Re: New Error Messages After Upgrade to LyX/Mac 1.5.4

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Not really, these messages can be caused by pretty much anything.
>>
>> Try cutting text until it finally compiles. Then uncut text until you
>> find where the bit that is causing trouble. (It is quite often that
>> this is needed. Perhaps there should be an automated tool to do this?)
>
> But why would it compile in 1.3.4 and not in 1.5.4?

I think that in 1.3.4 "View -> PDF" didn't output any PDF specific
code where as 1.5.4 does. Does View->DVI/PS work?

Did you do the "full" upgrade and upgade LaTeX or just upgrade LyX?

It is also possible some other file has gone missing/been changed
since, and that this has nothing to do with lyx 1.3.4 vs 1.5.4.

> I can try rewriting all
> the places where an error pops up,

It is possible that all the errors have a single cause.

> but I'd prefer not to, if it can be
> avoided.
>
> Bruce

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Lyx crashes in Hardy Heron

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:04 AM, elswood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed lyX 1.53 from the Ubuntu 8.4 repositories.  But it
> frequently crashes when accessing lyx document files on my computer.  Is
> this a bug that is fixed with lyX 1.55?  And how do I install it?  (It
> isn't in the repositories.)  If someone could let me know how to proceed
> I would be grateful.
>
> Thanks!

Upgrading to lyx 1.5.5 fixed the problem for me.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: How to update LyX 1.5.3 to 1.5.5 or higher

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have installed the packages you mentioned, except
 libaiksaurus-dev
 as I could not find it (from synaptic)

It is probably easier just to do
   apt-get build-dep lyx
on the terminal command line. This will get all packages Ubuntu needs
to build lyx-1.5.3, which will almost certainly be the same as
lyx-1.5.5. (and if not you can always get those individual packages
the way Bob suggested.)

 How can I get the 1.5.5 source and how to do the rest (./configure. ... make 
 install).
 Are those commands entered from terminal.

Yes.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: How to update LyX 1.5.3 to 1.5.5 or higher

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have installed the packages you mentioned, except
 libaiksaurus-dev
 as I could not find it (from synaptic)

It is probably easier just to do
   apt-get build-dep lyx
on the terminal command line. This will get all packages Ubuntu needs
to build lyx-1.5.3, which will almost certainly be the same as
lyx-1.5.5. (and if not you can always get those individual packages
the way Bob suggested.)

 How can I get the 1.5.5 source and how to do the rest (./configure. ... make 
 install).
 Are those commands entered from terminal.

Yes.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: How to update LyX 1.5.3 to 1.5.5 or higher

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed the packages you mentioned, except
> libaiksaurus-dev
> as I could not find it (from synaptic)

It is probably easier just to do
   apt-get build-dep lyx
on the terminal command line. This will get all packages Ubuntu needs
to build lyx-1.5.3, which will almost certainly be the same as
lyx-1.5.5. (and if not you can always get those individual packages
the way Bob suggested.)

> How can I get the 1.5.5 source and how to do the rest (./configure. ... make 
> install).
> Are those commands entered from terminal.

Yes.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Building a Lyx live CD for Windows

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Renaud Lacour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,
 I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither
 it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the
 stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows
 systems.

 So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would
 provide a ready-to-use Lyx (with the required third party software).

 Does this exist?

I haven't tried it, but a google for portable apps lyx gave me:
http://portableapps.com/node/9772
The page is hard to read, but it appears that it changes the registry
and then changes it back afterwards.

The are also Linux Live CDs that you could boot which would presumably
have zero interest in the windows registry
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LiveCDs

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Building a Lyx live CD for Windows

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Renaud Lacour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,
 I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither
 it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the
 stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows
 systems.

 So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would
 provide a ready-to-use Lyx (with the required third party software).

 Does this exist?

I haven't tried it, but a google for portable apps lyx gave me:
http://portableapps.com/node/9772
The page is hard to read, but it appears that it changes the registry
and then changes it back afterwards.

The are also Linux Live CDs that you could boot which would presumably
have zero interest in the windows registry
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LiveCDs

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Building a Lyx "live CD" for Windows

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Renaud Lacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither
> it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the
> stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows
> systems.
>
> So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would
> provide a ready-to-use Lyx (with the required third party software).
>
> Does this exist?

I haven't tried it, but a google for "portable apps lyx" gave me:
http://portableapps.com/node/9772
The page is hard to read, but it appears that it changes the registry
and then changes it back afterwards.

The are also Linux Live CDs that you could boot which would presumably
have zero interest in the windows registry
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LiveCDs

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: '#' in index entries - possible?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

  you can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode

I can reproduce this in LyX by adding Insert - Index Entry BTS#3.

This may be a bug in LyX. Is there any advantage to not parsing the input to
index?

...


 At 
 http://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/cantusehash.htmlhttp://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/%7Enlct/latex/novices/cantusehash.html
 I found some *TeX*-level advice to do backslash-prefixing. I could
 see this wasn't really going to work at LyX level


Why not?

, but I tried it.

 The result was that the index is generates, the index entry is correct,
 but the actual text in the body of the document has a backslash in
 front of it. I.e.

... see BTS\#287585 ...

Index

BTS#287585, 28


Works for me. Insert - Index Entry BTS\#287585 gives me the LaTeX code
\index{BTS\#287585}. No trailing backslash here.  The index entry itself
shouldn't generate any text, backslash or otherwise.

Perhaps you are selecting the text and relying on LyX to copy the text  into
the index entry? You can just click the index entry and enter whatever text
you want.


 (Actually it's on page 27, but ... one thing at a time.)


Sounds like LyX isn't rerunning LaTeX enough. Try creating the dvi or pdf or
whatever again.

snip
-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: '#' in index entries - possible?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Alexis Huxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The stuff in the wiki tips regarding doing your own indexes has a problem
 though, and this would still be useful for me.


It appears that it is only the stuff in the multiple indexes section on the
wiki that is incorrect. Do you want to create multiple indexes?

 Simply creating a normal index via ERT can easily be done with:
  \index{foo}

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
also seems to work exactly as expected.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: '#' in index entries - possible?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

  you can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode

I can reproduce this in LyX by adding Insert - Index Entry BTS#3.

This may be a bug in LyX. Is there any advantage to not parsing the input to
index?

...


 At 
 http://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/cantusehash.htmlhttp://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/%7Enlct/latex/novices/cantusehash.html
 I found some *TeX*-level advice to do backslash-prefixing. I could
 see this wasn't really going to work at LyX level


Why not?

, but I tried it.

 The result was that the index is generates, the index entry is correct,
 but the actual text in the body of the document has a backslash in
 front of it. I.e.

... see BTS\#287585 ...

Index

BTS#287585, 28


Works for me. Insert - Index Entry BTS\#287585 gives me the LaTeX code
\index{BTS\#287585}. No trailing backslash here.  The index entry itself
shouldn't generate any text, backslash or otherwise.

Perhaps you are selecting the text and relying on LyX to copy the text  into
the index entry? You can just click the index entry and enter whatever text
you want.


 (Actually it's on page 27, but ... one thing at a time.)


Sounds like LyX isn't rerunning LaTeX enough. Try creating the dvi or pdf or
whatever again.

snip
-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: '#' in index entries - possible?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Alexis Huxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The stuff in the wiki tips regarding doing your own indexes has a problem
 though, and this would still be useful for me.


It appears that it is only the stuff in the multiple indexes section on the
wiki that is incorrect. Do you want to create multiple indexes?

 Simply creating a normal index via ERT can easily be done with:
  \index{foo}

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
also seems to work exactly as expected.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: '#' in index entries - possible?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

>  you can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode

I can reproduce this in LyX by adding Insert -> Index Entry "BTS#3".

This may be a bug in LyX. Is there any advantage to not parsing the input to
index?

...

>
> At 
> http://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/cantusehash.html
> I found some *TeX*-level advice to do backslash-prefixing. I could
> see this wasn't really going to work at LyX level


Why not?

>, but I tried it.

> The result was that the index is generates, the index entry is correct,
> but the actual text in the body of the document has a backslash in
> front of it. I.e.
>
>... see BTS\#287585 ...
>
>Index
>
>BTS#287585, 28
>

Works for me. Insert -> Index Entry "BTS\#287585" gives me the LaTeX code
\index{BTS\#287585}. No trailing backslash here.  The index entry itself
shouldn't generate any text, backslash or otherwise.

Perhaps you are selecting the text and relying on LyX to copy the text  into
the index entry? You can just click the index entry and enter whatever text
you want.


> (Actually it's on page 27, but ... one thing at a time.)


Sounds like LyX isn't rerunning LaTeX enough. Try creating the dvi or pdf or
whatever again.


-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: '#' in index entries - possible?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Alexis Huxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The stuff in the wiki tips regarding doing your own indexes has a problem
> though, and this would still be useful for me.


It appears that it is only the stuff in the multiple indexes section on the
wiki that is incorrect. Do you want to create multiple indexes?

 Simply creating a normal index via ERT can easily be done with:
  \index{foo}

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
also seems to work exactly as expected.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Need Urgent Help

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  The problem which I am facing is solved when I remove the equations from
  .lyx file.  Now, I can successfully  export the pdf from the  .lyx file,
  without the equations.   But I cannot export a pdf or dvi, when I copy the
  equations into the .lyx file.

I'd try exporting the lyx file to latex and looking at the latex file produced.

Which equations cause the problem? All of them?

Perhaps you could provide either the LyX file with the problem, the
Latex file generated and/or an example of an equation that is causing
you trouble.

You can navigate to the equation giving you trouble and View-View
Source and then cut and paste the LaTeX Source into your email.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Need Urgent Help

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  The problem which I am facing is solved when I remove the equations from
  .lyx file.  Now, I can successfully  export the pdf from the  .lyx file,
  without the equations.   But I cannot export a pdf or dvi, when I copy the
  equations into the .lyx file.

I'd try exporting the lyx file to latex and looking at the latex file produced.

Which equations cause the problem? All of them?

Perhaps you could provide either the LyX file with the problem, the
Latex file generated and/or an example of an equation that is causing
you trouble.

You can navigate to the equation giving you trouble and View-View
Source and then cut and paste the LaTeX Source into your email.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Need Urgent Help

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Ankur Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  The problem which I am facing is solved when I remove the equations from
>  .lyx file.  Now, I can successfully  export the pdf from the  .lyx file,
>  without the equations.   But I cannot export a pdf or dvi, when I copy the
>  equations into the .lyx file.

I'd try exporting the lyx file to latex and looking at the latex file produced.

Which equations cause the problem? All of them?

Perhaps you could provide either the LyX file with the problem, the
Latex file generated and/or an example of an equation that is causing
you trouble.

You can navigate to the equation giving you trouble and "View->View
Source" and then cut and paste the LaTeX Source into your email.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 JOHN CULLETON wrote:
  on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of
  Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack
  (12) then I may give it a try again.

1.3.7?

Being able to update lyx2lyx at the click of a button would be handy though.

  There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that
  compels them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are
  not widely available.

 Please stop this non sense.

  Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive
  nuisances. True, I can install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4
  which uses Qt4. But Koffice and a host of other things don't work
  with KDE 4. Besides, I don't like Debian.

 Back in the days I was using Slackware, I used to compile everything. If
 you are not able to compile Qt and LyX, pay someone to do it for you and
 stop complaining about people developing those programs for *FREE*.

Better yet, write a program that lets people compile arbitrary
programs at the click of button. See ebuild, sinstall and gconfigure
for a starting point.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_prefixed_portage_(in_development)

  John Culleton TeX since 1995.

 Just stay with TeX and stop annoying us.

He can't. He's been infected with a virus ;)

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 JOHN CULLETON wrote:
  on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of
  Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack
  (12) then I may give it a try again.

1.3.7?

Being able to update lyx2lyx at the click of a button would be handy though.

  There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that
  compels them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are
  not widely available.

 Please stop this non sense.

  Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive
  nuisances. True, I can install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4
  which uses Qt4. But Koffice and a host of other things don't work
  with KDE 4. Besides, I don't like Debian.

 Back in the days I was using Slackware, I used to compile everything. If
 you are not able to compile Qt and LyX, pay someone to do it for you and
 stop complaining about people developing those programs for *FREE*.

Better yet, write a program that lets people compile arbitrary
programs at the click of button. See ebuild, sinstall and gconfigure
for a starting point.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_prefixed_portage_(in_development)

  John Culleton TeX since 1995.

 Just stay with TeX and stop annoying us.

He can't. He's been infected with a virus ;)

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> JOHN CULLETON wrote:
> > on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of
> > Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack
> > (12) then I may give it a try again.

1.3.7?

Being able to update lyx2lyx at the click of a button would be handy though.

> > There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that
> > compels them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are
> > not widely available.
>
> Please stop this non sense.
>
> > Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive
> > nuisances. True, I can install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4
> > which uses Qt4. But Koffice and a host of other things don't work
> > with KDE 4. Besides, I don't like Debian.
>
> Back in the days I was using Slackware, I used to compile everything. If
> you are not able to compile Qt and LyX, pay someone to do it for you and
> stop complaining about people developing those programs for *FREE*.

Better yet, write a program that lets people compile arbitrary
programs at the click of button. See ebuild, sinstall and gconfigure
for a starting point.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_prefixed_portage_(in_development)

> > John Culleton TeX since 1995.
>
> Just stay with TeX and stop annoying us.

He can't. He's been infected with a virus ;)

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Issues with LyX

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Nov 8, 2007 12:20 PM, Salim Namik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 2. I create a lot of diagrams in MS Word and I to insert them in LyX, but 
 when I
 do, the quality of the figure is rubbish!! what is the best format for 
 diagrams
 made by MS Word?

I'd say postscript or PDF. You print to file using a printer such as
Generic Postscript to generate a postscript file from the diagrams.
You can then use Insert-Graphics to import the PS file. You will
probably have to use Clipping option in that dialog box to remove all
the added white space around the diagram.

Open Office can convert documents to PDF. You could also try opening
the diagrams in Open Office and exporting them to PDF.

Either way you should get the same quality you'd get if you printed
the diagram straight from word.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Issues with LyX

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Nov 8, 2007 12:20 PM, Salim Namik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 2. I create a lot of diagrams in MS Word and I to insert them in LyX, but 
 when I
 do, the quality of the figure is rubbish!! what is the best format for 
 diagrams
 made by MS Word?

I'd say postscript or PDF. You print to file using a printer such as
Generic Postscript to generate a postscript file from the diagrams.
You can then use Insert-Graphics to import the PS file. You will
probably have to use Clipping option in that dialog box to remove all
the added white space around the diagram.

Open Office can convert documents to PDF. You could also try opening
the diagrams in Open Office and exporting them to PDF.

Either way you should get the same quality you'd get if you printed
the diagram straight from word.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Issues with LyX

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Nov 8, 2007 12:20 PM, Salim Namik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. I create a lot of diagrams in MS Word and I to insert them in LyX, but 
> when I
> do, the quality of the figure is rubbish!! what is the best format for 
> diagrams
> made by MS Word?

I'd say postscript or PDF. You print to file using a printer such as
"Generic Postscript" to generate a postscript file from the diagrams.
You can then use Insert->Graphics to import the PS file. You will
probably have to use Clipping option in that dialog box to remove all
the added white space around the diagram.

Open Office can convert documents to PDF. You could also try opening
the diagrams in Open Office and exporting them to PDF.

Either way you "should" get the same quality you'd get if you printed
the diagram straight from word.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: export-- pdf

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello everybody,

 I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the

 When I try it the old way File  Export  Custom  I get a lot of
 possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button.
 Any suggestions?

What about
   File  Export  PDF (pdflatex)
or
   File  Export  PDF (ps2pdf)
?

 Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software,
 Helmut

 PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora).

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: export-- pdf

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
  On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hello everybody,
 
  I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the
snip

 Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not
 show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are
 offered to me:
 CKJ (1.4.x) (big5)
 CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp)
 CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr)
 latex (pdf)
 latex (plain)
 LyX 1.3.x
 LyX 1.4.x
 Plain Text
 Plain Text (ps2ascii)
 Custom

I'd try doing Tools   Reconfigure.

If that doesn't work, see if latex and pdflatex are still installed
(e.g. try running latex or pdflatex from a terminal)

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: export-- pdf

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello everybody,

 I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the

 When I try it the old way File  Export  Custom  I get a lot of
 possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button.
 Any suggestions?

What about
   File  Export  PDF (pdflatex)
or
   File  Export  PDF (ps2pdf)
?

 Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software,
 Helmut

 PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora).

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: export-- pdf

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
  On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hello everybody,
 
  I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the
snip

 Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not
 show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are
 offered to me:
 CKJ (1.4.x) (big5)
 CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp)
 CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr)
 latex (pdf)
 latex (plain)
 LyX 1.3.x
 LyX 1.4.x
 Plain Text
 Plain Text (ps2ascii)
 Custom

I'd try doing Tools   Reconfigure.

If that doesn't work, see if latex and pdflatex are still installed
(e.g. try running latex or pdflatex from a terminal)

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: export--> pdf

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the
>
> When I try it the "old" way File > Export > Custom  I get a lot of
> possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button.
> Any suggestions?

What about
   File > Export > PDF (pdflatex)
or
   File > Export > PDF (ps2pdf)
?

> Thanks for your help and keep on working on this great piece of software,
> Helmut
>
> PS: I am using LyX 1.5.1 on a Linux System (Fedora).

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: export--> pdf

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> > On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the

>
> Thanks for your fast response. That is exactly my problem. This does not
> show up anymore in the drop down menu. Here are possibilities which are
> offered to me:
> CKJ (1.4.x) (big5)
> CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-jp)
> CKJ (1.4.x) (eu-kr)
> latex (pdf)
> latex (plain)
> LyX 1.3.x
> LyX 1.4.x
> Plain Text
> Plain Text (ps2ascii)
> Custom

I'd try doing Tools  > Reconfigure.

If that doesn't work, see if latex and pdflatex are still installed
(e.g. try running latex or pdflatex from a terminal)

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about
 implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think
 that this could be a much interesting feature.

I thought about it:
  http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker

This tool works fairly well under Linux. It should also work under
windows if Cygwin is installed, but it appears not to. It should
work on MacOS X if Perl is installed, but I haven't tried that
recently..

I've thought of getting this tool into LyX. However, this would
involve rewriting it into C++. For me it is actually more convenient
as an external Perl script, because that way I can maintain it would
out having to recompile LyX, or even restart LyX.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about
 implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think
 that this could be a much interesting feature.

I thought about it:
  http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker

This tool works fairly well under Linux. It should also work under
windows if Cygwin is installed, but it appears not to. It should
work on MacOS X if Perl is installed, but I haven't tried that
recently..

I've thought of getting this tool into LyX. However, this would
involve rewriting it into C++. For me it is actually more convenient
as an external Perl script, because that way I can maintain it would
out having to recompile LyX, or even restart LyX.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about
> implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think
> that this could be a much interesting feature.

I thought about it:
  http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker

This tool works fairly well under Linux. It "should" also work under
windows if Cygwin is installed, but it appears not to. It "should"
work on MacOS X if Perl is installed, but I haven't tried that
recently..

I've thought of getting this tool into LyX. However, this would
involve rewriting it into C++. For me it is actually more convenient
as an external Perl script, because that way I can maintain it would
out having to recompile LyX, or even restart LyX.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Exporting to PDF (dvipdfm or pdflatex) Comes Up Short!

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 7/23/07, John E. Harbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

When I export my thesis to a PDF file, I only get the first eleven 
pages.  I
need to get the whole file exported to PDF.  I've used both dvipdfm and pdflatex
and both come up short.  I'm using LyX 1.5.0rc2.  Does anybody have  any ideas?


Can you export to DVI? If so do you get the same problem?

The only thing I can think of is if that you could have an over sized
floating figure. This would probably affect DVI and postscript as well
as PDF.

Re: Exporting to PDF (dvipdfm or pdflatex) Comes Up Short!

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 7/23/07, John E. Harbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

When I export my thesis to a PDF file, I only get the first eleven 
pages.  I
need to get the whole file exported to PDF.  I've used both dvipdfm and pdflatex
and both come up short.  I'm using LyX 1.5.0rc2.  Does anybody have  any ideas?


Can you export to DVI? If so do you get the same problem?

The only thing I can think of is if that you could have an over sized
floating figure. This would probably affect DVI and postscript as well
as PDF.

Re: Exporting to PDF (dvipdfm or pdflatex) Comes Up Short!

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 7/23/07, John E. Harbold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

When I export my thesis to a PDF file, I only get the first eleven 
pages.  I
need to get the whole file exported to PDF.  I've used both dvipdfm and pdflatex
and both come up short.  I'm using LyX 1.5.0rc2.  Does anybody have  any ideas?


Can you export to DVI? If so do you get the same problem?

The only thing I can think of is if that you could have an over sized
floating figure. This would probably affect DVI and postscript as well
as PDF.

Re: Freezing

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 6/22/07, Paniez Paykari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems
and they both have the same problem.

1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to
'force quit'

2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?


I have come across this bug too. I fix it by opening the file using
1.5.0, e.g. Release Candidate 1, see http://www.lyx.org/ for the
latest version.)

I can then convert the file back to 1.4.x format from 1.5.0 if I wish.

Re: Freezing

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 6/22/07, Paniez Paykari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems
and they both have the same problem.

1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to
'force quit'

2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?


I have come across this bug too. I fix it by opening the file using
1.5.0, e.g. Release Candidate 1, see http://www.lyx.org/ for the
latest version.)

I can then convert the file back to 1.4.x format from 1.5.0 if I wish.

Re: Freezing

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 6/22/07, Paniez Paykari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems
and they both have the same problem.

1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' LyX freezes. Although the
mouse cursor still moves. The only thing that can be done then is to
'force quit'

2) The exact same problem exists on a Linux machine too.

How can I fix them?


I have come across this bug too. I fix it by opening the file using
1.5.0, e.g. Release Candidate 1, see http://www.lyx.org/ for the
latest version.)

I can then convert the file back to 1.4.x format from 1.5.0 if I wish.

Re: Beamer questions

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 5/8/07, Myriam Abramson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

(1) Can we have a logo on the top instead of at the bottom as seems to
be the default with \logo?


A theme which does this is the uoregon theme:
  http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~peter/uotheme/

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Beamer questions

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 5/8/07, Myriam Abramson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

(1) Can we have a logo on the top instead of at the bottom as seems to
be the default with \logo?


A theme which does this is the uoregon theme:
  http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~peter/uotheme/

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Beamer questions

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 5/8/07, Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

(1) Can we have a logo on the top instead of at the bottom as seems to
be the default with \logo?


A theme which does this is the uoregon theme:
  http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~peter/uotheme/

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Newbie question: export to tex

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 28 Mar 2007 16:33:04 +0100, N.W. England [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I am trying to export a lyx file to latex, and it seems impossible.


Weird.


I have tried file-export-latex which results in the status bar displaying
(buffer-output latex) but no file being created and the contents not in
the clipboard.


Does file-export-pdflatex generate a tex file?


if I type lyx -export latex file.lyx then it displays a lot of text
including that it has written ~/file.tex, but the file is not there.

I can do lyx -export text/dvi/pdf etc and it works fine. -export tex
results in a format not known error.

I presume I am doing something stupid as lyx will happily convert to a
latex file on the way to anything else, but it seems impossible to get it
to output the actual latex file.


A work around would be to find the tex file in the /tmp directory and
copy it from there.


(and I have tried searching the mail archives but couldn't find anyone else
with this problem)


This is the first time I have heard of this problem. You could try
doing a reconfigure and restarting lyx.

Also what version of LyX are you using, on which operating system, and
did you install from package or compile from source?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Newbie question: export to tex

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 28 Mar 2007 16:33:04 +0100, N.W. England [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I am trying to export a lyx file to latex, and it seems impossible.


Weird.


I have tried file-export-latex which results in the status bar displaying
(buffer-output latex) but no file being created and the contents not in
the clipboard.


Does file-export-pdflatex generate a tex file?


if I type lyx -export latex file.lyx then it displays a lot of text
including that it has written ~/file.tex, but the file is not there.

I can do lyx -export text/dvi/pdf etc and it works fine. -export tex
results in a format not known error.

I presume I am doing something stupid as lyx will happily convert to a
latex file on the way to anything else, but it seems impossible to get it
to output the actual latex file.


A work around would be to find the tex file in the /tmp directory and
copy it from there.


(and I have tried searching the mail archives but couldn't find anyone else
with this problem)


This is the first time I have heard of this problem. You could try
doing a reconfigure and restarting lyx.

Also what version of LyX are you using, on which operating system, and
did you install from package or compile from source?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Newbie question: export to tex

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 28 Mar 2007 16:33:04 +0100, N.W. England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am trying to export a lyx file to latex, and it seems impossible.


Weird.


I have tried file->export->latex which results in the status bar displaying
"(buffer-output latex)" but no file being created and the contents not in
the clipboard.


Does file->export->pdflatex generate a tex file?


if I type "lyx -export latex " then it displays a lot of text
including that it has written ~/file.tex, but the file is not there.

I can do lyx -export text/dvi/pdf etc and it works fine. -export tex
results in a format not known error.

I presume I am doing something stupid as lyx will happily convert to a
latex file on the way to anything else, but it seems impossible to get it
to output the actual latex file.


A work around would be to find the tex file in the /tmp directory and
copy it from there.


(and I have tried searching the mail archives but couldn't find anyone else
with this problem)


This is the first time I have heard of this problem. You could try
doing a reconfigure and restarting lyx.

Also what version of LyX are you using, on which operating system, and
did you install from package or compile from source?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Lyx 1.5.0 (beta 1) Failed to start LyX.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

I have a running 1.4.4. Lyx version on my WinXP Machine with an
up-to-date MikTex. Today I tried the beta 1 of the 1.5.0 version and
upon completed installation (seemingly without problems) I try to run
LyX 1.5 and get a little Dialog which says Failed to start LyX. with
an OK Button and that's it! No Lyx 1.5.0. beta 1 working here.
Can anybody help me?
I have a Notebook with a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Might there be a
problem?


Anyone know if the 1.5.0 version was compiled for i686?

In theory Crusoe supports i686 but there have been some obsure
problems, and sometimes Crusoe is detected as i586.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Lyx 1.5.0 (beta 1) Failed to start LyX.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

I have a running 1.4.4. Lyx version on my WinXP Machine with an
up-to-date MikTex. Today I tried the beta 1 of the 1.5.0 version and
upon completed installation (seemingly without problems) I try to run
LyX 1.5 and get a little Dialog which says Failed to start LyX. with
an OK Button and that's it! No Lyx 1.5.0. beta 1 working here.
Can anybody help me?
I have a Notebook with a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Might there be a
problem?


Anyone know if the 1.5.0 version was compiled for i686?

In theory Crusoe supports i686 but there have been some obsure
problems, and sometimes Crusoe is detected as i586.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Lyx 1.5.0 (beta 1) "Failed to start LyX."

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,

I have a running 1.4.4. Lyx version on my WinXP Machine with an
up-to-date MikTex. Today I tried the beta 1 of the 1.5.0 version and
upon completed installation (seemingly without problems) I try to run
LyX 1.5 and get a little Dialog which says "Failed to start LyX." with
an "OK" Button and that's it! No Lyx 1.5.0. beta 1 working here.
Can anybody help me?
I have a Notebook with a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Might there be a
problem?


Anyone know if the 1.5.0 version was compiled for i686?

In theory Crusoe supports i686 but there have been some obsure
problems, and sometimes Crusoe is detected as i586.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Ubuntu compile error

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/22/07, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

configure:7277: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wextra -Wallconftest.cc  5
/tmp/ccgRmGPA.o:(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to
`__gxx_personality_v0'


According to this page:
  http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_54.html
This error is caused by compiling with gcc instead of g++.

try typing g++ -v to see if it is available and what version it is.
If it is not available try installing it.

If it is installed, or this doesn't help, try typing
  CXX=g++ ./configure
and see if this works better than a straight configure.

Report any further problems or success.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Ubuntu compile error

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/22/07, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

configure:7277: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wextra -Wallconftest.cc  5
/tmp/ccgRmGPA.o:(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to
`__gxx_personality_v0'


According to this page:
  http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_54.html
This error is caused by compiling with gcc instead of g++.

try typing g++ -v to see if it is available and what version it is.
If it is not available try installing it.

If it is installed, or this doesn't help, try typing
  CXX=g++ ./configure
and see if this works better than a straight configure.

Report any further problems or success.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Ubuntu compile error

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/22/07, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

configure:7277: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wextra -Wallconftest.cc  >&5
/tmp/ccgRmGPA.o:(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to
`__gxx_personality_v0'


According to this page:
  http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_54.html
This error is caused by compiling with gcc instead of g++.

try typing "g++ -v" to see if it is available and what version it is.
If it is not available try installing it.

If it is installed, or this doesn't help, try typing
  CXX=g++ ./configure
and see if this works better than a straight configure.

Report any further problems or success.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Format Freeze during betas?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/20/07, José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  The motto for this part of the code is if LyX wrote it LyX should read it.
If that does not happen it is a bug and should be fixed. This applies to any
development stage, not just for stable releases.


OK. Presumably I'll have to make sure that both my laptop and my
desktop are running the same snapshot or risk not being able to open
files on my laptop though.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Format Freeze during betas?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/20/07, José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  The motto for this part of the code is if LyX wrote it LyX should read it.
If that does not happen it is a bug and should be fixed. This applies to any
development stage, not just for stable releases.


OK. Presumably I'll have to make sure that both my laptop and my
desktop are running the same snapshot or risk not being able to open
files on my laptop though.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Format Freeze during betas?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/20/07, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  The motto for this part of the code is "if LyX wrote it LyX should read it".
If that does not happen it is a bug and should be fixed. This applies to any
development stage, not just for stable releases.


OK. Presumably I'll have to make sure that both my laptop and my
desktop are running the same snapshot or risk not being able to open
files on my laptop though.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: LyX 1.4.4 Permission denied: 'configure.log' (FIXED)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 2/22/07, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 John == John McCabe-Dansted [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

John I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error
John below. This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just
John thought I'd mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.

John LyX: reconfiguring user directory Traceback (most recent call
John last): File /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py, line 759, in ?
John log = open(logfile, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
John 'configure.log'

Where did this 'permission denied' come from? Did you have an existing
file? With which access rights?


Apparently, the entire .lyx directory was owned by root. Presumably I
used a sudo at the wrong place and time.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: LyX 1.4.4 Permission denied: 'configure.log' (FIXED)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 2/22/07, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 John == John McCabe-Dansted [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

John I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error
John below. This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just
John thought I'd mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.

John LyX: reconfiguring user directory Traceback (most recent call
John last): File /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py, line 759, in ?
John log = open(logfile, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
John 'configure.log'

Where did this 'permission denied' come from? Did you have an existing
file? With which access rights?


Apparently, the entire .lyx directory was owned by root. Presumably I
used a sudo at the wrong place and time.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: LyX 1.4.4 Permission denied: 'configure.log' (FIXED)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 2/22/07, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>>>> "John" == John McCabe-Dansted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

John> I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error
John> below. This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just
John> thought I'd mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.

John> LyX: reconfiguring user directory Traceback (most recent call
John> last): File "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py", line 759, in ?
John> log = open(logfile, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
John> 'configure.log'

Where did this 'permission denied' come from? Did you have an existing
file? With which access rights?


Apparently, the entire .lyx directory was owned by root. Presumably I
used a sudo at the wrong place and time.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 2/6/06, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

* Apply textrm as much as possible, but not in places where it won't work.
   In this particular example we had 2^Q.  Both the 2 and the Q may be
   textrm, but textrm must be off where the exponent happen.  (This example
   may be created manually by creating the math, then change the 2 and the Q
   to textrm individually.  This is the userfriendly way, but maybe it
encourages
   stupid layout. The same look should be available with mathrm . . .


In LyX 1.4.4,  2^Q in an mbox now no longer breaks the LaTeX run,
however if we type Cntl-M Cntl-M \phi we get:
 1) Something that looks exactly like $\phi$ on the screen.
 2) Something ($\mbox{\phi}$) that produces obscure LaTeX errors as
discussed previously in this thread.

My suggestion is that we make it obvious that we are no longer in
plain math mode. In a mbox, typing \ should result in
textbackslash on screen and \ in the dvi/ps/pdf.

As it stands the user has 3+ ways of entering a \ in an mbox, the
\ key, the Cntl-L key and the GUI TeX button. If the user really
wants to enter a TeX command in an mbox, the user can still press
Cntl-L or TeX to get a TeX \.

Likewise copying a \phi symbol into a mbox should result in  \phi
as ASCII text in the PDF, just as if we had pasted the \phi symbol
completely outside any math-mode environment.

For consistency, I would also suggest that we replace '^'s with
\textasciicircum{} in mboxes, just like we do in all other non-math
environments.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 2/6/06, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

* Apply textrm as much as possible, but not in places where it won't work.
   In this particular example we had 2^Q.  Both the 2 and the Q may be
   textrm, but textrm must be off where the exponent happen.  (This example
   may be created manually by creating the math, then change the 2 and the Q
   to textrm individually.  This is the userfriendly way, but maybe it
encourages
   stupid layout. The same look should be available with mathrm . . .


In LyX 1.4.4,  2^Q in an mbox now no longer breaks the LaTeX run,
however if we type Cntl-M Cntl-M \phi we get:
 1) Something that looks exactly like $\phi$ on the screen.
 2) Something ($\mbox{\phi}$) that produces obscure LaTeX errors as
discussed previously in this thread.

My suggestion is that we make it obvious that we are no longer in
plain math mode. In a mbox, typing \ should result in
textbackslash on screen and \ in the dvi/ps/pdf.

As it stands the user has 3+ ways of entering a \ in an mbox, the
\ key, the Cntl-L key and the GUI TeX button. If the user really
wants to enter a TeX command in an mbox, the user can still press
Cntl-L or TeX to get a TeX \.

Likewise copying a \phi symbol into a mbox should result in  \phi
as ASCII text in the PDF, just as if we had pasted the \phi symbol
completely outside any math-mode environment.

For consistency, I would also suggest that we replace '^'s with
\textasciicircum{} in mboxes, just like we do in all other non-math
environments.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 2/6/06, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

* Apply textrm as much as possible, but not in places where it won't work.
   In this particular example we had 2^Q.  Both the "2" and the "Q" may be
   textrm, but textrm must be off where the exponent happen.  (This example
   may be created manually by creating the math, then change the 2 and the Q
   to textrm individually.  This is the "userfriendly" way, but maybe it
encourages
   stupid layout. The same look should be available with mathrm . . .


In LyX 1.4.4,  2^Q in an mbox now no longer breaks the LaTeX run,
however if we type "Cntl-M" "Cntl-M" "\phi" we get:
 1) Something that looks exactly like $\phi$ on the screen.
 2) Something ($\mbox{\phi}$) that produces obscure LaTeX errors as
discussed previously in this thread.

My suggestion is that we make it obvious that we are no longer in
plain math mode. In a mbox, typing "\" should result in
"textbackslash" on screen and "\" in the dvi/ps/pdf.

As it stands the user has 3+ ways of entering a "\" in an mbox, the
"\" key, the "Cntl-L" key and the GUI "TeX" button. If the user really
wants to enter a TeX command in an mbox, the user can still press
Cntl-L or TeX to get a TeX "\".

Likewise copying a "\phi" symbol into a mbox should result in  "\phi"
as ASCII text in the PDF, just as if we had pasted the "\phi" symbol
completely outside any math-mode environment.

For consistency, I would also suggest that we replace '^'s with
"\textasciicircum{}" in mboxes, just like we do in all other non-math
environments.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

LyX 1.4.4 Permission denied: 'configure.log' (FIXED)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error below.
This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just thought I'd
mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.

LyX: reconfiguring user directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py, line 759, in ?
   log = open(logfile, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'configure.log'

if I manually run /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py, configure
works, but does not fix ~/.lyx, so  manually running configure was not
enough to allow me to run lyx.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

LyX 1.4.4 Permission denied: 'configure.log' (FIXED)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error below.
This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just thought I'd
mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.

LyX: reconfiguring user directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py, line 759, in ?
   log = open(logfile, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'configure.log'

if I manually run /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py, configure
works, but does not fix ~/.lyx, so  manually running configure was not
enough to allow me to run lyx.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

LyX 1.4.4 Permission denied: 'configure.log' (FIXED)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error below.
This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just thought I'd
mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.

LyX: reconfiguring user directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py", line 759, in ?
   log = open(logfile, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'configure.log'

if I manually run "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py", configure
works, but does not fix ~/.lyx, so  manually running configure was not
enough to allow me to run lyx.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Problems with Importing someone else's TeX file

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

How does one approach the problem of importing TeX and finding that it will not 
compile into dvi ?


The first thing I would do would be to see if I can compile the file
by hand. If you run LaTeX on the original .tex file and get similar
problems. Try running
 latex maintexfile.tex
 pdflatex matintexfile.tex
 pdfelatex matintexfile.tex
and see which of the three commands give you errors.

There are also some generic ways of fixing LyX dvi compile problems:
* Deleting text until it compiles... this will at least give you an
idea what text is causing the problem.
* Exporting LyX to TeX and inspecting the file to see what looks wrong.

If you don't want to edit the file TeX file in LyX, just include it
into a larger document LyX, you could try removing the
\begin{document} (and all text above this), removing the
\end{document}. Then you can  use Insert-File-Child Document on that
TeX file. I don't think this will help you here though.


I have a document that was done in TeX/LaTeX by a person who is no longer 
working here.  I have no idea what kind of setup was used other that a log file 
that mentions pdfeTeX.


I google for pdfeTeX gave me:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/pdfetex.1.html
It seems that you may have to use pdfetex instead of pdftex. I am not
exactly sure how to do this, but you should be able to fiddle with
Tools-Preferences-Converters/FileFormats to achieve this.


I start up LyX, import it and then try View-DVI and I get errors like

Missing $ inserted
Missing \endcsname inserted


Another trick is to google for Missing \endcsname inserted, however
using pdfetex may be a better solution here.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Problems with Importing someone else's TeX file

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

How does one approach the problem of importing TeX and finding that it will not 
compile into dvi ?


The first thing I would do would be to see if I can compile the file
by hand. If you run LaTeX on the original .tex file and get similar
problems. Try running
 latex maintexfile.tex
 pdflatex matintexfile.tex
 pdfelatex matintexfile.tex
and see which of the three commands give you errors.

There are also some generic ways of fixing LyX dvi compile problems:
* Deleting text until it compiles... this will at least give you an
idea what text is causing the problem.
* Exporting LyX to TeX and inspecting the file to see what looks wrong.

If you don't want to edit the file TeX file in LyX, just include it
into a larger document LyX, you could try removing the
\begin{document} (and all text above this), removing the
\end{document}. Then you can  use Insert-File-Child Document on that
TeX file. I don't think this will help you here though.


I have a document that was done in TeX/LaTeX by a person who is no longer 
working here.  I have no idea what kind of setup was used other that a log file 
that mentions pdfeTeX.


I google for pdfeTeX gave me:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/pdfetex.1.html
It seems that you may have to use pdfetex instead of pdftex. I am not
exactly sure how to do this, but you should be able to fiddle with
Tools-Preferences-Converters/FileFormats to achieve this.


I start up LyX, import it and then try View-DVI and I get errors like

Missing $ inserted
Missing \endcsname inserted


Another trick is to google for Missing \endcsname inserted, however
using pdfetex may be a better solution here.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Problems with Importing someone else's TeX file

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

How does one approach the problem of importing TeX and finding that it will not 
"compile" into dvi ?


The first thing I would do would be to see if I can compile the file
by hand. If you run LaTeX on the original .tex file and get similar
problems. Try running
 latex maintexfile.tex
 pdflatex matintexfile.tex
 pdfelatex matintexfile.tex
and see which of the three commands give you errors.

There are also some generic ways of fixing LyX dvi compile problems:
* Deleting text until it compiles... this will at least give you an
idea what text is causing the problem.
* Exporting LyX to TeX and inspecting the file to see what looks wrong.

If you don't want to edit the file TeX file in LyX, just include it
into a larger document LyX, you could try removing the
\begin{document} (and all text above this), removing the
\end{document}. Then you can  use Insert->File->Child Document on that
TeX file. I don't think this will help you here though.


I have a document that was done in TeX/LaTeX by a person who is no longer 
working here.  I have no idea what kind of setup was used other that a log file 
that mentions pdfeTeX.


I google for pdfeTeX gave me:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/pdfetex.1.html
It seems that you may have to use pdfetex instead of pdftex. I am not
exactly sure how to do this, but you should be able to fiddle with
Tools->Preferences->Converters/FileFormats to achieve this.


I start up LyX, import it and then try View->DVI and I get errors like

Missing $ inserted
Missing \endcsname inserted


Another trick is to google for "Missing \endcsname inserted", however
using pdfetex may be a better solution here.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Persistent changes to the Spellchecker's dictionary

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/8/06, Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi!

What can I do to make the changes (i.e. addition of words) to the
spellchecker's dictionary persistent?
While I am using the spellchecker and I add a new word to the
dictionary, that word is recognized during the rest of the checking
process. However, if I close and open again the spellchecker, the word
that I added is no longer recognized (i.e. has not been saved into the
dictionary).


What version of LyX  operating system are you using?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Persistent changes to the Spellchecker's dictionary

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/8/06, Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi!

What can I do to make the changes (i.e. addition of words) to the
spellchecker's dictionary persistent?
While I am using the spellchecker and I add a new word to the
dictionary, that word is recognized during the rest of the checking
process. However, if I close and open again the spellchecker, the word
that I added is no longer recognized (i.e. has not been saved into the
dictionary).


What version of LyX  operating system are you using?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Persistent changes to the Spellchecker's dictionary

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/8/06, Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi!

What can I do to make the changes (i.e. addition of words) to the
spellchecker's dictionary persistent?
While I am using the spellchecker and I add a new word to the
dictionary, that word is recognized during the rest of the checking
process. However, if I close and open again the spellchecker, the word
that I added is no longer recognized (i.e. has not been saved into the
dictionary).


What version of LyX & operating system are you using?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Tool to find all occurrences of one word and add to index?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/6/06, Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Thanks a lot for your suggestion and the comprehensive explanation why
it would not be a good idea to do it.


If you decide you do want a comprehensive index, you might want to look at:

https://gna.org/projects/latex-indexbuild/

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Tool to find all occurrences of one word and add to index?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/6/06, Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Thanks a lot for your suggestion and the comprehensive explanation why
it would not be a good idea to do it.


If you decide you do want a comprehensive index, you might want to look at:

https://gna.org/projects/latex-indexbuild/

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Tool to find all occurrences of one word and add to index?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/6/06, Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks a lot for your suggestion and the comprehensive explanation why
it would not be a good idea to do it.


If you decide you do want a comprehensive index, you might want to look at:

https://gna.org/projects/latex-indexbuild/

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Citations sticking out

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/6/06, Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have the problem that some references are sticking out of the
 paragraph to the right. (please see attached screenshot)

 As this is obviously not nice, how can I avoid this?
 Are you using url.sty (or hyperref.sty) for the references?

Yes, I use hyperref and backref for the references.


I think using pdflatex (View-PDF (pdflatex)) should fix this.

Alternatively, using breakurl might also fix this:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/breakurl.html

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Citations sticking out

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/6/06, Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have the problem that some references are sticking out of the
 paragraph to the right. (please see attached screenshot)

 As this is obviously not nice, how can I avoid this?
 Are you using url.sty (or hyperref.sty) for the references?

Yes, I use hyperref and backref for the references.


I think using pdflatex (View-PDF (pdflatex)) should fix this.

Alternatively, using breakurl might also fix this:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/breakurl.html

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Citations "sticking out"

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 12/6/06, Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> I have the problem that some references are "sticking out" of the
>> paragraph to the right. (please see attached screenshot)
>>
>> As this is obviously not nice, how can I avoid this?
> Are you using url.sty (or hyperref.sty) for the references?

Yes, I use hyperref and backref for the references.


I think using pdflatex ("View->PDF (pdflatex)") should fix this.

Alternatively, using breakurl might also fix this:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/breakurl.html

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: \url{http://.../\#6} broken in pdflatex?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 10/31/06, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 However under pdflatex the \# causes a pdf file to be generated that
 cannot be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux. (Although it can
 be read by xpdf, kpdf, gv and kghostview). Is there any portable way
 of referring to this url in LaTeX?

This has to be a bug in Acrobat. I'd find some poor soul using Windows
and see if the PDF can be read there. If you want to send it to me, I
can try it out on my wife's machine and at least answer that question.


Odd. The problem went away. There appears to be an intermittant fault
such that when acroread is launched directly from lyx that much of the
text disapears and errors about a font being missing (the font name
being random garbage). It seems that this fault was aggravated, not
caused by the \#.  This fault occurs on my Fedora machine. I don't
think I've ever noticed it on ubuntu.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: \url{http://.../\#6} broken in pdflatex?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 10/31/06, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 However under pdflatex the \# causes a pdf file to be generated that
 cannot be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux. (Although it can
 be read by xpdf, kpdf, gv and kghostview). Is there any portable way
 of referring to this url in LaTeX?

This has to be a bug in Acrobat. I'd find some poor soul using Windows
and see if the PDF can be read there. If you want to send it to me, I
can try it out on my wife's machine and at least answer that question.


Odd. The problem went away. There appears to be an intermittant fault
such that when acroread is launched directly from lyx that much of the
text disapears and errors about a font being missing (the font name
being random garbage). It seems that this fault was aggravated, not
caused by the \#.  This fault occurs on my Fedora machine. I don't
think I've ever noticed it on ubuntu.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: \url{http://.../\#6} broken in pdflatex?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 10/31/06, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> However under pdflatex the "\#" causes a pdf file to be generated that
> cannot be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux. (Although it can
> be read by xpdf, kpdf, gv and kghostview). Is there any portable way
> of referring to this url in LaTeX?
>
This has to be a bug in Acrobat. I'd find some poor soul using Windows
and see if the PDF can be read there. If you want to send it to me, I
can try it out on my wife's machine and at least answer that question.


Odd. The problem went away. There appears to be an intermittant fault
such that when acroread is launched directly from lyx that much of the
text disapears and errors about a font being missing (the font name
being random garbage). It seems that this fault was aggravated, not
caused by the "\#".  This fault occurs on my Fedora machine. I don't
think I've ever noticed it on ubuntu.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

\url{http://.../\#6} broken in pdflatex?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Hi, I am trying to enter the url
 http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/#6
into lyx. Using dvi or ps2pdf I can use the command
 \url{http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/\#6}
However under pdflatex the \# causes a pdf file to be generated that
cannot be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux. (Although it can
be read by xpdf, kpdf, gv and kghostview). Is there any portable way
of referring to this url in LaTeX?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

\url{http://.../\#6} broken in pdflatex?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Hi, I am trying to enter the url
 http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/#6
into lyx. Using dvi or ps2pdf I can use the command
 \url{http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/\#6}
However under pdflatex the \# causes a pdf file to be generated that
cannot be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux. (Although it can
be read by xpdf, kpdf, gv and kghostview). Is there any portable way
of referring to this url in LaTeX?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

\url{http://.../\#6} broken in pdflatex?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Hi, I am trying to enter the url
 http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/#6
into lyx. Using dvi or ps2pdf I can use the command
 \url{http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/\#6}
However under pdflatex the "\#" causes a pdf file to be generated that
cannot be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux. (Although it can
be read by xpdf, kpdf, gv and kghostview). Is there any portable way
of referring to this url in LaTeX?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent
argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string #1.
How do we do this for 1.4.x?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent
argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string #1.
How do we do this for 1.4.x?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent
argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string "#1".
How do we do this for 1.4.x?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 9/22/06, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
 Wierd. I get nothing but a config directory and a development
 directory. I can't find a configure script anywhere.


Yes it was a bug in KDE Konqueror (or its plugins). Normal unix works fine.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 9/22/06, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
 Wierd. I get nothing but a config directory and a development
 directory. I can't find a configure script anywhere.


Yes it was a bug in KDE Konqueror (or its plugins). Normal unix works fine.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 9/22/06, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> Wierd. I get nothing but a config directory and a development
> directory. I can't find a configure script anywhere.


Yes it was a bug in KDE Konqueror (or its plugins). Normal unix works fine.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Trying to get two figures horizontally across the page

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/16/06, Paul L Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi there,
  I cannot seem to get two images side-by-side unless I revert to non-floating 
figures and without their respective
Figure captions.


One option would be to have a single floating table that contained the
two Figures. You could label the two parts of the figures Figure
2.1a and Figure 2.1b.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Trying to get two figures horizontally across the page

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/16/06, Paul L Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi there,
  I cannot seem to get two images side-by-side unless I revert to non-floating 
figures and without their respective
Figure captions.


One option would be to have a single floating table that contained the
two Figures. You could label the two parts of the figures Figure
2.1a and Figure 2.1b.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Trying to get two figures horizontally across the page

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/16/06, Paul L Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi there,
  I cannot seem to get two images side-by-side unless I revert to non-floating 
figures and without their respective
"Figure captions".


One option would be to have a single floating table that contained the
two Figures. You could label the two parts of the figures "Figure
2.1a" and "Figure 2.1b".

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Is there a way to see the original Latex source file in LyX?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/11/06, Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

1.5svn is the development version that will become 1.5.0 and is only
available via svn: http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php. Don't use it for real
work yet without extra precautions, since it probably has some undiscovered
bugs.


Also, for as long as I can remember (e.g. since 1.2.x) it is possible
to go to Edit-Preferences, File formats, select LaTeX and then set
the Viewer to your favorite
text viewer (I use gedit under Linux, under windows notepad would
probably suffice). Then click modify and save.

This will result in a new menu option View-LaTeX appearing.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Is there a way to see the original Latex source file in LyX?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/11/06, Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

1.5svn is the development version that will become 1.5.0 and is only
available via svn: http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php. Don't use it for real
work yet without extra precautions, since it probably has some undiscovered
bugs.


Also, for as long as I can remember (e.g. since 1.2.x) it is possible
to go to Edit-Preferences, File formats, select LaTeX and then set
the Viewer to your favorite
text viewer (I use gedit under Linux, under windows notepad would
probably suffice). Then click modify and save.

This will result in a new menu option View-LaTeX appearing.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: Is there a way to see the original Latex source file in LyX?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 8/11/06, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

1.5svn is the development version that will become 1.5.0 and is only
available via svn: http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php. Don't use it for real
work yet without extra precautions, since it probably has some undiscovered
bugs.


Also, for as long as I can remember (e.g. since 1.2.x) it is possible
to go to Edit->Preferences, File formats, select LaTeX and then set
the Viewer to your favorite
text viewer (I use gedit under Linux, under windows notepad would
probably suffice). Then click modify and save.

This will result in a new menu option View->LaTeX appearing.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 5/24/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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


Who suggested that making Lyx menus more like Word menus would
accomplish such a goal? Rich seemed to be replying to the suggestion
that LyX include a GUI to create .sty and .layout files.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 5/24/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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


Who suggested that making Lyx menus more like Word menus would
accomplish such a goal? Rich seemed to be replying to the suggestion
that LyX include a GUI to create .sty and .layout files.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 5/24/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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


Who suggested that "making Lyx menus more like Word menus would
accomplish such a goal"? Rich seemed to be replying to the suggestion
that LyX include a GUI to create .sty and .layout files.

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: how many lyx users?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Well, as a rough guess I'd say there are about half as many LyX users
as NetBSD users:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=LyX%2C+NetBSDctab=0geo=alldate=all

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: how many lyx users?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Well, as a rough guess I'd say there are about half as many LyX users
as NetBSD users:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=LyX%2C+NetBSDctab=0geo=alldate=all

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Re: how many lyx users?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Well, as a rough guess I'd say there are about half as many LyX users
as NetBSD users:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=LyX%2C+NetBSD=0=all=all

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Using the theorem enviroment with Koma-script in 1.4.x

[John McCabe-Dansted]

When writting my thesis I found that I needed komascript to format a
Thesis correctly, but that LyX would only allow me to enter Theorems
in a AMS class. My solution to this was to have a Book(koma-script)
main document that included Book(AMS) LyX documents which contained
the theorems, lemmas etc.

However with 1.4.1 LyX now generates a prompt
 LyX: Different textclasses
 Included file `afile.lyx'
 has textclass `amsbook'
 while parent file has textclass `scrbook'.
for each included file. As I have a dozen included files, just
clicking OK can take a while. Does anyone know of a way to suppress
these dialogs or otherwise allow theorems to be entered via the LyX
GUI into a komascript document?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia

Using the theorem enviroment with Koma-script in 1.4.x

[John McCabe-Dansted]

When writting my thesis I found that I needed komascript to format a
Thesis correctly, but that LyX would only allow me to enter Theorems
in a AMS class. My solution to this was to have a Book(koma-script)
main document that included Book(AMS) LyX documents which contained
the theorems, lemmas etc.

However with 1.4.1 LyX now generates a prompt
 LyX: Different textclasses
 Included file `afile.lyx'
 has textclass `amsbook'
 while parent file has textclass `scrbook'.
for each included file. As I have a dozen included files, just
clicking OK can take a while. Does anyone know of a way to suppress
these dialogs or otherwise allow theorems to be entered via the LyX
GUI into a komascript document?

--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia