque and Bringhurst putting in the humanist family. I think
Bringhurst is probably the more reliable source.)

It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on
screen (and on both Windows and OS X). Sometimes I'll reset a document
in a different typeface when I print it out. The technical documents
I'm producing right now I'm putting in Bera (based on Vera Bitstream,
realist family) as a reasonable compromise.

-- Rich

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Jürgen
Spitzmüllerjuer...@spitzmueller.org wrote:
 John Culleton wrote:
 Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica.

 I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew
 Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to
 Helvetica.

 Jürgen

Re: Problems with LyX 1.6.3

[Uwe Stöhr]

Reuven Segev schrieb:


Following your advice I uninstalled 1.6.2 and installed 1.6.3. I tried both
the classical and yours alternative version (not at the same time) but
the results were the same. While I can run some documents, for other
documents (converted from LaTeX by 1.6.2) I get:

Inset:: buffer member not initialized!
LyX code: 11 name unknown

Any idea what could be the source of the problem?


No, to be able to reproduce this, can you please provide a _small_ LyX example 
file?

regards Uwe

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Uwe Stöhr]

Alex Fernandez schrieb:


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Murat
Yildizoglumurat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr wrote:

I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed
the instructions in the list given by Olivier:


Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
not.


No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to recognize eLyXer, you need 
to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's PATH in the preferences.


regards Uwe

Re: LyX crashes upon referencing images

[Marcelo Acuña]

  I am running LyX in Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm working on
 a document that
  contains many figures and tables. LyX has crashed
 multiple times when
  working with these figures I'm inserting.
  
  I'm inserting figures by doing a float, then
 insert graphic. I found
  that when I try to adjust the output size and/or
 LyX display size at
  the time of first importing the image, it tends to
 crash the program.
  I do not have a problem if I insert the graphic,
 close the dialogue
  box, then edit the image settings after. I'm
 inserting bmp images. I'm
  using an article Document Class.
    
  Please try to upgrade your qt from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1 (if
 you didn't do so yet).
  
 
 I have linux, lenny 5.0 with qt 4.4.3.
 With lyx 1.6.2 I have several crash and frozen.
 I upgrade to qt 4.5.1 and lyx 1.6.3 and I have no problem.
 
 Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina
Recetas prácticas y comida saludable
http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Uwe,

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhruwesto...@web.de wrote:
 Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
 downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
 not.

 No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to
 recognize eLyXer, you need to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's
 PATH in the preferences.

That is actually what I meant with support: recognize it and use it
if present. Sorry for the confusion.

Alex.

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Parul Bali]

Thanks for all your responses.

Ingar,

I tried using the Winfonts package and followed the instructions in the
README file, but it doesn't seem to work for me.  I'm using a Windows Vista
system, and updated the updmap.cfg and ttf2pk.cfg files, as instructed. I
then refreshed the File name DB for MIKTEK, and ran the udpmap utility. It
didn't give any error, but the font in the resulting PDF was not Verdana.
Would you be able to help?

I came across this FAQ page on Lyx Wiki, where it is described how to make
it work for versions earlier than MIKTEK 2.5.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips
Does anyone have any pointers as to how to make it work with MIKTEK 2.7?

Many thanks,

Parul


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Ingar Pareliussen 
ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no wrote:

  I guess this package is your best bet.

 http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/fonts/winfonts/

 Read the README and the winfonts-doc.pdf for more information.

 Ingar

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

If you really need Verdana, you must use XeTeX. This is not officially
supported (yet) but there are workarounds. Search for XeTeX at the wiki
(http://wiki.lyx.org).

On 2009-06-13, Richard Talley wrote:

 It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on
 screen (and on both Windows and OS X). Sometimes I'll reset a document
 in a different typeface when I print it out. The technical documents
 I'm producing right now I'm putting in Bera (based on Vera Bitstream,
 realist family) as a reasonable compromise.

Bitstream Vera (or the extended version DejaVy) is the font used by
OpenOffice: like Verdana it is designed for good appearance in both
on-screen and printed documents. It is supported in LaTeX by the two
packages 'bera' (Vera serif) and 'arev' (sans serif with math support).

Günter

Fwd: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Thank you for all your help. In fact, I have also put the path to Lyx's
script folder (where elyxer resides) to the path box in the preferences of
Lyx in the same time as the configuration of the Lyx-HTML conversion
command  box. If I read well Olivier's message, there is not any
contradiction between these two boxes. I have also observed that during the
first configuration,  Lyx-HTML command has disappeared from the conversion
options and I had to add it by hand.
I have erased this command and done a reconfigure and here is what I see in
my preferences file (Lyx continues to run latex and htlatex):

Concerning the path (elyxer.py is in the last folder of the path)

\path_prefix C:/Program Files/LyX16/bin;C:/Program
Files/LyX16/python;C:/TeXLive2008/bin/win32;C:/Program
Files/LyX16/ghostscript/bin;C:/Program Files/LyX16/imagemagick; C:/Program
Files/LyX16/Resources/scripts

Concerning the conversion:

\converter lyx html python $$s/scripts/elyxer.py $$i $$o 

And this is the only element about Lyx-HTML conversion

Do you see anything strange in these items? What am I doing wrong?

I have also done another experiment: I have erased this conversion line from
the preferences files but let the path to elyxer in the path box. Then I
have opened Lyx and done a reconfigure. Then closed and reopened Lyx but
there was not any line with Lyx-HTML in the conversion box. Reconfigure
does not seem to be able to find elyxer.py, even it is supposed to if I
understand well Uwe. I am lost...

Last information: I have used the standard installer for Lyx under Windows
XP.

Murat


2009/6/13 Alex Fernandez ely...@gmail.com

 Hi Uwe,

 On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhruwesto...@web.de wrote:
  Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
  downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
  not.
 
  No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to
  recognize eLyXer, you need to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's
  PATH in the preferences.

 That is actually what I meant with support: recognize it and use it
 if present. Sorry for the confusion.

 Alex.




-- 
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: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

John Culleton wrote:
 Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica.

I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew 
Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to 
Helvetica.

Jürgen

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Olivier Ripoll]

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hi,
I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed
the instructions in the list given by Olivier:


I managed to get elyxer working by doing the following:

- copy elyxer.py to the script folder (C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.3\Resources\scripts)
on my machine,- in Preferences - Converters, in the LyX - HTML, modify the
command to be:


python $$s/scripts/elyxer.py $$i $$o


I have installed the last version (0.29) of the elyxer.py script in the
folder indicated by Olivier and changed Lyx-HTML conversion command as
indicated.
I have done a reconfigure, just incase.


Hi,

First, in the same thread, I was indicating that I had a problem with 
reconfigure:


To have it to work, I have to reconfigure, then close lyx, reopen, 
reconfigure, close again, and only at the second restart, I had it to 
work. Try that, and perhaps the problem will be solved.


If it still fails, then you should follow the instructions given by Uwe 
in the same thread, namely:
But even now, LyX will recognize eLyXer when you have it installed. All 
you have to do is to add the path to the file elyxer.py in the PATH 
prefix in LyX's preferences. Then reconfigure LyX and eLyXer should work.


I think that if you install in the lyx resources script folder, you 
should not need to do it, but in case, you may try it.



I actually have a different situation, so if everything still fail, here 
it is: elyxer is installed in Program Files, and this folder was added 
to LyX path. So it's the one seen by reconfigure script (I think). Then 
only, I copy the script in LyX's script folder.


Good luck !

Best regards,

Olivier.




But, when I do View/HTML or Export/HTML Lyx continues to try to run htlatex.
I am probably missing something but I do not know what :-(

Sorry if I am making a stupid mistake but I would appreciate a lot your help
at this point, since I am just blocked...

Regards,

Murat

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Richard Talley]

Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial)
have little in common with Verdana.

Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of
Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces
and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography. Verdana is
in the realist family of typefaces and was designed and hinted
specifically to be clear at small sizes on a computer screen.

I see that Wikipedia and Bringhurst disagree on the classification of
Helvetica (Wikipedia putting it among the early sans serif or
Grotesque and Bringhurst putting in the humanist family. I think
Bringhurst is probably the more reliable source.)

It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on
screen (and on both Windows and OS X). Sometimes I'll reset a document
in a different typeface when I print it out. The technical documents
I'm producing right now I'm putting in Bera (based on Vera Bitstream,
realist family) as a reasonable compromise.

-- Rich

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Jürgen
Spitzmüllerjuer...@spitzmueller.org wrote:
 John Culleton wrote:
 Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica.

 I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew
 Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to
 Helvetica.

 Jürgen

Re: Problems with LyX 1.6.3

[Uwe Stöhr]

Reuven Segev schrieb:


Following your advice I uninstalled 1.6.2 and installed 1.6.3. I tried both
the classical and yours alternative version (not at the same time) but
the results were the same. While I can run some documents, for other
documents (converted from LaTeX by 1.6.2) I get:

Inset:: buffer member not initialized!
LyX code: 11 name unknown

Any idea what could be the source of the problem?


No, to be able to reproduce this, can you please provide a _small_ LyX example 
file?

regards Uwe

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Uwe Stöhr]

Alex Fernandez schrieb:


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Murat
Yildizoglumurat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr wrote:

I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed
the instructions in the list given by Olivier:


Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
not.


No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to recognize eLyXer, you need 
to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's PATH in the preferences.


regards Uwe

Re: LyX crashes upon referencing images

[Marcelo Acuña]

  I am running LyX in Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm working on
 a document that
  contains many figures and tables. LyX has crashed
 multiple times when
  working with these figures I'm inserting.
  
  I'm inserting figures by doing a float, then
 insert graphic. I found
  that when I try to adjust the output size and/or
 LyX display size at
  the time of first importing the image, it tends to
 crash the program.
  I do not have a problem if I insert the graphic,
 close the dialogue
  box, then edit the image settings after. I'm
 inserting bmp images. I'm
  using an article Document Class.
    
  Please try to upgrade your qt from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1 (if
 you didn't do so yet).
  
 
 I have linux, lenny 5.0 with qt 4.4.3.
 With lyx 1.6.2 I have several crash and frozen.
 I upgrade to qt 4.5.1 and lyx 1.6.3 and I have no problem.
 
 Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina
Recetas prácticas y comida saludable
http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Uwe,

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhruwesto...@web.de wrote:
 Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
 downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
 not.

 No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to
 recognize eLyXer, you need to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's
 PATH in the preferences.

That is actually what I meant with support: recognize it and use it
if present. Sorry for the confusion.

Alex.

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Parul Bali]

Thanks for all your responses.

Ingar,

I tried using the Winfonts package and followed the instructions in the
README file, but it doesn't seem to work for me.  I'm using a Windows Vista
system, and updated the updmap.cfg and ttf2pk.cfg files, as instructed. I
then refreshed the File name DB for MIKTEK, and ran the udpmap utility. It
didn't give any error, but the font in the resulting PDF was not Verdana.
Would you be able to help?

I came across this FAQ page on Lyx Wiki, where it is described how to make
it work for versions earlier than MIKTEK 2.5.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips
Does anyone have any pointers as to how to make it work with MIKTEK 2.7?

Many thanks,

Parul


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Ingar Pareliussen 
ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no wrote:

  I guess this package is your best bet.

 http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/fonts/winfonts/

 Read the README and the winfonts-doc.pdf for more information.

 Ingar

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

If you really need Verdana, you must use XeTeX. This is not officially
supported (yet) but there are workarounds. Search for XeTeX at the wiki
(http://wiki.lyx.org).

On 2009-06-13, Richard Talley wrote:

 It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on
 screen (and on both Windows and OS X). Sometimes I'll reset a document
 in a different typeface when I print it out. The technical documents
 I'm producing right now I'm putting in Bera (based on Vera Bitstream,
 realist family) as a reasonable compromise.

Bitstream Vera (or the extended version DejaVy) is the font used by
OpenOffice: like Verdana it is designed for good appearance in both
on-screen and printed documents. It is supported in LaTeX by the two
packages 'bera' (Vera serif) and 'arev' (sans serif with math support).

Günter

Fwd: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Thank you for all your help. In fact, I have also put the path to Lyx's
script folder (where elyxer resides) to the path box in the preferences of
Lyx in the same time as the configuration of the Lyx-HTML conversion
command  box. If I read well Olivier's message, there is not any
contradiction between these two boxes. I have also observed that during the
first configuration,  Lyx-HTML command has disappeared from the conversion
options and I had to add it by hand.
I have erased this command and done a reconfigure and here is what I see in
my preferences file (Lyx continues to run latex and htlatex):

Concerning the path (elyxer.py is in the last folder of the path)

\path_prefix C:/Program Files/LyX16/bin;C:/Program
Files/LyX16/python;C:/TeXLive2008/bin/win32;C:/Program
Files/LyX16/ghostscript/bin;C:/Program Files/LyX16/imagemagick; C:/Program
Files/LyX16/Resources/scripts

Concerning the conversion:

\converter lyx html python $$s/scripts/elyxer.py $$i $$o 

And this is the only element about Lyx-HTML conversion

Do you see anything strange in these items? What am I doing wrong?

I have also done another experiment: I have erased this conversion line from
the preferences files but let the path to elyxer in the path box. Then I
have opened Lyx and done a reconfigure. Then closed and reopened Lyx but
there was not any line with Lyx-HTML in the conversion box. Reconfigure
does not seem to be able to find elyxer.py, even it is supposed to if I
understand well Uwe. I am lost...

Last information: I have used the standard installer for Lyx under Windows
XP.

Murat


2009/6/13 Alex Fernandez ely...@gmail.com

 Hi Uwe,

 On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhruwesto...@web.de wrote:
  Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
  downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
  not.
 
  No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to
  recognize eLyXer, you need to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's
  PATH in the preferences.

 That is actually what I meant with support: recognize it and use it
 if present. Sorry for the confusion.

 Alex.




-- 
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: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

John Culleton wrote:
> Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica.

I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew 
Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to 
Helvetica.

Jürgen

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Olivier Ripoll]

Murat Yildizoglu wrote:

Hi,
I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed
the instructions in the list given by Olivier:


"I managed to get elyxer working by doing the following:

- copy elyxer.py to the script folder ("C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.3\Resources\scripts")
on my machine,- in Preferences -> Converters, in the LyX -> HTML, modify the
command to be:


python $$s/scripts/elyxer.py $$i $$o"


I have installed the last version (0.29) of the elyxer.py script in the
folder indicated by Olivier and changed Lyx->HTML conversion command as
indicated.
I have done a reconfigure, just incase.


Hi,

First, in the same thread, I was indicating that I had a problem with 
reconfigure:


To have it to work, I have to reconfigure, then close lyx, reopen, 
reconfigure, close again, and only at the second restart, I had it to 
work. Try that, and perhaps the problem will be solved.


If it still fails, then you should follow the instructions given by Uwe 
in the same thread, namely:
"But even now, LyX will recognize eLyXer when you have it installed. All 
you have to do is to add the path to the file elyxer.py in the PATH 
prefix in LyX's preferences. Then reconfigure LyX and eLyXer should work."


I think that if you install in the lyx resources script folder, you 
should not need to do it, but in case, you may try it.



I actually have a different situation, so if everything still fail, here 
it is: elyxer is installed in "Program Files", and this folder was added 
to LyX path. So it's the one seen by reconfigure script (I think). Then 
only, I copy the script in LyX's script folder.


Good luck !

Best regards,

Olivier.




But, when I do View/HTML or Export/HTML Lyx continues to try to run htlatex.
I am probably missing something but I do not know what :-(

Sorry if I am making a stupid mistake but I would appreciate a lot your help
at this point, since I am just blocked...

Regards,

Murat

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Richard Talley]

Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial)
have little in common with Verdana.

Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of
Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces
and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography. Verdana is
in the realist family of typefaces and was designed and hinted
specifically to be clear at small sizes on a computer screen.

I see that Wikipedia and Bringhurst disagree on the classification of
Helvetica (Wikipedia putting it among the early sans serif or
Grotesque and Bringhurst putting in the humanist family. I think
Bringhurst is probably the more reliable source.)

It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on
screen (and on both Windows and OS X). Sometimes I'll reset a document
in a different typeface when I print it out. The technical documents
I'm producing right now I'm putting in Bera (based on Vera Bitstream,
realist family) as a reasonable compromise.

-- Rich

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Jürgen
Spitzmüller wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
>> Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica.
>
> I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew
> Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to
> Helvetica.
>
> Jürgen
>

Re: Problems with LyX 1.6.3

[Uwe Stöhr]

Reuven Segev schrieb:


Following your advice I uninstalled 1.6.2 and installed 1.6.3. I tried both
the "classical" and yours "alternative" version (not at the same time) but
the results were the same. While I can run some documents, for other
documents (converted from LaTeX by 1.6.2) I get:

Inset:: buffer member not initialized!
LyX code: 11 name unknown

Any idea what could be the source of the problem?


No, to be able to reproduce this, can you please provide a _small_ LyX example 
file?

regards Uwe

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Uwe Stöhr]

Alex Fernandez schrieb:


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Murat
Yildizoglu wrote:

I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed
the instructions in the list given by Olivier:


Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
not.


No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to recognize eLyXer, you need 
to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's PATH in the preferences.


regards Uwe

Re: LyX crashes upon referencing images

[Marcelo Acuña]

> >> I am running LyX in Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm working on
> a document that
> >> contains many figures and tables. LyX has crashed
> multiple times when
> >> working with these figures I'm inserting.
> >> 
> >> I'm inserting figures by doing a float, then
> insert graphic. I found
> >> that when I try to adjust the output size and/or
> LyX display size at
> >> the time of first importing the image, it tends to
> crash the program.
> >> I do not have a problem if I insert the graphic,
> close the dialogue
> >> box, then edit the image settings after. I'm
> inserting bmp images. I'm
> >> using an article Document Class.
> >>   
> > Please try to upgrade your qt from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1 (if
> you didn't do so yet).
> > 
 
 I have linux, lenny 5.0 with qt 4.4.3.
 With lyx 1.6.2 I have several crash and frozen.
 I upgrade to qt 4.5.1 and lyx 1.6.3 and I have no problem.
 
 Marcelo


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Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Uwe,

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
>> Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
>> downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
>> not.
>
> No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to
> recognize eLyXer, you need to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's
> PATH in the preferences.

That is actually what I meant with "support": recognize it and use it
if present. Sorry for the confusion.

Alex.

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Parul Bali]

Thanks for all your responses.

Ingar,

I tried using the Winfonts package and followed the instructions in the
README file, but it doesn't seem to work for me.  I'm using a Windows Vista
system, and updated the updmap.cfg and ttf2pk.cfg files, as instructed. I
then refreshed the File name DB for MIKTEK, and ran the udpmap utility. It
didn't give any error, but the font in the resulting PDF was not Verdana.
Would you be able to help?

I came across this FAQ page on Lyx Wiki, where it is described how to make
it work for versions earlier than MIKTEK 2.5.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips
Does anyone have any pointers as to how to make it work with MIKTEK 2.7?

Many thanks,

Parul


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Ingar Pareliussen <
ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no> wrote:

>  I guess this package is your best bet.
>
> http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/fonts/winfonts/
>
> Read the README and the winfonts-doc.pdf for more information.
>
> Ingar
>

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

If you really need Verdana, you must use XeTeX. This is not officially
supported (yet) but there are workarounds. Search for XeTeX at the wiki
(http://wiki.lyx.org).

On 2009-06-13, Richard Talley wrote:

> It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on
> screen (and on both Windows and OS X). Sometimes I'll reset a document
> in a different typeface when I print it out. The technical documents
> I'm producing right now I'm putting in Bera (based on Vera Bitstream,
> realist family) as a reasonable compromise.

Bitstream Vera (or the extended version DejaVy) is the font used by
OpenOffice: like Verdana it is designed for good appearance in both
on-screen and printed documents. It is supported in LaTeX by the two
packages 'bera' (Vera serif) and 'arev' (sans serif with math support).

Günter

Fwd: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Thank you for all your help. In fact, I have also put the path to Lyx's
script folder (where elyxer resides) to the path box in the preferences of
Lyx in the same time as the configuration of the Lyx->HTML conversion
command  box. If I read well Olivier's message, there is not any
contradiction between these two boxes. I have also observed that during the
first configuration,  Lyx->HTML command has disappeared from the conversion
options and I had to add it by hand.
I have erased this command and done a reconfigure and here is what I see in
my preferences file (Lyx continues to run latex and htlatex):

Concerning the path (elyxer.py is in the last folder of the path)

\path_prefix "C:/Program Files/LyX16/bin;C:/Program
Files/LyX16/python;C:/TeXLive2008/bin/win32;C:/Program
Files/LyX16/ghostscript/bin;C:/Program Files/LyX16/imagemagick; C:/Program
Files/LyX16/Resources/scripts"

Concerning the conversion:

\converter "lyx" "html" "python $$s/scripts/elyxer.py $$i $$o" ""

And this is the only element about Lyx->HTML conversion

Do you see anything strange in these items? What am I doing wrong?

I have also done another experiment: I have erased this conversion line from
the preferences files but let the path to elyxer in the path box. Then I
have opened Lyx and done a reconfigure. Then closed and reopened Lyx but
there was not any line with Lyx->HTML in the conversion box. Reconfigure
does not seem to be able to find elyxer.py, even it is supposed to if I
understand well Uwe. I am lost...

Last information: I have used the standard installer for Lyx under Windows
XP.

Murat


2009/6/13 Alex Fernandez 

> Hi Uwe,
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> >> Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't
> >> downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe
> >> not.
> >
> > No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to
> > recognize eLyXer, you need to add the path to the eLyXer.py file to LyX's
> > PATH in the preferences.
>
> That is actually what I meant with "support": recognize it and use it
> if present. Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Alex.
>



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