Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Thanks all who tried to help me with the compiling. I have given up  
for the time being and will wait until my son has time to help me (I  
am too old). I could not find zlib1g-dev under 'All' in synaptics.


I am now using my notebook for completing a paper in lyx. However, the  
lyx file from the pc tells me, the DesmodiumPaperF.lyx is from a newer  
LyX-Version, and the lyx2lyx-Script could not convert the document.  
The Lyx version of the PC was 2.2.2, the version of the notebook  
2.0.0svn. I tried separately in a shell

lyx2lyx DesmodiumPaperF.lyx
bash: lyx2lyx: command not found. What can I do?

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

 Thanks all who tried to help me with the compiling. I have given up for the
 time being and will wait until my son has time to help me (I am too old). I
 could not find zlib1g-dev under 'All' in synaptics.

 I am now using my notebook for completing a paper in lyx. However, the lyx
 file from the pc tells me, the DesmodiumPaperF.lyx is from a newer
 LyX-Version, and the lyx2lyx-Script could not convert the document. The Lyx
 version of the PC was 2.2.2, the version of the notebook 2.0.0svn. I tried
 separately in a shell
 lyx2lyx DesmodiumPaperF.lyx
 bash: lyx2lyx: command not found. What can I do?

Try one of the following:
- install an unofficial deb
http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/11.04/?q=lyx

- copy lyx2lyx from SVN
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1

Regards
Liviu

Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Matthias Hunstig]

Hi,

 It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
 pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
 are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the 
Windows XP Control Panel to end up with a clean system?

Matthias

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
 Thanks, Liviu, but http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1
 leads to a mail without a reference for the source. Do you know it?

Yes. Download the src tarball of LyX [1], unpack and navigate to
/lib/lyx2lyx/, then copy this folder (entirely) to the system dir of
your LyX installation. On Linux this would usually be
/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx. Make sure to first (re)move the existing
lyx2lyx folder. A word of caution: this is a hackish approach that
should work in many cases, but if you have have issues in the distant
future with opening LyX files this would be your culprit; then you'd
either install latest LyX, or repeat this procedure.
Liviu

[1] ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.0.x/lyx-2.0.1.tar.gz

Chinese characters in German text

[Aileen Mueller]

I am using Lyx 2.0 and JabRef for references. I write my thesis in
German and need to include some references in Chinese characters. I
use Unicode and am able to input Chinese characters in JabRef, but
when I want to include them in Lyx it doesn't seem to work. I only get
a question mark for all my references in Lyx, including those which
are in German. How can I fix this?

Thank you!

Problem with cross references

[Alain Didierjean]

I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I started writing 
back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on them, adding more chapters. They 
don't compile on lyx2.0x as they used to, failing on each and every cross 
reference with a message like:

[18]

LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 unde
fined on input line 595.


LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 unde
fined on input line 595.

! Missing \endcsname inserted.
to be read again 
   :
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
The control sequence marked to be read again should
not appear between \csname and \endcsname.

! Extra \endcsname.
argument ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
  \space 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

! Undefined control sequence.
\is@pos@num@ #1\@nil -\ifx \@nil #1\@nil 
  \expandafter \@firstoftwo \else \e...
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
to be read again 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
to be read again 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I was expecting to see `', `=', or `'. Didn't.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
to be read again 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

! Extra \endcsname.
\thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
  
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
to be read again 
   p
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)


Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
\T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]  :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
d :Th=E9or=EAme-
 []

Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem... creating a new 
label and cross ref brings it back.
- is this a known problem ?
- any known way to fix this ?
- any idea ?

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Zitat von Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com:


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

Thanks, Liviu, but http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1
leads to a mail without a reference for the source. Do you know it?


Yes. Download the src tarball of LyX [1], unpack and navigate to
/lib/lyx2lyx/, then copy this folder (entirely) to the system dir of
your LyX installation. On Linux this would usually be
/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx. Make sure to first (re)move the existing
lyx2lyx folder. A word of caution: this is a hackish approach that
should work in many cases, but if you have have issues in the distant
future with opening LyX files this would be your culprit; then you'd
either install latest LyX, or repeat this procedure.
Liviu


Got it, thanks, Liviu
Wolfgang


[1] ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.0.x/lyx-2.0.1.tar.gz

Re: Chinese characters in German text

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Aileen Mueller
aileen.muel...@googlemail.com wrote:
 I am using Lyx 2.0 and JabRef for references. I write my thesis in
 German and need to include some references in Chinese characters. I
 use Unicode and am able to input Chinese characters in JabRef, but
 when I want to include them in Lyx it doesn't seem to work. I only get
 a question mark for all my references in Lyx, including those which
 are in German. How can I fix this?

I'm no expert, but I think I heard that bibtex didn't support Unicode.
One alternative would be biblatex. This has been discussed several
times on teh list. You may also want to look into using XeTeX, if you
want to mix exotic scripts into your LyX document.

Liviu


 Thank you!




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Re: Problem with cross references

[Richard Heck]

On 09/15/2011 06:09 AM, Alain Didierjean wrote:
 I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I started 
 writing back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on them, adding more 
 chapters. They don't compile on lyx2.0x as they used to, failing on each and 
 every cross reference with a message like:

 [18]

 LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 
 unde
 fined on input line 595.


 LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 
 unde
 fined on input line 595.

 ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
 to be read again 
:
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 The control sequence marked to be read again should
 not appear between \csname and \endcsname.

 ! Extra \endcsname.
 argument ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
   \space 
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

 ! Undefined control sequence.
 \is@pos@num@ #1\@nil -\ifx \@nil #1\@nil 
   \expandafter \@firstoftwo \else 
 \e...
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 The control sequence at the end of the top line
 of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
 misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
 spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
 and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

 ! Missing number, treated as zero.
 to be read again 
\unskip 
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
 (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
 look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

 ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
 to be read again 
\unskip 
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 I was expecting to see `', `=', or `'. Didn't.

 ! Missing number, treated as zero.
 to be read again 
\unskip 
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
 (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
 look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

 ! Extra \endcsname.
 \thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
   
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

 ! Missing number, treated as zero.
 to be read again 
p
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
 (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
 look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)


 Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
 \T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]  
 :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
 d :Th=E9or=EAme-
  []

 Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem... creating a new 
 label and cross ref brings it back.
 - is this a known problem ?
 - any known way to fix this ?
 - any idea ?

This looks like it might be a form of the active character problem, if
you are using French. You could try switching to refstyle under
DocumentSettingsDocument Class.

Richard

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Olivier Ripoll]

On 15.09.2011 09:31, Matthias Hunstig wrote:

Hi,


It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.


I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the Windows XP 
Control Panel to end up with a clean system?

Matthias



Assuming windows 7, you may want to delete (or simply rename/move it) 
the LyX preferences folder (lyx20), in the AppData\Roaming folder in 
you home directory (the AppData folder is hidden).


that would be
C:\Users\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on windows 7, and something like (from memory)
C:\Documents and Settings\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on XP.

Also, some apps can help checking for leftovers (ccleaner is such an 
app) when uninstalling a soft (they are safe to use to analyse the 
left-overs, you may want to be careful if you use them for cleaning)


Sincerely,

Olivier

Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Dear all,

I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the
list and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to
the correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki
page if none exists).

Question: How do convince an existing Lyx installation to use a newly
installed Texlive system?

My user case:

a. I used to have Texlive 2010 installed. I upgraded to TexLive 2011
(better late than never...). I set up paths, etcetera
post-installation. (I did NOT erase my old Texlive 2010 installation,
because I still need it for older projects.) Now every call to
tex/latex/luatex, etc from command line brings up files, packages,
and binaries from the new installation (e.g. from
/usr/local/texlive/2011/)

b. I started Lyx, reconfigured and restarted it. Nothing happens. Lyx
uses the old Texlive class files in /usr/local/texlive/2010/, as well
as the old binaries.


What am I missing?


Thanks,

Stefano

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Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:


   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
none exists).


Stefano,

  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.

  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.

Rich

Re: Problem with cross references

[Alain Didierjean]

- Mail original -
 De: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net
 À: Alain Didierjean alain.didierj...@free.fr
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Envoyé: Jeudi 15 Septembre 2011 14:07:03
 Objet: Re: Problem with cross references

 On 09/15/2011 06:09 AM, Alain Didierjean wrote:
  I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I
  started writing back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on
  them, adding more chapters. They don't compile on lyx2.0x as they
  used to, failing on each and every cross reference with a message
  like:
 
  [18]
 
  LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on
  page 19 unde
  fined on input line 595.
 
 
  LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on
  page 19 unde
  fined on input line 595.
 
  ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
  to be read again
 :
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  The control sequence marked to be read again should
  not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
 
  ! Extra \endcsname.
  argument ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname
\space
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
 
  ! Undefined control sequence.
  \is@pos@num@ #1\@nil -\ifx \@nil #1\@nil
\expandafter \@firstoftwo
\else \e...
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  The control sequence at the end of the top line
  of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
  misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
  spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
  and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
 
  ! Missing number, treated as zero.
  to be read again
 \unskip
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
  (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
  look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
 
  ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
  to be read again
 \unskip
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  I was expecting to see `', `=', or `'. Didn't.
 
  ! Missing number, treated as zero.
  to be read again
 \unskip
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
  (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
  look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
 
  ! Extra \endcsname.
  \thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname
 
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
 
  ! Missing number, treated as zero.
  to be read again
 p
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
  (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
  look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
 
 
  Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
  \T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]
   :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
  d :Th=E9or=EAme-
   []
 
  Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem...
  creating a new label and cross ref brings it back.
  - is this a known problem ?
  - any known way to fix this ?
  - any idea ?
 
 This looks like it might be a form of the active character problem,
 if
 you are using French. You could try switching to refstyle under
 DocumentSettingsDocument Class.


Did it. Doesn't make any difference.
Any other suggestions ? What's this active character problem about ?
It's a mess as I need this documents printed on monday !

HTML export: some small problems...

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Hi,

I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
2.0.1.

I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
use an horizontal rule in some places.

I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).

I have inserted an horizontal rule in the page, but I get in the HTML
the Lyx code instead of the rule:

\begin_inset CommandInset lineLatexCommand ruleoffset 0.5exwidth
100col%height 1pt\end_inset 

Am I doing something stupid, or am I demanding too much from Elyxer?

I Have used Latex2HTML under Linux some years ago and this kind of
cosmetics was a piece of cake for it... I have never used it under OSX
and I like the HTML generated by Elyxer otherwise.

I know that I can correct these problems by hand or by CSS editing,
but would like to know if I can handle them directly in Lyx, instead
of having to da another step of conversion (especially because I am
using Lyx to quickly setup a web page from existing material in Latex
and Lyx. Yes, I am very late on this task, and trying to catch the gap
:-)  ).

Regards,

Murat

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Re: HTML export: some small problems...

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Murat,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Murat Yildizoglu myi...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
 version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
 2.0.1.

 I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
 use an horizontal rule in some places.

 I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
 of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
 Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).

Colors work but only when inserted in the page. I have never set
default colors...

 I have inserted an horizontal rule in the page, but I get in the HTML
 the Lyx code instead of the rule:

 \begin_inset CommandInset lineLatexCommand ruleoffset 0.5exwidth
 100col%height 1pt\end_inset 

To the best of my knowledge horizontal rules work, but apparently not always.

 Am I doing something stupid, or am I demanding too much from Elyxer?

Nothing that cannot be fixed easily :)  Could you provide me privately
with a small sample document which shows both issues?

 I Have used Latex2HTML under Linux some years ago and this kind of
 cosmetics was a piece of cake for it... I have never used it under OSX
 and I like the HTML generated by Elyxer otherwise.

Thanks!

 I know that I can correct these problems by hand or by CSS editing,
 but would like to know if I can handle them directly in Lyx, instead
 of having to da another step of conversion (especially because I am
 using Lyx to quickly setup a web page from existing material in Latex
 and Lyx. Yes, I am very late on this task, and trying to catch the gap
 :-)  ).

Sure, that way everyone benefits.

Alex.

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
 On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:

   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
 and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
 correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
 none exists).

 Stefano,

  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
 upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
 correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
 in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
 time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.

  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
 LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.

Hi Rich,

I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
command line or from Kile.
It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
know which ones?


Best,

Stefano



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Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
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College Station, Texas, USA

Re: HTML export: some small problems...

[Richard Heck]

On 09/15/2011 11:21 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
 Hi,

 I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
 version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
 2.0.1.

 I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
 use an horizontal rule in some places.

 I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
 of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
 Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).

Could you please file a bug about this? If you could attach a simple
test file, that would be even better. It shouldn't be difficult to get
this working. I just haven't done it yet.

Richard

problem with LyZ/Zotero/LyX integration

[Tom Wood]

hey list

I'm having trouble integrating Zotero 3.0b21, LyX 2.0.1  and LyZ 2.1.4.

I've changed the settings in LyX so that LyZ can send citations, and they
appear in the LyX editor perfectly. I can also update the BibTeX file from
LyZ.

However, when I go to preview a *.pdf, in place of a citation, all I see is
  [?]   .

Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?

tom

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julio Rojas]

Stefano, does latex/pdflatex work by itself? If so, which version is
running? I had the same problem and I had to change the path to point
to the new installation.

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:33 PM, stefano franchi
stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com 
 wrote:
 On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:

   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
 and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
 correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
 none exists).

 Stefano,

  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
 upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
 correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
 in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
 time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.

  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
 LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.

 Hi Rich,

 I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
 upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
 Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
 the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
 command line or from Kile.
 It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
 should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
 know which ones?


 Best,

 Stefano



 --
 __
 Stefano Franchi
 Associate Research Professor
 Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
 Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
 College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Julio, David:


I do not have the ubuntu-provided install of texlive. However, I do
have 2 working texlive installs: the 2010 texlive and the 2011
texlive. I need to keep the older one around for a while until a book
I wrote with it is actually printed.
I have no problems from the command line. I just switch the paths
around in my .profile file. But I want to have texlive as the default,
so that all my new projects compile with the newer installation and
newer packages. Again, I can accomplush the task easily from the
command line, and pdflatex and companions work as expected.

It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?

Cheers,

Stefano



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:15 AM, David L. Johnson
david.john...@lehigh.edu wrote:
 On 09/15/2011 11:33 AM, stefano franchi wrote:

 Hi Rich,

 I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
 upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
 Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
 the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
 command line or from Kile.
 It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
 should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
 know which ones?

 If you got rid of the distribution-provided texlive, so the new one is the
 only one on your system, lyx should be able to find it if you do Tools 
 Reconfigure.  At least, it'd complain if it couldn't find it.

 --

 David L. Johnson

 The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of
 our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted
 to inquire about the prostrate figure which fell as its victim.
                -- Warren G. Harding





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__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Again eLyXer, but bibtex this time

[Murat Yildizoglu]

I am meeting another problem with elyxer conversion. If I do not put
the .bib files in the same folder as the .lyx file, elyxer does not
seem able to find them, and the bibliography is empty. If I put them
in the same folder, I get the bibliography.

Also, I have not been able to find a way to generate a standard agsm
(harvard) style bibliography reference. I only get a number between
brackets [1] as reference, even if I choose author-name in the options
of natbib in the document properties box.

Only author-name2 gives me a real author-name type of reference (but
brackets, and also with the key typed in the beginning of the full
reference in the typest bibliography).

These are very commonly necessary functions, so I assume that I am
doing something strange. How can I correct these problems?

I use the following version of elyxer:

 elyxer.py --version
* eLyXer version 1.2.3 (2011-08-31)

 which elyxer.py
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin/elyxer.py

Thank you for your help in advance!

Murat

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Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Avenue Léon Duguit
33608 Pessac cedex
France

yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr
http://yildizoglu.info
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?



There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?


Cheers,

Stefano



--
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Hi Julien,


I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
(format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %-line parsing enabled.


and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path enabled).

Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
and are not fully compatible.


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

 It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
 reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
 Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
 perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?


 There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

 Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?

 Cheers,

 Stefano


 --
 Julien





-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:27 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.



I see that now, thanks for the info. But what am I suppose to write
there? The dialog calls it a PATH prefix. I tried adding
/usr/share/texlive/2011/ but it has no effect on my system

Cheers,

Stefano



Just guessing:

/usr/share/texlive/2011/bin
reconfigure

Good luck,
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:24 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

Hi Julien,


I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
(format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
entering extended mode
  restricted \write18 enabled.
  %-line parsing enabled.


and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path enabled).

Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
and are not fully compatible.


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:


It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?



There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?


Cheers,

Stefano



--
Julien








Another place to look out for is the Converter pane in LyX' preferences. 
Have a look at the LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex) converter, in case 
you had customized it with an absolute path.


--
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julio Rojas]

The path for gnome is independent from path for bash. Run Lyx from
bash, if it works with 2011, then you know you have to update gnome's
path.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 On 15/09/2011 7:24 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

 Hi Julien,


 I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
 importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:

 This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
 (format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
 entering extended mode
  restricted \write18 enabled.
  %-line parsing enabled.


 and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path
 enabled).

 Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
 lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
 and are not fully compatible.


 On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
 jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

 On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

 It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
 reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
 Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
 perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?


 There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

 Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong
 texlive?

 Cheers,

 Stefano


 --
 Julien






 Another place to look out for is the Converter pane in LyX' preferences.
 Have a look at the LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex) converter, in case you
 had customized it with an absolute path.

 --
 Julien

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Paul Rubin]

Matthias Hunstig matthias.hunstig at uni-paderborn.de writes:


 If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the
Windows XP Control Panel to end
 up with a clean system?

On Windows XP, look in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data and
delete any folders with 'Lyx' or 'Miktex' in their names.  Note that this will
delete any customized layouts, keyboard bindings etc. you might have stored for
LyX.  If you have any such things, it would be prudent to archive copies first.

Also look in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Local Settings\Application Data
for MikTeX directories.  (LyX stores nothing there, but I think MiKTeX does.)

Repeat this above with All Users in place of your id to catch anything
stored if either LyX of MiKTeX was installed for all users.

Paul

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Paul Rubin]

In LyX, could Tools  Preferences  Paths  PATH prefix be pointing to the old
version?

Paul

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Problem solved :-)

Thanks to everyone, and particularly to Julio for pointing me in the
right direction. As he guessed, the problem was not with Lyx, but with
the environment that Kde works with. I always launch my applications
from Krunner (the little Kde app that offer a command line-like
mini-screen). After a lot of searching, I discovered that:

1. Krunner uses the PATH variables set by startkde (the script that
starts the KDE desktop)

2. startkde does two things, path-wise:
   a - first it uses the PATH settings it inherits from the process it
is run from;
   b - then it looks for executable (i.e scripts) files in kde's  /env
 directories (e.g. in $HOME/.kde4/env and other env dirs system wide)
   c - it runs any executable files it finds

3. To align the PATH variable in a bash shell (which I set in .profile
and .bash_profile) with krunner's, I wrote a one-line file which
exports  the correct path, called it profile.sh, made it executable,
and put it in a newly created  dir ~HOME/.kde4/env

after logging out and restarting kde, lyx now finds TL2011 when
launched  from a shell and from Krunner.


Thanks to everyone.


Cheers,

Stefano

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Paul Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:
 In LyX, could Tools  Preferences  Paths  PATH prefix be pointing to the old
 version?

 Paul






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Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Again eLyXer, but bibtex this time

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi again,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Murat Yildizoglu myi...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am meeting another problem with elyxer conversion. If I do not put
 the .bib files in the same folder as the .lyx file, elyxer does not
 seem able to find them, and the bibliography is empty. If I put them
 in the same folder, I get the bibliography.

You can also use relative paths, and they are supposed to work! Where
are you placing the .bib files?

 Also, I have not been able to find a way to generate a standard agsm
 (harvard) style bibliography reference. I only get a number between
 brackets [1] as reference, even if I choose author-name in the options
 of natbib in the document properties box.

 Only author-name2 gives me a real author-name type of reference (but
 brackets, and also with the key typed in the beginning of the full
 reference in the typest bibliography).

Let me explain you a little bit how BibTeX support works in eLyXer: it
keeps its own templates to transform the variables into references and
formats. These templates can be located in src/conf/base.conf. For
example the one you are using (I assume it is authordate2) looks like
this:

[BibStylesConfig.authordate2]
cite:$surname, $year
default:$authors. $year. i$title/i. $publisher.{ URL a
href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}
@article:$authors. $year. $title. i$journal/i,
b$volume/b($number), $pages.{ URL a href=$url$url/a.}{
$note.}
@book:$authors. $year. i$title/i. $publisher.{ URL a
href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}

As you see, the first line defines the style, authordate2; the second
line the citing style, in this case author surname and year. I am
afraid the cites always show the brackets right now. After that you
can see how eLyXer will display the default document type, then an
article and a book.

 These are very commonly necessary functions, so I assume that I am
 doing something strange. How can I correct these problems?

It is just that these templates are user-contributed; apparently you
are the first to request the agsm format. If you want you can edit
your elyxer.py file and insert a new style: just go after the
vancouver style and insert this:

[BibStylesConfig.vancouver]
...

[BibStylesConfig.agsm]
cite:$surname, $year
default:$authors. $title; {$publisher, }$year.{ $howpublished.}{ URL:
a href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}
@article:$authors. $title. i$journal/i,
$year{;{b$volume/b}{($number)}{:$pages}}.{ URL: a
href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}
@book:$authors. $title. {$publisher, }$year.{ URL: a
href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}

Note that each document type (@article) has variables ($title) which
are taken from the .bib file, and some HTML code (i$journal/i) to
format the text.

Now you can play with it until you like the result, and then send it
my way. Alternatively, you can send me another sample privately and I
will work on it.

Thanks,

Alex.

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Thanks all who tried to help me with the compiling. I have given up  
for the time being and will wait until my son has time to help me (I  
am too old). I could not find zlib1g-dev under 'All' in synaptics.


I am now using my notebook for completing a paper in lyx. However, the  
lyx file from the pc tells me, the DesmodiumPaperF.lyx is from a newer  
LyX-Version, and the lyx2lyx-Script could not convert the document.  
The Lyx version of the PC was 2.2.2, the version of the notebook  
2.0.0svn. I tried separately in a shell

lyx2lyx DesmodiumPaperF.lyx
bash: lyx2lyx: command not found. What can I do?

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

 Thanks all who tried to help me with the compiling. I have given up for the
 time being and will wait until my son has time to help me (I am too old). I
 could not find zlib1g-dev under 'All' in synaptics.

 I am now using my notebook for completing a paper in lyx. However, the lyx
 file from the pc tells me, the DesmodiumPaperF.lyx is from a newer
 LyX-Version, and the lyx2lyx-Script could not convert the document. The Lyx
 version of the PC was 2.2.2, the version of the notebook 2.0.0svn. I tried
 separately in a shell
 lyx2lyx DesmodiumPaperF.lyx
 bash: lyx2lyx: command not found. What can I do?

Try one of the following:
- install an unofficial deb
http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/11.04/?q=lyx

- copy lyx2lyx from SVN
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1

Regards
Liviu

Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Matthias Hunstig]

Hi,

 It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
 pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
 are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the 
Windows XP Control Panel to end up with a clean system?

Matthias

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
 Thanks, Liviu, but http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1
 leads to a mail without a reference for the source. Do you know it?

Yes. Download the src tarball of LyX [1], unpack and navigate to
/lib/lyx2lyx/, then copy this folder (entirely) to the system dir of
your LyX installation. On Linux this would usually be
/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx. Make sure to first (re)move the existing
lyx2lyx folder. A word of caution: this is a hackish approach that
should work in many cases, but if you have have issues in the distant
future with opening LyX files this would be your culprit; then you'd
either install latest LyX, or repeat this procedure.
Liviu

[1] ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.0.x/lyx-2.0.1.tar.gz

Chinese characters in German text

[Aileen Mueller]

I am using Lyx 2.0 and JabRef for references. I write my thesis in
German and need to include some references in Chinese characters. I
use Unicode and am able to input Chinese characters in JabRef, but
when I want to include them in Lyx it doesn't seem to work. I only get
a question mark for all my references in Lyx, including those which
are in German. How can I fix this?

Thank you!

Problem with cross references

[Alain Didierjean]

I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I started writing 
back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on them, adding more chapters. They 
don't compile on lyx2.0x as they used to, failing on each and every cross 
reference with a message like:

[18]

LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 unde
fined on input line 595.


LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 unde
fined on input line 595.

! Missing \endcsname inserted.
to be read again 
   :
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
The control sequence marked to be read again should
not appear between \csname and \endcsname.

! Extra \endcsname.
argument ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
  \space 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

! Undefined control sequence.
\is@pos@num@ #1\@nil -\ifx \@nil #1\@nil 
  \expandafter \@firstoftwo \else \e...
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
to be read again 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
to be read again 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I was expecting to see `', `=', or `'. Didn't.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
to be read again 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

! Extra \endcsname.
\thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
  
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
to be read again 
   p
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)


Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
\T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]  :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
d :Th=E9or=EAme-
 []

Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem... creating a new 
label and cross ref brings it back.
- is this a known problem ?
- any known way to fix this ?
- any idea ?

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Zitat von Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com:


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

Thanks, Liviu, but http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1
leads to a mail without a reference for the source. Do you know it?


Yes. Download the src tarball of LyX [1], unpack and navigate to
/lib/lyx2lyx/, then copy this folder (entirely) to the system dir of
your LyX installation. On Linux this would usually be
/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx. Make sure to first (re)move the existing
lyx2lyx folder. A word of caution: this is a hackish approach that
should work in many cases, but if you have have issues in the distant
future with opening LyX files this would be your culprit; then you'd
either install latest LyX, or repeat this procedure.
Liviu


Got it, thanks, Liviu
Wolfgang


[1] ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.0.x/lyx-2.0.1.tar.gz

Re: Chinese characters in German text

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Aileen Mueller
aileen.muel...@googlemail.com wrote:
 I am using Lyx 2.0 and JabRef for references. I write my thesis in
 German and need to include some references in Chinese characters. I
 use Unicode and am able to input Chinese characters in JabRef, but
 when I want to include them in Lyx it doesn't seem to work. I only get
 a question mark for all my references in Lyx, including those which
 are in German. How can I fix this?

I'm no expert, but I think I heard that bibtex didn't support Unicode.
One alternative would be biblatex. This has been discussed several
times on teh list. You may also want to look into using XeTeX, if you
want to mix exotic scripts into your LyX document.

Liviu


 Thank you!




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http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: Problem with cross references

[Richard Heck]

On 09/15/2011 06:09 AM, Alain Didierjean wrote:
 I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I started 
 writing back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on them, adding more 
 chapters. They don't compile on lyx2.0x as they used to, failing on each and 
 every cross reference with a message like:

 [18]

 LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 
 unde
 fined on input line 595.


 LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 
 unde
 fined on input line 595.

 ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
 to be read again 
:
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 The control sequence marked to be read again should
 not appear between \csname and \endcsname.

 ! Extra \endcsname.
 argument ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
   \space 
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

 ! Undefined control sequence.
 \is@pos@num@ #1\@nil -\ifx \@nil #1\@nil 
   \expandafter \@firstoftwo \else 
 \e...
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 The control sequence at the end of the top line
 of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
 misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
 spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
 and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

 ! Missing number, treated as zero.
 to be read again 
\unskip 
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
 (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
 look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

 ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
 to be read again 
\unskip 
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 I was expecting to see `', `=', or `'. Didn't.

 ! Missing number, treated as zero.
 to be read again 
\unskip 
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
 (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
 look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

 ! Extra \endcsname.
 \thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
   
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

 ! Missing number, treated as zero.
 to be read again 
p
 l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
   ).
 A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
 (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
 look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)


 Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
 \T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]  
 :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
 d :Th=E9or=EAme-
  []

 Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem... creating a new 
 label and cross ref brings it back.
 - is this a known problem ?
 - any known way to fix this ?
 - any idea ?

This looks like it might be a form of the active character problem, if
you are using French. You could try switching to refstyle under
DocumentSettingsDocument Class.

Richard

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Olivier Ripoll]

On 15.09.2011 09:31, Matthias Hunstig wrote:

Hi,


It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.


I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the Windows XP 
Control Panel to end up with a clean system?

Matthias



Assuming windows 7, you may want to delete (or simply rename/move it) 
the LyX preferences folder (lyx20), in the AppData\Roaming folder in 
you home directory (the AppData folder is hidden).


that would be
C:\Users\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on windows 7, and something like (from memory)
C:\Documents and Settings\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on XP.

Also, some apps can help checking for leftovers (ccleaner is such an 
app) when uninstalling a soft (they are safe to use to analyse the 
left-overs, you may want to be careful if you use them for cleaning)


Sincerely,

Olivier

Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Dear all,

I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the
list and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to
the correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki
page if none exists).

Question: How do convince an existing Lyx installation to use a newly
installed Texlive system?

My user case:

a. I used to have Texlive 2010 installed. I upgraded to TexLive 2011
(better late than never...). I set up paths, etcetera
post-installation. (I did NOT erase my old Texlive 2010 installation,
because I still need it for older projects.) Now every call to
tex/latex/luatex, etc from command line brings up files, packages,
and binaries from the new installation (e.g. from
/usr/local/texlive/2011/)

b. I started Lyx, reconfigured and restarted it. Nothing happens. Lyx
uses the old Texlive class files in /usr/local/texlive/2010/, as well
as the old binaries.


What am I missing?


Thanks,

Stefano

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Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:


   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
none exists).


Stefano,

  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.

  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.

Rich

Re: Problem with cross references

[Alain Didierjean]

- Mail original -
 De: Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net
 À: Alain Didierjean alain.didierj...@free.fr
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Envoyé: Jeudi 15 Septembre 2011 14:07:03
 Objet: Re: Problem with cross references

 On 09/15/2011 06:09 AM, Alain Didierjean wrote:
  I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I
  started writing back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on
  them, adding more chapters. They don't compile on lyx2.0x as they
  used to, failing on each and every cross reference with a message
  like:
 
  [18]
 
  LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on
  page 19 unde
  fined on input line 595.
 
 
  LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on
  page 19 unde
  fined on input line 595.
 
  ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
  to be read again
 :
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  The control sequence marked to be read again should
  not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
 
  ! Extra \endcsname.
  argument ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname
\space
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
 
  ! Undefined control sequence.
  \is@pos@num@ #1\@nil -\ifx \@nil #1\@nil
\expandafter \@firstoftwo
\else \e...
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  The control sequence at the end of the top line
  of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
  misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
  spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
  and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
 
  ! Missing number, treated as zero.
  to be read again
 \unskip
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
  (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
  look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
 
  ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
  to be read again
 \unskip
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  I was expecting to see `', `=', or `'. Didn't.
 
  ! Missing number, treated as zero.
  to be read again
 \unskip
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
  (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
  look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
 
  ! Extra \endcsname.
  \thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname
 
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
 
  ! Missing number, treated as zero.
  to be read again
 p
  l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
).
  A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
  (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
  look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
 
 
  Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
  \T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]
   :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
  d :Th=E9or=EAme-
   []
 
  Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem...
  creating a new label and cross ref brings it back.
  - is this a known problem ?
  - any known way to fix this ?
  - any idea ?
 
 This looks like it might be a form of the active character problem,
 if
 you are using French. You could try switching to refstyle under
 DocumentSettingsDocument Class.


Did it. Doesn't make any difference.
Any other suggestions ? What's this active character problem about ?
It's a mess as I need this documents printed on monday !

HTML export: some small problems...

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Hi,

I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
2.0.1.

I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
use an horizontal rule in some places.

I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).

I have inserted an horizontal rule in the page, but I get in the HTML
the Lyx code instead of the rule:

\begin_inset CommandInset lineLatexCommand ruleoffset 0.5exwidth
100col%height 1pt\end_inset 

Am I doing something stupid, or am I demanding too much from Elyxer?

I Have used Latex2HTML under Linux some years ago and this kind of
cosmetics was a piece of cake for it... I have never used it under OSX
and I like the HTML generated by Elyxer otherwise.

I know that I can correct these problems by hand or by CSS editing,
but would like to know if I can handle them directly in Lyx, instead
of having to da another step of conversion (especially because I am
using Lyx to quickly setup a web page from existing material in Latex
and Lyx. Yes, I am very late on this task, and trying to catch the gap
:-)  ).

Regards,

Murat

-- 
Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Avenue Léon Duguit
33608 Pessac cedex
France

yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr
http://yildizoglu.info
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu

Re: HTML export: some small problems...

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Murat,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Murat Yildizoglu myi...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
 version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
 2.0.1.

 I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
 use an horizontal rule in some places.

 I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
 of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
 Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).

Colors work but only when inserted in the page. I have never set
default colors...

 I have inserted an horizontal rule in the page, but I get in the HTML
 the Lyx code instead of the rule:

 \begin_inset CommandInset lineLatexCommand ruleoffset 0.5exwidth
 100col%height 1pt\end_inset 

To the best of my knowledge horizontal rules work, but apparently not always.

 Am I doing something stupid, or am I demanding too much from Elyxer?

Nothing that cannot be fixed easily :)  Could you provide me privately
with a small sample document which shows both issues?

 I Have used Latex2HTML under Linux some years ago and this kind of
 cosmetics was a piece of cake for it... I have never used it under OSX
 and I like the HTML generated by Elyxer otherwise.

Thanks!

 I know that I can correct these problems by hand or by CSS editing,
 but would like to know if I can handle them directly in Lyx, instead
 of having to da another step of conversion (especially because I am
 using Lyx to quickly setup a web page from existing material in Latex
 and Lyx. Yes, I am very late on this task, and trying to catch the gap
 :-)  ).

Sure, that way everyone benefits.

Alex.

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
 On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:

   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
 and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
 correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
 none exists).

 Stefano,

  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
 upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
 correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
 in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
 time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.

  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
 LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.

Hi Rich,

I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
command line or from Kile.
It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
know which ones?


Best,

Stefano



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: HTML export: some small problems...

[Richard Heck]

On 09/15/2011 11:21 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
 Hi,

 I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
 version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
 2.0.1.

 I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
 use an horizontal rule in some places.

 I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
 of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
 Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).

Could you please file a bug about this? If you could attach a simple
test file, that would be even better. It shouldn't be difficult to get
this working. I just haven't done it yet.

Richard

problem with LyZ/Zotero/LyX integration

[Tom Wood]

hey list

I'm having trouble integrating Zotero 3.0b21, LyX 2.0.1  and LyZ 2.1.4.

I've changed the settings in LyX so that LyZ can send citations, and they
appear in the LyX editor perfectly. I can also update the BibTeX file from
LyZ.

However, when I go to preview a *.pdf, in place of a citation, all I see is
  [?]   .

Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?

tom

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julio Rojas]

Stefano, does latex/pdflatex work by itself? If so, which version is
running? I had the same problem and I had to change the path to point
to the new installation.

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:33 PM, stefano franchi
stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com 
 wrote:
 On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:

   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
 and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
 correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
 none exists).

 Stefano,

  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
 upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
 correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
 in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
 time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.

  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
 LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.

 Hi Rich,

 I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
 upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
 Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
 the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
 command line or from Kile.
 It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
 should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
 know which ones?


 Best,

 Stefano



 --
 __
 Stefano Franchi
 Associate Research Professor
 Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
 Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
 College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Julio, David:


I do not have the ubuntu-provided install of texlive. However, I do
have 2 working texlive installs: the 2010 texlive and the 2011
texlive. I need to keep the older one around for a while until a book
I wrote with it is actually printed.
I have no problems from the command line. I just switch the paths
around in my .profile file. But I want to have texlive as the default,
so that all my new projects compile with the newer installation and
newer packages. Again, I can accomplush the task easily from the
command line, and pdflatex and companions work as expected.

It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?

Cheers,

Stefano



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:15 AM, David L. Johnson
david.john...@lehigh.edu wrote:
 On 09/15/2011 11:33 AM, stefano franchi wrote:

 Hi Rich,

 I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
 upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
 Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
 the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
 command line or from Kile.
 It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
 should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
 know which ones?

 If you got rid of the distribution-provided texlive, so the new one is the
 only one on your system, lyx should be able to find it if you do Tools 
 Reconfigure.  At least, it'd complain if it couldn't find it.

 --

 David L. Johnson

 The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of
 our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted
 to inquire about the prostrate figure which fell as its victim.
                -- Warren G. Harding





-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Again eLyXer, but bibtex this time

[Murat Yildizoglu]

I am meeting another problem with elyxer conversion. If I do not put
the .bib files in the same folder as the .lyx file, elyxer does not
seem able to find them, and the bibliography is empty. If I put them
in the same folder, I get the bibliography.

Also, I have not been able to find a way to generate a standard agsm
(harvard) style bibliography reference. I only get a number between
brackets [1] as reference, even if I choose author-name in the options
of natbib in the document properties box.

Only author-name2 gives me a real author-name type of reference (but
brackets, and also with the key typed in the beginning of the full
reference in the typest bibliography).

These are very commonly necessary functions, so I assume that I am
doing something strange. How can I correct these problems?

I use the following version of elyxer:

 elyxer.py --version
* eLyXer version 1.2.3 (2011-08-31)

 which elyxer.py
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin/elyxer.py

Thank you for your help in advance!

Murat

-- 
Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Avenue Léon Duguit
33608 Pessac cedex
France

yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr
http://yildizoglu.info
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?



There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?


Cheers,

Stefano



--
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Hi Julien,


I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
(format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %-line parsing enabled.


and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path enabled).

Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
and are not fully compatible.


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

 It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
 reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
 Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
 perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?


 There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

 Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?

 Cheers,

 Stefano


 --
 Julien





-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:27 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.



I see that now, thanks for the info. But what am I suppose to write
there? The dialog calls it a PATH prefix. I tried adding
/usr/share/texlive/2011/ but it has no effect on my system

Cheers,

Stefano



Just guessing:

/usr/share/texlive/2011/bin
reconfigure

Good luck,
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:24 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

Hi Julien,


I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
(format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
entering extended mode
  restricted \write18 enabled.
  %-line parsing enabled.


and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path enabled).

Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
and are not fully compatible.


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:


It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?



There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?


Cheers,

Stefano



--
Julien








Another place to look out for is the Converter pane in LyX' preferences. 
Have a look at the LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex) converter, in case 
you had customized it with an absolute path.


--
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julio Rojas]

The path for gnome is independent from path for bash. Run Lyx from
bash, if it works with 2011, then you know you have to update gnome's
path.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 On 15/09/2011 7:24 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

 Hi Julien,


 I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
 importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:

 This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
 (format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
 entering extended mode
  restricted \write18 enabled.
  %-line parsing enabled.


 and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path
 enabled).

 Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
 lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
 and are not fully compatible.


 On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
 jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

 On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

 It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
 reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
 Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
 perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?


 There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

 Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong
 texlive?

 Cheers,

 Stefano


 --
 Julien






 Another place to look out for is the Converter pane in LyX' preferences.
 Have a look at the LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex) converter, in case you
 had customized it with an absolute path.

 --
 Julien

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Paul Rubin]

Matthias Hunstig matthias.hunstig at uni-paderborn.de writes:


 If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the
Windows XP Control Panel to end
 up with a clean system?

On Windows XP, look in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data and
delete any folders with 'Lyx' or 'Miktex' in their names.  Note that this will
delete any customized layouts, keyboard bindings etc. you might have stored for
LyX.  If you have any such things, it would be prudent to archive copies first.

Also look in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Local Settings\Application Data
for MikTeX directories.  (LyX stores nothing there, but I think MiKTeX does.)

Repeat this above with All Users in place of your id to catch anything
stored if either LyX of MiKTeX was installed for all users.

Paul

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Paul Rubin]

In LyX, could Tools  Preferences  Paths  PATH prefix be pointing to the old
version?

Paul

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Problem solved :-)

Thanks to everyone, and particularly to Julio for pointing me in the
right direction. As he guessed, the problem was not with Lyx, but with
the environment that Kde works with. I always launch my applications
from Krunner (the little Kde app that offer a command line-like
mini-screen). After a lot of searching, I discovered that:

1. Krunner uses the PATH variables set by startkde (the script that
starts the KDE desktop)

2. startkde does two things, path-wise:
   a - first it uses the PATH settings it inherits from the process it
is run from;
   b - then it looks for executable (i.e scripts) files in kde's  /env
 directories (e.g. in $HOME/.kde4/env and other env dirs system wide)
   c - it runs any executable files it finds

3. To align the PATH variable in a bash shell (which I set in .profile
and .bash_profile) with krunner's, I wrote a one-line file which
exports  the correct path, called it profile.sh, made it executable,
and put it in a newly created  dir ~HOME/.kde4/env

after logging out and restarting kde, lyx now finds TL2011 when
launched  from a shell and from Krunner.


Thanks to everyone.


Cheers,

Stefano

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Paul Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:
 In LyX, could Tools  Preferences  Paths  PATH prefix be pointing to the old
 version?

 Paul






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Re: Again eLyXer, but bibtex this time

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi again,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Murat Yildizoglu myi...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am meeting another problem with elyxer conversion. If I do not put
 the .bib files in the same folder as the .lyx file, elyxer does not
 seem able to find them, and the bibliography is empty. If I put them
 in the same folder, I get the bibliography.

You can also use relative paths, and they are supposed to work! Where
are you placing the .bib files?

 Also, I have not been able to find a way to generate a standard agsm
 (harvard) style bibliography reference. I only get a number between
 brackets [1] as reference, even if I choose author-name in the options
 of natbib in the document properties box.

 Only author-name2 gives me a real author-name type of reference (but
 brackets, and also with the key typed in the beginning of the full
 reference in the typest bibliography).

Let me explain you a little bit how BibTeX support works in eLyXer: it
keeps its own templates to transform the variables into references and
formats. These templates can be located in src/conf/base.conf. For
example the one you are using (I assume it is authordate2) looks like
this:

[BibStylesConfig.authordate2]
cite:$surname, $year
default:$authors. $year. i$title/i. $publisher.{ URL a
href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}
@article:$authors. $year. $title. i$journal/i,
b$volume/b($number), $pages.{ URL a href=$url$url/a.}{
$note.}
@book:$authors. $year. i$title/i. $publisher.{ URL a
href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}

As you see, the first line defines the style, authordate2; the second
line the citing style, in this case author surname and year. I am
afraid the cites always show the brackets right now. After that you
can see how eLyXer will display the default document type, then an
article and a book.

 These are very commonly necessary functions, so I assume that I am
 doing something strange. How can I correct these problems?

It is just that these templates are user-contributed; apparently you
are the first to request the agsm format. If you want you can edit
your elyxer.py file and insert a new style: just go after the
vancouver style and insert this:

[BibStylesConfig.vancouver]
...

[BibStylesConfig.agsm]
cite:$surname, $year
default:$authors. $title; {$publisher, }$year.{ $howpublished.}{ URL:
a href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}
@article:$authors. $title. i$journal/i,
$year{;{b$volume/b}{($number)}{:$pages}}.{ URL: a
href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}
@book:$authors. $title. {$publisher, }$year.{ URL: a
href=$url$url/a.}{ $note.}

Note that each document type (@article) has variables ($title) which
are taken from the .bib file, and some HTML code (i$journal/i) to
format the text.

Now you can play with it until you like the result, and then send it
my way. Alternatively, you can send me another sample privately and I
will work on it.

Thanks,

Alex.

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Thanks all who tried to help me with the compiling. I have given up  
for the time being and will wait until my son has time to help me (I  
am too old). I could not find zlib1g-dev under 'All' in synaptics.


I am now using my notebook for completing a paper in lyx. However, the  
lyx file from the pc tells me, the DesmodiumPaperF.lyx is from a newer  
LyX-Version, and the lyx2lyx-Script could not convert the document.  
The Lyx version of the PC was 2.2.2, the version of the notebook  
2.0.0svn. I tried separately in a shell

lyx2lyx DesmodiumPaperF.lyx
bash: lyx2lyx: command not found. What can I do?

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
 wrote:
>
> Thanks all who tried to help me with the compiling. I have given up for the
> time being and will wait until my son has time to help me (I am too old). I
> could not find zlib1g-dev under 'All' in synaptics.
>
> I am now using my notebook for completing a paper in lyx. However, the lyx
> file from the pc tells me, the DesmodiumPaperF.lyx is from a newer
> LyX-Version, and the lyx2lyx-Script could not convert the document. The Lyx
> version of the PC was 2.2.2, the version of the notebook 2.0.0svn. I tried
> separately in a shell
> lyx2lyx DesmodiumPaperF.lyx
> bash: lyx2lyx: command not found. What can I do?
>
Try one of the following:
- install an unofficial deb
http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/11.04/?q=lyx

- copy lyx2lyx from SVN
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1

Regards
Liviu

Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Matthias Hunstig]

Hi,

> It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
> pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
> are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.

I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the 
Windows XP Control Panel to end up with a "clean" system?

Matthias

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
 wrote:
> Thanks, Liviu, but http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1
> leads to a mail without a reference for the source. Do you know it?
>
Yes. Download the src tarball of LyX [1], unpack and navigate to
/lib/lyx2lyx/, then copy this folder (entirely) to the system dir of
your LyX installation. On Linux this would usually be
/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx. Make sure to first (re)move the existing
lyx2lyx folder. A word of caution: this is a hackish approach that
should work in many cases, but if you have have issues in the distant
future with opening LyX files this would be your culprit; then you'd
either install latest LyX, or repeat this procedure.
Liviu

[1] ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.0.x/lyx-2.0.1.tar.gz

Chinese characters in German text

[Aileen Mueller]

I am using Lyx 2.0 and JabRef for references. I write my thesis in
German and need to include some references in Chinese characters. I
use Unicode and am able to input Chinese characters in JabRef, but
when I want to include them in Lyx it doesn't seem to work. I only get
a question mark for all my references in Lyx, including those which
are in German. How can I fix this?

Thank you!

Problem with cross references

[Alain Didierjean]

I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I started writing 
back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on them, adding more chapters. They 
don't compile on lyx2.0x as they used to, failing on each and every cross 
reference with a message like:

[18]

LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 unde
fined on input line 595.


LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 unde
fined on input line 595.

! Missing \endcsname inserted.
 
   :
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
The control sequence marked  should
not appear between \csname and \endcsname.

! Extra \endcsname.
 ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
  \space 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

! Undefined control sequence.
\is@pos@num@ #1\@nil ->\ifx \@nil #1\@nil 
  \expandafter \@firstoftwo \else \e...
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I was expecting to see `<', `=', or `>'. Didn't.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
 
   \unskip 
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)

! Extra \endcsname.
\thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
  
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
 
   p
l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
  ).
A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)


Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
\T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]  :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
d :Th=E9or=EAme-
 []

Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem... creating a new 
label and cross ref brings it back.
- is this a known problem ?
- any known way to fix this ?
- any idea ?

Re: compiling lyx 2.0.1 Now: lyx2lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Zitat von Liviu Andronic :


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
 wrote:

Thanks, Liviu, but http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7121#comment:1
leads to a mail without a reference for the source. Do you know it?


Yes. Download the src tarball of LyX [1], unpack and navigate to
/lib/lyx2lyx/, then copy this folder (entirely) to the system dir of
your LyX installation. On Linux this would usually be
/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx. Make sure to first (re)move the existing
lyx2lyx folder. A word of caution: this is a hackish approach that
should work in many cases, but if you have have issues in the distant
future with opening LyX files this would be your culprit; then you'd
either install latest LyX, or repeat this procedure.
Liviu


Got it, thanks, Liviu
Wolfgang


[1] ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.0.x/lyx-2.0.1.tar.gz

Re: Chinese characters in German text

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Aileen Mueller
 wrote:
> I am using Lyx 2.0 and JabRef for references. I write my thesis in
> German and need to include some references in Chinese characters. I
> use Unicode and am able to input Chinese characters in JabRef, but
> when I want to include them in Lyx it doesn't seem to work. I only get
> a question mark for all my references in Lyx, including those which
> are in German. How can I fix this?
>
I'm no expert, but I think I heard that bibtex didn't support Unicode.
One alternative would be biblatex. This has been discussed several
times on teh list. You may also want to look into using XeTeX, if you
want to mix "exotic" scripts into your LyX document.

Liviu


> Thank you!
>



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Re: Problem with cross references

[Richard Heck]

On 09/15/2011 06:09 AM, Alain Didierjean wrote:
> I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I started 
> writing back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on them, adding more 
> chapters. They don't compile on lyx2.0x as they used to, failing on each and 
> every cross reference with a message like:
>
> [18]
>
> LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 
> unde
> fined on input line 595.
>
>
> LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on page 19 
> unde
> fined on input line 595.
>
> ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
>  
>:
> l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
>   ).
> The control sequence marked  should
> not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
>
> ! Extra \endcsname.
>  ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
>   \space 
> l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
>   ).
> I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \is@pos@num@ #1\@nil ->\ifx \@nil #1\@nil 
>   \expandafter \@firstoftwo \else 
> \e...
> l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
>   ).
> The control sequence at the end of the top line
> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>  
>\unskip 
> l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
>   ).
> A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
> (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
> look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
>
> ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
>  
>\unskip 
> l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
>   ).
> I was expecting to see `<', `=', or `>'. Didn't.
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>  
>\unskip 
> l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
>   ).
> A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
> (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
> look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
>
> ! Extra \endcsname.
> \thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname 
>   
> l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
>   ).
> I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>  
>p
> l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
>   ).
> A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
> (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
> look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
>
>
> Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
> \T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]  
> :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
> d :Th=E9or=EAme-
>  []
>
> Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem... creating a new 
> label and cross ref brings it back.
> - is this a known problem ?
> - any known way to fix this ?
> - any idea ?
>
This looks like it might be a form of the "active character" problem, if
you are using French. You could try switching to refstyle under
Document>Settings>Document Class.

Richard

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Olivier Ripoll]

On 15.09.2011 09:31, Matthias Hunstig wrote:

Hi,


It would be a good idea to export a file to LaTeX (pdflatex), then run
pdflatex against it in a DOS window.  That might help pin down whether there
are problems with your LaTeX (MiKTeX?) distribution.


I tried exporting three files and see three different behaviours. Looks like my 
whole installation is even more broken than I thought. I think I will wipe all 
LyX and MikTeX from disk and try re-installing afterwards.

If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the Windows XP 
Control Panel to end up with a "clean" system?

Matthias



Assuming windows 7, you may want to delete (or simply rename/move it) 
the LyX preferences folder ("lyx20"), in the AppData\Roaming folder in 
you home directory (the AppData folder is hidden).


that would be
C:\Users\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on windows 7, and something like (from memory)
C:\Documents and Settings\your_login\AppData\Roaming\lyx20
on XP.

Also, some apps can help checking for leftovers ("ccleaner" is such an 
app) when uninstalling a soft (they are safe to use to analyse the 
left-overs, you may want to be careful if you use them for cleaning)


Sincerely,

Olivier

Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Dear all,

I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the
list and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to
the correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki
page if none exists).

Question: How do convince an existing Lyx installation to use a newly
installed Texlive system?

My user case:

a. I used to have Texlive 2010 installed. I upgraded to TexLive 2011
(better late than never...). I set up paths, etcetera
post-installation. (I did NOT erase my old Texlive 2010 installation,
because I still need it for older projects.) Now every call to
tex/latex/luatex, etc from command line brings up files, packages,
and binaries from the new installation (e.g. from
/usr/local/texlive/2011/)

b. I started Lyx, reconfigured and restarted it. Nothing happens. Lyx
uses the old Texlive class files in /usr/local/texlive/2010/, as well
as the old binaries.


What am I missing?


Thanks,

Stefano

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Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:


   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
none exists).


Stefano,

  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.

  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.

Rich

Re: Problem with cross references

[Alain Didierjean]

- Mail original -
> De: "Richard Heck" 
> À: "Alain Didierjean" 
> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Envoyé: Jeudi 15 Septembre 2011 14:07:03
> Objet: Re: Problem with cross references
>
> On 09/15/2011 06:09 AM, Alain Didierjean wrote:
> > I have 2 documents, class koma script book (in french) which I
> > started writing back in 2004. Since them, I've been working on
> > them, adding more chapters. They don't compile on lyx2.0x as they
> > used to, failing on each and every cross reference with a message
> > like:
> >
> > [18]
> >
> > LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on
> > page 19 unde
> > fined on input line 595.
> >
> >
> > LaTeX Warning: Reference `cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand' on
> > page 19 unde
> > fined on input line 595.
> >
> > ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
> > 
> >:
> > l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
> >   ).
> > The control sequence marked  should
> > not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
> >
> > ! Extra \endcsname.
> >  ...E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname
> >   \space
> > l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
> >   ).
> > I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
> >
> > ! Undefined control sequence.
> > \is@pos@num@ #1\@nil ->\ifx \@nil #1\@nil
> >   \expandafter \@firstoftwo
> >   \else \e...
> > l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
> >   ).
> > The control sequence at the end of the top line
> > of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
> > misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
> > spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
> > and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
> >
> > ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> > 
> >\unskip
> > l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
> >   ).
> > A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
> > (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
> > look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
> >
> > ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
> > 
> >\unskip
> > l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
> >   ).
> > I was expecting to see `<', `=', or `>'. Didn't.
> >
> > ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> > 
> >\unskip
> > l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
> >   ).
> > A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
> > (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
> > look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
> >
> > ! Extra \endcsname.
> > \thevpagerefnum ...EAme-de-Herbrand\endcsname
> >
> > l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
> >   ).
> > I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname.
> >
> > ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> > 
> >p
> > l.595 ...ref{cha:Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbrand}
> >   ).
> > A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.
> > (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
> > look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
> >
> >
> > Overfull \hbox (73.53159pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 590--596
> > \T1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Jacques Her-brand (cf. [][]
> >  :Th=E9or=EAme-de-Herbran
> > d :Th=E9or=EAme-
> >  []
> >
> > Of course, removing the cross references fix the problem...
> > creating a new label and cross ref brings it back.
> > - is this a known problem ?
> > - any known way to fix this ?
> > - any idea ?
> >
> This looks like it might be a form of the "active character" problem,
> if
> you are using French. You could try switching to refstyle under
> Document>Settings>Document Class.


Did it. Doesn't make any difference.
Any other suggestions ? What's this "active character" problem about ?
It's a mess as I need this documents printed on monday !

HTML export: some small problems...

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Hi,

I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
2.0.1.

I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
use an horizontal rule in some places.

I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).

I have inserted an horizontal rule in the page, but I get in the HTML
the Lyx code instead of the rule:

"\begin_inset CommandInset lineLatexCommand ruleoffset "0.5ex"width
"100col%"height "1pt"\end_inset "

Am I doing something stupid, or am I demanding too much from Elyxer?

I Have used Latex2HTML under Linux some years ago and this kind of
cosmetics was a piece of cake for it... I have never used it under OSX
and I like the HTML generated by Elyxer otherwise.

I know that I can correct these problems by hand or by CSS editing,
but would like to know if I can handle them directly in Lyx, instead
of having to da another step of conversion (especially because I am
using Lyx to quickly setup a web page from existing material in Latex
and Lyx. Yes, I am very late on this task, and trying to catch the gap
:-)  ).

Regards,

Murat

-- 
Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Avenue Léon Duguit
33608 Pessac cedex
France

yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr
http://yildizoglu.info
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu

Re: HTML export: some small problems...

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Murat,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Murat Yildizoglu  wrote:
> I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
> version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
> 2.0.1.
>
> I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
> use an horizontal rule in some places.
>
> I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
> of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
> Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).

Colors work but only when inserted in the page. I have never set
default colors...

> I have inserted an horizontal rule in the page, but I get in the HTML
> the Lyx code instead of the rule:
>
> "\begin_inset CommandInset lineLatexCommand ruleoffset "0.5ex"width
> "100col%"height "1pt"\end_inset "

To the best of my knowledge horizontal rules work, but apparently not always.

> Am I doing something stupid, or am I demanding too much from Elyxer?

Nothing that cannot be fixed easily :)  Could you provide me privately
with a small sample document which shows both issues?

> I Have used Latex2HTML under Linux some years ago and this kind of
> cosmetics was a piece of cake for it... I have never used it under OSX
> and I like the HTML generated by Elyxer otherwise.

Thanks!

> I know that I can correct these problems by hand or by CSS editing,
> but would like to know if I can handle them directly in Lyx, instead
> of having to da another step of conversion (especially because I am
> using Lyx to quickly setup a web page from existing material in Latex
> and Lyx. Yes, I am very late on this task, and trying to catch the gap
> :-)  ).

Sure, that way everyone benefits.

Alex.

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Rich Shepard  wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:
>
>>   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
>> and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
>> correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
>> none exists).
>
> Stefano,
>
>  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
> upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
> correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
> in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
> time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.
>
>  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
> LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.

Hi Rich,

I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
command line or from Kile.
It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
know which ones?


Best,

Stefano



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: HTML export: some small problems...

[Richard Heck]

On 09/15/2011 11:21 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying the HTML export possibilities of LyX. I have the last
> version of Elyxer installed on my Mac (OSX 10.6 French) and I use Lyx
> 2.0.1.
>
> I am preparing a page where I would like to set the text colour and
> use an horizontal rule in some places.
>
> I used the Document Properties/Coulours tab to fix the implicit colour
> of text in my document, but when the file is exported to HTML by
> Elyxer, the texte is black (the same is also true for LyxHTML export).
>
Could you please file a bug about this? If you could attach a simple
test file, that would be even better. It shouldn't be difficult to get
this working. I just haven't done it yet.

Richard

problem with LyZ/Zotero/LyX integration

[Tom Wood]

hey list

I'm having trouble integrating Zotero 3.0b21, LyX 2.0.1  and LyZ 2.1.4.

I've changed the settings in LyX so that LyZ can send citations, and they
appear in the LyX editor perfectly. I can also update the BibTeX file from
LyZ.

However, when I go to preview a *.pdf, in place of a citation, all I see is
"  [?]   ".

Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?

tom

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julio Rojas]

Stefano, does latex/pdflatex work by itself? If so, which version is
running? I had the same problem and I had to change the path to point
to the new installation.

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:33 PM, stefano franchi
 wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Rich Shepard  
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, stefano franchi wrote:
>>
>>>   I am sure this question has been asked before, but searching the list
>>> and the wiki did not produce any result. (please redirect me to the
>>> correct place if I am wrong. Or enlighten me and I'll a dd a wiki page if
>>> none exists).
>>
>> Stefano,
>>
>>  I don't have a generic answer but can write that I've had no problems
>> upgrading TeXLive. I run Slackware and there's a SlackBuild script that
>> correctly compiles everthing. Of course, one compressed source file is 1.2G
>> in size so it takes a while to download, and the build also takes a long
>> time, a lot of disk space (about 5G), and strsses the CPU.
>>
>>  But, when the package is built, I upgrade the installation, then invoke
>> LyX to check. It fires right up and works without any involvement by me.
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
> upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
> Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
> the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
> command line or from Kile.
> It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
> should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
> know which ones?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
> --
> __
> Stefano Franchi
> Associate Research Professor
> Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
> Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
> College Station, Texas, USA
>

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Julio, David:


I do not have the ubuntu-provided install of texlive. However, I do
have 2 working texlive installs: the 2010 texlive and the 2011
texlive. I need to keep the older one around for a while until a book
I wrote with it is actually printed.
I have no problems from the command line. I just switch the paths
around in my .profile file. But I want to have texlive as the default,
so that all my new projects compile with the newer installation and
newer packages. Again, I can accomplush the task easily from the
command line, and pdflatex and companions work as expected.

It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?

Cheers,

Stefano



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:15 AM, David L. Johnson
 wrote:
> On 09/15/2011 11:33 AM, stefano franchi wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rich,
>>
>> I am on Kubuntu, but did not use its Debian-derived package system to
>> upgrade Texlive. I went at it directly with the Texlive net installer.
>> Installation was fine. Indeed, I am now using lyx to write, exporting
>> the file to Latex, and then doing all my compilations either from the
>> command line or from Kile.
>> It is just Lyx that refuses to see the new installation. Perhaps I
>> should trash the relevant config files in my ~/.lyx folder? Can anyone
>> know which ones?
>
> If you got rid of the distribution-provided texlive, so the new one is the
> only one on your system, lyx should be able to find it if you do Tools >
> Reconfigure.  At least, it'd complain if it couldn't find it.
>
> --
>
> David L. Johnson
>
> The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of
> our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted
> to inquire about the prostrate figure which fell as its victim.
>                -- Warren G. Harding
>
>



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Again eLyXer, but bibtex this time

[Murat Yildizoglu]

I am meeting another problem with elyxer conversion. If I do not put
the .bib files in the same folder as the .lyx file, elyxer does not
seem able to find them, and the bibliography is empty. If I put them
in the same folder, I get the bibliography.

Also, I have not been able to find a way to generate a standard agsm
(harvard) style bibliography reference. I only get a number between
brackets [1] as reference, even if I choose author-name in the options
of natbib in the document properties box.

Only author-name2 gives me a real author-name type of reference (but
brackets, and also with the key typed in the beginning of the full
reference in the typest bibliography).

These are very commonly necessary functions, so I assume that I am
doing something strange. How can I correct these problems?

I use the following version of elyxer:

 elyxer.py --version
* eLyXer version 1.2.3 (2011-08-31)

 which elyxer.py
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin/elyxer.py

Thank you for your help in advance!

Murat

-- 
Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Avenue Léon Duguit
33608 Pessac cedex
France

yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr
http://yildizoglu.info
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?



There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?


Cheers,

Stefano



--
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Hi Julien,


I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
(format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.


and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path enabled).

Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
and are not fully compatible.


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
 wrote:
> On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
>>
>> It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
>> reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
>> Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
>> perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?
>>
>
> There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.
>
> Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Stefano
>
>
> --
> Julien
>
>



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:27 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.



I see that now, thanks for the info. But what am I suppose to write
there? The dialog calls it a "PATH prefix." I tried adding
"/usr/share/texlive/2011/" but it has no effect on my system

Cheers,

Stefano



Just guessing:

/usr/share/texlive/2011/bin
reconfigure

Good luck,
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julien Rioux]

On 15/09/2011 7:24 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

Hi Julien,


I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
(format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
entering extended mode
  restricted \write18 enabled.
  %&-line parsing enabled.


and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path enabled).

Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
and are not fully compatible.


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
  wrote:

On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:


It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?



There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.

Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong texlive?


Cheers,

Stefano



--
Julien








Another place to look out for is the Converter pane in LyX' preferences. 
Have a look at the LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex) converter, in case 
you had customized it with an absolute path.


--
Julien

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Julio Rojas]

The path for gnome is independent from path for bash. Run Lyx from
bash, if it works with 2011, then you know you have to update gnome's
path.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Julien Rioux
 wrote:
> On 15/09/2011 7:24 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
>>
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>>
>> I can tell that Lyx is using the wrong pdflatex (and, most
>> importantly, the wrong classes), from the Latex log:
>>
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
>> (format=pdflatex 2011.1.4)  15 SEP 2011 09:14
>> entering extended mode
>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>>
>>
>> and from the Tex information dialog in the Tools menu (with full path
>> enabled).
>>
>> Why this is important to me: I routinely use biblatex, biber, and
>> lua(La)tex. They have changed considerably between TL2010 and TL2011,
>> and are not fully compatible.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Julien Rioux
>>   wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15/09/2011 7:05 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

 It' s just Lyx that's giving me problems. A far I can tell, when I hit
 reconfigure it finds the older 2010 installation and it stops there.
 Is LyX using the PATH variable to search for executables? If so,
 perhaps there is a config somewhere file that caches the results?

>>>
>>> There's a PATH setting in LyX' Preferences, you could check that.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, I'm curious how can you tell that LyX is using the wrong
>>> texlive?
>>>
 Cheers,

 Stefano
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Julien
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Another place to look out for is the Converter pane in LyX' preferences.
> Have a look at the LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex) converter, in case you
> had customized it with an absolute path.
>
> --
> Julien
>
>

Re: Completely removing LyX and MikTeX from Windows XP [was RE: pdflatex never finishes (LyX 2.0.1)]

[Paul Rubin]

Matthias Hunstig  uni-paderborn.de> writes:


> If there anything I should delete after uninstalling the software from the
Windows XP Control Panel to end
> up with a "clean" system?

On Windows XP, look in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data and
delete any folders with 'Lyx' or 'Miktex' in their names.  Note that this will
delete any customized layouts, keyboard bindings etc. you might have stored for
LyX.  If you have any such things, it would be prudent to archive copies first.

Also look in C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data
for MikTeX directories.  (LyX stores nothing there, but I think MiKTeX does.)

Repeat this above with "All Users" in place of  to catch anything
stored if either LyX of MiKTeX was installed for all users.

Paul

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[Paul Rubin]

In LyX, could Tools > Preferences > Paths > PATH prefix be pointing to the old
version?

Paul

Re: Updating to new Texlive release

[stefano franchi]

Problem solved :-)

Thanks to everyone, and particularly to Julio for pointing me in the
right direction. As he guessed, the problem was not with Lyx, but with
the environment that Kde works with. I always launch my applications
from Krunner (the little Kde app that offer a command line-like
mini-screen). After a lot of searching, I discovered that:

1. Krunner uses the PATH variables set by startkde (the script that
starts the KDE desktop)

2. startkde does two things, path-wise:
   a - first it uses the PATH settings it inherits from the process it
is run from;
   b - then it looks for executable (i.e scripts) files in kde's  /env
 directories (e.g. in $HOME/.kde4/env and other env dirs system wide)
   c - it runs any executable files it finds

3. To align the PATH variable in a bash shell (which I set in .profile
and .bash_profile) with krunner's, I wrote a one-line file which
exports  the correct path, called it profile.sh, made it executable,
and put it in a newly created  dir ~HOME/.kde4/env

after logging out and restarting kde, lyx now finds TL2011 when
launched  from a shell and from Krunner.


Thanks to everyone.


Cheers,

Stefano

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Paul Rubin  wrote:
> In LyX, could Tools > Preferences > Paths > PATH prefix be pointing to the old
> version?
>
> Paul
>
>
>



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Again eLyXer, but bibtex this time

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi again,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Murat Yildizoglu  wrote:
> I am meeting another problem with elyxer conversion. If I do not put
> the .bib files in the same folder as the .lyx file, elyxer does not
> seem able to find them, and the bibliography is empty. If I put them
> in the same folder, I get the bibliography.

You can also use relative paths, and they are supposed to work! Where
are you placing the .bib files?

> Also, I have not been able to find a way to generate a standard agsm
> (harvard) style bibliography reference. I only get a number between
> brackets [1] as reference, even if I choose author-name in the options
> of natbib in the document properties box.
>
> Only author-name2 gives me a real author-name type of reference (but
> brackets, and also with the key typed in the beginning of the full
> reference in the typest bibliography).

Let me explain you a little bit how BibTeX support works in eLyXer: it
keeps its own templates to transform the variables into references and
formats. These templates can be located in src/conf/base.conf. For
example the one you are using (I assume it is authordate2) looks like
this:

[BibStylesConfig.authordate2]
cite:$surname, $year
default:$authors. $year. $title. $publisher.{ URL $url.}{ $note.}
@article:$authors. $year. $title. $journal,
$volume($number), $pages.{ URL $url.}{
$note.}
@book:$authors. $year. $title. $publisher.{ URL $url.}{ $note.}

As you see, the first line defines the style, authordate2; the second
line the citing style, in this case author surname and year. I am
afraid the cites always show the brackets right now. After that you
can see how eLyXer will display the default document type, then an
article and a book.

> These are very commonly necessary functions, so I assume that I am
> doing something strange. How can I correct these problems?

It is just that these templates are user-contributed; apparently you
are the first to request the agsm format. If you want you can edit
your elyxer.py file and insert a new style: just go after the
vancouver style and insert this:

[BibStylesConfig.vancouver]
...

[BibStylesConfig.agsm]
cite:$surname, $year
default:$authors. $title; {$publisher, }$year.{ $howpublished.}{ URL:
$url.}{ $note.}
@article:$authors. $title. $journal,
$year{;{$volume}{($number)}{:$pages}}.{ URL: $url.}{ $note.}
@book:$authors. $title. {$publisher, }$year.{ URL: $url.}{ $note.}

Note that each document type (@article) has variables ($title) which
are taken from the .bib file, and some HTML code ($journal) to
format the text.

Now you can play with it until you like the result, and then send it
my way. Alternatively, you can send me another sample privately and I
will work on it.

Thanks,

Alex.