RE: LyX indexing anomaly

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
Hi all,

My copy of LyX 1.6.3 errors out on indexing because when
LyX exports to LaTeX, it outputs normal range type indexing
entries (the ones ending in a pipe symbol and a parenthese)
with something like this:

\index{mysection|(@mysection\textbar(}

It should have looked like this:

\index{mysection|(}

Steve,

In case you didn't notice this mail (devel-list), I will repeat it here.


What's your Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex Encoding option ?

If this doesn't read T1, put it in there and I think this problem will
go away

At least, I can reproduce it also when setting the document language to
greek. Then this 'trick' with '|)' doesn't work any longer. That's a bug
too.

Vincent

Re: Did something about indexes change between 1.5.x and 1.6.x?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 Your testfile works perfectly for me with 1.6.3.

Same here, bot from LyX itself and via command line export.

Jürgen

Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Nurul Miah]

Hi,

I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)


I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language en_GB 

Any suggestions on how to get this working?

Kind Regards,

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1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[E. Kaplan]

Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version 
in that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from 
sources does not appeal to me.

Thanks,
EK

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Olivier Ripoll]

Nurul Miah wrote:

Hi,

I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)


I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language en_GB 

Any suggestions on how to get this working?

Kind Regards,

Hi,

I've had several aspell issues in the past (last was 1.6.0alpha2), but I 
think they are fixed now. Last time, I seem to remember (well, I 
cheated, I googled for the archives of that list) that I could solve the 
issue by using the following installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/aspelldata-0.60.4-root.exe
and the desired language files, all found at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/

First try to install the desired language, then if it still fails try 
the root one above.


But first wait to let time for others to reply first. Someone may have a 
better solution.


Best regards,

Olivier

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Manveru]

2009/8/27 E. Kaplan ehud.kap...@mssm.edu:
 Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
 that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
 not appeal to me.

There is a LyX project on lanuchpad.net which builds the code for
Ubuntu - I think automatically, but some has to merge the code I
suppose. There is a URL you can set to get LyX from there instead of
official repo, but I had not train it yet. Someone from LyX developers
would take that over to force new rebuild every time new version
arrives.

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Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[M-L]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:37:08 +0100 Nurul Miah
nurul.m...@london.gov.uk shared this with is all on the Lyx users
list:

Hi,

I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)


I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language en_GB 

Any suggestions on how to get this working? 

I did get this working when I had to use windows recently, but I can't
recall how I did it. I got that Miktex or whatever it was called to
download and install all the possible packages. Then found Aspell on
the net and installed that as well. When I went into the spellchecker
through Preferences- Language Settings- Spellchecker, but it was
greyed out and never changed. I also think I looked for a word list.

Jumped through a lot of hoops, but knew as soon as my new hard drive
arrived I would be back to Linux, nevertheless got the spellchecker
to work in windows eventually. It was ugly and more trouble than it
should have been.

I wish you luck with it and am really sorry no notes were kept of what
was done, so can't help you more. 

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Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

[Johannes Knaus]

Hello,

I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder if any of  
the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx under a Developer- 
Version of Snowleopard?

Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.

Johannes.

RE: Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

Hello,

I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder
if any of the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx
under a Developer- Version of Snowleopard?

Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.

Johannes.


We are a bit short on Mac developers, so I doubt that you'll get an
authorative answer. 

But, the good news is that I've heard of someone running LyX on
Snowleopard, the bad news is that I heard this by means of a bug report:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6168.

So, it'll be interesting whether this crash actually has to do something
with Snowleopard or not.

Vincent

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Sven Hoexter]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:23:50PM +0200, Manveru wrote:
 2009/8/27 E. Kaplan ehud.kap...@mssm.edu:
  Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
  that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
  not appeal to me.
 
 There is a LyX project on lanuchpad.net which builds the code for
 Ubuntu - I think automatically, but some has to merge the code I
 suppose. There is a URL you can set to get LyX from there instead of
 official repo, but I had not train it yet. Someone from LyX developers
 would take that over to force new rebuild every time new version
 arrives.

An upload of 1.6.4 to Debian unstable will happen soon [1]. After this
package hits unstable you can somehow request a sync from Ubuntu.
But they won't sync everything in every situation and they don't backport
everything for every old release.
So all in all it's quite specific what hits Ubuntu when and where. :)

Sven

[1] Yes, switching the VCS in use sometimes is a bit more tricky then
it looks like at a firce glance.
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Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel]

I use the spellchecker on LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP pro without any 
problem (in french !).
Perhaps it is a problem of the langage of the document which isn't well 
defined (Document-Preferences).

You must also have the dictionary for this langage.

Siegfried.

little space before number of footnote…

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

i do oftenly have the problem, that the footnote-number appears too  
close to the character before it. This happens, for example, every  
time I use a caret (hope, that´s the right word…, maybe it´s the same  
as an apostrophe). How could I achieve a little space before the  
footnote-number?


Thank you for your help!
Jess

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 08:45 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote:

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:23:50PM +0200, Manveru wrote:
   

2009/8/27 E. Kaplanehud.kap...@mssm.edu:
 

Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
not appeal to me.

   
That of course is up to you, but I myself would recommend that people 
who can do compile from source, and indeed from the svn stable branch. 
Why wait until the next stable release to get the bug fixes?


For those who do want to do this, here's a quick guide.

1. Make sure you have the usual buildtools installed: autotools, make, 
gcc, etc. You will of course also need various development packages, 
such as qt4-devel. Making sure you have all of these is probably the 
most annoying part of the process. Whether you have them all will become 
clear later.


2. Create a directory for the LyX sources, let's say, /home/you/src/lyx/.

3. cd /home/you/src/lyx

4. svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X/ . (note 
the trailing dot)


5. ./autogen.sh

6. ./configure --enable-build-type=rel
   You could also choose devel there, but if you're more a regular 
user, you probably want rel. Note that, by default, this will install 
LyX under /usr/local/.
   If configure fails, it will likely be because you don't have certain 
devel packages installed. LyX will tell you which these are. But note, 
if it says, Can't find Qt4, or something like that, it doesn't mean 
you don't have Qt4 installed. It means you don't have the Qt4 devel 
package installed.


7. make -j2
The two means use two processors. Adjust this depending on your 
system. Generally, advice around here has been that people should use 
all processors. Since the compilation won't actually use them all, due 
to disk activity and the like, the system should still be responsive.
This will take a while the first time. Other times will be a lot 
faster.


8. sudo make install, or su -c 'make install', or whatever is 
appropriate for your system.


Happy compiling,
Richard


9. Now, to make life really easy, set up a cron job to keep the LyX 
sources updated. Then, every once in a while, recompile and reinstall.

Re: little space before number of footnote…

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 09:53 AM, jezZiFeR wrote:

Hello,

i do oftenly have the problem, that the footnote-number appears too 
close to the character before it. This happens, for example, every 
time I use a caret (hope, that´s the right word…, maybe it´s the same 
as an apostrophe). How could I achieve a little space before the 
footnote-number?


InsertFormattingThin Space, and if that isn't enough, right-click the 
space and try something else.


rh

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Stefano Franchi]

Richard,

just out of curiosity (since I won't be  able to contribute to the coding 
effort), are these instructions supposed to work with the development code in 
trunk as well? 
They don't seem to on my system (the configure script generated by autogen.sh 
fails).


S.
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Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 10:41 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote:

Richard,

just out of curiosity (since I won't be  able to contribute to the coding
effort), are these instructions supposed to work with the development code in
trunk as well?

   

More or less, yes.


They don't seem to on my system (the configure script generated by autogen.sh
fails).

   

With what message?

rh

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Uwe Stöhr]

Nurul Miah schrieb:


I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)

I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language en_GB 


What happens when you start LyX, open a documentation file that you find in the Help menu pf LyX and 
then press F7?


The problem might be that there is only an Aspell dictionary available for en_US and not for en_GB. 
But the spellchecker should nevertheless start at least.


regards Uwe

Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

Hello all.

I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders, so I defined a default 'extra bottom space' in the properties. It
seems this extra space is only added to the (bottom of) last row (even
though all rows are selected on enabling the spacing, and, on-screen, the
spacing increases for all rows).

I also tried to increase this spacing line by line with the same result.

Adding extra top space works on all rows, but breaks the borders.

This is LyX 1.6.3. Sorry if this was already repaired. I'm off trying to
compile the latest version.

John

PS: No, 1.6.4 still shows the same problems.

selective compilation document versions

[David Bickel]

For a class I am teaching, I would like to be able to generate a PDF
file that only has the displayed equations of a LyX file without
losing the ability to generate a PDF file from the whole Lyx file,
including text between displayed equations. In Word, I would
accomplish this by considering everything except the displayed
equations to be Tracked Changes and then printing either the entire
document or just the document without the changes. I wonder whether
there is a way to do this in LyX by somehow maintaining two versions
of a LyX document within the same .LyX file. If not, is there a more
generic LaTeX solution?

David

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Re: Extra spacing in tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

John Coppens schrieb:


I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders,


Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu? There 
you find nearly every possible trick for tables.


regards Uwe

SV: selective compilation document versions

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi

In LyX you use branches to accomplish this. 
In document-settinsg make a new branch, mark the text
with the branch tool under insert-branch. When you
only want to print the equation deactivate the branch.
When you want to print the all, activate the branch.

For more detail see the documentation or on the wiki.

Ingar
 

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[James C. Sutherland]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


John Coppens schrieb:


I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders,


Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you  
find in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick  
for tables.


regards Uwe


I have also seen the math-spacing problem in tables, and have tried  
increasing the spacing.  What I usually see is that this creates  
breaks in the table borders that are very annoying.

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:59:49 +0200
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:

  I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
  borders,
 
 Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find
 in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick for
 tables.

Thanks Uwe,

I will do that later. I haven't looked for alternative methods yet, but I
thought that if a standard LyX feature didn't work as advertised, it was
important enough to check if it was my fault or not.

Cheers,
John

Re: Error messages when using book (AMS) document class

[Luca Carlon]

rgheck rgh...@... writes:

 
 On 08/26/2009 03:20 AM, Luca Carlon wrote:
[...]
...e provided value lies.}}{59}{algorithm.3.1}
 
  A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
  (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
  look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
 
  Any idea what the problem could be? Thanks!
 
 
 Not offhand, no. What's the rest of the code there? If you look through 
 ViewSource (or just export to LaTeX), you ought to be able to figure 
 out what's generating the offending code, at least.
 
 rh
 
 

It seems the problem is related to the presence of the list of the algorithms.
The error now is (I don't know why but the error has changed from the time I
wrote the first message):

 \listof{algorithm}{List of Algorithms}

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.

and the paragraph is:

% Preview source code for paragraph 5

\listof{algorithm}{List of Algorithms}

If I remove the list of algorithms the document is compiled without problems.
Any idea why?
Thanks!

Re: LyX indexing anomaly SOLVED

[Steve Litt]

Thanks Vincent. Please continue reading at the bottom...

On Thursday 27 August 2009 04:00:43 you wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 My copy of LyX 1.6.3 errors out on indexing because when
 LyX exports to LaTeX, it outputs normal range type indexing
 entries (the ones ending in a pipe symbol and a parenthese)
 with something like this:
 
 \index{mysection|(@mysection\textbar(}
 
 It should have looked like this:
 
 \index{mysection|(}

 Steve,

 In case you didn't notice this mail (devel-list), I will repeat it here.


 What's your Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex Encoding option ?

 If this doesn't read T1, put it in there and I think this problem will
 go away

 At least, I can reproduce it also when setting the document language to
 greek. Then this 'trick' with '|)' doesn't work any longer. That's a bug
 too.

 Vincent

Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex Encoding was set to default on my 
system. After I set it to T1, the extraneous text no longer occurred. I set it 
back to default, and the extraneous text came back.

So, if anyone has indexing problems and sees range type index code that looks 
like this:

\index{chapter 2|(@chapter 2\textbar{}(}
instead of this:
\index{chapter 2|(}

then the most likely solution is to set Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex 
to T1.

THE ONLY REMAINING TASK is to understand the meaning of T1. What is it? It's 
the set of characters that you will be using in the document -- the set of 
characters you will be restricted to. For instance, the following is the T1 
encoding:

http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/t1.htm

The following is OT1, which looks a heck of a lot like ASCII to me:

http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/ot1.htm

Here's where the plot thickens. I've read that if you select a specific font 
encoding like T1, it can change the font version that your document uses:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-T1

Could someone please explain the info in the preceding URL to me? In fact, a 
lot of my stuff IS fuzzy when viewed in xpdf.

Vincent and everyone else -- thanks so much for your help!

SteveT

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Single Spacing in Caption

[Daniel Joshua Stark]

Dear All,I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS directs it should be. Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?Thanks for any help. 

rice_thesis.cls
Description: Binary data
Daniel StarkPhD CandidateRice University, MS-61Physics and AstronomyDell Butcher Hall 1001900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20Houston TX 77005USAPh: +1-713-348-3126Fx: +1-713-348-2603In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.-Frank WilczekI think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. -Isidor Isaac Rabi 

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Joost Verburg]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
The problem might be that there is only an Aspell dictionary available 
for en_US and not for en_GB. But the spellchecker should nevertheless 
start at least.


The English Aspell dictionary includes both an American and British version.

Joost

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Daniel Joshua Stark]

I've figure out that this apparently only happens when I use  
subfigures.  Is there a way to keep subfig from changing the margin  
spacing?


Thanks

Daniel Stark
PhD Candidate
Rice University, MS-61
Physics and Astronomy
Dell Butcher Hall 100
1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
Houston TX 77005
USA

Ph: +1-713-348-3126
Fx:  +1-713-348-2603

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself -  
nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi


On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:44:45 PM, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:


Dear All,

I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
directs it should be.


Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?

Thanks for any help.

rice_thesis.cls

Daniel Stark
PhD Candidate
Rice University, MS-61
Physics and Astronomy
Dell Butcher Hall 100
1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
Houston TX 77005
USA

Ph: +1-713-348-3126
Fx:  +1-713-348-2603

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself  
- nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Could it be that the spellchecking possibility in LyX with Aspell or  
CocoAspell is a big piss take, at least on Mac-OSX?


I have worked till today without spellchecker in LyX, but I should install  
one for my convenience.


Now I worked about 8 hours to install and configure (Coco)Aspell for LyX  
without acceptable result (and fear to have another 2, 3 hours to get rid  
of it).


First I installed CocoAspell, because in the LyX-wiki page vor Mac
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac#toc4
it is said:
The easiest spellchecker to install is cocoAspell. CocoAspell provides an  
installation of aspell and a preferences pane for selecting and setting up  
dictionaries.


I did it. But LyX could not find it. LyX searched for:  
/opt/local/share/aspell/ngerman

which does not exist. (I want the spellchecker for German)

I installed Aspell with MacPorts. Same result. Only after putting in the  
path to one of the files de-common.dws or de-DE-only.dws in  
LyX-preferences | language | spellschecker it works. But in the way to  
suggest for each (btw correct) word a sample of words which have nothing  
to do with the one proofed.


= Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got  
them working with LyX in a reasonable manner?

Would you please describe how you installed and configured it?

joachim

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MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger (intel)

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Julien Rioux]

Daniel Joshua Stark ds4...@... writes:

 
 Dear All,
 
 I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
 double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
 directs it should be.
 
 Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?
 
 Thanks for any help.
 
 Daniel Stark
 PhD Candidate
 Rice University, MS-61
 Physics and Astronomy
 Dell Butcher Hall 100
 1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
 Houston TX 77005
 USA
 
 Ph: +1-713-348-3126
 Fx:  +1-713-348-2603
 
 In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself -  
 nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
 I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
 grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi
 
 

Hi Daniel,

Unless specifically told not to do so, subfig will automatically load the
caption package and this is messing with your captions.

A solution is to try the following in your document's preamble:

\PassOptionsToPackage{caption=false}{subfig}

Cheers,
Julien

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[M-L]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:47:54 +0200 Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
meun...@coria.fr applied thoughts to keyboard and posted this:

I use the spellchecker on LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP pro without any 
problem (in french !).
Perhaps it is a problem of the langage of the document which isn't
well defined (Document-Preferences).
You must also have the dictionary for this langage.

Siegfried.

Thanks Siegfried,

I did download the dictionary English [Australian] dictionary if I
recall and a lot of other stuff, some of which I purged when the
spellchecker was up and running and discovered some of the software
wasn't required. I just don't recall what was done and what fixed it.

It was an affectation. When in windows I actually don't find MSWord or
OpenOffice.org onerous to use, but prefer to use LyX wherever possible.
So due to bloody mindedness just kept worrying away at it while working
in the other programs and finally got it working the way I wanted.

Be well,
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Re: Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:18:41 -0400
Stephen Buonopane stephen.buonop...@bucknell.edu wrote:

 Did you try in ERT
 \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5}

Hi Stephem.

That command seems to resize the entire table, with contents. It does
nothing to the row-to-border spacing.

I have [] around matrices in the table, and the [] touch the cell
borders. This look positively ugly.

I'd prefer to maintain the borders, but if nothing else works, removing
the borders looks better.

Cheers,
John

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[Stephen Buonopane]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:50 PM, John Coppens wrote:


On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:18:41 -0400
Stephen Buonopane stephen.buonop...@bucknell.edu wrote:


Did you try in ERT
\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5}


Hi Stephem.

That command seems to resize the entire table, with contents. It does
nothing to the row-to-border spacing.

I have [] around matrices in the table, and the [] touch the cell
borders. This look positively ugly.

I'd prefer to maintain the borders, but if nothing else works,  
removing

the borders looks better.

Cheers,
John


I was afraid that would be the case since it stretches both the math  
and table rows.


Another possible workaround might be to set the column width to a  
fixed value and then you can use hard line breaks (command-return on  
the mac) at the end of the cell.

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:19:58 -0300
John Coppens j...@jcoppens.com wrote:

   I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
   borders,
  
  Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you
  find in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick
  for tables.
 
 Thanks Uwe,
 
 I will do that later. I haven't looked for alternative methods yet, but
 I thought that if a standard LyX feature didn't work as advertised, it
 was important enough to check if it was my fault or not.

Uwe,

I've looked over the EmbeddedObjects manual, and, sure enough, the
problems are documented (I was already wondering why I didn't find a
reference to the problem).

Just as a suggestion, I'd modify the LyX table dialog (add a warning when
adding top space or inter-row space).

I tried to insert TeX \strut in the cell(s), and found it had no effect.

Then I tried with the preamble, using array, but the spacing inserted
seems to distribute very unevenly over the table. I tried with a large
value for height to see the effect, and I get lots of extra space in
between matrix lines, very little extra space above and below the matrix,
and this last space gradually lessens row by row.

I think I'd better leave off the borders completely.

Cheers,
John

Help needed: LyX files Win-Linux Mint Gloria 7

[KR Thorne]

Hello,
 
I created a number of files in LyX under Windows Vista, saved in .lyx format. I 
have just migrated over to Linux Mint Gloria 7, and now my files will not open. 
I receive an error message:
 

/media/FreeAgent Drive/Encryption Folder/Seagate
Backup/KRT-PC/C/Users/KRT/Documents/Writing/GTG_TWI_newedit_test.lyx is not a 
readable LyX document.

I also tried the files I had copied to a data DVD, but cannot open them either.
 
Both the Windows Lyx and the Linux LyX are the latest release, 1.6.2.
 
This is extremely important, as these are manuscripts representing several 
years of work. At present I cannot simply open them in Windows, as my Windows 
installation was not working and the recovery disks are unsuccessful (ticket 
open with the laptop mfr).
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Thanks,
Karen


  

RE: LyX indexing anomaly

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
Hi all,

My copy of LyX 1.6.3 errors out on indexing because when
LyX exports to LaTeX, it outputs normal range type indexing
entries (the ones ending in a pipe symbol and a parenthese)
with something like this:

\index{mysection|(@mysection\textbar(}

It should have looked like this:

\index{mysection|(}

Steve,

In case you didn't notice this mail (devel-list), I will repeat it here.


What's your Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex Encoding option ?

If this doesn't read T1, put it in there and I think this problem will
go away

At least, I can reproduce it also when setting the document language to
greek. Then this 'trick' with '|)' doesn't work any longer. That's a bug
too.

Vincent

Re: Did something about indexes change between 1.5.x and 1.6.x?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 Your testfile works perfectly for me with 1.6.3.

Same here, bot from LyX itself and via command line export.

Jürgen

Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Nurul Miah]

Hi,

I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)


I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language en_GB 

Any suggestions on how to get this working?

Kind Regards,

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1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[E. Kaplan]

Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version 
in that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from 
sources does not appeal to me.

Thanks,
EK

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Olivier Ripoll]

Nurul Miah wrote:

Hi,

I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)


I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language en_GB 

Any suggestions on how to get this working?

Kind Regards,

Hi,

I've had several aspell issues in the past (last was 1.6.0alpha2), but I 
think they are fixed now. Last time, I seem to remember (well, I 
cheated, I googled for the archives of that list) that I could solve the 
issue by using the following installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/aspelldata-0.60.4-root.exe
and the desired language files, all found at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/

First try to install the desired language, then if it still fails try 
the root one above.


But first wait to let time for others to reply first. Someone may have a 
better solution.


Best regards,

Olivier

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Manveru]

2009/8/27 E. Kaplan ehud.kap...@mssm.edu:
 Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
 that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
 not appeal to me.

There is a LyX project on lanuchpad.net which builds the code for
Ubuntu - I think automatically, but some has to merge the code I
suppose. There is a URL you can set to get LyX from there instead of
official repo, but I had not train it yet. Someone from LyX developers
would take that over to force new rebuild every time new version
arrives.

-- 
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Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[M-L]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:37:08 +0100 Nurul Miah
nurul.m...@london.gov.uk shared this with is all on the Lyx users
list:

Hi,

I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)


I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language en_GB 

Any suggestions on how to get this working? 

I did get this working when I had to use windows recently, but I can't
recall how I did it. I got that Miktex or whatever it was called to
download and install all the possible packages. Then found Aspell on
the net and installed that as well. When I went into the spellchecker
through Preferences- Language Settings- Spellchecker, but it was
greyed out and never changed. I also think I looked for a word list.

Jumped through a lot of hoops, but knew as soon as my new hard drive
arrived I would be back to Linux, nevertheless got the spellchecker
to work in windows eventually. It was ugly and more trouble than it
should have been.

I wish you luck with it and am really sorry no notes were kept of what
was done, so can't help you more. 

Charlie
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Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

[Johannes Knaus]

Hello,

I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder if any of  
the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx under a Developer- 
Version of Snowleopard?

Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.

Johannes.

RE: Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

Hello,

I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder
if any of the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx
under a Developer- Version of Snowleopard?

Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.

Johannes.


We are a bit short on Mac developers, so I doubt that you'll get an
authorative answer. 

But, the good news is that I've heard of someone running LyX on
Snowleopard, the bad news is that I heard this by means of a bug report:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6168.

So, it'll be interesting whether this crash actually has to do something
with Snowleopard or not.

Vincent

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Sven Hoexter]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:23:50PM +0200, Manveru wrote:
 2009/8/27 E. Kaplan ehud.kap...@mssm.edu:
  Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
  that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
  not appeal to me.
 
 There is a LyX project on lanuchpad.net which builds the code for
 Ubuntu - I think automatically, but some has to merge the code I
 suppose. There is a URL you can set to get LyX from there instead of
 official repo, but I had not train it yet. Someone from LyX developers
 would take that over to force new rebuild every time new version
 arrives.

An upload of 1.6.4 to Debian unstable will happen soon [1]. After this
package hits unstable you can somehow request a sync from Ubuntu.
But they won't sync everything in every situation and they don't backport
everything for every old release.
So all in all it's quite specific what hits Ubuntu when and where. :)

Sven

[1] Yes, switching the VCS in use sometimes is a bit more tricky then
it looks like at a firce glance.
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Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel]

I use the spellchecker on LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP pro without any 
problem (in french !).
Perhaps it is a problem of the langage of the document which isn't well 
defined (Document-Preferences).

You must also have the dictionary for this langage.

Siegfried.

little space before number of footnote…

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

i do oftenly have the problem, that the footnote-number appears too  
close to the character before it. This happens, for example, every  
time I use a caret (hope, that´s the right word…, maybe it´s the same  
as an apostrophe). How could I achieve a little space before the  
footnote-number?


Thank you for your help!
Jess

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 08:45 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote:

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:23:50PM +0200, Manveru wrote:
   

2009/8/27 E. Kaplanehud.kap...@mssm.edu:
 

Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
not appeal to me.

   
That of course is up to you, but I myself would recommend that people 
who can do compile from source, and indeed from the svn stable branch. 
Why wait until the next stable release to get the bug fixes?


For those who do want to do this, here's a quick guide.

1. Make sure you have the usual buildtools installed: autotools, make, 
gcc, etc. You will of course also need various development packages, 
such as qt4-devel. Making sure you have all of these is probably the 
most annoying part of the process. Whether you have them all will become 
clear later.


2. Create a directory for the LyX sources, let's say, /home/you/src/lyx/.

3. cd /home/you/src/lyx

4. svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X/ . (note 
the trailing dot)


5. ./autogen.sh

6. ./configure --enable-build-type=rel
   You could also choose devel there, but if you're more a regular 
user, you probably want rel. Note that, by default, this will install 
LyX under /usr/local/.
   If configure fails, it will likely be because you don't have certain 
devel packages installed. LyX will tell you which these are. But note, 
if it says, Can't find Qt4, or something like that, it doesn't mean 
you don't have Qt4 installed. It means you don't have the Qt4 devel 
package installed.


7. make -j2
The two means use two processors. Adjust this depending on your 
system. Generally, advice around here has been that people should use 
all processors. Since the compilation won't actually use them all, due 
to disk activity and the like, the system should still be responsive.
This will take a while the first time. Other times will be a lot 
faster.


8. sudo make install, or su -c 'make install', or whatever is 
appropriate for your system.


Happy compiling,
Richard


9. Now, to make life really easy, set up a cron job to keep the LyX 
sources updated. Then, every once in a while, recompile and reinstall.

Re: little space before number of footnote…

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 09:53 AM, jezZiFeR wrote:

Hello,

i do oftenly have the problem, that the footnote-number appears too 
close to the character before it. This happens, for example, every 
time I use a caret (hope, that´s the right word…, maybe it´s the same 
as an apostrophe). How could I achieve a little space before the 
footnote-number?


InsertFormattingThin Space, and if that isn't enough, right-click the 
space and try something else.


rh

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Stefano Franchi]

Richard,

just out of curiosity (since I won't be  able to contribute to the coding 
effort), are these instructions supposed to work with the development code in 
trunk as well? 
They don't seem to on my system (the configure script generated by autogen.sh 
fails).


S.
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Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
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College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 10:41 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote:

Richard,

just out of curiosity (since I won't be  able to contribute to the coding
effort), are these instructions supposed to work with the development code in
trunk as well?

   

More or less, yes.


They don't seem to on my system (the configure script generated by autogen.sh
fails).

   

With what message?

rh

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Uwe Stöhr]

Nurul Miah schrieb:


I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)

I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language en_GB 


What happens when you start LyX, open a documentation file that you find in the Help menu pf LyX and 
then press F7?


The problem might be that there is only an Aspell dictionary available for en_US and not for en_GB. 
But the spellchecker should nevertheless start at least.


regards Uwe

Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

Hello all.

I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders, so I defined a default 'extra bottom space' in the properties. It
seems this extra space is only added to the (bottom of) last row (even
though all rows are selected on enabling the spacing, and, on-screen, the
spacing increases for all rows).

I also tried to increase this spacing line by line with the same result.

Adding extra top space works on all rows, but breaks the borders.

This is LyX 1.6.3. Sorry if this was already repaired. I'm off trying to
compile the latest version.

John

PS: No, 1.6.4 still shows the same problems.

selective compilation document versions

[David Bickel]

For a class I am teaching, I would like to be able to generate a PDF
file that only has the displayed equations of a LyX file without
losing the ability to generate a PDF file from the whole Lyx file,
including text between displayed equations. In Word, I would
accomplish this by considering everything except the displayed
equations to be Tracked Changes and then printing either the entire
document or just the document without the changes. I wonder whether
there is a way to do this in LyX by somehow maintaining two versions
of a LyX document within the same .LyX file. If not, is there a more
generic LaTeX solution?

David

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Associate Professor
Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology
BMI Dept., University of Ottawa
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Re: Extra spacing in tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

John Coppens schrieb:


I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders,


Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu? There 
you find nearly every possible trick for tables.


regards Uwe

SV: selective compilation document versions

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi

In LyX you use branches to accomplish this. 
In document-settinsg make a new branch, mark the text
with the branch tool under insert-branch. When you
only want to print the equation deactivate the branch.
When you want to print the all, activate the branch.

For more detail see the documentation or on the wiki.

Ingar
 

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[James C. Sutherland]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


John Coppens schrieb:


I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders,


Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you  
find in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick  
for tables.


regards Uwe


I have also seen the math-spacing problem in tables, and have tried  
increasing the spacing.  What I usually see is that this creates  
breaks in the table borders that are very annoying.

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:59:49 +0200
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:

  I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
  borders,
 
 Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find
 in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick for
 tables.

Thanks Uwe,

I will do that later. I haven't looked for alternative methods yet, but I
thought that if a standard LyX feature didn't work as advertised, it was
important enough to check if it was my fault or not.

Cheers,
John

Re: Error messages when using book (AMS) document class

[Luca Carlon]

rgheck rgh...@... writes:

 
 On 08/26/2009 03:20 AM, Luca Carlon wrote:
[...]
...e provided value lies.}}{59}{algorithm.3.1}
 
  A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
  (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
  look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
 
  Any idea what the problem could be? Thanks!
 
 
 Not offhand, no. What's the rest of the code there? If you look through 
 ViewSource (or just export to LaTeX), you ought to be able to figure 
 out what's generating the offending code, at least.
 
 rh
 
 

It seems the problem is related to the presence of the list of the algorithms.
The error now is (I don't know why but the error has changed from the time I
wrote the first message):

 \listof{algorithm}{List of Algorithms}

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.

and the paragraph is:

% Preview source code for paragraph 5

\listof{algorithm}{List of Algorithms}

If I remove the list of algorithms the document is compiled without problems.
Any idea why?
Thanks!

Re: LyX indexing anomaly SOLVED

[Steve Litt]

Thanks Vincent. Please continue reading at the bottom...

On Thursday 27 August 2009 04:00:43 you wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 My copy of LyX 1.6.3 errors out on indexing because when
 LyX exports to LaTeX, it outputs normal range type indexing
 entries (the ones ending in a pipe symbol and a parenthese)
 with something like this:
 
 \index{mysection|(@mysection\textbar(}
 
 It should have looked like this:
 
 \index{mysection|(}

 Steve,

 In case you didn't notice this mail (devel-list), I will repeat it here.


 What's your Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex Encoding option ?

 If this doesn't read T1, put it in there and I think this problem will
 go away

 At least, I can reproduce it also when setting the document language to
 greek. Then this 'trick' with '|)' doesn't work any longer. That's a bug
 too.

 Vincent

Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex Encoding was set to default on my 
system. After I set it to T1, the extraneous text no longer occurred. I set it 
back to default, and the extraneous text came back.

So, if anyone has indexing problems and sees range type index code that looks 
like this:

\index{chapter 2|(@chapter 2\textbar{}(}
instead of this:
\index{chapter 2|(}

then the most likely solution is to set Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX-Tex 
to T1.

THE ONLY REMAINING TASK is to understand the meaning of T1. What is it? It's 
the set of characters that you will be using in the document -- the set of 
characters you will be restricted to. For instance, the following is the T1 
encoding:

http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/t1.htm

The following is OT1, which looks a heck of a lot like ASCII to me:

http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/ot1.htm

Here's where the plot thickens. I've read that if you select a specific font 
encoding like T1, it can change the font version that your document uses:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-T1

Could someone please explain the info in the preceding URL to me? In fact, a 
lot of my stuff IS fuzzy when viewed in xpdf.

Vincent and everyone else -- thanks so much for your help!

SteveT

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Single Spacing in Caption

[Daniel Joshua Stark]

Dear All,I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS directs it should be. Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?Thanks for any help. 

rice_thesis.cls
Description: Binary data
Daniel StarkPhD CandidateRice University, MS-61Physics and AstronomyDell Butcher Hall 1001900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20Houston TX 77005USAPh: +1-713-348-3126Fx: +1-713-348-2603In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.-Frank WilczekI think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. -Isidor Isaac Rabi 

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Joost Verburg]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
The problem might be that there is only an Aspell dictionary available 
for en_US and not for en_GB. But the spellchecker should nevertheless 
start at least.


The English Aspell dictionary includes both an American and British version.

Joost

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Daniel Joshua Stark]

I've figure out that this apparently only happens when I use  
subfigures.  Is there a way to keep subfig from changing the margin  
spacing?


Thanks

Daniel Stark
PhD Candidate
Rice University, MS-61
Physics and Astronomy
Dell Butcher Hall 100
1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
Houston TX 77005
USA

Ph: +1-713-348-3126
Fx:  +1-713-348-2603

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself -  
nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi


On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:44:45 PM, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:


Dear All,

I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
directs it should be.


Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?

Thanks for any help.

rice_thesis.cls

Daniel Stark
PhD Candidate
Rice University, MS-61
Physics and Astronomy
Dell Butcher Hall 100
1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
Houston TX 77005
USA

Ph: +1-713-348-3126
Fx:  +1-713-348-2603

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself  
- nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Could it be that the spellchecking possibility in LyX with Aspell or  
CocoAspell is a big piss take, at least on Mac-OSX?


I have worked till today without spellchecker in LyX, but I should install  
one for my convenience.


Now I worked about 8 hours to install and configure (Coco)Aspell for LyX  
without acceptable result (and fear to have another 2, 3 hours to get rid  
of it).


First I installed CocoAspell, because in the LyX-wiki page vor Mac
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac#toc4
it is said:
The easiest spellchecker to install is cocoAspell. CocoAspell provides an  
installation of aspell and a preferences pane for selecting and setting up  
dictionaries.


I did it. But LyX could not find it. LyX searched for:  
/opt/local/share/aspell/ngerman

which does not exist. (I want the spellchecker for German)

I installed Aspell with MacPorts. Same result. Only after putting in the  
path to one of the files de-common.dws or de-DE-only.dws in  
LyX-preferences | language | spellschecker it works. But in the way to  
suggest for each (btw correct) word a sample of words which have nothing  
to do with the one proofed.


= Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got  
them working with LyX in a reasonable manner?

Would you please describe how you installed and configured it?

joachim

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Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Julien Rioux]

Daniel Joshua Stark ds4...@... writes:

 
 Dear All,
 
 I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
 double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
 directs it should be.
 
 Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?
 
 Thanks for any help.
 
 Daniel Stark
 PhD Candidate
 Rice University, MS-61
 Physics and Astronomy
 Dell Butcher Hall 100
 1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
 Houston TX 77005
 USA
 
 Ph: +1-713-348-3126
 Fx:  +1-713-348-2603
 
 In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself -  
 nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
 I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
 grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi
 
 

Hi Daniel,

Unless specifically told not to do so, subfig will automatically load the
caption package and this is messing with your captions.

A solution is to try the following in your document's preamble:

\PassOptionsToPackage{caption=false}{subfig}

Cheers,
Julien

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[M-L]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:47:54 +0200 Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
meun...@coria.fr applied thoughts to keyboard and posted this:

I use the spellchecker on LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP pro without any 
problem (in french !).
Perhaps it is a problem of the langage of the document which isn't
well defined (Document-Preferences).
You must also have the dictionary for this langage.

Siegfried.

Thanks Siegfried,

I did download the dictionary English [Australian] dictionary if I
recall and a lot of other stuff, some of which I purged when the
spellchecker was up and running and discovered some of the software
wasn't required. I just don't recall what was done and what fixed it.

It was an affectation. When in windows I actually don't find MSWord or
OpenOffice.org onerous to use, but prefer to use LyX wherever possible.
So due to bloody mindedness just kept worrying away at it while working
in the other programs and finally got it working the way I wanted.

Be well,
Charlie
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Re: Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:18:41 -0400
Stephen Buonopane stephen.buonop...@bucknell.edu wrote:

 Did you try in ERT
 \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5}

Hi Stephem.

That command seems to resize the entire table, with contents. It does
nothing to the row-to-border spacing.

I have [] around matrices in the table, and the [] touch the cell
borders. This look positively ugly.

I'd prefer to maintain the borders, but if nothing else works, removing
the borders looks better.

Cheers,
John

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[Stephen Buonopane]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:50 PM, John Coppens wrote:


On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:18:41 -0400
Stephen Buonopane stephen.buonop...@bucknell.edu wrote:


Did you try in ERT
\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5}


Hi Stephem.

That command seems to resize the entire table, with contents. It does
nothing to the row-to-border spacing.

I have [] around matrices in the table, and the [] touch the cell
borders. This look positively ugly.

I'd prefer to maintain the borders, but if nothing else works,  
removing

the borders looks better.

Cheers,
John


I was afraid that would be the case since it stretches both the math  
and table rows.


Another possible workaround might be to set the column width to a  
fixed value and then you can use hard line breaks (command-return on  
the mac) at the end of the cell.

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:19:58 -0300
John Coppens j...@jcoppens.com wrote:

   I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
   borders,
  
  Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you
  find in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick
  for tables.
 
 Thanks Uwe,
 
 I will do that later. I haven't looked for alternative methods yet, but
 I thought that if a standard LyX feature didn't work as advertised, it
 was important enough to check if it was my fault or not.

Uwe,

I've looked over the EmbeddedObjects manual, and, sure enough, the
problems are documented (I was already wondering why I didn't find a
reference to the problem).

Just as a suggestion, I'd modify the LyX table dialog (add a warning when
adding top space or inter-row space).

I tried to insert TeX \strut in the cell(s), and found it had no effect.

Then I tried with the preamble, using array, but the spacing inserted
seems to distribute very unevenly over the table. I tried with a large
value for height to see the effect, and I get lots of extra space in
between matrix lines, very little extra space above and below the matrix,
and this last space gradually lessens row by row.

I think I'd better leave off the borders completely.

Cheers,
John

Help needed: LyX files Win-Linux Mint Gloria 7

[KR Thorne]

Hello,
 
I created a number of files in LyX under Windows Vista, saved in .lyx format. I 
have just migrated over to Linux Mint Gloria 7, and now my files will not open. 
I receive an error message:
 

/media/FreeAgent Drive/Encryption Folder/Seagate
Backup/KRT-PC/C/Users/KRT/Documents/Writing/GTG_TWI_newedit_test.lyx is not a 
readable LyX document.

I also tried the files I had copied to a data DVD, but cannot open them either.
 
Both the Windows Lyx and the Linux LyX are the latest release, 1.6.2.
 
This is extremely important, as these are manuscripts representing several 
years of work. At present I cannot simply open them in Windows, as my Windows 
installation was not working and the recovery disks are unsuccessful (ticket 
open with the laptop mfr).
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Thanks,
Karen


  

RE: LyX indexing anomaly

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
>Hi all,
>
>My copy of LyX 1.6.3 errors out on indexing because when
>LyX exports to LaTeX, it outputs normal range type indexing
>entries (the ones ending in a pipe symbol and a parenthese)
>with something like this:
>
>\index{mysection|(@mysection\textbar(}
>
>It should have looked like this:
>
>\index{mysection|(}

Steve,

In case you didn't notice this mail (devel-list), I will repeat it here.


What's your Tools->Preferences->Output->LaTeX->Tex Encoding option ?

If this doesn't read T1, put it in there and I think this problem will
go away

At least, I can reproduce it also when setting the document language to
greek. Then this 'trick' with '|)' doesn't work any longer. That's a bug
too.

Vincent

Re: Did something about indexes change between 1.5.x and 1.6.x?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
> Your testfile works perfectly for me with 1.6.3.

Same here, bot from LyX itself and via command line export.

Jürgen

Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Nurul Miah]

Hi,

I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)


I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message "The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language "en_GB" "

Any suggestions on how to get this working?

Kind Regards,

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1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[E. Kaplan]

Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version 
in that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from 
sources does not appeal to me.

Thanks,
EK

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Olivier Ripoll]

Nurul Miah wrote:

Hi,

I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)


I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message "The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language "en_GB" "

Any suggestions on how to get this working?

Kind Regards,

Hi,

I've had several aspell issues in the past (last was 1.6.0alpha2), but I 
think they are fixed now. Last time, I seem to remember (well, I 
cheated, I googled for the archives of that list) that I could solve the 
issue by using the following installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/aspelldata-0.60.4-root.exe
and the desired language files, all found at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/

First try to install the desired language, then if it still fails try 
the "root" one above.


But first wait to let time for others to reply first. Someone may have a 
better solution.


Best regards,

Olivier

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Manveru]

2009/8/27 E. Kaplan :
> Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
> that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
> not appeal to me.

There is a LyX project on lanuchpad.net which builds the code for
Ubuntu - I think automatically, but some has to merge the code I
suppose. There is a URL you can set to get LyX from there instead of
official repo, but I had not train it yet. Someone from LyX developers
would take that over to force new rebuild every time new version
arrives.

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Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[M-L]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:37:08 +0100 "Nurul Miah"
 shared this with is all on the Lyx users
list:

>Hi,
>
>I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
>Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)
>
>
>I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
>I keep getting the error message "The spellechker could not be started.
>No word lists can be found for the language "en_GB" "
>
>Any suggestions on how to get this working? 

I did get this working when I had to use windows recently, but I can't
recall how I did it. I got that Miktex or whatever it was called to
download and install all the possible packages. Then found Aspell on
the net and installed that as well. When I went into the spellchecker
through Preferences-> Language Settings-> Spellchecker, but it was
greyed out and never changed. I also think I looked for a word list.

Jumped through a lot of hoops, but knew as soon as my new hard drive
arrived I would be back to Linux, nevertheless got the spellchecker
to work in windows eventually. It was ugly and more trouble than it
should have been.

I wish you luck with it and am really sorry no notes were kept of what
was done, so can't help you more. 

Charlie
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Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

[Johannes Knaus]

Hello,

I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder if any of  
the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx under a Developer- 
Version of Snowleopard?

Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.

Johannes.

RE: Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

>Hello,
>
>I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder
>if any of the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx
>under a Developer- Version of Snowleopard?
>
>Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
>Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.
>
>Johannes.
>

We are a bit short on Mac developers, so I doubt that you'll get an
authorative answer. 

But, the good news is that I've heard of someone running LyX on
Snowleopard, the bad news is that I heard this by means of a bug report:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6168.

So, it'll be interesting whether this crash actually has to do something
with Snowleopard or not.

Vincent

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Sven Hoexter]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:23:50PM +0200, Manveru wrote:
> 2009/8/27 E. Kaplan :
> > Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
> > that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
> > not appeal to me.
> 
> There is a LyX project on lanuchpad.net which builds the code for
> Ubuntu - I think automatically, but some has to merge the code I
> suppose. There is a URL you can set to get LyX from there instead of
> official repo, but I had not train it yet. Someone from LyX developers
> would take that over to force new rebuild every time new version
> arrives.

An upload of 1.6.4 to Debian unstable will happen soon [1]. After this
package hits unstable you can somehow request a sync from Ubuntu.
But they won't sync everything in every situation and they don't backport
everything for every old release.
So all in all it's quite specific what hits Ubuntu when and where. :)

Sven

[1] Yes, switching the VCS in use sometimes is a bit more tricky then
it looks like at a firce glance.
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Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel]

I use the spellchecker on LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP pro without any 
problem (in french !).
Perhaps it is a problem of the langage of the document which isn't well 
defined (Document->Preferences).

You must also have the dictionary for this langage.

Siegfried.

little space before number of footnote…

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

i do oftenly have the problem, that the footnote-number appears too  
close to the character before it. This happens, for example, every  
time I use a caret (hope, that´s the right word…, maybe it´s the same  
as an apostrophe). How could I achieve a little space before the  
footnote-number?


Thank you for your help!
Jess

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 08:45 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote:

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:23:50PM +0200, Manveru wrote:
   

2009/8/27 E. Kaplan:
 

Is there any way of getting Lyx 1.6.4 for Kubuntu 64 bits?  The version in
that is in the repositories is 1.6.2, I think.  Compiling from sources does
not appeal to me.

   
That of course is up to you, but I myself would recommend that people 
who can do compile from source, and indeed from the svn stable branch. 
Why wait until the next stable release to get the bug fixes?


For those who do want to do this, here's a quick guide.

1. Make sure you have the usual buildtools installed: autotools, make, 
gcc, etc. You will of course also need various development packages, 
such as qt4-devel. Making sure you have all of these is probably the 
most annoying part of the process. Whether you have them all will become 
clear later.


2. Create a directory for the LyX sources, let's say, /home/you/src/lyx/.

3. cd /home/you/src/lyx

4. svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X/ . (note 
the trailing dot)


5. ./autogen.sh

6. ./configure --enable-build-type=rel
   You could also choose "devel" there, but if you're more a "regular 
user", you probably want "rel". Note that, by default, this will install 
LyX under /usr/local/.
   If configure fails, it will likely be because you don't have certain 
devel packages installed. LyX will tell you which these are. But note, 
if it says, "Can't find Qt4", or something like that, it doesn't mean 
you don't have Qt4 installed. It means you don't have the Qt4 devel 
package installed.


7. make -j2
The two means "use two processors". Adjust this depending on your 
system. Generally, advice around here has been that people should use 
all processors. Since the compilation won't actually use them all, due 
to disk activity and the like, the system should still be responsive.
This will take a while the first time. Other times will be a lot 
faster.


8. sudo make install, or su -c 'make install', or whatever is 
appropriate for your system.


Happy compiling,
Richard


9. Now, to make life really easy, set up a cron job to keep the LyX 
sources updated. Then, every once in a while, recompile and reinstall.

Re: little space before number of footnote…

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 09:53 AM, jezZiFeR wrote:

Hello,

i do oftenly have the problem, that the footnote-number appears too 
close to the character before it. This happens, for example, every 
time I use a caret (hope, that´s the right word…, maybe it´s the same 
as an apostrophe). How could I achieve a little space before the 
footnote-number?


Insert>Formatting>Thin Space, and if that isn't enough, right-click the 
space and try something else.


rh

Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[Stefano Franchi]

Richard,

just out of curiosity (since I won't be  able to contribute to the coding 
effort), are these instructions supposed to work with the development code in 
trunk as well? 
They don't seem to on my system (the configure script generated by autogen.sh 
fails).


S.
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Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 10:41 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote:

Richard,

just out of curiosity (since I won't be  able to contribute to the coding
effort), are these instructions supposed to work with the development code in
trunk as well?

   

More or less, yes.


They don't seem to on my system (the configure script generated by autogen.sh
fails).

   

With what message?

rh

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Uwe Stöhr]

Nurul Miah schrieb:


I have installed the complete package of LYX 1.6.4 with Aspell for
Windows XP. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)

I am having problems with spellchecking my documents I have created.
I keep getting the error message "The spellechker could not be started.
No word lists can be found for the language "en_GB" "


What happens when you start LyX, open a documentation file that you find in the Help menu pf LyX and 
then press F7?


The problem might be that there is only an Aspell dictionary available for en_US and not for en_GB. 
But the spellchecker should nevertheless start at least.


regards Uwe

Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

Hello all.

I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders, so I defined a default 'extra bottom space' in the properties. It
seems this extra space is only added to the (bottom of) last row (even
though all rows are selected on enabling the spacing, and, on-screen, the
spacing increases for all rows).

I also tried to increase this spacing line by line with the same result.

Adding extra top space works on all rows, but breaks the borders.

This is LyX 1.6.3. Sorry if this was already repaired. I'm off trying to
compile the latest version.

John

PS: No, 1.6.4 still shows the same problems.

selective compilation & document versions

[David Bickel]

For a class I am teaching, I would like to be able to generate a PDF
file that only has the displayed equations of a LyX file without
losing the ability to generate a PDF file from the whole Lyx file,
including text between displayed equations. In Word, I would
accomplish this by considering everything except the displayed
equations to be Tracked Changes and then printing either the entire
document or just the document without the "changes." I wonder whether
there is a way to do this in LyX by somehow maintaining two versions
of a LyX document within the same .LyX file. If not, is there a more
generic LaTeX solution?

David

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Re: Extra spacing in tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

John Coppens schrieb:


I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders,


Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu? There 
you find nearly every possible trick for tables.


regards Uwe

SV: selective compilation & document versions

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi

In LyX you use branches to accomplish this. 
In document->settinsg make a new branch, mark the text
with the branch tool under insert->branch. When you
only want to print the equation deactivate the branch.
When you want to print the all, activate the branch.

For more detail see the documentation or on the wiki.

Ingar
 

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[James C. Sutherland]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


John Coppens schrieb:


I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
borders,


Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you  
find in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick  
for tables.


regards Uwe


I have also seen the math-spacing problem in tables, and have tried  
increasing the spacing.  What I usually see is that this creates  
"breaks" in the table borders that are very annoying.

Re: Extra spacing in tables

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:59:49 +0200
Uwe Stöhr  wrote:

> > I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the
> > borders,
> 
> Have you already had a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find
> in LyX's Help menu? There you find nearly every possible trick for
> tables.

Thanks Uwe,

I will do that later. I haven't looked for alternative methods yet, but I
thought that if a standard LyX feature didn't work as advertised, it was
important enough to check if it was my fault or not.

Cheers,
John

Re: Error messages when using book (AMS) document class

[Luca Carlon]

rgheck  writes:

> 
> On 08/26/2009 03:20 AM, Luca Carlon wrote:
[...]
> >   ...e provided value lies.}}{59}{algorithm.3.1}
> >
> > A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
> > (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
> > look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
> >
> > Any idea what the problem could be? Thanks!
> >
> >
> Not offhand, no. What's the rest of the code there? If you look through 
> View>Source (or just export to LaTeX), you ought to be able to figure 
> out what's generating the offending code, at least.
> 
> rh
> 
> 

It seems the problem is related to the presence of the list of the algorithms.
The error now is (I don't know why but the error has changed from the time I
wrote the first message):

 \listof{algorithm}{List of Algorithms}

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.

and the paragraph is:

% Preview source code for paragraph 5

\listof{algorithm}{List of Algorithms}

If I remove the list of algorithms the document is compiled without problems.
Any idea why?
Thanks!

Re: LyX indexing anomaly

[Steve Litt]

Thanks Vincent. Please continue reading at the bottom...

On Thursday 27 August 2009 04:00:43 you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >My copy of LyX 1.6.3 errors out on indexing because when
> >LyX exports to LaTeX, it outputs normal range type indexing
> >entries (the ones ending in a pipe symbol and a parenthese)
> >with something like this:
> >
> >\index{mysection|(@mysection\textbar(}
> >
> >It should have looked like this:
> >
> >\index{mysection|(}
>
> Steve,
>
> In case you didn't notice this mail (devel-list), I will repeat it here.
>
>
> What's your Tools->Preferences->Output->LaTeX->Tex Encoding option ?
>
> If this doesn't read T1, put it in there and I think this problem will
> go away
>
> At least, I can reproduce it also when setting the document language to
> greek. Then this 'trick' with '|)' doesn't work any longer. That's a bug
> too.
>
> Vincent

Tools->Preferences->Output->LaTeX->Tex Encoding was set to "default" on my 
system. After I set it to T1, the extraneous text no longer occurred. I set it 
back to default, and the extraneous text came back.

So, if anyone has indexing problems and sees range type index code that looks 
like this:

\index{chapter 2|(@chapter 2\textbar{}(}
instead of this:
\index{chapter 2|(}

then the most likely solution is to set Tools->Preferences->Output->LaTeX->Tex 
to T1.

THE ONLY REMAINING TASK is to understand the meaning of T1. What is it? It's 
the set of characters that you will be using in the document -- the set of 
characters you will be restricted to. For instance, the following is the T1 
encoding:

http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/t1.htm

The following is OT1, which looks a heck of a lot like ASCII to me:

http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/encoding/ot1.htm

Here's where the plot thickens. I've read that if you select a specific font 
encoding like T1, it can change the font version that your document uses:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-T1

Could someone please explain the info in the preceding URL to me? In fact, a 
lot of my stuff IS fuzzy when viewed in xpdf.

Vincent and everyone else -- thanks so much for your help!

SteveT

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Single Spacing in Caption

[Daniel Joshua Stark]

Dear All,I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS directs it should be.  Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?Thanks for any help. 

rice_thesis.cls
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Daniel StarkPhD CandidateRice University, MS-61Physics and AstronomyDell Butcher Hall 1001900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20Houston TX 77005USAPh: +1-713-348-3126Fx:  +1-713-348-2603In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. - Frank WilczekI think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi 

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

[Joost Verburg]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
The problem might be that there is only an Aspell dictionary available 
for en_US and not for en_GB. But the spellchecker should nevertheless 
start at least.


The English Aspell dictionary includes both an American and British version.

Joost

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Daniel Joshua Stark]

I've figure out that this apparently only happens when I use  
subfigures.  Is there a way to keep subfig from changing the margin  
spacing?


Thanks

Daniel Stark
PhD Candidate
Rice University, MS-61
Physics and Astronomy
Dell Butcher Hall 100
1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
Houston TX 77005
USA

Ph: +1-713-348-3126
Fx:  +1-713-348-2603

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself -  
nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi


On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:44:45 PM, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:


Dear All,

I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
directs it should be.


Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?

Thanks for any help.



Daniel Stark
PhD Candidate
Rice University, MS-61
Physics and Astronomy
Dell Butcher Hall 100
1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
Houston TX 77005
USA

Ph: +1-713-348-3126
Fx:  +1-713-348-2603

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself  
- nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Could it be that the spellchecking possibility in LyX with Aspell or  
CocoAspell is a big piss take, at least on Mac-OSX?


I have worked till today without spellchecker in LyX, but I should install  
one for my convenience.


Now I worked about 8 hours to install and configure (Coco)Aspell for LyX  
without acceptable result (and fear to have another 2, 3 hours to get rid  
of it).


First I installed CocoAspell, because in the LyX-wiki page vor Mac
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac#toc4
it is said:
"The easiest spellchecker to install is cocoAspell. CocoAspell provides an  
installation of aspell and a preferences pane for selecting and setting up  
dictionaries."


I did it. But LyX could not find it. LyX searched for:  
/opt/local/share/aspell/ngerman

which does not exist. (I want the spellchecker for German)

I installed Aspell with MacPorts. Same result. Only after putting in the  
path to one of the files de-common.dws or de-DE-only.dws in  
LyX-preferences | language | spellschecker it "works". But in the way to  
suggest for each (btw correct) word a sample of words which have nothing  
to do with the one proofed.


=> Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got  
them working with LyX in a reasonable manner?

Would you please describe how you installed and configured it?

joachim

--
MacTeXLive 2008 - TeXShop 2.18-svn - LyX 1.6.3
MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger (intel)

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Julien Rioux]

Daniel Joshua Stark  writes:

> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
> double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
> directs it should be.
> 
> Would this be an issue with LyX or with the CLS file?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Daniel Stark
> PhD Candidate
> Rice University, MS-61
> Physics and Astronomy
> Dell Butcher Hall 100
> 1900 Rice Blvd., Ent. 20
> Houston TX 77005
> USA
> 
> Ph: +1-713-348-3126
> Fx:  +1-713-348-2603
> 
> In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself -  
> nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
> I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never  
> grow up and they keep their curiosity. - Isidor Isaac Rabi
> 
> 

Hi Daniel,

Unless specifically told not to do so, subfig will automatically load the
caption package and this is messing with your captions.

A solution is to try the following in your document's preamble:

\PassOptionsToPackage{caption=false}{subfig}

Cheers,
Julien