shortcuts to apply text style

[Sam Liddicott]

With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.

I think that the command is:
 textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code

but it doesn't do anything; what am I doing wrong?

Sam

noweb should be a module not a class

[Sam Liddicott]

I think noweb should not exist as a class, but as a module; what if I
want to do a KOMA-script book with noweb fragments in?

noweb is really used with \usepackage{noweb} showing that it is not
actually a document class at all. Perhaps it would be better as a module?

Also; if \newenvironment is used in the pre-amble, can the defined
environment be added to the drop-down listbox so it can be applied to
the document?

Sam

Re: shortcuts to apply text style

[Pavel Sanda]

Sam Liddicott wrote:
 With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
 logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.
 
 I think that the command is:
  textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code

if you look in the lfuns manual you can see that textstyle-apply does
not have any arguments...
what you are looking for is flex-insert CharStyle:Code.
pavel

Re: shortcuts to apply text style

[Sam Liddicott]

* Pavel Sanda wrote, On 27/07/09 11:35:
 Sam Liddicott wrote:
 With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
 logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.

 I think that the command is:
  textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code
 
 if you look in the lfuns manual you can see that textstyle-apply does
 not have any arguments...

I thought the manual was just incomplete...

 what you are looking for is flex-insert CharStyle:Code.
 pavel

thanks nicely!

Sam

Re: Sty to Layout problem

[Daniel Lohmann]

On 24.07.2009, at 02:25, Luis F. Amorim França wrote:


Thanks Daniel!

I tried to create a document with a ERT like

\title(Paper Title)
\author{Luis}

but when I compile it, the document is empty. Trying to use the Lyx  
Title

and Author, I get this message:

\author{Luis}\maketitle

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error  
message was
never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'  
and the
correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll  
forget

about whatever was undefined


Depending on the peculiarities of the latex class, more or less stuff  
has to be given in ERT - maybe even the abstract. The example I have  
attached, for instance, uses the IOS-Book class, which  requires the  
abstract to be defined within a special frontmatter environment.  
Because I did not want to bother with getting the peculiarities of  
this class right into a LyX layout, I ended up with a big ERT box in  
the beginning and only the real content is written in LyX.


The process: I usually use the latex example file that comes with the  
paper class as template, activate source preview in Lyx (View-View  
Source, then check Complete Source) to see what LyX would generate  
and then copy parts or larger chunks of the LaTeX example into ERT  
until the result looks compilable.


Daniel


is-book-example.lyx
Description: Binary data







Hi Luis,

This may not be exactly the answer you are looking for :-)

IMHO the front matter (the stuff that is rendered by \maketitle) is  
the
most difficult part to get right into a LyX layout, especially with  
paper

styles. Every paper style uses different concepts on how authors,
institutions, multiple authors per institution, authors with multiple
institutions,  thanks-titlenotes, and so on have to be specified.  
So even
with the well-designed paper layout files that ship with LyX (LNCS,  
IEEE,
...) I usually end up using ERT in the front matter to get what I  
need.


So if you are not going to write dozens of articles using that  
style, I
would just not bother in getting everything right into the layout  
and use

ERT in the paper to specify the front matter.


Daniel


On 23.07.2009, ad 01:43, Luis Amorim wrote:

Hi,


I'm trying to write an article at Lyx, but I had some problems  
when I

tried
to use a .layout I created from the .sty file provided by the
conference. I've followed the Customization Instructions (5.2.3)  
but it


doesn't work at Lyx, especially when I try to add a Title (it says  
is a
\maketitle problem). Searching the mailing list I found someone  
who had

almost the same problem, and added

Style TitleERT
   InTitle 1

End

in the .layout to solve it. I tried to do that, but I still can't  
compile

my
files.

I attached the .sty and .layout files, and a .tex which is an  
example of

use.

Thanks!

Luis Amorim

sbc-template.lyxsbc-template.stysbc-template.tex

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Paul A. Rubin]

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:



Well they are in the Karmic repositories. Instructions on how to
upgrade qt4 (fairly) safely are at:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg74482.html

Scroll down past my instructions and follow Michael Gasper's clearer,
better instructions.

These instructions have worked for me and Michael without any files
being eaten. The main things to remember are to watch the upgrade to
make sure it it only upgrades qt4 related packages, and disable the
Karmic repository after you use it (so you don't accidentally upgrade
to Karmic next time you do updates).



Thanks.  When time permits, I'll upgrade one of my two Ubuntu machines 
and, assuming the results are stable, move on to the other.  Although I 
move at a pace nearly as glacial as the Ubuntu repository maintainers 
... :-)

Re: Latest Lyx for Kubuntu 64 bits

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:23 AM, E.Kaplanehud.kap...@mssm.edu wrote:
 Can anyone tell me what is the latest Lyx version that is available for
 Kubuntu 64 bits?  It seems that the repositories only have 1.6.2, and the
 only 1.6.3 version I found was meant for Karmic (9.10) which is not out yet.

Well, the latest *supported* version is 1.6.2. But I am pretty sure
the *latest* version is:
 http://gmatht.homelinux.net/xp/pub/lyx_1.6.x.30798-1_amd64.deb

Note that installing files from third party websites has the same
problems as windows, is generally discouraged:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg61342.html

However, it works here. It installs lyx to /usr/local rather than /usr
so you could still run your old lyx with
   Alt-F2 /usr/bin/lyx

Why do specifically want the latest version?

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Anton Driesse]

Hi,

I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with Windows XP.  I
installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened my first file which I created in
version 1.6.0, scrolled down, and it crashed in exactly the way you
describe.  Three eps figures were causing me problems, and it turns out that
they had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at 1009x756
pixels, in landscape orientation.  Scaling to 49 or 51 % does not cause the
crash.  I can email you one of the files if you like.

As an aside, every time I save the preferences, the maximized LyX window
shrinks to the previously unmaximized size, but the border remains
unsizable.  I have to click restore and then maximize to get back to using
the full screen.

While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a response
from the lyx ftp server.  If any of you have any ideas to offer in response
to my query several days ago I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

Anton

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 In the last 6 months this list has featured at least 10 reports of LyX
 1.6.x
 terminating unexpectedly. I myself had instances of this in 1.6.2 and
 1.6.3,
 and was lucky enough to find a workaround in 1.6.3.

 Turns out, the lyx file causing the crash in my 1.6.3 featured a huge
 (bigger
 than 2mb) .eps file. When the file loaded, the picture on the screen said
 loading bookcover.eps, and then a couple seconds later crashed. This was
 a
 reproducible error -- it happened every time in the same amount of time.

 Using Vim, I replaced bookcover.eps with bookcover.pdf, a much smaller
 file,
 and the problem disappeared.

 So here's my question for everyone reporting 1.6.x crashes: Did your files
 include graphics? Did they include large graphics? Were any of the large
 graphics .eps files? Was there anybody suffering a 1.6.x crash whose file
 DID NOT
 have graphic files?

 If there's anyone currently able to reproduce this problem, would you be
 able
 to use a text editor to whittle the file down to a small reproducer, and
 then
 use the text editor to toggle the symptom by enabling and disapbling the
 big
 graphic?

 Thanks

 SteveT

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Anton Driesse]

Hi,

I'm still at a loss with this ftp server.

I have even tried turning off my firewall software - but nothing seems to
make a difference:

C:\Documents and Settings\driesseaftp ftp.lyx.org
Connected to durga.via.ecp.fr.

And after a long delay:

Connection closed by remote host.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Anton


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Anton Driesse anton.drie...@kos.netwrote:

 Hi,

 The site ftp.lyx.org doesn't seem to be responding to my home computers.
  All I get is the response connected to durga.via.ecp.fr and then
 nothing happens.  I can ftp to other sites.  I have also downloaded lyx
 using my work computer, and managed to install it at home, but when the
 installer tries to get the spell checkers using ftp, it hangs also.

 Any ideas why this might be?

 Thanks!

 Anton

Re: LyX crash feedback

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Anton Driesseanton.drie...@gmail.com wrote:
 While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a response
 from the lyx ftp server.

I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:

   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl

might help

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
Hi,

I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with
Windows XP.  I installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened
my first file which I created in version 1.6.0, scrolled down,
and it crashed in exactly the way you describe.  Three eps
figures were causing me problems, and it turns out that they
had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at
1009x756 pixels, in landscape orientation.vScaling to 49 or
51 % does not cause the crash.  I can email you one of the
files if you like.

We know the problem, and we know we can't do anything about it
ourselves. We have now made a work-around so that the bug won't appear
in LyX 1.6.4. 

As an aside, every time I save the preferences, the
maximized LyX window shrinks to the previously unmaximized
size, but the border remains unsizable.  I have to click
restore and then maximize to get back to using the full screen.

That's also a known problem, which we can't solve yet.

While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why
I can't get a response from the lyx ftp server.  If any
of you have any ideas to offer in response to my query
several days ago I would greatly appreciate it!

I've no problems accessing it (which is of no help to you).

Thanks!

Anton

Vincent

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
 While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a 
 response from the lyx ftp server.

I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:

   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl

might help

How ?

Vincent

Re: LyX crash feedback

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn -
TNWv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote:

 While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a
 response from the lyx ftp server.

I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:

   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl

might help

 How ?

Oh, right. Anton was discussing a different bug to the OP. So it
probably wouldn't help.

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Paul A. Rubin]

Anton Driesse wrote:

Hi,

I'm still at a loss with this ftp server.

I have even tried turning off my firewall software - but nothing seems to
make a difference:

C:\Documents and Settings\driesseaftp ftp.lyx.org
Connected to durga.via.ecp.fr.

And after a long delay:

Connection closed by remote host.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!



You're using the DOS ftp client, right?  Just tried it from here 
(Michigan, USA) and it worked fine -- twice.  Time is about 1500 GMT (or 
Coordinated Universal Time, or whatever it's called these days).


Connection closed by remote host usually means that either the host is 
having a bad day (software problems maybe) or it's currently overworked. 
 So it may be you're trying at peak busy times.  Other than trying at 
an off time, the only thing I can suggest is to ping and maybe 
traceroute it.  Try


C:\whereverping ftp.lyx.org

and watch the output.  The main concern is lost packets; round trip time 
is secondary.  DOS will automatically send four pings (you can adjust 
the number, but no need to).  I pinged the server just now and got four 
answers (0% loss) with an average round trip of 121 ms. (which is not 
bad).  If the ping output shows packet losses, there may be a problem 
between you and the server, in which case


C:\wherevertracert ftp.lyx.org

may show you where the problem is (not that the information will do you 
much good, unless it's in the first one or two hops).  Traceroute 
basically pings every router between you and the target, sequentially.


/Paul

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


C:\whereverping ftp.lyx.org


  I have no problems pinging that server from the linux network here in the
upper left corner of the US. Average round trip time was 201.681ms.

Rich

--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Sty to Layout problem

[Luis F . Amorim França]

2009/7/23 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com


 LyX thinks this is normal content, not something for before \maketitle. You
 need to put this in some kind of TitleERT environment, as mentioned before.

 rh


I edited the .layout file and added the statement:

Style TitleERT
  InTitle 1
End

then I used the TitleERT in a big ERT before the text. It almost worked,
except for some differences (at the e-mail font for example). Could that be
the fact that the .tex file in example uses another packages, like:

 \documentclass[12pt]{article}

 \usepackage{graphicx,url}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

I tried to add this at the preamble in the .layout file, but got an error.


2009/7/27 Daniel Lohmann daniel.lohm...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de


 Depending on the peculiarities of the latex class, more or less stuff has
 to be given in ERT - maybe even the abstract. The example I have attached,
 for instance, uses the IOS-Book class, which  requires the abstract to be
 defined within a special frontmatter environment. Because I did not want to
 bother with getting the peculiarities of this class right into a LyX layout,
 I ended up with a big ERT box in the beginning and only the real content is
 written in LyX.

 The process: I usually use the latex example file that comes with the paper
 class as template, activate source preview in Lyx (View-View Source, then
 check Complete Source) to see what LyX would generate and then copy parts
 or larger chunks of the LaTeX example into ERT until the result looks
 compilable.

 Daniel

 I guess this is my case. I did a big ERT before the text (as mentioned
above) but something is still wrong. I'll try to do like you now, maybe it
works.


Thanks again!

Luis.

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 27 July 2009 10:16:11 Anton Driesse wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with Windows XP.  I
 installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened my first file which I created
 in version 1.6.0, scrolled down, and it crashed in exactly the way you
 describe.  Three eps figures were causing me problems, and it turns out
 that they had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at
 1009x756 pixels, in landscape orientation.  Scaling to 49 or 51 % does not
 cause the crash.  I can email you one of the files if you like.

Thanks so much Anton!

Your succinct description got me a much closer knowledge.

On my tiny bug demonstrator document, I used Vim to change lyxscale 50 to 
lyxscale 51, after which the file became stable in LyX. Interestingly enough, 
when I set it back to 50, it was still stable. So there's some kind of cache 
involved. When I reboot (for power savings I shut down every night), I'll see 
whether the 50 reverts to being unstable.

At this point, for me, by far the easiest way to deal with this (I won't call 
it a solution) is to make sure no graphics are scaled 50% within the LyX 
environment. That's a whole lot simpler and less risky than tampering with my 
Qt4 version. Later, when I upgrade to Ubuntu K, qt4 will be upgraded for me.

Thanks

SteveT

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

That's a whole lot simpler and less risky than tampering
with my Qt4 version. Later, when I upgrade to Ubuntu K,
qt4 will be upgraded for me.

To cite myself:

The best thing that I can think of in your case is
that you have run into bug #5957: If you scale down
an image with an odd number of rows to 50% (on screen),
Qt4.5.0 would crash.

See www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5957.

Well, yesterday we found out that this bug is back in
Qt4.5.2, so I withdraw my advice to update Qt.. (for
now), but LyX 1.6.4 has a work-around for this.

Vincent

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Manveru]

2009/7/27 Anton Driesse anton.drie...@gmail.com:
 Hi,

 Thanks for responding.  Yes, ping and tracert work fine:  I can see the ftp
 server and it responds.  Using my firewall's packet log I can even see that
 the ftp server responds with at least one packet.  From there on
 everything's a mystery!

Are you sure your connection from service provider is able to handle
FTP protocol? Have you ever used FTP for other sites? What is
happening when you use telnet ftp.lyx.org 21?

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: I promise I'll never use Memoir again!

[Eran Kaplinsky]

I've used memoir from day one, and whenever I had a problem I could not 
find a solution to here, or on comp.text.tex newsgroup, Peter Wilson was 
kind enough to answer.



Eran

LyX and LaTeX?????, LyX y LaTeX?????

[Mauricio Fabian Duque Daza]

English language
Thank you community for answering, I have a document in Latex, which
compiles me very well, and want to do some changes in some mathematical
parts, because of it taking advantage that lyx allows me to see the changes
that I do and to handle latex, I try to import the file but lyx does not
open a complete Latex
Why?

That I can Do?
**
Idioma Español

Gracias comunidad por responder, tengo un documento en LaTeX, que me compila
muy bien, y deseo hacer algunos cambios en algunas partes matemáticas, por
eso aprovechando que lyx me permite ver los cambios que hago y maneja latex,
intento importar el archivo pero lyx no abre un LaTeX completo

Por qué?

Que puedo Hacer?

How to get a PDF TOC with links?

[Ian S. Worthington]

Is there some magic incantation I need to give to get a toc in my pdf which
links to the relevant content?  Mine doesn't seem to link anywhere.

i

Re: How to get a PDF TOC with links?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Ian S. Worthington schreef:

Is there some magic incantation I need to give to get a toc in my pdf which
links to the relevant content?  Mine doesn't seem to link anywhere.

i
  


Is Document-Settings-PDF Properties-Use Hyperref Support magical 
enough ?


Vincent

Off Topic: Database for citations?

[Ralf Schaa]

Hi all,

just wondering - instead of searching zillions of library pages to find the
correct citation (downloadable in BibTex, Endnote, whatever...), there sure must
be a webpage just dedicated to this sort of stuff ... something like
'http://adsabs.harvard.edu/' only larger ... couldn't find it however.
Any hints? 

Cheers
-Ralf

shortcuts to apply text style

[Sam Liddicott]

With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.

I think that the command is:
 textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code

but it doesn't do anything; what am I doing wrong?

Sam

noweb should be a module not a class

[Sam Liddicott]

I think noweb should not exist as a class, but as a module; what if I
want to do a KOMA-script book with noweb fragments in?

noweb is really used with \usepackage{noweb} showing that it is not
actually a document class at all. Perhaps it would be better as a module?

Also; if \newenvironment is used in the pre-amble, can the defined
environment be added to the drop-down listbox so it can be applied to
the document?

Sam

Re: shortcuts to apply text style

[Pavel Sanda]

Sam Liddicott wrote:
 With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
 logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.
 
 I think that the command is:
  textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code

if you look in the lfuns manual you can see that textstyle-apply does
not have any arguments...
what you are looking for is flex-insert CharStyle:Code.
pavel

Re: shortcuts to apply text style

[Sam Liddicott]

* Pavel Sanda wrote, On 27/07/09 11:35:
 Sam Liddicott wrote:
 With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
 logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.

 I think that the command is:
  textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code
 
 if you look in the lfuns manual you can see that textstyle-apply does
 not have any arguments...

I thought the manual was just incomplete...

 what you are looking for is flex-insert CharStyle:Code.
 pavel

thanks nicely!

Sam

Re: Sty to Layout problem

[Daniel Lohmann]

On 24.07.2009, at 02:25, Luis F. Amorim França wrote:


Thanks Daniel!

I tried to create a document with a ERT like

\title(Paper Title)
\author{Luis}

but when I compile it, the document is empty. Trying to use the Lyx  
Title

and Author, I get this message:

\author{Luis}\maketitle

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error  
message was
never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'  
and the
correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll  
forget

about whatever was undefined


Depending on the peculiarities of the latex class, more or less stuff  
has to be given in ERT - maybe even the abstract. The example I have  
attached, for instance, uses the IOS-Book class, which  requires the  
abstract to be defined within a special frontmatter environment.  
Because I did not want to bother with getting the peculiarities of  
this class right into a LyX layout, I ended up with a big ERT box in  
the beginning and only the real content is written in LyX.


The process: I usually use the latex example file that comes with the  
paper class as template, activate source preview in Lyx (View-View  
Source, then check Complete Source) to see what LyX would generate  
and then copy parts or larger chunks of the LaTeX example into ERT  
until the result looks compilable.


Daniel


is-book-example.lyx
Description: Binary data







Hi Luis,

This may not be exactly the answer you are looking for :-)

IMHO the front matter (the stuff that is rendered by \maketitle) is  
the
most difficult part to get right into a LyX layout, especially with  
paper

styles. Every paper style uses different concepts on how authors,
institutions, multiple authors per institution, authors with multiple
institutions,  thanks-titlenotes, and so on have to be specified.  
So even
with the well-designed paper layout files that ship with LyX (LNCS,  
IEEE,
...) I usually end up using ERT in the front matter to get what I  
need.


So if you are not going to write dozens of articles using that  
style, I
would just not bother in getting everything right into the layout  
and use

ERT in the paper to specify the front matter.


Daniel


On 23.07.2009, ad 01:43, Luis Amorim wrote:

Hi,


I'm trying to write an article at Lyx, but I had some problems  
when I

tried
to use a .layout I created from the .sty file provided by the
conference. I've followed the Customization Instructions (5.2.3)  
but it


doesn't work at Lyx, especially when I try to add a Title (it says  
is a
\maketitle problem). Searching the mailing list I found someone  
who had

almost the same problem, and added

Style TitleERT
   InTitle 1

End

in the .layout to solve it. I tried to do that, but I still can't  
compile

my
files.

I attached the .sty and .layout files, and a .tex which is an  
example of

use.

Thanks!

Luis Amorim

sbc-template.lyxsbc-template.stysbc-template.tex

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Paul A. Rubin]

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:



Well they are in the Karmic repositories. Instructions on how to
upgrade qt4 (fairly) safely are at:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg74482.html

Scroll down past my instructions and follow Michael Gasper's clearer,
better instructions.

These instructions have worked for me and Michael without any files
being eaten. The main things to remember are to watch the upgrade to
make sure it it only upgrades qt4 related packages, and disable the
Karmic repository after you use it (so you don't accidentally upgrade
to Karmic next time you do updates).



Thanks.  When time permits, I'll upgrade one of my two Ubuntu machines 
and, assuming the results are stable, move on to the other.  Although I 
move at a pace nearly as glacial as the Ubuntu repository maintainers 
... :-)

Re: Latest Lyx for Kubuntu 64 bits

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:23 AM, E.Kaplanehud.kap...@mssm.edu wrote:
 Can anyone tell me what is the latest Lyx version that is available for
 Kubuntu 64 bits?  It seems that the repositories only have 1.6.2, and the
 only 1.6.3 version I found was meant for Karmic (9.10) which is not out yet.

Well, the latest *supported* version is 1.6.2. But I am pretty sure
the *latest* version is:
 http://gmatht.homelinux.net/xp/pub/lyx_1.6.x.30798-1_amd64.deb

Note that installing files from third party websites has the same
problems as windows, is generally discouraged:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg61342.html

However, it works here. It installs lyx to /usr/local rather than /usr
so you could still run your old lyx with
   Alt-F2 /usr/bin/lyx

Why do specifically want the latest version?

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Anton Driesse]

Hi,

I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with Windows XP.  I
installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened my first file which I created in
version 1.6.0, scrolled down, and it crashed in exactly the way you
describe.  Three eps figures were causing me problems, and it turns out that
they had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at 1009x756
pixels, in landscape orientation.  Scaling to 49 or 51 % does not cause the
crash.  I can email you one of the files if you like.

As an aside, every time I save the preferences, the maximized LyX window
shrinks to the previously unmaximized size, but the border remains
unsizable.  I have to click restore and then maximize to get back to using
the full screen.

While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a response
from the lyx ftp server.  If any of you have any ideas to offer in response
to my query several days ago I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

Anton

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 In the last 6 months this list has featured at least 10 reports of LyX
 1.6.x
 terminating unexpectedly. I myself had instances of this in 1.6.2 and
 1.6.3,
 and was lucky enough to find a workaround in 1.6.3.

 Turns out, the lyx file causing the crash in my 1.6.3 featured a huge
 (bigger
 than 2mb) .eps file. When the file loaded, the picture on the screen said
 loading bookcover.eps, and then a couple seconds later crashed. This was
 a
 reproducible error -- it happened every time in the same amount of time.

 Using Vim, I replaced bookcover.eps with bookcover.pdf, a much smaller
 file,
 and the problem disappeared.

 So here's my question for everyone reporting 1.6.x crashes: Did your files
 include graphics? Did they include large graphics? Were any of the large
 graphics .eps files? Was there anybody suffering a 1.6.x crash whose file
 DID NOT
 have graphic files?

 If there's anyone currently able to reproduce this problem, would you be
 able
 to use a text editor to whittle the file down to a small reproducer, and
 then
 use the text editor to toggle the symptom by enabling and disapbling the
 big
 graphic?

 Thanks

 SteveT

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Anton Driesse]

Hi,

I'm still at a loss with this ftp server.

I have even tried turning off my firewall software - but nothing seems to
make a difference:

C:\Documents and Settings\driesseaftp ftp.lyx.org
Connected to durga.via.ecp.fr.

And after a long delay:

Connection closed by remote host.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Anton


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Anton Driesse anton.drie...@kos.netwrote:

 Hi,

 The site ftp.lyx.org doesn't seem to be responding to my home computers.
  All I get is the response connected to durga.via.ecp.fr and then
 nothing happens.  I can ftp to other sites.  I have also downloaded lyx
 using my work computer, and managed to install it at home, but when the
 installer tries to get the spell checkers using ftp, it hangs also.

 Any ideas why this might be?

 Thanks!

 Anton

Re: LyX crash feedback

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Anton Driesseanton.drie...@gmail.com wrote:
 While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a response
 from the lyx ftp server.

I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:

   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl

might help

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
Hi,

I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with
Windows XP.  I installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened
my first file which I created in version 1.6.0, scrolled down,
and it crashed in exactly the way you describe.  Three eps
figures were causing me problems, and it turns out that they
had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at
1009x756 pixels, in landscape orientation.vScaling to 49 or
51 % does not cause the crash.  I can email you one of the
files if you like.

We know the problem, and we know we can't do anything about it
ourselves. We have now made a work-around so that the bug won't appear
in LyX 1.6.4. 

As an aside, every time I save the preferences, the
maximized LyX window shrinks to the previously unmaximized
size, but the border remains unsizable.  I have to click
restore and then maximize to get back to using the full screen.

That's also a known problem, which we can't solve yet.

While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why
I can't get a response from the lyx ftp server.  If any
of you have any ideas to offer in response to my query
several days ago I would greatly appreciate it!

I've no problems accessing it (which is of no help to you).

Thanks!

Anton

Vincent

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
 While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a 
 response from the lyx ftp server.

I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:

   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl

might help

How ?

Vincent

Re: LyX crash feedback

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn -
TNWv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote:

 While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a
 response from the lyx ftp server.

I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:

   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl

might help

 How ?

Oh, right. Anton was discussing a different bug to the OP. So it
probably wouldn't help.

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Paul A. Rubin]

Anton Driesse wrote:

Hi,

I'm still at a loss with this ftp server.

I have even tried turning off my firewall software - but nothing seems to
make a difference:

C:\Documents and Settings\driesseaftp ftp.lyx.org
Connected to durga.via.ecp.fr.

And after a long delay:

Connection closed by remote host.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!



You're using the DOS ftp client, right?  Just tried it from here 
(Michigan, USA) and it worked fine -- twice.  Time is about 1500 GMT (or 
Coordinated Universal Time, or whatever it's called these days).


Connection closed by remote host usually means that either the host is 
having a bad day (software problems maybe) or it's currently overworked. 
 So it may be you're trying at peak busy times.  Other than trying at 
an off time, the only thing I can suggest is to ping and maybe 
traceroute it.  Try


C:\whereverping ftp.lyx.org

and watch the output.  The main concern is lost packets; round trip time 
is secondary.  DOS will automatically send four pings (you can adjust 
the number, but no need to).  I pinged the server just now and got four 
answers (0% loss) with an average round trip of 121 ms. (which is not 
bad).  If the ping output shows packet losses, there may be a problem 
between you and the server, in which case


C:\wherevertracert ftp.lyx.org

may show you where the problem is (not that the information will do you 
much good, unless it's in the first one or two hops).  Traceroute 
basically pings every router between you and the target, sequentially.


/Paul

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


C:\whereverping ftp.lyx.org


  I have no problems pinging that server from the linux network here in the
upper left corner of the US. Average round trip time was 201.681ms.

Rich

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Re: Sty to Layout problem

[Luis F . Amorim França]

2009/7/23 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com


 LyX thinks this is normal content, not something for before \maketitle. You
 need to put this in some kind of TitleERT environment, as mentioned before.

 rh


I edited the .layout file and added the statement:

Style TitleERT
  InTitle 1
End

then I used the TitleERT in a big ERT before the text. It almost worked,
except for some differences (at the e-mail font for example). Could that be
the fact that the .tex file in example uses another packages, like:

 \documentclass[12pt]{article}

 \usepackage{graphicx,url}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

I tried to add this at the preamble in the .layout file, but got an error.


2009/7/27 Daniel Lohmann daniel.lohm...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de


 Depending on the peculiarities of the latex class, more or less stuff has
 to be given in ERT - maybe even the abstract. The example I have attached,
 for instance, uses the IOS-Book class, which  requires the abstract to be
 defined within a special frontmatter environment. Because I did not want to
 bother with getting the peculiarities of this class right into a LyX layout,
 I ended up with a big ERT box in the beginning and only the real content is
 written in LyX.

 The process: I usually use the latex example file that comes with the paper
 class as template, activate source preview in Lyx (View-View Source, then
 check Complete Source) to see what LyX would generate and then copy parts
 or larger chunks of the LaTeX example into ERT until the result looks
 compilable.

 Daniel

 I guess this is my case. I did a big ERT before the text (as mentioned
above) but something is still wrong. I'll try to do like you now, maybe it
works.


Thanks again!

Luis.

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 27 July 2009 10:16:11 Anton Driesse wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with Windows XP.  I
 installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened my first file which I created
 in version 1.6.0, scrolled down, and it crashed in exactly the way you
 describe.  Three eps figures were causing me problems, and it turns out
 that they had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at
 1009x756 pixels, in landscape orientation.  Scaling to 49 or 51 % does not
 cause the crash.  I can email you one of the files if you like.

Thanks so much Anton!

Your succinct description got me a much closer knowledge.

On my tiny bug demonstrator document, I used Vim to change lyxscale 50 to 
lyxscale 51, after which the file became stable in LyX. Interestingly enough, 
when I set it back to 50, it was still stable. So there's some kind of cache 
involved. When I reboot (for power savings I shut down every night), I'll see 
whether the 50 reverts to being unstable.

At this point, for me, by far the easiest way to deal with this (I won't call 
it a solution) is to make sure no graphics are scaled 50% within the LyX 
environment. That's a whole lot simpler and less risky than tampering with my 
Qt4 version. Later, when I upgrade to Ubuntu K, qt4 will be upgraded for me.

Thanks

SteveT

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

That's a whole lot simpler and less risky than tampering
with my Qt4 version. Later, when I upgrade to Ubuntu K,
qt4 will be upgraded for me.

To cite myself:

The best thing that I can think of in your case is
that you have run into bug #5957: If you scale down
an image with an odd number of rows to 50% (on screen),
Qt4.5.0 would crash.

See www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5957.

Well, yesterday we found out that this bug is back in
Qt4.5.2, so I withdraw my advice to update Qt.. (for
now), but LyX 1.6.4 has a work-around for this.

Vincent

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Manveru]

2009/7/27 Anton Driesse anton.drie...@gmail.com:
 Hi,

 Thanks for responding.  Yes, ping and tracert work fine:  I can see the ftp
 server and it responds.  Using my firewall's packet log I can even see that
 the ftp server responds with at least one packet.  From there on
 everything's a mystery!

Are you sure your connection from service provider is able to handle
FTP protocol? Have you ever used FTP for other sites? What is
happening when you use telnet ftp.lyx.org 21?

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: I promise I'll never use Memoir again!

[Eran Kaplinsky]

I've used memoir from day one, and whenever I had a problem I could not 
find a solution to here, or on comp.text.tex newsgroup, Peter Wilson was 
kind enough to answer.



Eran

LyX and LaTeX?????, LyX y LaTeX?????

[Mauricio Fabian Duque Daza]

English language
Thank you community for answering, I have a document in Latex, which
compiles me very well, and want to do some changes in some mathematical
parts, because of it taking advantage that lyx allows me to see the changes
that I do and to handle latex, I try to import the file but lyx does not
open a complete Latex
Why?

That I can Do?
**
Idioma Español

Gracias comunidad por responder, tengo un documento en LaTeX, que me compila
muy bien, y deseo hacer algunos cambios en algunas partes matemáticas, por
eso aprovechando que lyx me permite ver los cambios que hago y maneja latex,
intento importar el archivo pero lyx no abre un LaTeX completo

Por qué?

Que puedo Hacer?

How to get a PDF TOC with links?

[Ian S. Worthington]

Is there some magic incantation I need to give to get a toc in my pdf which
links to the relevant content?  Mine doesn't seem to link anywhere.

i

Re: How to get a PDF TOC with links?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Ian S. Worthington schreef:

Is there some magic incantation I need to give to get a toc in my pdf which
links to the relevant content?  Mine doesn't seem to link anywhere.

i
  


Is Document-Settings-PDF Properties-Use Hyperref Support magical 
enough ?


Vincent

Off Topic: Database for citations?

[Ralf Schaa]

Hi all,

just wondering - instead of searching zillions of library pages to find the
correct citation (downloadable in BibTex, Endnote, whatever...), there sure must
be a webpage just dedicated to this sort of stuff ... something like
'http://adsabs.harvard.edu/' only larger ... couldn't find it however.
Any hints? 

Cheers
-Ralf

shortcuts to apply text style

[Sam Liddicott]

With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.

I think that the command is:
 textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code

but it doesn't do anything; what am I doing wrong?

Sam

noweb should be a module not a class

[Sam Liddicott]

I think noweb should not exist as a class, but as a module; what if I
want to do a KOMA-script book with noweb fragments in?

noweb is really used with \usepackage{noweb} showing that it is not
actually a document class at all. Perhaps it would be better as a module?

Also; if \newenvironment is used in the pre-amble, can the defined
environment be added to the drop-down listbox so it can be applied to
the document?

Sam

Re: shortcuts to apply text style

[Pavel Sanda]

Sam Liddicott wrote:
> With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
> logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.
> 
> I think that the command is:
>  textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code

if you look in the lfuns manual you can see that textstyle-apply does
not have any arguments...
what you are looking for is flex-insert CharStyle:Code.
pavel

Re: shortcuts to apply text style

[Sam Liddicott]

* Pavel Sanda wrote, On 27/07/09 11:35:
> Sam Liddicott wrote:
>> With Lyx 1.6.3 I'm trying to define a shortcut which will apply the
>> logical markup text side CharStyle:Code.
>>
>> I think that the command is:
>>  textstyle-apply CharStyle:Code
> 
> if you look in the lfuns manual you can see that textstyle-apply does
> not have any arguments...

I thought the manual was just incomplete...

> what you are looking for is flex-insert CharStyle:Code.
> pavel

thanks nicely!

Sam

Re: Sty to Layout problem

[Daniel Lohmann]

On 24.07.2009, at 02:25, Luis F. Amorim França wrote:


Thanks Daniel!

I tried to create a document with a ERT like

\title(Paper Title)
\author{Luis}

but when I compile it, the document is empty. Trying to use the Lyx  
Title

and Author, I get this message:

\author{Luis}\maketitle

The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error  
message was
never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I'  
and the
correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll  
forget

about whatever was undefined


Depending on the peculiarities of the latex class, more or less stuff  
has to be given in ERT - maybe even the abstract. The example I have  
attached, for instance, uses the "IOS-Book" class, which  requires the  
abstract to be defined within a special frontmatter environment.  
Because I did not want to bother with getting the peculiarities of  
this class right into a LyX layout, I ended up with a big ERT box in  
the beginning and only the real content is written in LyX.


The process: I usually use the latex example file that comes with the  
paper class as template, activate source preview in Lyx ("View->View  
Source", then check "Complete Source") to see what LyX would generate  
and then copy parts or larger chunks of the LaTeX example into ERT  
until the result looks compilable.


Daniel


is-book-example.lyx
Description: Binary data







Hi Luis,

This may not be exactly the answer you are looking for :-)

IMHO the front matter (the stuff that is rendered by \maketitle) is  
the
most difficult part to get right into a LyX layout, especially with  
paper

styles. Every paper style uses different concepts on how authors,
institutions, multiple authors per institution, authors with multiple
institutions,  "thanks"-titlenotes, and so on have to be specified.  
So even
with the well-designed paper layout files that ship with LyX (LNCS,  
IEEE,
...) I usually end up using ERT in the front matter to get what I  
need.


So if you are not going to write dozens of articles using that  
style, I
would just not bother in getting everything right into the layout  
and use

ERT in the paper to specify the front matter.


Daniel


On 23.07.2009, ad 01:43, Luis Amorim wrote:

Hi,


I'm trying to write an article at Lyx, but I had some problems  
when I

tried
to use a .layout I created from the .sty file provided by the
conference. I've followed the Customization Instructions (5.2.3)  
but it


doesn't work at Lyx, especially when I try to add a Title (it says  
is a
\maketitle problem). Searching the mailing list I found someone  
who had

almost the same problem, and added

Style TitleERT
   InTitle 1

End

in the .layout to solve it. I tried to do that, but I still can't  
compile

my
files.

I attached the .sty and .layout files, and a .tex which is an  
example of

use.

Thanks!

Luis Amorim

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Paul A. Rubin]

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:



Well they are in the Karmic repositories. Instructions on how to
upgrade qt4 (fairly) safely are at:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg74482.html

Scroll down past my instructions and follow Michael Gasper's clearer,
better instructions.

These instructions have worked for me and Michael without any files
being eaten. The main things to remember are to watch the upgrade to
make sure it it only upgrades qt4 related packages, and disable the
Karmic repository after you use it (so you don't accidentally upgrade
to Karmic next time you do updates).



Thanks.  When time permits, I'll upgrade one of my two Ubuntu machines 
and, assuming the results are stable, move on to the other.  Although I 
move at a pace nearly as glacial as the Ubuntu repository maintainers 
... :-)

Re: Latest Lyx for Kubuntu 64 bits

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:23 AM, E.Kaplan wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what is the latest Lyx version that is available for
> Kubuntu 64 bits?  It seems that the repositories only have 1.6.2, and the
> only 1.6.3 version I found was meant for Karmic (9.10) which is not out yet.

Well, the latest *supported* version is 1.6.2. But I am pretty sure
the *latest* version is:
 http://gmatht.homelinux.net/xp/pub/lyx_1.6.x.30798-1_amd64.deb

Note that installing files from third party websites has the same
problems as windows, is generally discouraged:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg61342.html

However, it works here. It installs lyx to /usr/local rather than /usr
so you could still run your old lyx with
   Alt-F2 /usr/bin/lyx

Why do specifically want the latest version?

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Anton Driesse]

Hi,

I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with Windows XP.  I
installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened my first file which I created in
version 1.6.0, scrolled down, and it crashed in exactly the way you
describe.  Three eps figures were causing me problems, and it turns out that
they had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at 1009x756
pixels, in landscape orientation.  Scaling to 49 or 51 % does not cause the
crash.  I can email you one of the files if you like.

As an aside, every time I save the preferences, the maximized LyX window
shrinks to the previously unmaximized size, but the border remains
unsizable.  I have to click restore and then maximize to get back to using
the full screen.

While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a response
from the lyx ftp server.  If any of you have any ideas to offer in response
to my query several days ago I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

Anton

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In the last 6 months this list has featured at least 10 reports of LyX
> 1.6.x
> terminating unexpectedly. I myself had instances of this in 1.6.2 and
> 1.6.3,
> and was lucky enough to find a workaround in 1.6.3.
>
> Turns out, the lyx file causing the crash in my 1.6.3 featured a huge
> (bigger
> than 2mb) .eps file. When the file loaded, the picture on the screen said
> "loading bookcover.eps", and then a couple seconds later crashed. This was
> a
> reproducible error -- it happened every time in the same amount of time.
>
> Using Vim, I replaced bookcover.eps with bookcover.pdf, a much smaller
> file,
> and the problem disappeared.
>
> So here's my question for everyone reporting 1.6.x crashes: Did your files
> include graphics? Did they include large graphics? Were any of the large
> graphics .eps files? Was there anybody suffering a 1.6.x crash whose file
> DID NOT
> have graphic files?
>
> If there's anyone currently able to reproduce this problem, would you be
> able
> to use a text editor to whittle the file down to a small reproducer, and
> then
> use the text editor to toggle the symptom by enabling and disapbling the
> big
> graphic?
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
>

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Anton Driesse]

Hi,

I'm still at a loss with this ftp server.

I have even tried turning off my firewall software - but nothing seems to
make a difference:

C:\Documents and Settings\driessea>ftp ftp.lyx.org
Connected to durga.via.ecp.fr.

And after a long delay:

Connection closed by remote host.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Anton


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Anton Driesse wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The site ftp.lyx.org doesn't seem to be responding to my home computers.
>  All I get is the response "connected to durga.via.ecp.fr" and then
> nothing happens.  I can ftp to other sites.  I have also downloaded lyx
> using my work computer, and managed to install it at home, but when the
> installer tries to get the spell checkers using ftp, it hangs also.
>
> Any ideas why this might be?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Anton
>
>

Re: LyX crash feedback

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Anton Driesse wrote:
> While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a response
> from the lyx ftp server.

I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:

   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl

might help

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
>Hi,
>
>I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with
>Windows XP.  I installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened
>my first file which I created in version 1.6.0, scrolled down,
>and it crashed in exactly the way you describe.  Three eps
>figures were causing me problems, and it turns out that they
>had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at
>1009x756 pixels, in landscape orientation.vScaling to 49 or
>51 % does not cause the crash.  I can email you one of the
>files if you like.

We know the problem, and we know we can't do anything about it
ourselves. We have now made a work-around so that the bug won't appear
in LyX 1.6.4. 

>As an aside, every time I save the preferences, the
>maximized LyX window shrinks to the previously unmaximized
>size, but the border remains unsizable.  I have to click
>restore and then maximize to get back to using the full screen.

That's also a known problem, which we can't solve yet.

>While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why
>I can't get a response from the lyx ftp server.  If any
>of you have any ideas to offer in response to my query
>several days ago I would greatly appreciate it!

I've no problems accessing it (which is of no help to you).

>Thanks!
>
>Anton

Vincent

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
>> While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a 
>> response from the lyx ftp server.
>
>I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:
>
>   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl
>
>might help

How ?

Vincent

Re: LyX crash feedback

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn -
TNW wrote:
>
>>> While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a
>>> response from the lyx ftp server.
>>
>>I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:
>>
>>   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl
>>
>>might help
>
> How ?

Oh, right. Anton was discussing a different bug to the OP. So it
probably wouldn't help.

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Paul A. Rubin]

Anton Driesse wrote:

Hi,

I'm still at a loss with this ftp server.

I have even tried turning off my firewall software - but nothing seems to
make a difference:

C:\Documents and Settings\driessea>ftp ftp.lyx.org
Connected to durga.via.ecp.fr.

And after a long delay:

Connection closed by remote host.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!



You're using the DOS ftp client, right?  Just tried it from here 
(Michigan, USA) and it worked fine -- twice.  Time is about 1500 GMT (or 
Coordinated Universal Time, or whatever it's called these days).


Connection closed by remote host usually means that either the host is 
having a bad day (software problems maybe) or it's currently overworked. 
 So it may be you're trying at peak busy times.  Other than trying at 
an off time, the only thing I can suggest is to ping and maybe 
traceroute it.  Try


C:\wherever>ping ftp.lyx.org

and watch the output.  The main concern is lost packets; round trip time 
is secondary.  DOS will automatically send four pings (you can adjust 
the number, but no need to).  I pinged the server just now and got four 
answers (0% loss) with an average round trip of 121 ms. (which is not 
bad).  If the ping output shows packet losses, there may be a problem 
between you and the server, in which case


C:\wherever>tracert ftp.lyx.org

may show you where the problem is (not that the information will do you 
much good, unless it's in the first one or two hops).  Traceroute 
basically pings every router between you and the target, sequentially.


/Paul

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


C:\wherever>ping ftp.lyx.org


  I have no problems pinging that server from the linux network here in the
upper left corner of the US. Average round trip time was 201.681ms.

Rich

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Re: Sty to Layout problem

[Luis F . Amorim França]

2009/7/23 rgheck 


> LyX thinks this is normal content, not something for before \maketitle. You
> need to put this in some kind of TitleERT environment, as mentioned before.
>
> rh


I edited the .layout file and added the statement:

Style TitleERT
  InTitle 1
End

then I used the TitleERT in a big ERT before the text. It almost worked,
except for some differences (at the e-mail font for example). Could that be
the fact that the .tex file in example uses another packages, like:

 \documentclass[12pt]{article}

 \usepackage{graphicx,url}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

I tried to add this at the preamble in the .layout file, but got an error.


2009/7/27 Daniel Lohmann 

>
> Depending on the peculiarities of the latex class, more or less stuff has
> to be given in ERT - maybe even the abstract. The example I have attached,
> for instance, uses the "IOS-Book" class, which  requires the abstract to be
> defined within a special frontmatter environment. Because I did not want to
> bother with getting the peculiarities of this class right into a LyX layout,
> I ended up with a big ERT box in the beginning and only the real content is
> written in LyX.
>
> The process: I usually use the latex example file that comes with the paper
> class as template, activate source preview in Lyx ("View->View Source", then
> check "Complete Source") to see what LyX would generate and then copy parts
> or larger chunks of the LaTeX example into ERT until the result looks
> compilable.
>
> Daniel
>
> I guess this is my case. I did a big ERT before the text (as mentioned
above) but something is still wrong. I'll try to do like you now, maybe it
works.


Thanks again!

Luis.

Re: LyX crash feedback

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 27 July 2009 10:16:11 Anton Driesse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with Windows XP.  I
> installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened my first file which I created
> in version 1.6.0, scrolled down, and it crashed in exactly the way you
> describe.  Three eps figures were causing me problems, and it turns out
> that they had all been scaled to 50%.  All three were the same size at
> 1009x756 pixels, in landscape orientation.  Scaling to 49 or 51 % does not
> cause the crash.  I can email you one of the files if you like.

Thanks so much Anton!

Your succinct description got me a much closer knowledge.

On my tiny bug demonstrator document, I used Vim to change lyxscale 50 to 
lyxscale 51, after which the file became stable in LyX. Interestingly enough, 
when I set it back to 50, it was still stable. So there's some kind of cache 
involved. When I reboot (for power savings I shut down every night), I'll see 
whether the 50 reverts to being unstable.

At this point, for me, by far the easiest way to deal with this (I won't call 
it a solution) is to make sure no graphics are scaled 50% within the LyX 
environment. That's a whole lot simpler and less risky than tampering with my 
Qt4 version. Later, when I upgrade to Ubuntu K, qt4 will be upgraded for me.

Thanks

SteveT

RE: LyX crash feedback

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

>That's a whole lot simpler and less risky than tampering
>with my Qt4 version. Later, when I upgrade to Ubuntu K,
>qt4 will be upgraded for me.

To cite myself:

"The best thing that I can think of in your case is
that you have run into bug #5957: If you scale down
an image with an odd number of rows to 50% (on screen),
Qt4.5.0 would crash."

See www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5957.

Well, yesterday we found out that this bug is back in
Qt4.5.2, so I withdraw my advice to update Qt.. (for
now), but LyX 1.6.4 has a work-around for this.

Vincent

Re: Trouble with lyx ftp site

[Manveru]

2009/7/27 Anton Driesse :
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for responding.  Yes, ping and tracert work fine:  I can see the ftp
> server and it responds.  Using my firewall's packet log I can even see that
> the ftp server responds with at least one packet.  From there on
> everything's a mystery!

Are you sure your connection from service provider is able to handle
FTP protocol? Have you ever used FTP for other sites? What is
happening when you use telnet ftp.lyx.org 21?

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Re: I promise I'll never use Memoir again!

[Eran Kaplinsky]

I've used memoir from day one, and whenever I had a problem I could not 
find a solution to here, or on comp.text.tex newsgroup, Peter Wilson was 
kind enough to answer.



Eran

LyX and LaTeX?????, LyX y LaTeX?????

[Mauricio Fabian Duque Daza]

English language
Thank you community for answering, I have a document in Latex, which
compiles me very well, and want to do some changes in some mathematical
parts, because of it taking advantage that lyx allows me to see the changes
that I do and to handle latex, I try to import the file but lyx does not
open a complete Latex
Why?

That I can Do?
**
Idioma Español

Gracias comunidad por responder, tengo un documento en LaTeX, que me compila
muy bien, y deseo hacer algunos cambios en algunas partes matemáticas, por
eso aprovechando que lyx me permite ver los cambios que hago y maneja latex,
intento importar el archivo pero lyx no abre un LaTeX completo

Por qué?

Que puedo Hacer?

How to get a PDF TOC with links?

[Ian S. Worthington]

Is there some magic incantation I need to give to get a toc in my pdf which
links to the relevant content?  Mine doesn't seem to link anywhere.

i

Re: How to get a PDF TOC with links?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Ian S. Worthington schreef:

Is there some magic incantation I need to give to get a toc in my pdf which
links to the relevant content?  Mine doesn't seem to link anywhere.

i
  


Is "Document->Settings->PDF Properties->Use Hyperref Support" magical 
enough ?


Vincent

Off Topic: Database for citations?

[Ralf Schaa]

Hi all,

just wondering - instead of searching zillions of library pages to find the
correct citation (downloadable in BibTex, Endnote, whatever...), there sure must
be a webpage just dedicated to this sort of stuff ... something like
'http://adsabs.harvard.edu/' only larger ... couldn't find it however.
Any hints? 

Cheers
-Ralf