Re: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped like this X But we want to control both the indentation of the lines 2-3 as well as the negative indentation of line 1. ... Have you tried using the verse paragraph type instead of standard? It looks like your example above. Perhaps a bit counterintuitive when you aren't writing poetry, but it has a hanging indent and is very simple to use. The big problem was paragraph positioning. Verse has margins that are too big. \parindent=-3em pushes the first line back into the margin and does not indent the rest of the paragraph. I found the magic bullet. After hours and hours of stumbling around the Internet, I found ERT \leftskip=3em to push the whole paragraph in . Then \parindent=-3em works to pull back the first line. This is a good solution, EXCEPT if you are doing this to the first paragraph of a section. As another poster noted, LyX (and LaTeX) are stubborn about that one. The Verse environment is a better approach, the only problem is margins are too big. But ERT \leftskip fixes it: \leftskip=-3em Man, this one was hard to find. Here is where I got this idea: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/TeTeX-HOWTO.html I worry that using the verse environment might be dangerous because some layouts might have fancy fonts or nonsense for verses. For lists, see if the paragraph type labeling might be useful. Here the indent is adjustable thorugh paragraph settings. If you really want a negative indent (first line of paragraph stick into the margin) try setting the document to use indented text and put \parindent=-2em in the document preamble. (Or in an ERT box in the first paragraph you want to be this way. In this case, make sure there is a space after the command.) The \parindent works fine for the 1st line, but not the 1st paragraph, which is stubborn in its insistence about being non-indented (at least, after a heading of some sort). Yes, This is true. :( Kenward -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Sciencehttp://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700
Re[4]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)
You might search the archives for Kuba Ober. He's got things to workwith Cyrillic encodings in the past I believe. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-develw=2r=1s=Kuba+Ober OK, thanks, I'll try that. What really _is_ annoying, is that I have a similar problem with ERT. This time, I not only see latin1-garbage in rectangular boxes that represent ERTs with Russian in it, I also can't see Russian when I try _inputting_ it into the box. It shows again as latin1. So I have to type blind and hope for the best. Sorry, I don't understand. You input ERT on the LyX screen, no? Yes. I open an ERT box, I type some latex stuff, and I need to input some Russian. Only, I don't see my Russian chars, I only see some latin1 garbage. An update: This only happens with lyx-qt now, with xforms I seem to have solved this AND the previous label problem with the following code I found on Google and adapted to my needs: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[ Begin Clipboard ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= \screen_font_roman -*-times \screen_font_sans -microsoft-tahoma \screen_font_typewriter -*-courier \screen_font_encoding cp1251 \screen_font_popup -*-helvetica-*-r \screen_font_menu -*-helvetica-*-r \screen_font_encoding_menu cp1251 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ End Clipboard ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= With the above in .lyxrc, the Russian chars are visible in both on-screen ERT boxes and labels. Only in xforms, though, which is bound to be dropped some time soon, right? OK, maybe this will still be of some use to anyone with the same problem. However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re[2]: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?
Hello Paul,
Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 12:22:16 PM, you wrote:
works to pull back the first line. This is a good solution, EXCEPT if
you are doing this to the first paragraph of a section. As another
poster noted, LyX (and LaTeX) are stubborn about that one.
I'm not sure, but maybe \usepackage{indentfirst} will help in
combination with what you posted previously?
--
WBR,
Andrei Popov
Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re[2]: Lyx and language depended characters / A Unicode Problem?
Now my «locale -a | grep de» gives following output: de_DE [EMAIL PROTECTED] de_DE.iso88591 de_DE.utf8 Where are the dashes left?? But ok, so I enterd: I'm not sure about the dashes, I don't have access to my Linux box right now. There can be some inconsistency about the dashes and upper/lower case on various systems. Such as ru_RU.koi8-r, ru_RU.KOI8R and the like. But, it may be absolutely normal. The only way to be 100% sure about how this locale should look on Gentoo is to ask a Gentoo user or google for it, I think. LANG=de_DE.iso88591 lyx (and also I tried:) LANG=de_DE.iso-8859-1 lyx but I still have my problem :-(. Can you tell me, where I made a mistake? OK, maybe it's not JUST a locale problem after all... But I still think you should start lyx in a script or xterm with a VALID 8-bit locale preceding it, rather than a Unicode one. OK, so we need to input German. For now, I assume you're entering text in LyX via XKB, like in all other apps? Let's do it the other way: 1. open Preferences, go to Keyboard, and set the first kmap to a German one, and the second one to whatever. E.g. American. Then save changes and restart LyX. 2. Create a new doc, set its language to German, its encoding to latin1, and try to enter some umlauts. 3. Far-fetched, but still: Can you possibly be using some half-assed fonts that even do not contain umlauts? I doubt it, but better be sure. Screen fonts are set via Preferences, while other fonts are set via $ qtconfig. Try all the above and see if it helps. -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
On 11/27/05, Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texgraph is a beautiful program, exporting in pstricks and eps : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/Fradin.Patrick/TeXgraph/accueil.html Easy to use. Unfortunately, Texgraph is in French... Paul
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
I want to thank everyone these suggestions: both the scilab and texgraph are really nice softwares, truly remarkable ones! Is there some way to translate the texgraph from french, or to get some english version? (I can't speak french). Cheers! Douglas __ Faça ligações para outros computadores com o novo Yahoo! Messenger http://br.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
Re: Controling indentation of lists
Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? On 11/29/05, Johan Ingvast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Kebinger wrote: Hi all, can anyone tell me how to control the layout of lists? Right now, using the article class, I get huge indents between the list number and the body of that list item. Is there a way to reduce this? Mark the whole list, choose Layout-Paragraph-LinesPagebreaks Then in the box Longest label you type in something that has the length of the indention you want. /johan
Re: Controling indentation of lists
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:14 AM, James Kebinger wrote: Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-down menu.
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
Hey guys, how are you? I'm fine, thanx =) Well, I'm using the best free LaTeX visual editor (Lyx) and I would like to know what is the best software to generate good math graphics in EPS format. jPicEdt, jfig, Ipe, Xfig, scilab, Tgif, TeXpict (limited)... The ones using Java will run anywhere, Ipe is available for Windows as well (QT), scilab is also built for many platforms. Otherwise, think Linux =) -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-down menu. Could you please share it? I think a lot of people could find that useful. -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: shrug You can modify the registry without admin priviliges as HKCU rather than HKLM. /shrug There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're going to just have to disagree fundamentally once again, Uwe. It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. But anyway, HKLM is needed to get all third-party programs running and to work together. You also need it to be able to modify or completely remove programs via Windows Installed Applications list. Lots and lots of stuff can be installed by a local user. It's more effort on the part of the installer writer, that's all. Angus
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Angus Leeming wrote: There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're going to just have to disagree fundamentally once again, Uwe. ;-) We aren't fundamentalists! It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. I tried it but there were too many problems to cover all specialities of the third-party programs. If the user has admin privileges I can assure that it works on every Win2k and WinXP-installation. And also when the user uses your installer he needs admin privileges to install for example the latest Perl. And what if other installers will need admin privileges too in future releases? regards Uwe
Re: Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Andrei Popov wrote: Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-down menu. Could you please share it? I think a lot of people could find that useful. I should have been a bit more specific... mdwlists has predefined compact environments called itemize* enumerate* and description* which reduce the interline spacing from the normal LaTex defaults. To enable these in LyX I made a LyX layout file called mdwlists.inc (attached) and then added the line Input mdwlists.inc to the stdclass.inc file. The result is that itemize* enumerate* and description* show up in the LyX pull-down menu for environment. Another useful feature is that the numbering does not automatically reset when you stop an enumerate* environment. mdwlists has many other features that you can access via ERT. mdwlists.inc Description: Binary data
lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
when i run lyx (right after installation) i get the following error message: lyx can not find any description of the environment. please verify the content of textclass.lst the file in question looks fine to me, it's 73 lines long and has the default layouts set to true... what could be wrong with my setup? i've tried to uninstall and reinstall lyx but doesn't change a thing. i'm using windows. miktex, python, minsys installed ok, no perl, gs, imagemagik. mamato ## This file declares layouts and their associated definition files. ## It has been automatically generated by configure ## Use Options/Reconfigure if you need to update it after a ## configuration change. Run ./configure manually to update the ## system wide version of this file. IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true agums aguplus article (AGU++) manuscript false amsart-plain amsart article (AMS, unnumbered) true amsart-seq amsart article (AMS, sequential numbering) true amsart amsart article (AMS) true amsbook amsbook book (AMS) true ...
lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something? Thanks in advance, Abdel. OT: Is there a chance that a package with lyx 1.4 is done ? I am very much interested in the XML DocBook capability.
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
it mainly depends on which registry the install is trying to write to. - in many cases you can install software to your home directory without any admin privileges because it uses the user registry and not the main registry. - sometimes it asks whether it should be installed for everyone (main registry) or just the current user (user registry). - sometimes it needs to use the main registry for legitimate reasons (need low level access to drivers etc) or only bothers with the main registry and then you can't do anything without admin privileges. i have to agree with angus, there's no legitimate need for a word processor to require admin level registry access. it's simply a user-level app... thx angus for letting regular users use your installer ;) mamato On 11/28/05, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 6:57 AM Subject: Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes) argh!! LyXWinInstaller requires admin privileges :/ No it doesn't. I regularly install at J:\Program Files\LyX without problems. Installing to C:\Program Files on WinXP certainly *does* require admin privileges. i just tried again running LyXWin136Complete-0-4.exehttp://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin136Complete-0-4.exe and before anything else (ex specifying directory), it says that i need administrator privileges. Admin privileges have to do with the operating system. Do you own the laptop? Then you should have admin rights. If you don't own the computer, then the rights are those given to you by the network administrator of the network. Ordinary users have few rights. If you own the laptop then you should login as a user with admin rights or create such an account. But you need the admin password to do that. The net admin can prevent you from installing Python2.4 and allow winzip etc or allow both or prevent all, including certain websites, using email etc.etc. Also the complete install still accesses the internet which is why I suggested a cd. For instance, a public library can completely erase any change made by any user, when the next user logs in. It is not the LyX installer. Other programs, determined by the network admin, can also have the admin rights stipulation applied to them by the network admin. A beginning course in Windows covers this type of stuff. If you have an XP home computer, you can usually install LyX because the default for home computers is close to full rights. The Operating system is generating the error message in your situation, not the LyX installer. On a network, the admin dictates the extent of your rights. Regards, Stephen Regards, Stephen
WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst
Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly, Sorry, has to exit :-( When I try at the command-line lyx -x reconfigure it gives me the same answer. Thanks, Abdel. This message and any files transmitted with it are legally privileged and intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Any unauthorised use or disclosure of the content of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Nothing in this e-mail message amounts to a contractual or legal commitment on the part of EUROCONTROL unless it is confirmed by appropriately signed hard copy. Any views expressed in this message are those of the sender.
Re[4]: Controling indentation of lists
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 4:26:42 PM, you wrote: I should have been a bit more specific... mdwlists has predefined compact environments called itemize* enumerate* and description* which reduce the interline spacing from the normal LaTex defaults. To enable these in LyX I made a LyX layout file called mdwlists.inc (attached) and then added the line Input mdwlists.inc to the stdclass.inc file. The result is that itemize* enumerate* and description* show up in the LyX pull-down menu for environment. Another useful feature is that the numbering does not automatically reset when you stop an enumerate* environment. mdwlists has many other features that you can access via ERT. This is really useful, at least for me, thanks! -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! mamato On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i run lyx (right after installation) i get the following error message: lyx can not find any description of the environment. please verify the content of textclass.lst the file in question looks fine to me, it's 73 lines long and has the default layouts set to true... what could be wrong with my setup? i've tried to uninstall and reinstall lyx but doesn't change a thing. i'm using windows. miktex, python, minsys installed ok, no perl, gs, imagemagik. mamato ## This file declares layouts and their associated definition files. ## It has been automatically generated by configure ## Use Options/Reconfigure if you need to update it after a ## configuration change. Run ./configure manually to update the ## system wide version of this file. IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true agums aguplus article (AGU++) manuscript false amsart-plain amsart article (AMS, unnumbered) true amsart-seq amsart article (AMS, sequential numbering) true amsart amsart article (AMS) true amsbook amsbook book (AMS) true ...
Re: orientation of .eps figures
Richard Sherman wrote: Thanks again to those of you who are helping me with this. Herbert Voss wrote: first do not use an extension for file names. The graphic driver can detect the right extension. It is a typical behaviour for ghostscript, that it thinks, that your graphic should be rotated to get your vertical text in a horizontal view. ghostscript is too clever here. Try it by hand, export the lyx file as PosScript, then run ps2pdf --dAutoRotatePages=/None filename.ps or alternatively with --dPrePress=/None Herbert Sounds like good intuition, and I tried it: but Lyx won't export the PostScript (Cannot convert file error). Same thing when I remove the .eps extension. hm, shouldn't be happened ... then export to from with LyX to latex and run latex file dvips file ps2pdf --dAutoRotatePages=/None file.ps Herbert
Re: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)
Andrei Popov wrote: However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? A. The penny drops. (I start to understand.) We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask for. XForms does as we ask, but Qt occassionally lies to us. I'm hazy about the details but there are comments to this effect in qfont_loader.C: http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/qfont_loader.C?rev=1.27.2.8only_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_Xcontent-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup You might like to drop either John Levon (who wrote this code) or Kuba Ober (who has used Cyrillic fonts with success in the past) a line. levon () movementarian ! org kuba () mareimbrium ! org Regards, Angus
Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst
One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak (M3SYSTEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly, Sorry, has to exit :-( When I try at the command-line lyx -x reconfigure it gives me the same answer. Thanks, Abdel. This message and any files transmitted with it are legally privileged and intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Any unauthorised use or disclosure of the content of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Nothing in this e-mail message amounts to a contractual or legal commitment on the part of EUROCONTROL unless it is confirmed by appropriately signed hard copy. Any views expressed in this message are those of the sender.
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Uwe Stöhr wrote: It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. I tried it but there were too many problems to cover all specialities of the third-party programs. If the user has admin privileges I can assure that it works on every Win2k and WinXP-installation. And also when the user uses your installer he needs admin privileges to install for example the latest Perl. * LyX 1.4 won't need Perl. * I see heaps of complaints to the Python devs about Python 2.4 requiring admin priviliges. Python 2.3 and below don't. * MSYS doesn't need admin priviliges. * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. * There are certainly latex distributions out there that don't require admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. It's perfectly reasonable to tell your user that some parts of the installation procedure need admin rights, for reasons outside of your control. If the installer is run by a non-admin then restrict what gets installed or enable the installer to upgrade itself to admin priviliges for those bits (presumably requires a password dialog). And what if other installers will need admin privileges too in future releases? That's their problem. It's not something you should be concerned about. Angus
Spellcheck on Windows
Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic
Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! Assuming that you installed LyX at C:\Program Files\LyX, it's looking for textclass.lst in the LyX system directory: C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ or in the per-user support directory. In my case, here: C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX If your textclass.lst exists in any other place, then that textclass.lst is part of a previous, unofficial and unsupported port of LyX to Windows, either by Ruurd Reitsma or by Claus Hentschel. HTH, -- Angus
Re[2]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)
However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask for. XForms does as we ask, but Qt occassionally lies to us. You might like to drop either John Levon (who wrote this code) or Kuba Ober (who has used Cyrillic fonts with success in the past) a line. levon () movementarian ! org kuba () mareimbrium ! org Thanks, Angus. I'll verify again at home this problem with QT and check if it really went away in Xforms, and then try to reach for the guys. -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
windows has been searching my whole drive for most of the afternoon now and has only found the one file it should have (even though it's not done yet) i've only ever tried to install this lyx-1.3.6 but i've done it multiple times and the only other directory i installed it to has been deleted. is it possible to turn on the lyxerr[Debug::TCLASS]debug messages from the runtime i have? mamato On 11/29/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! Assuming that you installed LyX at C:\Program Files\LyX, it's looking for textclass.lst in the LyX system directory: C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ or in the per-user support directory. In my case, here: C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX If your textclass.lst exists in any other place, then that textclass.lstis part of a previous, unofficial and unsupported port of LyX to Windows, either by Ruurd Reitsma or by Claus Hentschel. HTH, -- Angus
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:38 AM Subject: Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx On 11/27/05, Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texgraph is a beautiful program, exporting in pstricks and eps : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/Fradin.Patrick/TeXgraph/accueil.html Easy to use. Unfortunately, Texgraph is in French... Paul Well, it is not like trying to read Connes and Changeux's Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/inrstex/texgraph/ has thgraph.ps --- A PostScript version of the TeXGraph Chapter in the INRSTeX Reference Manual. [written in English] The program appears to be written in English. But the version is old and perhaps there are compatibility problems. Perhaps not, since Michel Gosse says it is easy to use. Also I didn't see any download page for a newer version at Patrick Fradin's. Regards, Stephen
Re: Spellcheck on Windows
Vic Kelson wrote: Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic You need aspell (and a dictionary) installed, and I'm pretty sure it has to be installed in C:\Aspell. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 (scroll down to Spell checking). Paul
Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst
YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak (M3SYSTEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly, Sorry, has to exit :-( When I try at the command-line lyx -x reconfigure it gives me the same answer. Thanks, Abdel. Not sure, but we seem to be seeing some flaky symptoms from the 1.3.7pre4 installer. If 1.3.6 works for you, presumably you have MinSys installed. Usually the no textclass.lst syndrome is the result of not having a working sh.exe (or not having sed.exe), but if that were the case, you should not be able to install 1.3.6 either. If you want to take another crack at 1.3.7, you might try opening a command window in the ...\Resources\lyx directory of the 1.3.7 installation, and running 'sh configure' there. (If the MinSys bin directory is not on your command path, you'll need to give a full path to sh.exe in the command line.) That should generate textclass.lst, after which you should be able to start 1.3.7pre4. Maybe. Paul
Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak (M3SYSTEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly, Sorry, has to exit :-( When I try at the command-line lyx -x reconfigure it gives me the same answer. Thanks, Abdel. Not sure, but we seem to be seeing some flaky symptoms from the 1.3.7pre4 installer. If 1.3.6 works for you, presumably you have MinSys installed. Usually the no textclass.lst syndrome is the result of not having a working sh.exe (or not having sed.exe), but if that were the case, you should not be able to install 1.3.6 either. Right, MSIS is there and working. If you want to take another crack at 1.3.7, you might try opening a command window in the ...\Resources\lyx directory of the 1.3.7 installation, and running 'sh configure' there. (If the MinSys bin directory is not on your command path, you'll need to give a full path to sh.exe in the command line.) That should generate textclass.lst, after which you should be able to start 1.3.7pre4. Maybe. That made it indeed. Thanks. So I guess this is an installer bug... Abdel Paul
Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
fixed it... should have read your mail more carefully :/ it was in App Data. mamato On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: windows has been searching my whole drive for most of the afternoon now and has only found the one file it should have (even though it's not done yet) i've only ever tried to install this lyx-1.3.6 but i've done it multiple times and the only other directory i installed it to has been deleted. is it possible to turn on the lyxerr[Debug::TCLASS]debug messages from the runtime i have? mamato On 11/29/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! Assuming that you installed LyX at C:\Program Files\LyX, it's looking for textclass.lst in the LyX system directory: C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ or in the per-user support directory. In my case, here: C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX If your textclass.lst exists in any other place, then that textclass.lstis part of a previous, unofficial and unsupported port of LyX to Windows, either by Ruurd Reitsma or by Claus Hentschel. HTH, -- Angus
indent + raggedright
Hello list, I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text to have both indents for new paragraphs AND have ragged right edges (since that's a requirement for a paper I'm working on). Every time I enable raggedright (e.g., in the preamble), I lose all indents for text in the 'standard' class. I don't have much luck doing inline in an ERT section. I've been digging around the net for a couple days now, but no working solution has revealed itself to me. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Mike
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Angus Leeming wrote: * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. I never said this. But ImageMagick is of course required to run LyX. A wordprocessor is useless when no images can be processed. * There are certainly latex distributions out there that don't require admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. Hä? Run a program is not just starting it. If I run LyX I want to be able to get a result. This is the reason why I build the new installer! And what if other installers will need admin privileges too in future releases? That's their problem. It's not something you should be concerned about. No it is my problem because my installer uses them! Angus, with all respect, have you ever tested my installer or looked in its code? Please do so and you will probably understand my decision. I don't say that admin privileges are definetively needed but for the moment I want to have a stable installer before working on this. (Currently I have the problem that the Postscript delegation of the latest ImageMagick still fails and that the graphics conversion don't work when TeXLive is used.) regards Uwe
Re: Spellcheck on Windows
Vic Kelson wrote: I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? Simply install Aspell, but it must be installed to C:\Aspell. You can also use the new installer that does this automatically for you: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller regards Uwe
Re: indent + raggedright
Nevermind - I missed this: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg15610.html That solution worked for me. Mike Leahy wrote: Hello list, I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text to have both indents for new paragraphs AND have ragged right edges (since that's a requirement for a paper I'm working on). Every time I enable raggedright (e.g., in the preamble), I lose all indents for text in the 'standard' class. I don't have much luck doing inline in an ERT section. I've been digging around the net for a couple days now, but no working solution has revealed itself to me. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Mike
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. I never said this. But ImageMagick is of course required to run LyX. A wordprocessor is useless when no images can be processed. there are a lot of other tools ... * There are certainly latex distributions out there that don't require admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. Angus, then try to install LyX without an installed TeX system and try to run LyX ... ;-) (Currently I have the problem that the Postscript delegation of the latest ImageMagick still fails and that the graphics conversion don't work when TeXLive is used.) ImagaMagick _always_ uses ghostscript when converting ps/eps/pdf files Herbert
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. Angus, then try to install LyX without an installed TeX system and try to run LyX ... ;-) being able to run lyx without latex is IMHO a good and useful thing! i almost decided to go with that solution on my laptop from work because latex was so heavy and i wasn't sure it would install without admin privileges. running lyx without latex would have allowed me to write my thesis anywhere using the laptop. i'm in no hurry to print it and when i do need to print it i can always latex it from my home computer or remotely over the net... mamato
Windows and spellcheck
THANKS everyone! It works now. --v
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:24:39 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. Angus, then try to install LyX without an installed TeX system and try to run LyX ... ;-) being able to run lyx without latex is IMHO a good and useful thing! I don't want to get too involved in the debate, but I also find being able to install lyx on a computer that does not have TeX is a good option. On my Zaurus, there is not only not enough room for TeX, there is no direct printer access, so just being able to edit documents, then move them to another computer to print, is fine. IMO there should be the option of using LyX without TeX. -- David L. Johnson __o | Enron's slogan: Respect, Communication, Integrity, and _`\(,_ | Excellence. (_)/ (_) |
Re[2]: URGENT:Prezentation with Prosper [Win98]
Hello Robert,
RO If I may make a suggestion here.
Yes, of course.
RO Try powerdot rather than prosper. I think you will
RO find it an improvement and may not have as many
RO problems.
I faced to the same problem trying powerdot. :(
I installed everything (LyX 1.3.6) on an XP machine and I played a little
bit. I found that the View - PDF does not work! It produces the errors as
described below. In the other hand, if I export it to PDF, it works!
Wow! What is the problem? Somebody shall check it, sometime...
It is same for prosper and powerdot.
So, I returned back to my 1.3.3 (at home) and I tryed to export as PDF.
Unfortunately, I have Win98 and I was out of environment space during
running ps2pdf! It was hard to figured it out. So, I have to export it
to PS first, then copy to C:\lyx\gs\gs8.51\lib\ and then do
command /e:1024 to increse enviroment space afterward comes the ps2pdf in
that shell. Thus, I have the presentation in pdf.
I tryed to increase environment space at boot, without any success! :(
step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide
step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide
step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide
I don't know why this appears, but it does not bother me anymore.
View - PDF will not work for some reason, maybe somebody got it working?
I use lyx 1.3.3 (I tryed it with 1.3.5, it was the
same) on Win98se.
I have MikTeX 2.4.1398 installed.
+ ghostscript 8.51
--
Best regards,
Alexmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear List,
I have installed prosper and I cannot compile the
example files on the
wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Prosper)!
When I open layout_Dekel-sample.lyx on console
window I can see a
message:
I try to view it with 'View - DVI', but as it is
written doesn't show anyithing
(ops it shows something on the far right, if I zoom
it out, I could see something...).
When I try to View - PDF(pdflatex), I does show
me that there are 20
errors during running latex.
The first 5 complain about Undefined control
sequence for \maketitle.
At each caption there are other 5 like Undefined
control sequence for
\lyxnewslide{Caption n:o 2}.
Finally, at the end the same for \end{document}.
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:28 AM Subject: Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes) Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: shrug You can modify the registry without admin priviliges as HKCU rather than HKLM. /shrug There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're going to just have to disagree fundamentally once again, Uwe. It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. A limited Win XP user can install all the helper apps. It doesn't make sense for one installer to block LyX because of Admin rights; one can just use the other installer. Suppose a parent has to take a six-week business trip and wants to let his teenager install programs, but just not eliminate the parent's programs. Why should the LyX installer eliminate that option. On a network, the right to allow program installs or not belongs to the sys/net admin policy adminstration, not a developer. Because frequently, you have to ask a sysadmin to install a program does not mean that _must_ be a rule enforced by a programmer. The installer working this way is also not aligned with open source ideals. But anyway, HKLM is needed to get all third-party programs running and to work together. You also need it to be able to modify or completely remove programs via Windows Installed Applications list. Lots and lots of stuff can be installed by a local user. It's more effort on the part of the installer writer, that's all. I think eliminating the Administrator group check and mentioning in the Readme that Admin rights may be required is enough for LyX will work as things are now without any extra effort. I could use Add/Remove programs with LyX as a limited user; besides it says from the Windows XP Program Files/ User Accounts : Pick an Account Type _ _ |_| Computer administrator |_| Limited With a limited account, you can: *Change or remove your password *Change your picture, theme, and other desktop settings *View Files you created *View Files in the Shared Documents Folder Users with limited accounts cannot always install programs. Depending on the program, a user might need administrator privileges to install it. Also, programs designed prior to Windows VP or Windows 2000 might not work properly with limited accounts. For best results, choose programs bearing the Designed For Windows VP logo, or, to run older programs, choose the computer administrator account type. SH: That seems like enough warning to me. Why should LyX require administrator privileges when MikTeX doesn't?! Angus Regards, Stephen
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hä? Run a program is not just starting it. If I run LyX I want to be able to get a result. Your definition of result is different to mine then. I want to write a paper on my laptop. I don't need to see the thing typeset. This is the reason why I build the new installer! No, everything works for *you* already. There's no need to build a new installer for that. You are building a new installer because you want other people to benefit from your work. You think that you can create something which improves on what exists currently. That's laudable, but in my opinion you should aim to create something that is uniformly better than the existing tool. Not better in some places and worse in others. And what if other installers will need admin privileges too in future releases? That's their problem. It's not something you should be concerned about. No it is my problem because my installer uses them! Angus, with all respect, have you ever tested my installer or looked in its code? No and yes, in that order. Look, with all due respect that's not the point. The point I'm trying to get across is that your vision isn't the only one and, indeed, isn't better or worse than, say, mine. However, if you create a flexible tool then we all benefit. There's nothing conceptually difficult about an installer that can do more if it has administrator privileges, nor does such a beast have to result in much more work for you. It boils down to: if (is_admin) install_imagemagick else print can't install image magick without admin rights -- Angus
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Herbert Angus, then try to install LyX without an installed TeX Herbert system and try to run LyX ... ;-) You are supposed to be able to edit files without LaTeX installed. If it does not work, there is a bug. JMarc
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
David == David L Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David I don't want to get too involved in the debate, but I also find David being able to install lyx on a computer that does not have TeX David is a good option. On my Zaurus, there is not only not enough David room for TeX, there is no direct printer access, so just being David able to edit documents, then move them to another computer to David print, is fine. IMO there should be the option of using LyX David without TeX. I tried to do what is needed to make that work. If it does not work, complain. JMarc
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 6:16 AM Subject: Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes) Angus Leeming wrote: There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're going to just have to disagree fundamentally once again, Uwe. ;-) We aren't fundamentalists! It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. I tried it but there were too many problems to cover all specialities of the third-party programs. If the user has admin privileges I can assure that it works on every Win2k and WinXP-installation. And also when the user uses your installer he needs admin privileges to install for example the latest Perl. And what if other installers will need admin privileges too in future releases? regards Uwe Currently, a new LyX user can download and install all the programs needed to make LyX 1.3.6 work. It defeats the purpose of your installer if the current new user, such as mamato, can pre-install workable helper programs but has to turn to the Angus installer, which does not interfere with WinXP limited user policy or network admin authority, to complete the job. I mean if the install fails because of rights, then let it fail, why make it fail? Add a line or two to the Readme about it. Your method runs counter to open source and cross-porting ideals. Regards, Stephen
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
YOUNES Abdelrazak wrote: Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something? You should be able to add the path directly in the installer... Ultimately, you'll find that LyX generates a file C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\lyxrc.defaults containing a '\path_prefix' entry. Mine is \path_prefix J:\MSYS\bin;C:\Python24;C:\MiKTeX\Main\miktex\bin;C \PROGRA~1\Perl\bin;c:\program files\Ghostscript 8.33\gs8.33\bin;C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.2.3-Q16 LyX uses this to modify the PATH environment variable that enables it to find these various executables. You can always adjust this variable, either by editing the file manually or by using the Edit-Preferences dialog. This latter approach will create a user-level file C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX\preferences that contains differences bwtween your preferences and the contents of lyxrc.defaults Does any of that make sense/help? Thanks in advance, Abdel. OT: Is there a chance that a package with lyx 1.4 is done ? I am very much interested in the XML DocBook capability. No 1.4 is a work in progress, although it's making great progress at the moment. -- Angus
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something? Isn't there a browse symbol, .. that lets you navigate to the proper directory for latex.exe in the Angus 1.3.6 installer? When it asks for the Miktex directory during installation. Thanks in advance, Abdel. OT: Is there a chance that a package with lyx 1.4 is done ? I am very much interested in the XML DocBook capability. You could test it. I am curious about the change/tracking feature. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14 I downloaded the source to build 1.4 (you need a compiler). http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php tells you how to get it. I am not sure of the command line for the frontend for Windows. It is supposed to use Qt but I don't know if Qt3 is used for Windows and all I saw in the cvs was Qt2. Regards, Stephen
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
Stephen Harris wrote: I am not sure of the command line for the frontend for Windows. It is supposed to use Qt but I don't know if Qt3 is used for Windows and all I saw in the cvs was Qt2. That's just a directory name thing. CVS isn't very smart when it comes to renaming things or adding directories. I build LyX against the QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH branch of the qtwin project. Grab it with the cvs command: $ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/qtwin \ login press Enter when asked for a password $ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/qtwin \ checkout -r QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH qt-3 Have a look at development/Win32/packaging/build_lyxwin.sh to see what needs to be done to build LyX using the MinGW/MSYS environment. In truth, I haven't used this with 1.4 for ages because I tend to use the MSVS.Net 2003 compiler (there's a .sln file in development/Win32). However, it certainly used to work. (You might want to add --disable-stdlib-debug to the options passed to the LyX configure script; it speeds up LyX's execution by an order of magnitude.) -- Angus
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
YOUNES Abdelrazak wrote: My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something? Hm, you used the Small version of the installer and it aborts the installation because it didn't find MiKTeX, right? If the path D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin is really in the PATH variable, could you please check if there is the file latex.exe and look in the registry HKey_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment if the path to the latex.exe is there in the entry Path It detects your MiKTeX when the path is in this registry key. Ah, perhaps you have two entries in the PATH variable that contains the a folder miktex. If yes move the actual path at the first position of the PATH. (The problem is that MiKTeX doesn't clean up the PATH when it is deinstalled so that you have more than one entries when you reinstall it. MiKTeX sets the actual one at the first position so that the installer will use the first PATH entry with the folder miktex as folder to latex.exe. The next installer version will check every PATH entry with a folder miktex for the latex.exe). Please report me what was the problem. If nothing helps, use the Network version of the installer and set the path to latex.exe manually. thanks and regards Uwe
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
Stephen Harris wrote: YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something? Isn't there a browse symbol, .. that lets you navigate to the proper directory for latex.exe in the Angus 1.3.6 installer? When it asks for the Miktex directory during installation. Thanks in advance, Abdel. OT: Is there a chance that a package with lyx 1.4 is done ? I am very much interested in the XML DocBook capability. You could test it. I am curious about the change/tracking feature. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14 I downloaded the source to build 1.4 (you need a compiler). http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php tells you how to get it. I am not sure of the command line for the frontend for Windows. It is supposed to use Qt but I don't know if Qt3 is used for Windows and all I saw in the cvs was Qt2. Regards, Stephen I may be wrong, but isn't lyxwininstall 0.4 Uwe's installer (rather than Angus's)? Does it support selective installation of components? (I've never tried it.) Paul
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I may be wrong, but isn't lyxwininstall 0.4 Uwe's installer (rather than Angus's)? Does it support selective installation of components? (I've never tried it.) Yes, the Nwetwork variant allows you to choose a LaTeX-distribution. regards Uwe
lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview
Is the new installer meant to install everything Lyx needs for instant preview to work ? After - installing the preview package in LaTeX, - checking Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview - doing a Reconfigure - restarting LyX instant preview still does not work. What is missing ? H.Peter
Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview
H. Peter Gumm schrieb: Is the new installer meant to install everything Lyx needs for instant preview to work ? No, Instant Preview is not yet supported but I'm working on it. At the moment you have to install needed programs manually after you have installed LyX. I missed to give this hint in the Readmes, sorry. regards Uwe
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:14 PM Subject: Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings I may be wrong, but isn't lyxwininstall 0.4 Uwe's installer (rather than Angus's)? Does it support selective installation of components? (I've never tried it.) Paul Yes, he replied sheepishly. The network install does. But I got confused about using the Angus installer which does browse at that point in the installation and LyX1.4. Could have happened to any old dodderer. Regards, Stephen
Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview
H. Peter Gumm wrote: Is the new installer meant to install everything Lyx needs for instant preview to work ? After - installing the preview package in LaTeX, - checking Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview - doing a Reconfigure - restarting LyX instant preview still does not work. What is missing ? H.Peter You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus recommends the Win32all extensions for Python as well. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview.) Do you have netpbm installed? At one time instant preview required pnmcrop, which is part of netpbm. The current preview script lists it as optional, so I don't think it's the source of your immediate problem, but who knows? HTH, Paul
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:07 PM Subject: Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings Stephen Harris wrote: I am not sure of the command line for the frontend for Windows. It is supposed to use Qt but I don't know if Qt3 is used for Windows and all I saw in the cvs was Qt2. That's just a directory name thing. CVS isn't very smart when it comes to renaming things or adding directories. I build LyX against the QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH branch of the qtwin project. Grab it with the cvs command: $ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/qtwin \ login press Enter when asked for a password $ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/qtwin \ checkout -r QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH qt-3 Have a look at development/Win32/packaging/build_lyxwin.sh to see what needs to be done to build LyX using the MinGW/MSYS environment. In truth, I haven't used this with 1.4 for ages because I tend to use the MSVS.Net 2003 compiler (there's a .sln file in development/Win32). However, it certainly used to work. (You might want to add --disable-stdlib-debug to the options passed to the LyX configure script; it speeds up LyX's execution by an order of magnitude.) -- Angus Thank you. I have MS C++ visual?, but have only used Cygwin and Msys. I'm actually going to try this. Do you happen to know the syntax for the config --frontend qt I've seen it and can probably find it if you don't know it off the top of your head. I want to see if change/tracking works in windows. BTW, I still can't install to C:\Lyx using 1.3.7_3 without getting the textclass.lst error. OTOH, that may well have a low priority. I keep learning, I didn't know that Miktex wasn't crucial to LyX for instance. Regards, Stephen
Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview
Paul A. Rubin wrote: instant preview still does not work. What is missing ? You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus recommends the Win32all extensions for Python as well. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview.) Do you have netpbm installed? At one time instant preview required pnmcrop, which is part of netpbm. The current preview script lists it as optional, so I don't think it's the source of your immediate problem, but who knows? Most importantly, you need the preview.sty latex package... -- Angus
Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
Stephen Harris wrote:
Have a look at development/Win32/packaging/build_lyxwin.sh to see what
needs to be done to build LyX using the MinGW/MSYS environment. In
truth, I haven't used this with 1.4 for ages because I tend to use the
MSVS.Net 2003 compiler (there's a .sln file in development/Win32).
However, it certainly used to work. (You might want to add
--disable-stdlib-debug to the options passed to the LyX configure
script; it speeds up LyX's execution by an order of magnitude.)
Thank you. I have MS C++ visual?,
Try clicking on the lyx.sln file from an explorer window then. You may need
to tweak the location of the Qt header files etc but your compilation will
be an order of magnitude faster than with g++.
but have only used
Cygwin and Msys. I'm actually going to try this. Do
you happen to know the syntax for the config --frontend qt
It's in that build_lyxwin.sh script as
../configure --without-x --with-included-gettext
--with-extra-prefix='${LYX_ASPELL_DIR}' --with-frontend=qt
QTDIR='$QT_DIR'
although if you're planning on building LyX 1.4 I'd add the
--disable-stdlib-debug flag to that if I were you.
--
Angus
Cites from pybliographic
Many thanks, Worked a treat. Alastair Lewis
Re: Re[2]: URGENT:Prezentation with Prosper [Win98]
Hi Alex,
I just fired up LyX and loaded one of my powerdot
presentations; looks like you have to export .ps and
then run ps2pdf on the .ps file to generate a .pdf
If you have powerdot, check the users guide, section
8.2 for info
on creating/viewing output.
Phil
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Robert,
RO If I may make a suggestion here.
Yes, of course.
RO Try powerdot rather than prosper. I think you
will
RO find it an improvement and may not have as many
RO problems.
I faced to the same problem trying powerdot. :(
I installed everything (LyX 1.3.6) on an XP machine
and I played a little
bit. I found that the View - PDF does not work! It
produces the errors as
described below. In the other hand, if I export it
to PDF, it works!
Wow! What is the problem? Somebody shall check it,
sometime...
It is same for prosper and powerdot.
So, I returned back to my 1.3.3 (at home) and I
tryed to export as PDF.
Unfortunately, I have Win98 and I was out of
environment space during
running ps2pdf! It was hard to figured it out. So, I
have to export it
to PS first, then copy to C:\lyx\gs\gs8.51\lib\
and then do
command /e:1024 to increse enviroment space
afterward comes the ps2pdf in
that shell. Thus, I have the presentation in pdf.
I tryed to increase environment space at boot,
without any success! :(
step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide
step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide
step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide
I don't know why this appears, but it does not
bother me anymore.
View - PDF will not work for some reason, maybe
somebody got it working?
I use lyx 1.3.3 (I tryed it with 1.3.5, it was
the
same) on Win98se.
I have MikTeX 2.4.1398 installed.
+ ghostscript 8.51
--
Best regards,
Alexmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear List,
I have installed prosper and I cannot compile the
example files on the
wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Prosper)!
When I open layout_Dekel-sample.lyx on console
window I can see a
message:
I try to view it with 'View - DVI', but as it is
written doesn't show anyithing
(ops it shows something on the far right, if I
zoom
it out, I could see something...).
When I try to View - PDF(pdflatex), I does
show
me that there are 20
errors during running latex.
The first 5 complain about Undefined control
sequence for \maketitle.
At each caption there are other 5 like Undefined
control sequence for
\lyxnewslide{Caption n:o 2}.
Finally, at the end the same for
\end{document}.
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Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview
H. Peter Gumm schrieb: instant preview still does not work. The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview (using e.g. MiKTeX's package Manager), to enable Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview, and to reconfigure Lyx. Is the new installer meant to install everything I hope that the installer will now be nearly complete. The only thing that is still missing is a nice and free (GPLed) BibTeX-manager for Windows. Has anybody a good proposal? regards Uwe
Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul A. Rubin wrote: instant preview still does not work. What is missing ? You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus recommends the Win32all extensions for Python as well. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview.) Do you have netpbm installed? At one time instant preview required pnmcrop, which is part of netpbm. The current preview script lists it as optional, so I don't think it's the source of your immediate problem, but who knows? Most importantly, you need the preview.sty latex package... The number of things that can go wrong in windows is unlimited, I think. In my case, if the LyX Preview-PPM converter is defined as python $$s/scripts/lyxpreview2ppm.py then instant preview fails and in the terminal I see the message Could not fork: No such file or directory But if it is defined as python.exe $$s/scripts/lyxpreview2ppm.py then everything goes well. Moreover, if leave untouched the definition and create a python.bat script (ahead in the path) which simply calls python.exe, again everything is ok. This really is beyond me. Another cause of failure for me (but not always) is that I also have pplatex and it is picked first by lyxpreview2ppm.py. I had to tweak the script such that latex comes first... -- Enrico
Re: URGENT:Prezentation with Prosper [Win98]
Robert Orr wrote: I just fired up LyX and loaded one of my powerdot presentations; looks like you have to export .ps and then run ps2pdf on the .ps file to generate a .pdf powerdot is derived from prosper, it uses heavily PSTricks code, so dvi-ps-pdf is the correct sequence. Herbert
Re: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped like this X But we want to control both the indentation of the lines 2-3 as well as the negative indentation of line 1. ... Have you tried using the verse paragraph type instead of standard? It looks like your example above. Perhaps a bit counterintuitive when you aren't writing poetry, but it has a hanging indent and is very simple to use. The big problem was paragraph positioning. Verse has margins that are too big. \parindent=-3em pushes the first line back into the margin and does not indent the rest of the paragraph. I found the magic bullet. After hours and hours of stumbling around the Internet, I found ERT \leftskip=3em to push the whole paragraph in . Then \parindent=-3em works to pull back the first line. This is a good solution, EXCEPT if you are doing this to the first paragraph of a section. As another poster noted, LyX (and LaTeX) are stubborn about that one. The Verse environment is a better approach, the only problem is margins are too big. But ERT \leftskip fixes it: \leftskip=-3em Man, this one was hard to find. Here is where I got this idea: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/TeTeX-HOWTO.html I worry that using the verse environment might be dangerous because some layouts might have fancy fonts or nonsense for verses. For lists, see if the paragraph type labeling might be useful. Here the indent is adjustable thorugh paragraph settings. If you really want a negative indent (first line of paragraph stick into the margin) try setting the document to use indented text and put \parindent=-2em in the document preamble. (Or in an ERT box in the first paragraph you want to be this way. In this case, make sure there is a space after the command.) The \parindent works fine for the 1st line, but not the 1st paragraph, which is stubborn in its insistence about being non-indented (at least, after a heading of some sort). Yes, This is true. :( Kenward -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Sciencehttp://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700
Re[4]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)
You might search the archives for Kuba Ober. He's got things to workwith Cyrillic encodings in the past I believe. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-develw=2r=1s=Kuba+Ober OK, thanks, I'll try that. What really _is_ annoying, is that I have a similar problem with ERT. This time, I not only see latin1-garbage in rectangular boxes that represent ERTs with Russian in it, I also can't see Russian when I try _inputting_ it into the box. It shows again as latin1. So I have to type blind and hope for the best. Sorry, I don't understand. You input ERT on the LyX screen, no? Yes. I open an ERT box, I type some latex stuff, and I need to input some Russian. Only, I don't see my Russian chars, I only see some latin1 garbage. An update: This only happens with lyx-qt now, with xforms I seem to have solved this AND the previous label problem with the following code I found on Google and adapted to my needs: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[ Begin Clipboard ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= \screen_font_roman -*-times \screen_font_sans -microsoft-tahoma \screen_font_typewriter -*-courier \screen_font_encoding cp1251 \screen_font_popup -*-helvetica-*-r \screen_font_menu -*-helvetica-*-r \screen_font_encoding_menu cp1251 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ End Clipboard ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= With the above in .lyxrc, the Russian chars are visible in both on-screen ERT boxes and labels. Only in xforms, though, which is bound to be dropped some time soon, right? OK, maybe this will still be of some use to anyone with the same problem. However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re[2]: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?
Hello Paul,
Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 12:22:16 PM, you wrote:
works to pull back the first line. This is a good solution, EXCEPT if
you are doing this to the first paragraph of a section. As another
poster noted, LyX (and LaTeX) are stubborn about that one.
I'm not sure, but maybe \usepackage{indentfirst} will help in
combination with what you posted previously?
--
WBR,
Andrei Popov
Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re[2]: Lyx and language depended characters / A Unicode Problem?
Now my «locale -a | grep de» gives following output: de_DE [EMAIL PROTECTED] de_DE.iso88591 de_DE.utf8 Where are the dashes left?? But ok, so I enterd: I'm not sure about the dashes, I don't have access to my Linux box right now. There can be some inconsistency about the dashes and upper/lower case on various systems. Such as ru_RU.koi8-r, ru_RU.KOI8R and the like. But, it may be absolutely normal. The only way to be 100% sure about how this locale should look on Gentoo is to ask a Gentoo user or google for it, I think. LANG=de_DE.iso88591 lyx (and also I tried:) LANG=de_DE.iso-8859-1 lyx but I still have my problem :-(. Can you tell me, where I made a mistake? OK, maybe it's not JUST a locale problem after all... But I still think you should start lyx in a script or xterm with a VALID 8-bit locale preceding it, rather than a Unicode one. OK, so we need to input German. For now, I assume you're entering text in LyX via XKB, like in all other apps? Let's do it the other way: 1. open Preferences, go to Keyboard, and set the first kmap to a German one, and the second one to whatever. E.g. American. Then save changes and restart LyX. 2. Create a new doc, set its language to German, its encoding to latin1, and try to enter some umlauts. 3. Far-fetched, but still: Can you possibly be using some half-assed fonts that even do not contain umlauts? I doubt it, but better be sure. Screen fonts are set via Preferences, while other fonts are set via $ qtconfig. Try all the above and see if it helps. -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
On 11/27/05, Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texgraph is a beautiful program, exporting in pstricks and eps : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/Fradin.Patrick/TeXgraph/accueil.html Easy to use. Unfortunately, Texgraph is in French... Paul
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
I want to thank everyone these suggestions: both the scilab and texgraph are really nice softwares, truly remarkable ones! Is there some way to translate the texgraph from french, or to get some english version? (I can't speak french). Cheers! Douglas __ Faça ligações para outros computadores com o novo Yahoo! Messenger http://br.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
Re: Controling indentation of lists
Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? On 11/29/05, Johan Ingvast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Kebinger wrote: Hi all, can anyone tell me how to control the layout of lists? Right now, using the article class, I get huge indents between the list number and the body of that list item. Is there a way to reduce this? Mark the whole list, choose Layout-Paragraph-LinesPagebreaks Then in the box Longest label you type in something that has the length of the indention you want. /johan
Re: Controling indentation of lists
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:14 AM, James Kebinger wrote: Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-down menu.
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
Hey guys, how are you? I'm fine, thanx =) Well, I'm using the best free LaTeX visual editor (Lyx) and I would like to know what is the best software to generate good math graphics in EPS format. jPicEdt, jfig, Ipe, Xfig, scilab, Tgif, TeXpict (limited)... The ones using Java will run anywhere, Ipe is available for Windows as well (QT), scilab is also built for many platforms. Otherwise, think Linux =) -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-down menu. Could you please share it? I think a lot of people could find that useful. -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: shrug You can modify the registry without admin priviliges as HKCU rather than HKLM. /shrug There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're going to just have to disagree fundamentally once again, Uwe. It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. But anyway, HKLM is needed to get all third-party programs running and to work together. You also need it to be able to modify or completely remove programs via Windows Installed Applications list. Lots and lots of stuff can be installed by a local user. It's more effort on the part of the installer writer, that's all. Angus
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Angus Leeming wrote: There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're going to just have to disagree fundamentally once again, Uwe. ;-) We aren't fundamentalists! It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. I tried it but there were too many problems to cover all specialities of the third-party programs. If the user has admin privileges I can assure that it works on every Win2k and WinXP-installation. And also when the user uses your installer he needs admin privileges to install for example the latest Perl. And what if other installers will need admin privileges too in future releases? regards Uwe
Re: Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Andrei Popov wrote: Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-down menu. Could you please share it? I think a lot of people could find that useful. I should have been a bit more specific... mdwlists has predefined compact environments called itemize* enumerate* and description* which reduce the interline spacing from the normal LaTex defaults. To enable these in LyX I made a LyX layout file called mdwlists.inc (attached) and then added the line Input mdwlists.inc to the stdclass.inc file. The result is that itemize* enumerate* and description* show up in the LyX pull-down menu for environment. Another useful feature is that the numbering does not automatically reset when you stop an enumerate* environment. mdwlists has many other features that you can access via ERT. mdwlists.inc Description: Binary data
lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
when i run lyx (right after installation) i get the following error message: lyx can not find any description of the environment. please verify the content of textclass.lst the file in question looks fine to me, it's 73 lines long and has the default layouts set to true... what could be wrong with my setup? i've tried to uninstall and reinstall lyx but doesn't change a thing. i'm using windows. miktex, python, minsys installed ok, no perl, gs, imagemagik. mamato ## This file declares layouts and their associated definition files. ## It has been automatically generated by configure ## Use Options/Reconfigure if you need to update it after a ## configuration change. Run ./configure manually to update the ## system wide version of this file. IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true agums aguplus article (AGU++) manuscript false amsart-plain amsart article (AMS, unnumbered) true amsart-seq amsart article (AMS, sequential numbering) true amsart amsart article (AMS) true amsbook amsbook book (AMS) true ...
lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings
Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something? Thanks in advance, Abdel. OT: Is there a chance that a package with lyx 1.4 is done ? I am very much interested in the XML DocBook capability.
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
it mainly depends on which registry the install is trying to write to. - in many cases you can install software to your home directory without any admin privileges because it uses the user registry and not the main registry. - sometimes it asks whether it should be installed for everyone (main registry) or just the current user (user registry). - sometimes it needs to use the main registry for legitimate reasons (need low level access to drivers etc) or only bothers with the main registry and then you can't do anything without admin privileges. i have to agree with angus, there's no legitimate need for a word processor to require admin level registry access. it's simply a user-level app... thx angus for letting regular users use your installer ;) mamato On 11/28/05, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 6:57 AM Subject: Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes) argh!! LyXWinInstaller requires admin privileges :/ No it doesn't. I regularly install at J:\Program Files\LyX without problems. Installing to C:\Program Files on WinXP certainly *does* require admin privileges. i just tried again running LyXWin136Complete-0-4.exehttp://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin136Complete-0-4.exe and before anything else (ex specifying directory), it says that i need administrator privileges. Admin privileges have to do with the operating system. Do you own the laptop? Then you should have admin rights. If you don't own the computer, then the rights are those given to you by the network administrator of the network. Ordinary users have few rights. If you own the laptop then you should login as a user with admin rights or create such an account. But you need the admin password to do that. The net admin can prevent you from installing Python2.4 and allow winzip etc or allow both or prevent all, including certain websites, using email etc.etc. Also the complete install still accesses the internet which is why I suggested a cd. For instance, a public library can completely erase any change made by any user, when the next user logs in. It is not the LyX installer. Other programs, determined by the network admin, can also have the admin rights stipulation applied to them by the network admin. A beginning course in Windows covers this type of stuff. If you have an XP home computer, you can usually install LyX because the default for home computers is close to full rights. The Operating system is generating the error message in your situation, not the LyX installer. On a network, the admin dictates the extent of your rights. Regards, Stephen Regards, Stephen
WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst
Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly, Sorry, has to exit :-( When I try at the command-line lyx -x reconfigure it gives me the same answer. Thanks, Abdel. This message and any files transmitted with it are legally privileged and intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Any unauthorised use or disclosure of the content of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Nothing in this e-mail message amounts to a contractual or legal commitment on the part of EUROCONTROL unless it is confirmed by appropriately signed hard copy. Any views expressed in this message are those of the sender.
Re[4]: Controling indentation of lists
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 4:26:42 PM, you wrote: I should have been a bit more specific... mdwlists has predefined compact environments called itemize* enumerate* and description* which reduce the interline spacing from the normal LaTex defaults. To enable these in LyX I made a LyX layout file called mdwlists.inc (attached) and then added the line Input mdwlists.inc to the stdclass.inc file. The result is that itemize* enumerate* and description* show up in the LyX pull-down menu for environment. Another useful feature is that the numbering does not automatically reset when you stop an enumerate* environment. mdwlists has many other features that you can access via ERT. This is really useful, at least for me, thanks! -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! mamato On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i run lyx (right after installation) i get the following error message: lyx can not find any description of the environment. please verify the content of textclass.lst the file in question looks fine to me, it's 73 lines long and has the default layouts set to true... what could be wrong with my setup? i've tried to uninstall and reinstall lyx but doesn't change a thing. i'm using windows. miktex, python, minsys installed ok, no perl, gs, imagemagik. mamato ## This file declares layouts and their associated definition files. ## It has been automatically generated by configure ## Use Options/Reconfigure if you need to update it after a ## configuration change. Run ./configure manually to update the ## system wide version of this file. IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true agums aguplus article (AGU++) manuscript false amsart-plain amsart article (AMS, unnumbered) true amsart-seq amsart article (AMS, sequential numbering) true amsart amsart article (AMS) true amsbook amsbook book (AMS) true ...
Re: orientation of .eps figures
Richard Sherman wrote: Thanks again to those of you who are helping me with this. Herbert Voss wrote: first do not use an extension for file names. The graphic driver can detect the right extension. It is a typical behaviour for ghostscript, that it thinks, that your graphic should be rotated to get your vertical text in a horizontal view. ghostscript is too clever here. Try it by hand, export the lyx file as PosScript, then run ps2pdf --dAutoRotatePages=/None filename.ps or alternatively with --dPrePress=/None Herbert Sounds like good intuition, and I tried it: but Lyx won't export the PostScript (Cannot convert file error). Same thing when I remove the .eps extension. hm, shouldn't be happened ... then export to from with LyX to latex and run latex file dvips file ps2pdf --dAutoRotatePages=/None file.ps Herbert
Re: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)
Andrei Popov wrote: However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? A. The penny drops. (I start to understand.) We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask for. XForms does as we ask, but Qt occassionally lies to us. I'm hazy about the details but there are comments to this effect in qfont_loader.C: http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/qfont_loader.C?rev=1.27.2.8only_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_Xcontent-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup You might like to drop either John Levon (who wrote this code) or Kuba Ober (who has used Cyrillic fonts with success in the past) a line. levon () movementarian ! org kuba () mareimbrium ! org Regards, Angus
Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst
One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak (M3SYSTEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly, Sorry, has to exit :-( When I try at the command-line lyx -x reconfigure it gives me the same answer. Thanks, Abdel. This message and any files transmitted with it are legally privileged and intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Any unauthorised use or disclosure of the content of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Nothing in this e-mail message amounts to a contractual or legal commitment on the part of EUROCONTROL unless it is confirmed by appropriately signed hard copy. Any views expressed in this message are those of the sender.
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Uwe Stöhr wrote: It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. I tried it but there were too many problems to cover all specialities of the third-party programs. If the user has admin privileges I can assure that it works on every Win2k and WinXP-installation. And also when the user uses your installer he needs admin privileges to install for example the latest Perl. * LyX 1.4 won't need Perl. * I see heaps of complaints to the Python devs about Python 2.4 requiring admin priviliges. Python 2.3 and below don't. * MSYS doesn't need admin priviliges. * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. * There are certainly latex distributions out there that don't require admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. It's perfectly reasonable to tell your user that some parts of the installation procedure need admin rights, for reasons outside of your control. If the installer is run by a non-admin then restrict what gets installed or enable the installer to upgrade itself to admin priviliges for those bits (presumably requires a password dialog). And what if other installers will need admin privileges too in future releases? That's their problem. It's not something you should be concerned about. Angus
Spellcheck on Windows
Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic
Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! Assuming that you installed LyX at C:\Program Files\LyX, it's looking for textclass.lst in the LyX system directory: C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ or in the per-user support directory. In my case, here: C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX If your textclass.lst exists in any other place, then that textclass.lst is part of a previous, unofficial and unsupported port of LyX to Windows, either by Ruurd Reitsma or by Claus Hentschel. HTH, -- Angus
Re[2]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)
However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask for. XForms does as we ask, but Qt occassionally lies to us. You might like to drop either John Levon (who wrote this code) or Kuba Ober (who has used Cyrillic fonts with success in the past) a line. levon () movementarian ! org kuba () mareimbrium ! org Thanks, Angus. I'll verify again at home this problem with QT and check if it really went away in Xforms, and then try to reach for the guys. -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
windows has been searching my whole drive for most of the afternoon now and has only found the one file it should have (even though it's not done yet) i've only ever tried to install this lyx-1.3.6 but i've done it multiple times and the only other directory i installed it to has been deleted. is it possible to turn on the lyxerr[Debug::TCLASS]debug messages from the runtime i have? mamato On 11/29/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! Assuming that you installed LyX at C:\Program Files\LyX, it's looking for textclass.lst in the LyX system directory: C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ or in the per-user support directory. In my case, here: C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX If your textclass.lst exists in any other place, then that textclass.lstis part of a previous, unofficial and unsupported port of LyX to Windows, either by Ruurd Reitsma or by Claus Hentschel. HTH, -- Angus
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:38 AM Subject: Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx On 11/27/05, Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texgraph is a beautiful program, exporting in pstricks and eps : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/Fradin.Patrick/TeXgraph/accueil.html Easy to use. Unfortunately, Texgraph is in French... Paul Well, it is not like trying to read Connes and Changeux's Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/inrstex/texgraph/ has thgraph.ps --- A PostScript version of the TeXGraph Chapter in the INRSTeX Reference Manual. [written in English] The program appears to be written in English. But the version is old and perhaps there are compatibility problems. Perhaps not, since Michel Gosse says it is easy to use. Also I didn't see any download page for a newer version at Patrick Fradin's. Regards, Stephen
Re: Spellcheck on Windows
Vic Kelson wrote: Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic You need aspell (and a dictionary) installed, and I'm pretty sure it has to be installed in C:\Aspell. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 (scroll down to Spell checking). Paul
Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst
YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak (M3SYSTEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly, Sorry, has to exit :-( When I try at the command-line lyx -x reconfigure it gives me the same answer. Thanks, Abdel. Not sure, but we seem to be seeing some flaky symptoms from the 1.3.7pre4 installer. If 1.3.6 works for you, presumably you have MinSys installed. Usually the no textclass.lst syndrome is the result of not having a working sh.exe (or not having sed.exe), but if that were the case, you should not be able to install 1.3.6 either. If you want to take another crack at 1.3.7, you might try opening a command window in the ...\Resources\lyx directory of the 1.3.7 installation, and running 'sh configure' there. (If the MinSys bin directory is not on your command path, you'll need to give a full path to sh.exe in the command line.) That should generate textclass.lst, after which you should be able to start 1.3.7pre4. Maybe. Paul
Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak (M3SYSTEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly, Sorry, has to exit :-( When I try at the command-line lyx -x reconfigure it gives me the same answer. Thanks, Abdel. Not sure, but we seem to be seeing some flaky symptoms from the 1.3.7pre4 installer. If 1.3.6 works for you, presumably you have MinSys installed. Usually the no textclass.lst syndrome is the result of not having a working sh.exe (or not having sed.exe), but if that were the case, you should not be able to install 1.3.6 either. Right, MSIS is there and working. If you want to take another crack at 1.3.7, you might try opening a command window in the ...\Resources\lyx directory of the 1.3.7 installation, and running 'sh configure' there. (If the MinSys bin directory is not on your command path, you'll need to give a full path to sh.exe in the command line.) That should generate textclass.lst, after which you should be able to start 1.3.7pre4. Maybe. That made it indeed. Thanks. So I guess this is an installer bug... Abdel Paul
Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/
fixed it... should have read your mail more carefully :/ it was in App Data. mamato On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: windows has been searching my whole drive for most of the afternoon now and has only found the one file it should have (even though it's not done yet) i've only ever tried to install this lyx-1.3.6 but i've done it multiple times and the only other directory i installed it to has been deleted. is it possible to turn on the lyxerr[Debug::TCLASS]debug messages from the runtime i have? mamato On 11/29/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! Assuming that you installed LyX at C:\Program Files\LyX, it's looking for textclass.lst in the LyX system directory: C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\ or in the per-user support directory. In my case, here: C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX If your textclass.lst exists in any other place, then that textclass.lstis part of a previous, unofficial and unsupported port of LyX to Windows, either by Ruurd Reitsma or by Claus Hentschel. HTH, -- Angus
indent + raggedright
Hello list, I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text to have both indents for new paragraphs AND have ragged right edges (since that's a requirement for a paper I'm working on). Every time I enable raggedright (e.g., in the preamble), I lose all indents for text in the 'standard' class. I don't have much luck doing inline in an ERT section. I've been digging around the net for a couple days now, but no working solution has revealed itself to me. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Mike
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
Angus Leeming wrote: * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. I never said this. But ImageMagick is of course required to run LyX. A wordprocessor is useless when no images can be processed. * There are certainly latex distributions out there that don't require admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. Hä? Run a program is not just starting it. If I run LyX I want to be able to get a result. This is the reason why I build the new installer! And what if other installers will need admin privileges too in future releases? That's their problem. It's not something you should be concerned about. No it is my problem because my installer uses them! Angus, with all respect, have you ever tested my installer or looked in its code? Please do so and you will probably understand my decision. I don't say that admin privileges are definetively needed but for the moment I want to have a stable installer before working on this. (Currently I have the problem that the Postscript delegation of the latest ImageMagick still fails and that the graphics conversion don't work when TeXLive is used.) regards Uwe
Re: Spellcheck on Windows
Vic Kelson wrote: I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? Simply install Aspell, but it must be installed to C:\Aspell. You can also use the new installer that does this automatically for you: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller regards Uwe
Re: indent + raggedright
Nevermind - I missed this: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg15610.html That solution worked for me. Mike Leahy wrote: Hello list, I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text to have both indents for new paragraphs AND have ragged right edges (since that's a requirement for a paper I'm working on). Every time I enable raggedright (e.g., in the preamble), I lose all indents for text in the 'standard' class. I don't have much luck doing inline in an ERT section. I've been digging around the net for a couple days now, but no working solution has revealed itself to me. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Mike
