Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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.

Re: menu-open documents

2006-08-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: menu-open documents

2006-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: bug: line-shift before line break - please confirm.

2006-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

2006-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: How to automatically label equations in LyX?

2006-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

2006-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: How to automatically label equations in LyX?

2006-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: what is the Key sequence to add a column in math editing mode?

2006-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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?

Re: Another math inset - cursor problem

2006-08-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: A Spell Checker Error

2006-08-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: could not open temporary directory in .

2006-08-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Windows LyX Installation - need to install Lyx on same drive as Miktex.

2006-08-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Question

2006-08-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Idea for meta-search in wiki. Help wanted.

2006-08-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[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

Re: Installation of Lyx 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 on WinXP: missing windefault

2006-08-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Is there a Zoom In/Out in LyX?

2006-08-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Is there a Zoom In/Out in LyX?

2006-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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?

Re: Debugging python scripts called by LyX

2006-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Is there a Zoom In/Out in LyX?

2006-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Debugging python scripts called by LyX

2006-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Table fill

2006-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

2006-08-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Pasting with the mouse middle button inside math mode

2006-08-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: PDF update under Windows

2006-08-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Short titles in fancyheader: delayed reaction

2006-08-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: tex4ht just doesn't work for me ...

2006-08-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

2006-08-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: 'subfigure' package on windows

2006-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: There's no HTML in view menu

2006-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: There's no HTML in view menu

2006-08-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

tabular*

2006-08-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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*.

Re: embedded fonts in pdf output

2006-08-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Error converting to loadable format

2006-08-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Centering Spacing

2006-08-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Aspell and language de_CH

2006-08-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: tabular*

2006-08-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

2006-08-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Upright greek letters in normal text and math mode

2006-08-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Trouble again with instant preview...

2006-08-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: writing two consecutive cases in AMS article

2006-08-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Using aspell 0.6 with lyx 1.4.2 and other applications on windows xp

2006-09-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

[LyX 1.4.2/Win XP] Aspell using wrong personal dictionary

2006-09-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Importing/installing a new class

2006-09-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Filename in document

2006-09-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: [WinXP, LyX 1.4.2] Export to pdf with pdflatex

2006-09-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: [WinXP, LyX 1.4.2] Export to pdf with pdflatex

2006-09-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: lyx and beamer

2006-09-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Navigating in a big document

2006-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: [WinXP, LyX 1.4.2] Export to pdf with pdflatex

2006-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: [WinXP, LyX 1.4.2] Export to pdf with pdflatex

2006-09-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: table-editing a mess

2006-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: renaming section numbering

2006-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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?

Re: single spacing does not work

2006-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: single spacing does not work

2006-09-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: ABNT Class

2006-09-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

2006-09-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: String with actual date (+ time)

2006-09-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: single spacing does not work

2006-09-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Linebreaking fails for url at end of line

2006-09-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: single spacing does not work

2006-09-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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?

2006-09-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Beamer / Lyx/ Handouts

2006-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased

2006-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Read only mode?

2006-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

LyX 1.4.3/Aspell problem (WinXP)

2006-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased

2006-09-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

2006-09-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: How to use style file

2006-09-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Debugging python scripts called by LyX

2006-09-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: incompatibility of layouts bteween version 1.3 and 1.4

2006-09-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: LyX143-3 works

2006-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: What happened to the tool bar buttons: view dvi/pdf and refresh dvi?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Textclass other errors on new install

2006-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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.

Re: Including a figure in the title page in LyX (again)

2006-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: toggle math mode

2007-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Script Conversion Failure

2007-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: what happened to AMS article in 1.5.2?

2007-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Table View Positioning Bug when Math Editor Field is focused

2007-11-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: layout file not applicable

2007-11-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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):

Re: LyX 1.5.2 not outputing to DVI, PDF and PS

2007-11-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: errors during the latex run

2007-11-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Change PDF viewer (windows)

2007-11-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: X-fonts (pleeeeeeeeease help)

2007-11-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Live Latex Editing

2007-11-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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.

Re: problems with amsart layout

2007-11-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
), 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

Re: Live Latex Editing

2007-11-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: lyx equivalent to writer styles

2007-11-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Change PDF viewer (windows)

2007-11-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: X-fonts in XP

2007-11-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: font embedding

2007-11-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Errors with AMS documentclass

2007-11-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Ams latex and lyx

2007-11-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Math subject classification

2007-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: thm counter

2007-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Tables - gap in borders

2007-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

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