Re: How to Elegantly "Unbold" Description Label in LyX & Output?

2019-11-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 05/11/2019 à 19:36, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : On 11/5/19 10:38 AM, Joel Kulesza wrote: What is the recommended way to reconfigure the description environment to not be bold in LyX and in the output.  For the output, I might use \renewcommand{\descriptionlabel}[1]{\hspace{\labelsep}\nor

Testing archives

2019-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Just a quick message to see whether archiving works again. JMarc -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Add caption to unfloated figure

2019-09-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 23/09/2019 à 22:30, Rich Shepard a écrit : When I use Insert -> Caption with the cursor immediately before and immediately after the figure lyx tells me is's 'senseless.' None of the manuals seem to explain how to add a caption to a graphic image; makes me wonder why it's in the Insert menu.

Re: Fwd: How to keep versions of a paper in different formats

2019-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 03/09/2019 à 02:06, list_em...@icloud.com a écrit : This looks like a good idea. I believe that master document settings override child settings as I’m sure you know. I’ll give it a try. I put the common preamble settings in a preamble layout in the document. Also, I use branches that are

Re: How to keep versions of a paper in different formats

2019-08-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 30/08/2019 à 14:03, list_em...@icloud.com a écrit : I have a manuscript which I plan to submit for publication. In its current form, it is in a format different from what the journal expects and as such must be converted to the format (IEEE) expected by the journal. (I normally do this by

Re: serious bug (fedora issue?)

2019-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 05/01/2019 à 20:46, Patrick Dupre a écrit : Hello, Was the information that I provided useful? I also have to face other crash issues. I will try to communicate after the previous one have been solved. Dear Patrick, I just stumbled on your posts while looking at my old inbox content befo

Re: lyx crash 2.3.3.

2019-07-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 24/07/2019 à 12:00, Kornel Benko a écrit : It was a real crash, and we definitely are interested in the cause. The fact, that lyx was able to create the emergency file means that lyx could catch some (probably also unexpected) exception. It looks like an assertion, but I might be wrong. JMa

Re: lyx crash 2.3.3.

2019-07-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 23/07/2019 à 19:01, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : On 23.07.19 18:36, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 23/07/2019 à 18:24, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : Being able to reproduce the issue would be the best. JMarc which means I should next time run lyx with -dbg, right? Or can I still find a

Re: lyx crash 2.3.3.

2019-07-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 23/07/2019 à 18:24, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : Being able to reproduce the issue would be the best. JMarc which means I should next time run lyx with -dbg, right? Or can I still find a file with error messages now? Or trying to reproduce the situation if you remember it a bit. How mane

Re: lyx crash 2.3.3.

2019-07-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 23/07/2019 à 17:45, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : On 23.07.19 17:38, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On 23.07.19 17:35, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Its the second time today that lyx crashed suddenly. I was trying to insert a reference via jabref. I am including the lines from the terminal, perhap

Re: Is latest Windows 10 (1809 prior to 1903-not installed) Update breaking Lyx 2.33 and MikTex?

2019-07-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/07/2019 à 19:20, Brian Davis a écrit : 1) Win 10 Enterprise (earlier versions of LyX and MikTeX as reported earlier     a) run as administrator application will generate a pdf of my thesis     b) Shows article.cls as available     c) Enterprise is remaining in half (baked) working mo

Re: Is latest Windows 10 (1809 prior to 1903-not installed) Update breaking Lyx 2.33 and MikTex?

2019-07-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 16/07/2019 à 19:29, Brian Davis a écrit : Win 10 Enterprise box this morning still requires admin mode to generate pdf.  So at least there is stable insanity there. In this case, does the miktex installation work without being admin? IOW, can you compile from command line a simple latex fil

Re: Is latest Windows 10 (1809 prior to 1903-not installed) Update breaking Lyx 2.33 and MikTex?

2019-07-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/07/2019 à 14:00, Kees Zeelenberg a écrit : I have been using MikTeX for over 15 years (with LyX for over 10 years), and have never experienced such an automatic update that some have ascribed to it. To make sure, I have checked on the MikTeX issue tracker, with the following outcome. A us

Re: Is latest Windows 10 (1809 prior to 1903-not installed) Update breaking Lyx 2.33 and MikTex?

2019-07-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 14/07/2019 à 20:46, Brian Davis a écrit : I have had a great deal of experience in trying to convince developers of problems.  It is not sarcasm, just statement of fact.  Devs do not believe me until I prove it to them or they experience for themselves. Let's cut to the core of the issue :

Re: Is latest Windows 10 (1809 prior to 1903-not installed) Update breaking Lyx 2.33 and MikTex?

2019-07-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 13/07/2019 à 21:05, Brian Davis a écrit : I tried again to get it to work on my advisors computer this Wednesday and failed with same error as I am now seeing on my other two laptops, though with varying degrees. So uhhh yeah you could say I am in a hurry for my thesis at least so I can st

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.3.3

2019-07-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 11/07/2019 à 17:00, Maria Gouskova a écrit : Any idea when Liviu's PPA and/or the official Debian release are going to be updated to 2.3.3? I just had LyX 2.3.2 crash on me (the Instant Preview Math bug) and I see that the bug is fixed in 2.3.3, so I was hoping to upgrade without having to b

Re: Lyx file format for tables

2019-05-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 22/05/2019 à 16:51, Paul Smith a écrit : Dear All, Where can one find the specifications of the LyX file format for tables? The reason why I am asking that is because I have a bunch of tables that I want to export from R to a single LyX document, and the approach I am considering is to produ

Re: Lyx Help in German, although set for English

2019-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/05/2019 à 18:12, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : On 15.05.19 17:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: In LyX 2.3.3, the Help files will default to the language of the interface, If this is not found, it will try the language(s) listed by the LANGUAGE variable. Finally, it will fall back to

Re: Lyx Help in German, although set for English

2019-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 10/04/2019 à 10:18, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : I wanted to compare my settings of the Lyx document with the one of a Help file (i have chosen Users Guide). However, the Text there is in German, although I have set the language under tools>preferences>language settings>English and under Doc

Re: Spack Installation of LyX?

2019-05-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 14/05/2019 à 04:33, Joel Kulesza a écrit : Colleagues, Has anyone setup a "spackage" in Spack to install LyX? See: https://github.com/spack/spack and https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_packaging.html Didn't know about this one ! If someone has done this, do you have any tips

Re: Fwd: Re: Question regarding the form of the aspect of the text in the main window

2019-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 30/04/2019 à 18:50, Axel Dessecker a écrit : I just found your messages in my spam... Could this issue be related to https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11233 (that one is a KDE bug) I'm not so sure about that. Should we see italics on the screen even without having them installed as a part of

Re: Fwd: Re: Question regarding the form of the aspect of the text in the main window

2019-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
here with LyX 2.3.2 and Linux (openSUSE Leap 15.0). Axel Le 21 mars 2019 à 10:26, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Le 21/03/2019 à 10:19, Harold Mouras a écrit : Dear Lyx Users, I remember having worked with a version of LyX in which

Re: Quicker build

2019-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 25/04/2019 à 08:01, Daniel a écrit : On 2019-04-24 21:45, Steve Litt wrote: you won't whittle it down to a Minimal Working Example whose compile time is insane compared to its size, you don't know and won't learn batch files/powerscript, you refuse to alter your document either as a solution

Re: Counters of custom list environment

2019-04-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 03/04/2019 à 17:21, Daniel a écrit : What the labeltype Enumerate does is to count nesting of enumerate items to know whether the counter will be enumi, enumii, enumiii or enumiv. Your own enumerate layout is not supposed to do that. I see. That was just an oversimplification on my side. At

Re: Counters of custom list environment

2019-04-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 03/04/2019 à 14:55, Daniel a écrit : Yes, that does the trick. But I am wondering why the default Enumerate doesn't have LabelType Static. What's the difference? What the labeltype Enumerate does is to count nesting of enumerate items to know whether the counter will be enumi, enumii, enumi

Re: Counters of custom list environment

2019-04-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 02/04/2019 à 12:45, Daniel a écrit : Hi, In the attached document the list structure in the work area is shown as i. MyEnumerate (a) Enumerate but the output is actually i. MyEnumerate 1. Enumerate Try the one attached. I changed LabelType to Static and set the format (because

Re: lyx 2.3.2

2019-03-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 25/03/2019 à 10:46, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : I would like to install the Debian stable backport binary 2.3.2 on my new notebook. I had installed in stretch version 2.2.2. Do I have to de-install this one before doing it? If both are packaged by debian, I would think you do not need to u

Re: Lyx sluggish on Windows 10

2019-03-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 22/03/2019 à 21:06, David Belius a écrit : Fantastic, thank you very much! Is the fix in a git repository somewhere so I can try it out? It is at git://git.lyx.org/lyx, in branch 2.3.x. Building on windows is not very well documented, but we would definitely need testers. JMarc

Re: Lyx sluggish on Windows 10

2019-03-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/03/2019 à 21:32, Dr Paul Verschueren a écrit : Well done Jean-Marc - and many thanks! I am interested in other documents that exhibit performance issues. I know that more remains to be done. JMarc

Re: Lyx sluggish on Windows 10

2019-03-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/03/2019 à 17:02, Dr Paul Verschueren a écrit : Yes I get the same problem with David's test file (i7 laptop, LyX Version 2.3.2-1, up to date Win10). I had noticed some sluggishness previously when the number of equations builds up, but not enough to make it worth raising as an issue. Howe

Re: A relaxed editing mode where empty constructs are not removed?

2019-03-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/03/2019 à 15:14, Amir Michail a écrit : Not everyone needs to generate output from LyX.I find the app excellent for taking notes and the .lyx files are sufficient for that purpose. A relaxed editing mode would make LyX even more convenient to use for taking notes. In particular, it’s ann

Re: Question regarding the form of the aspect of the text in the main window

2019-03-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/03/2019 à 10:30, Harold Mouras a écrit : Hello, I run Lyx 2.3.1 on Mac OS 10.14.3. Thanks Could you try to update to 2.3.2 and tell us whether the problem is still present? JMarc Le 21 mars 2019 à 10:26, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Le 21/03/2019 à 10:19, Harold Mouras a écrit

Re: Question regarding the form of the aspect of the text in the main window

2019-03-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/03/2019 à 10:19, Harold Mouras a écrit : Dear Lyx Users, I remember having worked with a version of LyX in which the bold text did appear as bold when typing. In my current version (2.3.1), this is no more the case. Is that possible to set LyX to put the text in bold and italic in when ty

Re: Lyx sluggish on Windows 10

2019-03-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/03/2019 à 22:18, Jürgen Womser-Schütz a écrit : Am 15.03.2019 um 20:32 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: Le 15/03/2019 à 20:04, Paul A. Rubin a écrit : I have a copy of LyX 2.3.1 running under Win 10 in a VirtualBox environment. That's a bit sluggish all the way around, but I notic

Re: Lyx sluggish on Windows 10

2019-03-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/03/2019 à 20:04, Paul A. Rubin a écrit : I have a copy of LyX 2.3.1 running under Win 10 in a VirtualBox environment. That's a bit sluggish all the way around, but I noticed no difference in the (slight) lag between the first and second pastings of '123'. I see sluggishness here on wind

Re: Lyx sluggish on Windows 10

2019-03-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[David, please be careful to keep the messages on the list] Le 15/03/2019 à 15:41, David Belius a écrit : My screen fonts are: Roman: Times New Roman Sans Serif: Arial Typewriter: Courier New I guess these are standard fonts? Yes, pretty standard. I tried download the latin modern fonts and

Re: No console output on Windows 7

2019-03-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 14/03/2019 à 21:40, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Le 14/03/2019 à 21:32, Paul A. Rubin a écrit : As far as I know, the current Windows port of LyX does not generate console output to the command prompt. If you start LyX from a command prompt with debugging output turned on (for instance

Re: No console output on Windows 7

2019-03-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 14/03/2019 à 21:32, Paul A. Rubin a écrit : As far as I know, the current Windows port of LyX does not generate console output to the command prompt. If you start LyX from a command prompt with debugging output turned on (for instance, "path>\lyx.exe -dbg any"), and if the LyX GUI opens, you

Re: Lyx sluggish on Windows 10

2019-03-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 10/03/2019 à 19:00, Paul A. Rubin a écrit : When I type into an equation CPU usage hits about 50%, split evenly between Lyx and a process called "Usermode Font Driver Host". I googled the latter and found some references to it in connection with possibly similar problems

Re: Import LaTeX (plain) dialog

2019-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 28/02/2019 à 21:58, Paul A. Rubin a écrit : I'm on my laptop now, which is running a newer version of Mint (19.1 Tessa) than my desktop but the same desktop environment (MATE) and the same version of LyX (2.3.2, installed from Liviu's repo), and on my laptop I see the same phenomenon that yo

Re: Import LaTeX (plain) dialog

2019-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 28/02/2019 à 15:36, Paul A. Rubin a écrit : Regarding the Export As dialog, the file filter options there match the file formats recognized by LyX (Tools > Preferences... > File Handling > Formats > Format:). I don't use most of them, but I presume the assumption is that source files for var

Re: Integral sign appears in the wrong location inside lyx

2019-02-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 26/02/2019 à 17:26, Anand Rangarajan a écrit : The screenshot didn't appear in the previous email. It did actually. Anyway, what is your environment? Where did you get LyX from? JMarc On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:14 AM Anand Rangarajan > wrote: I apologize

Re: Screen script becomes smaller and smaller

2019-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/02/2019 à 11:37, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : Jean-Marc, ## This file is automatically generated by lyx ## All modifications will be lost So, how does this survive an update/upgrade? This file does survive upgrades. What the comments mean is that the file is modified when you use Prefer

Re: Screen script becomes smaller and smaller

2019-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 20/02/2019 à 11:25, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : That's an interesting question :-)-O Maybe a mac.local.bind for the new ones and the ones you want to dump are removed from the local copy of the full one? Or an \unbind function? \unbind does exist, the binding GUI generates it as needed. J

Re: Screen script becomes smaller and smaller

2019-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 19/02/2019 à 17:36, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : Works too :-)-O \bind "C-minus" "buffer-zoom-out" \bind "C-plus" "buffer-zoom-in" \bind "C-equal" "buffer-zoom-in" \bind "C-0" "buffer-zoom" I did notice t

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

2019-02-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 13/02/2019 à 19:49, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : Do we know how to handle that? We have other key combinations, right, like Alt-M followed by a? But I'm pretty clueless about all that. Alt-M is a prefix, it requires something afterwards. But Esc is bound to a function in itself. JMar

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

2019-02-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 13/02/2019 à 18:31, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : We could also have a special key sequence like "Alt-M Esc", but it seems a bit complicated to me. What about Esc-Esc, quickly? Do we know how to handle that? JMarc

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

2019-02-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 13/02/2019 à 11:45, avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il a écrit : Thanks for your replies, Baris and Jean-Marc. Indeed, I had meant what JMarc wrote. How does it continue from this point? Should I open a "feature-request" Trac ticket, or will you, as a LyX developer, do it? Apologies for not knowin

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

2019-02-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 13/02/2019 à 11:10, Baris Erkus a écrit : One way I found very useful, which does not do exactly what you want, is to use backspace to erase the LaTeX code entered. You need to move the cursor current position tough. Then, you can re-enter the new code. The question is not "how to transform

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

2019-02-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 13/02/2019 à 11:07, Baris Erkus a écrit : Now for my question. Is there a way to leave math mode (inline/displayed formulas) "immediately"? One can use the Esc or Space keys, but several presses may be required to have the cursor leave the formula completely. I'm looking for a way to do it i

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

2019-02-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 13/02/2019 à 09:29, avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il a écrit : Hello, First, I have been using LyX for quite a few years, and would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who is involved in this great project. Now for my question. Is there a way to leave math mode (inline/displayed f

Re: Change Tracking Colors (Screen vs PDF)

2019-02-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 08/02/2019 à 10:05, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : 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

Re: English version of beamer: Will be fixed

2019-02-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 06/02/2019 à 17:47, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Le 06/02/2019 à 17:12, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : I have fixed it now in master. I an not sure yet whether this will find its way in LyX2.3.3. Thanks, Jean-Marc. Any idea of the 2.3.3 version realization? I do not know yet. But I can

Re: English version of beamer: Will be fixed

2019-02-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 06/02/2019 à 17:12, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : I have fixed it now in master. I an not sure yet whether this will find its way in LyX2.3.3. Thanks, Jean-Marc. Any idea of the 2.3.3 version realization? I do not know yet. JMarc

Re: English version of beamer

2019-02-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 06/02/2019 à 14:18, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : Marc, most help documents are in German, in spite of my English Language settings in tools and Document, except the following, which are in English: I have fixed it now in master. I an not sure yet whether this will find its way in LyX2.3.3

Re: English version of beamer

2019-02-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 06/02/2019 à 13:27, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : thanks, but my beamer file is still in German, although I have Documents> settings> language > English(USA) and tools > unser interface > language > English What do I miss? I think that we have a bug where the documents are shown in the lan

Re: Question: how to run Reconfigure without GUI

2019-02-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 05/02/2019 à 19:49, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Scott, this is very helpful for my alias file on the Mac. function lyxconfigure { pushd ~/ python -tt "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py"

Re: Error in exponent keybinding

2019-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 26/01/2019 à 23:14, jcredbe...@gmail.com a écrit : No one has seen this problem? Hello, This is fixed in 2.3.2: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11183 Regards, JMarc Regards, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 3:08 PM

Re: crash

2019-01-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 19/01/2019 à 11:18, Patrick Dupre a écrit : How can I "buffer-anonymize"? Type Alt-x, and then type "buffer-anonimize" and return. JMarc

Re: characters marked in red

2019-01-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 19/01/2019 à 10:34, paolo m. a écrit : Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: This is a feature (good or bad) : previews that are too small, where "small" is defined as 0.1in (used to be hardcoded to 10 pixels) are marked in red. This is probably what you see here. That happens on L

Re: characters marked in red

2019-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/01/2019 à 11:19, paolo m. a écrit : In math mode, characters c,e,r,s,z are marked in red in lyx display, but not so if they are next to other characters, as in ar or ae. (see enclosed picture). I cannot see why. Any ideas? Lyx is 2.3.2 This is a feature (good or bad) : previews that are

Re: Lyx en français et typographie

2019-01-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
I transferred the message to lyx...@lists.lyx.org, which is the right place for this question. JMarc Le 08/01/2019 à 17:07, pimou a écrit : Bonjour, Je découvre lyx. En principe il est en français et je rédige un document dans cette langue. Je remarque que le document généré ne respecte pas

Re: Update: LyX 2.3.2-2 for Windows

2019-01-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 05/01/2019 à 15:10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Indeed the server (which is not under our control) is not available currently. I'll try to get information. Hello, The server is back from the dead now. JMarc

Re: Update: LyX 2.3.2-2 for Windows

2019-01-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 05/01/2019 à 13:59, Graeme a écrit : I've now tried to connect to the site using Filezilla FTP client. This generates the following messages: Status:    Resolving address of ftp.lyx.org Status:    Connecting to 195.83.118.1:21... Status:    Connection established, waiting for welcome message..

Re: Order paragraphs alphabetically

2018-12-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 30/12/2018 à 22:09, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : Would this not need to be done in a LaTeX package? I thought it was about selecting a list of paragraphs and using 'sort selection'. Daniel, what was your request exactly? JMarc

Re: Order paragraphs alphabetically

2018-12-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
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 (definitions) and would like to order them alphabetically. It would be a nice feature to have. I am not sure how diffi

Re: serious bug (fedora issue?)

2018-12-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 07/11/2018 à 14:35, Patrick Dupre a écrit : Hello, There is a serious bug with the version 2.3.1 under fedora 28 When I run the spellchecker, I got the following crash. Is it possible with fedora to get the debug information, so that you can give us a proper becktrace? José, are you readin

Re: Statistics in LyX

2018-12-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 11/12/2018 à 18:28, Daniel a écrit : Its not possible because the window is modal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_window). I think this could be easily changed but that's not enough since it would not be updated automatically. But I guess that's not that tricky to implement either. It

Re: Commented TeX with track changes

2018-12-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 09/12/2018 à 13:53, Daniel Goya a écrit : thanks Paul, Jean-Marc and Daniel for your replies. Maybe there's not much point in reporting it if ERTs are so prone to these kind of issues. In fact I think I just found another one, a change-tracked new ERT inputing a .tex is not showing the input

Re: Commented TeX with track changes

2018-12-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 06/12/2018 à 23:39, Daniel Goya a écrit : Hello everyone, I just realised that I could not compile a file displaying changes, when the change, within a TeX code, includes a %. This is a bug indeed, but I have no idea how we can solve it. This is a general issue with ERT: you can find 100

Re: lyx changes the file access privileges

2018-11-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 28/11/2018 à 18:13, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : Yes, QFile::setPermissions:     http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qfile.html#setPermissions We can use QFile::permissions to get the permissions of the original file, if we want to do that. Presumably, we could create simple wrappers around

Re: lyx changes the file access privileges

2018-11-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 28/11/2018 à 15:23, Kornel Benko a écrit : I fear, we have to wait until the c++17 is available. What we do now, is calling ofstream ofs(encoded_fname.c_str(), ios::out|ios::trunc); write(ofs); We are unable to set own permissions. With c++17 it will be available to set them.

Re: lyx changes the file access privileges

2018-11-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 25/11/2018 à 04:11, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : I do not believe LyX sets file permissions itself. The write routine simply uses basic_ofstream, which just creates the file using the current umask, or whatever other default permissions are in place. We should probably remember the permis

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 04/11/2018 à 14:26, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) a écrit : I think we have to calm down here. I doubt that you should inject your guesses about the moods of others. As you prefer. It is about a proposed feature. FWIW, I do some of these typos, but I am not sure t

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 04/11/2018 à 13:52, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) a écrit : Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an "a," for example). Dyslexia is a _learning_ disability.  Further, t

Re: How to force tex2lyx to read unicode (from within Lyx)?

2018-11-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 02/11/2018 à 10:33, Baris Erkus a écrit : So is there a way to tell to tex2lyx to use UTF8 encoding from within LyX? This issue is occured when I import a tex file that has \input{ch1.tex} in it. So, maybe LyX has and option to force tex2lyx to read in UTF8 for all imports? THe question is w

Re: No screen font smoothing in a Parallels VM

2018-11-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 1 novembre 2018 20:04:44 GMT+00:00, Chris Menzel a écrit : >Problem solved! I upgraded to KDE Plasma version 5.14.2 (via the >backports >PPA) and LyX 2.3.1 and that solved the problem. (Not sure if either of >itself would have done the job.) Thanks again to the LyX (and KDE) >developers. Norm

Re: An observation on 3.2.1 spell checking

2018-10-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 19/10/2018 à 15:05, Rich Shepard a écrit :   I just looked at the SlackBuild script I've used for years (chaning only version numbers) and see nothing related to spell checkers in the configure section so I assume that all but ispell are in included. It depends actually of what development

Re: An observation on 3.2.1 spell checking

2018-10-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 19/10/2018 à 14:33, Rich Shepard a écrit :   Turns out lyx was set to use enchant (never knew of this before) where I used to use aspell or ispell. (Here, aspell, enchnat, ispell, and hunspell are all installed and I've no idea how, or why, they differ.) ispell is the one for oldtimers. asp

Re: indent after description list?

2018-10-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 16/10/2018 à 09:48, subaochen a écrit : Sorry, I have forgotten to set language to English, now the attached file sample.lyx maybe a minimal example? This is an issue both on screen and in the PDF. After "the second question", press return thrice (the first creates a new Definition entry

Re: Replace list x by list y

2018-10-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 12/10/2018 à 09:41, Kornel Benko a écrit : It would be possible in theory with Advanced F&R, but a crucial feature is still missing: handling of regepx references (\1 etc.) in replace. Yes, and this is really hard. Also the lists are hard to differentiate at this level. 'enumerate' and 'ite

Re: Sharpness of lyx characters

2018-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 11/10/2018 à 10:01, Paolo M a écrit : You were right JMarc, after upgrading to 2.3.1  problem solved thank you Thanks for confirming. This problem has been there since the start of LyX, but solving it is only a bonus of a big restructuring. JMarc

Re: Sharpness of lyx characters

2018-10-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 23/08/2018 à 17:35, Pol a écrit : screen characters in lyx on hp-elitebook x360, appear unclear, i would say that 'ink density' is not uniform. No change switching to different fonts. All applications display clear characters, except LyX Lyx runs on opensuse leap 15 / plasma Hi Paolo, Did y

Re: Bold face in LyX

2018-10-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 05/10/2018 à 15:27, Hal Kierstead a écrit : All - I am using LyX 2.2.1-1 on macOS 10.14. I can no longer distinguish boldface fonts from ordinary fonts in the LyX document, although they appear correctly in the pdf output. This is the case both when I enter the bold face font by hand or wh

Re: Option for displaying equation labels less obstrusively?

2018-10-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 03/10/2018 à 23:35, Klaus-Dieter Bauer a écrit : Hello! As it is currently implemented, equation labels are displayed as part of the equation number in LyX's editor. Sadly, for longer, semantically meaningful label names (e.g. "eq:maxwell-equations-in-vacuum"), this throws off the formatti

Re: New CC Book about LyX (PDF)

2018-10-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 01/10/2018 à 21:09, Ricardo Berlasso a écrit : Hi, list! I've finally translated my book about LyX, XeTeX and OpenType to (something similar to) English. I'm not a native English speaker, so be aware that there will be grammar errors! Lots of them! Congratulations! Now that I have said t

Re: user interface bug latin9 -> Unicode

2018-09-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 25/09/2018 à 21:15, Paul Johnson a écrit : Then I went into Settings -> Language and changed input to utf-8. That had the effect of automatically replacing \frownie and \smiley with unicode symbols in the LaTeX source, like so: \documentclass[english]{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usep

Re: Anyone running Mojave?

2018-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 22/09/2018 à 06:00, Chris Menzel a écrit : Greetings LyX users, Is anyone using LyX/MacTeX with the Mojave beta? Yes, look here at least: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11271 JMarc

Re: Hunspell dictionaries browser can't be opened

2018-09-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 20/09/2018 à 13:16, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : You mean, possible errors or so after ./configure? At the end of the configure run, there is a summary that is displayed, like this: Configuration Host type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: build=development

Re: Hunspell dictionaries browser can't be opened

2018-09-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 20/09/2018 à 10:49, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : Thanks Jürgen, will try it with the 2.3.1 version of  LyX. /you don't have to compile hunspell, but LyX must be compiled with hunspell support enabled/ you mean hunspell must be installed (e.g. with synaptics)? Wolfgang When you configure, L

Re: Hunspell dictionaries browser can't be opened

2018-09-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 19/09/2018 à 20:34, Wolfgang Engelmann a écrit : Clicking in the field where the path is to be set does not do anything, the cursor does not appear in this field, in contrast to all the other fields. Wolfgang Is hunspell enabled in your build? What OS is that? JMarc

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.3.1 Released

2018-09-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/09/2018 à 05:49, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : On 09/16/2018 06:09 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: My thanks to the dwindling number of active LyX developers for 2.3.1 and, as a windows user, particularly Riki. On 17/09/2018 3:40 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: - Use native file dialogs o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.3.1 Released

2018-09-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 16/09/2018 à 22:08, Baris Erkus a écrit : Hi, can you remind me what this particular problem is? JMarc https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10010 Just saw that this is aimed to be fixed in 2.3.2. So, when it say "fixed," does not necessarily mean that it is closed? If so --> my bad. Very good,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.3.1 Released

2018-09-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 16/09/2018 à 20:23, Baris Erkus a écrit : Seems like the column borders of the the tables are not fixed tough, but it is perfectly OK. maybe for the next version. :-P:-P;-);-) Hi, can you remind me what this particular problem is? JMarc

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

2018-09-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
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: Workaround for: WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation

2018-09-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 05/09/2018 à 11:45, Uwe Stöhr a écrit : @developers: Maybe now you see that the Win installer must do more and forcing a MiKTeX update is necessary as you can see in this case. We cannot say "not our fault". Yes, LyX is not to blame but what matters is if users can use LyX. In my case I want

Re: Sharpness of lyx characters

2018-08-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 23/08/2018 à 17:35, Pol a écrit : screen characters in lyx on hp-elitebook x360, appear unclear, i would say that 'ink density' is not uniform. No change switching to different fonts. All applications display clear characters, except LyX Lyx runs on opensuse leap 15 / plasma Wait until LyX 2

Re: Shortcuts dedicated to math mode

2018-07-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 26/07/2018 à 09:19, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit : Am Donnerstag, den 26.07.2018, 08:53 +0200 schrieb Daniel: Is it possible to have a keyboard shortcut dedicated to math mode so that it only works in matn mode but does something else (or its normal function) when not in math mode? You can us

Re: lyx 2.3 minted-related problems on TeX Live

2018-07-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 22/07/2018 à 13:07, Virgil L a écrit : Following interaction with the minted's maintainer, it now appears that LaTeX is acting correctly, and the entire problem is caused by a LyX's bug, which was apparently introduced in version 2.3 (2.2.3 does not seem to have this problem). LyX seems to b

Re: Shortcuts for symbols in text

2018-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/07/2018 à 17:47, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : On 07/21/2018 09:56 AM, Tank Panzer wrote: In LyX one can cunfigure the shortcuts and even add new ones under preferences. Like I was able to add a new shortcut by typing "math-insert \bullet" and passing a shortcut to it I would like to kn

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