Re: Fw: Postscript preview
LB wrote: Ok, it tried this. I commented out SET LC_ALL=en_EN. This resulted in a different image having the preview problem. I placed SET XX=Y in lyx.bat and the preview problem moved back to the original image. The same happens when I comment out the other line in the lyx.bat. I also added extra lines in lyx.bat such as SET XX=Y this however did not make any difference as far as image preview is concerned. This is again confusing, though perhaps no more confusing than the fact that deleting unneeded environment variables (other than LC_ALL and the aiksaurus one) did not help. Another puzzling thing is that the preview problem jumps between two specific figures eventhough I have many figures in the document and many of them are generated with Matlab. The preview problem however never affects figures generated with other programs. Is there anything that the names/paths of the two affected figures have in common which is not shared by the other files. For instance, are they the longest paths, do they lie deeper in the directory tree than other figures, ... ? Stephen's idea of a second Ghostscript installation strikes me as possible but unlikely (and unlikely to be the culprit), since there would need to be something causing ImageMagick to alternate between the two GS installations on a figure-by-figure basis within the document (meaning that something in the figure names/paths would have to be triggering the switching). Also, Mathematica exports EPS without using GS and without installing its own GS, so I suspect the same might be true of MATLAB. Still, the whole bug is unlikely, so we shouldn't presume anything. It would be nice if we could intercept the call from IM to GS and see what's being passed, but so far I have not figured out how. /Paul
Re: menu-open documents
Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, in LyX 1.4.2 on Mac OS X, I'm missing a LyX function that used to work in LyX 1.3.6: menu-open documents which used to bring up a menu with all open buffers that I could then navigate with the arrow keys. Under xemacs.bind, this function is bound to C-x C-b. I've looked at the list of lfuncs and tried various things but nothing brings up this buffer menu anymore. When I enter menu-open documents in the minibuffer, LyX does NOT complain that the function is unknown, and echos the correct keybinding for it in the status line. But no buffer menu appears. So I'm suspecting this is a bug. No, it's just a consequence of changes to the menus from 1.3.x to 1.4.x. Try menu-open view. The menu-open command emulates your clicking on a menu (or typing its accelerator key). The old documents menu is gone, and the new document menu only applies to the current buffer. The list of loaded documents is now at the bottom of the view menu. /Paul
Re: Fw: Postscript preview
Stephen Harris wrote: The MATLAB Component Runtime (MCR) 7.0 and 7.1 do not contain a copy of the GhostScript program included with MATLAB. Therefore, applications deployed on a target machine rely on a locally- installed version of GhostScript, if one exists, for exporting some graphics. Since the version of GhostScript installed on the target machine may be different than the one included with MATLAB, the command line parameters potentially may be different as well. This difference causes an error in some instances. I think this supports the possibility of a Ghostscript conflict and that Matlab comes with its own version of Gs. It does indeed. So I agree that hypothetically Leo's MATLAB installation could be generating PS files (using it's own copy of GS) that would be indigestible to LyX-ImageMagick-GS (using a different copy of GS in the last step). That still raises the question of why those images would be successfully displayed in LyX (same LyX-ImageMagick-GS sequence) if an environment variable is deleted ... unless deletion of the environment variable affected which copy of GS was used (both on the command path?) ... in which case the bug would disappear, not switch to a different image. All that said, this bug is clearly not playing fair, so it would be a good idea for Leo to check into this just to rule it out. /Paul
Re: menu-open documents
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Aug 5, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, in LyX 1.4.2 on Mac OS X, I'm missing a LyX function that used to work in LyX 1.3.6: menu-open documents which used to bring up a menu with all open buffers that I could then navigate with the arrow keys. Under xemacs.bind, this function is bound to C-x C-b. I've looked at the list of lfuncs and tried various things but nothing brings up this buffer menu anymore. When I enter menu-open documents in the minibuffer, LyX does NOT complain that the function is unknown, and echos the correct keybinding for it in the status line. But no buffer menu appears. So I'm suspecting this is a bug. No, it's just a consequence of changes to the menus from 1.3.x to 1.4.x. Try menu-open view. The menu-open command emulates your clicking on a menu (or typing its accelerator key). The old documents menu is gone, and the new document menu only applies to the current buffer. The list of loaded documents is now at the bottom of the view menu. Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. So it would probably be a good idea to permanently modify the versions of emacs.bind and xemacs.bind that are shipped with LyX 1.4.2 accordingly: i.e, replace the line \bind C-x C-bmenu-open documents by \bind C-x C-bmenu-open view in order to get back that emacs-like feature. Looks like none of the other standard bind files makes use of that particular function... Agreed. I'll put it in bugzilla if it's not already there. /Paul
Re: bug: line-shift before line break - please confirm.
Martin A. Hansen wrote: reconstruct bug: make an enumerate list. make a forced line break in the list. when moving the cursor towards the linebreak, the curser goes to the next line 1 char before the end of the line. I can't reproduce this (LyX 1.4.2, WinXP). /Paul
Re: input not placed correctly after linebreak
Todd Denniston wrote: Replication info A) File-New B) set (using mouse) Enumerate as layout C) type first lineenter D) type second lineenter E) type third lineenter F) click between d l of second line G) cursor right over to the end of line and pres Ctrl-enter H) click between d l of second line I) cursor right over to the end of line J) cursor right once more (to take you past the Ctrl-enter) K) type a L) recognize that you now have for the second line: second lineaCtrl-enter the expected result was: second lineCtrl-entera note that even though the cursor is on the third line (second line of the enumerated item #2) any character you type at this point ends up on the second line. Also happens on WinXP. /Paul
Re: How to automatically label equations in LyX?
Michael wrote: Is there a way to mark an equation to be labled automatically, and make it work with instant equation previewer? I am using the latest 1.4.2 Lyx on Windows XP SP2. Thanks a lot! With the cursor inside the equation, Insert-Label... and give the label a name. /Paul
Re: Line skipped in LyX display after leaving math inset
Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, another annoying little misbehavior of LyX 1.4.2 (on Mac OS X): To explain what's going on, I attached a screenshot which shows two paragraphs containing a couple of inline math insets (\sin\alpha=\varepsilon). The top-most line overhangs the second line because the paragraph break makes the second line quite short. If I put the cursor into the first math inset (on the first line) and press the down arrow, the cursor moves to the second line right below, as it should. If I instead put the cursor into the second math inset (still on the first line, but overhanging the empty space of the second line), I get a different reaction when pressing the down arrow: coming out of the math inset, the cursor now skips to the THIRD line (i.e., the first line of the new paragraph), instead of jumping to the end of the second line, as it should (and as it used to do in LyX 1.3.6). I'm attaching the LyX file as well. To see what I saw, it's best to maximize the window as shown in the screenshot. Confirmed on WinXP. Note that if the cursor is positioned just outside the second math inset (the one overhanging empty space) on either side, down arrow drops to the end of the second line, as it should. Only with the cursor inside the second inset does down arrow crash through to the third line. /Paul
Re: How to automatically label equations in LyX?
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Michael wrote:
Is there a way to mark an equation to be labled automatically, and
make it
work with instant equation previewer?
I am using the latest 1.4.2 Lyx on Windows XP SP2.
Thanks a lot!
With the cursor inside the equation, Insert-Label... and give the label
a name.
Oops: the idea was to automatically number *all* equations. This is on
the wish list for a future version. Meanwhile, two suggestions (both
from JMarc, I believe) seem to work:
(a) insert into preamble
\renewcommand\[{\begin{equation}}
\renewcommand\]{\end{equation}}
or
(b) bind command-sequence math-display; math-number; to some key
combination and use that whenever you want to insert a display formula.
I think I saw this come up recently on the list, so I added a page to
the Wiki Tips section.
/Paul
Re: what is the Key sequence to add a column in math editing mode?
Michael wrote: If a have an array in math editing box: using \array, what is the key combination sequence to add a column? I found Ctrl - Enter can add a row, but adding a column needs Ctrl W, then press I, and then press C, this is too troublesome, is there a way to make it simpler and fast? I assume that M-m c i is also too tedious? Other than that, the only way I know is to use the mouse. If you activate the math tool bar (right-click an empty part of the menu or any tool bar and put a check next to math), when you are inside the array there will be buttons to add and delete both rows and columns. /Paul
Re: Another math inset - cursor problem
Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi again, I'm stumbling upon inset-related problems in LyX 1.4.2 a lot, it seems. You are, indeed, the master of this. ;-) Here is another one: take a math inset that's a few environments deep, like e.g. a vector which consists of an array inside a left-right bracket combination. If I have one such vector in a large document, say as a displayed equation, and then scroll until that equation is at the very top of the screen, then the mouse can get trapped inside the math inset. As usual, this is something that didn't happen in LyX 1.3.6. To reproduce this, one needs to arrange things just right, so I'm attaching a screenshot showing the situation. I've shrunk the LyX window such that the vector inset is at the top of the screen, but there are some more lines of text hidden above the visible screen. Now I put the cursor into the vector by clicking the mouse there. Then I try to use the up arrow to get out of the math environment and to scroll to the top of my document. But the hidden lines preceding the math formula are never scrolled into view. The cursor cycles indefinitely inside the bracket environment. Confirmed on WinXP (LyX 1.4.2). /Paul
Re: A Spell Checker Error
Rich Shepard wrote: Running 1.4.2 on linux here. Evoked the spelling checker on a short article and fixed the errors it found. Then I ran the source through pdflatex. While reading the typeset document, I saw the word, 'th .' How strange, I thought. Sure enough, the spelling check missed that, but a search for the string found it. I've no idea how this slipped past the gates, but it's worrisome that I cannot count on aspell (I don't recall if it's that or ispell) to catch my typos. Interesting. I tried this (using Aspell, the only game in town for us Windows users). It catches 'th' without a period, ignores 'th.' (which makes some sense -- could be an abbreviation), and ignores 'th .' (space before the period). That last one should be an unambiguous error -- if it's an abbreviation, the space is wrong. So it seems that either LyX is not passing the space to Aspell or Aspell is ignoring the space. Tried to test which by running Aspell directly on a text file with the same error, but I only have the binaries for Aspell 0.50.3 installed, and that didn't even find 'th' by itself (which the portion of Aspell 0.60.whatever used by LyX does catch). /Paul
Re: could not open temporary directory in .
Michael Chen wrote: Dear there, I just deleted all contents in the path preference, and closed the Lyx. Now I can not start Lyx, the error messege is Could not create a temporary directory in . Make sure that this path exists and is writable and try again. How can I get out of it? Thanks. (I am using Lyx 1.4.2 under Windows.) Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\your login id here\Application Data\LyX1.4.x and open the file named 'preferences' in a text editor (e.g., notepad). Scroll down until you see # # FILE SECTION ## # and beneath it type something like \tempdir_path C:\Temp (changing the directory to whatever you want). Save the modified file and try to open LyX. /Paul
Re: Windows LyX Installation - need to install Lyx on same drive as Miktex.
Andrew Nelson wrote: Hi, I recently had problems with installing the Lyx executable (1.4.2) under WinXP. My Miktex distribution was on my d: drive. I was installing Lyx to c:. Whenever I tried to output a document Lyx stalled on the 1st Latex run. I checked that Latex was ok from a DOS prompt, it was. I checked all the Lyx paths, they were correct. I was stumped, however, it seems that Lyx has to be on the same drive as Latex for it to work properly. I.e. don't install Miktex on D: and install Lyx on C:. I haven't tried this, but I don't see why LyX should need to be on the same drive as MiKTeX, as long as all paths are correctly set. You might try starting LyX from a command prompt with 'lyx -dbg latex' and see if attempting to View-DVI or File-Export-DVI generates any helpful messages. /Paul
Re: Question
William Koshak-NASA wrote: QUESTION I am running an older version of Lyx that I downloaded about 1 year ago, and I have the following question: I make alot of display and inline equations within Lyx, but none of them come up readible from the Lyx user interface, so I have to constantly hit the View PDF or View DVI tool to get a view of the equation that I typed in. Isn't there a way to have the Lyx user interface show the equation (as I type it) and as it will actually look when printed? Thank you. What you are asking for is called instant preview and it has been available since at least LyX 1.3.7 (I don't recall it being in 1.3.6, but then my memory is notoriously unreliable). Please see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview for details relating to preview in LyX 1.3.x. /Paul
Re: Fw: Postscript preview
LB wrote: I think this supports the possibility of a Ghostscript conflict and that Matlab comes with its own version of Gs. I actually have three versions of gs.exe. Cygwin has two. One in cygwin\bin directory and one in cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin directory. Matlab has its own version as well. My install of gs (8.14) has two files in bin directory: gswin32.exe and gswin32c.exe Please suggest what I can do to investigate this further. Leo Having already generated the image files in MATLAB, try temporarily hiding all the Cygwin and Matlab copies of the GS executable (say by adding a $ to the start of their names, which is easy to undo afterward). Then run LyX and see if the images load properly. I'm not positive that ImageMagick runs the GS executable (as opposed to accessing a GS library directly), but I think it does. /Paul
Re: Fw: Postscript preview
LB wrote: I think this supports the possibility of a Ghostscript conflict and that Matlab comes with its own version of Gs. I actually have three versions of gs.exe. Cygwin has two. One in cygwin\bin directory and one in cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin directory. Matlab has its own version as well. My install of gs (8.14) has two files in bin directory: gswin32.exe and gswin32c.exe Please suggest what I can do to investigate this further. Leo Oops, forgot something. If I understood Stephen's concerns correctly, a second experiment might be in order -- having renamed the unofficial GS executables, try reproducing the images from Matlab using the official version of GS. (I'm not a Matlab user, so I don't know exactly what this would entail, but you might have to modify some setting in Matlab that holds the path to GS, or you might need the official GS bin directory on the command path, or worst case you might need to copy the official GS files, both executable and library, into the Matlab directory where the Matlab-installed GS currently lives.) /Paul
Re: Fw: Postscript preview
TechTonics wrote: LB wrote: I have changed the names (decreased by one character) of the figures that were given me problems and they are now previewing fine!!! Great! One of the great Presidents said persistence is a far better quality than talent or genius. Still seems like a surprising way to fix it unless the 1 character decrease was removing a forbidden character used in the filenames. Which would not explain why futzing with the environment variables cured (or at least moved) the bug. Then again, perhaps I'm asking too much of the bug as far as consistency goes. This brings me back to my thesis that somewhere there is a buffer overflow. How/why it would involve both the file paths/names and environment variables beats me, but I'll take another shot on the developer list and see what shakes. /Paul
Re: Idea for meta-search in wiki. Help wanted.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, what if the search page contained additional links and forms that let you search more than just the wiki? How about searching this mailing list? Or searching Herbert's tips and tricks on LaTeX? Good idea. I've got all these bookmarked, but I think a number of people don't know what resources there are. If we're going to put possible search venues on the wiki, being able to access them from the wiki makes sense. My idea is simply that if you can't find what you're looking for on the wiki, you want to search for the information elsewhere. So why not make this easier. A very easy way to improve the situation is to simply add links to the search page, e.g. something saying: Click here to go and search the users' list Any of us can edit the search page to add links. Just edit this page http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/Search All this requires is that we now the URI of the page to go to in order to search. This is where I need help. I'd like to know of useful places to go to in order to search for information related to LyX, e.g. how do we search the archives of the users' list? How do we search Herbert's Tips and Tricks? You don't even have to e-mail me this information. I just created this page http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/SearchExternally so feel free to go there and add the links. I'll take care of it from there. Ah, but e-mailing the list is so much less work (for me). :-) However, we can probably do better than just a link to some other site. Given a search URI and its format, i.e. how the search parameters map to the URI, I can easily create a form that allows the user to submit the actual search from the wiki page. An example is a google search for 'lyx', 'clever' and 'ideas': http://www.google.com/search?q=lyx+clever+ideas So if I have the URI that's needed in order to search for instance the mail archive for the words idea and clever, it should be easy for me to modify the search page so that this is possible. What I don't know is how this URI should look, and how the search terms should be inserted. I'd like some help with that. That looks good for Google, with the addition that you might want to allow quoted phrases (lyx and clever ideas becomes lyx+%22clever+ideas%22 in googlish). For the mailing list, the GMANE server URI would look like http://search.gmane.org/?query=lyx+clever+ideagroup=gmane.editors.lyx.general (changing 'general' to 'devel' for the developer mailing list). This can possibly be taken even a step further, by taking the result of the external search and showing it inside the wiki page. Opinions on if this is actually useful or not are most welcome. I would be inclined to display the result in a child window. That way, the user isn't bumped off the wiki. On the other hand, for people using tabbed browsers (which I do), it might be better just to use a regular HREF link. I'm not sure whether ctrl-click on a link with a child target opens a new tab or not. (Some portion of my brain knows this, but it's currently on strike.) /Paul
Re: Installation of Lyx 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 on WinXP: missing windefault
Graeme Handisides wrote: Hi, I just tried to install both 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 on WinXP and have the problem that it then refuses to start because windefault is missing. I assume this refers to windefault.ui. What has gone wrong here? Or more to the point, how do I replace this file. I have tried several different installation methods, and they all produce the same error. I have had Lyx installed before without problems, but this time the configuration doesn't seem to have worked properly. Ok, I'll bite: what's windefault.ui? I have LyX 1.3.7, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 installed on WinXP, and none of them have that file. I think the following fix should work. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\your id here\Application Data\LyX1.4.x\, open the preferences file in a text editor (e.g., notepad), and insert the line \ui_file default at the end. If you don't have a preferences file, copy lyxrc.defaults to lyxrc and stick it in there. (Or stick it in lyxrc.defaults, even though editing that file is apparently equivalent to tearing the tag off a mattress.) HTH, /Paul
Re: Is there a Zoom In/Out in LyX?
Micha Feigin wrote: Lyx is not designed to have an horizontal scroll bar because the text is supposed to just flow over the side to the next line. Also, usually, if the formula flows over the side it usually means that it will flow over the side of the page in the printout. I fairly routinely encounter problems with math insets that fit on the page in the produced document (and fit on the LyX page as instant preview images), but don't fit on screen when I'm editing them (particularly if I have LyX windowed). Expanding LyX to full screen sometimes helps, but sometimes I have real problems editing the tail end of a formula (I can cursor there, but it's off-screen so I can't see where I am or what I'm doing). I don't know that LyX needs a horizontal scrollbar, but maybe it needs to wrap inset source code better when the cursor is in the inset. /Paul
Re: Is there a Zoom In/Out in LyX?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Actually, there has been an horizontal scrollbar in the inset itself at some point of time. But not currently, right? Because I am not getting any scrollbar when editing insets. Is this on the to-do list, or should someone enter it as a bug/enhancement? /Paul
Re: Debugging python scripts called by LyX
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia wrote: Hello, I've just upgraded LyX using LyXWinInstaller 2.51 (it runs smooth so far, thanks Uwe!), but I'm experiencing an annoying error message when I tell LyX to upgrade the DVI view with C-d. The error happens in the clean_dvi script and it doesn't tell what kind of problem is there. What option should I use from the command line to have LyX report the error from the python interpreter? Try starting LyX from a command prompt with 'lyx.exe -dbg graphics' and see if you get an error message in the command shell window. /Paul
Re: Is there a Zoom In/Out in LyX?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Paul == Paul A Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Actually, there has been an horizontal scrollbar in the inset itself at some point of time. Paul But not currently, right? Because I am not getting any scrollbar Paul when editing insets. No, it was at some time of some development branch :) Paul Is this on the to-do list, or should someone enter it as a Paul bug/enhancement? Well I think people do know that this is needed. But it is a bit difficult technically, though I think Andre' wrote a good part of the infrastructure. You can maybe enter an enhancement bug JMarc Done. /Paul
Re: Debugging python scripts called by LyX
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia wrote:
Hello,
this is what LyX dumps to screen. It doesn't tell, though, what happens
with python.
--
Giovanni
insetgraphics::latex: Filename = C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My
Documents/Tesi/usi_terreno.eps
Message =
Opts = scale=0.75
Before = \includegraphics[scale=0.75]
after =
Recognised Fileformat: eps
Recognised Fileformat: eps
findTargetFormat: PostScript mode
we have: from eps to eps
the orig file is: C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My
Documents/Tesi/usi_terreno.eps
InsetGraphics::latex outputting:
\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{0C__Documents_and_Settings_Administrator_My_Documents_Tesi_usi_terreno}
pplatex: Process input file tesi.dvi
pplatex: tesi.dvi: Permission denied
Error: Non riesco a convertire il file
Si Ί verificato un errore mentre python C:/Program Files
(x86)/LyX14/Resources/scr era in esecuzione
The error seems to be occurring before the clean_dvi.py script executes.
What happens if you View-DraftDVI (which skips the clean_dvi.py
script)? Does the LaTeX log file (Document-LaTeX Logfile) indicate that
LaTeX ran successfully (Output written on tesi.dvi ... at or near the
bottom of the log)?
/Paul
Re: Table fill
Christiaan J Pauw wrote: Is there a way to fill a table row with a certain shadinglike in a wordprocessor. Try the colortbl package. /Paul
Re: New to LyX 1.4
Georg Baum wrote: Am Dienstag, 15. August 2006 21:05 schrieb Gunnar: So, finaly I'm taking the step to 1.4 from 1.3.7 I have some customizations all over the the .lyx directory, keybindings, external templates, etc. Is there something I should do before chaning to 1.4 except making a backup copy? You'll need to update the external templates by hand, see the documentation and the external_templates file shipped with LyX 1.4. Some keybindings might not work (some lfun names were changed). AFAIK everything else should continue to work. Also,, the menus were rearranged, so any key bindings that invoked a menu item (say by the menu-open lfun) needs to be checked and possibly updated. /Paul
Re: Pasting with the mouse middle button inside math mode
Georg Baum wrote: Am Dienstag, 15. August 2006 21:11 schrieb Paul Smith: Dear All Selecting a piece of text and clicking on the middle button of the mouse pastes the selected text, with *no* need of CTRL+c. A similar procedure worked fine inside math mode, but not anymore on LyX 1.4.2 (on Fedora Core 5). Is it possible to have that so useful feature back? Indeed. Note that you must leave the selected text highlighted before clicking the middle mouse button if this text is from LyX and no ther window, i.e. you must not first click with the left button to position the cursor, but if you followed this rule it used to work. Do you remember the last version that worked? Worked for me in 1.3.7, not in 1.4.1. /Paul
Re: PDF update under Windows
Ernesto Posse wrote: Hi. I have a problem with LyX 1.4.2. under Windows. When using any of the update PDF options in the View menu PDF viewers cannot update the generated PDF, and some give an error. I found a fix in the LyX wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips that suggests creating a PDFview.cmd script with the following code if not exist %~dpn1~%~x1 goto :go pdfclose --file %~dpn1~%~x1 del %~dpn1~%~x1 :go copy %1 %~dpn1~%~x1 pdfopen --file %~dpn1~%~x1 exit Try changing all instances of %~dpn1~% to %~dpn1-tmp%. and putting this script as well as pdftools (pdfopen and pdfclose) somewhere in the path, and then changing the associated viewer for PDF from auto to PDFview. I've done all of these things, but it doesn't workl. I tried with different PDF viewers (Acrobat, Foxit, eXpertPDF,) I'm not positive, but I think this automatically uses whichever viewer is the Windows default for opening PDFs (Acrobat Reader on my system, and probably on yours). and none of these work: LyX fails to even launch the viewers, and there is not message given. Even starting LyX from a console window doesn't show any messages, even after adding an echo something at the beginning of the PDFview.cmd, which suggests that LyX is not running PDFview.cmd, but I am sure it is in the path. I even tried putting it in the lyx/bin and in my ~/.lyx directory but to no avail. My preference is to put the three files in a directory of their own, and put it on the LyX path prefix. That way, if I upgrade to a newer version of LyX, I just have to set the path and converter, and don't have to worry about reinstalling the files. Does anyone know whether this is a bug or if not, what to do to make the update PDF options work under Windows? It works fine for me. I think there are just small errors in your .cmd file. Incidentally, what you have is an accurate transcription of what is on the wiki, so apparently that was either recorded incorrectly or is out of date. /Paul
Re: Short titles in fancyheader: delayed reaction
Catherine Heyrendt wrote:
When I use the ERT \chaptermark{my shorter title} in order to have a
shorter chapter title in the header, there is a delayed reaction. It
works well for all pages, but not for the first page, the one with the
actual chapter title. Instead, I get the full title inelegantly cut in
the header. Any ideas how to get the chapter title page to work too?
The problem was mentioned almost 3 years ago (see below) but I couldn't
find any answers.
Google fancyplain. This is an alternative page style (also defined in
fancyhdr.sty IIRC) that allows you to specify headers/footers separately
for ordinary pages (which fancy style does) and for title pages
(including first page of a chapter), which fancy style skips. I'm not
sure, but I think this will help.
/Paul
Re: tex4ht just doesn't work for me ...
Stephen Harris wrote: Perhaps you've been bitten by a mad wolverine? Mad wolverine is redundant -- they're all crazy buggers. /Paul
Re: Problem to download english dictionary during instalation of LyX1.4.2 on Windows XP
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:25:13 +0200 From: Amir Navot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-announce@lists.lyx.org Subject: Problem to download english dictionary during instalation of LyX1.4.2 on Windows XP During the installation of LyX1.4.2 (Wiki) on Windows XP, I get the following message: Failed to download the English spell checker dictionary. Would you like to try again? (connecting to host) retry doesn't work as well. When trying to run spell checker I am getting the message: Spellchecker could not be started. No word list can be found for the language en_US. I took the liberty to answer to lyx-users, lyx-announce does not seem appropriate here. I have the same problem (maybe the download site changed and the installer is not up to date ?). Anyway you may download the dictionaries from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 and install manually. I have Aspell installed in C:\Aspell. LyX1.4.1 works with no problems. This is suprising, as lyx-1.4.1 and lyx-1.4.2 sould share the same Aspell6 dictionaries ? That was my thought too, but I had LyX 1.4.1 working with both English and German dictionaries, and when I installed 1.4.2 it would not spell-check German on my laptop and would not even spell-check English on my home PC. The solution on both machines was to reinstall the data files from the wiki. Reinstalling the dictionaries themselves did not seem to be necessary, at least on the PC (I did it on the laptop without stopping to check whether it was necessary). /Paul
Re: 'subfigure' package on windows
John Pye wrote: Hi again, I did try the Repository menu. I just pointed it to a directory where I had placed the single file, subfigure.cab. Obviously it requires some kind of index file in addition, but i can't find out what that should be. It seems silly to download the whole repository just for this one file -- a file that I already have. Ok, you can try the following. (A good stiff drink beforehand to settle the nerves might be warranted, and personally I would keep the bottle handy.) 1. Put subfigure.cab in a temporary directory and open a command prompt there. 2. Execute expand subfigure.cab . -F:* (note that the -F switch is case-sensitive). If Windows complains that it can't find the expand command, you'll need to search for expand.exe under C:\Windows, but I'm betting it's on your command path. 3. Move subfigure.sty and subfigure.cfg to an appropriate subdirectory under either your texmf or localtexmf root. (My suggestion would be localtexmf\tex\latex\subfigure\, which you will need to create.) 4. Move subfigure.tpm to wherever TPM files go to hang out (texmf\tpm\packages\ or localtexmf\tpm\packages\ ?). 5. Move subfigure.dvi (the manual) to an appropriate directory, say localtexmf\doc\latex\subfigure\. 6. Run the MiKTeX Options application, and click the Refresh button (Refresh FNDB in the most recent version) on the General tab. 7. See if subfigure works. If not, find where you stashed that bottle. 8. Assuming it works, feel free to discard subfigure-src.cab (unless you plan to modify the source code), README (which may be accurate w.r.t. the source files but does not entirely match the non-source content of the CAB file), and subfigure.cab itself. HTH, /Paul
Re: There's no HTML in view menu
Adinda Praditya wrote: Hi list,... I have lyx-1.3.6 , ilatex2html-pngicons and latex2html installed from suse-10.1 distro. I put this parameter: latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i on LaTeX - HTML converters on LyX preferences. Reconfigured and restarted LyX. but i still can't view HTML. Did i miss something? Please help. Did you set a viewer for HTML? I haven't used 1.3.6 in a l-o-n-g time (hint), but installing/reconfiguring 1.3.7 does not set a viewer for HTML. /Paul
Re: There's no HTML in view menu
Adinda Praditya wrote: I think i changed the viewer (only the parameter) and it works well on my other SuSE (ver. 10.0). That's why i'm wondering why there's no HTML. Are your LyX configurations (or at least the portions relating to converting to and viewing HTML) the same on both SuSE distros? If yes, have you tested latex2html on SuSE 10.1? /Paul
tabular*
Hi, I suspect I'm doomed to disappointment here, but is there a way to get LyX to treat a table as tabular* rather than just tabular environment? I know I can do it in ERT, but I was hoping to exploit the table editor and layout features in the GUI but get it typeset as tabular*. Alternatively, is there a slick way in LyX to get a table to stretch from margin to margin (width of table = textwidth)? I can do it with tabular* by inserting some stretch along with the alignment for one of the columns. I could probably do it by creating an extra row that spanned all columns and putting a zero-height rule in there, but that would screw up the vertical size of the table. /Paul
Re: embedded fonts in pdf output
Robert Neumann wrote: I use lyx 1.3.4 and the package mathptmx to create a pdf which then is manually processed with adobe acrobat. Sometimes there are difficulties and I have been asked, whether the fonts are embeddet in the pdf file. Is there a way to control or change this? Thanks Robert I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that if you use pslatex as the document default font, it will reduce (but not zero out) the number/size of embedded fonts. /Paul
Re: Error converting to loadable format
Wan Kuang wrote: I recently upgraded to Lyx 1.4.2 and noticed that all EPS figures won't load. The error message says convert: unable to open image `eps:/Users/max/Desktop/TWI_Sensor.eps': No such file or directory. convert: missing an image filename `ppm:/tmp/lyx_tmpdir5678NZIGui/TWI_Sensor5678sgWtgy.ppm'. /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. Any idea? Thanks. Wan First question: does /Users/max/Desktop/TWI_Sensor.eps exist? (You didn't specify your OS. If it's pretty much anything other than Windows, keep in mind that paths are case-sensitive.) Second question: if the file exists, does the account under which you're running LyX have read access to it? /Paul
Re: Centering Spacing
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Cc: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Bruce Pourciau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Centering Spacing Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:38:58 -0500 To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] But why would the inter-paragraph spacing change when the paragraphs are centered? Before centering, there was no extra line between the one-line paragraphs. You're right, center is a so-called displayed-paragraph environment (which adds space above and below at each occurrence), so this is one situation where you need to use line breaks to format one single centered paragraph. So you type in the single lines separated by C-enter, then you center the paragraph. Sorry for the misleading answer. I think you're right about centering automatically adding a small amount of vertical space, but what Bruce encountered (and I can confirm) is a change in LyX behavior. In LyX 1.4.2, the LyX-LaTeX conversion inserts a \par inside each centering environment, which LyX 1.3.7 does not. My vote would be that 1.3.7's behavior was correct. /Paul
Re: Aspell and language de_CH
david wrote: Hello How can I get aspell to use the language German Switzerland (de_CH)? If I chose Deutsch (neue Rechtschreibung) in the document properties (format/document) I get an error message: The file /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman could not be opened for reading. If I chose Deutsch the language German Germany (de_DE) is used. Thanks! David What happens if you put de_CH in Tools-Preferences-Language settings-Spellchecker-Alternative language? /Paul
Re: tabular*
Enrico Forestieri wrote: I am afraid LyX does not support the tabular* environment. However there is way to obtain what you are looking for. Please have a look at the attached .lyx file Thanks, Enrico! This should do the job (relatively painlessly). /Paul
Re: Postscript Printer Question
Bruce Pourciau wrote: This is a LaTeX rather than LyX question. Concerning the quality of the output -- specifically for printing LaTeX and eps files, but also more generally -- what would be the difference between printer A and printer B, if A is described as having standard postscript support, while B, under printer fonts, says 26 scalable fonts but there's nothing about postscript support. We will be getting a new printer for the department of mathematics, and we'll need good reasons if we ask for the more expensive printer A. Any help would be appreciated. Bruce Printers that advertise standard Postscript support typically have a set of Type 1 Adobe fonts in firmware. That allows the printer driver to print glyphs from those fonts on the printer without resorting to bitmaps. I'm not sure how many Type 1 fonts there are all told, but I'm sure I've seen printers that advertised 35 or more Type 1 fonts in firmware. The extent to which you get mileage out of the built-in fonts is obviously proportional to the likelihood that users employ those fonts in their documents. I think you get a bit of a speed boost using fonts the printer has in firmware; whether the output quality is better may depend on printer resolution and some other factors, so I'm less sure there is an advantage there. If printer B has 26 scalable fonts that are not Adobe fonts (and are not MS TrueType fonts), then my guess is that you won't get any mileage out of them. I've seen printers once or twice that had a few non-Adobe fonts, but they were fonts I never used (and did not have installed on my PCs). For either printer, if a font is encountered that is not Adobe Type 1, the used glyphs from that font will probably be embedded in the document, and I think the driver for either should be able to handle that. If a font is neither embedded in the document nor recognized, I think the driver will use a map to substitute some font it (or the printer) knows, and that can produce some butt-ugly output. For what it's worth, I turn all my LyX output into PDFs and print them on an HP multifunction ink-jet that does not contain any Postscript font support whatsoever. I also tend to use the ae or lmodern fonts, even when generating PDFs (although occasionally I will use pslatex, which might match the embedded Type 1 fonts if I had embedded Type 1 fonts, which I don't). /Paul
Re: Upright greek letters in normal text and math mode
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Ciao Miki, thanks for your reply! To be honest, this is not exactly what I am looking for because all letters in math mode now changed their (actual nice) shape and, moreover, are no longer italic. The math panel offers a drop-down list for different text styles, but these DO NOT work for greek letters. Usually, the italic letters are fine, but for units (e.g. µm) always upright letters should be used. For this reason I would like to be able to use upright greek letters in both math mode and standard environment. Can anyone help or provide a pointer? There are TX fonts and PX fonts (which I think extend Times and Palatino respectively) that include some upright Greek letters, such as \muup for upright mu. I don't have them, and I can't find TX on CTAN (but can find PX), so I'm not sure if these will do what you want. /Paul
Re: Trouble again with instant preview...
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Does anyone know if the file 0lyxpreview.tex is a standard file in either lyx or texmf packages? Apparently, the reason why Instant Preview did not work was because it didn't find this file to process. When instant preview is enabled, LyX exports each distinct math inset to a separate tex file in the temp directory, and names them 0lyxpreview.tex, 1lyxpreview.tex, etc. So 0lyxpreview.tex would contain all the headers for a normal LaTeX file, but the only contents of the document is your first math inset. Did you look in the temporary directory (while LyX was running) to see if 0lyxpreview.tex was written there? /Paul
Re: writing two consecutive cases in AMS article
Andrew Corrigan wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to typeset my homework using Lyx. So far I have a document
where the lines are of the type:
Theorem
Proof
Case
Case
The problem I have is that the second Case does not actually say 'Case',
unlike the first line. The line is merely indented. I noticed that
this always happens with consecutive lines of the same case. How do I
make the word 'Case' appear?
Stick a line containing {} in ERT (and nothing else) between them, and
make it a standard paragraph. I've attached a minimal example.
/Paul
cases.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: Using aspell 0.6 with lyx 1.4.2 and other applications on windows xp
David Halpern wrote: Hi, I have installed Lyx 1.4.2 on my pc running windows xp. During the installation process aspell 0.6 was also installed because I didn't have it. How can I use aspell outside lyx? I cannot find the executable anywhere on my pc but aspell works within lyx. I would like to be able to use aspell in xemacs and also from the command line. How can I do this without installing the stand-alone aspell? If I do install the latter will it conflict with the one that gets installed by lyx 1.4.2 setup program? Any helps in these matters would be greatly appreciated. David Halpern I'm not sure that you got the Aspell executables. LyX has Aspell support built in, and just needs some library files (which the LyX developers have packaged for us). Back when I was on LyX 1.3.x, I installed Aspell 0.5. When I upgraded to LyX 1.4.1, and then 1.4.2, I had to install pieces of Aspell 0.6, but I'm pretty sure the only executable I have is the 0.5 one, which implies that LyX 1.4.2 doesn't need (an probably doesn't install) the full Aspell executable. If you have the full installation, there should be an Aspell directory somewhere. It used to be mandatory that it be C:\Aspell, but I think now it can be anywhere, so check c:\Program Files if you don't find it under the root. If you find it, look in the bin subdirectory for aspell.exe. If it's there, that's what you run (from a command prompt). If you can't find it, chances are you don't have it. You can download it from the official Aspell site (which I inconveniently forget just now). /Paul
[LyX 1.4.2/Win XP] Aspell using wrong personal dictionary
In LyX 1.4.2, adding words during a spell check puts them in a new personal dictionary in the document source folder. With previous versions, the new words were added to a global personal dictionary in the Aspell installation folder. I much prefer the latter behavior, since it does not require me to add the same word over and over. Is there any way to restore this behavior with LyX 1.4.2? TIA, Paul
Re: Importing/installing a new class
cesco wrote: Hi, I have to write a document according to the settings given in the latex file IEEEtrans.cls but I don't know how to import it in LyX neither I found a description of how this could be done. IEEEtrans is a type of document I can select from the list of documents type in LyX, but when I select it an error message tells me that the class IEEEtrans is missing. I found the file on the web but I don't know where to copy it or how to install/import it. I'm running the latest version of LyX on Win32, so I don't know how to update the latex distro and how to issue, like you would do in linux, the command texhash. Could anyone help? Thanks and regards Francesco What LaTeX distro are you running on the Windows box? If it's MikTeX, just use the MikTeX package manager to install the 'ieeetran' package. /Paul
Re: Filename in document
Stephen Buonopane wrote:
On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Susanne Gütter wrote:
Dear lyx-user,
how can I get the name of my document into the document or into the
preview?
I don't find any solution in the references.
Regards
Susanne
The latex command is \jobname
I use the following in ERT to put it in the lower right corner (with
fancy pagestyle)
\rfoot{\textrm{\tiny \jobname}}
This looks like it would be a useful tip to add to the Wiki.
/Paul
Re: [WinXP, LyX 1.4.2] Export to pdf with pdflatex
Florian Kamm wrote: Hello everybody, I encountered a problem when I tried to export a lyx document to pdf using pdflatex. The first run is correctly started but will never stop, so I have to kill lyx manually. I am wondering where the problem is, because I actually can launch pdflatex from texlipse (an eclipse plugin) with success and from the command line, of course. So what's going wrong with lyx here? I am currently using a customized cls/layout style file with the newest Miktex distribution. I hope someone out there could give me any hints or point me to a workaround. Regards Florian Kamm Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany What happens if you view the document with View-PDF (pdflatex) in LyX? Does it display and, if not, does the LaTeX log file (Document-LaTeX log) reveal anything about the problem? If View-PDF (pdflatex) hangs with no log entry, try exporting the document as a LaTeX file and then run pdflatex against it from the command line. Does that work, and/or does the log reveal anything? /Paul
Re: [WinXP, LyX 1.4.2] Export to pdf with pdflatex
Florian Kamm wrote: the View-PDF (pdflatex) causes the same bahavior I described above. Then I looked into the temporary folder LyX was using during the run. Surprisingly I found a fine pdf-file, correctly put together (the toc, normal text and bibliography). But LyX still hangs and needs to killed via process manager. The log-file doesn't report any problems. Further launching from the command line works well. Does the document contain graphics and, if so, are they intact in the pdf output file? Someone had a problem similar to this generating LaTeX output -- turned out to be something pplatex was doing in post-processing -- but I have not seen this with pdflatex. You might try the following: Open a DOS prompt in the LyX bin directory, and start LyX with 'lyx -dbg latex'. Then open the document and either export or view using pdflatex. The DOS window will get a lot of debugging output, but only the chunk just before the hang will be of interest. When the hang occurs, take a look in the task list and see if you can see pdflatex still running. The most likely explanation for LyX hanging would be that pdflatex never exits. (If it exited with an error code, I assume LyX would register that, although I can't swear that it would.) /Paul
Re: lyx and beamer
Tino Langer wrote: Hello, I want to use lyx to write some slides with the beamer package. Is it possible to do this? I use miketex 2.5, installed the beamer package, did a reconfigure of lyx but can not find beamer as document type. How to do this? thanx, nice day - Tino LyX is a great way to write beamer slides. Assuming that you are using LyX 1.4.x, do the following. Locate miktex root directory\tex\latex\beamer\lyx\layouts\beamer.layout, copy it, and put the copy in C:\Documents and Settings\your login id\Application Data\LyX1.4.x\layouts\. Then start LyX, run Tools-Reconfigure, exit and restart LyX. Beamer should show up in the list of document types. /Paul
Re: Navigating in a big document
Elver Loho wrote: I was wondering... How do you guys navigate around in large files? I avoid large files ... because I avoid doing the amount of work needed to generate one. :-) I've got a 40-some page screenplay and working with it is a bit of a pain. It would be great if I could collapse scenes into just the scene header (int/ext) when not working directly with them. Sort of like most code editors allow. This may be clunky, but (assuming you have LyX 1.4.x) you could put each scene in a separate branch. Go to Document-Settings-Branches, type Scene_1 (or whatever label you wish, but no spaces allowed) into the field labeled New:, and click Add. Repeat ad nauseum. Then highlight each scene and click (De)activate. (I'm assuming that you want all scenes printed when you display/print/export the document.) You can optionally assign background colors to their boxes. Click OK when done. Now position the cursor where you want to enter a scene and click Insert-Branch-Scene_1 (or whichever scene label applies). Type the scene in the branch box. If you already have it typed, highlight it and then click Insert-Branch-Scene_1, and the highlighted text will be moved into the branch box. Branch boxes can be collapsed and expanded by clicking on them. When collapsed, the first few characters are displayed, so it might be helpful if your scenes started with meaningful labels. /Paul
Re: [WinXP, LyX 1.4.2] Export to pdf with pdflatex
Florian Kamm wrote: Well, I followed your suggestions and it seems that LyX hangs while pdflatex is scanning the .aux file (which contains the correct information if I open it manually). For debugging reasons I deleted the bibliography stuff, but the problem still exists. If I stop the scanning by pressing Ctrl-C the pdf generation will succeed. Is it possible that the problems are caused by my - possibly buggy - cls style file? You said that if you use File-Export-LaTeX and then run pdflatex manually, the document compiles correctly (nothing hangs), right? If so, then it shouldn't be the class file, because the same class file is being used in the manual run. If I'm wrong about exporting to LaTeX working, then that suggests either the class file or the document itself has something funny in it. If pdflatex is hanging while scanning the auxiliary file, it could be that the file is terminated incorrectly (so that pdflatex is waiting for more input), or it could be that something has a lock on the file (and pdflatex is waiting to begin reading it). Do you have labels and cross-references in the document? IIRC, the .aux file is also used for cross-references, not just citations. I'm not sure what one could do with a cross-reference that would cause pdflatex to hang -- missing labels would not cause that -- but perhaps if a label contains a non-latin character it might cause a problem. (I'm groping in a very dark place here.) /Paul
Re: [WinXP, LyX 1.4.2] Export to pdf with pdflatex
Florian Kamm wrote: Compiling the document manually works very well, in my case I do - pdflatex example.tex - bibtex example - pdflatex example.tex - pdflatex example.tex and it finishes successfully. I take that to mean that your class file is not the culprit, and there is nothing off in your .bib file. There have been reports of problems that traced back to a defective entry in a .bib file, but that would not seem to be the case here. If pdflatex is hanging while scanning the auxiliary file, it could be that the file is terminated incorrectly (so that pdflatex is waiting for more input), or it could be that something has a lock on the file (and pdflatex is waiting to begin reading it). This might be possible, but how to debug? In a posting from the texlipse mailing list I read about texify. So I replaced the pdflatex.exe command in LyX with texify.exe plus additional parameters for pdf generation and then I could export my LyX documents to pdf. And there were no errors... Did the additional parameters cause pdflatex to be run, or was the PDF output generated by a different mechanism (for instance, ps2pdf)? Do you have labels and cross-references in the document? IIRC, the .aux file is also used for cross-references, not just citations. I'm not sure what one could do with a cross-reference that would cause pdflatex to hang -- missing labels would not cause that -- but perhaps if a label contains a non-latin character it might cause a problem. (I'm groping in a very dark place here.) No, but the .aux file contains some data about footnotes (in my document class I use the footmisc package) as well as citation data. Hypothetically, an unreadable character in a footnote could cause problems -- I think I've seen reports that traced back to foreign (at least, non-English) characters in footnotes -- but that would not explain why you have no problem running the document manually. When you run manually, do you do it by exporting a .tex file and then running? If so, have you tried executing View-LaTeX (pdflatex), killing the job when it hangs, then running pdflatex (then bibtex, then pdflatex twice more) against the .tex file in the temp directory? If that hangs where running against an exported copy succeeds, that would suggest that there is something in the copy exported to the temp file (either in the .tex file or in the .bib file) causing the problem. The two exports are not identical: LyX modifies file names and paths in the copy exported to the temp directory. /Paul
Re: table-editing a mess
Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, I have just almost gone crazy editing a table that was too large to fit on screen. (Yes I reduced the font/screen zoom to work around, thank you. No, I won't upgrade my monitor just yet, sorry.) Together with many other quirks of table editing, especially in the dialog that seems to be broken in many respects, but also slow responsiveness to typing, these problems almost made me go back and write the table in plain latex directly. I think that is a serious warning sign! I love Lyx, especially because math and table editing is so much easier than with a (even good) text editor. IMHO, these are the strenghts that Lyx should expand, and not all is well in those areas. I am aware there is a shortage of developers, so priorities have to be carefully chosen. I am not questioning the usefulness of what is currently being done, but I do have the feeling that fixing some long-standing issues receives less attention than introducing new features. The latter is more fun, and so the situation is perfectly understandable, and it probably happens with every software project. But IMHO it is also the reason why the userbase of lyx is far from what it could be! This is intended as constructive criticism, please take it as such, not as any kind of attack. Thank you for your hard work. I don't recall having any problems with the table dialog (other than having to remember that some field entries don't take effect if I click out of the field rather than hitting enter), and response speed to typing is not a problem (possibly because I tend to work with relatively small documents), but I definitely agree that it's a PITA having portions of a table off screen. Without lateral scrolling, the only way to get to the off-screen parts is with the cursor keys (or the tab key?), and the cursor key causes the display to jump around in what I consider to be unpredictable ways. This is also a problem with math insets that run off the screen. My biggest wish for LyX right now would be a horizontal scroll bar for math insets and tables that don't fit on screen. This was discussed on the list (maybe for math insets?) not too long ago, but I can't find an enhancement request in bugzilla, so I guess nobody ever submitted it. /Paul
Re: renaming section numbering
pol wrote:
I have renamed section numbering as the following (rather long) string:
{Title \arabic{section}:}
In the table of contents, section 'numbers' appear overlappped to section
names.
See enclosed test file.
Is that a bug?
No, it's LaTeX behaving normally.
Any hints to fix that?
Assuming that you really want the TOC to include the word Title at the
start of each chapter (??), you need to tell LaTeX to allocate more
space for chapter numbers in the TOC. Have a look at the labelwidth
entries in
http://www.tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=tocloft/TOC
with particular note of the tocloft package (which might be the least
painful way to do it).
/Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Works for me (albeit on Win XP, not WinServer 03). The first error
sounds like you don't have the setspace package installed, which you
need if you're going to vary the spacing of pieces of the document. If
you open a DOS windows and type 'kpsewhich setspace.sty', do you get
back a path to the file? If not, try installing it. (If you're using
MikTeX, you can run MikTeX's Package Manager from the program menu and
use it to install setspace. If you're using a different LaTeX
distribution, it may mean downloading the package yourself and manually
installing it.)
If you have setspace.sty, in LyX click Help-LaTeX Configuration, scroll
down to section 7.13 (or just search for setspace), and see if it says
'yes'. If not, LyX didn't find setspace during installation, which
means (assuming you have it installed) something burped during the
installation.
If you have setspace and LyX knows you have setspace, the best I can
suggest is cutting down your document to a minimal example that screws
up and then posting it to the list. Sometimes things get out of order,
or the document gets damaged, but the only way I know to diagnose that
is to look at the source code, and you have to know what you're
looking for. Which means consulting the experts on the list. (Which
excludes me.)
/Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational. Not to worry, I haven't been for years. ;-) I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the LaTeX Configuration 7.13 was a no, as were quite a few other packages (4.x 6.x 7.x I think) I decided to update MikTeX to 2.5 and see if that would help, no go. Sorry, I forgot to say that if you had to install setspace you would also have to reconfigure and restart LyX. I see you got there on your own eventually. I went to the LyX-Tools-Reconfigure and after many many pop-up to download files, it seems to have finished. I shut down LyX and restarted my computer. I went to LaTeX Configuration and Lo! there were many more yeses, including 7.13. I went to my little document (it's just three lines, nothing special) selected single spacing, tried to render to dvi, and now get a brand new error the package download pop-ups I saw when I reconfigured saying that the required file tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty is missing and needs to be downloaded. I press install, it pops up again, the document renders, but without the single spacing I wanted. I close down yap, make a change (so I don't get the cached dvi) CTRL-D, and the same download pop-up appears. If I press cancel instead of install I get a pop-up that say an empty output file was generated click okay, get a familiar LaTeX error message that File 'setspace.sty' not found. By the way, I checked, and it *is* in the E:\texmf\tex\latex\setspace folder (E: is my boot drive.) Any suggestions? The pop-ups are coming from MikTeX, not LyX, so apparently MikTeX is confused about the status of setspace -- although if LyX has a yes next to it in the LaTeX Configuration page, it means that MikTeX knew it was there when LyX reconfigured. If you run 'kpsewhich setspace.sty' from a DOS prompt, does it find the copy in E:\...\setspace? You can try the following (although it shouldn't be necessary): Run the MikTeX Options program from the Start menu, and on the General tab click Refresh FNDB. (No restart or reconfiguring of LyX is required after this.) /Paul
Re: ABNT Class
Carlos Knauer wrote: Hello. I want to use abnt class on LyX.The file abnt.layout is atC:\Arquivos de programas\LyX141\Resources\layouts , but LyX doesn't recognize it. What is wrong ? Thanks, Did you reconfigure LyX after installing the layout file? /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Cheers-- I did everything you suggested, and there are no more error messages. Jeers-- It only kinda works. The original document rendered as dvi without complaint, but did not heed my single spacing instructions. I thought that might be something to do with my original file, so I made a new one with just three lines, and no other formatting but single spacing. It worked! If the entire document is single-spaced, then the setspace package is not used. But when I right, left, or center align it (with the paragraph dialog) it doesn't work (It double spaces, I think). It only works with the default alignment of justified. B! Is there any kind of example LyX document with different formatting tests? For all I know there might be many other problems with my installation preventing documents from rendering correctly. I've attached a document that is double-spaced by default, but the middle paragraph is single-spaced and right-justified. I used the paragraph settings dialog both from the Edit menu and from the tool button (not that it should matter), and it worked both ways. Thanks so much for your help. (And no, I was not fully operational either even before using LyX.) Well, perhaps LyX will set you right. :-) spacing.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: String with actual date (+ time)
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi list, quite often I would like to insert the actual date (and time) into my LyX text as a string. (Printing the document this date would be always the same in contrast to \today.) Does anybody have an idea how this could be realised in LyX? As menu item? As Icon? As key stroke sequence (which I would prefer ;-)? Actually I'm using LyX-1.3.5 with KDE-3.4 but in a few days I will start using LyX-1.4.2 with KDE-3.5.2 on my new machine. Greetings from Munich Hellmut Half an answer: Type M-x to open the command minibuffer, then date-insert (enter) in the minibuffer to insert the date at the current cursor position. You could bind the date-insert command to a key combination for easy access. I don't know any way to insert the current time, though. Maybe something with a shell script? (Or bug the developers to add a time-insert LFUN?) /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Don't know why, but that's true here too, and not just for your document. I'd never noticed it before, because I've never had a reason to try to save a DVI file from Yap. (The file already exists, else Yap couldn't be displaying it, and AFAIK Yap cannot modify a file.) To save a DVI from LyX, you can just use File-Export-DVI. Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure you're bumping into a LaTeX issue. (Disclaimer: I'm not a TeXpert, so believe the following at your own peril.) The attached revision of your file displays the way I think you intended (other than that the justified/default spaced paragraphs have a somewhat funky spacing of the first line, which I think would be improved if you turned off the option to indent the first line of each paragraph). What's going on is that each of your verses, as typed into your original document, is actually four paragraphs (one per line). Using default spacing, and with the setting that paragraphs start with an indented line rather than with extra vertical space, this works ok, because when you left-align or justify them each line indents the same amount as its mates (and of course the indentation is irrelevant when you center- or right-align). When you deviate from default spacing, however, LaTeX automatically inserts some extra vertical space before and after the spacing changes. Since each line is a new paragraph for you, this extra spacing is inserted around each line, hence the distinct deviation from single-spacing in the output. In the attached version, I merged each verse into a single paragraph by changing paragraph breaks to line breaks (C-enter rather than enter), as signified by the arrows at the ends of the lines. The fourth line of each verse ends with a paragraph break (enter rather than C-enter). Hope that makes sense. /Paul help2.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Linebreaking fails for url at end of line
Chris Lale wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Chris Lale wrote: Is there any way to force LyX to treat the url as an ordinary long word that cannot be split with a hyphen? You are aware of Insert-URL? Thanks for the suggestion. This is a pretty good solution. Unfortunately, the url or pathname is split between lines. So I get: http://tuxmobil. org/pcmcia_linux.html and /etc/network/ interfaces But, they are splitting intelligently. Chris. You might want to take a look at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/32114/focus=32119 and at the documentation at the end of the url.sty file. There are also some LaTeX settings (sorry, don't recall them offhand) for convincing LaTeX to be more or less anal about paragraph boundaries. Part of your problem is that LaTeX does not automatically assume (I think) that an unbreakable word at the end of an overlong line gets wrapped to the next line -- it chooses between wrapping to the next line or violating the right margin based on some rules for evaluating which is worse. Picture a very long URL that would go one or two characters into the right margin; wrapping it to the next line produces an extremely short preceding line. There's a way to make LaTeX more reluctant to go into the margin (and therefore less finicky about short lines), but that's the setting I'm forgetting. HTH, /Paul /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Oh--I figured out the right address thing--the right address setting! Who da thunk? I guess I am now fully operational. :-) Careful. The Gods of Computing regard statements like that as a challenge. /Paul
Re: optional arguments for theorems?
John Perry wrote:
Hello,
It is not uncommon in LaTeX to include optional arguments to
theorem-like environments, for example
\begin{theorem}[Buchberger, 1965]
...
\end{theorem}
The result (which can vary according the style file) should look
something like
Theorem 1 (Buchberger, 1965) ...
(See the section on theorems of the LaTeX User's Guide and Reference
Manual, page 59 in my version.)
For the life of me, I can't see how to pass this oprtional argument in
Lyx. I looked in the help manuals. I've downloaded browsed the source
code, thinking that if the feature hasn't been implemented, I might as
well make myself useful and modify the code myself. Unfortunately, my
analysis skills aren't what they should be; after spending a few hours
trying to figure out which class generates the LaTeX code to start a
theorem-like environment (I was looking for \\begin{ but that failed),
I figured I'd do better to ask someone.
If the mechanism exists in Lyx already, I'd love to know it. If it
doesn't, I'm still willing to make the change myself, if someone can
direct me to the files in the source code where I should look.
regards
jack perry
At the very beginning of the Theorem environment, try insert an ERT
inset (the TEX button on the toolbar), and in it type [Buchberger,
1965] (no quotes) plus maybe a trailing space.
/Paul
Re: Beamer / Lyx/ Handouts
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
Paul Fenner wrote:
Can somebody please point me in the right direction to create handouts from
my beamer presentation. I have tried to follow the Beamer Class Tutorial
but I am getting hopelessly lost. I am using Windows XP / LyX 1.4.
To generate simple Handouts (i.e. the slides printed on a sheet),
1. enter handout to Document-Settings-Class Options
2. enter to the preamble:
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]
Then View-PDFlatex
(there's a typo at least in my German version of the beamer user guide).
Jürgen
I use just step 1 to generate handouts (which are one slide to a page).
To get multiple slides on a page, I generate the handout file with one
slide per page, open the file in Acrobat Reader, and print it using a
drive that outputs a PDF file (PDFCreator in my case). The printer
options allow you to do 2, 4 or 6 slides per page, pick paper size, and
pick portrait or landscape orientation. If you take this route, be sure
to select the option to stretch pages to the page margins.
/Paul
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased
Paul Schwartz wrote: Sorry to disturb again and coming back so far but when I installed 1.3.7, I used the uninstaller program supplied with the former version to uninstall it. Now if I want to uninstall 1.3.7, I still have a uninstall program inside 1.3.7. However in 1.4.1, I just have an icon and nothing else and I am sure that it is far better to uninstall 1.4.1 ahead of installing 1.4.2 or 1.4.3. Personally, I have 1.4.1, 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 installed in parallel, with no major problems. (They all share configuration info, so preference changes in one apply to all, but to date I have not found any conflicts there.) Interestingly, I have uninstallers for 1.4.1 and 1.4.3, but not for 1.4.2. My question is how to unistall it properly (the one supplied with the complete version installer for windows without compiling). May I use the unistaller supplied with 1.3.7 or have you an better suggestion. The 1.3.7 uninstaller is unlikely to know what to do to uninstall 1.4.1. Have you checked Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs to make sure that 1.4.1 is not listed there? If it is, you should be able to uninstall it from there. I just crawled my registry and didn't find anything particularly funky associated with the directory in which I have 1.4.1 installed. So if I wanted to delete 1.4.1 and lacked the installer, here's what I would do: install 1.4.3 first (in a different directory) and make sure it works (!); note down the path to 1.4.1 and then delete its root directory and all subdirectories; then either (a) quit while I'm ahead and live with a little harmless clutter in the registry or (b) run a registry cleaner program that hopefully would delete any keys referring to the now nonexistent 1.4.1 directory or (c) run regedit, search for all references to the deleted directory and manually delete them. HTH, Paul
Re: Read only mode?
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Can I do that with lyx 1.4.3? How? When I enter buffer-readonly-toggle on the minibuffer, I got an Unknown action... In minibuffer tab is your friend. :-) buffer-toggle-read-only That works. The syntax is slightly different from what I used. Thanks. And how can I include a Toggle Read Only option in the Edit menu (or as an icon on the toolbar)? (Note: I have not tested the following.) I think you can edit .../Resources/ui/stdmenus.ui and add a new Item to the edit menu, something like Item Toggle read-only|Q buffer-toggle-read-only (perhaps changing Q to a more salubrious hot key, or omitting it). I would save the hacked file in the ui subfolder under your home directory, so that it would survive reinstallations and upgrades. On the other hand, the path of least resistance might be simply to use File-New from template... to open documents you don't want to modify. The resulting file is writable, but it gets a default name (e.g. newfile1.lyx), so inadvertently saving it will at worst clutter your drive a bit. /Paul
LyX 1.4.3/Aspell problem (WinXP)
Hi, I just installed 1.4.3 in parallel with 1.4.2 and 1.4.1. (As usual, thanks to the developers for cranking out another new and improved version, and to all involved with the Windows port.) During the installation process, I think the installer parked some Aspell-related files under C:\Documents and Settings\what_a_handsome_guy\Application Data\Aspell. That is to say, the files are there now, I don't remember if they were there before, and during the installation progress report I think I saw something on the what I'm up to line about something going in up there. I already had Aspell 0.50, the necessary bits of 0.60, and assorted dictionaries installed under C:\Aspell. The problem is, when I try to check spelling in 1.4.3, I'm informed that 'No word lists can be found for the language en_US'. On the other hand, 1.4.2 (which is using the same preferences file etc.) seems to have no trouble finding them. I'm hoping I don't have to reinstall Aspell each time there's an upgrade to LyX. Any ideas what I can do to cure this? Thanks, Paul (whose spelling, while good, is not entirely perfect)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased
Paul Schwartz wrote: In fact there is so many aside programs with LyX that I am always afraid to miss one and for that reason, till today, each time I have fully update (reinstalling everything). But, if I follow you properly, when you have got one installation, let us say 1.4.1, you just need to install 1.4.3 and keep former Miktex, ImageMagick, Ghostscript, Aspell ( I am not sure ) and GSView or to update them directly. As such I should have just to download LyX 1.4.3. Am I correct ? Yes, that is correct. Once you have all the ancillary programs installed (although calling MikTeX ancillary is a bit of the tail wagging the dog), you need only upgrade LyX itself (using the more compact of the installers). Similarly, ImageMagick, Ghostscript/GSView and MikTeX can be upgraded independently. (I would be a bit hesitant to upgrade Aspell, as the connections from LyX to Aspell are hard-wired.) In point of fact, I don't know that I've ever upgraded ImageMagick, I upgrade Ghostscript at best sporadically, but I do try to keep MikTeX up to date, and that seems to work well for me. /Paul
Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.
Mukhtar Ullah wrote: sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just to let you know, I have the same problem with 143-2 for windows. The same problem here with LyX 143-2 for Windows-XP. What's going on here? Mukhtar I just saw an announcement on the developer list that a -3 version of the Windows installer will be on the FTP server soon that purportedly solves the problem. (Seems to be something relating to whether the right bits of Visual C++ already exist on your system? Must be I got lucky on this one; 1.4.3-1 worked for me.) /Paul
Re: How to use style file
winson wrote:
Hello there:
I am planning to submit a paper to a journal. The
format of the journal paper is provided as a style
file, say 'ndst.sty'.
I am using LyX 1.42 on Windows XP. Following the
instructions in 'Customization' manual, I did the
following:
1)I made a copy of 'artical.layout', and renamed it to
'ndst.layout'.
2)I modified the top lines of 'ndst.layout' to
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on
this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[article,
ndst.sty]{article(ndst)}
Preamble
\usepackage{ndst}
EndPreamble
The remaining lines of 'ndst.layout' are kept
unchanged.
After I reconfigured LyX and re-started LyX, the
document classs Article(ndst) is still marked as
'UnAvailable'.
This may be caused by that the system could not locate
file 'ndst.sys', as I am not sure where to put it. I
would appreciate if anyone can give me some help on
how to configure LyX on Windows XP, so that the
document class in style file can be applied to my
paper.
If you have not already done so, you first need to put ndst.sty in a
directory where LaTeX will find it and then refresh the LaTeX file name
database. After that, you need to reconfigure and restart LyX.
Where to put ndst.sys is somewhat up to you. If you have a localtexmf
directory defined, my suggestion would be to put it in a directory such
as localtexmf\tex\latex\ndst (which you will need to create). If you
don't have a localtexmf, you can put it under texmf\tex\latex\ndst,
where texmf is the root of your LaTeX distribution. (If you're a
MikTeX user, which is likely, try running
kpsewhich article.cls
from a DOS prompt. It should cough up blah/blah/blah/base/article.cls.
Change 'base' to 'ndst' and put it there.)
As to how you refresh the file name database, that varies by LaTeX
distribution. If you're a MikTeX user, run the Options application from
the Start menu and click 'Refresh FNDB' on the General tab. Then
reconfigure/restart LyX
/Paul
Re: Debugging python scripts called by LyX
Giovanni, One of the developers starting experiencing similar symptoms. His post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the developer list suggests that it might be tied to an upgrade from MikTeX 2.4 to 2.5. He thinks it only occurs when trying to update a DVI that yap currently has open. I can't recall the original symptoms you reported, so I'm not sure if this is consistent with your experiments. /Paul
Re: incompatibility of layouts bteween version 1.3 and 1.4
nicolas roy wrote: Dear all, First sorry for bothering. I should first check in the archive if my issue was not already discussed, but the webpage of the archived list does not function. Up to recently, i had Lyx 1.3.6 and i used several layout (for mathematics article, with theorem environnments) that i found on internet (they were some months/years ago available on the Lyx webpage). Unfortunately, since i updated to 1.4 version, these old layouts do not function any more. Therefore, the environments of all my old documents are completely messed-up. Nevertheless, i read somewhere that lyx 1.4 should automaticaly update the layouts files. Does anyone have an idea/comment ?? Thanks, in advance. In the .../scripts directory of 1.4.x, do you have a Python script named layout2layout? If so, you might try running it manually against your old layouts. /Paul
Re: LyX143-3 works
Giovani Baratto wrote: The lyx 1.4.3-3 install now and run. However, the math fonts are wrong for me. Giovani Do you have the BaKoMa fonts installed? If not, you can get them (at least for Windows) from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip. Note that with Windows it's not enough to unzip the files; you need to run the Fonts applet (from Control Panel) and install them. /Paul
Re: What happened to the tool bar buttons: view dvi/pdf and refresh dvi?
Graeme Handisides wrote: Hi, I have previously used Lyx 1.4.1 and 1.4.2. on Win XP. After installing 1.4.3 I deinstalled 1.4.2. Under my previous installation the default toolbar had 3 buttons to produce a dvi preview, refresh the dvi and preview a pdf file. These have now disappeared and as I used them quite a bit, I would like to know how to get them back. Can anybody help me on this one. I have looked at the ui files, but it didn't help much, except to confirm that these buttons no longer seem to exist. Try the following: 1. Copy stdtoolbars.ui from the Resources\ui folder under the LyX installation directory, and park the copy in C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data\LyX1.4.x\ui. 2. Use a text editor to add the following lines to the copy: Separator Item View DVI buffer-view dvi Item Update DVI buffer-update dvi Item View PDF buffer-view pdf2 The last line is set to use pdflatex to generate the PDF views, because that's what I always use. If you want to use a different compilation method, change 'pdf2' to 'pdf', 'pdf3' or whatever the file type is (in the File formats dialog under Preferences) for you preferred route. You can put them at the end of the standard toolbar (just after Item insert table ...) or the extra toolbar (just after Item Thesaurus ...), whichever you prefer. 3. Start LyX and see if you like what you get. I didn't find an icon for viewing PDF files, so apparently you get a generic gear icon. /Paul
Re: Textclass other errors on new install
Russell W. Behne wrote: I just (re)installed Linux (Mandriva 2006) on cleanly formatted partitions, and when I open LyX (ver 1.3.5) I get an error message saying: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class article. LyX will not be able to produce output. Other documents give the same error, but for a different tex class, depending on whatever one that document is supposed to be using. I also noticed that there's no longer several menu items, things like previewing in PS or PDF, and exporting to anything other than ascii. I have another directory, /usr/local/texmf/tex/latex where I keep style files that I downloaded. (I keep them there to both make them available to all users, and to survive formats and reinstalls of other partitions.) After every reinstall I run this command sequence from a batch file: rm -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf cp /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/bin/mktexlsr where /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf is a custom texmf.cnf that makes LyX recognize these files. (/usr/local is a separate partition, _all_ other partitions were formatted during this reinstall.) (Some files I wanted to keep were copied to another drive prior to doing the format.) Unfortunately, in addition to the previously mentioned problems, LyX can't find these files anymore, even after I ran the batch file. (This batch file has always worked for me prior to this latest install.) I'm baffled. What's wrong, and what need I do? Did you reconfigure LyX after you ran the batch file? /Paul
Re: Including a figure in the title page in LyX (again)
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: Hello, I have a big lyx document (book format) and I want to include a graphic or logo in the very first page of the title, and above the title. I have tried inserting a figure float, but then the title breaks to the two following page. Has somebody succeed in this in LyX (not in Latex)? Thanks. P.D. I tried the solution proposed my Jose Matos (Fri 28 Jul 2006), but that is a Latex solution (that I think is difficult to implement in LyX) and the package he refers in the link (myTitlePage.sty) does not exists; I can not find it. Try the following: Place the cursor where you want the title and change the environment to Title as usual. Insert a two-row, one-column table and turn off the table borders. Type the title into the second row. Click into the first row and use Insert-Graphics... to insert your logo (no float!). /Paul
Re: toggle math mode
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Joris van Zwieten schrieb: By the way, I'm using version 1.3.7. and I do not seem to have an entry called 'Source' in the 'View' menu. Is this correct? You need LyX 1.5 for this feature. The actual version of LyX is 1.5.2. regards Uwe Prior to 1.5.2, you can go to Preferences - File formats, select LaTeX, and assign a text viewer program in the viewer slot. (On Windows, I like the free TextView program.) Save the change, and make sure that the app you selected is on your system path (or else provide the full path to it). I think you'll need to restart LyX. Thereafter, you should have LaTeX as an option on the View menu. Unlike the 1.5.2 feature, this will not take you directly to the position in the source code where your cursor lies; it will open the entire .tex file. Still, I got good use out of it prior to 1.5.2. /Paul
Re: Script Conversion Failure
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Sorry, here's my question with a corrected title: When I try to open example lyx files posted on this list, I get a conversion script failure: filename.lyz is from an earlier version of lyx, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it I'm running LyX 1.4.1. Must I upgrade to 1.5? Bruce I suspect the error message is misworded. Most of the examples posted recently on the list have been in the current file format (current = used by 1.5.1 and 1.5.2; this is obviously a moving target). So the issue would be that the file was written in a later format, not an earlier one. The lyx2lyx script has an optional argument indicating the format to which to convert. (It also has an optional from argument, though I don't see in the code where that is used. But then I don't really speak Python.) It might be that if you acquire just the lyx2lyx directory from 1.5.x, and have a reasonably up-to-date version of Python installed, you could convert recent files backward to 1.4.x. It looks to me as though the script I have in 1.5.2 is designed for backward as well as forward conversions. But the script that shipped with 1.4.x would not be able to convert to/from 1.5.x formats. /Paul
Re: what happened to AMS article in 1.5.2?
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: I used to have no problem setting my documents to “article (AMS)” but with 1.5.2 I get an error message saying that the AMS article class layout isn’t usable, probably because a latex class is missing. I would check for the missing class if I knew where to look. At a DOS prompt, run 'kpsewhich amsart.cls'. It should tell you the path to the AMS article class (such as C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.6/tex/latex/amscls/amsart.cls). How does Lyx know where to find Latex? It expects the LaTeX (in this case MikTeX) bin directory to be on either you system command path or the the LyX path prefix (Tools - Preferences - Paths - PATH prefix). If it's not, article (AMS) won't be the only problem; you won't be able to use any classes, and probably won't be able to open the help files. Also, I heard there’s something you have to do to update MikTex or something. I doubt you would need to update MikTeX to use the latest AMS layouts, but it's generally a good idea to run MikTeX's update manager periodically. If kpsewhich finds the AMS article class file, check lyx root\Resources\layouts and make sure that amsart.layout is there. If so, maybe try to reconfigure and restart LyX. /Paul
Re: Table View Positioning Bug when Math Editor Field is focused
Mirko Briemle wrote: Hi, I recognized a table view positioning bug in lyx 1.5.2 when I work with a big table and want to enter a math formula. This means, when I make a table that is wider than my screen and than click on one of the right columns, the focus moves with the cursor to the right so this column is in the center of the focus. Now, if I want to enter a math formula and click the Insert Math button, the focus switches back to the very left column. I then have to enter the math formula without seeing what I enter. Is there a way to fix this? Other than editing the formula elsewhere in the document, then cutting it and pasting it into the table cell, I don't know a workaround. It's a variant of bug 4190, and has already been reported. /Paul
Re: layout file not applicable
Melanie Rau wrote: Dear Lyx-Users, I installed the 15.2.1-Version via LyX-1.5.2-1-Installer-Bundle.exe When I trie to open a document, I receive the following error-message (as I installed a German Version, I tried to translate,the original error message is attached as a gif-file): xyz.layout file is not applicable. it is very likely that a necessary latex-class or style-file is not available. I tried to find a solution in the help-documents, but I failed. Thanks a lot for your help! Melanie The most likely reason for this is that your MikTeX installation is missing a class or style file that the layout file requires. For instance, someone recently reported the same error message when trying to use the article (APA) layout. It turned out that he had the APA class file installed, but not apacite.sty, which the layout file requires. Which layout is causing you the problem? /Paul
Re: LyX 1.5.2 not outputing to DVI, PDF and PS
Luís Batalha wrote: Hi there, I have installed LyX 1.5.2 on Windows XP (running LyX-1.5.2-1-Installer.exe) and was not able to make DVI, PS, PDF right from the start. When I try to export one of the templates or tutorial, or whatever to one of these formats I get these messages: LyX: Document class not available The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the customization documentation for more information. LyX will not be able to produce output. I click OK and the document shows up in input mod (LyX), but when I try to export it to one of the three formats I get this: No information for exporting the format DVI No information for exporting the format PDF No information for exporting the format Postscript When I open the document settings tab I see that all the document classes are unavailable. I have MikTeX 2.5 and installed and uninstalled LyX a couple of times without success. What might be the problem and how can I deal with it? I am new to LyX and this is probably just trivia. Most likely LyX cannot find MikTeX. Is the MikTeX bin directory on your system command path? If you open a DOS prompt and run 'kpsewhich article.cls', does it report back the path to article class file? If MikTeX is not on the system path, try adding it to the system path and then reconfigure (Tools menu) and restart LyX. If MikTeX is on the path and kpsewhich finds article.cls, try opening a DOS prompt in the parent directory of your user directory (Help - About LyX will tell you the user directory -- it's typically C:\Documents and Settings\you\Application Data\lyx15\, so you want the prompt in ...\Application Data). From there, run path to LyX\python\python.exe path to LyX\Resources\configure.py and keep an eye on the output. Early on, it will indicate it is looking for LaTeX, and you should get a 'yes' for latex.exe. If you do not, it's still not seeing MikTeX, or MikTeX is somehow broken. /Paul
Re: errors during the latex run
e-letter wrote: Readers, I am trying to create a custom bibtex style file, using the merlin.mbs function. When I try to preview the lyx document in the di viewer I get an error about the latex run, furthermore stating I should try to fix them. How do I find out what were the errors in the first instance? Document - LaTeX Log should show them. /Paul
Re: Change PDF viewer (windows)
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, how can I change the PDF viewer - without changing the windows default PDF viewer? I tried changing Viewer in Tools -- Preferences -- File formats, but * absolut path did not work * adding the path to the viewer exe to Tools -- Preferences -- Paths -- PATH prefix did not help * now I put the pdf viewer exe in the LyX bin folder - this works, but isn't there another way? Regards, Toby I have done this in the past by putting the path to the viewer in the PATH prefix. I assume that you also specified the viewer in the File formats (and then clicked Modify followed by Save)? Can you specify which viewer you tried and exactly what you did in both the PATH prefix and the formats section? /Paul
Re: X-fonts (pleeeeeeeeease help)
Grzegorz Sójka wrote: Hi there, I have a problem with lyx-1.3.6. The mathematical signs like \cup \cap \int are not displayed. Instead of it I get empty square. I have no idea what I should look for. Please help. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Best regards. Greg PS. I'm using X11-org-6.9.0 You may be missing the necessary display fonts. Have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Qt for various ways to install suitable fonts. /Paul
Re: Live Latex Editing
Atakan Kubilay wrote: This is just a call for an added feature I have sorely felt the absence of: I want to be able to edit Latex code-not just preview it-while typing. Someone else suggested/requested this recently. I'm not sure if it was entered into bugzilla as an enhancement request. I know it can be a big mess if a novice Latexer edits the code, but there can just be a big warning message like that appears on the top of the document. It's more complicated than that. If you modify the LaTeX source (as opposed to entering LaTeX in an ERT box), LyX would have to reverse-engineer your changes in order to keep the display correct. (With ERT, LyX makes no attempt to format your entry for the display.) So you now require LyX to understand a virtually unlimited amount of LaTeX syntax (I say unlimited because, of course, LaTeX is designed to be extended by macro packages). /Paul
Re: problems with amsart layout
Antonio José Guirao Sánchez wrote:
Hello, in the wiki we can find two layout for amsart. Since I
downloaded the version 1.5.2 for windows, automatically i downloaded
the same version of this layout. However I have realized of a big
problem of that layout. I wrote a paper with several lemmas,
propositions and theorems, but the first environment of this kind
appearing in the paper was a lemma. I couldn't obtain a pdf file from
this. I realized that amsart. layout version 1.5.2 added some lines
defining the respective environments but exactly in the order the were
appearing. So first is was defined lemmas and secondly theorem. But this
is a problem since the definition of the lemma depends on the counter
associated to the theorem which is defined afterwards.
OOPS! I verified this. The attached version of amsmaths.inc should fix
it. You can either put this in ~/.lyx/layouts or overwrite the original
in the layouts directory with it. I'll post it to the wiki shortly.
I solved this problem with amsart. layout version 1.4. But this layout
also has a problem. When I want to write an Abstract, since I am Spanish
I select the type of paragraph Resumen but the environment lyx
introduce is not what I want. It introduces something like
\begin{summary}\end{summary}. I know that this has a simple solution
writing just a ERT command. But I know that LyX recognizes the paragraph
ABSTRACT. The point is that, maybe is a mistake in the amsart. layout o
is a problem with the translation to Spanish.
I think this is a translation issue. Is it also a problem with 1.5?
I can fix this layout for me but I prefer if someone can take a look on
it and create a good layout for amsart, which is in my opinion, one of
the most used layouts.
Well, we've been trying to produce a good layout for amsart (and its
plain and sequential variants), but that seems to be proving a bit
elusive. :-) If you find further bugs (or missing features), please
post them here, and someone will attempt a fix.
/Paul
# Author : David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Probably broken by Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# modified and modularized by Emmanuel GUREGHIAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# This version has Theorems and other results numbered in one sequence, and all
# numbered environments (figures as well) containing the section number.
# (Themorem (1.1), Corollary (1.2) Theorem (1.3), etc.
# These are only the theorems styles environnements
# Tinkered with Sep. '07 by Paul Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# The environnements defined (regular and starred) are :
# - Theorem
# - Corollary
# - Lemma
# - Proposition
# - Conjecture
# - Criterion
# - Algorithm
# - Axiom
# - Definition
# - Example
# - Condition
# - Problem
# - Exercise
# - Remark
# - Note
# - Notation
# - Claim
# - Summary
# - Acknowledgement
# - Conclusion
# - Fact
# - Assumption
# - Case (regular only -- defined as an enumeration)
Format 4
Counter
Name theorem
Within section
End
# Define thm up front, in case it is invoked by a lemma/conjecture/...
# before the first (if any) instance of Theorem.
Preamble
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[section]
EndPreamble
Style Theorem
MarginFirst_Dynamic
LatexType Environment
LatexName thm
#DependsOn TheoremStyle
NextNoIndent 1
LabelSep xx
ParIndent MMM
ParSkip 0.4
ItemSep 0.2
TopSep0.7
BottomSep 0.7
ParSep0.3
Align Block
AlignPossible Block, Left
LabelType Counter
LabelCounter theorem
LabelString Theorem @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Font
Shape Italic
SizeNormal
EndFont
LabelFont
Shape Up
Series Bold
EndFont
End
Style Theorem*
CopyStyle Theorem
LatexName thm*
LabelType Static
LabelString Theorem.
Preamble
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem*{thm*}{Theorem}
EndPreamble
End
Style Corollary
CopyStyle Theorem
LatexName cor
LabelString Corollary @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Preamble
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{cor}[thm]{Corollary}
EndPreamble
End
Style Corollary*
CopyStyle Theorem*
LatexName cor*
LabelString Corollary.
Preamble
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem*{cor*}{Corollary}
EndPreamble
End
Style Lemma
CopyStyle Theorem
LatexName lem
Re: Live Latex Editing
Ryan Cross wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the understanding you are referring to is already available - it is the relyx command that is used when opening/importing a latex file. So, what this is a request for is a relyx in place option - which is listed on the wiki with several other feature requests. With that in mind, I don't think this request is quite as complicated as you make out - but i'm not a lyx developer. That sounds about right ... with the observation that relyx will convert an entire document, not just a modified section. I don't know the workings of relyx, so I don't know if it would be easy to have an on-the-fly relyx convert just modified pieces of a document. If it has to convert the entire document, that has implications for usability when working on a large document. The other issue is that I think relyx tends to leave some chunks of LaTeX as raw LaTeX (in ERT boxes). I'm not sure about this because I virtually never use relyx (lack of need). If I'm right, then a tweak of the raw LaTeX followed by an on-the-fly relyx might convert what was previously a non-ERT element of the document into ERT. Turning a table, for instance, into ERT costs you substantial editing ease. I'm not a developer, though, so an expert opinion would be useful here. /Paul
Re: lyx equivalent to writer styles
e-letter wrote:
In writer I can format text with a style and in turn edit that style,
e.g. format the text into title case.
How do I change the 'section' style, for example to have italicised text?
LyX has user-designable styles, but AFAIK only for ordinary text. This
is in part a LaTeX limitation: LaTeX formats headings differently than
regular text.
To address your specific example, you can load the sectsty package in
the preamble and use the macros it provides (such as
\allsectionsfont{...}) to change the font for section headings. I
believe you can also accomplish this with the titlesec package. Note
that changes you make with either of these will not be reflected in the
GUI, only in the final output.
/Paul
Re: Change PDF viewer (windows)
Tobias Krause wrote: Yes, I did exactly the same - and it did not work when I tried it last time... First I realized that whitespace in the viewer name are not supported so I changed the name of the viewer binary... Whitespace is allowed in the path prefix, though. I just installed PDF-XChangeViewer for test purposes. I did the default installation, put the path (including spaces) in the path prefix, and put the name of the .exe file (which contains no spaces) in the viewer slot of the file format. I assume you did this below, since you were able to load the viewer (and generate the URL message). Just now I tried changing the viewer again (to write a correct answer) and for what ever reason it worked except the thing that PDF-XChange Viewer (http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/pdfx_viewer) does not accept the file path (while it does if it is the system standard for PDFviewing): it say Invalid URL. But since I set PDF-XChange Viewer just for testing purpose I don't care at the moment - but it's still kind of weird: where is the difference in the ways LyX calls the viewer? The problem in this case is that LyX uses Unix-style separators (/) in the file path. Windows understands these correctly, so most applications work, but for some reason PDF-XChangeViewer chokes on them. I verified this by starting PDF-XChangeViewer from the command line, giving it the path to the temp buffer PDF file (in quotes). With DOS separators (\) it works, with Unix separators it gives the URL message. If you ultimately settle on a viewer that has this problem, one solution would be to set the viewer field in the LyX file format entry to a batch file that converts the path and then invokes the viewer. This would be easy to do if you have sed installed. (The GnuWin32 version is a free download.) /Paul
Re: X-fonts in XP
Sandor Szabo wrote: I have the almost same problem in Windows XP, there are some invisible greek characters. I use LyX 1.4.3-5. The instructions seems to be good in Linux, but how can I adopt them for XP? 1. Download the Bakoma4LyX fonts (there's a zip file on the wiki IIRC). 2. Unzip the archive in a temp directory. 3. Open the Windows font applet (from the Control Panel). Find the eight fonts in the archive and delete them if present. (They may or may not be installed already.) 4. Use the font applet to install the fonts from the temp directory. After they are installed, you can delete them from the temp directory, but it might be a good idea to hang onto the zip archive as a backup. I've had to reinstall the fonts once or twice to fix font glitches with LyX 1.3.x and 1.4.x (but not 1.5.x, at least so far). 4a. If there's a fonts subdirectory under the LyX root directory, I suggest deleting it and its contents. /Paul
Re: font embedding
Alexander Sklar wrote: How do I make sure all the fonts in my pdf generated by LyX has all the necessary fonts embedded and subset? Good idea. I was at a conference a couple of weeks ago where close to 1/3 of the presenters used Beamer (I had no idea it was that popular here in the States), and at least one of them ran into a problem with missing fonts that caused his math formulas to evaporate. (Consolation: a similar problem afflicted close to half the people using Powerpoint.) I suspect this was due to borrowing the first presenter's laptop. (I guess the trick would be to pass -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true to ps2pdf but how do I do that from LyX?) DISCLAIMER: I have not tried this myself (I use pdflatex, and seem to get lucky with the fonts). Go to Tools - Preferences - Converters, highlight Postscript - PDF (ps2pdf), type the options you want into the Extra flag field, then click Modify and Save. You may have to exit and restart LyX to have it take effect (I'm not sure). HTH, Paul
Re: Errors with AMS documentclass
Antonio José Guirao Sánchez wrote:
We were speaking about that some emails before. You have just to go to
wiki.lyx.org and download the last version of ams layouts. This works fine.
Wang Yongqiao escribió:
I am writing a book with AMS book document.When I convert it to dvi or
pdf, the following erros are found:
LaTeX Error: No counter 'thm' defined.
LaTeX Error: No counter 'thm' defined.
LaTeX Error: Environment defn undefined.
LaTeX Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{defn}.
I've been told this is fixed in the next version.
/Paul
Re: Ams latex and lyx
Gerardo Oleaga wrote: Hello I have some problems with lyx 1.5 and ams article documentclass. It does not recognize the size of the graphics, and is not compiling the document. I tried to put them inside a figure environment, but the error persists. Can you give me any advice? thank you Gerardo. This does not sound like something that would be specific to the AMS document classes. Can you post a minimal example (LyX file and graphic)? /Paul
Re: Math subject classification
David L. Johnson wrote: Philipp Schlicht wrote: Hi, in my Lyx version 1.5.1 the environment subjectclass produces the output 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification instead of the current 2000 Mathematics subject classification (see AMS website). Huh. I thought that was fixed. It is in my 1.5.2 -- although it could be that I changed that myself. However, I think not, I think this was installed from the source. It's fixed in the official version. Philipp, you can download an updated amsdefs.inc from the wiki. You might in fact want to download the entire updated ams package, since some other bugs relating to numbering issues were also fixed. The files (and a list of changes) can be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS. /Paul
Re: thm counter
Philipp Schlicht wrote: Hi, there is a problem with the thm counter in Lyx version 1.5.2 that wasn't there in 1.5.1. I get the LaTeX Error: No counter 'thm' defined, but I can compile no problem if I add an extra theorem in the beginning. The problem might be that I have a Fact before the first Theorem but the counter 'thm' is only defined after the first theorem (or lemma etc?). Is there a way to fix this? Thanks in advance, Philipp Known error in the AMS definitions (my fault, I think). It's fixed in 1.5.3. Meanwhile, you can download a patched copy of the AMS layout files from http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS. Sorry. /Paul
Re: Tables - gap in borders
Graham Griffiths wrote: Graham Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to include math symbols in tables and when a superscript is present there is not enought clearance between the symbol and the cell top border. Thanks for the suggestions - they should do the trick. However, I would like a clean solution if possible. Regards, Graham Not sure if this is pertinent, but I'm struggling to adapt an article to the LaTeX style specified by the INFORMS journal Operations Research. Their style file adds a couple of macros, \up and \down, to be used in table rows that follow respectively precede a horizontal rule. The purpose is to add a bit of vertical space between rules and table entries. The style files can be downloaded from the INFORMS web site (www.informs.org, then drill down to the journal submission information), if you'd care to see how they do it. /Paul
