Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.08.2011 um 07:35 schrieb Tim Wescott:

 On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 23:10 +0200, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 10.08.2011 um 22:41 schrieb Tim Wescott:
 
 I got Ubuntu 11.04 going a while back, with Lyx 2.0.  Very nice.  But
 the spell checker isn't working -- when I go to the Tools menu,
 spellchecker is grayed out.
 
 I have aspell installed, and it claims to have an applicable dictionary
 -- yet no joy.
 
 What am I doing wrong, or not doing, or whatever?
 
 LyX 2.0 is not using the external aspell binary.
 It has to be compiled in. Did you compile LyX yourself?
 
 No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?

This I don't know. I don't have Ubuntu. Please, ask the Ubuntu maintainers.
Perhaps someone else on this list knows it... sorry.

Stephan

UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its 
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as 
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known 
for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short 
of using gnome instead of Unity?

Thanks,
EK
--

Re: BibTeX

[Philip Pirrip]

melise heyns melise.h at gmail.com writes:

 
 The user's manual explains that you need to download a program with which to
create a database to do referencing.


There are two ways how to do referencing:
1. in the drop-down list where you chose to start Chapters, Titles etc. you can
also start Bibliography (at the end of your document). Then you can manually add
some references and use them in citations.
2. use some program to generate external database of your references, say
my-bibliography.bib, and read it in through the menu Insert-List/TOC-BibTeX
bibliography. To manage all of your references and exporting them to a database
file, I'd recommend using Mendeley (www.mendeley.com). It's new, and it's free.


Also, it's quite helpful if you're familiar with the basics of LaTeX. Try this
one: http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

Re: 2 questions: \documentclass[english,magyar] and \DeclareRobustCommand{\greektext}

[Philip Pirrip]

 My questions are:
 
 1. Looking at the lyx source I found that the documentclass is set to
 \documentclass[english,magyar]. Just after \begin{text}
\selectlanguage{english} is set:

Please take a look at http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7681
Seems that you have to click inside the document after you change the language
of a new document, so that the cursor can update itself. Quite annoying bug, 
huh?

Can't export in PDF

[Anaïs Maréchal]

Hi everybody,

I don't know much on Lyx, I tried to search in the previous bug and on the web 
but no results.

I installed Lyx 2.0.0 on my Windows 7 laptop. I wrote a text, and when I want 
to visualize it, I have an error (cannot find the rapport.pdf file). So I tried 
to export my file in pdf, and I have an other error (with ps2pdf, but pdflatex 
works fine) :
An error happened during the execution :
python -tt C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX20/bin/../Resources/scripts/clean_dvi.py
rapport.dvi tmpfile.out 
(I translate because I use the french version, so maybe it's not exactly the 
same in the english version)

I also have an error from the conversion from bmp(or jpg) to eps, but I should 
look on the web to find how to solve this one.

In my temporary folder I have a tex version, and a dep-pdf version.

Thanks very much for you help !

Anaïs 

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:03 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com
ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
 appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
 VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known for
 almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using
 gnome instead of Unity?

This isn't much different, but I would suggest using Xfce instead of
Unity. Since I always use Xfce, I haven't yet encountered this Unity
bug and haven't investigated it, either. Sorry.

Regards
Liviu

Re: prevent float placement on page with /newpage

[Helge Hafting]

On 10. aug. 2011 14:51, Csikos Bela wrote:

Hello lyx users:

I have a question on float placement.
I am working on a document with sections, and I start every section
on a new page inserting an InsertFormattingNew page
before the section title. But lyx occasionally places floats on the
same (new) page above the new section title.
How can I prevent this so that the section would start
on a completely new page and the float would be inserted
on a previous page?


You can set the floats to appear in a page of floats, that is,
a page with floats only and no mixing with text.

That way, the previous section will end, a page
with only floats appear, and then your next section
starts on top of the page. To achieve this, right-click the float to 
bring up its settings, and select page of floats as the only option. 
Or you can set this in the document settings, as a standard for all floats.



However, it seems to me that you should consider using one of the book 
types for document class, and chapters instead of sections. Chapters 
automatically start on a new page - this way you won't need to insert 
linefeeds. I also believe floats will be handled before the chapter

page starts, so you shouldn't get a float above a chapter heading.

Helge Hafting

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. aug. 2011 07:35, Tim Wescott wrote:

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 23:10 +0200, Stephan Witt wrote:

Am 10.08.2011 um 22:41 schrieb Tim Wescott:


I got Ubuntu 11.04 going a while back, with Lyx 2.0.  Very nice.  But
the spell checker isn't working -- when I go to the Tools menu,
spellchecker is grayed out.

I have aspell installed, and it claims to have an applicable dictionary
-- yet no joy.

What am I doing wrong, or not doing, or whatever?


LyX 2.0 is not using the external aspell binary.
It has to be compiled in. Did you compile LyX yourself?


No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?



Probably not, I guess you merely need to install the correct spelling 
software.


Debian is similiar to ubuntu, on debian LyX uses enchant for 
spellchecking. The package libenchant must be installed for this to work.


Try apt-cache search libenchant to see what the exact package name is. 
(In my case libenchant1c2a, could be different on ubuntu)


Then, install the package. After that, restart LyX and use the menu 
Tools-Reconfigure.



If ubuntu is set up to use aspell, make sure you have libaspell 
installed. Compiled-in apsell functionality will need the library 
version of aspell.


Finally, make sure you have dictionary files for the language(s) you're 
using.


Helge Hafting

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. aug. 2011 10:03, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known
for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of
using gnome instead of Unity?
Thanks,


If unity has a bug, contact the unity developers. If they are slow in
fixing it - consider using other software.

Gnome is not the only other alternative to unity. Use google or
apt-cache search window manager
to find the many window manager alternatives. Try them out, see if you 
like one that works. I use icewm, and like it because it starts in a 
second or so. (I don't want to wait 5s after logging in...)


Helge Hafting

Drehen von Seiten

[Marvin Roth]

Guten Tag

 

Ich bin dabei mit lyx ein Schriftstück zu verfassen. Leider finde ich keine
Möglichkeit für folgendes Problem.

 

Im Anhang befinden sich unteranderem mehrere PDF Dateien angefügt.

Einzelne Dateien würde ich gerne um 90° ins Querformat drehen und ausgeben.

 

Wie mach ich das? 

 

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Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

I have tried gnome and KDE, but wanted to try Unity.  The developers 
know of the bug, and it has nothing to do with Lyx-- it has to do 
(apparently) with qt4 and it affects other programs as well.

EK

On 8/11/2011 9:20 AM, Helge Hafting wrote:

On 11. aug. 2011 10:03, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known
for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of
using gnome instead of Unity?
Thanks,


If unity has a bug, contact the unity developers. If they are slow in
fixing it - consider using other software.

Gnome is not the only other alternative to unity. Use google or
apt-cache search window manager
to find the many window manager alternatives. Try them out, see if you 
like one that works. I use icewm, and like it because it starts in a 
second or so. (I don't want to wait 5s after logging in...)


Helge Hafting


--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor
*Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational  System neuroscience,
The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM/
*Director*, The laboratory of /Visual  Computational Neuroscience/
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical  Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY, 10029

Bibliography

[ider ronneberger]

Hello,

what package do I need for Bibtex generated bibliography? It seems that  my lyx 
version which is a part of ubuntu natty narwal does not contain all standard 
packages (,e.g. needed for compilation of the UserGuide!!!). For UseGuide I had 
to install some packages in order to compile with pdflatex. And now I see that 
BibTex generated Bibliography does not work, there is no output of the 
Bibliography and the Citations are question marks (??). Can anyone help?

Ider

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Tim Wescott]

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 13:50 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
 
  No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?
 
 
 I had the same problem then ToolsPreferencesLanguage SettingsSpellchecker
 In spellchecker engine select Enchant, also enable Spellchecker 
 continuously.
 
 regards
 waluyo

Waluyo:

That's the ticket!  It's working great now.

Stephan:

It turns out that Enchant and aspell were already installed, I just
needed to flick the switch in LyX.

Thanks.

-- 

Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control  Communications systems, circuit  software design.

Re: Bibliography

[ider ronneberger]

Now it works. I had to generate my Bibtex file again.




Von: ider ronneberger ide...@yahoo.com
An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Gesendet: 17:41 Donnerstag, 11.August 2011 
Betreff: Bibliography


Hello,

what package do I need for Bibtex generated bibliography? It seems that  my lyx 
version which is a part of ubuntu natty narwal does not contain all standard 
packages (,e.g. needed for compilation of the UserGuide!!!). For UseGuide I had 
to install some packages in order to compile with pdflatex. And now I see that 
BibTex generated Bibliography does not work, there is no output of the 
Bibliography and the Citations are question marks (??). Can anyone help?

Ider

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.08.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Tim Wescott:

 On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 13:50 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
 
 No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?
 
 
 I had the same problem then ToolsPreferencesLanguage SettingsSpellchecker
 In spellchecker engine select Enchant, also enable Spellchecker 
 continuously.
 
 regards
 waluyo
 
 Waluyo:
 
 That's the ticket!  It's working great now.
 
 Stephan:
 
 It turns out that Enchant and aspell were already installed, I just
 needed to flick the switch in LyX.
 
 Thanks.

Then the Ubuntu maintainers should provide a reasonable default lyxrc...
Glad to hear it works for you now.

Stephan

Re: small feature request - center graphics

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:42 PM, James Sutherland
james.sutherl...@utah.edu wrote:
 I would like to request that floating graphics and table environments be
 centered by default.  They are currently left-justified.  This is
 particularly awkward since the caption is centered.
 Is this a setting that can be changed locally?  If not, can we have a vote
 on changing the default behavior in LyX?

It may be possible to set this using a custom keybinding, using
'command-sequence'. See Help  Functions for more info, and search the
ML archives. In principle you could also change this in
/usr/local/share/lyx-svn/ui/stdmenus.inc or stdtoolbars.inc, but I
haven't tested this.

Regards
Liviu

Re: Can't export in PDF

[Paul Rubin]

Anaïs Maréchal anais.marechal at gmail.com writes:

 
 
 Hi everybody,I don't know much on Lyx, I tried to search in the previous bug
 and on the web but no results.I installed Lyx 2.0.0 on my Windows 7 laptop. 
 I wrote a text, and when I want to visualize it, I have an error (cannot find
 the rapport.pdf file). So I tried to export my file in pdf, and I have an 
 other error (with ps2pdf, but pdflatex works fine) :An error happened during
 the execution :python -tt C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX20/bin/../Resources
 /scripts/clean_dvi.pyrapport.dvi tmpfile.out (I translate because I use
 the french version, so maybe it's not exactly the same in the english version)

Does this happen if you try View  DVI with the document?  If so, does the LaTeX
log (Document  LaTeX log) show any errors?

 I also have an error from the conversion from bmp(or jpg) to eps, but I should
 look on the web to find how to solve this one.

Do you have ImageMagick installed?  LyX relies on ImageMagick to convert among
graphics formats.  It also needs Ghostscript installed (IM uses GS when the
conversions involve PS, EPS or PDF files).

Paul

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 04:03:20 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps
 its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other
 programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.
  The bug has been known for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way
 of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity?
 Thanks,
 EK

This response is non-responsive to your question, but...

Unity! Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch!

Never has a worse user interface been conceived or deployed. It even 
beats out Windows 7 for lameness.

I have no idea how to fix Unity induced problems in any app, sorry. 

I went back to classic when upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04. If a future 
Ubuntu ever forces me to go Unity, I'll move away from Ubuntu.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Richard Heck]

On 08/11/2011 06:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Thursday, August 11, 2011 04:03:20 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps
 its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other
 programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.
  The bug has been known for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way
 of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity?
 Thanks,
 EK
 This response is non-responsive to your question, but...

 Unity! Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch!

 Never has a worse user interface been conceived or deployed. It even 
 beats out Windows 7 for lameness.

 I have no idea how to fix Unity induced problems in any app, sorry. 

 I went back to classic when upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04. If a future 
 Ubuntu ever forces me to go Unity, I'll move away from Ubuntu.

I saw it once, too, and fled. It's probably great for netbooks and
tablets, but why would I want to use such a thing on a desktop machine?
And don't get me started about Gnome 3.0

Richard

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 09:31:47 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have tried gnome and KDE, but wanted to try Unity.  The
 developers know of the bug, and it has nothing to do with Lyx-- it
 has to do (apparently) with qt4 and it affects other programs as
 well. EK

If your purpose is evaluating Unity, I'd suggest you try Unity for five 
hours in which you don't need LyX, or else load it on a different 
machine. If you're anything like me, you'll blow it right off the hard 
drive because it's nothing but frustration. Especially horrid is the 
menu structure, in which you have a few commonly used ones, and the 
rest all thrown into one bucket you need to rummage through.

I found that almost everything I did in Unity took minutes instead of 
seconds or half-seconds. It was an attrocious time-sink. If you're 
anything like me, a simple evaluation without LyX will reveal that 
Unity isn't for you.

SteeT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Jacob Bishop]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:03 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com 
ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:

  I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
 appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
 VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known for
 almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using
 gnome instead of Unity?
 Thanks,
 EK
 --


I do actually use LyX with Unity on Ubuntu 11.04. I don't remember if I had
problems with the menus or not. My install is working great at the moment. I
might have had issues, but if so I unfortunately did not document what I did
to work around it.

If you can explain the behavior a bit more, maybe I can help.

Jacob

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

On 8/11/11 11:25 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
[...]
 I saw it once, too, and fled. It's probably great for netbooks and
 tablets, but why would I want to use such a thing on a desktop machine?
 And don't get me started about Gnome 3.0

I don't even use it on the eeePC

el

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Jacob Bishop]

Ehud,

I did a quick search, and it seems the bug has been fixed upstream:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/619811

Also, in the meantime, there is a workaround documented here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/134649

Jacob

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.08.2011 um 07:35 schrieb Tim Wescott:

 On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 23:10 +0200, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 10.08.2011 um 22:41 schrieb Tim Wescott:
 
 I got Ubuntu 11.04 going a while back, with Lyx 2.0.  Very nice.  But
 the spell checker isn't working -- when I go to the Tools menu,
 spellchecker is grayed out.
 
 I have aspell installed, and it claims to have an applicable dictionary
 -- yet no joy.
 
 What am I doing wrong, or not doing, or whatever?
 
 LyX 2.0 is not using the external aspell binary.
 It has to be compiled in. Did you compile LyX yourself?
 
 No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?

This I don't know. I don't have Ubuntu. Please, ask the Ubuntu maintainers.
Perhaps someone else on this list knows it... sorry.

Stephan

UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its 
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as 
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known 
for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short 
of using gnome instead of Unity?

Thanks,
EK
--

Re: BibTeX

[Philip Pirrip]

melise heyns melise.h at gmail.com writes:

 
 The user's manual explains that you need to download a program with which to
create a database to do referencing.


There are two ways how to do referencing:
1. in the drop-down list where you chose to start Chapters, Titles etc. you can
also start Bibliography (at the end of your document). Then you can manually add
some references and use them in citations.
2. use some program to generate external database of your references, say
my-bibliography.bib, and read it in through the menu Insert-List/TOC-BibTeX
bibliography. To manage all of your references and exporting them to a database
file, I'd recommend using Mendeley (www.mendeley.com). It's new, and it's free.


Also, it's quite helpful if you're familiar with the basics of LaTeX. Try this
one: http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

Re: 2 questions: \documentclass[english,magyar] and \DeclareRobustCommand{\greektext}

[Philip Pirrip]

 My questions are:
 
 1. Looking at the lyx source I found that the documentclass is set to
 \documentclass[english,magyar]. Just after \begin{text}
\selectlanguage{english} is set:

Please take a look at http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7681
Seems that you have to click inside the document after you change the language
of a new document, so that the cursor can update itself. Quite annoying bug, 
huh?

Can't export in PDF

[Anaïs Maréchal]

Hi everybody,

I don't know much on Lyx, I tried to search in the previous bug and on the web 
but no results.

I installed Lyx 2.0.0 on my Windows 7 laptop. I wrote a text, and when I want 
to visualize it, I have an error (cannot find the rapport.pdf file). So I tried 
to export my file in pdf, and I have an other error (with ps2pdf, but pdflatex 
works fine) :
An error happened during the execution :
python -tt C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX20/bin/../Resources/scripts/clean_dvi.py
rapport.dvi tmpfile.out 
(I translate because I use the french version, so maybe it's not exactly the 
same in the english version)

I also have an error from the conversion from bmp(or jpg) to eps, but I should 
look on the web to find how to solve this one.

In my temporary folder I have a tex version, and a dep-pdf version.

Thanks very much for you help !

Anaïs 

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:03 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com
ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
 appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
 VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known for
 almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using
 gnome instead of Unity?

This isn't much different, but I would suggest using Xfce instead of
Unity. Since I always use Xfce, I haven't yet encountered this Unity
bug and haven't investigated it, either. Sorry.

Regards
Liviu

Re: prevent float placement on page with /newpage

[Helge Hafting]

On 10. aug. 2011 14:51, Csikos Bela wrote:

Hello lyx users:

I have a question on float placement.
I am working on a document with sections, and I start every section
on a new page inserting an InsertFormattingNew page
before the section title. But lyx occasionally places floats on the
same (new) page above the new section title.
How can I prevent this so that the section would start
on a completely new page and the float would be inserted
on a previous page?


You can set the floats to appear in a page of floats, that is,
a page with floats only and no mixing with text.

That way, the previous section will end, a page
with only floats appear, and then your next section
starts on top of the page. To achieve this, right-click the float to 
bring up its settings, and select page of floats as the only option. 
Or you can set this in the document settings, as a standard for all floats.



However, it seems to me that you should consider using one of the book 
types for document class, and chapters instead of sections. Chapters 
automatically start on a new page - this way you won't need to insert 
linefeeds. I also believe floats will be handled before the chapter

page starts, so you shouldn't get a float above a chapter heading.

Helge Hafting

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. aug. 2011 07:35, Tim Wescott wrote:

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 23:10 +0200, Stephan Witt wrote:

Am 10.08.2011 um 22:41 schrieb Tim Wescott:


I got Ubuntu 11.04 going a while back, with Lyx 2.0.  Very nice.  But
the spell checker isn't working -- when I go to the Tools menu,
spellchecker is grayed out.

I have aspell installed, and it claims to have an applicable dictionary
-- yet no joy.

What am I doing wrong, or not doing, or whatever?


LyX 2.0 is not using the external aspell binary.
It has to be compiled in. Did you compile LyX yourself?


No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?



Probably not, I guess you merely need to install the correct spelling 
software.


Debian is similiar to ubuntu, on debian LyX uses enchant for 
spellchecking. The package libenchant must be installed for this to work.


Try apt-cache search libenchant to see what the exact package name is. 
(In my case libenchant1c2a, could be different on ubuntu)


Then, install the package. After that, restart LyX and use the menu 
Tools-Reconfigure.



If ubuntu is set up to use aspell, make sure you have libaspell 
installed. Compiled-in apsell functionality will need the library 
version of aspell.


Finally, make sure you have dictionary files for the language(s) you're 
using.


Helge Hafting

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. aug. 2011 10:03, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known
for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of
using gnome instead of Unity?
Thanks,


If unity has a bug, contact the unity developers. If they are slow in
fixing it - consider using other software.

Gnome is not the only other alternative to unity. Use google or
apt-cache search window manager
to find the many window manager alternatives. Try them out, see if you 
like one that works. I use icewm, and like it because it starts in a 
second or so. (I don't want to wait 5s after logging in...)


Helge Hafting

Drehen von Seiten

[Marvin Roth]

Guten Tag

 

Ich bin dabei mit lyx ein Schriftstück zu verfassen. Leider finde ich keine
Möglichkeit für folgendes Problem.

 

Im Anhang befinden sich unteranderem mehrere PDF Dateien angefügt.

Einzelne Dateien würde ich gerne um 90° ins Querformat drehen und ausgeben.

 

Wie mach ich das? 

 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen 

Marvin Roth 


Team wob-racing 
Abteilung Rahmen/Chassis

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Kleiststraße 14-16
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Mobile: 

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Office: 

+49 (0) 5361 8922-21940 


Fax: 

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mailto:marvin.r...@wob-racing.de arvin.r...@wob-racing.de

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Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

I have tried gnome and KDE, but wanted to try Unity.  The developers 
know of the bug, and it has nothing to do with Lyx-- it has to do 
(apparently) with qt4 and it affects other programs as well.

EK

On 8/11/2011 9:20 AM, Helge Hafting wrote:

On 11. aug. 2011 10:03, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known
for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of
using gnome instead of Unity?
Thanks,


If unity has a bug, contact the unity developers. If they are slow in
fixing it - consider using other software.

Gnome is not the only other alternative to unity. Use google or
apt-cache search window manager
to find the many window manager alternatives. Try them out, see if you 
like one that works. I use icewm, and like it because it starts in a 
second or so. (I don't want to wait 5s after logging in...)


Helge Hafting


--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor
*Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational  System neuroscience,
The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM/
*Director*, The laboratory of /Visual  Computational Neuroscience/
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical  Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY, 10029

Bibliography

[ider ronneberger]

Hello,

what package do I need for Bibtex generated bibliography? It seems that  my lyx 
version which is a part of ubuntu natty narwal does not contain all standard 
packages (,e.g. needed for compilation of the UserGuide!!!). For UseGuide I had 
to install some packages in order to compile with pdflatex. And now I see that 
BibTex generated Bibliography does not work, there is no output of the 
Bibliography and the Citations are question marks (??). Can anyone help?

Ider

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Tim Wescott]

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 13:50 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
 
  No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?
 
 
 I had the same problem then ToolsPreferencesLanguage SettingsSpellchecker
 In spellchecker engine select Enchant, also enable Spellchecker 
 continuously.
 
 regards
 waluyo

Waluyo:

That's the ticket!  It's working great now.

Stephan:

It turns out that Enchant and aspell were already installed, I just
needed to flick the switch in LyX.

Thanks.

-- 

Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control  Communications systems, circuit  software design.

Re: Bibliography

[ider ronneberger]

Now it works. I had to generate my Bibtex file again.




Von: ider ronneberger ide...@yahoo.com
An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Gesendet: 17:41 Donnerstag, 11.August 2011 
Betreff: Bibliography


Hello,

what package do I need for Bibtex generated bibliography? It seems that  my lyx 
version which is a part of ubuntu natty narwal does not contain all standard 
packages (,e.g. needed for compilation of the UserGuide!!!). For UseGuide I had 
to install some packages in order to compile with pdflatex. And now I see that 
BibTex generated Bibliography does not work, there is no output of the 
Bibliography and the Citations are question marks (??). Can anyone help?

Ider

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.08.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Tim Wescott:

 On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 13:50 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
 
 No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?
 
 
 I had the same problem then ToolsPreferencesLanguage SettingsSpellchecker
 In spellchecker engine select Enchant, also enable Spellchecker 
 continuously.
 
 regards
 waluyo
 
 Waluyo:
 
 That's the ticket!  It's working great now.
 
 Stephan:
 
 It turns out that Enchant and aspell were already installed, I just
 needed to flick the switch in LyX.
 
 Thanks.

Then the Ubuntu maintainers should provide a reasonable default lyxrc...
Glad to hear it works for you now.

Stephan

Re: small feature request - center graphics

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:42 PM, James Sutherland
james.sutherl...@utah.edu wrote:
 I would like to request that floating graphics and table environments be
 centered by default.  They are currently left-justified.  This is
 particularly awkward since the caption is centered.
 Is this a setting that can be changed locally?  If not, can we have a vote
 on changing the default behavior in LyX?

It may be possible to set this using a custom keybinding, using
'command-sequence'. See Help  Functions for more info, and search the
ML archives. In principle you could also change this in
/usr/local/share/lyx-svn/ui/stdmenus.inc or stdtoolbars.inc, but I
haven't tested this.

Regards
Liviu

Re: Can't export in PDF

[Paul Rubin]

Anaïs Maréchal anais.marechal at gmail.com writes:

 
 
 Hi everybody,I don't know much on Lyx, I tried to search in the previous bug
 and on the web but no results.I installed Lyx 2.0.0 on my Windows 7 laptop. 
 I wrote a text, and when I want to visualize it, I have an error (cannot find
 the rapport.pdf file). So I tried to export my file in pdf, and I have an 
 other error (with ps2pdf, but pdflatex works fine) :An error happened during
 the execution :python -tt C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX20/bin/../Resources
 /scripts/clean_dvi.pyrapport.dvi tmpfile.out (I translate because I use
 the french version, so maybe it's not exactly the same in the english version)

Does this happen if you try View  DVI with the document?  If so, does the LaTeX
log (Document  LaTeX log) show any errors?

 I also have an error from the conversion from bmp(or jpg) to eps, but I should
 look on the web to find how to solve this one.

Do you have ImageMagick installed?  LyX relies on ImageMagick to convert among
graphics formats.  It also needs Ghostscript installed (IM uses GS when the
conversions involve PS, EPS or PDF files).

Paul

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 04:03:20 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps
 its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other
 programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.
  The bug has been known for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way
 of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity?
 Thanks,
 EK

This response is non-responsive to your question, but...

Unity! Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch!

Never has a worse user interface been conceived or deployed. It even 
beats out Windows 7 for lameness.

I have no idea how to fix Unity induced problems in any app, sorry. 

I went back to classic when upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04. If a future 
Ubuntu ever forces me to go Unity, I'll move away from Ubuntu.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Richard Heck]

On 08/11/2011 06:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Thursday, August 11, 2011 04:03:20 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps
 its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other
 programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.
  The bug has been known for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way
 of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity?
 Thanks,
 EK
 This response is non-responsive to your question, but...

 Unity! Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch!

 Never has a worse user interface been conceived or deployed. It even 
 beats out Windows 7 for lameness.

 I have no idea how to fix Unity induced problems in any app, sorry. 

 I went back to classic when upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04. If a future 
 Ubuntu ever forces me to go Unity, I'll move away from Ubuntu.

I saw it once, too, and fled. It's probably great for netbooks and
tablets, but why would I want to use such a thing on a desktop machine?
And don't get me started about Gnome 3.0

Richard

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 09:31:47 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have tried gnome and KDE, but wanted to try Unity.  The
 developers know of the bug, and it has nothing to do with Lyx-- it
 has to do (apparently) with qt4 and it affects other programs as
 well. EK

If your purpose is evaluating Unity, I'd suggest you try Unity for five 
hours in which you don't need LyX, or else load it on a different 
machine. If you're anything like me, you'll blow it right off the hard 
drive because it's nothing but frustration. Especially horrid is the 
menu structure, in which you have a few commonly used ones, and the 
rest all thrown into one bucket you need to rummage through.

I found that almost everything I did in Unity took minutes instead of 
seconds or half-seconds. It was an attrocious time-sink. If you're 
anything like me, a simple evaluation without LyX will reveal that 
Unity isn't for you.

SteeT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Jacob Bishop]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:03 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com 
ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:

  I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
 appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
 VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known for
 almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using
 gnome instead of Unity?
 Thanks,
 EK
 --


I do actually use LyX with Unity on Ubuntu 11.04. I don't remember if I had
problems with the menus or not. My install is working great at the moment. I
might have had issues, but if so I unfortunately did not document what I did
to work around it.

If you can explain the behavior a bit more, maybe I can help.

Jacob

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

On 8/11/11 11:25 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
[...]
 I saw it once, too, and fled. It's probably great for netbooks and
 tablets, but why would I want to use such a thing on a desktop machine?
 And don't get me started about Gnome 3.0

I don't even use it on the eeePC

el

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Jacob Bishop]

Ehud,

I did a quick search, and it seems the bug has been fixed upstream:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/619811

Also, in the meantime, there is a workaround documented here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/134649

Jacob

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.08.2011 um 07:35 schrieb Tim Wescott:

> On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 23:10 +0200, Stephan Witt wrote:
>> Am 10.08.2011 um 22:41 schrieb Tim Wescott:
>> 
>>> I got Ubuntu 11.04 going a while back, with Lyx 2.0.  Very nice.  But
>>> the spell checker isn't working -- when I go to the Tools menu,
>>> "spellchecker" is grayed out.
>>> 
>>> I have aspell installed, and it claims to have an applicable dictionary
>>> -- yet no joy.
>>> 
>>> What am I doing wrong, or not doing, or whatever?
>> 
>> LyX 2.0 is not using the external aspell binary.
>> It has to be compiled in. Did you compile LyX yourself?
> 
> No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?

This I don't know. I don't have Ubuntu. Please, ask the Ubuntu maintainers.
Perhaps someone else on this list knows it... sorry.

Stephan

UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its 
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as 
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known 
for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short 
of using gnome instead of Unity?

Thanks,
EK
--

Re: BibTeX

[Philip Pirrip]

melise heyns  gmail.com> writes:

> 
> The user's manual explains that you need to download a program with which to
create a database to do referencing.


There are two ways how to do referencing:
1. in the drop-down list where you chose to start Chapters, Titles etc. you can
also start Bibliography (at the end of your document). Then you can manually add
some references and use them in citations.
2. use some program to generate external database of your references, say
my-bibliography.bib, and read it in through the menu Insert->List/TOC->BibTeX
bibliography. To manage all of your references and exporting them to a database
file, I'd recommend using Mendeley (www.mendeley.com). It's new, and it's free.


Also, it's quite helpful if you're familiar with the basics of LaTeX. Try this
one: http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

Re: 2 questions: \documentclass[english,magyar] and \DeclareRobustCommand{\greektext}

[Philip Pirrip]

> My questions are:
> 
> 1. Looking at the lyx source I found that the documentclass is set to
> \documentclass[english,magyar]. Just after \begin{text}
\selectlanguage{english} is set:

Please take a look at http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7681
Seems that you have to click inside the document after you change the language
of a new document, so that the cursor can update itself. Quite annoying bug, 
huh?

Can't export in PDF

[Anaïs Maréchal]

Hi everybody,

I don't know much on Lyx, I tried to search in the previous bug and on the web 
but no results.

I installed Lyx 2.0.0 on my Windows 7 laptop. I wrote a text, and when I want 
to visualize it, I have an error (cannot find the rapport.pdf file). So I tried 
to export my file in pdf, and I have an other error (with ps2pdf, but pdflatex 
works fine) :
"An error happened during the execution :
python -tt "C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX20/bin/../Resources/scripts/clean_dvi.py"
"rapport.dvi" "tmpfile.out" "
(I translate because I use the french version, so maybe it's not exactly the 
same in the english version)

I also have an error from the conversion from bmp(or jpg) to eps, but I should 
look on the web to find how to solve this one.

In my temporary folder I have a tex version, and a dep-pdf version.

Thanks very much for you help !

Anaïs 

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:03 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com
 wrote:
> I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
> appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
> VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known for
> almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using
> gnome instead of Unity?
>
This isn't much different, but I would suggest using Xfce instead of
Unity. Since I always use Xfce, I haven't yet encountered this Unity
bug and haven't investigated it, either. Sorry.

Regards
Liviu

Re: prevent float placement on page with /newpage

[Helge Hafting]

On 10. aug. 2011 14:51, Csikos Bela wrote:

Hello lyx users:

I have a question on float placement.
I am working on a document with sections, and I start every section
on a new page inserting an Insert>Formatting>New page
before the section title. But lyx occasionally places floats on the
same (new) page above the new section title.
How can I prevent this so that the section would start
on a completely new page and the float would be inserted
on a previous page?


You can set the floats to appear in a "page of floats", that is,
a page with floats only and no mixing with text.

That way, the previous section will end, a page
with only floats appear, and then your next section
starts on top of the page. To achieve this, right-click the float to 
bring up its settings, and select "page of floats" as the only option. 
Or you can set this in the document settings, as a standard for all floats.



However, it seems to me that you should consider using one of the book 
types for document class, and chapters instead of sections. Chapters 
automatically start on a new page - this way you won't need to insert 
linefeeds. I also believe floats will be handled before the chapter

page starts, so you shouldn't get a float above a chapter heading.

Helge Hafting

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. aug. 2011 07:35, Tim Wescott wrote:

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 23:10 +0200, Stephan Witt wrote:

Am 10.08.2011 um 22:41 schrieb Tim Wescott:


I got Ubuntu 11.04 going a while back, with Lyx 2.0.  Very nice.  But
the spell checker isn't working -- when I go to the Tools menu,
"spellchecker" is grayed out.

I have aspell installed, and it claims to have an applicable dictionary
-- yet no joy.

What am I doing wrong, or not doing, or whatever?


LyX 2.0 is not using the external aspell binary.
It has to be compiled in. Did you compile LyX yourself?


No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?



Probably not, I guess you merely need to install the correct spelling 
software.


Debian is similiar to ubuntu, on debian LyX uses enchant for 
spellchecking. The package "libenchant" must be installed for this to work.


Try "apt-cache search libenchant" to see what the exact package name is. 
(In my case "libenchant1c2a", could be different on ubuntu)


Then, install the package. After that, restart LyX and use the menu 
Tools->Reconfigure.



If ubuntu is set up to use aspell, make sure you have "libaspell" 
installed. Compiled-in apsell functionality will need the library 
version of aspell.


Finally, make sure you have dictionary files for the language(s) you're 
using.


Helge Hafting

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. aug. 2011 10:03, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known
for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of
using gnome instead of Unity?
Thanks,


If unity has a bug, contact the unity developers. If they are slow in
fixing it - consider using other software.

Gnome is not the only other alternative to unity. Use google or
apt-cache search window manager
to find the many window manager alternatives. Try them out, see if you 
like one that works. I use icewm, and like it because it starts in a 
second or so. (I don't want to wait 5s after logging in...)


Helge Hafting

Drehen von Seiten

[Marvin Roth]

Guten Tag

 

Ich bin dabei mit lyx ein Schriftstück zu verfassen. Leider finde ich keine
Möglichkeit für folgendes Problem.

 

Im Anhang befinden sich unteranderem mehrere PDF Dateien angefügt.

Einzelne Dateien würde ich gerne um 90° ins Querformat drehen und ausgeben.

 

Wie mach ich das? 

 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen 

Marvin Roth 


Team wob-racing 
Abteilung Rahmen/Chassis

an der Ostfalia - Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Kleiststraße 14-16
38440 Wolfsburg 


Mobile: 

+49 (0) 160 3550 039


Office: 

+49 (0) 5361 8922-21940 


Fax: 

+49 (0) 5361 8922-21944 

 

 





Mail:    M
 arvin.r...@wob-racing.de

  www.wob-racing.de

 

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

I have tried gnome and KDE, but wanted to try Unity.  The developers 
know of the bug, and it has nothing to do with Lyx-- it has to do 
(apparently) with qt4 and it affects other programs as well.

EK

On 8/11/2011 9:20 AM, Helge Hafting wrote:

On 11. aug. 2011 10:03, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has been known
for almost a year. Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of
using gnome instead of Unity?
Thanks,


If unity has a bug, contact the unity developers. If they are slow in
fixing it - consider using other software.

Gnome is not the only other alternative to unity. Use google or
apt-cache search window manager
to find the many window manager alternatives. Try them out, see if you 
like one that works. I use icewm, and like it because it starts in a 
second or so. (I don't want to wait 5s after logging in...)


Helge Hafting


--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor
*Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,
The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM/
*Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY, 10029

Bibliography

[ider ronneberger]

Hello,

what package do I need for Bibtex generated bibliography? It seems that  my lyx 
version which is a part of ubuntu natty narwal does not contain all standard 
packages (,e.g. needed for compilation of the UserGuide!!!). For UseGuide I had 
to install some packages in order to compile with pdflatex. And now I see that 
BibTex generated Bibliography does not work, there is no output of the 
Bibliography and the Citations are question marks (??). Can anyone help?

Ider

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Tim Wescott]

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 13:50 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
> >
> > No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?
> >
> 
> I had the same problem then Tools>Preferences>Language Settings>Spellchecker
> In spellchecker engine select "Enchant", also enable Spellchecker 
> continuously.
> 
> regards
> waluyo

Waluyo:

That's the ticket!  It's working great now.

Stephan:

It turns out that Enchant and aspell were already installed, I just
needed to flick the switch in LyX.

Thanks.

-- 

Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.

Re: Bibliography

[ider ronneberger]

Now it works. I had to generate my Bibtex file again.




Von: ider ronneberger 
An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Gesendet: 17:41 Donnerstag, 11.August 2011 
Betreff: Bibliography


Hello,

what package do I need for Bibtex generated bibliography? It seems that  my lyx 
version which is a part of ubuntu natty narwal does not contain all standard 
packages (,e.g. needed for compilation of the UserGuide!!!). For UseGuide I had 
to install some packages in order to compile with pdflatex. And now I see that 
BibTex generated Bibliography does not work, there is no output of the 
Bibliography and the Citations are question marks (??). Can anyone help?

Ider

Re: Spell checker not active in 2.0???

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.08.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Tim Wescott:

> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 13:50 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
>>> 
>>> No, I installed the Ubuntu version.  So -- I need to build this thing?
>>> 
>> 
>> I had the same problem then Tools>Preferences>Language Settings>Spellchecker
>> In spellchecker engine select "Enchant", also enable Spellchecker 
>> continuously.
>> 
>> regards
>> waluyo
> 
> Waluyo:
> 
> That's the ticket!  It's working great now.
> 
> Stephan:
> 
> It turns out that Enchant and aspell were already installed, I just
> needed to flick the switch in LyX.
> 
> Thanks.

Then the Ubuntu maintainers should provide a reasonable default lyxrc...
Glad to hear it works for you now.

Stephan

Re: small feature request - center graphics

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:42 PM, James Sutherland
 wrote:
> I would like to request that floating graphics and table environments be
> centered by default.  They are currently left-justified.  This is
> particularly awkward since the caption is centered.
> Is this a setting that can be changed locally?  If not, can we have a "vote"
> on changing the default behavior in LyX?
>
It may be possible to set this using a custom keybinding, using
'command-sequence'. See Help > Functions for more info, and search the
ML archives. In principle you could also change this in
/usr/local/share/lyx-svn/ui/stdmenus.inc or stdtoolbars.inc, but I
haven't tested this.

Regards
Liviu

Re: Can't export in PDF

[Paul Rubin]

Anaïs Maréchal  gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Hi everybody,I don't know much on Lyx, I tried to search in the previous bug
> and on the web but no results.I installed Lyx 2.0.0 on my Windows 7 laptop. 
> I wrote a text, and when I want to visualize it, I have an error (cannot find
> the rapport.pdf file). So I tried to export my file in pdf, and I have an 
> other error (with ps2pdf, but pdflatex works fine) :"An error happened during
> the execution :python -tt "C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX20/bin/../Resources
> /scripts/clean_dvi.py""rapport.dvi" "tmpfile.out" "(I translate because I use
> the french version, so maybe it's not exactly the same in the english version)

Does this happen if you try View > DVI with the document?  If so, does the LaTeX
log (Document > LaTeX log) show any errors?
>
> I also have an error from the conversion from bmp(or jpg) to eps, but I should
> look on the web to find how to solve this one.

Do you have ImageMagick installed?  LyX relies on ImageMagick to convert among
graphics formats.  It also needs Ghostscript installed (IM uses GS when the
conversions involve PS, EPS or PDF files).

Paul

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 04:03:20 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps
> its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other
> programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.
>  The bug has been known for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way
> of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity?
> Thanks,
> EK

This response is non-responsive to your question, but...

Unity! Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch!

Never has a worse user interface been conceived or deployed. It even 
beats out Windows 7 for lameness.

I have no idea how to fix Unity induced problems in any app, sorry. 

I went back to classic when upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04. If a future 
Ubuntu ever forces me to go Unity, I'll move away from Ubuntu.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Richard Heck]

On 08/11/2011 06:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday, August 11, 2011 04:03:20 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps
>> its appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other
>> programs, such as VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.
>>  The bug has been known for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way
>> of getting around it, short of using gnome instead of Unity?
>> Thanks,
>> EK
> This response is non-responsive to your question, but...
>
> Unity! Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch!
>
> Never has a worse user interface been conceived or deployed. It even 
> beats out Windows 7 for lameness.
>
> I have no idea how to fix Unity induced problems in any app, sorry. 
>
> I went back to classic when upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04. If a future 
> Ubuntu ever forces me to go Unity, I'll move away from Ubuntu.
>
I saw it once, too, and fled. It's probably great for netbooks and
tablets, but why would I want to use such a thing on a desktop machine?
And don't get me started about Gnome 3.0

Richard

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 09:31:47 AM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have tried gnome and KDE, but wanted to try Unity.  The
> developers know of the bug, and it has nothing to do with Lyx-- it
> has to do (apparently) with qt4 and it affects other programs as
> well. EK

If your purpose is evaluating Unity, I'd suggest you try Unity for five 
hours in which you don't need LyX, or else load it on a different 
machine. If you're anything like me, you'll blow it right off the hard 
drive because it's nothing but frustration. Especially horrid is the 
menu structure, in which you have a few commonly used ones, and the 
rest all thrown into one bucket you need to rummage through.

I found that almost everything I did in Unity took minutes instead of 
seconds or half-seconds. It was an attrocious time-sink. If you're 
anything like me, a simple evaluation without LyX will reveal that 
Unity isn't for you.

SteeT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Jacob Bishop]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:03 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com <
ehud.kap...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its
> appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as
> VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known for
> almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short of using
> gnome instead of Unity?
> Thanks,
> EK
> --
>

I do actually use LyX with Unity on Ubuntu 11.04. I don't remember if I had
problems with the menus or not. My install is working great at the moment. I
might have had issues, but if so I unfortunately did not document what I did
to work around it.

If you can explain the behavior a bit more, maybe I can help.

Jacob

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

On 8/11/11 11:25 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
[...]
> I saw it once, too, and fled. It's probably great for netbooks and
> tablets, but why would I want to use such a thing on a desktop machine?
> And don't get me started about Gnome 3.0

I don't even use it on the eeePC

el

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[Jacob Bishop]

Ehud,

I did a quick search, and it seems the bug has been fixed upstream:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/619811

Also, in the meantime, there is a workaround documented here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/134649

Jacob