Re: Change Tracking Colors (Screen vs PDF)

2019-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Kornel, thank you. How do I change the colors? el On 08/02/2019 12:16, Kornel Benko wrote: [...] > The screen and paper are different output devices. Therefore they deserve > different > configuration parameters. (Imagine screen background having the color of > printed 'added/deleted text')

Re: Question: how to run Reconfigure without GUI

2019-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
X, please let me know. Heartbleed was an OpenSSL vulnerability by the way, and, though Bashdoor was an issue in 2014, I use bash as my login shell so I don't really think it matters much. But as Steve wrote it's trivial to change. On 06/02/2019 10:49, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: [...] >

Change Tracking Colors (Screen vs PDF)

2019-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I have been modifying the change colors for a tracked document, using Preferences -> Look&Feel -> Screen Colors, I wanted the switch "changed text 1st author" to be in red and the 3rd author in blue. That works on the screen, but the output has still first author in blue, which I see in the L

Re: English version of beamer

2019-02-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Perhaps something like cd ~/ cp /usr/share/lyx/examples/beamer.lyx . lyx beamer.lyx mfg, el On 06/02/2019 14:04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: [...] >> so how do I start lyx in English if it is in /usr/share/lyx? > > /examples/beamer.lyx > > /usr/share/lyx/examples/beamer.lyx: Permission denied >

Re: Question: how to run Reconfigure without GUI

2019-02-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That was a first stab at it :-)-O When I have a moment I'll do it right :-)-O greetings, el On 06/02/2019 09:53, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:49:31 -0500 > Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >&g

Re: Question: how to run Reconfigure without GUI

2019-02-05 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Scott, this is very helpful for my alias file on the Mac. function lyxconfigure { pushd ~/ python -tt "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py" popd } greetings, el On 15/01/2019 19:02, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:27:34AM -0500, Dani

https://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Modules/soul.module messages

2019-02-05 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, on MacOs 10.14.2 I loaded https://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Modules/soul.module into LyX 2.3.2, validated and converted it and am getting messages such as these: LyX: Unknown InsetLayout tag [around line 19 of file current token: 'LabelType' context: ''] LyX: Unknown InsetLayout tag [around li

Re: LyX, Program Listing, adding support for Julia, Modelica?

2019-01-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That is a LaTeX issue, I think. el On 2019-01-09 17:06 , Bernt Lie wrote: > I use LyX 2.3.1 on Windows 10 (and also LyX 2.2.3 on the same platform). > >   > > I’m including some Julia code in my document (Program Listing), but > there is no built-in support for Julia (syntax highlighting, etc.)

Re: graphic on title page of book

2019-01-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Les, If you use Koma-Script that's a non-starter. el On 2018-12-31 23:46 , Les wrote: [...] > I have found this kind of title page manipulation is much easier to > achieve with the memoir class, where the layout of the title page is > essentially whatever you want it to be. > > Les >

Re: Order paragraphs alphabetically

2018-12-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Would this not need to be done in a LaTeX package? el On 2018-12-29 20:22 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 21/12/2018 à 18:56, Daniel a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Is there currently a way to order selected paragraphs alphabetically? >> >> My use case is that I have a long list of description items >>

Re: graphic on title page of book

2018-12-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I would use the backgound package... el On 2018-12-28 16:20 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > On 28.12.18 12:29, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Am Freitag, den 28.12.2018, 11:28 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: >>> I try to insert a graphic between the subtitle and the author of a >>> book (komasc

Re: Luatex not previewing A4-landscape

2018-12-26 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Would you perhaps have a Minimal Working Example so others can test this? Ie remove EVERYTHING not related/producing the error and post the resulting files. el On 2018-12-24 12:42 , Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > Dear list members, > > While updating a PC under Debian, Lyx went from version 2.1.2 to 2

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.3 Released

2018-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Thanks, but I noticed a real nuisance on Mojave 10.14.1 When I click on the Text Style button it uses default which I do not like (and not the default one :-)-O). When I manually change them and click on marked text it makes the change as requested. When I mark some other text for the same form

Re: Beamer class frame title symbol

2018-11-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That's a change from previous LyX versions, which I also encountered. Take an old one, remove one of these. save and run a diff, so you'll see what regex you need to plug into Perl :-)-O el On 29/11/2018 20:43, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've copied an older beamer document to a new name to keep t

Re: PDF graphics is blurred in LyX when scaled

2018-11-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
whenever I see unnecessary full quotes like this I know why top posting is the right thing to do :-)-O el On 15/11/2018 06:32, Baris Erkus wrote: > > > On 14-Nov-18 11:36 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 12.11.2018 um 18:53 schrieb Baris Erkus : >>> On 11/12/2018 4:36 PM, Stephan

Re: Skim 1.4.37 resets to first page after updating PDF (LyX 2.3.1, Mac OS 10.11.6)

2018-11-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I note the same on 10.14.1 and it is annoying me too, but this is a change in Skim behavior after a Skim update so what do the developers of Skim say, on the Skim list? greetings, el On 2018-11-15 06:23 , Daisuke Koya wrote: > Hello Macintosh LyX users, > > After updating Skim to Version 1.4.37,

Re: PDF graphics is blurred in LyX when scaled

2018-11-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Maybe rsvg-convert works better. I use the SVGs driectly and LyX has found the librsvg package I installed via Homebrew (Mac). greetings, el On 12/11/2018 14:47, Bernt Lie wrote: > I think that the problem here is that even when the imported graphics > is *.svg file or a *.pdf file generate from

Re: PDF graphics is blurred in LyX when scaled

2018-11-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Right-CLick on the image el On 12/11/2018 08:13, Baris Erkus wrote: > On 12-Nov-18 1:17 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Remember, it's not What you See is What you Get, but What you Get is >> What You Deserve :-)-O >> >> The display in LyX is different than th

Re: Re:

2018-11-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Jess I usually sync my computers at home and work like so: tlmgr install $(ssh u...@host.tld tlmgr list --only-installed |awk 'print $2}|sed s/://g') or rather tlmgr install $(ssh u...@host.tld tlmgr list --only-installed | awk '{gsub(/:/, ""); print $2}') but the latter requir

Re: PDF graphics is blurred in LyX when scaled

2018-11-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Remember, it's not What you See is What you Get, but What you Get is What You Deserve :-)-O The display in LyX is different than the "display" in LaTeX and usually good enough to work with. There is an Edit function which if not already done can be tied to something to Edit/View the sucker :-)-O

Re: Testing for landscape

2018-11-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
\makeatletter \if@landscape \KOMAoptions{fontsize=16pt} \else \KOMAoptions{fontsize=11pt} \fi \recalctypearea \makeatother On 2018-11-10 15:44 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Hi, > > it's obviously a LaTeX question

Re: Deleting old MacTex-version…

2018-11-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Are you sure? Having both installed does not guarantee the newer one is used, though it usually is. On terminal run ls -las /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/ whih should result in something like [...] Contents -> ../TeXLive-2018-Basic.texdist/Contents if that is the case you can run op

Testing form landscape

2018-11-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, it's obviously a LaTeX question, but clicking landscape in a document results in this: \documentclass[landscape]{scrartcl} How can I test in the Preamble whether landscape is being used so that I can sue a different font and fontsize? Any idea? mfg, el

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Steve, On 2018-11-05 23:45 , Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 00:36:13 +0200 Dr Eberhard Lisse > wrote: > >> Steve, >> >> I fundamentally disagree about the relevance. >> >> LyX is a front end for LaTeX, not a document format. And it is a >>

Re: LyX 2.3.1 -- Beamer presentation

2018-11-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That was most certainly not an MWE :-0-O It's much easier when you remove everything that does not generate the issue, or the other way around, put only exactly what produces the issue. The side effect of this is that it's an iterative method, which often makes one find the cause :-)-O el On 1

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Steve, I fundamentally disagree about the relevance. LyX is a front end for LaTeX, not a document format. And it is a FANTASTIC front end, which can be twsited to do a lot of things :-)-O pandoc can produce an epub from (reasonable) LaTeX (exported from LyX), which kindlegen can translate into m

Re: Most efficient way to import wide, long table

2018-11-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
the diagram generation. el On 2018-11-02 16:43 , Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > >> Somehow my reply from the iPad Newsreader got lost. > > It's a long way from southwestern Africa. :-) > >> Why not include R Chunks gener

Re: Most efficient way to import wide, long table

2018-11-02 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Somehow my reply from the iPad Newsreader got lost. Why not include R Chunks generating tables and/or graphics at PDF generation in the LyX file using the knitr module? After a chunk with something like (for MySQL/MariaDB) suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(RMySQL)) library(R

Re: No screen font smoothing in a Parallels VM

2018-11-02 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Why on Earth would one want to run LyX on the Mac in a Virtual Machine using linux which runs LyX in X-WIndows or whatnot? Other than exploring the limits? el On 2018-11-01 20:04 , Chris Menzel wrote: > Problem solved! I upgraded to KDE Plasma version 5.14.2 (via the > backports PPA) and L

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-02 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
What is it that you want to do? Type text into LyX, or generate PDF? If the former, Markdown might be an alternative, and then generating LaTeX with pandoc and from there with tex2lyx to LyX proper. This will work out of the box on Linux and Mac, but I have no idea about Windoze. greetings, el

Re: Most efficient way to import wide, long table

2018-10-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, it depends entirely on what you mean by efficient. There are a number of hits on https://www.google.de/search?q=csv2lyx If you wanted a command line workflow there are number of tools to convert CSV into LaTeX, which you can import easily. Some can use '|' as separator directly, some need

Re: Section header footnote

2018-10-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich In LyX, on the section title Right Click and then Click Short Title. Put the Section text without footnote. :-)-O el On 16/10/2018 03:08, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > >>>   Is there a LaTeX/LyX-approved way to limiting the footnote to the body

Re: indent after description list?

2018-10-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Su, This is not a minimal example. It requires additional files (for Chinese characters I suppose) which were not present on my machine, so I could not try. Is this an issue on screen or in the PDF, or both? el On 16/10/2018 05:34, subaochen wrote: > hi all, > > please refer to sample.lyx in

2.3.1-1 on Mojave debugging

2018-10-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I am trying to debug a lyxserver issue but when running lyx -dbg lyxserver I get Setting debug level to lyxserver Debugging `lyxserver' (External control interface) This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plu

Re: New CC Book about LyX (PDF)

2018-10-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
ail.com>> wrote: > > > El mié., 3 oct. 2018 a las 1:55, Dr Eberhard Lisse > (mailto:nos...@lisse.na>>) > > escribió: > > > > > Ricardo, > > > > > > have you tried to use lwarp on this to make a Kindle out of this? >

Re: Fwd: New CC Book about LyX (PDF)

2018-10-02 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ricardo, have you tried to use lwarp on this to make a Kindle out of this? el On 2018-10-02 22:52 , Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > > [I forgot to add the list. I'm still in low caffeine levels, it seems] > (Top posting) > > Many thanks, Pavel and Steve! It was a challenge for me to translate the >

Re: replace all

2018-09-25 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On 2.3.1, Mac 10.13.6 it shows same behavior. el On 25/09/2018 09:54, Patrick Dupre wrote: > OK Paul, > > I made a sort file and tested the "replace all" > It works, but, it leaves the spellchecker mode at the end, > while it could have kept it open, by > 1) dealing with the next occurrence to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.3.1 Released

2018-09-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Downloads and works on Mac 10.3.6 without any issues. Thanks, great work. el On 16/09/2018 17:40, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > Public release of LyX version 2.3.1 [...]

Re: Justifying items in lix: beamer

2018-09-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Sounds like one of these "Why on Earth would you want to do that?" questions. Straight from the manual "what not to do in presentations". You want few words, in large fonts in bullet points. Not many words in small font, which belong into the handout or paper proper. And of course read everythin

Re: you say install latest version of MiKTeX before installing LyX - what is the minimal version needed?

2018-09-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Oh, cool. But to nit a pick, it is installable on LinuX :-)-O el On 11/09/2018 14:09, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 11/09/2018 à 12:26, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : >> Because MikTeX does not work on Linux? :-)-O > > It does, actually. > https://miktex.org/download > > JMarc >

Re: you say install latest version of MiKTeX before installing LyX - what is the minimal version needed?

2018-09-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Because MikTeX does not work on Linux? :-)-O el On 09/09/2018 23:26, Steve Litt wrote: [...] > As far as I know, my LyX has been working perfectly, with TeXLive, for > many years. Why would someone choose MiKTeX? > > [slitt@mydesk linux]$ uname -a > Linux mydesk 4.17.14_1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug

Re: AppleScript LyX

2018-08-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
In the first instance, open ppp.lyx echo "LYXCMD:P2:buffer-view:pdf5" > "$(find ~ -name .lyxpipe.in)" will do the trick (though I haven't figured out yet how to select the buffer I just opened (for ppp.lyx). greetings, el On 06/08/2018 12:57, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrot

Re: Trying to get lyx to find a .cls file

2018-08-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
There are two locations that come to mind: ~/Library/texmf/... /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/... I use the latter and had to edit (use the smaller mactex-basictex-20180417.pkg) /usr/local/texlive/2018basic/texmf.cnf to make TEXMFLOCAL look like TEXMFLOCAL = /us

AppleScript LyX

2018-08-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I know next to no AppleScript and wonder if someone has a quick script which will allow me to open a LyX document (absolute path), view the file as pdf5 (PDF from LuaLaTeX) and keep the file in LyX's front window open (for further editing and manual viewing) Can something like this be done wi

Re: Minimal Beamer LaTeX file that imports cleanly into LyX

2018-08-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Excellent. Thank you. el On 2018-08-03 11:48 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Freitag, den 03.08.2018, 11:41 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: >> it shows the enclosed, ie ERT \makebeamertitle on the titlepage, >> resulting in the title page to be shown twice in the PDF. >

Re: How do I bring the QUANTA journal template into LyX?

2018-07-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Windows Subsystem for Linux to the Rescue, perhaps? el On 30/07/2018 19:38, Cris Fuhrman wrote: [...] > Converting the \bibitem in the template is not trivial > (there is tex2bib, but it's perl and needs Linux or a Mac probably) [...]

Re: Windows + TeXLive + LyX 2.3.0

2018-06-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Jürgen, the correct command is tlmgr update --self --all :-)-O el On 2018-06-20 17:28 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Pavel Sanda mailto:sa...@lyx.org>> schrieb am Mi., 2. TL > is stabilized & freezed. Once all coathors have, say TL 2017, then > >    you can be sure that no packages versions

Re: pleading paper

2018-06-05 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
John, why don't you generate the lines separately into lines.pdf and then use the background package in the preamble like so \usepackage{background} \backgroundsetup{ contents={% \includegraphics[width=\pagewidth]{lines.pdf} }, angle=0, scale=1.0, opacity=1.0 } I do somethin

template toolkit

2018-05-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
s in there, save the file, then at run time have Perl (in line) substitute (s///) the placeholders with the live data, and fire LyX up but I would like make it more generic and learn a new tool (kit :-)-O). Has anyone experimented with something like this? greetings, el On 2017-04-25 09:47 , Dr

Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

2018-05-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I buy BIC's by the bushel :-)-O el On 2018-05-16 13:30 , John Kane wrote: > Well, for elegant, scientific writing one can not beat this OS > https://www.gouletpens.com/namiki/c/483

Re: Help: Latex stack size limit

2018-05-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Robert, this is a LaTeX error has nothing to do with LyX. And, LaTeX does page by page, so the size of the project doesn't matter. It can be as easy as a missing } or something. I would start looking at the log file. If that doens't work, half the project, if it has the error, half it again, I

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Mac: Exporting to LaTeX (pdflatex) messes up paths to tables and figures

2018-05-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
You can tell knitr where to put the figures exactly, it does create a figure directory, but I do not have this issue either, when using knitr. Latest version of everything? el On 2018-05-16 16:22 , Uwe Thuemmel wrote: > I realised that the problem appears when I am using the knitr module > (but

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Mac: Exporting to LaTeX (pdflatex) messes up paths to tables and figures

2018-05-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I don't have any issues with subdirectories. Can it be that the names are generic? Try using myfigures and mytables or something like that and see if this changes things. And, in any case there is always perl -i -p -e 's+\_+/*g' *.lyx or similar :-)-O el On 13/05/2018 22:55, Joel Kulesza wrot

Metadiscussion

2018-04-24 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
23.04.2018 15:01, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> >> >> Am 23.04.2018 um 09:35 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: >>> >>> On 2018-04-21 17:31 , Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>>> I see. In 2.3.1, this will be a little better thanks to this fix: >>>> >>&g

Re: needauth in batch LyX 2.3.0 Mac 10.13.4

2018-04-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On 2018-04-21 17:31 , Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I see. In 2.3.1, this will be a little better thanks to this fix: > > https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10712 [...] Thank you el

Re: needauth in batch LyX 2.3.0 Mac 10.13.4

2018-04-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
at 08:11:01AM +0000, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a Beamer presentation with knitR code, and have clicked >> on permanent authorization for the file to run Rscript. >> >> This works on the GUI, but not if I run LyX from the command >> line. >

needauth in batch LyX 2.3.0 Mac 10.13.4

2018-04-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I have a Beamer presentation with knitR code, and have clicked on permanent authorization for the file to run Rscript. This works on the GUI, but not if I run LyX from the command line. Any idea? greetings, el

Re: which document class?

2018-04-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
You NEVER use the simple article class. You ALWAYS use the KOMA Script Article. It does everything the simple class does, and better, and more :-)-O For details, RTFM :-)-O el On 11/04/2018 16:28, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 04/10/2018 07:41 AM, Aaron Brülisauer wrote: >> Hello >> >> Right now

Re: Formatting name/date to be filled by others

2018-04-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, I do that with a table with fixed widths, removing all the frames and then addling the frame-line where the person has to sign. It's eminently reusable :-)-O el On 11/04/2018 01:18, Rich Shepard wrote: > Before I re-invent the wheel I want to discover if there are existing > tools to pro

Re: Formatting name/date to be filled by others

2018-04-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
You can also insert rules straight from LyX, without ERT. el On 11/04/2018 02:10, Stephen Buonopane wrote: > On Apr 10, 2018, at 7:49 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> >> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: >> >>> Of course, \hspace{} and \vspace{} will place these appropriately. What I >>> seek i

Re: LyX & article style?

2018-04-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Without a shadow of a doubt KOMA-Script Article and from reading the whole thread, of course RTFM el On 2018-04-06 13:37 , Bernt Lie wrote: > In LyX 2, what is the template that is closest to LaTeX Article style? > >   > > BR, > > Bernt Lie >

Re: lyx export for word users

2018-03-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wolfgang, this would be a feature. Unless I was unaware that Word can nowadays read Open Office files. (The other way around works). The error message below seems to indicate that elyxer can't read LyX 2.3.0 version files. And of course a MWE always is helpful. greetings, el On 2018-03-23 09:1

Re: coding of text

2018-03-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wolfgang, I usually put it into a listings environment, with slightly smaller text size and in typewriter but can not recall having an issue. On 2018-03-22 14:16 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Am 22.03.2018 um 13:19 schrieb José Abílio Matos: >> >> On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19.17.12 WET Wolfg

Re: Lyx 2.3 pdflatex config

2018-03-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That seems to be a feature rather than a bug. el On 2018-03-20 04:22 , Steve Hnizdur wrote: > Hi > > I upgraded Lyx to the shiny new 2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 the other day and > the first time hit the "eyes" icon to compile a document I got the Lyx > Security Warning > > "The following LaTeX backend

Re: Lyx Preferences on the Mac

2018-03-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Thanks to both of you. el On 2018-03-14 12:37 , Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2018 17:12:14 CET schrieb Stephan Witt > : >> Am 14.03.2018 um 16:25 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse : >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have started to use v 2.3.0 and am running

Lyx Preferences on the Mac

2018-03-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I have started to use v 2.3.0 and am running into small issues with window sizes, background color and such. I have added my email into the identity field and grep'ed for files cotaining the string and can't find it. Where does LyX store its preference file, or rather the one where the chang

Re: Customizable Lists (enumitem) issue

2018-02-24 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Thank you, that is very helpful. As this is several of those \setenumerates I like the \@ifpackageloaded{}{} better. greetings, el On 2018-02-24 19:22 , Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/24/2018 10:06 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Am Samstag, den 24.02.2018, 16:00 +0200 schrieb Dr Eberh

Customizable Lists (enumitem) issue

2018-02-24 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I have created a template which uses the above module and sets up stuff like: \setenumerate[1]{label*=\arabic*., ref=\arabic*} in the preamble. If I use a (numbered) list in the text, enumitem.sty is loaded, hence the above works, but if I don't enumitem.sty is not loaded and the ab

Re: Small poll - download speed of LyX installers

2018-02-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
est.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip (227 KB/s) real0m51.117s On 2018-02-20 16:15 , Pavel Sanda wrote: > Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> I'll repeat this together with the speed test on the 12" tonight so you >> can see it for comparison. > >

Re: Toggle comments in Lyx->LaTeX Preamble

2018-02-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Maye some form of LaTeX conditional (\newif), which you then pass as a Custom option in Documents->Settings? el On 22/02/2018 22:05, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Gómez Martínez > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have large sections of customized TeX c

Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Pavel, I didn't know that such a toolbar existed )-)-O More to explore :-)-O Thank you. el On 21/02/2018 17:40, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> \rcsid{$Id: handbook.lyx,v 1.11 2017/08/12 18:20:59 el Exp $} >> >> \newcommand{\versionstring}{v\r

Re: older lyx file (around 2009) gives error in lyx2.3.0beta1

2018-02-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Typo On 22/02/2018 13:49, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: [...] > find ~/ -name '*lyx' -exec {} lyx -batch --execute ... {} \; [...] should of course read find ~/ -name '*lyx' -exec lyx -batch --execute ... {} \;

Re: older lyx file (around 2009) gives error in lyx2.3.0beta1

2018-02-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That works well and is quite cool. But it only works for one file and I could not figure out how how to do this with -batch --execute which would evenually work well as something like find ~/ -name '*lyx' -exec {} lyx -batch --execute ... {} \; on Mac and Linux. And of course

Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
) RCS is all I need. el On 21/02/2018 02:35, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:12:01 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard > wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> >>> Maybe one can take the time to look at one of the already existing >>> c

Re: Text output encodings

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Via Markedown export? el On 2018-02-19 20:44 , F M Salter wrote: > On 19/02/18 07:55, F M Salter wrote: >> Hi >> >>     When plain text is used as output, emphasised text loses emphasis. >> >>     Is there any way by which text output may be specified with utf-8 >> encoding?   Emphasis could then

Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Feb 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > >> can you quickly hack up a converter for existing documents? > > Eberhard, > > I don't understand what you're asking. > > When I want to track changes to a document I set up a git repository > in that document&#x

Re: older lyx file (around 2009) gives error in lyx2.3.0beta1

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Well, I can look at my Time Machine backups tomorrow :-)-O el On 2018-02-20 18:57 , Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2018-02-20, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> I found masses of these when switching to 2.2 (I think) and I resolved >> this with a perl script if I remember correctly :-)-O &g

Re: AW: AW: Cannot determine size of graphic

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On review, you enclosed Dienstleistungsdyade.jpg, which my Thunderbird saved as .jpg file with the extension .jpeg on the Mac. So that was not the case. In the LyX file the image is referred to as Abbildungen/Dienstleistung/Dienstleistungsdyade.jpg ie as relative path, maybe put an abs

Re: Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, can you quickly hack up a converter for existing documents? :-)-O el On 17/02/2018 15:40, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> For the record, it turned out that High Sierra is no more compatible >> with old RCS binaries (if you manually run co -l file.lyx y

Re: Small poll - download speed of LyX installers

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Pavel, I live in Windhoek, Namibia and thought I also run a standard speed test for comparison This is via my leased line at home from the up and coming competitor, which is capped at 384 KBps (ethernet from the router to a MacPro) time ncftpget ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0

Re: older lyx file (around 2009) gives error in lyx2.3.0beta1

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I found masses of these when switching to 2.2 (I think) and I resolved this with a perl script if I remember correctly :-)-O el On 19/02/2018 11:35, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Am 19.02.2018 um 09:42 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: >> Am Montag, den 19.02.2018, 09:28 +0100 schrieb Kornel Benko

Re: AW: Cannot determine size of graphic

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I got the same error, but found that the file referred to was Dienstleistungsdyade.jpg wheras you enclosed Dienstleistungsdyade.jpeg could that be the cause? greetings, el On 19/02/2018 21:13, a...@andreashegenbart.de wrote: > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von:

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
The log file does not reside in the same directory as the LyX file, at least not on the Mac. el On 14/02/2018 13:17, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: > There should be a file with the extension “.log” in the directory in the > same director as your .lyx file. [...]

Re: Chicago-Style Citations and Bibliography

2018-02-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Didn't work for me... ...but then I didn't have chicago.bst installed. :-)-O Sometimes it is that simple... el On 2018-02-15 09:38 , Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > LyX supports Chicago via BibTeX as well. > > > Well, I'm not sure that's _really_ true.  But, if it is, then > expla

Re: Chicago-Style Citations and Bibliography

2018-02-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
elements look. >>> >>> So far, I've seen you post one willfully passive-aggressive response >>> to one person, and then this foolish response to me. This list >>> begins to look to be a source of abuse, rather than constructive >>> response. >

Re: Chicago-Style Citations and Bibliography

2018-02-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
As a general rule, provide a Minimal Working Example, ie the shortest LyX file with the shortest BIB file that demonstrates the issue. greetings, el On 14/02/2018 02:13, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: > I've an article, prepared in LyX, whose citations and bibliography I > need to have rendered i

Re: LyX: LaTeX failed

2018-02-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Dear Sir/Madam, perhaps do what it says? el On 14/02/2018 12:50, elloh van wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 on my laptop but when I wanted > to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the > pdflatex gives the following error message: > >

Re: Skim as PDF-file-viewer on Mac

2018-01-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Well, that may be so, but not necessarily by design. Document > Settings... > Format > Synchronize with Output Tick on and use Custom Macro: \synctex=1 I changed LyX > Preferences > Output > General > PDF command to /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline $$n $$o $$t and that

Re: Skim as PDF-file-viewer on Mac

2018-01-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Having changed the default for all PDF files on the Mac to be opened with Skip instead of Preview (Command I) many years ago this has worked for me without any issues and without any changes to the preferences. el On 20/01/2018 21:19, Sehr Extrem wrote: > Hello Scott, > > sorry for answering lat

LUAtodonotes (was: fontsize for the TODO Module)

2018-01-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I have submitted Ticket #10984 to request that luatodonotes.sty be added. Can someone in the meantime tell me how I can use that instead of todonotes.sty? greetings, el On 18/01/2018 10:15, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way of changing the font size for all margin not

fontsize for the TODO Module

2018-01-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, is there a way of changing the font size for all margin notes in one fell swoop from the GUI? Or do I have to mess with the module? el

Re: Issues with version control

2017-12-25 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Os, does 'ci' on the command line work? el On 2017-12-25 02:08 , Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 25 Dec 2017, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > >> it seems to want to use ci (which means rcs).. > > el, > >   'ci' is also a git alias for 'commit' a

Re: Issues with version control

2017-12-24 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, it seems to want to use ci (which means rcs).. el On 2017-12-24 00:36 , Rich Shepard wrote: >   I _thought_ I had set up version control using GIT. Checking in the > document after adding text now generates an error (see attached .png). > >   Turns out that there was no .git repository in

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Well, my view is that you are using the wrong tool, ie typesetting to do bookkeeping instead of letting the bookkeeping do the typesetting. I use SQL-Ledger which is Open Source in Perl and uses LaTeX to prepare the invoices. I have developed a template with KOMA-Script to my liking and haven't l

Re: Removing period following section reference

2017-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Can you post a Minimal Working Example? el On 13/10/2017 03:07, Christos Makridis wrote: > Hey Steve and everyone, > > Yes sorry, let me be more explicit. First, see the screenshot below -- > this is what I get showing right now. > > Inline image 1 > > > Now, with that in mind, notice the tw

Re: Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ah, the joys of version control. And the horror of not using it :-)-O el On 03/10/2017 01:29, Tim Q wrote: > hi, > > > "" Myreading.lyx is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script > failed to convert it. "" > > > This is the message i got when i tried to open a Lyx file from an

Re: KOMA-letter-2: logo disappeared

2017-09-26 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Why don't you send a MWE with the graphics file in question? el On 25/09/2017 20:22, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> Try starting LyX from a terminal with the "-dbg graphics" flag, open >> and view the document, and see if it spits up an error message. > > Pa

Re: Little Problem

2017-09-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Send a Minimal Working Example, in other words, remove everything which does not produce the error until you are left with what does. Often that will make the error obvious :-)-O el On 31/08/2017 18:23, Carlos Knauer wrote: > Good Afternon > > How can I erase númber 6 in front of mqtrix at page

Re: Missing Rnw(knitr) module

2017-08-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
The former has a smaller footprint than inkscape and works very well for me. ek On 2017-08-23 12:54 , Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 um 06:30:37, schrieb John Kane > >> INFO: +checking for "rsvg-convert"... no >> INFO: +checking for "inkscape"... no > > for "rsvg-convert"

Re: Tips on LaTeX addons

2017-08-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wolfgang, Another score for Mac(TeX) :-))-O On 11/08/2017 08:13, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am 10.08.2017 um 12:37 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: >> tlmgr list --only-installed \ >> | awk '{gsub(/:/, ""); print $2}' > tl.installed > tried it [..

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