cv - another try
Friends, Thanks for the helpful advice (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg47716.html). I'd like a custom layout for my cv, to suit a certain -- shall we say "corporate" -- convention. I hope Lyx can deliver. I need the contact details and other information to appear in the left margin (about 1.5-2") -- and I need it in a gray box or separated by a line going down the length of the paper. Is it feasible? Yours, Eran
Re: English Language Grammar Checker Solution?
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into the LyX GUI: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker I would be interested to hear your experiences with it.If you have any difficulty getting it to work, email me. Sadat wrote: "I am switching from MS Word" I thought he might still be using the Windows OS, just LyX instead of Word. I think you mentioned that your grammar checker would probably work on Windows->Cygwin and Linux, but not Windows.
Re: PortableLyX?
Michael Wojcik wrote: [This is a rather late followup - I'm catching up on personal email - but may still be of interest.] Stephen Harris wrote: Regarding the C:\Aspell limitation to portability, perhaps the dos subst or label command would serve as a workaround. Suppose your USB drive was "J", then label J: C: I think would change J:\Aspell into C:\Aspell Er, no. The label command writes the "volume label", a special filesystem entry that serves as a "label" for a disk. It has nothing to do with path substitutions. The converse of the subst command was the join command, in MS-DOS. It's not present in the 9x or NT Windows families. if not perhaps the subst command would suffice called from J: Subst creates a virtual drive that's mapped to a path on an existing filesystem. It won't help in this case, where we want a virtual path (c:\aspell) created that's mapped to an existing path. join would, in theory, do the job, if it were still included with the OS, and if you had aspell installed in the root of the destination drive. (It would have to be the root, because join did not let you map an arbitrary destination path, just a destination drive.) What you need, in NT-family Windows, is a reparse point at c:\aspell which redirects to your aspell installation. The base OS includes the mountvol command, which will create a reparse point, but like join (or classic Unix mount, ignoring goofy newcomers like the loopback filesystem) it only lets you associate an entire volume (and not some path on that volume) with the destination. On the other hand, the Windows 2000 Resource Kit (which I think is a free download from Microsoft these days) includes the spiffy linkd command, which will create reparse-point mounts from any source path to any destination path. With it you can do, for example: linkd c:\aspell j:\aspell Note, though, that this requires that c:\aspell not already exist, and that you have appropriate permissions for c:\. It appears to require only the "Create Folders" authority, but if you're logged in as J Random User on a typical XP box, I suspect you won't have that authority for c:\. And that, of course, is as it should be; ordinary users shouldn't be able to create directories, real or virtual, in the root of the boot drive (assuming c: is the boot drive). I didn't snip any of your post because I thought it was interesting and well thought out. I had already reached the same conclusion about subst that you did and recanted the idea in another post. I had another idea. Winzip the C:\Aspell directory. Put it on the J: device. I am assuming that this is a USB drive that plugs into the back of a non-admin computer at another location. Copy the C:\Aspell zip file from the J: device over to the C: drive, C:\> md Aspell ; and unzip the contents into C:\Aspell. I don't think that takes admin rights. I have a non-admin username to test such things and makedir works for him. http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm LINKD: This command-line tool links an NTFS directory to a target object. So my nonadmin user was able to use linkd and it does not appear that linkd requires admin rights like some of the dos commands. This worked on XP pro, I am not sure about XP home. Your idea appears cleaner/easier. Regards, Stephen
Re: English Language Grammar Checker Solution?
On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into the LyX GUI: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker I would be interested to hear your experiences with it.If you have any difficulty getting it to work, email me. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted
Re: Doubt regarding changing page number in lyx
pramod salunkhe wrote:
I want to start my document other than page no.1 say I
want to start the document from page no.12. How can I
do this?
I assume that you want to number the first 11 pages with roman numerals
then have a look at the attached LyX-file "Roman.lyx".
Nothing.lyx shows another solution.
Further, If I don't want to print the page
numbers, what I have to do?
Either you use the document setting "Pagestyle: Empty" which is valid
for the whole document or you write "\thispagestyle{empty}" (only valid
for one page) or "\pagestyle{empty}" (valid for all pages after this
command) in ERT into your document; see the attached Nothing.lyx.
regards Uwe
Nothing.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Roman.lyx
Description: application/lyx
lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.
Windows XP Professional. I installed LyX 1.4.1 as instructed. Everything works great...exceptexport to HTML just hangs forever. Anyone experience anything similar?
Re: lyx 1.4.1 user interface problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the installer you suggested with no success. Are there any tricks I can configure with the Q../Free framework? As I believe that is responsible for the drawing of the menu toolbar. Not that I know. The Qtwin version that is built in the installer runs perfectly on various systems so there must be another program on your computer that causes this; perhaps a former only partly deinstalled Qt development kit or so. Sorry that I couldn't help you. regards Uwe
[Announce] Update of LyX 1.4.1 Debian packages
Hello, I've just uploaded on http://lyxondebian.free.fr : - Untested i386 sarge packages for LyX 1.4.1 (qt frontend) that should also work for other Debian derivatives like Xandros - amd64 sid packages for LyX 1.4.1 (qt frontend) - Matej Cepl Dvipost package for sid i386 - updated i386 sid packages I would apreciate, if somebody running Sarge could test the packages as my next step will be to try to create a klik package. I will update the wiki page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian soon. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
Hello Paul! Great, it worked. Problem was in fact the not installed path variable. (C:\Programme\LyX141\bin on my system) Maybe it wasn't installed, because my Wind2k is configured in German?! BTW: no problems with my other system on WinXP. Thanks for the help & good night, Sebastian Greetings Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello! I get the same error (well in German)! Using: Win2k, LyXWin141Complete-2-01.exe MikTex was installed separately before. Any hints or workarounds? This sounds like the fifth bullet under installation notes at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x, except that it's not supposed to happen with the complete installer. (Well, it's not *supposed* to happen at all, but it's *particularly* not supposed to happen with Uwe's installer.) If you have sh.exe installed in the LyX bin directory, then try opening a command prompt in the bin directory and running 'sh configure' there. If it works, you should be able to start LyX; if not, you should get some sort of error message. If sh is not there, and if you have msys installed elsewhere, the wiki bullet applies, and you may need to add the msys bin directory to your command path. (Easy test: open a command prompt anywhere and run 'sh --version'. If you get an unrecognized command message, you need to update your command path.) If you don't have sh.exe installed anywhere, then you need to download and install msys. /Paul
Re: PortableLyX?
[This is a rather late followup - I'm catching up on personal email - but may still be of interest.] Stephen Harris wrote: Regarding the C:\Aspell limitation to portability, perhaps the dos subst or label command would serve as a workaround. Suppose your USB drive was "J", then label J: C: I think would change J:\Aspell into C:\Aspell Er, no. The label command writes the "volume label", a special filesystem entry that serves as a "label" for a disk. It has nothing to do with path substitutions. The converse of the subst command was the join command, in MS-DOS. It's not present in the 9x or NT Windows families. if not perhaps the subst command would suffice called from J: Subst creates a virtual drive that's mapped to a path on an existing filesystem. It won't help in this case, where we want a virtual path (c:\aspell) created that's mapped to an existing path. join would, in theory, do the job, if it were still included with the OS, and if you had aspell installed in the root of the destination drive. (It would have to be the root, because join did not let you map an arbitrary destination path, just a destination drive.) What you need, in NT-family Windows, is a reparse point at c:\aspell which redirects to your aspell installation. The base OS includes the mountvol command, which will create a reparse point, but like join (or classic Unix mount, ignoring goofy newcomers like the loopback filesystem) it only lets you associate an entire volume (and not some path on that volume) with the destination. On the other hand, the Windows 2000 Resource Kit (which I think is a free download from Microsoft these days) includes the spiffy linkd command, which will create reparse-point mounts from any source path to any destination path. With it you can do, for example: linkd c:\aspell j:\aspell Note, though, that this requires that c:\aspell not already exist, and that you have appropriate permissions for c:\. It appears to require only the "Create Folders" authority, but if you're logged in as J Random User on a typical XP box, I suspect you won't have that authority for c:\. And that, of course, is as it should be; ordinary users shouldn't be able to create directories, real or virtual, in the root of the boot drive (assuming c: is the boot drive). -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Comment in Lyx .4.1 for windows results in space on DVI output
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi See attachement for a whitespace footprint by a comment in lyx 1.4.1 for Win The problem is that you have the comment widget in a Quote environment. The Quote environment gets extra whitespace above and below, apparently even if it's empty. The solution is to put the comment in Standard paragraph, but (if you wish) put the text inside the comment widget in a Quote environment. I've attached a slightly modified version of your file. HTH, /Paul #LyX 1.4.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 245 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Subsection* \lang british Subsection heading \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \lang british Paragraph IParagraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragr \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \lang british The whitespace in question is below. I have include a large volume of text because I sometime comment out a whole paragraph that I am still working on when i work on a next version of a draft. The space is blow \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \lang british \begin_inset Note Comment status collapsed \begin_layout Quote \lang british comment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment textcomment text comment text comment text comment text comment text v comment text comment text comment text comment text comment text \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Subsection* \lang british Next Subsection heading \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \lang british Paragraph IParagraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph \end_layout \begin_layout Subsection* \lang british Next Subsection heading \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \lang british Paragraph IParagraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \begin_layout Quote \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \begin_layout Quote \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_body \end_document
Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP
Stephen Harris wrote: Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again. Right-click on My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment variables check on user and system for an environment variable that has cygwin in the specification. This can happen if someone else has used the computer besides you. There are several environmental variables besides the Path displayed under Environmental variables. Do you see Cygwin mentioned? How large is your msys-1.0.dll file? 791,368 new-msys-1.0.dll ? http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys The Msys directory is installed when you download and install Msys. The Winlyxinstaller doesn't download Msys, it includes the needed files. So you don't have an Msys directory. When I wrote about the Msys directory I wasn't sure at that time you didn't have that directory. I checked my system and I did not find another sh.exe or sed.exe. But I have found a cygwin1.dll, which was installed with Acronis (a disk imaging software). Renaming this file does not change the situation,when I start sh.exe. There is no CYGWIN EnvVar on my system, neither in my enviroment nor in the system environment. The msys-dll installed with lyx has the following details 16.03.2004 13:32 789.320 msys-1.0.dll I just installed msys and started sh.exe in the msys\1.0\bin directory and it shows exactly the same error message: P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 6 In the msys-installation ths msys-dll shows the same details as the on in the lyx installation (as mentioned above). When I examine the dependencies of sh.exe only msys-1.0.dll, kernel32.dll and user32.dll are shown. Hmmm. Perhaps Paul's idea has some merit. P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe: "I just installed msys and started sh.exe in the msys\1.0\bin" Is LyX installed on C: or P: Is your hard drive normally labelled P: If not is there a P: drive on your network assuming you are on a network. If you do have a P: drive on a network and that is not the name of your hard drive label, try disconnecting from the P: drive and installing LyX. I am still looking for the cause of the conflict. I've seen errors like this because the developer, Angus, for the WinLyx version, built the release on his J: drive. Then people for some reason had trouble installing LyX if they were connected to a J: drive on a network, or had a USB device named J: The fix was to disconnect that J: drive unitl after the LyX installation. I'm hoping that your P: drive falls under the solution to the J: drive problem. Lastly and minorly, are both your machines 32 bit not 64 bit? Regards, Stephen Drive P is my local program partition, it is not a network device. But I' ve tried to install lyx, ... on drive C too - with the same problems. I found the tip to remove a J drive - and did it, as I had a network drive J connected (only at my user account - no admin rights) and not at the admin's account under which I install lyx. The Win2k machine has an AMD 64 bit processor but a 32 bit OS version. The WinXP machine is a laptop with Pentium M technology (thus "full" 32 bit) -- Gerhard
English Language Grammar Checker Solution?
How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I am switching from MS Word and I am a bit used to the grammar checker provided by Word. I am aware that it misses a lot of mistakes and catches ones that are not mistakes, but it still catches some stupid insane mistakes I tend to make. Any suggestions? Thanks
Re: lyx 1.4.1 user interface problem
> > Then deinstall Lyx and reinstall it with the installer I mentioned above > and have a look if this helps. > > regared Uwe > I tried the installer you suggested with no success. Are there any tricks I can configure with the Q../Free framework? As I believe that is responsible for the drawing of the menu toolbar. Eric
Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello! I get the same error (well in German)! Using: Win2k, LyXWin141Complete-2-01.exe MikTex was installed separately before. Any hints or workarounds? This sounds like the fifth bullet under installation notes at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x, except that it's not supposed to happen with the complete installer. (Well, it's not *supposed* to happen at all, but it's *particularly* not supposed to happen with Uwe's installer.) If you have sh.exe installed in the LyX bin directory, then try opening a command prompt in the bin directory and running 'sh configure' there. If it works, you should be able to start LyX; if not, you should get some sort of error message. If sh is not there, and if you have msys installed elsewhere, the wiki bullet applies, and you may need to add the msys bin directory to your command path. (Easy test: open a command prompt anywhere and run 'sh --version'. If you get an unrecognized command message, you need to update your command path.) If you don't have sh.exe installed anywhere, then you need to download and install msys. /Paul
accent in jabref
Offtopic:
How do I create in Jabref
Más (M´as) so that it is accepted by Lyx?
I tired M{\´a}s
and the like, but without success.
Alternatively, how do I create a deadkey for it? On my PC it works with
AltGr+RightShift+RightStrg and ´a
but my notebook has no RightStrg key
Wolfgang
Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
Hello! I get the same error (well in German)! Using: Win2k, LyXWin141Complete-2-01.exe MikTex was installed separately before. Any hints or workarounds? Regards, Sebastian Matthias Schmidt schrieb: Hello, I installed LYX 1.4.1 with the lyx-1.4.1_win32_setup_v1.exe. I cannot start LYX, but I get the error-window "Error with reading the configuration file lyxrc.defaults. Please check your installation". What has happened or failed? What do I have to do? I have LYX 1.3.7 on my pc, the other needed programms are installed.
Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP
Gerhard Schaffer a écrit : I just installed msys and started sh.exe in the msys\1.0\bin directory and it shows exactly the same error message: P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 6 MSys is AFAIK a fork of cygwin so this is understandable. A small google on "Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap" gave me this: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/faq/main.php#7 Do you have other Qt dlls on your system? Maybe together with this Acronis software you are using. Abdel.
