Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread Jens Nöckel
libreoffice Although I'll miss the old noun icon: it's the last samurai of the 8-bit world. Jens

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloeapars...@clear.net.nz wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or

Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?

2011-05-08 Thread Jens Nöckel
Yes, it's possible, and I understand why you want to do it (why throw out a version that works fine, if you're not sure about possible bugs in the new version?) So you could do the following: 1) assuming you have LyX version 1.6.x installed the usual way, rename /Appplications/LyX.app to

Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?

2011-05-08 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 8, 2011, at 9:38 AM, BH wrote: On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: Be aware that files saved normally from LyX 2 won't be readable by LyX 1.6, so after some time you'll probably be happier working with the new version. Once LyX-1.6.10 comes out

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-12 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 12, 2011, at 4:54 PM, BH wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to have screwed my LyX

Re: pdftex process on MAC OSX Lyx 2.0.0 - more

2011-05-15 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 14, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Robert Betz wrote: Tried uninstalling Lyx 2.0.0 and reinstalled Lyx 1.6.10 and also 1.6.9. All doing the same thing (pdftex not closing and using 100% CPU), so it may be my system. Doing on two though. The parent process for pdftex is Python, whose parent in

Re: pdftex process on MAC OSX Lyx 2.0.0 - more

2011-05-15 Thread Jens Nöckel
- On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:44 AM, in message 8ca2dbec-1d05-48e1-b7e4-4bb8157d1...@uoregon.edu, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: On May 14, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Robert Betz wrote: Tried uninstalling Lyx

Re: Most suitable image format

2011-05-31 Thread Jens Nöckel
Sam, just use PNG for all purposes. It's compressed but lossless, and it's supported by LyX as well as all modern web browsers. Jens On May 31, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Sam Lewis wrote: Thanks for your quick reply. I intent to both print it and distribute it online. I guess two versions of

Re: 1.1999

2011-09-01 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:42 PM, James Sutherland wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Charles Reichert creicher...@gmail.com wrote: If I have a number: 1.19... How can I get the bar (I forget the name) over the 9 so it just reads 1.199 In math mode: 1.1\bar{99} The \bar

Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

2011-10-17 Thread Jens Nöckel
Here is one that I point people to - there may be newer ones I'm not aware of, but this should give you the flavor: Introduction to Latex and Lyx http://youtu.be/m4cEAVmLegg Jens On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of

Re: Anyone having luck with playing movies and sounds in Beamer?

2011-10-28 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:19 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com

Re: How to select via keyboard?

2011-11-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Nov 22, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Le 22/11/11 10:37, Rainer M Krug a écrit : Brilliant - exactly what I was looking for. No, it is even in emacs bindings not mapped, as far as I could

Re: How to select via keyboard?

2011-11-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Nov 22, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 22/11/11 18:28, Jens Nöckel a écrit : For me, the mark in emacs is especially useful when copying large passages of several screens full of text (because the shift arrow method is too slow). Maybe it's worth filing a bug about

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi, since I don't see the problem on either OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.2, I just tried the following steps on my OS X 10.6.8 machine: 1) Move ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0 to the Desktop. 2) Fresh download of LyX-2.0.2+qt4-cocoa.dmg from www.lyx.org 3) Move old LyX out of Application folder

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-01 Thread Jens Nöckel
the first. stiv. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: Hi, since I don't see the problem on either OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.2, I just tried the following steps on my OS X 10.6.8 machine: 1) Move ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0 to the Desktop. 2) Fresh

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread Jens Nöckel
): action first set to [] /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1694): action now set to [] /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1705): Key [action=][Control-B] On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: So

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-05 Thread Jens Nöckel
Assuming convert is really the problem, perhaps you can try a different imagemagick installation. Two options would be Macports, http://www.macports.org/install.php or Fink, http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en You only need one of these. Most people seem to choose

Re: small beef with LyX on the Mac

2012-02-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
Unfortunately Apple have themselves broken the continuity here with Lion. Now when you close a native application like TeXtEdit, the old shortcuts for don't save no longer work (neither space bar nor Apple-D). Instead you have to press Apple-Delete. So in other words, if we assume that Lion

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
This shows 'convert $$i $$o', which I believe is correct. I show only two PDF converters, PDF(ps2pdf) to EPS and to Postscript. Should there be more? -- Rich On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: Assuming convert is really the problem, perhaps you can try

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-07 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Feb 7, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/07/2012 12:50 AM, Jens Nöckel wrote: I think this can only be solved if you save the user's guide to an external file, bisect that new file until you localize the error to a reasonably small portion of the file, and then inspect

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-02-13 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
I see no difference between the two… (just kidding). On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: ... So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. :-)

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

2012-04-11 Thread Jens Nöckel
Although I also ignore this LyX message, there is something inconsistent here: if two spaces generate a message, then why don't we get an analogous message after pressing return several times? Admittedly, it's a little different because LyX allows a few more returns before stopping to add them

Re: Mountain Lion

2012-07-27 Thread Jens Nöckel
A big problem appears even in OS X 10.7 when you use it on a 2012 Macbook Pro with retina display. The antialiasing makes the text look blurry because the application can't run in native high resolution. The latest version of the Qt framework supposedly allows high res, but I don't know yet how

Re: Magin note color and font in the whole document

2010-01-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Jan 22, 2010, at 2:33 AM, David Múgica wrote: It´s easy change the color and font in a marginnote, but i can´t in the whole document. ¿How i can change the color in ALL the margin-side notes document? ¿And the family and sizes font? Thanks a lot. Hi, I happen to use margin notes like

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-11-21 Thread Jens Nöckel
/GuiApplication.cpp(1694): action now set to [] /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1705): Key [action=][Control-B] On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: So now it's becoming more likely that this is a low-level configuration problem with Qt

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-11-21 Thread Jens Nöckel
Sorry, when I said switched I meant _not_ switched. Otherwise my answer wouldn't have made much sense... So I don't see the problem Mr. Djobs is describing. On Nov 21, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: So far it seems that LyX 2.05 is working for me, with the Meta and Control keys

Re: Can't insert PDF image into LyX

2013-12-03 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Dec 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Jerry wrote: On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Stephen Buonopane sbuon...@bucknell.edu wrote: Try the solution given here… http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/fixing_pdf_graphics_in_lyx.php which creates a direct conversion from pdf to png. It solved a related

Re: Fancy cover page?

2013-12-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Dec 4, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Ignacio Martinez wrote: This time I need to do a fancy cover page, like http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/17_Castleman_All_or_Nothing.pdf Can somebody help me do this in LyX? I have the logo as a svg and

Re: problem displaying angstrom symbol

2014-05-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 6, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Ider Ronneberger wrote: Hi, I have a problem in lyx displaying the angstom symbol using \AA within the math mode, i.e. if I want to view the document as pdf the angstrom sign is not there. However it works if I write \AA in Tex mode or insert it from

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread Jens Nöckel
libreoffice Although I'll miss the old noun icon: it's the last samurai of the 8-bit world. Jens

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloeapars...@clear.net.nz wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or

Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?

2011-05-08 Thread Jens Nöckel
Yes, it's possible, and I understand why you want to do it (why throw out a version that works fine, if you're not sure about possible bugs in the new version?) So you could do the following: 1) assuming you have LyX version 1.6.x installed the usual way, rename /Appplications/LyX.app to

Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?

2011-05-08 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 8, 2011, at 9:38 AM, BH wrote: On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: Be aware that files saved normally from LyX 2 won't be readable by LyX 1.6, so after some time you'll probably be happier working with the new version. Once LyX-1.6.10 comes out

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-12 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 12, 2011, at 4:54 PM, BH wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH bewih...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to have screwed my LyX

Re: pdftex process on MAC OSX Lyx 2.0.0 - more

2011-05-15 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 14, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Robert Betz wrote: Tried uninstalling Lyx 2.0.0 and reinstalled Lyx 1.6.10 and also 1.6.9. All doing the same thing (pdftex not closing and using 100% CPU), so it may be my system. Doing on two though. The parent process for pdftex is Python, whose parent in

Re: pdftex process on MAC OSX Lyx 2.0.0 - more

2011-05-15 Thread Jens Nöckel
- On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:44 AM, in message 8ca2dbec-1d05-48e1-b7e4-4bb8157d1...@uoregon.edu, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: On May 14, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Robert Betz wrote: Tried uninstalling Lyx

Re: Most suitable image format

2011-05-31 Thread Jens Nöckel
Sam, just use PNG for all purposes. It's compressed but lossless, and it's supported by LyX as well as all modern web browsers. Jens On May 31, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Sam Lewis wrote: Thanks for your quick reply. I intent to both print it and distribute it online. I guess two versions of

Re: 1.1999

2011-09-01 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:42 PM, James Sutherland wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Charles Reichert creicher...@gmail.com wrote: If I have a number: 1.19... How can I get the bar (I forget the name) over the 9 so it just reads 1.199 In math mode: 1.1\bar{99} The \bar

Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

2011-10-17 Thread Jens Nöckel
Here is one that I point people to - there may be newer ones I'm not aware of, but this should give you the flavor: Introduction to Latex and Lyx http://youtu.be/m4cEAVmLegg Jens On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of

Re: Anyone having luck with playing movies and sounds in Beamer?

2011-10-28 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:19 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM, stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com

Re: How to select via keyboard?

2011-11-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Nov 22, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Le 22/11/11 10:37, Rainer M Krug a écrit : Brilliant - exactly what I was looking for. No, it is even in emacs bindings not mapped, as far as I could

Re: How to select via keyboard?

2011-11-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Nov 22, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 22/11/11 18:28, Jens Nöckel a écrit : For me, the mark in emacs is especially useful when copying large passages of several screens full of text (because the shift arrow method is too slow). Maybe it's worth filing a bug about

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi, since I don't see the problem on either OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.2, I just tried the following steps on my OS X 10.6.8 machine: 1) Move ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0 to the Desktop. 2) Fresh download of LyX-2.0.2+qt4-cocoa.dmg from www.lyx.org 3) Move old LyX out of Application folder

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-01 Thread Jens Nöckel
the first. stiv. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: Hi, since I don't see the problem on either OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.2, I just tried the following steps on my OS X 10.6.8 machine: 1) Move ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0 to the Desktop. 2) Fresh

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread Jens Nöckel
): action first set to [] /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1694): action now set to [] /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1705): Key [action=][Control-B] On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: So

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-05 Thread Jens Nöckel
Assuming convert is really the problem, perhaps you can try a different imagemagick installation. Two options would be Macports, http://www.macports.org/install.php or Fink, http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en You only need one of these. Most people seem to choose

Re: small beef with LyX on the Mac

2012-02-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
Unfortunately Apple have themselves broken the continuity here with Lion. Now when you close a native application like TeXtEdit, the old shortcuts for don't save no longer work (neither space bar nor Apple-D). Instead you have to press Apple-Delete. So in other words, if we assume that Lion

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
This shows 'convert $$i $$o', which I believe is correct. I show only two PDF converters, PDF(ps2pdf) to EPS and to Postscript. Should there be more? -- Rich On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: Assuming convert is really the problem, perhaps you can try

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-07 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Feb 7, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/07/2012 12:50 AM, Jens Nöckel wrote: I think this can only be solved if you save the user's guide to an external file, bisect that new file until you localize the error to a reasonably small portion of the file, and then inspect

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-02-13 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
I see no difference between the two… (just kidding). On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: ... So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. :-)

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

2012-04-11 Thread Jens Nöckel
Although I also ignore this LyX message, there is something inconsistent here: if two spaces generate a message, then why don't we get an analogous message after pressing return several times? Admittedly, it's a little different because LyX allows a few more returns before stopping to add them

Re: Mountain Lion

2012-07-27 Thread Jens Nöckel
A big problem appears even in OS X 10.7 when you use it on a 2012 Macbook Pro with retina display. The antialiasing makes the text look blurry because the application can't run in native high resolution. The latest version of the Qt framework supposedly allows high res, but I don't know yet how

Re: Magin note color and font in the whole document

2010-01-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Jan 22, 2010, at 2:33 AM, David Múgica wrote: It´s easy change the color and font in a marginnote, but i can´t in the whole document. ¿How i can change the color in ALL the margin-side notes document? ¿And the family and sizes font? Thanks a lot. Hi, I happen to use margin notes like

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-11-21 Thread Jens Nöckel
/GuiApplication.cpp(1694): action now set to [] /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1705): Key [action=][Control-B] On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: So now it's becoming more likely that this is a low-level configuration problem with Qt

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-11-21 Thread Jens Nöckel
Sorry, when I said switched I meant _not_ switched. Otherwise my answer wouldn't have made much sense... So I don't see the problem Mr. Djobs is describing. On Nov 21, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: So far it seems that LyX 2.05 is working for me, with the Meta and Control keys

Re: Can't insert PDF image into LyX

2013-12-03 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Dec 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Jerry wrote: On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Stephen Buonopane sbuon...@bucknell.edu wrote: Try the solution given here… http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/fixing_pdf_graphics_in_lyx.php which creates a direct conversion from pdf to png. It solved a related

Re: Fancy cover page?

2013-12-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Dec 4, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Ignacio Martinez wrote: This time I need to do a fancy cover page, like http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/17_Castleman_All_or_Nothing.pdf Can somebody help me do this in LyX? I have the logo as a svg and

Re: problem displaying angstrom symbol

2014-05-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 6, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Ider Ronneberger wrote: Hi, I have a problem in lyx displaying the angstom symbol using \AA within the math mode, i.e. if I want to view the document as pdf the angstrom sign is not there. However it works if I write \AA in Tex mode or insert it from

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread Jens Nöckel
libreoffice Although I'll miss the old "noun" icon: it's the last samurai of the 8-bit world. Jens

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > > > On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe >> wrote: >>> Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to >>> fire up Gnumeric or

Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?

2011-05-08 Thread Jens Nöckel
Yes, it's possible, and I understand why you want to do it (why throw out a version that works fine, if you're not sure about possible bugs in the new version?) So you could do the following: 1) assuming you have LyX version 1.6.x installed the usual way, rename /Appplications/LyX.app to

Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?

2011-05-08 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 8, 2011, at 9:38 AM, BH wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Jens Nöckel <noec...@uoregon.edu> wrote: >> Be aware that files saved normally from LyX 2 won't be readable by LyX 1.6, >> so after some time you'll probably be happier working with the new version.

Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?

2011-05-12 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 12, 2011, at 4:54 PM, BH wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins >>> wrote: I seem to

Re: pdftex process on MAC OSX Lyx 2.0.0 - more

2011-05-15 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 14, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Robert Betz wrote: > Tried uninstalling Lyx 2.0.0 and reinstalled Lyx 1.6.10 and also 1.6.9. All > doing the same thing (pdftex not closing and using 100% CPU), so it may be my > system. Doing on two though. The parent process for pdftex is Python, whose >

Re: pdftex process on MAC OSX Lyx 2.0.0 - more

2011-05-15 Thread Jens Nöckel
University of Newcastle, Australia, > > email: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au > FAX: +61-2-4921-6993 > TEL: +61-2-4921-6091 > Mobile: (+61)-(0)419249948 > Web: http://eecsbobb.newcastle.edu.au/rebetz > > ---

Re: Most suitable image format

2011-05-31 Thread Jens Nöckel
Sam, just use PNG for all purposes. It's compressed but lossless, and it's supported by LyX as well as all modern web browsers. Jens On May 31, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Sam Lewis wrote: > Thanks for your quick reply. > > I intent to both print it and distribute it online. I guess two versions of

Re: 1.1999

2011-09-01 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:42 PM, James Sutherland wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Charles Reichert > wrote: > If I have a number: 1.19... How can I get the bar (I forget the name) > over the 9 so it just reads 1.199 > > > In math mode: >1.1\bar{99}

Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

2011-10-17 Thread Jens Nöckel
Here is one that I point people to - there may be newer ones I'm not aware of, but this should give you the flavor: "Introduction to Latex and Lyx" http://youtu.be/m4cEAVmLegg Jens On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of

Re: Anyone having luck with playing movies and sounds in Beamer?

2011-10-28 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:19 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Liviu Andronic > wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM, stefano franchi >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Liviu Andronic

Re: How to select via keyboard?

2011-11-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Nov 22, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > wrote: > Le 22/11/11 10:37, Rainer M Krug a écrit : > > Brilliant - exactly what I was looking for. > > No, it is even in emacs bindings not mapped, as far as

Re: How to select via keyboard?

2011-11-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Nov 22, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 22/11/11 18:28, Jens Nöckel a écrit : >> For me, the mark in emacs is especially useful when copying large >> passages of several screens full of text (because the shift arrow method >> is too slow). Maybe it

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi, since I don't see the problem on either OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.2, I just tried the following steps on my OS X 10.6.8 machine: 1) Move ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0 to the Desktop. 2) Fresh download of LyX-2.0.2+qt4-cocoa.dmg from www.lyx.org 3) Move old LyX out of Application folder

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-01 Thread Jens Nöckel
Times is chosen at > Preferences>Screen fonts>Roman > from the first. > > stiv. > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Jens Nöckel <noec...@uoregon.edu> wrote: > Hi, > since I don't see the problem on either OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.2, I just tried > the following

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread Jens Nöckel
on first set to [] > /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1694): > action now set to [] > /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1705): Key > [action=][Control-B] > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Jens Nöckel <noec...@uore

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-05 Thread Jens Nöckel
Assuming convert is really the problem, perhaps you can try a different imagemagick installation. Two options would be Macports, http://www.macports.org/install.php or Fink, http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en You only need one of these. Most people seem to choose

Re: small beef with LyX on the Mac

2012-02-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
Unfortunately Apple have themselves broken the continuity here with Lion. Now when you close a native application like TeXtEdit, the old shortcuts for "don't save" no longer work (neither space bar nor Apple-D). Instead you have to press Apple-Delete. So in other words, if we assume that Lion

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
-> Preferences -> File Handling -> Converters -> EPS -> PNG > > This shows 'convert $$i $$o', which I believe is correct. > > I show only two PDF converters, PDF(ps2pdf) to EPS and to Postscript. Should > there be more? > > > -- Rich > > > > On Su

Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx

2012-02-07 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Feb 7, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/07/2012 12:50 AM, Jens Nöckel wrote: >> >> I think this can only be solved if you save the user's guide to an external >> file, bisect that new file until you localize the error to a reasonably >>

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-02-13 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: >> >> >>> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the >>> typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. >>

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
I see no difference between the two… (just kidding). On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: >> ... >> So, why do YOU love LyX? > > I like to point people here when they ask me that question. > > :-) >

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-11 Thread Jens Nöckel
Although I also ignore this LyX message, there is something inconsistent here: if two spaces generate a message, then why don't we get an analogous message after pressing several times? Admittedly, it's a little different because LyX allows a few more returns before stopping to add them - but

Re: Magin note color and font in the whole document

2010-01-22 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Jan 22, 2010, at 2:33 AM, David Múgica wrote: > It´s easy change the color and font in a "marginnote", but i can´t in the > whole document. > ¿How i can change the color in ALL the margin-side notes document? > ¿And the family and sizes font? > Thanks a lot. Hi, I happen to use margin notes

Re: Mountain Lion

2012-07-27 Thread Jens Nöckel
A big problem appears even in OS X 10.7 when you use it on a 2012 Macbook Pro with retina display. The antialiasing makes the text look blurry because the application can't run in native high resolution. The latest version of the Qt framework supposedly allows high res, but I don't know yet how

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-11-21 Thread Jens Nöckel
2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp(616): >> keyevent has isNull() text ! >> /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiKeySymbol.cpp(642): isOK is >> 1 >> /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx-2.0.2/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp(1663): >> KeySym is b >> /Users

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-11-21 Thread Jens Nöckel
Sorry, when I said switched I meant _not_ switched. Otherwise my answer wouldn't have made much sense... So I don't see the problem Mr. Djobs is describing. On Nov 21, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: > So far it seems that LyX 2.05 is working for me, with the Meta and Control >

Re: Can't insert PDF image into LyX

2013-12-03 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Dec 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Jerry wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: > >> Try the solution given here… >> http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/fixing_pdf_graphics_in_lyx.php >> which creates a direct conversion from pdf to png. >> >> It

Re: Fancy cover page?

2013-12-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Dec 4, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Ignacio Martinez wrote: > >> This time I need to do a fancy cover page, like >> http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/17_Castleman_All_or_Nothing.pdf >> Can somebody help me do this in LyX? I have the logo as a

Re: problem displaying angstrom symbol

2014-05-06 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 6, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Ider Ronneberger wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem in lyx displaying the angstom symbol using \AA within the > math mode, i.e. if I want to view the document as pdf the angstrom sign is > not there. However it works if I write \AA in Tex mode or insert it from >