Re: "Do you know what? I am happy" says this Droopy :-)
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 at 23:33, Murat Yildizoglu < murat.yildizo...@u-bordeaux.fr> wrote: > ... I need: Lenovo Yoga Book with Windows 10 (beware, there is also an > Android version). This is a very interesting tablet that comes with enough > power (a 4-cores Atom processor) to Run LyX and MikTeX (also LibreOffice > and other tools, including JabRef). It is very light, has a full day > autonomy in my intensive use, a nice screen and a Wacom tablet based > keyboard and touchpad. Since it is Wacom tablet based, it also comes with a > stylus. > Thanks for the tip. Are you planning on testing some Linux distribution on it? I'm not ready to join the evil empire just yet Best regards, Christian > > I know that other users on this list have been asking about the tablet > version. Since the iPAD version does not seem to come, I decided to go on > the evil empire just for the love of LyX. :-) >
Re: Google Analytics (or other)
On 19 June 2017 at 13:23, Helge Hafting wrote: > Definitely an opt-in. We must be able to trust that we can use LyX for > confidential stuff. > Personally I'd even prefer (regular) LyX versions to not even include code for "capturing and uploading telemetry". >From a practical point of view, I also doubt we'd anyway have the resources to properly manage and analyse such statistics. Regards, /Christian > Also, I do not want LyX to hang/delay because "some networking problem" > interferes with such communications. I have had enough such problems when > starting LyX, and LyX decides to open (or perhaps just stat() ) the > "Recent" files - but some of them are on a broken file server that cause > 2min TCP timeouts. > Excellent points by Helge, although off topic. I've suffered from this on Windows with other software.
Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 at 02:55, Joel Kulesza wrote: > One preference not shown (because it is not available), but that I'd love > to have: default alignment of inserted figures: center. > I would also really like a preference or other method to reduce the manual/repeated work I do in order to get inserted figure floats to be centered. But perhaps this topic should be in a thread of its own as there are many ways to solve it, eg: (... opt. preference that ) - ... make figure insets centered by default - ... make figure insets by default use the alignment setting of figure inset just above - Custom/local templates that lets you insert a complete figure float, so you easily can get a float with eg: centered figure, figure inser width at 100% column etc, a short figure caption, a long figure caption, label etc. In practice I've often ended up copying/pasting another float to reduce the repeated work. So perhaps a practical approach is to add a "templates branch" to the document and there create your custom figure float that you the copy. Christian
Re: A new script for processing LyX files - removes duplicate labels
I've sent Victor the FTP password. /Christian On 29 July 2015 at 16:33, Victor Porton wrote: > On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 01:02 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > On 07/28/2015 06:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 01:02:55 +0300 > Victor Porton wrote: > > > I've written a Python script which removes duplicate labels from .lyx > files. > > Maybe it may be useful for other users. > > So I attach my script (together with pyparsing.py library) to this > email. > > Please add info about my script to Lyx.org site. (I know no password > to upload the files and thus cannot do it myself without your help.) > > From my script: > > # This script receives a list of *.lyx filenames in command line. > # In each .lyx file it searches for labels consecutively following one > after another. > # Then it removes all but the first label and in all supplied .lyx > files corrects > # the references to refer to this label. > # It's useful to remove duplicate labels. > > # Note that this script works with patched pyparsing.py (added > addCondition() method). > # See last SVN for pyparsing or the bundled pyparsing.py file. > > > Very, very nice! > > I love seeing DIY LyX enhancement. > > > This would be worth uploading to the LyX wiki. > > Richard > > > Yes, somebody give me LyX.org FTP password, that I could upload. > > > -- > Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org -- Christian Ridderström, +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Request for password to the lyx wiki
I've e-mailed Helge the password to the FTP server (which is what you'll need in order to upload files to the wiki). /Christian On 18 June 2015 at 13:32, Helge Hafting wrote: > I have made a presentation (using lyx+beamer) showing some of the > capabilities of lyx. > The instructions for uploading to the wiki says I should ask for the current > password here. > > Helge Hafting -- Christian Ridderström, +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Wrong connections in contents
I think I know what he means... the PDF has navigation links, i.e. the table of content links that you see on the left side. But when you click on link corresponding to 'Nomenclature' in the PDF, you're shown the 'Abstract' section which is just before. To me it sounds like some kind of bug.. Aline, would it be possible for you to create a small example, i.e. a reduced LyX-file that demonstrates this example and then make that available? On 1 May 2015 at 14:53, Michael Berger wrote: > Where is your example? > Michael > > > On 05/01/2015 11:35 AM, Aline Gautrein wrote: > >> Hey Lyx-Fans! >> >> I have a problem with my contents within the pdf document: The conents >> are connected partially wrong. Everything in front of chapter 1 is >> connected to the previous entry. >> Example: >> >> My document includes >> >> Content >> Abstract >> Nomenclature >> List of Figures >> List of Tables >> >> Lyx connects the Content with the titlepae, Abstract with Content, >> Nomenclature with Abstract etc. >> >> >> Does anyone know what to do? >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> > -- Christian Ridderström, +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Uploading to wiki via FTP fails
I've e-mailed Liviu the password. On 29 April 2015 at 22:01, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> I am trying to connect to the FTP server, ftp://lyx...@lyx.org/, as > >> per the instructions below, but it fails. > >> http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading > > > > Should work now. P > > > > Thanks, Pavel. Could you send me the password off-list? > > Liviu > > > -- > Do you think you know what math is? > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 > Or what it means to be intelligent? > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 > Think again: > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library > -- Christian Ridderström, +46-70 687 39 44
The LyX wiki finally has an FTP server setup. (Help reviewing vsftpd.conf would be appreciated)
Dear LyX users, The LyX wiki finally[*] has an FTP server installed/setup. This will allow LyX users to upload examples etc to the wiki. The documenation page [1] on uploading files to the wiki is being updated. Please let me know if you experience problems downloading files from the LyX wiki. If there is any user with experienced in configuring VSFTP (with virtual user/chroot), I'd appreciate help in the form of reviewing the vsftpd.confg (I'm not experienced in setting up FTP servers). Regards, Christian [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading [*] For those interested, files used to be uploaded to the wiki using a separate software (PHP) that's no longer in development. When the LyX server moved it stopped working, likely because a later PHP version was used on the new server. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Songbook?
2012/2/9 Petter S. Storvik : > I am new to lyx and is using it to write reports and other documents with > many math-formulas. Today I came over this songbook layout: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook > This would be a great tool and I could use lyx to something more than > school. The problem is I cant get this to work. I am using lyx in windows 7 > and not linux. > > Have tried the instructions but with no luck. Maybe I am doing something > wrong but I cant seem to make a new songbook, or get the icon to show up. > Do you know if this layout works? If it does, some tips for using this? Hejsan Petter, I haven't used songbook in quite some time. My first question would be if you've installed LaTeX files properly? And perhaps some more examples about what is working and what isn't working? cheers, Christian > -- > Petter Sakrihei Storvik Ω -- Christian Ridderström
Re: Shortcut for 'update pdf'
what is the keyboard shortcut for updating the pdf? You need to define a shortcut for the function "buffer-update pdf2" and/or "buffer-view pdf2" Maybe we should have this by default? But I guess it's difficult to find an unused shortcut? /Christian (who'd also like a shortcut for this). regards Uwe
Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book
I would suggest putting in some discussion on how to choose Document Class -- This is a very good idea IMHO. I've used LyX since a long time ago, and choosing a suitable class isn't the easiest. In addition, I'd really like some instructions/examples on how to create "business" like documents. When I've tried, I've found it difficult and annoying to try to get the appearance the way the company wants it. (With logos, lines and legaleese..). So tips and instructions on that would certainly be useful. Best regads, Christian
Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Sharma, Vivek schrieb: I am using lyx 1.6.4 with Miktex and adobe acrobat. When we View - > update -> dvi after the latex runs the dvi window goes to the page I was viewing last with the updated view, whereas with update pdflatex the updated file just opens at the first page of the pdf document. I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I mean is Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file explorer?) If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX installed (what installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged in with admin priviledges when installing LyX)? I forgot to say: I started Acrobat (or possibly reader, I can't say to be honest) from within LyX. I don't know how it was installed either, it's a company laptop. /Christian regards Uwe -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I I've also found that Acrobat starts over on the first page, very annoying:-( /Christian mean is Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file explorer?) If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX installed (what installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged in with admin priviledges when installing LyX)? regards Uwe -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Paul A. Rubin wrote, On 02/09/09 15:57: I understand there are some concerns about tampering with the subject line (and what happens when replies and forwards occur). What about creating a LyX-specific header (X-LyX: userlist or X-LyX: developerlist or whatever)? Will the list mailer (and GMANE, which is where I get my feed) support custom headers? It's easy enough to filter on them in any mail client I've used. Alas, not on my mail server. I can filter on many standard headers (like List-ID) but not any custom header. Hi Sam, I've been going through this thread quickly, but I got the impression you had some problems in creating a filter with the software that you use. How about using gmane? Either the web interface or it's news interface. Maybe your client works well with news? Best regards and hope this helps /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Manveru wrote: 2009/9/2 Murray Eisenberg : I agree with the O.P. on this. This is something that, surely, is easily fixed at the server end, so that each message going out from the server has, say, "[LyX]" prepended to the subject. There is many voices in favour of such feature. But not a lot of people vote against. If may I suggest, maybe someone can create a poll/survey for LyX users list subscribers. I think the many voices that don't like it are tired of having this recurring discussion ;-) Personally I'm _agains_ adding something like [LyX] to the subject line. But then, I read the list through a news interface. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Delta moins wrote: Hello everybody, I'm registred to this mailing list for few weeks and I'm very surprised about one thing : there is no keyword in the mail subject that tell people "this comes from the Lyx users list". It's very messing because you cannot filter the mails efficiently. In addition sometimes, mail subject is not so easy to link with Lyx so organising the mail box is not so easy. I don't know if it should be done automaticaly by the list system or if people that send mail should add something like I've done for example manually. It's a pity because informations in the mails are often very interesting :-) It was just a remark to improve this list. Hi, If you look at the details in the email you will find list information which you should be able to your mail client to use. Or you can read this list through a news interface, or through the gmane site. /Christian PS. As an aside, this is one of the more frequent questions. Has anyone added it to the FAQ on the wiki? -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Documentation specifically for using KOMA Script with LyX?
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Jeremy wrote: Have you read the pdf documentation from the KOMA website? There is a German and English version available: scrguide.pdf scrguien.pdf Some documentation is only available from the latest KOMA guide book (available only in German) I'm reading a version of scrguien.pdf, but I still haven't figured out how to have multiple lines in my header and footer for instance. Any ideas? cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Documentation specifically for using KOMA Script with LyX?
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Christian Ridderström schrieb: I'm just wondering if there's any documentation that's specific to using KOMA Script document classes with LyX, which would be a good starting point instead of the regular KOMA Script documenation. The LyX UserGuide.lyx uses for example koma-skript. That helped a bit. Unfortunately I need to implement a corporate template, which means I need to use more than the standard stuff. So far I've found the KOMA-script documentation pretty poor. I'll look on the wiki, but if I don't find any examples there I'll add mine as I make some progress. regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: How can I avoid a warning about a child document of a different class?
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: However, with the master document being of a different class, I get a warning about this differnce each time I compile the document... Is there a way I can disable this warning? Since LyX 1.6.4, yes. Click on "Do not show this warning again". Perfect, (I was using 1.6.2). Thanks, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Documentation specifically for using KOMA Script with LyX?
Hi, I'm just wondering if there's any documentation that's specific to using KOMA Script document classes with LyX, which would be a good starting point instead of the regular KOMA Script documenation. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Lyx tip-sheets
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello, On 8/15/09, Frederick Noronha [ÿÿ ÿÿ] wrote: Any good source from which to download Lyx tip sheets? Many thanks, FN I would suspect that you're looking for something like this [1]. The entire wiki is some sort of a big cheat-sheet. Best Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted Or possible the group of wiki pages called 'Tips'? http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Tips /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, rgheck wrote: On 08/27/2009 10:41 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Richard, just out of curiosity (since I won't be able to contribute to the coding effort), are these instructions supposed to work with the development code in trunk as well? In case Richard's instructions didn't work, you can try the one I keep on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/PersonalChr/CompileFromSVN#toc6 This is primarily for building the development code though. Just replace the location from which you retrieve the code. cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Permission to link
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Save Orangutans wrote: Dear LyX Developers / Users I am Mutia, a LyX user in Malaysia. Currently I am conducting a campaign to save Orang Utans in Malaysia and Indonesia Areas from extinction. Since I really like LyX, I am linking LyX in my web to save Orang Utans. http://lifesoforangutans.blogspot.com Thank you very much for allowing me to put LyX in my web. His web page does have a link to LyX under the ambiguous and likely incorrect heading of 'Supported organisation'. Maybe he's using LyX to write documents.? /Christian Regards Mutia "Save Orang Utans" -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
How can I avoid a warning about a child document of a different class?
Hi, I have a child document containing acronyms and abbreviations. My idea was to include this child document in several different documents and to use branches to select the list of abbreviates I actually want. However, with the master document being of a different class, I get a warning about this differnce each time I compile the document... Is there a way I can disable this warning? Or alternatively, some other way to maintain a rather lengthy list of abbreviations that I'm likely to include in other documents? Best regards Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Lyx tip-sheets
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, =?UTF-8?B?RnJlZGVyaWNrIE5vcm9uaGEgW+ClnuCksOClh+CkpuCksOCkv+CklSDgpKjgpYvgpLDgpYs=?= ] wrote: Any good source from which to download Lyx tip sheets? Many thanks, FN What do you mean by a 'tip sheet'? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Suggestion
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:39:24AM -0400, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: , > thunderbird, kmail etc. allow you to move incoming mails into custom folders > based on criteria like To:,Cc: fields etc. Or the List-*: mail headers, which were designed partly for just that purpose. In case the above wasn't clear enough, the emails already contain 'headers' such as these: Mailing-List: contact lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: <mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> List-Help: <mailto:lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org> Delivered-To: mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org You just need to make your client recognize any of them.. /Christian A -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Tip: How to type degree symbol in Windows using the numeric key pad
(reposting with correctly spelled subject, to help search engines) On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote: Hi, I searched the lists for how to type a degree symbol in LyX under Windows and didn't find something that I thought was really easy. So here's an alternative (which may well have drawbacks), e.g that it requires your keyboard to have some kind of numeric key pad. Here goes: In order to type the degree symbol, press and hold down the Alt key while on the numeric key pad typing 0176. (The '0' is needed.) This method worked in my LyX under Windows XP. The page http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html contains similar codes for lots of other symbols. Caveat: There might be drawbacks with this method that I haven't tested, and it would be much nicer if I had the equivalent of a Compose-key in Windows. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Tip: How to type degreen symbol in Windows using the numeric key pad
Hi, I searched the lists for how to type a degree symbol in LyX under Windows and didn't find something that I thought was really easy. So here's an alternative (which may well have drawbacks), e.g that it requires your keyboard to have some kind of numeric key pad. Here goes: In order to type the degree symbol, press and hold down the Alt key while on the numeric key pad typing 0176. (The '0' is needed.) This method worked in my LyX under Windows XP. The page http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html contains similar codes for lots of other symbols. Caveat: There might be drawbacks with this method that I haven't tested, and it would be much nicer if I had the equivalent of a Compose-key in Windows. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Keyboard Shortcuts: 1.6.3
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: This question is about my installation of 1.6.3 on linux. Under Tools->Preferences->Shortcuts->Documents and window, there is a key 'buffer-export' with the assigned value of 'Ctrl-X H'. That key combination does nothing; the status line tells me it's been disabled. What I don't know is what flavor of buffer export it is supposed to invoke. If I try to change the valued from 'Ctrl-X H' to 'Ctrl-H' a message pops up telling me that chord is already assigned to buffer-export. Under File->Export I can manually select pdflatex and that works as intended. In ~/.lyx/bind/my.bind the 'buffer-export' value is assigned to the key 'Ctrl-H', but that does not work either. It moves the cursor a line above the title, but that's it. I'd appreciate learning what to do to get ctrl-h to export the buffer using pdflatex. Of course, learning why the icon bar handles don't let me move them would also be appreciated. Here's a (very) partial answer. I think that 'buffer-export' requires an argument, e.g. 'pdf2' to say what kind of export you want. Maybe that's incompatible with just using 'Ctrl-x h' for export? You could try doing M-x (should give you a prompt, and then type) buffer-export pdf2 After getting that to work, you could probably bind a command that does the above to a keyboard shortcut. Or ask on the developers list... :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: How to get citation like [1,2] rather than [2,1]?
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 27/06/2009 03:36, rgheck a écrit :
> What do I need to do in order to get LyX (with BibTeX) to do this?
>
Use natbib numerical, with the option sort&compress.
Or add \usepackage{cite} in the preamble. It would be nice to support
this natively, actually.
Thanks, this is the one I was looking for.
/Christian
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How to get citation like [1,2] rather than [2,1]?
Hi, I've google but couldn't find which package to use that automatically changes citations such that e.g, [1,2] -> [1,2] [2,1] -> [1,2] [1,2,3] -> [1-3] [2,3,1] -> [1-3] Well, I think you get the idea... What do I need to do in order to get LyX (with BibTeX) to do this? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Error Explanation Help Needed -- SOLVED
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I wanted to make some corrections and changes to my beamer presentation while I was away from the office. However, I get an error regarding the logo graphic which is different from what came up before, and I am having a lot of difficulty identifying the source. Sigh. As is too often the case, after sending the message it occurred to me to see if I have the latest beamer version installed on the notebook. I did not. Installing latex-beamer-3.07 fixed the problem. My apologies for the static, On the positive side, as you also present the solution you may well be helping others in the future. cheers, Christian Rich -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Open .lyx document on different computer and have graphics be okay
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: 1. Make sure the image paths are relative, not absolute. Absolute paths tend to be different on different computers. 2. Make sure both computers have all the necessary software. LyX relies on lots of support software in order to handle images. Some software to show images on screen, possibly other software to print/export. Hmm, is there some way to get a list of all the stuff used to create a document, e.g.: * Included files and images * LaTeX packages and document class * Other support software I guess you could parse the LaTeX log file to get some of this, but is there a way to know which software LyX uses when e.g. generating images to be shown inside LyX? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Niko Schwarz wrote: need to tar/untar anything. What was REALLY difficult was the .module I had written for the document. It cannot be accessed by a relative path; it needs to be inserted directly into the lyx tree. On OSX, I have to redo the module installation procedure on every update. Have you reported this? At the very least it sounds like a feature request that you don't want to have to use absolute paths to .module. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, rgheck wrote: I'll second what a few others have said: A version control system is really the way to go for collaboration. You get easy exchanges, easy updating, conflict management, plus you get versioned archving of everything you do. There are plenty of free hosting services for this kind of thing, if you don't already have access to some server or other. I started my new job today and learned about a document management system called 'DOX' (possible link: http://www.softwarecompliance.com/html/products/dox.html ) Now, while that system does have mane benefits, it does still seem quite crude compared to a proper version control system. Basically it expects you to lock a file while editing it. So for sharing files to work with, I really think version control is the way to go. Perhaps what you need is such a system that easily let's you e-mail only the differences. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, that's a major drawback ! But the .zlyx could be used as an "export" file format to share with others, then one could just merge back the .lyx embedded into the .zlyx : I see this as a way one can use this feature, but some may want to use it otherwise (as everyone does when using OOo for example, reinsert the figure) This is where things get messy. If you just want an export format, then that actually exists already, kind of. There's a script, lyxpak.py, in the development tree that will "pack" a LyX file and all its dependencies, wherever they may be, into a tar, I think. Then it can be shipped off, unpacked, etc. The difficulty is then in "updating". Obviously, you can unpack the tar yourself and do with it as you will. But, for security reasons, you do not really want LyX to be able automatically to unpack and write to arbitrary locations in your filesystem. Aren't there options to 'tar' that can help with this, e.g. only allowing things to be written to somewhere inside a subdirectory. As for the "updating", I don't think 'tar' will be enough... you could expand the .tar-file into a separate directory and then compare the directories and manually move the files that have changed _and_ that you want to use to replace your version of those files. Then I thought a bit more for a solution, but what I came up with really just ended up amounting to a version control system where you were emailing changes. So why not go for a distributed version control system that supports sending changes (or all of it) as e-mail. This way you can get by without a server. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Terminology Change Request for Next Release
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: It's a joke. Irony. Developers also want to have (a bit of) fun, sometimes. I actually like "ERT" because of how it's a connection to the history of LyX and its origins. :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX vs Word processors
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Paul Sutton wrote: pastebin supports LaTex, so i what would be needed is some sort of website that people working on a paper can log in to, and paste bits of code, and then perhaps upload pdf, ps, or dvi files to link to the code, Or even better something like this http://codepad.org/ which supports programming languages but set up to deal with latex, online so select output, hit compile and it produces a pdf or whatever on the remote server for the team to download and review. I am sure the above is possible, not sure how though. the txt2tags website can take simple mark up and produce latex output, ok this goes back to what i said earlier, about learning more mark up, Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/ Basically it's a wiki that uses a familiar markup (the same as on the LyX wiki), and it can produce LaTeX and PDF based on that. It goes via XML IIRC. cheers, /Christian but it shows that this can be done, so an online latex collaboration tool should be possible, if it concentrated on latex and related such as bibtex, then it would be a very powerful tool. http://codepad.org/ Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknbIXgACgkQaggq1k2FJq2X4wCfVbeU29Ma9uZnxyn/dxSvO65i FjEAn37CbTdBDSjrUs+D70+ueTcIUsHV =kexE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Org-mode for Emacs (perhaps like VimOutliner?)
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote: VimOutliner (http://www.vimoutliner.org). Because it was authored as an For the Emacs users, I think 'org-mode' might work as a substitute (on steroids that is). On a more serious note, I'm using org-mode for general purpose outlining and note taking, and it works great for me. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Wiki: module exchange
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Christian Ridderström schreef: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > I noticed a hint in one of the messages here that led me to discover a > user-supplied module on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem. I > had to do a search to find it, though. > > We have a page on the wiki for sharing layouts and tips about layouts. > It might be a good idea to start a similar page for exchanging modules > and tips about them. Sadly, I have negative idle time (but positive > stress) at the moment, so I can't follow up on my own suggestion. What's a "module"? /Christian Uhhh It's an honest question, really! We're on the users' list, so I persist that there are no (well, only very few) stupid questions! To put the question in context, I'm trying to figure out a good place for such a wiki page. Pleaes contribute now Vincent! ;-) /Christian And maybe it's time I read the documentation again... Vincent -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Web site, wiki site and file uploads now working
Hi, I think that we now have more or less successfully migrated the web site, the wiki site and the ability to upload files to the new server. The only thing not fully operational at the moment is bugzilla.lyx.org. For issues, please see http://www.lyx.org/trac/report As for the web and the wiki, they should be fully operational so please report anything that isn't working. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Wiki: module exchange
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I noticed a hint in one of the messages here that led me to discover a user-supplied module on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem. I had to do a search to find it, though. We have a page on the wiki for sharing layouts and tips about layouts. It might be a good idea to start a similar page for exchanging modules and tips about them. Sadly, I have negative idle time (but positive stress) at the moment, so I can't follow up on my own suggestion. What's a "module"? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: I did the proposed edits to http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists. Please view and comment. Looks good, thanks. Christian Günter -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Manveru wrote: Maybe we can add two links (one to Joost's installer, one to yours), and then indicate if one of both is still the old version? I do not know how the engine below LyX main web page is advanced, but maybe it could check FTP once again and link automatically to latest binaries of WinInstaller and AltInstaller. If someone gives me a piece of PHP-code with the algorithm to detect them, I can incorporate it into the web page. I don't think the coding is the problem, but deciding what we want the algorithm to do... /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: I agree that a side-bar link saying "Mailing Lists / Forum" can raise expectations that are not met by linked page http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists. IMO, this page should contain a section I sent the password for editing the web page to Guenter off-list, so maybe we'll see improvement on this page:-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it. OK with you Jürgen? I wouldn't do that.. some people might be scared off by presenting a list of files with rather cryptic names and not knowing which one to choose. They must just have a button or link saying: Lyx for windows. Could we use some clever way to automatically let the web/wiki figure out which package is the latest? /Christian regards Uwe -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: (I started supporting LyX with its mailing list btw. and I cannot think right now that anything else might be easier. And I'm 29, so not too old not to know the possibilities of forums ;-) ) I'm 35, so I don't see the advantages with forums... or lists for that matter over news groups ;-) ;-) Seriously though, why is a "forum" different from a list? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: else. What I lack most of LyX (and LaTeX)? Web-based environments, web-based bibliographies, web-based computing.. ok, we can't have EVERYTHING, but the various Google-Whatever are the best creatures of the net and this is the future, we all know it. Could you be more specific? We have: * web site * wiki site * mailing lists (i.e a forum) As for LaTeX-wise, there's something that can take wiki pages via LaTeX to PDF, so that's basically web based LaTeX computing for you? I really am curious, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common users (I use GMANE for writing/browsing but I still receive daily updates in my mailbox). You can disable the daily updates to your mailbox and exclusively use GMANE. Oh, I should probably mention that I'm accessing this "list" pureley as a news group, which I guess you might consider a forum although I do it with a separate news client. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Wiki open for editing again
Hi, The wiki is now open for editing again[*]. This installation of the wiki is running on a new server, so please report things that aren't working properly, or if things seem slow or anything strange. There will probably be things that aren't working, but I'll gather a list of it and fix it eventually. At the moment I doubt the uploading of files work, but I haven't had time to test. best regards, /Christian [*] The reason I had to disable editing in the wiki before was due to a separate security software (ModSecurity) that was a bit to "ambitious". -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
FYI: Wiki site relocated (edits not possible at the moment)
Hi, Today the LyX wiki and LyX web site were relocated to a new site. Both are visible at the usual addresses, but unfortunately it is at the moment not possible to edit the wiki pages due to a security conflict. This will hopefully be resolved during or before the weekend. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Edits of wiki pagse temporarily disabled
Hi, I've tried to disable editing of wiki pages as I'm currently trying to migrate th wiki to a new server. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
RE: Portugese/Brasilian translation of web site?
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: PS. I´m in the Natal region in case any LyX users or developers would like to say hi over a cold beer. Yes, would all brazilian LyX developers please stand up now.. *sssh* I´m trying to make them appear out of thin air here, don't destory the magic! :-) Besides, if you'd never heard of LyX, you wouldn't be a developer now would you... cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Portugese/Brasilian translation of web site?
Hi, LyX has a portugese translation thanks to Susana Barbosa, but no corresponding translation of the web site. I´m currently on vacation in Brasil(*) and I´ve learned that it´s a huge country where only a small fraction of the Brasilians speak english. Portuguese is of course the native tongue here. So I just want to say that if there are any portugese speaking users that would like to help by creating a translated version of the web site, I´d be happy to help them get started. Best regards, Christian PS. I´m in the Natal region in case any LyX users or developers would like to say hi over a cold beer. -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: upload a custom layout
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, nckg wrote: If this layout could be of any use for other people, I would like to upload it to LyX website. (However I haven't found a "register" option there, so I am writing here.) Hi Nick, If you´d like, I can send you the password for uploading files off-list. Othewise Uwe´s suggestion is good :-) Best regards /Christian With best regards, Nick. -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Alex Fernandez wrote: I have not published the repository for lack of a hosting facility (and lack of knowledge to set it up), but once I find a suitable place I will make it public. Hi Alex, I believe there are free hosting facilities for git repositories, or you can surely get an account within the LyX repository (Subversion at the moment). Just google for free git repository, or something like that. Or ask on the developers list... Btw, you may want more than just the repository, if people start giving you bug reports etc. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: wiki upload password
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: could someone please mail me (in privat) the password for uploading content to the lyx wiki? (Does this work for approving URLs too?) I've sent him the passwords off-list. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: lyx webpage doesn't load
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: ok, its back up Great. Thanks for reporting the problem, even if it fixed itself. The server (aussie.lyx.org) is a bit "old" and has some issues. Best regards, Christian On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi all, have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Erez Working here (tropical East Lansing, MI, USA). -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Best way to re-order book
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, L Duperval wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:52:34 +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: It isn't enough to use the Up/Down buttons etc in the outline dialog? (As for drag'n drop, maybe you should file an enhancement request for that in bugzilla) No. I have 100+ points that I want to reorder and single clicking one by one is too long. I prefer the DnD approach because it is much faster. Is the reason single clicking is to slow because you have to move the "point" a long distance, and thus would have to click many times to move it? Or is it because there are several points that you have to move separately? Maybe the answer will affect how the UI should be, e.g. if it'd make sense to be able to select several "points" and then move them simultaneously. I'm just guessing wildly here though. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Best way to re-order book
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, L Duperval wrote: I am looking for a good way to re-order the elements of my book. There is a lot of work to do and I am looking to avoid doing cut&paste or simply moving elements up and down in the outline. I was hoping I could drag'n'drop in the outline (which would be sufficient for now), but that is not implemented yet. It isn't enough to use the Up/Down buttons etc in the outline dialog? (As for drag'n drop, maybe you should file an enhancement request for that in bugzilla) regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even "install" TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD. When you use it, do you have to install anything on the Windows machine? /C Sincerely, Wolfgang -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM. And the whole thing has to be dead simple. We are mainly talking about Word users, and nothing can be assumed about their computer skills. It would be even nicer to have the whole thing on a USB stick. A USB stick is even better than a CD. Then the directory .lyx/ can stay on the USB stick. I just bought a 4GB stick for about 10 EUR, so it's not exactly pricey either... /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Pavel Sanda wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. iirc this is already done on some knoppix live CD/DVD. I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On Friday 06 February 2009 09:32:12 A B wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: It'd be a simple piece of software, self-contained and easy to install on someone's pc for cooperative writing. Is there a reason it has to be installed? Maybe it'd be interesting with a version that can be run without having first been installed? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. Isn't this decision made based on what the configure script autodetected at install time? Just supply a fake config file where each and every latex feature is believed to exist. I think it is. Faking the config file is an interesting idea, but I worry it might not cause other problems. What should happen if the user tries to create a PDF? I guess this light version culd have those options removed from the menu system and the toolbars. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. Maybe it's _too_ close to LyX? Thus easily mistaken. Also, it may be that some settings are blocked if the supporting LaTeX package is missing. Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. It could help, if you (or any other interested person) could try LyX without LaTeX (deinstall LaTeX and reconfigure LyX or install LyX on a box without LaTeX) and report the experience and problems. That's a good idea. And as Guenter says, remember to reconfigure LyX to experience the problems with missing LaTeX classes. regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Using example to promote (Was: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?)
ort? How does LyX fare with that? JMarc -- *** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! *** Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) Centre de la Vieille Charité 2, rue de la Charité 13236 Marseille cedex 02 Bureau 320 Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html __ -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
LyX's web: In Hungarian - A LyX weboldalanak magyar forditasanak ellenorzese
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Alex wrote: In case you know Hungarian and English well enough and you are going to help me, please write me a message. Hi, I'd just like to comment that it might be enough if you know Hungarian... if you read a translated web page and don't understand, that's enough reason to say something in my humble opinion! Many thanks to Alex for his work! He is the initial reason why we today have both a Japanese and a Hungarian translation of the web site. Best regards, /Christian http://www.lyx.org PS. Please let me know if you find it difficult to see how to switch language, or if you worry that someone not expecting a translated version will miss that functionality. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
How to automatically add the filename in a footer?
Hi,
I guess the following will require some LaTeX. Any tips on how to get the
filename appear in the footer?
I'm using \cfoot{...} to create the center text of the footer.
Is it also possible to only extract for instane the filename and not get
the full path? Or remove the extension?
regards,
/Christian
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Re: SV: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: However, images might be a problem, I guess... I think it would be a great addition. My use case is my latest book. It was co-authored in a wiki (50+ persons), converted to html, imported to oo, exported as Latex imported to lyx. Added a lot of text and about 400 images in Lyx -> pdf. Printed. Loved the Lyx part of the work :). There is a thing called Wiki Publisher that works with Pmwiki, it goes from wiki page to XML to LaTeX to PDF. http://www.wikipublisher.org/ /Christian However, now the co-authors want to start edit again in the wiki, and create a living book on the web. And I have stated that it is out of the questin as I can not find the time to convert it to a wiki. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2009-01-30, Christian Ridderström wrote:
I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as
2009-01-30
How should I do this?
with the package "isodate":
http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/isodate.html
Thanks, this did the trick in my preamble:
\usepackage{isodate}
\lhead{\isodate\today}
/Christian
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How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?
Hi, I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as 2009-01-30 How should I do this? I'm using \today to get the current date. Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, A B wrote: I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. Hi, Yes, I'm the guy usually bringing this up :-) The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a wiki page into Lyx. In non-lyx environment there might be a wiki page for information sharing/documentation, and if you can edit the wiki page through LyX, well, that would be very nice, when one consideres the (lack of?) edit-friendlyness in wiki. I agree that wiki pages aren't that easy to edit. Some tools exist to edit the pages in a separate text editor, and I'm pretty sure WYSIWYGI tools are on their way as well. However, note that AFAICT, it's "only" the following functionality that you gain: 1. The document is stored in a common area (the wiki) and can be edited using LyX.. 2. The document (i.e. wiki page) is stored so that's it's easily visible and searchable through a regular browser 3. The document is editable also through the web browser. The first functionality could just as well be implemented by several other means, e.g. by using a VCS to upload files to a public repository. This would also give you additional functionality. The second functionality could also be implemented by uploading (comitting/pushing) not only the .LyX-file, but also a .html-version of the file. And a PDF while you're at it. Alternatively, the system could automatically generate a PDF/HTML-file on the server once a .lyx-file has been uploaded (comitted/pushed). The third functionality is more difficult though. Why am I saying this? Well, I think it's important to ask ourselves what the collaboration functions are... to me the number one functionality would be to let several people edit the same document at once. Technically, saving is nothing more than posting a long text to a web page? Yes. loading = reading a frame on a wiki page? Yes. Add a html/wiki <--> LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with == Well, in principle, yes. :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Who manages the Ubuntu repository for LyX? (Was: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?))
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. I think it should read: LyX is a WYSIWYM document processor. Anybody know's who should be contacted about that (if, of course, you _also_ disagree with the current description)? Kind regards, Nikos Just reposting with a different subject:-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Un-subscribe
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: This won't work. Look here how to unsubscribe: http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc12 For future reference, we can also direct people to the following page which I created. http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsubscribe /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Windows Version
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Afief Halumi wrote: I tried accessing it for a week and it didn't work, and right now it doesn't work either... Certainly worth looking into. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.1/ Works for me, I just tested it. What's the error message? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
The number of equations? (Was: Hi)
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Adrian Diaz wrote: Sr Lix How can i see the number of the equations when i am writting on text editos fo Lyx? Hi Adrian, I can't answer your question, but I would like to recommend that you write a suitable subject line when posting to the list. With a good subject, it's easier for others to see what it's about, which increases the likelyhood that someone else will answer your question! Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: lyx templates site?
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Witek Firlej wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Sindhu wrote: PS: we could have a page on the lyx site listing these user made templates, couldn't we? hmm? http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts Exactly... please see the following page for instructions on uploading files http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading Then ask on the list for the upload password. Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I have a question about the "search inside the book". A publishing mailing list of which I'm also a member is extremely upset about Google's plan to scan all books from the libraries. The thought is that why should customers buy the cow if the milk is free -- if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? I'd definitely like your thoughts on this. Hi Steve, Perhaps you can gain some insight by considering a somewhat related situation, namely that of the 'Baen free library' that Eric Flint started ( http://www.baen.com/library/ ). At that site, Eric has blogged about these issues and by chance I recentely read #7 (from 2002). http://www.baen.com/library/palaver_index.htm In that blog he discusses the economics of providing some books for free. Perhaps that reasoning can be adapted to this situation? best regards /Christian PS. The Baen free library is a web site where Baen books have made available about a 100 books for free by (mostly Baen) authors who've given their permission. I believe Eric Flint is an author as well as some kind of editor at Baen books. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Where to put a feature request?
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Florian Rubach wrote: I have a little feature request, but i am unsure where to send it. Would this mailing list be the right place or rather the developers mailing list? Overall I'd say it's probably better on the developers' list as its more likely to be read by developers... However, I don't think it's necessarily "bad" if you post it here. In some rare cases posting here could be better, for instance if input from other users is really important. best regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe and Joost) for this. Making LyX more visible and easy to install might be what "lured" them in :-) Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from contributing their ideas. I agree! The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the "maintainer" in me speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development cycle is reached, starting some more rigid "bug fixing only" stage eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term "release candidate" :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I'm inclined to agree, and it's not that different from the current description (http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes) Release candidate (prerelease) A release candidate is a release of the LyX software from the development source code at a point when only bug fixes are expected to be added before the first stable release. If the bug fix requires a file format change then OK. The question is how José interprets the above. /Christian PS. José is the original author of that descirption. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, peerlynt wrote: for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might be due to the distance wrong: The first Release Candidate appeared to be somewhat rushed, and plattform specific bugs seem to get different attention, which is understandable. I think you what you wrote is useful feedback, impressions do matter. And more specifically, we now know it wasn't just James that had this perspective. So if you (or others) have more thoughts, and perhaps ideas on how to do things better, please share them! Thanks and sincere regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: How to reference LyX ?
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
I want to refernce LyX in a paper I'm writing, do you have a
bibliographic reference ?
i just looked into some paper in PLoS and bibliographical entry was like
this: "Bugzilla. Available: http://www.bugzilla.org. Accessed 10 July
2006."
I think referring to www.lyx.org as per above is good enough.
/Christian
PS. I don't know if it's an option to cite the entry about LyX in
Wikipedia. If so, see this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=LyX&id=252337015
They automatically generate this entry:
@misc{ wiki:xxx,
author = "Wikipedia",
title = "LyX --- Wikipedia{,} The Free Encyclopedia",
year = "2008",
url =
"\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LyX&oldid=252337015}";,
note = "[Online; accessed 26-November-2008]"
}
You could simply modify that to refer to the 'The LyX project', or 'LyX'.
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Clipboard WorkArea ?
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: would anyone find it useful to have a particular (dockable) window showing the clipboard content, of course in fully LyX-formatted way within its own read-only WorkArea ? Also, it could show a queue of the last copied contents, so that a user could paste any one of them into the current cursor position by simply clicking on it. Also, instead of showing the entire copied stuff, it could perhaps only show the first (or the first k) line(s), and/or the last (or the last h) line(s), for long text segments. Insets could show up as always closed to keep it compact. Just an idea that would seem useful to me, don't know if others would like it or find it too much M$-ish I have no idea, but why not file a request for an enhancment in Bugzilla? /C t. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Reading File Metadata with extract and libextractor (fwd)
Hi, I got the following from a friend a long while back, maybe the tool is of use to people on this list. Subject: Reading File Metadata with extract and libextractor $extract -b a.pdf Skapar bibtexfil av metadata från a.pdf :-) Se http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7552 /Christian
Re: German Translation of the About/Credit popup
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, istvanst wrote: Hi Istvan, I've forwarded your message to the developers' and documentation list. Thanks, Christian Hi, first of all i love lyx. Thank you for this piece of heaven of software. But in the german translation under the About/Credit popup there is a section "Ruhm und Ehre" I would request to change this title. This title was the slogan of the SS during german fascism and i regard it as a bad joke to use it. Sure it was unintentional so please just change it. Regards, istvan -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX 1.6.0 is released
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > You can download LyX 1.6.0 from http://www.lyx.org/Download The download page still had the link for 1.5.6 and the 1.6.0 release notes aren't yet up at the link below I've cleaned up things there. Maybe it's a matter of updating the release instructions? Since 1.5.0 was released we've changed the backend of the web site, so maybe the instructions need to reflect this. Where are the instructions located? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: Hi Mike of activities). In that time, I wrote two refereed journal papers and part of the concept study that led to the $100M+ mission. Way cool. keep a watchful eye on things), so I don't know how lyx's popularity has grown, but I'm fairly confident that "hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers" is probably not a bad guess, and very unlikely to be an over-estimate. I definitely agree it's unlikely to be an over-estimate. My question is rather how much of an under-estimate it is. Take it for what you will. The point to the original poster was that LyX and LaTeX are powerful, well-used tools, and the difficulties he was having are likely in his setup or with his expectations. I agree, and I think your point was very politely and nicely phrased, especially given the original posters language. Sincere regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users, we'd be talking about thousands of documents prepared with LyX. Actually... I wonder how many users are subscribed just to the users' list? Interesting, /Christian Now let me ask: how do you cite LyX? Perhaps by referring to http://www.lyx.org? According to Google that's the answer I got when asking in 2003... time flies. It would be nice with a better answer though. regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users, we'd be talking about thousands of documents prepared with LyX. Actually... I wonder how many users are subscribed just to the users' list? Interesting, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Experience using XeTeX with XeTeX?
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Algardas wrote: I am not using LyX myself, but I would like to introduce it to some people. However, they need to use XeTeX with it and XeTeX seems forgoten in LyX and bearly mentioned in the Wiki [1]. This is not a rushing matter, but now, given the opportunity, do you know of any LyX and XeTeX users? Hi, I was asked if it's possible to use LyX with XeTeX, is this possible and does it work reasonably well? best regards, /Christian PS. There's some information here: [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: An idea about the appearance of key-bindings in the statusbar (+idea about View/Update buttons)
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Since I am (...was) not subscribed I did not receive the responses. Question: should all ideas/wishes be posted at the dev's list? I think that's preferable.. for instance, others on this list don't have to see the threads. In addition, you probably get more attention from the developers (not all follow the users' list, although perhaps we should...) Having said that, your input is greatly appreciated, so better here than not at all! Best regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: An idea about the appearance of key-bindings in the statusbar
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: PS. Maybe the ability to see a log/history of the most recent commands could be useful. Do we have that possibility? you mean lyx -dbg action ? I was thinking of a more easily accessible method for normal users. Maybe there could be a little 'history' button on the status field? Or maybe right-clicking on the status field could allow you to see a history of what you've done. Just throwing out ideas here. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX is Nominated for the "Lutèce d'Or 2008"
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I don't have the number but quite a few apparently. That's what the guy at my table told me. He is a journalist at 01-informatique and was a member of the jury. He told me he voted for us but we didn't really have a chance against OpenOffice. This is cool, thanks for telling us about it! /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: An idea about the appearance of key-bindings in the statusbar
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: What about improving the appearance of key-bindings in the statusbar? Increase space between key-bindings and interchange the background colour for each key-binding (light background - darker background - light background - darker background - ... ). I retouched a screenshot of the current appearance (attached pictures from the "original" & the retouched version). Its not my best photo-editing attempt (there is also a huge empty space in the retouched picture -- couldn't invest more time on it) but I think it's clear enough of what I am thinking. Hopefully you like it and it's easy to implement. Hi Nikos, I think you have good ideas, and developers seem to notice them, but even so I'm forwarding it to the developers' list. (lyx-devel AT lists.lyx.org ) regards, Christian PS. Maybe the ability to see a log/history of the most recent commands could be useful. Do we have that possibility? -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX... questions/ideas/wishes
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 10:53 -0400, rgheck wrote: [...] Note that all the shortcuts are also listed under Tools>Preferences>Editing>Shortcuts. It takes time to get used to them. But there's another option with the layout combo: Hit Alt-P, then spacebar, then start typing what you want. Richard Yep, I found that one already accidentally. Thank you anyway, Nikos. Hi, What about Nikos' original point about the documentation not properly explaining this? Is that resolved, or does the documentation need improvement here? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: OT. Insert [lyx] into the Subject
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: why not? Because filtering works already well on the sender/receiver lines, and some people (including me) did not want to waste 6 characters worth of horizontal real estate on the subject lines to state what is clear from context. I agree with André, but would like to add that the news interface (gmane) is an alternative way to interact with the LyX lists. Here's the web interface: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general regards /Christian PS. I use a separate news reader instead of the web interface when reading/posting to the lists. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Siunitx
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, James Sutherland wrote: I use ^\circ to get a degree symbol. Isn't there some keyboard combination that can be used? Perhaps something using the -key? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Wiki: MPM on Linux (need a link blessed)
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've sent Paul the password. /Christian PS. On a good note, we haven't had any spam lately as far as I can remember. That's nice! I just added a paragraph to the wiki pointing to a web page with instructions on how to install the MiKTeX Package Manager on Ubuntu. The wiki URL is http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc6. The link to the source web page needs to be approved/blessed, which needs a password, which apparently is not the same as the upload password. Can someone (Christian?) bless it for me? TIA, Paul -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
