Re: Cross-Platform Path Issues in LyX 2.4

[Pavel Sanda]

> > > > In LyX 2.3, I could directly input a relative path in the dialog box 
> > > > under the local database.
> > > > However, in LyX 2.4, I can only click "add local..." and then select
> > > > from the file browser, which results in an absolute path.  Chenyu
> > > > Gao
> > >
> > > This is indeed annoying. When the file is local, you might solve this
> > > by creating a hard link to the file in the other directory. On Windows
> > > this can be done with the command mklink /H  ; e.g.
> > > mklink /H bg.bib "..\other folder\bg.bib"
> > > (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windo
> > > ws-com mands/mklink). But I don't know whether MacOS is able to follow
> > > this link.
> > 
> > I have problem to reproduce the problem in the first place.
> > I can can type e.g. "../file.bst" directly in the field.
> > You can not?
> >
> I thought the OP was referring to the dialog box for adding a bibliography
> (a .bib file).
> (menu: Add / List/Content/References). When choosing Add Local, a
> file-browser menu opens,
> and when entering a relative path (e.g. ..\folderA\newbib.bib), LyX accepts
> this but changes it to an
> absolute path (e.g. C:\Papers\folderA\newbib.bib).
> The OP also noted that this full-path entry cannot be edited and so cannot
> be changed back to a relative path.

Ok, now I can follow, this indeed looks like regression. I created ticket #13097
for this.

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Re: Cross-Platform Path Issues in LyX 2.4

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 11:10:57AM +0200, Kees Zeelenberg wrote:
> > Additionally, I've noticed a change in setting the BibTeX database path.
> > In LyX 2.3, I could directly input a relative path in the dialog box under 
> > the local database.
> > However, in LyX 2.4, I can only click "add local..." and then select from 
> > the file
> > browser, which results in an absolute path.  Chenyu Gao
> 
> This is indeed annoying. When the file is local, you might solve this by
> creating a hard link to the file in the other directory. On Windows this can
> be done with the command mklink /H  ; e.g.  mklink /H bg.bib
> "..\other folder\bg.bib"
> (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-com
> mands/mklink). But I don't know whether MacOS is able to follow this link. 

I have problem to reproduce the problem in the first place.
I can can type e.g. "../file.bst" directly in the field.
You can not?

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Re: Parsing of math expressions

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 02:15:24PM -0300, Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
> Since the last upgrade it seems that a very useful property has been lost.
> Before, whenever Mathematica worked out some mathematical result, I would 
> TeXForm it, thereby generating the LaTeX source, copy it and paste it into 
> LyX 
> in any mathematical environment.  LyX would always parse correctly the LaTeX 
> expression.
> Now, I always get the commands, without parsing.  Is there some configuration 
> that changed since the last update?

Parsing latex math into math environment works normally for me, but I might not
undertand your exact steps (what's exactly in the clipboard?, which way you 
paste it?).

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Re: Fonts for Insert -> Special Character -> Symbols

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 11:32:43PM +, Michael Dean Pugh wrote:
> This is a question I have been meaning to ask for some time.  What font or 
> fonts does LyX  use for display in the UI (not the document) when applying 
> Insert -> Special Character -> Symbols?  I have noticed that some characters 
> are available on my home machine that are not available on my work machine 
> (they show up as a rectangle in the display).  I suspect is has to do with 
> which packages and/or fonts are installed.

I would check whether you use the same font set in Tools->Preferences->Screen 
Fonts and the underlying fonts are installed on your system.
For specific math we use various fonts from here 
https://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyxgit/lib/fonts , but they should be 
installed if you use normal ways how to obtain lyx on your system.

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LyX 2.4.1 in bookworm backports (was: 2.4.0 for Debian stable)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 06:53:40PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 08:23:49PM +0200, Saša Janiška wrote:
> > However, Lyx's 2.4.0 release is exceptional and I wonder if there is
> > some repository with 2.4.0 backported to Bookworm?
> 
> I have provisional agreement with debian maintainer that 2.4 will be
> sooner or later backported to bookworm. But we were not aggresive
> about timing so if you are no in hurry it will land, but probably
> after 2.4.1. But maybe I can push a little.

LyX 2.4.1 just entered backports, so if you are on debian bookworm
derivative you should be able to upgrade. In case it's needed some
instructions are at https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian .

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Re: tectonic, anyone?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 04:12:19PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Anyone played with tectonic?  Think this might be helpful to use with LyX?
> 
> https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/index.html

Never used that, and their web is very vague. On first sight it seems that
1) their preffered engine seems to be XeTeX, not maintained anymore
2) they claim not to clutter working directory, you already have that
   if you use lyx - in the sense that all temps are saved separately from
   .lyx files.
3) they claim to download latex packages on demand instead of full
   texlive install. You can get that with MikTeX automatically or
   (untested) you might get that with texlive via texliveonfly.

As such I do not see much of addon value for lyx.
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Re: 2.4.0 for Debian stable

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 04:13:17PM +0700, Andreas Hild wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 23:54, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> > I have provisional agreement with debian maintainer that 2.4 will be
> > sooner or later backported to bookworm. But we were not aggresive
> > about timing so if you are no in hurry it will land, but probably
> > after 2.4.1. But maybe I can push a little.
> 
> That's good news!
> 
> What's the timetable for the 2.4.1 release? Around December?

Summer time. Hopefully.
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Re: colours of the docuement tabs

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 02:19:56PM +, Stef Pillaert wrote:
> Can I change this background color to something different, so the difference 
> with the other tabs is clearer? I tried to change some colors in the 
> preference dialog->Look and feel->colors, but didn't find the correct color 
> setting.

Not sure how things are on windows but on linux there is utility qt5ct which 
allows changing of styles, pallete and even add custom stylesheets for qt apps 
on your system.

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Re: 2.4.0 for Debian stable

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 08:23:49PM +0200, Saša Janiška wrote:
> However, Lyx's 2.4.0 release is exceptional and I wonder if there is
> some repository with 2.4.0 backported to Bookworm?

I have provisional agreement with debian maintainer that 2.4 will be
sooner or later backported to bookworm. But we were not aggresive
about timing so if you are no in hurry it will land, but probably
after 2.4.1. But maybe I can push a little.

> I have a need to  bump soe packages and/or re-build them using
> different configuration options, but not sure how much work would be
> required to backport Lyx

It's quite trivial to build lyx 2.4 locally in debian:
https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian#toc5

(essentially you need apt build-dep lyx to get compilation deps right).

If you strive for docbook/epub, your deps from bookworm won't be correct
though and you'll need couple more commands to get it right.

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Re: can't log in to bug trac to create new report

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 11:53:02AM +0100, Tariq Rashid wrote:
> Over the years I've created a small number of bug reports
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/query?reporter=project_2501
> 
> However today I wanted to log into bug trac and create a new one but was
> unable to.
> Have accounts been disabled?

I reset the account for you. Pavel
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Re: Headline is massively intended

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 04:25:56PM +0200, Andreas Plihal via lyx-users wrote:
>By the way: there is a readme in the installation files. And it
>specifically recommends MikTex for Windows! So the error can't be in
>MikTex, can it?

You are right, there is leftover in README for MikTeX, I'll fix that shortly.

>I would have liked to show you this Readme file, but www.lyx.org is
>unfortunately not accessible at the moment.

Seems we got spike of web access after the release and our server has
difficulties to cope with that :) Hopefully stabilizes in a few days ;)

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Re: Springer Natura template

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 05:55:05PM +0200, Sergio Celani wrote:
> I am currently writing an article for a Springer journal and I am required
> to use the Springer Nature LaTeX class. Is there a LyX template available
> for this class? I have tried to create a layout for this class but I have
> not been successful. I would be very grateful if someone has a layout for
> this class and would like to share it.

Some attempt is here:
https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34563

Some older for inspiration are here:
https://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Springer

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Re: can i just upgrade from 2.3.7 to 2.3.8 without any loss of data/files and etc...?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 10:56:37AM +0300, matan guedj wrote:
> I have the  2.3.7 with many files with specific configurations (like
> Hebrew, special colors, special macros, shortcuts, packages, etc...) if I
> just download the newer version will it be a seamless transition? or is it
> more involved than that?

2.3.7 -> 2.3.8 should be seamless. 2.3.7 -> 2.4.0 might need some tinkering 
around

> I also wonder if it's worth it at all as the changes seem very minor, and
> not something I've used.

The main reason why 2.3.8 was released is that it can read 2.4.x files as well.
If you don't need that and the fixes described in the announcement sound 
irrelevant you can stay with 2.3.7.

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Re: Template for external gnuplots and converter scripts for LyX [was: Re: Help with gnuplot xtemplate needed]

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 04:07:51PM +0200, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> > Apart from that, I could upload your scripts into wiki upload section
> > if you want to just link them.
> 
> Yes, that would be good, that makes it easier to install and use.

Ok, it is now at: https://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/gnuplot.xtemplate/
you can link to the file from wiki via 
uploads:/Examples/gnuplot.xtemplate/file...

> > And we could also mention in in our
> > manuals if you send me the pach :) Up to you.
> 
> What do you mean here?

We have some mention of .gp files in user guide of lyx 2.5:
https://www.lyx.org/trac/export/f3c5ff9cb72c5231f1e1e81452e67d6f12dadecb/lyxgit/lib/doc/UserGuide.lyx

You can edit the footnote about gnuplot (with lyx 2.4 if you have it) to 
mention the
template in wiki page and its advantage - then send the update of the UG to me, 
I'll commit it.

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Re: Template for external gnuplots and converter scripts for LyX [was: Re: Help with gnuplot xtemplate needed]

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 08:10:15PM +0200, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> thank you for asking. When just using .gp filename directly as graphics
> inset the fonts in the plot are not the same as document fonts. E. g.
> in default settings you have CM fonts in the document and Helvetica in
> the gnuplot. Furthermore, direct graphic insets do not render LaTeX
> math in a gnuplot.
> With gnuplots as external material (gnuplot.xtemplate) something
> similar to the inkscape.xtemplate and the xfig.xtemplate happens:
> Labels and numbers appear in the document font, which looks way better
> and is less confusing than having different fonts in the plot. And
> LaTeX math input is rendered.
> I have attached a PDF showing the difference and a sample another-
> gnuplot-example.gp which contains LaTeX math.

Ok, I see. I think it would be good to put this explanation in the
wiki.

Apart from that, I could upload your scripts into wiki upload section
if you want to just link them. And we could also mention in in our
manuals if you send me the pach :) Up to you.

I could even see something like that landing as part of lyx 2.5,
if there is demand (or/and some active dev who would review/use
this stuff).

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Re: Template for external gnuplots and converter scripts for LyX [was: Re: Help with gnuplot xtemplate needed]

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 03:03:15PM +0200, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> I copied gnuplot.xtemplate and the converter scripts in Python along
> with instructions for setup and configuration on? in? the LyX wiki:
> 
> https://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/GnuplotInLyX

What is the advantage here compared to just using .gp filename directly
in graphics inset?

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trac accounts

[Pavel Sanda]

Hi all,

we tried to open our trac for registration again and got thousands of new
accounts during last weeks. Tonight those accounts started creating bug 
reports which were essentially ads.

I banned the registration (again) and made big cleanup. trac interface
is unfortunately such that large part had to be done manually and thus
error-prone. I probably removed few real accounts. If you can't login, 
it's probably my mistake and let me know to re-create it.

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Re: LyX 2.4.0 & Jupyter Notebooks

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 12:11:08PM +, Bernt Lie wrote:
> > knitr integration...
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I don't use R, so I guess knitr is not useful to me.

I did not mean that you will use R, but that you can check how knitr scripts
establish two-way communication street and reuse it for jupyter instead of R

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Re: LyX 2.4.0 & Jupyter Notebooks

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 11:37:48AM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 4/9/24 08:48, Bernt Lie wrote:
> >Is there a way to import Jupyter Notebooks into LyX 2.4.0 (when v. 2.4.0 is 
> >released)?
> >
> >I'm particularly interested in the possibility to...
> >
> >* link the notebooks into LyX so that I always get the latest 
> >version/computations in the notebook, i.e., preferably not a static import
> >
> >* inclusion of mark-up text with headlines, math, etc.
> >
> >* inclusion of input and output cells, with figures, etc.
> >
> >* linked-in notebooks would be multipage. Perhaps it should be possible to 
> >embed the notebooks in some theorem-like environment.
> >
> >OK -- don't know if this is possible, but it would go a long way towards 
> >getting a literal programming environment.
> 
> The most plausible way to do this would be to use an external inset. That's
> the way that Lilypond files (music) are included, for example. Such insets
> are user definable. Basically, you tell LyX how to convert the file to
> something LaTeX can process. This is discussed in section 7.1 of the
> Embedded Objects manual. You can use the existing xtemplate files as a
> starting point, too.

You might also want to check how knitr integrates into lyx (basically embedding
R code into lyx).

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Re: Scheduled maintenance of LyX servers (Mar 21, 2024) [done]

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 02:09:47PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 3/22/24 17:44, Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> >On 22/03/2024 04:46, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> >>On 3/21/24 19:46, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> >[...]
> >>>Thanks a lot to both of you! I don't imagine that was fun, but it
> >>>certainly was very important.
> >>Seconded.
> >Thirded :-)-O
> >
> >Did you move the ftp server itself? I traditionally download from
> >ftp://ftp.lyx.org (using ncftp on the command line :-)-O).
> 
> It's a different ftp server. That one has not been moved.

Yes, also looking at your domain, you might get way better speed
from our .za mirror.

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Re: Scheduled maintenance of LyX servers (Mar 21, 2024) [done]

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 10:23:40AM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> we plan to do the major transition of our web infrastructure soon.

We are done with the transition.

Basic summary:

- ftp server for wiki (not the ftp.lyx.org) is deceased.
  For uploading material use wiki-uploads.git, all developers have rw access.
  We need to do proxy for users, but I haven't seen this usage in past years,
  so we are probably fine with that solution.

- svn server is deceased.
  dictionary repo moved to dictionaries.git, all devs have rw access.
  www-user repo moved to www-user.git, previous contributors have rw access.

- www.lyx.org should work very similarly as before.

- wiki.lyx.org - there will be more changes here. Many modules seen updates,
  some modules do no exist anymore/no one updated for new PHP. I tried to fix
  the most flagrant cases, but I'm sure some corners won't work. 

- bug tracker (lyx.org/trac) - updated to the most recent version, some
  UI changes, but it should feel familiar. Few plugins were not ported
  to new python and do not work anymore - most notable keywords.
  We allow users to register again, let's see how that goes.
  Gmail often refuses traffic from trac, JMarc has ambition to spin full
  fledged mailing service with bells and whistles demanded by google
  at some moment.
  

I'll update relevant descriptions on our web/wiki to reflect the changes
in the coming days + smaller polishing left out.
If something does not work, please report back, we may or may not fix it ;)

This was a long ride, thanks JMarc for beating the trac dragon :)
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Re: Unable to use Trac + bug report

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 10:59:02AM -0300, Carlos Pita wrote:
> because the current one is really slow, particularly when browsing the
> git repository.

If you need faster git browsing, there is an alternative here: 
https://git.lyx.org

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Re: Upgrade fails: to 2.3.7

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 08:40:23AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Trying to upgrade from 2.3.6.1 to 2.3.7 fails here:
> -
> make[5]: Entering directory '/tmp/SBo/lyx-2.3.7/src/support'
>   CXX  FileMonitor.o
> In file included from FileMonitor.cpp:262:0:
> moc_FileMonitor.cpp:13:2: error: #error "This file was generated using the 
> moc from 4.8.7. It"
>  #error "This file was generated using the moc from 4.8.7. It"

Maybe you are mixing qt4 and qt5?

I would play with the following configure switches:

--disable-qt5

and perhaps

--with-qt-dir
--with-qt-includes
--with-qt-libraries

And you better purge all generated moc_* files in the tree between
your compilation attempts...

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Scheduled maintenance of LyX servers (Mar 21, 2024)

[Pavel Sanda]

Dear LyXers,

we plan to do the major transition of our web infrastructure soon.
Web and wiki were already moved to read-only mode, bug tracker (trac) will be
probably inaccesible altogether, probably from Thu morning (all times in CET).
The main switch is planned on Thu evening hours. The optimistic scenario
is that we will finish by midnight.

Git and mailling services should remain intact, you can keep the business
as usual there.

We tried to prepare things ahead, but it's impossible to know all the 
collateral damage until we pull the trigger. So expect evening outage
and I would ask you to avoid unecessery interaction with the services
from Thursday (commenting bugs, changing wiki etc) until I send further 
announcement. Things could be probably more smooth, but time is
currently scarce resource both for me and JMarc.

Fingers crossed :)
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Help with infrastructure (PHP)

[Pavel Sanda]

Dear LyX community,

we are transitioning our www/wiki/trac services present on the web to a new
infrastructure which unfortunately includes tweaks to port the underlying code
to more current php version (version 8). Most of trivial changes are done, but
there are few remaining bits which are not trivial for us, poor C++ LyX devs - 
but
might be trivial for someone whose deaily bread involves php(/pmwiki) 
programming.

In case some kind soul would willing to help little bit, please contact me
directly.

Thanks for the LyX team,
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Re: refstyle and amsmath

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:42:23PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Dienstag, dem 30.01.2024 um 18:17 +0100 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:
> > I reported this to the maintainer in March 2023 and even sent a patch
> > [2] but never got a response.
> 
> I have to correct myself. Danie responded that he will have a look. So
> it is possible that this will be fixed in refstyle eventually.

I would just ping him, most likely he just got busy with other stuff.

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Updated LyX donation page (was: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1)

[Pavel Sanda]

> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:11:48PM +, Cesare Padovani wrote:
> > It is a pity. It's the first time I've heard that it's not possible to make 
> > donations. The problem should be solved.

Dear all, who knocked on our doors with donations, which we could not process.
As TUG accepted to collected donations on our behalf we changed the link on the 
LyX donation
page. I hope it will work now. Thanks for TUG's help and sorry for taking 
(literally)
years to act...

BCC-ing all the kind souls who repeatedly asked on this list :)
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Re: R: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:11:48PM +, Cesare Padovani wrote:
> It is a pity. It's the first time I've heard that it's not possible to make 
> donations. The problem should be solved.

To prevent any heartbreaks we'll figure out something, stay tuned :)

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Re: Failed to clone the git repo of lyx.

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 09:58:43PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> However, I am not sure if this setting is correct and can work as
> expected. Because I don't have much experience in this regard.

I can't be of much help here. Just FYI we are in the middle of slow
transition to a new git server, so you update process might need
some tinkering in near future (we'll announce here and on
announce maillist).

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Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 07:23:18PM +, markhsalmon wrote:
> I didn???t even know I could make a donation- thank you Cesare! I would like 
> to make a donation as well please tell me how!
> Mark

We currently do not have a way how to donate to LyX
(the reason is rather legal than technical).

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Re: Failed to clone the git repo of lyx.

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 03:56:56PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > For me now, I can clone via
> >
> >  > git clone git://git.lyx.org/lyx.git
> >
> > anonymously. Does that work for you from the command line?
> 
> It also works for me, but the speed is very unstable, as shown in the
> attached screenshot. So, I want to clone through my local socks5 proxy
> running on 127.0.0.1:1, but don't know how to achieve this goal.

Speed should be matter of initial clone only. Once you have it locally,
fetching updates are reasonably small even for connection speeds like 10kb/s...

What we could perhaps do on our part is to clone master branch, compress
it into single file and put on the http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
with short readme explaining the situation.
We have currently two chinese mirrors, so there is a good chance for you to get
the initial clone very fast and then continue by fetching from original source
(US, Oregon).


@Riki: we used to have something like this on the ftp in the svn-git times.
ATM it should be enough just to do clean clone, take only .git directory,
tar.xz(*) it, create signature and upload to ftp.
I can create some explanation on our web...

Pavel

(*) And zip? Dunno whether zipped clone on linux will work in windows
environment. Alternatively we could ask Euegen for windows based
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Re: Reattaching Panes in Wayland

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 08:23:20PM +0700, Andreas Hild wrote:
> It's very likely to be an issue with Wayland, possibly related to my distro.

Fortunately, some distributions are now moving from not only defaulting
to wayland, but ditching Xorg altogether :)

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Re: Reattaching Panes in Wayland

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 07:38:06PM +0700, Andreas Hild wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 19:25, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> > Detaching/Attaching panes in Qt is pain, does not matter if you are at 
> > wayland or on Xorg.
> > I tried to file bugs about this in Qt project, but they don't seem to care.
> 
> I'm surprised to hear this, Pavel.
> 
> Never had any difficulties with this for decades. It used to work like
> a charme, until I started using Wayland.

Maybe this is different bug though. For me the dock widgets are freezing
anytime I try to move them from the docked position.
I reported this in 2018 and I just reviewed the report. So I must correct
myself now, there is claim that they fixed that in 2022 for Qt 6.3, but
without backport to Qt 5. Will see in the future :)

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Re: Reattaching Panes in Wayland

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:51:19AM +0100, Eckhard Höffner wrote:
> >I can easily detach them from the main UI, but I'm unable to put them
> >back in their original place.
> >
> >I running the following version in Wayland:
> >
> >LyX Version 2.3.7
> >Qt Version (run-time): 5.15.8 on platform wayland
> >Qt Version (compile-time): 5.15.7
> >
> >Any idea what's going on? Any work around?
> >
> >Many thanks!
> >Andy
> I have the same problems -- it works sometimes, but i do not know, why it
> works and why not.

Detaching/Attaching panes in Qt is pain, does not matter if you are at wayland 
or on Xorg.
I tried to file bugs about this in Qt project, but they don't seem to care.

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Ubuntu PPA

[Pavel Sanda]

Dear all,

I am tempted to remove references to Ubuntu PPAs from our
official download page as it slowly becomes obsolete.

Before I do that is anyone interested to provide PPAs
fro newwer lyx versions(?), esp. for upcoming 2.4?

CC-ing Liviu.

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Re: Bibliography not shown in compiled PDF

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 08:12:48AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >Stay tuned ...
> 
> Pavel, et al.:
> 
> Attached are mwe.lyx and mwebib.bib (both with 2 references.) The mwe.lyx
> compiles without error but there's no bibliography.

When I try to compile it I see errors complaining that I do not have 'biber'.
Do you have it installed?

Also, when I change the document class to e.g. book, the bibliography works
(probably switches to biblatex in backgrounds).

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Re: Outline pane FUBAR

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 06:40:32AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Have you any thoughts on this?

Given that this normally works for me, MWE would be indeed useful..
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Re: Outline pane FUBAR

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 01:45:32PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I used the up and down arrows at the bottom of the outline pane window to
> re-order sections in the report doc. Now only one is displayed rather than
> all four sections.
> 
> If I use the down arrow with that section highlighted the others show up in
> order, but now the first one is the last one.
> 
> Please teach me how to view all four secions in alphabetic order.

I can't see this. Can you report more details about your setup (Qt version, LyX 
version,
OS type)?

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Re: GnuPlot

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 11:24:36AM -0500, Dan wrote:
> I'm trying to incoporate GnuPlot into LyX.  As I understand things, I have
> to add a path for LyX to find it.  How do I go about doing that?

Works out of the box for me.

Simply create gnuplot script, give it ".gp" extension and insert it as an
image. You will need to allow conversion in prefs if you haven't done so.

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Re: slow cursor speed

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 03:48:20PM -0700, Tim Garrett wrote:
> No spellcheck on the fly doesn???t change matters.

When you resize the LyX window to be much much smaller
does the typing speed changes?

This could give a clue whether the problem is on painting/graphic drivers 
side of things.

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Re: Using LyX as merge tool for git

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 02:36:27PM +0200, Markus Oppmann wrote:
> Thank you for pointing me at command-sequence LFUN. I tried to automate it
> with command-sequence of comparing, then executing save as (buffer-write-as)
> but it didn't work. probably because the comparison is asynchronous, the
> buffer-write-as fails, logging that no document was open.
> 
> A parameter for the destination file name would be a great thing.

Feel free to add new bug, attempt on a patch would be even better :)

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Re: Using LyX as merge tool for git

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 08:27:44PM +0200, Markus Oppmann wrote:
> Just wanted to share with you how it's possible to use the compare feature
> of LyX to resolve git merge conflicts by registering LyX as a merge tool for
> git:

Interesting indeed.

> When finished, you need to override the conflicted file with the generated
> changes1.lyx file, close the LyX window and confirm to git that the merge
> was successful.

I think it would be quite easy to enhance our lfuns, so this last "override
the conflicted file with the generated changes1.lyx file" is also automatic.
Maybe it's possible even now with command-sequence lfun?

> (By the way there is bug item #8440 
> requesting such a function. Wanted to add this as comment, but i don't have
> an account in the bug tracker yet and it seems like registering is disabled)

I am happy to create an account for you if there is an interest.

> Should i write about this in the LyX Wiki? Where would be a good place for
> it? 

This one looks good... :https://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Collaboration#toc6

BTW beware that comparison function in LyX is not without issues:
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9395
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9048
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6889

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Re: Problem converting some svgz

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 07:25:44PM +0200, Dan via lyx-users wrote:
> Yes, I did, that's why I suspect the problem is actually with these 
> third-party apps rather than LyX.
> Generate PDF files (attached) from redo.svgz
>  1. Cairosvg: "cairosvg -f pdf -o redo_cairosvg.pdf lib/images/redo.svgz"
>  2. Inkscape: "inkscape -D -o redo_inkscape.pdf lib/images/redo.svgz"

I could reproduce the problem with Inkscape. I can actually open the file in 
Inkscape and it looks fine (though there are Warning on the console about svg 
content).
It's the export when it breaks completely. I suggest to file bug against 
inkscape itself.

For LyX purposes you could bypass this problem by using rsvg-convert instead of 
inkscape (works fine here).
Another way could by to try luck in different vector editor, resave it and try 
again.

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Re: Garamond police does not support italics

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 03:06:11PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> to see what garamond fonts are installed. It makes no ense to define
> garamond for SansSerif and Monotype, because there are no Garamond
> for these font families.
> 
> Choose noc special font in document->settigs->fonts (see image)
> and then use in the preamble
> 
> \usepackage{ebgaramond}

Do I lose something substantial if I just select "EB Garamond" in Roman 
fonts combo instead of editing preamble for \usepackage{ebgaramond} ?

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Re: pdf to inkscape

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 01:45:44PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Now, I recompile the same lyx files and I generated the pdf file,
> but I cannot use anymore inkscape.
> I get 
> * (org.inkscape.Inkscape:6601): ERROR **: 13:20:50.614: 
> unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
> what: input string not valid UTF-8

Is it possible that you use non-ascii characters in the path/filename or 
metainfo for the pdf?

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Re: Problems with insert Graphics on MacOS

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 08:21:23PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 09:37:23AM -0400, Stephen Buonopane wrote:
> > I am not sure if the developers have a fix in the works. 
> 
> Hopefully will be fixed soon:
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12576

The fix was committed and will be part of the next release
(thanks to Stephan's work).

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Re: Joining newlines in paste (was: Pasting latex in a lyx file)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 07:46:09AM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > > 
> > > this is one of my last items on the TODO list for the 2.4 release.
> > > 
> > > Bunch of people expressed their opinion that our default for paste 
> > > operation
> > > should preserve newlines. I do not have strong opinion but agree that in 
> > > my
> > > experience I have to go to Paste Special sub menu quite often to preserve
> > > the newlines.
> > > 
> > > Before looking what would need change, is there reasonable unanimous 
> > > agreement
> > > that this should be the default or are there folks who prefer current 
> > > behaviour
> > > which joins the lines by default?
> > 
> > I agree that the default should be to preserve newlines.
> 
> +1

This was commited and will be default in the next release.
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Re: LyX generated preamble package loading order.

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 08:39:14PM +0300, Folsk Pratima wrote:
> One solution to this problem is loading *hyperref* manually, however, I
> think of this as of a hack. Is it possible to somehow make *titlesec* to be
> loaded before *hyperref*?

I am afraid you will need to use the hackish solution.
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5366

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Joining newlines in paste (was: Pasting latex in a lyx file)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:38:32PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:15:56AM +0200, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> > On 2021-04-19 14:47 , Christoph Schmitz wrote:
> > >> Am 19.04.2021 um 14:43 schrieb Daniel :
> > >>
> > >> On 10/4/21 16:07, Mario D wrote:
> > >>> Paul,
> > >>> Ctrl+Shift+V works just fine for me, thanks!
> > >>> My fault, and I beg your pardon for this, for not having tried the
> > >>> relative option in "Edit -> Paste Special" : I just tried the "Paste
> > >>> from LaTeX", which doesn't work in my case (I am pasting tikz
> > >>> figures, so @rich: I was referring to the second option).  Thank you
> > >>> everybody.  :)
> > >>
> > >> Actually, I am wondering whether preserving newlines should be the
> > >> default.  I don't think one can expect that the default paste command
> > >> changes the format that way.  Instead the "special" option should be
> > >> paste with removing newlines, I think.
> > >> --
> > >> Daniel
> > [...]
> > >
> > > I want to second this proposal!
> > >
> > > I do not know how much work it would be to create a new setting, which
> > > would allow users to use whatever method they prefer.  If I have to
> > > chose between the two options, Daniel's proposal is my preference.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > Me three :-)-O
> 
> I also get confused by this and I think new LyX users are especially confused.
> I also vote for considering a change of the default behavior.

Dear all,

this is one of my last items on the TODO list for the 2.4 release.

Bunch of people expressed their opinion that our default for paste operation
should preserve newlines. I do not have strong opinion but agree that in my 
experience I have to go to Paste Special sub menu quite often to preserve
the newlines.

Before looking what would need change, is there reasonable unanimous agreement
that this should be the default or are there folks who prefer current behaviour
which joins the lines by default?

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Re: Problems with insert Graphics on MacOS

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 09:37:23AM -0400, Stephen Buonopane wrote:
> I am not sure if the developers have a fix in the works. 

Hopefully will be fixed soon:
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12576

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Re: No display of file icon, the slanted blue coloured L

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 07:49:31PM +0200, Yu Jin wrote:
> for the documents too by mistake. Since the Windows installer was rewritten
> in LyX version 2.3.6 the icon has been fixed and now you see a sheet of
> paper with a funny face on it.

Eugene, I think that the report says that there is *no* icon at all now...
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Re: More space for document

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 05:29:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 04:19:54PM +, Paul Stansell wrote:
> > Pavel, your suggestion has helped a lot, thanks.   Interestingly, there is
> > no mention of the "-style" option in either "man lyx" or "lyx -help"
> 
> Well, yeah, it's Qt's commandline parameter, not LyX's per se, and there
> will be likely bunch of those. But maybe we can link from the man pages
> to the appropriate documentation...

I added a note about Qt parameters into man pages, will be part of 2.4.

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Re: LyX 1.0

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 04:52:19PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> there are some packages which read and write on PS level.

Are some of them important enought to put some note about them + -dNoSafer
parameter into our release notes?

> This is the reason why I _always_ use both optional arguments. However, in
> general -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY should be enough.

Ok, this is now committed and will be part of 2.4.

Thanks,
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Re: LyX 1.0

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 11:20:48AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Am 11.01.23 um 10:36 schrieb Patrick Dupre:
> >Thank
> >
> >The problem with lualatex is that I get
> >! Undefined control sequence.
> >\c@lor@to@ps ->\PSTricks
> >  _Not_Configured_For_This_Format
> >l.26   \psline[linecolor=blue,linewidth=10.5pt](
> >   3,1)(2,2)
> 
> sure, your TeXLive is too old for lualatex, which should be preferred by the
> way.
> 
> 
> >
> >and an error if I add
> >\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}%
> >
> >
> >
> >For the preferences
> >File Handling->Converters
> >ps2pdf -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY  $$i $$o
> >
> >Is it correct?
> 
> 
> ps2pdf -dNoSafer -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY  $$i $$o

Herbert,

I plan to add -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY as a default for ps2pdf in LyX 2.4.

Is the option -dNoSafer really needed now? My shallow understanding is
that it was needed only initially for pre 9.53.3 versions of ghostscript
and since then -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY should work.

https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?324453-Ghostscript-9-52-breaks-transparency-in-LaTeX-packages


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Re: LyX???and Git for version control

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:17:15AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 10:50:00PM -0700, Madame Michu wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > 
> > I???m facing an issue with git and LyX for version control.
> > 
> > 
> > I followed the guidelines in section 7.2.6 in the "Additional Features" LyX
> > manual, but once the git repo is created for the document, and I???try to
> > `register` my document with LyX GUI I???get the following error:
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > Some problem occurred while running the command:
> > 'ci -q -u -i -t-"First draft " "grand_écrit.lyx"'.
> > ```
> 
> Indeed I see your problem and we need to either update the code or guidelines.
> Essentially the problem is that "git init" is not enough for LyX to recognize
> that the directory is under git control.
> Once the first file is added via "git add" the recognition (of not just the 
> file
> but the whole dir) works and register command will proceed.
> I'll try to look on that once I have some free time.

I added a note about this into our manual for LyX 2.4.

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Re: Advanced text editing commands

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:57:30AM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> I love using 'g;' in Vim. I think the first 'g;' in LyX can be down with 
> "Navigate back" ('Ctrl + shift + <' or something like that) but I would love 
> to go through the entire change list as quickly as with 'g;'.

Navigate back was implemented so it reminds `` in vim. It does not work well
though and I was thinking several times to transform it to vim's g; indeed,
just never got enough time :)

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Re: bottom posting question

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 06:16:27PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 4/27/23 17:55, John White wrote:
> Yes, I agree that it's good list etiquette to delete bits one doesn't need.

An it's actually part of our official list Netiquette ( 
https://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc7 ).

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Re: Screen font question-inline

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:44:42AM -0700, John White wrote:
> I hope Mr. Hoffner is right but I know of no way to make 
> my screen larger. I can't figure that out.

Indeed it looks your screen is too small to show the whole dialog.
It will be even worse with 2.4 and we should perhaps do something about it.

Anyway for the moment, even though you don't see the buttons you should
still be able to use them via accelerators, i.e. for OK button you need
to press Alt+O.

Does it help with saving your preferences?

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Re: Text input completion doesn't work as expected in lyx.

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:13:19AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 09:32:52AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > I've set the input completion as shown in the attached screenshot. But
> > when I type `countr`, I can not see any text completion, which also
> > attached here. Any hints for this problem will be appreciated.
> 
> Autocompleter uses as dictionary only words which are already written
> in your document (or other opened files).
> See also User's Guide, section 2.6.

Per EP reponse:

The program reports the following version:
??LyX 2.3.7 (2023-01-01)

??CMake Build

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Re: Text input completion doesn't work as expected in lyx.

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 09:32:52AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> I've set the input completion as shown in the attached screenshot. But
> when I type `countr`, I can not see any text completion, which also
> attached here. Any hints for this problem will be appreciated.

Autocompleter uses as dictionary only words which are already written
in your document (or other opened files).
See also User's Guide, section 2.6.

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Re: Missing icons in last version for Windows

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 08:50:28AM +, Edoardo Piparo wrote:
> Dear all.
> I notized that in the last windows version there are no more icons for LyX 
> documents. May you fix it?

Do you report on LyX 2.3.7 or 2.4 beta3 ?

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Re: versioning

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 12:54:28PM -0700, William R. Buckley wrote:
> So, with VCS, it is possible to version control successive iterations of a
> document as you make successive changes thereto?

Yes I do that regularly. Note however, that LyX support is only very basic
and if you don't know how to handle certain VCS managment outside of LyX
you'll probably hit the wall pretty soon...
See Help->Additional Features manual, sec. 7.2.

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Re: versioning

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 09:28:54PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > Subject: Re: versioning
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 06:16:25PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > > No, I wanted to keep a versioning of my documents produced with lyx.
> > 
> > Still not clear what you want. Do you mean versioning (commit) numbers
> > visible in the document? In such case VCS toolbar -> Insert version info.
> > 
> Sorry, what is this VCS toolbar?

View->Toolbars->Version Control

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Re: versioning

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 06:16:25PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> No, I wanted to keep a versioning of my documents produced with lyx.

Still not clear what you want. Do you mean versioning (commit) numbers
visible in the document? In such case VCS toolbar -> Insert version info.

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Re: LyX???and Git for version control

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 10:50:00PM -0700, Madame Michu wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I???m facing an issue with git and LyX for version control.
> 
> 
> I followed the guidelines in section 7.2.6 in the "Additional Features" LyX
> manual, but once the git repo is created for the document, and I???try to
> `register` my document with LyX GUI I???get the following error:
> 
> ```
> 
> Some problem occurred while running the command:
> 'ci -q -u -i -t-"First draft " "grand_écrit.lyx"'.
> ```

Indeed I see your problem and we need to either update the code or guidelines.
Essentially the problem is that "git init" is not enough for LyX to recognize
that the directory is under git control.
Once the first file is added via "git add" the recognition (of not just the file
but the whole dir) works and register command will proceed.
I'll try to look on that once I have some free time.
At the moment your workaround is to start new git repo via init + add file
on the commandline (or via some git frontend).

> And then a `Lyx crashed error message` saying:
> ```
> SIGSEGV signal caught!
> Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX, hope you have not lost any data.
> Please read the bug-reporting instructions in 'Help->Introduction' and send
> us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks!
> Bye

The crash should not happen in any circumstance. Alas, I am not able to 
reproduce the crash here.
If you can reproduce the crash please post exact steps how to reproduce, I will 
have a look.

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Re: my own color

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 05:17:51PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Indeed, this bug is very old 14 years!
> Maybe it is time to fix it?
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot do it myself.

I see that the bug claims there is a workaround, namely if you write your
\textcolor{Gold} in normal text, copy it into clipboard and then paste it
inside math formula you get what you wanted.

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Re: Lyx 2.3.7 on Linux Mint

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:42:54AM -0600, Chris Menzel wrote:
> Sure thing! I note that I have already received one report of a successful
> 2.3.7 compile and install based on these steps. :-)
> 
> Install basic QT5 stuff
> $ sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools
> 
> Then, to avoid "unable to compile simple QT binary??? error, the following:
> $ sudo apt install pkg-config libqt5x11extras5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libice-dev
> 
> I was also missing libmagic-dev on my Dell XPS installation:
> $ sudo apt install libmagic-dev

The universial debian command for getting all necessary components for 
compilation
does not work in ubuntu?

apt build-dep lyx

> Finally, I ran configure with the follow spec for QTDIR:
> $ ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt5
> 
> Then it???s just a matter of:
> $ make
> $ sudo make install

Note that you might want to install LyX only locally to your user
directory and not to mess up with your base system in /usr (because
this might backfire later if you want to upgrade your distro).

You can do that by adding --prefix in configure (e.g. something like 
--prefix=/home/user/lyx/ where user is your login; the installed files
together with executable will be find in ~/lyx/).

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Re: Translate LyX document to another language

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 09:01:23AM +, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Is there some way of automatically translating a LyX document, say,
> from Spanish to English?

Not easy for the whole document. But if you are coder I can see that within
couple hours you might come up with a script which does something along these 
lines:
1) copy paragraph which is selected in lyx into text file
2) seend it to DeepL API via curl
3) receive the response
4) paste it back into document

Special formatting, equations/ images etc will be gone in this transformation.

But having in LyX some better handling of such exchange for external services
would be useful. From time to time I am checking grammarly for evolution of 
their
API interface, which would be closer to C++/Qt world so we could directly use 
it...

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Re: URL question [RESOLVED]

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 05:34:53PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> For URLs you also can use
> 
> \usepackage{xurl}
> 
> in the preamble, then the URL can be broken at every charcter.

I added this note to User Guide. Pavel
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Re: WG: LyX - Privacy Policy

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:36:28PM +, Filippou, Nikolas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i would like to know if LyX has a Privacy Policy (I couldn´t find anything on 
> the website) and if so what does it include?

Hello, as you correctly observed on the web there is no official Privacy Policy.
Since we do not have any "customers" in the usual sense it's unclear what 
Privacy 
Policy you have in mind. Are you talking about email list users, LyX codebase
considerations or ...?

Best,
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Re: [RFC] Acknowledgment theorem type

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 08:55:09AM -0700, Hal Kierstead wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 08:34:19AM -0700, Hal Kierstead via lyx-users wrote:
> >> I use this for most papers in the sense (a). Why delete it? Note that 
> >> ???Acknowledgment??? is suggested in the amsthm instructions???just like 
> >> ???Lemma". 
> > 
> > Ha :)
> > Can you point me to any paper of yours, where this is used?
> 
> See attachment, just before the references. Of course, in the end the journal 
> uses their own style.
> Hal

No, this is misunderstanding.
You use Acknowledgments in the traditional sense as unnumbered section at the 
end of the paper.
What I'm talking about is that we currently also offer numbered "theorem-style" 
acknowledgments,
i.e. you could have it multiplte times as many subsections in the paper.

I don't think anyone uses it and we based it on amsthm package manual section 
4.2, which
even AMS folks regard as a mistake.

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Re: [RFC] Acknowledgment theorem type

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 08:34:19AM -0700, Hal Kierstead via lyx-users wrote:
> I use this for most papers in the sense (a). Why delete it? Note that 
> ???Acknowledgment??? is suggested in the amsthm instructions???just like 
> ???Lemma". 

Ha :)
Can you point me to any paper of yours, where this is used?

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Re: [RFC] Acknowledgment theorem type

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 04:13:32PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> As you might know, LyX features a theorem type "Acknowledgment" via the
> "AMS extended" theorems modules. This is a question for people using
> this.
...
>(a) expressing gratefulness (credits, as in the "Acknowledgment" section of 
>books or articles), 
>(b) expressing respect ("In acknowledgment of his special merits he was 
>appointed as honorary conductor of the orchestra"),
>(c) the act or fact of accepting the truth or recognizing the existence of 
>something ("acknowledgment of a mistake"),
>(d) a confirmation ("I have received no acknowledgment")


So this is what we got as an response from AMS tech support:

> An "Acknowledgment" theorem type is not implemented in the amsthm package.
> The confusion probably comes from an entry in the amsthm documentation,
> amsthdoc.pdf, where "Acknowledgment" is listed as a theorem heading that's
> normally associated with the Remark style. Admittedly, this should not have
> been included in the documentation, but the person who originally put it
> there was thinking of case (a). In our publications, we treat these types of
> Acknowledgments as an unnumbered section appearing at the end of the article,
> so we do not recommend doing this as a theorem type. We will probably remove
> this  from the next version of the documentation.

I actually looked at our latex source and it seems we are defining this 
ourselves :)
\theoremstyle{remark}
\newtheorem{acknowledgement}[thm]{\protect\acknowledgementname}

Riki, wouldn't it make sense to delete the whole theorem style "acknowledgement"
extension from LyX?

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Re: Has LyX Been Hacked?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 02:54:37PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:53:12PM +1300, Paul Kiwi wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you at least give us your sumcheck of the file you downloaded?
> > >
> > 
> > MD5 checksum:
> > 
> > c05861976d18d29b0a04792c8b2e844d
> > 
> > SHA256 checksum:
> > 
> > 091cd793c21cb24a87a52c6622f7dfe0a6921f0912847ae06eea33a367ff92da
> 
> Both are correct.
> 
> So neither on the server nor on the way to your computer anything changed.
> 
> Remaining are two options:
> 1) False positive from VirusTotal.
> 2) Developer's machine creating the windows installer got infected so
>the binary is infected from the very begining.
> 
> Given that we get regularly get various false positives I tend to think
> this is again the case for 1. However if you are still concerned you can 
> a) wait for some time whether other security vendors detect the threat
> b) compile current version on your own from the source code (might be
>daunting at windows)
> c) download older versions of LyX which are not flagged by VirusTotal on
>your machine

Actually I see now that you already run it, so a) does not matter much now.

The more interesting question is they chinese error message. We haven't
received any similar report of this yet and I have very little idea what
could go wrong.

Installers of older versions might be still useful on your system.

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Re: Has LyX Been Hacked?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:53:12PM +1300, Paul Kiwi wrote:
> >
> > Can you at least give us your sumcheck of the file you downloaded?
> >
> 
> MD5 checksum:
> 
> c05861976d18d29b0a04792c8b2e844d
> 
> SHA256 checksum:
> 
> 091cd793c21cb24a87a52c6622f7dfe0a6921f0912847ae06eea33a367ff92da

Both are correct.

So neither on the server nor on the way to your computer anything changed.

Remaining are two options:
1) False positive from VirusTotal.
2) Developer's machine creating the windows installer got infected so
   the binary is infected from the very begining.

Given that we get regularly get various false positives I tend to think
this is again the case for 1. However if you are still concerned you can 
a) wait for some time whether other security vendors detect the threat
b) compile current version on your own from the source code (might be
   daunting at windows)
c) download older versions of LyX which are not flagged by VirusTotal on
   your machine

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Re: Has LyX Been Hacked?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 06:06:36PM +1300, Paul Kiwi wrote:
> I downloaded:
> 
> https://lyx.mirror.garr.it/bin/2.3.7/LyX-237-Installer-1-x64.exe
> 
> After installing and launching LyX, I got a very strange error message. It
> was a large amount of text in Chinese characters. Using a translation tool,
> the text seemed to be random badly translated proverbs such as "You should
> respect the tea ... defend the scorpion cup" etc. The english translation
> was nonsense.
> 
> I am unable to verify the sig. I might be doing the verification procedure
> incorrectly, but GPG says it cannot be verified.

Can you at least give us your sumcheck of the file you downloaded?

I just check that the file at the url above is properly signed
(that mean at least no one tampered with the file on the ftp server...)

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Re: Beta 2 Preview

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 10:47:45AM +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> I am under Debian and would like to know which one I should use to replace
> my lyx 2.4.0deb

We do not provide debian packages. If you really strive for 2.4 you will have to
compile for yourself from the tarball (lyx-2.4.0-beta2.tar.xz).

Note that this is preview release and once you edit in 2.4 you won't be able to 
easily
switch the document back to 2.3 (yet).

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Re: Download issue

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 09:36:39PM -0300, Carlos Knauer wrote:
> 

Your Microsoft Defended SmartScreen is locking you out. If I correctly
understand the following page
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/file-is-not-commonly-downloaded-make-sure-you/b869d573-d71c-4bf6-8581-c9714ee19627
you might be able to "Report this file as safe" in context menu
when you right-click on the downloaded item.

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Re: LyX version 2.3.7 question

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:36:52PM +0100, Daniel wrote:
> >On the other hand ???#.lyx#??? is created automatically (on a
> >periodic basis when you are editing your file. If there is a crash you
> >have a check point that is more recent than the last save.
> >If all goes well I would expect that those files to be erased when LyX
> >ends normally.
> 
> Right. My idea was just that this should be documented somewhere.

It's in. P
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Re: Update of Ubuntu PPA for version 2.3.7?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 02:12:06AM +, Donald Churche wrote:
> If anyone have the contact information for whomever handles the Ubuntu PPA 
> for Lyx-devel, could you reach out to them to see if they might be able to 
> update it for Ubuntu Jammy (22.04)? Liviu Andronic is the name mentioned on 
> the Download page as the maintainer but I've not seen any contact information 
> for this person.

I asked privately, we'll see if he's still around... Pavel
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Re: More space for document

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 04:19:54PM +, Paul Stansell wrote:
> Pavel, your suggestion has helped a lot, thanks.   Interestingly, there is
> no mention of the "-style" option in either "man lyx" or "lyx -help"

Well, yeah, it's Qt's commandline parameter, not LyX's per se, and there
will be likely bunch of those. But maybe we can link from the man pages
to the appropriate documentation...
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Re: More space for document

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 07:47:49PM +, Paul Stansell wrote:
> Thanks for that info.  After a little reading, I can't find a simple way to
> slightly edit the theme I'm using.  

One way how to select the theme you want is to use commandline parameter 
-style, e.g:
$ lyx -style=Fusion

The problem might be that ubuntu installs only limited set of styles 
(I see only Fusion and Windows styles on Debian). 
But maybe windows style might serve your purposes well.

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Re: LyX 2.3.7 Released

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 07:30:50AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> So, it's most likely that the lyx upgrade used qt5-5.12.8.

Ok, can you post the exact parameters given to configure in your script?

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Re: LyX 2.3.7 Released

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 07:31:37AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> 
> >(and if you download 2.3.6 tarball the build script still work on your 
> >system, right?)
> 
> Yes. That's what I did last October.

No, I mean now. We did not changed that much so it would warranty your failure 
to build...
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Re: LyX 2.3.7 Released

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 03:40:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 05:39:42AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > 
> > >Are you always starting with clean compilation tree?
> > 
> > Pavel,
> > 
> > Yes, and I don't use any Apple products.
> 
> Ok. Do you know what Qt version was used on your system for previous 2.3.6?

(and if you download 2.3.6 tarball the build script still work on your system, 
right?)

> Pavel
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Re: LyX 2.3.7 Released

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 05:39:42AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> 
> >Are you always starting with clean compilation tree?
> 
> Pavel,
> 
> Yes, and I don't use any Apple products.

Ok. Do you know what Qt version was used on your system for previous 2.3.6?

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Re: LyX 2.3.7 Released

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 12:27:04PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2023, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> 
> >Try with the configure option
> >--enable-qt4
> 
> Jürgen,
> 
> Changing the configure variable from qt5 to qt4 makes no difference. The
> same error(s) stop the build:

Are you always starting with clean compilation tree?
(once moc_* files are generated with wrong Qt version, new configure switch 
won't help)

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Re: Using the return value of "server-get-layout"

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 04:53:30PM +0200, Udicoudco wrote:
> I was wondering, is there a way to manipulate
> the string returned by the LFUN "server-get-layout"
> and pass the result as an argument to the LFUN "layout"
> using only LFUN's?

You could use scripting, e.g. if you are on linux: 
$ LAYOUT=`lyxclient -c LYXCMD:server-get-layout|sed s/INFO:server-get-layout://`

Then manipulate the result in LAYOUT variable and pass it back again via 
lyxclient.

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Re: Few bits about netiquette (was: Drawing an arc)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:37:33AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > Also, interleave posting and context trimming should be explained.
> 
> Could you create such explaining page at our wiki so beginners get it?

We actually have more detailed page here https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ListNetiquette
so you could add your point about interleaving...

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Re: Rebinding ESC to \

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:18:48AM +0200, Lorenzo Bertini wrote:
> 
> I'm on linux (debian), and I tried xmodmap, but it's system wide, and i need
> ESC more than \ in programs other than Lyx. Lyx's keybinding via
> "unicode-insert" is what I was looking for, thanks! Unfortunately it doesn't
> seem to work, either with "005c" or "\". I used the gui keybinding editor if
> that matters.

This is strange because the binding works for me (005c version).

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Re: Few bits about netiquette (was: Drawing an arc)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 02:29:31AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> * Be nice, pleasant and helpful
> 
> * Interleave post
> 
> * Trim all irrelevant quoted context
> 
> * Before emailing:
> 
>   * Do at least 15 minutes research
>   * Try to make a Minimum Working Example

These sound sensible to me.

> Naturally, the whole concept of a MWE and instructions how to make one should 
> also
> be explained, probably as a link to "Try to make a Minimum Working Example". 
> You
> might even add that about 2/3 of the problems get solved without help if the 
> person
> makes a real MWE.

We have it at https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample , but can link it from 
list netiquette statements at https://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc8 .

> Also, interleave posting and context trimming should be explained.

Could you create such explaining page at our wiki so beginners get it?
We could add the netiquette links to initial subscribe-list emails.

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Few bits about netiquette (was: Drawing an arc)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 07:14:50PM +0200, Daniel wrote:
> I meant to imply a *close* relation. Anyway, I think as long as there is an
> obvious relation why you want to do something in LyX, like LaTeX stuff, it
> seems to me that those questions are "okay" on the list. And some people
> seem to happily answer them as well. I guess
> 
> "This list is for questions on how to get LyX working and how to use LyX"
> 
> is (intentionally) a bit vague.

Agreed. The fact that other lyx users are happy to respond to tikz question
already shows it within reasonable perimeter of possible topics. 
If one does not like tikz question there is nothing easier than to
ignore it and move to the next thread.

> (Unlike, say, that bottom posting is preferable.)

Good point, it maybe worth of repeating once in a while that our list
netiquette nicely asks for 
a) bottom posting and
b) not quoting irrelevant parts of the messages in the reply. 

Advantages of both points become very clear once there is some need
to discuss some issue at depth. Alas, even some developers are lazy
to respect others time and ignore it ;)


What our netiquette indeed does not cover is kindness and I find
it impossible to impose it from outside. What can we do as a
community is to decide that we might not want to scare user
newbies -- if you the only thing you have to say is RTFM, just
leave the thread and move to another one. 

I must confess though that in cases where someone is repeatedly
outsourcing his effort to *at least try* to find some solution on
his own, the RTFM might be approprite input... In my view of course,
but if there is some community sense that we should try to declare
some positive approach in the netiquette, we are free to discuss it
on this list and set our boundaries :)

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Re: Why a copy of my graphics file is created in the temporary directory

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 07:54:28PM +, tush via lyx-users wrote:
> Why is it?

All related material for export including figures is first copied into 
temporary directory and only after that the export to e.g. pdf is done.
Often you need to do some specific conversions (e.g. figure in .eps -> figure 
in .pdf) or final pdf assembly. Similarly with bibliography etc. 

If you do all this intermediate stuff in your original directory with 
.lyx/figures there will be lot of messy and orphaned files around.

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Re: Rebinding ESC to \

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 03:28:47PM +0200, Lorenzo Bertini wrote:
> Hi LyX users!
> 
> I have a keyboard that doesn't have the function keys, so the ESC button
> also contains the \ key. You can probably see where this is going: every
> time i want to type \ I have to press FN and then ESC.
> 
> How could I make it so ESC is not "escape" (which I don't really need) but
> instead "input \"? I figured I have to edit keybinds, but what would the
> correct command be?

One can approach this on different levels:
1) systems-wise via xmodmap (if you are on linux)
2) lyx-wise via keyboard maps in prefs (no guarantee how much maps still work)
2) lyx-wise via keybinding esc to "unicode-insert 005c"

It might be better idea to bind to different key than getting rid of escape 
though :)

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Re: question

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 03:12:27PM +, Michael.Pearson2--- via lyx-users 
wrote:
> HI-
> 
> What version of lyx contains a version of Imagemagick that is not vulnerable?

What OS are you using?
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Re: Missing computer algebra system

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 05:29:24PM +0200, Stefano Simonucci wrote:
> No. I opened the lyx application, then I opened a lyx document. The menus
> appear at the top:

:) Ok. But can you enter math (ctrl+m) and see whether the menu appears? p
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Re: Missing computer algebra system

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 11:08:08AM +0200, Stefano Simonucci wrote:
> I try to use a computer algebra system with lyx, but I can't find the item
> Math in the Edit menu.

Are you inside math environment?
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Re: Voice Recognition Accessibility

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 06:29:53PM -0500, Jodin Morey wrote:
> The main barrier I face right now (other than the time it will take to
> develop all of the scripts), is that many of the mathematical objects in Lyx
> are not available either through a menubar or keystroke.  So my request to
> the developers would be to add keystroke accessibility to as many
> mathematical objects as possible.  To make things easier, these keystrokes
> do not need to be documented in any way.  You needn't add the keystroke
> information on the user interface (for example, when you hover your mouse
> over the button for the math object, or in the help documentation).  The
> point would not be to offer the average user a quick keystroke.  And to that
> end, the keystroke could be very obscure (e.g., Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Meta+K), it
> doesn't need to be simple at all.  Doing this does not limit Dragon
> Dictate's ability to type the keystroke, and simultaneously opens up a lot
> of keystrokes.

Does Nuance Dragon Dictate allows outputing the sequence of characters?
If yes you probably don't need to invent binding catalogoue for LyX at all.

E.g. if you are in math mode (ctrl+m) you don't need keybinding for \varOmega,
you just need to type "\varOmega"+space and its done.

Alternatively you can avoid math mode and write in pure LaTeX in ERT
(via ctrl+l) as others suggested.

In both case there seems nothing to be done on LyX part.

Good luck,
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Bug tracker accounts

[Pavel Sanda]

Dear LyXers,

we recently suffer massive spam abuse in our bug tracker. For the moment
we disabled automatized account creation and removed approx. 30k fake user
accounts.

While we tried to avoid removal of legit accounts (by pairing to existing
bug reports) some of this work was manual and could possibly lead to
inadvertent removal of real user (sorry!).

If new account needs to be (re)created, please send the request to mailling
list and we'll do it for you until new solution is found (captcha/migration
to different platform).

Sorry for the inconveniece,
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Re: Maketitle and latex command completion in lyx.

[Pavel Sanda via lyx-users]

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 11:18:39AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> 1. How can I input/generate/create a title from scratch?

Not sure what you mean by "scratch", but generally you create title
by using environment Title (left top combobox in the toolbar).

> 2. Why can't the inline LaTeX commands be completed automatically, as
> shown in the attached file?

Completion "In Text" works only in normal written text, not within
direct latex command you insert via Insert -> TeX Code.

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