Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

[Steve Harris]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Steve Harris wrote:



I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe
My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features.



Hmm.  I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other 
than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows 
apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly).  My suspicion was 
that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything 
running in a shell.  However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for 
you, that shoots a hole in my theory.


I just tried Start->Run->Command to get the old backward-compatibility 
command shell.  Alt-F4 won't kill that for me (I get a nag screen from 
Windows saying I might lose data and asking if I'm sober).  I'm not sure 
what, if anything, that implies.


Stranger and stranger ...

/Paul





That is actually quite a good theory...because there are different
versions of installers and the original port might not have had a
"hook"(?) built into it. But it wouldn't explain a difference in
behavior at an OS level, methinks. I just tried Alt-F4 on my Win98
machine Dos-prompt and that doesn't affect it. I thought perhaps
your system might have had an earlier compatibility mode enabled,
which would produce a different result. I'll look into it.

On the Wike I noticed a post about Live-Cds. It turns out that
there is a scientific constellation DVD .iso called Quantian
with LyX, Imagemagick, Tetex, R, etc. But the LyX is 1.3.6

Anyway the cd-sized (700mb)clusterKnoppix boots the 2.7gig
Quantian HDD iso image, which frees up the cd and is faster.
knoppix floppyconfig bootfrom=/dev/hda1/quantian.iso
Of course if you have a dvd player you can use it directly.

The Knoppix new 5.0.1 release cd works for emergencies and can
also boot a fully featured 4.3gig HDD Knoppix dvd iso. Disk
partitioning can be avoided this way, the .iso is on Windows,
no grub or lilo. I wanted to give this idea a bit of exposure
for others, you might already know about it. This stuff is
called Live because it is not intended for a hard disk install.

In pursuit of the elusive Alt-F4,
Stephen

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

[Matej Cepl]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> However, I never noticed that I have to close the last display
>> of a pdf in Acrobat to be able to view the new one (I get the
>> message "I can't write on foo.pdf" until I close foo.pdf.

> You might want to look at
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1. Being too
> absent-minded to reliably close AR each time, I've found this 
> quite valuable.

Adobe Acrobat has long (really long -- since version 1.0) bug, 
that it opens files both for reading and writing (instead of 
opening it read-only as good viewer should; it is probably 
residuum from from Adobe Acrobat not-only-Reader, which could 
write to PDF. So you have two options:

a) either do terrible tricks described in the above link,
b) use better PDF viewer -- GSView 
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm) opens file RO 
and it is able to do the same trick as DVI Viewers -- 
actualizing view when PDF file changes.

Best,

Matěj


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Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

Sven Schreiber wrote:

Thanks for your reply, Paul.


I loaded your document into LyX 1.4.1 here (Win XP, MiKTeX but *not*
Texniccenter), substituted a PNG file I have (you didn't attach yours),
and viewed it via pdflatex with no problem.  I routinely use PNG images
in PDF files and have not had LyX hang.




Turns out that it doesn't have anything to do with png; for me the hang
is reproducible for any new document if I have a graphics in there
(doesn't matter if eps or png), *and* have the font set to Palatino!

This is really weird because:
1. pdflatex by hand works for me
2. lyx with palatino (w/o graphics) works for me
3. lyx with graphics (and times for example) works for me
4. for Paul everything works also with lyx

 What could it be?

Thanks for help, else I'm going to file a bug report.



The only thing I can suggest is to start lyx with -dbg all, try to 
View->PDF (pdflatex) a file with graphics and Palatino, and see if 
anything helpful is displayed in the shell window at the point where LyX 
goes catatonic.


/Paul

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:



However, I never noticed that I have to close the last display of a pdf in 
Acrobat
to be able to view the new one (I get the message "I can't write on foo.pdf"
until I close foo.pdf.



You might want to look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1. 
Being too absent-minded to reliably close AR each time, I've found this 
quite valuable.


/Paul

Re: Table with fixed width columns

[Paul A. Rubin]

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote:


I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my
attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX.  That is, I select the
table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' 
field. I
did this for all the columns in my table. But nothing happens---as 
soon as

I go into a cell and add content, the cell is horizontally resized. I am
following the exact procedure described in the user's guide, and I would
expect the cell to grow vertically, not horizontally. Can anyone 
enlighten

me on the correct steps to follow? I tried both LyX 1.3 and 1.4, with
identical results. I am on a Mac, BTW.


  Well, you're allowed to use an Apple product.

  I have tables in my book similar to what you're trying to create. By
trial-and-error I discovered that I needed to manually break the cell
content into multiple lines; there is no automagic line wrap. Sometimes I
also dropped the font one size; that made the typeset table look better.



There's "automagic line wrap" if it likes you (and apparently it likes 
me).  You have to select "multicolumn" in the table dialog, with the 
cursor in cell in the correct column, and set the width.  (Stefano, did 
you select multicolumn?) Once you do that, and assuming you picked an 
appropriate width, line wrapping should occur automatically for text 
typed into that column (no need for manual breaks).


I'm not positive, but I think LaTeX wants you to leave at least one 
column without a specified width.


/Paul

Re: Math fonts in win32

[Paul A. Rubin]

Thomas Weithöner wrote:

Hi there,
I have spent a number of hours trying to figure out how to get the math
symbols displayed in in the win32 environment. The standard installation
does not allow this. For instance, relations such as \leq result in a dot
displayed instead of the symbol.
I read all FAQ and online help pages but could not find a solution. I also
tried to replace to fonts provided in the standard installation by the
BaKoMa Fonts for LyX-Win package. Nope.
Anybody out there who can help me?
Thanks!
Thomas



Installing the BaKoMa fonts usually fixes this.  Note that unpacking the 
archive and plopping them in an appropriate directory is not enough. 
Did you use the Windows Fonts applet (in Control Panel) and execute 
File->Install New Font... on the BaKoMa fonts?


/Paul

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

[Paul A. Rubin]

Steve Harris wrote:



I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe
My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features.



Hmm.  I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other 
than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows 
apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly).  My suspicion was 
that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything 
running in a shell.  However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for 
you, that shoots a hole in my theory.


I just tried Start->Run->Command to get the old backward-compatibility 
command shell.  Alt-F4 won't kill that for me (I get a nag screen from 
Windows saying I might lose data and asking if I'm sober).  I'm not sure 
what, if anything, that implies.


Stranger and stranger ...

/Paul

Re: Footnote to normal text

[Alex]

Thanks for the answer.

Any comments from the developers?

>> "In additon, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it
>> and hitting the Insert footnote button; change a footnote to regular
>> text by clicking the Insert footnote button when the cursor is in the
>> footnote."
> 
> I think this was possible in earlier versions of LyX. However, this ability 
> has been removed.
First, I tryed it with the Qt version, now, I have checked with the
xforms also. It is definitely not working.

>> Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> It's a removed feature (and a documentation bug). AFAIR it has been removed, 
> because it was badly implemented.
> 
>> Will it change?
> 
> Who knows? I think it would be a worthwile anhancement (also for comments, 
> charstyles etc.), but first someone needs to find time and interest to sit 
> down and implement it.
I hope it will come back, for me it is a good function.

> However, I think you should file an enhancement report on bugzilla.
I do it.


Alex

Re: Index more small

[Zhenhua Wu]

Hi, I think you can modify the size of the font, and the superscript will be
adjusted automatically.

On 2006.07.05 17:22:40 +0200, icebna wrote:
> 
> Hi all :
> I'm sorry. I lost how make that the superscript number are more small. 
> Is very big to my work.
> Thanks advanced
> Miguel
> 

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Re: Table with fixed width columns

[Stefano Franchi]

On 8 Jul, 2006, at 3:00 AM, Charles de Miramon wrote:


Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:



Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes?



Having an 'apply' button in the Table Parameters dialog would be a nice
usability enhancement.



I agree wholeheartedly. In my particular case, though, I would have 
been spared a lot of grief if the User's guide had mentioned that the 
return key must be hit.  That should be easier to fix than changing the 
interface.



Cheers,


S.






The table interface is indeed quite confusing. I think it should be 
split
between a dialog for the general parameters for the table, another 
dialog

for columns and a third one for cells.

Cheers,
Charles
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Re: Table with fixed width columns

[Stefano Franchi]

On 8 Jul, 2006, at 1:57 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:


Stefano Franchi wrote:

That is, I select the
table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width'
field.


Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes?

Jürgen



Thanks Jürgen,

	that was it. It never occurred to me to hit return after entering the 
value. I tabbed out of the field, instead. Now the table behaves as 
described in the user's guide, with fixed width columns and automatic 
wrapping.



Cheers,

S.






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Re: Table with fixed width columns

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote:


Leaving aside the problem of line-wrapping, how did you manage to fix the
width of the columns in your tables?


Stefano,

  That's an excellent question. :-) It's been a year since the book was
published and I've not thought about the raw document for longer than that.
What I've done is take a screenshot of a table (in the .lyx file) with
multiple rows in a column and extracted the LaTeX code from the file.
They're in the attached tarball.

  I see no overt formatting marks in the table, and I suspect that I
adjusted the column width until the text in the left column wrapped itself
to fit. Hope the attached helps.

Rich

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Re: Split a cell

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote:


I suspect yes, since I frequently need to combine rows. From a users point
of view it is really strange that you can combine columns, but can't
combine rows.


  Good point, Georg. I frequently need to combine columns, but have not yet
needed to combine rows. But, for symmetry and completeness, I see the value
of adding the ability to the table dialog box.

Rich

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Re: Split a cell

[Georg Baum]

Am Freitag, 7. Juli 2006 18:47 schrieb Rich Shepard:

>I've never used it so I have no experience of the difficulty. But, I 
also
> assume that it's used infrequently enough to not warrant the effort to
> incorporate it directly into LyX. Am I incorrect on my assumption?

I suspect yes, since I frequently need to combine rows. From a users point 
of view it is really strange that you can combine columns, but can't 
combine rows.

>Each of us probably uses different packages more frequently than 
others
> would. Perhaps because we tend to use one document class more than other
> classes, or the type of writing we do needs different typesetting 
features
> or abilities. Perhaps I'm just an oddball curmudgeon, but there's so 
much
> flexibility in LaTeX that I don't think it should all be incorporated 
into
> LyX. Focus on the 85% that most of us use most of the time and let us 
learn
> to add the other 15% that fit our individual needs.

True.


Georg

Math fonts in win32

[Thomas Weithöner]

Hi there,
I have spent a number of hours trying to figure out how to get the math
symbols displayed in in the win32 environment. The standard installation
does not allow this. For instance, relations such as \leq result in a dot
displayed instead of the symbol.
I read all FAQ and online help pages but could not find a solution. I also
tried to replace to fonts provided in the standard installation by the
BaKoMa Fonts for LyX-Win package. Nope.
Anybody out there who can help me?
Thanks!
Thomas

Re: Table with fixed width columns

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Charles de Miramon wrote:
> Having an 'apply' button in the Table Parameters dialog would be a nice
> usability enhancement.

http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1699

> The table interface is indeed quite confusing. I think it should be split
> between a dialog for the general parameters for the table, another dialog
> for columns and a third one for cells.

Yes. Several people have tried to make it more intuitive. It seems to be a 
difficult task (also because LaTeX's table handling is rather strange).

Jürgen

Re: Table with fixed width columns

[Charles de Miramon]

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

 
> Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes?
> 

Having an 'apply' button in the Table Parameters dialog would be a nice
usability enhancement.

The table interface is indeed quite confusing. I think it should be split
between a dialog for the general parameters for the table, another dialog
for columns and a third one for cells.
 
Cheers,
Charles
-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Footnote to normal text

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Alex wrote:
> "In additon, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it
> and hitting the Insert footnote button; change a footnote to regular
> text by clicking the Insert footnote button when the cursor is in the
> footnote."

I think this was possible in earlier versions of LyX. However, this ability 
has been removed.

> Is this a bug or a feature?

It's a removed feature (and a documentation bug). AFAIR it has been removed, 
because it was badly implemented.

> Will it change?

Who knows? I think it would be a worthwile anhancement (also for comments, 
charstyles etc.), but first someone needs to find time and interest to sit 
down and implement it.

However, I think you should file an enhancement report on bugzilla.

Jürgen

Re: Table with fixed width columns

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Stefano Franchi wrote:
> That is, I select the
> table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width'
> field.

Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes?

Jürgen