LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 1 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Hello. I've waiting for much time for the LyX 2.0 RC1 binaries that I decided to compile LyX by myself (actually, the last 2 not stable versions doesn't have a installer for Windows). It gives me some work but here is it. I'm sharing them mainly because I know there are people waiting for this. I used free file hostings, I'm very sorry for this. I would host it in the university server but I'm worried the ammount of traffic this may cost to me. Here are the links (it is just one file, both servers are hosting the same file, just choose one): http://www.4shared.com/file/LbOT7g4M/lyx-200rc1.html http://www.megaupload.com/?d=90VWSHB7 This file does not contain any installer, it is just the LyX folder compressed in a zip file. To install it, just unzip it in your Program Files directory (or anywhere else), run bin\lyx.exe and you're done. I give no warranty that it will work properly in your computer, but I hope it will. Use it at your own risk. I've compiled in a Windows 7 Pro x86 machine, using MS Visual Studio 2010 and Qt 4.7.2 (I've followed instruction in the INSTALL.Win32 file). IMO, it is better than the Alternative Installer because this compilation does not have the annoying console window (I've already discussed in another thread how much I dislikes that window). If someone try it, please give some feedback about how it is working. Repeating, these are non official binaries, The LyX Team has nothing to do with it. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Release Candidate: LyX 2.0.0 (release candidate 1) for windows
Stan, There are no official installers. But you can try to use one of the following: Michal's alternative installer http://hotfile.com/dl/110539692/591d4ee/LyX-2.0.0rc1-AltInstaller.zip.html My compilation of LyX: http://www.4shared.com/file/LbOT7g4M/lyx-200rc1.html http://www.megaupload.com/?d=90VWSHB7 Regards, --- Diego Queiroz On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Stan m...@imtek.de wrote: Hi guys, is there an Release Candidate: LyX 2.0.0 (release candidate 1) for windows available?. Can you send me the download link? Kind regards S. Munt
Re: LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 1 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Wolfgang, thanks for your feedback. Probably you don't have MSVC Runtime installed. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84 PS.: You did me remember this comic strip... :-) http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-05-16/ --- Diego Queiroz On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: If someone try it, please give some feedback about how it is working. It doesn't. At least not for me. When I double-click the lyx.exe in ./bin, it complains that it cannot find some msvcp100d.dll. Sincerely, Wolfgang
LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 2 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Hello. For those who want binaries for LyX 2.0 RC2. I've compiled them again. Here is the link. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARUDZI5K Regards. --- Diego Queiroz
Re: LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 2 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Yes. Windows only. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/2 ehud.kap...@gmail.com ehud.kap...@gmail.com Is it for Windows only? EK On 4/2/2011 12:02 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: Hello. For those who want binaries for LyX 2.0 RC2. I've compiled them again. Here is the link.http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARUDZI5K Regards. --- Diego Queiroz -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor Director, Center of Excellence for Computational System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM Director, The laboratory of Visual Computational Neuroscience Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: LyX 2.0 RC2 for Windows
Alejandro. They are now available at the ftp server ( ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.0/rc2). But they won't solve your problem. I've found this bug when I installed Adobe Acrobat X also (when you click to view PDF, the Adobe Acrobat app starts as well but the file is not oppened), but it is not exactly related with Adobe Acrobat installation. I already found what causes this error: * Select Tools Preferences File Handling File Formats; * In Format, select the PDF format you use (eg. PDF (pdflatex); * Change Viewer property to Custom and type auto (it probably should be set to pdfview, so just modify this value) * Save and test. This will make things work as expected. Anyway, it will be great if someone point why this happens. I don't have an idea what this option really do and why it prevents Acrobat X to open the file (note that previous versions of Acrobat do not experience this problem). I want to open a ticket regarding this issue, but I really don't know what to write. I am forwarding this message to devel list to read what they say. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/5 Alejandro Alonso Rodriguez alrdg...@gmail.com How can I get LyX 2.0 RC2 in .exe to install in Windows? I can get the RC1 but the RC2 i can´t see it. I would like to get it because of a bug with Adobe Reader X in RC1 when viewing files. Keep the good work guys! You´re amazing! ;) Best regards.
Re: LyX 2.0 RC2 for Windows
No, I was talking about Adobe Reader X only. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/6 Joost Verburg jo...@lyx.org Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com wrote in message news:BANLkTim6fQ-7u+04_zMnOf5Zb2vh1=e...@mail.gmail.com... Here is the screenshot of C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe. You're talking about Adobe Acrobat, right? Not Adobe Reader? If yes please also send the info of Acrobat.exe instead of AcroRd32.exe. Joost
Re: A basic requested feature
Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right? As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled, everything should be fine. Believe on me. :-) And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX won't impose the filename. An option to disable this feature is welcome (for those who dislikes). If a guess for the filename wasn't necessary, why LyX doesn't leave the file field blank instead of newfile? The answer is: because this feature improves the software usability. Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something in all of them and hit Save all. With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file (based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each document. I bet I can't do the same if newfile or Untitled was the result. IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/9 Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Am 08.04.2011 18:37, schrieb Inon Sharony: Hey LyX developers! As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file should be saved as. Do you agree? Thanks, Although you addressed the developpers I would like to contribute my 0.02$ as a user. Please do not copy the idiocy of M$ Word to create file names using the title or (much worse) the first phrase. This leads in many casesto strings which contain blanks or even strnage utf-8 characters. Even some windows systems do substitute someof these 'strange' characters then by '?' or '_'. Best regards Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Comma as decimal separator (feature request)
The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful. Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator. In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document configuration some place to determine these regional configurations. There are also, other things to hangle. E.g. I always include the icomma package in the preamble when writing a document in portuguese. It would be great if LyX handles this configuration automatically for me. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)
The icomma package (stands for intellifent comma), remove the small space between the comma and the following number. For example, if you type: 1,45, LaTeX insert a small space between the comma and the number 4. With icomma package, this space is removed. The name intelligent is because it try to identify when to remove the space. If you type a tuple (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), the icomma package determine that it is not a number and insert the space as usual. It is just a very small cosmetic change. Most people I know does not care to this, and just forget the small space in the number. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/12 Julien Rioux jri...@physics.utoronto.ca On 12/04/2011 10:19 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful. Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator. In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document configuration some place to determine these regional configurations. I saw this setting somewhere, but I can't remember right now. It might be in the general preferences, not per document. There are also, other things to hangle. E.g. I always include the icomma package in the preamble when writing a document in portuguese. It would be great if LyX handles this configuration automatically for me. What does icomma do? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz -- Julien
Re: A basic requested feature
You loose. LyX adds a number. It was just an example. If LyX adds an ID or not, it doesn't really matter. There is no link between the number and the contents of the document. If not for complete rejection, so at least to priorize on what is important. You're right. But I'm not trying to convince this is the most important feature. I am just telling this is a good feature. I absolutely do not want LyX to use the first line of the doc. I imagine I will end up with tons of documents with nonsense names. Then I'd rather have newfile1...newfile100. If I don't care enough to give them a proper name they probably can be marked as to-be-removed. You're not the only one that write papers with very long titles (I also do the same). But other softwares that suggest a filename (like MS Word) does not have problems with this right? Of course LyX will need to handle these things (limit the filename, remove illegal characters, and other things as well). This is not a big concern. You're right that sometimes we don't care to give good names for our files just because they are to-be-removed files. But I'm sure you do care to open various files to find something just because you decided to not give a proper filename in the past. I would encourage people to think a few seconds how to call their documents. That will save some time in searching for them later on. You get the point! And how can LyX aid users to achieve this? Yes, you guessed right! Proposing filenames! The title is easy to get, but in a higher level of discussion we may also want to discuss if the title/first sentence/etc is the better string to get. Maybe some info based on the master document or the document structure? (as Chapter-5, Appendix, etc). I dunno. There are lots of things to consider and this basic requested feature could be improved to a most wanted feature. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers. You're absolutely right. Someone may suggest that we include an embedded SVG editor in LyX. Of course it would be handy, but before implement it we need to talk if does make sense, given the difficuties to implement. how important and desired the feature is, if there alternatives, and so on. However, we are not talking about an embedded SVG editor and nobody is saying this feature should be implemented independent of the community opinion. I am just trying to defend that this idea is good. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/13 Sam Lewis stroboscopicallyconflu...@yahoo.co.uk IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers. Cheers, Sam
Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)
I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks! Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/13 Ignacio García ignacio.gmora...@gmail.com Diego Queiroz wrote The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful. Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator. In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document configuration some place to determine these regional configurations. This behavior is available in 2.0. There is an option in the table settings See you please Embedded Objects manual sec. 2.12.2 for more details Ignacio G.
Re: Pdf problem
This is due a bug in in LyX. The workaround is at this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86089.html I don't know what causes this and why changing this configuration solves the problem, but I am forwarding this again to devel list. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/13 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net On 04/13/2011 05:03 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote: Hi I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader just opened but the file did not open.. What could be the problem? This probably means there was an error and the file was not produced. I guess the next question is: What was the error? Richard
Re: A basic requested feature
maybe I'm a bit old fashioned (born in 1943 ;-). So I do not have
this terrible need to do everyzhing the fastest way possible.
I'm young (born in the 80's) and I confess I'm neurotic about automatization
(much over the normal). Sorry if I am too boring sometimes.
I enjoy to make the computer decide things for me, and I enjoy much more
when it make good decisions.
BTW, my reseach area is Artificial Intelligence, so how could I think
different? :-)
... and it needs someone interested and available to actually code the stuff.
:)
I'm very interested. I have tons of ideas, but I still have problems to set
up a confortable environment to start to code.
Another problem is that I'm still trying to understand some pieces of code,
so it will take some time for me to really contribute with some new feature.
Proposing a filename is not such an importing feature, IMHO.
I agree.
But this thread subject isn't is list of most important features, it is
just a feature request.
Now if it is important or not, its really another question...
What is left is to determine a consistent behaviour that works in most
cases for most users. The current behaviour ('newfile#.lyx') is obviously
consistent
and works flawlessly whatever the actual content of the document.
You're probably right. But actually, we really do not know what works in
most cases for most users. We just guess it works for most users.
IMO, this could be a good feature to implement: get statistics of LyX usage
directly from users as other softwares already do (anonymous usage).
Maybe, it is early to think in a thing like this, but it is good to start to
think for the near future (and for god's sake, do not reply me with messages
like I don't think this is the most important feature right now... I know
I know, it is not, ok? :-) ).
Cheers,
---
Diego Queiroz
2011/4/14 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right?
As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled,
everything
should be fine. Believe on me. :-)
And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX won't impose
the filename.
An option to disable this feature is welcome (for those who dislikes).
The LyX coding 'philosophy' is to assist users but in an un-intrusive
manner. To rephrase, we don't intend to provide each and every
disturbingly-helpful feature that MS Word and the ilk provide.
(Personally I find title / first line file name suggestions are
useless for me and provide overhead, since I will always want to
delete that text to provide a file name that confirms to my naming
style. The current 'newfile#.lyx' is always helpful when creating
dummy documents for the ML. I do appreciate, however, that others have
different user habits.)
To be clear, I don't think that LyX will ever care to provide such a
trivial option in the Prefs. (I hope it won't!) What is left is to
determine a consistent behaviour that works in most cases for most
users. The current behaviour ('newfile#.lyx') is obviously consistent
and works flawlessly whatever the actual content of the document. The
behaviour you suggest would require coding a contrived hack, which
would take \title if available, otherwise first line (to which some
expressed strong aversion and which I also find disturbing), if
suggestion contains funny chars or delimiters (such as \n \t and the
like) strip them (considering utf-8, how do you determine what is
legal and what is not?), perhaps other difficult to foresee cases
(such as LyX documents containing only ERT).
I know that you will disagree, but I don't think that most users and
developers would approve of such a hack in LyX. And I don't know who
would want to code _and_ maintain it. Regards
Liviu
If a guess for the filename wasn't necessary, why LyX doesn't leave the
file
field blank instead of newfile?
The answer is: because this feature improves the software usability.
Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something
in
all of them and hit Save all.
With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file
(based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each
document.
I bet I can't do the same if newfile or Untitled was the result.
IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good
ideas.
---
Diego Queiroz
2011/4/9 Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de
Am 08.04.2011 18:37, schrieb Inon Sharony:
Hey LyX developers!
As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in
the
\title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the
file
should be saved as.
Do you agree?
Thanks,
Although you addressed the developpers I would like to contribute my
0.02$ as a user.
Please do not copy the idiocy of M$ Word to create file names using
PDF images in LyX RC3
Hello. I am running LyX RC3 (unofficial Windows release) and I am experiencing some problems when I insert PDF images in a LyX document. In the image placeholder I can read Error converting to loadable format, this is probably some error with ImageMagick (the convertDefault.py script is run) but I don't know what's happening or how to fix. When I manually run Image Magick convert.exe I get the following error: -- Magick: no decode delegate for this image format `C:/Users/Diego/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2296/gconvert10.yg2296.pdf' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/532. Magick: missing an image filename `ppm:C:/Users/Diego/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2296/CacheItem.SL2296.ppm' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2949. -- Is someone experiencing this problem? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: How?
Long answer: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation#lyx http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation#lyx --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/19 Vincent van Ravesteijn v...@lyx.org On 19-4-2011 21:30, gordon cooper wrote: What is the correct way to pronounce 'Lyx' in a country speaking English? Liks. Vincent
Layout: OptionalArgs
When developing layouts, what the OptionalArgs command actually do? I mean, I already know what it represents (the number of optional arguments of the command), but it appears to do nothing on LyX. Could someone confirm this? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Lyx no backslash possible to enter proxy in a special domain
I think Manveru is right. But on MikTeX there is a Connection seetings button where you can input anything (including slashes). I don't know what window you're talking about. Could you send a snapshot? --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Manveru manv...@manveru.pl 2011/4/12 Marc Wollersheim m...@marcwollersheim.de: Hello together. I am new here, it is my first subscribe to a mailing list, so i hope to do nothing wrong. My problem while using Lyx ( to write my thesis in a company) Lyx needs to download some packages like graphix, pgfplots etc. Therefore i have to enter a proxy. But in this server environment of the company i have to enter a proxy with the domain prefix, e.g. domain\proxy. But i cannot enter a backslash, so i does not work. Is there any other way to define the proxy (e.g in a config file)? Or do you have any other concrete idea to solve the problem? I think this is a MikTeX issue or other TeX distro you are using on your Windows. This is not a LyX problem. -- Manveru jabber: manv...@manveru.pl gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: RC3 for WIndows ?
Mariano, There aren't official installers. But there is an unnoficial installer, created by Michal. You would try it: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86174.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86174.htmlCheers, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Mariano Llamedo Soria llame...@gmail.com Is it planed to be available for Windows ? Regards, Mariano.
Re: Layout: OptionalArgs
Yeah, I already realized that Short title is a terrible name (since it only makes sense for captions, chapters, sections, and so on). We need to change this in future releases... Anyway... So is OptionalArgs a boolean field? I am asking this 'cuz the Customization documentation says OptionalArgs = number of optional arguments, which means it is an integer field. Is the documentation wrong or there is another behavior if I set OptionalArgs = 2? --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net On 04/20/2011 03:42 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 20/04/2011 02:23, Diego Queiroz a écrit : When developing layouts, what the OptionalArgs command actually do? I mean, I already know what it represents (the number of optional arguments of the command), but it appears to do nothing on LyX. It enables the InsertShort Title (bad name...) menu entry. ...which is what you use to insert optional arguments. rh
Re: Layout: OptionalArgs
Oh. You're right. Thanks. Anyway, I just noted that one can override this setting copying and pasting the Opt field as many times he/she wish. Isn't this a problem? Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Julien Rioux jri...@physics.utoronto.ca On 20/04/2011 12:01 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: Yeah, I already realized that Short title is a terrible name (since it only makes sense for captions, chapters, sections, and so on). We need to change this in future releases... Anyway... So is OptionalArgs a boolean field? I am asking this 'cuz the Customization documentation says OptionalArgs = number of optional arguments, which means it is an integer field. Is the documentation wrong or there is another behavior if I set OptionalArgs = 2? --- Diego Queiroz It is then possible to insert two Short title insets. Right? -- Julien
Re: Layout: OptionalArgs
Oooops. I'm wrong again, sorry. It seems that one can override and insert Opt fields, but they aren't included in the source. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com Oh. You're right. Thanks. Anyway, I just noted that one can override this setting copying and pasting the Opt field as many times he/she wish. Isn't this a problem? Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Julien Rioux jri...@physics.utoronto.ca On 20/04/2011 12:01 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: Yeah, I already realized that Short title is a terrible name (since it only makes sense for captions, chapters, sections, and so on). We need to change this in future releases... Anyway... So is OptionalArgs a boolean field? I am asking this 'cuz the Customization documentation says OptionalArgs = number of optional arguments, which means it is an integer field. Is the documentation wrong or there is another behavior if I set OptionalArgs = 2? --- Diego Queiroz It is then possible to insert two Short title insets. Right? -- Julien
Re: Bug with label and multiline
Thanks for reporting the problem. I was able to confirm the problem, so I created this ticket for you http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7511 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7511Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: LyX 2.0 on Windows
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Stephen Harwin stephen.har...@utas.edu.auwrote: Sorry, I do not seem to be able to find a 2.0.0-2 installer for download let alone a Bundle. Can you send me a link? Most of the mirror sites fail. Thanks Steve Here is the direct link you want ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.0/LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer-Bundle.exe I just tested it, and it is working (not as fast, but working). BTW, I prefer to install MikTeX with the net installer and then install the LyX alone, but you decide. If you want to install them as I do, just install MikTeX from http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup-2.9.3959.exe . And then install LyX from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.0/LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer.exe . Take care, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: Toss 1.6! Done that when rc1 came out and never looked back. el Same for me. LyX 2.0 is incredible. --- Diego
Subfigures: \subref support?
LyX 2.0 supports \subref command without ERT? (I want to cross-reference a subfigure inside the figure environment) If so, how do I insert it? Thanks, --- Diego Queiroz
Math macros inside child documents
I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the second one. In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and use it in other child document. In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles everything perfectly. But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone. AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how to do without insert the math macros again, which in painful). My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone. While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very handy. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Portable LyX
The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific question. LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows register. AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way to achieve this without changing the code. But since there is a portable version MiKTeX, it would be a good to provide a portable version of LyX. Vincent, Goals for 2.1? :-) --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Math macros inside child documents
If you ask to compile just the child, then you are asking to compile it as a standalone document, so it is no surprise that this does not work. Exactly. :-) If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document, then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from DocumentSettings. I was not aware of this feature. Thanks for the hint. But it is also painful to select the document I want to compile everytime. :/ When I am working in a document, I work on it as a standalone document, I don't handle with the Master document before I want to compile the whole set. Of course there are several workarounds, i.e you can create a document with all your macros and insert it on the beggining of all documents. This is a not so elegant solution, but it does the job. Probably one can suggest a better solution as well. But I really think LyX can do this automatically. Since LyX already stores all defined macros in somewhere for the editor, it is not so hard to dinamically include them in a document when needed. Cheers, Diego
Re: Math macros inside child documents
But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document? People do this. Richard But if it was really a standalone document, I would have to unset master document property, right? Anyway, in my case, the problem is that my child document with the macros also define Nomenclatures. When I include it on all files and decide to generate the Master document, the list of Nomenclatures repeats its entries several times (obviously because the entry was indeed included several times). I am just looking for a more user oriented behavior. I mean, if I can see everything right on the screen, what's the problem? This is how I feel about the current behavior. LyX is handling everything on the editor, since all math macros are interpreted correctly when I open any document, but I can't generate the file because of its internal structure. We should try to avoid consistency errors in LyX. If people decide to use ERT, we should expect unwanted behavior, but in a document using only LyX resources, it must never generate errors (or they should be rare, at least), doesn't matter what the user decides to do. Cheers, Diego
Re: Math macros inside child documents
So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child docs. -- Julien Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem. Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-) As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this limitation (I am not searching for one). I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself. Cheers, --- Diego
Re: Math macros inside child documents
Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I say they work for me. No workaround necessary. Maybe I misunderstood you. I was citing your workaround to include bibtex in the childs. I use a branch named child only, which is activated in child docs but deactivated in the master Anyway, never mind. Sorry. Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the use x math package automatically option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of your child doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX should detect that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is needed: check use x math package in document settings. I just tested and this is not enough. I am not able to generate child files in LyX 2.0 at all. If I include a simple macro in a document (the master), create another file (the child), link them and use the macro in the child. The standalone child don't compile, only the master document. Are you able to do this in LyX 1.6? If so, this is a bug report and not a feature request. Can someone confirm this / create ticket? I've attached two files: the child and the master document. I can't compile the child document. Can you try? Cheers, --- Diego child.lyx Description: Binary data master.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Math macros inside child documents
Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child doc, you did not set the master setting, did you? Indeed. I was in a hurry and I forgot it. ;/ --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Portable LyX
I am not able to fully understand the part the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way to achieve this without changing the code. Open LyX and select Help About. There you can see what directory LyX is using to store user files. On Windows, this folder is defined based on the %APPDATA% environment variable. Currently, there's no way to change this without changing the code. This is what I meant. Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Math macros inside child documents
For truly consistent behaviour, we would have to disable stand-alone compilation of documents setting a master (except for included (vs. input) documents). This is a strong restriction. With this, in a document with thousand of pages I will obligated to generate all pages? I do not agree. Actually, I regularly compile stand-alone child docs (to save time on checking the appearance in the output). I have set up a stand-alone branch for math-macros and bibliography and I can live with the question marks in the references. This is another subject, but let's understand the question marks are a problem to be solved too. I think it would be good if LyX doesn't generate so much errors, but I vote against the generation of documents with wrong content (i.e. the question marks). Otherwise, LyX could not stop on the first error, as it already do today. That is, currently, if a error is found, LyX just stops and warns the user. Even if the document can still be generated by LaTeX. We didn't define LyX to just continue and see what you get because we don't want this, right? In the worst case, I'm in favor of a warning to the user about these wrong things. One reason is because I already submited a work with those ??. My fault indeed, but LyX could warn me anyway. ;-) Just make it very clear in the documentation that parent-document features are non-available in the child if compiled stand-alone (without include feature) even if rendered in the LyX window - this is a feature. We did establish that this is a change from 1.6.x, where parent macros are written to the child. That was not intentional, and the behavior depends upon the setting of EXPORT_IN_THREAD. We can keep it as it is, but then we should make it consistent (and could remove useless code). There are two things to note here: 1st: LyX interprets macros very well. It doesn't matter where they are (child/master/etc). If the documents are linked, LyX handles it in the screen. Fact. IMO, if it handles the content to the screen it should handle to the output. 2nd: AFAIK this feature was supported in later versions (I did not tested by myself, but people in this thread said it work). I won't be surprised if someone decide to stay with LyX 1.6 just because this feature was removed. Or just because I am not able to compile my old doc anymore or any other complaints. Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.comwrote: LyX 2.0 supports \subref command without ERT? (I want to cross-reference a subfigure inside the figure environment) If so, how do I insert it? Thanks, --- Diego Queiroz No answers? :-( Currently I am using ERT and it solved my problem. But can someone confirm if lyX really doesn't support this feature at all? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
Thanks for the answers. But I think I wasn't clear. I want to use the \subref command not the \ref one (supported by default on LyX). The difference between them is that \ref produces 1a while \subref produces only a. I need to cite subfigures in the caption of the main float. Example.: Fig(a) --- Fig(b) Figure 1: Here you see some figure (a) and another figure (b). Got it? But now I'm almost sure LyX really doesn't really support it. If so, this is another good (and simple) improvement for LyX 2.1. :-) Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
Isn't this precisely what I gave you in the sample file? (I didn't put the cross-reference in the figure caption, but that's trivial.) In short, LyX supports it and makes it easy. BH Not really. The file you gave me generate 1a, 1b... as expected for a output in the text. What I want is just a, b (without the number 1). Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
Unfortunately no it is not supported and moreover the macro \subref conflicts with the use of refstyle which was implemented in 2.0 (in this case \subref is a reference to a subsection and yields subsection 1.1). So you will have to type a yourself or use TeX code. Are you sure? As stated before, I already solved the problem using ERT. No conflicts a all.
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
Yes I'm sure. Yeah, you are right. But this is a LyX bug. It should use a not-so-obvious name for the command to prevent a conflict like this. However, the command \subref is defined by LyX only when you use the Formatted reference. Since I don't use this type of cross-reference, there is no problem with my ERT. I'll create a ticket for this. Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Math macros inside child documents
But the only one for truly consistent behaviour. If you want to export stand-alone, uncheck the master setting. Even if the master setting is not set in the child, LyX still display all macros perfectly if the master document is open. My complaint is this: if LyX is able to interpret things and display them in the editor, it should be able to generate the output. That's all. Specially if this problem is not present in older versions. No, you can *include* the sub-documents and use the includeonly feature to compile a subset of sub-documents where LaTeX will ensure (almost) correct page numbers and references and LyX will use the parent doc settings instead of the child-doc ones. What happens when you set the include only option? The whole document is generated and the pages are ommited or it handle the pages in a more fashioned way? I am asking this because, if LyX handles it in a good way, we can change the action of the view button of child docs to automatically generate the master document including only the active document. This appears suitable for me and is better than blocking. Actually, *you* generate the error -- a reference to a label that does not exist in the document. Setting a master (currently) is just an editing hint but does not change the way a document is compiled stand-alone. If LyX options were consistent, it won't let me generate such errors. It doesn't really matter if I am responsible for them or not: computers are here to handle problems we don't want to deal with, right? They are not here to introduce another class of problems (although I agree this is not always true :-) . I am not sure about this. If I remember right, the LaTeX run is done in nonstopmode but the output not opened in a viewer - I'd like a show output anyway button in the error message dialogue. Having a look at the output is sometimes far more helpful than TeX error messages. A show output anyway button would be great. However, if LyX consistency were assured, there's no need for it (expect when using ERT). --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
Here is the ticket for this problem. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7550 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7550 --- Diego Queiroz On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.comwrote: Yes I'm sure. Yeah, you are right. But this is a LyX bug. It should use a not-so-obvious name for the command to prevent a conflict like this. However, the command \subref is defined by LyX only when you use the Formatted reference. Since I don't use this type of cross-reference, there is no problem with my ERT. I'll create a ticket for this. Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Math macros inside child documents
A show output anyway button would be great. However, if LyX consistency were assured, there's no need for it (expect when using ERT). ... or the LaTeX preamble (1) or an outdated TeX distribution (2) or a package combination with conflicts (3) or ... (?) Günter I repeat: if, and only if, LyX consistency were assured, there's no need for such option (except when using ERT). What means: 1) In LyX, the LaTeX preamble is an alternative to ERT but it has the same purpose. So any LaTeX code in LyX will always be a problem to consistency. If this is your point, I agree with you. 2) In an ideal scenario, LyX could check the LaTeX distribution to see what resources are available. So an outdated LaTeX should not be a problem. 3) Currently LyX already handles many known packages conflicts. Since all LyX resources are packages mapped to menu commands, every new package to be supported should be checked for possible conflicts with all the existent ones. When this is not possible, LyX should handle the problem in some way (like preventing the user of using them together). ?) Since these problems are solved, I cannot imagine another problem that is not related to ERT, file corruption and hardware problems. Otherwise, LyX can handle it. Actually, ERTs does exist only to keep LyX flexible, but the ERT goes against its proposal. Anyway, let's give up this discussion. It is leading to nowhere. We're flaming the mailing list. Sorry for this. --- Diego Queiroz
Re: how to separate pdf file?
Just curious, will pdftk preserve links between chapters? This seems rather nontrivial. Pdftk output is exactly like the original file, so it keeps all links. All links in the generated file will work if they point to an existent position. For example, if there is a link for the chapter 10, but the chapter 10 is not in the file, that link will not work (obvious?). I have tried to split the document by pdf creator. it works but, the link cannot work. Any suggestion? Use Pdftk. http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ It is much easier than using a pdf printer like PDF Creator, and the output is much better. Its usage is trivial: - pdftk infile.pdf cat 1-20 output outfile.pdf This command create a new file named outfile.pdf with the pages 1-20 from infile.pdf. By default, the metadata is lost (bookmarks, authorname, title, password etc). But you can use pdftk's update_info parameter to insert metadata on a file. Google it if you need. Take care, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: How to type a text over arrow?
Try this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=text+over+arrow+latexl=1 Take care, --- Diego Queiroz On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Yegor Yefremov yegorsli...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I want to type the formula like in the attached image (formula.jpg). Haw can I do this with LyX/LaTeX? As for now I'm using LyX 1.6.5. Regards, Yegor
Re: how to modify figure name
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Hady Ariwibowo Teguh huget_te...@ymail.com wrote: Dear All, I'm using lyx 1.6. I have problem about how to name the figure. Just like this: Figure .2.a How to add a on the last part?? Thanks Teguh CFD Engineer Teguh, You need to use sub floats. To achieve this on LyX, just insert a float inside another float. This way, the caption of the sub-float is automatically named 2a, 2b and so on. Best regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Author year in text citation
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Thomas thomas.tri...@cantab.net wrote: Dear all, I am using Lxy 2.0 under Windows and I am using the Firefox Zotero plug in for my bibliography. I have the following problem. When trying to format in text citations as Author (Year) which I can choose right clicking the citation in Lyx the PDF (pdflatex) produces (author?) followed by the reference number in brackets. Citation style is Natbib and generator is bibtex. I tried various approaches suggested online but nothing works. Unfortunately, I am not even sure which of the many suggestions apply to my problem (if any). Any pointers are much appreciated! Thomas Thomas, I don't remember exactly why this happens. But AFAICR, this is because you did not select a proper style for your bibliography that supports Author Year citations. I don't know what style you're using, but you can try to select another one, like plainnat or apalike. If I'm not wrong, the plain style (which is the LyX default), does not support it. If you're not sure what I am talking about, just select Insert List / TOC BibTeX Bibloography..., in that window you are able to select your *.bib database and a style (*.bst) to use. Best regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: PDF commenting enabled
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Michael Joyner mjoy...@vbservices.netwrote: The commenting restriction is strictly because of the PDF generator. If you are using a software that can create commentable PDF's from a PS file, the result you create should be commentable. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Thomas thomas.tri...@cantab.net wrote: Hi, I understand it is not possible to create PDFs with Lyx that allow commenting by others. My question is whether this is still true when I use Lyx to get the postscript file and distill the file myself? Thanks, Thomas -- --- - Learn to speak Cherokee: http://www.cherokeelessons.com/ - Cherokee Language Help BBS/Chat: http://www.cherokeelessons.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=6 - Cherokee Lessons PDF made with: http://www.lyx.org/ Thomas, Michael is right. LyX does not insert any kind of restriction in the PDF. If you are not able to comment in the PDF, this is because your PDF reader/generator doesn't allow you to do so (Acrobat Reader?). About the file format, this doesn't really matter. If you are dealing with PS/PDF/whatever, the restriction resides with the software that is generating the comments, not with the file itself. Adobe Acrobat X (not Pro, the last free version) allows you to insert comments in the PDF. I just tested myself and I am able to insert comments on files generated by LyX (pdflatex) as well. So, if you're using it Adobe Acrobat, just check if you are using the last version, older versions doesn't allow you to insert comments without pay. Take care, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: suggestion: searchbar for insert special character
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to locate.
I
use kcharselect (from kde) to find it. It has a search bar. Just type in
the
term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on my machine).
My suggestion is add a searchbar to the insert special character.
BTW, I can use kcharselect to locate a unicode character. But, I don't
think it
would generally work to just paste in a unicode character to a LaTeX
document,
correct?
Usually, you can freely copy/paste some unicode chars to/from LyX (specially
symbols).
LyX automatically inserts all necessary packages and converts the char to
the correspondent LaTeX code.
To check, just try to copy/paste your ½ character to a new LyX document
and look to the source.
LyX includes the textcomp package and use the command \textonehalf{}.
Also, a good hint to search for unknown symbols in LaTeX is to use a image
classificator (like this one http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html).
Best regards,
---
Diego Queiroz
Format Output of Track Changes
Hello. Is there a way to format the output of Track Changes? I mean, currently the text is marked with blue color, but I want to print the document in a BW printer, so it would be nice if I could underline the text. Best regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Sans-serif math font
Hi folks.
I want to change the font in Math environment to Sans-serif, but when I
change the Font Default Family in a document (thru Document Settings...
Fonts) the font used in Math environment is not changed.
Currently, is there a way to change the Math font to Sans-serif in LyX?
I know that I can do that including \usepackage{sfmath} to the preamble, but
I want to know if something similiar can be done using LyX User Interface,
without ERT.
Cheers,
---
Diego Queiroz
Re: Format Output of Track Changes
Thank you guys. --- Diego Queiroz
Transparency handling
Hello. I'm not sure if this is an old issue or not, but I was not able to find some thread about this subject. When I paste a picture in LyX (from the clipboard), it shows a dialog asking where to save that picture and automatically inserts it on the document. This is OK and very useful, but if the picture has transparency (eg. a PNG image with transparent background), all the transparency turns black. The interesting part is that, if I save the picture somewhere else (without using LyX), and then load the picture as usual on the document, this problem doesn't occur. That is, all the transparency is handled as expected. Is this a bug? Or is there a way to workaround this? Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Lyx 1.6.5 Installer
Hello. Someone knoes when Windows binaries for Lyx 1.6.5 will be available? (the standalone installer, not the alternative one) Thanks, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Lyx 1.6.5 Installer
Hello. Thanks for your reply. I don't know if it is a good reason, but the alternative installer shows up an annoying console window when it opens. I really dislikes it, haha. In general, I think the standalone installer is more clean. This is why I prefer it. :-) Regards, --- Diego Queiroz On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Diego Queiroz schrieb: Someone knoes when Windows binaries for Lyx 1.6.5 will be available? (the standalone installer, not the alternative one) No, but the installer doesn't matter. Both will install LyX on Windows. Or do you have a certain reason why you don't want to use the alternative installer? regards Uwe
Auto hide/unhide toolbars
Hello. I am using Lyx 1.6.5 (the actual last version) on Windows XP SP3. The problem is that the Math Toolbar and Math Panels Toolbar doesn't auto unhide when I am editing a formula. The same is happening when I am editing tables: the Table Toolbar does not auto unhide. I know I can hide/unhide them selecting the proper option on View Toolbars, but I prefer to only see these toolbars when needed. The weird part is that this is happening only on the computer where I did a new install of Lyx (with no versions installed before). The same issue didn't happened on other computers, where there was old versions of Lyx installed and I just over installed the new version. How can I restore the default option to auto hide/unhide these toolbars? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Auto hide/unhide toolbars
Thanks Paul. I don't know what happened with this installation and why the other computer survived for this upgrade (because it has no customized UI file also), but it works like a charm now. :-) --- Diego Queiroz On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: Diego Queiroz wrote: Hello. I am using Lyx 1.6.5 (the actual last version) on Windows XP SP3. The problem is that the Math Toolbar and Math Panels Toolbar doesn't auto unhide when I am editing a formula. The same is happening when I am editing tables: the Table Toolbar does not auto unhide. I know I can hide/unhide them selecting the proper option on View Toolbars, but I prefer to only see these toolbars when needed. The weird part is that this is happening only on the computer where I did a new install of Lyx (with no versions installed before). The same issue didn't happened on other computers, where there was old versions of Lyx installed and I just over installed the new version. How can I restore the default option to auto hide/unhide these toolbars? The behavior of View Toolbars ... seems to have changed. It used to be that you could cycle any toolbar between on (always), off and auto. Now it seems that you can only force it on or back to its prior state (either off or auto). If you go to Tools Preferences Look Feel User interface and look at User interface file:, you will see which UI file you're using (and, by browsing, where it lives. You can edit it to add the auto-on feature. In the Toolbars section, you want something like math_panels auto,math,bottom math auto,math,bottom to make the two math toolbars automatic (you can change 'bottom' to whichever side you want for them). You might want to put the edited UI file in the ui directory of your local LyX files (usually C:\Documents and Settings\you\Application Data\lyx16\ui), and then point LyX at it, so that it survives future upgrades. If you did this on the other machines, that could explain why the auto feature was on there -- although out of the box LyX 1.6.5 installed here with the math toolbars in auto mode, and no customized UI file. /Paul
Re: .lyx~ backup-files: to delete?
If you don't want the backups, just uncheck the proper boxes in Tools Preferences Look Feel User interface. This way they won't annoy you anymore. :-) --- Diego Queiroz On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: The files with the filename-extension ?.lyx~? which LyX creates each time you begin a new document are obviously the ?LyX backups? for which one may assign a special directory where they go. Otherwise they are saved in the same directory as the .lyx file itself. The tilde (~) is the standard symbol for a backup file in linux and other unices. It has no other function. Keep or delete as you choose. Rich
Re: .lyx~ backup-files: to delete?
The proper boxes I mean are Backup original documents when saving and Backup documents, every XX minutes.. They are the 4th and 5th checkboxes of the Tools Preferences Look Feel User interface menu. --- Diego Queiroz On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote: Am 20.12.2009, 00:25 Uhr, schrieb Diego Queiroz: If you don't want the backups, just uncheck the proper boxes in Tools Preferences Look Feel User interface. Gracias, but only I'm still uncertain, what the proper boxes there are. The mines are in German, but Sichere Originaldokumente beim Speichern ≈ Save original documents when saving ≈ Salvar documentos originales salvando is not very selfexplaining… Como se llamen los boxes en englès o español? joachim -- Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 / TeXworks 0.2.3 LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger
Re: Missing Aspell ?
I am assuming you are using Windows with the latest version of LyX (1.6.5-1). Go to Add or Remove Programs (Programs and Features on Windows Vista) and see if Aspell 0.6 Dictionary (Language: your language) is on the list. There should be one entry for each language you've installed. If it is not (that is, no dictionaries are installed, or someone is missing), just run again the LyX Installer. It will ask if you want to reinstall LyX or just install new dictionaries. Uncheck the box to reinstall LyX and select the dictionaries you want to download/install. Hope it helps. PS: Next time, don't forget to say what OS and LyX version you are using. :-) Regards, --- Diego Queiroz On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:17 PM, John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca wrote: I just installed Lyx on a little netbook and seem to have lost my spellchecker. When I spell check I recieive an error message and when I check under Tools Perfernces the spell checker panel which reads Aspell is greyed out. I am correct in assuming that I need to install Aspell and reconfigure? Thanks __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/
Re: a simple question:
Just overwrite it. No problems. :-) --- Diego Queiroz On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Adrian Diaz aedmci...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends At the moment i have installed in my computer the version Lyx 1.6.3. My question is about to install the version 1.6.5 without uninstalling the vesrion 1.6.3. is it possible. My computer has windows vista. Greetings Adrián
Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text
Piero Faustini, This problem is very dificult to deal with. It is happening because the document is not using Unicode. It is using common ANSI format with an unusual font with Greek characters on place of the ones you are used to (the font is embedded on the PDF file). This is why you see bad characters when you copy and paste its content: your editor is using a font with a different encoding than the pasted data. Even if you extract the fonts ans install them (I think you can do this using FontForge http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ ), it won't solve your problem, because Google (and most translators/tools on the web) need Unicode. :-( There is a tool on the web I use often which converts latin text to slavic formats (includind Greek): http://www.translit.ru/?direction=gr . But the font on this document is using a very different encoding so it did not work also. :-( If the translation of this document is very important, I think you have to transliterate it by yourself or using an OCR tool (of course, this tool has to be able to distinguish Greek characters, so it won't be an easy task). Regards, --- Diego Queiroz On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Manoj Rajagopalan rma...@umich.eduwrote: Maybe Adobe performs some kind of OCR when you select a piece of text from a PDF document and tries to copy what it can infer onto the clipboard. In that case it might just not be as good with Greek as it is with English. When i tried to select a line, the selection highlight background spilled over to neighbouring lines so acrobat reader wasn't very good with identifying line boundaries to start with. I am using Acrobat 9.0 on KUbuntu 8.04. Have you tried googling for phrases like acrobat copy greek/international ... cheers! Manoj On Monday 28 December 2009 08:44:20 am Piero Faustini wrote: Hello,I know this is a bit off-topic (well, COMPLETELY off-topic) but I ask in this newsl because I know there are some guys with international languages coding knoledges who could at least redirect me to some other community for this kind of problems.I need to copy some text (ok, I confess I would like to use googletranslate to know what's about!) in a pdf document which stays at this location: http://www.ionio.gr/~GreekMus/articles/samaras.pdfAnyway, I tried to copy the text to some editor/wp but always failed and found only bad characters, saving only some words coded in latin alphabet.Maybe a greek user can copy and then repaste the text in a suitable format.Any other ideas/help?ThanksPiero _ 25 Gigabyte per le tue foto online http://www.windowslive.it/foto.aspx
LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 1 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Hello. I've waiting for much time for the LyX 2.0 RC1 binaries that I decided to compile LyX by myself (actually, the last 2 not stable versions doesn't have a installer for Windows). It gives me some work but here is it. I'm sharing them mainly because I know there are people waiting for this. I used free file hostings, I'm very sorry for this. I would host it in the university server but I'm worried the ammount of traffic this may cost to me. Here are the links (it is just one file, both servers are hosting the same file, just choose one): http://www.4shared.com/file/LbOT7g4M/lyx-200rc1.html http://www.megaupload.com/?d=90VWSHB7 This file does not contain any installer, it is just the LyX folder compressed in a zip file. To install it, just unzip it in your Program Files directory (or anywhere else), run bin\lyx.exe and you're done. I give no warranty that it will work properly in your computer, but I hope it will. Use it at your own risk. I've compiled in a Windows 7 Pro x86 machine, using MS Visual Studio 2010 and Qt 4.7.2 (I've followed instruction in the INSTALL.Win32 file). IMO, it is better than the Alternative Installer because this compilation does not have the annoying console window (I've already discussed in another thread how much I dislikes that window). If someone try it, please give some feedback about how it is working. Repeating, these are non official binaries, The LyX Team has nothing to do with it. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Release Candidate: LyX 2.0.0 (release candidate 1) for windows
Stan, There are no official installers. But you can try to use one of the following: Michal's alternative installer http://hotfile.com/dl/110539692/591d4ee/LyX-2.0.0rc1-AltInstaller.zip.html My compilation of LyX: http://www.4shared.com/file/LbOT7g4M/lyx-200rc1.html http://www.megaupload.com/?d=90VWSHB7 Regards, --- Diego Queiroz On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Stan m...@imtek.de wrote: Hi guys, is there an Release Candidate: LyX 2.0.0 (release candidate 1) for windows available?. Can you send me the download link? Kind regards S. Munt
Re: LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 1 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Wolfgang, thanks for your feedback. Probably you don't have MSVC Runtime installed. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84 PS.: You did me remember this comic strip... :-) http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-05-16/ --- Diego Queiroz On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: If someone try it, please give some feedback about how it is working. It doesn't. At least not for me. When I double-click the lyx.exe in ./bin, it complains that it cannot find some msvcp100d.dll. Sincerely, Wolfgang
LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 2 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Hello. For those who want binaries for LyX 2.0 RC2. I've compiled them again. Here is the link. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARUDZI5K Regards. --- Diego Queiroz
Re: LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 2 - (Non official Win32 binaries)
Yes. Windows only. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/2 ehud.kap...@gmail.com ehud.kap...@gmail.com Is it for Windows only? EK On 4/2/2011 12:02 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: Hello. For those who want binaries for LyX 2.0 RC2. I've compiled them again. Here is the link.http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARUDZI5K Regards. --- Diego Queiroz -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor Director, Center of Excellence for Computational System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM Director, The laboratory of Visual Computational Neuroscience Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: LyX 2.0 RC2 for Windows
Alejandro. They are now available at the ftp server ( ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.0/rc2). But they won't solve your problem. I've found this bug when I installed Adobe Acrobat X also (when you click to view PDF, the Adobe Acrobat app starts as well but the file is not oppened), but it is not exactly related with Adobe Acrobat installation. I already found what causes this error: * Select Tools Preferences File Handling File Formats; * In Format, select the PDF format you use (eg. PDF (pdflatex); * Change Viewer property to Custom and type auto (it probably should be set to pdfview, so just modify this value) * Save and test. This will make things work as expected. Anyway, it will be great if someone point why this happens. I don't have an idea what this option really do and why it prevents Acrobat X to open the file (note that previous versions of Acrobat do not experience this problem). I want to open a ticket regarding this issue, but I really don't know what to write. I am forwarding this message to devel list to read what they say. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/5 Alejandro Alonso Rodriguez alrdg...@gmail.com How can I get LyX 2.0 RC2 in .exe to install in Windows? I can get the RC1 but the RC2 i can´t see it. I would like to get it because of a bug with Adobe Reader X in RC1 when viewing files. Keep the good work guys! You´re amazing! ;) Best regards.
Re: LyX 2.0 RC2 for Windows
No, I was talking about Adobe Reader X only. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/6 Joost Verburg jo...@lyx.org Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com wrote in message news:BANLkTim6fQ-7u+04_zMnOf5Zb2vh1=e...@mail.gmail.com... Here is the screenshot of C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe. You're talking about Adobe Acrobat, right? Not Adobe Reader? If yes please also send the info of Acrobat.exe instead of AcroRd32.exe. Joost
Re: A basic requested feature
Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right? As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled, everything should be fine. Believe on me. :-) And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX won't impose the filename. An option to disable this feature is welcome (for those who dislikes). If a guess for the filename wasn't necessary, why LyX doesn't leave the file field blank instead of newfile? The answer is: because this feature improves the software usability. Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something in all of them and hit Save all. With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file (based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each document. I bet I can't do the same if newfile or Untitled was the result. IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/9 Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Am 08.04.2011 18:37, schrieb Inon Sharony: Hey LyX developers! As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file should be saved as. Do you agree? Thanks, Although you addressed the developpers I would like to contribute my 0.02$ as a user. Please do not copy the idiocy of M$ Word to create file names using the title or (much worse) the first phrase. This leads in many casesto strings which contain blanks or even strnage utf-8 characters. Even some windows systems do substitute someof these 'strange' characters then by '?' or '_'. Best regards Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Comma as decimal separator (feature request)
The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful. Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator. In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document configuration some place to determine these regional configurations. There are also, other things to hangle. E.g. I always include the icomma package in the preamble when writing a document in portuguese. It would be great if LyX handles this configuration automatically for me. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)
The icomma package (stands for intellifent comma), remove the small space between the comma and the following number. For example, if you type: 1,45, LaTeX insert a small space between the comma and the number 4. With icomma package, this space is removed. The name intelligent is because it try to identify when to remove the space. If you type a tuple (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), the icomma package determine that it is not a number and insert the space as usual. It is just a very small cosmetic change. Most people I know does not care to this, and just forget the small space in the number. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/12 Julien Rioux jri...@physics.utoronto.ca On 12/04/2011 10:19 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful. Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator. In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document configuration some place to determine these regional configurations. I saw this setting somewhere, but I can't remember right now. It might be in the general preferences, not per document. There are also, other things to hangle. E.g. I always include the icomma package in the preamble when writing a document in portuguese. It would be great if LyX handles this configuration automatically for me. What does icomma do? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz -- Julien
Re: A basic requested feature
You loose. LyX adds a number. It was just an example. If LyX adds an ID or not, it doesn't really matter. There is no link between the number and the contents of the document. If not for complete rejection, so at least to priorize on what is important. You're right. But I'm not trying to convince this is the most important feature. I am just telling this is a good feature. I absolutely do not want LyX to use the first line of the doc. I imagine I will end up with tons of documents with nonsense names. Then I'd rather have newfile1...newfile100. If I don't care enough to give them a proper name they probably can be marked as to-be-removed. You're not the only one that write papers with very long titles (I also do the same). But other softwares that suggest a filename (like MS Word) does not have problems with this right? Of course LyX will need to handle these things (limit the filename, remove illegal characters, and other things as well). This is not a big concern. You're right that sometimes we don't care to give good names for our files just because they are to-be-removed files. But I'm sure you do care to open various files to find something just because you decided to not give a proper filename in the past. I would encourage people to think a few seconds how to call their documents. That will save some time in searching for them later on. You get the point! And how can LyX aid users to achieve this? Yes, you guessed right! Proposing filenames! The title is easy to get, but in a higher level of discussion we may also want to discuss if the title/first sentence/etc is the better string to get. Maybe some info based on the master document or the document structure? (as Chapter-5, Appendix, etc). I dunno. There are lots of things to consider and this basic requested feature could be improved to a most wanted feature. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers. You're absolutely right. Someone may suggest that we include an embedded SVG editor in LyX. Of course it would be handy, but before implement it we need to talk if does make sense, given the difficuties to implement. how important and desired the feature is, if there alternatives, and so on. However, we are not talking about an embedded SVG editor and nobody is saying this feature should be implemented independent of the community opinion. I am just trying to defend that this idea is good. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/13 Sam Lewis stroboscopicallyconflu...@yahoo.co.uk IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers. Cheers, Sam
Re: Comma as decimal separator (feature request)
I was really not aware there is a way to set the decimal separator. Thanks! Although, it would be handy if there was a way to set this option globally. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/13 Ignacio García ignacio.gmora...@gmail.com Diego Queiroz wrote The Align on decimal feature in tables are really very useful. Therefore, in portuguese we use a comma as the decimal separator. In future releases, should be a good idea to include in the document configuration some place to determine these regional configurations. This behavior is available in 2.0. There is an option in the table settings See you please Embedded Objects manual sec. 2.12.2 for more details Ignacio G.
Re: Pdf problem
This is due a bug in in LyX. The workaround is at this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86089.html I don't know what causes this and why changing this configuration solves the problem, but I am forwarding this again to devel list. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/13 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net On 04/13/2011 05:03 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote: Hi I tried to convert my Lyx- file into PDF-form but the adobe reader just opened but the file did not open.. What could be the problem? This probably means there was an error and the file was not produced. I guess the next question is: What was the error? Richard
Re: A basic requested feature
maybe I'm a bit old fashioned (born in 1943 ;-). So I do not have
this terrible need to do everyzhing the fastest way possible.
I'm young (born in the 80's) and I confess I'm neurotic about automatization
(much over the normal). Sorry if I am too boring sometimes.
I enjoy to make the computer decide things for me, and I enjoy much more
when it make good decisions.
BTW, my reseach area is Artificial Intelligence, so how could I think
different? :-)
... and it needs someone interested and available to actually code the stuff.
:)
I'm very interested. I have tons of ideas, but I still have problems to set
up a confortable environment to start to code.
Another problem is that I'm still trying to understand some pieces of code,
so it will take some time for me to really contribute with some new feature.
Proposing a filename is not such an importing feature, IMHO.
I agree.
But this thread subject isn't is list of most important features, it is
just a feature request.
Now if it is important or not, its really another question...
What is left is to determine a consistent behaviour that works in most
cases for most users. The current behaviour ('newfile#.lyx') is obviously
consistent
and works flawlessly whatever the actual content of the document.
You're probably right. But actually, we really do not know what works in
most cases for most users. We just guess it works for most users.
IMO, this could be a good feature to implement: get statistics of LyX usage
directly from users as other softwares already do (anonymous usage).
Maybe, it is early to think in a thing like this, but it is good to start to
think for the near future (and for god's sake, do not reply me with messages
like I don't think this is the most important feature right now... I know
I know, it is not, ok? :-) ).
Cheers,
---
Diego Queiroz
2011/4/14 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right?
As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled,
everything
should be fine. Believe on me. :-)
And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX won't impose
the filename.
An option to disable this feature is welcome (for those who dislikes).
The LyX coding 'philosophy' is to assist users but in an un-intrusive
manner. To rephrase, we don't intend to provide each and every
disturbingly-helpful feature that MS Word and the ilk provide.
(Personally I find title / first line file name suggestions are
useless for me and provide overhead, since I will always want to
delete that text to provide a file name that confirms to my naming
style. The current 'newfile#.lyx' is always helpful when creating
dummy documents for the ML. I do appreciate, however, that others have
different user habits.)
To be clear, I don't think that LyX will ever care to provide such a
trivial option in the Prefs. (I hope it won't!) What is left is to
determine a consistent behaviour that works in most cases for most
users. The current behaviour ('newfile#.lyx') is obviously consistent
and works flawlessly whatever the actual content of the document. The
behaviour you suggest would require coding a contrived hack, which
would take \title if available, otherwise first line (to which some
expressed strong aversion and which I also find disturbing), if
suggestion contains funny chars or delimiters (such as \n \t and the
like) strip them (considering utf-8, how do you determine what is
legal and what is not?), perhaps other difficult to foresee cases
(such as LyX documents containing only ERT).
I know that you will disagree, but I don't think that most users and
developers would approve of such a hack in LyX. And I don't know who
would want to code _and_ maintain it. Regards
Liviu
If a guess for the filename wasn't necessary, why LyX doesn't leave the
file
field blank instead of newfile?
The answer is: because this feature improves the software usability.
Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something
in
all of them and hit Save all.
With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file
(based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each
document.
I bet I can't do the same if newfile or Untitled was the result.
IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good
ideas.
---
Diego Queiroz
2011/4/9 Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de
Am 08.04.2011 18:37, schrieb Inon Sharony:
Hey LyX developers!
As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in
the
\title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the
file
should be saved as.
Do you agree?
Thanks,
Although you addressed the developpers I would like to contribute my
0.02$ as a user.
Please do not copy the idiocy of M$ Word to create file names using
PDF images in LyX RC3
Hello. I am running LyX RC3 (unofficial Windows release) and I am experiencing some problems when I insert PDF images in a LyX document. In the image placeholder I can read Error converting to loadable format, this is probably some error with ImageMagick (the convertDefault.py script is run) but I don't know what's happening or how to fix. When I manually run Image Magick convert.exe I get the following error: -- Magick: no decode delegate for this image format `C:/Users/Diego/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2296/gconvert10.yg2296.pdf' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/532. Magick: missing an image filename `ppm:C:/Users/Diego/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2296/CacheItem.SL2296.ppm' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2949. -- Is someone experiencing this problem? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: How?
Long answer: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation#lyx http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation#lyx --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/19 Vincent van Ravesteijn v...@lyx.org On 19-4-2011 21:30, gordon cooper wrote: What is the correct way to pronounce 'Lyx' in a country speaking English? Liks. Vincent
Layout: OptionalArgs
When developing layouts, what the OptionalArgs command actually do? I mean, I already know what it represents (the number of optional arguments of the command), but it appears to do nothing on LyX. Could someone confirm this? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Lyx no backslash possible to enter proxy in a special domain
I think Manveru is right. But on MikTeX there is a Connection seetings button where you can input anything (including slashes). I don't know what window you're talking about. Could you send a snapshot? --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Manveru manv...@manveru.pl 2011/4/12 Marc Wollersheim m...@marcwollersheim.de: Hello together. I am new here, it is my first subscribe to a mailing list, so i hope to do nothing wrong. My problem while using Lyx ( to write my thesis in a company) Lyx needs to download some packages like graphix, pgfplots etc. Therefore i have to enter a proxy. But in this server environment of the company i have to enter a proxy with the domain prefix, e.g. domain\proxy. But i cannot enter a backslash, so i does not work. Is there any other way to define the proxy (e.g in a config file)? Or do you have any other concrete idea to solve the problem? I think this is a MikTeX issue or other TeX distro you are using on your Windows. This is not a LyX problem. -- Manveru jabber: manv...@manveru.pl gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: RC3 for WIndows ?
Mariano, There aren't official installers. But there is an unnoficial installer, created by Michal. You would try it: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86174.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg86174.htmlCheers, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Mariano Llamedo Soria llame...@gmail.com Is it planed to be available for Windows ? Regards, Mariano.
Re: Layout: OptionalArgs
Yeah, I already realized that Short title is a terrible name (since it only makes sense for captions, chapters, sections, and so on). We need to change this in future releases... Anyway... So is OptionalArgs a boolean field? I am asking this 'cuz the Customization documentation says OptionalArgs = number of optional arguments, which means it is an integer field. Is the documentation wrong or there is another behavior if I set OptionalArgs = 2? --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net On 04/20/2011 03:42 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 20/04/2011 02:23, Diego Queiroz a écrit : When developing layouts, what the OptionalArgs command actually do? I mean, I already know what it represents (the number of optional arguments of the command), but it appears to do nothing on LyX. It enables the InsertShort Title (bad name...) menu entry. ...which is what you use to insert optional arguments. rh
Re: Layout: OptionalArgs
Oh. You're right. Thanks. Anyway, I just noted that one can override this setting copying and pasting the Opt field as many times he/she wish. Isn't this a problem? Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Julien Rioux jri...@physics.utoronto.ca On 20/04/2011 12:01 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: Yeah, I already realized that Short title is a terrible name (since it only makes sense for captions, chapters, sections, and so on). We need to change this in future releases... Anyway... So is OptionalArgs a boolean field? I am asking this 'cuz the Customization documentation says OptionalArgs = number of optional arguments, which means it is an integer field. Is the documentation wrong or there is another behavior if I set OptionalArgs = 2? --- Diego Queiroz It is then possible to insert two Short title insets. Right? -- Julien
Re: Layout: OptionalArgs
Oooops. I'm wrong again, sorry. It seems that one can override and insert Opt fields, but they aren't included in the source. --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com Oh. You're right. Thanks. Anyway, I just noted that one can override this setting copying and pasting the Opt field as many times he/she wish. Isn't this a problem? Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz 2011/4/20 Julien Rioux jri...@physics.utoronto.ca On 20/04/2011 12:01 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: Yeah, I already realized that Short title is a terrible name (since it only makes sense for captions, chapters, sections, and so on). We need to change this in future releases... Anyway... So is OptionalArgs a boolean field? I am asking this 'cuz the Customization documentation says OptionalArgs = number of optional arguments, which means it is an integer field. Is the documentation wrong or there is another behavior if I set OptionalArgs = 2? --- Diego Queiroz It is then possible to insert two Short title insets. Right? -- Julien
Re: Bug with label and multiline
Thanks for reporting the problem. I was able to confirm the problem, so I created this ticket for you http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7511 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7511Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: LyX 2.0 on Windows
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Stephen Harwin stephen.har...@utas.edu.auwrote: Sorry, I do not seem to be able to find a 2.0.0-2 installer for download let alone a Bundle. Can you send me a link? Most of the mirror sites fail. Thanks Steve Here is the direct link you want ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.0/LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer-Bundle.exe I just tested it, and it is working (not as fast, but working). BTW, I prefer to install MikTeX with the net installer and then install the LyX alone, but you decide. If you want to install them as I do, just install MikTeX from http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup-2.9.3959.exe . And then install LyX from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.0/LyX-2.0.0-2-Installer.exe . Take care, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: Toss 1.6! Done that when rc1 came out and never looked back. el Same for me. LyX 2.0 is incredible. --- Diego
Subfigures: \subref support?
LyX 2.0 supports \subref command without ERT? (I want to cross-reference a subfigure inside the figure environment) If so, how do I insert it? Thanks, --- Diego Queiroz
Math macros inside child documents
I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Probably the second one. In LyX it's ok to define a Math Macro in a Master document and use it in a child one. It's also ok to use math macros that are defined in a child and use it in other child document. In both cases, I am able to view the Master document and it handles everything perfectly. But if I do so, I am unable to compile the child document alone. AFAIK the reason is simple: the child document doesn't have the math macros defined on its scope. And it doesn't really matter if the default master document is set or not. It simple doesn't work (at least, I don't know how to do without insert the math macros again, which in painful). My suggestion is to allow the generation of the childs alone. While working in the document, it's normal to compile only parts of the document instead of compile the whole set, so this feature would be very handy. Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Portable LyX
The question now is that whether Lyx stores all the settings files in the installation directory itself, and not use registry (for windows, etc). Perhaps one of the developers could have answer to this more specific question. LyX uses the user directory by default and doesn't use the Windows register. AFAIK the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way to achieve this without changing the code. But since there is a portable version MiKTeX, it would be a good to provide a portable version of LyX. Vincent, Goals for 2.1? :-) --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Math macros inside child documents
If you ask to compile just the child, then you are asking to compile it as a standalone document, so it is no surprise that this does not work. Exactly. :-) If you want to compile just one chapter as part of a larger document, then you need to use the \includeonly support, accessible from DocumentSettings. I was not aware of this feature. Thanks for the hint. But it is also painful to select the document I want to compile everytime. :/ When I am working in a document, I work on it as a standalone document, I don't handle with the Master document before I want to compile the whole set. Of course there are several workarounds, i.e you can create a document with all your macros and insert it on the beggining of all documents. This is a not so elegant solution, but it does the job. Probably one can suggest a better solution as well. But I really think LyX can do this automatically. Since LyX already stores all defined macros in somewhere for the editor, it is not so hard to dinamically include them in a document when needed. Cheers, Diego
Re: Math macros inside child documents
But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document? People do this. Richard But if it was really a standalone document, I would have to unset master document property, right? Anyway, in my case, the problem is that my child document with the macros also define Nomenclatures. When I include it on all files and decide to generate the Master document, the list of Nomenclatures repeats its entries several times (obviously because the entry was indeed included several times). I am just looking for a more user oriented behavior. I mean, if I can see everything right on the screen, what's the problem? This is how I feel about the current behavior. LyX is handling everything on the editor, since all math macros are interpreted correctly when I open any document, but I can't generate the file because of its internal structure. We should try to avoid consistency errors in LyX. If people decide to use ERT, we should expect unwanted behavior, but in a document using only LyX resources, it must never generate errors (or they should be rare, at least), doesn't matter what the user decides to do. Cheers, Diego
Re: Math macros inside child documents
So, I do not experience your problem. However document settings and stuff that gets defined in the preamble need to be set in both master and child docs. -- Julien Actually, the answer is: yes, you do experience the very same problem. Otherwise you won't need to go after a workaround, right? :-) As I said before, I'm sure there are several ways to workaround this limitation (I am not searching for one). I just think we should focus on make LyX avoid these errors by itself. Cheers, --- Diego
Re: Math macros inside child documents
Which workaround? You said math macros don't work within child docs, I say they work for me. No workaround necessary. Maybe I misunderstood you. I was citing your workaround to include bibtex in the childs. I use a branch named child only, which is activated in child docs but deactivated in the master Anyway, never mind. Sorry. Thinking about this again, I'm guessing that one of the use x math package automatically option doesn't get triggered and is the cause of your child doc compilation failures. If that is the case then yes, LyX should detect that automatically, and yes, at the moment a workaround is needed: check use x math package in document settings. I just tested and this is not enough. I am not able to generate child files in LyX 2.0 at all. If I include a simple macro in a document (the master), create another file (the child), link them and use the macro in the child. The standalone child don't compile, only the master document. Are you able to do this in LyX 1.6? If so, this is a bug report and not a feature request. Can someone confirm this / create ticket? I've attached two files: the child and the master document. I can't compile the child document. Can you try? Cheers, --- Diego child.lyx Description: Binary data master.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Math macros inside child documents
Yes I am able to do what you describe in 1.6. In your example child doc, you did not set the master setting, did you? Indeed. I was in a hurry and I forgot it. ;/ --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Portable LyX
I am not able to fully understand the part the directory is defined in the compilation process and there's no way to achieve this without changing the code. Open LyX and select Help About. There you can see what directory LyX is using to store user files. On Windows, this folder is defined based on the %APPDATA% environment variable. Currently, there's no way to change this without changing the code. This is what I meant. Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Math macros inside child documents
For truly consistent behaviour, we would have to disable stand-alone compilation of documents setting a master (except for included (vs. input) documents). This is a strong restriction. With this, in a document with thousand of pages I will obligated to generate all pages? I do not agree. Actually, I regularly compile stand-alone child docs (to save time on checking the appearance in the output). I have set up a stand-alone branch for math-macros and bibliography and I can live with the question marks in the references. This is another subject, but let's understand the question marks are a problem to be solved too. I think it would be good if LyX doesn't generate so much errors, but I vote against the generation of documents with wrong content (i.e. the question marks). Otherwise, LyX could not stop on the first error, as it already do today. That is, currently, if a error is found, LyX just stops and warns the user. Even if the document can still be generated by LaTeX. We didn't define LyX to just continue and see what you get because we don't want this, right? In the worst case, I'm in favor of a warning to the user about these wrong things. One reason is because I already submited a work with those ??. My fault indeed, but LyX could warn me anyway. ;-) Just make it very clear in the documentation that parent-document features are non-available in the child if compiled stand-alone (without include feature) even if rendered in the LyX window - this is a feature. We did establish that this is a change from 1.6.x, where parent macros are written to the child. That was not intentional, and the behavior depends upon the setting of EXPORT_IN_THREAD. We can keep it as it is, but then we should make it consistent (and could remove useless code). There are two things to note here: 1st: LyX interprets macros very well. It doesn't matter where they are (child/master/etc). If the documents are linked, LyX handles it in the screen. Fact. IMO, if it handles the content to the screen it should handle to the output. 2nd: AFAIK this feature was supported in later versions (I did not tested by myself, but people in this thread said it work). I won't be surprised if someone decide to stay with LyX 1.6 just because this feature was removed. Or just because I am not able to compile my old doc anymore or any other complaints. Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.comwrote: LyX 2.0 supports \subref command without ERT? (I want to cross-reference a subfigure inside the figure environment) If so, how do I insert it? Thanks, --- Diego Queiroz No answers? :-( Currently I am using ERT and it solved my problem. But can someone confirm if lyX really doesn't support this feature at all? Regards, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
Thanks for the answers. But I think I wasn't clear. I want to use the \subref command not the \ref one (supported by default on LyX). The difference between them is that \ref produces 1a while \subref produces only a. I need to cite subfigures in the caption of the main float. Example.: Fig(a) --- Fig(b) Figure 1: Here you see some figure (a) and another figure (b). Got it? But now I'm almost sure LyX really doesn't really support it. If so, this is another good (and simple) improvement for LyX 2.1. :-) Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
Isn't this precisely what I gave you in the sample file? (I didn't put the cross-reference in the figure caption, but that's trivial.) In short, LyX supports it and makes it easy. BH Not really. The file you gave me generate 1a, 1b... as expected for a output in the text. What I want is just a, b (without the number 1). Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
