Re: fun poll: your linux distro
I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Ubuntu (Feisty), LyX 1.5.2-1. Running 1.5.3 under OS X at home and on the road.
Re: Filmstück
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Ich möchte gern aus einem Film im .VOB Format ein Stück herauskopieren, um es in einem Vortrag zu zeigen (Beamer, Latex, aber muß nicht eingebunden sein). Ist das eine komplizierte Sache? You can use hyperref to embed a link in your presentation for calling an external viewer that can handle .vob files. The multimedia package can also be used to embed movies into a PDF Beamer presentation, but I'm not certain if .vob format is supported. See the Beamer user guide.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
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 started LyX on the same box. Please, how do I set up which LaTex distribution will be used by LyX? Thanks! By default LyX will pick up the distribution whose binary directory is listed (first) in your PATH environment variable. You can override this in LyX (works for me, anyway) by going to LyX - Preferences - Paths. In the PATH prefix: field make the directory containing the binaries of the distribution of your choice the first entry in the list, e.g., /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin or /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current. Be sure it is separated from the following entry by a colon.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:48:50PM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: ... Alternatively, if you're using recent TeX distributions on Mac, you can use System Preferences to set your default TeX distribution, and default LyX PATH Prefix settings will automatically select that default distribution. (If you've modified your PATH Prefix settings, just make sure that /usr/texbin is listed first.) I'm ashamed to say I hadn't noticed that in the System Prefs before today. I'm guessing it was installed when I upgraded to TeXLive 2007 a few weeks back.
Re: Toggle between documents (Mac)
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:31:06AM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: 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-PageUp/Down. JMarc Doesn't work here (LyX/Mac 1.4.1, Mac bind). What's the equivalent on a Mac? OptTab and OptShiftTab Ctrl-PageUp/Down work on a Mac if you are using the default emacs.bind file. I myself prefer the mac.bind bindings for switching buffers so have added the lines \bind M-Tab buffer-next \bind M-S-BackTab buffer-previous to my customized emacs.bind in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/bind. Chris Menzel
Re: Line space between footnotes
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:11:57PM -0400, John Lorenc wrote:
Hello,
Is there any way that I could have a single blank line (12 pt)
inserted between each of my footnotes using the report class in Lyx?
e.g.:
Here,[1] is,[2] an, example.[3]
_
1. Some publication informaton, Single spaced.
2. Some more, single spaced.
3. The end, single spaced.
In the LyX menu, go to Document - Settings... . Click on LaTeX
Preamble and in the text area to the right add the line:
\setlength{\footnotesep}{10pt}
Adjust the 10 in 10pt up or down to your taste.
Chris Menzel
Small LyX 1.5.2 (OS X only?) ERT bug
I've found what looks like a very small bug in LyX 1.5.2 under at least OS X. I've not been able to check whether it arises on any other platform. If I open a new window on the document I'm editing (*the* feature I'd been waiting years for -- thanks LyX developers!) and insert an ERT, I cannot collapse it simply by clicking on the grey ERT area to the left of the ERT box. Similarly, if I click on a collapsed ERT, it does not open up. The same ERTs will collapse/open if I click on them in the original window. I can collapse and open ERTs in the new window by right clicking and using the dialog box, but I should think you'd want to see the same behavior regardless of the window. Chris Menzel
Option key as meta (OS X) broken in 2.0.5.1?
Greetings LyX folk: As one who has Emacs keybindings solidly hardwired into muscle memory after 20+ years, I rely on the use of the Option key on the Apple keyboard to be used as an Emacs meta key in LyX. This appears to be broken in 2.0.5.1 — it works fine in 2.0.5. Looking through the archives since 2.0.5.1 came available in January I see no mention of this so am posting here. I've reverted to 2.0.5 so am not in dire need here but thought I'd bring it up to the community in case I've missed something. Chris Menzel
Re: Option key as meta (OS X) broken in 2.0.5.1?
Hi Stephan, thanks for the reply. I'm simply using the default emacs.bind file and I checked to make sure I don't have a custom .bind file lurking in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0. I have both 2.0.5 and 2.0.5.1 installed on my MBP. In 2.0.5, Option is meta (as it seems to me it has been for a long time) — e.g., Option-f moves the cursor forward by word, Option-b backward by word, etc. In 2.0.5.1 I get ƒ and ∫ with those keys. I just did a diff on the bind files and they are identical (and both have both opt-f and cmd-f listed as hotkeys for word-forward). Let me know if I can give you any more information. -chris On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 09.04.2013 um 18:18 schrieb Chris Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com: Greetings LyX folk: As one who has Emacs keybindings solidly hardwired into muscle memory after 20+ years, I rely on the use of the Option key on the Apple keyboard to be used as an Emacs meta key in LyX. This appears to be broken in 2.0.5.1 — it works fine in 2.0.5. Looking through the archives since 2.0.5.1 came available in January I see no mention of this so am posting here. I've reverted to 2.0.5 so am not in dire need here but thought I'd bring it up to the community in case I've missed something. Sorry for the late response… I'm a little bit surprised, the difference between 2.0.5 and 2.0.5.1 is minimal and it should affect the loading of the LaTeX package babel only. What's your exact setup regarding the keyboard mapping? Normally, the Option isn't a meta key in LyX. It should be a modifier to access the 3rd level of a key, e.g. @ at L or ∑ at W. Regards, Stephan
Re: Option key as meta (OS X) broken in 2.0.5.1?
Just noting that in 2.0.6 things have returned for me to the way they were in 2.0.5 — option is functioning as a meta key with the emacs.bind file. option-f in particular is not generating the two messages as they were in 2.0.5.1: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1752): isText() is true, inserting. frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1770): SelfInsert arg[`ƒ'] -chris On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.comwrote: On Apr 12, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 12.04.2013 um 22:12 schrieb Chris Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com: Hi Stephan, thanks for the reply. I'm simply using the default emacs.bind file and I checked to make sure I don't have a custom .bind file lurking in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0. I have both 2.0.5 and 2.0.5.1 installed on my MBP. In 2.0.5, Option is meta (as it seems to me it has been for a long time) — e.g., Option-f moves the cursor forward by word, Option-b backward by word, etc. In 2.0.5.1 I get ƒ and ∫ with those keys. I just did a diff on the bind files and they are identical (and both have both opt-f and cmd-f listed as hotkeys for word-forward). Let me know if I can give you any more information. Sorry, I cannot see the difference here. I tried the following: 1. open LyX-2.0.5+qt4.dmg 2. start LyX.app from there 3. open app preference window 4. change the keyboard shortcuts file to emacs 5. type some text and reposition the cursor at the very beginning 6. Enable messages view and choose selective reporting of keyboard events 7. type Option-f This is the content of the debug messages: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is Alt_R frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp (1046): count: 1 text: ƒ isAutoRepeat: 0 key: 70 keyState: Alt- frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (623): Getting key 70, with text 'ƒ' frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (629): Setting key to 70, ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is f frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 0 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1710): action first set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1718): action now set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1729): Key [action=][Option-F] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1752): isText() is true, inserting. frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1770): SelfInsert arg[`ƒ'] Please, send me the report of your LyX's debug messages report for entering Option-f. I know the behavior regarding the Option key has changed some time ago. But not from 2.0.5 to 2.0.5.1, I'm almost sure. Hi Stephan, here's what I get in 2.0.5: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is Alt_R frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp (1046): count: 1 text: ƒ isAutoRepeat: 0 key: 70 keyState: Alt- frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (623): Getting key 70, with text 'ƒ' frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (629): Setting key to 70, ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is f frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 0 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1710): action first set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1718): action now set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1729): Key [action=][Option-F] Looks like I'm not getting those last two lines: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1752): isText() is true, inserting. frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1770): SelfInsert arg[`ƒ'] In 2.0.5.1 I get what you get: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is Alt_R frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp (1163): preeditString: commitString: ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp (1046): count: 1 text: ƒ isAutoRepeat: 0 key: 0 keyState: frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (623): Getting key 0, with text 'ƒ' frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (629): Setting key to 0, ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 0 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1710): action first set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1718): action now set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1729): Key [action=][] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1752): isText() is true, inserting. frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1770): SelfInsert arg[`ƒ'] -chris
Re: LyX.app can't be opened
I'd suggest Googling can't be opened because it's from an unidentified developer. On Jun 26, 2013 12:36 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: New computer. Now on OS X Mountain Lion. When I started LyX after installing it, I got a message saying, LyX.app can't be opened because it's from an unidentified developer. What do I need to do? Thanks, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net With an ounce of willingness, everything can change. - Kim
Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor
On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style tweaks with their own style files --- so I don't have to worry about it. Two of our best journals in philosophy -- journals that regularly publish rather technical papers -- require final versions of accepted papers be submitted in Word. Transcribing a fairly technical 30 page paper I'd written in LyX into Word for one of these journals was excruciating.
Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:53 AM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.netwrote: And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the past 15 years or so. The first public LyX version was when? Can't have been much longer than 10 years ago. Way earlier than that. I switched to Lyx after I completed my dissertation (which I wrote in Framemaker, on a NeXt cube. I've been using LyX since 2000 or so but didn't start using it seriously until they implemented the ability to open multiple panes and windows on a single buffer — lack of that feature had been a dealbreaker that kept me with Emacs+auctex. Since then, however, I've used it for nearly all of my papers and presentations. It's really superb software, especially for longtime LaTeX users. Boy am I old!). I defended in 1997... Oh please... :-) -chris
Re: Facilitate testing on OSX - WAS: menu bar lost in OS X
On 01/29/14, 02:41 , Richard Heck wrote: ...We have had this problem before, and there are other issues about Cocoa versus whatever versus whatever else. It is difficult to test every combination, and we have only a couple active OSX developers. Many of them use trunk (2.1.dev) for obvious sorts of reasons. So, well, we could really use a couple people who could test the OSX version on a more regular basis. Well, I'm running 2.1.0 dev (with good stability) on both OS X 10.9 and Linux on a Chromebook (thanks to Crouton). Tell me what to do to help. -chris
Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts
On Oct 8, 2014 12:46 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Is there an ETA for a retina-supported version? :-) Yes, I'm working on it and hopefully there is a first version around christmas. Excellent news! I haven't found lack of retina support to be intolerable, fortunately -- it's not terribly noticeable if you aren't working to close to the screen. But it will be really nice to have the super sharp fonts and graphics that make the retina displays such a pleasure to use. -chris
Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts
Since Stephan Witt has said LyX will be updated to accommodate Retina displays within the next couple of months, it seems to me that that will address your concerns about upgrading to a rMBP. As to your question, fonts render normally on a non-Retina external monitor hooked up to a rMBP. -chris On Oct 20, 2014 2:07 PM, Stephen Buonopane sbuon...@bucknell.edu wrote: I have been following this thread (and past related ones) with great interest as I will be forced to upgrade to a retina Mac in the next 6 months or so. Could someone post some screen shots that show the on-screen quality on a retina mac versus non-retina? How is the image quality on a non-retina external display hooked up to a retina Mac? Sounds like typing responsiveness is also an issue as well. Steve On Oct 20, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.10.2014 um 17:44 schrieb Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com chris.men...@gmail.com: On Oct 20, 2014 7:46 AM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, it is so. My wife has both versions and Lyx on Retina is not a useless application, but a very difficult one to work with. My experience is quite different (though of course YMMV). There is no doubt that the screen fonts in LyX ≤2.1.2 look much better on a non-Retina display when examined close up; on a rMBP, the edges of font characters and most icons are blurred and pixelated. But I find that, with the right choice of screen fonts (notably, in my case, Georgia for the main text font), if I am working at a comfortable distance from the screen (including with the laptop in my lap), the blurred/pixelated edges of the fonts are not noticeable. (For the record, my (corrected) vision is very good.) That said, there is little doubt that the LyX user experience on the rMBP will be much better still when the version with Retina support comes out, and I eagerly await it. (IIRC Stephan thinks that might be around Christmas.) Stephan (or anyone), quick question: Is there any reason to think screen fonts in LyX 2.1.2 will look appreciably better or worse on a new 5k-Retina iMac than on a rMBP? Chris, frankly, I wasn't sure I understood Jerry's comment. Perhaps he's talking about speed and not about crisp fonts. Ah, yes, that could be (subject of the thread notwithstanding). Typing is a bit laggy on a rMBP (assuming that's the sort of thing you have in mind by speed). Since I mostly use LyX for writing papers and I tend to write rather haltingly, the lag is not usually noticeable. But if I were using it for tasks where I wanted to type full speed, especially if I were a really fast typist, I can see that lag could be pretty annoying. To answer your question: I have to check it first. Thanks! -chris
Re: mac os x and ispell
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:39:27PM -0400, Varun Reddy wrote: Hi, I get the error message Lyx:Failed to start ispell! when i try to use the spellchecker. I have selected ispell in the preferences-Spellchecker-Spellchecker program: option. Can some one please help me troubleshoot this problem? Did you specify the full path to ispell? If you installed it via fink, this would be /sw/bin/ispell -chris
Re: mac os x and ispell
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:46:04PM -0400, Varun Reddy wrote: Chris, Where do i include the path to ispell? Ah, I see; it just gives you several executables in a drop down list rather than asking you to type one in. I do see ispell in the /sw/bin directory, but i dont see an option to specify the path to ispell under the preferences dialog box of LyX. Sounds like /sw/bin isn't in your path. Have you specified a PATH environment variable in an environment.plist file in your ~/.MacOSX directory? If not, create the file out of the following: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple. com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd plist version=1.0 dict keyPATH/key string/sw/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/lib:/us r/sbin:/etc:/usr/X11R6/bin/string keySHELL/key string/bin/bash/string keyDISPLAY/key string:0.0/string /dict /plist Change your shell as appropriate if you don't use bash. delete the DISPLAY key and the 0.0 string if you don't use X11. You might also add the path to your tex executable if you didn't install tetex via fink, and add/delete other dirs in the PATH string to suit your needs. Chris Menzel
Re: mac os x and ispell
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:44:57AM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: Chris Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like /sw/bin isn't in your path. Have you specified a PATH environment variable in an environment.plist file in your ~/.MacOSX directory? LyX/Mac-1.3.4 automatically sets the PATH to include /sw/bin and other directories necessary for teTeX and other auxiliary executables. Another good idea in LyX/Mac, Ronald! -chris
Re: Basic Question
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:56:46PM -0300, Carlos Fernando Knauer wrote: Hi. I download a file with extension STY. Where do I install it ? I use tetex on Conectiva Linux with LyX 1.3.4 . Probably in a subdirectory of /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex or /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex, but before doing anything rash, wander over to http://www.tug.org/tds and learn about the TeX directory structure. Then have a look at the UK TeX FAQ, http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html, especially the section on installing new packages (and the importance of running texhash). See also the comp.text.tex FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tex-faq. Note that many TeX packages have installation routines that do all or most of the work for you. Details are usually found in accompanying readme files. Chris Menzel
Re: Mod Keys -- for Mac LyXers only
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:34:10AM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: On Aug 26, 2004, at 1:43 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Does anyone know where does MacOs X define the bindings for the various Mod keys? I use LyX/Qt for Mac and I would like to modify the setup of Control, Alt, Meta, and Compose, but do not know where to look for help. The Lyx docs assume you are using X11, which isn't the case with LyX/Qt (as far as I know). I've created a new Mac.bind file that will be available in the next version of LyX-Mac. It uses standard Mac conventions for things like cursor movement, bold, underline, ellipses, etc. I suspect one thing Mr Helm wanted to know is whether there is a way to use the Ctrl key instead of the Cmd key for C-... commands. I believe Mac QT doesn't allow this. A solution that works reasonably well for me is to use uControl (http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ucontrol.html) to map CapsLock to Cmd, which, for LyX anyway, puts what is effectvely the control key where God intended it to be (though the damn capslock light still goes off and on...). Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac modifier keys -- any hope for a better solution?
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:42:15AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Other people have complained that the current bindings are not nice for people using emacs bindings. Is that your case? Just to register the fact -- I would echo this complaint. I still use emacs extensively, and it is very awkward to switch to LyX and use Cmd. Using uControl to map CapsLock to Cmd helps quite a lot, though... Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac modifier keys -- any hope for a better solution?
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:59:33PM +0800, Jason Woodard wrote: On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:41 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: Does that mean you're using Qt-3.1.2? In my experience more recent Qt versions are great improvements (at least for Mac), and they don't require Ronald's patch anymore. I'd recommend trying Qt-3.3.3: it's worth the long compile! Indeed--thanks for the tip. I recompiled and posted a new binary at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg. Now that is really nice! No more fumbling fingers and unintended commands when switching between LyX and emacs. Thanks to all of y'all! -chris
Re: LyX/Mac modifier keys -- one oddity
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:16:17AM -0500, Chris Menzel wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:59:33PM +0800, Jason Woodard wrote: ... I recompiled and posted a new binary at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg. Now that is really nice! No more fumbling fingers and unintended commands when switching between LyX and emacs. Thanks to all of y'all! Only one little piece of freakiness I've found with this version: hitting ^ in math mode no longer conveniently throws you into a superscript box. It just displays as a caret. It works as it should for single character superscripts, but if I want multiple characters I need to use the math panel to get into a superscript box. (Surrounding characters I want superscripted with curly brackets does not work; you just end up with a superscripted left curly bracket.) A parallel problem does not arise for _, which puts you into a subscript box as usual. Chris Menzel
Re: Mac installation problem
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:53:17PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote: Hello, I'm new to the LaTeX-world and wanted to ask for some help with a problem installing LyX for Mac OS X (10.2.8). I have already a working teTex installation and tried Texshop, which worked fine. Now I wanted to have a look at LyX. But when running the LyX-installer it stops saying There is an error, please try again (something like that, but in German). Have you tried the version that Jason Woodard compiled? http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg Also, I am wondering whether there is a problem arising from the fact that you are using Jaguar (OS X 10.2.x) and trying to install a version compiled under Panther (10.3.x). Chris Menzel
Re: Mac installation problem
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote: Hello again and thanks so far, the installer I got from http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac is for Mac OS 10.2 or later, so that should not be the problem. In light of Jean-Marc's earlier remark that LyX/Mac is supposedly compiled in a way that makes it work for 10.2 as well as 10.3 you might try the Woodard version I suggested (which enables you to use the control key for emacs keybindings). The log-file reads: Tue Oct 12 10:47:41 CEST 2004 Found TeXbin directory: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current Found installation directory: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local Cannot install Srcltx files. I would suppose that you are an administrator on your machine, but that sort of error is often caused by insufficient privileges. Just a thought. Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac X11 issue
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:18:09PM -0600, dcbns wrote: I'm having problems getting LyX (1.3.5, precompiled QT) on Mac OS X (10.3.6) to work with X11 programs like xdvi and gv. Hi Dave, In case you are not aware of this option, as an alternative to xdvi and gv you might try using TeXShop as your previewer, as it is OS X native and renders beautiful PDF (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html). To do so, set Preferences - File formats - PDF (pdflatex) in LyX to /Applications/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop and use View - PDF (pdflatex) to view your document. To have TeXShop refresh automatically when you have LyX update via View - Update - PDF (pdflatex), click the Automatic Preview Update box in the TeXShop - Preferences - Preview dialog. Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac X11 issue
Tomohiru Nishino wrote: On Nov 15, 2004, at 6:24 AM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:18:09PM -0600, dcbns wrote: I'm having problems getting LyX (1.3.5, precompiled QT) on Mac OS X (10.3.6) to work with X11 programs like xdvi and gv. Hi Dave, In case you are not aware of this option, as an alternative to xdvi and gv you might try using TeXShop as your previewer, as it is OS X native and renders beautiful PDF (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html). To do so, set Preferences - File formats - PDF (pdflatex) in LyX to /Applications/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop and use View - PDF (pdflatex) to view your document. To have TeXShop refresh automatically when you have LyX update via View - Update - PDF (pdflatex), click the Automatic Preview Update box in the TeXShop - Preferences - Preview dialog. One minor correction. If you do it this way, the View-Update-PDF(pdflatex) doesn't work, and every time you try to preview a document will cause a new instance of TeXShop to run (you will get multiple copies of TeXShop running, and will see multiple TeXShop icons on the dock). (At least that is what happens on my machine.) Hi Tomohiru, thanks for chiming in. The method I suggested works just fine for me; no multiple copies. As a remark later in your message suggests, I believe that, to update your PDFs, you are using only View - PDF (pdflatex) rather than View- Update - PDF (pdflatex), as I'd suggested. Updating that way WILL in fact run a new copy of TeXShop if you configure things according to my suggestion. Instead, in Preferences-File formats-PDF(pdflatex) set the viewer field to: open -a TeXShop That is certainly more OS X-ish, and in light of the above, it is marginally preferable since it saves you a mouse gesture (though it works out the same for appropriate keystroke macros, which is my preferred method of previewing/updating). Then, do as Chris suggests and use View-PDF(pdflatex) to preview documents. Almost, but not quite, what I'd suggested! :-) This way, the automatic update works as well. By the way, if you want to use Preview as your viewer, all you have to do is set the Preferences to: open -a Preview The major drawback is that Preview does not support updating of the document that is already open, so each time you want to see changes you have made, you have to close the previously open document in Preview. That would, for me, be major in the sense of show stopper! -chris
Re: LyX/Mac X11 issue
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:08:37AM +1300, Stefano Franchi wrote: , click the Automatic Preview Update box in the TeXShop - Preferences - Preview dialog. There does not seem to be any such Preference in my version of TeXShop (1.19, just downloaded), though. ?? Latest version is 1.35. Just picked it up myself. Are you getting it directly from Koch's site at University of Oregon? Google texshop. Should be the first site. Automatic updating does not seem to happen either by selecting ViewPDF(Latex) or ViewUpdatePDF(latex) Right, not with pre-1.30 versions of TeXShop. Let me know if you're having trouble finding a recent version. -chris
Re: lyx/mac installation questions.
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:32:28PM -0800, Sang Oh wrote: i just installed the lyx/mac binaries. lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working. (dvi, pdf, ps...) none works. i did a default installation. (defalut install path) my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx Not a lot to work with here! :-) If you go to LyX - Preferences - File formats, what do you find in the Viewer field when you highlight PDF (pdflatex)? Chris Menzel
Alt/Meta again
LyX folk, I recently set up a new FreeBSD/Xorg workstation for myself at my office. LyX installed easily and works beautifully, of course, but I cannot for the life of me get either LeftAlt or the Windows (ugh) key to function as a Meta key. This seems to be LyX-specific. LeftAlt works fine as Meta under emacs and xemacs out of the box. But under LyX it works as I believe it is designed to by default, viz., like an Alt key, i.e., Alt-f brings up the File menu, Alt-d the Document menu, etc. The most I've been able to do using xmodmap is simply to deactivate Alt alt-ogether. :-) This is such a dumb, elementary problem that I feel embarrassed asking about it, but I've searched in all the usual places (LyX wiki, many mailing lists, general googling) for several hours and have come up empty. I am new to both FreeBSD and Xorg (I use OS X and Gentoo Linux/XFree86 on laptop and home machines) and things work a bit differently than I'm used to, but I'm really stumped here. Any suggestions gratefully accepted. Chris Menzel
Re: Alt/Meta again
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:08:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Chris Menzel wrote: This seems to be LyX-specific. LeftAlt works fine as Meta under emacs and xemacs out of the box. But under LyX it works as I believe it is designed to by default, viz., like an Alt key, i.e., Alt-f brings up the File menu, Alt-d the Document menu, etc. The most I've been able to do using xmodmap is simply to deactivate Alt alt-ogether. :-) Chris, Have you tried the [Esc] key? I've found linux apps that accept that as the meta key; emacs, for example. Yes, Rich, I even tried that old standby -- but even if it worked I wouldn't count it as a solution! Would be like 20 years ego when I first learned emacs on a terminal to a DEC 2060. 1-2 punching the keyboard over and over to move forward by word? Never again! :-) -chris
Re: selling lyx part 2
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:09:15PM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote: cons: = * lyx/word exchange is horrible Feature. ;-)
Re: Control as control on Mac OS X
Guillaume Marcais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On MacOSX, the Control modifier has been mapped to the Apple key, and
the Meta modifier to the Alt key. I guess this is nice for old MacOS
timers.
No, it isn't!! :-)
But I am using the emacs binding and the fact that the control or
escape changed place on the keyboard makes it almost a new set of
binding to learn...
So the question, is there a way on the MacOSX platform to have the
Control and Meta modifier back to their traditional UNIX location,
i.e. the ctrl and esc keys?
The problem with Ctrl lies with Qt, but lucky for us, Jason Woodard was
savvy enough to write a patch for Qt 3.3.3 to fix this, and posted it in
the msg below. There is also a link to an OS X LyX 1.3.5 binary if you
don't want to compile it yourself. Note this does not give you Esc for
Meta; that role is given to the Cmd key (as with X11 emacs under OS X).
IMO, this is far superior, as it requires less of a stretch and, more
important, gives you a persistent Meta key that works like Ctrl; no
need to bang on the Esc key repeatedly to, e.g., move the cursor by
word.
Chris Menzel
- Forwarded message from Jason Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
From: Jason Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Qt mods: LyX/Mac modifier keys
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:19:46 +0800
To: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Hi,
Following an earlier discussion of how to change the modifier key
bindings for Mac OS X, Chris Menzel asked me to post the changes I made
to build a fixed version of 1.3.4:
Can you make your changes to Qt available so that Mac folks like me
don't have to ask you to recompile LyX every time a new version becomes
available? :-) I'd like to compile 1.3.5, but definitely need to
avoid that nasty, non-emacsy Ctrl-Cmd key mapping.
The patch needed for Qt 3.3.3 / LyX 1.3.5 is actually the same as the
one I posted in September, but I'm reposting it at the end of this note
for convenience. To build 1.3.5, I downloaded the source distribution
from ftp.lyx.org and followed the instructions in README.MacOSX, using
Qt 3.3.3 and the configuration flags to make a build that works with
both 10.2 and 10.3. The only thing I did differently was to apply a
patch file before compiling Qt.
To create the patch file, cut and paste the text at the end of this
note into a plain text file; call it anything and put it anywhere you
like. (You can even paste the whole note--the patch program is very
forgiving.) Then, from the top of the Qt source hierarchy, issue the
command:
patch -p0 YOUR-PATCH-FILE
where YOUR-PATCH-FILE is of course the path to the patch file you
created. Patch should respond with:
patching file src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1225 (offset 281 lines).
That's it--the rest of the build should work as advertised.
(And now that you know how to fish, I shouldn't mention that I've
posted a new binary at
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.5_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg,
but there it is :-)
Please let me know if you encounter any difficulties.
regards,
-j
Jason Woodard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp.origThu Jun 19 01:35:24 2003
+++ src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp Wed Sep 15 14:39:45 2004
@@ -944,11 +944,11 @@
static key_sym modifier_syms[] = {
{ shiftKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ShiftButton) },
{ rightShiftKeyBit, MAP_KEY(Qt::ShiftButton) },
-{ controlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::MetaButton) },
-{ rightControlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::MetaButton) },
-{ cmdKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) },
-{ optionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
-{ rightOptionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
+{ controlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) },
+{ rightControlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) },
+{ cmdKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
+// { optionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
+// { rightOptionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
{ kEventKeyModifierNumLockMask, MAP_KEY(Qt::Keypad) },
{ 0, MAP_KEY(0) } };
static int get_modifiers(int key, bool from_mouse=FALSE)
- End forwarded message -
Re: MAC OS X
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:59:52AM -0400, pano karambelas wrote: Was a wintel person until just now. Is LYX easy to install on the MAC or is it some sort of multi stage process that borders on the painful and unforgiving. I only ask the question b/c I really have zero familiarity w/MAC OS, linux, etc. Many thanks for any basic pointers, etc. It's quite easy to install LyX on an OS X machine, albeit a bit time-consuming to install everything you need (but once it's done, it's done). The Lyx/Mac page on the LyX wiki should give you all the info and instructions you need: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac I recommend Gerben Wierda's TeX i-Installer (rather than fink) for installing TeX and the necessary support applications -- follow the link on the Wiki page. I also recommend using TeXShop as a previewer -- follow the link on the Wiki page to find it, and then follow the instructions for configuring LyX to use TeXShop under the Previewers section of the Wiki page. Chris Menzel
Re: MAC OS X
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:20:59PM -0400, pano karambelas wrote: Maybe I'm asking the question incorrectly but after the installation of tex (via i-install as described) lyx, will I be able to use Latex code Of course. I don't know of an installation of TeX that doesn't include the LaTeX environment. If yes, I assume it's Latex2-e. You can install TeX 2.02 or TeX 3.0. I believe the version of LaTeX that comes with TeX 3.0 is called LaTeX 3.0 and supersedes LaTeX2e, but I must admit I'm not sure of the fine points here. I've had no problems at all with TeX 3.0 on any platform, including OS X. Chris Menzel
Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:20:33PM -0400, pano karambelas wrote: Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex on. TeXShop (really terrific): http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html Carbon emacs: http://home.att.ne.jp/alpha/z123/emacs-mac-e.html For the latter, make sure to use the auctex package. Google auctex for details. I recommended TeXShop as a previewer for LyX in an earlier message, but it's actually an extremely robust environment for writing LaTeX documents, complete with integrated editor. And since you're using a Mac, google XeTeX, a Mac-specific TeX implementation that enables you to use all of your Mac fonts with LaTeX (Hoefler Text is especially nice). XeTeX support is integrated into TeXShop. Incidentally, given that I just installed tex/latex on my MAC (using i-installer) to use w/LyX, is it correct to assume that this installation would suffice in order to run any future, say non-wysiwym editors, that I might install? That is, is it true that i-install is not just a way of getting tex/latex for LyX, but also for any front-end editor you might want to use? Yes, of course. LyX simply calls your system's TeX installation, just as an ordinary text editor would. Chris Menzel
Re: OS X Tigger
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:12:40AM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: Installing cocoaspell works for me with LyX-1.3.5 on 10.3. For it to work, however, you must create a soft link from /Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell to /usr/local/bin/aspell (as specified in the wiki page (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mac). I don't have 10.4, which I gather is what you mean when you say tigger, right? Right (o.k.a. Tiger). Do let us know if there is an incompatibility there. There is an incompatibility there! :-) The 10.3 wiki instructions fail for 10.4; setting the LyX Spellchecker pref to aspell and then doing a spellcheck brings up the error msg: Error: The file /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english can not be opened for reading. There is no such file, or subdir, as english in /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60. (Nor is there, for that matter, any such file in the aspell-0.60 distribution on my FreeBSD box -- which suggests perhaps aspell is not being called correctly within LyX?) I've tried setting numerous symlinks therein to dictionary files and such that are residing in /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0 to no avail (all of which returned an error msg to the effect that the file I tried linking to was in the wrong format). aspell works just fine from the command line, btw. Just FYI, Darwinports ispell works, and I perhaps Darwinports aspell would as well, but I wasn't able to confirm that, as the compile failed. :-( Chris Menzel
Re: OS X Tigger
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:09:15AM +0800, Rob Davies wrote: Do let us know if there is an incompatibility there. There is an incompatibility there! :-) The 10.3 wiki instructions fail for 10.4; setting the LyX Spellchecker pref to aspell and then doing a spellcheck brings up the error msg: It is not an incompatibility, because it is not installed. Ah, but it is! Error: The file /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english can not be opened for reading. There is no such file, or subdir, as english in /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60. (Nor is there, for that matter, any such file in the aspell-0.60 distribution on my FreeBSD box -- which suggests perhaps aspell is not being called correctly within LyX?) I've tried setting numerous symlinks therein to dictionary files and such that are residing in /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6- en-6.0-0 to no avail (all of which returned an error msg to the effect that the file I tried linking to was in the wrong format). aspell works just fine from the command line, btw. If you have installed cocoAspell 2.? then you will not need the link as it already does this for you. I have installed cocoAspell 2.0.1, and there is no such link (unless perhaps I'm not understanding what this in it already does this for you). What you need to do is follow the link to the dictionaries on cocoAspell site and download aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2. Decompress and place folder in /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell this places it where OS X Tigger looks for it then go into your System Preferences and select dictionaries. The package install program does all of this for you. (Just to be sure, I went and grabbed the file in question and unzipped it. It is exactly what I find in /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0.) Now try LyX if it works congrats if not then their is another trick. Copy the file you downloaded from the one you placed in cocoAspell using command line tool (Terminal) go to where folder is and type executing with the return key after each command. ./configure make make install This installs the dictionary in the actual Aspell folder at /usr/ local/lib/aspell-0.60 It was already there. and LyX should work with this dictionary now. Blimey, must have been a permissions thing, as the content of the two relevant dirs appears not to have changed, but this did the trick! Something must be just a bit wonky with the cocoAspell package installer. Much obliged! -chris
Re: Mysterious error?
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 07:32:31PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Aristotle's Notion of Potentiality in {\emph {Metaphysics}}
$\Theta$
\end{document}
And everything is perfect. Easy, isn't it?
I was just going suggest deleting everything by Heidegger from the .bib
file, but I guess this solution is better -- at least, from a technical
point of view...
:-)
Re: Lyx Aqua on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.1
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:49AM +0200, carnack wrote: Hi All, I used Lyx Aqua 1.3.5 for Mac OS X on Panther with fink and everything was fine. I created my own environment.plist with the PATH and language for Lyx to use. Now I installed a fresh Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.1) but have problems. Lyx does not find epstopdf for converting pictures even though it is in /sw/bin and in my PATH of the evironment.plist. If I start Lyx from the TERMINAL.app where there is the PATH set up, too and everything runs fine. Lyx is able to find epstopdf. I really tried to find a solution but to no avail. Have you tried just giving the full path to epstopdf (i.e., /sw/bin/epstodpf) in the Converter field of LyX...Preferences... Converters...EPS - PDF ? Chris Menzel
Re: Lyx-1.2.1 on MacOS 10.2
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:05:12AM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: I've now successfully installed Lyx-1.2.1 on MacOS 10.2 and used it long enough to be comfortable with it. ... After many years on Sparc Solaris boxes, I find MacOS 10.2 is a nice platform for LyX. PowerMacs are fast, the option-key functions as a native Mac compose key for foreign and special characters, I can't seem to get LyX to recognize the Command key as a metakey under 10.2. It works just find as the metakey under other X apps, such as xemacs. I installed it with fink. Ideas here would be greatly appreciated. Chris Menzel
Re: Lyx-1.2.1 on MacOS 10.2
Chris Menzel wrote: I can't seem to get LyX to recognize the Command key as a metakey under 10.2. It works just find as the metakey under other X apps, such as xemacs. I installed it with fink. Ideas here would be greatly appreciated. LyX seems to use a different mapping of keys from other X11 programs. Try adding clear mod1 add mod1 = Meta_L to your ~/.Xmodmap file, then make sure your X-server/window-manager combination run xmodmap incorporating those settings. Cha-Ching! Thanks. -chris
Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very bad effect, since /dev/null is a very basic device in any unix system. Does anyone know if this bug affects the configure script in the fink OS X port of LyX with version number 1.2.2-1 (which I believe is the most current version available)? The -1 suggests that perhaps the script has been modified to remove the bug. Chris Menzel
LyX site down?
I've been unable to access *.lyx.org for the past couple of days. Does anyone know what the problem is? Chris Menzel
Compilation error under OS X (lyx 1.2.3)
I'm trying to compile lyx 1.2.3 under OS X with the qt2 frontend, and am getting the following error well into the compile: make[6]: *** No rule to make target `QAboutDialogBase.C', needed by `QAboutDialogBase.lo'. Stop. Help? Chris Menzel
Re: Compilation error under OS X (lyx 1.2.3)
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:17:25AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The qt fronent is non-functional under lyx 1.2.x. Get version 1.3.0 instead. Thanks for the info. Alas, 1.3 doesn't compile under OS X due to a bug in its version of gcc. -chris
Re: Compilation error under OS X (lyx 1.2.3)
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:01:22PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Chris == Chris Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:17:25AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Chris wrote: The qt fronent is non-functional under lyx 1.2.x. Get version 1.3.0 instead. Chris Thanks for the info. Alas, 1.3 doesn't compile under OS X due Chris to a bug in its version of gcc. Indeed. I nearly forgot about this one :( Yes, so I'm currently stuck -- 1.2.1 crashes when it tries to save, and 1.2.[23] crash when they try to display inline eps. I was notified that the latter bug had been addressed, but now it seems that the lyx web and ftp servers are down, so I can't try out the latest source. Fortunately, I was able to load the file I needed to work on (an exam for my students) into 1.2.3 (the first eps occurs several pages in) so I could export to latex and work on the file in emacs. Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac-1.3.3
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:10:02PM -0700, Chris Dole wrote: Mac users rejoice. However the link seems to be broken. Anyone successfully able to download this? Downloaded and installed just this evening. It is a beautiful piece of work. We OS X devotees owe Ronald and the LyX folks huge thanks. One question though -- is there a way to move the usual control key functionality from the Command key *back* to the control key? Emacs key bindings are pretty well hardwired into my fingers, and CMD-a just doesn't cut it for getting to the start of the line! :-) Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac-1.3.3
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:04:56AM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: Chris Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One question though -- is there a way to move the usual control key functionality from the Command key *back* to the control key? Emacs key bindings are pretty well hardwired into my fingers, and CMD-a just doesn't cut it for getting to the start of the line! :-) Alas, that key-mapping is hard-wired into the Qt/MacOSX library. (My emacs-trained fingers have had the same woes.) Well, for reaonably lengthy editing sessions, a workaround here is to install the uControl package (http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol), which gives you a System preference pane that enables you to swap various meta keys around, including Control and Command. (This suggests to me, though, that there is a way to have LyX do the swap on its own...) The newer versions of the Qt/MacOSX library are worse: they grab the Option key so it cannot function as a Compose key or be mapped for LyX keyboard shortcuts. Grim news... Chris Menzel
Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:13:20PM +0200, yardbird wrote: ...Another big advantage is the immediate visual feedback when writing in math - mode; it's very helpful with long and cluttered equations. Not to discourage you from LyX, which is terrific, but you can get close-to-WYSIWYG math with emacs + the x-symbol package: http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net Chris Menzel
Re: I can't preview in Lyx/Mac - Solved (hopefully)!
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:12:42PM +0200, Katrin Pietzsch wrote: ... I needed to specify the applications to preview dvi, ps, pdf - which I did as Oliver Margraf suggested in his mail (Edit -- Preferences? (Einstellungen) -- file format? (Dateiformate) and then open -a Preview or another programme). At least I found a way to view my file - although I don't think that e.g. the programme Preview is able to refresh the view. I have an ghostview installation which runs under X11. Does anybody by any chance know, whether and how I can configure LyX to use a X11-application for previewing files? Under OS X (which I saw from a later post you are using -- congratulations on your great wisdom and finely-honed aesthetic sensibilities! :-). Auf Englisch: Go to LyX - Preferences - File formats; click on Postscript in the File formats window, and in the Viewer field enter gv -watch (no quotes, of course). With the -watch flag set, gv will check every second to see if the .ps file it is rendering has changed, and will refresh if so. So once you preview initially with View - Postscript, thereafter use View - Update - Postscript and your gv window will immediately (well, within one second!) render the updated version. It's of course much faster to bind these actions to keys in your keybinding file -- e.g., I've set View - Postscript to C-x g and the update action to C-x u, the relevant lines in my bind file being: \bind C-x g buffer-view ps \bind C-x u buffer-update ps Cheers! -chris -- /\ ASCII ribbon | Chris Menzel -- http://philebus.tamu.edu/~cmenzel \/ campaign | Philosophy Dept, Texas AM University /\ against| College Station, TX 77843-4237 / \ HTML email | voice: 979.845-5660 fax: 979.845.0458
Re: I can't preview in Lyx/Mac - Solved (hopefully)!
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:29:50PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: Chris Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Go to LyX - Preferences - File formats; click on Postscript in the File formats window, and in the Viewer field enter gv -watch (no quotes, of course). With the -watch flag set, gv will check every second to see if the .ps file it is rendering has changed, and will refresh if so. MacDviX also updates automatically. Not quite in the same sense -- you have to change the focus to MacDviX with either a mouse gesture or Cmd-Tab to get it to refresh; gv does it in the background and so doesn't require you to leave your editing session to see the update. In my psychology that is a very big difference; I resent having to change focus to see the result of my changes. I also find MacDviX to be rather slow on my 867MhZ PowerBook, whereas gv snaps the newly rendered page onto the screen. The tradeoff here is that MacDviX's rendering is superior to gv's. Nice thing is, since they manipulate different file types, you can configure LyX for both of them and take your pick as the spirit moves. -chris
Re: LyX/Mac - beta testers wanted for new release
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:08:34PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: I welcome beta testers for a new release of LyX/Mac. New features: - Inverse DVI search: if you use MacDviX with Preview - DVI, you can Option-Click in the DVI window and have LyX jump to the corresponding point in the source file. The feature should also work with xdvi. - Simplified installation, even on configurations where the user's home directory is on a symbolic link or remotely mounted. - Automatically installs the preview-latex and srcltx LaTeX macros. Prerequisites are MacOS-10.2 and a teTeX installation, including libiconv, which is normally part of the Wierda and fink installations. If you're interested, email me for download information. Installing the new version takes a few minutes. Thanks, I use the fink tetex installation and had to create a symlink in /usr/local/lib to /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib. Other than that no problems. Nice new feature. Chris Menzel
LyX compile failure
My attempts to compile lyx 1.3.3 with gcc 3.2.3-r3 using qt 3.2.3-r1 under a 2.4.22 Linux kernel are getting clobbered. I'm configuring --with-frontend=qt and --with-x. Here's the failure msg: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../../src -I../../../../../src -I../../../../../src/frontends -I../../../../../src/frontends/controllers -I./qt2 -I/usr/qt/3/include -I../../../../../boost -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_GENUINE_STR -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -O -fno-exceptions -c QSearchDialogBase_moc.C -MT QSearchDialogBase_moc.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/QSearchDialogBase_moc.TPlo QSearchDialogBase_moc.C: In static member function `static QMetaObject* QSearchDialogBase::staticMetaObject()': QSearchDialogBase_moc.C:61: `P5blic' is not a member of type `QMetaData' make[6]: *** [QSearchDialogBase_moc.lo] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lyx-1.3.3/src/frontends/qt2/ui/moc' make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lyx-1.3.3/src/frontends/qt2/ui' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lyx-1.3.3/src/frontends/qt2' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lyx-1.3.3/src/frontends' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lyx-1.3.3/src' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lyx-1.3.3/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Any help or insight appreciated. Chris Menzel
Re: Bibtex desperation
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:21:24AM -0800, Daniel Goldin wrote: .. Thanks so much. Works, but this isn't APA format. I've figured out how to do it in Latex after installing the apacite package. Apacite seems to work wonderfully when I use Latex, but Lyx chokes out multiple errors on the imported test latex file. Oh, well. I wonder if anybody's had similiar problems or knows of a better way to get apa format working in Lyx. Are you sure the problem is not with the import routine (i.e., ReLyX)? Have you tried recreating the file from scratch inside LyX? What are the errors you are seeing? Chris Menzel
\Diamond and \Box
Quick question: my OS X Aqua version of LyX 1.3.4 nicely renders \Diamond and \Box as a diamond and a box (respectively! :-) . Not so my Linux 1.3.4 version. I simply get Diamond and Box in large friendly red letters. Is this simply an advantage of the Aqua version, or am I missing something on the Linux box? Thanks. Chris Menzel
Re: \Diamond and \Box
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 07:10:00PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: Chris Menzel wrote: Quick question: my OS X Aqua version of LyX 1.3.4 nicely renders \Diamond and \Box as a diamond and a box (respectively! :-) . Not so my Linux 1.3.4 version. I simply get Diamond and Box in large friendly red letters. Is this simply an advantage of the Aqua version, or am I missing something on the Linux box? You're missing the answer to the most FAQ. http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Troubleshooting#latexttf Doh! Sorry. I forgot about the wiki. *blush* But I think the real blame here lies with the programmers: LyX works so well I don't get much practice looking for answers to problems! :-) Chris Menzel
multiple views?
Poking around in the developers' list archives, it appears there are plans eventually to add to LyX the capability to have multiple views on one's buffer. This is one of the few things I miss when I use LyX rather than emacs. Do any of those superlative developers have an idea when we grateful users might see that feature? Chris Menzel
Re: multiple views?
My thanks to Andre and Angus for the informative replies. Chris Menzel
Adding symbols to LyX
Gentle LyX developers: What would it take to incorporate a couple of missing logical connectives? The symbols \boxright and \Diamondright from the txfonts package are used very commonly in modal logic to express the *would* and *might* counterfactual conditionals. (Kludged up out of separate symbols they are, roughly, □→ and ◇→.) It would be supercool if these were included in LyX's already great set of native math symbols. Chris Menzel
Re: LyX on Retina display
That screenshot was from my iMac but the quality is about the same on the Macbook Pro. -chris On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Chris Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for posting that screenshot, Stephan. However, I believe I'm getting much better resolution than in your screenshot (under Lyx 2.1.2.2) on both my rMPB and my retina iMac by scaling up the resolution to the next higher setting above the default (on the iMac, the Displays preference pane calls it 2880x1620, but of course with the far higher retina pixel density) and using MinionPro as the screen font: http://cmenzel.org/LyX-screenshot.pdf. To my eyes, the scaled up setting has no effect on the quality of the display in other programs (though you might want to use larger fonts than you would with the default setting). Others screen fonts that (unlike MinionPro http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2012/11/10/installing-minion-pro/) are part of the MacTeX 2014 distribution, e.g., Palatino, seem to me to look almost as good. -chris On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 13.01.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org: On 01/13/2015 09:11 AM, Philippe Lemoine wrote: I was also wondering if there was any hope of seeing a version of LyX that supports Retina display anytime soon. There seems to be a patch out there, but I was under the impression that it was more like a hack and that there might be compatibility issues with future official versions of LyX. If I'm not mistaken, we have hi-DPI support now in the master development branch, but you have to use Qt 5.x to get it, and there are still some bugs being ironed out. But I expect 2.2.0 to include this feature, and we are working toward that now. Yes, support for retina display on Mac and hi-DPI in general is on the way and will be possible in LyX 2.2.0. There are some issues and it's not sure when it will be finished though. But LyX 2.1.x on retina display is usable also. To make a comparison of both versions possible I've made a side-by-side screen shot. You can find it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27842660/Bildschirmfoto%202015-01-13%20um%2022.11.55.png Stephan
Re: LyX on Retina display
Thank you for posting that screenshot, Stephan. However, I believe I'm getting much better resolution than in your screenshot (under Lyx 2.1.2.2) on both my rMPB and my retina iMac by scaling up the resolution to the next higher setting above the default (on the iMac, the Displays preference pane calls it 2880x1620, but of course with the far higher retina pixel density) and using MinionPro as the screen font: http://cmenzel.org/LyX-screenshot.pdf. To my eyes, the scaled up setting has no effect on the quality of the display in other programs (though you might want to use larger fonts than you would with the default setting). Others screen fonts that (unlike MinionPro http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2012/11/10/installing-minion-pro/) are part of the MacTeX 2014 distribution, e.g., Palatino, seem to me to look almost as good. -chris On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 13.01.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org: On 01/13/2015 09:11 AM, Philippe Lemoine wrote: I was also wondering if there was any hope of seeing a version of LyX that supports Retina display anytime soon. There seems to be a patch out there, but I was under the impression that it was more like a hack and that there might be compatibility issues with future official versions of LyX. If I'm not mistaken, we have hi-DPI support now in the master development branch, but you have to use Qt 5.x to get it, and there are still some bugs being ironed out. But I expect 2.2.0 to include this feature, and we are working toward that now. Yes, support for retina display on Mac and hi-DPI in general is on the way and will be possible in LyX 2.2.0. There are some issues and it's not sure when it will be finished though. But LyX 2.1.x on retina display is usable also. To make a comparison of both versions possible I've made a side-by-side screen shot. You can find it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27842660/Bildschirmfoto%202015-01-13%20um%2022.11.55.png Stephan
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Ubuntu (Feisty), LyX 1.5.2-1. Running 1.5.3 under OS X at home and on the road.
Re: Filmstück
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Ich möchte gern aus einem Film im .VOB Format ein Stück herauskopieren, um es in einem Vortrag zu zeigen (Beamer, Latex, aber muß nicht eingebunden sein). Ist das eine komplizierte Sache? You can use hyperref to embed a link in your presentation for calling an external viewer that can handle .vob files. The multimedia package can also be used to embed movies into a PDF Beamer presentation, but I'm not certain if .vob format is supported. See the Beamer user guide.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
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 started LyX on the same box. Please, how do I set up which LaTex distribution will be used by LyX? Thanks! By default LyX will pick up the distribution whose binary directory is listed (first) in your PATH environment variable. You can override this in LyX (works for me, anyway) by going to LyX - Preferences - Paths. In the PATH prefix: field make the directory containing the binaries of the distribution of your choice the first entry in the list, e.g., /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin or /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current. Be sure it is separated from the following entry by a colon.
Re: several TeX distributions in the same box
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:48:50PM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: ... Alternatively, if you're using recent TeX distributions on Mac, you can use System Preferences to set your default TeX distribution, and default LyX PATH Prefix settings will automatically select that default distribution. (If you've modified your PATH Prefix settings, just make sure that /usr/texbin is listed first.) I'm ashamed to say I hadn't noticed that in the System Prefs before today. I'm guessing it was installed when I upgraded to TeXLive 2007 a few weeks back.
Re: Toggle between documents (Mac)
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:31:06AM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: 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-PageUp/Down. JMarc Doesn't work here (LyX/Mac 1.4.1, Mac bind). What's the equivalent on a Mac? OptTab and OptShiftTab Ctrl-PageUp/Down work on a Mac if you are using the default emacs.bind file. I myself prefer the mac.bind bindings for switching buffers so have added the lines \bind M-Tab buffer-next \bind M-S-BackTab buffer-previous to my customized emacs.bind in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/bind. Chris Menzel
Re: Line space between footnotes
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:11:57PM -0400, John Lorenc wrote:
Hello,
Is there any way that I could have a single blank line (12 pt)
inserted between each of my footnotes using the report class in Lyx?
e.g.:
Here,[1] is,[2] an, example.[3]
_
1. Some publication informaton, Single spaced.
2. Some more, single spaced.
3. The end, single spaced.
In the LyX menu, go to Document - Settings... . Click on LaTeX
Preamble and in the text area to the right add the line:
\setlength{\footnotesep}{10pt}
Adjust the 10 in 10pt up or down to your taste.
Chris Menzel
Small LyX 1.5.2 (OS X only?) ERT bug
I've found what looks like a very small bug in LyX 1.5.2 under at least OS X. I've not been able to check whether it arises on any other platform. If I open a new window on the document I'm editing (*the* feature I'd been waiting years for -- thanks LyX developers!) and insert an ERT, I cannot collapse it simply by clicking on the grey ERT area to the left of the ERT box. Similarly, if I click on a collapsed ERT, it does not open up. The same ERTs will collapse/open if I click on them in the original window. I can collapse and open ERTs in the new window by right clicking and using the dialog box, but I should think you'd want to see the same behavior regardless of the window. Chris Menzel
Option key as meta (OS X) broken in 2.0.5.1?
Greetings LyX folk: As one who has Emacs keybindings solidly hardwired into muscle memory after 20+ years, I rely on the use of the Option key on the Apple keyboard to be used as an Emacs meta key in LyX. This appears to be broken in 2.0.5.1 — it works fine in 2.0.5. Looking through the archives since 2.0.5.1 came available in January I see no mention of this so am posting here. I've reverted to 2.0.5 so am not in dire need here but thought I'd bring it up to the community in case I've missed something. Chris Menzel
Re: Option key as meta (OS X) broken in 2.0.5.1?
Hi Stephan, thanks for the reply. I'm simply using the default emacs.bind file and I checked to make sure I don't have a custom .bind file lurking in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0. I have both 2.0.5 and 2.0.5.1 installed on my MBP. In 2.0.5, Option is meta (as it seems to me it has been for a long time) — e.g., Option-f moves the cursor forward by word, Option-b backward by word, etc. In 2.0.5.1 I get ƒ and ∫ with those keys. I just did a diff on the bind files and they are identical (and both have both opt-f and cmd-f listed as hotkeys for word-forward). Let me know if I can give you any more information. -chris On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 09.04.2013 um 18:18 schrieb Chris Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com: Greetings LyX folk: As one who has Emacs keybindings solidly hardwired into muscle memory after 20+ years, I rely on the use of the Option key on the Apple keyboard to be used as an Emacs meta key in LyX. This appears to be broken in 2.0.5.1 — it works fine in 2.0.5. Looking through the archives since 2.0.5.1 came available in January I see no mention of this so am posting here. I've reverted to 2.0.5 so am not in dire need here but thought I'd bring it up to the community in case I've missed something. Sorry for the late response… I'm a little bit surprised, the difference between 2.0.5 and 2.0.5.1 is minimal and it should affect the loading of the LaTeX package babel only. What's your exact setup regarding the keyboard mapping? Normally, the Option isn't a meta key in LyX. It should be a modifier to access the 3rd level of a key, e.g. @ at L or ∑ at W. Regards, Stephan
Re: Option key as meta (OS X) broken in 2.0.5.1?
Just noting that in 2.0.6 things have returned for me to the way they were in 2.0.5 — option is functioning as a meta key with the emacs.bind file. option-f in particular is not generating the two messages as they were in 2.0.5.1: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1752): isText() is true, inserting. frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1770): SelfInsert arg[`ƒ'] -chris On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.comwrote: On Apr 12, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 12.04.2013 um 22:12 schrieb Chris Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com: Hi Stephan, thanks for the reply. I'm simply using the default emacs.bind file and I checked to make sure I don't have a custom .bind file lurking in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0. I have both 2.0.5 and 2.0.5.1 installed on my MBP. In 2.0.5, Option is meta (as it seems to me it has been for a long time) — e.g., Option-f moves the cursor forward by word, Option-b backward by word, etc. In 2.0.5.1 I get ƒ and ∫ with those keys. I just did a diff on the bind files and they are identical (and both have both opt-f and cmd-f listed as hotkeys for word-forward). Let me know if I can give you any more information. Sorry, I cannot see the difference here. I tried the following: 1. open LyX-2.0.5+qt4.dmg 2. start LyX.app from there 3. open app preference window 4. change the keyboard shortcuts file to emacs 5. type some text and reposition the cursor at the very beginning 6. Enable messages view and choose selective reporting of keyboard events 7. type Option-f This is the content of the debug messages: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is Alt_R frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp (1046): count: 1 text: ƒ isAutoRepeat: 0 key: 70 keyState: Alt- frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (623): Getting key 70, with text 'ƒ' frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (629): Setting key to 70, ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is f frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 0 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1710): action first set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1718): action now set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1729): Key [action=][Option-F] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1752): isText() is true, inserting. frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1770): SelfInsert arg[`ƒ'] Please, send me the report of your LyX's debug messages report for entering Option-f. I know the behavior regarding the Option key has changed some time ago. But not from 2.0.5 to 2.0.5.1, I'm almost sure. Hi Stephan, here's what I get in 2.0.5: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is Alt_R frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp (1046): count: 1 text: ƒ isAutoRepeat: 0 key: 70 keyState: Alt- frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (623): Getting key 70, with text 'ƒ' frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (629): Setting key to 70, ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is f frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 0 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1710): action first set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1718): action now set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1729): Key [action=][Option-F] Looks like I'm not getting those last two lines: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1752): isText() is true, inserting. frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1770): SelfInsert arg[`ƒ'] In 2.0.5.1 I get what you get: frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is Alt_R frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp (1163): preeditString: commitString: ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp (1046): count: 1 text: ƒ isAutoRepeat: 0 key: 0 keyState: frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (623): Getting key 0, with text 'ƒ' frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (629): Setting key to 0, ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1687): KeySym is ƒ frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (644): isOK is 1 frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp (652): isModifier is 0 frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1710): action first set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1718): action now set to [] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1729): Key [action=][] frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1752): isText() is true, inserting. frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (1770): SelfInsert arg[`ƒ'] -chris
Re: LyX.app can't be opened
I'd suggest Googling can't be opened because it's from an unidentified developer. On Jun 26, 2013 12:36 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: New computer. Now on OS X Mountain Lion. When I started LyX after installing it, I got a message saying, LyX.app can't be opened because it's from an unidentified developer. What do I need to do? Thanks, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net With an ounce of willingness, everything can change. - Kim
Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor
On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style tweaks with their own style files --- so I don't have to worry about it. Two of our best journals in philosophy -- journals that regularly publish rather technical papers -- require final versions of accepted papers be submitted in Word. Transcribing a fairly technical 30 page paper I'd written in LyX into Word for one of these journals was excruciating.
Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:53 AM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.netwrote: And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the past 15 years or so. The first public LyX version was when? Can't have been much longer than 10 years ago. Way earlier than that. I switched to Lyx after I completed my dissertation (which I wrote in Framemaker, on a NeXt cube. I've been using LyX since 2000 or so but didn't start using it seriously until they implemented the ability to open multiple panes and windows on a single buffer — lack of that feature had been a dealbreaker that kept me with Emacs+auctex. Since then, however, I've used it for nearly all of my papers and presentations. It's really superb software, especially for longtime LaTeX users. Boy am I old!). I defended in 1997... Oh please... :-) -chris
Re: Facilitate testing on OSX - WAS: menu bar lost in OS X
On 01/29/14, 02:41 , Richard Heck wrote: ...We have had this problem before, and there are other issues about Cocoa versus whatever versus whatever else. It is difficult to test every combination, and we have only a couple active OSX developers. Many of them use trunk (2.1.dev) for obvious sorts of reasons. So, well, we could really use a couple people who could test the OSX version on a more regular basis. Well, I'm running 2.1.0 dev (with good stability) on both OS X 10.9 and Linux on a Chromebook (thanks to Crouton). Tell me what to do to help. -chris
Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts
On Oct 8, 2014 12:46 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Is there an ETA for a retina-supported version? :-) Yes, I'm working on it and hopefully there is a first version around christmas. Excellent news! I haven't found lack of retina support to be intolerable, fortunately -- it's not terribly noticeable if you aren't working to close to the screen. But it will be really nice to have the super sharp fonts and graphics that make the retina displays such a pleasure to use. -chris
Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts
Since Stephan Witt has said LyX will be updated to accommodate Retina displays within the next couple of months, it seems to me that that will address your concerns about upgrading to a rMBP. As to your question, fonts render normally on a non-Retina external monitor hooked up to a rMBP. -chris On Oct 20, 2014 2:07 PM, Stephen Buonopane sbuon...@bucknell.edu wrote: I have been following this thread (and past related ones) with great interest as I will be forced to upgrade to a retina Mac in the next 6 months or so. Could someone post some screen shots that show the on-screen quality on a retina mac versus non-retina? How is the image quality on a non-retina external display hooked up to a retina Mac? Sounds like typing responsiveness is also an issue as well. Steve On Oct 20, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.10.2014 um 17:44 schrieb Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com chris.men...@gmail.com: On Oct 20, 2014 7:46 AM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, it is so. My wife has both versions and Lyx on Retina is not a useless application, but a very difficult one to work with. My experience is quite different (though of course YMMV). There is no doubt that the screen fonts in LyX ≤2.1.2 look much better on a non-Retina display when examined close up; on a rMBP, the edges of font characters and most icons are blurred and pixelated. But I find that, with the right choice of screen fonts (notably, in my case, Georgia for the main text font), if I am working at a comfortable distance from the screen (including with the laptop in my lap), the blurred/pixelated edges of the fonts are not noticeable. (For the record, my (corrected) vision is very good.) That said, there is little doubt that the LyX user experience on the rMBP will be much better still when the version with Retina support comes out, and I eagerly await it. (IIRC Stephan thinks that might be around Christmas.) Stephan (or anyone), quick question: Is there any reason to think screen fonts in LyX 2.1.2 will look appreciably better or worse on a new 5k-Retina iMac than on a rMBP? Chris, frankly, I wasn't sure I understood Jerry's comment. Perhaps he's talking about speed and not about crisp fonts. Ah, yes, that could be (subject of the thread notwithstanding). Typing is a bit laggy on a rMBP (assuming that's the sort of thing you have in mind by speed). Since I mostly use LyX for writing papers and I tend to write rather haltingly, the lag is not usually noticeable. But if I were using it for tasks where I wanted to type full speed, especially if I were a really fast typist, I can see that lag could be pretty annoying. To answer your question: I have to check it first. Thanks! -chris
Re: mac os x and ispell
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:39:27PM -0400, Varun Reddy wrote: Hi, I get the error message Lyx:Failed to start ispell! when i try to use the spellchecker. I have selected ispell in the preferences-Spellchecker-Spellchecker program: option. Can some one please help me troubleshoot this problem? Did you specify the full path to ispell? If you installed it via fink, this would be /sw/bin/ispell -chris
Re: mac os x and ispell
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:46:04PM -0400, Varun Reddy wrote: Chris, Where do i include the path to ispell? Ah, I see; it just gives you several executables in a drop down list rather than asking you to type one in. I do see ispell in the /sw/bin directory, but i dont see an option to specify the path to ispell under the preferences dialog box of LyX. Sounds like /sw/bin isn't in your path. Have you specified a PATH environment variable in an environment.plist file in your ~/.MacOSX directory? If not, create the file out of the following: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple. com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd plist version=1.0 dict keyPATH/key string/sw/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/lib:/us r/sbin:/etc:/usr/X11R6/bin/string keySHELL/key string/bin/bash/string keyDISPLAY/key string:0.0/string /dict /plist Change your shell as appropriate if you don't use bash. delete the DISPLAY key and the 0.0 string if you don't use X11. You might also add the path to your tex executable if you didn't install tetex via fink, and add/delete other dirs in the PATH string to suit your needs. Chris Menzel
Re: mac os x and ispell
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:44:57AM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: Chris Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like /sw/bin isn't in your path. Have you specified a PATH environment variable in an environment.plist file in your ~/.MacOSX directory? LyX/Mac-1.3.4 automatically sets the PATH to include /sw/bin and other directories necessary for teTeX and other auxiliary executables. Another good idea in LyX/Mac, Ronald! -chris
Re: Basic Question
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:56:46PM -0300, Carlos Fernando Knauer wrote: Hi. I download a file with extension STY. Where do I install it ? I use tetex on Conectiva Linux with LyX 1.3.4 . Probably in a subdirectory of /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex or /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex, but before doing anything rash, wander over to http://www.tug.org/tds and learn about the TeX directory structure. Then have a look at the UK TeX FAQ, http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html, especially the section on installing new packages (and the importance of running texhash). See also the comp.text.tex FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tex-faq. Note that many TeX packages have installation routines that do all or most of the work for you. Details are usually found in accompanying readme files. Chris Menzel
Re: Mod Keys -- for Mac LyXers only
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:34:10AM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: On Aug 26, 2004, at 1:43 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Does anyone know where does MacOs X define the bindings for the various Mod keys? I use LyX/Qt for Mac and I would like to modify the setup of Control, Alt, Meta, and Compose, but do not know where to look for help. The Lyx docs assume you are using X11, which isn't the case with LyX/Qt (as far as I know). I've created a new Mac.bind file that will be available in the next version of LyX-Mac. It uses standard Mac conventions for things like cursor movement, bold, underline, ellipses, etc. I suspect one thing Mr Helm wanted to know is whether there is a way to use the Ctrl key instead of the Cmd key for C-... commands. I believe Mac QT doesn't allow this. A solution that works reasonably well for me is to use uControl (http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ucontrol.html) to map CapsLock to Cmd, which, for LyX anyway, puts what is effectvely the control key where God intended it to be (though the damn capslock light still goes off and on...). Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac modifier keys -- any hope for a better solution?
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:42:15AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Other people have complained that the current bindings are not nice for people using emacs bindings. Is that your case? Just to register the fact -- I would echo this complaint. I still use emacs extensively, and it is very awkward to switch to LyX and use Cmd. Using uControl to map CapsLock to Cmd helps quite a lot, though... Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac modifier keys -- any hope for a better solution?
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:59:33PM +0800, Jason Woodard wrote: On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:41 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: Does that mean you're using Qt-3.1.2? In my experience more recent Qt versions are great improvements (at least for Mac), and they don't require Ronald's patch anymore. I'd recommend trying Qt-3.3.3: it's worth the long compile! Indeed--thanks for the tip. I recompiled and posted a new binary at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg. Now that is really nice! No more fumbling fingers and unintended commands when switching between LyX and emacs. Thanks to all of y'all! -chris
Re: LyX/Mac modifier keys -- one oddity
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:16:17AM -0500, Chris Menzel wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:59:33PM +0800, Jason Woodard wrote: ... I recompiled and posted a new binary at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg. Now that is really nice! No more fumbling fingers and unintended commands when switching between LyX and emacs. Thanks to all of y'all! Only one little piece of freakiness I've found with this version: hitting ^ in math mode no longer conveniently throws you into a superscript box. It just displays as a caret. It works as it should for single character superscripts, but if I want multiple characters I need to use the math panel to get into a superscript box. (Surrounding characters I want superscripted with curly brackets does not work; you just end up with a superscripted left curly bracket.) A parallel problem does not arise for _, which puts you into a subscript box as usual. Chris Menzel
Re: Mac installation problem
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:53:17PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote: Hello, I'm new to the LaTeX-world and wanted to ask for some help with a problem installing LyX for Mac OS X (10.2.8). I have already a working teTex installation and tried Texshop, which worked fine. Now I wanted to have a look at LyX. But when running the LyX-installer it stops saying There is an error, please try again (something like that, but in German). Have you tried the version that Jason Woodard compiled? http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg Also, I am wondering whether there is a problem arising from the fact that you are using Jaguar (OS X 10.2.x) and trying to install a version compiled under Panther (10.3.x). Chris Menzel
Re: Mac installation problem
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote: Hello again and thanks so far, the installer I got from http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac is for Mac OS 10.2 or later, so that should not be the problem. In light of Jean-Marc's earlier remark that LyX/Mac is supposedly compiled in a way that makes it work for 10.2 as well as 10.3 you might try the Woodard version I suggested (which enables you to use the control key for emacs keybindings). The log-file reads: Tue Oct 12 10:47:41 CEST 2004 Found TeXbin directory: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current Found installation directory: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local Cannot install Srcltx files. I would suppose that you are an administrator on your machine, but that sort of error is often caused by insufficient privileges. Just a thought. Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac X11 issue
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:18:09PM -0600, dcbns wrote: I'm having problems getting LyX (1.3.5, precompiled QT) on Mac OS X (10.3.6) to work with X11 programs like xdvi and gv. Hi Dave, In case you are not aware of this option, as an alternative to xdvi and gv you might try using TeXShop as your previewer, as it is OS X native and renders beautiful PDF (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html). To do so, set Preferences - File formats - PDF (pdflatex) in LyX to /Applications/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop and use View - PDF (pdflatex) to view your document. To have TeXShop refresh automatically when you have LyX update via View - Update - PDF (pdflatex), click the Automatic Preview Update box in the TeXShop - Preferences - Preview dialog. Chris Menzel
Re: LyX/Mac X11 issue
Tomohiru Nishino wrote: On Nov 15, 2004, at 6:24 AM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:18:09PM -0600, dcbns wrote: I'm having problems getting LyX (1.3.5, precompiled QT) on Mac OS X (10.3.6) to work with X11 programs like xdvi and gv. Hi Dave, In case you are not aware of this option, as an alternative to xdvi and gv you might try using TeXShop as your previewer, as it is OS X native and renders beautiful PDF (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html). To do so, set Preferences - File formats - PDF (pdflatex) in LyX to /Applications/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop and use View - PDF (pdflatex) to view your document. To have TeXShop refresh automatically when you have LyX update via View - Update - PDF (pdflatex), click the Automatic Preview Update box in the TeXShop - Preferences - Preview dialog. One minor correction. If you do it this way, the View-Update-PDF(pdflatex) doesn't work, and every time you try to preview a document will cause a new instance of TeXShop to run (you will get multiple copies of TeXShop running, and will see multiple TeXShop icons on the dock). (At least that is what happens on my machine.) Hi Tomohiru, thanks for chiming in. The method I suggested works just fine for me; no multiple copies. As a remark later in your message suggests, I believe that, to update your PDFs, you are using only View - PDF (pdflatex) rather than View- Update - PDF (pdflatex), as I'd suggested. Updating that way WILL in fact run a new copy of TeXShop if you configure things according to my suggestion. Instead, in Preferences-File formats-PDF(pdflatex) set the viewer field to: open -a TeXShop That is certainly more OS X-ish, and in light of the above, it is marginally preferable since it saves you a mouse gesture (though it works out the same for appropriate keystroke macros, which is my preferred method of previewing/updating). Then, do as Chris suggests and use View-PDF(pdflatex) to preview documents. Almost, but not quite, what I'd suggested! :-) This way, the automatic update works as well. By the way, if you want to use Preview as your viewer, all you have to do is set the Preferences to: open -a Preview The major drawback is that Preview does not support updating of the document that is already open, so each time you want to see changes you have made, you have to close the previously open document in Preview. That would, for me, be major in the sense of show stopper! -chris
Re: LyX/Mac X11 issue
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:08:37AM +1300, Stefano Franchi wrote: , click the Automatic Preview Update box in the TeXShop - Preferences - Preview dialog. There does not seem to be any such Preference in my version of TeXShop (1.19, just downloaded), though. ?? Latest version is 1.35. Just picked it up myself. Are you getting it directly from Koch's site at University of Oregon? Google texshop. Should be the first site. Automatic updating does not seem to happen either by selecting ViewPDF(Latex) or ViewUpdatePDF(latex) Right, not with pre-1.30 versions of TeXShop. Let me know if you're having trouble finding a recent version. -chris
Re: lyx/mac installation questions.
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:32:28PM -0800, Sang Oh wrote: i just installed the lyx/mac binaries. lyx itself works fine, but i can't get the preview working. (dvi, pdf, ps...) none works. i did a default installation. (defalut install path) my lyx installation sits at /Application/lyx Not a lot to work with here! :-) If you go to LyX - Preferences - File formats, what do you find in the Viewer field when you highlight PDF (pdflatex)? Chris Menzel
Alt/Meta again
LyX folk, I recently set up a new FreeBSD/Xorg workstation for myself at my office. LyX installed easily and works beautifully, of course, but I cannot for the life of me get either LeftAlt or the Windows (ugh) key to function as a Meta key. This seems to be LyX-specific. LeftAlt works fine as Meta under emacs and xemacs out of the box. But under LyX it works as I believe it is designed to by default, viz., like an Alt key, i.e., Alt-f brings up the File menu, Alt-d the Document menu, etc. The most I've been able to do using xmodmap is simply to deactivate Alt alt-ogether. :-) This is such a dumb, elementary problem that I feel embarrassed asking about it, but I've searched in all the usual places (LyX wiki, many mailing lists, general googling) for several hours and have come up empty. I am new to both FreeBSD and Xorg (I use OS X and Gentoo Linux/XFree86 on laptop and home machines) and things work a bit differently than I'm used to, but I'm really stumped here. Any suggestions gratefully accepted. Chris Menzel
Re: Alt/Meta again
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:08:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Chris Menzel wrote: This seems to be LyX-specific. LeftAlt works fine as Meta under emacs and xemacs out of the box. But under LyX it works as I believe it is designed to by default, viz., like an Alt key, i.e., Alt-f brings up the File menu, Alt-d the Document menu, etc. The most I've been able to do using xmodmap is simply to deactivate Alt alt-ogether. :-) Chris, Have you tried the [Esc] key? I've found linux apps that accept that as the meta key; emacs, for example. Yes, Rich, I even tried that old standby -- but even if it worked I wouldn't count it as a solution! Would be like 20 years ego when I first learned emacs on a terminal to a DEC 2060. 1-2 punching the keyboard over and over to move forward by word? Never again! :-) -chris
Re: selling lyx part 2
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:09:15PM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote: cons: = * lyx/word exchange is horrible Feature. ;-)
Re: Control as control on Mac OS X
Guillaume Marcais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On MacOSX, the Control modifier has been mapped to the Apple key, and
the Meta modifier to the Alt key. I guess this is nice for old MacOS
timers.
No, it isn't!! :-)
But I am using the emacs binding and the fact that the control or
escape changed place on the keyboard makes it almost a new set of
binding to learn...
So the question, is there a way on the MacOSX platform to have the
Control and Meta modifier back to their traditional UNIX location,
i.e. the ctrl and esc keys?
The problem with Ctrl lies with Qt, but lucky for us, Jason Woodard was
savvy enough to write a patch for Qt 3.3.3 to fix this, and posted it in
the msg below. There is also a link to an OS X LyX 1.3.5 binary if you
don't want to compile it yourself. Note this does not give you Esc for
Meta; that role is given to the Cmd key (as with X11 emacs under OS X).
IMO, this is far superior, as it requires less of a stretch and, more
important, gives you a persistent Meta key that works like Ctrl; no
need to bang on the Esc key repeatedly to, e.g., move the cursor by
word.
Chris Menzel
- Forwarded message from Jason Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
From: Jason Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Qt mods: LyX/Mac modifier keys
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:19:46 +0800
To: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Hi,
Following an earlier discussion of how to change the modifier key
bindings for Mac OS X, Chris Menzel asked me to post the changes I made
to build a fixed version of 1.3.4:
Can you make your changes to Qt available so that Mac folks like me
don't have to ask you to recompile LyX every time a new version becomes
available? :-) I'd like to compile 1.3.5, but definitely need to
avoid that nasty, non-emacsy Ctrl-Cmd key mapping.
The patch needed for Qt 3.3.3 / LyX 1.3.5 is actually the same as the
one I posted in September, but I'm reposting it at the end of this note
for convenience. To build 1.3.5, I downloaded the source distribution
from ftp.lyx.org and followed the instructions in README.MacOSX, using
Qt 3.3.3 and the configuration flags to make a build that works with
both 10.2 and 10.3. The only thing I did differently was to apply a
patch file before compiling Qt.
To create the patch file, cut and paste the text at the end of this
note into a plain text file; call it anything and put it anywhere you
like. (You can even paste the whole note--the patch program is very
forgiving.) Then, from the top of the Qt source hierarchy, issue the
command:
patch -p0 YOUR-PATCH-FILE
where YOUR-PATCH-FILE is of course the path to the patch file you
created. Patch should respond with:
patching file src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1225 (offset 281 lines).
That's it--the rest of the build should work as advertised.
(And now that you know how to fish, I shouldn't mention that I've
posted a new binary at
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.5_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg,
but there it is :-)
Please let me know if you encounter any difficulties.
regards,
-j
Jason Woodard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp.origThu Jun 19 01:35:24 2003
+++ src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp Wed Sep 15 14:39:45 2004
@@ -944,11 +944,11 @@
static key_sym modifier_syms[] = {
{ shiftKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ShiftButton) },
{ rightShiftKeyBit, MAP_KEY(Qt::ShiftButton) },
-{ controlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::MetaButton) },
-{ rightControlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::MetaButton) },
-{ cmdKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) },
-{ optionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
-{ rightOptionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
+{ controlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) },
+{ rightControlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) },
+{ cmdKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
+// { optionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
+// { rightOptionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) },
{ kEventKeyModifierNumLockMask, MAP_KEY(Qt::Keypad) },
{ 0, MAP_KEY(0) } };
static int get_modifiers(int key, bool from_mouse=FALSE)
- End forwarded message -
Re: MAC OS X
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:59:52AM -0400, pano karambelas wrote: Was a wintel person until just now. Is LYX easy to install on the MAC or is it some sort of multi stage process that borders on the painful and unforgiving. I only ask the question b/c I really have zero familiarity w/MAC OS, linux, etc. Many thanks for any basic pointers, etc. It's quite easy to install LyX on an OS X machine, albeit a bit time-consuming to install everything you need (but once it's done, it's done). The Lyx/Mac page on the LyX wiki should give you all the info and instructions you need: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac I recommend Gerben Wierda's TeX i-Installer (rather than fink) for installing TeX and the necessary support applications -- follow the link on the Wiki page. I also recommend using TeXShop as a previewer -- follow the link on the Wiki page to find it, and then follow the instructions for configuring LyX to use TeXShop under the Previewers section of the Wiki page. Chris Menzel
Re: MAC OS X
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:20:59PM -0400, pano karambelas wrote: Maybe I'm asking the question incorrectly but after the installation of tex (via i-install as described) lyx, will I be able to use Latex code Of course. I don't know of an installation of TeX that doesn't include the LaTeX environment. If yes, I assume it's Latex2-e. You can install TeX 2.02 or TeX 3.0. I believe the version of LaTeX that comes with TeX 3.0 is called LaTeX 3.0 and supersedes LaTeX2e, but I must admit I'm not sure of the fine points here. I've had no problems at all with TeX 3.0 on any platform, including OS X. Chris Menzel
Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:20:33PM -0400, pano karambelas wrote: Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex on. TeXShop (really terrific): http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html Carbon emacs: http://home.att.ne.jp/alpha/z123/emacs-mac-e.html For the latter, make sure to use the auctex package. Google auctex for details. I recommended TeXShop as a previewer for LyX in an earlier message, but it's actually an extremely robust environment for writing LaTeX documents, complete with integrated editor. And since you're using a Mac, google XeTeX, a Mac-specific TeX implementation that enables you to use all of your Mac fonts with LaTeX (Hoefler Text is especially nice). XeTeX support is integrated into TeXShop. Incidentally, given that I just installed tex/latex on my MAC (using i-installer) to use w/LyX, is it correct to assume that this installation would suffice in order to run any future, say non-wysiwym editors, that I might install? That is, is it true that i-install is not just a way of getting tex/latex for LyX, but also for any front-end editor you might want to use? Yes, of course. LyX simply calls your system's TeX installation, just as an ordinary text editor would. Chris Menzel
