Biblatex no longer working after upgrade (!?)

[Marshall Feldman]

Hi,

Yesterday I updated my system to use MacTeX 2016 and LyX 2.2.0. After
doing so, I can no longer use biblatex for a relatively simple document
(title page, abstract page, and 1 page of text). Instead, compiling the
pdf throws an error message: "Error: Found biblatex control file version
2.6, expected version 3.1."

After I installed MacTeX 2016, I used TeX Live to make the new
installation the default LaTeX. I also used it to update all my
installed packages. It shows I have biblatex 3.4 and biber 2.5 (biblatex
3.4). So everything seems fine.

The folks over at MacTeX think the problem may be because LyX does not
use the normal MacTeX search path. How can I troubleshoot and fix this?

Marsh

Re: removing superfluous LyX -was: Icons of LyX menu. solved -

[Paul A . Rubin]

Wolfgang Engelmann  uni-tuebingen.de> writes:


> Synaptic of my Debian Jessie proposes lyx2.1.2-2 as the newest version, 
> that was the reason I installed first lyx2.2.0rc1 and later lyx2.2.0.
> dpkg-query -s lyx: Paket »lyx« not installed and no information 
> available. I think I will leave lyx2.2.0rc1 and forget about it.
> Thanks for the help, Paul

You're welcome, Wolfgang. For what it's worth, I use Liv Andronic's Ubuntu
PPA (linked in the binaries section of the LyX download page) to stay
current on Mint. I'm not aware of any equivalent sites for Debian, but there
is a site (https://wiki.debian.org/CreatePackageFromPPA) claiming it's easy
to convert an Ubuntu package to a Debian package. I'm just mentioning it in
case you're interested.

It would be nice if a Debian user would take it upon himself/herself to make
Debian versions of Liv's packages. Unfortunately, I can't, since I don't
have Debian installed. (Mint is based on Ubuntu.)

Cheers,
Paul

Re: epub output in version 2.2?

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:57:23 -0400
Richard Heck  wrote:

> On 07/06/2016 04:45 PM, Robert Alvarez wrote:
> > Epub output  questions appear here periodically.
> >
> > An answer in one thread said that it might appear in version 2.2
> >
> > I looked in the release notes but could not find it.
> >
> > Is epub output in 2.2?  
> 
> No, it is not. It is possible we will see in in the 2.2.x series.

Robert,

Be careful what you wish for. Even if/when LyX finally has ePub
export, the question is "what quality ePub?" Will it be like the HTML
and Xhtml exports, having all sorts of extraneous CSS styles to do
silly stuff, deprecated stuff like , and the like?
Just because something outputs something they call ePub, and it's
decipherable by Calibre's ebook-viewer,  doesn't make it the kind of
ePub you can convert and sell on Amazon, or the kind of ePub that won't
make your readers crazy with anger.

Since about 2008 LyX native format has become more and more "XML like"
without being either valid or well formed XML. If they just made LyX
into valid and well formed XML, creating our own converter, with Python
and Python's XML parser, will become a one person project. And such a
converter will by its very nature be semantic, it won't do stupid stuff
like  having paragraphs all have either "indented" or "unindented"
classes. That's a job for CSS, not for different types of paragraphs.
Converting LyX native format to a valid and well formed XML would make
export to ***ALL*** formats, those known and those yet to be discovered,
easy. And the converters would exist completely outside of LyX and
therefore would be small and modular.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
 of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Labels and Cross-References

[Michael Berger]

On 07/07/2016 03:10 PM, Daniel Roma wrote:

Hello. I have a text file and I will enter Labels and Cross-References.
How is this done in Lyx?
thank you


Hi Daniel,
go to > Help > Users Guide > section 1 More Tools > 6.1 Cross-references

then start trying.

Michael

Labels and Cross-References

[Daniel Roma]

Hello. I have a text file and I will enter Labels and Cross-References.
How is this done in Lyx?
thank you

Re: Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'blx@firstinits' undefined

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Donnerstag, den 07.07.2016, 13:41 +0200 schrieb Michael Berger:
> I tried
> \newtoggle{blx@giveninits}
> and got
> ... Error: Toggle 'blx@giveninits' already defined.
> 
> but adding
> \newtoggle{blx@firstinits}
> instead to the preamble worked!

That's what I actually meant. Sorry.

> 
> So, is oscola already updated?

No.

For correct output, you also might have to add

\AtBeginBibliography{\toggletrue{blx@giveninits}}

Jürgen

Re: Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'blx@firstinits' undefined

[Michael Berger]

On 07/07/2016 12:14 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Am Donnerstag, den 07.07.2016, 10:40 +0200 schrieb Michael Berger:

Hi,
I have a KOMA-Script Article using 'oscola style'.
This document compiled perfectly as long as I was using Texlive 2013.

After having installed TL2016 I am facing the error as per subject.
It appears that this error has to do with the oscola style because
similar documents using other styles do compile without any error.

I studied the etoolbox documentation but found nothing to resolve
this
error (I am not familiar with Latex and family).

Please, who can help ?

In recent versions of biblatex, firstinits has been renamed to
giveninits. I looks like oscola has not yet been updated to this change
(and you should submit a bug report to the oscola developers).

Try if the following helps as a workaround in the preamble:

\newtoggle{blx@giveninits}

If you use the "firstinits" option, the output might not be correct.

HTH
Jürgen


Michael

Hallo Jürgen,

I tried

\newtoggle{blx@giveninits}

and got
... Error: Toggle 'blx@giveninits' already defined.

but adding
\newtoggle{blx@firstinits}
instead to the preamble worked!

So, is oscola already updated?

Great help, thank you.

Michael

Re: Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'blx@firstinits' undefined

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Donnerstag, den 07.07.2016, 10:40 +0200 schrieb Michael Berger:
> Hi,
> I have a KOMA-Script Article using 'oscola style'.
> This document compiled perfectly as long as I was using Texlive 2013.
> 
> After having installed TL2016 I am facing the error as per subject.
> It appears that this error has to do with the oscola style because 
> similar documents using other styles do compile without any error.
> 
> I studied the etoolbox documentation but found nothing to resolve
> this 
> error (I am not familiar with Latex and family).
> 
> Please, who can help ?

In recent versions of biblatex, firstinits has been renamed to
giveninits. I looks like oscola has not yet been updated to this change
(and you should submit a bug report to the oscola developers).

Try if the following helps as a workaround in the preamble:

\newtoggle{blx@giveninits}

If you use the "firstinits" option, the output might not be correct.

HTH
Jürgen

> 
> Michael

Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'blx@firstinits' undefined

[Michael Berger]

Hi,
I have a KOMA-Script Article using 'oscola style'.
This document compiled perfectly as long as I was using Texlive 2013.

After having installed TL2016 I am facing the error as per subject.
It appears that this error has to do with the oscola style because 
similar documents using other styles do compile without any error.


I studied the etoolbox documentation but found nothing to resolve this 
error (I am not familiar with Latex and family).


Please, who can help ?

Michael

removing superfluous LyX -was: Icons of LyX menu. solved -

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On 06.07.2016 21:39, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Wolfgang Engelmann  uni-tuebingen.de> writes:


To remove the
lyx-latestdev (=Lyx-2.2.0rc1), should I use
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove lyx ?

I'd be careful with that; it might remove the wrong version (or nothing). If
you have Synaptic installed, I'd recommend opening that, searching for
installed packages containing 'lyx' in the their name, and see if you can
identify the "latestdev" version. If so, you can mark it for deletion. If
you don't have Synaptic, you can run "dpkg-query -s lyx" in a terminal.
Scroll down to the "Version:" line and see if it is indicating
lyx-latestdev. If so, your command should work; but if it identifies a
different version, try "dpkg-query -l lyx-latestdev" to see if it's instaled
with that package name.

Paul

Synaptic of my Debian Jessie proposes lyx2.1.2-2 as the newest version, 
that was the reason I installed first lyx2.2.0rc1 and later lyx2.2.0.
dpkg-query -s lyx: Paket »lyx« not installed and no information 
available. I think I will leave lyx2.2.0rc1 and forget about it.

Thanks for the help, Paul
Wolfgang