Re: figures at the end of document

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:57:20PM +0200, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
 Thanks, I got it now.
 
 Also, one more highly technical question.
 
  IIRC this is a hard coded TeX limitation.
 
 What does IIRC stand for?
 
 Interestingly insofar as robust creativity...?
 I infer regarding this crap... ?

IIRC 'IIRC' stands for 'if I remember correctly'.

Andre'

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Re: Lighter Version

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:26:41AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
 1 - Is there a lighter version of LyX or a lighter program that works just 
 like it?
 
 LyX itself is about as light as you can get -

Well, it isn't. Believe me. LaTeX runs on a 512k DOS machine. LyX certainly
does not.

Andre'

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Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

[Marcin Bukat]

Hello!
I have two small problems
1.if I do Layout-insert apendix new aded apendix is numbered
  'A Apendix'. I would like to achive 'Apendix A'. How can I do that?
2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have 
capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst 
without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database?

Thanks in advance.
wo

Re: Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

[Angus Leeming]

Marcin Bukat wrote:
 2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have
 capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst
 without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database?

You must wrap the letters you'd like left alone in {} braces.
Eg The {N}avier-{S}tokes equations
I guess that you could wrap the whole thing
{The Navier-Stokes equations}, but that is just a guess ;-)

-- 
Angus

Re: Lighter Version

[Preben Randhol]

Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16/06/2003 (10:54) :
 
 Never use KDE nor Gnome unless you have 64 MB or so memory.

No unless you have 128 Mb preferably 256 Mb. At least if you look at the
latest versions.

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 only dangerous, and a significant source of errors, but it also makes
 programs run slower.»
   - James Kanze on comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++.moderated

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Marcus Beyer]

Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes There is a class named cv.cls distributed (and supported) with 
LyX.
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes You just have to move it from prefix/share/lyx/tex/cv.cls to
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes somewhere where latex will find it (as we say when we are too 
lazy to
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes give the whole solution).

That works. Thank you. 

I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX.
Some bytes more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Marcus

external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
is open in LyX:

1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)

For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
crashing lyx.
Thank you very much
Ph. C.
P.S. excuse me if this message is send twice to the list. It seems that
the first time I send it it was not delivred.

Re: external script and lyx

[Angus Leeming]

Charpentier Philippe wrote:

 
 Hi,
 I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
 a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
 menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
 is open in LyX:
 
 1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
 2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)

Add format Charpentier to the list of available formats using the 
Edit-Preferences dialog:
(Qt) File Formats pane
(xforms) Conversion-Formats tab folder

Eg:
Format: charpentier
GUI name: Charpentier
Shortcut:
Extension: chp
Viewer
Press Modify and then Save

Thereafter, define a converter LaTeX-Charpentier using the
(Qt) Converters pane
(xforms) Conversion-Converters tab folder

 For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
 than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
 crashing lyx.

LyX should not crash. Please send a backtrace so that we can ascertain what 
is going wrong.

Angus

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
  I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
  a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
  menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
  is open in LyX:
  
  1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
  2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)
  
  For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
  than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
  crashing lyx.
 
 Define a new 'Format' 'vtex' in your preferences.
 Define a viewer for this format.
 Define a converter  'LaTeX - vtex' (basically the name of your script)
 
 Andre\

I tried the following:

a new format:

\format latexx tex LaTeX-X 

a new viewer:

\viewer latexx $HOME/bin/LaTeX

a new converter:

\converter latex latexx $HOME/bin/LaTeX $$i 

(with $HOME= my home)

then LaTeX-X appears in the view menu. But I get an error:
the lyx file (file.lyx) is exported to latex format in the temp directory
and my script is simply send on file.tex (without any path) which gives
an error: it can't find it. Is it possible to send TEMPDIR/file.tex
to the script instead of file.tex?

Ph. C.

RE: glossary of terms?

[Remzi Seker]

try 
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/nomencl/nomencl.phtml

If you need an example file let me know.

Remzi


-Original Message-
From: Thomas CLive Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 4:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: glossary of terms?



Is there planned support for a glossary of terms feature like MS Word
has? So, you'd select a word, and click on glossary item, and then (in
a popup window), enter a description of the word. In the back of your
document, a glossary would build itself...


This would be extremely useful to me, and i have an idea it could be
done with an ERT or two, but i don't know a thing about latex, so that's
of no use to me..

-- 

Thomi Richards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

...
 For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
 than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
 crashing lyx.

LyX should not crash. Please send a backtrace so that we can ascertain what 
is going wrong.

Angus

I posted a message on this subject on lyx-devel (on 27 May 2003, subject: Re: LyX and 
vTeX)
here is:

...

I did that for lyx-1.2.3 and lyx-1.3.2. Precisely I wrote

\format pdf4 pdf PDF (vlatex)  (in the FORMATS SECTION)

and

\converter latex pdf4 /usr/local/vtex/bin/vlatex $$i latex (in the CONVERTERS 
SECTION)

With lyx-1.2.3 all is fine. But with lyx-1.3.2, if there is a latex error in the
document, lyx crashes with the following output:

lyx: /usr/include/g++-3/std/bastring.cc:126: basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator 
basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator::replace (unsigned int, unsigned int, const 
basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator , unsigned int, unsigned int) [with charT = 
char, traits = string_char_traitschar, Allocator = __default_alloc_templatetrue, 
0]:  l'assertion `!(pos2  len2)' a échoué.
/home/pcharpen/bin/monlyxqt: line 6:  8816 Abandon

Why?
Ph. C.

More precisely:

the test was made on a RedHat-7.2. Running lyx-1.3.2 with -dbg latex gives (with a 
\usepackage{al} in the preamble):

Log line: ! LaTeX Error: File `al.sty' not found.
lyx: /usr/include/g++-3/std/bastring.cc:126: basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator 
basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator::replace (unsigned int, unsigned int, const 
basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator , unsigned int, unsigned int) [with charT = 
char, traits = string_char_traitschar, Allocator = __default_alloc_templatetrue, 
0]:  l'assertion `!(pos2  len2)' a échoué.
Abandon

The same test on a RedHat-8.0 gives, for BOTH lyx-1.2.3 and lyx-1.3.2, a crash of lyx 
with:

Log line: ! LaTeX Error: File `al.sty' not found.
Abandon

Is this a bug in LyX?

Ph. C.

.

Ph. C.

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Marcus == Marcus Beyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Marcus That works. Thank you.

Marcus I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX. Some bytes
Marcus more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Because I have been too lazy to update this class to ctan (there is a
name conflict with another class too).

JMarc

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Matej Cepl]

On 2003-06-17, 10:11 GMT, Marcus Beyer wrote:
 I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX.
 Some bytes more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Probably, because nobody bothered to persuade MiKTeX maintainers, that 
they should them to the distribution. :-)

Matej

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Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:46:31 +0200
Charpentier Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200
 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
   I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
   a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
   menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
   is open in LyX:
   
   1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
   2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)
   
   For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
   than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
   crashing lyx.
  
  Define a new 'Format' 'vtex' in your preferences.
  Define a viewer for this format.
  Define a converter  'LaTeX - vtex' (basically the name of your script)
  
  Andre\
 
 I tried the following:
 
 a new format:
 
 \format latexx tex LaTeX-X 
 
 a new viewer:
 
 \viewer latexx $HOME/bin/LaTeX
 
 a new converter:
 
 \converter latex latexx $HOME/bin/LaTeX $$i 
 
 (with $HOME= my home)
 
 then LaTeX-X appears in the view menu. But I get an error:
 the lyx file (file.lyx) is exported to latex format in the temp directory
 and my script is simply send on file.tex (without any path) which gives
 an error: it can't find it. Is it possible to send TEMPDIR/file.tex
 to the script instead of file.tex?
 
 Ph. C.
 

It seems that I am wrong.. the script is run on file.tex but probably after a cd
in TEMPDIR (my script needed the path to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the
begening of file.tex, but this is done by lyx in TEMPDIR). Then I have
to modify my script... 
Ph. C.

Lyx problem: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server

[guijun]

Hello:

I installed lyx-1.1.6fix4-133.i386.rpm and xforms-0.89-387.i386.rpm
on my computer with SuSe8.2. When I run lyx files, everything went well
except .ps image loading. Actually, it can load some .ps images but
not totally; some .ps images can't be displayed (error message: Render
Error). I also got these warning message:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ lyx Report.lyx
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
Error: Couldn't find per display information
GS [2171] error 256 E:1 1 S:0 0

but when view it as PDF file, all of .ps images are displayed and no
problem. Would you please tell me what is wrong ? How can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Guijun

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:05:32 +0200
Charpentier Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 It seems that I am wrong.. the script is run on file.tex but probably after a cd
 in TEMPDIR (my script needed the path to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the
 begening of file.tex, but this is done by lyx in TEMPDIR). Then I have
 to modify my script... 
 Ph. C.
 
I just tried that: I wrote a small script which copies TEMPDIR/file.tex in an
other directory and run my original script on that copy. It works, but when
all the colmpilation is finished lyx produce an error message:

Impossible to convert the file
Error while executing
script 'file.tex'

without any particular output. I suppose this is not a real problem.

Ph. C.

Re: external script and lyx

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Charpentier == Charpentier Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Charpentier For example, the script would manage the compilation
Charpentier process (diffrently than LyX do it) in such a way that I
Charpentier would be able to use vtex without crashing lyx. 

Did you find out exactly why LyX crashes with vtex?

JMarc

\displaysize???

[Chris Carlen]

Hi:

Is it possible to use this in LyX?

I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the 
rest of my equations, not reduced.  I have fractional expressions in an 
array, and they are in a smaller font when in the array.

I tried to figure out how to enter \displaysize as ERT, but it always 
causes a LaTeX error.

Thanks.
--

Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:44:37 +0200
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Charpentier == Charpentier Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Charpentier For example, the script would manage the compilation
 Charpentier process (diffrently than LyX do it) in such a way that I
 Charpentier would be able to use vtex without crashing lyx. 
 
 Did you find out exactly why LyX crashes with vtex?
 
 JMarc

No. I post a message on this on lyx-devel, with all the information I have.

Ph. C.

Re: \displaysize???

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:00:15AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
 Hi:
 
 Is it possible to use this in LyX?

You can use whatever macro you want...
 
 I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the 
 rest of my equations, not reduced.  I have fractional expressions in an 
 array, and they are in a smaller font when in the array.
 
 I tried to figure out how to enter \displaysize as ERT, but it always 
 causes a LaTeX error.

In this case you should try to use \displaystyle. This is even supported
natively by LyX, i.e. shows as larger characters on screen.

Andre'

-- 
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nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: external script and lyx

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:00:58PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
  Did you find out exactly why LyX crashes with vtex?
 
 No. I post a message on this on lyx-devel, with all the information I have.

I guess you do not want to build a debug-enabled version and get a
backtrace from gdb?

Andre'

-- 
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nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

[Wes Meltzer]

With regard to the title-changing in your BibTeX:

That depends on your bibliographic style. If you know the style you 
need to use well enough, there's a great package out there called 
'Makebst': See 
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/services/software/latex/localtex/localltx.html#makebst

It allows you to customize your BST file as much or as little as you 
want.

I've managed to make a closer Chicago-a-like than anything I've found 
online with it, which is good. It's also marginally customizable beyond 
the prompt level. (I can explain that if you really want me to.)

Wes :wm

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:52:10 +0200, Marcin Bukat wrote:
 Hello!
 I have two small problems
 1.if I do Layout-insert apendix new aded apendix is numbered
   'A Apendix'. I would like to achive 'Apendix A'. How can I do that?
 2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have 
 capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst 
 without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database?
 
 Thanks in advance.
 wo
 
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only see what remains to be done.
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How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

[Chris Carlen]

I have tried going into math mode, then entering the following:

\[
f: \left(
\begin{split}
y = \\
 f(x) +\\
 +g(x)
\end{split}
\right)
\]
\end{document}
which actually shows what I want in LyX, but then gives LaTeX errors.

It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX math editing in 
depth, which I had hope to avoid by using LyX.

Can someone give me a step-by-step instruction on how to enter an 
equation in LyX using LaTex code that doesn't give errors?  From there I 
will go about learning LaTeX to get the effects I want.  But at this 
point there is something I don't understand about getting LyX to digest 
it in the first place.

In other words, do you go into math mode, or type in ERT mode?

In math mode, the above code turns into LyX WYSIWYM math editing.  This 
is a problem because it is then impossible to see the text LateX code 
underneath.

Clues as to what is going on would be appreciated.

Finally, can \usepackage{amsmath} be used in LyX?

Thanks.



--

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Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
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Re: \displaysize???

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:17:52AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
 Yes I see that \displaystyle makes the fractions large, but then they 
 overlap vertically with the other rows of the array.
 
 Any way to fix this?

Play around with \arraystretch.

Or re-think your design ;-)

Andre'

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nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: Lighter Version

[Bruce Sass]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Preben Randhol wrote:

 Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16/06/2003 (10:54) :
 
  Never use KDE nor Gnome unless you have 64 MB or so memory.

 No unless you have 128 Mb preferably 256 Mb. At least if you look at the
 latest versions.

It is a matter of patience and bells and whistles.  I have KDE 3.1.2
on a 486-66MHz, once you get passed the startup times and the few
seconds it takes to redraw a screen it is just fine...

...for writing and simple graphics.

LyX's slow point is loading up fonts and formatting the document.


- Bruce

LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

[Albrecht Dreß]

Hi!

Sorry if this is a known problem, but I'm new here...

I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the 
newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below). 
my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc 
2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea waht went wrong here? 
Thanks in advance,

	Albrecht.

---gdb output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.2]$ gdb src/lyx
GNU gdb Yellow Dog Linux (5.1.1-1b)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you 
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type show copying to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type show warranty for details.
This GDB was configured as ppc-yellowdog-linux...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/albrecht/lyx-1.3.2/src/lyx 
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0f97c944 in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0xfa31b60, p=0x106dff21) at malloc.c:3227
3227malloc.c: No such file or directory.
in malloc.c
Current language:  auto; currently c
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0f97c944 in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0xfa31b60, p=0x106dff21) at malloc.
c:3227
#1  0x0f97c808 in __libc_free (mem=0xfa31b60) at malloc.c:3153
#2  0x1001f550 in boost::signals::detail::slot_base::~slot_base 
(this=0x7fffebd8, __in_chrg=2)
at /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g+
+-3/stl_alloc.h:164
#3  0x103b05b0 in Tooltips::Tooltips (this=0x10714478) at Tooltips.C:39
#4  0x1030d494 in FormBase::FormBase (this=0x10757d64, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
allowResize=275644208) at FormBase.C:57
#5  0x1030d03c in FormDBFD_aboutlyx::FormDB (this=0x10757d64, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], allowResize=275644208) at FormBase.h:156
#6  0x1030d080 in FormCBControlAboutlyx, FormDBFD_aboutlyx ::FormCB 
(this=0x10757d64, [EMAIL PROTECTED], allowResize=275644208) at 
FormBase.h:184
#7  0x1030b928 in FormAboutlyx::FormAboutlyx (this=0x10757d64) at 
FormAboutlyx.C:45
#8  0x10300470 in GUIControlAboutlyx, FormAboutlyx, OkCancelPolicy, 
xformsBC::GUI (this=0x10757cd0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-
linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h:443
#9  0x102fe13c in Dialogs::Impl::Impl (this=0x10757cd0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) at Dialogs.C:48
#10 0x102fdcb4 in Dialogs::Dialogs (this=0x1074daa0, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at 
Dialogs.C:23
#11 0x102ee4c0 in LyXView::LyXView (this=0x7388) at LyXView.C:56
#12 0x103c0b10 in XFormsView::XFormsView (this=0x7388, width=690, 
height=510) at XFormsView.C:58
#13 0x103a62a0 in lyx_gui::start ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at 
lyx_gui.C:267
#14 0x10101bd0 in LyX::LyX (this=0x75e8, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
argv=0x7694) at ../src/lyx_main.C:166
#15 0x10174f74 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7694) at ../src/main.C:31
#16 0x0f920f70 in __libc_start_main (argc=1, ubp_av=0x7694, 
ubp_ev=0x106dff30, auxvec=0x7730, rtld_fini=0xfa31b60 
main_arena, stinfo=0x10563420, stack_on_entry=0xd00) at 
../sysdeps/powerpc/elf/libc-start.c:119

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Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

[John Levon]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:34:05PM +0200, Albrecht Dre? wrote:

 I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the 
 newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below). 
 my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc 
 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea waht went wrong here? 
 Thanks in advance,

ppc compilers seem to have some nasty bug...

regards
john

Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Albrecht Dreß wrote:
 I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the
 newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below).
 my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc
 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea waht went wrong here?

There is a bug report which might be related:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894

What version of YDL do you have? As I mentioned on bugzilla, I am running LyX 
1.3.2 (qt 3.1.1) on YDL 3.0 (iMac 17 Lamp) without any problems. Compiler is 
gcc 3.2.1

Regards,
Juergen.

Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

[Niklas Werner]

Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2003 21:47 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller:
 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
  I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but
  the newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb
  bt below). my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel
  2.4.20, glibc 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea waht
  went wrong here?

 There is a bug report which might be related:
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894

 What version of YDL do you have? As I mentioned on bugzilla, I am
 running LyX 1.3.2 (qt 3.1.1) on YDL 3.0 (iMac 17 Lamp) without any
 problems. Compiler is gcc 3.2.1

No problems with gentoo-1.4 on a PowerBook pismo either (gcc-3.2.3, qt­
-3.1.2, glibc-2.3.2).
Xforms and qt both work.
Maybe upgrading the distribution will help? (gcc3 does a much better job  
optimizing ppc-executables anyways)

Those lines:
(this=0x7fffebd8, __in_chrg=2)
 at /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g+
+-3/stl_alloc.h:164
[...]
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-
linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h:443

look, as if you have two versions of gcc (2  3) installed and the 
includes got mixed up... 
includes from gcc3 and libs from gcc2? uuh-ooh, this can't work!

Or you didn't compile Xforms and LyX with the same compiler.

Have fun*

Niklas

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

[Chris Carlen]

Chris Carlen wrote:
I have tried going into math mode, then entering the following:

\[
f: \left(
\begin{split}
y = \\
 f(x) +\\
 +g(x)
\end{split}
\right)
\]
\end{document}
which actually shows what I want in LyX, but then gives LaTeX errors.

It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX math editing in 
depth, which I had hope to avoid by using LyX.

Can someone give me a step-by-step instruction on how to enter an 
equation in LyX using LaTex code that doesn't give errors?  From there I 
will go about learning LaTeX to get the effects I want.  But at this 
point there is something I don't understand about getting LyX to digest 
it in the first place.

In other words, do you go into math mode, or type in ERT mode?

In math mode, the above code turns into LyX WYSIWYM math editing.  This 
is a problem because it is then impossible to see the text LateX code 
underneath.

Clues as to what is going on would be appreciated.

Finally, can \usepackage{amsmath} be used in LyX?


Yes, by putting it in the preamble.

I think I answered most of my question.

Thanks.

--

Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glossary of terms?

[Thomas CLive Richards]

 
 You should take a look to the latex package nomencl. It automatizes
 the glosary creation.
 
I have had a look at this, and have followed the readme instructions to
the letter. Now, when i go to view- PDF, i don't get any errors, but
nothing happens! where's my glossary? i put an ERT in the end of the
document with \printglossary, and I've done everything else
weird..

Also, i run debian, and i can't seem to find a package for the nomencl
latex add-on. I assume it's already installed, otherwise I'd get errors,
right?


-- 

Thomi Richards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: landscape page in a portrait document

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jihène Krichène [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

 Hello everybody
 
 I have a portrait document. I want to put a page in the landscape
 format inside this document. Is it possible to do so ? If yes, please
 tell me how. 

See http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/PS/landscape.phtml.

-- Paul

Re: toggled printing for instructor version

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

 You can define a switch. Write into the preamble:
 \usepackage{ifthen}
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \usepackage[dvips]{color}}

 \newboolean{HIDE}
 \newcommand\invisible
 {\ifthenelse{\boolean{HIDE}}{\color{white}}{}}
 \newcommand\visible
 {\ifthenelse{\boolean{HIDE}}{\color{black}}{}}

 Then you set \unvisible at the begin and \visible at the end of those parts
 that need to be hidden.

 At the begin of the document, you can switch hide mode with this ERT:
 \setboolean{HIDE}{true} %% don`t print hidden text
 or
 \setboolean{HIDE}{false} %% print hidden text

Thank you, Juergen. This is quite useful.

This works for me (using \invisible instead of \unvisible).

I am not sure if it is possible, but it would be great if I could make it
smarter so the blank space could be done at the bottom of the page. Right
now, I use \invisible for my instructor notes, so the student's handouts
now have random white space. Hmmm... even though it looks strange, maybe
this is okay, since they can use that space to take hand-written notes.

Also, it would be cool if the content could be highlighted and there was a
button to toggle \invisible on and off.

Thanks again.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

[Munzir Taha Obeid]

Sometime ago, I tried to write Arabic in lyx but failed to do it. I 
asked in the lyx mailing list and Dekel Tsur, the person behind the support, 
thankfully tried to help me but we couldn't figure out why it didn't work 
for me. He checked my preferences file and the exported TeX file to no avail.

Now, after many many trials I come out to a conclusion which may reflect a bug 
somewhere in lyx, Mandrake, or pdflatex ... you decide!

Resoultion:
-
The problem is that lyx couldn't read a closing LaTeX code after an Arabic 
text.

The problem:
-
I open lyx and wrote some Arabic. View - PDF (pdflatex) gives this error

LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 12 ended by \end{document}.
 \end{document}
   
Your command was ignored.
Type  I command return  to replace it with another command,
or  return  to continue without it.


Not a good workaround:

File - Export - LaTeX
If I run pdflatex on the latex file I got these errors
LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):
[arabic,english].

(./newfile1.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/uxnsh.fd) . . . . / . /
##

! LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 10 ended by \end{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H return  for immediate help.
 ...

l.13 \end{document}

?
.  [1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] (./newfile1.aux)
.
.
.

(\end occurred inside a group at level 1) 
/var/lib/texmf/pk/ljfour/arabtex/xns
h14.600pk
Output written on newfile1.pdf (1 page, 9095 bytes).
Transcript written on newfile1.log.



Why not?
-
The generated file contains the Arabic text plus strange arabic letters at the 
end!!!


Better Workaround:
---
Open the latex file in an editor and add a space before any closing LaTeX code 
within the \begin{arabtext} and the \end{arabtext}. I mean a space should be 
entered before \end{arabtext} and if you have any formatting say you centered 
some text you should go to the latex file and add a space before the 
\end{center} or you get errors like this:

! LaTeX Error: \begin{center} on input line 11 ended by \end{document}.


Have I missed an obvious thing?!

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_/\ /   _\ unzir_/ aha

Telecommunications Engineer
Linux Registered User [EMAIL PROTECTED]://counter.li.org
CIW, ICDL, MOUS.
New Horizons CLC
Riyadh, SA

Re: glossary of terms?

[Andres Becerra Sandoval]

Hello,

I have this in a Makefile to create pdf output with nomencl, maybe it
works for you:

meth.pdf:
lyx -e latex meth.lyx
latex meth.tex
makeindex meth.glo -s nomencl.ist -o meth.gls
lyx -e pdf2 meth.lyx


Andres Becerra.

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Thomas CLive Richards wrote:

 
  You should take a look to the latex package nomencl. It automatizes
  the glosary creation.
 
 I have had a look at this, and have followed the readme instructions to
 the letter. Now, when i go to view- PDF, i don't get any errors, but
 nothing happens! where's my glossary? i put an ERT in the end of the
 document with \printglossary, and I've done everything else
 weird..

 Also, i run debian, and i can't seem to find a package for the nomencl
 latex add-on. I assume it's already installed, otherwise I'd get errors,
 right?


 --

 Thomi Richards,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

[Nirmal Govind]

 It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX math editing in 
 depth, which I had hope to avoid by using LyX.

Yes you can avoid most of the complicated Latex math stuff by using
LyX.. 

 In other words, do you go into math mode, or type in ERT mode?

You go into math mode and then type latex math commands and hit a space
and you should see the result of your latex commands immediately (in
most cases)..  for equations you can use one of the environments that
are listed in Insert - Math.. there are shorcuts to this too I
believe..

 In math mode, the above code turns into LyX WYSIWYM math editing. 
 This is a problem because it is then impossible to see the text LateX
 code underneath.

I guess that was the intention so that one sees the content clearly and
not the code.. but if you want to see the code then you can select the
math stuff and paste into an ERT inset, i.e. do C-l and paste into the
inset and all the code that went into the math that you selected will
show.. hope this helps..

nirmal

list of math shortcuts

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. is there a list of all the math shortcuts somewhere? Some lyx 
configuration file maybe? I found a document on the web by googling
which had some but not all.. for example, how do I get a hat or a tilde
on an existing character? I can select the character with the mouse and
then get the hat or tilde from the Math panel.. Or I can delete the
character and do \tilde - space - character.. I'd like to avoid doing
the latter and hopefully the former if there's some keyboard shortcut
for this... 

Thanks,
nirmal

PS: Sorry if this is a repost.. sending it again cos it looks like my
message from earlier today didn't make it... 

Toolbars

[Jan Peters]

Is there a way to make the icons on the toolbars smaller? I would like 
to create toolbars
which are as close to scientific workplace as possible so that I have 
an easy switch!

Best wishes,
-Jan

Re: Toolbars

[Jan Peters]

Hearing this announcement below, I was wondering: Will we see a Mac OS 
X native version
of LyX soon? If yes, how soon?

Best wishes,
-Jan
Qt/Mac Free Software Edition coming to WWDC 2003
 By Dennis Sellers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
June 17, 2003  5:50 pm ET
Trolltech will release Qt/Mac under the GPL (GNU General Public 
License) at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference. Qt/Mac is the 
Mac port of Qt, a single-source, multiplatform C++ GUI (graphical user 
interface) toolkit that lets applications run natively on Mac OS X, 
Windows, and Linux/Unix, all from the same codebase.

The GPL release of Qt/Mac means that developers of free Mac software 
can use Qt free of charge. Any software produced with the GPL version 
of Qt/Mac (and any derivatives of it) must also be released with full 
source code available under the GPL. Developers who want create 
commercial (proprietary or closed source) software can do so using the 
existing Qt/Mac commercial licenses. (Since it was founded in 1994, 
Trolltech has offered developers both commercial and Free Software 
licensing options).

With the upcoming Qt/Mac GPL release, existing Free Software 
applications developed with Qt/X11 (Linux and various flavors of Unix) 
and Qt/Embedded (embedded Linux), can now be ported to Mac OS X 
platform with a simple recompile. The release of Qt/Mac under the GPL 
also means that Qt Script for Applications (QSA), Trolltech's scripting 
toolkit for Qt-based applications, will be available under a dual 
license on Mac OS X.

WWDC 2003 will be held June 23-27 in San Francisco, Calif.

Vectorstyle

[Jan Peters]

Hi there!

I have three more questions:

1. Is there a way to make the vectors in lyx on screen in bold style, 
e.g., \boldsymbol{} or \bm{}
while still using \vec{} ?

2. Can I configure the font for the large parentheses? On my Mac it 
looks kinda ugly!

3. Why are the subscript characters in a_b so low? Is that due to the 
version of the QT?

Thank you very much!

Jan Peters

Re: \displaysize???

[Chris Carlen]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:00:15AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:

Hi:

Is it possible to use this in LyX?


You can use whatever macro you want...
 

I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the 
rest of my equations, not reduced.  I have fractional expressions in an 
array, and they are in a smaller font when in the array.

I tried to figure out how to enter \displaysize as ERT, but it always 
causes a LaTeX error.


In this case you should try to use \displaystyle. This is even supported
natively by LyX, i.e. shows as larger characters on screen.


Thanks.

Yes I see that \displaystyle makes the fractions large, but then they 
overlap vertically with the other rows of the array.

Any way to fix this?

--

Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: figures at the end of document

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:57:20PM +0200, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
 Thanks, I got it now.
 
 Also, one more highly technical question.
 
  IIRC this is a hard coded TeX limitation.
 
 What does IIRC stand for?
 
 Interestingly insofar as robust creativity...?
 I infer regarding this crap... ?

IIRC 'IIRC' stands for 'if I remember correctly'.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: Lighter Version

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:26:41AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
 1 - Is there a lighter version of LyX or a lighter program that works just 
 like it?
 
 LyX itself is about as light as you can get -

Well, it isn't. Believe me. LaTeX runs on a 512k DOS machine. LyX certainly
does not.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

[Marcin Bukat]

Hello!
I have two small problems
1.if I do Layout-insert apendix new aded apendix is numbered
  'A Apendix'. I would like to achive 'Apendix A'. How can I do that?
2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have 
capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst 
without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database?

Thanks in advance.
wo

Re: Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

[Angus Leeming]

Marcin Bukat wrote:
 2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have
 capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst
 without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database?

You must wrap the letters you'd like left alone in {} braces.
Eg The {N}avier-{S}tokes equations
I guess that you could wrap the whole thing
{The Navier-Stokes equations}, but that is just a guess ;-)

-- 
Angus

Re: Lighter Version

[Preben Randhol]

Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16/06/2003 (10:54) :
 
 Never use KDE nor Gnome unless you have 64 MB or so memory.

No unless you have 128 Mb preferably 256 Mb. At least if you look at the
latest versions.

-- 
«It's probably worth pointing out that  C's pointer arithmetic  is not
 only dangerous, and a significant source of errors, but it also makes
 programs run slower.»
   - James Kanze on comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++.moderated

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Marcus Beyer]

Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes There is a class named cv.cls distributed (and supported) with 
LyX.
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes You just have to move it from prefix/share/lyx/tex/cv.cls to
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes somewhere where latex will find it (as we say when we are too 
lazy to
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes give the whole solution).

That works. Thank you. 

I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX.
Some bytes more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Marcus

external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
is open in LyX:

1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)

For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
crashing lyx.
Thank you very much
Ph. C.
P.S. excuse me if this message is send twice to the list. It seems that
the first time I send it it was not delivred.

Re: external script and lyx

[Angus Leeming]

Charpentier Philippe wrote:

 
 Hi,
 I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
 a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
 menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
 is open in LyX:
 
 1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
 2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)

Add format Charpentier to the list of available formats using the 
Edit-Preferences dialog:
(Qt) File Formats pane
(xforms) Conversion-Formats tab folder

Eg:
Format: charpentier
GUI name: Charpentier
Shortcut:
Extension: chp
Viewer
Press Modify and then Save

Thereafter, define a converter LaTeX-Charpentier using the
(Qt) Converters pane
(xforms) Conversion-Converters tab folder

 For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
 than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
 crashing lyx.

LyX should not crash. Please send a backtrace so that we can ascertain what 
is going wrong.

Angus

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
  I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
  a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
  menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
  is open in LyX:
  
  1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
  2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)
  
  For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
  than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
  crashing lyx.
 
 Define a new 'Format' 'vtex' in your preferences.
 Define a viewer for this format.
 Define a converter  'LaTeX - vtex' (basically the name of your script)
 
 Andre\

I tried the following:

a new format:

\format latexx tex LaTeX-X 

a new viewer:

\viewer latexx $HOME/bin/LaTeX

a new converter:

\converter latex latexx $HOME/bin/LaTeX $$i 

(with $HOME= my home)

then LaTeX-X appears in the view menu. But I get an error:
the lyx file (file.lyx) is exported to latex format in the temp directory
and my script is simply send on file.tex (without any path) which gives
an error: it can't find it. Is it possible to send TEMPDIR/file.tex
to the script instead of file.tex?

Ph. C.

RE: glossary of terms?

[Remzi Seker]

try 
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/nomencl/nomencl.phtml

If you need an example file let me know.

Remzi


-Original Message-
From: Thomas CLive Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 4:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: glossary of terms?



Is there planned support for a glossary of terms feature like MS Word
has? So, you'd select a word, and click on glossary item, and then (in
a popup window), enter a description of the word. In the back of your
document, a glossary would build itself...


This would be extremely useful to me, and i have an idea it could be
done with an ERT or two, but i don't know a thing about latex, so that's
of no use to me..

-- 

Thomi Richards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

...
 For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
 than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
 crashing lyx.

LyX should not crash. Please send a backtrace so that we can ascertain what 
is going wrong.

Angus

I posted a message on this subject on lyx-devel (on 27 May 2003, subject: Re: LyX and 
vTeX)
here is:

...

I did that for lyx-1.2.3 and lyx-1.3.2. Precisely I wrote

\format pdf4 pdf PDF (vlatex)  (in the FORMATS SECTION)

and

\converter latex pdf4 /usr/local/vtex/bin/vlatex $$i latex (in the CONVERTERS 
SECTION)

With lyx-1.2.3 all is fine. But with lyx-1.3.2, if there is a latex error in the
document, lyx crashes with the following output:

lyx: /usr/include/g++-3/std/bastring.cc:126: basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator 
basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator::replace (unsigned int, unsigned int, const 
basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator , unsigned int, unsigned int) [with charT = 
char, traits = string_char_traitschar, Allocator = __default_alloc_templatetrue, 
0]:  l'assertion `!(pos2  len2)' a échoué.
/home/pcharpen/bin/monlyxqt: line 6:  8816 Abandon

Why?
Ph. C.

More precisely:

the test was made on a RedHat-7.2. Running lyx-1.3.2 with -dbg latex gives (with a 
\usepackage{al} in the preamble):

Log line: ! LaTeX Error: File `al.sty' not found.
lyx: /usr/include/g++-3/std/bastring.cc:126: basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator 
basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator::replace (unsigned int, unsigned int, const 
basic_stringcharT, traits, Allocator , unsigned int, unsigned int) [with charT = 
char, traits = string_char_traitschar, Allocator = __default_alloc_templatetrue, 
0]:  l'assertion `!(pos2  len2)' a échoué.
Abandon

The same test on a RedHat-8.0 gives, for BOTH lyx-1.2.3 and lyx-1.3.2, a crash of lyx 
with:

Log line: ! LaTeX Error: File `al.sty' not found.
Abandon

Is this a bug in LyX?

Ph. C.

.

Ph. C.

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Marcus == Marcus Beyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Marcus That works. Thank you.

Marcus I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX. Some bytes
Marcus more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Because I have been too lazy to update this class to ctan (there is a
name conflict with another class too).

JMarc

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Matej Cepl]

On 2003-06-17, 10:11 GMT, Marcus Beyer wrote:
 I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX.
 Some bytes more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Probably, because nobody bothered to persuade MiKTeX maintainers, that 
they should them to the distribution. :-)

Matej

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138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:46:31 +0200
Charpentier Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200
 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
   I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
   a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
   menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
   is open in LyX:
   
   1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
   2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)
   
   For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
   than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
   crashing lyx.
  
  Define a new 'Format' 'vtex' in your preferences.
  Define a viewer for this format.
  Define a converter  'LaTeX - vtex' (basically the name of your script)
  
  Andre\
 
 I tried the following:
 
 a new format:
 
 \format latexx tex LaTeX-X 
 
 a new viewer:
 
 \viewer latexx $HOME/bin/LaTeX
 
 a new converter:
 
 \converter latex latexx $HOME/bin/LaTeX $$i 
 
 (with $HOME= my home)
 
 then LaTeX-X appears in the view menu. But I get an error:
 the lyx file (file.lyx) is exported to latex format in the temp directory
 and my script is simply send on file.tex (without any path) which gives
 an error: it can't find it. Is it possible to send TEMPDIR/file.tex
 to the script instead of file.tex?
 
 Ph. C.
 

It seems that I am wrong.. the script is run on file.tex but probably after a cd
in TEMPDIR (my script needed the path to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the
begening of file.tex, but this is done by lyx in TEMPDIR). Then I have
to modify my script... 
Ph. C.

Lyx problem: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server

[guijun]

Hello:

I installed lyx-1.1.6fix4-133.i386.rpm and xforms-0.89-387.i386.rpm
on my computer with SuSe8.2. When I run lyx files, everything went well
except .ps image loading. Actually, it can load some .ps images but
not totally; some .ps images can't be displayed (error message: Render
Error). I also got these warning message:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ lyx Report.lyx
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
Error: Couldn't find per display information
GS [2171] error 256 E:1 1 S:0 0

but when view it as PDF file, all of .ps images are displayed and no
problem. Would you please tell me what is wrong ? How can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Guijun

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:05:32 +0200
Charpentier Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 It seems that I am wrong.. the script is run on file.tex but probably after a cd
 in TEMPDIR (my script needed the path to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the
 begening of file.tex, but this is done by lyx in TEMPDIR). Then I have
 to modify my script... 
 Ph. C.
 
I just tried that: I wrote a small script which copies TEMPDIR/file.tex in an
other directory and run my original script on that copy. It works, but when
all the colmpilation is finished lyx produce an error message:

Impossible to convert the file
Error while executing
script 'file.tex'

without any particular output. I suppose this is not a real problem.

Ph. C.

Re: external script and lyx

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Charpentier == Charpentier Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Charpentier For example, the script would manage the compilation
Charpentier process (diffrently than LyX do it) in such a way that I
Charpentier would be able to use vtex without crashing lyx. 

Did you find out exactly why LyX crashes with vtex?

JMarc

\displaysize???

[Chris Carlen]

Hi:

Is it possible to use this in LyX?

I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the 
rest of my equations, not reduced.  I have fractional expressions in an 
array, and they are in a smaller font when in the array.

I tried to figure out how to enter \displaysize as ERT, but it always 
causes a LaTeX error.

Thanks.
--

Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:44:37 +0200
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Charpentier == Charpentier Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Charpentier For example, the script would manage the compilation
 Charpentier process (diffrently than LyX do it) in such a way that I
 Charpentier would be able to use vtex without crashing lyx. 
 
 Did you find out exactly why LyX crashes with vtex?
 
 JMarc

No. I post a message on this on lyx-devel, with all the information I have.

Ph. C.

Re: \displaysize???

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:00:15AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
 Hi:
 
 Is it possible to use this in LyX?

You can use whatever macro you want...
 
 I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the 
 rest of my equations, not reduced.  I have fractional expressions in an 
 array, and they are in a smaller font when in the array.
 
 I tried to figure out how to enter \displaysize as ERT, but it always 
 causes a LaTeX error.

In this case you should try to use \displaystyle. This is even supported
natively by LyX, i.e. shows as larger characters on screen.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: external script and lyx

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:00:58PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
  Did you find out exactly why LyX crashes with vtex?
 
 No. I post a message on this on lyx-devel, with all the information I have.

I guess you do not want to build a debug-enabled version and get a
backtrace from gdb?

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

[Wes Meltzer]

With regard to the title-changing in your BibTeX:

That depends on your bibliographic style. If you know the style you 
need to use well enough, there's a great package out there called 
'Makebst': See 
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/services/software/latex/localtex/localltx.html#makebst

It allows you to customize your BST file as much or as little as you 
want.

I've managed to make a closer Chicago-a-like than anything I've found 
online with it, which is good. It's also marginally customizable beyond 
the prompt level. (I can explain that if you really want me to.)

Wes :wm

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:52:10 +0200, Marcin Bukat wrote:
 Hello!
 I have two small problems
 1.if I do Layout-insert apendix new aded apendix is numbered
   'A Apendix'. I would like to achive 'Apendix A'. How can I do that?
 2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have 
 capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst 
 without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database?
 
 Thanks in advance.
 wo
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Web: http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~mwm223
AIM: Steely Wes | ICQ: 5169222

One never notices what has been done; one can
only see what remains to be done.
-- Marie Curie

How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

[Chris Carlen]

I have tried going into math mode, then entering the following:

\[
f: \left(
\begin{split}
y = \\
 f(x) +\\
 +g(x)
\end{split}
\right)
\]
\end{document}
which actually shows what I want in LyX, but then gives LaTeX errors.

It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX math editing in 
depth, which I had hope to avoid by using LyX.

Can someone give me a step-by-step instruction on how to enter an 
equation in LyX using LaTex code that doesn't give errors?  From there I 
will go about learning LaTeX to get the effects I want.  But at this 
point there is something I don't understand about getting LyX to digest 
it in the first place.

In other words, do you go into math mode, or type in ERT mode?

In math mode, the above code turns into LyX WYSIWYM math editing.  This 
is a problem because it is then impossible to see the text LateX code 
underneath.

Clues as to what is going on would be appreciated.

Finally, can \usepackage{amsmath} be used in LyX?

Thanks.



--

Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: \displaysize???

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:17:52AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
 Yes I see that \displaystyle makes the fractions large, but then they 
 overlap vertically with the other rows of the array.
 
 Any way to fix this?

Play around with \arraystretch.

Or re-think your design ;-)

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: Lighter Version

[Bruce Sass]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Preben Randhol wrote:

 Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16/06/2003 (10:54) :
 
  Never use KDE nor Gnome unless you have 64 MB or so memory.

 No unless you have 128 Mb preferably 256 Mb. At least if you look at the
 latest versions.

It is a matter of patience and bells and whistles.  I have KDE 3.1.2
on a 486-66MHz, once you get passed the startup times and the few
seconds it takes to redraw a screen it is just fine...

...for writing and simple graphics.

LyX's slow point is loading up fonts and formatting the document.


- Bruce

LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

[Albrecht Dreß]

Hi!

Sorry if this is a known problem, but I'm new here...

I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the 
newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below). 
my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc 
2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea waht went wrong here? 
Thanks in advance,

	Albrecht.

---gdb output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.2]$ gdb src/lyx
GNU gdb Yellow Dog Linux (5.1.1-1b)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you 
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type show copying to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type show warranty for details.
This GDB was configured as ppc-yellowdog-linux...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/albrecht/lyx-1.3.2/src/lyx 
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0f97c944 in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0xfa31b60, p=0x106dff21) at malloc.c:3227
3227malloc.c: No such file or directory.
in malloc.c
Current language:  auto; currently c
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0f97c944 in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0xfa31b60, p=0x106dff21) at malloc.
c:3227
#1  0x0f97c808 in __libc_free (mem=0xfa31b60) at malloc.c:3153
#2  0x1001f550 in boost::signals::detail::slot_base::~slot_base 
(this=0x7fffebd8, __in_chrg=2)
at /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g+
+-3/stl_alloc.h:164
#3  0x103b05b0 in Tooltips::Tooltips (this=0x10714478) at Tooltips.C:39
#4  0x1030d494 in FormBase::FormBase (this=0x10757d64, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
allowResize=275644208) at FormBase.C:57
#5  0x1030d03c in FormDBFD_aboutlyx::FormDB (this=0x10757d64, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], allowResize=275644208) at FormBase.h:156
#6  0x1030d080 in FormCBControlAboutlyx, FormDBFD_aboutlyx ::FormCB 
(this=0x10757d64, [EMAIL PROTECTED], allowResize=275644208) at 
FormBase.h:184
#7  0x1030b928 in FormAboutlyx::FormAboutlyx (this=0x10757d64) at 
FormAboutlyx.C:45
#8  0x10300470 in GUIControlAboutlyx, FormAboutlyx, OkCancelPolicy, 
xformsBC::GUI (this=0x10757cd0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-
linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h:443
#9  0x102fe13c in Dialogs::Impl::Impl (this=0x10757cd0, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) at Dialogs.C:48
#10 0x102fdcb4 in Dialogs::Dialogs (this=0x1074daa0, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at 
Dialogs.C:23
#11 0x102ee4c0 in LyXView::LyXView (this=0x7388) at LyXView.C:56
#12 0x103c0b10 in XFormsView::XFormsView (this=0x7388, width=690, 
height=510) at XFormsView.C:58
#13 0x103a62a0 in lyx_gui::start ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at 
lyx_gui.C:267
#14 0x10101bd0 in LyX::LyX (this=0x75e8, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
argv=0x7694) at ../src/lyx_main.C:166
#15 0x10174f74 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7694) at ../src/main.C:31
#16 0x0f920f70 in __libc_start_main (argc=1, ubp_av=0x7694, 
ubp_ev=0x106dff30, auxvec=0x7730, rtld_fini=0xfa31b60 
main_arena, stinfo=0x10563420, stack_on_entry=0xd00) at 
../sysdeps/powerpc/elf/libc-start.c:119

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   Phone (+49) 228 6199571  -  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

[John Levon]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:34:05PM +0200, Albrecht Dre? wrote:

 I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the 
 newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below). 
 my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc 
 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea waht went wrong here? 
 Thanks in advance,

ppc compilers seem to have some nasty bug...

regards
john

Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Albrecht Dreß wrote:
 I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the
 newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below).
 my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc
 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea waht went wrong here?

There is a bug report which might be related:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894

What version of YDL do you have? As I mentioned on bugzilla, I am running LyX 
1.3.2 (qt 3.1.1) on YDL 3.0 (iMac 17 Lamp) without any problems. Compiler is 
gcc 3.2.1

Regards,
Juergen.

Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

[Niklas Werner]

Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2003 21:47 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller:
 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
  I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but
  the newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb
  bt below). my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel
  2.4.20, glibc 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea waht
  went wrong here?

 There is a bug report which might be related:
 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894

 What version of YDL do you have? As I mentioned on bugzilla, I am
 running LyX 1.3.2 (qt 3.1.1) on YDL 3.0 (iMac 17 Lamp) without any
 problems. Compiler is gcc 3.2.1

No problems with gentoo-1.4 on a PowerBook pismo either (gcc-3.2.3, qt­
-3.1.2, glibc-2.3.2).
Xforms and qt both work.
Maybe upgrading the distribution will help? (gcc3 does a much better job  
optimizing ppc-executables anyways)

Those lines:
(this=0x7fffebd8, __in_chrg=2)
 at /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g+
+-3/stl_alloc.h:164
[...]
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-
linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h:443

look, as if you have two versions of gcc (2  3) installed and the 
includes got mixed up... 
includes from gcc3 and libs from gcc2? uuh-ooh, this can't work!

Or you didn't compile Xforms and LyX with the same compiler.

Have fun*

Niklas

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

[Chris Carlen]

Chris Carlen wrote:
I have tried going into math mode, then entering the following:

\[
f: \left(
\begin{split}
y = \\
 f(x) +\\
 +g(x)
\end{split}
\right)
\]
\end{document}
which actually shows what I want in LyX, but then gives LaTeX errors.

It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX math editing in 
depth, which I had hope to avoid by using LyX.

Can someone give me a step-by-step instruction on how to enter an 
equation in LyX using LaTex code that doesn't give errors?  From there I 
will go about learning LaTeX to get the effects I want.  But at this 
point there is something I don't understand about getting LyX to digest 
it in the first place.

In other words, do you go into math mode, or type in ERT mode?

In math mode, the above code turns into LyX WYSIWYM math editing.  This 
is a problem because it is then impossible to see the text LateX code 
underneath.

Clues as to what is going on would be appreciated.

Finally, can \usepackage{amsmath} be used in LyX?


Yes, by putting it in the preamble.

I think I answered most of my question.

Thanks.

--

Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glossary of terms?

[Thomas CLive Richards]

 
 You should take a look to the latex package nomencl. It automatizes
 the glosary creation.
 
I have had a look at this, and have followed the readme instructions to
the letter. Now, when i go to view- PDF, i don't get any errors, but
nothing happens! where's my glossary? i put an ERT in the end of the
document with \printglossary, and I've done everything else
weird..

Also, i run debian, and i can't seem to find a package for the nomencl
latex add-on. I assume it's already installed, otherwise I'd get errors,
right?


-- 

Thomi Richards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: landscape page in a portrait document

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jihène Krichène [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

 Hello everybody
 
 I have a portrait document. I want to put a page in the landscape
 format inside this document. Is it possible to do so ? If yes, please
 tell me how. 

See http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/PS/landscape.phtml.

-- Paul

Re: toggled printing for instructor version

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

 You can define a switch. Write into the preamble:
 \usepackage{ifthen}
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \usepackage[dvips]{color}}

 \newboolean{HIDE}
 \newcommand\invisible
 {\ifthenelse{\boolean{HIDE}}{\color{white}}{}}
 \newcommand\visible
 {\ifthenelse{\boolean{HIDE}}{\color{black}}{}}

 Then you set \unvisible at the begin and \visible at the end of those parts
 that need to be hidden.

 At the begin of the document, you can switch hide mode with this ERT:
 \setboolean{HIDE}{true} %% don`t print hidden text
 or
 \setboolean{HIDE}{false} %% print hidden text

Thank you, Juergen. This is quite useful.

This works for me (using \invisible instead of \unvisible).

I am not sure if it is possible, but it would be great if I could make it
smarter so the blank space could be done at the bottom of the page. Right
now, I use \invisible for my instructor notes, so the student's handouts
now have random white space. Hmmm... even though it looks strange, maybe
this is okay, since they can use that space to take hand-written notes.

Also, it would be cool if the content could be highlighted and there was a
button to toggle \invisible on and off.

Thanks again.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

[Munzir Taha Obeid]

Sometime ago, I tried to write Arabic in lyx but failed to do it. I 
asked in the lyx mailing list and Dekel Tsur, the person behind the support, 
thankfully tried to help me but we couldn't figure out why it didn't work 
for me. He checked my preferences file and the exported TeX file to no avail.

Now, after many many trials I come out to a conclusion which may reflect a bug 
somewhere in lyx, Mandrake, or pdflatex ... you decide!

Resoultion:
-
The problem is that lyx couldn't read a closing LaTeX code after an Arabic 
text.

The problem:
-
I open lyx and wrote some Arabic. View - PDF (pdflatex) gives this error

LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 12 ended by \end{document}.
 \end{document}
   
Your command was ignored.
Type  I command return  to replace it with another command,
or  return  to continue without it.


Not a good workaround:

File - Export - LaTeX
If I run pdflatex on the latex file I got these errors
LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):
[arabic,english].

(./newfile1.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/uxnsh.fd) . . . . / . /
##

! LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 10 ended by \end{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H return  for immediate help.
 ...

l.13 \end{document}

?
.  [1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] (./newfile1.aux)
.
.
.

(\end occurred inside a group at level 1) 
/var/lib/texmf/pk/ljfour/arabtex/xns
h14.600pk
Output written on newfile1.pdf (1 page, 9095 bytes).
Transcript written on newfile1.log.



Why not?
-
The generated file contains the Arabic text plus strange arabic letters at the 
end!!!


Better Workaround:
---
Open the latex file in an editor and add a space before any closing LaTeX code 
within the \begin{arabtext} and the \end{arabtext}. I mean a space should be 
entered before \end{arabtext} and if you have any formatting say you centered 
some text you should go to the latex file and add a space before the 
\end{center} or you get errors like this:

! LaTeX Error: \begin{center} on input line 11 ended by \end{document}.


Have I missed an obvious thing?!

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Re: glossary of terms?

[Andres Becerra Sandoval]

Hello,

I have this in a Makefile to create pdf output with nomencl, maybe it
works for you:

meth.pdf:
lyx -e latex meth.lyx
latex meth.tex
makeindex meth.glo -s nomencl.ist -o meth.gls
lyx -e pdf2 meth.lyx


Andres Becerra.

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Thomas CLive Richards wrote:

 
  You should take a look to the latex package nomencl. It automatizes
  the glosary creation.
 
 I have had a look at this, and have followed the readme instructions to
 the letter. Now, when i go to view- PDF, i don't get any errors, but
 nothing happens! where's my glossary? i put an ERT in the end of the
 document with \printglossary, and I've done everything else
 weird..

 Also, i run debian, and i can't seem to find a package for the nomencl
 latex add-on. I assume it's already installed, otherwise I'd get errors,
 right?


 --

 Thomi Richards,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

[Nirmal Govind]

 It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX math editing in 
 depth, which I had hope to avoid by using LyX.

Yes you can avoid most of the complicated Latex math stuff by using
LyX.. 

 In other words, do you go into math mode, or type in ERT mode?

You go into math mode and then type latex math commands and hit a space
and you should see the result of your latex commands immediately (in
most cases)..  for equations you can use one of the environments that
are listed in Insert - Math.. there are shorcuts to this too I
believe..

 In math mode, the above code turns into LyX WYSIWYM math editing. 
 This is a problem because it is then impossible to see the text LateX
 code underneath.

I guess that was the intention so that one sees the content clearly and
not the code.. but if you want to see the code then you can select the
math stuff and paste into an ERT inset, i.e. do C-l and paste into the
inset and all the code that went into the math that you selected will
show.. hope this helps..

nirmal

list of math shortcuts

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. is there a list of all the math shortcuts somewhere? Some lyx 
configuration file maybe? I found a document on the web by googling
which had some but not all.. for example, how do I get a hat or a tilde
on an existing character? I can select the character with the mouse and
then get the hat or tilde from the Math panel.. Or I can delete the
character and do \tilde - space - character.. I'd like to avoid doing
the latter and hopefully the former if there's some keyboard shortcut
for this... 

Thanks,
nirmal

PS: Sorry if this is a repost.. sending it again cos it looks like my
message from earlier today didn't make it... 

Toolbars

[Jan Peters]

Is there a way to make the icons on the toolbars smaller? I would like 
to create toolbars
which are as close to scientific workplace as possible so that I have 
an easy switch!

Best wishes,
-Jan

Re: Toolbars

[Jan Peters]

Hearing this announcement below, I was wondering: Will we see a Mac OS 
X native version
of LyX soon? If yes, how soon?

Best wishes,
-Jan
Qt/Mac Free Software Edition coming to WWDC 2003
 By Dennis Sellers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
June 17, 2003  5:50 pm ET
Trolltech will release Qt/Mac under the GPL (GNU General Public 
License) at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference. Qt/Mac is the 
Mac port of Qt, a single-source, multiplatform C++ GUI (graphical user 
interface) toolkit that lets applications run natively on Mac OS X, 
Windows, and Linux/Unix, all from the same codebase.

The GPL release of Qt/Mac means that developers of free Mac software 
can use Qt free of charge. Any software produced with the GPL version 
of Qt/Mac (and any derivatives of it) must also be released with full 
source code available under the GPL. Developers who want create 
commercial (proprietary or closed source) software can do so using the 
existing Qt/Mac commercial licenses. (Since it was founded in 1994, 
Trolltech has offered developers both commercial and Free Software 
licensing options).

With the upcoming Qt/Mac GPL release, existing Free Software 
applications developed with Qt/X11 (Linux and various flavors of Unix) 
and Qt/Embedded (embedded Linux), can now be ported to Mac OS X 
platform with a simple recompile. The release of Qt/Mac under the GPL 
also means that Qt Script for Applications (QSA), Trolltech's scripting 
toolkit for Qt-based applications, will be available under a dual 
license on Mac OS X.

WWDC 2003 will be held June 23-27 in San Francisco, Calif.

Vectorstyle

[Jan Peters]

Hi there!

I have three more questions:

1. Is there a way to make the vectors in lyx on screen in bold style, 
e.g., \boldsymbol{} or \bm{}
while still using \vec{} ?

2. Can I configure the font for the large parentheses? On my Mac it 
looks kinda ugly!

3. Why are the subscript characters in a_b so low? Is that due to the 
version of the QT?

Thank you very much!

Jan Peters

Re: \displaysize???

[Chris Carlen]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:00:15AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:

Hi:

Is it possible to use this in LyX?


You can use whatever macro you want...
 

I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the 
rest of my equations, not reduced.  I have fractional expressions in an 
array, and they are in a smaller font when in the array.

I tried to figure out how to enter \displaysize as ERT, but it always 
causes a LaTeX error.


In this case you should try to use \displaystyle. This is even supported
natively by LyX, i.e. shows as larger characters on screen.


Thanks.

Yes I see that \displaystyle makes the fractions large, but then they 
overlap vertically with the other rows of the array.

Any way to fix this?

--

Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: figures at the end of document

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:57:20PM +0200, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
> Thanks, I got it now.
> 
> Also, one more highly technical question.
> 
> > IIRC this is a hard coded TeX limitation.
> 
> What does IIRC stand for?
> 
> Interestingly insofar as robust creativity...?
> I infer regarding this crap... ?

IIRC 'IIRC' stands for 'if I remember correctly'.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: Lighter Version

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:26:41AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> >1 - Is there a lighter version of LyX or a lighter program that works just 
> >like it?
> 
> LyX itself is about as light as you can get -

Well, it isn't. Believe me. LaTeX runs on a 512k DOS machine. LyX certainly
does not.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

[Marcin Bukat]

Hello!
I have two small problems
1.if I do Layout->insert apendix new aded apendix is numbered
  'A Apendix'. I would like to achive 'Apendix A'. How can I do that?
2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have 
capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst 
without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database?

Thanks in advance.
wo

Re: Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

[Angus Leeming]

Marcin Bukat wrote:
> 2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have
> capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst
> without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database?

You must wrap the letters you'd like left alone in {} braces.
Eg "The {N}avier-{S}tokes equations"
I guess that you could wrap the whole thing
"{The Navier-Stokes equations}", but that is just a guess ;-)

-- 
Angus

Re: Lighter Version

[Preben Randhol]

Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/06/2003 (10:54) :
> 
> Never use KDE nor Gnome unless you have 64 MB or so memory.

No unless you have 128 Mb preferably 256 Mb. At least if you look at the
latest versions.

-- 
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 only dangerous, and a significant source of errors, but it also makes
 programs run slower.»
   - James Kanze on comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++.moderated

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Marcus Beyer]

Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> There is a class named cv.cls distributed (and supported) with 
LyX.
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> You just have to move it from /share/lyx/tex/cv.cls to
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> somewhere where latex will find it (as we say when we are too 
lazy to
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> give the whole solution).

That works. Thank you. 

I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX.
Some bytes more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Marcus

external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
is open in LyX:

1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)

For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
crashing lyx.
Thank you very much
Ph. C.
P.S. excuse me if this message is send twice to the list. It seems that
the first time I send it it was not delivred.

Re: external script and lyx

[Angus Leeming]

Charpentier Philippe wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
> a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
> menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
> is open in LyX:
> 
> 1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
> 2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)

Add format "Charpentier" to the list of available formats using the 
Edit->Preferences dialog:
(Qt) File Formats pane
(xforms) Conversion->Formats tab folder

Eg:
Format: charpentier
GUI name: Charpentier
Shortcut:
Extension: chp
Viewer
Press "Modify" and then "Save"

Thereafter, define a converter LaTeX->Charpentier using the
(Qt) Converters pane
(xforms) Conversion->Converters tab folder

> For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
> than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
> crashing lyx.

LyX should not crash. Please send a backtrace so that we can ascertain what 
is going wrong.

Angus

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
> > I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
> > a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
> > menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
> > is open in LyX:
> > 
> > 1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
> > 2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)
> > 
> > For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
> > than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
> > crashing lyx.
> 
> Define a new 'Format' 'vtex' in your preferences.
> Define a viewer for this format.
> Define a converter  'LaTeX -> vtex' (basically the name of your script)
> 
> Andre\

I tried the following:

a new format:

\format "latexx" "tex" "LaTeX-X" ""

a new viewer:

\viewer "latexx" "$HOME/bin/LaTeX"

a new converter:

\converter "latex" "latexx" "$HOME/bin/LaTeX $$i" ""

(with $HOME= my home)

then LaTeX-X appears in the view menu. But I get an error:
the lyx file (file.lyx) is exported to latex format in the temp directory
and my script is simply send on file.tex (without any path) which gives
an error: it can't find it. Is it possible to send TEMPDIR/file.tex
to the script instead of file.tex?

Ph. C.

RE: glossary of terms?

[Remzi Seker]

try 
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/nomencl/nomencl.phtml

If you need an example file let me know.

Remzi


-Original Message-
From: Thomas CLive Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 4:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: glossary of terms?



Is there planned support for a glossary of terms feature like MS Word
has? So, you'd select a word, and click on "glossary item", and then (in
a popup window), enter a description of the word. In the back of your
document, a glossary would build itself...


This would be extremely useful to me, and i have an idea it could be
done with an ERT or two, but i don't know a thing about latex, so that's
of no use to me..

-- 

Thomi Richards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

...
>> For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
>> than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
>> crashing lyx.

>LyX should not crash. Please send a backtrace so that we can ascertain what 
>is going wrong.
>
>Angus

I posted a message on this subject on lyx-devel (on 27 May 2003, subject: Re: LyX and 
vTeX)
here is:

...

I did that for lyx-1.2.3 and lyx-1.3.2. Precisely I wrote

\format "pdf4" "pdf" "PDF (vlatex)" "" (in the FORMATS SECTION)

and

\converter "latex" "pdf4" "/usr/local/vtex/bin/vlatex $$i" "latex" (in the CONVERTERS 
SECTION)

With lyx-1.2.3 all is fine. But with lyx-1.3.2, if there is a latex error in the
document, lyx crashes with the following output:

lyx: /usr/include/g++-3/std/bastring.cc:126: basic_string 
_string::replace (unsigned int, unsigned int, const 
basic_string &, unsigned int, unsigned int) [with charT = 
char, traits = string_char_traits, Allocator = __default_alloc_template]:  l'assertion `!(pos2 > len2)' a échoué.
/home/pcharpen/bin/monlyxqt: line 6:  8816 Abandon

Why?
Ph. C.

More precisely:

the test was made on a RedHat-7.2. Running lyx-1.3.2 with "-dbg latex" gives (with a 
\usepackage{al} in the preamble):

Log line: ! LaTeX Error: File `al.sty' not found.
lyx: /usr/include/g++-3/std/bastring.cc:126: basic_string 
_string::replace (unsigned int, unsigned int, const 
basic_string &, unsigned int, unsigned int) [with charT = 
char, traits = string_char_traits, Allocator = __default_alloc_template]:  l'assertion `!(pos2 > len2)' a échoué.
Abandon

The same test on a RedHat-8.0 gives, for BOTH lyx-1.2.3 and lyx-1.3.2, a crash of lyx 
with:

Log line: ! LaTeX Error: File `al.sty' not found.
Abandon

Is this a bug in LyX?

Ph. C.

.

Ph. C.

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Marcus" == Marcus Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Marcus> That works. Thank you.

Marcus> I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX. Some bytes
Marcus> more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Because I have been too lazy to update this class to ctan (there is a
name conflict with another class too).

JMarc

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

[Matej Cepl]

On 2003-06-17, 10:11 GMT, Marcus Beyer wrote:
> I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX.
> Some bytes more should not matter on 500 MB ...

Probably, because nobody bothered to persuade MiKTeX maintainers, that 
they should them to the distribution. :-)

Matej

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Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:46:31 +0200
Charpentier Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200
> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
> > > I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
> > > a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
> > > menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
> > > is open in LyX:
> > > 
> > > 1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
> > > 2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)
> > > 
> > > For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
> > > than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
> > > crashing lyx.
> > 
> > Define a new 'Format' 'vtex' in your preferences.
> > Define a viewer for this format.
> > Define a converter  'LaTeX -> vtex' (basically the name of your script)
> > 
> > Andre\
> 
> I tried the following:
> 
> a new format:
> 
> \format "latexx" "tex" "LaTeX-X" ""
> 
> a new viewer:
> 
> \viewer "latexx" "$HOME/bin/LaTeX"
> 
> a new converter:
> 
> \converter "latex" "latexx" "$HOME/bin/LaTeX $$i" ""
> 
> (with $HOME= my home)
> 
> then LaTeX-X appears in the view menu. But I get an error:
> the lyx file (file.lyx) is exported to latex format in the temp directory
> and my script is simply send on file.tex (without any path) which gives
> an error: it can't find it. Is it possible to send TEMPDIR/file.tex
> to the script instead of file.tex?
> 
> Ph. C.
> 

It seems that I am wrong.. the script is run on file.tex but probably after a cd
in TEMPDIR (my script needed the path to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the
begening of file.tex, but this is done by lyx in TEMPDIR). Then I have
to modify my script... 
Ph. C.

Lyx problem: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

[guijun]

Hello:

I installed lyx-1.1.6fix4-133.i386.rpm and xforms-0.89-387.i386.rpm
on my computer with SuSe8.2. When I run lyx files, everything went well
except .ps image loading. Actually, it can load some .ps images but
not totally; some .ps images can't be displayed (error message: Render
Error). I also got these warning message:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> lyx Report.lyx
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
Error: Couldn't find per display information
GS [2171] error 256 E:1 1 S:0 0

but when view it as PDF file, all of .ps images are displayed and no
problem. Would you please tell me what is wrong ? How can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Guijun

Re: external script and lyx

[Charpentier Philippe]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:05:32 +0200
Charpentier Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> It seems that I am wrong.. the script is run on file.tex but probably after a cd
> in TEMPDIR (my script needed the path to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the
> begening of file.tex, but this is done by lyx in TEMPDIR). Then I have
> to modify my script... 
> Ph. C.
> 
I just tried that: I wrote a small script which copies TEMPDIR/file.tex in an
other directory and run my original script on that copy. It works, but when
all the colmpilation is finished lyx produce an error message:

Impossible to convert the file
Error while executing
script 'file.tex'

without any particular output. I suppose this is not a real problem.

Ph. C.

Re: external script and lyx

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Charpentier" == Charpentier Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Charpentier> For example, the script would manage the compilation
Charpentier> process (diffrently than LyX do it) in such a way that I
Charpentier> would be able to use vtex without crashing lyx. 

Did you find out exactly why LyX crashes with vtex?

JMarc

\displaysize???

[Chris Carlen]

Hi:

Is it possible to use this in LyX?

I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the 
rest of my equations, not reduced.  I have fractional expressions in an 
array, and they are in a smaller font when in the array.

I tried to figure out how to enter \displaysize as ERT, but it always 
causes a LaTeX error.

Thanks.
--

Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]