Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Jerry]

On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Eric Weir wrote:

 
 I've been away from LyX for a while, writing in Vim. I now have a document 
 that I need to cut down to 3,500 words from just under 5,000, put references 
 in, and get into APA format in Word. Normally, I would dump the draft in 
 Scrivener, do this work, then compile for Word. I really want to get 
 completely over into working within Vim/LyX/LaTeX. I'm considering dumping 
 the draft in LyX and working from within it. My deadline---probably not a 
 hard one---is tomorrow.
 
 Having been away from LyX for a while, I'm a little rusty. I don't know if 
 this is even possible. When I click on View other formats, the RTF format 
 is greyed out. If in fact I can compile for or export to RTF, I'd like to 
 give it a try.

I started a new thread that might be of interest to this one (and how many 
before?):

The thread is Anyone convert LyX to ODT or docx using pandoc?

Jerry

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:

 On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to 
 see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it.
 
 For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images,
 you're in luck. latex2rtf does the job - I've been using it for
 several weeks already.

Thanks, Ray. Good to hear. I don't see any of my documents every getting more 
complicated than this. Longer, maybe, but never more complicated. 

Maybe you could give me a little help with latext2rtf? Like, where do I get it? 
[Is it in the lyx pacage?] How do I install it? [Is it installed to lyx or 
independently of it?] How do I invoke it? [From within lyx or the terminal or 
some other way?]

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

- Richard Mourdock

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
install latex2rtf?

On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:

 Reconfigure.
 Reconfigure.
 Reconfigure.
 
 el
 
 On 2012-07-31 20:22 , Eric Weir wrote:
 
 On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 
 Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with
 LyX/LaTeX.
 
 Why is the RTF option under View other formats greyed out?
 
 --
 Eric Weir
 Decatur, GA
 eew...@bellsouth.net
 
 What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, 
 men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. 
 
 - Chief Seattle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
eew...@bellsouth.net

Hatred destroys. Love heals.

- Eknath Easwaran

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:04 AM, Jerry wrote:

 I started a new thread that might be of interest to this one (and how many 
 before?):
 
 The thread is Anyone convert LyX to ODT or docx using pandoc?

Good. Pandoc intrigues me, too. 

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

- Richard Mourdock

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

 On 08/01/2012 08:19 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
 
 On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
 
 For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout.
 
 
 I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon.
 
 Obviously, we have some problem. I'll see if I can sort out what it is.


Still not able to get on the site.

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net

The invincible shield of caring
Is a weapon sent from the sky 
against being dead. 

- Tao Te Ching 67

Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Eric Weir]

Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more descriptive 
subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can. 

--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with closing quotes 
at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try to change that under 
document/settings/language it has no effect. The document was composed in Vim, 
I believe with UTF-8 encoding. 

How can I change the quote style?

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net

Any assurance economists pretend to with 
regard to cause and effect is merely a pose.

- Emanuel Derman

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Ray Rashif]

On 2 August 2012 17:39, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:

 On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:

 On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to 
 see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it.

 For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images,
 you're in luck. latex2rtf does the job - I've been using it for
 several weeks already.

 Thanks, Ray. Good to hear. I don't see any of my documents every getting more 
 complicated than this. Longer, maybe, but never more complicated.

 Maybe you could give me a little help with latext2rtf? Like, where do I get 
 it? [Is it in the lyx pacage?] How do I install it? [Is it installed to lyx 
 or independently of it?] How do I invoke it? [From within lyx or the terminal 
 or some other way?]

Hi Eric you have been given the link to latex2rtf a few times. There
is no mac binary to be seen so probably that's the reason why you're
confused. You have to compile it on your mac, or find a binary [1].

[1] http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Developer-Tools/latex2rtf.shtml


--
GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:

 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?

I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
installed.

Liviu

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir wrote:


Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more 
descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can.


--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with closing 
quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try to change 
that under document/settings/language it has no effect. The document 
was composed in Vim, I believe with UTF-8 encoding.


How can I change the quote style?


Can you post a small example file?

Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Ray Rashif]

On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:

 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?

 I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
 not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
 the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
 Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
 installed.

If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
download XCode.

Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make  sudo make
install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.

[1] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Caveat: I'm not a Mac user.


--
GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Web Server Issues

[Richard Heck]

I am hopeful that the issues with the web server have finally been 
resolved. It appears that trac was getting overwhelmed by the googlebot, 
so I've put a robots.txt file into the root of the relevant directory, 
and things look to be a lot more stable now. I'm still monitoring the 
situation. Please let me know if you see any problems and, if you do, 
please do so immediately, noting the exact time the server became 
unresponsive. This will help us pinpoint what requests are causing the 
problem.


Richard

LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

[John Kane]

A couple of months ago a power surge fried my laptop. I now have a 
new laptop with a dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 setup.   Lyx 2.0.3, 
Firefox 14.01 with  Lyz 2.1.4  Zotero 3.0.8 .  


Since then I have not been doing anything with LyX and just noticed that I 
cannot sent citations from Zotero to Lyx.  


I have tried setting the path using:
ubuntu
/home/john/lyx/.lyxpipe
/home/john/.lyxpipe

Windows
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe

I am very new to Linux and thought my path might be wrong but the 
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe has worked for me n previous 1.6.7 and 2.x.x in 
Windows.  


Error message starts out as:


Exception ...component returned failure code 0x8052001 (Ubuntu and either 
same 
or similar under windows and continued on to say Could not contact 
server at \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.

Just as a precaution I have done a reconfigure and rebooted LyX after each path 
change in Ubuntu and Windows.

Any suggestions on where I'm going wrong?

I should point out that I don't seem to be having any problem with 
Openoffice.org 3.0.3 under Windows or with LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 with 
Zotero.

Thanks.

Re: LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 12:20 PM, John Kane wrote:
A couple of months ago a power surge fried my laptop. I now have a new 
laptop with a dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 setup.   Lyx 2.0.3, 
Firefox 14.01 with  Lyz 2.1.4  Zotero 3.0.8 .


Since then I have not been doing anything with LyX and just noticed 
that I cannot sent citations from Zotero to Lyx.


I have tried setting the path using:
ubuntu
/home/john/lyx/.lyxpipe
/home/john/.lyxpipe

Windows
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe

I am very new to Linux and thought my path might be wrong but the 
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe has worked for me n previous 1.6.7 and 2.x.x in Windows.


Error message starts out as:

Exception ...component returned failure code 0x8052001 (Ubuntu and 
either same or similar under windows and continued on to say Could 
not contact server at \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.


Just as a precaution I have done a reconfigure and rebooted LyX after 
each path change in Ubuntu and Windows.


Any suggestions on where I'm going wrong?


Did you set the lyxpipe location in LyX itself?

Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:

 On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 
 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?
 
 I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
 not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
 the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
 Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
 installed.
 
 If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
 install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
 download XCode.
 
 Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
 manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
 unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make  sudo make
 install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
 just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.

Thanks, Ray---and Liviu, too. Sorry, if I was given the link to latex2rtf I 
didn't realize It. Probably because I was assuming it was a script somewhere in 
the lyx package, or maybe in my tex/latex install, and that I just needed 
either to get it recognize by lyx or learn how to run it from the terminal. 

I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
till the weekend.

Thanks again,
--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

- Richard Mourdock

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
 instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
 till the weekend.

In the mean time, you might have some luck by exporting to LyXHTML and
importing into LibO, or by exporting to HTML after installing eLyXer
(link provided previously, or simply search on Google) and
reconfiguring LyX.

Liviu

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
  

  
  
On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir
  wrote:


  
  
  Sincemy original postgot no response, I decided to try a
more descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you
can.
  
  
  --
  

  I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing
with closing quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote.
When try to change that under document/settings/language it has
no effect. The document was composed in Vim, I believe with
UTF-8 encoding.
  
  
  How can I change the quote style?
  

Can you post a small example file?Thanks Richard,I'm guessing you wanted the lyx file. The is the document I'm working on. It's not very big. I've italicized the first occurence of a quote. It's on the first page.
--Eric Weir"With an ounce of willingness, everything can change."- Kim

advancing-validity-review-3.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
 instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably 
 not till the weekend.
 
 In the mean time, you might have some luck by exporting to LyXHTML and
 importing into LibO, or by exporting to HTML after installing eLyXer
 (link provided previously, or simply search on Google) and
 reconfiguring LyX.

Thanks, Liviu. I downloaded LibO yesterday. I tried opening the xhtml file and 
got nothing. I didn't find an appropriate encoding that could be specified 
before opening the file. I'll check out the eLyXer option.

While I'm at it, what is the view rich text format in the view other 
formats button for? Does it become available when latex2rtf is installed?

Last, I believe you mentioned to me that someone was working on package to add 
project management to lyx's capabilities. As I recall in response to my 
mentioning Scrivener. Is that still in the works?

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net
Decatur, GA  USA

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. 
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.  

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 02:30 PM, Eric Weir wrote:


On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Richard Heck wrote:


On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir wrote:


Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more 
descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can.


--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with 
closing quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try 
to change that under document/settings/language it has no effect. 
The document was composed in Vim, I believe with UTF-8 encoding.


How can I change the quote style?


Can you post a small example file?


Thanks Richard,

I'm guessing you wanted the lyx file. The is the document I'm working 
on. It's not very big. I've italicized the first occurence of a quote. 
It's on the first page.


The problem here is that these are entered into the file as double-quote 
characters, whereas they should be in there as LyX's quote inset, which 
will actually appear on screen as opening and closing quotes. If you 
type a double-quote character (i.e., Shift-single quote, on a US 
keyboard, anyway), do you get that character, or do you get something 
else? I get an opening or closing quote, on screen, depending upon the 
context.


Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Stephan Witt]

Am 02.08.2012 um 19:59 schrieb Eric Weir:

 
 On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
 
 On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 
 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?
 
 I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
 not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
 the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
 Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
 installed.
 
 If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
 install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
 download XCode.
 
 Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
 manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
 unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make  sudo make
 install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
 just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.
 
 Thanks, Ray---and Liviu, too. Sorry, if I was given the link to latex2rtf I 
 didn't realize It. Probably because I was assuming it was a script somewhere 
 in the lyx package, or maybe in my tex/latex install, and that I just needed 
 either to get it recognize by lyx or learn how to run it from the terminal. 
 
 I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
 instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
 till the weekend.

You may consider to use macports. There is latex2rtf available:

 terminal of Mac OS X ===
macbook-pro$ port search latex2rtf
latex2rtf @2.1.0 (tex)
Translator program intended to translate a LaTeX document into RTF
macbook-pro$ latex2rtf -v
latex2rtf 2.1.0 (released Mar  5 2010)

Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by Prahl, Lehner, Granzer, Dorner, Polzer, Trisko, Schlatterbeck.
macbook-pro$ 
 terminal of Mac OS X ===

Regards,
Stephan

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 Thanks, Liviu. I downloaded LibO yesterday. I tried opening the xhtml file 
 and got nothing.

That's Richard's field of expertise.


 While I'm at it, what is the view rich text format in the view other 
 formats button for? Does it become available when latex2rtf is installed?

I think so. For a more reliable indicator of what works, check the
View  View (Other) menu item. But as far as RTF is concerned, the
better option is File  Export.


 Last, I believe you mentioned to me that someone was working on package to 
 add project management to lyx's capabilities. As I recall in response to my 
 mentioning Scrivener. Is that still in the works?

That's a question for Rob (cc'ed).

Liviu

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

make checkmake install

el

On 2012-08-02 10:41 , Eric Weir wrote:
 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how
to install latex2rtf?

 On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:

 Reconfigure.
 Reconfigure.
 Reconfigure.

 el

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Jerry]

On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Eric Weir wrote:

 
 I've been away from LyX for a while, writing in Vim. I now have a document 
 that I need to cut down to 3,500 words from just under 5,000, put references 
 in, and get into APA format in Word. Normally, I would dump the draft in 
 Scrivener, do this work, then compile for Word. I really want to get 
 completely over into working within Vim/LyX/LaTeX. I'm considering dumping 
 the draft in LyX and working from within it. My deadline---probably not a 
 hard one---is tomorrow.
 
 Having been away from LyX for a while, I'm a little rusty. I don't know if 
 this is even possible. When I click on View other formats, the RTF format 
 is greyed out. If in fact I can compile for or export to RTF, I'd like to 
 give it a try.

I started a new thread that might be of interest to this one (and how many 
before?):

The thread is Anyone convert LyX to ODT or docx using pandoc?

Jerry

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:

 On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to 
 see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it.
 
 For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images,
 you're in luck. latex2rtf does the job - I've been using it for
 several weeks already.

Thanks, Ray. Good to hear. I don't see any of my documents every getting more 
complicated than this. Longer, maybe, but never more complicated. 

Maybe you could give me a little help with latext2rtf? Like, where do I get it? 
[Is it in the lyx pacage?] How do I install it? [Is it installed to lyx or 
independently of it?] How do I invoke it? [From within lyx or the terminal or 
some other way?]

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

- Richard Mourdock

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
install latex2rtf?

On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:

 Reconfigure.
 Reconfigure.
 Reconfigure.
 
 el
 
 On 2012-07-31 20:22 , Eric Weir wrote:
 
 On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 
 Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with
 LyX/LaTeX.
 
 Why is the RTF option under View other formats greyed out?
 
 --
 Eric Weir
 Decatur, GA
 eew...@bellsouth.net
 
 What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, 
 men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. 
 
 - Chief Seattle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
eew...@bellsouth.net

Hatred destroys. Love heals.

- Eknath Easwaran

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:04 AM, Jerry wrote:

 I started a new thread that might be of interest to this one (and how many 
 before?):
 
 The thread is Anyone convert LyX to ODT or docx using pandoc?

Good. Pandoc intrigues me, too. 

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

- Richard Mourdock

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

 On 08/01/2012 08:19 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
 
 On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
 
 For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout.
 
 
 I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon.
 
 Obviously, we have some problem. I'll see if I can sort out what it is.


Still not able to get on the site.

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net

The invincible shield of caring
Is a weapon sent from the sky 
against being dead. 

- Tao Te Ching 67

Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Eric Weir]

Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more descriptive 
subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can. 

--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with closing quotes 
at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try to change that under 
document/settings/language it has no effect. The document was composed in Vim, 
I believe with UTF-8 encoding. 

How can I change the quote style?

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net

Any assurance economists pretend to with 
regard to cause and effect is merely a pose.

- Emanuel Derman

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Ray Rashif]

On 2 August 2012 17:39, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:

 On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:

 On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to 
 see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it.

 For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images,
 you're in luck. latex2rtf does the job - I've been using it for
 several weeks already.

 Thanks, Ray. Good to hear. I don't see any of my documents every getting more 
 complicated than this. Longer, maybe, but never more complicated.

 Maybe you could give me a little help with latext2rtf? Like, where do I get 
 it? [Is it in the lyx pacage?] How do I install it? [Is it installed to lyx 
 or independently of it?] How do I invoke it? [From within lyx or the terminal 
 or some other way?]

Hi Eric you have been given the link to latex2rtf a few times. There
is no mac binary to be seen so probably that's the reason why you're
confused. You have to compile it on your mac, or find a binary [1].

[1] http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Developer-Tools/latex2rtf.shtml


--
GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:

 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?

I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
installed.

Liviu

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir wrote:


Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more 
descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can.


--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with closing 
quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try to change 
that under document/settings/language it has no effect. The document 
was composed in Vim, I believe with UTF-8 encoding.


How can I change the quote style?


Can you post a small example file?

Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Ray Rashif]

On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:

 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?

 I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
 not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
 the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
 Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
 installed.

If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
download XCode.

Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make  sudo make
install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.

[1] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Caveat: I'm not a Mac user.


--
GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Web Server Issues

[Richard Heck]

I am hopeful that the issues with the web server have finally been 
resolved. It appears that trac was getting overwhelmed by the googlebot, 
so I've put a robots.txt file into the root of the relevant directory, 
and things look to be a lot more stable now. I'm still monitoring the 
situation. Please let me know if you see any problems and, if you do, 
please do so immediately, noting the exact time the server became 
unresponsive. This will help us pinpoint what requests are causing the 
problem.


Richard

LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

[John Kane]

A couple of months ago a power surge fried my laptop. I now have a 
new laptop with a dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 setup.   Lyx 2.0.3, 
Firefox 14.01 with  Lyz 2.1.4  Zotero 3.0.8 .  


Since then I have not been doing anything with LyX and just noticed that I 
cannot sent citations from Zotero to Lyx.  


I have tried setting the path using:
ubuntu
/home/john/lyx/.lyxpipe
/home/john/.lyxpipe

Windows
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe

I am very new to Linux and thought my path might be wrong but the 
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe has worked for me n previous 1.6.7 and 2.x.x in 
Windows.  


Error message starts out as:


Exception ...component returned failure code 0x8052001 (Ubuntu and either 
same 
or similar under windows and continued on to say Could not contact 
server at \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.

Just as a precaution I have done a reconfigure and rebooted LyX after each path 
change in Ubuntu and Windows.

Any suggestions on where I'm going wrong?

I should point out that I don't seem to be having any problem with 
Openoffice.org 3.0.3 under Windows or with LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 with 
Zotero.

Thanks.

Re: LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 12:20 PM, John Kane wrote:
A couple of months ago a power surge fried my laptop. I now have a new 
laptop with a dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 setup.   Lyx 2.0.3, 
Firefox 14.01 with  Lyz 2.1.4  Zotero 3.0.8 .


Since then I have not been doing anything with LyX and just noticed 
that I cannot sent citations from Zotero to Lyx.


I have tried setting the path using:
ubuntu
/home/john/lyx/.lyxpipe
/home/john/.lyxpipe

Windows
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe

I am very new to Linux and thought my path might be wrong but the 
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe has worked for me n previous 1.6.7 and 2.x.x in Windows.


Error message starts out as:

Exception ...component returned failure code 0x8052001 (Ubuntu and 
either same or similar under windows and continued on to say Could 
not contact server at \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.


Just as a precaution I have done a reconfigure and rebooted LyX after 
each path change in Ubuntu and Windows.


Any suggestions on where I'm going wrong?


Did you set the lyxpipe location in LyX itself?

Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:

 On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 
 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?
 
 I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
 not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
 the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
 Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
 installed.
 
 If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
 install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
 download XCode.
 
 Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
 manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
 unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make  sudo make
 install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
 just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.

Thanks, Ray---and Liviu, too. Sorry, if I was given the link to latex2rtf I 
didn't realize It. Probably because I was assuming it was a script somewhere in 
the lyx package, or maybe in my tex/latex install, and that I just needed 
either to get it recognize by lyx or learn how to run it from the terminal. 

I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
till the weekend.

Thanks again,
--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

- Richard Mourdock

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
 instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
 till the weekend.

In the mean time, you might have some luck by exporting to LyXHTML and
importing into LibO, or by exporting to HTML after installing eLyXer
(link provided previously, or simply search on Google) and
reconfiguring LyX.

Liviu

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
  

  
  
On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir
  wrote:


  
  
  Sincemy original postgot no response, I decided to try a
more descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you
can.
  
  
  --
  

  I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing
with closing quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote.
When try to change that under document/settings/language it has
no effect. The document was composed in Vim, I believe with
UTF-8 encoding.
  
  
  How can I change the quote style?
  

Can you post a small example file?Thanks Richard,I'm guessing you wanted the lyx file. The is the document I'm working on. It's not very big. I've italicized the first occurence of a quote. It's on the first page.
--Eric Weir"With an ounce of willingness, everything can change."- Kim

advancing-validity-review-3.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
 instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably 
 not till the weekend.
 
 In the mean time, you might have some luck by exporting to LyXHTML and
 importing into LibO, or by exporting to HTML after installing eLyXer
 (link provided previously, or simply search on Google) and
 reconfiguring LyX.

Thanks, Liviu. I downloaded LibO yesterday. I tried opening the xhtml file and 
got nothing. I didn't find an appropriate encoding that could be specified 
before opening the file. I'll check out the eLyXer option.

While I'm at it, what is the view rich text format in the view other 
formats button for? Does it become available when latex2rtf is installed?

Last, I believe you mentioned to me that someone was working on package to add 
project management to lyx's capabilities. As I recall in response to my 
mentioning Scrivener. Is that still in the works?

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net
Decatur, GA  USA

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. 
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.  

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 02:30 PM, Eric Weir wrote:


On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Richard Heck wrote:


On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir wrote:


Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more 
descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can.


--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with 
closing quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try 
to change that under document/settings/language it has no effect. 
The document was composed in Vim, I believe with UTF-8 encoding.


How can I change the quote style?


Can you post a small example file?


Thanks Richard,

I'm guessing you wanted the lyx file. The is the document I'm working 
on. It's not very big. I've italicized the first occurence of a quote. 
It's on the first page.


The problem here is that these are entered into the file as double-quote 
characters, whereas they should be in there as LyX's quote inset, which 
will actually appear on screen as opening and closing quotes. If you 
type a double-quote character (i.e., Shift-single quote, on a US 
keyboard, anyway), do you get that character, or do you get something 
else? I get an opening or closing quote, on screen, depending upon the 
context.


Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Stephan Witt]

Am 02.08.2012 um 19:59 schrieb Eric Weir:

 
 On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
 
 On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 
 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?
 
 I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
 not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
 the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
 Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
 installed.
 
 If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
 install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
 download XCode.
 
 Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
 manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
 unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make  sudo make
 install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
 just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.
 
 Thanks, Ray---and Liviu, too. Sorry, if I was given the link to latex2rtf I 
 didn't realize It. Probably because I was assuming it was a script somewhere 
 in the lyx package, or maybe in my tex/latex install, and that I just needed 
 either to get it recognize by lyx or learn how to run it from the terminal. 
 
 I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
 instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
 till the weekend.

You may consider to use macports. There is latex2rtf available:

 terminal of Mac OS X ===
macbook-pro$ port search latex2rtf
latex2rtf @2.1.0 (tex)
Translator program intended to translate a LaTeX document into RTF
macbook-pro$ latex2rtf -v
latex2rtf 2.1.0 (released Mar  5 2010)

Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by Prahl, Lehner, Granzer, Dorner, Polzer, Trisko, Schlatterbeck.
macbook-pro$ 
 terminal of Mac OS X ===

Regards,
Stephan

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 Thanks, Liviu. I downloaded LibO yesterday. I tried opening the xhtml file 
 and got nothing.

That's Richard's field of expertise.


 While I'm at it, what is the view rich text format in the view other 
 formats button for? Does it become available when latex2rtf is installed?

I think so. For a more reliable indicator of what works, check the
View  View (Other) menu item. But as far as RTF is concerned, the
better option is File  Export.


 Last, I believe you mentioned to me that someone was working on package to 
 add project management to lyx's capabilities. As I recall in response to my 
 mentioning Scrivener. Is that still in the works?

That's a question for Rob (cc'ed).

Liviu

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

make checkmake install

el

On 2012-08-02 10:41 , Eric Weir wrote:
 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how
to install latex2rtf?

 On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:

 Reconfigure.
 Reconfigure.
 Reconfigure.

 el

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Jerry]

On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Eric Weir wrote:

> 
> I've been away from LyX for a while, writing in Vim. I now have a document 
> that I need to cut down to 3,500 words from just under 5,000, put references 
> in, and get into APA format in Word. Normally, I would dump the draft in 
> Scrivener, do this work, then compile for Word. I really want to get 
> completely over into working within Vim/LyX/LaTeX. I'm considering dumping 
> the draft in LyX and working from within it. My deadline---probably not a 
> hard one---is tomorrow.
> 
> Having been away from LyX for a while, I'm a little rusty. I don't know if 
> this is even possible. When I click on "View other formats," the RTF format 
> is greyed out. If in fact I can compile for or export to RTF, I'd like to 
> give it a try.

I started a new thread that might be of interest to this one (and how many 
before?):

The thread is "Anyone convert LyX to ODT or docx using pandoc?"

Jerry

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:

> On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir  wrote:
>> My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to 
>> see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it.
> 
> For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images,
> you're in luck. latex2rtf does the job - I've been using it for
> several weeks already.

Thanks, Ray. Good to hear. I don't see any of my documents every getting more 
complicated than this. Longer, maybe, but never more complicated. 

Maybe you could give me a little help with latext2rtf? Like, where do I get it? 
[Is it in the lyx pacage?] How do I install it? [Is it installed to lyx or 
independently of it?] How do I invoke it? [From within lyx or the terminal or 
some other way?]

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

"I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view."

- Richard Mourdock

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
install latex2rtf?

On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:

> Reconfigure.
> Reconfigure.
> Reconfigure.
> 
> el
> 
> On 2012-07-31 20:22 , Eric Weir wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>> 
>>> Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with
>>> LyX/LaTeX.
>> 
>> Why is the RTF option under "View other formats" greyed out?
>> 
>> --
>> Eric Weir
>> Decatur, GA
>> eew...@bellsouth.net
>> 
>> "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, 
>> men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." 
>> 
>> - Chief Seattle
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
eew...@bellsouth.net

"Hatred destroys. Love heals."

- Eknath Easwaran

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:04 AM, Jerry wrote:

> I started a new thread that might be of interest to this one (and how many 
> before?):
> 
> The thread is "Anyone convert LyX to ODT or docx using pandoc?"

Good. Pandoc intrigues me, too. 

--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

"I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view."

- Richard Mourdock

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

> On 08/01/2012 08:19 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> 
>>> For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout.
>> 
>> 
>> I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon.
>> 
> Obviously, we have some problem. I'll see if I can sort out what it is.


Still not able to get on the site.

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net

"The invincible shield of caring
Is a weapon sent from the sky 
against being dead." 

- Tao Te Ching 67

Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Eric Weir]

Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more descriptive 
subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can. 

--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with closing quotes 
at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try to change that under 
document/settings/language it has no effect. The document was composed in Vim, 
I believe with UTF-8 encoding. 

How can I change the quote style?

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net

"Any assurance economists pretend to with 
regard to cause and effect is merely a pose."

- Emanuel Derman

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Ray Rashif]

On 2 August 2012 17:39, Eric Weir  wrote:
>
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
>
>> On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir  wrote:
>>> My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to 
>>> see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it.
>>
>> For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images,
>> you're in luck. latex2rtf does the job - I've been using it for
>> several weeks already.
>
> Thanks, Ray. Good to hear. I don't see any of my documents every getting more 
> complicated than this. Longer, maybe, but never more complicated.
>
> Maybe you could give me a little help with latext2rtf? Like, where do I get 
> it? [Is it in the lyx pacage?] How do I install it? [Is it installed to lyx 
> or independently of it?] How do I invoke it? [From within lyx or the terminal 
> or some other way?]

Hi Eric you have been given the link to latex2rtf a few times. There
is no mac binary to be seen so probably that's the reason why you're
confused. You have to compile it on your mac, or find a binary [1].

[1] http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Developer-Tools/latex2rtf.shtml


--
GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir  wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
> install latex2rtf?
>
I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
installed.

Liviu

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir wrote:


Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more 
descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can.


--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with closing 
quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try to change 
that under document/settings/language it has no effect. The document 
was composed in Vim, I believe with UTF-8 encoding.


How can I change the quote style?


Can you post a small example file?

Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Ray Rashif]

On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic  wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir  wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
>> install latex2rtf?
>>
> I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
> not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
> the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
> Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
> installed.

If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
download XCode.

Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make && sudo make
install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.

[1] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Caveat: I'm not a Mac user.


--
GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Web Server Issues

[Richard Heck]

I am hopeful that the issues with the web server have finally been 
resolved. It appears that trac was getting overwhelmed by the googlebot, 
so I've put a robots.txt file into the root of the relevant directory, 
and things look to be a lot more stable now. I'm still monitoring the 
situation. Please let me know if you see any problems and, if you do, 
please do so immediately, noting the exact time the server became 
unresponsive. This will help us pinpoint what requests are causing the 
problem.


Richard

LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

[John Kane]

A couple of months ago a power surge fried my laptop. I now have a 
new laptop with a dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 setup.   Lyx 2.0.3, 
Firefox 14.01 with  Lyz 2.1.4 & Zotero 3.0.8 .  


Since then I have not been doing anything with LyX and just noticed that I 
cannot sent citations from Zotero to Lyx.  


I have tried setting the path using:
ubuntu
/home/john/lyx/.lyxpipe
/home/john/.lyxpipe

Windows
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe

I am very new to Linux and thought my path might be wrong but the 
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe has worked for me n previous 1.6.7 and 2.x.x in 
Windows.  


Error message starts out as:


"Exception ...component returned failure code 0x8052001" (Ubuntu and either 
same 
or similar under windows and continued on to say "Could not contact 
server at \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.

Just as a precaution I have done a reconfigure and rebooted LyX after each path 
change in Ubuntu and Windows.

Any suggestions on where I'm going wrong?

I should point out that I don't seem to be having any problem with 
Openoffice.org 3.0.3 under Windows or with LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 with 
Zotero.

Thanks.

Re: LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 12:20 PM, John Kane wrote:
A couple of months ago a power surge fried my laptop. I now have a new 
laptop with a dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 setup.   Lyx 2.0.3, 
Firefox 14.01 with  Lyz 2.1.4 & Zotero 3.0.8 .


Since then I have not been doing anything with LyX and just noticed 
that I cannot sent citations from Zotero to Lyx.


I have tried setting the path using:
ubuntu
/home/john/lyx/.lyxpipe
/home/john/.lyxpipe

Windows
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe

I am very new to Linux and thought my path might be wrong but the 
\\.\pipe\lyxpipe has worked for me n previous 1.6.7 and 2.x.x in Windows.


Error message starts out as:

"Exception ...component returned failure code 0x8052001" (Ubuntu and 
either same or similar under windows and continued on to say "Could 
not contact server at \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.


Just as a precaution I have done a reconfigure and rebooted LyX after 
each path change in Ubuntu and Windows.


Any suggestions on where I'm going wrong?


Did you set the lyxpipe location in LyX itself?

Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:

> On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic  wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
>>> install latex2rtf?
>>> 
>> I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
>> not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
>> the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
>> Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
>> installed.
> 
> If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
> install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
> download XCode.
> 
> Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
> manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
> unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make && sudo make
> install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
> just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.

Thanks, Ray---and Liviu, too. Sorry, if I was given the link to latex2rtf I 
didn't realize It. Probably because I was assuming it was a script somewhere in 
the lyx package, or maybe in my tex/latex install, and that I just needed 
either to get it recognize by lyx or learn how to run it from the terminal. 

I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
till the weekend.

Thanks again,
--
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

"I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of 
the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view."

- Richard Mourdock

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Eric Weir  wrote:
> I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
> instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
> till the weekend.
>
In the mean time, you might have some luck by exporting to LyXHTML and
importing into LibO, or by exporting to HTML after installing eLyXer
(link provided previously, or simply search on Google) and
reconfiguring LyX.

Liviu

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
  

  
  
On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir
  wrote:


  
  
  Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a
more descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you
can. 
  
  
  --
  

  I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing
with closing quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote.
When try to change that under document/settings/language it has
no effect. The document was composed in Vim, I believe with
UTF-8 encoding. 
  
  
  How can I change the quote style?
  

Can you post a small example file?Thanks Richard,I'm guessing you wanted the lyx file. The is the document I'm working on. It's not very big. I've italicized the first occurence of a quote. It's on the first page.
--Eric Weir"With an ounce of willingness, everything can change."- Kim

advancing-validity-review-3.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Eric Weir]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Eric Weir  wrote:
>> I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
>> instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably 
>> not till the weekend.
>> 
> In the mean time, you might have some luck by exporting to LyXHTML and
> importing into LibO, or by exporting to HTML after installing eLyXer
> (link provided previously, or simply search on Google) and
> reconfiguring LyX.

Thanks, Liviu. I downloaded LibO yesterday. I tried opening the xhtml file and 
got nothing. I didn't find an appropriate encoding that could be specified 
before opening the file. I'll check out the eLyXer option.

While I'm at it, what is the "view rich text format" in the "view other 
formats" button for? Does it become available when latex2rtf is installed?

Last, I believe you mentioned to me that someone was working on package to add 
project management to lyx's capabilities. As I recall in response to my 
mentioning Scrivener. Is that still in the works?

--
Eric Weir
eew...@bellsouth.net
Decatur, GA  USA

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. 
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. " 

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Re: Quotes begin with end quote. Why? What can I do about it?

[Richard Heck]

On 08/02/2012 02:30 PM, Eric Weir wrote:


On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Richard Heck wrote:


On 08/02/2012 09:09 AM, Eric Weir wrote:


Since my original post got no response, I decided to try a more 
descriptive subject heading. Thanks for helping if you can.


--

I am using the memoir article class. Quotes are appearing with 
closing quotes at the beginning and the end of the quote. When try 
to change that under document/settings/language it has no effect. 
The document was composed in Vim, I believe with UTF-8 encoding.


How can I change the quote style?


Can you post a small example file?


Thanks Richard,

I'm guessing you wanted the lyx file. The is the document I'm working 
on. It's not very big. I've italicized the first occurence of a quote. 
It's on the first page.


The problem here is that these are entered into the file as double-quote 
characters, whereas they should be in there as LyX's quote inset, which 
will actually appear on screen as opening and closing quotes. If you 
type a double-quote character (i.e., Shift-single quote, on a US 
keyboard, anyway), do you get that character, or do you get something 
else? I get an opening or closing quote, on screen, depending upon the 
context.


Richard

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Stephan Witt]

Am 02.08.2012 um 19:59 schrieb Eric Weir:

> 
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
> 
>> On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic  wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir  wrote:
 
 Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to 
 install latex2rtf?
 
>>> I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're
>>> not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile
>>> the converter from source (likely a big headache in itself), or use
>>> Windows or Linux to proceed: On both latex2rtf can be easily
>>> installed.
>> 
>> If the softpedia binary doesn't cut it, set up Homebrew [1] and
>> install the latex2rtf package/formula. You will probably also need to
>> download XCode.
>> 
>> Otherwise you can download XCode alone and just build latex2rtf
>> manually. The make file should require no changes. Just go into the
>> unzipped folder of the unix source archive and type 'make && sudo make
>> install' from terminal. Homebrew (and similarly MacPorts and Fink)
>> just automates all this stuff for you on a systemwide scale.
> 
> Thanks, Ray---and Liviu, too. Sorry, if I was given the link to latex2rtf I 
> didn't realize It. Probably because I was assuming it was a script somewhere 
> in the lyx package, or maybe in my tex/latex install, and that I just needed 
> either to get it recognize by lyx or learn how to run it from the terminal. 
> 
> I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear 
> instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not 
> till the weekend.

You may consider to use macports. There is latex2rtf available:

 terminal of Mac OS X ===
macbook-pro$ port search latex2rtf
latex2rtf @2.1.0 (tex)
Translator program intended to translate a LaTeX document into RTF
macbook-pro$ latex2rtf -v
latex2rtf 2.1.0 (released Mar  5 2010)

Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by Prahl, Lehner, Granzer, Dorner, Polzer, Trisko, Schlatterbeck.
macbook-pro$ 
 terminal of Mac OS X ===

Regards,
Stephan

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Eric Weir  wrote:
> Thanks, Liviu. I downloaded LibO yesterday. I tried opening the xhtml file 
> and got nothing.
>
That's Richard's field of expertise.


> While I'm at it, what is the "view rich text format" in the "view other 
> formats" button for? Does it become available when latex2rtf is installed?
>
I think so. For a more reliable indicator of what works, check the
View > View (Other) menu item. But as far as RTF is concerned, the
better option is File > Export.


> Last, I believe you mentioned to me that someone was working on package to 
> add project management to lyx's capabilities. As I recall in response to my 
> mentioning Scrivener. Is that still in the works?
>
That's a question for Rob (cc'ed).

Liviu

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

make check& install

el

On 2012-08-02 10:41 , Eric Weir wrote:>
> Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how
to install latex2rtf?
>
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>
>> Reconfigure.
>> Reconfigure.
>> Reconfigure.
>>
>> el