Re: Ubuntu: keep lyx 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 in same system
On 4/11/18 4:35 am, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/13/18, Paul Johnson wrote: I have some projects based on LyX 2.2.3 that I want to work on and I don't want to update to new. However, I also have projects based on 2.3 and I can't edit those with old LyX. Liviu Andronic worked out a way for this to be possible a few years ago, but I cannot find documents about it. I wish I could have old and new lyx installed at same time, to easily run one or the other. I've tried to do this by installing 2.3.1 from the Ubuntu package and then compiling 2.2.3 from source and installing off the path, but then I found the 2 versions should not share a user configuration folder. After using 2.3.1 and allowing it to revise ~/.lyx, then lyx 2.2.3 cannot start. Error like this: I didn't continue doing the previous stable release packages as a separate install (like I did for 1.6 and 2.0) as it didn't seem like there was enough demand. I may reconsider this going forward. If you're building from source, it's very easy to achieve this, and you would only need to use this argument when configuring, e.g.: --with-version-suffix=2.2 This will take care of most things, like renaming the binary to 'lyx2.2', the share and home folders to 'lyx2.2', etc. It works surprisingly well. You should even be able to do make install, and in principle it shouldn't clash with the existing install from the PPA. Although it's necessarily more complicated, for inspiration you can always take a look at, e.g., the lyx2.0 packages. Just fetch e.g.: lyx2.0_2.0.8.1-2~trusty~ppa1.debian.tar.gz and inspect the 'debian/rules' file. It will list the config options. Regards, Liviu $ ./lyx Warning: Could not read configuration file Error while reading the configuration file preferences. Please check your installation. So obviously I need to be more graceful, separate config folders. I thought about building a new Debian package "lyx223". I'm pretty sure that's what I think Liviu did. For me that was a fail because the deb packaging code for the lyx project has a lot of hard coded folders like /usr/share/lyx, so it is not too easy to rebuild a package to use alternate folders. If you have advice about this, I would be glad to hear it. -- Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu. And consider using GNU Stow. It makes it easy to manage installation and removal of compiled packages. Cheers, Alan -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
Re: LyX on iPad
On 11/3/18 4:16 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: On 11/2/18 9:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Perhaps this is why LyX becomes less relevant every year. I don't think that peer-reviewed academic publication is going to vanish anytime soon; and, over about the last decade, Exactly! A decade ago LyX was about a lot more than peer-reviewed academic publications, and 15 years ago it was safe to assume that paper and PDF were enough output formats. More and more, LyX is relegated to peer-reviewed academic publication. There's no “Exactly!” here. LyX becomes increasingly useful in its intended application. The fact that it doesn't become some other application as applications of that other class become more popular doesn't change that. You might as well demand that LyX evolve into a first-person shooter game. Those are really popular, y'know.
Re: auto fixing mispelled words
On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: You've not answered my actual question. A feature of the sort that you propose is not likely to be popular; the vast majority of people would, in constructing the underlying look-up table, find themselves learning not to make the mistakes in the first place. Sorry for my delay, i am not a 'heavy' news readers user. I do not know whether that feature would be popular, but it would be useful for a number of lyx users. I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you? I learn not to make _specific_ typographical errors, and the facility that you request would only deal with sets of specific errors. Is is not a matter of learning, Of course it is. it is our mind functioning that swaps letter positions or doubles next letters while quickly writing text lines Typing isn't an inborn skill; it is something that one learns. Learning to type a word and learning not to mistype it are the same thing. Restoring the correct letters order for each word quickly would be a great favour to a number of long paper writers. In the case of a long paper, as opposed to a set of papers, the facility that you request doesn't offer much that global find-and-replace doesn't already do. In either case, you are talking about working from an assembled list of corrections. (Recall that your original request involved a list assembled by the user of corrections to make.)
Re: Problem with spreadtab module and LyX 2.3.1
On 4/11/2018 2:15 a.m., Graeme wrote:
The spreadtab module is extremely useful, as it provides a wrapper
around a conventional table environment, to enable some
spreadsheet-like capabilities within the table (using the LaTeX
package spreadtab).
It can be downloaded from wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules.
When creating a long(multipage) table within the sLTable environment
provided by the spreadtab module, there is one small difference
between the plain LaTeX code produced by LyX 2.3.0 and 2.3.1.
Specifically, LyX 2.3.0 exports the lines:
\sLTable{}{%
\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
while LyX 2.3.1 exports the lines
\sLTable{}{%
\begin{longtable}[c]{|c|c|c|c|c|}
In practice I think the LyX 2.3.1 version is correct, but it exposes a
bug in spreadtab module version 1.4, which cannot handle the optional
[c] argument following \begin{longtable}.
Thus LyX 2.3.0 can successfully generate a PDF file, while LyX 2.3.1
fails with a LaTeX error. This applies to LyX under both Windows 10
with MikTeX, and Linux Mint with TeXLive 2017.
An example LyX file is attached, along with the PDF file generated
successfully from it using File/Export/PDF(ps2pdf) with LyX 2.3.0.
Unfortunately, I am not sure how to fix the bug in the spreadtab
module, so help on this would be welcome.
Graeme
I'm the author of the module. I'll have a look. Thanks.
Andrew
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Re: Ubuntu: keep lyx 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 in same system
On 10/13/18, Paul Johnson wrote: > I have some projects based on LyX 2.2.3 that I want to work on and I > don't want to update to new. However, I also have projects based on > 2.3 and I can't edit those with old LyX. > > Liviu Andronic worked out a way for this to be possible a few years > ago, but I cannot find documents about it. I wish I could have old and > new lyx installed at same time, to easily run one or the other. > I've tried to do this by installing 2.3.1 from the Ubuntu package and > then compiling 2.2.3 from source and installing off the path, but then > I found the 2 versions should not share a user configuration folder. > After using 2.3.1 and allowing it to revise ~/.lyx, then lyx 2.2.3 > cannot start. Error like this: > I didn't continue doing the previous stable release packages as a separate install (like I did for 1.6 and 2.0) as it didn't seem like there was enough demand. I may reconsider this going forward. If you're building from source, it's very easy to achieve this, and you would only need to use this argument when configuring, e.g.: --with-version-suffix=2.2 This will take care of most things, like renaming the binary to 'lyx2.2', the share and home folders to 'lyx2.2', etc. It works surprisingly well. You should even be able to do make install, and in principle it shouldn't clash with the existing install from the PPA. Although it's necessarily more complicated, for inspiration you can always take a look at, e.g., the lyx2.0 packages. Just fetch e.g.: lyx2.0_2.0.8.1-2~trusty~ppa1.debian.tar.gz and inspect the 'debian/rules' file. It will list the config options. Regards, Liviu > $ ./lyx > Warning: Could not read configuration file > > Error while reading the configuration file > preferences. > Please check your installation. > > So obviously I need to be more graceful, separate config folders. > > I thought about building a new Debian package "lyx223". I'm pretty > sure that's what I think Liviu did. For me that was a fail because > the deb packaging code for the lyx project has a lot of hard coded > folders like /usr/share/lyx, so it is not too easy to rebuild a > package to use alternate folders. > > If you have advice about this, I would be glad to hear it. > > -- > Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org > Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu > > To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu. >
Re: How to force tex2lyx to read unicode (from within Lyx)?
On 11/2/18 5:52 PM, Baris Erkus wrote:
> On 11/2/2018 1:33 PM, Baris Erkus wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to import the a .tex file into LyX (using file->import).
>> The file has Turkish characters and I believe it is using UTF8 encoding.
>> When I import it, it does not show Turkish characters properly. I
>> attached the file for your play-around.
>>
>> When I import the file on the command line with the UTF8 option tex2lyx
>> -e UTF8 ch1.tex, the LyX file looks just fine except one or two characters.
>>
>> So is there a way to tell to tex2lyx to use UTF8 encoding from within
>> LyX? This issue is occured when I import a tex file that has
>> \input{ch1.tex} in it. So, maybe LyX has and option to force tex2lyx to
>> read in UTF8 for all imports?
>>
>> I found exactly same question on this post, but the answers seem to be
>> unrelated:
>>
>> https://lyx-users.lyx.narkive.com/Rg1StNIT/how-to-force-tex2lyx-to-read-unicode-from-within-lyx
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Baris
>>
>
> Found the answer:
Well, that's *an* answer: You can set up a custom "utf8" import, if you
want. As JMarc said, though, tex2lyx should detect the encoding. Can you
file a bug report about this so it doesn't get lost?
Riki
Problem with spreadtab module and LyX 2.3.1
The spreadtab module is extremely useful, as it provides a wrapper
around a conventional table environment, to enable some spreadsheet-like
capabilities within the table (using the LaTeX package spreadtab).
It can be downloaded from wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules.
When creating a long(multipage) table within the sLTable environment
provided by the spreadtab module, there is one small difference between
the plain LaTeX code produced by LyX 2.3.0 and 2.3.1.
Specifically, LyX 2.3.0 exports the lines:
\sLTable{}{%
\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
while LyX 2.3.1 exports the lines
\sLTable{}{%
\begin{longtable}[c]{|c|c|c|c|c|}
In practice I think the LyX 2.3.1 version is correct, but it exposes a
bug in spreadtab module version 1.4, which cannot handle the optional
[c] argument following \begin{longtable}.
Thus LyX 2.3.0 can successfully generate a PDF file, while LyX 2.3.1
fails with a LaTeX error. This applies to LyX under both Windows 10 with
MikTeX, and Linux Mint with TeXLive 2017.
An example LyX file is attached, along with the PDF file generated
successfully from it using File/Export/PDF(ps2pdf) with LyX 2.3.0.
Unfortunately, I am not sure how to fix the bug in the spreadtab module,
so help on this would be welcome.
Graeme
LyX231spreadtab1_4problem.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
LyX231spreadtab1_4problem.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: auto fixing mispelled words
Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: > > You've not answered my actual question. A feature of the sort that > you propose is not likely to be popular; the vast majority of people > would, in constructing the underlying look-up table, find themselves > learning not to make the mistakes in the first place. Sorry for my delay, i am not a 'heavy' news readers user. I do not know whether that feature would be popular, but it would be useful for a number of lyx users. I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you? Is is not a matter of learning, it is our mind functioning that swaps letter positions or doubles next letters while quickly writing text lines Restoring the correct letters order for each word quickly would be a great favour to a number of long paper writers. regards paolo m.
