-1.3.4. The
location of the TeX hierarchy is set during the Edit -> Reconfigure
phase of the installation. Could Viktor have forgotten that?
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ld suggest trying
ispell from the command line to make sure it is working. Or
installing aspell or cocoAspell, which are better spellcheckers.
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ry was created on
your installation and run texhash.
The installation could automatically install classes like cv,
hollywood, broadway, and lyxchess -- I never thought of it.
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e a
script that does this. The script is actually for use with an
Applescript that responds to a file dropped on it, but it should work
as well from the command line. See if
http://www.18james.com/code/lyx-remote does part of what you need.
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scripts
that convert Endnotes citations to LaTeX citations.
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The build instructions for LyX/Mac in the lyx-1.3.4 distribution fail
on UFS file systems. Although Apple recommends that MacOSX systems use
HFS+ file systems for boot partitions and Applications directories,
Gerben Wierda, the maintainer of an excellent teTeX suite for MacOSX,
discovered the
ag the LyX icon to your preferred location;
- run the LyX-Setup script;
- do Edit -> Reconfigure when you first start LyX.
The order of items is significant.
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plication could be made relocatable (you
can put it anywhere you choose) and so the installation would include
everything in a single bundle which is Apple's preferred spec for MacOSX
applications.
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again.
LyX/Mac is based on the Qt/Mac library and gets the math symbols right.
Try <http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html>.
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t be that some
browsers are misbehaving on those pages?
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interested in your rationale.
If you go to the Table of Contents in the frame at the bottom of your
browser screen, you can click on Screenshot, Download, Prerequisites,
Using LyX, etc. to navigate on the page. What is confusing about that?
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have CocoAspell installed and it works for all other text
editors including iTex and TexShop.
Configuring cocoAspell to work with LyX/Mac is covered in the LyX/Mac
howto at <http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html>. Click on
spell-checkers in the table of contents.
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ort to pdf"
Run
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/LyX -dbg latex
in a terminal and watch the output to check your teTeX installation and
configuration.
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the LaTeX generation/execution.
If latex-previews of math n LyX fail, did you run (double-click)
LyX-Setup in the installation bundle?
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ls, in directly inserting references into LyX files.
There is a list of BibTeX tools in the LyX/Mac Howto and no doubt
somewhere there is a list of Linux-specific tools like Pybliographer.
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ch is the
inertia in the trade publishing world.
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o inside the installer,
points out that a working teTeX installation is a prerequisite to
installing LyX/Mac. The error message you got is what happens when
teTeX is not installed before the LyX/Mac installer trys to install
the files for latex-preview.
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configure it to not insert anything by default -- e.g., to
wait for the OK click and/or to default to "cancel"? Thanks,
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Katrin Pietzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't know, whether this is much of a help - it's rather an idea.
> Under Mac OS 10.3.2 I manually had to set the language in a
> file. Check out Ronald Florence web-site
>
> http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.
le that is changed when system language is set in
> prefs?
I think Georg is referring to the directions in the LyX/Mac howto to
define the environment variable LANG in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist in
order to change the GUI language. In MacOS-10.2 this was not
necessary.
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r ~/.lyx/bind/
directory and add something like the following:
\bind "C-M-i i" "self-insert î"
\bind "C-M-e e" "self-insert é"
\bind "C-M-u u" "self-insert ü"
\bind "C-M-u o"
ve you configured in MacOS-10.3 as
the default viewers for those filetypes?
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been working on 1.3.4cvs),
but as far as I know it includes the GUIs for other languages and
should display in the default language of the system. In any case,
LyX/Mac-1.3.4 will work in the correct GUI languages under MacOS-10.3.
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tories like /bin and /usr/bin. Unless you're sure of what fink
puts in those directories, and sure you want those binaries instead of
the "normal" binaries, it can be confusing and/or insecure to allow
fink to set your PATH.
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o Tomoharu Nishino' web page
> and contains the lines:
>
> source /sw/bin/init.csh
> setenv PATH "${PATH}:/usr/local/bin"
This is not relevant, and may not be a good idea.
Did you follow the instruction in the ReadMe-First file and in the
i
Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Switching from book class to memoir to continue work on a novel works
> so long as I do not insert an Index.
Does your publisher -- and/or do you -- really want an index in a novel?
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ds.la. This file is used by libtool to
> ascertain which external libraries are needed.
Thanks. It turns out that the dependencies in that and the other .la
files were correct, but that libtool cannot deal with MacOS
dependencies like "-framework GL". Deleting the libqt.la file and
run
The library it cannot find is libqt.a (libqt.la).
How can I fix this? Configure did find the library and there were no
other protests. Thanks,
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er supported LyX platforms. This was a very
important goal in developing the port.
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cOS-10.2.x). I've tested it locally on Panther (MacOS-10.3.1).
Please write me with your MacOSX version and I'll point you to the
self-installing binary. Thanks,
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X
alias will function with all of the features your hack breaks.
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rks fine.
3. The pull-down menues do sometimes misbehave (this is a Qt/Mac
library problem).
4. Yes, as the HOWTO makes clear, teTeX is a prerequisite for a
working LyX/Mac.
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Option-Drag to make an alias of LyX in the other directory; it should
work fine.
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ata can reside anywhere.
The earlier query seems to be about LyX/Mac, which is a port of LyX to
the MacOS native graphics, does not need X11, and functions as a full
GUI application on Macs.
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es are not overwritten when you do.
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gt; an upgrade of teTeX.
>
> That's probably something from Mac world. Here in Unix world
> anything in /usr/local should never be touched by any packager.
Matej,
Mac's run Unix, and there are quite a few teTeX installations which
overwrite /usr/local/teTeX.
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ormal teTeX distribution in .../share/texmf.local/tex/latex/. The
.../share/texmf/tex/latex hierarchy could be overwritten by an upgrade
of teTeX.
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quot;fr". You will have to log out and log in again for the change to
take effect.
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Ed Sawicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way to enter the copyright symbol from the keyboard using
> Lyx?
Option-g with LyX/Mac, which is the same as with any other native Mac
program.
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preferences, so you
can change the pipe if one of the Bibtex managers is not flexible.)
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> I have that turned off in pine; I can turn it on. You're the first to ask
> in six years of my using pine for my mail.
Both the "-- " and the limit of four lines in a signature are
specified in one of the RFCs on Internet email. Some mailers and
newsreaders enforce th
/Mac howto I recommend
a bunch of other Bibtex managers compatible with LyX/Mac. There are
even more good Bibtex managers available for X11.
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as a workaround for getting
the new cocoAspell to work with LyX/Mac. Thanks,
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itor like emacs with auctex. It's a different style of
working from LyX, but emacs or some other text editor might be
well-suited to the fine formatting and tedious character-by-character
massaging when you hear back from the book designer and copy-editor.
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talled cocoaAspell somewhere other than /Library, change
the script accordingly.
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t run on MacOS-10.2 (Jaguar) because the newer
development libraries include many functions that are not present in
the MacOS-10.2 libraries. I've finally succeeded in generating a
MacOS-10.2 compatible binary of LyX/Mac on MacOS-10.3, but it is not
easy to do.
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x11.html>.
For a simpler, more functional LyX with the Mac look & feel, try
<http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html>.
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man keyboard.
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tion keystrokes do not work there.
Why do you want to insert those characters into the preamble?
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reproduce in ascii text files, be ready for
headaches when you prepare final manuscript submissions.
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ellence of LaTeX and/or LyX. But I'll keep using
LyX. Why? Because I like the WYSIWYM concept, the beautiful output
for letters and manuscript drafts, and the LyX developers.
Still, I dread the next book submission ...
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were better, but have from necessity developed -- as I suspect other
LyX users have -- workarounds. Why can't the scrolling be fixed? It
would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the
mouse.
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r more information on LyX/Mac, see the howto at
<http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html>.
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y understand the treatment
of encoding like KOI-8 in LyX and the Qt library. The LyX/Mac binary
is compiled without the iconv library, because the library is not
included in MacOS. I don't know whether including it would help
(MacOSX versions are available from fink or Gerben Wierda).
Regards,
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t of the Wierda and fink installations.
If you're interested, email me for download information. Installing
the new version takes a few minutes. Thanks,
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nts will not load in Qt. This is a Qt bug that Troll
Tech refuse to fix."
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ery
> second to see if the .ps file it is rendering has changed, and will
> refresh if so.
MacDviX also updates automatically. If MacDviX is configured as the
default OSX application for .dvi files, it will preview .dvi files in
LyX/Mac without additional configuration.
r. If you're running X11, you can specify viewers
like xdvi or gv. To restore the previewer for a filetype to the
default system viewer, set it to "open".
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fonts
are you using, what method of generating .pdf, and what viewer?
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le to fix it.
Either delete the file and run the LyX/Mac installer again, or
check <http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html> to
make sure the file is a valid plist. You need to log out and
log in again after making changes to this file.
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in your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
file. LyX/Mac installs that automatically, or if the file exists
tries to modify it to a safe path. If the file was broken, LyX/Mac
may not be able to fix it.
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enu is not working.
Do you have a working teTeX installation? Did you log out and log in
again after installing LyX/Mac, as noted in the installer Readme?
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LyX keyboard shortcuts.
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feel, including the menubar and anti-aliased text, and does not
require X11. The current version of LyX/Mac includes LyX menu
shortcuts, the LyX math fonts, and latex-preview.
For information on installing and configuring LyX/Mac, see
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html .
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//www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html . Sorry
for any inconvenience.
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X/Mac (formerly LyX on Aqua) it is even
possible to install cocoAspell as a system spelling server and have
LyX/Mac use it. The directions for configuring this are on
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqa.html .
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ed letters in the menus).
If you want to use a key that is taken by a menu shortcut, copy
lyx-dir/lyx/ui/default.ui to ~/.lyx/ui/default.ui and edit it to
take out the offending shortcut, e.g., change
Submenu "Edit|E" "edit"
to
Submenu "Edit" "
format.
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weat
a "copyright page."
If you want the copyright information on a separate page, try a new
page in \frontmatter, add some space at the top, and then
© 2003 Rich Shepard
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s you seem
to be doing above and in your other recent queries -- you turn LyX and
LaTeX into the equivalent of a PC word-processor. LyX is cumbersome
used that way, and it really takes takes the joy out of the whole
WYSIWYM concept behind LyX.
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res
suggested in various replies to your original query.
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/.lyx/preferences /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/preferences`
$ echo $bogus
If you don't get "/Users/gosset/.lyx/.lyxpipe" there is something
wrong with your perl installation or perhaps with permissions on your
machine.
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uot;/$1/;'
~/.lyx/preferences /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/preferences`
$ echo $bogus
On a working LyX/Mac installation, the value of $bogus should be -- in
M. Gosset's case -- /Users/gosset/.lyx/.lyxpipe . If it doesn't work,
I would suspect a brok
You will need a LaTeX class and a LyX layout file, as others have
suggested, but the built-iin support for BibTeX and the availability
of Jurabib should make citations in court documents a pleasure.
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on Aqua before installing LyX/Mac?
As a workaround for that possibility, try saving your Preferences in
LyX. (Older versions of Start-LyX only read your own Preferences;
newer versions read system-wide Preferences as well.)
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e}[1]{%
> \let\cite\Oldcite%
> \Oldfootnote{#1}%
> \let\cite\footcite%
> }
Wonderful! Many thanks. (It does require that the first full
citation be done inside a footnote, but that's a peculiarity of
jurabib. Your code works perfectly.)
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}{\footcite} to work only when it
is not inside a footnote? Thanks,
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What is the status of "Text Before" in citations in LyX? Will this be
possible in 1.3.3? Thanks,
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S-i c""citation-insert"
\bind "M-~S-i f""footnote-insert"
\bind "M-~S-i u""url-insert"
\bind "M-~S-i m""math-insert"
Note that these examples use Option-Shift
I'm using Jurabib and endnote.sty for a book. Is there a way to get
multiple references into a citation, each with a page number or other
"text after"?
Also, is there a way to put something other than the page numbers as
"text after" with Jurabib?
Tha
this port evolved.
The LyX on Aqua Howto at http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html has
been updated and simplified to reflect the changes in the binary
bundle.
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0-2003 binary of LyX on Aqua sets the
viewers to "open" which would utilize whatever PDF viewer you have
designated as the default for the Mac.
If you delete ~/.lyx/preferences and start LyX again it should restore
the default configuration. If you prefer a viewer other than the
syste
re user-installed options. If you
prefer, you can enter your preferred viewer in LyX -> Preferences.
As noted in "known issues" on the HOWTO at
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html, running Edit -> Reconfigure
will reset user-assigned Previewers to the system defaults.
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le; I
unfortunately tested those patches on a system that also had those
dirs in /usr/local/share/lyx.)
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the LyX on Aqua howto: You need to logout and login again
before changes in environment.plist take effect.)
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out and in again to see if that
opens LyX in English.
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ot; etc.
This is surprising, as I've never seen this problem with LyX Aqua. If
you look at one of the LyX help files, do you not get numbered
sections?
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OS before 10.2, or a very early (and
obsolete) version of the binary. The Qt library on which the LyX on
Aqua port is based doesn't work with pre-Jaguar versions of MacOSX.
Sorry.
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e these files, you can
either log into the machine as root, or use "sudo rm" from a terminal.
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/environment.plist is safer;
- other smaller fixes.
Please see http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html for installation
and configuration details, source code, and the binary.
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add this to the LyX on Aqua howto.
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tribution as well as
soon as I hear from Jean-Marc.
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A user has pointed out that the LyX (Qt/MacOSX) port to the Aqua
interface crashes abruptly if the Navigate menu is clicked while
viewing the Tutoral. I confirmed the bug.
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Aqua howto at
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html along with the prerequisites
and configuration instructions.
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ww.18james.com/code/libqt.3.1.2.dylib and install it in
/usr/lib with permissions ugo+x.
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X11.
For configuration and installation information on the binary release,
and a pointer to the self-installing package, see the LyX on Aqua
HOWTO at http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html .
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a
few other problems in building the Aqua native LyX, is at
http://www.18james.com/code/lyx-qt.patch .
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o at
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_osx.html .
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just fine!)
Regards, and thanks for the quick help from Juergen and Alfredo,
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