Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

2008-02-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to find the documentation for the Beamer class. It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be found at: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/d

Re: Spell checker on Mac not working

2008-02-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Graham Smith wrote: I am trying to run the Spell check on Tiger and version 1.5.3 of Lyx. I get an error The Spell checker could not be started Error The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for reading. Now I can't actually find that direc

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:49 PM, James Miller wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template the

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

2008-02-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Eric Cavalcanti wrote: Hello LyX users, I used LyX on Linux for a while and using kpdf I had the good feature that whenever I updated a DVI/PDF file, it would automatically reload on the viewer. I am now using MAC, and Texshop as viewer for DVI (It actually s

Re: XeTeX and Hyperref

2008-01-23 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, i followed your instructions. I got no error messages. thanks for all the help. Biao That's good. I still don't understand why the installer wasn't working for you, but since we haven't had other reports of troubles like this I won't wor

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, I created ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. It did not change anything. I got the same error message. Biao I'm stumped. Try opening Terminal.app, and typing this: mkdir -p ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/lyx cp /path/to/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/tex

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can define it yourself by creating a file with the

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: I re-ran the installer. There is no dialog pop up after it asks about the template file and before the AppleScript error message. The only change is that "Install default LyX templates" gets checked. I don't even have this ~/Library/texmf/t

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Hi, Anders, I can tell Bennett is an expert just by how he asked the question. The installation failed, so I did not run LyX. Yes, I installed TeX with MacTeX before LyX. This is my first time installing LyX. My Mac Version is MacOSX-10.4.11. The

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 13, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Biao Wu wrote: Hi, Bennett After double-clicking on Installer, I was asked "Ready to begin?". After clicking on "install", I was asked whether I want to overwrite default templates in my LyX user's folder. I chose "yes". Then a small window pops up with the followin

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 13, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Biao Wu wrote: Hi, guys, I was installing LyX on mac and failed. I encountered the following error message. AppleScript Error The command exited with a non-zero status, (-1700) This occured in the final stage of installing LaTeX files. My mac is Mac OS X 10.4.11

Re: Landscape document: what am I missing?

2008-01-11 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: Nobody knows? :-( L It works for me. Perhaps you can provide more details on your setup (and even a minimal example file that fails) that might help someone figure out what's going wrong for you. Bennett On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:29:42

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 9, 2008, at 4:51 PM, rgheck wrote: Declan O'Byrne wrote: Hi all, Similar to another thread currently underway, I'd like to find out some of the important keyboard shortcuts for lyx on OS X (Leopard). What for example is "insert footnote"? What is "insert citation"? I would have ex

Re: Examples location on Mac OS X

2007-12-31 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 31, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: Currently (on 1.5.3 an in trunk) the examples are located in LyX.app/Contents/Resources/examples Would it be possible/desireable to instead put them in ~/Library/ Application Support/LyX-1.x/examples ? They should be more accessible there. T

Re: Lyx on Mac

2007-12-28 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Ryan Cross wrote: uhh... maybe try using the latest version..1.5.3 Yes -- the standard locations of TeX binaries have changed since LyX-1.3.7, so you'll do better to use the latest. Bennett On 12/28/07, Gzesiek Sójka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 22, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Timo Laine wrote: 1. give a full path in the \bibliography command in preamble I tried to do this but it does not seem to work. I tried all the ways I know of writing the path, but none of them has worked for me. I thought it would be /Us

Re: Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 21, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: And finally, on LyX OS-X related question: How can I use the "Ctrl" key in LyX key bindings? "C" is apparently bound to the "Apple/Command" key and "M" is bound to the "Alt" key. All this makes sense, of course, I would just like to use the

Re: Dumb LyX question (fwd)

2007-12-21 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the following question from a friend, any ideas? (I'm not on Mac...) --- Thanks -- it's probably really stupid, so try not to laugh... When I click the pdf icon (LyX 5 but the same happens in older versions with menu

Re: Periods Not at End of Sentence

2007-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:16 PM, rgheck wrote: Is there some way in LyX to do this: Mr.\ Dedekind without using ERT? Insert > Formatting > Inter-word space. Bennett

LyX/Mac 1.5.3 released (for Intel, PPC, Universal)

2007-12-19 Thread Bennett Helm
Binaries for LyX/Mac 1.5.3 have now been posted in all three flavors: Intel, PPC, and Universal. All users of 1.5 are encouraged to upgrade to this new version. They can be found here:

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 19, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Timo Laine wrote: Hello! I am quite new to LaTeX, but I am looking to use LyX and biblatex for my Master's thesis in philosophy. Initially I was planning to use jurabib, but it being somewhat obsolete by now in addition to being a bit difficult to configure to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.3 is released

2007-12-18 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 18, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jean Kaplan wrote: I could not find a binary for Mac ppc, is it scheduled? Bennett Helm is busy currently, the Mac ppc (and universal) binary will be ready in a few days. Yes, I am busy, but the trouble really is access to a PPC

Re: Errors in LyX 1.5.3 installer for Mac

2007-12-18 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Lyxers, Yesterday I installed the new 1.5.3 binary for Mac on my MacBook Pro. While running the installer, three errors showed up: 1) ERROR: Cannot install preview files 2) ERROR: Cannot install Srcltx files 3) Cannot install LyX's a

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:01 AM, mike c wrote: Hi All, Anyone thought about a LyX quicklook component for Mac OSX Leopard? I haven't thought, mostly because I haven't paid much attention to Leopard. (With operating systems especially I find it worthwhile not to be an early adopter.) Nonethele

Re: XeTeX and Hyperref

2007-12-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Am 07.12.2007 um 22:05 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:38 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Maximilian Wollner wrote: By the way, if all you want is to use Hoefler Text as your standard font, you can accomplish this using

Re: XeTeX and Hyperref

2007-12-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:38 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Maximilian Wollner wrote: By the way, if all you want is to use Hoefler Text as your standard font, you can accomplish this using \usepackage[osf]{gtamachoefler} in your preamble (at least with recent versions of texlive. Then you can typ

Re: XeTeX and Hyperref

2007-12-04 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello, I am using LyX 1.5.2 on a PPC Mac and XeTeX to be able to use a system font (Hoefler Text). So far, everything works fine, except for Hyperref. Following the orders from the wiki I put this in my preamble (and following a sugge

Re: word-forward skips trailing non-word characters (LyX 1.5.2)

2007-11-16 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The standard behavior on Mac is to have forward-word jumps to the end of the current word, and backward-word jumps to the beginning of the previous word. That's what I'd want

Re: word-forward skips trailing non-word characters (LyX 1.5.2)

2007-11-16 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 16, 2007, at 5:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dear LyXers, since upgrading to 1.5.2 (or maybe even earlier?), word-forward does no longer skip to the end of a word but also skips trailing non-word space, be it whitespace, punctuation, cit

Re: LyX 1.5.2 on Mac iBookG4 with MacTexLive-2007 Distribution - Problems

2007-11-10 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 10, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Björn Müller wrote: It sounds like ImageMagick is the problem. Can you uninstall and then reinstall your TeX distribution (is it MacTeX?)? Yes, it must be something with ImageMagick, as converting .xpm or .gif files from command line with "convert" doesn't work

Re: LyX 1.5.2 on Mac iBookG4 with MacTexLive-2007 Distribution - Problems

2007-11-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 9, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Björn Müller wrote: Hi Bennett, If convert is working on its own from the command line, it should work from within LyX. Did you test that? Actually it doesn't work properly! I do get this message: "convert: no decode delegate for this image format" although ima

Re: LyX 1.5.2 on Mac iBookG4 with MacTexLive-2007 Distribution - Problems

2007-11-08 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 8, 2007, at 11:52 AM, BjörnMüller wrote: Dear Bennett, I cannot confirm: showing outline works fine for me (and I rely on it all the time). Can you give us more details on your system: PPC vs Intel Mac, what version of the OS, etc. (Are you running LyX in German?) Yes, I am running

Re: LyX 1.5.2 on Mac iBookG4 with MacTexLive-2007 Distribution - Problems

2007-11-08 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 8, 2007, at 8:26 AM, BjörnMüller wrote: Dear All, I have some sincere problems. 1) The "outline" function (in German "Gliederung") (found in >Documents>[underneath LaTeX Protocol] doesn't work. When I activate it I get no options, no outline showing up or anything. I cannot confirm: s

Re: Missing toolbars in Lyx 1.5.2

2007-10-30 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 30, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Richard Heck wrote: Patton, Eric wrote: Not having .../Resources means you also don't have bind files, keyboard maps and, critically, the scripts for doing things like configuring LyX and converting graphics. So the menu problem (aggravating as it is) is just

Re: LyX 1.5.2.'s fuzzy screen in Mac + math mode pop up

2007-10-28 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Brian Kidd wrote: Hello, I decided to upgrade to LyX 1.5.2 from 1.4.4 and have encountered the problem of having fuzzy screen fonts as described by a few other people on the list. The reason that I wanted to bring back this topic on the thread is because ther

Re: Bad PDF-Quality

2007-10-23 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 23, 2007, at 1:27 PM, August Linuxland wrote: Hi, I just tried to use LyX for my little paper I have to write, but there seems to be some issue with my Preferences. Here are two versions of the same Document, one processed through LyX, the other processed through TeXShop, which both u

Re: where is ExportFormats documented?

2007-10-16 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 16, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am trying to figure out why after my upgrade from 1.4.x to 1.5.2 I lost my Export menu option and View choice for PDF (pdflatex). ... I have thjis File format: PDF (pdflatex) Format: pdf2 (I don't know that) Shortcut: F Viewer: xpdf GUI

Re: LyX 1.5.2.'s fuzzy screen in Mac + wrong path to Aspell

2007-10-16 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Bennett Helm wrote: On Oct 15, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Margarida Truninger wrote: Ufff...so one's down! Finally met Mr Spellchecker, lovely guy!:) About the fuzzy screen, no worries, I'm back in 1.5.

Re: LyX 1.5.2.'s fuzzy screen in Mac + wrong path to Aspell

2007-10-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Gerard Ateshian wrote: On Oct 15, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Oct 15, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Gerard Ateshian wrote: Actually, with 1.5.2, I've had the same problem on Mac Intel (as well as PPC). Gerard Is this the difference you're seei

Re: LyX 1.5.2.'s fuzzy screen in Mac + wrong path to Aspell

2007-10-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 15, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Margarida Truninger wrote: Ufff...so one's down! Finally met Mr Spellchecker, lovely guy!:) About the fuzzy screen, no worries, I'm back in 1.5.1 which is already too good to be true! the Hum, are you talking about bad rendering? It's

Re: key bindings

2007-10-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 15, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Dov Kruger wrote: I have noticed a bunch of people on this forum with questions about key bindings. So the meta question is, how can I find the entire set of key bindings without asking on this forum? There's a .pdf file with mac.bind keybindings included in t

Re: Toggle between documents (Mac)

2007-10-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Oct 15, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi! In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX? Ctrl-P

Re: Problems on OSX with version 1.5.2

2007-10-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Honest Guvnor wrote: Maybe. Do things improve if you set the path directly to /private/ tmp in preferences? No change apart from /private/tmp/... rather than /tmp/... in the popup error message. Hm, I'm running out of ideas. Anyone else

Re: Shortcut keys for equations on Mac

2007-10-10 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 10, 2007, at 2:05 PM, James Sutherland wrote: Pardon the naïve question, but where would I find the *.bind files that you refer to? Simply enter "mac.bind" or "cua.bind" (without the quotes) into LyX > Preferences > Look and feel > User interface > Bind file. On Mac, the files the

Re: Shortcut keys for equations on Mac

2007-10-10 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 10, 2007, at 1:36 PM, James Sutherland wrote: I have noticed that the windows version of Lyx has key bindings for various equation options (displayed, eqnarray, toggle numbering, etc.). The Mac version of Lyx does not have analogous bindings. Is there a reason why? If you use mac

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

2007-10-08 Thread Bennett Helm
nglish :-). This is the result of a bug fix: LyX now uses the Mac standard interface language for its menus and dialogs. I don't know if there's a way of using an alternative interface language. (Jean-Marc?) Bennett -- Christian Bennett Helm wrote: On Oct 8, 2007, at 1

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

2007-10-08 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not change, only the spacing. This appears to be a so

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

2007-10-08 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote: Hello, First, I want to thank you for posting the binaries, so I don't have to do the - well - sometimes tedious work of compiling by myself. So the following is no criticism only a user report. On my Mac the binary Version for PPC (I haven't

Re: using Section andsubsection titles withing text

2007-10-03 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 3, 2007, at 7:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all- I've looked around, but I cannot see how to use the Section and Subsection titles as the Frame title for a Beamer presentation. Any ideas? Mateo. Section and subsection are used to define what shows up in the brief outline tha

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 2, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Donn Ingle wrote: While I have your help, how do I stack minipages on below the other so that if a poem is short enough for two or three to fit in the height of the page, they do? I have been mucking around with minipages and there's a large random element involved -

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Donn Ingle wrote: Bennet - Thanks a million for that file. It comes hot on the heels of Christian's advice about a minipage and from the looks of things it's a winner! I'm closing OpenOffice right now! Yes -- it was his advice I thought I'd provide an example of, s

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Donn Ingle wrote: Les, I have been using that manual all along. If that's the best that Lyx & Co. can do for my layout needs, then I really am doomed. I don't want to learn latex right now, it

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Donn Ingle wrote: Les, I have been using that manual all along. If that's the best that Lyx & Co. can do for my layout needs, then I really am doomed. I don't want to learn latex right now, it's just a learning-curve too far for me. Forget poetry -- how would you i

Re: How to overcome the lack of right Alt key on Mac

2007-09-30 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 30, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Jan Iwaszkiewicz wrote: Hi All, My wife is writing a PhD in Polish using Lyx 1.5.1 on a PowerBook with Mac OS 10.4.10 and she had problems with some Polish letters (ż and ś). On my linux machine, there is no problem - the letters can achived using right-Alt ke

Re: several TeX distributions in the same box

2007-09-28 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 28, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez wrote: Chris Menzel wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:28:35PM +0200, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez wrote: Hi all, I'm using MacBook box that is acting as workbench for a number of TeX distributions. I've also s

Re: Docked windows or independent windows?

2007-09-27 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 27, 2007, at 4:27 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Here is a screenshot. The dialog is updated to reflect the settings of the current cursor position when the "Synchronized view" button is checked. This later featu

Re: ASpell Question

2007-09-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 22, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Richard Heck wrote: A friend of mine is using LyX on Mac OSX and is having problems getting Cocoa aspell to work. Anyone have any ideas? Did s/he try looking at the wiki? -- (CocoAspell is discussed in the second 1/2.) Be

Re: A question on latex/bibtex

2007-09-21 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 21, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Nicolás wrote: Hi! I have just read a paper containing an interesting feature. Each citation in the bibliography section contains a list of links to the pages where such citation appears. For example, if citation [1] appears in pages 5 and 7, in the bibliography

Re: where can I find the examples mentioned in the tutorial

2007-09-06 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefan Tiedje schrieb: The examples mentioned in the tutorial are simply not present. I found an examples folder but now example files in there. They seem to miss in the installer of 1.5.1 for Mac UB. Could you please this also at bugzilla.lyx.

Re: margin notes and comments

2007-09-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 1, 2007, at 5:31 AM, pol wrote: What is the best way to set the default format for margin notes (font size, line spacing, paragraph settings, foreground and background color) ? (I'll leave this for others.) Any hints to convert margin notes to comments (that are not printable) an

Re: texhash

2007-08-30 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 30, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Richard Heck wrote: Karen Chang wrote: Hi, I just installed LyX onto a Mac and got the following error: Cannot run texhash command to update Tex installation. Run Manually. How would I go about doing that? Have I done something wrong during the installation?

Re: Mac Shut-down Bug

2007-08-29 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Michael Anderson wrote: I'm having trouble posting the crash log for this error. Is there a specific portion that I should focus on an post? It came through for me. It's the same thing repeated many times, though I'm not competent to make sense of it. (Anyone e

Re: Mac Shut-down Bug

2007-08-28 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 28, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Michael Anderson wrote: No, the problem comes when I try to quit LyX. The application itself will not shut down and becomes unresponsive and requires me to force quit. During this unresponsive period, my system monitor shows that lyx is using 55% of the CPU dur

Re: Mac Shut-down Bug

2007-08-28 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 28, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Michael Anderson wrote: Hey, has anyone had any problems with Lyx freezing up on shut down? I've been having trouble with this for a little while. I'm using Lyx 1.5.1, on an intel based mac. This makes me a little nervous as when I check my system monitor it

Re: Lyx quits on startup

2007-08-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Anders Ekberg wrote: On 22 aug 2007, at 16.47, Clover wrote: Anders Ekberg wrote: Clover Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:40:50 -0700 Clover wrote: Yup, a few bounces on the dock and it's gone. Did try installing it again but no luck. This was in my Console log: LyX: rec

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 22, 2007, at 9:54 AM, James Sutherland wrote: The "images" directory in the Lyx-1.5 install directory is empty. Therefore, I cannot compile the file into a dvi ps or pdf. I searched my entire disk and the image files referenced in the user guide are not installed. FYI, I am running L

Re: How to export to RTF (Lyx 1.5.1, Mac OS X)

2007-08-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 20, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Isaac Pante wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Isaac Pante wrote: Le 20 août 07 à 19:48, Bennett Helm a écrit : On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Isaac Pante wrote: I've installed Latex2RTF using i-installer and reconfigured lyx but the problem remains. W

Re: How to export to RTF (Lyx 1.5.1, Mac OS X)

2007-08-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Isaac Pante wrote: Le 20 août 07 à 19:48, Bennett Helm a écrit : On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Isaac Pante wrote: I've installed Latex2RTF using i-installer and reconfigured lyx but the problem remains. When I select Export>Personalisé>RTF, Lyx still

Re: How to export to RTF (Lyx 1.5.1, Mac OS X)

2007-08-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Isaac Pante wrote: I've installed Latex2RTF using i-installer and reconfigured lyx but the problem remains. When I select Export>Personalisé>RTF, Lyx still requests a command to process. Where's the mistake? You shouldn't need to choose File > Export > Custom

Re: How to export to RTF (Lyx 1.5.1, Mac OS X)

2007-08-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 20, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Isaac Pante wrote: Hello, In the version 1.5.1, the export menu requests a command to be done. I have two questions reguarding this: 1) where can I found the command(s) allowing me to export my lyx document in RTF (and for the other forma

Re: Lyx quits on startup

2007-08-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 19, 2007, at 10:34 PM, Clover wrote: Yup, a few bounces on the dock and it's gone. Did try installing it again but no luck. This was in my Console log: LyX: reconfiguring user directory python: execv: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/ Resources/Python.app/Contents/Mac

Re: QuickTime Player Used when trying to view in PDF

2007-08-18 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 18, 2007, at 8:07 PM, Paulina Restrepo wrote: Hello, I've been using Lyx for a while now, and I never had a problem when I tried to view the document in pdf form (view as pdflatex) it worked fine. Until yesterday that I tried to view a beamer class document in pdf, and suddenly Qui

Re: Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated a

Re: Eroor installing latex files vesion 1.5.1 mac os x

2007-08-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 13, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Hisham Ihshaish wrote: hello, i have the problem in installing lyx 1.5.1 and all other versions in mac os x..the problem is at the end of the installation it tells me that can not run taxhash comman.. and so, when i go to the options of lyx, for example i wana ch

Re: New Math toolbar

2007-08-11 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 11, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Lee Yeoh wrote: Thanks for the tips, Bennett. I'm still not sure if I totally understand, though. If I leave the LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui file in the preferences, won't this mean that any of my settings for position of the toolbars and default visibility

Re: New Math toolbar

2007-08-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 9, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Lee Yeoh wrote: Ah... I compared this file to the file at LyX.app/Contents/ Resources/ui/default.ui , as mentioned by you in a different thread. This has the extra lines referring to the extra toolbars, so I copied this to the ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5

Re: customizing toolbars

2007-08-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 9, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! I'm using LyX 1.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 (PPC) I would like to modify the content of some of the toolbars. The on- line help says that this can be done from the preference pane, but then it also adds that one should edit the default.ui fil

Re: New Math toolbar

2007-08-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 9, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Lee Yeoh wrote: Hmmm, perhaps this is the problem. My View > Toolbars menu only has five items: Standard, Extra, Table, Math, Command Buffer. No sign of "Math Panels." What .ui file are you using (LyX > Preferences > Look and feel > User interface > User interf

Re: New Math toolbar

2007-08-08 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 8, 2007, at 5:46 AM, Lee Yeoh wrote: Hi, I seem to be having a bit of trouble with the Math toolbar in the new 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 versions (Mac OS X 10.4.10 PPC). I can only utilise the basic toolbar (with delimiters, etc.), which I turn from the View > Toolbar > Math menu. I don't ha

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Anders Ekberg wrote: If you have time (unfortunately I don't) and interest you could try compiling with a QT snapshot (4.3.1 or 4.4) from: http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/snapshots and see if the issue with Italic fonts has been solved. I tried it with

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I've recompiled 1.5.1 with Qt 4.2.3 and here is what I find: - The Times font shows up fine in Qt 4.2.3. It is not in sans- serif typeface. - Italics work properly in Qt 4.2.3 (but not in Qt 4.3.0). - On my machine (PowerBook G4, PPC, 1.67 G

LyX/Mac-1.5.1 available

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
LyX/Mac 1.5.1 has now been released for Intel and PPC Macs (including a universal binary). You can find the download link off the LyX/Mac wiki page here: Bennett

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Could it be the use of a different Qt version? LyX-1.5.0rc2: Qt-4.3.0 (I didn't have rc1 to check) LyX-1.5.0b2: Qt-4.2.3 What was the nice thing about using qt 4.3? Abdel wo

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Gerard Ateshian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, On Mac OS X, starting from LyX 1.5.0rc1, and carrying through to 1.5.1, the italic Times font appears as slanted upright Times font on the screen, instead of true italic. This problem did

Re: \usepackage{draftcopy}

2007-08-03 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 3, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Bennett Helm wrote: (Don't confuse the .lyx document with the .tex document LyX will produce.) I don't. Adding "draft" as one of the document class options results in the following appear

Re: \usepackage{draftcopy}

2007-08-03 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 3, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Bennett Helm wrote: Have you specified "draft" as one of the document class options for your document? Bennett, According to Kopka and Daly's "Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed.," the document class is

Re: \usepackage{draftcopy}

2007-08-03 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I would like to use this package, but it does nothing when I view the dvi or pdflatex output on screen. (The preamble does contain \usepackage{...,draftcopy}.) My Google search turned up references to this package, but no explicit instruct

Re: spell check problem

2007-08-02 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 2, 2007, at 3:18 AM, Mike Stevens wrote: This problem occurs with 1.5.rc2 and the latest 1.5.0. I am working under OS X, and using aspell. When I run a spell check, it correctly locates the first questionable word (it happens to have accents above a couple of letters). I ask it to

Re: Symbols Mac Math

2007-08-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 1, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Karol Hennessy wrote: I found the source, something to do with my latex preamble. \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{pslatex} Stick that in your document settings and you should be able to reproduce it. I still cannot confirm. Bennett

Re: Symbols Mac Math

2007-08-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 1, 2007, at 5:38 AM, Karol Hennessy wrote: Hi, On LyX/Mac 1.5rc2 I get weird symbols when I leave math mode and go back to normal. They look fine in Math mode but it's like they're mapped incorrectly to fonts in normal mode or something. Here's how it looks: http://beast1.ucd.ie/~

Re: Notes in 1.5

2007-07-27 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 27, 2007, at 6:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now to the point : I've been dreaming for years for a kind of notes (or comments) that could be printed or not in the final document, at the author will. I mentionned it here, and somebody (was it JML ?) replied it would come with 1.5. I

Re: gettting lyx/mac to see .bst files

2007-07-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 20, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Lyx Physicst wrote: I downloaded aip.bst again(twice actually) and saved it in my bibtex folder I created. ran sudo texhash, and still nothing... LaTeX gives me this error now when I run bibtex.. This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.5) The top-level auxilia

Re: gettting lyx/mac to see .bst files

2007-07-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 20, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Lyx Physicst wrote: Ok, I created that directory and moved the file there. How do I check to see if I have permissions and/or if the file is corrupted? I was a little confused on how to download it from CTAN, so I just copied the text into a new tex file and

Re: gettting lyx/mac to see .bst files

2007-07-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 20, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Lyx Physicst wrote: This indicates it's not a LyX problem but something wrong with your LaTeX setup. I'm not sure what the "couldn't open style file aip.bst" is indicating. You said you installed it; are you sure? Try opening the Terminal and typing: kpsewhich aip

Re: gettting lyx/mac to see .bst files

2007-07-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 19, 2007, at 10:42 PM, Lyx Physicst wrote: Ok, so Im still very new to LaTeX... But I ran it and everything came out the same, there was no bibliography at all. So I ran BibTeX and got this error "This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.5) The top-level auxiliary file: Thesis3.4.1.

Re: gettting lyx/mac to see .bst files

2007-07-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Lyx Physicst wrote: Hi all, I just downloaded an AIP(american inst. of physics) style .bst file to use for my thesis. I am trying to get lyx to see it for my bibliography. I installed it in my bibtex/bst/base folder (at least I think I did..) and ran texhash a

Re: Lyx spellchecker on intel Mac problem

2007-07-12 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Cen Gao wrote: Dear all Lyx users: I have a problem using spellchecker on my intel imac. tried both 1.4.4 and the 1.5 version. When I press the spell check button, the spellchecker window shows up like a flash and then disappears. Looks like this spellchecker window

Re: Basics

2007-07-05 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 5, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Jannika Bock wrote: hello everybody, i am a lyx newbie and need help with two very basic problems. i checked the online wiki but couldn't use na yof the things mentioned to solve them. 1.) i'd like to import a graphic (eps) into my lyx file. even though i do

Re: Class Loading Problem in Lyx 1.5.0rc2

2007-07-05 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 5, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Michael Anderson wrote: I've been having this problem on the mac as well. Near as I can tell it seems to be caused by Lyx not accepting the tex package lists from any directory other than the default texmf.texlive and texmf. So if any packages are installed in

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