Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:59:51AM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sebastian Schetter wrote: 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?! So PATH is PFAD on your Win2K system? No, that's PATH even on German systems. A difference, though, is that 'C:\Program files' is 'C:\Programme' [Although there were times when Excel commands were translated *sigh*] Andre'
Re: bibtex styles
Also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I see, it's a matter of what tags are used in the xyz.bib file. Obviously plaindin.bst doesn't like my file, just as plain.bst, which is shipped with Lyx, is not able to process someting like note=available at... But that shouldn't trigger an error. I think I'll have to redo my bib-file. I'll recommend custom-bib for that (latex makebst should just work). Jürgen
Re: page margins
Hi! I use the chngpage package. It find it very easy to use! /Sara Pol wrote: Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? thank you --pol
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
Subir == Subir Singh Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subir On Fri, 12 May 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Subir == Subir Singh Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subir Hi, Subir I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed Subir rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release Could we see the config.log file? Subir configure:23540: checking for fl_initialize in -lforms Subir configure:23570: g++ -o conftest -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include conftest.cc -lforms -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 5 Subir /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a(flresource.o)(.text+0xe09): In Subir function `fl_initialize': Subir /usr/local/src/rpm/BUILD/xforms-1.0-release/lib/flresource.c:792: Subir undefined reference to `__ctype_toupper' Subir /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a(flresource.o)(.text+0xe23):/usr/local/src/rpm/BUILD/xforms-1.0-release/lib/flresource.c:794: Subir undefined reference to `__ctype_toupper' It seems that the version of libforms you are using is not compiled for the right version of glibc. Where did you get it from? JMarc
Page numbering
Hi everybody, i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. what would be the easiest way to accomplish this? thanks a lot, theo
all wiki links with respect to CV are stale
Re: PortableLyX?
Stephen Harris wrote: 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, Note that this step isn't necessary, assuming a standard unzip utility like WinZip or Info-Zip's unzip is available; they'll all unzip from one drive to another. 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. Well, it depends on the machine, though in practice it may be that on the typical Windows installation, non-administrative users have write access to c:\. In truth, the concept of administrative and non-administrative users on (NT-family) Windows is a myth of convenience. By default Windows does have an Administrator user and a System Administrators group; the former is assigned a bunch of privileges that aren't granted to ordinary users, and the latter has inheritable full-control access rights to the roots of all filesystems, when they're created. (I'm assuming NTFS.) But this is just a convention, though it's a convention that comes out of the box. You can remove privileges from Administrator, and create restricted ACEs for System Administrators on any filesystm object, including the root; and you can delete Administrator and System Administrators. (Contrast that with traditional Unix, where UID 0 *does* have certain special permissions, such as DAC-override, irrevocably; though some Unix implementations add security mechanisms that restrict superuser capabilities.) And Windows also has the Power Users group and similar out-of-the-box intermediate grades of user, between the unprivileged Guest and the essentially all-powerful System Administrators. These, too, are just collections of privileges and ACEs, and can be modified from one system to another. So it could be that the scheme you propose would work on many Windows machines, but it might well fail for locked-down installations, or if the user's account has minimal privileges (for example, if they're using the standard Guest account). What it really comes down to is whether the user's effective ACE for c:\ allows the Create Folders operation. On one XP machine I just checked, that's true for users in the Users group (ordinary users), but not true for Guest. I don't know if that's how XP comes out of the box, and if eg SP2 changes it. But when all's said and done, there's nothing to be lost by putting the aspell directory on the flash drive and trying to copy it to c:\, or putting aspell and linkd on the flash drive and trying to create the reparse point. If it works, you have spell-checking; if it doesn't, you don't, but you haven't lost anything. (Of course, really one of these days one of us should fix the aspell-execution code in the Windows LyX port. One of these days I hope to do some work on LyX myself, but as I don't use it in my job, I can't give it as high a priority as some of the other FOSS software I use.) 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. linkd, if it's available, appears to require the same permissions as actually creating the c:\aspell directory, so putting it on the flash drive might indeed be simpler. It also has the advantage that the c:\aspell virtual path will go away when the machine is rebooted or when explicitly deleted with linkd, so there's no permanent change to the target system. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Installation problem on WinXP
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. Did you use this installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If yes, reinstall LyX and choose in the uninstaller to remove it completely. regards Uwe
Re: Page numbering
Theo wrote: i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. Here are some example LyX-files: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/30366 regards Uwe
Re: PortableLyX?
Michael Wojcik wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: 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. linkd, if it's available, appears to require the same permissions as actually creating the c:\aspell directory, so putting it on the flash drive might indeed be simpler. It also has the advantage that the c:\aspell virtual path will go away when the machine is rebooted or when explicitly deleted with linkd, so there's no permanent change to the target system. Libraries in the US are often equipped with computers having internet access. One logs on with their library card number. Though I'm sure there are situations where the restrictions are more stict, I'm thinking of this as representative, and one can download files from the internet. When a user logs off the computer is restored to its original state so any changes are erased. It works that way at the local university also which was the setting for the OP. That doesn't include all venues of portability and may not be a widespread practice. I agree, nothing ventured, nothing gained, Stephen
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
I don't remember from which site I downloaded them. I have now removed the libforms and reinstalled another set from the net. Thanks for the help as lyx-1.4.1 is successfully installed. Regards, Subir It seems that the version of libforms you are using is not compiled for the right version of glibc. Where did you get it from? JMarc -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
Comment environment
In version 1.4.X, why was comment moved from the layout area and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? Nick Kuzmik (845) 406-5115 AIM NKUZMIK - Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone.
Re: Page numbering
Hi! If you use the book class (or one of its versions) you can use the commands frontmatter and mainmatter. Put \frontmatter in ERT at the beginning of the document and you will get roman numbering there, then put \mainmatter in ERT where the first chapter starts and you will get arabic numerals starting on page one. /Sara Theo wrote: Hi everybody, i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. what would be the easiest way to accomplish this? thanks a lot, theo
Re: Comment environment
Nick == Nick Kuzmik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nick In version 1.4.X, why was comment moved from the layout area
Nick and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? Nick
Because they serve the same purpose, except that Notes are not output
in the LaTeX code and comments are (as \begin{comment}...\end{comment})
Do you have a reason to dislike it, or are you just annopyed that it
is different?
JMarc
Re: Comment environment
Nick Kuzmik schrieb: In version 1.4.X, why was comment moved from the layout area and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? It is different as it also appears in the LaTeX output, notes only appear inside LyX. regards Uwe
Re: all wiki links with respect to CV are stale
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Would you mind giving a bit more to go on... eg. like a link to a wiki page with stale links cheers /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows
Eric Zollars wrote:
Eric Zollars wrote:
Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document.
This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows.
I have in my preamble:
\usepackage{pdfpages}
Then in the document ERT:
\includepdf{testfile.pdf}
When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the
included file.
Interesting. I need to put an absolute path in the ERT (for instance,
\includepdf{/temp/testfile.pdf}) in order to get View-PDF (pdflatex)
or File-Export-PDF (pdflatex) to work at all; otherwise I get a
latex error (can't find the included file), even if the included file
sits in the same directory as the LyX document. On the other hand, if
I export to LaTeX and compile outside LyX, it works without the path.
Any advice or working lyx files would be greatly appreciated.
1. Take a look at the log file (View-LaTeX Log file) and see if
anything informative shows up.
2. Export to LaTeX, run pdflatex from a command prompt, and see if you
get a valid result.
3. (Long shot) make sure that there is not a file with the right name
but zero byte length sitting around where pdflatex might grab it.
/Paul
Paul.
Thank you for the information, both points 1 and 2 were helpful in
tracking down the issue.
1. The log file suggests that LyX cannot find the file.
2. Running pdflatex from the MSYS window on the exported .tex file does
work. So I have a solution.
Thanks again.
Eric
Cool. That sounds like the same problem (though not precisely the same
symptoms) that I saw. You might try putting a full path to the PDF file
in the \includepdf command, and see if that works. Meanwhile, I'll post
this to bugzilla so the developers are aware of it.
/Paul
Re: Page numbering
Thank you very much. you really helped me a lot.
i had to do it slightly different though:
\pagenumbering{roman}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
:)
cheers.
Re: Installation problem on WinXP
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. Did LyX itself install? (Is lyx.exe there?) If so, you can create your own batch file. Contents of mine are shown below; you would probably want to change English (en_EN) to Spanish (es_ES?). /Paul batch file begins = @echo off set LYX_LOCALEDIR=C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources\locale if %LANG%== SET LANG=en_EN if %~1 == ~1 goto win95 start LyX C:\Program Files\LyX141\bin\lyx1.4.x.exe %* goto end :win95 start LyX C:\Program Files\LyX141\bin\lyx1.4.x.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 :end batch file ends ===
Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Meanwhile, I'll post this to bugzilla so the developers are aware of it. Oops -- as Stephen noted, it's already there (1751).
German Spellchecker
Hi, i have installed aspell. and i have put those files under c:\Lyx\share and c:\Lyx\lib\aspell in Lyx: ToolsPreferencesLanguage settingsSpellchecker is saying C:\Lyx\lib\aspell\deutsch.alias But when i run Spellchecker i get an alert saying The spellchecker could not be started. no word list can be found for the Language de_DE but in C:\Lyx\lib\aspell\ there is a file called de_DE.multi ? what am i doing wrong? thanx, theo
Re: German Spellchecker
Theo schrieb: i have installed aspell. and i have put those files under c:\Lyx\share and c:\Lyx\lib\aspell Aspell must be installed to: C:\Aspell This is a regression. If you use this LyX-Installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller this is done automatically. On this page you can find the latest aspell dictionaries: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=9651 regards Uwe
Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:59:51AM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sebastian Schetter wrote: 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?! So PATH is PFAD on your Win2K system? No, that's PATH even on German systems. A difference, though, is that 'C:\Program files' is 'C:\Programme' [Although there were times when Excel commands were translated *sigh*] Andre'
Re: bibtex styles
Also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I see, it's a matter of what tags are used in the xyz.bib file. Obviously plaindin.bst doesn't like my file, just as plain.bst, which is shipped with Lyx, is not able to process someting like note=available at... But that shouldn't trigger an error. I think I'll have to redo my bib-file. I'll recommend custom-bib for that (latex makebst should just work). Jürgen
Re: page margins
Hi! I use the chngpage package. It find it very easy to use! /Sara Pol wrote: Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? thank you --pol
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
Subir == Subir Singh Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subir On Fri, 12 May 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Subir == Subir Singh Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subir Hi, Subir I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed Subir rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release Could we see the config.log file? Subir configure:23540: checking for fl_initialize in -lforms Subir configure:23570: g++ -o conftest -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include conftest.cc -lforms -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 5 Subir /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a(flresource.o)(.text+0xe09): In Subir function `fl_initialize': Subir /usr/local/src/rpm/BUILD/xforms-1.0-release/lib/flresource.c:792: Subir undefined reference to `__ctype_toupper' Subir /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a(flresource.o)(.text+0xe23):/usr/local/src/rpm/BUILD/xforms-1.0-release/lib/flresource.c:794: Subir undefined reference to `__ctype_toupper' It seems that the version of libforms you are using is not compiled for the right version of glibc. Where did you get it from? JMarc
Page numbering
Hi everybody, i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. what would be the easiest way to accomplish this? thanks a lot, theo
all wiki links with respect to CV are stale
Re: PortableLyX?
Stephen Harris wrote: 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, Note that this step isn't necessary, assuming a standard unzip utility like WinZip or Info-Zip's unzip is available; they'll all unzip from one drive to another. 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. Well, it depends on the machine, though in practice it may be that on the typical Windows installation, non-administrative users have write access to c:\. In truth, the concept of administrative and non-administrative users on (NT-family) Windows is a myth of convenience. By default Windows does have an Administrator user and a System Administrators group; the former is assigned a bunch of privileges that aren't granted to ordinary users, and the latter has inheritable full-control access rights to the roots of all filesystems, when they're created. (I'm assuming NTFS.) But this is just a convention, though it's a convention that comes out of the box. You can remove privileges from Administrator, and create restricted ACEs for System Administrators on any filesystm object, including the root; and you can delete Administrator and System Administrators. (Contrast that with traditional Unix, where UID 0 *does* have certain special permissions, such as DAC-override, irrevocably; though some Unix implementations add security mechanisms that restrict superuser capabilities.) And Windows also has the Power Users group and similar out-of-the-box intermediate grades of user, between the unprivileged Guest and the essentially all-powerful System Administrators. These, too, are just collections of privileges and ACEs, and can be modified from one system to another. So it could be that the scheme you propose would work on many Windows machines, but it might well fail for locked-down installations, or if the user's account has minimal privileges (for example, if they're using the standard Guest account). What it really comes down to is whether the user's effective ACE for c:\ allows the Create Folders operation. On one XP machine I just checked, that's true for users in the Users group (ordinary users), but not true for Guest. I don't know if that's how XP comes out of the box, and if eg SP2 changes it. But when all's said and done, there's nothing to be lost by putting the aspell directory on the flash drive and trying to copy it to c:\, or putting aspell and linkd on the flash drive and trying to create the reparse point. If it works, you have spell-checking; if it doesn't, you don't, but you haven't lost anything. (Of course, really one of these days one of us should fix the aspell-execution code in the Windows LyX port. One of these days I hope to do some work on LyX myself, but as I don't use it in my job, I can't give it as high a priority as some of the other FOSS software I use.) 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. linkd, if it's available, appears to require the same permissions as actually creating the c:\aspell directory, so putting it on the flash drive might indeed be simpler. It also has the advantage that the c:\aspell virtual path will go away when the machine is rebooted or when explicitly deleted with linkd, so there's no permanent change to the target system. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Installation problem on WinXP
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. Did you use this installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If yes, reinstall LyX and choose in the uninstaller to remove it completely. regards Uwe
Re: Page numbering
Theo wrote: i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. Here are some example LyX-files: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/30366 regards Uwe
Re: PortableLyX?
Michael Wojcik wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: 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. linkd, if it's available, appears to require the same permissions as actually creating the c:\aspell directory, so putting it on the flash drive might indeed be simpler. It also has the advantage that the c:\aspell virtual path will go away when the machine is rebooted or when explicitly deleted with linkd, so there's no permanent change to the target system. Libraries in the US are often equipped with computers having internet access. One logs on with their library card number. Though I'm sure there are situations where the restrictions are more stict, I'm thinking of this as representative, and one can download files from the internet. When a user logs off the computer is restored to its original state so any changes are erased. It works that way at the local university also which was the setting for the OP. That doesn't include all venues of portability and may not be a widespread practice. I agree, nothing ventured, nothing gained, Stephen
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
I don't remember from which site I downloaded them. I have now removed the libforms and reinstalled another set from the net. Thanks for the help as lyx-1.4.1 is successfully installed. Regards, Subir It seems that the version of libforms you are using is not compiled for the right version of glibc. Where did you get it from? JMarc -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
Comment environment
In version 1.4.X, why was comment moved from the layout area and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? Nick Kuzmik (845) 406-5115 AIM NKUZMIK - Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone.
Re: Page numbering
Hi! If you use the book class (or one of its versions) you can use the commands frontmatter and mainmatter. Put \frontmatter in ERT at the beginning of the document and you will get roman numbering there, then put \mainmatter in ERT where the first chapter starts and you will get arabic numerals starting on page one. /Sara Theo wrote: Hi everybody, i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. what would be the easiest way to accomplish this? thanks a lot, theo
Re: Comment environment
Nick == Nick Kuzmik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nick In version 1.4.X, why was comment moved from the layout area
Nick and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? Nick
Because they serve the same purpose, except that Notes are not output
in the LaTeX code and comments are (as \begin{comment}...\end{comment})
Do you have a reason to dislike it, or are you just annopyed that it
is different?
JMarc
Re: Comment environment
Nick Kuzmik schrieb: In version 1.4.X, why was comment moved from the layout area and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? It is different as it also appears in the LaTeX output, notes only appear inside LyX. regards Uwe
Re: all wiki links with respect to CV are stale
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Would you mind giving a bit more to go on... eg. like a link to a wiki page with stale links cheers /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows
Eric Zollars wrote:
Eric Zollars wrote:
Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document.
This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows.
I have in my preamble:
\usepackage{pdfpages}
Then in the document ERT:
\includepdf{testfile.pdf}
When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the
included file.
Interesting. I need to put an absolute path in the ERT (for instance,
\includepdf{/temp/testfile.pdf}) in order to get View-PDF (pdflatex)
or File-Export-PDF (pdflatex) to work at all; otherwise I get a
latex error (can't find the included file), even if the included file
sits in the same directory as the LyX document. On the other hand, if
I export to LaTeX and compile outside LyX, it works without the path.
Any advice or working lyx files would be greatly appreciated.
1. Take a look at the log file (View-LaTeX Log file) and see if
anything informative shows up.
2. Export to LaTeX, run pdflatex from a command prompt, and see if you
get a valid result.
3. (Long shot) make sure that there is not a file with the right name
but zero byte length sitting around where pdflatex might grab it.
/Paul
Paul.
Thank you for the information, both points 1 and 2 were helpful in
tracking down the issue.
1. The log file suggests that LyX cannot find the file.
2. Running pdflatex from the MSYS window on the exported .tex file does
work. So I have a solution.
Thanks again.
Eric
Cool. That sounds like the same problem (though not precisely the same
symptoms) that I saw. You might try putting a full path to the PDF file
in the \includepdf command, and see if that works. Meanwhile, I'll post
this to bugzilla so the developers are aware of it.
/Paul
Re: Page numbering
Thank you very much. you really helped me a lot.
i had to do it slightly different though:
\pagenumbering{roman}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
:)
cheers.
Re: Installation problem on WinXP
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. Did LyX itself install? (Is lyx.exe there?) If so, you can create your own batch file. Contents of mine are shown below; you would probably want to change English (en_EN) to Spanish (es_ES?). /Paul batch file begins = @echo off set LYX_LOCALEDIR=C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources\locale if %LANG%== SET LANG=en_EN if %~1 == ~1 goto win95 start LyX C:\Program Files\LyX141\bin\lyx1.4.x.exe %* goto end :win95 start LyX C:\Program Files\LyX141\bin\lyx1.4.x.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 :end batch file ends ===
Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Meanwhile, I'll post this to bugzilla so the developers are aware of it. Oops -- as Stephen noted, it's already there (1751).
German Spellchecker
Hi, i have installed aspell. and i have put those files under c:\Lyx\share and c:\Lyx\lib\aspell in Lyx: ToolsPreferencesLanguage settingsSpellchecker is saying C:\Lyx\lib\aspell\deutsch.alias But when i run Spellchecker i get an alert saying The spellchecker could not be started. no word list can be found for the Language de_DE but in C:\Lyx\lib\aspell\ there is a file called de_DE.multi ? what am i doing wrong? thanx, theo
Re: German Spellchecker
Theo schrieb: i have installed aspell. and i have put those files under c:\Lyx\share and c:\Lyx\lib\aspell Aspell must be installed to: C:\Aspell This is a regression. If you use this LyX-Installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller this is done automatically. On this page you can find the latest aspell dictionaries: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=9651 regards Uwe
Re: Error: Could not read configuration file
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:59:51AM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Sebastian Schetter wrote: > >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?! > > So "PATH" is "PFAD" on your Win2K system? No, that's "PATH" even on "German" systems. A difference, though, is that 'C:\Program files' is 'C:\Programme' [Although there were times when Excel commands were translated *sigh*] Andre'
Re: bibtex styles
Also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I see, it's a matter of what "tags" are used in the xyz.bib file.
> Obviously plaindin.bst doesn't like my file, just as plain.bst, which is
> shipped with Lyx, is not able to process someting like note="available
> at..."
But that shouldn't trigger an error.
> I think I'll have to redo my bib-file.
I'll recommend custom-bib for that ("latex makebst" should just work).
Jürgen
Re: page margins
Hi! I use the chngpage package. It find it very easy to use! /Sara Pol wrote: Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? thank you --pol
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
> "Subir" == Subir Singh Lamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Subir> On Fri, 12 May 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> > "Subir" == Subir Singh Lamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Subir> Hi, >> Subir> I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed Subir> rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release >> Could we see the config.log file? Subir> configure:23540: checking for fl_initialize in -lforms Subir> configure:23570: g++ -o conftest -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include conftest.cc -lforms -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 >&5 Subir> /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a(flresource.o)(.text+0xe09): In Subir> function `fl_initialize': Subir> /usr/local/src/rpm/BUILD/xforms-1.0-release/lib/flresource.c:792: Subir> undefined reference to `__ctype_toupper' Subir> /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a(flresource.o)(.text+0xe23):/usr/local/src/rpm/BUILD/xforms-1.0-release/lib/flresource.c:794: Subir> undefined reference to `__ctype_toupper' It seems that the version of libforms you are using is not compiled for the right version of glibc. Where did you get it from? JMarc
Page numbering
Hi everybody, i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. what would be the easiest way to accomplish this? thanks a lot, theo
all wiki links with respect to CV are stale
Re: PortableLyX?
Stephen Harris wrote: 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, Note that this step isn't necessary, assuming a standard unzip utility like WinZip or Info-Zip's unzip is available; they'll all unzip from one drive to another. > 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. Well, it depends on the machine, though in practice it may be that on the typical Windows installation, non-administrative users have write access to c:\. In truth, the concept of "administrative" and "non-administrative" users on (NT-family) Windows is a myth of convenience. By default Windows does have an "Administrator" user and a "System Administrators" group; the former is assigned a bunch of privileges that aren't granted to ordinary users, and the latter has inheritable full-control access rights to the roots of all filesystems, when they're created. (I'm assuming NTFS.) But this is just a convention, though it's a convention that comes "out of the box". You can remove privileges from Administrator, and create restricted ACEs for System Administrators on any filesystm object, including the root; and you can delete Administrator and System Administrators. (Contrast that with traditional Unix, where UID 0 *does* have certain special permissions, such as DAC-override, irrevocably; though some Unix implementations add security mechanisms that restrict superuser capabilities.) And Windows also has the "Power Users" group and similar out-of-the-box intermediate grades of user, between the unprivileged Guest and the essentially all-powerful System Administrators. These, too, are just collections of privileges and ACEs, and can be modified from one system to another. So it could be that the scheme you propose would work on many Windows machines, but it might well fail for "locked-down" installations, or if the user's account has minimal privileges (for example, if they're using the standard Guest account). What it really comes down to is whether the user's effective ACE for c:\ allows the "Create Folders" operation. On one XP machine I just checked, that's true for users in the Users group (ordinary users), but not true for Guest. I don't know if that's how XP comes out of the box, and if eg SP2 changes it. But when all's said and done, there's nothing to be lost by putting the aspell directory on the flash drive and trying to copy it to c:\, or putting aspell and linkd on the flash drive and trying to create the reparse point. If it works, you have spell-checking; if it doesn't, you don't, but you haven't lost anything. (Of course, really one of these days one of us should fix the aspell-execution code in the Windows LyX port. One of these days I hope to do some work on LyX myself, but as I don't use it in my job, I can't give it as high a priority as some of the other FOSS software I use.) 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. linkd, if it's available, appears to require the same permissions as actually creating the c:\aspell directory, so putting it on the flash drive might indeed be simpler. It also has the advantage that the c:\aspell virtual path will go away when the machine is rebooted or when explicitly deleted with linkd, so there's no permanent change to the target system. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Installation problem on WinXP
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. Did you use this installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If yes, reinstall LyX and choose in the uninstaller to remove it completely. regards Uwe
Re: Page numbering
Theo wrote: i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. Here are some example LyX-files: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/30366 regards Uwe
Re: PortableLyX?
Michael Wojcik wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: 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. linkd, if it's available, appears to require the same permissions as actually creating the c:\aspell directory, so putting it on the flash drive might indeed be simpler. It also has the advantage that the c:\aspell virtual path will go away when the machine is rebooted or when explicitly deleted with linkd, so there's no permanent change to the target system. Libraries in the US are often equipped with computers having internet access. One logs on with their library card number. Though I'm sure there are situations where the restrictions are more stict, I'm thinking of this as representative, and one can download files from the internet. When a user logs off the computer is restored to its original state so any changes are erased. It works that way at the local university also which was the setting for the OP. That doesn't include all venues of portability and may not be a widespread practice. I agree, nothing ventured, nothing gained, Stephen
Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem
I don't remember from which site I downloaded them. I have now removed the libforms and reinstalled another set from the net. Thanks for the help as lyx-1.4.1 is successfully installed. Regards, Subir > It seems that the version of libforms you are using is not compiled > for the right version of glibc. Where did you get it from? > > JMarc > -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
Comment environment
In version 1.4.X, why was "comment" moved from the layout area and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? Nick Kuzmik (845) 406-5115 AIM NKUZMIK - Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone.
Re: Page numbering
Hi! If you use the book class (or one of its versions) you can use the commands frontmatter and mainmatter. Put \frontmatter in ERT at the beginning of the document and you will get roman numbering there, then put \mainmatter in ERT where the first chapter starts and you will get arabic numerals starting on page one. /Sara Theo wrote: Hi everybody, i don't want to start the page numbering with the very first page couse i have like index and TOC and all that stuff. i think they should have page numbers like this: I, II, III and then lets say page 10 actually starting with page number 1. what would be the easiest way to accomplish this? thanks a lot, theo
Re: Comment environment
> "Nick" == Nick Kuzmik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nick> In version 1.4.X, why was "comment" moved from the layout area
Nick> and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? Nick
Because they serve the same purpose, except that Notes are not output
in the LaTeX code and comments are (as \begin{comment}...\end{comment})
Do you have a reason to dislike it, or are you just annopyed that it
is different?
JMarc
Re: Comment environment
Nick Kuzmik schrieb: In version 1.4.X, why was "comment" moved from the layout area and changed so that it seems no different than a lyx note? It is different as it also appears in the LaTeX output, notes only appear inside LyX. regards Uwe
Re: all wiki links with respect to CV are stale
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Would you mind giving a bit more to go on... eg. like a link to a wiki page with stale links cheers /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows
Eric Zollars wrote:
Eric Zollars wrote:
Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document.
This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows.
I have in my preamble:
\usepackage{pdfpages}
Then in the document ERT:
\includepdf{testfile.pdf}
When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the
included file.
Interesting. I need to put an absolute path in the ERT (for instance,
\includepdf{/temp/testfile.pdf}) in order to get View->PDF (pdflatex)
or File->Export->PDF (pdflatex) to work at all; otherwise I get a
latex error (can't find the included file), even if the included file
sits in the same directory as the LyX document. On the other hand, if
I export to LaTeX and compile outside LyX, it works without the path.
Any advice or working lyx files would be greatly appreciated.
1. Take a look at the log file (View->LaTeX Log file) and see if
anything informative shows up.
2. Export to LaTeX, run pdflatex from a command prompt, and see if you
get a valid result.
3. (Long shot) make sure that there is not a file with the right name
but zero byte length sitting around where pdflatex might grab it.
/Paul
Paul.
Thank you for the information, both points 1 and 2 were helpful in
tracking down the issue.
1. The log file suggests that LyX cannot find the file.
2. Running pdflatex from the MSYS window on the exported .tex file does
work. So I have a solution.
Thanks again.
Eric
Cool. That sounds like the same problem (though not precisely the same
symptoms) that I saw. You might try putting a full path to the PDF file
in the \includepdf command, and see if that works. Meanwhile, I'll post
this to bugzilla so the developers are aware of it.
/Paul
Re: Page numbering
Thank you very much. you really helped me a lot.
i had to do it slightly different though:
\pagenumbering{roman}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
:)
cheers.
Re: Installation problem on WinXP
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. Did LyX itself install? (Is lyx.exe there?) If so, you can create your own batch file. Contents of mine are shown below; you would probably want to change English (en_EN) to Spanish (es_ES?). /Paul batch file begins = @echo off set LYX_LOCALEDIR=C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources\locale if "%LANG%"=="" SET LANG=en_EN if "%~1" == "~1" goto win95 start "LyX" "C:\Program Files\LyX141\bin\lyx1.4.x.exe" %* goto end :win95 start "LyX" "C:\Program Files\LyX141\bin\lyx1.4.x.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 :end batch file ends ===
Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Meanwhile, I'll post this to bugzilla so the developers are aware of it. Oops -- as Stephen noted, it's already there (1751).
German Spellchecker
Hi, i have installed aspell. and i have put those files under c:\Lyx\share and c:\Lyx\lib\aspell in Lyx: Tools>Preferences>Language settings>Spellchecker is saying C:\Lyx\lib\aspell\deutsch.alias But when i run Spellchecker i get an alert saying "The spellchecker could not be started. no word list can be found for the Language de_DE" but in C:\Lyx\lib\aspell\ there is a file called de_DE.multi ? what am i doing wrong? thanx, theo
Re: German Spellchecker
Theo schrieb: i have installed aspell. and i have put those files under c:\Lyx\share and c:\Lyx\lib\aspell Aspell must be installed to: C:\Aspell This is a regression. If you use this LyX-Installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller this is done automatically. On this page you can find the latest aspell dictionaries: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=9651 regards Uwe
