Re: typos in koma-letter2.lyx template preamble can cause errors
Richard Heck informs me this has been corrected. Way cool. On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Richard Talley wrote: > I've been working on learning more about KOMAScript classes and found a > problem with the preamble that comes with the LyX koma-letter2 template > (and has for some time). > > The preamble has a number of options in the \KOMAoptions section, > including these lines: > > %pagenumber=botcenter% position of the page number (see docu) > %,parskip=false% Use indent instead of skip (more options cf. > docu) > fromalign=center%alignment of the address > > > The problem is that the first and third lines of this excerpt from the > preamble lack leading commas (the KOMAoptions are comma delimited). > > If you uncomment the parskip option by removing the leading % then it gets > parsed together with the fromalign option (because fromalign lacks a > leading comma) and generates an 'undefined control sequence' error. > > Another confusion is that 'parskip=false' is the default for this document > class. If you want a block style letter with no indents and a space between > paragraphs you need to change this option to 'parskip=true'. > > -- Rich > >
typos in koma-letter2.lyx template preamble can cause errors
I've been working on learning more about KOMAScript classes and found a problem with the preamble that comes with the LyX koma-letter2 template (and has for some time). The preamble has a number of options in the \KOMAoptions section, including these lines: %pagenumber=botcenter% position of the page number (see docu) %,parskip=false% Use indent instead of skip (more options cf. docu) fromalign=center%alignment of the address The problem is that the first and third lines of this excerpt from the preamble lack leading commas (the KOMAoptions are comma delimited). If you uncomment the parskip option by removing the leading % then it gets parsed together with the fromalign option (because fromalign lacks a leading comma) and generates an 'undefined control sequence' error. Another confusion is that 'parskip=false' is the default for this document class. If you want a block style letter with no indents and a space between paragraphs you need to change this option to 'parskip=true'. -- Rich
Re: Are there problems with lyx-ftp-server?
That was interesting. Evidently Firefox had decided for me that it would take over handling the FTP protocol. When I pasted ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.1/lyx-2.1.0beta2 into Safari, it opened Firefox. I hadn't noticed before because I usually use a standalone FTP client. I used the RCDefaultApp preference pane ( http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/) to give FTP handling back to Finder. Safari then turned the FTP handling over to Finder and I was then able to connect as a guest and drag and drop the Mac dmg into my Downloads folder. A little slow, over 10 minutes to download, but it worked. Safari 6.1.1 on OS X 10.8.5. -- Rich On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Uwe Ade wrote: > > Hello, > > > > me again. Sorry for the disagreeability. I have the problem with safari > und > > Pathfinder on my mac. The Download doesn’t work. As I read the tip from > > Anders i installed Firefox and the download and the installation of lyx > > works fine. > > > > In Future i will try to give more and clear descriptions. > > > > Thanks for the help an this Mailinglist. For me it´s great!! > > Thanks for following up and thanks to Anders for the solultion. > > Glad you got it working! > > It would be nice if another Mac user could test using Safari. > > Scott >
can't get LyX to open pdfs in Skim
When I was running LyX 1.6.x, I had no problems getting LyX and Skim to sync, but I can't get it working with LyX 2.0.6. No matter what I do, generated pdfs continue to open in Preview rather than Skim. LyX has the correct (according to the wiki) command built-in - open LyX Preferences -> Output and in PDF command put /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline $$n $$o $$t. And in Document -> Settings enable Synchronize with Output (I've saved that as default for all my documents). I'm generating pdfs with PDF (XeTeX) for the most of my test documents, as that is what I usually use, but I also tried a document with PDF (pdflatex). I'm running LyX 2.0.6, Skim 1.4.7 and MacTeX 2013 (which I updated about a week ago) on OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). Skim.app is in /Applications. I've also made the appropriate settings in Skim, but I need to get LyX -> Skim sync going before I worry about the reverse. I've looked in the LyX bug trac, this mailing list and also the macosx-tex (TeX on Mac OS X) mailing list. I seem to be doing things correctly. I know I could force the pdfs to open in Skim by setting all pdfs to open in Skim, but I neither want nor should have to do that. Any suggestions for troubleshooting this? -- Rich
Re: Trying to install xetexCV document class
Hi Justin,
It's a very bad practice to put working documents anywhere in your
Applications folder (among other things the permissions won't be correct).
The Applications folder belongs to the system and should be reserved for
applications. Put your own documents somewhere in your home directory.
You might drop the xetexCV-LyX folder containing the four files for the
Tolkien CV example into your Documents folder. Then the path for the image
on your machine would be:
/Users/justinJustin/Documents/xetexCV-LyX/JRR-Tolkien.jpg
(Please note that the LaTeX Preamble for the example LyX file has an
explicit comment: "The Image Path Cannot Include Spaces". The path you were
trying to use included spaces.)
I also got the 'unknown token' error when I first started playing with this
example file. It went away once I set the document to use fonts actually
installed on my system.
Your installation is defaulting to using a DVI output, which you probably
don't want or need to mess with. If you look under the View menu in LyX
with the example file loaded, the default (which is bound to Command-R and
to the 'eyes' icon on the toolbar) is set to DVI something (probably
LuaTeX). Set the document to explicitly use PDF (XeTeX) in Document ->
Settings -> Output -> Default Output Format. Once you have taken care of
the other problems and can successfully typeset the example file, the pdf
should automatically open in whatever you have set as a default pdf viewer
(probably Preview).
The font errors you're getting mean that the fonts you installed don't have
the correct sizing information for the way they're being used in this
document. Two things to try:
1. Try specifying other fonts already installed on your system. Note that
working through XeTeX, LyX has no way to determine which fonts are Serif
(Roman) and which are Sans Serif so it just lists them all. Use FontBook to
examine the fonts you have installed.
2. I bet you installed Type1 Fontin fonts because that's what the font
designer advised on his downloads page. Ignore that advice. Using FontBook
remove the Type1 fonts then download and install the OpenType ones instead.
And yes, use the Fontin Regular for Roman and Fontin Sans Regular for Sans.
That's what the xetexCV class was designed around and gives a very nice
result.
-- Rich
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:13 AM, justin wrote:
> Richard Talley gmail.com> writes:
> > The xetexCV.cls class file should go
> >in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex (create
> folders as necessary).
> > Put the cvsplitbib.sty style file in the same place.
> > Then reconfigure LyX.
>
> Hi Richard, [N.B. I got a message saying I have
> "lines longer than 80
> characters" and to fix it.
> So I am going to hit return here and there, hope
> it does not confuse you if some of the computer
> stuff I copied and pasted
> gets broken up a bit in the process!]
> I did what you said above now. But still
> not working. Here is what I did:
>
> > Put the xetexCV.layout file in the same working
> folder as your LyX file.
>
> Did that too.
>
>
> > The example LyX file uses the font Minion Pro,
> >which is a licensed font
> you have to purchase. I substituted Fontin Regular.
> > You also need Fontin
> Sans. Both are available for free here:
>
> I installed those 2 fonts also with Font Book.
>
> >
> > http://www.exljbris.com
> >
> > Use Font Book to add fonts to your OS X installation.
> >In LyX, with the example LyX file open, use
> Document -> Settings -> Fonts.
> Check the choice to use non-Tex fonts, then
> change the Roman font from
> > Minion Pro to Fontin
> > Regular and the Sans font to Fontin Sans.
>
> After installing those fonts, I have one option
> for Fontin Regular,
> but I have 10 different 'Fontin Sans' choices.
> One of these is called
> 'Fontin Sans Regular' - should I choose this
> one? (For now, I have done so).
>
>
> >
> >
> > I also had to go into Documents -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble
> > and edit the
> path to JRR-Tolkien.jpg to
> >the correct one for my installation rather than
> the author's.
>
>
> I tried doing that. The method I used to get
> the address was clicking 'get
> info' on the jpg file,
> and then where it says 'where', I copied the address.
> It looks like this:
> /Applications/Lyx stuff/For making CV/xetexCV-LyX
>
> So I pasted exactly that to replace the original
> address, so it now looks
> like this:
>
> \cvimage{/Applications/Lyx stuff/For making
> CV/xetexCV-LyX/JRR-Tolkien.jpg}
>
> Was that right?
> One thing I still get when I open the example lyx file is 2
>
> Unkn
Re: Trying to install xetexCV document class
More on the xetexCV layout. You don't actually have to specify Fontin Regular and Fontin Sans in Document -> Settings -> Fonts as the xetexCV class specifies those fonts as the defaults already. If you don't have the Fontin fonts installed and don't specify others, then you'll get errors about missing fonts. You can always specify anything that's on your Mac, as this is xetex. Hoefler Text for Roman and Helvetica for Sans gives a nice result. The layout is nice but fairly limited. If your needs are very similar to the author's, such as in the example LyX file he provides, then it's very easy to use. The custom 'years' inset in the layout works well for just years, as in the example. If you add months so the text goes over one line, the formatting is not good. I worked around that by making the text smaller so it fits on one line. The layout as provided doesn't provide for itemized lists, so I added that. But they don't format properly with the rest of the entries. I worked around that temporarily by putting the list in the CV I'm working on into a minipage box and adjusting the scaling. Too much finger painting, but the CV looks very nice. I think I'll rewrite the layout so it's more robust and flexible; a good excuse for learning about LyX layouts in detail. -- Rich On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Richard Talley wrote: > If working with the terminal and configuration variables put you out of > your depth, then TeX and LyX may not be appropriate tools until you're more > familiar with OS X. > > In any case, I should follow my own advice and read the documentation > (it's been a while since I've done this). > > The xetexCV.cls class file should go in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex (create > folders as necessary). > Put the cvsplitbib.sty style file in the same place. > Then reconfigure LyX. > > Class and style files are part of TeX. Additional class and style files > can be added to your TeX Live installation, as you're doing here. > > Layout files are specific to LyX. They are what allow LyX to make use of > TeX class files. Go back to the instructions you linked to originally and > find the zip file that contains the layout file. There are actually two zip > files you need to download in order to have a complete set of files. There > is xetexCV.zip, which contains some sample TeX files as well as xetexCV.cls > and cvsplitbib.sty. There is also a xetexCV-LyX.zip, which contains a > working LyX example and the xetexCV.layout file. > > Put the xetexCV.layout file in the same working folder as your LyX file. > With it in the same folder, you don't need to bother with the Local Layout > setting. > > I was able to typeset the example file (a CV of J.R.R. Tolkien) by making > the following changes: > > The example LyX file uses the font Minion Pro, which is a licensed font > you have to purchase. I substituted Fontin Regular. You also need Fontin > Sans. Both are available for free here: > > http://www.exljbris.com > > Use Font Book to add fonts to your OS X installation. In LyX, with the > example LyX file open, use Document -> Settings -> Fonts. Check the > choice to use non-Tex fonts, then change the Roman font from Minion Pro > to Fontin Regular and the Sans font to Fontin Sans. > > I also had to go into Documents -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble and edit the > path to JRR-Tolkien.jpg to the correct one for my installation rather > than the author's. > > Typeset with View -> PDF [XeTeX} > > It's a good looking CV. Thanks. I can make use of this layout. > > -- Rich > > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:29 PM, justin wrote: > >> Richard Talley gmail.com> writes: >> >> > And yes, create the folder (or directory) 'texmf' in your home folder >> and >> put your xexexCV.cls file in it. >> > >> >> Hi Richard, >> Some of what you said was a little out of my depth I think. But I did >> understand your last sentence included above. >> >> So now looking back at your original instructions I have done perhaps all >> of it: >> >> 1) Put the xetexCV.cls file here: >> >> ~/Library/texmf DONE >> >> 2) Reconfigure is under the LyX menu: >> >> LyX -> Reconfigure DONE >> >> 3) When you start your document, point it to your local layout: >> >> Document -> Settings -> Document Class -> Local Layout... >> >> This bit I am stuck at now. I got to Document Class and was disappointed >> not >> to see it on the list from the drop down menu where I thought it should >> be. >> I clicked then on "local layout" like you said, and that let me click >> through my computer to find the ~/Library/texmf folder. But although I can >> see the xetexCV.cls inside it, it is grayed out, so I cannot select it. >> Any ideas? >> >> Thank you! >> >> >
Re: Trying to install xetexCV document class
If working with the terminal and configuration variables put you out of your depth, then TeX and LyX may not be appropriate tools until you're more familiar with OS X. In any case, I should follow my own advice and read the documentation (it's been a while since I've done this). The xetexCV.cls class file should go in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex (create folders as necessary). Put the cvsplitbib.sty style file in the same place. Then reconfigure LyX. Class and style files are part of TeX. Additional class and style files can be added to your TeX Live installation, as you're doing here. Layout files are specific to LyX. They are what allow LyX to make use of TeX class files. Go back to the instructions you linked to originally and find the zip file that contains the layout file. There are actually two zip files you need to download in order to have a complete set of files. There is xetexCV.zip, which contains some sample TeX files as well as xetexCV.cls and cvsplitbib.sty. There is also a xetexCV-LyX.zip, which contains a working LyX example and the xetexCV.layout file. Put the xetexCV.layout file in the same working folder as your LyX file. With it in the same folder, you don't need to bother with the Local Layout setting. I was able to typeset the example file (a CV of J.R.R. Tolkien) by making the following changes: The example LyX file uses the font Minion Pro, which is a licensed font you have to purchase. I substituted Fontin Regular. You also need Fontin Sans. Both are available for free here: http://www.exljbris.com Use Font Book to add fonts to your OS X installation. In LyX, with the example LyX file open, use Document -> Settings -> Fonts. Check the choice to use non-Tex fonts, then change the Roman font from Minion Pro to Fontin Regular and the Sans font to Fontin Sans. I also had to go into Documents -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble and edit the path to JRR-Tolkien.jpg to the correct one for my installation rather than the author's. Typeset with View -> PDF [XeTeX} It's a good looking CV. Thanks. I can make use of this layout. -- Rich On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:29 PM, justin wrote: > Richard Talley gmail.com> writes: > > > And yes, create the folder (or directory) 'texmf' in your home folder and > put your xexexCV.cls file in it. > > > > Hi Richard, > Some of what you said was a little out of my depth I think. But I did > understand your last sentence included above. > > So now looking back at your original instructions I have done perhaps all > of it: > > 1) Put the xetexCV.cls file here: > > ~/Library/texmf DONE > > 2) Reconfigure is under the LyX menu: > > LyX -> Reconfigure DONE > > 3) When you start your document, point it to your local layout: > > Document -> Settings -> Document Class -> Local Layout... > > This bit I am stuck at now. I got to Document Class and was disappointed > not > to see it on the list from the drop down menu where I thought it should be. > I clicked then on "local layout" like you said, and that let me click > through my computer to find the ~/Library/texmf folder. But although I can > see the xetexCV.cls inside it, it is grayed out, so I cannot select it. > Any ideas? > > Thank you! > >
Re: Trying to install xetexCV document class
OK. Something that Linux, OS X and Windows all share is the concept of 'environmental variables' - these are variables whose content specify certain locations or otherwise customize the behavior of programs. As a Unix-style operating system, OS X uses Unix environmental variables. To see all the environmental variables on your machine, use this command in the Terminal: set You'll get a list of these variables. One of them will say: HOME=/Users/justinJustin That's your home directory in the OS X file structure. When you set up your account you were asked to specify your full name and also an account name. The latter was used for the name of your home directory. ~/ is Unix shorthand for the home directory in any account, so on your machine, when you're logged into your account, ~/ and /Users/justinJustin mean the same thing. Saves on typing. Keep in mind that MacTeX is just a version of TeX Live adapted to the peculiarities of OS X. There are configuration variables (not Unix environmental variables) that are specific to your installation of TeX Live. This command: kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME uses a command line utility that was installed as part of TeX Live to find what the variable TEXMFHOME is set to in your installation. For more information, refer to section 2.3 Overview of the predefined texmf trees, in The Tex Live Guide-2013: http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html That documentation should also be part of your MacTeX installation. I keep this link: file:///usr/local/texlive/2013/readme-html.dir/readme.en.html bookmarked in Safari. It will take you to your local copy of 'Welcome to TeX Live' which contains links to your local documentation. You may have noticed that I use both 'directory' and 'folder'. 'Directory' is Unix-speak for what most now call a 'folder'. I'm in the habit of using 'folder' when I'm in the GUI and/or dealing with people who know nothing about the Terminal or the other Unix underpinnings of OS X. I use 'directory' when I'm at the command line. And yes, create the folder (or directory) 'texmf' in your home folder and put your xexexCV.cls file in it. -- Rich On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:34 PM, justin wrote: > Richard Talley gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > Sorry, you're probably are looking in the right place, my bad. > > > > > > > > In the Terrminal, use this command: > > > > > > kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME > > > > > > If the result is something like this: > > > > /Users/justin/Library/texmf > > > > > > > > (where 'justin' is the name of your home directory) > > > > > > > > But the 'termf' directory doesn't exist, try creating it and then put the > xetexCV.cls file in it. LyX should see it. > > > > Hi Rich, > I did that in my terminal, and it says this: > Justins-MacBook-Pro:~ justinJustin$ kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME > /Users/justinJustin/Library/texmf > Justins-MacBook-Pro:~ justinJustin$ > > I do not know what that means. But like I said when I go to that library > folder I do not see any texmf folder. Does this mean it exists or not? > Should I create one? > > Thanks! > > > >
Re: Trying to install xetexCV document class
Sorry, you're probably are looking in the right place, my bad. In the Terrminal, use this command: kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME If the result is something like this: /Users/justin/Library/texmf (where 'justin' is the name of your home directory) But the 'termf' directory doesn't exist, try creating it and then put the xetexCV.cls file in it. LyX should see it. -- Rich On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Richard Talley wrote: > You're still looking in /Library instead of ~/Library > > > > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:52 PM, justin wrote: > >> in case it helps, inside 'texlive' is only '2013'. Inside that is only >> 'texmf-var'. Inside that is only 'luantex-cache'. Inside that is only >> 'generic'. Inside that is only 'names'. And there is nothing inside that. >> >> >
Re: Trying to install xetexCV document class
You're still looking in /Library instead of ~/Library On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:52 PM, justin wrote: > in case it helps, inside 'texlive' is only '2013'. Inside that is only > 'texmf-var'. Inside that is only 'luantex-cache'. Inside that is only > 'generic'. Inside that is only 'names'. And there is nothing inside that. > >
Re: Tutorial sample files
That's true for most OS X users, but not all. If you want to use multi-platform programs, you have to put up with a certain amount of non-Mac behavior. (As do Windows and Linux users, when using programs primarily written to run on a different system.) I'm just glad that LyX is available on OS X, even though it doesn't quite fit into the system the way only for OS X programs do. -- Rich On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jerry wrote: > > > The OS X user should __never__ be required to look inside an app bundle > from the Finder (by right-clicking or Control-clicking). This is anathema > to the OS X user. > > Jerry > >
Re: Trying to install xetexCV document class
There is a distinct difference between /Library (system wide library directory) and ~/Library (the library directory in your home directory). You're looking in the wrong place. On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM, justin wrote: > Richard Talley gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > The instructions you linked to are out of date in places and incomplete > with reference to dealing with MacTeX. > > > > > > > > Put the xetexCV.cls file here: > > > > > > ~/Library/texmf > > > > Reconfigure is under the LyX menu: > > > > Hi Rich, > I found the Library folder in my computer, but there is no texmf folder > inside it. The only folder beginning like that is just called Tex. Within > that, it has a folder called Distributions, and then 3 things that are > 'Aliases' called Local; Root and Documentation. Should I be putting it in > any of these? > > Thanks! > > >
Re: Trying to install xetexCV document class
The instructions you linked to are out of date in places and incomplete with reference to dealing with MacTeX. Put the xetexCV.cls file here: ~/Library/texmf Reconfigure is under the LyX menu: LyX -> Reconfigure When you start your document, point it to your local layout: Document -> Settings -> Document Class -> Local Layout... The instruction to enable 'Use XeLaTex' is obsolete. Set the default output to 'PDF(XeTeX) in Document -> Settings -> Output -> Default Output Format: and use either Command-R or the toolbar icon to typeset to a PDF. -- Rich On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:29 PM, justin wrote: > I wanted to install xetexCV document class. > I have been trying to follow these instructions: > http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/19/latex-cv-part4 > > I am using Lyx 2.0.6, and the newest MacTex I guess since I downloaded it a > few days ago. And Mac OS 10.9. > > Seems like there are 2 steps, one to put it into Lyx, and one to put it > into > Tex. (The Tex instructions I have found particularly impossible to > understand). > > I put the .layout file into the layout folder of lyx. But the instructions > tell me: "When finished, reconfigure LyX (Tools->Reconfigure)." > However, under Tools, there is not such option as Reconfigure. > > Also it says "To enable the feature, all you need do is go to Document -> > Settings -> Output, and then enable the “Use XeLaTeX” feature." but I could > not find "Use XeLaTex" option. > > And, I could not work out how to add the files to Tex. But it does say " > For > users of Mac OS X and Windows, XeTeX is included in the MacTeX and MikTeX > distributions (respectively)" - does that mean I do not need to add > anything > to it, since I installed MacTex? > >
Re: Tutorial sample files
Happy New Year to you too. Glad you were able to find the LyX example files you were looking for. Spotlight doesn't index inside application bundles, so the Finder search behavior you describe is normal on OS X. Users normally wouldn't need to be searching inside bundles; the situation with the LyX example files is an unusual exception. -- Rich On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:25 AM, justin wrote: > Richard Talley gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > I'm not quite ready to upgrade to Mavericks, but this technique is so > fundamental to how OS X has worked since the very beginning I can't see > Apple removing it. My search also came up empty on your issue. > > > > Try this instead: > > > > > > > > Open a Finder window, pull down the 'Go' menu and choose the 'Go to > Folder...' command. > > > > > > > > Enter this in the resulting 'Go to the folder:' dialog box (note that > this > is case sensitive): > > > > > > > > /Applications/LyX.app/Contents > > > > > > > > Thank you Richard, your method worked! Also, I discovered something else > strange so will report it to you in case it helps you guys to > repair/improve > the software. With your method I go the folder and contents to display. IN > that finder window, I can also search for 'example' to fine the file > example_raw.lyx since there are so many files and folders inside. I can do > that by choosing to search within that folder. HOWEVER, if I just open a > usual finder window, and choose to search my whole computer for > 'example_raw.lyx' or even just 'example', it will not show the file. It > seems all the contents of the lyx app or folder or whatever it is, are > somehow invisible to searching, except by the method Richard has detailed. > > Anyway, many thanks to you RIchard and all you nice people who have tried > to > help. Very much appreciated :-) May you all have a lovely New Year :-) > > > >
Re: Tutorial sample files
I'm not quite ready to upgrade to Mavericks, but this technique is so fundamental to how OS X has worked since the very beginning I can't see Apple removing it. My search also came up empty on your issue. Try this instead: Open a Finder window, pull down the 'Go' menu and choose the 'Go to Folder...' command. Enter this in the resulting 'Go to the folder:' dialog box (note that this is case sensitive): /Applications/LyX.app/Contents -- Rich On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:04 PM, justin wrote: > > > > > That's a stumper - an empty app would have nothing to run. If LyX > actually > runs, then the app can't possibly be empty. > > > > > > > > In OS X, the Finder presents an app as a single file, but it's actually > an > application bundle that contains the executable and other resources (in the > case of LyX the other resources include the example files). You access its > contents using the 'show package contents' command as Stephen specified > previously. That's been true since OS X 10.0, more than a dozen years ago. > (And well before that, in NeXTSTEP, from which OS X is derived.) > > > > I would suggest having a technically adept friend look at your > installation, or asking at your local Apple User Group (use this site to > find your local AUG: http://appleusergroupresources.com), or making a > Genius > Bar appointment at your local Apple Store. > > > > -- Rich > > > Do you know anyone who has had this method work on the new Mac OS? I have > been searching the internet for a solution, but I have not found anyone > reporting if it works or not on OX 10.9. Perhaps they changed things with > this new OS? The app itself is working, so maybe it is just keeping > everything invisible. I am not technically proficient, so I do not know > what > else to do. > > Or is there anywhere we can just download the files which will help us > learn > to use lyx? > > Thank you! > > >
Re: Tutorial sample files
That's a stumper - an empty app would have nothing to run. If LyX actually runs, then the app can't possibly be empty. In OS X, the Finder presents an app as a single file, but it's actually an application bundle that contains the executable and other resources (in the case of LyX the other resources include the example files). You access its contents using the 'show package contents' command as Stephen specified previously. That's been true since OS X 10.0, more than a dozen years ago. (And well before that, in NeXTSTEP, from which OS X is derived.) I would suggest having a technically adept friend look at your installation, or asking at your local Apple User Group (use this site to find your local AUG: http://appleusergroupresources.com), or making a Genius Bar appointment at your local Apple Store. -- Rich On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:48 PM, justin wrote: > Richard Talley gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > A completely empty folder? Or a folder containing a folder named > 'Contents'? > > > > > > > Thanks for coming back so quickly! Completely empty. Nothing in it > whatsoever. That's what it shows using that method anyway. I would really > love to find it, so I can learn to use lyx! > >
Re: Tutorial sample files
A completely empty folder? Or a folder containing a folder named 'Contents'? On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:29 PM, justin wrote: > > > On the Mac installation, they get buried inside of the app package. > > > > Find LyX.app in your applications folder > > Right click on it and select "show package contents"The go to Contents -> > Resources -> examples > > It might be a good idea to copy the folder to somewhere more convenient > outside of the app if you are going to use them often. > > > > hope that helps > > Steve > > > > > > > > I am using Mac OS 10.9 and this trick does not work. Doing "show package > contents" shows an empty folder! Help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks > > > >
Re: Anyone used Lyx on Mac OS X Mavericks
Backup and sync (contacts, calendars) are two different things. Apple has removed the sync services framework from OS X Mavericks. Look here and scroll down to the 'What you can sync' section: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386 A lot of people are unhappy with this: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23507176#23507176 -- Rich On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Murat Yildizoglu < murat.yildizo...@u-bordeaux4.fr> wrote: > I do not understand your remark. I am, at this moment backing up my iPhone > (iOS7) on my MacBook (Mavericks) without any problem. In my case, I have > always unchecked the backup through iCloud and checked the backup "on this > computer". I also see that synchronization is available as a button and it > will probably become active when the backup will finish. > > > 2013/10/31 Stephan Witt > >> Am 31.10.2013 um 14:56 schrieb James Sutherland < >> james.sutherl...@utah.edu>: >> >> > I just started testing with Mavericks and haven't seen any trouble with >> LyX. >> > James >> >> Sorry, slightly of topic, but… >> >> I don't want to upgrade to Mavericks because of the crippled >> Sync-Services. >> With Mavericks one cannot sync it's iPhone via USB-Port anymore. >> You have to use your iCloud account at Apple to sync your contacts and >> calendars. >> I didn't find any alternate solution. >> >> All of you Apple users, you have no problem with this privacy attack? >> >> I'm baffled. >> >> Regards, >> Stephan >> >> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Murat Yildizoglu < >> murat.yildizo...@u-bordeaux4.fr> wrote: >> > This probably depends on your keyboard configuration too. I use a >> customized French configuration where \ is inserted using the sterling key >> (that I never use anyway), and this works under Mavericks and Lyx 2.05 and >> 2.1 beta1 in my case. >> > >> > >> > 2013/10/30 Robert Betz >> > >> > I have recently installed Mavericks. Lyx works, but have found the the >> ‘\’ character does not print on the screen. Instead one gets a “ (inverted >> comma) character. This occurs in general text, and the ERTs and in Maths >> equations. >> > >> > Has anyone come across this, and do they know of a fix. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Bob >> > >> > >> > PROFESSOR ROBERT BETZ >> > Head of School >> > School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science >> > Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment >> > >> > T: +61 2 4921 6091 >> > M: +61 (0)419 249 948 >> > F: +61 2 4921 6993 >> > E: robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au >> > >> > The University of Newcastle (UoN) >> > University Drive >> > Callaghan NSW 2308 >> > Australia >> > >> > CRICOS Provider 00109J >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Prof. Murat Yildizoglu >> > >> > Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV >> > GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) >> > Avenue Léon Duguit >> > 33608 Pessac cedex >> > France >> > >> > Bureau : E-331 >> > >> > mail: yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr >> > >> > web: yildizoglu.info >> > >> >> > > > -- > Prof. Murat Yildizoglu > > Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV > GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) > Avenue Léon Duguit > 33608 Pessac cedex > France > > Bureau : E-331 > > mail: yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr > > web: yildizoglu.info >
Re: Why People Give Up on Groups.
Yes, please don't leave. You can always just ignore the thread that you consider a 'slanging session' - just delete them unread. ;o) I'm not sorry I triggered the thread in question - less heat and more discussion than I've seen elsewhere. Some days I just hate computers, and I let it show. Don't let that drive you away. This is a great group! -- Rich On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > gordon_cooper writes: > > > Hello to all, > > I have been a Lyx user for a year or so and regarded > > this Group as place to find help. I am saddened to see it descend > > into a slanging session. > > > > I quit, > > Gordon > > New Zealand > > Don't let one bad thread drive you away, Gordon. Mostly the list is one > of the friendliest around as well as being one of the most helpful. > > Cheers, > Alan > > > -- > Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan > Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org >
Re: misleading doc link in moderncv example
I appreciate the useful links. Thanks. -- Rich On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2013-10-23, Richard Talley wrote: > > ... > > > Run the example that comes with LyX. Note in example says, 'The moderncv > > class offers lots of customization possibilities; some are explained in > the > > preamble of this document; for more information look at the documentation > > of the LaTeX-package moderncv.' > > > Yeah, right. The README for moderncv is very short and includes this: > 'Until > > a decent manual is written, you can always look in the "examples" > directory > > for some examples. Documents can be compiled into dvi, ps or pdf.' > > > The example LyX file points to documentation that doesn't actually exist. > > There is no 'more information'. > ... > > To fill this gap, there are a number of tutorials and docs on the WWW. > The example file may rather point to, e.g., > > http://frank.uvena.de/de/LaTeX/moderncv/ (German) > > http://www.surefoss.org/workflow/akademische-lebenslaufe-mit-latex-und-dem-moderncv-package/ > (German) > > http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/Artikel/Print-Artikel/LinuxUser/2012/09/Bewerbungen-erstellen-mit-der-LaTeX-Klasse-Modern-CV/ > > (As to the original misleading title of this bug report: IMO support and > documentation of commercial software (in general) is by no means better. > Of course, whith widely used programs the chance to find a competent user > nearby is higher the with "of the box" programs. > > Günter > > >
Re: why people give up on open source software
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ken Springer wrote: > > I can't speak for Rich, but it was not my intent to leave an impression of > "mass exodus". Just my pulling back from the potential promise I saw that > open source has, but IMO is not doing a good job of meeting. I think > Canonical is making that effort, but I have no feel as to their success. > Someday, when I'm rich but not famous, and have the time, I really want to > try Linux. Personally, I don't care for the direction MS and Apple are > going with the operating systems. AKA, I'm not a cloud fan and a devotee > of the cloud idea for personal use. > > I see an opportunity for open source to be a real contender/option to be > an alternative to MS and Apple for the users. I think this should be > obvious with the success of the Android/Linux based phones. I am a fan of > competition, of which there is little today. But I think the attitudes of > many in the open source community may be undermining that opportunity. > > The words I wrote that started this thread were a little harsh, but I was frustrated. My experience with LyX has been excellent - it's gotten out of my way and allowed me to concentrate on the content and structure of my documents, just what it was designed to do. In other circumstances, with no time deadline, I would not have minded working on the problem. But I was writing from the point of view of the majority of users to whom computers are not intrinsically interesting, but just tools to get some work done. The response to this is often an exhortation to them to learn about their computers, an attitude that there's something lacking in those who don't. But I've known any number of intelligent doctors and lawyers and teachers whose cognitive loads are already high enough that telling them that they need to gain an intimate of knowledge of computers is just a bar too high. They want their computers to just work, the way the other appliances in their lives do. Apple seems to understand this better than the rest of the industry; it's striking to watch toddlers pick up iPads and just get to it. (Noting that Apple OSes are based on FOSS and they contribute in important ways to the community; who would have guessed 25 years ago that Apple would achieve the apparently impossible - a Unix-style operating system usable by the average person?) That said, there are two attitudes common in the open source community that are orthogonal. The first is that free (in Stallman's senses) and open software is just better, intrinsically, philosophically and politically. It should take over the world. The bazaar is better than the cathedral. But when people complain about how impenetrable, geeky and poorly documented much of FOSS is, it's often thrown back in their faces (we're all volunteers, we scratch our own itches, learn about your computer, learn to code and contribute). FOSS is wonderful, at times. FOSS is terrible, at times (sometimes the same time it's wonderful). Proprietary software is wonderful, at times. It's terrible, at times (sometimes the same time it's wonderful). A lot of human technology is old (controlled fire goes back before H. sapiens!) and we've learned lots of ways to control and cope. Digital computer technology is less than a century old and we're still in the early learning phase of controlling and coping with it. I divide software organizations, not into FOSS vs. proprietary, but into apathetic or hostile to criticism vs. receptive and listening. This list provides a lot of patient handholding that is atypical (perhaps that has something to do with the fact that it's a community of people who write, for whatever purpose). I appreciate it very much. -- Rich
Re: why people give up on open source software
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Ken Springer wrote: > > > LyX looks to be rather out of the box from you basic office suite > thinking, and I want to get that under control before getting into any > tweaking. > As you get started with LyX resist the temptation to 'finger paint'. You get some content in and get a preliminary output - at that point you'll want to tweak the output because that's what you're used to with WYSIWYG word processors like Word. Don't. TeX knows more about typesetting than you or I will ever learn. Concentrate on the content and structure of your document. Save any tweaking for the final output - there's usually a few things that need to be manually adjusted by judicious addition of white space. Leave the heavy lifting to TeX. This was my biggest hurdle at the beginning. > > > For those reading this, that may be interested in the commercial program > I'm trying now, it's called Scrivener. Print output I want will probably > not be possible, but I really like it's ability to keep research info with > different file formats withing the Scrivener program itself. So I need > only one program running rather than a number of programs. > > I've read good things about Scrivener. It's more a 'book project management' program than a word processor. I know some people use it for everything until it's time to print, then they export to LaTeX. Good luck with it. > Something good did come out of this. In searching for information about >> moderncv, I chanced upon this site: >> >> http://www.latextemplates.com >> > > Looks very interesting, I've bookmarked it. Thanks. You're welcome. -- Rich >
Re: why people give up on open source software
Interesting comments. I too have found small vendors to be much more helpful. Often the developers help with or even do all of the tech support at small vendors. And they actually read my emails, instead of replying with canned responses. My experience with LyX has been mostly excellent. I started using it at work a number of years ago because I need to produce some technical manuals quickly. I wanted something that would not lose track of things in the cross-references and TOC (as Word is wont to do as documents get longer and more complex). LyX allowed me to get to work right away on content and produced very professional output. I've used the KOMA-script versions of report, article and book, and I've also used the letter template that comes with LyX. Yesterday was the first time I ever tried to use one of the examples that come with LyX. With scant documentation, the only way to figure out how the example worked was trial and error. I wanted to concentrate on getting the document done, not futz around with the example. Something good did come out of this. In searching for information about moderncv, I chanced upon this site: http://www.latextemplates.com They have a template based on moderndv very similar to the example that comes with LyX, but the TeX source file has complete and detailed comments. So I switched to TeXShop and got good results right away. First time I've had to do that. I like the words of the Kiwi whose site it is: "I am by no means an expert on LaTeX, but I recognize that others are similar to myself and only want to use LaTeX as a tool to create a document, without having to dig around in forums for solutions on how to tweak the document in some small way. There is no reason that LaTeX cannot be a simple platform for creating documents where little more is required than to change example text to your own text in a pre-configured template. To this end, templates on this website have been carefully pulled apart, cleaned up and made easier to use for the average person just starting to use LaTeX." -- Rich On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Ken Springer wrote: > On 10/23/13 11:24 AM, David L. Johnson wrote: > >> On 10/23/2013 12:33 PM, Ken Springer wrote: >> >>> >>> The program I filed the bugs with is one that wishes to take on a >>> commercial program in the marketplace. And they add new features, >>> some of which are inevitable buggy. But the attitude exhibited by not >>> fixing existing bugs is very unprofessional. If you are a business, >>> with competition, you want tools that work, not tools you spend a lot >>> of time finding work arounds. >>> >>> 3. When the new version comes out, and the developers have broken >>> something, they say it's a "regression". Oh, BS!! That's just >>> political spin for not saying they screwed up and didn't catch it. I >>> would appreciate the pure honesty of admitting a mistake than >>> political spin. >>> >>> 4. My impression is, for most open source software I've tried over a >>> period of time, the quality assurance/testing program to look for and >>> find bugs is seriously flawed. Some bugs are blatant, and I ask >>> myself, "How did they miss that?" >>> >> >> I look at those complaints, and wonder that you don't see such issues, >> and worse, with commercial software as well. >> > > Invariably, there will be bugs in any sophisticated software. The > question that arises for me is, are they important to the developer? I > think, when the developers are being paid for their work, they are more > attentive to fixing the bugs, as their next paycheck depends on it. > > These days, when I do suggest software, it's often a program that has both > free and paid versions. My theory is, that programs developers will be > more attentive to bugs in the free version as the incentive is to get you > to purchase the more sophisticated paid version. I don't think very many > people, when finding a lot of bugs in the free version, will opt to > purchase the paid version. > > > For me, the difference >> between commercial software and open-source is that, when you do have a >> problem, you have a chance, with open-source software, to actually ask >> for help from the person who wrote it. >> > > Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I think smaller developers are easier to get > in touch with. > > > For example, this list is >> well-populated by the actual developers of LyX, who are very helpful. >> > > Which is what I'd read online, and why I'm going to try LyX. Also, > because it's a typesetting program. And I want better output than the > average word processor. > > > Commercial support will connect you with a call center full of people >> reading from scripts. >> > > Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I've found the smaller vendors to be much > more helpful than the larger vendors. > > I have a file management program on this Mac, and when I found a problem, > I ended up talking via email about the problem. We finally figured out > what t
why people give up on open source software
I originally picked up on LyX because I needed to produce some technical manuals quickly that looked good to management and that didn't make me deal with the WYSIWYG nightmares of Word and its ilk. LyX really came through for me. Now I'm helping a friend apply to graduate school. I used the KOMA-script v. 2 letter class to typeset his letter of intent. Looks good! Now on to the résumé. Let's see what's available. ModernCV looks good, under development for seven years. Except it won't accept last names much longer than the author's name without hyphenation. Searching produces lot's of hacks to deal with this. Run the example that comes with LyX. Note in example says, 'The moderncv class offers lots of customization possibilities; some are explained in the preamble of this document; for more information look at the documentation of the LaTeX-package moderncv.' Yeah, right. The README for moderncv is very short and includes this: 'Until a decent manual is written, you can always look in the "examples" directory for some examples. Documents can be compiled into dvi, ps or pdf.' The example LyX file points to documentation that doesn't actually exist. There is no 'more information'. Nothing is explained. Seven years of development and there's nothing that Aunt Tillie can use. I know what I'm going to hear, 'Do it yourself', 'That's how open source works'. I agree. Perhaps I'll find the time to work on the documentation. In the meantime, I need to produce a document NOW, not work on the documentation for the tool to produce the document. Lesson: Please don't point to ghost documentation. If you have the time to produce something that you expect people to use, you need to make the time to explain how to use it. (Disclaimer: this doesn't apply to LyX itself, which is richly documented. Just to accessories to LyX and to open source generally.) -- Rich
Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx
Rather than further troubleshoot my issues with LyX on Snow Leopard, I decided to wait until I could start fresh with Lion. After some hardware repairs, I wiped the hard drive on my MacBook Pro and installed Lion 10.7.4, MaxTeX-2012 (which I immediately updated with the TeX Live Utility), LyX2.0.4+qt4, and Skim 1.3.21. I ran LyX -> Reconfigure, and then set LyX and Skim to sync with each other. Now I can successfully typeset LyX documentation without error. I want to thank everybody on this mailing list who tried to help me troubleshoot; sometimes an OS simply has too much cruft from being ridden and put up wet too many times, and it's simpler just to start over. -- Rich On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/07/2012 11:35 AM, Rich Talley wrote: > > Yes, I did reconfigure LyX. > > I am going to create a small test document that only has a title and a > couple of the problematic graphics files from the User's Manual, one eps > and one pdf. Then I'll see what's in the LaTeX log when I try to typeset it > & get back to the list. > > You should also try typesetting it manually from the command line, in so > far as that is possible. > > Richard > > > -- Rich > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Jens Nöckel wrote: > >> >> On Feb 7, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >> >> > On 02/07/2012 12:50 AM, Jens Nöckel wrote: >> >> >> >> I think this can only be solved if you save the user's guide to an >> external file, bisect that new file until you localize the error to a >> reasonably small portion of the file, and then inspect the LaTeX log. >> >> >> > Did the OP reconfigure LyX after getting convert working? >> > >> >> Good question. Rich -- that should definitely be the first thing to do! >> >> Jens >> > > > >
Re: errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx
So I found a problem with the 'convert' utility (part of ImageMagick 6.6.9)
that MacTex 2011 installs. The installation fails to install the necessary
xml files that 'convert' needs to function correctly at the command line.
Over at the macosx-tex mailing list, Dick Koch provided a link to the
necessary xml files with this comment:
"We supply convert mainly for tex4html, thinking that users familiar with
the Unix version
will want to install the full ImageMagick. So the conversion you are using
was never tested."
So I got 'convert' working at the command line. Unfortunately, this turned
out to be a red herring. I still can't typeset LyX's user manual
from within LyX. Pdf and eps files (such as mobius.eps) still don't display
within LyX ('Error converting to loadable format') and
typesetting still fails.
I tried exporting the LyX user manual to LaTeX(plain) and typesetting the
resulting TeX file in TeXShop. That actually works,
except cross references break ('see section ??' in the resulting pdf). But
the pdf and eps files that are problematic in LyX typeset
in TeXShop.
What am I missing?
-- Rich
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Richard Talley wrote:
> I had been running MacTex 2009 and Lyx 1.6.8. and using them extensively
> for technical documentation and homework assignments.
>
> I upgraded this morning to MacTex 2011 (using the Tex Live Utility to
> bring all the packages up to date) and Lyx 2.0.2.
>
> I tried to create a pdf of the UserGuide (located in
> /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/doc/ - opens as read only)
>
> Four eps files are generating 'Error converting to loadable format' in the
> LyX document. The LaTeX error dialog shows:
>
> Package pdftex.def Error: File
> `34_Applications_LyX_app_Contents_Resources_doc_clipart_mobius.pdf}
>
> Using draft setting for this image.
>
> Try typing to proceed.
>
> If that doesn't work, type X to quit.
>
>
>
> - OR -
>
>
> Package pdftex.def Error: File
> `42_Applications_LyX_app_Contents_Resources_doc_clipart_escher-lsd.pdf}}
>
> \hfill{}\subfloat[\label{f...
>
>
>
> So my system doesn't seem to be converting eps files correctly into pdfs
> for LyX to use. Any suggestions for troubleshooting? I've saved the
> complete LaTeX log, but it's huge and I'm not sure what's relevant.
>
>
> -- Rich
>
> MacBook Pro/OS X 10.6.8
>
>
>
errors typesetting UserGuide.lyx
I had been running MacTex 2009 and Lyx 1.6.8. and using them extensively
for technical documentation and homework assignments.
I upgraded this morning to MacTex 2011 (using the Tex Live Utility to bring
all the packages up to date) and Lyx 2.0.2.
I tried to create a pdf of the UserGuide (located in
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/doc/ - opens as read only)
Four eps files are generating 'Error converting to loadable format' in the
LyX document. The LaTeX error dialog shows:
Package pdftex.def Error: File
`34_Applications_LyX_app_Contents_Resources_doc_clipart_mobius.pdf}
Using draft setting for this image.
Try typing to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X to quit.
- OR -
Package pdftex.def Error: File
`42_Applications_LyX_app_Contents_Resources_doc_clipart_escher-lsd.pdf}}
\hfill{}\subfloat[\label{f...
So my system doesn't seem to be converting eps files correctly into pdfs
for LyX to use. Any suggestions for troubleshooting? I've saved the
complete LaTeX log, but it's huge and I'm not sure what's relevant.
-- Rich
MacBook Pro/OS X 10.6.8
Re: LyX 1.6.5 claims Bera fonts not installed
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Richard Talley wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM, BH wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Richard Talley
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > +checking for package bera [bera]... yes
>>
>> This says it has found the bera fonts. So you should have access to
>> them in Document > Settings > Fonts. (Are you sure you don't?)
>>
>> At this point, I'm baffled.
>>
>> BH
>>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I think that the indication that the Bera fonts are not installed is just a
> symptom of a deeper problem; I appear to have lost all font control. No
> matter what fonts I choose, I get a pdf that has the default LaTeX fonts.
> Something is badly screwed up in my TeX installation; I'm going to get rid
> of it and start over.
>
> Your comments were still useful; I learned several things about trouble
> shooting my installation.
>
> -=- Rich
>
>
Well, there is nothing wrong with my TeX installation. I've been using
TeXShop to work directly in LaTeX and also to typeset LyX documents that I
have exported to LaTeX. All the fonts and utilities are available that are
supposed to be.
There were two things wrong with my LyX 1.6.5 installation, both easy to
correct once I understood what was going on.
Somehow these lines got into the preamble I've been using:
% set fonts for nicer pdf view
\IfFileExists{lmodern.sty}{\usepackage{lmodern}}{}
\fi % end if pdflatex is used
When I used pdflatex to typeset a document, these lines were substituting
Latin Modern for any fonts I was choosing in Lyx.
The second problem is that LyX was showing the Bera fonts as 'not
installed', even though they are and I can use them to typeset a document
(once I had figured out and corrected the first problem). For some reason,
LyX is not adding the correct information to the packages.lst file (which on
OS X is in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/), even though the
configure.log file shows that the reconfigure procedure is correctly seeing
that the Bera fonts are installed and available. So I just added a line with
the word 'bera' to the packages.lst file and the 'not installed' message
went away.
-=- Rich
when did stdtoolbars.ui change to stdtoolbars.inc ?
I was looking at this wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserInterface where there is this information: "The toolbars are defined in default.ui (up to LyX 1.3.7) or stdtoolbars.ui (as of LyX 1.4.0)." However, in LyX 1.6.5 the toolbars are defined in stdtoolbars.inc - does anybody know when this changed? (I'd like to bring some items on this wiki page up to date.) Thanks, -=- Rich
Re: LyX 1.6.5 claims Bera fonts not installed
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: > On 18 mar 2010, at 00.33, Richard Talley wrote: > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > I think that the indication that the Bera fonts are not installed is just > a > > symptom of a deeper problem; I appear to have lost all font control. No > > matter what fonts I choose, I get a pdf that has the default LaTeX fonts. > > Something is badly screwed up in my TeX installation; I'm going to get > rid > > of it and start over. > ... > > I guess you already tried sudo texhash from the terminal? > > /Anders > Strictly speaking I shouldn't have to, as both the MacTeX installer and the update utility do so. However, I did run it manually, just in case. -=- Rich
Re: LyX 1.6.5 claims Bera fonts not installed
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM, BH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Richard Talley > wrote: > > > > +checking for package bera [bera]... yes > > This says it has found the bera fonts. So you should have access to > them in Document > Settings > Fonts. (Are you sure you don't?) > > At this point, I'm baffled. > > BH > Thanks for your help. I think that the indication that the Bera fonts are not installed is just a symptom of a deeper problem; I appear to have lost all font control. No matter what fonts I choose, I get a pdf that has the default LaTeX fonts. Something is badly screwed up in my TeX installation; I'm going to get rid of it and start over. Your comments were still useful; I learned several things about trouble shooting my installation. -=- Rich
Re: LyX 1.6.5 claims Bera fonts not installed
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:18 PM, BH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Richard Talley > wrote: > > Yes, I did reconfigure LyX. -=- Rich > > 1. What is your PATH Prefix? (LyX > Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix) > /usr/texbin:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > > 2. From within Terminal.app, try: > > kpsewhich bera.sty > > Does it return the path to your installation of bera? (If not, then > it's a MacTeX issue.) > Yes, it returns this: /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bera/bera.sty > > 3. Again in Terminal.app, try: > > /path/to/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py > > (substituting the appropriate thing for "/path/to" -- the default > would be "/Applications"). Paste the output into an e-mail to the > list. > > BH > Here's the output (same thing as appears in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/configure.log when I run LyX -> Reconfigure). checking for a Latex2e program... +checking for "latex"... yes checking for a DVI postprocessing program... +checking for "pplatex"... no checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX... +checking for "platex"... no checking for a Tgif viewer and editor... +checking for "tgif"... no checking for a FIG viewer and editor... +checking for "xfig"... no +checking for "jfig3-itext.jar"... no +checking for "jfig3.jar"... no checking for a Dia viewer and editor... +checking for "dia"... no checking for a Grace viewer and editor... +checking for "xmgrace"... no checking for a FEN viewer and editor... +checking for "xboard"... no checking for a raster image viewer... +checking for "xv"... no +checking for "kview"... no +checking for "gimp-remote"... no +checking for "gimp"... no checking for a raster image editor... +checking for "gimp-remote"... no +checking for "gimp"... no checking for a text editor... +checking for "sensible-editor"... no +checking for "xemacs"... no +checking for "gvim"... no +checking for "kedit"... no +checking for "kwrite"... no +checking for "kate"... no +checking for "nedit"... no +checking for "gedit"... no +checking for "notepad"... no checking for a BibTeX editor... +checking for "sensible-editor"... no +checking for "jabref"... no +checking for "JabRef"... no +checking for "pybliographic"... no +checking for "bibdesk"... no +checking for "gbib"... no +checking for "kbib"... no +checking for "kbibtex"... no +checking for "sixpack"... no +checking for "bibedit"... no +checking for "tkbibtexxemacs"... no +checking for "gvim"... no +checking for "kedit"... no +checking for "kwrite"... no +checking for "kate"... no +checking for "nedit"... no +checking for "gedit"... no +checking for "notepad"... no checking for a Postscript previewer... +checking for "kghostview"... no +checking for "okular"... no +checking for "evince"... no +checking for "gv"... no +checking for "ghostview"... no checking for a PDF previewer... +checking for "kpdf"... no +checking for "okular"... no +checking for "evince"... no +checking for "kghostview"... no +checking for "xpdf"... no +checking for "acrobat"... no +checking for "acroread"... no +checking for "gv"... no +checking for "ghostview"... no checking for a DVI previewer... +checking for "xdvi"... yes checking for an HTML previewer... +checking for "firefox"... no +checking for "mozilla"... no +checking for "netscape"... no checking for Noteedit... +checking for "noteedit"... no checking for an OpenDocument viewer... +checking for "swriter"... no +checking for "oowriter"... no checking for the pdflatex program... +checking for "pdflatex"... yes checking for a LaTeX/Noweb -> LyX converter... +checking for "tex2lyx"... no +checking for "tex2lyx"... no checking for a Noweb -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "noweave"... no checking for an HTML -> LaTeX converter... +checking for "html2latex&quo
Re: LyX 1.6.5 claims Bera fonts not installed
Yes, I did reconfigure LyX. -=- Rich On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:43 PM, BH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Richard Talley > wrote: > > I had been running LyX 1.6.3 with MacTeX 2008 under OS X 10.5.x and > created > > a number of documents using the three Bera fonts. > > > > Recently, I downloaded, installed and updated MacTeX 2009. I also grabbed > > the MacTeXtras; it came with LyX 1.6.5 so I installed that also. > > > > Now LyX doesn't see that the Bera fonts are available (they show as 'not > > installed' in Documents -> Settings -> Fonts). If I switch back to MacTeX > > 2008 (which I have not uninstalled but would like too) and reconfigure > LyX, > > these fonts still show as not installed. > > > > MacTeX 2008 and 2009 most definitely do come with the Bera fonts > installed; > > all the correct files appear to be there. > > > > I really need to convince LyX 1.6.5 that these fonts are indeed installed > > and available, as I need to re-edit some documents and have them print > using > > the same standards that I was already using for this series of documents. > > (And yes, I did re-run 'sudo texhash', just in case, and ran the > > LyX-installer that comes on the LyX-1.6.5-Mac-Universal.dmg.) > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. I haven't yet downgraded to LyX > 1.6.3; > > I guess that might be my next step in troubleshooting. > > Have you tried reconfiguring LyX? (LyX > Reconfigure) I have MacTeX > 2009, and the Bera fonts are properly recognized by LyX. > > BH >
LyX 1.6.5 claims Bera fonts not installed
I had been running LyX 1.6.3 with MacTeX 2008 under OS X 10.5.x and created a number of documents using the three Bera fonts. Recently, I downloaded, installed and updated MacTeX 2009. I also grabbed the MacTeXtras; it came with LyX 1.6.5 so I installed that also. Now LyX doesn't see that the Bera fonts are available (they show as 'not installed' in Documents -> Settings -> Fonts). If I switch back to MacTeX 2008 (which I have not uninstalled but would like too) and reconfigure LyX, these fonts still show as not installed. MacTeX 2008 and 2009 most definitely do come with the Bera fonts installed; all the correct files appear to be there. I really need to convince LyX 1.6.5 that these fonts are indeed installed and available, as I need to re-edit some documents and have them print using the same standards that I was already using for this series of documents. (And yes, I did re-run 'sudo texhash', just in case, and ran the LyX-installer that comes on the LyX-1.6.5-Mac-Universal.dmg.) Any suggestions would be appreciated. I haven't yet downgraded to LyX 1.6.3; I guess that might be my next step in troubleshooting. Thanks, -- Rich
Re: How many use Linux:
I use LyX on OS X. However, I was able to get it added to 350 university lab PCs (Windows) that already had LaTeX on them due to a departmental request. Now any time I get asked, "How did you make that pdf?" or "You don't use Word? What do you use?", I can say, "Let me show you something interesting." Besides, it really doesn't matter what fraction of LyX users are using this or that platform. What matters is what fraction of the techies, those people that others turn to for advice. More and more these people use Linux or OS X. Only the hard-core gamers continue to cling to Windows. (And those people who have to use a Windows-only program for professional reasons. They're not clinging to Windows but stuck with it.) My mantra these days is "Do you value your time and security? Then leave Windows behind. Let me tell you about the alternatives..." -- Rich On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Ehud Kaplan wrote: > I use it on Kubuntu 9.04 and on Windows XP. I also got several (~5) people > working with me to use it on Windows and a Mac. > EK > > > Luca De Marini wrote: > >> I use it on Linux mainly and on MacOSX some times. >> >> 2009/9/11 curtis osterhoudt >> >> >> >>> I also use it predominantly on Linux, but occasionally use it on Windows, >>> too. Have used LyX since, about, oh, 2000, for letters, articles, notes, >>> and >>> a dissertation. >>> >>> / >>> Down with categorical imperative! >>> flutz...@yahoo.com >>> / >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> From: Ralph Boland >>> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:17:25 PM >>> Subject: Re: How many use Linux: >>> >>> >>> I've always assumed that fraction was about 4/5 but never examined that assumption. Does anyone know the percentages of LyX users on: Linux Windows Mac BSD Other Just to start the ball rolling, I've always used LyX on Linux (since >>> 2001) and >>> >>> am currently using it on Ubuntu 9.0.4. >>> I've used Lyx on Linux since 1999. Wrote a thesis, a few papers, and >>> numerous >>> resumes and cover letters. >>> >>> >>> Ralph Boland >>> >>> -- >>> When a woman becomes sexually aroused the necessary blood flows from her >>> heart. >>> When a man becomes sexually aroused, the necessary blood is removed >>> from his brain. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > > But nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and > unacceptable for a normal LyX user. Yes. Like so many things with computers. Sorry you couldn't get it working. Perhaps things will be better with LyX 2.0. -- Rich -- Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan Perlis
Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > > => Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got them > working with LyX in a reasonable manner? > Would you please describe how you installed and configured it? > > joachim > I'm glad you asked this question. I needed to add a Spanish language dictionary to cocoAspell and with a little googling and command line work, I got it working. The cocoAspell project appears moribund, the documentation is incomplete, and the site is beginning to suffer from link rot. I think the next time I need to install and configure LyX, I'll just install aspell using Fink and eschew using cocoAspell to make it available as an OS X service. First, install cocoAspell and make sure it's working properly with LyX as an English language spellchecker. That's pretty straight forward. cocoAspell installs a number of things. It installs aspell itself in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib. It installs a preference pane in system preferences. It installs a large number of English dictionaries. It installs a service in ~/Library/Services. That's all OK. If you want the aspell service available in all user accounts, you'll need to move that last item, as root, to /Library/Services (you'll probably have to create that directory). If you just need the service available in the account from which you installed it, just leave things as cocoAspell installed it. You'll need to choose one of the available English dictionaries in the preference pane. Then in LyX preferences you choose aspell as the spellchecker and add this line to the Alternative Language field: /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias That's just following the instructions in the Wiki. Test that you can now spellcheck an English language document in LyX. Next, you'll need to download and install a German language dictionary. The link at the cocoAspell site is dead. Use this one: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html Unzip the file and follow the README instructions to install the dictionary into aspell (it's the usual command line sequence of ./configure, make, make install, make clean). Now copy or move the dictionary directory (in my case it is aspell6-es-1.9a-1) to /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell. Chown the directory to match the English language directory ownership (it should be the name of your admin account as owner and 501 as group). Here's the tricky step. Be sure System Preferences is not running. Get into the command line and become root. Run System Preferences as root! Don't use the open command, instead give the full path to the executable: /Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences Do one thing and one thing only while running System Preferences as root. Click on the Spelling preference pane that cocoAspell installed so it finds, compiles and configures your new dictionary. Quit System Preferences. Reopen it from the GUI. You should now be able to choose your new dictionary. To use your new dictionary, change the Alternative Language field in LyX preferences appropriately. In my case, it's: /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-es-1.9a-1/spanish.alias Voilà! I now have Spanish language spellchecking in LyX. -- Rich TalleyMacTeXLive 2008 - LyX 1.6.3 MacBook Pro (Intel) OS X 10.5.8 Leopard -- Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan Perlis
Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing
I'd be very interested in knowing what your Xorg CPU utilization is like now. I'm having a similar problem on an old server running Xubuntu 9.04, where Xorg is hogging the CPU. Thanks. -- Rich On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Alex M wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to share my experience with solving very frustrating problem with > typing in lyx 1.6.x under Ubuntu 9.04. Maybe this will help someone else or > even lead to a fix in a next lyx version. > > Recently I've upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04. After that, I could not continue my > work > in lyx 1.6.2. When typing, I experienced a very large delay (like seconds) > before all symbols would appear on screen. > > I read through all posts in lyx mailing list with similar symptoms (just 2 or > 3). The only solution there that worked was to buy a new video card. > > What I've done next: > > 1) Installed lyx 1.6.0 - the same typing delay. Installed lyx 1.5.7 - no > typing > delays. Returned back to lyx 1.6.2. > > 2) Looked at the CPU utilization. When typing, Xorg ate up to 50% CPU. > Then I resized lyx window to be smaller. CPU utilization fall down, and typing > delay decreased. I resized lyx to be 25% of the screen - typing delay almost > disappeared. > > 3) I looked which video card I have (lspci |grep Display) - Intel Corporation > 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) > I googled for problems with Intel graphics under Ubuntu 9, and found this link > useful: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582&highlight=ubuntu+slow+update > +jaunty > > 4) I tried different solutions from the link above and mostly got my X broken > or no effect. Finally this one worked for me: > > - open xorg.conf (sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf) > - go to section "Device", mine was > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > EndSection > - add Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" so the section looks now like this > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" > EndSection > - restart X or reboot. > > Now I have almost no typing delays in lyx 1.6.2 (at least, typing speed is the > same as in lyx 1.5.7 on my PC). > >
Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx
Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial) have little in common with Verdana. Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography. Verdana is in the realist family of typefaces and was designed and hinted specifically to be clear at small sizes on a computer screen. I see that Wikipedia and Bringhurst disagree on the classification of Helvetica (Wikipedia putting it among the early sans serif or Grotesque and Bringhurst putting in the humanist family. I think Bringhurst is probably the more reliable source.) It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on screen (and on both Windows and OS X). Sometimes I'll reset a document in a different typeface when I print it out. The technical documents I'm producing right now I'm putting in Bera (based on Vera Bitstream, realist family) as a reasonable compromise. -- Rich On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > John Culleton wrote: >> Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica. > > I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew > Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to > Helvetica. > > Jürgen >
Re: Adding a non-numbered chapter to Table of Contents
I had this problem recently and it was discussed on this list.
I have a Chapter* with a title of 'Preface' in a document that I don't
want numbered (it doesn't make sense to number a preface as chapter
1), but I do want it in the TOC. The solution was to insert this TeX
code immediately after the title of the Chapter*.
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface}
In your case, substitute your title of the Chapter* for 'Preface' in
the command.
You can change the word 'chapter' to 'section' or 'subsection'
depending on how you wish the non-numbered chapter to appear in the
TOC.
-- Rich
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Luca De Marini
wrote:
> 2009/5/13 Ian S. Worthington
>
>> I'm new here myself but, iiuc, the difference between a chapter and a
>> chapter*
>> is that the former appears in the toc whilst the later doesn't.
>>
>> So, if you want a chapter* to appear in the toc, can't you just change it
>> to a
>> chapter?
>>
>
> The most important difference I found was that a *chapter was not numbered,
> not that it doesn't appar in TOC.
> So, say that my problem can be considered as:
> how do I have a chapter not to be numbered and still appear in the TOC?
> Understand my problem now? If I convert my *Chapter to a Chapter, it will be
> numbered (Chapter 1). I don't want it to be numbered.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luca
>
>
>
>
>>
>> i
>>
>> -- Original Message --
>> Received: 06:45 PM COT, 05/12/2009
>> From: Luca De Marini
>> To: LyX Users List
>> Subject: Adding a non-numbered chapter to Table of Contents
>>
>> > Hallo everyone, sorry for my mails but we are in a hurry and the lyx wiki
>> is
>> > not helping me, google neither :(
>> > When I create a TOC in Lyx, it lists all the chapters, sections, etc. in
>> my
>> > book. I can configure it from the document properties, no problem..
>> > then, another feature in lyx is adding Chapters, Sections, etc. with a
>> "*"
>> > simbol next to them. Those entries are not numbered or listed in the TOC.
>> > Now, I need to put in the TOC one of these special entries, a special
>> > *Chapter. I was sure there had to be an option to add a custom entry to
>> > TOC... or a way to solve this in general. Any help please?
>> >
>> > Another problem is a little bit complicated to explain: I inserted the
>> TOC
>> > and after that, the first chapter is the famous *Chapter I was talking
>> about
>> > above. My second problem is that in the page where this *Chapter is, on
>> the
>> > top of the page I still see the name "Table of Contents".. this probably
>> > happens, because Lyx is confused, since there's no ordinary Chapter after
>> > the TOC.. in fact, on the next page there's Chapter 1, and on the top
>> left
>> > of the page I can see the small name: "Chapther 1" (the name of the
>> chapter
>> > is of course on the top right corner as usual). So, the problem is that I
>> > have still "Table of Contents" on the top left corner of the page with
>> the
>> > *Chapter.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Luca
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Big Thanks! was: how to stop TeX and LaTeX from being typeset with the special logo?
A big thanks to everybody for the quick, useful replies. There is no doubt that one of the best things about LyX is the LyX community. -- Rich On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: > Richard Talley wrote: >> >> LyX automagically typesets words like TeX and LaTeX using the special >> logo for those words. >> >> How do I turn this behavior off? > > I see you already got some answers for how this is done for the entire > document. If you want to do this for particular instances of LyX/TeX/LaTeX, > just "Insert->Formatting->Ligature Break" somewhere inside the word you want > to protect. > > Or insert anything else that don't produce output, such as an empty TeX > (ERT) box. > > Helge Hafting > >
Re: Spell check on Mac?
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Sophie (itsme213) wrote: > Is there a way to get spell checking on Mac? Any pointers to more info > appreciated. Yes. Install cocoAspell. http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/ On Leopard, I've had to move the service folder cocoAspell.service from ~/Library/Services to /Library/Services, but others have cocoAspell working without doing that. (The move needs to be done at the command line as root.) The default installation is only English language dictionaries. If you need other dictionaries you'll have to download and install them. You'll need to configure LyX to find the cocoAspell dictionaries: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling#toc2 -- Rich
how to stop TeX and LaTeX from being typeset with the special logo?
LyX automagically typesets words like TeX and LaTeX using the special logo for those words. How do I turn this behavior off? There are a couple of places, such as an instruction to navigate to /Applications/TeX, where I want the words to appear more like they actually do in the computer interface. (I do *not* want to type /Applications/Tex as that does not match what is on the screen.) -- Rich
Re: cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard
The cocoAspell installer puts cocoAspell.service into ~/Library/Services - that works fine on my machine with Tiger and a single user. For a multi-user machine under Leopard, that service needs to be moved, by root, to /Library/Services This solved my cocoAspell problems with Lyx and Skim on Leopard. -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Richard Talley writes: > >> Any suggestions? Anybody on the list successfully using cocoAspell >> with LyX on Leopard? > > It works fine for me under Leopard. I don't believe I did anything > specialto install it, just follow the instructions. Maybe try to > uninstall and reinstall? > >
Re: JurabibMLA
An alternative solution might be mla-paper. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper/ -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:25:29 cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: >> Tim Smeilus wrote: >> > hi all, >> > >> > I need to write an assignment for college and I need it in MLA format. I >> > just can't figure out how to make lyx use that format. All research over >> > the net didn't help my out yet. >> > I would be glad about all helpful response. >> > >> > thnx Tim Smeilus >> >> Biblatex-mla is, I believe, better : >> >> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-mla.html >> >> > > Indeed. Itis virtually impossible to get the MLA style in jurabib, especially > because earlier efforts in this direction were later abandoned. You can get > close, but can't really replicate true MLA style. > > biblatex, even though still partially unsupported by LyX, is the way to go. > Be sure to read the wiki pages at: wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex for the > current limited support > > Cheers, > > S. > > > >> Installation of biblatex and biblatex-mla depends on your platform and >> LaTeX distribution. >> >> Cheers, >> Charles > > > __ > Stefano Franchi > Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 > Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 > 305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu > College Station, TX 77843-4237 > >
cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard
Hello LyX-Users, I installed MacTeX 2008, cocoAspell 2.0.4.i86, Skim 1.2.1, and LyX 1.6.2 on an Intel Mac running Leopard (10.5.6). I have almost exactly the same setup on my personal machine except it's MacTeX 2007, Tiger (10.4.11) and, obviously, cocoAspell 2.0.4.ppc. Works like a charm on my machine. On the Intel Mac, cocoAspell appears to be installed correctly, it's available as a spelling service to TextEdit, exactly the same path is in the Alternative language field of Preferences: Language Settings: Spellchecker. (the path is /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias, as the Wiki suggests.) When I go to spellcheck on the Intel installation, LyX does.absolutely nothing (other than showing (dialog-show spellchecker: F7) in the status bar.) No error, no spell check dialog, nothing. I want to deploy this setup to a classroom of a couple of dozen Macs in order to teach a short "Why the power of LyX and TeX will save you time and effort" type class, but this one simple thing has turned into a showstopper. Any suggestions? Anybody on the list successfully using cocoAspell with LyX on Leopard? Here's another anomaly I just noticed. Although TextEdit is quite happy to use the Aspell spelling service, when I try to set Skim to use it, Skim complains with a "Couldn't contact Spell Checker." That gives me a hint that there is something not quite right with the cocoAspell spelling service, but heck if I know what it is. -- Rich
Re: Lyx and DocBook
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ian S. Worthington wrote: > > It also lists Lyx which seems a mature and usable tool for Latex, > and produces highly attractive PDF documents. I read though that getting > attractive HTML out of it is difficult. > I''m getting good results out of the new tool ELyXer. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/ELyXer There have been a couple of threads about ELyXer on this mailing list. It's new and has some limitations. For instance, no TOC generation yet. However, the tool's author, Alex Fernandez, really likes getting challenging documents and making ELyXer work with them. -- Rich
Re: interface questions: navigator and view source
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-03-31, Richard Talley wrote: >> Running Lyx 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11 PPC. > >> 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the >> bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move >> to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to >> move back into the main LyX window, but I can't find a way to do that. > > Click again on the same button? (Works here with 1.6.2 on Linux.) No. The button does not appear in my installation when the View Source window is a free floating window. >> 2. The navigator panel pops out to the right by doing something like >> Navigate -> List of Figures -> Open Navigator... >> I can't find a way to make the panel go away without closing and >> re-opening Lyx. Is there an easy way to do this, particularly are >> there any keyboard shortcuts to make the navigator panel appear and >> disappear? > > I use Alt-O G for Dokument>Gliederung, so it should be something like > Alt-d-o for Document>Outline in English. No, Alt-d-o doesn't work but I'll experiment with different combinations. Thanks. > Günter > -- Rich
Re: interface questions: navigator and view source
1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't find a way to do that. >>> >>> It should dock automatically when you move it close to a border of the >>> LyX window. >> >> That doesn't work, at least not in my installation on OS X. > > Hmm It works for me (OS X 10.5, Intel). Are you sure? Yes, absolutely. I've dragged the View Source window all over the place. The only way to get it to dock back into the main lyx window on my installation (OS X 10.4.11 PPC) is to double-click on the title bar. > > What about toolbars: you should be able to grab them and move them > around the window -- to the top, bottom, left, and right sides, or > drag them off the window to be a floating palette. Does that work? Yes. There is a little do-hickey with dots on the far left (or top, when vertical) of the toobars. Using that, I can grab and move them exactly as you have described. > Bennett -- Rich
Re: interface questions: navigator and view source
Thanks, Vincent. > >>1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window >>was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the >>button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd >>like the view source window to move back into the main LyX >>window, but I can't find a way to do that. > > It should dock automatically when you move it close to a border of the > LyX window. That doesn't work, at least not in my installation on OS X. > If not, you can double-click on the title bar of the view > source window. That works. Excellent. >>2. The navigator panel pops out to the right by doing something >>like Navigate -> List of Figures -> Open Navigator... > > Hmm, I don't have this option :(.. You probably don't have a document open that has a list of figures. > >>I can't find a way to make the panel go away without closing >>and re-opening Lyx. Is there an easy way to do this, particularly >>are there any keyboard shortcuts to make the navigator panel >>appear and disappear? > > I have a little cross in the top-right of the Outline (navigator), and Nope, no little cross. I understand that Qt on OS X still needs some work (as compared to Windows) so they'll be occasional anomalies like this. > there is an icon that looks like a book in the toolbar which you can > press, and you can enter "dialog-toggle toc" in the command buffer > (View->Toolbars->Command Buffer). I wasn't seeing that icon because I didn't have my Lyx window open side enough (so I could see the navigator panel). > You can assign a shortcut to "dialog-toggle toc" in the Shortcuts > section of the Preferences dialog. Press "New", enter the function I > mentioned above, and choose a shortcut. > > >>Thanks. >> >>-- Rich > > Vincent > -- Rich
interface questions: navigator and view source
Running Lyx 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11 PPC. 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't find a way to do that. 2. The navigator panel pops out to the right by doing something like Navigate -> List of Figures -> Open Navigator... I can't find a way to make the panel go away without closing and re-opening Lyx. Is there an easy way to do this, particularly are there any keyboard shortcuts to make the navigator panel appear and disappear? Thanks. -- Rich
Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter
Thank you for elyxer. Running OS X 10.4.11 Tiger PPC with a Fink installed Python 2.5.2 in /sw/bin/python. I dropped a copy of elyxer into /usr/local/bin with the appropriate owners and permissions. I tried to process ~60 page document, book class, dozens of PNG floating graphics, TOC, List of Figures, cross references. It's a pretty generic technical document. Lots of errors like this: Parsing line 3000 Image images3/tweakui/my not found Image images3/tweakui/internet not found Error at 3246: \begin_deeper Error at 3265: \end_deeper Output html file had no graphics and no TOC. -- Rich On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi, Joachim, > >> OK, I dared to download and uncompress it. > > Great, another brave soul! > >> And proceeded to the first step, with the response: >> >> joachim$ ../elyxer userguide.lyx userguide2.html >> File "../elyxer", line 21 >>@classmethod >>^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > It seems that your Python is not understanding the decorator syntax > for classmethods, which were introduced in Python 2.4: > http://pyref.infogami.com/classmethod > The following command would verify that this is indeed the problem: > $ python --version > >> Might be because of Mac-OSX (as you "haven’t tested it on Mac OS X")??? > > You are right: >> MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger > > It would appear that Tiger comes with a Python 2.3 version. It is easy > to upgrade to a more current version: > http://www.python.org/download/mac/ > I would commit to make eLyXer work with Tiger, but only if you are > willing to be the guinea pig -- I don't have a Python 2.3 installation > and don't have the resources to create one. What do you think? > >> Just to report it. > > Thanks! > > Alex. >
