Re: LyX and Mathematica

[Georg Baum]

Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote:

 Hi All!
 
 I am asking a question on the list because I could not find anywhere any
 information about integrating LyX and Mathematica.
 
 I am using W2K OS, LyX 1.3.6-1 and Mathematica 4.1. What exactly have I to
 do in order to be able to use (math-extern mathematica) function?
 Script configure does not have an entry for Mathematica, however I have
 tried adding a path to Mathematica binaries to the LyX paths...
 Unfortunately nothing happens...

The reason is that the mathematica interface is only halfway implemented. So
unless you finish the implementation it will not work. :-(


Georg

tex2lyx problems

[Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez]

Hola,

I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I 
want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx 
document I have.


The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only 
works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail 
list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more 
powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in 
fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and 
used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a 
lyx file.


But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1) 
it says, more or less, the file was created with a newer version of lyx, 
and it's not possible to read.


Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called 
lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5 
version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the 
lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with


http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx

python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I 
should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know 
exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx 
generated file for the 1.4 version. Has anybody has the same problem ? Is 
it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I 
obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?


If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx 
although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?


Thanks.

Horacio.

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 10:52, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:
 Hola,

  Hola, :-)

 I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I
 want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx
 document I have.

 The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only
 works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail
 list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more
 powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in
 fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and
 used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a
 lyx file.

 But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1)
 it says, more or less, the file was created with a newer version of lyx,
 and it's not possible to read.

  Is not there a 1.3.6 for suse 9.1?

 Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called
 lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5
 version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the
 lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with

 http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx

 python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

  It should be:

$ python PATH/TO/lyx2lyx --to=221 --output=newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

where clearly PATH/TO/lyx2lyx is the location of the lyx2lxy script.

 there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I
 should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know
 exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx
 generated file for the 1.4 version.

  lyx2lyx is written in python and independent of the underlying system. Not 
only that but is even independent of the lyx version in the sense that we 
have been successfully backporting the newest version to 1.3.x series without 
any problems.

 Has anybody has the same problem ? Is 
 it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I
 obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?

 If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx
 although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?

  You can try, and report your findings, but it is not necessary to solve your 
problem. :-)

  I hope this helps.

 Thanks.

 Horacio.

  Saludos.
-- 
José Abílio

RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Andrzej Tomaszewski]

Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's  
functionality is (very) limited?
If the first is true, what about Maxima support? In the configure script  
I have found only the entries for Octave and Maple - Maple is a bit too  
expensive, and Octave is primarily numeric system...


Best regards,
--
Andrzej Tomaszewski

WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[Stephen Harris]

The installation does not work when TL2005 provides
the Latex for Windows files using the small installer.

The problem is that TexLive2005 doesn't write itself
to the Windows Path, I would imagine, because when
I started over and first added 
C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32 to the Win Path, the 
install proceeded without the 'can't find latex error'

which ends the install. It works great after that.

I took Texlive2005 out of the path statement to test
the Full installer. Same problem except that now it
wants to install Miktex. Even though I saw some
references to Texlive in the registry, the Big install
fails without TL in the path. If you refuse to install
Miktex the installation aborts. But the abort screen
doesn't display the result properly. An experienced
Windows user will think the uninstall is still going on
when I think it actually finishes. I clicked Cancel
and then checked and in fact everything does seem
to be uninstalled. Restoring C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32
to the Path, lets the Big install continue and finish nicely.

This message is for the list and I will send a personal
email to Uwe with screenshots since they say that a
picture is worth a thousand words. I'm leaving the
Texlive2005 *tex on for a few days in case there is 
a need for further testing. So I haven't tested with a

pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer, nor
tested the Big installer with no *tex installed at all.

Best regards,
Stephen

RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Georg Baum]

Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote:

 Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's
 functionality is (very) limited?

AFAIK it does nothing at all.

 If the first is true, what about Maxima support?

That should work.

 In the configure script 
 I have found only the entries for Octave and Maple - Maple is a bit too
 expensive, and Octave is primarily numeric system...

The entries in the configure script are not used. See
http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/src/mathed/math_extern.C?rev=1.47.2.1only_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_Xcontent-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
(function pipeThroughExtern) if you want to know more about the integration
of external mathematical programs with LyX.
I guess that it is not too difficult to finish the mathematica support if
you have a compiler and know a bit C++.


Georg

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[William F. Adams]

On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:


So I haven't tested with a
pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer


I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a 
.pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript).


It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much more than launch it and 
poke around a bit.


I'll try the updated .31 version tonight.

Thanks!

William

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Spell checking multiple languages?

[Andreas Kofod-Hansen]

Hi

 

I have read that it's possible to spell check a multiple language, but the
statement that it is possible have never been accompanied by a guide on to
how to do it, so this is what I ask now.

 

Regards

Andreas

 

 

P.S. I use Lyx in Windows with Aspell as the spell checker.

 

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005



On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:


So I haven't tested with a
pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer


I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a 
.pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript).


It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much more than launch it and 
poke around a bit.


I'll try the updated .31 version tonight.

Thanks!

William

--
William Adams, publishing specialist
voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com


Did you design that webpage?





I figured the Small installer would work since Version2
worked. I always test Tex Information since that has
been known to fail in the past. It works now that Uwe
put find.exe in the package. I am a bit wary of testing
the Full installer because it means uninstalling all the
helper apps that are now working well. If the install goes 
poorly, then those helper apps have to be reinstalled.


John Kane may test the Full version 31, as a fresh
install of nearly everything serves his purposes and if 
the Full installer works for him, it will work for anyone! 
The Full installer if it works will harvest more Windows

users who can then be nurtured in the Ways of Kanuth.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step,
Stephen 

Re: Spell checking multiple languages?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: Andreas Kofod-Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:16 AM
Subject: Spell checking multiple languages?



Hi



I have read that it's possible to spell check a multiple language, but the
statement that it is possible have never been accompanied by a guide on to
how to do it, so this is what I ask now.



Regards

Andreas





P.S. I use Lyx in Windows with Aspell as the spell checker.




C:\Aspell. Aspell has a mailing list and a manual. I found an entry,
under extra-dicts, which I thought would work for English/French.
But IIRC, that only worked for Linux. So I created a Master dict.
using text word lists from both languages which had shortcomings.
There is a new version available for Windows, .60, not easy to get
which maybe has gooten to implementing extra-dicts for Windows.

Kevin Atkinson is the guru of the Aspell-user mailing list. I read:

Aspell doesn't have a per document dictionary mainly because there is no 
real good way to store them and also because it will add more complexity

to the user interface.  However, if you wish you can have a per-document
personal dictionary and also use your normal personal dictionary by doing
the following:


 aspell --add-extra-dicts=~/.aspell.english.pws --personal=per-doc-dict 
 ...


Bingo, that's what I needed. I was really thinking of this for use with 
LyX,
and if there's some standard way to add extra dictionaries on the command 
line, then the LyX crew can work out the other bit of the problem.


SH: But that was in 2001. Perhaps the French or German LyX
users have figured out multiple dicts by now. I am curious too.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez]

Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx 
file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.


When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import 
process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.


It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do 
with this program.


So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex document 
in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.


Thanks a lot for the answers.

Obrigado.




 Hola,

  Hola, :-)

 I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I
 want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx
 document I have.

 The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only
 works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail
 list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more
 powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in
 fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and
 used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a
 lyx file.

 But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1)
 it says, more or less, the file was created with a newer version of lyx,
 and it's not possible to read.

  Is not there a 1.3.6 for suse 9.1?

 Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called
 lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5
 version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the
 lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with

 http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyxhttp://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx

 python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

  It should be:

$ python PATH/TO/lyx2lyx --to=221 --output=newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

where clearly PATH/TO/lyx2lyx is the location of the lyx2lxy script.

 there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I
 should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know
 exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx
 generated file for the 1.4 version.

  lyx2lyx is written in python and independent of the underlying system. Not
only that but is even independent of the lyx version in the sense that we
have been successfully backporting the newest version to 1.3.x series without
any problems.

 Has anybody has the same problem ? Is
 it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I
 obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?

 If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx
 although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?

  You can try, and report your findings, but it is not necessary to solve 
your

problem. :-)

  I hope this helps.

 Thanks.

 Horacio.

  Saludos.
--
José Abílio

Abstracts in multiple languages, preface and acknowledgements

[Andreas Kofod-Hansen]

Hi

 

I'm writing my masters thesis in lyx, and as I'm writing the thesis in
danish, an abstract in english (as well as one in danish) is required. I
have tried using the latex directive selectlanguage to select first English
(or more correctly, British) and then Danish, and that has worked ok as far
as selecting the language the abstract header is displayed in. However,
the page numbering is ruined as it's reset every when reaching the second
abstract. How do I solve this? Do I simply use unnumbered chapters for the
abstracts, or is there another way around it using the abstract text class.
What about roman numbers before the TOC, is that possible in Lyx, or do I
need to use Latex directives? And. what about the preface and
acknowledgements? I haven't found any way of selecting this in any of
document classes, so how do I get around this?

 

Any help is appreciated

 

Regards

Andreas

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 15:26, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:
 Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx
 file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.

  Good. :-)

 When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import
 process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.

 It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do
 with this program.

  Not necessarily sometimes it is either something missing in preamble or the 
same type of mistake replicated all over the place.

  What kind of errors do you get?

 So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex document
 in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.

  From what you telling it looks like the errors show in math expressions, 
right?

 Thanks a lot for the answers.

 Obrigado.

  :-)
  You are welcome.

-- 
José Abílio

pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

[Alexis Huxley]

Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing
how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured
the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me
to others places to ask ...

I am looking for some descriptions of how certain document types should
look. 

As an example, I make a CV begin with some personal details,
and then proceed to education and job history, but I don't *know* that
this is how a CV *should* look. Or a report on migrating from one OS
to another perhaps ought to have an introduction, some comparisons,
critical issues, and a summary. But what else? Or even just a business
letter; maybe that's the best example because the design is *so* rigid.

How to lay out a business letter is surely all over the web, but
a site listing How to lay out an OS migration report, How to lay
out a novel and How to lay out a thousand other things I have
not managed to find.

Templates for letters etc are *sort* of what I want, but I'm looking
for *more* templates, of more *specific* types (different sorts
of technical reports, e.g. aforementioned migration report), even
better would be software-product *independent* descriptions (rather
than e.g. LaTeX templates, LyX templates, Word templates).

Googling for document/design/layout/template turns up a few 
templates or descriptions of *single* document types, but I'm really
trying to avoid the collection and filtration myself by finding a
existing large collection of such descriptions.

Any pointers, or even pointers to better places to ask, would be much 
appreciated. Thanks!

Alexis

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:

 Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx
 file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.
 
 When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the
 import process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.
 
 It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do
 with this program.

I agree with José that it is probably only a minor bug (unless you are doing
some nasty LaTeX tricks).

 So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex
 document in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.

You can send me the original .tex file privately (if it is not too
confidential), so that I can find out what the problem is and probably
solve it. Free software can only be improved if bugs are reported.


Georg

RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Andrzej Tomaszewski]

Thank you, Georg, for your information!

I'm afraid my general programming languages education ended on Pascal,  
later I primarily used program specific languages as Mathematica or Stata.  
Well, at least I can see what is missing for Mathematica to work... Maybe  
after finishing my PhD I will look into it more thoroughly, but for now I  
will end up installing Maxima.


Best regards,
--
Andrzej Tomaszewski

Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

[William F. Adams]

On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote:


Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing
how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured
the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me
to others places to ask ...


Have you looked at the manuals for Memoir and Koma?

Although it's a very interesting query, I can't think of a specific 
resource which addresses it.


I do have an old volume on my shelf, ``Templates Technical Documents 
for Ventura Publisher'' but I picked it up because I found it to be a 
singular treatise.


Probably the best you could do would be to work from good references on 
typography and apply sound principles. Some titles which come to mind:


 - Bringhurst _The Elements of Typographic Style
 - Tufte _The Visual Display of Quantitative Informatiion_ et. al.
 - Degani _On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation_ et. al.
(these are listed at: 
http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html )

 - Wilson _The Design of Books_
 - Tschichold _The Form of the Book_

I am working on a text which will address this sort of thing as well, 
but I'm still working on the outline and first rough draft.


William

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Removing leading dots in TOC?

[Stefano Franchi]

Can anyone explain how to remove the leading dots in the Table of 
Contents? The section on formatting TOCs in the LaTeX companion (2.3, 
p.51, 2nd ed.) contains a cryptic reference that went totally over my 
head. It suggests to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a suitably large number in a 
\renewcommand, but I can't see how to do that (no doubts because I 
don't understand TOC formatting in general). LaTeX Faqs and archives 
were no more helpful. I am using Koma Script book class.


Thanks in advance,

Stefano

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Re: unavailable classes

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I am trying to use the curriculum vitae class in lyx and it is listed 
as unavailable. How to I install it or make it available?


LyX 1.3.6 comes with the cv example and the cv LyX layout and cv class.

On my system, lyx also doesn't see the class:
 +checking for document class cv [cv]... no

It is available for me at /usr/pkg/share/lyx/tex/cv.cls

Should the lyx installation put these into a known LaTeX path? Or should it 
run mktexlsr?


I fixed the lyx packages for pkgsrc by patching lib/Makefile.in so it 
would not install the $(TEXSUPPORT) files. Then I manually installed 
these files to my tex directory.


Can the lyx configure add an option to choose where they can be installed?

So it can easily be installed to ${PREFIX}/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/ for 
example.


I didn't look, but I was also told that Debian's lyx package also 
installs these files to its own hierarchy. And Gentoo uses a symlink to 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx for same. (See 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91108)


 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie:
 Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at
 all, just for educational purposes.

 And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us
 can learn from these bugs.

It was very easy:

You had the two commands

\newcommand {\be} {\begin{equation}}
\newcommand {\ee} {\end  {equation}}

in the preamble and used these. This falls under the category dirty tricks 
as far as tex2lyx is concerned, because tex2lyx does not know that these 
commands start math mode and does not interpret macros. Everything works well 
if you replace these commands by their definition:

s/^\\be$/\\begin{equation}/
s/^\\ee$/\\end{equation}/

replaced all but one occurence, which I searched and replaced by hand. I 
needed to bind the searched words to the beginning and end of the line, 
otherwise it would also find \begin and \end.


Georg

subtitle for book?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I see that some layouts like beamer, paper, and others have a subtitle.

Is there any subtitle layout for a book?

My workaround is to use author or date or use a CTRL-Enter to add to a 
Author layout. Will this cause problems?


If not, I get:

  Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix title layouts with normal
  ones.

What do you use for a subtitle for a book?

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing
around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of
minimizing this undesirable side effect?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 17:38, Georg Baum wrote:
  And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of
  us can learn from these bugs.

 It was very easy:

 You had the two commands

 \newcommand {\be} {\begin{equation}}
 \newcommand {\ee} {\end  {equation}}

 in the preamble and used these. This falls under the category dirty
 tricks as far as tex2lyx is concerned, because tex2lyx does not know that
 these commands start math mode and does not interpret macros. Everything
 works well if you replace these commands by their definition:

 s/^\\be$/\\begin{equation}/
 s/^\\ee$/\\end{equation}/

 replaced all but one occurence, which I searched and replaced by hand. I
 needed to bind the searched words to the beginning and end of the line,
 otherwise it would also find \begin and \end.

  This could/should go in the wiki I have seen this kind of stuff so many 
times, the problem is that this varies from person.

  That and the words with accents... argh.

 Georg

-- 
José Abílio

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 19:03 schrieb Jose' Matos:
   This could/should go in the wiki I have seen this kind of stuff so 
many 
 times, the problem is that this varies from person.

Yes. Any takers? I have no time at the moment.


Georg

latex import problem

[Sanda Pavel]

hi all,

i'm trying to import some latex files into lyx, but lyx
plays funny games with me.

after import into lyx all the formulas look fine, export works etc,
but when i save+close+reopen the lyx file, it
is no longer exportable and also information about symbols in
the formulas change from Type:equation to Type:None.

is there any way, how to globally change all the symbols Type back
into equation ? 
afaik the symbol in math mode is usually simple - how it differs ? 
 
i'm not sure whether the latex code is correct, because its 
just export from another editor from which i'm trying to port my files, 
so i saved one small example in 195.113.31.123/~sanda/lyx

using lyx 1.3.5 on gentoo.

thanks for any help 

pavel

LyX function for German hard S?

[Stefano Franchi]

My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer 
to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the 
function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks.


Stefano

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image convert problems

[C Beary]

Hello,
I recently did a complete reinstall of lyx and am
having some problems opening my old documents. There
were no problems compiling lyx and there were no
missing packages. Yet when I open a document, I get
the error No information for converting gif to eps.
This happens for a number of different formats. In the
text window, I get the message
/usr/local/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR
Execution of convert failed.

What is going on and how do I fix it?

Thanks 
Chris



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Re: LyX and Mathematica

[Georg Baum]

Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote:

 Hi All!
 
 I am asking a question on the list because I could not find anywhere any
 information about integrating LyX and Mathematica.
 
 I am using W2K OS, LyX 1.3.6-1 and Mathematica 4.1. What exactly have I to
 do in order to be able to use (math-extern mathematica) function?
 Script configure does not have an entry for Mathematica, however I have
 tried adding a path to Mathematica binaries to the LyX paths...
 Unfortunately nothing happens...

The reason is that the mathematica interface is only halfway implemented. So
unless you finish the implementation it will not work. :-(


Georg

tex2lyx problems

[Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez]

Hola,

I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I 
want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx 
document I have.


The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only 
works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail 
list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more 
powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in 
fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and 
used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a 
lyx file.


But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1) 
it says, more or less, the file was created with a newer version of lyx, 
and it's not possible to read.


Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called 
lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5 
version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the 
lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with


http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx

python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I 
should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know 
exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx 
generated file for the 1.4 version. Has anybody has the same problem ? Is 
it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I 
obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?


If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx 
although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?


Thanks.

Horacio.

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 10:52, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:
 Hola,

  Hola, :-)

 I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I
 want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx
 document I have.

 The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only
 works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail
 list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more
 powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in
 fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and
 used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a
 lyx file.

 But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1)
 it says, more or less, the file was created with a newer version of lyx,
 and it's not possible to read.

  Is not there a 1.3.6 for suse 9.1?

 Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called
 lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5
 version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the
 lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with

 http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx

 python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

  It should be:

$ python PATH/TO/lyx2lyx --to=221 --output=newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

where clearly PATH/TO/lyx2lyx is the location of the lyx2lxy script.

 there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I
 should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know
 exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx
 generated file for the 1.4 version.

  lyx2lyx is written in python and independent of the underlying system. Not 
only that but is even independent of the lyx version in the sense that we 
have been successfully backporting the newest version to 1.3.x series without 
any problems.

 Has anybody has the same problem ? Is 
 it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I
 obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?

 If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx
 although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?

  You can try, and report your findings, but it is not necessary to solve your 
problem. :-)

  I hope this helps.

 Thanks.

 Horacio.

  Saludos.
-- 
José Abílio

RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Andrzej Tomaszewski]

Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's  
functionality is (very) limited?
If the first is true, what about Maxima support? In the configure script  
I have found only the entries for Octave and Maple - Maple is a bit too  
expensive, and Octave is primarily numeric system...


Best regards,
--
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WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[Stephen Harris]

The installation does not work when TL2005 provides
the Latex for Windows files using the small installer.

The problem is that TexLive2005 doesn't write itself
to the Windows Path, I would imagine, because when
I started over and first added 
C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32 to the Win Path, the 
install proceeded without the 'can't find latex error'

which ends the install. It works great after that.

I took Texlive2005 out of the path statement to test
the Full installer. Same problem except that now it
wants to install Miktex. Even though I saw some
references to Texlive in the registry, the Big install
fails without TL in the path. If you refuse to install
Miktex the installation aborts. But the abort screen
doesn't display the result properly. An experienced
Windows user will think the uninstall is still going on
when I think it actually finishes. I clicked Cancel
and then checked and in fact everything does seem
to be uninstalled. Restoring C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32
to the Path, lets the Big install continue and finish nicely.

This message is for the list and I will send a personal
email to Uwe with screenshots since they say that a
picture is worth a thousand words. I'm leaving the
Texlive2005 *tex on for a few days in case there is 
a need for further testing. So I haven't tested with a

pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer, nor
tested the Big installer with no *tex installed at all.

Best regards,
Stephen

RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Georg Baum]

Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote:

 Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's
 functionality is (very) limited?

AFAIK it does nothing at all.

 If the first is true, what about Maxima support?

That should work.

 In the configure script 
 I have found only the entries for Octave and Maple - Maple is a bit too
 expensive, and Octave is primarily numeric system...

The entries in the configure script are not used. See
http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/src/mathed/math_extern.C?rev=1.47.2.1only_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_Xcontent-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
(function pipeThroughExtern) if you want to know more about the integration
of external mathematical programs with LyX.
I guess that it is not too difficult to finish the mathematica support if
you have a compiler and know a bit C++.


Georg

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[William F. Adams]

On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:


So I haven't tested with a
pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer


I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a 
.pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript).


It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much more than launch it and 
poke around a bit.


I'll try the updated .31 version tonight.

Thanks!

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Spell checking multiple languages?

[Andreas Kofod-Hansen]

Hi

 

I have read that it's possible to spell check a multiple language, but the
statement that it is possible have never been accompanied by a guide on to
how to do it, so this is what I ask now.

 

Regards

Andreas

 

 

P.S. I use Lyx in Windows with Aspell as the spell checker.

 

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005



On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:


So I haven't tested with a
pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer


I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a 
.pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript).


It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much more than launch it and 
poke around a bit.


I'll try the updated .31 version tonight.

Thanks!

William

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voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com


Did you design that webpage?





I figured the Small installer would work since Version2
worked. I always test Tex Information since that has
been known to fail in the past. It works now that Uwe
put find.exe in the package. I am a bit wary of testing
the Full installer because it means uninstalling all the
helper apps that are now working well. If the install goes 
poorly, then those helper apps have to be reinstalled.


John Kane may test the Full version 31, as a fresh
install of nearly everything serves his purposes and if 
the Full installer works for him, it will work for anyone! 
The Full installer if it works will harvest more Windows

users who can then be nurtured in the Ways of Kanuth.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step,
Stephen 

Re: Spell checking multiple languages?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: Andreas Kofod-Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:16 AM
Subject: Spell checking multiple languages?



Hi



I have read that it's possible to spell check a multiple language, but the
statement that it is possible have never been accompanied by a guide on to
how to do it, so this is what I ask now.



Regards

Andreas





P.S. I use Lyx in Windows with Aspell as the spell checker.




C:\Aspell. Aspell has a mailing list and a manual. I found an entry,
under extra-dicts, which I thought would work for English/French.
But IIRC, that only worked for Linux. So I created a Master dict.
using text word lists from both languages which had shortcomings.
There is a new version available for Windows, .60, not easy to get
which maybe has gooten to implementing extra-dicts for Windows.

Kevin Atkinson is the guru of the Aspell-user mailing list. I read:

Aspell doesn't have a per document dictionary mainly because there is no 
real good way to store them and also because it will add more complexity

to the user interface.  However, if you wish you can have a per-document
personal dictionary and also use your normal personal dictionary by doing
the following:


 aspell --add-extra-dicts=~/.aspell.english.pws --personal=per-doc-dict 
 ...


Bingo, that's what I needed. I was really thinking of this for use with 
LyX,
and if there's some standard way to add extra dictionaries on the command 
line, then the LyX crew can work out the other bit of the problem.


SH: But that was in 2001. Perhaps the French or German LyX
users have figured out multiple dicts by now. I am curious too.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez]

Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx 
file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.


When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import 
process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.


It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do 
with this program.


So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex document 
in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.


Thanks a lot for the answers.

Obrigado.




 Hola,

  Hola, :-)

 I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I
 want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx
 document I have.

 The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only
 works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail
 list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more
 powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in
 fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and
 used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a
 lyx file.

 But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1)
 it says, more or less, the file was created with a newer version of lyx,
 and it's not possible to read.

  Is not there a 1.3.6 for suse 9.1?

 Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called
 lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5
 version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the
 lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with

 http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyxhttp://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx

 python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

  It should be:

$ python PATH/TO/lyx2lyx --to=221 --output=newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

where clearly PATH/TO/lyx2lyx is the location of the lyx2lxy script.

 there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I
 should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know
 exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx
 generated file for the 1.4 version.

  lyx2lyx is written in python and independent of the underlying system. Not
only that but is even independent of the lyx version in the sense that we
have been successfully backporting the newest version to 1.3.x series without
any problems.

 Has anybody has the same problem ? Is
 it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I
 obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?

 If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx
 although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?

  You can try, and report your findings, but it is not necessary to solve 
your

problem. :-)

  I hope this helps.

 Thanks.

 Horacio.

  Saludos.
--
José Abílio

Abstracts in multiple languages, preface and acknowledgements

[Andreas Kofod-Hansen]

Hi

 

I'm writing my masters thesis in lyx, and as I'm writing the thesis in
danish, an abstract in english (as well as one in danish) is required. I
have tried using the latex directive selectlanguage to select first English
(or more correctly, British) and then Danish, and that has worked ok as far
as selecting the language the abstract header is displayed in. However,
the page numbering is ruined as it's reset every when reaching the second
abstract. How do I solve this? Do I simply use unnumbered chapters for the
abstracts, or is there another way around it using the abstract text class.
What about roman numbers before the TOC, is that possible in Lyx, or do I
need to use Latex directives? And. what about the preface and
acknowledgements? I haven't found any way of selecting this in any of
document classes, so how do I get around this?

 

Any help is appreciated

 

Regards

Andreas

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 15:26, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:
 Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx
 file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.

  Good. :-)

 When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import
 process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.

 It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do
 with this program.

  Not necessarily sometimes it is either something missing in preamble or the 
same type of mistake replicated all over the place.

  What kind of errors do you get?

 So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex document
 in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.

  From what you telling it looks like the errors show in math expressions, 
right?

 Thanks a lot for the answers.

 Obrigado.

  :-)
  You are welcome.

-- 
José Abílio

pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

[Alexis Huxley]

Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing
how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured
the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me
to others places to ask ...

I am looking for some descriptions of how certain document types should
look. 

As an example, I make a CV begin with some personal details,
and then proceed to education and job history, but I don't *know* that
this is how a CV *should* look. Or a report on migrating from one OS
to another perhaps ought to have an introduction, some comparisons,
critical issues, and a summary. But what else? Or even just a business
letter; maybe that's the best example because the design is *so* rigid.

How to lay out a business letter is surely all over the web, but
a site listing How to lay out an OS migration report, How to lay
out a novel and How to lay out a thousand other things I have
not managed to find.

Templates for letters etc are *sort* of what I want, but I'm looking
for *more* templates, of more *specific* types (different sorts
of technical reports, e.g. aforementioned migration report), even
better would be software-product *independent* descriptions (rather
than e.g. LaTeX templates, LyX templates, Word templates).

Googling for document/design/layout/template turns up a few 
templates or descriptions of *single* document types, but I'm really
trying to avoid the collection and filtration myself by finding a
existing large collection of such descriptions.

Any pointers, or even pointers to better places to ask, would be much 
appreciated. Thanks!

Alexis

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:

 Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx
 file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.
 
 When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the
 import process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.
 
 It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do
 with this program.

I agree with José that it is probably only a minor bug (unless you are doing
some nasty LaTeX tricks).

 So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex
 document in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.

You can send me the original .tex file privately (if it is not too
confidential), so that I can find out what the problem is and probably
solve it. Free software can only be improved if bugs are reported.


Georg

RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Andrzej Tomaszewski]

Thank you, Georg, for your information!

I'm afraid my general programming languages education ended on Pascal,  
later I primarily used program specific languages as Mathematica or Stata.  
Well, at least I can see what is missing for Mathematica to work... Maybe  
after finishing my PhD I will look into it more thoroughly, but for now I  
will end up installing Maxima.


Best regards,
--
Andrzej Tomaszewski

Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

[William F. Adams]

On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote:


Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing
how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured
the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me
to others places to ask ...


Have you looked at the manuals for Memoir and Koma?

Although it's a very interesting query, I can't think of a specific 
resource which addresses it.


I do have an old volume on my shelf, ``Templates Technical Documents 
for Ventura Publisher'' but I picked it up because I found it to be a 
singular treatise.


Probably the best you could do would be to work from good references on 
typography and apply sound principles. Some titles which come to mind:


 - Bringhurst _The Elements of Typographic Style
 - Tufte _The Visual Display of Quantitative Informatiion_ et. al.
 - Degani _On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation_ et. al.
(these are listed at: 
http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html )

 - Wilson _The Design of Books_
 - Tschichold _The Form of the Book_

I am working on a text which will address this sort of thing as well, 
but I'm still working on the outline and first rough draft.


William

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Removing leading dots in TOC?

[Stefano Franchi]

Can anyone explain how to remove the leading dots in the Table of 
Contents? The section on formatting TOCs in the LaTeX companion (2.3, 
p.51, 2nd ed.) contains a cryptic reference that went totally over my 
head. It suggests to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a suitably large number in a 
\renewcommand, but I can't see how to do that (no doubts because I 
don't understand TOC formatting in general). LaTeX Faqs and archives 
were no more helpful. I am using Koma Script book class.


Thanks in advance,

Stefano

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Re: unavailable classes

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I am trying to use the curriculum vitae class in lyx and it is listed 
as unavailable. How to I install it or make it available?


LyX 1.3.6 comes with the cv example and the cv LyX layout and cv class.

On my system, lyx also doesn't see the class:
 +checking for document class cv [cv]... no

It is available for me at /usr/pkg/share/lyx/tex/cv.cls

Should the lyx installation put these into a known LaTeX path? Or should it 
run mktexlsr?


I fixed the lyx packages for pkgsrc by patching lib/Makefile.in so it 
would not install the $(TEXSUPPORT) files. Then I manually installed 
these files to my tex directory.


Can the lyx configure add an option to choose where they can be installed?

So it can easily be installed to ${PREFIX}/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/ for 
example.


I didn't look, but I was also told that Debian's lyx package also 
installs these files to its own hierarchy. And Gentoo uses a symlink to 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx for same. (See 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91108)


 Jeremy C. Reed

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 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie:
 Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at
 all, just for educational purposes.

 And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us
 can learn from these bugs.

It was very easy:

You had the two commands

\newcommand {\be} {\begin{equation}}
\newcommand {\ee} {\end  {equation}}

in the preamble and used these. This falls under the category dirty tricks 
as far as tex2lyx is concerned, because tex2lyx does not know that these 
commands start math mode and does not interpret macros. Everything works well 
if you replace these commands by their definition:

s/^\\be$/\\begin{equation}/
s/^\\ee$/\\end{equation}/

replaced all but one occurence, which I searched and replaced by hand. I 
needed to bind the searched words to the beginning and end of the line, 
otherwise it would also find \begin and \end.


Georg

subtitle for book?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I see that some layouts like beamer, paper, and others have a subtitle.

Is there any subtitle layout for a book?

My workaround is to use author or date or use a CTRL-Enter to add to a 
Author layout. Will this cause problems?


If not, I get:

  Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix title layouts with normal
  ones.

What do you use for a subtitle for a book?

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
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In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing
around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of
minimizing this undesirable side effect?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 17:38, Georg Baum wrote:
  And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of
  us can learn from these bugs.

 It was very easy:

 You had the two commands

 \newcommand {\be} {\begin{equation}}
 \newcommand {\ee} {\end  {equation}}

 in the preamble and used these. This falls under the category dirty
 tricks as far as tex2lyx is concerned, because tex2lyx does not know that
 these commands start math mode and does not interpret macros. Everything
 works well if you replace these commands by their definition:

 s/^\\be$/\\begin{equation}/
 s/^\\ee$/\\end{equation}/

 replaced all but one occurence, which I searched and replaced by hand. I
 needed to bind the searched words to the beginning and end of the line,
 otherwise it would also find \begin and \end.

  This could/should go in the wiki I have seen this kind of stuff so many 
times, the problem is that this varies from person.

  That and the words with accents... argh.

 Georg

-- 
José Abílio

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 19:03 schrieb Jose' Matos:
   This could/should go in the wiki I have seen this kind of stuff so 
many 
 times, the problem is that this varies from person.

Yes. Any takers? I have no time at the moment.


Georg

latex import problem

[Sanda Pavel]

hi all,

i'm trying to import some latex files into lyx, but lyx
plays funny games with me.

after import into lyx all the formulas look fine, export works etc,
but when i save+close+reopen the lyx file, it
is no longer exportable and also information about symbols in
the formulas change from Type:equation to Type:None.

is there any way, how to globally change all the symbols Type back
into equation ? 
afaik the symbol in math mode is usually simple - how it differs ? 
 
i'm not sure whether the latex code is correct, because its 
just export from another editor from which i'm trying to port my files, 
so i saved one small example in 195.113.31.123/~sanda/lyx

using lyx 1.3.5 on gentoo.

thanks for any help 

pavel

LyX function for German hard S?

[Stefano Franchi]

My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer 
to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the 
function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks.


Stefano

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image convert problems

[C Beary]

Hello,
I recently did a complete reinstall of lyx and am
having some problems opening my old documents. There
were no problems compiling lyx and there were no
missing packages. Yet when I open a document, I get
the error No information for converting gif to eps.
This happens for a number of different formats. In the
text window, I get the message
/usr/local/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR
Execution of convert failed.

What is going on and how do I fix it?

Thanks 
Chris



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Re: LyX and Mathematica

[Georg Baum]

Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote:

> Hi All!
> 
> I am asking a question on the list because I could not find anywhere any
> information about integrating LyX and Mathematica.
> 
> I am using W2K OS, LyX 1.3.6-1 and Mathematica 4.1. What exactly have I to
> do in order to be able to use (math-extern mathematica) function?
> Script "configure" does not have an entry for Mathematica, however I have
> tried adding a path to Mathematica binaries to the LyX paths...
> Unfortunately nothing happens...

The reason is that the mathematica interface is only halfway implemented. So
unless you finish the implementation it will not work. :-(


Georg

tex2lyx problems

[Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez]

Hola,

I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I 
want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx 
document I have.


The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only 
works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail 
list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more 
powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in 
fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and 
used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a 
lyx file.


But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1) 
it says, more or less, "the file was created with a newer version of lyx", 
and it's not possible to read.


Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called 
lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5 
version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the 
lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with


http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx

python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I 
should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know 
exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx 
generated file for the 1.4 version. Has anybody has the same problem ? Is 
it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I 
obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?


If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx 
although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?


Thanks.

Horacio.

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 10:52, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:
> Hola,

  Hola, :-)

> I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I
> want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx
> document I have.
>
> The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only
> works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail
> list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more
> powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in
> fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and
> used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a
> lyx file.
>
> But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1)
> it says, more or less, "the file was created with a newer version of lyx",
> and it's not possible to read.

  Is not there a 1.3.6 for suse 9.1?

> Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called
> lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5
> version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the
> lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx
>
> python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

  It should be:

$ python PATH/TO/lyx2lyx --to=221 --output=newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

where clearly PATH/TO/lyx2lyx is the location of the lyx2lxy script.

> there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I
> should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know
> exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx
> generated file for the 1.4 version.

  lyx2lyx is written in python and independent of the underlying system. Not 
only that but is even independent of the lyx version in the sense that we 
have been successfully backporting the newest version to 1.3.x series without 
any problems.

> Has anybody has the same problem ? Is 
> it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I
> obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?
>
> If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx
> although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?

  You can try, and report your findings, but it is not necessary to solve your 
problem. :-)

  I hope this helps.

> Thanks.
>
> Horacio.

  Saludos.
-- 
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RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Andrzej Tomaszewski]

Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's  
functionality is (very) limited?
If the first is true, what about Maxima support? In the "configure" script  
I have found only the entries for Octave and Maple - Maple is "a bit" too  
expensive, and Octave is primarily numeric system...


Best regards,
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WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[Stephen Harris]

The installation does not work when TL2005 provides
the Latex for Windows files using the small installer.

The problem is that TexLive2005 doesn't write itself
to the Windows Path, I would imagine, because when
I started over and first added 
"C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32" to the Win Path, the 
install proceeded without the 'can't find latex error'

which ends the install. It works great after that.

I took Texlive2005 out of the path statement to test
the Full installer. Same problem except that now it
wants to install Miktex. Even though I saw some
references to Texlive in the registry, the Big install
fails without TL in the path. If you refuse to install
Miktex the installation aborts. But the abort screen
doesn't display the result properly. An experienced
Windows user will think the uninstall is still going on
when I think it actually finishes. I clicked "Cancel"
and then checked and in fact everything does seem
to be uninstalled. Restoring "C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32"
to the Path, lets the Big install continue and finish nicely.

This message is for the list and I will send a personal
email to Uwe with screenshots since they say that a
picture is worth a thousand words. I'm leaving the
Texlive2005 *tex on for a few days in case there is 
a need for further testing. So I haven't tested with a

pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer, nor
tested the Big installer with no *tex installed at all.

Best regards,
Stephen

RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Georg Baum]

Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote:

> Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's
> functionality is (very) limited?

AFAIK it does nothing at all.

> If the first is true, what about Maxima support?

That should work.

> In the "configure" script 
> I have found only the entries for Octave and Maple - Maple is "a bit" too
> expensive, and Octave is primarily numeric system...

The entries in the configure script are not used. See
http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/src/mathed/math_extern.C?rev=1.47.2.1_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_X=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
(function pipeThroughExtern) if you want to know more about the integration
of external mathematical programs with LyX.
I guess that it is not too difficult to finish the mathematica support if
you have a compiler and know a bit C++.


Georg

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[William F. Adams]

On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:


So I haven't tested with a
pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer


I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a 
.pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript).


It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much more than launch it and 
poke around a bit.


I'll try the updated .31 version tonight.

Thanks!

William

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Spell checking multiple languages?

[Andreas Kofod-Hansen]

Hi

 

I have read that it's possible to spell check a multiple language, but the
statement that it is possible have never been accompanied by a guide on to
how to do it, so this is what I ask now.

 

Regards

Andreas

 

 

P.S. I use Lyx in Windows with Aspell as the spell checker.

 

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "lyx" 
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005



On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:


So I haven't tested with a
pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer


I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a 
.pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript).


It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much more than launch it and 
poke around a bit.


I'll try the updated .31 version tonight.

Thanks!

William

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voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com


Did you design that webpage?





I figured the Small installer would work since Version2
worked. I always test Tex Information since that has
been known to fail in the past. It works now that Uwe
put find.exe in the package. I am a bit wary of testing
the Full installer because it means uninstalling all the
helper apps that are now working well. If the install goes 
poorly, then those helper apps have to be reinstalled.


John Kane may test the Full version 31, as a fresh
install of nearly everything serves his purposes and if 
the Full installer works for him, it will work for anyone! 
The Full installer if it works will harvest more Windows

users who can then be nurtured in the Ways of Kanuth.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step,
Stephen 

Re: Spell checking multiple languages?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Andreas Kofod-Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:16 AM
Subject: Spell checking multiple languages?



Hi



I have read that it's possible to spell check a multiple language, but the
statement that it is possible have never been accompanied by a guide on to
how to do it, so this is what I ask now.



Regards

Andreas





P.S. I use Lyx in Windows with Aspell as the spell checker.




C:\Aspell. Aspell has a mailing list and a manual. I found an entry,
under extra-dicts, which I thought would work for English/French.
But IIRC, that only worked for Linux. So I created a Master dict.
using text word lists from both languages which had shortcomings.
There is a new version available for Windows, .60, not easy to get
which maybe has gooten to implementing extra-dicts for Windows.

Kevin Atkinson is the guru of the Aspell-user mailing list. I read:

"Aspell doesn't have a per document dictionary mainly because there is no 
real good way to store them and also because it will add more complexity

to the user interface.  However, if you wish you can have a per-document
personal dictionary and also use your normal personal dictionary by doing
the following:

>
> aspell --add-extra-dicts=~/.aspell.english.pws --personal= 
> ...


Bingo, that's what I needed. I was really thinking of this for use with 
LyX,
and if there's some standard way to add extra dictionaries on the command 
line, then the LyX crew can work out the other bit of the problem."


SH: But that was in 2001. Perhaps the French or German LyX
users have figured out multiple dicts by now. I am curious too.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez]

Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx 
file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.


When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import 
process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.


It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do 
with this program.


So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex document 
in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.


Thanks a lot for the answers.

Obrigado.




> Hola,

  Hola, :-)

> I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I
> want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx
> document I have.
>
> The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only
> works with very simple latex files and no with my text. Reading the mail
> list I saw there is a new program called tex2lyx, which seems to be more
> powerful than relyx and having the same functionality. So I installed (in
> fact I copied the debian binary to a directory) tex2lyx in my system and
> used it with my tex file. It seemd to work with no problem and produced a
> lyx file.
>
> But when I open this new lyx file with my lyx program (1.3.5 on suse 9.1)
> it says, more or less, "the file was created with a newer version of lyx",
> and it's not possible to read.

  Is not there a 1.3.6 for suse 9.1?

> Reading again the mail list, I understood there is a python script called
> lyx2lyx, which can convert lyx files for the 1.4 version to the 1.3.5
> version, so I looked for this file and I found it in the source code of the
> lyx 1.3.6 package. When I try to use this with
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx
>
> python PATH \ --to 221 --output newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

  It should be:

$ python PATH/TO/lyx2lyx --to=221 --output=newfile_13x.lyx oldfile_14x.lyx

where clearly PATH/TO/lyx2lyx is the location of the lyx2lxy script.

> there is a lot of error messages I don't understand, but I think that I
> should look for a lyx2lyx version adequated for my system, but I don't know
> exactly where and If this could really help me to visualize the lyx
> generated file for the 1.4 version.

  lyx2lyx is written in python and independent of the underlying system. Not
only that but is even independent of the lyx version in the sense that we
have been successfully backporting the newest version to 1.3.x series without
any problems.

> Has anybody has the same problem ? Is
> it possible to obtain a lyx2lyx usable file for my system ? Maybe should I
> obtain a better tex2lyx file for my system ?
>
> If not possible, could I download and install the 1.4 version of lyx
> although in development status ?  Would it be worthy ?

  You can try, and report your findings, but it is not necessary to solve 
your

problem. :-)

  I hope this helps.

> Thanks.
>
> Horacio.

  Saludos.
--
José Abílio

Abstracts in multiple languages, preface and acknowledgements

[Andreas Kofod-Hansen]

Hi

 

I'm writing my masters thesis in lyx, and as I'm writing the thesis in
danish, an abstract in english (as well as one in danish) is required. I
have tried using the latex directive selectlanguage to select first English
(or more correctly, British) and then Danish, and that has worked ok as far
as selecting the language the abstract "header" is displayed in. However,
the page numbering is ruined as it's reset every when reaching the second
abstract. How do I solve this? Do I simply use unnumbered chapters for the
abstracts, or is there another way around it using the abstract text class.
What about roman numbers before the TOC, is that possible in Lyx, or do I
need to use Latex directives? And. what about the preface and
acknowledgements? I haven't found any way of selecting this in any of
document classes, so how do I get around this?

 

Any help is appreciated

 

Regards

Andreas

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 15:26, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:
> Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx
> file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.

  Good. :-)

> When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import
> process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.
>
> It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do
> with this program.

  Not necessarily sometimes it is either something missing in preamble or the 
same type of mistake replicated all over the place.

  What kind of errors do you get?

> So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex document
> in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.

  From what you telling it looks like the errors show in math expressions, 
right?

> Thanks a lot for the answers.
>
> Obrigado.

  :-)
  You are welcome.

-- 
José Abílio

pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

[Alexis Huxley]

Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing
how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured
the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me
to others places to ask ...

I am looking for some descriptions of how certain document types should
look. 

As an example, I make a CV begin with some personal details,
and then proceed to education and job history, but I don't *know* that
this is how a CV *should* look. Or a report on migrating from one OS
to another perhaps ought to have an introduction, some comparisons,
critical issues, and a summary. But what else? Or even just a business
letter; maybe that's the best example because the design is *so* rigid.

"How to lay out a business letter" is surely all over the web, but
a site listing "How to lay out an OS migration report", "How to lay
out a novel" and "How to lay out a " I have
not managed to find.

Templates for letters etc are *sort* of what I want, but I'm looking
for *more* templates, of more *specific* types (different sorts
of technical reports, e.g. aforementioned migration report), even
better would be software-product *independent* descriptions (rather
than e.g. LaTeX templates, LyX templates, Word templates).

Googling for document/design/layout/template turns up a few 
templates or descriptions of *single* document types, but I'm really
trying to avoid the collection and filtration myself by finding a
existing large collection of such descriptions.

Any pointers, or even pointers to better places to ask, would be much 
appreciated. Thanks!

Alexis

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:

> Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx
> file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format.
> 
> When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the
> import process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors.
> 
> It seems to me that, unfortunately, there is already a lot of work to do
> with this program.

I agree with José that it is probably only a minor bug (unless you are doing
some nasty LaTeX tricks).

> So I don't know what to do now. Maybe I will write again the latex
> document in lyx from zero, at least I am sure it will work.

You can send me the original .tex file privately (if it is not too
confidential), so that I can find out what the problem is and probably
solve it. Free software can only be improved if bugs are reported.


Georg

RE: LyX and Mathematica

[Andrzej Tomaszewski]

Thank you, Georg, for your information!

I'm afraid my general programming languages education ended on Pascal,  
later I primarily used program specific languages as Mathematica or Stata.  
Well, at least I can see what is missing for Mathematica to work... Maybe  
after finishing my PhD I will look into it more thoroughly, but for now I  
will end up installing Maxima.


Best regards,
--
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Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

[William F. Adams]

On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote:


Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing
how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured
the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me
to others places to ask ...


Have you looked at the manuals for Memoir and Koma?

Although it's a very interesting query, I can't think of a specific 
resource which addresses it.


I do have an old volume on my shelf, ``Templates Technical Documents 
for Ventura Publisher'' but I picked it up because I found it to be a 
singular treatise.


Probably the best you could do would be to work from good references on 
typography and apply sound principles. Some titles which come to mind:


 - Bringhurst _The Elements of Typographic Style
 - Tufte _The Visual Display of Quantitative Informatiion_ et. al.
 - Degani _On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation_ et. al.
(these are listed at: 
http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html )

 - Wilson _The Design of Books_
 - Tschichold _The Form of the Book_

I am working on a text which will address this sort of thing as well, 
but I'm still working on the outline and first rough draft.


William

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Removing leading dots in TOC?

[Stefano Franchi]

Can anyone explain how to remove the leading dots in the Table of 
Contents? The section on formatting TOCs in the LaTeX companion (2.3, 
p.51, 2nd ed.) contains a cryptic reference that went totally over my 
head. It suggests to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a suitably large number in a 
\renewcommand, but I can't see how to do that (no doubts because I 
don't understand TOC formatting in general). LaTeX Faqs and archives 
were no more helpful. I am using Koma Script book class.


Thanks in advance,

Stefano

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Re: unavailable classes

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I am trying to use the curriculum vitae class in lyx and it is listed 
as unavailable. How to I install it or make it available?


LyX 1.3.6 comes with the "cv" example and the "cv" LyX layout and "cv" class.

On my system, lyx also doesn't see the class:
 +checking for document class cv [cv]... no

It is available for me at /usr/pkg/share/lyx/tex/cv.cls

Should the lyx installation put these into a known LaTeX path? Or should it 
run mktexlsr?


I fixed the lyx packages for pkgsrc by patching lib/Makefile.in so it 
would not install the $(TEXSUPPORT) files. Then I manually installed 
these files to my tex directory.


Can the lyx configure add an option to choose where they can be installed?

So it can easily be installed to ${PREFIX}/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/ for 
example.


I didn't look, but I was also told that Debian's lyx package also 
installs these files to its own hierarchy. And Gentoo uses a symlink to 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx for same. (See 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91108)


 Jeremy C. Reed

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Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie:
> Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at
> all, just for educational purposes.
>
> And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us
> can learn from these bugs.

It was very easy:

You had the two commands

\newcommand {\be} {\begin{equation}}
\newcommand {\ee} {\end  {equation}}

in the preamble and used these. This falls under the category "dirty tricks" 
as far as tex2lyx is concerned, because tex2lyx does not know that these 
commands start math mode and does not interpret macros. Everything works well 
if you replace these commands by their definition:

s/^\\be$/\\begin{equation}/
s/^\\ee$/\\end{equation}/

replaced all but one occurence, which I searched and replaced by hand. I 
needed to bind the searched words to the beginning and end of the line, 
otherwise it would also find \begin and \end.


Georg

subtitle for book?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I see that some layouts like beamer, paper, and others have a "subtitle".

Is there any subtitle layout for a book?

My workaround is to use author or date or use a CTRL-Enter to add to a 
Author layout. Will this cause problems?


If not, I get:

  Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix title layouts with normal
  ones.

What do you use for a subtitle for a book?

 Jeremy C. Reed

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In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing
around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of
minimizing this undesirable side effect?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Re: tex2lyx problems

[Jose' Matos]

On Friday 18 November 2005 17:38, Georg Baum wrote:
> > And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of
> > us can learn from these bugs.
>
> It was very easy:
>
> You had the two commands
>
> \newcommand {\be} {\begin{equation}}
> \newcommand {\ee} {\end  {equation}}
>
> in the preamble and used these. This falls under the category "dirty
> tricks" as far as tex2lyx is concerned, because tex2lyx does not know that
> these commands start math mode and does not interpret macros. Everything
> works well if you replace these commands by their definition:
>
> s/^\\be$/\\begin{equation}/
> s/^\\ee$/\\end{equation}/
>
> replaced all but one occurence, which I searched and replaced by hand. I
> needed to bind the searched words to the beginning and end of the line,
> otherwise it would also find \begin and \end.

  This could/should go in the wiki I have seen this kind of stuff so many 
times, the problem is that this varies from person.

  That and the words with accents... argh.

> Georg

-- 
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Re: tex2lyx problems

[Georg Baum]

Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 19:03 schrieb Jose' Matos:
>   This could/should go in the wiki I have seen this kind of stuff so 
many 
> times, the problem is that this varies from person.

Yes. Any takers? I have no time at the moment.


Georg

latex import problem

[Sanda Pavel]

hi all,

i'm trying to import some latex files into lyx, but lyx
plays funny games with me.

after import into lyx all the formulas look fine, export works etc,
but when i save+close+reopen the lyx file, it
is no longer exportable and also information about symbols in
the formulas change from "Type:equation" to "Type:None".

is there any way, how to globally change all the symbols "Type" back
into "equation" ? 
afaik the symbol in math mode is usually "simple" - how it differs ? 
 
i'm not sure whether the latex code is correct, because its 
just export from another editor from which i'm trying to port my files, 
so i saved one small example in 195.113.31.123/~sanda/lyx

using lyx 1.3.5 on gentoo.

thanks for any help 

pavel

LyX function for German hard S?

[Stefano Franchi]

My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer 
to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the 
function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks.


Stefano

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image convert problems

[C Beary]

Hello,
I recently did a complete reinstall of lyx and am
having some problems opening my old documents. There
were no problems compiling lyx and there were no
missing packages. Yet when I open a document, I get
the error "No information for converting gif to eps".
This happens for a number of different formats. In the
text window, I get the message
"/usr/local/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR
Execution of "convert" failed."

What is going on and how do I fix it?

Thanks 
Chris



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