Environment Depth question..

[Pierre Marc Dumuid]

Hi All,
I guess this has been asked many a time, but I find the way the 
environment depth thing a bit strange.
I find it wierd that you have to click to "increase the environment 
depth" for each paragraph in an environment.  I.e.


for entering the following into lyx:

1. Non-words
 *  fooblog
 *  lyxlog
 *  laughter
2. test

I have to:
a) choose enumerate
b) Type "Non-words" and press enter
c) click the "Increase environment depth icon in the toolbar
d) Type "fooblog"
e) click the "Increase environment depth icon in the toolbar
f) Type "lyxlog"
g) click the "Increase environment depth icon in the toolbar
h) Type "laughter"
i) Type "test" and press enter

I really find steps (e) and (g) REALLY annoying.  I'd rather it stayed 
at that environment depth when I press return, and have a  "decrease 
envionment depth" option.
It becomes more and more annoying when there are a lot more that 3 items 
within the "environment depth"


Regards,
Pierre

P.S. I'm not on the mailing list, so any comments, please reply to my 
email..

Re: Windows spellchecker for LyX?

[Mark Engelberg]

Ah, that would explain my problem. The Wiki was non-functional the night I 
installed this, so I had no idea about some of these quirky installation 
issues. Maybe this info should also be bundled with the installer?

Anyway, the need to install aspell to c:\ is unfortunate, because the way my 
computer is set up, c:\ is not a drive to which I can install anything. I 
keep everything on f:. Hopefully a future version will correct this.

Thanks for the info!
 
--Mark

On 9/4/05, Milos Komarcevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > OK, I was able to install aspell, and the English dictionary. I still
> > can't figure out how to get LyX to recognize the aspell and the English
> > dictionary. Under the spellchecker menu option, it only shows ispell as
> > the spellchecker (it's grayed out), and when I tried to "browse" for a
> > dictionary, it seemed to be looking for a different kind of file format
> > than what aspell uses.
> 
> AFAIK, it doesn't matter what the setting is in the Win version,
> aspell is always used.
> 
> You installed aspell and the dictionary in C:\Aspell, as per the
> instructions on the Wiki, yes?
> 
> Regards,
> Milos
> 
>

Re: Question

[Leon Chen]

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips

Check the 'Improved PDF viewing'

Note you don't get the pdf through 'export', choose 'view' and then pdflatex. 

Certainly after you set the lyx configuration according the webpage
above. :) because lyx doesn't set it self.

On 04/09/05, Ana Iontcheva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I export lyx file to a pdf or ps file in the
> windows version of lyx 1.3.6?
> The same question for the import?
> 
> The only options for Export were ASCII and custom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Question

[Ana Iontcheva]

How do I export lyx file to a pdf or ps file in the
windows version of lyx 1.3.6?
The same question for the import?

The only options for Export were ASCII and custom





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Re: copying LaTeX text into a LyX document from clipboard

[David Soukal]

> You can do this for mathed but not for the rest of LyX. Eg, typing as
> normal text "$a=b+c$" (without quotes), highlighting the block and
> selecting Insert->Math->Display Formula will convert the code into a
> mathed inset.

Still it would be great, if it were possible to do that with any text. 
Since the functionality is there already for the import... I try to put 
a feature request...




If LyX interprets \textcolor{red}{} as you'd like, why not add a
pre-processor step to your conversion. Something like (untested):

$ sed 's/\\fp{}/\\textcolor{red}{}/g' input.tex > output.tex
$ diff -u input.tex output.tex



Unfortunatelly, LyX does not do that. I was very surprised since color 
text gets exported to LaTeX as \textcolor{} but the import does not 
work. It gets imported as two ERT boxes: one with \textcolor{red}{ and 
the other with the closing brace }.


Thank you,

David

Re: View>Update is greyed-out

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, John E. Harbold wrote:


  I'm using version 1.3.6 to publish my thesis.  When I try to view my
thesis as Postscript, the menu selection, View>Update, is greyed out. What
do I need to do to remedy the problem.


John,

  What happens when you press ctrl-d for the dvi output? Also, have you tried
ctrl-h which runs pdflatex and produces a .pdf file on disk?

Rich

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View>Update is greyed-out

[John E. Harbold]

All,

   I'm using version 1.3.6 to publish my thesis.  When I try to view my 
thesis as Postscript, the menu selection, View>Update, is greyed out.  
What do I need to do to remedy the problem.


John E. Harbold

Re: Problem with math-macro

[Paul A. Rubin]

Srinivas Nedunuri wrote:

Hello, I tried defining a macro as described in the User Guide (the
macrowarg example). However, I get the following erroe message:

Extra }, or forgotten $.
 \newcommand{\macrowarg}[1]{2+\sqrt{#1}}

What is wrong here? The code looks identical to what the User Guide says is
produced.


It is, and it's identical to what I get when I (successfully) define and 
use the example macro.


(BTW, If I try surrounding the macro body with $ (by shifting into math mode
in Lyx) I get a complaint that you can't use #1 inside math mode

The macro definition does not go in math mode, so you were on the right 
track the first time.


The only thing I can think of is that there's a problem earlier in your 
document.


At any rate, here's one way to define the macro.

1.  In the mini-buffer, type 'math-macro macrowarg 1' (without the 
quotes) and hit enter.  The macro definition box should materialize.


2.  In the left entry of the macro definition box, type '2+\sqrt' and, 
inside the argument box for the square root, type '#1' (both again 
without the quotes).


3.  Try typing \macrowarg inside math mode, and enter something in the 
argument box.


If it doesn't work, try posting a minimal document that fails.

Paul

Re: Problem with math-macro

[Paul Smith]

On 9/4/05, Srinivas Nedunuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, I tried defining a macro as described in the User Guide (the
> macrowarg example). However, I get the following erroe message:
> 
> Extra }, or forgotten $.
>  \newcommand{\macrowarg}[1]{2+\sqrt{#1}}
> 
> What is wrong here? The code looks identical to what the User Guide says is
> produced.
> 
> (BTW, If I try surrounding the macro body with $ (by shifting into math mode
> in Lyx) I get a complaint that you can't use #1 inside math mode

Maybe, Srinivas, it is simpler to do the following:

1. write \newcommand{\macrowarg}[1] and select it;

2. crtl+m;

3. insert 2+\sqrt{#1 in the first empty box.

This should work fine.

Paul

Problem with math-macro

[Srinivas Nedunuri]

Hello, I tried defining a macro as described in the User Guide (the
macrowarg example). However, I get the following erroe message:

Extra }, or forgotten $.
 \newcommand{\macrowarg}[1]{2+\sqrt{#1}}

What is wrong here? The code looks identical to what the User Guide says is
produced.

(BTW, If I try surrounding the macro body with $ (by shifting into math mode
in Lyx) I get a complaint that you can't use #1 inside math mode

thanks

Re: copying LaTeX text into a LyX document from clipboard

[Angus Leeming]

David Soukal wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering whether it is possible to paste a well-formated fragment
> of LaTeX code from clipboard into an open document in such a way that
> LyX interprets the LaTeX code being inserted? The standard "paste"
> command will, of course, treat the content as a regular piece of text,
> but I'd like to paste the text interpreted.
> 
> I realize it's possible to import the whole document and then copy the
> fragments from the LyX, but it would come in handy to have the option to
> paste only pieces of LaTeX code without having to do anything else.
> 
> Thanks for any hints.
> David

You can do this for mathed but not for the rest of LyX. Eg, typing as
normal text "$a=b+c$" (without quotes), highlighting the block and
selecting Insert->Math->Display Formula will convert the code into a
mathed inset.

> ps. The reason why I'm asking this is that I'm importing a LaTeX
> document from a co-author of our paper. He defined simple command \fp{}
> which is a synonym for \textcolor{red}{}. The author did that for two
> purposes: 1) to save some keystrokes :), and 2) to mark the portions of
> text that were updated by him.
> 
> While LyX imports the document fine, it doesn't interpret the \fp{}
> command but inserts the \fp{} blocks as ERT boxes which makes half of
> the document uninterpreted and very hardly editable.

If LyX interprets \textcolor{red}{} as you'd like, why not add a
pre-processor step to your conversion. Something like (untested):

$ sed 's/\\fp{}/\\textcolor{red}{}/g' input.tex > output.tex
$ diff -u input.tex output.tex

-- 
Angus

copying LaTeX text into a LyX document from clipboard

[David Soukal]

Hello,

I was wondering whether it is possible to paste a well-formated fragment 
of LaTeX code from clipboard into an open document in such a way that 
LyX interprets the LaTeX code being inserted? The standard "paste" 
command will, of course, treat the content as a regular piece of text, 
but I'd like to paste the text interpreted.


I realize it's possible to import the whole document and then copy the 
fragments from the LyX, but it would come in handy to have the option to 
paste only pieces of LaTeX code without having to do anything else.


Thanks for any hints.

David

ps. The reason why I'm asking this is that I'm importing a LaTeX 
document from a co-author of our paper. He defined simple command \fp{} 
which is a synonym for \textcolor{red}{}. The author did that for two 
purposes: 1) to save some keystrokes :), and 2) to mark the portions of 
text that were updated by him.


While LyX imports the document fine, it doesn't interpret the \fp{} 
command but inserts the \fp{} blocks as ERT boxes which makes half of 
the document uninterpreted and very hardly editable.

Re: Windows spellchecker for LyX?

[Angus Leeming]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

> Mark Engelberg wrote:
>> Thanks for all the help, everyone.  I was able to get the hollywood
>> class in the right place, and it works fine.  But now, the spellchecker
>> is telling me it can't find an en_US wordlist.  How do I get hold of
>> that, and set it up properly with the Windows distribution? (I'm kind of
>> surprised it wasn't automatically installed).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
> You can find the dictionary at http://aspell.net/win32/.  In fact, you
> can find all sorts of dictionaries there.  LyX does not install Aspell,
> in part because on Unix-type platforms you get your choice of which
> spellchecker you want to use.  (On Windows, you can use any one you
> want, as long as it's Aspell.)  Aspell, in turn, installs the software
> but not the dictionary, because you get to pick your language.
> (Although, typically, your parents picked it for you at an early age. 
> :-)

Actually, the reason that it isn't installed automatically is more prosaic:
I ran out of time and energy and we felt it was better to release LyX
1.3.6 some time together with a few notes which you could use to help
yourself rather than to release LyX 1.3.6 maybe oneday...

-- 
Angus

Re: Windows spellchecker for LyX?

[Stephen P. Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Mark Engelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: Windows spellchecker for LyX?



Paul said:

You can find the dictionary at http://aspell.net/win32/.  In fact, you
can find all sorts of dictionaries there.  LyX does not install Aspell,
in part because on Unix-type platforms you get your choice of which
spellchecker you want to use.  (On Windows, you can use any one you
want, as long as it's Aspell.)  Aspell, in turn, installs the software
but not the dictionary, because you get to pick your language.



OK, I was able to install aspell, and the English dictionary.  I still 
can't figure out how to get LyX to recognize the aspell and the English 
dictionary.  Under the spellchecker menu option, it only shows ispell as 
the spellchecker (it's grayed out), and when I tried to "browse" for a 
dictionary, it seemed to be looking for a different kind of file format 
than what aspell uses.


I'm really looking forward to getting this working.  It's exciting to 
finally be able to use LyX on my Windows computer.


Thanks,

Mark




As Milos says you must install Aspell in C:\Aspell.

Put the dictionary and Aspell in C:\Aspell and install to C:\Aspell
It is good practice to install Windows programs with Control Panel,
Add/Remove Programs. It is good practice to avoid installing
LyX and related programs in directories which have spaces such as
C:\Program Files  even though it will often work. Put C:\Aspell in
the Path (read Windows help about how to add to the Path statement).

Maybe you will have to uninstall and reinstall Aspell and dictionary
depending on whether you put them in C:\Aspell to start with.

In Lyx, after the install of Aspell, use Edit -->Reconfigure and
that should enable spell-checking. Put the mouse cursor at
the beginning of the line to be checked. Don't worry about any
reference to Ispell, Aspell will be used when in C:\Aspell

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136

**Things the installer doesn’t do**
The new installer will guide you through many of the steps needed to produce 
a useful

LyX environment, but it doesn’t do everything. Some things it doesn’t do:
 a.. Check for the existence of viewers for your PostScript and PDF 
documents and, if not present, offer to download them;

 b.. Install the Aspell spell checking library and dictionaries;
 c.. Install extra math fonts.
You’ll have to do those things yourself.

PostScript and PDF viewers
 a.. GSView is able to preview both PostScript and PDF documents.
 b.. Adobe’s Acroread is the canonical viewer for PDF documents.

After installing these tools, running Edit→Reconfigure should be enough for 
LyX to find them. (You’ll have to restart LyX for the changes to take 
effect.) It may be, however, that you’ll need to adjust the PATH prefix 
entry in the Paths pane of the Edit→Preferences dialog. Check the Viewer 
entry in the File formats pane of the same dialog to see if a viewer has 
been found.


Spell checking
For spell checking to work in LyX you’ll need to install 
Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and dictionaries such as Aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe 
from the Windows Aspell web site.


These must be installed at C:\Aspell 

Re: Export to html?

[Jose' Matos]

On Saturday 03 September 2005 19:04, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> PD. I've read in list about the accents troubles in spanish language.
> Currenlty, my desktop system is a SuSE 9.3 and the Lyx package provided by
> SuSE/Novell have the same problem. I supose the problem is Qt library is
> compiled with immodule actived but I've tried to install Lyx sources first
> of all. And... surpirse!!! It works fine!!! I've not need to generate a Qt
> with immodule in off.
> I hope this info helps somebody. ;)

  Hola,
we have fixed that in the last version 1.3.6 now it works with or 
without the 
immodule in Qt. :-)

> --
> Salut,
> Jordi Espasa

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Windows spellchecker for LyX?

[Milos Komarcevic]

Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> OK, I was able to install aspell, and the English dictionary.  I still 
> can't figure out how to get LyX to recognize the aspell and the English 
> dictionary.  Under the spellchecker menu option, it only shows ispell as 
> the spellchecker (it's grayed out), and when I tried to "browse" for a 
> dictionary, it seemed to be looking for a different kind of file format 
> than what aspell uses.

AFAIK, it doesn't matter what the setting is in the Win version,
aspell is always used.

You installed aspell and the dictionary in C:\Aspell, as per the 
instructions on the Wiki, yes?

Regards,
Milos