Re: lyx can't find lilypond-book

2011-09-27 Thread Tao Cumplido
Julien Rioux jrioux at physics.utoronto.ca writes: Most likely there is something not working with lilypond-book. You could try to run it from the command line to get more info. Start Menu Run type cmd OK. Now type this in lilypond-book --version and see what it gives you. Thanks.

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-26, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: And until such a time as http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2511 becomes a reality, I think I'll just use that kludge I just described. Alternatively, after a fix for http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1042 »Adding language none« you could tell LyX to

LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread florian.wilh...@gmail.com
Hi, pgfplotstable uses external data files to generate formatted lists like \pgfplotstabletypeset{example1.dat} The problem is that LyX creates a temp directory, copies over all files and runs latex to generate the document there. Since it does not copy example1.dat I get a corresponding error

Table width

2011-09-27 Thread Lastalda
I'm trying to write a thesis with Lyx and am using tables (some within floats, some without). 1. Is there a possibility to set the tablewidth to \textwidth for the whole document as default? Like adding something to the latex header? (And does this have to be done seperately for tables within

Re: Problem Outputting Particular TIFF File

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 27/09/2011 7:47 AM, Jane Shevtsov wrote: Hi Mark, I haven't changed anything in the past couple of weeks, when I reinstalled MiKTeX and reconfigured LyX. (BTW, I just tried out a different TIFF file, and it worked fine.) The flowchart is something I copied from a PDF and then edited in

Re: lyx can't find lilypond-book

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 27/09/2011 9:55 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: Julien Riouxjriouxat physics.utoronto.ca writes: Most likely there is something not working with lilypond-book. You could try to run it from the command line to get more info. Start Menu Run type cmd OK. Now type this in lilypond-book --version

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Florian Wilhelm
Mukhtar Ullah mukhtar.ullah at informatik.uni-rostock.de writes: Follow this thread.Although about Inkscape but it addresses the same issue. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/71928 Mukhtar Thanks. I found a more suitable solution for me. - Open Command Buffer (Alt+X)

Re: PDF won't generate

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 26/09/2011 11:26 PM, Kevin Buchs wrote: I have a similar problem with Lyx 2.0 on Windows 7. I have a custom style and some required .JPG files that are inserted by that style. Lyx does not copy them to its temporary directory. Ideally, I'd like Lyx to run latex in my working directory. If I

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
ERT[\pgfplotstableread{] MACRO[/home/florian/Documents/lyx/] ERT[benchmarks/benchmarks.dat} \datatable] where ERT[...] is TeX code inserted with CTRL+L and MACRO[...] the aforementioned info-insert macro. Interesting solution. I would also encourage you to try the solution using TEXINPUT

Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Påvel Nicklasson
I have just published my first book written in LyX and I want to thank the developers and the members on the list for a fantastic program and help using it. I think I have understood that many LyX-users are scientists. I am a lowly scholar in the humanities, an archaeologist, and LyX is a suberb

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Manolo Martínez
Viva LyX! From another lowly scholar in the humanities. Manolo On 09/27/11 at 03:52pm, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: I have just published my first book written in LyX and I want to thank the developers and the members on the list for a fantastic program and help using it. I think I have

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 09:55 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: Viva LyX! From another lowly scholar in the humanities. And another. I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now Richard Manolo On 09/27/11 at 03:52pm,

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Johnson
It seems to me you are working very hard there. If you are willing to write out a path, can I suggest a simpler solution? Did you try just writing in a path, as: \pgfplotstabletypeset{/home/florian/Documents/lyx/example1.dat} This is how I insert data in Sweave documents. I have no reason to

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now This page [1], I guess. Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com writes: It seems to me you are working very hard there. If you are willing to write out a path, Paul, That is the problem--writing everytime an absolute path is not convenient and kills portability of your document to another system. Mukhtar

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 11:38 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now This page [1], I guess. Liviu [1]

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Shantanu Kulkarni
* Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net [110927 22:29]: Someone, not necessarily you, should probably re-organize this, dividing it (at least) into books versus articles. The number of articles written with LyX must be astronomical; the number of books, especially books actually printed from

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 01:05 PM, Shantanu Kulkarni wrote: * Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net [110927 22:29]: Someone, not necessarily you, should probably re-organize this, dividing it (at least) into books versus articles. The number of articles written with LyX must be astronomical; the number of

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Påvel Nicklasson
2011/9/27 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net On 09/27/2011 11:38 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it

LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick De Visschere
Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/some_file.pdf} results in a file not found error from the pdftex.def package. When exporting as .tex and processing with e.g. TeXShop there is no

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 04:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/some_file.pdf} results in a file not found error from the pdftex.def package. When

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a file not found error from the pdftex.def package.

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/27/2011 04:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a file

Editing Tool Bar Icons

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I hesitate to bring this up to the list because I don't like to micromanage the application, typography, or page layouts. I leave that to the experts. (About a dozen years ago I spent a lot of time trying to install Type1 fonts in LaTeX, but gave up when I realized 1) I was wasting time better

Re: Editing Tool Bar Icons [RESOLVED]

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: In ~/.lyx/ui/classic.ui I find the menus. Where can I find the contents of the toolbars so I can mess them up from the order set by the developers? Thanks to Richard this has been resolved. Rich

Changed Shortcuts Not Working

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm running lyx-2.0.1 on Slackware-13.1. Using the menus Tools - Preferences - Editing - Shortcuts I define word-forward-delete as Alt-F. LyX doesn't complain about a key conflict. But, when I try to use it I get the File menu dropping down. Is this a Qt issue rather than a LyX issue? If not,

Re: Changed Shortcuts Not Working

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 08:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm running lyx-2.0.1 on Slackware-13.1. Using the menus Tools - Preferences - Editing - Shortcuts I define word-forward-delete as Alt-F. LyX doesn't complain about a key conflict. But, when I try to use it I get the File menu dropping down. Is

Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-09-27 Thread Lisa Andrews
I successfully use multiple languages in Lyx with Xetex by specifying packages and fonts in the document preamble, or using inline ERT (usepackage \fontspec etc) I see on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX, where it describes a similar setup to my own, that it says: Note: the following steps are only

Re: Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-09-27 Thread PhilipPirrip
Lisa, could you please send us examples of your old and new preamble, so that we could compare, in the order the commands are called. You can copy everything until \begin{document}, in both cases, from View View Source... Complete source or just export your documents to .tex and copy from

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 27, Guenter Milde did say: Alternatively, after a fix for http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1042 »Adding language none« you could tell LyX to ignore the non-standard-English parts of your document when spellchecking. I don't think I want to add the complexity of

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: While waiting in hopes of a better method, I figured out a very crude down and dirty work around... First, as previously described, I wrap the section of the document I intend to spellcheck with the the begin and end marker

Re: lyx can't find lilypond-book

2011-09-27 Thread Tao Cumplido
Julien Rioux jrioux at physics.utoronto.ca writes: Most likely there is something not working with lilypond-book. You could try to run it from the command line to get more info. Start Menu Run type cmd OK. Now type this in lilypond-book --version and see what it gives you. Thanks.

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-26, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: And until such a time as http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2511 becomes a reality, I think I'll just use that kludge I just described. Alternatively, after a fix for http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1042 »Adding language none« you could tell LyX to

LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread florian.wilh...@gmail.com
Hi, pgfplotstable uses external data files to generate formatted lists like \pgfplotstabletypeset{example1.dat} The problem is that LyX creates a temp directory, copies over all files and runs latex to generate the document there. Since it does not copy example1.dat I get a corresponding error

Table width

2011-09-27 Thread Lastalda
I'm trying to write a thesis with Lyx and am using tables (some within floats, some without). 1. Is there a possibility to set the tablewidth to \textwidth for the whole document as default? Like adding something to the latex header? (And does this have to be done seperately for tables within

Re: Problem Outputting Particular TIFF File

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 27/09/2011 7:47 AM, Jane Shevtsov wrote: Hi Mark, I haven't changed anything in the past couple of weeks, when I reinstalled MiKTeX and reconfigured LyX. (BTW, I just tried out a different TIFF file, and it worked fine.) The flowchart is something I copied from a PDF and then edited in

Re: lyx can't find lilypond-book

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 27/09/2011 9:55 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: Julien Riouxjriouxat physics.utoronto.ca writes: Most likely there is something not working with lilypond-book. You could try to run it from the command line to get more info. Start Menu Run type cmd OK. Now type this in lilypond-book --version

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Florian Wilhelm
Mukhtar Ullah mukhtar.ullah at informatik.uni-rostock.de writes: Follow this thread.Although about Inkscape but it addresses the same issue. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/71928 Mukhtar Thanks. I found a more suitable solution for me. - Open Command Buffer (Alt+X)

Re: PDF won't generate

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 26/09/2011 11:26 PM, Kevin Buchs wrote: I have a similar problem with Lyx 2.0 on Windows 7. I have a custom style and some required .JPG files that are inserted by that style. Lyx does not copy them to its temporary directory. Ideally, I'd like Lyx to run latex in my working directory. If I

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
ERT[\pgfplotstableread{] MACRO[/home/florian/Documents/lyx/] ERT[benchmarks/benchmarks.dat} \datatable] where ERT[...] is TeX code inserted with CTRL+L and MACRO[...] the aforementioned info-insert macro. Interesting solution. I would also encourage you to try the solution using TEXINPUT

Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Påvel Nicklasson
I have just published my first book written in LyX and I want to thank the developers and the members on the list for a fantastic program and help using it. I think I have understood that many LyX-users are scientists. I am a lowly scholar in the humanities, an archaeologist, and LyX is a suberb

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Manolo Martínez
Viva LyX! From another lowly scholar in the humanities. Manolo On 09/27/11 at 03:52pm, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: I have just published my first book written in LyX and I want to thank the developers and the members on the list for a fantastic program and help using it. I think I have

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 09:55 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: Viva LyX! From another lowly scholar in the humanities. And another. I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now Richard Manolo On 09/27/11 at 03:52pm,

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Johnson
It seems to me you are working very hard there. If you are willing to write out a path, can I suggest a simpler solution? Did you try just writing in a path, as: \pgfplotstabletypeset{/home/florian/Documents/lyx/example1.dat} This is how I insert data in Sweave documents. I have no reason to

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now This page [1], I guess. Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com writes: It seems to me you are working very hard there. If you are willing to write out a path, Paul, That is the problem--writing everytime an absolute path is not convenient and kills portability of your document to another system. Mukhtar

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 11:38 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now This page [1], I guess. Liviu [1]

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Shantanu Kulkarni
* Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net [110927 22:29]: Someone, not necessarily you, should probably re-organize this, dividing it (at least) into books versus articles. The number of articles written with LyX must be astronomical; the number of books, especially books actually printed from

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 01:05 PM, Shantanu Kulkarni wrote: * Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net [110927 22:29]: Someone, not necessarily you, should probably re-organize this, dividing it (at least) into books versus articles. The number of articles written with LyX must be astronomical; the number of

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Påvel Nicklasson
2011/9/27 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net On 09/27/2011 11:38 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it

LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick De Visschere
Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/some_file.pdf} results in a file not found error from the pdftex.def package. When exporting as .tex and processing with e.g. TeXShop there is no

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 04:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/some_file.pdf} results in a file not found error from the pdftex.def package. When

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a file not found error from the pdftex.def package.

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/27/2011 04:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a file

Editing Tool Bar Icons

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I hesitate to bring this up to the list because I don't like to micromanage the application, typography, or page layouts. I leave that to the experts. (About a dozen years ago I spent a lot of time trying to install Type1 fonts in LaTeX, but gave up when I realized 1) I was wasting time better

Re: Editing Tool Bar Icons [RESOLVED]

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: In ~/.lyx/ui/classic.ui I find the menus. Where can I find the contents of the toolbars so I can mess them up from the order set by the developers? Thanks to Richard this has been resolved. Rich

Changed Shortcuts Not Working

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm running lyx-2.0.1 on Slackware-13.1. Using the menus Tools - Preferences - Editing - Shortcuts I define word-forward-delete as Alt-F. LyX doesn't complain about a key conflict. But, when I try to use it I get the File menu dropping down. Is this a Qt issue rather than a LyX issue? If not,

Re: Changed Shortcuts Not Working

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 08:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm running lyx-2.0.1 on Slackware-13.1. Using the menus Tools - Preferences - Editing - Shortcuts I define word-forward-delete as Alt-F. LyX doesn't complain about a key conflict. But, when I try to use it I get the File menu dropping down. Is

Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-09-27 Thread Lisa Andrews
I successfully use multiple languages in Lyx with Xetex by specifying packages and fonts in the document preamble, or using inline ERT (usepackage \fontspec etc) I see on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX, where it describes a similar setup to my own, that it says: Note: the following steps are only

Re: Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-09-27 Thread PhilipPirrip
Lisa, could you please send us examples of your old and new preamble, so that we could compare, in the order the commands are called. You can copy everything until \begin{document}, in both cases, from View View Source... Complete source or just export your documents to .tex and copy from

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 27, Guenter Milde did say: Alternatively, after a fix for http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1042 »Adding language none« you could tell LyX to ignore the non-standard-English parts of your document when spellchecking. I don't think I want to add the complexity of

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: While waiting in hopes of a better method, I figured out a very crude down and dirty work around... First, as previously described, I wrap the section of the document I intend to spellcheck with the the begin and end marker

Re: lyx can't find lilypond-book

2011-09-27 Thread Tao Cumplido
Julien Rioux physics.utoronto.ca> writes: > > Most likely there is something not working with lilypond-book. You could > try to run it from the command line to get more info. Start Menu > Run > > type "cmd" > OK. Now type this in > lilypond-book --version > and see what it gives you. >

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-26, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > And until such a time as http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2511 becomes a > reality, I think I'll just use that kludge I just described. Alternatively, after a fix for http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1042 »Adding language "none"« you could tell LyX to

LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread florian.wilh...@gmail.com
Hi, pgfplotstable uses external data files to generate formatted lists like \pgfplotstabletypeset{example1.dat} The problem is that LyX creates a temp directory, copies over all files and runs latex to generate the document there. Since it does not copy example1.dat I get a corresponding error

Table width

2011-09-27 Thread Lastalda
I'm trying to write a thesis with Lyx and am using tables (some within floats, some without). 1. Is there a possibility to set the tablewidth to \textwidth for the whole document as default? Like adding something to the latex header? (And does this have to be done seperately for tables within

Re: Problem Outputting Particular TIFF File

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 27/09/2011 7:47 AM, Jane Shevtsov wrote: Hi Mark, I haven't changed anything in the past couple of weeks, when I reinstalled MiKTeX and reconfigured LyX. (BTW, I just tried out a different TIFF file, and it worked fine.) The flowchart is something I copied from a PDF and then edited in

Re: lyx can't find lilypond-book

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 27/09/2011 9:55 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: Julien Rioux writes: Most likely there is something not working with lilypond-book. You could try to run it from the command line to get more info. Start Menu> Run> type "cmd"> OK. Now type this in lilypond-book

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Florian Wilhelm
Mukhtar Ullah informatik.uni-rostock.de> writes: > > Follow this thread.Although about Inkscape but it addresses the same issue. > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/71928 > > Mukhtar > > Thanks. I found a more suitable solution for me. - Open Command Buffer (Alt+X) - Type:

Re: PDF won't generate

2011-09-27 Thread Julien Rioux
On 26/09/2011 11:26 PM, Kevin Buchs wrote: I have a similar problem with Lyx 2.0 on Windows 7. I have a custom style and some required .JPG files that are inserted by that style. Lyx does not copy them to its temporary directory. Ideally, I'd like Lyx to run latex in my working directory. If I

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
> ERT[\pgfplotstableread{] > MACRO[/home/florian/Documents/lyx/] > ERT[benchmarks/benchmarks.dat} \datatable] > > where ERT[...] is TeX code inserted with CTRL+L > and MACRO[...] the aforementioned info-insert macro. > Interesting solution. I would also encourage you to try the solution using

Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Påvel Nicklasson
I have just published my first book written in LyX and I want to thank the developers and the members on the list for a fantastic program and help using it. I think I have understood that many LyX-users are scientists. I am a lowly scholar in the humanities, an archaeologist, and LyX is a suberb

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Manolo Martínez
Viva LyX! From another lowly scholar in the humanities. Manolo On 09/27/11 at 03:52pm, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > I have just published my first book written in LyX and I want to thank the > developers and the members on the list for a fantastic program and help > using it. > > I think I have

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 09:55 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > Viva LyX! From another lowly scholar in the humanities. > And another. I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now Richard > Manolo > > On 09/27/11 at

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Johnson
It seems to me you are working very hard there. If you are willing to write out a path, can I suggest a simpler solution? Did you try just writing in a path, as: \pgfplotstabletypeset{/home/florian/Documents/lyx/example1.dat} This is how I insert data in Sweave documents. I have no reason to

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their > LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now > This page [1], I guess. Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications

Re: LyX with pgfplotstable

2011-09-27 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Paul Johnson gmail.com> writes: > > It seems to me you are working very hard there. If you are willing to > write out a path, Paul, That is the problem--writing everytime an absolute path is not convenient and kills portability of your document to another system. Mukhtar

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 11:38 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their >> LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now >> > This page [1], I guess. > Liviu

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Shantanu Kulkarni
* Richard Heck [110927 22:29]: > Someone, not necessarily you, should probably re-organize this, dividing > it (at least) into books versus articles. The number of articles written > with LyX must be astronomical; the number of books, especially books > actually printed from

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 01:05 PM, Shantanu Kulkarni wrote: > * Richard Heck [110927 22:29]: >> Someone, not necessarily you, should probably re-organize this, dividing >> it (at least) into books versus articles. The number of articles written >> with LyX must be astronomical; the

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Påvel Nicklasson
2011/9/27 Richard Heck > On 09/27/2011 11:38 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck > wrote: > >> I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their > >> LyX-created books and linked to them, but I

LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick De Visschere
Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/some_file.pdf} results in a "file not found" error from the pdftex.def package. When exporting as .tex and processing with e.g. TeXShop there is

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 04:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: > Hello, > > Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like > > \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/some_file.pdf} > > results in a "file not found" error from the pdftex.def package. > >

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a "file not found" error from the pdftex.def package.

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/27/2011 04:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a "file

Editing Tool Bar Icons

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I hesitate to bring this up to the list because I don't like to micromanage the application, typography, or page layouts. I leave that to the experts. (About a dozen years ago I spent a lot of time trying to install Type1 fonts in LaTeX, but gave up when I realized 1) I was wasting time better

Re: Editing Tool Bar Icons [RESOLVED]

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: In ~/.lyx/ui/classic.ui I find the menus. Where can I find the contents of the toolbars so I can mess them up from the order set by the developers? Thanks to Richard this has been resolved. Rich

Changed Shortcuts Not Working

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm running lyx-2.0.1 on Slackware-13.1. Using the menus Tools -> Preferences -> Editing -> Shortcuts I define word-forward-delete as Alt-F. LyX doesn't complain about a key conflict. But, when I try to use it I get the File menu dropping down. Is this a Qt issue rather than a LyX issue? If

Re: Changed Shortcuts Not Working

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/27/2011 08:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm running lyx-2.0.1 on Slackware-13.1. Using the menus Tools -> > Preferences -> Editing -> Shortcuts I define word-forward-delete as > Alt-F. > LyX doesn't complain about a key conflict. But, when I try to use it I > get > the File menu dropping

Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-09-27 Thread Lisa Andrews
I successfully use multiple languages in Lyx with Xetex by specifying packages and fonts in the document preamble, or using inline ERT (usepackage \fontspec etc) I see on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX, where it describes a similar setup to my own, that it says: "Note: the following steps are

Re: Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-09-27 Thread PhilipPirrip
Lisa, could you please send us examples of your old and new preamble, so that we could compare, in the order the commands are called. You can copy everything until \begin{document}, in both cases, from View > View Source... > Complete source or just export your documents to .tex and copy from

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 27, Guenter Milde did say: > Alternatively, after a fix for http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1042 > »Adding language "none"« you could tell LyX to ignore the > non-standard-English parts of your document when spellchecking. I don't think I want to add the complexity of

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: > While waiting in hopes of a better method, I figured out a very crude down > and dirty work around... > > First, as previously described, I wrap the section of the document I intend to > spellcheck with the the begin and end