Re: display of greek letters

[Günter Milde]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:38:05PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
 Martijn Brouwer wrote:

  ... when I
  type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red instead of the symbol alpha...

I have a Debian/testing system with lyx 1.3.2 and no greek symbols

After filing a bug report to Debian bugs, I got the hint that there is 
lyx 1.3.3 available as lyx-qt/experimental. 

After installing

  apt-get lyx-qt/experimental lyx-common/experimental latex-xft-fonts

I have a lyx 1.3.3 with math symbols working.

Günter

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 20:09, Sean wrote:
 It's my understanding that with this isn't necessarily true when you
 consider unicode and not just ascii.

  In that case you will use wchar (?) but char use will remain unchanged.

 Sean

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LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Sean wrote:
 It's my understanding that with this isn't necessarily true when you 
 consider unicode and not just ascii.

You would not use 'char' as constituent of a Unicode string then.

'sizeof char' is in C and C++ always equal to one.
[And that's, BTW, independent of the number of bits used for it.]

Andre'

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Nirmal Govind]

Sure, because it doesn't work from the rpm on the cd :) 
What error(s) do you get when you try to install the rpm?

Also, have you tried running a backtrace using gdb? That output may 
help the developers identify the problem (though it doesn't sound 
like a LyX problem).. actually, that output may help folks on the 
Mandrake list.. upon some googling, it seems that other people are 
also having trouble with other programs and this same library..

nirmal

Double Printing

[J or M Montgomery]

Hello folks,
I am just beginning to work with LyX but have encountered a problem.

When I ask for a document to be printed, I always get two copies.

I am using LyX ver 1.2.3  with Mandrake 9.1 and a HP LaserJet 3P printer which 
behaves properly in other situations.
I hope someone can help with this.

John Montgomery

eps and latex2html

[Harald Lichtenstein]

Hi lyx-users,

I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps format.
Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the converted figures.
Any hints are very welcome.

Thanks in advance
-- 
Harald Lichtenstein

version 1.3.3.

[Andrea Rebecchi]

Hi,

Hallo,

maybe can have a binary 1.3.3. for RH7.3 (or may be able to package one for me)

Thanks 
with regards,
Andrea 



From: Nirmal Govind
Subject: Re: version 1.3.3.
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:03:09 -0800

I have Red hat linux 7.2 on my laptop. I want to load lyx 1.3.3 on my
laptop. Can I
do that or should I upgrade my linux version to 8 or higher and then I load
lyx 1.3.3.

Hi... you should be able to compile l.3.3 on your current system. I'm guessing

you checked the bin folder on the lyx ftp site and couldn't find binaries for RH7.2. 
Someone on this list may have a binary for this (or may be able to package one for 
you) and hopefully they'll respond...
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Re: eps and latex2html

[Angus Leeming]

Harald Lichtenstein wrote:

 Hi lyx-users,
 
 I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
 It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps
 format. Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the
 converted figures. Any hints are very welcome.

Yes, I've seen something similar in the recent past. Having said that, 
I seem to remember that latex2html actually generated the png images 
but did not write the html code to display them. Right? That being 
the case, it might be simple enough to write a little script to 
convert the placeholder snippets to the desired html.

Have you asked for help on the latex2html list?

http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html

-- 
Angus

Problem installing new document class

[Sander Klous]

Hi,

I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
I'll give it another try.

I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3

I downloaded the elsart.layout from

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/Docs/InsightDocuments/Latex/amssymb.sty?cvsroot=Insight

I ran lyx-reconfigure.

In the output it says:

+checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no

And I don't get a listing in lyx-document-class.

What's wrong?

Thanks,
Sander

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Sander Klous]

Sorry, I just noticed the replies are in the list only. I have another
question about this though.

I don't have root access, thus cann't touch the tex directory. Is
there anyway of installing these style and class files somewhere else?


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Sander Klous wrote:

 I downloaded the elsart.layout from
 and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

  That's good, Sander.

 In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
 that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

  You'll want to put the .sty and .cls files with others in their
tribe. On
my RH 7.3 system (with LyX-1.3.3) I would put the .sty files in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/ and the .cls file in
/usr/share/texmf/ptex/platex/base/.

  Then, as root, run 'texhash'.

 I ran lyx-reconfigure.

  Run this again, shut-down LyX, and restart it. You should find your
styles
there.

Rich

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Re: eps and latex2html

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:21:58 +0100
From: Harald Lichtenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: eps and latex2html
X-Alcanet-virus-scanned: hARAM0vi003617 at mailrelay2.alcatel.de

Hi lyx-users,

I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps format.
Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the converted figures.
Any hints are very welcome.

Check your latex2html config file.
Unless you state otherwise, latex2html converts figures
to png or gif.
Needd netpbm to work also...

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: LyX and package teubner

[Tobias Hilbricht]

Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 14:57 schrieb Matej Cepl:
 On 2003-10-01, 16:51 GMT, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
  I tried to change the settings under edit/preferences/language, and
  also I tried with entries into format/document/LaTeX preamble, but no
  success.

 What exactly happens, when you copy (VERBATIM!) this into
 Layout/Document/Preamble?

  \usepackage[greek,german]{babel}
  \languageattribute{greek}{polutoniko} -- here is the attribute
  \usepackage{teubner}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
 
  \pagestyle{empty}

 Best,

Matej

Dear Matej, dear readers of this list,
it works putting the lines above into the preamble! Thanks a lot for your 
helpful hints and excuse the delay in answering.

Yours sincerely

Tobias Hilbricht

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Angus Leeming]

Sander Klous wrote:
 +checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no
 
 And I don't get a listing in lyx-document-class.
 
 What's wrong?

LaTeX doesn't know to look in the .lyx directory.
Your directory tree should have
/usr/share/texmf
which contains the 'standard' tex distribution. Note the 'ls-R' file. 
This is generated by runing 'texhash' and contains a listing of all 
files in your /usr/share/texmf directory tree. The tex search engine 
uses this and other, similar files to find stuff.

Personally, I would create
/usr/local/share/texmf
and add the new files to that:
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart.sty
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart12.sty
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart.cls

I'm surprised that you don't have amssymb.sty in your distribution.
$ grep amssymb.sty /usr/share/texmf/ls-R

Assuming that you don't, add it to your local files. Eg:
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/amssymb/amssymb.sty

Finally, from /usr/local/share/texmf, run texhash to update the tex 
database.

HTH,
-- 
Angus

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Nirmal Govind]

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
You need to run texhash to update your tex installation after 
downloading the sty and cls files. Also, you may want to put these 
files in a folder that tex searches (such as your local texmf tree; 
if you don't have one, it may be a good idea to create it). Or you 
can also run texhash from .lyx/layouts/ and it should be able to add 
it to the database. Take a look at Chapter 5 in Customization.lyx 
(Help - Customization) - it deals with these issues.

I ran lyx-reconfigure.

In the output it says:

+checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no
Yeah, the above will hopefully take care of it..

nirmal

Renumbering chapters

[Rich Shepard]

  I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a
new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
than have them renumberd Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

  Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to
assign a specific number to the chapter?

  And, happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S.

TIA,

Rich

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indexing a book

[Ed Sawicki]

I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
solution.

If there's no other solution, here's what I plan:

1. When the book is finished, convert it to ASCII and LaTex.
2. From the ASCII file, create a word list that consists of
   all the words in the book. Pare this list down to only the
   words that should be indexed using some automation and manual
   inspection and editing.
3. Add phrases that should be indexed to the list. I'll have to
   maintain a list of phrases manually as I write the book.
4. Have a script automatically insert indexing markup into the
   LaTeX file.
5. Fix any problems with manual editing of the LaTeX file.
6. Use the marked up LaTeX file to print the final book.

Whenever changes to the book are needed, I modify the LyX
version of the book. When finished, I go to step 1.

Ed Sawicki

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Nirmal Govind]

Btw, there were a whole bunch of replies to your original posting, 
guess you missed them somehow.. the thread is at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10694626182r=1w=2

nirmal

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:51:07PM +0100, Sander Klous wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
 I'll give it another try.
 
 I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3
 
 I downloaded the elsart.layout from
 
 http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/
 
 and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts
 
 In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
 that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

Does LaTeX find it there?

Shouldn't this better go to somewhere else?

Have you run texhash?

Andre'

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:

   I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a
 new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
 than have them renumberd Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
 
   Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to
 assign a specific number to the chapter?
 
One solution is shown here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/ManuallySetChapterNumberInReport

/Christian

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Re: indexing a book

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote:

 The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
 I find annoying.

If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the 
devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the 
index-boxes.

You should include a suggestion for how you think this display on/off-setting 
should to be controlled... in the preferences, on a per document basis,  
through some menu toggle, or a dialog etc? 

/Christian


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Re: indexing a book

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

Subject: indexing a book
From: Ed Sawicki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:05:59 -0800

I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
solution.

Seems to me that a good index need more than simply indexing
words and that index substructuring and typographic control
is quite important, and should be made while writing.
The contents of the index tags is quite important IMHO.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Large Algorithm in Lyx

[Aleksandar Donev]

Hello,

Please include [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies.

I tried to make a replacement environment for large (multipage) algorithms in 
LyX. Here is what I put in the preamble:

%_
\newenvironment{Algorithm}[1] {% caption as parameter 
  \stepcounter{algorithm} 
  \hrule \vspace{1ex} 
  \center{\textbf{Algorithm \thealgorithm : }#1}
  \vspace{1ex} \hrule 
} 
{ \vspace{1ex} \hrule }
%_

This uses the same counter as the floating algorithms and tries to mimic their 
look.

The one thing I am missing is the ability to reduce the font to whatever it is 
inside the floating algorithms. How do I do that?

Also, is there a way to reduce the separation \itesep between list items 
globally? I use enumerated lists in my algorithms and want them to appear 
with less separation between items to make them even smaller.

Thanks,
Aleksandar

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Re: indexing a book

[John Levon]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote:

 I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
 The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
 I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
 indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
 capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
 solution.

Could you please describe your exact problems with the current indexing
feature

john
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questions: selection

[Alfredo Braunstein]

what's selection.mark() / what's the difference with selection.set()?

why the assymetry below (text3.C) -- present in 1.3.x btw :

case LFUN_BEGINNINGBUF:
if (!selection.mark())
clearSelection();
cursorTop();
finishChange(bv);
break;

case LFUN_ENDBUF:
if (selection.mark())
clearSelection();
cursorBottom();
finishChange(bv);
break;

why we use set() sometimes and mark() sometimes for something that seems to
be the same? (e.g.:)

case LFUN_RIGHTSEL:
if (!selection.set())
selection.cursor = cursor;
if (rtl())
cursorLeft(bv);
else
cursorRight(bv);
finishChange(bv, true);
break;


Thanks for any answer, 

Alfredo

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Andres Becerra Sandoval]

Rich,

LaTeX has a command named \includeonly{list-of-chapters} that can be 
useful for this task.

Andres.

En Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:56:45 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi:

  I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into 
a
new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
than have them renumberd Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

  Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies 
to
assign a specific number to the chapter?

  And, happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S.

TIA,

Rich

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Herbert Voß]

Sander Klous wrote:
I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
I'll give it another try.
I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3

I downloaded the elsart.layout from

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from
this is the wrong directory. The right one depends to
the root access and what directories are searched by TeX.
For example on my system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ kpsepath tex
.:/home/voss/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/opt/texlive/texmf-var/tex/generic//:
/opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex/generic//:!!/opt/texlive/texmf/tex/generic//:
/home/voss/texmf/tex///:!!/opt/texlive/texmf-var/tex///:
/opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex///:!!/opt/texlive/texmf/tex///:
/home/voss/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
I have all local files in /opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex/

Another good choice is

/home/voss/texmf/tex/

because you need no root access.

I ran lyx-reconfigure.
this is only important for the layout file. For the TeX part
run first texhash and then reconfigure from within LyX.
Herbert

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Herbert Voß]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a
new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
than have them renumberd Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
  Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to
assign a specific number to the chapter?
\setcounter{chapter}{your number}

at the beginning of your doc.

Herbert

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote:

 One solution is shown here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/ManuallySetChapterNumberInReport

Christian,

  Thanks to you, and those who sent private e-mail with the same solution, I
will not forget the \setcounter{} command again. :-)

Rich

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Re: indexing a book

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote:

 If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the
 devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the
 index-boxes.

Christian, et al.:

  I believe the problem is not that index boxes are displayed, but that they
hide the word or phrase from view. The footnote boxes are the same: there's
a box with a foot label and to read the footnote it is necessary to expand
the box. However, one can read the text without the footnote visible while
writing and editing. Unfortunately, if a lot of words and phrases are marked
for the index then the text becomes difficult to read, or unreadable.

 You should include a suggestion for how you think this display on/off-setting
 should to be controlled... in the preferences, on a per document basis,
 through some menu toggle, or a dialog etc?

  What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked
word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've
used ERT to enter, for example, '\texttrademark{}'. When I view the document
on-screen, I see all but the closing brace.

  If index box entries displayed like this, rather than with the label,
'idx', I think Ed and others (including me) would be delighted.

Thanks,

Rich

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Re: questions: selection

[Nirmal Govind]

We should probably have some sort of a prize for any non-developer 
on this list who can provide a satisfactory answer to Alfredo.. :-)

nirmal

Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
what's selection.mark() / what's the difference with selection.set()?

why the assymetry below (text3.C) -- present in 1.3.x btw :

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi,

First I would say that I have used Suse for the last five years, so my 
knowledge of mandrake is a bit limited. 

I think it is quicker for you to roll out your own compilation of LyX than try 
to find a rpm you can use. You will need to decide if you want a xform or a 
qt frontend. If you do not know which one you want, xforms probably is the 
answer. You can always reconsider :)

Anyway whatever you decide you need the libraries and the development 
libraries installed on your PC before you can commence the compilation.
For xform this means installing:
xforms-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
libforms1-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
libforms1-devel-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm

When these are installed and you have down loaded the lyx-sourcecode, follow 
the instruction in the INSTALL file the comes with the lyx-source:.
The first part of the INSTALL file:

Here the four steps are:
0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.

1) ./configure
 configures LyX to your system. By default, LyX configures
 the xforms frontend, use --with-frontend=qt to build a Qt
 version. You may have to set
  --with-qt-dir=path-to-your-qt-installation to succeed.

2) make
  compiles the program.

3) src/lyx
runs the program so you can check it out.

4) make install
will install it. You can use make install-strip instead
if you want a smaller binary.


I hope this helps. If you get any errors, feel free to ask more question and 
we'll answer them as best as we can.

Ingar

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Johann Haarhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| While on the topic of mailing lists.

| It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
| organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
| indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

| [LyX-users] Re: LyX - Mailing lists

| instead of just

| Re: LyX - Mailing lists.

| Most of the other mailing lists I subscribe to have this ability, and I
| wonder if the administrator of this list would consider implementing
| it.

I know this has now been answered, but I would oppose such a change.

Filter on Return-Path, Mailing-List: or From:


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LyX for Win32

[Matthew Redekopp]

Hello

I'm trying to get going with Lyx Win32 version 1.3.2. I was initially trying to get images to import into Lyx when I lost my DVI viewing capacity. Does anyone know how to get it back?

(p.s. I'm not too learned with DOS and UNIX and all. Please give it to me as if I were an idiot)

Help!

Matthew







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Re: indexing a book

[John Levon]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:

   What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked
 word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've

Not much effort

regards
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DVI Viewer gone missing from menu

[Matthew Redekopp]

I have Lyx 1.3.2 Win32 installed on my Windows XP system and had access the the DVI menu option under "ViewDVI" until I tried editing the file conversion preferences. Now the DVI option is gone and I can't get it back (although Yap is listed with path under the viewer preferences).

Any suggestions?

Also, now that I think of it, can Lyx 1.3.2 be upgraded to 1.3.3 under the Win32 port (without too much unix understanding)?

Matthew
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Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Munzir Taha]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 07:34, Not Pam Green wrote:
 On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:27:02 +0300

 Munzir Taha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:43, Andre Poenitz wrote:
   On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:41:01PM -0800, Not Pam Green wrote:
I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three
attempts gives me this message:
 
  I am using Mandrake 9.2 with LyX 1.3.2 (from the CD's) and it works
  for me perfectly. Will you please explain to me why you installed from
  source or from separate RPMS?

 Sure, because it doesn't work from the rpm on the cd :)

 Did you upgrade from 9.0?
No, it's a fresh intall. I am not sure how can I help you but again I want to 
confirm that lyx 1.3.2 (not 1.3.3 from cooker) which is on the CD works 
without a problem for _me_. Any suggestions?

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Re: indexing a book

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, John Levon wrote:

What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked
  word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've

 Not much effort

john,

  Me: I move that such a change be made.

  Mr. Chairman: Anyone second the motion?

:-)

Rich

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Re: display of greek letters

[Günter Milde]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:38:05PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
 Martijn Brouwer wrote:

  ... when I
  type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red instead of the symbol alpha...

I have a Debian/testing system with lyx 1.3.2 and no greek symbols

After filing a bug report to Debian bugs, I got the hint that there is 
lyx 1.3.3 available as lyx-qt/experimental. 

After installing

  apt-get lyx-qt/experimental lyx-common/experimental latex-xft-fonts

I have a lyx 1.3.3 with math symbols working.

Günter

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 20:09, Sean wrote:
 It's my understanding that with this isn't necessarily true when you
 consider unicode and not just ascii.

  In that case you will use wchar (?) but char use will remain unchanged.

 Sean

-- 
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LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Sean wrote:
 It's my understanding that with this isn't necessarily true when you 
 consider unicode and not just ascii.

You would not use 'char' as constituent of a Unicode string then.

'sizeof char' is in C and C++ always equal to one.
[And that's, BTW, independent of the number of bits used for it.]

Andre'

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Nirmal Govind]

Sure, because it doesn't work from the rpm on the cd :) 
What error(s) do you get when you try to install the rpm?

Also, have you tried running a backtrace using gdb? That output may 
help the developers identify the problem (though it doesn't sound 
like a LyX problem).. actually, that output may help folks on the 
Mandrake list.. upon some googling, it seems that other people are 
also having trouble with other programs and this same library..

nirmal

Double Printing

[J or M Montgomery]

Hello folks,
I am just beginning to work with LyX but have encountered a problem.

When I ask for a document to be printed, I always get two copies.

I am using LyX ver 1.2.3  with Mandrake 9.1 and a HP LaserJet 3P printer which 
behaves properly in other situations.
I hope someone can help with this.

John Montgomery

eps and latex2html

[Harald Lichtenstein]

Hi lyx-users,

I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps format.
Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the converted figures.
Any hints are very welcome.

Thanks in advance
-- 
Harald Lichtenstein

version 1.3.3.

[Andrea Rebecchi]

Hi,

Hallo,

maybe can have a binary 1.3.3. for RH7.3 (or may be able to package one for me)

Thanks 
with regards,
Andrea 



From: Nirmal Govind
Subject: Re: version 1.3.3.
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:03:09 -0800

I have Red hat linux 7.2 on my laptop. I want to load lyx 1.3.3 on my
laptop. Can I
do that or should I upgrade my linux version to 8 or higher and then I load
lyx 1.3.3.

Hi... you should be able to compile l.3.3 on your current system. I'm guessing

you checked the bin folder on the lyx ftp site and couldn't find binaries for RH7.2. 
Someone on this list may have a binary for this (or may be able to package one for 
you) and hopefully they'll respond...
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Re: eps and latex2html

[Angus Leeming]

Harald Lichtenstein wrote:

 Hi lyx-users,
 
 I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
 It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps
 format. Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the
 converted figures. Any hints are very welcome.

Yes, I've seen something similar in the recent past. Having said that, 
I seem to remember that latex2html actually generated the png images 
but did not write the html code to display them. Right? That being 
the case, it might be simple enough to write a little script to 
convert the placeholder snippets to the desired html.

Have you asked for help on the latex2html list?

http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html

-- 
Angus

Problem installing new document class

[Sander Klous]

Hi,

I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
I'll give it another try.

I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3

I downloaded the elsart.layout from

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/Docs/InsightDocuments/Latex/amssymb.sty?cvsroot=Insight

I ran lyx-reconfigure.

In the output it says:

+checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no

And I don't get a listing in lyx-document-class.

What's wrong?

Thanks,
Sander

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Sander Klous]

Sorry, I just noticed the replies are in the list only. I have another
question about this though.

I don't have root access, thus cann't touch the tex directory. Is
there anyway of installing these style and class files somewhere else?


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Sander Klous wrote:

 I downloaded the elsart.layout from
 and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

  That's good, Sander.

 In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
 that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

  You'll want to put the .sty and .cls files with others in their
tribe. On
my RH 7.3 system (with LyX-1.3.3) I would put the .sty files in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/ and the .cls file in
/usr/share/texmf/ptex/platex/base/.

  Then, as root, run 'texhash'.

 I ran lyx-reconfigure.

  Run this again, shut-down LyX, and restart it. You should find your
styles
there.

Rich

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Re: eps and latex2html

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:21:58 +0100
From: Harald Lichtenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: eps and latex2html
X-Alcanet-virus-scanned: hARAM0vi003617 at mailrelay2.alcatel.de

Hi lyx-users,

I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps format.
Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the converted figures.
Any hints are very welcome.

Check your latex2html config file.
Unless you state otherwise, latex2html converts figures
to png or gif.
Needd netpbm to work also...

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: LyX and package teubner

[Tobias Hilbricht]

Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 14:57 schrieb Matej Cepl:
 On 2003-10-01, 16:51 GMT, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
  I tried to change the settings under edit/preferences/language, and
  also I tried with entries into format/document/LaTeX preamble, but no
  success.

 What exactly happens, when you copy (VERBATIM!) this into
 Layout/Document/Preamble?

  \usepackage[greek,german]{babel}
  \languageattribute{greek}{polutoniko} -- here is the attribute
  \usepackage{teubner}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
 
  \pagestyle{empty}

 Best,

Matej

Dear Matej, dear readers of this list,
it works putting the lines above into the preamble! Thanks a lot for your 
helpful hints and excuse the delay in answering.

Yours sincerely

Tobias Hilbricht

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Angus Leeming]

Sander Klous wrote:
 +checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no
 
 And I don't get a listing in lyx-document-class.
 
 What's wrong?

LaTeX doesn't know to look in the .lyx directory.
Your directory tree should have
/usr/share/texmf
which contains the 'standard' tex distribution. Note the 'ls-R' file. 
This is generated by runing 'texhash' and contains a listing of all 
files in your /usr/share/texmf directory tree. The tex search engine 
uses this and other, similar files to find stuff.

Personally, I would create
/usr/local/share/texmf
and add the new files to that:
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart.sty
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart12.sty
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart.cls

I'm surprised that you don't have amssymb.sty in your distribution.
$ grep amssymb.sty /usr/share/texmf/ls-R

Assuming that you don't, add it to your local files. Eg:
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/amssymb/amssymb.sty

Finally, from /usr/local/share/texmf, run texhash to update the tex 
database.

HTH,
-- 
Angus

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Nirmal Govind]

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
You need to run texhash to update your tex installation after 
downloading the sty and cls files. Also, you may want to put these 
files in a folder that tex searches (such as your local texmf tree; 
if you don't have one, it may be a good idea to create it). Or you 
can also run texhash from .lyx/layouts/ and it should be able to add 
it to the database. Take a look at Chapter 5 in Customization.lyx 
(Help - Customization) - it deals with these issues.

I ran lyx-reconfigure.

In the output it says:

+checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no
Yeah, the above will hopefully take care of it..

nirmal

Renumbering chapters

[Rich Shepard]

  I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a
new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
than have them renumberd Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

  Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to
assign a specific number to the chapter?

  And, happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S.

TIA,

Rich

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http://www.appl-ecosys.com

indexing a book

[Ed Sawicki]

I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
solution.

If there's no other solution, here's what I plan:

1. When the book is finished, convert it to ASCII and LaTex.
2. From the ASCII file, create a word list that consists of
   all the words in the book. Pare this list down to only the
   words that should be indexed using some automation and manual
   inspection and editing.
3. Add phrases that should be indexed to the list. I'll have to
   maintain a list of phrases manually as I write the book.
4. Have a script automatically insert indexing markup into the
   LaTeX file.
5. Fix any problems with manual editing of the LaTeX file.
6. Use the marked up LaTeX file to print the final book.

Whenever changes to the book are needed, I modify the LyX
version of the book. When finished, I go to step 1.

Ed Sawicki

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Nirmal Govind]

Btw, there were a whole bunch of replies to your original posting, 
guess you missed them somehow.. the thread is at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10694626182r=1w=2

nirmal

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:51:07PM +0100, Sander Klous wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
 I'll give it another try.
 
 I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3
 
 I downloaded the elsart.layout from
 
 http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/
 
 and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts
 
 In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
 that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

Does LaTeX find it there?

Shouldn't this better go to somewhere else?

Have you run texhash?

Andre'

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:

   I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a
 new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
 than have them renumberd Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
 
   Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to
 assign a specific number to the chapter?
 
One solution is shown here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/ManuallySetChapterNumberInReport

/Christian

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Re: indexing a book

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote:

 The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
 I find annoying.

If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the 
devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the 
index-boxes.

You should include a suggestion for how you think this display on/off-setting 
should to be controlled... in the preferences, on a per document basis,  
through some menu toggle, or a dialog etc? 

/Christian


-- 
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Re: indexing a book

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

Subject: indexing a book
From: Ed Sawicki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:05:59 -0800

I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
solution.

Seems to me that a good index need more than simply indexing
words and that index substructuring and typographic control
is quite important, and should be made while writing.
The contents of the index tags is quite important IMHO.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Large Algorithm in Lyx

[Aleksandar Donev]

Hello,

Please include [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies.

I tried to make a replacement environment for large (multipage) algorithms in 
LyX. Here is what I put in the preamble:

%_
\newenvironment{Algorithm}[1] {% caption as parameter 
  \stepcounter{algorithm} 
  \hrule \vspace{1ex} 
  \center{\textbf{Algorithm \thealgorithm : }#1}
  \vspace{1ex} \hrule 
} 
{ \vspace{1ex} \hrule }
%_

This uses the same counter as the floating algorithms and tries to mimic their 
look.

The one thing I am missing is the ability to reduce the font to whatever it is 
inside the floating algorithms. How do I do that?

Also, is there a way to reduce the separation \itesep between list items 
globally? I use enumerated lists in my algorithms and want them to appear 
with less separation between items to make them even smaller.

Thanks,
Aleksandar

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Re: indexing a book

[John Levon]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote:

 I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
 The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
 I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
 indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
 capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
 solution.

Could you please describe your exact problems with the current indexing
feature

john
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questions: selection

[Alfredo Braunstein]

what's selection.mark() / what's the difference with selection.set()?

why the assymetry below (text3.C) -- present in 1.3.x btw :

case LFUN_BEGINNINGBUF:
if (!selection.mark())
clearSelection();
cursorTop();
finishChange(bv);
break;

case LFUN_ENDBUF:
if (selection.mark())
clearSelection();
cursorBottom();
finishChange(bv);
break;

why we use set() sometimes and mark() sometimes for something that seems to
be the same? (e.g.:)

case LFUN_RIGHTSEL:
if (!selection.set())
selection.cursor = cursor;
if (rtl())
cursorLeft(bv);
else
cursorRight(bv);
finishChange(bv, true);
break;


Thanks for any answer, 

Alfredo

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Andres Becerra Sandoval]

Rich,

LaTeX has a command named \includeonly{list-of-chapters} that can be 
useful for this task.

Andres.

En Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:56:45 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi:

  I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into 
a
new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
than have them renumberd Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

  Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies 
to
assign a specific number to the chapter?

  And, happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S.

TIA,

Rich

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Herbert Voß]

Sander Klous wrote:
I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
I'll give it another try.
I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3

I downloaded the elsart.layout from

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from
this is the wrong directory. The right one depends to
the root access and what directories are searched by TeX.
For example on my system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ kpsepath tex
.:/home/voss/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/opt/texlive/texmf-var/tex/generic//:
/opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex/generic//:!!/opt/texlive/texmf/tex/generic//:
/home/voss/texmf/tex///:!!/opt/texlive/texmf-var/tex///:
/opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex///:!!/opt/texlive/texmf/tex///:
/home/voss/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
I have all local files in /opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex/

Another good choice is

/home/voss/texmf/tex/

because you need no root access.

I ran lyx-reconfigure.
this is only important for the layout file. For the TeX part
run first texhash and then reconfigure from within LyX.
Herbert

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Herbert Voß]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a
new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
than have them renumberd Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
  Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to
assign a specific number to the chapter?
\setcounter{chapter}{your number}

at the beginning of your doc.

Herbert

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote:

 One solution is shown here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/ManuallySetChapterNumberInReport

Christian,

  Thanks to you, and those who sent private e-mail with the same solution, I
will not forget the \setcounter{} command again. :-)

Rich

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Re: indexing a book

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote:

 If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the
 devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the
 index-boxes.

Christian, et al.:

  I believe the problem is not that index boxes are displayed, but that they
hide the word or phrase from view. The footnote boxes are the same: there's
a box with a foot label and to read the footnote it is necessary to expand
the box. However, one can read the text without the footnote visible while
writing and editing. Unfortunately, if a lot of words and phrases are marked
for the index then the text becomes difficult to read, or unreadable.

 You should include a suggestion for how you think this display on/off-setting
 should to be controlled... in the preferences, on a per document basis,
 through some menu toggle, or a dialog etc?

  What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked
word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've
used ERT to enter, for example, '\texttrademark{}'. When I view the document
on-screen, I see all but the closing brace.

  If index box entries displayed like this, rather than with the label,
'idx', I think Ed and others (including me) would be delighted.

Thanks,

Rich

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Re: questions: selection

[Nirmal Govind]

We should probably have some sort of a prize for any non-developer 
on this list who can provide a satisfactory answer to Alfredo.. :-)

nirmal

Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
what's selection.mark() / what's the difference with selection.set()?

why the assymetry below (text3.C) -- present in 1.3.x btw :

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi,

First I would say that I have used Suse for the last five years, so my 
knowledge of mandrake is a bit limited. 

I think it is quicker for you to roll out your own compilation of LyX than try 
to find a rpm you can use. You will need to decide if you want a xform or a 
qt frontend. If you do not know which one you want, xforms probably is the 
answer. You can always reconsider :)

Anyway whatever you decide you need the libraries and the development 
libraries installed on your PC before you can commence the compilation.
For xform this means installing:
xforms-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
libforms1-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
libforms1-devel-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm

When these are installed and you have down loaded the lyx-sourcecode, follow 
the instruction in the INSTALL file the comes with the lyx-source:.
The first part of the INSTALL file:

Here the four steps are:
0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.

1) ./configure
 configures LyX to your system. By default, LyX configures
 the xforms frontend, use --with-frontend=qt to build a Qt
 version. You may have to set
  --with-qt-dir=path-to-your-qt-installation to succeed.

2) make
  compiles the program.

3) src/lyx
runs the program so you can check it out.

4) make install
will install it. You can use make install-strip instead
if you want a smaller binary.


I hope this helps. If you get any errors, feel free to ask more question and 
we'll answer them as best as we can.

Ingar

Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Johann Haarhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| While on the topic of mailing lists.

| It would be much easier for me (and I hope some other people) to
| organize my inbox if the subject lines on the lyx lists would give an
| indication of which mailing list the post came from, e.g.

| [LyX-users] Re: LyX - Mailing lists

| instead of just

| Re: LyX - Mailing lists.

| Most of the other mailing lists I subscribe to have this ability, and I
| wonder if the administrator of this list would consider implementing
| it.

I know this has now been answered, but I would oppose such a change.

Filter on Return-Path, Mailing-List: or From:


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LyX for Win32

[Matthew Redekopp]

Hello

I'm trying to get going with Lyx Win32 version 1.3.2. I was initially trying to get images to import into Lyx when I lost my DVI viewing capacity. Does anyone know how to get it back?

(p.s. I'm not too learned with DOS and UNIX and all. Please give it to me as if I were an idiot)

Help!

Matthew







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Re: indexing a book

[John Levon]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:

   What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked
 word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've

Not much effort

regards
john
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If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

DVI Viewer gone missing from menu

[Matthew Redekopp]

I have Lyx 1.3.2 Win32 installed on my Windows XP system and had access the the DVI menu option under "ViewDVI" until I tried editing the file conversion preferences. Now the DVI option is gone and I can't get it back (although Yap is listed with path under the viewer preferences).

Any suggestions?

Also, now that I think of it, can Lyx 1.3.2 be upgraded to 1.3.3 under the Win32 port (without too much unix understanding)?

Matthew
B.C., Canada







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Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Munzir Taha]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 07:34, Not Pam Green wrote:
 On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:27:02 +0300

 Munzir Taha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:43, Andre Poenitz wrote:
   On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:41:01PM -0800, Not Pam Green wrote:
I have installed Lyx from two seperate RPMs and have compiled from
source using QT. Attempting to run it under each of the three
attempts gives me this message:
 
  I am using Mandrake 9.2 with LyX 1.3.2 (from the CD's) and it works
  for me perfectly. Will you please explain to me why you installed from
  source or from separate RPMS?

 Sure, because it doesn't work from the rpm on the cd :)

 Did you upgrade from 9.0?
No, it's a fresh intall. I am not sure how can I help you but again I want to 
confirm that lyx 1.3.2 (not 1.3.3 from cooker) which is on the CD works 
without a problem for _me_. Any suggestions?

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Re: indexing a book

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, John Levon wrote:

What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked
  word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've

 Not much effort

john,

  Me: I move that such a change be made.

  Mr. Chairman: Anyone second the motion?

:-)

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Re: display of greek letters

[Günter Milde]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:38:05PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Martijn Brouwer wrote:

> > ... when I
> > type \alpha, I see 'alpha' in red instead of the symbol alpha...

I have a Debian/testing system with lyx 1.3.2 and no greek symbols

After filing a bug report to Debian bugs, I got the hint that there is 
lyx 1.3.3 available as lyx-qt/experimental. 

After installing

  apt-get lyx-qt/experimental lyx-common/experimental latex-xft-fonts

I have a lyx 1.3.3 with math symbols working.

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Jose' Matos]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 20:09, Sean wrote:
> It's my understanding that with this isn't necessarily true when you
> consider unicode and not just ascii.

  In that case you will use wchar (?) but char use will remain unchanged.

> Sean

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Re: LyX - Mailing Lists

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> It's my understanding that with this isn't necessarily true when you 
> consider unicode and not just ascii.

You would not use 'char' as constituent of a Unicode string then.

'sizeof char' is in C and C++ always equal to one.
[And that's, BTW, independent of the number of bits used for it.]

Andre'

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

[Nirmal Govind]

Sure, because it doesn't work from the rpm on the cd :) 
What error(s) do you get when you try to install the rpm?

Also, have you tried running a backtrace using gdb? That output may 
help the developers identify the problem (though it doesn't sound 
like a LyX problem).. actually, that output may help folks on the 
Mandrake list.. upon some googling, it seems that other people are 
also having trouble with other programs and this same library..

nirmal

Double Printing

[J or M Montgomery]

Hello folks,
I am just beginning to work with LyX but have encountered a problem.

When I ask for a document to be printed, I always get two copies.

I am using LyX ver 1.2.3  with Mandrake 9.1 and a HP LaserJet 3P printer which 
behaves properly in other situations.
I hope someone can help with this.

John Montgomery

eps and latex2html

[Harald Lichtenstein]

Hi lyx-users,

I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps format.
Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the converted figures.
Any hints are very welcome.

Thanks in advance
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version 1.3.3.

[Andrea Rebecchi]

Hi,

Hallo,

maybe can have a binary 1.3.3. for RH7.3 (or may be able to package one for me)

Thanks 
with regards,
Andrea 



From: Nirmal Govind
Subject: Re: version 1.3.3.
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:03:09 -0800

I have Red hat linux 7.2 on my laptop. I want to load lyx 1.3.3 on my
laptop. Can I
do that or should I upgrade my linux version to 8 or higher and then I load
lyx 1.3.3.

Hi... you should be able to compile l.3.3 on your current system. I'm guessing

you checked the bin folder on the lyx ftp site and couldn't find binaries for RH7.2. 
Someone on this list may have a binary for this (or may be able to package one for 
you) and hopefully they'll respond...
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Re: eps and latex2html

[Angus Leeming]

Harald Lichtenstein wrote:

> Hi lyx-users,
> 
> I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
> It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps
> format. Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the
> converted figures. Any hints are very welcome.

Yes, I've seen something similar in the recent past. Having said that, 
I seem to remember that latex2html actually generated the png images 
but did not write the html code to display them. Right? That being 
the case, it might be simple enough to write a little script to 
convert the placeholder snippets to the desired html.

Have you asked for help on the latex2html list?

http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html

-- 
Angus

Problem installing new document class

[Sander Klous]

Hi,

I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
I'll give it another try.

I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3

I downloaded the elsart.layout from

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/Docs/InsightDocuments/Latex/amssymb.sty?cvsroot=Insight

I ran lyx->reconfigure.

In the output it says:

+checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no

And I don't get a listing in lyx->document->class.

What's wrong?

Thanks,
Sander

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Sander Klous]

Sorry, I just noticed the replies are in the list only. I have another
question about this though.

I don't have root access, thus cann't touch the tex directory. Is
there anyway of installing these style and class files somewhere else?


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Sander Klous wrote:

> I downloaded the elsart.layout from
> and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

  That's good, Sander.

> In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
> that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

  You'll want to put the .sty and .cls files with others in their
tribe. On
my RH 7.3 system (with LyX-1.3.3) I would put the .sty files in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/ and the .cls file in
/usr/share/texmf/ptex/platex/base/.

  Then, as root, run 'texhash'.

> I ran lyx->reconfigure.

  Run this again, shut-down LyX, and restart it. You should find your
styles
there.

Rich

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Re: eps and latex2html

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

>>Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:21:58 +0100
>>From: Harald Lichtenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: eps and latex2html
>>X-Alcanet-virus-scanned: hARAM0vi003617 at mailrelay2.alcatel.de
>>
>>Hi lyx-users,
>>
>>I would like to export my LyX book to HTML, using latex2html.
>>It works, except the conversion of the figures, which are in eps format.
>>Opening a web browser shows placeholders, instead of the converted figures.
>>Any hints are very welcome.

Check your latex2html config file.
Unless you state otherwise, latex2html converts figures
to png or gif.
Needd netpbm to work also...

-- 
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Re: LyX and package teubner

[Tobias Hilbricht]

Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 14:57 schrieb Matej Cepl:
> On 2003-10-01, 16:51 GMT, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> > I tried to change the settings under edit/preferences/language, and
> > also I tried with entries into format/document/LaTeX preamble, but no
> > success.
>
> What exactly happens, when you copy (VERBATIM!) this into
> Layout/Document/Preamble?
>
> > \usepackage[greek,german]{babel}
> > \languageattribute{greek}{polutoniko} <-- here is the attribute
> > \usepackage{teubner}
> > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> > \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
> >
> > \pagestyle{empty}
>
> Best,
>
>Matej

Dear Matej, dear readers of this list,
it works putting the lines above into the preamble! Thanks a lot for your 
helpful hints and excuse the delay in answering.

Yours sincerely

Tobias Hilbricht

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Angus Leeming]

Sander Klous wrote:
> +checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no
> 
> And I don't get a listing in lyx->document->class.
> 
> What's wrong?

LaTeX doesn't know to look in the .lyx directory.
Your directory tree should have
/usr/share/texmf
which contains the 'standard' tex distribution. Note the 'ls-R' file. 
This is generated by runing 'texhash' and contains a listing of all 
files in your /usr/share/texmf directory tree. The tex search engine 
uses this and other, similar files to find stuff.

Personally, I would create
/usr/local/share/texmf
and add the new files to that:
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart.sty
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart12.sty
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/elsart/elsart.cls

I'm surprised that you don't have amssymb.sty in your distribution.
$ grep amssymb.sty /usr/share/texmf/ls-R

Assuming that you don't, add it to your local files. Eg:
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/amssymb/amssymb.sty

Finally, from /usr/local/share/texmf, run texhash to update the tex 
database.

HTH,
-- 
Angus

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Nirmal Govind]

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
You need to run texhash to update your tex installation after 
downloading the sty and cls files. Also, you may want to put these 
files in a folder that tex searches (such as your local texmf tree; 
if you don't have one, it may be a good idea to create it). Or you 
can also run texhash from .lyx/layouts/ and it should be able to add 
it to the database. Take a look at Chapter 5 in Customization.lyx 
(Help -> Customization) - it deals with these issues.

I ran lyx->reconfigure.

In the output it says:

+checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no
Yeah, the above will hopefully take care of it..

nirmal

Renumbering chapters

[Rich Shepard]

  I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a
new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
than have them renumberd "Chapter 1" and "Chapter 2".

  Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to
assign a specific number to the chapter?

  And, happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S.

TIA,

Rich

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indexing a book

[Ed Sawicki]

I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
solution.

If there's no other solution, here's what I plan:

1. When the book is finished, convert it to ASCII and LaTex.
2. From the ASCII file, create a word list that consists of
   all the words in the book. Pare this list down to only the
   words that should be indexed using some automation and manual
   inspection and editing.
3. Add phrases that should be indexed to the list. I'll have to
   maintain a list of phrases manually as I write the book.
4. Have a script automatically insert indexing markup into the
   LaTeX file.
5. Fix any problems with manual editing of the LaTeX file.
6. Use the marked up LaTeX file to print the final book.

Whenever changes to the book are needed, I modify the LyX
version of the book. When finished, I go to step 1.

Ed Sawicki

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Nirmal Govind]

Btw, there were a whole bunch of replies to your original posting, 
guess you missed them somehow.. the thread is at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10694626182=1=2

nirmal

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:51:07PM +0100, Sander Klous wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
> I'll give it another try.
> 
> I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3
> 
> I downloaded the elsart.layout from
> 
> http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/
> 
> and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts
> 
> In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
> that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from

Does LaTeX find it there?

Shouldn't this better go to somewhere else?

Have you run texhash?

Andre'

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a
> new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
> than have them renumberd "Chapter 1" and "Chapter 2".
> 
>   Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to
> assign a specific number to the chapter?
> 
One solution is shown here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/ManuallySetChapterNumberInReport

/Christian

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Re: indexing a book

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote:

> The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
> I find annoying.

If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the 
devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the 
index-boxes.

You should include a suggestion for how you think this display on/off-setting 
should to be controlled... in the preferences, on a per document basis,  
through some menu toggle, or a dialog etc? 

/Christian


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Re: indexing a book

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

>>Subject: indexing a book
>>From: Ed Sawicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:05:59 -0800
>>
>>I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
>>The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
>>I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
>>indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
>>capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
>>solution.

Seems to me that a good index need more than simply indexing
words and that index substructuring and typographic control
is quite important, and should be made while writing.
The contents of the index tags is quite important IMHO.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Large Algorithm in Lyx

[Aleksandar Donev]

Hello,

Please include [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies.

I tried to make a replacement environment for large (multipage) algorithms in 
LyX. Here is what I put in the preamble:

%_
\newenvironment{Algorithm}[1] {% caption as parameter 
  \stepcounter{algorithm} 
  \hrule \vspace{1ex} 
  \center{\textbf{Algorithm \thealgorithm : }#1}
  \vspace{1ex} \hrule 
} 
{ \vspace{1ex} \hrule }
%_

This uses the same counter as the floating algorithms and tries to mimic their 
look.

The one thing I am missing is the ability to reduce the font to whatever it is 
inside the floating algorithms. How do I do that?

Also, is there a way to reduce the separation \itesep between list items 
globally? I use enumerated lists in my algorithms and want them to appear 
with less separation between items to make them even smaller.

Thanks,
Aleksandar

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Re: indexing a book

[John Levon]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote:

> I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created.
> The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that
> I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make
> indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a
> capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a
> solution.

Could you please describe your exact problems with the current indexing
feature

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questions: selection

[Alfredo Braunstein]

what's selection.mark() / what's the difference with selection.set()?

why the assymetry below (text3.C) -- present in 1.3.x btw :

case LFUN_BEGINNINGBUF:
if (!selection.mark())
clearSelection();
cursorTop();
finishChange(bv);
break;

case LFUN_ENDBUF:
if (selection.mark())
clearSelection();
cursorBottom();
finishChange(bv);
break;

why we use set() sometimes and mark() sometimes for something that seems to
be the same? (e.g.:)

case LFUN_RIGHTSEL:
if (!selection.set())
selection.cursor = cursor;
if (rtl())
cursorLeft(bv);
else
cursorRight(bv);
finishChange(bv, true);
break;


Thanks for any answer, 

Alfredo

Re: Renumbering chapters

[Andres Becerra Sandoval]

Rich,

LaTeX has a command named \includeonly{list-of-chapters} that can be 
useful for this task.

Andres.

En Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:56:45 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribiÃÂ:

  I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into 
a
new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather
than have them renumberd "Chapter 1" and "Chapter 2".

  Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies 
to
assign a specific number to the chapter?

  And, happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S.

TIA,

Rich

Re: Problem installing new document class

[Herbert Voß]

Sander Klous wrote:
I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So
I'll give it another try.
I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3

I downloaded the elsart.layout from

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts

In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls
that I downloaded from elsevier and amssymb.sty that I downloaded from
this is the wrong directory. The right one depends to
the root access and what directories are searched by TeX.
For example on my system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> kpsepath tex
.:/home/voss/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/opt/texlive/texmf-var/tex/generic//:
/opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex/generic//:!!/opt/texlive/texmf/tex/generic//:
/home/voss/texmf/tex///:!!/opt/texlive/texmf-var/tex///:
/opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex///:!!/opt/texlive/texmf/tex///:
/home/voss/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>
I have all local files in /opt/texlive/texmf-local/tex/

Another good choice is

/home/voss/texmf/tex/

because you need no root access.

I ran lyx->reconfigure.
this is only important for the layout file. For the TeX part
run first texhash and then reconfigure from within LyX.
Herbert