Work-around for missing text style no spell-check
Dear Lyx’ers, My PhD thesis will contain lots of text in medieval Dutch. This means that spell checking becomes a problem. There is a very old feature request for a text style “no spell-check”, or something similar, that would enable users to have portions of the text skipped when spell-checking. As far as I’m aware, no work is being done to write code for such a feature, and I myself unfortunately am unable to do. But perhaps one of you has been in a similar predicament, and has found a work-around? If so I’d be happy to hear about it. Kind regards, Hiram The Netherlands
Work-around for missing text style no spell-check
Dear Lyx’ers, My PhD thesis will contain lots of text in medieval Dutch. This means that spell checking becomes a problem. There is a very old feature request for a text style “no spell-check”, or something similar, that would enable users to have portions of the text skipped when spell-checking. As far as I’m aware, no work is being done to write code for such a feature, and I myself unfortunately am unable to do. But perhaps one of you has been in a similar predicament, and has found a work-around? If so I’d be happy to hear about it. Kind regards, Hiram The Netherlands
Work-around for missing text style "no spell-check"
Dear Lyx’ers, My PhD thesis will contain lots of text in medieval Dutch. This means that spell checking becomes a problem. There is a very old feature request for a text style “no spell-check”, or something similar, that would enable users to have portions of the text skipped when spell-checking. As far as I’m aware, no work is being done to write code for such a feature, and I myself unfortunately am unable to do. But perhaps one of you has been in a similar predicament, and has found a work-around? If so I’d be happy to hear about it. Kind regards, Hiram The Netherlands
Advanced text editing commands
Having come from Vim and Obsidian, I find I miss a number of ‘advanced’ text editing commands, like jumping to a particular place in the text with just a few keystrokes, or selecting a sentence. Am I the only one who would be happy to have such commands in LyX? Kind regards, RH -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Advanced text editing commands
> On 27 Apr 2023, at 16:57, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:01:59AM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 4/27/23 03:13, R. H. van der Gaag wrote:
>>> Having come from Vim and Obsidian, I find I miss a number of ‘advanced’
>>> text editing commands, like jumping to a particular place in the text with
>>> just a few keystrokes,
>> Such as?
>>> or selecting a sentence.
>>
>> I don't know how easy this would be to do in a multi-lingual way.
>
> R. H., to answer your question directly, yes I miss them :). I am used to
> Vim, and I often wish I could use Vim-like features in LyX. e.g., 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;'.
>
> Also, I've requested persistent undo (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12578),
> which I've gotten used to in Vim.
>
> I imagine Emacs users have similar desires to use Emacs features in LyX.
>
> That said, without considerable work, I don't see it happening in LyX anytime
> soon.
>
> Scott
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one! I guess the number of editing tricks I
miss isn’t even that large. I would like to be able to select, change, and
delete around a word and a sentence, like I can in Vim. And to do a ‘light
speed’ jump to any part of the visible text by typing some shortcut and then
typing the first two letters of the word I want to jump to; in Vim, and in
Obsidian (using a plugin) the matches are then marked with a letter, and
hitting that letter takes me there. On top of that, going back and forward
through the locations where my cursor has been placed, and like you say,
persistent undo would be wonderful.
I have no idea how to do this in LFUN, and no time, frankly, to figure out if
that is even possible.
I now find myself reverting to Obsidian or Vim to write longer copy, which is
less than ideal.
RH
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UTF-8 and the Tufte Book document class
Hi all,
I am writing a book using the Tufte Book document class, with the Tufte font
included through ``\usepackage{ETbb}`` in the preamble. This works fine. But
the encoding is T1, and producing a PDF fails when I change it to UTF8. I
intend to add some Chinese text, and I either have to get UTF8 to work with
this document or get Chinese characters with the present T1 encoding (but that
is not the preferred approach, given that LyX 2.4 will be UTF8 throughout, if I
am not mistaken, so I might as well get that sorted now). The main language of
the document is Dutch, with bits in German, ancient Greek, French, and other
languages. I am using LyX 2.3.7 on an M2 MacBook Air and an M1 iMac.
Any helpful hints are much appreciated.
RH
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Adjusting the vertical placement of margin notes
I write most of my longer copy using the (beautiful and eminently readable) Tufte Book and Tufte Handout document class. One advantage of this is that footnotes are displayed as margin notes. If a note is added near the bottom of the page, though, this causes the note text to extend beyond the lower edge of the main text column. Obviously, the note should either scoot upwards, enough for its last line to land at the same vertical position as the main text column’s last line, or the note should break off at that vertical position, and continue on the next page. But I don’t know how to accomplish this. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Adjusting the vertical placement of margin notes
Thanks a lot, this takes care of it brilliantly. > On 28 May 2023, at 01:09, Udicoudco wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 8:44 AM R. H. van der Gaag > wrote: >> >> I write most of my longer copy using the (beautiful and eminently readable) >> Tufte Book and Tufte Handout document class. One advantage of this is that >> footnotes are displayed as margin notes. If a note is added near the bottom >> of the page, though, this causes the note text to extend beyond the lower >> edge of the main text column. Obviously, the note should either scoot >> upwards, enough for its last line to land at the same vertical position as >> the main text column’s last line, or the note should break off at that >> vertical position, and continue on the next page. But I don’t know how to >> accomplish this. > > Tufte Book uses \marginpar for all the sidenotes, footnotes etc., so > you can use the package marginfix to automatically adjust the vertical > placement of a side note. I don't know if someone wrote a package to > allow page breaks in \marginpar but that would be interesting. > > Attached is an example file, this is the first page of the example > file of Tufte Book that is shipped with LyX, written by > Jason Waskiewicz, and edited slightly to demonstrate the package > functionality. > > Please read the documentation of the package for further details. > > Regards, > Udi >> -- >> lyx-users mailing list >> lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users > -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Dutch 'trema' not handled as required in hyphenation
Hi there fellow LyXers,
I noticed that the Dutch ‘trema’ (the dots above ü ä ï ö ë) isn’t removed when
the word is hyphenated directly before the letter with the trema (it should, to
comply with grammar rules. In LaTeX,
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\makeatletter
\newunicodechar{ë}{\@trema e}
\newunicodechar{ï}{\@trema i}
\newunicodechar{ö}{\@trema o}
\newunicodechar{ä}{\@trema a}
\newunicodechar{ü}{\@trema u}
\makeatother
takes care of this, but adding the same lines to the preamble in LyX doesn’t.
Am I overlooking something? How can I make this work?
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Re: lyx-users Digest, Vol 196, Issue 3
On 19 Jul 2023, at 11:18, lyx-users-requ...@lists.lyx.org wrote: > > I wonder whether using Tufte Book class is a good idea. It does not > compile here with TeXLive 2023 due to a bug which is known for quite > some time, but there is no visible maintenance (last revision of the > class 2015). By contrast, revisions of the standard book class and > memoir.cls in TeXLive 2023 are end of 2022 and scrbook.cls is 2023. > > Tobias Scary! On my M1 and M2 Macs, with up to date system software and LyX 2.3.7, TeXLive 2023 and the Tufte Book class get along well. Should I expect trouble down the road? And if Adobe kills T1, will I still be able to compile using the ettb font files I have locally? Sorry for these tech-unsavvy questions, I’m just a simple philosopher. RH-- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Time stamp is off
Hi all, I noticed the time stamp on tracked changes is two hours off. Solutions found online seem to fail. Is there a way to get correct time stamps? Thanks. RH -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Backups are not written nearly as often as they should be
Hi all, I have LyX set up to make backups when saving and also make backups (the term seems wrong for the automatic snapshots that these are) every two minutes. But when I look at the directory those files are supposed to be written to, there is a file there, but it not up to date, neither as an auto-saved snapshot nor as duplicate (a backup proper) - it is older than it should be, up to over an hour older sometimes. Am I overlooking something? I checked the path, and went from using a Dropbox directory to using one on my SSD, but results are the same. Before reporting this as a bug, I thought I should mention this here. I am on LyX 2.3.7, on macOS 13.4, Apple Silicon chip. Best, RH -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Time stamp is off
On 18 Jun 2023, at 15:01, Maria Gouskova wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 7:22 AM R. H. van der Gaag
> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I noticed the time stamp on tracked changes is two hours off. Solutions found
> online seem to fail. Is there a way to get correct time stamps?
>
> I cannot reproduce this here--my time stamps look correct. I am using LyX
> 2.3.6 on Linux Mint 21, Cinnamon 5.4.12. (Btw, it helps when you include
> details of your system and installation for questions like this).
Of course, sorry about that. This is on LyX 2.3.7, macOS 13.4, on an M1 iMac. I
am in the Amsterdam timezone, and time stamps like \lyxadded{RH}{Sun Jun 18
13:00:02 2023} are two hours behind. I worry about this a little bit: time
discrepancies can cause nasty synchronisation issues sometimes. This has not
happened so far, but since I am working on two machines, I have to be careful.
RH
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Re: Time stamp is off
> On 18 Jun 2023, at 20:24, wrote:
>
>> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
>> Van: lyx-users Namens R. H. van der Gaag
>> Verzonden: zondag 18 juni 2023 15:10
> ...
>> On 18 Jun 2023, at 15:01, Maria Gouskova wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 7:22 AM R. H. van der Gaag
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I noticed the time stamp on tracked changes is two hours off. Solutions
>>> found
>> online seem to fail. Is there a way to get correct time stamps?
>>>
>>> I cannot reproduce this here--my time stamps look correct. I am using LyX
>>> 2.3.6
>> on Linux Mint 21, Cinnamon 5.4.12. (Btw, it helps when you include details
>> of your
>> system and installation for questions like this).
>>
>> Of course, sorry about that. This is on LyX 2.3.7, macOS 13.4, on an M1
>> iMac. I am
>> in the Amsterdam timezone, and time stamps like \lyxadded{RH}{Sun Jun 18
>> 13:00:02 2023} are two hours behind. I worry about this a little bit: time
>> discrepancies can cause nasty synchronisation issues sometimes. This has not
>> happened so far, but since I am working on two machines, I have to be
>> careful.
>
> For me it also works correctly. I am in the same timezone (Amsterdam), and my
> LyX date format is %c
> (Tools / Preferences / Output / General / Dateformat).
> Insert / Date gives Sun Jun 18 20:24:41 2023
Thanks for checking. Insert date gives the correct (Dutch) time here, too. But
the time stamps added to the LaTeX preview are always exactly two hours behind.
A riddle.
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Re: Time stamp is off
On 19 Jun 2023, at 18:46, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > On 6/19/23 09:36, R. H. van der Gaag wrote: >> >> Thanks for checking. Insert date gives the correct (Dutch) time here, too. >> But the time stamps added to the LaTeX preview are always exactly two hours >> behind. A riddle. > > Two hours behind sounds like UCT (GMT). European time is one hour ahead but > then another hour for daylight savings. I suspect that your system clock is > set for UCT, which is what LaTeX is picking up. > > I've had similar problems on a Windows system. My macOS preferences say "Central European Summer Time" and in the terminal I get rh@iMac ~ % date Mon Jun 19 21:27:10 CEST 2023 It remains a mystery, then, where LyX or LaTeX gets its UCT/GMT time from. Should I worry about this possibly messing up sync? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
A question about the macOS warning message
Launching LyX on macOS 12.1 (Monterey) causes a warning to appear, saying that in future OS versions, the application will no longer run, and that it should be updated. Is anyone working on this? I tried to find indications that this was so on the website, but to no avail. My dissertation is in LyX, and it would be a problem is updating my Mac’s system software would disrupt the work. Thanks in advance for any help/advice. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
