Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx
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
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
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
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
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
> >> 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
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
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
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
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. > -- 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 __