Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
For users of Mac OS X 10.4.x, PDFview is a great application for this purpose. It integrates nicely with LaTeX and LyX, and you can easily configure it to automatically update the PDF output. With LyX, this means that -- you set PDFview with "open -a pdfview" as your viewer in LyX's preferences -- you click the checkbox in PDFview's preferences to automatically reload files that are updated on your harddisk -- and anytime now you choose View --> Update from your LyX document, -- you simply switch to PDFview, and the changes are right there. No reloading, no closing and opening, no pressing keys. PDFview is available from SourceForge at http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/index.html. -- Christian Helge Hafting wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:39:55AM -0500, Les Denham wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36, Helge Hafting wrote: Acrobat certainly isn't useless, but have some problems: Precisely why I use Acrobat Reader: I don't want to create a PDF which does not work properly with the reader most people use. I performed the necessary convolutions to get it to work on my x86_64 Linux machine, and when using it to view Lyx output I just close it each time. Of course one checks a PDF "for general consumption" with acrobat, no argument there! This is not an argument for using acrobat as the main pdf viewer though. Acrobat is something I use perhaps once before publication, to check that the document views ok. (It usually does, it is a long time since I figured out what fonts to use and what not to use.) But for everyday use, I use xpdf. I can then tweak layout efficiently. (Typically float placement - one of the few things latex don't do perfectly all the time. And the breaking of URL's and code listings.) xpdf lets me do view->pdf, look up the float on page 37, make small tweak, update->pdf, switch to xpdf and hit 'r' and have the new pdf reloaded, still displaying page 37 so I don't have to _find_ it again. I then repeat this process until that float is ok, then I move on to the next trouble float and so on. The tought of doing this work with "perform tweak - close acrobat - view->pdf (wait for acrobat to start) - move to page 37 - perform tweak - ..." is depressing. Especially with the delays involved when starting a 32-bit acrobat on a 64-bit machine. Of course, not all documents contains lots of large floats, acrobat might not be so awful then . . . Helge Hafting -- Christian Liesen Universität Zürich Institut für Sonderpädagogik Sonderforschungsbereich Hirschengraben 48 8001 Zürich University of Zurich Institute for Special Education Research Unit Hirschengraben 48 CH-8001 Zurich Tel +41 44 634 3130 Fax +41 44 634 4941 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Figure Latex Error plus input stack size
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks a lot Juergen, now the figures work fine, but I have 2 new problems: > 1-it cannot read the superscript fonts (for example 10 to the -10 as > superscript)it says: We need another test file then. Jürgen
problems to show figures in LyX
Hello: I am running LyX 1.5.0rc1 on MS Windows and I am not able to view the figures in LyX. I tried several file formats like ps, eps, jpg, gif, pdf, and always get the message "Error converting to loadable format". I understand that there is some problem with the definition of converters but I don't know how to solve it. ImageMagick is installed in the system. Does anybody can help? Thanks, Fernando
Re: which LyX version on which Mac OSX version?
On Jun 17, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hi, Since I temporarely have to switch to and older Mac (with OSX 10.2.8) I wanted to find out what version of lyx runs on which OS X version and the information on the wiki pages seems ambiguous. According to the /Mac pages lyx13x requires 10.2 and lyx14 requires 10.3.9 (I guess this is right) The /Lyx/Download page however mentions also 10.2 for lyx14x (this is probably wrong) I can only run lyx136 and even not lyx137 or lyx14x; in the latter case there is a message that /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib is missing. This library is installed by fink under /sw/lib but even after copying this library to /usr/lib lyx refuses to run. It would be nice if someone could explain what should run on OSX 10.2.9 I'm frankly not sure, since I haven't had 10.2 around to test on. But I believe the binaries for LyX-1.4 (and the forthcoming -1.5) will not work on 10.2. So I believe you'll have to use LyX-1.3. (I don't remember any reason why 1.3.7 wouldn't work on 10.2.) Your experience with LyX-1.4.x is what I'd expect: you need the precise version of the libiconv.2.dylib LyX was compiled with for it to work -- and that's the version that comes with 10.3. If you want to compile your own version, I believe LyX-1.4 will work on 10.2. Bennett
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:39:55AM -0500, Les Denham wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36, Helge Hafting wrote: > > Acrobat certainly isn't useless, but have some problems: > > Precisely why I use Acrobat Reader: I don't want to create a PDF which does > not work properly with the reader most people use. I performed the necessary > convolutions to get it to work on my x86_64 Linux machine, and when using it > to view Lyx output I just close it each time. > Of course one checks a PDF "for general consumption" with acrobat, no argument there! This is not an argument for using acrobat as the main pdf viewer though. Acrobat is something I use perhaps once before publication, to check that the document views ok. (It usually does, it is a long time since I figured out what fonts to use and what not to use.) But for everyday use, I use xpdf. I can then tweak layout efficiently. (Typically float placement - one of the few things latex don't do perfectly all the time. And the breaking of URL's and code listings.) xpdf lets me do view->pdf, look up the float on page 37, make small tweak, update->pdf, switch to xpdf and hit 'r' and have the new pdf reloaded, still displaying page 37 so I don't have to _find_ it again. I then repeat this process until that float is ok, then I move on to the next trouble float and so on. The tought of doing this work with "perform tweak - close acrobat - view->pdf (wait for acrobat to start) - move to page 37 - perform tweak - ..." is depressing. Especially with the delays involved when starting a 32-bit acrobat on a 64-bit machine. Of course, not all documents contains lots of large floats, acrobat might not be so awful then . . . Helge Hafting
Re: RC1 Dumb Question
Mark Kortink wrote: Hi I am writing a book in LyX and come from the Windows world. I want to download and install RC1 with no hassels. This means download a file, double-click it and respond to the prompts, and at the end everything is done. When I go to the download area I find: 05/18/2007 07:43PM 23,506,358 LyX-1.5.0-beta3-Mac.dmg 04/24/2007 10:55AM 17,689,815 LyX-1.5.0b2-Mac-Universal.zip 02/22/2007 02:49PM 78,830,289 LyX-1.5.0beta1-Installer-bundle.exe 02/22/2007 02:49PM 9,579,682 LyX-1.5.0beta1-Installer.exe 02/20/2007 03:03PM 11,359,184 LyX-1.5.0beta1-Mac-Intel.zip 04/25/2007 09:33PM 78,771,684 LyX-1.5.0beta2-Installer-bundle.exe 04/25/2007 09:33PM 9,508,207 LyX-1.5.0beta2-Installer.exe 05/18/2007 01:21PM 78,845,071 LyX-1.5.0beta3-Installer-bundle.exe 05/18/2007 01:21PM 9,583,511 LyX-1.5.0beta3-Installer.exe 06/01/2007 12:53PM 78,884,411 LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer-bundle.exe 06/01/2007 12:53PM 9,626,579 LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer.exe 06/01/2007 02:21PM 23,693,495 LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg 02/22/2007 02:47PM 8,255,264 lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.bz2 02/22/2007 02:47PM 10,622,153 lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz 04/22/2007 03:54PM 8,176,131 lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2 04/22/2007 03:50PM 10,670,592 lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz 05/18/2007 01:20PM 8,283,500 lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2 05/18/2007 01:20PM 10,618,507 lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz 06/01/2007 12:52PM 8,353,569 lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.bz2 06/01/2007 12:52PM 10,736,555 lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz 02/22/2007 02:49PM 68,588,706 lyx-windows-bundle-deps.zip Which one should I download? Regards Mark Got MikTeX (or some other LaTeX distro), ImageMagick and Ghostscript installed already? Use 1.5.0rc1-Installer.exe. If not, use 1.5.0rc1-Installer-bundle.exe (which bundles them in) -- or else install them first, then use the first installer. /Paul
Re: External Paste on 1.5.0rc1 on OS X
Glad it worked, and don't worry about wasting times, that's what the list is for ;-) If the pasting-problem should re-occur, try to note exactly what you did (from which program you pasted what, etc). It can also be good to open up the Console application (Typically under in your Applications- >Utilities folder, and see if there are any error messages there (it could even be that there are error messages left there from your session yesterday) Anders On 17 jun 2007, at 21.58, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: I just tried normal copy/paste using external data and it worked just fine. I swear I tried that yesterday and it didn't work. I sincerely apologize for wasting the mailing list's time. I can only claim temporary (I hope) insanity. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my mail. Yaron Anders Ekberg wrote: Yaron Y. Goland Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:01:01 -0700 Once upon a time external paste would work via a special external paste option. I read the docs for 1.5.0rc1 and saw that now the middle button is to be used for pasting. Of course by default there is no middle buttons in OS X land but I have a multi button mouse and I used USB Overdrive to configure how it works. I took one of my extra buttons and configured it to be the middle mouse button, the fourth mouse button and the fifth mouse button (as defined by USB overdrive) without much joy. Setting the extra button to be the 'middle mouse button' did cause LYX to paste but it pasted from its internal buffer rather than from the external one. Is there a keyboard shortcut for external paste? Is there a known setting to get external paste working on OS X using USB Overdrive? Thanks, Yaron P.S. I did try to internet search for a solution and I checked the mail archives but I couldn't find anything. I also checked the bug list for 1.5. I'm sorry if this question has already been answered but I tried my best to find that answer and failed. Command V should pastes the most recent copied selection regardless of whether it is external or internal. In addition you have the Paste Recent menu to paste recent internally copied selections. If that doesn't work for you, could you could you please give details on your configuration (language, etc). I have tried with Latin and Cyrillic characters and both work fine for me. Anders
Re: Help to make the given table in Lyx--Table attached this time
Tariq Abdullah wrote: Hi, I want to make a table like this in Lyx, by using Lyx table option. Can anybody help me how to do this? Java based Development Platform Text 1 Text 2 Text3 Text 4 Text 5 Text 6 Text 7 Text 8 Text 9 Text 0 Row1 Row2 Regards, Tariq Abdullah Unfortunately, I think your mail/news client "attached" the table by embedding it as ASCII text -- and hosed the formatting again. Perhaps you could attach a screenshot of the table as you desire it, or come up with something in (pardon my language) Word (or Open Office, WordPerfect, whatever) and attach that? /Paul
Re: External Paste on 1.5.0rc1 on OS X
I just tried normal copy/paste using external data and it worked just fine. I swear I tried that yesterday and it didn't work. I sincerely apologize for wasting the mailing list's time. I can only claim temporary (I hope) insanity. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my mail. Yaron Anders Ekberg wrote: Yaron Y. Goland Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:01:01 -0700 Once upon a time external paste would work via a special external paste option. I read the docs for 1.5.0rc1 and saw that now the middle button is to be used for pasting. Of course by default there is no middle buttons in OS X land but I have a multi button mouse and I used USB Overdrive to configure how it works. I took one of my extra buttons and configured it to be the middle mouse button, the fourth mouse button and the fifth mouse button (as defined by USB overdrive) without much joy. Setting the extra button to be the 'middle mouse button' did cause LYX to paste but it pasted from its internal buffer rather than from the external one. Is there a keyboard shortcut for external paste? Is there a known setting to get external paste working on OS X using USB Overdrive? Thanks, Yaron P.S. I did try to internet search for a solution and I checked the mail archives but I couldn't find anything. I also checked the bug list for 1.5. I'm sorry if this question has already been answered but I tried my best to find that answer and failed. Command V should pastes the most recent copied selection regardless of whether it is external or internal. In addition you have the Paste Recent menu to paste recent internally copied selections. If that doesn't work for you, could you could you please give details on your configuration (language, etc). I have tried with Latin and Cyrillic characters and both work fine for me. Anders
Re: Updating index file
On Sunday 17 June 2007 14:26, Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या] wrote: > Hi all, I created an index, and then reworked my book. To my surprise I > found the index hadn't been updated. Did I do something wrong? How do I get > all the index entries to reflect the latest corrections? Thanks in advance, > FN Here's my sure fire way to update the index. Note that I run latex several times to make sure the index gets updated. The actual index updating is done by makeindex, which I believe comes with my LaTeX distribution (tetex). Here's the script I use: rm -f $1.aux rm -f $1.dvi rm -f $1.ps rm -f $1.pdf rm -f $1.idx rm -f $1.ilg rm -f $1.ind rm -f $1.log rm -f $1.tex rm -f $1.toc lyx --export latex $1.lyx latex $1.tex makeindex $1.idx ilglines=`wc -l $1.ilg | cut -d " " -f 1` if test "$ilglines" = "6"; then latex $1.tex latex $1.tex # Two commands below DO NOT ensure embedded fonts. # dvips -o $1.ps $1.dvi # ps2pdf $1.ps # Two commands below ensure all fonts embedded! dvips -t letter -Pdownload35 -o $1.ps $1.dvi ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts=true $1.ps #nohup gv $1.pdf & #exit 0 else echo ERROR: Inspect $1.ilg and $1.ind! gvim $1.ilg $1.ind echo ERROR: Inspect $1.ilg and $1.ind! exit 1 fi SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Updating index file
Hi all, I created an index, and then reworked my book. To my surprise I found the index hadn't been updated. Did I do something wrong? How do I get all the index entries to reflect the latest corrections? Thanks in advance, FN -- FN: Frederick Noronha Phone 0091-832-2409490 http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts
Re: Help to make the given table in Lyx--Table attached this time
Tariq Abdullah schrieb: I want to make a table like this in Lyx, by using Lyx table option. From you email I don't understand what exactly you want. But in general you can have a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that comes with LyX 1.4.4 to find out how different tables types can be created with LyX. regards Uwe
which LyX version on which Mac OSX version?
Hi, Since I temporarely have to switch to and older Mac (with OSX 10.2.8) I wanted to find out what version of lyx runs on which OS X version and the information on the wiki pages seems ambiguous. According to the /Mac pages lyx13x requires 10.2 and lyx14 requires 10.3.9 (I guess this is right) The /Lyx/Download page however mentions also 10.2 for lyx14x (this is probably wrong) I can only run lyx136 and even not lyx137 or lyx14x; in the latter case there is a message that /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib is missing. This library is installed by fink under /sw/lib but even after copying this library to /usr/lib lyx refuses to run. It would be nice if someone could explain what should run on OSX 10.2.9 Thanks and regards, Patrick De Visschere
Lyx 1.5.0beta2 with Fedora 7: No math panel!
I've just upgraded my system to Fedora 7, which comes with LyX 1.5.0beta2. I'm having a problem I've never had before. I cannot get the Math Panel to open. When I click on Insert -> Math -> Math Panel, the bottom line shows: (dialog-show mathpanel), but the panel itself won't show up. Is anyone having the same problem? Besides that, how can I view the math toolbar? On LyX 1.4.4 I just have to right click on the toolbar that I have the option to include the math toolbar on the display. -- Rudi Gaelzer Department of Physics Institute of Physics and Mathematics Federal University of Pelotas BRAZIL Registered linux user # 153741
Re: Tables and figures going in different directions with 'rotate sideways'
John Pye schrieb: The problem is that on left pages, the figures are rotated so that the bottom of the figure (and its caption) is on the left, but on the right pages, the figures are rotated so that the bottom of the figure is on the right. The format I would like would be for all of the figures to be rotated in the same direction, To force another rotation direction, you can add either the option "figuresleft" or "figuresright" to the document class options. I added this information now to the EmbeddedObjects manual. regards Uwe
Re: RC1 Dumb Question
Mark Kortink wrote: Hi I am writing a book in LyX and come from the Windows world. I want to download and install RC1 with no hassels. Check the Windows part of the Wiki. It will explain the differences. -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: External Paste on 1.5.0rc1 on OS X
Yaron Y. Goland Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:01:01 -0700 Once upon a time external paste would work via a special external paste option. I read the docs for 1.5.0rc1 and saw that now the middle button is to be used for pasting. Of course by default there is no middle buttons in OS X land but I have a multi button mouse and I used USB Overdrive to configure how it works. I took one of my extra buttons and configured it to be the middle mouse button, the fourth mouse button and the fifth mouse button (as defined by USB overdrive) without much joy. Setting the extra button to be the 'middle mouse button' did cause LYX to paste but it pasted from its internal buffer rather than from the external one. Is there a keyboard shortcut for external paste? Is there a known setting to get external paste working on OS X using USB Overdrive? Thanks, Yaron P.S. I did try to internet search for a solution and I checked the mail archives but I couldn't find anything. I also checked the bug list for 1.5. I'm sorry if this question has already been answered but I tried my best to find that answer and failed. Command V should pastes the most recent copied selection regardless of whether it is external or internal. In addition you have the Paste Recent menu to paste recent internally copied selections. If that doesn't work for you, could you could you please give details on your configuration (language, etc). I have tried with Latin and Cyrillic characters and both work fine for me. Anders
RC1 Dumb Question
Hi I am writing a book in LyX and come from the Windows world. I want to download and install RC1 with no hassels. This means download a file, double-click it and respond to the prompts, and at the end everything is done. When I go to the download area I find: 05/18/2007 07:43PM 23,506,358 LyX-1.5.0-beta3-Mac.dmg 04/24/2007 10:55AM 17,689,815 LyX-1.5.0b2-Mac-Universal.zip 02/22/2007 02:49PM 78,830,289 LyX-1.5.0beta1-Installer-bundle.exe 02/22/2007 02:49PM 9,579,682 LyX-1.5.0beta1-Installer.exe 02/20/2007 03:03PM 11,359,184 LyX-1.5.0beta1-Mac-Intel.zip 04/25/2007 09:33PM 78,771,684 LyX-1.5.0beta2-Installer-bundle.exe 04/25/2007 09:33PM 9,508,207 LyX-1.5.0beta2-Installer.exe 05/18/2007 01:21PM 78,845,071 LyX-1.5.0beta3-Installer-bundle.exe 05/18/2007 01:21PM 9,583,511 LyX-1.5.0beta3-Installer.exe 06/01/2007 12:53PM 78,884,411 LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer-bundle.exe 06/01/2007 12:53PM 9,626,579 LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer.exe 06/01/2007 02:21PM 23,693,495 LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg 02/22/2007 02:47PM 8,255,264 lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.bz2 02/22/2007 02:47PM 10,622,153 lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz 04/22/2007 03:54PM 8,176,131 lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2 04/22/2007 03:50PM 10,670,592 lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz 05/18/2007 01:20PM 8,283,500 lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2 05/18/2007 01:20PM 10,618,507 lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz 06/01/2007 12:52PM 8,353,569 lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.bz2 06/01/2007 12:52PM 10,736,555 lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz 02/22/2007 02:49PM 68,588,706 lyx-windows-bundle-deps.zip Which one should I download? Regards Mark
