LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com writes:

 Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?

No :(

JMarc

Re: amsthm package support

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Gustavo gugamil...@gmail.com writes:
 As a mathematician, I frequently use the package amsthm and, as far as I
 know, unfortunately, Lyx does not support this package. I need to insert
 latex code (\begin{theorem}, \end{theorem} and similar) everywhere. Not that
 this is too restrictive, but it would be nicer if those commands where
 better integrated with Lyx. Since Lyx already provides amsmath and amssymb
 packages whenever that option is chosen in Document configurations, I
 believe that it should also provide amsthm with them.

Hello,

Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).

JMarc

Re: Undo

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Han, M.A. (m.a@uva.nl) m.a@uva.nl writes:

 Hello there,
 I am new to Lyx and have a question about the undo command (cmd-z on a mac).
 When I press cmd-z in Lyx, all actions executed since opening the file are
 being undone, not just the last action. How can I undo only the last action?

Hello,

Did you solve your problem? If not, could you describe precisely what
you do?

JMarc

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Pavel Sanda]

Olivier Ripoll wrote:
 I attach to this mail my layout module to add some common math functions to 
 LyX. Drop it to you layout folder(*), reconfigure, and add it to the file 
 via the document settings. Then all you need is to type \FT for it and \iFT 
 for the inverse Fourier transform.

what about putting into wiki modules page?
pavel

Re: Spotlight indexing on Mac OS X

[Pavel Sanda]

Pete Crite wrote:
 I attempted to follow the instructions on the wiki to type the following 
 into the terminal:
 mdimport -r 
 /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/LyX-Metadata.mdimporter

 but this only repeated the above three error messages. Is there anyway to 
 get Spotlight working? (N.B. the path referred to, 
 /Applications/LyX/LyX.app, is indeed the location of my application.)

there is already bug report about spotlight in our tracker, but we dont seem
to have mac developer which would fix it.

pavel

Re: Spotlight indexing on Mac OS X

[Pete Crite]

Ah okay. For some reason the bug didn't come up when I searched for it.

Actually, I should've actually tried searching for something with  
Spotlight. It does seem to work, it's just that it fills my log up  
with error messages.


Cheers,
Pete.

On 22/09/2009, at 7:20 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote:



Pete Crite wrote:
I attempted to follow the instructions on the wiki to type the  
following

into the terminal:
mdimport -r
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/LyX- 
Metadata.mdimporter


but this only repeated the above three error messages. Is there  
anyway to

get Spotlight working? (N.B. the path referred to,
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app, is indeed the location of my application.)


there is already bug report about spotlight in our tracker, but we  
dont seem

to have mac developer which would fix it.

pavel

No address in koma-letter

[Nicolas Ferré]

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the from address 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre'
Laboratoire Chimie Provence
Universite' de Provence - France
Tel: +33 491282733
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lcp-ct

LaTeX line length formatting

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I am looking for a tool that will fold or format long LaTeX lines. It 
will need to know LaTeX, so it doesn't break commands or environments. 
(Examples: will properly handle % comments and not split a long 
\includegraphics filename.)

It would be great if the tool can be used non-interactively, such as 
piped on the Unix command line. Like a LaTeX knowledgable fmt or fold.

The reason I need this is that I read diffs of some LaTeX files and I 
don't want to see a diff of 80 word or 500 character lines (multiple 
sentences). By shortening lines, diffs are more manageable.

(On that note, I know some use a % comment on a new line in between 
every sentence -- the paragraph renders together, but diffs are easier 
to read. Can LaTeX export like that?)

I did look at and try LaTeXTidy.pl, but it doesn't do what I want.

Does LyX include any code or scripts that can be reused for that? It 
looks like LyX's LaTeX export formats nicely.

Or do you know of any tools for this?

Thanks

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Jean-Marie Pacquet]

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the from address 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the refvpos pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...
--
jmp

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com writes:


Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?


No :(


But fortunately the problem is only an annoyance.  LyX crashes (you  
get an OSX crash warning), but the app remains functional and I have  
not experienced any loss of work.  So I would personally not shy away  
from the OS upgrade due to LyX fears.


Now if you are a software developer, that is another story.  The 32  
bit to 64 bit transition can be a bit painful!


James

Re: amsthm package support

[rgheck]

On 09/22/2009 04:16 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Gustavogugamil...@gmail.com  writes:
   

As a mathematician, I frequently use the package amsthm and, as far as I
know, unfortunately, Lyx does not support this package. I need to insert
latex code (\begin{theorem}, \end{theorem} and similar) everywhere. Not that
this is too restrictive, but it would be nicer if those commands where
better integrated with Lyx. Since Lyx already provides amsmath and amssymb
packages whenever that option is chosen in Document configurations, I
believe that it should also provide amsthm with them.
 

Hello,

Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).

   

And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.

rh

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Johannes Knaus]

Just my two cents:

I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't  
loose any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will  
also keep nagging you as they appear quite often.


My own experiments on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I  
apparently have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of  
it (see my previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from- 
Macports-Snow-Leopard incompatibility issue as well.
So I'm also waiting for an official solution, hoping I will be  
rescued by the LyX-Mac developers.


Johannes


Am 22.09.2009 um 15:52 schrieb James C. Sutherland:



On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com writes:


Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?


No :(


But fortunately the problem is only an annoyance.  LyX  
crashes (you get an OSX crash warning), but the app remains  
functional and I have not experienced any loss of work.  So I would  
personally not shy away from the OS upgrade due to LyX fears.


Now if you are a software developer, that is another story.  The 32  
bit to 64 bit transition can be a bit painful!


James

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[BH]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Johannes Knaus knausli...@freenet.de wrote:
 Just my two cents:

 I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't loose
 any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will also keep
 nagging you as they appear quite often.

 My own experiments on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I apparently
 have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of it (see my
 previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from-Macports-Snow-Leopard
 incompatibility issue as well.
 So I'm also waiting for an official solution, hoping I will be rescued by
 the LyX-Mac developers.

I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
from being a developer.)

*Perhaps* things will change when I transition to 10.6, but I have a
feeling that's going to be a while since my personal Macs are PPC (and
so cannot run 10.6), and the IT department at work (where I have an
Intel Mac) is conservative about upgrades.

BH

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Julio Rojas]

Really sad landscape then. I think Snow Leopard will be kept at bay. I
have a wife writing her thesis and I don't want to mess up with here
rhythm as nagging error messages are known to disrupt it. ;)
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Johannes Knaus knausli...@freenet.de 
 wrote:
 Just my two cents:

 I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't loose
 any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will also keep
 nagging you as they appear quite often.

 My own experiments on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I apparently
 have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of it (see my
 previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from-Macports-Snow-Leopard
 incompatibility issue as well.
 So I'm also waiting for an official solution, hoping I will be rescued by
 the LyX-Mac developers.

 I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
 developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
 help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
 from being a developer.)

 *Perhaps* things will change when I transition to 10.6, but I have a
 feeling that's going to be a while since my personal Macs are PPC (and
 so cannot run 10.6), and the IT department at work (where I have an
 Intel Mac) is conservative about upgrades.

 BH

Re: Karmic Koala update slows down lyx

[Sam Liddicott]

* Sam Liddicott wrote, On 12/09/09 14:34:
The most recent Karmic Koala updates make updating the Lyx caret (text 
position) very slow.


If I click the left-arrow, it takes a second before the caret is seen in 
the new position and the old position is not erased properly.


This may not be a problem with Lyx, but I'm curious to know if other 
users have the same problem.


It seems to be a QT problem associated with nvidia drivers and compiz.

Even painting of the document properties preamble edit box is delayed 
indefinitely (until a change occurs, or the window is covered and 
uncovered).


So not a Lyx problem.

Sam

Re: LyX .doc

[Stefano Franchi]

 I'm puzzled about why working with students requires using OpenOffice. I
 tell my students to send me things as PDF, and if I want to comment
 directly on the paper, electronically, I can do that in okular (and
 Windows folks can do it in foxit).
 

Well, I suppose it's partly my problem and partly my students'. For the 
latter: producing a pdf is not so immediate as sending over the doc file, and 
some students need help on how to take that extra step.
On my side, the issue is that I do find pdf annotations (at least as provided 
in Okular) a rather inadequate tool when heavy commenting and editing is 
required. The machinery Okular provides (highlighter tools, pop-up notes, 
etc.) seems to be perfectly adequate for short punctual notes (of the kind: 
you may want to read again such and such, good!, what do think X will 
object to the highlighted claim?), but a rather poor and time-consuming 
substitute when more radical intervention are needed (i.e. you argued for 
claim X from premises A, B, and C, but really you are not allowed to bring in 
C at this point in the argument, and should have used D, which would only 
allow you conclude X'. X' is significantly different from X in regards to 
additional claims Y and Z you make later in the paper.. where all the 
variables above are actually fully spelled out in English...). Unfortunately, 
most of my commenting jobs seem to be of the latter kind.

S.



 Richard
 

__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: amsthm package support

[Gustavo]

2009/9/22 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com

  On 09/22/2009 10:37 AM, Gustavo wrote:


 2009/9/22 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com

  On 09/22/2009 04:16 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Hello,

 Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
 that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).


 I missed this. Thank you.




  And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.


 You means if the option Use AMS math package automatically is set? It
 looks like it is not loaded automatically (I saw the generated Latex code),
 at least for Lyx version 1.6.2, which is provided by Ubuntu.

   Create a new document. Go to the DocumentSettings dialog. If you are
 not in the Document Class tag, select it. Now choose Article (AMS) for
 your document class (this is amsart.cls). Hit the apply button to select
 this class. Now choose the Modules tab of the dialog. You should see the
 Theorems (AMS) module selected. If you ViewSource you will not see the
 AMS packages included, but they are pulled in automatically by the AMS
 class, and you will be able to create a theorem.

Ok, now I got it. But I guess I'll just include the modules manually, this
way I can choose another kind of document class.


  Using the module amsthm as suggested by Jean-Marc, it seems not possible
 to create two consecutive theorems without having Lyx to mix them, at least
 for this version of Lyx. I'll try to install Lyx 1.6.4 and see what I get.


   LyX wants to allow you to have two paragraphs in the theorem
 environment (which of course you might), and so it is assuming that this is
 what you want. If this is not what you want, then you should insert a new
 paragraph after the first theorem, choose the Separator environment for
 it, and then start the next theorem. See the attached for an example.

 We know this is a hack, but it is not easy to figure out a better way both
 to allow multiple paragraphs and to tell LyX when to start a new theorem.


It might be a hack, but it is good enough for me. And it is better than any
solution I could have come up with. Thank you.


 rh

  rh




P.S.: Sorry, I forgot to CC to the Lyx list.

Re: amsthm package support

[rgheck]

On 09/22/2009 12:47 PM, Gustavo wrote:


  And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.
   


You means if the option Use AMS math package automatically is set? It
looks like it is not loaded automatically (I saw the generated Latex code),
at least for Lyx version 1.6.2, which is provided by Ubuntu.

   Create a new document. Go to the DocumentSettings dialog. If you are
not in the Document Class tag, select it. Now choose Article (AMS) for
your document class (this is amsart.cls). Hit the apply button to select
this class. Now choose the Modules tab of the dialog. You should see the
Theorems (AMS) module selected. If you ViewSource you will not see the
AMS packages included, but they are pulled in automatically by the AMS
class, and you will be able to create a theorem.

 

Ok, now I got it. But I guess I'll just include the modules manually, this
way I can choose another kind of document class.

   

That's exactly why the theorems are done as modules.

rh

exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Phil]

LyX 1.6.4, Windows XP

Anyone have any idea why my HTML export does not work...?

I get an error saying ... error occurred whilst running elyxer.py -Directory 
C:/Documents Settings... 


  

Re: exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Phil,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Phil philip_...@yahoo.com wrote:
 LyX 1.6.4, Windows XP

 Anyone have any idea why my HTML export does not work...?

 I get an error saying ... error occurred whilst running elyxer.py -Directory 
 C:/Documents Settings... 

Can you tell us how you configured LyX to recognize eLyXer? Depending
on the method there are various things that could have gone wrong.
Also, it would be helpful if you could go to Preferences  Converters,
look for LyX - HTML in the list, and send us the Converter line; it
should be something like:
  elyxer.py --directory $$r $$i $$o

Thanks,

Alex.

Help on 1.5.6 - 1.6.4 windows upgrade please

[Richard Strauss]

I have an old working version of Lyx 1.5.6 
(LyX-156-3-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe) on windows XP. I now want to upgrade 
to the latest version. Which release do you recommend, without having to 
compile lyx manully.

Thanks. Richard  

Re: Help on 1.5.6 - 1.6.4 windows upgrade please

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Richard Strauss wrote:

I have an old working version of Lyx 1.5.6 (LyX-156-3-25- 
AltInstaller-Complete.exe) on windows XP. I now want to upgrade to  
the latest version. Which release do you recommend, without having  
to compile lyx manully.


Thanks. Richard 


The most recent release is 1.6.4 (or 1.6.4.1 which is the same for the  
windows platform).  You should update to one of those two.

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Nicolas Ferré]

Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit :

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the from address 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the refvpos pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...


Unfortunately, it does not work as I expected. OK, the vertical spacing 
is reduced, but the same amount of text as before remains on the first 
page while the rest remains on the second page. I mean, there is now a 
very ugly large white space at the end of the first page, meaning the 
text has been simply translated.

I don't see any other option in the koma letter parameters I may change.

--
Nicolas Ferre'
Laboratoire Chimie Provence
Universite' de Provence - France
Tel: +33 491282733
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lcp-ct

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Jean-Marie Pacquet]

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit :

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 
letter class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however 
the produced output shows a large blank spacing between the from 
address field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the refvpos pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...


Unfortunately, it does not work as I expected. OK, the vertical 
spacing is reduced, but the same amount of text as before remains on 
the first page while the rest remains on the second page. I mean, 
there is now a very ugly large white space at the end of the first 
page, meaning the text has been simply translated.

I don't see any other option in the koma letter parameters I may change.

For this space at the end of the first page you can use the parameter 
enlargefirstpage. Add this line:


enlargefirstpage=true,

in the preamble at the beginning of the options list (below the 
\KOMAoptions{ line).

--
jmp

Re: exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Phil]

I don't recall how I setup the elyxer.py converter.It was awhile back when 
elyxer was first mentioned.

I just upgraded my 1.6.3 to 1.6.4 this week and it was recognized (I guess) 
during the install.

Anyway,  I modified the converter line to read elyxer.py $$i $$o and it is 
now working..

Phil

  Can you tell us how you configured LyX to recognize eLyXer? Depending
 on the method there are various things that could have gone wrong.



  

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Christian Liesen]

 I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
 developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
 help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
 from being a developer.)


What exactly would a LyX developer on Mac need to know? I'm just curious.

-- Christian

LyX 1.6. ~ LaTex2RTF

[0]

I've used the two links below to start using LaTeX 2 RTF:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf#toc2
http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/

Rich Text Format appeared in export list. But it does not work, and says
LyX: Cannot convert file
An error occurred whilst running latex2rt -p -S -o newfile2.rtf
newfile2.tex

What can I do?
--
OS: Windows XP
LyX: 1.6.4


  

LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com writes:

 Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?

No :(

JMarc

Re: amsthm package support

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Gustavo gugamil...@gmail.com writes:
 As a mathematician, I frequently use the package amsthm and, as far as I
 know, unfortunately, Lyx does not support this package. I need to insert
 latex code (\begin{theorem}, \end{theorem} and similar) everywhere. Not that
 this is too restrictive, but it would be nicer if those commands where
 better integrated with Lyx. Since Lyx already provides amsmath and amssymb
 packages whenever that option is chosen in Document configurations, I
 believe that it should also provide amsthm with them.

Hello,

Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).

JMarc

Re: Undo

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Han, M.A. (m.a@uva.nl) m.a@uva.nl writes:

 Hello there,
 I am new to Lyx and have a question about the undo command (cmd-z on a mac).
 When I press cmd-z in Lyx, all actions executed since opening the file are
 being undone, not just the last action. How can I undo only the last action?

Hello,

Did you solve your problem? If not, could you describe precisely what
you do?

JMarc

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Pavel Sanda]

Olivier Ripoll wrote:
 I attach to this mail my layout module to add some common math functions to 
 LyX. Drop it to you layout folder(*), reconfigure, and add it to the file 
 via the document settings. Then all you need is to type \FT for it and \iFT 
 for the inverse Fourier transform.

what about putting into wiki modules page?
pavel

Re: Spotlight indexing on Mac OS X

[Pavel Sanda]

Pete Crite wrote:
 I attempted to follow the instructions on the wiki to type the following 
 into the terminal:
 mdimport -r 
 /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/LyX-Metadata.mdimporter

 but this only repeated the above three error messages. Is there anyway to 
 get Spotlight working? (N.B. the path referred to, 
 /Applications/LyX/LyX.app, is indeed the location of my application.)

there is already bug report about spotlight in our tracker, but we dont seem
to have mac developer which would fix it.

pavel

Re: Spotlight indexing on Mac OS X

[Pete Crite]

Ah okay. For some reason the bug didn't come up when I searched for it.

Actually, I should've actually tried searching for something with  
Spotlight. It does seem to work, it's just that it fills my log up  
with error messages.


Cheers,
Pete.

On 22/09/2009, at 7:20 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote:



Pete Crite wrote:
I attempted to follow the instructions on the wiki to type the  
following

into the terminal:
mdimport -r
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/LyX- 
Metadata.mdimporter


but this only repeated the above three error messages. Is there  
anyway to

get Spotlight working? (N.B. the path referred to,
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app, is indeed the location of my application.)


there is already bug report about spotlight in our tracker, but we  
dont seem

to have mac developer which would fix it.

pavel

No address in koma-letter

[Nicolas Ferré]

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the from address 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre'
Laboratoire Chimie Provence
Universite' de Provence - France
Tel: +33 491282733
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lcp-ct

LaTeX line length formatting

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I am looking for a tool that will fold or format long LaTeX lines. It 
will need to know LaTeX, so it doesn't break commands or environments. 
(Examples: will properly handle % comments and not split a long 
\includegraphics filename.)

It would be great if the tool can be used non-interactively, such as 
piped on the Unix command line. Like a LaTeX knowledgable fmt or fold.

The reason I need this is that I read diffs of some LaTeX files and I 
don't want to see a diff of 80 word or 500 character lines (multiple 
sentences). By shortening lines, diffs are more manageable.

(On that note, I know some use a % comment on a new line in between 
every sentence -- the paragraph renders together, but diffs are easier 
to read. Can LaTeX export like that?)

I did look at and try LaTeXTidy.pl, but it doesn't do what I want.

Does LyX include any code or scripts that can be reused for that? It 
looks like LyX's LaTeX export formats nicely.

Or do you know of any tools for this?

Thanks

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Jean-Marie Pacquet]

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the from address 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the refvpos pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...
--
jmp

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com writes:


Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?


No :(


But fortunately the problem is only an annoyance.  LyX crashes (you  
get an OSX crash warning), but the app remains functional and I have  
not experienced any loss of work.  So I would personally not shy away  
from the OS upgrade due to LyX fears.


Now if you are a software developer, that is another story.  The 32  
bit to 64 bit transition can be a bit painful!


James

Re: amsthm package support

[rgheck]

On 09/22/2009 04:16 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Gustavogugamil...@gmail.com  writes:
   

As a mathematician, I frequently use the package amsthm and, as far as I
know, unfortunately, Lyx does not support this package. I need to insert
latex code (\begin{theorem}, \end{theorem} and similar) everywhere. Not that
this is too restrictive, but it would be nicer if those commands where
better integrated with Lyx. Since Lyx already provides amsmath and amssymb
packages whenever that option is chosen in Document configurations, I
believe that it should also provide amsthm with them.
 

Hello,

Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).

   

And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.

rh

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Johannes Knaus]

Just my two cents:

I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't  
loose any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will  
also keep nagging you as they appear quite often.


My own experiments on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I  
apparently have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of  
it (see my previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from- 
Macports-Snow-Leopard incompatibility issue as well.
So I'm also waiting for an official solution, hoping I will be  
rescued by the LyX-Mac developers.


Johannes


Am 22.09.2009 um 15:52 schrieb James C. Sutherland:



On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com writes:


Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?


No :(


But fortunately the problem is only an annoyance.  LyX  
crashes (you get an OSX crash warning), but the app remains  
functional and I have not experienced any loss of work.  So I would  
personally not shy away from the OS upgrade due to LyX fears.


Now if you are a software developer, that is another story.  The 32  
bit to 64 bit transition can be a bit painful!


James

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[BH]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Johannes Knaus knausli...@freenet.de wrote:
 Just my two cents:

 I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't loose
 any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will also keep
 nagging you as they appear quite often.

 My own experiments on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I apparently
 have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of it (see my
 previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from-Macports-Snow-Leopard
 incompatibility issue as well.
 So I'm also waiting for an official solution, hoping I will be rescued by
 the LyX-Mac developers.

I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
from being a developer.)

*Perhaps* things will change when I transition to 10.6, but I have a
feeling that's going to be a while since my personal Macs are PPC (and
so cannot run 10.6), and the IT department at work (where I have an
Intel Mac) is conservative about upgrades.

BH

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Julio Rojas]

Really sad landscape then. I think Snow Leopard will be kept at bay. I
have a wife writing her thesis and I don't want to mess up with here
rhythm as nagging error messages are known to disrupt it. ;)
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Johannes Knaus knausli...@freenet.de 
 wrote:
 Just my two cents:

 I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't loose
 any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will also keep
 nagging you as they appear quite often.

 My own experiments on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I apparently
 have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of it (see my
 previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from-Macports-Snow-Leopard
 incompatibility issue as well.
 So I'm also waiting for an official solution, hoping I will be rescued by
 the LyX-Mac developers.

 I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
 developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
 help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
 from being a developer.)

 *Perhaps* things will change when I transition to 10.6, but I have a
 feeling that's going to be a while since my personal Macs are PPC (and
 so cannot run 10.6), and the IT department at work (where I have an
 Intel Mac) is conservative about upgrades.

 BH

Re: Karmic Koala update slows down lyx

[Sam Liddicott]

* Sam Liddicott wrote, On 12/09/09 14:34:
The most recent Karmic Koala updates make updating the Lyx caret (text 
position) very slow.


If I click the left-arrow, it takes a second before the caret is seen in 
the new position and the old position is not erased properly.


This may not be a problem with Lyx, but I'm curious to know if other 
users have the same problem.


It seems to be a QT problem associated with nvidia drivers and compiz.

Even painting of the document properties preamble edit box is delayed 
indefinitely (until a change occurs, or the window is covered and 
uncovered).


So not a Lyx problem.

Sam

Re: LyX .doc

[Stefano Franchi]

 I'm puzzled about why working with students requires using OpenOffice. I
 tell my students to send me things as PDF, and if I want to comment
 directly on the paper, electronically, I can do that in okular (and
 Windows folks can do it in foxit).
 

Well, I suppose it's partly my problem and partly my students'. For the 
latter: producing a pdf is not so immediate as sending over the doc file, and 
some students need help on how to take that extra step.
On my side, the issue is that I do find pdf annotations (at least as provided 
in Okular) a rather inadequate tool when heavy commenting and editing is 
required. The machinery Okular provides (highlighter tools, pop-up notes, 
etc.) seems to be perfectly adequate for short punctual notes (of the kind: 
you may want to read again such and such, good!, what do think X will 
object to the highlighted claim?), but a rather poor and time-consuming 
substitute when more radical intervention are needed (i.e. you argued for 
claim X from premises A, B, and C, but really you are not allowed to bring in 
C at this point in the argument, and should have used D, which would only 
allow you conclude X'. X' is significantly different from X in regards to 
additional claims Y and Z you make later in the paper.. where all the 
variables above are actually fully spelled out in English...). Unfortunately, 
most of my commenting jobs seem to be of the latter kind.

S.



 Richard
 

__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: amsthm package support

[Gustavo]

2009/9/22 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com

  On 09/22/2009 10:37 AM, Gustavo wrote:


 2009/9/22 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com

  On 09/22/2009 04:16 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Hello,

 Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
 that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).


 I missed this. Thank you.




  And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.


 You means if the option Use AMS math package automatically is set? It
 looks like it is not loaded automatically (I saw the generated Latex code),
 at least for Lyx version 1.6.2, which is provided by Ubuntu.

   Create a new document. Go to the DocumentSettings dialog. If you are
 not in the Document Class tag, select it. Now choose Article (AMS) for
 your document class (this is amsart.cls). Hit the apply button to select
 this class. Now choose the Modules tab of the dialog. You should see the
 Theorems (AMS) module selected. If you ViewSource you will not see the
 AMS packages included, but they are pulled in automatically by the AMS
 class, and you will be able to create a theorem.

Ok, now I got it. But I guess I'll just include the modules manually, this
way I can choose another kind of document class.


  Using the module amsthm as suggested by Jean-Marc, it seems not possible
 to create two consecutive theorems without having Lyx to mix them, at least
 for this version of Lyx. I'll try to install Lyx 1.6.4 and see what I get.


   LyX wants to allow you to have two paragraphs in the theorem
 environment (which of course you might), and so it is assuming that this is
 what you want. If this is not what you want, then you should insert a new
 paragraph after the first theorem, choose the Separator environment for
 it, and then start the next theorem. See the attached for an example.

 We know this is a hack, but it is not easy to figure out a better way both
 to allow multiple paragraphs and to tell LyX when to start a new theorem.


It might be a hack, but it is good enough for me. And it is better than any
solution I could have come up with. Thank you.


 rh

  rh




P.S.: Sorry, I forgot to CC to the Lyx list.

Re: amsthm package support

[rgheck]

On 09/22/2009 12:47 PM, Gustavo wrote:


  And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.
   


You means if the option Use AMS math package automatically is set? It
looks like it is not loaded automatically (I saw the generated Latex code),
at least for Lyx version 1.6.2, which is provided by Ubuntu.

   Create a new document. Go to the DocumentSettings dialog. If you are
not in the Document Class tag, select it. Now choose Article (AMS) for
your document class (this is amsart.cls). Hit the apply button to select
this class. Now choose the Modules tab of the dialog. You should see the
Theorems (AMS) module selected. If you ViewSource you will not see the
AMS packages included, but they are pulled in automatically by the AMS
class, and you will be able to create a theorem.

 

Ok, now I got it. But I guess I'll just include the modules manually, this
way I can choose another kind of document class.

   

That's exactly why the theorems are done as modules.

rh

exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Phil]

LyX 1.6.4, Windows XP

Anyone have any idea why my HTML export does not work...?

I get an error saying ... error occurred whilst running elyxer.py -Directory 
C:/Documents Settings... 


  

Re: exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Phil,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Phil philip_...@yahoo.com wrote:
 LyX 1.6.4, Windows XP

 Anyone have any idea why my HTML export does not work...?

 I get an error saying ... error occurred whilst running elyxer.py -Directory 
 C:/Documents Settings... 

Can you tell us how you configured LyX to recognize eLyXer? Depending
on the method there are various things that could have gone wrong.
Also, it would be helpful if you could go to Preferences  Converters,
look for LyX - HTML in the list, and send us the Converter line; it
should be something like:
  elyxer.py --directory $$r $$i $$o

Thanks,

Alex.

Help on 1.5.6 - 1.6.4 windows upgrade please

[Richard Strauss]

I have an old working version of Lyx 1.5.6 
(LyX-156-3-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe) on windows XP. I now want to upgrade 
to the latest version. Which release do you recommend, without having to 
compile lyx manully.

Thanks. Richard  

Re: Help on 1.5.6 - 1.6.4 windows upgrade please

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Richard Strauss wrote:

I have an old working version of Lyx 1.5.6 (LyX-156-3-25- 
AltInstaller-Complete.exe) on windows XP. I now want to upgrade to  
the latest version. Which release do you recommend, without having  
to compile lyx manully.


Thanks. Richard 


The most recent release is 1.6.4 (or 1.6.4.1 which is the same for the  
windows platform).  You should update to one of those two.

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Nicolas Ferré]

Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit :

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the from address 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the refvpos pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...


Unfortunately, it does not work as I expected. OK, the vertical spacing 
is reduced, but the same amount of text as before remains on the first 
page while the rest remains on the second page. I mean, there is now a 
very ugly large white space at the end of the first page, meaning the 
text has been simply translated.

I don't see any other option in the koma letter parameters I may change.

--
Nicolas Ferre'
Laboratoire Chimie Provence
Universite' de Provence - France
Tel: +33 491282733
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lcp-ct

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Jean-Marie Pacquet]

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit :

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 
letter class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however 
the produced output shows a large blank spacing between the from 
address field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the refvpos pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...


Unfortunately, it does not work as I expected. OK, the vertical 
spacing is reduced, but the same amount of text as before remains on 
the first page while the rest remains on the second page. I mean, 
there is now a very ugly large white space at the end of the first 
page, meaning the text has been simply translated.

I don't see any other option in the koma letter parameters I may change.

For this space at the end of the first page you can use the parameter 
enlargefirstpage. Add this line:


enlargefirstpage=true,

in the preamble at the beginning of the options list (below the 
\KOMAoptions{ line).

--
jmp

Re: exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Phil]

I don't recall how I setup the elyxer.py converter.It was awhile back when 
elyxer was first mentioned.

I just upgraded my 1.6.3 to 1.6.4 this week and it was recognized (I guess) 
during the install.

Anyway,  I modified the converter line to read elyxer.py $$i $$o and it is 
now working..

Phil

  Can you tell us how you configured LyX to recognize eLyXer? Depending
 on the method there are various things that could have gone wrong.



  

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Christian Liesen]

 I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
 developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
 help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
 from being a developer.)


What exactly would a LyX developer on Mac need to know? I'm just curious.

-- Christian

LyX 1.6. ~ LaTex2RTF

[0]

I've used the two links below to start using LaTeX 2 RTF:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf#toc2
http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/

Rich Text Format appeared in export list. But it does not work, and says
LyX: Cannot convert file
An error occurred whilst running latex2rt -p -S -o newfile2.rtf
newfile2.tex

What can I do?
--
OS: Windows XP
LyX: 1.6.4


  

LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Julio Rojas  writes:

> Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?

No :(

JMarc

Re: amsthm package support

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Gustavo  writes:
> As a mathematician, I frequently use the package amsthm and, as far as I
> know, unfortunately, Lyx does not support this package. I need to insert
> latex code (\begin{theorem}, \end{theorem} and similar) everywhere. Not that
> this is too restrictive, but it would be nicer if those commands where
> better integrated with Lyx. Since Lyx already provides amsmath and amssymb
> packages whenever that option is chosen in Document configurations, I
> believe that it should also provide amsthm with them.

Hello,

Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).

JMarc

Re: Undo

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

"Han, M.A. (m.a@uva.nl)"  writes:

> Hello there,
> I am new to Lyx and have a question about the undo command (cmd-z on a mac).
> When I press cmd-z in Lyx, all actions executed since opening the file are
> being undone, not just the last action. How can I undo only the last action?

Hello,

Did you solve your problem? If not, could you describe precisely what
you do?

JMarc

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Pavel Sanda]

Olivier Ripoll wrote:
> I attach to this mail my layout module to add some common math functions to 
> LyX. Drop it to you layout folder(*), reconfigure, and add it to the file 
> via the document settings. Then all you need is to type \FT for it and \iFT 
> for the inverse Fourier transform.

what about putting into wiki modules page?
pavel

Re: Spotlight indexing on Mac OS X

[Pavel Sanda]

Pete Crite wrote:
> I attempted to follow the instructions on the wiki to type the following 
> into the terminal:
> mdimport -r 
> /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/LyX-Metadata.mdimporter
>
> but this only repeated the above three error messages. Is there anyway to 
> get Spotlight working? (N.B. the path referred to, 
> /Applications/LyX/LyX.app, is indeed the location of my application.)

there is already bug report about spotlight in our tracker, but we dont seem
to have mac developer which would fix it.

pavel

Re: Spotlight indexing on Mac OS X

[Pete Crite]

Ah okay. For some reason the bug didn't come up when I searched for it.

Actually, I should've actually tried searching for something with  
Spotlight. It does seem to work, it's just that it fills my log up  
with error messages.


Cheers,
Pete.

On 22/09/2009, at 7:20 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote:



Pete Crite wrote:
I attempted to follow the instructions on the wiki to type the  
following

into the terminal:
mdimport -r
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/LyX- 
Metadata.mdimporter


but this only repeated the above three error messages. Is there  
anyway to

get Spotlight working? (N.B. the path referred to,
/Applications/LyX/LyX.app, is indeed the location of my application.)


there is already bug report about spotlight in our tracker, but we  
dont seem

to have mac developer which would fix it.

pavel

No address in koma-letter

[Nicolas Ferré]

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the "from address" 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre'
Laboratoire Chimie Provence
Universite' de Provence - France
Tel: +33 491282733
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lcp-ct

LaTeX line length formatting

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I am looking for a tool that will fold or format long LaTeX lines. It 
will need to know LaTeX, so it doesn't break commands or environments. 
(Examples: will properly handle % comments and not split a long 
\includegraphics filename.)

It would be great if the tool can be used non-interactively, such as 
piped on the Unix command line. Like a LaTeX knowledgable fmt or fold.

The reason I need this is that I read diffs of some LaTeX files and I 
don't want to see a diff of 80 word or 500 character lines (multiple 
sentences). By shortening lines, diffs are more manageable.

(On that note, I know some use a % comment on a new line in between 
every sentence -- the paragraph renders together, but diffs are easier 
to read. Can LaTeX export like that?)

I did look at and try LaTeXTidy.pl, but it doesn't do what I want.

Does LyX include any code or scripts that can be reused for that? It 
looks like LyX's LaTeX export formats nicely.

Or do you know of any tools for this?

Thanks

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Jean-Marie Pacquet]

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the "from address" 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the "refvpos" pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...
--
jmp

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Julio Rojas  writes:


Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?


No :(


But fortunately the problem is only an annoyance.  LyX "crashes" (you  
get an OSX crash warning), but the app remains functional and I have  
not experienced any loss of work.  So I would personally not shy away  
from the OS upgrade due to LyX fears.


Now if you are a software developer, that is another story.  The 32  
bit to 64 bit transition can be a bit painful!


James

Re: amsthm package support

[rgheck]

On 09/22/2009 04:16 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Gustavo  writes:
   

As a mathematician, I frequently use the package amsthm and, as far as I
know, unfortunately, Lyx does not support this package. I need to insert
latex code (\begin{theorem}, \end{theorem} and similar) everywhere. Not that
this is too restrictive, but it would be nicer if those commands where
better integrated with Lyx. Since Lyx already provides amsmath and amssymb
packages whenever that option is chosen in Document configurations, I
believe that it should also provide amsthm with them.
 

Hello,

Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).

   

And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.

rh

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Johannes Knaus]

Just my two cents:

I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't  
loose any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will  
also keep nagging you as they appear quite often.


My own "experiments" on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I  
apparently have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of  
it (see my previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from- 
Macports-Snow-Leopard incompatibility issue as well.
So I'm also waiting for an "official" solution, hoping I will be  
rescued by the LyX-Mac developers.


Johannes


Am 22.09.2009 um 15:52 schrieb James C. Sutherland:



On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Julio Rojas  writes:


Dear all, does LyX 1.6.4.1 solve the problem with Snow Leopard?


No :(


But fortunately the problem is only an annoyance.  LyX  
"crashes" (you get an OSX crash warning), but the app remains  
functional and I have not experienced any loss of work.  So I would  
personally not shy away from the OS upgrade due to LyX fears.


Now if you are a software developer, that is another story.  The 32  
bit to 64 bit transition can be a bit painful!


James

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[BH]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Johannes Knaus  wrote:
> Just my two cents:
>
> I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't loose
> any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will also keep
> nagging you as they appear quite often.
>
> My own "experiments" on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I apparently
> have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of it (see my
> previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from-Macports-Snow-Leopard
> incompatibility issue as well.
> So I'm also waiting for an "official" solution, hoping I will be rescued by
> the LyX-Mac developers.

I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
from being a developer.)

*Perhaps* things will change when I transition to 10.6, but I have a
feeling that's going to be a while since my personal Macs are PPC (and
so cannot run 10.6), and the IT department at work (where I have an
Intel Mac) is conservative about upgrades.

BH

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Julio Rojas]

Really sad landscape then. I think Snow Leopard will be kept at bay. I
have a wife writing her thesis and I don't want to mess up with here
rhythm as nagging error messages are known to disrupt it. ;)
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM, BH  wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Johannes Knaus  
> wrote:
>> Just my two cents:
>>
>> I would wait until the crashes are fixed. It is true that you don't loose
>> any work as LyX keeps on running, but the crash warnings will also keep
>> nagging you as they appear quite often.
>>
>> My own "experiments" on compiling LyX on 10.6 have failed, as I apparently
>> have installed the wrong QT-version and cannot get rid of it (see my
>> previous post on this). There seems to be a QT-from-Macports-Snow-Leopard
>> incompatibility issue as well.
>> So I'm also waiting for an "official" solution, hoping I will be rescued by
>> the LyX-Mac developers.
>
> I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
> developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
> help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
> from being a developer.)
>
> *Perhaps* things will change when I transition to 10.6, but I have a
> feeling that's going to be a while since my personal Macs are PPC (and
> so cannot run 10.6), and the IT department at work (where I have an
> Intel Mac) is conservative about upgrades.
>
> BH
>

Re: Karmic Koala update slows down lyx

[Sam Liddicott]

* Sam Liddicott wrote, On 12/09/09 14:34:
The most recent Karmic Koala updates make updating the Lyx caret (text 
position) very slow.


If I click the left-arrow, it takes a second before the caret is seen in 
the new position and the old position is not erased properly.


This may not be a problem with Lyx, but I'm curious to know if other 
users have the same problem.


It seems to be a QT problem associated with nvidia drivers and compiz.

Even painting of the document properties preamble edit box is delayed 
indefinitely (until a change occurs, or the window is covered and 
uncovered).


So not a Lyx problem.

Sam

Re: LyX & ".doc"

[Stefano Franchi]

> I'm puzzled about why working with students requires using OpenOffice. I
> tell my students to send me things as PDF, and if I want to comment
> directly on the paper, electronically, I can do that in okular (and
> Windows folks can do it in foxit).
> 

Well, I suppose it's partly my problem and partly my students'. For the 
latter: producing a pdf is not so immediate as sending over the doc file, and 
some students need help on how to take that extra step.
On my side, the issue is that I do find pdf annotations (at least as provided 
in Okular) a rather inadequate tool when heavy commenting and editing is 
required. The machinery Okular provides (highlighter tools, pop-up notes, 
etc.) seems to be perfectly adequate for short punctual notes (of the kind: 
"you may want to read again such and such", "good!", "what do think X will 
object to the highlighted claim?"), but a rather poor and time-consuming 
substitute when more radical intervention are needed (i.e. "you argued for 
claim X from premises A, B, and C, but really you are not allowed to bring in 
C at this point in the argument, and should have used D, which would only 
allow you conclude X'. X' is significantly different from X in regards to 
additional claims Y and Z you make later in the paper.." where all the 
variables above are actually fully spelled out in English...). Unfortunately, 
most of my commenting jobs seem to be of the latter kind.

S.



> Richard
> 

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Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas A University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: amsthm package support

[Gustavo]

2009/9/22 rgheck 

>  On 09/22/2009 10:37 AM, Gustavo wrote:
>
>
> 2009/9/22 rgheck 
>
>>  On 09/22/2009 04:16 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Go in Documents Settings, Modules panel. There you can pick a module
>>> that will provide you support for theorems (ams or not).
>>>
>>
> I missed this. Thank you.
>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>  And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.
>
>
> You means if the option "Use AMS math package automatically" is set? It
> looks like it is not loaded automatically (I saw the generated Latex code),
> at least for Lyx version 1.6.2, which is provided by Ubuntu.
>
>   Create a new document. Go to the Document>Settings dialog. If you are
> not in the Document Class tag, select it. Now choose "Article (AMS)" for
> your document class (this is amsart.cls). Hit the apply button to select
> this class. Now choose the "Modules" tab of the dialog. You should see the
> "Theorems (AMS)" module selected. If you View>Source you will not see the
> AMS packages included, but they are pulled in automatically by the AMS
> class, and you will be able to create a theorem.
>
Ok, now I got it. But I guess I'll just include the modules manually, this
way I can choose another kind of document class.

>
>  Using the module amsthm as suggested by Jean-Marc, it seems not possible
> to create two consecutive theorems without having Lyx to mix them, at least
> for this version of Lyx. I'll try to install Lyx 1.6.4 and see what I get.
>
>>
>>   LyX wants to allow you to have two paragraphs in the theorem
> environment (which of course you might), and so it is assuming that this is
> what you want. If this is not what you want, then you should insert a new
> paragraph after the first theorem, choose the "Separator" environment for
> it, and then start the next theorem. See the attached for an example.
>
> We know this is a hack, but it is not easy to figure out a better way both
> to allow multiple paragraphs and to tell LyX when to start a new theorem.
>

It might be a hack, but it is good enough for me. And it is better than any
solution I could have come up with. Thank you.

>
> rh
>
>  rh
>>
>>
>
>
P.S.: Sorry, I forgot to CC to the Lyx list.

Re: amsthm package support

[rgheck]

On 09/22/2009 12:47 PM, Gustavo wrote:


  And this should automatically be loaded if you use the AMS classes.
   


You means if the option "Use AMS math package automatically" is set? It
looks like it is not loaded automatically (I saw the generated Latex code),
at least for Lyx version 1.6.2, which is provided by Ubuntu.

   Create a new document. Go to the Document>Settings dialog. If you are
not in the Document Class tag, select it. Now choose "Article (AMS)" for
your document class (this is amsart.cls). Hit the apply button to select
this class. Now choose the "Modules" tab of the dialog. You should see the
"Theorems (AMS)" module selected. If you View>Source you will not see the
AMS packages included, but they are pulled in automatically by the AMS
class, and you will be able to create a theorem.

 

Ok, now I got it. But I guess I'll just include the modules manually, this
way I can choose another kind of document class.

   

That's exactly why the theorems are done as modules.

rh

exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Phil]

LyX 1.6.4, Windows XP

Anyone have any idea why my HTML export does not work...?

I get an error saying "... error occurred whilst running elyxer.py -Directory 
C:/Documents Settings... "


  

Re: exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Phil,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Phil  wrote:
> LyX 1.6.4, Windows XP
>
> Anyone have any idea why my HTML export does not work...?
>
> I get an error saying "... error occurred whilst running elyxer.py -Directory 
> C:/Documents Settings... "

Can you tell us how you configured LyX to recognize eLyXer? Depending
on the method there are various things that could have gone wrong.
Also, it would be helpful if you could go to Preferences > Converters,
look for LyX -> HTML in the list, and send us the Converter line; it
should be something like:
  elyxer.py --directory $$r $$i $$o

Thanks,

Alex.

Help on 1.5.6 - 1.6.4 windows upgrade please

[Richard Strauss]

I have an old working version of Lyx 1.5.6 
(LyX-156-3-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe) on windows XP. I now want to upgrade 
to the latest version. Which release do you recommend, without having to 
compile lyx manully.

Thanks. Richard  

Re: Help on 1.5.6 - 1.6.4 windows upgrade please

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Richard Strauss wrote:

I have an old working version of Lyx 1.5.6 (LyX-156-3-25- 
AltInstaller-Complete.exe) on windows XP. I now want to upgrade to  
the latest version. Which release do you recommend, without having  
to compile lyx manully.


Thanks. Richard 


The most recent release is 1.6.4 (or 1.6.4.1 which is the same for the  
windows platform).  You should update to one of those two.

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Nicolas Ferré]

Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit :

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 letter 
class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however the 
produced output shows a large blank spacing between the "from address" 
field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the "refvpos" pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...


Unfortunately, it does not work as I expected. OK, the vertical spacing 
is reduced, but the same amount of text as before remains on the first 
page while the rest remains on the second page. I mean, there is now a 
very ugly large white space at the end of the first page, meaning the 
text has been simply translated.

I don't see any other option in the koma letter parameters I may change.

--
Nicolas Ferre'
Laboratoire Chimie Provence
Universite' de Provence - France
Tel: +33 491282733
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lcp-ct

Re: No address in koma-letter

[Jean-Marie Pacquet]

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit :

Nicolas Ferré a écrit :

Hi,

I just wrote a generic recommendation letter using the Koma-v2 
letter class. In this letter, I don't put any address field, however 
the produced output shows a large blank spacing between the "from 
address" field and the date. How can I reduce this spacing?


Regards,

You can reduce this vertical spacing with the "refvpos" pseudo length:
For a 50mm vertical spacing, put the line:

\...@setplength{refvpos}{50mm}

in the preamble just after the line \LoadLetterOption{...


Unfortunately, it does not work as I expected. OK, the vertical 
spacing is reduced, but the same amount of text as before remains on 
the first page while the rest remains on the second page. I mean, 
there is now a very ugly large white space at the end of the first 
page, meaning the text has been simply translated.

I don't see any other option in the koma letter parameters I may change.

For this space at the end of the first page you can use the parameter 
"enlargefirstpage". Add this line:


enlargefirstpage=true,

in the preamble at the beginning of the options list (below the 
"\KOMAoptions{" line).

--
jmp

Re: exporting HTML - elyxer error

[Phil]

I don't recall how I setup the elyxer.py converter.It was awhile back when 
elyxer was first mentioned.

I just upgraded my 1.6.3 to 1.6.4 this week and it was recognized (I guess) 
during the install.

Anyway,  I modified the converter line to read "elyxer.py $$i $$o" and it is 
now working..

Phil

>  Can you tell us how you configured LyX to recognize eLyXer? Depending
> on the method there are various things that could have gone wrong.



  

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

[Christian Liesen]

>
> I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX
> developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could
> help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far
> from being a developer.)
>

What exactly would a LyX developer on Mac need to know? I'm just curious.

-- Christian

LyX 1.6. ~ LaTex2RTF

[0]

I've used the two links below to start using LaTeX 2 RTF:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf#toc2
http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/

"Rich Text Format" appeared in export list. But it does not work, and says
LyX: Cannot convert file
An error occurred whilst running latex2rt -p -S -o "newfile2.rtf"
"newfile2.tex"

What can I do?
--
OS: Windows XP
LyX: 1.6.4