I tried to import several different latex documents. I always get the
error:
An error occurred whilst running 'reLyx -f filename.tex'
Any clues?
-Jan
===
Jan Peters, web: www.jan-peters.net
===
===
Jan Peters, Graduate Research Assistant, Dipl.Inf., Dipl.Ing., M.Sc.
(CS,ME)
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: www.jan-peters.net
===
LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and
toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents
making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making
Lyx menus more like Word menus would accomplish such a goal. ERTs
will be the area where there is the
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxVersusScientificWorkplace).
What LyX mainly needs is some *polishing* so that users stay with it
after trying it. Math editing which beats SWP or MathType would
be a very important step.
===
Jan Peters, Graduate
but I could make the user friendliness recommendations much
more precise.
Best,
-Jan
On May 24, 2006, at 1:19 AM, Georg Baum wrote:
Jan Peters wrote:
How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar?
You can have most of it already in the toolbar. Have a look at the
files
Jan Peters wrote:
Thanks, Georg. I knew about the possibility of adding symbols to the
toolbar and the little math toolbar is nice. However, what would be
needed are buttons where I can click and, e.g., get all symbols as
pull-down
menu (see the SWP-LyX comparison at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX
I am just a little confused at the moment: I had heard that
Theorem-like environments would be supported by LyX in a reasonable
way for 1.4.x but I still only have them as latex commands. Is that me
or does it require x 2?
I have a latex file which I imported but when I run
latex out of lyx, it will have an undefined sequence
error. The reason for this behavior is that it exchanges
the lines
\editor{Leslie Pack Kaelbling}
\maketitle
Is there an easy fix for this behaviour?
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
sample.tex
Hi, i have a problem with instant preview: it simply claims that the
latex compilation failed, see below --- despite that I could compile
it manually. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Thanks,
-Jan
lyx document header finished
command
python
Dear Lyx-Developers,
I am *really* impressed ... or maybe even stunned.
The update from 1.4 to 1.5 is really a major
step for LyXkind. On a Mac, it feels every bit as
professional as a Mac App can be (wow).
The SWP guys at MacKitchan must be really scared
as hell. Congrats guys! You are doing a
just put the link into your browser, it will downloas it.
-Jan
On 3/15/07, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:03:38 +0100
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ares schrieb:
...
ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ecv/template/CV-=
I saw a pre-version which had proper anti-aliassing for sqrt.
Why is that no included into the beta 2 version?
I am referring to the ftp.devel.lyx. version ... the one
on philebus does not run on my MacIntel.
Thanks,
-Jan
On 4/22/07, Christopher Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Public
One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you
are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by
cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old
text?
For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF
clone of word
I have a new sudden problem with LyX/Mac which I have
not been able to solve: LyX suddenly uses an incorrect
font for the equations, where pi becomes mue, etc
Where is the font selected for the equations?
How can I fix that?
Thanks,
-Jan
Does anybody know when the next version of Lyx 1.4.0 will be released?
-Jan
and the theorem environment?
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
===
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial
reasons. -Bertrand Russell
===
How can I use the verbatim environment in LyX?
-Jan
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
===
Jan Peters, Graduate Research Assistant, Dipl.Inf., Dipl.Ing., M.Sc.
University of Southern California (USC)
Computational Learning and Motor Control Laboratories
Hi there!
I am still switching forth and back between scientific workplace
(running on virtual PC with WindowsNT 4 on my Mac :(, and under
Crossover Office on my Linux box) and LyX. Obviously, that is a very
undesirable state, but I am still missing many things in LyX which my
daily life as a
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:36:14 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Peters wrote:
One of the main problems in a comparison between LyX and Scientific
Workplace is that LyX does not (yet?) support computer algebra.
Sure it does. Edit-Math-Use Computer Algebra System
Oh, wow. I
I have a bizarre font problem (actually the same I had a couple of months
ago; I got rid of it by reinstalling everything including the OS, but I do not
want to do that again). Both on the LyX running on Aqua and on
X-Windows it replaces
\sigma by 1/4(as a character)
\theta by
!
Where are the maths fonts selected?
-Jan
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:07:04 -0700 (PDT), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Jan Peters wrote:
I have a bizarre font problem (actually the same I had a couple of months
ago; I got rid of it by reinstalling everything
You need to install the LaTeX XFT-fonts.
No they are installed...
-Jan
My problem is actually a problem with the on-screen fonts only - after
compiling it looks nice; already in the instant-preview!
Only on screen it will always replace my greek characters - and
changing the screen fonts does not help!
You need to install the LaTeX XFT-fonts.
Also for
I have had no such problems with my Lyx/Mac. On both OS X 10.2 and 10.3.
I get the same output in the console and I also have both .tfm and .pfb
fonts installed.
Must be something else?
Steve,
which version of Lyx do you have 1.3.4 or 1.3.3?
I believe, it happens only for LyX Aqua 1.3.4
-Jan
Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jul 20, 2004, at 5:54 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Jan Peters wrote:
My problem is actually a problem with the on-screen fonts only - after
compiling it looks nice; already in the instant-preview!
Only on screen it will always replace my greek characters
Can really nobody help me getting that problem away
easily? It cannot be something sooo special!
-Jan
Hi There!
I have a problem with lyx2preview: I wrote a document and as long as
I was using it, it instantly previewed all equations fine. Then I closed
it and relaoadeed it - and now only the new equations will be compiled
by lyx2preview and it displays the others as blue normal lyx equations!
I have a problem with lyx2preview: I wrote a document and as long as
I was using it, it instantly previewed all equations fine. Then I closed
it and relaoadeed it - and now only the new equations will be compiled
by lyx2preview and it displays the others as blue normal lyx equations!
Any
ok,solved! Thanks, Angus. Relyx imported one equation badly and
that was all...
Thanks again,
-Jan
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:42:11 -0700, Jan Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a problem with lyx2preview: I wrote a document and as long as
I was using it, it instantly previewed all
. Is there a way
to shut
that off?
5. I believe, it would be much more intuitive to use Enter instead of
(Applekey+Enter) for starting new lines in equations.
Thanks again for all help so far...
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
===
Jan Peters
' but it seems
not
to work. Is there an easy solution?
Thanks again for all help so far...
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
Thanks a lot, Guenther. Seems so though your guesses do not work
for me :( I tried it both on the Lyx/QT2 on X11/Mac and X11/Linux and
on Aqua.
1. In a multi-line equation environment, how can I delete an
overabundant line?
Mark the abundant line from the end of the preciding line to its own
end.
I have a problem with \maketitle. Lyx always puts it under title
despite that
it should be under \editor{} in my document. How can I change this?
Ideally, I would like to place \maketitle myself in an ERT.
Best wishes,
-Jan
On Aug 4, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Jose' Matos wrote:
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 01:53, Jan Peters wrote:
I have a problem with \maketitle. Lyx always puts it under title
despite that
it should be under \editor{} in my document. How can I change this?
Ideally, I would like to place \maketitle myself
Thanks a lot, JMarc!
However, it has the InTitle 1 in there already - and it does not help!
Best,
-Jan
On Aug 4, 2004, at 1:44 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Jan == Jan Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jan I have a problem with \maketitle. Lyx always puts it under title
Jan despite
I have long been looking for a software like Scientific Workplace
which works on my Mac without windows simulator. Lyx comes
closest to this - but I have two major questions:
1. Are there any good toolbar files so that lyx can be as practical
as Scientific Workplace?
2. Will there be a Mac OS X
Is there a way to make the icons on the toolbars smaller? I would like
to create toolbars
which are as close to scientific workplace as possible so that I have
an easy switch!
Best wishes,
-Jan
Hearing this announcement below, I was wondering: Will we see a Mac OS
X native version
of LyX soon? If yes, how soon?
Best wishes,
-Jan
Qt/Mac Free Software Edition coming to WWDC 2003
By Dennis Sellers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
June 17, 2003 5:50 pm ET
Trolltech will release Qt/Mac under the GPL
in a_b so low? Is that due to the
version of the QT?
Thank you very much!
Jan Peters
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Thomas CLive Richards wrote:
does anyone know of any other programs like lyx? Personally, I think
the
idea behind lyx is very cool, but the implementation is a little
lacking. There are also some features which i would really like to see,
but which
does anyone know of any other programs like lyx?
For MS Windows there is Scientific Workplace.
You won't get it at the same price, though.
Well, there is a keygen which cracks the trial version.
Just google for it! The trial version is free!
What specifically do you need.
If I make a list of
b) Using the new GPL QT/Mac announced today: a Mac Native version!
If there is anyone who is interested in doing that port.
I will definitly try myself, but I do not know whether I am good enough
a Mac/QT programmer
for that and whether I will have enough time! But it would be cool if
there were
1. Is there a way to make the vectors in lyx on screen in bold style,
e.g., \boldsymbol{} or \bm{}
while still using \vec{} ?
If you settle for another name like \v or so:
Create a math macro \v with one arg, defined as \vec{#1}.
In the second blue box write \mathbf{#1}.
This second box is for
1. Is there a way to make the vectors in lyx on screen in bold
style,
e.g., \boldsymbol{} or \bm{}
while still using \vec{} ?
If you settle for another name like \v or so:
Create a math macro \v with one arg, defined as \vec{#1}.
In the second blue box write \mathbf{#1}.
This second box is for
One last thing: even having the .sty file, lyx
reports
Failed: grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' 4lyxpreview.log
although the thing has compiled fine and I am
using the newest preview-latex version!
-Jan
I tried the instant preview feature and I get these results although I
have tried
the newes version of preview-latex as well as the old version. This
seems to
be a bug in lyx! How can I fix it?
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(./5lyxpreview.tex
LaTeX2e 2001/06/01
Babel v3.7h and
Wait for Angus to have a look...
You could try to run latex on 5lyxpreview.tex (what does it look
like?) and
have a look at 5lyxpreview.log (what does it look like).
What happens?
Already did. Works perfectly, produces a dvi and has no errors.
I did the
grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' 5lyxpreview.log
so, finally the instant preview puts out equations --- but they are
HUGE they
hardly fit on my screen!
Does anybody know how to fix that?
-Jan
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 09:18 PM, Angus Leeming wrote:
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 10:54 am, Jan Peters wrote:
[snippet of LaTeX log file
so, finally the instant preview puts out equations --- but they are
HUGE they
hardly fit on my screen!
Does anybody know how to fix that?
I've never seen that. They shoul have the size of the surronding
text.
Indeed.
The size is tunable. Play with this in your preferences file:
Is there any dialog box where I can set the h, b or t parameter for
a float? And specify that it should/or not have a page by itsself?
That would be very useful!
Thanx,
-Jan
Dear LyX-Developers,
is it already feasible for a LyX User to try out 1.4.0, or do you
consider
it still too instable? And where can I find it, the link on www.lyx.org
leeds
only to much older versions!
Best wishes,
-Jan
Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will
be a limitation in LyX for some time now ;( .
... however, you won't find a fancy pointclick interface in LyX for
that.
Could you just add a button: [LATEX] or [PREAMBLE] for these things? It
is completely
fine from a Users point
Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this
will be
a limitation in LyX for some time now ;( .
... however, you won't find a fancy pointclick interface in LyX for
that.
Could you just add a button: [LATEX] or [PREAMBLE] for these things?
What's wrong with the current TeX
For your information (I guess, we have to hope that Apple fixes bug ID
#3162425):
Hi Jan,
On Tuesday, 24. Jun 2003 20:13 Jan Peters wrote:
when can we expect to obtain the GPL/QPL Mac OS X version of QT?
It will be available this week.
Do you think, we will be able to compile LyX
up on the screen, but the LyX window does not seize focus, and is
hence useless.
What do you mean by that?
-Jan
Good job, Ronald! Following your instructions I finally got it to work.
It looks gorgeous and I am so looking forward to when it
is mature. The bugs I found are:
1. The fonts for math are not right.
Instead ofappears
\alpha (R)
\theta
After installing the Aqua LyX also parts of my Toolbar for the X11
version suddenly dissappeared.
Any ideas?
-Jan
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 07:52 PM, Jan Peters wrote:
Good job, Ronald! Following your instructions I finally got it to work.
It looks gorgeous and I am so looking forward
After installing the Aqua LyX also parts of my Toolbar for the X11
version suddenly dissappeared.
Sorry, I mean Menubar, but actually from the toolbar as well.
Any ideas?
Best wishes,
-Jan
Menubar Problem Solved...I apologize, a big sorry!
-Jan
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 07:52 PM, Jan Peters wrote:
Good job, Ronald! Following your instructions I finally got it to work.
It looks gorgeous and I am so looking forward to when it
is mature. The bugs I found are:
1. The fonts
How can I change the math-font for the greek characters
on screen?
How can I change the math-font for the greek characters
on screen?
From what to what?
You can get rid of all the 'fancy' symbols by removing the path LyX
added
to your font path...
It show the wrong symbols in the Aqua version,
e.g., \mu instead of \theta etc ...
-Jan
PS: I am going to
Thank you, Andre Dekel!
*shrug*, you guys were right. Wow, I did not think that Mac
was so compatible, and I had put the ttf in the wrong fontdir.
They have to be in ~/Library/Fonts
Now that part works! Thanx a lot ... and you already helped
solving the next problem on the list: the integral
/usr/local/src/qt-mac-free-3.1.2/include/qwindowdefs.h:104:
conflicting
types for `typedef struct OpaqueControlRef * ControlRef'
../../../src/frontends/controllers/ControlRef.h:43: previous
declaration as
`class ControlRef'
As far as I understand it, this is a naming clash. Qt has a
typedef
I mailed Trolltech about the discussion, and there reply is:
I agree, you can safely remove it from qwindowdefs.h. Originally it was
thought to be necessary for future plans, but not.
However, using ControlRef might be a bad idea in any event as it is a
type in Carbon so including some headers
I mailed Trolltech about the discussion, and there reply is:
I agree, you can safely remove it from qwindowdefs.h. Originally it
was
thought to be necessary for future plans, but not.
This is ambiguous about whether they fixed it in their tree or not, can
you please push them on this ?
Ok, I
A binary release of LyX for MacOSX, using the native Aqua graphics
interface, is now available. The implementation is based on LyX-1.3.2
and the GPL-licensed QT/MacOSX library. The application has the
typical Aqua look feel with a menubar and icons, and does not
require the installation of X11.
What do you exactly mean? Why do
you have to install/uninstall all these
gcc's? In Ronalds Website
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html
you will find all explanations how
to compile LyX on a PowerPC.
Ronald documentation is VERY well
and carefully written - and has all
details you need on this!
NEWS FROM TROLLTECH:
On Wednesday, 02. Jul 2003 22:33 Jan Peters wrote:
I agree, you can safely remove it from qwindowdefs.h. Originally it
was
thought to be necessary for future plans, but not.
Hi Sam!
Will you remove this ControlRef then from your tree? Or will it stay?
Yes, it has been
Hey Lyx community!
Trolltech is VERY cooperative! However, the questions they ask I can
only partially
answer - can anybody help me? It seems like they are willing to help us
that a
1:1 port will be possible, i.e., not platform specific changes for
Aqua. But for
that we have to answer their
Hi Lyxers!
I am slowly digesting things into small samples. The main problem of
SHIFT+^
appears to be:
1. in the QT/ X11 version, we could use the hotkey ^ which does
not
work in Aqua anymore.
It probably should, however such a key is a bit dependent upon what
input you are using. Where do you
Thanks to Trolltech, we have one bug less to worry about: the not
mapping of
^ Event is now solved for Lyx-QT/Aqua. A patch is attached!
-Jan
1. in the QT/ X11 version, we could use the hotkey ^ which does
not
work in Aqua anymore.
It probably should, however such a key is a bit dependent upon
Thanks to Trolltech, we have one bug less to worry about: the not
mapping of
^ Event is now solved for Lyx-QT/Aqua. A patch is attached!
But that's not our code, is it?
Exactly! Its a QT/Aqua error. They forgot to add one symbol!
-Jan
Exactly! Its a QT/Aqua error. They forgot to add one symbol!
There are probably others too. Some comprehensive testing would be good
OK. But I would suggest a Monte Carlo approach: everyone who has
a Mac should use Lyx/Aqua as much as possible now - and report all
missing hotkeys to me. I will
i tried Lyx for Aqua and i really impressed ! Great job Ron !!!
Thank you for this port.
But there i have one question. My lyx version under X11 has German
menus etc, the Aqua version does not. Is this a bug/feature or have
i to do something else to get German menus ?
Ronald To set an alternative
- reLyX is not installed.
Why is that? That is only for Ronalds binary distribution, right?
- it seems that I cannot get reconfigure to work, but since I cannot
see the console output, I do not know what is wrong. Do you know how
it is possible to get this output? Running configure by hand
Well, I think they already know that their code to make the menus look
like aqua us a bad hack. I can only hope that chnaging that is high on
their todo list.
I will try that if I get time. What is the address?
I've already mailed qt-bugs. Here's hoping...
What do you mean?
Jan Isolate the problem in QT and mail Trolltech! They are VERY nice
Jan and will help --- but you have to tell them very, very precisely
Jan WHERE the problem is. By now, they already collected several bugs
Jan from me which are going to disappear in the next version. I could
Jan only report
Lyxers,
does anybody know
1. how I can create pull-down menus in the toolbar?
2. how I can change the size of the icons in the toolbar?
-Jan
i am using the os x aqua version of lyx 1.3.2. everything works
perfectly except that there are no numbers in the sections and
subsections of the documents no matter if the document is an
article, a report etc.
This is surprising, as I've never seen this problem with LyX Aqua. If
you look at one
FEATURE REQUEST:
It would be awesome to have red underlining below incorrectly spelled
words in LyX. Is there any chance of that happening in the near future?
-Jan
I am not opposed to the multiple frontends: I think a gtk, gnome or
even
Windows port would be more popular than xforms as well.
A Windows frontend? The qt version from Ruurd feels very native:
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/
The only strange thing is, that the clipboard seems to work
Hi Toby!
I have installed everything as said on 18james but
there are no view options and when I look in
preferences there appears to be no converters for PS
or pdf or anything installed or dvi and no of my
viewers are recognised. I have run the configure
script from the command line and it seems
I tried to import several different latex documents. I always get the
error:
An error occurred whilst running 'reLyx -f filename.tex'
Any clues?
-Jan
===
Jan Peters, web: www.jan-peters.net
===
===
Jan Peters, Graduate Research Assistant, Dipl.Inf., Dipl.Ing., M.Sc.
(CS,ME)
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: www.jan-peters.net
===
LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and
toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents
making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making
Lyx menus more like Word menus would accomplish such a goal. ERTs
will be the area where there is the
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxVersusScientificWorkplace).
What LyX mainly needs is some *polishing* so that users stay with it
after trying it. Math editing which beats SWP or MathType would
be a very important step.
===
Jan Peters, Graduate
but I could make the user friendliness recommendations much
more precise.
Best,
-Jan
On May 24, 2006, at 1:19 AM, Georg Baum wrote:
Jan Peters wrote:
How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar?
You can have most of it already in the toolbar. Have a look at the
files
Jan Peters wrote:
Thanks, Georg. I knew about the possibility of adding symbols to the
toolbar and the little math toolbar is nice. However, what would be
needed are buttons where I can click and, e.g., get all symbols as
pull-down
menu (see the SWP-LyX comparison at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX
I am just a little confused at the moment: I had heard that
Theorem-like environments would be supported by LyX in a reasonable
way for 1.4.x but I still only have them as latex commands. Is that me
or does it require x 2?
I have a latex file which I imported but when I run
latex out of lyx, it will have an undefined sequence
error. The reason for this behavior is that it exchanges
the lines
\editor{Leslie Pack Kaelbling}
\maketitle
Is there an easy fix for this behaviour?
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
sample.tex
Hi, i have a problem with instant preview: it simply claims that the
latex compilation failed, see below --- despite that I could compile
it manually. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Thanks,
-Jan
lyx document header finished
command
python
Dear Lyx-Developers,
I am *really* impressed ... or maybe even stunned.
The update from 1.4 to 1.5 is really a major
step for LyXkind. On a Mac, it feels every bit as
professional as a Mac App can be (wow).
The SWP guys at MacKitchan must be really scared
as hell. Congrats guys! You are doing a
just put the link into your browser, it will downloas it.
-Jan
On 3/15/07, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:03:38 +0100
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ares schrieb:
...
ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ecv/template/CV-=
I saw a pre-version which had proper anti-aliassing for sqrt.
Why is that no included into the beta 2 version?
I am referring to the ftp.devel.lyx. version ... the one
on philebus does not run on my MacIntel.
Thanks,
-Jan
On 4/22/07, Christopher Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Public
One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you
are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by
cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old
text?
For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF
clone of word
I have a new sudden problem with LyX/Mac which I have
not been able to solve: LyX suddenly uses an incorrect
font for the equations, where pi becomes mue, etc
Where is the font selected for the equations?
How can I fix that?
Thanks,
-Jan
Does anybody know when the next version of Lyx 1.4.0 will be released?
-Jan
and the theorem environment?
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
===
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial
reasons. -Bertrand Russell
===
How can I use the verbatim environment in LyX?
-Jan
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
===
Jan Peters, Graduate Research Assistant, Dipl.Inf., Dipl.Ing., M.Sc.
University of Southern California (USC)
Computational Learning and Motor Control Laboratories
Hi there!
I am still switching forth and back between scientific workplace
(running on virtual PC with WindowsNT 4 on my Mac :(, and under
Crossover Office on my Linux box) and LyX. Obviously, that is a very
undesirable state, but I am still missing many things in LyX which my
daily life as a
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