snow leopard
Can anybody confirm that 1.6.4.2 works flawlessly on snow leopard? (just want to make sure before I upgrade). Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
scaling preview formulas
Hi! Is there any way of scaling the previewed formulas by the same factor as the ordinary text? Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: problema di greco
all this is just remarkable beautiful community have all a sunny sunday SB On Nov 15, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Luca De Marini wrote: Just to keep you informed (i think u have all the right to be informed since u helped so much), I translated everything for Felice and he thanks me and all of you for helping him. I don't know if he solved his problem but some days have passed and he didn't ping me back, so I assume he's done and mission's accomplished ;) Greetings everyone, Luca D.M. 2009/11/13 stefano franchi HI Guenter, thanks for the update. Things must have changed in LyX language support since the last time I used Greek (a couple of years ago or so). I do not remember a Greek(polutoniko) language option, for example. Good to know the situation has improved, since I will need it again soon. S. ERT is usually not needed. The recommended method is to use Unicode input. For single words, there is no need to set the language. If the language is set, you can also type Latin and it will be transliterated. Accents except the ~ work too. You can type p'asqein to get the appropriate accents Günter -- __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (1) 979 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (1) 979 845-0458 College Station, Texas, USA --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard
I'm no unix geek, but if the kernel version is enough, that can be found by parsing the output of "uname -a" or "hostinfo". I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but I just wanted to add my 5 cents to this discussion (not notally selfless, though: I am eagerly waiting for this issue to be solved to move to snow leopard ;-) - SB On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: rgheck writes: A fix has been committed: disabling fork() on OSX. We don't know why it suddenly stopped working, but it is a limitation of OSX itself. The workaround has been committed to trunk only, but since I got nobody to build a binary for testing nothing is happening for branch. Since the fix leads to a slow down when autosaving (LyX is unresponsive during this time) I made another patch to speedup saving. This can go to branch when/if there is significant testing. Note that the workaround would affect to 10.5 and 10.6 equally, since I do not know how to query OS version at run time. JMarc --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Beamer portrait mode
SORRY: I sent this to EK only in the first place ... By googling "beamer portrait" I found, omong others, the following: http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-3011-latex-beamer-transparent-a4-portrait HTH - SB On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:42 AM, E. Kaplan wrote: Still no clue as to how to force Beamer to make slides in PORTRAIT mode, and whether it is possible to do it for individual slides in an otherwise landscape presentation... EK --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard
On Sep 23, 2009, at 4:57 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote: On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi All. It seems that having a version of LyX working poperly on OS X 10.6 may require some time. Do you confirm that the only feature not working properly is autosave? That has been my observation. Thanks Do you confirm that by disabling autosave LyX 1.6.4.1 works all right on MAC OS X 10.6? No. It seems that even by disabling autosave, LyX still attempts to perform autosaving and the "crash" still occurs. However, this is little more than an annoyance since the app doesn't actually crash and no work is lost. I understand, but this sounds like an annoyance that I am not ready to accept. I will delay for a while the upgrade to OS X 10.6. If this problem is not solved in a few weeks, I am afraid I will have then to choose between LyX and Snow Leopard. Personally, I have the impression that many mac os x users will consider this a serious annoyance. Let's wait and see ... Can any of the developers find a way of completely disabling autosave? This would seem to me an acceptable compromise. I am ready to manually save my own work, but not to be notified at random times that something is going wrong, even if (almost) everything is going all right ... Thanks to all again SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard
Hi All. It seems that having a version of LyX working poperly on OS X 10.6 may require some time. Do you confirm that the only feature not working properly is autosave? Do you confirm that by disabling autosave LyX 1.6.4.1 works all right on MAC OS X 10.6? If so, would you please remind us how to disable autosave? Thansk to all, SB On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Julio Rojas wrote: Not properly, but according to Snow Leopard standards!!! :P - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Christian Liesen writes: I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far from being a developer.) What exactly would a LyX developer on Mac need to know? I'm just curious. How to do a fork() properly. JMarc --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
"eqref" not working properly
Hi! I am editing a file imported from raw LaTeX. After adding some text, I started inserting cross-references to equations selecting the "()" style. Ti my surprise, the subsequent LaTeX compilation gives me errors because it cannot find a proper definition of the "\eqref{}" command. I am using LyX 1.6.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. Used the same cross-reference style lots of times before. Any suggestions on what may be going wrong? Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
slight misbehavior of math typesetting
Hi! When I enter math mode in LyX 1.6.x, a math palette appears on the bottom of the window. That's cool. However, the palette hides the bottom part of the text, whereas the intended (I presume) behavior would be to scroll up the text, so that it is the upper portion of the text that disapperas, instead of the bottom ... Cheers (and thanks to all) - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
feature request
Hi All! I understand that in LyX it is not possible to start the numbering in an "enumearte" environment other than from one. Right? If this is the case, it would be extremely useful to have the possibility of starting from any value, without tweaking the LaTeX code (which I did). A common instance where such a feature would be helpful is in preparing written exam tests. The various questions of the text should be enumerated sequentually, but they are often separated by some text whose paragraphs ought not be numbered. Thanks for the beautiful software and the wonderful feedback from/to the users' community - Stefano Baroni --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: hi
strip "right. \left." in the middle of the formula cheers - SB On Apr 10, 2008, at 12:53 PM, waleed Abu-Elela wrote: \left(\left(2n\cos^{2}\alpha-2\cos2\alpha\right)\int_{0}^{\theta_{0}} \sin^{n-2}\theta d\theta >> \right. << HERE >> \left. << HERE \left(\cos2\alpha\sin^{n-1}\theta_{0}\cos \theta_{0}+\sin2\alpha\sin^{n}\theta_{0}\right)\right) --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: feauture request
On Apr 10, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: I have a small request that may be silly for normally able people, but may be important for the visually impaired. Would it be possible to have rendered math formulas scaled automatically with the text? i'm not sure what you mean by 'rendered', I mean what you see, when "instant preview" is on but here, they are scaled with text accorindgly (Tools->Preferences->Screen Fonts->Zoom) (instant preview off) exactly, but it is disturbing to have to switch instant preview (which is a very usefule feature) off in order to watch the formulas, using what one judges to be a decent magnification. In other terms, I was suggesting to introduce a way to have instant preview follow the same magnification as ordinary test. if it is too complicated, never mind. as said, I can live with the way instant preview works now. thanks again SB pavel --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: feauture request
On Apr 10, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello Stefano, Hi Liviu On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Stefano Baroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everybody and many thanks for the creating, maintaining, and improving LyX. I have a small request that may be silly for normally able people, but may be important for the visually impaired. Would it be possible to have rendered math formulas scaled automatically with the text? Would it not be an option to use a screen reader? what do you mean by "screen reader"? a reader for pdf/dvi output? In this case, it wouldn't because normally one would convert from LyX to pdf (say) only once in while, and it is also not so handy to navigate the pdf output just to look for where the equation you are working on is located. What Operating System do you use? mac os x also, I would like to add that my sight is good enough to live with the present setup, even though I am a little disturbed by the different size of the rendered equation and the text, which I like to magnify a bit ... Many thanks for the prompt feedback S. --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
feauture request
Hi everybody and many thanks for the creating, maintaining, and improving LyX. I have a small request that may be silly for normally able people, but may be important for the visually impaired. Would it be possible to have rendered math formulas scaled automatically with the text? Thanks again, Stefano --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pensée - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: On the fly spellcheck?
I do not like on the fly spellcheck either (among other nuisances, it forces me to change the default language everytime I switch from one language to another). However: 1) when writing short letters it may be useful; 2) I do not think it is a good idea to tell people what they should like and what they shouldn't. Just an opinion ... SB On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Richard Heck wrote: Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want it, you're either wrong or not very focused on writing. But to each his or her own. Thanks Richard for the discursive effort! I'm seriously reconsidering my understanding of WYSIWYG and its typesetting counterpart. I used to think that focusing on writing means also paying attention to the order of letters, rather than assuming that this something to do with "style". No offense intended. But the point is an important one, anyway. I actually do think that paying too much attention to the order of the letters impedes writing. If I'm trying to write a paragraph and know I'm going to change it half a dozen times (at least), why do I care whether each word has been spelled correctly? That's clean-up, to be done once I've got the damn thing moderately stable. (That's why I still write so much with pen and paper, because it's the only way I know to really get rid of ALL the distractions.) Writing is hard, and I am firmly convinced that the tools we have grown accustomed to do not make our lives easier. Those bad habits are hard to unlearn, especially if you're not even aware you've got them. If I'm just writing a letter, then maybe that's different, but even then I'm not sure, actually. Either way, one thing for sure out of this discussion is that perhaps the boundaries between "style" and "mere writing" are not as clear cut. Also, of course, if your texts consists of many formula or a mass of strings of letters which are not in your dictionary, a on the fly spellcheck becomes utterly pointless (yes distracting!) and should be switched off. However, this is exactly what I was trying to say with my (in hindsight probably not very clever) example of "humanities" writing. For some people, there might not be much distraction (in form of occasional wavily lines), but rather a continually indication of your document writing status, which I consider is a basic feature. Maybe this is true of some documents, and maybe it'd be nice at some very late stage of the game, when you're just doing clean-up. But I just offer the suggestion that a continual indication of the status of a document that is very much in flux is worse than useless. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
customizing toolbars
Hi! I'm using LyX 1.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 (PPC) I would like to modify the content of some of the toolbars. The on- line help says that this can be done from the preference pane, but then it also adds that one should edit the default.ui file. Hence, not from the pref pane (???) I expected to to find default.ui file in some /Library/Application Support/LyX// directory, but I could only find it in /Applications/ LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui. Is this the intended location, or did the installer fail to copy some of the files to where they should belong? I noticed that default.ui includes stdtoolbars.inc. I assume that I shuld copy all of these files to my /Users/Library/Application Support/LyX/ directory, and then modify stdtoolbars.inc ? Isn't there any ui-driven procedure to follow? Many thanks - Stefano Baroni --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
multiple windows
Hi all. Is it possible to open multiple documents in differnt windows displayed simultaneously in LyX < 1.5? Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Multi-numbered equations
Dear Uwe and Hans, it also seems to me a rather weird notation, but, for what matters, here are a few latex lines that would do the job: $$ \displaylines{ \hfill 1+1=2, \quad F=ma, \quad A=bh \hfill \llap{ \stepcounter{equation} (\theequation), \stepcounter{equation} (\theequation), \stepcounter{equation} (\theequation) } } $$ Cheers - Stefano On May 5, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hans Kunkell schrieb: I have 3 equations that I want on a single line (not inline), and numbered individually, like this: 1+1=2, F=ma, A=bh (2), (3), (4) I don't know how to do this in one single line. But your style is quite unusual, one either writes this 1+1=2 (2), F=ma (3), A=bh (4) or (commonly used) 1+1=2 (2) F=ma (3) A=bh (4) For more infos about using math in LyX, you can have a look at my German math manual: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXMathebefehle regards Uwe --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: instant preview on mac
sorry to keep bothering you. I may be dummy, but as suddenly as "instant preview" stopped to work, it started again to work correctly. not idea whatsoever about what may have determined the weird behavior. Stefano B. On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: hi All! What may determine that all of a suddent instant preview does not seem to work any longer on mac os x? regular pdflatex preview of the entire document still works fine. Thanks - Stefano B. --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
instant preview on mac
hi All! What may determine that all of a suddent instant preview does not seem to work any longer on mac os x? regular pdflatex preview of the entire document still works fine. Thanks - Stefano B. --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
key bindings on mac os x
Why don't the default key bindings on mac osx follow the standard mac convention? (e.g. italicising could be -i, rather than -e). Not that it is that important, but it would be much nicer ... Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
bug on Mac OS X?
Folks: Lyx 1.4.3 does not seem to exit gracefully with -Q (the standard Mac OSX sequence to exit applications) on Mac OSX 10.4.8. Not a big deal, but I think this should be considered as a bug. Thanks for making LyX available to us. Stefano --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Fwd: How to get --- instead of ---
Begin forwarded message: From: Stefano Baroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: December 15, 2006 9:30:45 AM GMT+01:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to get --- instead of --- There might be a smarter way, but ERT[{-}{-}{-}] will do. SB On Dec 15, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I would like to have "---" in a table, i.e. three minuses after each other, but LyX is always changing it to a long dash. How can I prevent this? I tried \{---} \--- in a LaTeX box, but in the first case an error message, in the second box replaced as well. Any ideas? Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel:+27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+27 - (0)21 808 3304 (w) Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
symplifying the menu
Hi! Is there any way of customizing (especially: simplifying) LyX's very rich menu bar? For instance, I would always "view" my document using pdflatex, and I find it a little distracting that I have to choose among so many options (dvi, ps, several pdf's, etc.). Thanks - Stefano B. --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: keyboard
On Nov 26, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, this appears to be related to one of the many bugs in LyX 1.4.x. In LyX 1.3.x, it used to work fine with the xforms and Qt frontends. I found the following bug report: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845 and the following related thread on this list: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg49914.html Thank you, Jens. Do you find that you can enter your accents normally in a GUI dialog in LyX (e.g., open Document>Settings>Preamble and type something with accents there)? Yes, I do ... In my case, that works as it should, whereas it doesn't always work in the main LyX window. My keyboard problems only concern some accents and umlauts, and I don't see exactly what you're describing: e.g., when I press -c I get the ç. I didn't. By deselecting "use keyboard map" in Preferences (see below), I do ... Depending on the way your QT is compiled, you may have to press -c instead of -c to get this to work. Maybe you have a keymap file in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.4/kbd/ that is causing your particular problem. Then you could try to remove or re- write that .kmap file. In LyX Preferences, under Keyboard, you can choose alternative keymap files, e.g. by copying from the collection in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/kbd/ the behavior that I described in my previous posting applies to the "american" keyboard in Lyx prefernces. If I deselct "use keyboard map" therein, punctuation symbols are correctly written upon single key-stroke, but still I cannot obtain accented character by typing the standard mac +char sequence. (with a few exceptions: "+c" does give ç, for instance, "+`+a" does not give "à", though). Stefano --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
keyboard
Hi everybody. I am an occasional LyX user, and I am starting to use it again after quite a long break. I may have already asked the question in the past, but I am afraid I did not receive an answer, and I was not able to find a hint in the documentation nor in the mailing list archive. I have LyX 1.4.3 installed on a Mac g4, running Mac OS X 10.4.8. I would simply like to use my keyboard (standard mac US ascii, I believe) the way I am used to (i.e. punctuation symbols written right away, accented character composed by the standard Mac sequence, such as, e.g. -e-e = "é"). With my present LyX configuration (which I may have inadvertedly altered from the default one), accented characters are obtained by the sequence -letter, e.g. ","+"c"="ç". Regular punctuation symbols are obtained by striking the punctuation key twice. I find it annoying that I have to use a non-standard key-stroke sequence to obtain accented characters, and even more annoying that I have to strike punctuation keys twice in order to obtain a plain punctuation symbol. Can anybody help? Many thanks in advance Stefano --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: disabling fonts on mac os x
i Bennet! Thanks for the kind and prompt reply: On Jan 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are messed up. I understand that this is possibly due to some incompatibility with a handful of fonts AMS.dfont, CM_2.dfont, CM_4.dfont, LaTeX.dfont, CM_1.dfont, CM_3.dfont, Euler.dfont, WNCY.dfont) installed by MacDviX (which, by the way, I hardly use). How can I disable the harmful fonts? ( From within Font Book I tried to search these fonts, but none was displayed (this may depend on the fact that I know basically nothing about fonts and Font Book). Can anyone help? When you say the math formulas are "messed up" do you mean that they're messed up on LyX's screen, or that they are messed up when printed? IIRC, the CMdfont package was a problem only for on-screen fonts. They are messed up on screen. The pdf file produced by LyX is OK These fonts *should* show up in FontBook; have you used the search field in FontBook to look for them? YES. I just cut-and-pasted the complet name (e.g. "CM_1.dfont", without quotes) in the find small window in the upeer-right corner of Font Book, with no results. Is the search done on all the "collections" or just in the current one? In any case, I tried selecting each one of them ... If they don't show up there, try using the Finder to search for these filenames. (You may have to set Visibility to "visible and invisible items" to find them.) Then just delete them if you don't use them, or move them out of one of the standard font folders (such as ~/Library/Fonts or /Library/Fonts) to merely disable them. No success either. I do not know how to set the "visibility" of finder (can you advice?). In any case, I tried "the hard way" from an unix shell: find / -name "CM*" NO SUCCESS either ... Sorry for being so dull, but I would really like to re-use my old lyx files, and I feel a little frustrated. Thanks again for your help. Stefano --- Stefano Baroni--- SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Grignano / [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
disabling fonts on mac os x
Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are messed up. I understand that this is possibly due to some incompatibility with a handful of fonts AMS.dfont, CM_2.dfont, CM_4.dfont, LaTeX.dfont, CM_1.dfont, CM_3.dfont, Euler.dfont, WNCY.dfont) installed by MacDviX (which, by the way, I hardly use). How can I disable the harmful fonts? ( From within Font Book I tried to search these fonts, but none was displayed (this may depend on the fact that I know basically nothing about fonts and Font Book). Can anyone help? Thanks in advance Stefano --- Stefano Baroni--- SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Grignano / [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: problem with accents after kde update
Some time ago, I also reported similar problems with the Mac OS X port that I am using. Stefano Baroni On Aug 23, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Mario Lopes wrote: Hi there! I'm currently using Suse 9.1 and I've updated kde 3.2 to latest version 3.3 and everything runs fine except accents inside LyX. Since my update, I can't use chars like à è ò or á é ã õ that my language needs. I did an effort and set keyboard mapping to Portuguese (Portugese is how it is written inside Lyx) and now I'm managed to have ` and ~ working, but á é, etc.. doesn't work. It's the only accent that doesn't work. Besides this, every character works great in all programas, except LyX :-( Need some help please, I really need LyX running smoothly! Well, yes.. I'm a LyX-dependent ;-) Best Regards, Mário Lopes P.S. - This e-mail was written with ISO-8859-15 charset, not UTF-8 --- Stefano Baroni--- SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Grignano / [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
failing to import latex files
I am using lyx 1.3.4 on mac os (native aqua version). When trying to import a LaTeX file *generated by LyX itself* (and not changed in any respect) I get the mysterious error message: "cannot convert file error while executing reLyX -f 'myfilename.tex'" What does it mean? the few other times that I tried I succeded even with latex files generated by humans. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance Stefano --- Stefano Baroni--- SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Grignano / [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
failing to import latex files
I am using lyx 1.3.4 on mac os (native aqua version). When trying to import a LaTeX file *generated by LyX itself* (and not changed in any respect) I get the mysterious error message: "cannot convert file error while executing reLyX -f 'myfilename.tex'" What does it mean? the few other times that I tried I succeded even with latex files generated by humans. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance Stefano --- Stefano Baroni--- SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Grignano / [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
problems with accents (II)
Dear All: it seems to me that there are some serious problems with accents in LyX. At least with the aqua version for mac that I have 1) Yesterday I reported that I cannot input characters with accent from an us keyboard. " " simply does not seem to work. For example, "` a" produces "à" on any mac applications, but nothink on LyX. "a`" does produce "à", but I did not find any way to get "é": "e'" simply gives "e'" 2) The interaction with LaTex seems to be even weirder. Stte the two attached latex files. The first was generated by hands and it does not display correctly on LyX: the accents are displayed in an empty line, followed by a line with unaccented text. The second file, instead, is produced by LyX. It contains the only accents that I have been able to produce ("grave") inputing "a` e` i`". The Latex resultin output is obviously wrong. Is this a problem of LyX, of LyX-for-aqua, or of my own configuration? I am not sure that this is the right place to address one's own wishes, but a useful feature which is missing in LyX is the possibility of exporting a latex file with a name different from the current file name (one is not prompted for a filename to give to the exported file). many thanks for your advice Stefano --- Stefano Baroni--- SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Grignano / [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html first-file.tex Description: TeX document first-file.lyx Description: Binary data second-file.tex Description: TeX document second-file.lyx Description: Binary data
compose key on mac os
Hi! I am a new LyX user. On Mac OS X (10.3.4, US intl keuboard) I am not able to enter accents the way I am used to on any other application (i.e. ` a for "à", for instance. Can anybody let me know how to persuade LyX to accept as a "regular" modifier? Thank you in advance - Stefano --- Stefano Baroni--- SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Grignano / [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html