Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.1.1

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I have installed the ubuntu trusty binaries for the 2.1.1 LyX release on 
my kubuntu Linux using the instructions given including apt-get update.

How do I now get the new LyX? Typing lyx & gives me my old Lyx1.06.
Wolfgang

Am 17.07.2014 07:55, schrieb Liviu Andronic:

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:

Public release of LyX version 2.1.1
===


Ubuntu binaries are now available at the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/ubuntu/release


Regards,
Liviu



We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.1.  This is the first
maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
released under a Free and Open Source Software license.

You can download LyX 2.1.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.

LyX 2.1.1 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We strongly encourage
all LyX users to upgrade to this version.

Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is
over-
written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".

Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.

To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.

If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.1.1, either e-mail the LyX
developers' mailing list (lyx-devel  lists.lyx.org) or open a bug
report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.

If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX
users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).

We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.1.1.

The LyX team.
http://www.lyx.org

What's new
==

** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- We now flush the output stream more frequently, as a temporary measure
   to help us gather information about the crash mentioned above.

- To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
   has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
   attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
   Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Updated Chinese (simplified), French, Interlingua, Japanese, Spanish,
   Swedish and Ukrainian user interface localizations.

- updated French translation of the User Guide and the Math manual.


** Bug fixes:
*

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix assertion when selecting in document with bi-directional text (bug
9142).

- Fix assertion when accepting change (bug 9145).

- Fix LaTeX error with alphabetic delimiters in inline Listings (part of bug
   8985).

- Fix output of deleted citations in change tracking mode (bug 8806).

- Fix handling of multiple bibliography styles when using sectioned
bibliography
   (bug 9060).

- Fix problem converting layout files and modules when Flex inset names are
   quoted.

- Honor the NextNoIndent layout parameter also in the exported output.

- Output arguments required by arguments with DefaultArg or PresetArg (bug
9128).

- Fix export from command line when included files have names with non-ascii
   characters.


* LYX2LYX

We have fixed several significant issues involving conversion of 2.0 format
into
2.1 format, and conversely. This mostly affects the new argument insets and,
in
particular, beamer documents. These are detailed below.

- Fix conversion of beamer block titles ending with non-ERT insets to 2.1
format.

- Fix conversion of beamer blocks with preceding or trailing blanks.

- Add \justification parameter when converting to 2.1 format (avoids
   warning when converting back to 2.0 format).

- Fix conversion of argument insets from 2.1 to 2.0 format.

- Fix "use math package" settings conversion from 2.1 to 2.0 format.

- Fix "use math package" settings conversion from 2.0 to 2.1 format (bug
9069).

- Fix table cell rotation conversion from 2.1 to 2.0 format.

- Fix import of some argument insets.

- Fix some nesting problems in reversion of some beamer environments to 2.0
format

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.1.1

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:
>
> Public release of LyX version 2.1.1
> ===
>
Ubuntu binaries are now available at the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/ubuntu/release


Regards,
Liviu


> We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.1.  This is the first
> maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
>
> LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
> on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
> released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
>
> You can download LyX 2.1.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
>
> LyX 2.1.1 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
> even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
> a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We strongly encourage
> all LyX users to upgrade to this version.
>
> Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
> resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
> to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is
> over-
> written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
> crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
> Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
>
> Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
> known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
> file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
>
> To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
> has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
> attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
> Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
>
> If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.1.1, either e-mail the LyX
> developers' mailing list (lyx-devel  lists.lyx.org) or open a bug
> report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.
>
> If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
> documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
> http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX
> users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
>
> We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.1.1.
>
> The LyX team.
> http://www.lyx.org
>
> What's new
> ==
>
> ** Updates:
> ***
>
> * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
>
> - We now flush the output stream more frequently, as a temporary measure
>   to help us gather information about the crash mentioned above.
>
> - To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
>   has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
>   attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
>   Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
>
>
> * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
>
> - Updated Chinese (simplified), French, Interlingua, Japanese, Spanish,
>   Swedish and Ukrainian user interface localizations.
>
> - updated French translation of the User Guide and the Math manual.
>
>
> ** Bug fixes:
> *
>
> * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
>
> - Fix assertion when selecting in document with bi-directional text (bug
> 9142).
>
> - Fix assertion when accepting change (bug 9145).
>
> - Fix LaTeX error with alphabetic delimiters in inline Listings (part of bug
>   8985).
>
> - Fix output of deleted citations in change tracking mode (bug 8806).
>
> - Fix handling of multiple bibliography styles when using sectioned
> bibliography
>   (bug 9060).
>
> - Fix problem converting layout files and modules when Flex inset names are
>   quoted.
>
> - Honor the NextNoIndent layout parameter also in the exported output.
>
> - Output arguments required by arguments with DefaultArg or PresetArg (bug
> 9128).
>
> - Fix export from command line when included files have names with non-ascii
>   characters.
>
>
> * LYX2LYX
>
> We have fixed several significant issues involving conversion of 2.0 format
> into
> 2.1 format, and conversely. This mostly affects the new argument insets and,
> in
> particular, beamer documents. These are detailed below.
>
> - Fix conversion of beamer block titles ending with non-ERT insets to 2.1
> format.
>
> - Fix conversion of beamer blocks with preceding or trailing blanks.
>
> - Add \justification parameter when converting to 2.1 format (avoids
>   warning when converting back to 2.0 format).
>
> - Fix conversion of argument insets from 2.1 to 2.0 format.
>
> - Fix "use math package" settings conversion from 2.1 to 2.0 format.
>
> - Fix "use math package" settings conversion from 2.0 to 2.1 format (bug
> 9069).
>
> - Fix table cell rotation conversion from 2.1 to 2.0 format.
>
> - Fix import of some argument insets.
>
> - Fix some nesting problems in reversion of some beamer environments to 2.0
> format.
>
>
> * USER INTERFACE
>
> - Fix crash when right-clicking

Re: date format

[aparsloe]

On 17/07/2014 2:01 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Will Parsons  wrote:

Will Parsons wrote:

In a document I'm writing, I would like to print the date of the last
edit in the title page.  I've discovered [Insert => Date], which looks
like it might be what I want (does it update when I save the document
again?), but the format is "07/16/14", which is a common format for
North America (which is where I am), but I would prefer a different
format, preferably "14 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
"2014-07-14", but I can't figure out how to adjust this.  Is this
configurable via LyX, or do I have to do some LaTeX magic?

Of course, what I meant was '"16 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
"2014-07-16"', (which I guess illustrates that even *I* find the
format "07/16/14" confusing, used to it though I am...

Hi Will, you can do this with Insert > File > External Material.
It is not intuitive at all (what does a data have to do with inserting
a file?), but it is done that way because it was easy to implement. In
the dialog, you don't have to choose a file. Just change "Template" to
"Date". Note that the implementation of this is just a plain text
file, so if you want to modify it to your preferences, you don't need
to recompile LyX. Take a look at lib/external_templates and the
converter for date. See Help > Customization for more information.

Using LaTeX in ERT is another option and might be more robust in my opinion.

Scott

The LaTeX package datetime offers a wide variety of date (and time) formats.

Andrew

Re: date format

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Will Parsons  wrote:
> Will Parsons wrote:
>> In a document I'm writing, I would like to print the date of the last
>> edit in the title page.  I've discovered [Insert => Date], which looks
>> like it might be what I want (does it update when I save the document
>> again?), but the format is "07/16/14", which is a common format for
>> North America (which is where I am), but I would prefer a different
>> format, preferably "14 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
>> "2014-07-14", but I can't figure out how to adjust this.  Is this
>> configurable via LyX, or do I have to do some LaTeX magic?
>
> Of course, what I meant was '"16 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
> "2014-07-16"', (which I guess illustrates that even *I* find the
> format "07/16/14" confusing, used to it though I am...

Hi Will, you can do this with Insert > File > External Material.
It is not intuitive at all (what does a data have to do with inserting
a file?), but it is done that way because it was easy to implement. In
the dialog, you don't have to choose a file. Just change "Template" to
"Date". Note that the implementation of this is just a plain text
file, so if you want to modify it to your preferences, you don't need
to recompile LyX. Take a look at lib/external_templates and the
converter for date. See Help > Customization for more information.

Using LaTeX in ERT is another option and might be more robust in my opinion.

Scott

Re: date format

[Will Parsons]

Will Parsons wrote:
> In a document I'm writing, I would like to print the date of the last
> edit in the title page.  I've discovered [Insert => Date], which looks
> like it might be what I want (does it update when I save the document
> again?), but the format is "07/16/14", which is a common format for
> North America (which is where I am), but I would prefer a different
> format, preferably "14 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
> "2014-07-14", but I can't figure out how to adjust this.  Is this
> configurable via LyX, or do I have to do some LaTeX magic?

Of course, what I meant was '"16 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
"2014-07-16"', (which I guess illustrates that even *I* find the
format "07/16/14" confusing, used to it though I am...

-- 
Will

date format

[Will Parsons]

In a document I'm writing, I would like to print the date of the last
edit in the title page.  I've discovered [Insert => Date], which looks
like it might be what I want (does it update when I save the document
again?), but the format is "07/16/14", which is a common format for
North America (which is where I am), but I would prefer a different
format, preferably "14 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
"2014-07-14", but I can't figure out how to adjust this.  Is this
configurable via LyX, or do I have to do some LaTeX magic?

-- 
Will

Re: Templates on Mac OS X

[Paola Manzini]

thank you - changing the path in the "Preferences -> Paths -> Document 
templates:" box to

/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/templates
solved the problem for me.

On 16/07/2014 18:25, Stephen Buonopane wrote:

On the Mac installation, they get buried inside of the app package.

Find LyX.app in your applications folder
Right click on it and select "show package contents"
Then go to Contents -> Resources -> templates

On my installation of LyX,
File -> New from Template goes to 
 /Library/ApplicationSupport/LyX/templates

so that may be a more convenient place for the templates to be placed.





On Jul 16, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Julio Rojas wrote:

Thanks, but that is not the problem. The files for the templates are 
not copied to the hard drive at installation time, thus they are 
nowhere to be found when one tries to create a new document.


-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com 


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:49 PM, > wrote:


"Reconfiguration" is under "Tools" menu.



Dear all,

Is anybody aware that templates are not installed when
installing Lyx on OS X? Is there something I am missing? I
remember that on previous versions one should run some
configuration tool after installation, but this tool is nowhere
to be found in Lyx 2.1.1.

Regards,
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com 

Re: [LyX 2.1/Win7] lyx --help not responding

[Jannick]

Problem remains after update to LyX 2.1.1.

Re: Templates on Mac OS X

[Stephen Buonopane]

On the Mac installation, they get buried inside of the app package.

Find LyX.app in your applications folder
Right click on it and select "show package contents"
Then go to Contents -> Resources -> templates

On my installation of LyX, 
File -> New from Template goes to  /Library/ApplicationSupport/LyX/templates 
so that may be a more convenient place for the templates to be placed.





On Jul 16, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Julio Rojas wrote:

> Thanks, but that is not the problem. The files for the templates are not 
> copied to the hard drive at installation time, thus they are nowhere to be 
> found when one tries to create a new document.
> 
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:49 PM,  wrote:
> "Reconfiguration" is under "Tools" menu.
> 
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> Is anybody aware that templates are not installed when installing Lyx on OS 
>> X? Is there something I am missing? I remember that on previous versions one 
>> should run some configuration tool after installation, but this tool is 
>> nowhere to be found in Lyx 2.1.1.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> -
>> Julio Rojas
>> jcredbe...@gmail.com
> 
> 

Re: Templates on Mac OS X

[Julio Rojas]

Thanks, but that is not the problem. The files for the templates are not
copied to the hard drive at installation time, thus they are nowhere to be
found when one tries to create a new document.

-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:49 PM,  wrote:

> "Reconfiguration" is under "Tools" menu.
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Is anybody aware that templates are not installed when installing Lyx on
> OS X? Is there something I am missing? I remember that on previous versions
> one should run some configuration tool after installation, but this tool is
> nowhere to be found in Lyx 2.1.1.
>
> Regards,
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>
>
>

A new sig-alternate template

[JiangYanyan]

Hello,

Our research group has been using LyX for writing papers for a while and I have 
created our own layout file for sig-alternate. It is quite mature, contains 
some fine-tunings for camera-ready publication, well documented, but a little 
bit incompatible with the existing sig-alternate layout :(

So any one would give me some suggestions on how to improve this layout (e.g., 
should I make it fully compatible with the existing one, making it only adding 
functions?). It is quite mature now and can really be used to produce papers, 
but needs more improvements to be published outside our research group.

--Regards,Yanyan Jiang http://moon.nju.edu.cn/~YanyanJiang 
  

Templates on Mac OS X

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all,

Is anybody aware that templates are not installed when installing Lyx on OS
X? Is there something I am missing? I remember that on previous versions
one should run some configuration tool after installation, but this tool is
nowhere to be found in Lyx 2.1.1.

Regards,
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: UNDEFINED Figures

[coruh]

When I looked at unix files using Terminal app I found LyX2.0 and LyX2.1 in 
/Library/Application Support directory. I do not know why installing LyX2.1 did 
not overwrite or delete LyX2.0 folder. I just entered "rm -R LyX*" an deleted 
LyX in /Application folder before reinstalling LyX2.1. Thanks again. 
Cahit

> Am 16.07.2014 um 16:19 schrieb co...@vt.edu:
> 
>> Hello,
>> Problem SOLVED. It was due to older files I located using Terminal app. I 
>> deleted everything related to LyX (rm -R LyX*) on the system and reinstalled 
>> LyX2.1.1 and float figure started to work. Stephan thanks for your time.
>> Cahit
> 
> Ok, glad to hear you've solved it.
> 
> But I don't understand it. How did you manage to get a mixture of older and 
> newer files? The LyX.app should be consistent. Either you have one version of 
> it or another. You cannot have both without tricks. Please tell me, what 
> files did you delete? Inside the /Application folder?
> 
> Stephan
> 
 Hello,
 After migrating to a new MacBookPro (OS 10.9.4) and downloading LyX2.1 my 
 book figures started to be UNDEFINED. Also in New documents (KOMA Script 
 Book or other book classes) "Insert>Float>Figure" has the same problem; it 
 creates UNDEFINED figures as shown below. I reinstalled MacTeX2014 and 
 then LyX2.1 but could not solved the problem. Reconfiguring and using 
 different Book Document Classes did not help. I tried online info and help 
 before submitting this request. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure if I can help you, but I'd like to see a small LyX file with 
>>> the problem.
>>> Please, send a minimal example to the list.
>>> 
>>> Stephan
>> 
> 

Re: UNDEFINED Figures

[Stephan Witt]

Am 16.07.2014 um 16:19 schrieb co...@vt.edu:

> Hello,
> Problem SOLVED. It was due to older files I located using Terminal app. I 
> deleted everything related to LyX (rm -R LyX*) on the system and reinstalled 
> LyX2.1.1 and float figure started to work. Stephan thanks for your time.
> Cahit

Ok, glad to hear you've solved it.

But I don't understand it. How did you manage to get a mixture of older and 
newer files? The LyX.app should be consistent. Either you have one version of 
it or another. You cannot have both without tricks. Please tell me, what files 
did you delete? Inside the /Application folder?

Stephan

>>> Hello,
>>> After migrating to a new MacBookPro (OS 10.9.4) and downloading LyX2.1 my 
>>> book figures started to be UNDEFINED. Also in New documents (KOMA Script 
>>> Book or other book classes) "Insert>Float>Figure" has the same problem; it 
>>> creates UNDEFINED figures as shown below. I reinstalled MacTeX2014 and then 
>>> LyX2.1 but could not solved the problem. Reconfiguring and using different 
>>> Book Document Classes did not help. I tried online info and help before 
>>> submitting this request. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm not sure if I can help you, but I'd like to see a small LyX file with 
>> the problem.
>> Please, send a minimal example to the list.
>> 
>> Stephan
> 

Re: UNDEFINED Figures

[coruh]

Hello,
Problem SOLVED. It was due to older files I located using Terminal app. I 
deleted everything related to LyX (rm -R LyX*) on the system and reinstalled 
LyX2.1.1 and float figure started to work. Stephan thanks for your time.
Cahit

> 
>> Hello,
>> After migrating to a new MacBookPro (OS 10.9.4) and downloading LyX2.1 my 
>> book figures started to be UNDEFINED. Also in New documents (KOMA Script 
>> Book or other book classes) "Insert>Float>Figure" has the same problem; it 
>> creates UNDEFINED figures as shown below. I reinstalled MacTeX2014 and then 
>> LyX2.1 but could not solved the problem. Reconfiguring and using different 
>> Book Document Classes did not help. I tried online info and help before 
>> submitting this request. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not sure if I can help you, but I'd like to see a small LyX file with the 
> problem.
> Please, send a minimal example to the list.
> 
> Stephan

Re: UNDEFINED Figures

[Stephan Witt]

Am 16.07.2014 um 14:43 schrieb co...@vt.edu:

> Hello,
> After migrating to a new MacBookPro (OS 10.9.4) and downloading LyX2.1 my 
> book figures started to be UNDEFINED. Also in New documents (KOMA Script Book 
> or other book classes) "Insert>Float>Figure" has the same problem; it creates 
> UNDEFINED figures as shown below. I reinstalled MacTeX2014 and then LyX2.1 
> but could not solved the problem. Reconfiguring and using different Book 
> Document Classes did not help. I tried online info and help before submitting 
> this request. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.

Hello,

I'm not sure if I can help you, but I'd like to see a small LyX file with the 
problem.
Please, send a minimal example to the list.

Stephan

UNDEFINED Figures

[coruh]

Hello,
After migrating to a new MacBookPro (OS 10.9.4) and downloading LyX2.1 my book 
figures started to be UNDEFINED. Also in New documents (KOMA Script Book or 
other book classes) "Insert>Float>Figure" has the same problem; it creates 
UNDEFINED figures as shown below. I reinstalled MacTeX2014 and then LyX2.1 but 
could not solved the problem. Reconfiguring and using different Book Document 
Classes did not help. I tried online info and help before submitting this 
request. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Cahit

[LyX 2.1/Win7] lyx --help not responding

[Jannick]

Dear All,

working on a Win7 machine, LyX 2.1 does not react to the command line 'lyx
--help' to see the usage documentation. Am I missing something here? 
Ultimately I would like to use lyx in a .bat based on the current command
line switches.

Many thanks,
J.