Re: 'subfigure' package on windows

John Pye wrote: Hi again, I did try the Repository menu. I just pointed it to a directory where I had placed the single file, "subfigure.cab". Obviously it requires some kind of index file in addition, but i can't find out what that should be. It seems silly to download the whole repository just

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

Paul A. Rubin wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: "The MATLAB Component Runtime (MCR) 7.0 and 7.1 do not contain a copy of the GhostScript program included with MATLAB. Therefore, applications deployed on a target machine rely on a locally- installed version of GhostScript, if one exists

Re: openoffice

Juergen Fenn wrote: Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nick Thomas developed a script to convert LyX to OpenOffice called ConvTeX: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice [.sxw OOo ext.?] Yes, it still uses the OOo1 format sxw. which probably works a bit bet

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

Paul A. Rubin wrote: LB wrote: Ok, it tried this. I commented out SET LC_ALL=en_EN. This resulted in a different image having the preview problem. I placed SET XX=Y in lyx.bat and the preview problem moved back to the original image. The same happens when I comment out the other l

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

LB wrote: One more little experiment, if you don't mind, just to confirm symptoms: if you comment out one of the SET commands in lyx.bat, but replace it with a line of equal length (SET XXX=Y... with enough Xs and Ys to match the line you commented out), does the bug move t

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. IMNSHO, the major point is that we have multiple ways of accomplishing the same tasks and reaching the same goals. In the end -- on paper or projected on a screen -

Re: openoffice

Paul Smith wrote: On 8/4/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Thomas developed a script to convert LyX to OpenOffice called ConvTeX: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice [.sxw OOo ext.?] which probably works a bit better on Linux than Windows. Maybe, it would be help

Re: openoffice

Rainer M Krug wrote: This sounds interesting - where can I find this functionality? Because in LyX 1.4.2 in Linux there is no option under Export for this and I would be interested in using it. Rainer jouke hijlkema wrote: Hello all, I just tried to export a lyx document to openoffice writer

Re: installing lyx on windows

Eric Inazaki wrote: Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installatio

Re: tex4ht just doesn't work for me ...

Matej Cepl wrote: Hi, couple of people mentioned htlatex as tool for conversion from LaTeX to HTML. I have long history (at least 2 years) of not being able to convert even quite simple LaTeX to HTML with tex4ht stuff. Using Debian/testing, I have tex4ht 20060619-1 and when I tried to convert my

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

LB wrote: I uninstalled Lyx and reinstalled it into c:\lyx\lyx14. This solved my figure problem!!! Thank you. I can now use 1.4.2 Looks like I spoke too soon. Now a different figure does not want to be displayed. Leo Does it display the same old symptoms; it works with lyx.exe or if

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

LB wrote: The paths are not supposed to be the same. LyX 1.4.1 did not install a python directory under LyX. Also the batfiles are not the same. This usually happens when the preferences files under c:\documents and settings\yourusername~~~\~ are not deleted during the uninstall. Then the next ve

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

LB wrote: Hi one more idea: if this is really a PATH problem and things worked normally under lyx 1.4.1, then I would do the following simple steps (unless you already tried this and I didn't see it in the earlier messages): (a) Revert to LyX 1.4.1 and open the Preferences dialog to find out

Re: index in tex file

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What is the best way to get the index (.idx) into the tex file of my document? Unfortunately the publisher wants a .doc file ... (ConvTex -> swx -> OO -> word) Wolfgang I've tested ConvTex and it works, but not consistently from what I've seen for equations, so it

Re: Postscript preview

LB wrote: When you added the GS path in lyx.bat, did you add the path to the lib directory as well as to the bin directory? Yes I did. I'm giving up and going back to use version 1.4.1. Well, I can't say I blame you ... 1.4.1 worked pretty well for me. I just hope this problem does not recu

Re: please consolidate the documentation

Helge Hafting wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 12:08:48AM +1000, John Pye wrote: I don't think that we should expect people to use LyX as their documentation browser. Sure, LyX is not my choice for a browser. But documentation for LyX itself is a special case, see below: Operating syst

Re: citation style

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Good morning Is there an easier way to replace cite{ with citealt{ as to run a replace in the lyx document? The publisher wants (Miller 2001) instead of (Miller (2001)) I am thinking of \bibpunct in the preamble, but am not sure whether appropriate here and

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

Isaac Pante wrote: I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the footnote button. It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the following versions of lyx. So, let's go with another question: How can

Re: More class files by default

Ed Gatzke wrote: I have run into problems adding extra class files into my latex installation and getting them to work with lyx. (I know, install, run something to reconfigure latex, reconfigure lyx, but it is never smooth sailing for me) It may be nice to have a boatload installed by default o

Re: please consolidate the documentation

John Pye wrote: Hi all, I'd like to say congratulations to all on the re-inauguration of the LyX documentation team ;-) ! The scattered documentation of LyX has frustrated me too. I have some thoughts and ideas to mention... First, I think that the shining example of the *delivery* of software

Re: please consolidate the documentation

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:05:50 -0700 To: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: please consolidate the documentation From: Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] swish-e is supposed to be capable of ind

Re: please consolidate the documentation

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:37:55 -0700 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: please consolidate the documentation From: Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ingo Klöcker wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: [...] In any case, I&#x

Re: please consolidate the documentation

Ingo Klöcker wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: So what is the typical use-case for the LyX Manual? That someone wants to read it from the first page to the last page? Or that someone wants to read about a specific subject, say including graphics? In my experi

Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows

Charles de Miramon wrote: > Sebastian wrote: > > >>Dear Listusers, >>I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf >>Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice >>for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for >>lin

Re: Windows XP: Aspell for Opera and Lyx conflict

David Finlayson wrote: Maybe some of you use Opera browser as well as Lyx on Windows XP? I can't seem to get Opera to find the custom Aspell 0.6 built for Lyx, and I can't get Lyx to work with Aspell 0.5 which Opera can use (installed in C:\Aspell in both cases). Finally, it doesn't seem like yo

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

.. Cheers JP Stephen Harris wrote: John Pye wrote: Hi Uwe, This approach (save as PDF from Inkscape) did not give me alpha channel transparency in my PDF. For example: On the left is a PNG exported from Inkscape (or alternatively, generated using 'rsvg-convert'. On the right is

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

John Pye wrote: Hi Uwe, This approach (save as PDF from Inkscape) did not give me alpha channel transparency in my PDF. For example: On the left is a PNG exported from Inkscape (or alternatively, generated using 'rsvg-convert'. On the right is the PDF exported by Inkscape. So I'm still stu

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

Richard Heck wrote: Speaking just for myself...and, yes, I'm an academic, a philosopher (with mathematical interests)... I have found LyX to deliver precisely what it purports to offer: I concentrate more on my writing and less on formatting. It seems crazy in retrospect, but when I was using a

Zref package expands reference system flexibility

The zref package Heiko Oberdiek 2006/05/25 v1.2 Abstract "Package zref tries to get rid of the restriction in LATEX's reference system that only two properties are supported. The package implements an extensible referencing system, where properties are handled in a more flexible way. It offers an

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 16 June 2006 11:50 am, David Neeley wrote: Finally, I do believe that if you wish to be covered, the wiki should have a copyright statement something like: "Files submitted to the wiki for general download are covered by the XXX license in the name of their respecti

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 16 June 2006 11:50 am, David Neeley wrote: Finally, I do believe that if you wish to be covered, the wiki should have a copyright statement something like: "Files submitted to the wiki for general download are covered by the XXX license in the name of their respecti

Re: Subtitles

Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I know you didn't learn it in Kopka and Daly's "Guide to LaTeX", because I read that book cover to cover and there were no more than a few sentences on the use of the \let TeX primative. Steve, Have you read Knuth's "TeXbook?" R

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

Paul Smith wrote: On 6/14/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, David and Georg. In particular, I am trying to find a tool to > work on Linux. Gimp is a Linux application, but maybe there is already > a Linux equivalent of StripFile: > > http

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, David and Georg. In particular, I am trying to find a tool to work on Linux. Gimp is a Linux application, but maybe there is already a Linux equivalent of StripFile: http://www.nuetools.co.uk/stripfile.html I will ask for it on the Fedora mailing list. Paul Strip

Bakoma font update for Fedora

Rex Dieter has considerately updated the mathml font package for Fedora Core 4 and 5, it was missing "eufm10.ttf". mathml-fonts-1.0-20 updates mathml-fonts-1.0-19.fc4.noarch.rpm Thanks Rex, Stephen Topic ontology recapitulates entropic philology.

Re: exporting to html

Ares wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying to export my lyx file to html (on Win) but LyX gets stuck on it... is it a known bug? CU Diego I think so. Use LyX to export your file to yourfile.tex Then run from the command line, "htlatex yourfile.tex" This does a good job but you still have to pro

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures: Solved

Bruce Pourciau wrote: Bless you, George. LyX 1.3.4 did not seem to mind the apostrophe. Why does 1.4.1? Bruce In general, it is best never to use symbols like ? / # " in filenames because some programs treat them as protected or special characters. Never is easier than keeping track of just

Re: Compilation error with Lyx 1.4.1

Michael Abshoff wrote: Hello, compile it with DVI from “edit” menu, I’ve got the following error: --- Subsistema MS-DOS de 16 bits --- 5367625/3432 La CPU NTVDM ha encontrado una instrucción no permitida. (CPU NTVDM has found an unallowed instruc

Re: Compilation error with Lyx 1.4.1

Carine Simon wrote: Hello, I’ve just installed Lyx 1.4.1 under Windows XP with lyx-1.4.1_win32_setup_v1.exe . I am using the sh.exe under cygwin, the Python 2.4, the gs8.51 and ImageMagick6.7 Q16. I can start Lyx with no problem

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

Bruce Pourciau wrote: Thanks for any help the list can provide. Bruce When trying to your file, use the ps2pdf viewer. Do either of these bugs appear relevant to your case? http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2588 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2419 -- Stephen Topic ontolog

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.1 Not Loading Figures

Bruce Pourciau wrote: Thanks for any help the list can provide. Bruce Did I miss you making a minimal example file available? Usually a .lyx file and the suspected .eps images linked to a webpage to make a download from. Maybe you can send the files one at a time to the list and not exceed t

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

David Neeley wrote: Personally, I have a clear preference for kde, so the qt interface is fine by me! ... I do to. They have a 3.14 package for Cygwin. But I've just read that a new version of KDE came out May31,06 3.53? so 3.14 is too old. Also they are going to make a native port using Qt4

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

Jose' Matos wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:52, Stephen Harris wrote: SH: The Docbook topic comes up occasionally. Chris Karakas has done quite a bit of work producing with LyX, SGML, and Latex. http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ There is quite a bit involved to get all the packages wo

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

David Neeley wrote: I delayed turning to LyX for several years, since for a time it appeared to the casual observer to be somewhat of a dying application. An aborted "Klyx" (kde specific) version, for example, did not appear to be a sign of progress. http://www.lyx.org/about/klyx.php Whil

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

David Neeley wrote: I am trying to get far enough up the learning curve with LyX that I can feel good about creating style files. Then, I intend to do a style file for DITA--because I believe that LyX is, potentially, a far better tech writing solution than anything else out there at the moment.

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - Solved very well

David Neeley wrote: Stephen, If you have the hard drive space, you might also consider installing Linux on the machine to dual-boot. The machine I am using at the moment is a 600-mhz Pentium II I picked up for very little...added a hard drive I already had and stuck in 512 MB of RAM I also had.

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - Solved fairly well

Stephen Harris wrote: Nico wrote: At the end, LyX started, but with the error message "This is not a LyX document", in a tiny, non-resizable window, and the error "bddraw = 0" in the dos box, seemingly repeating itself whenever the mouse moves

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - Some success

Stephen Harris wrote: Nico wrote: At the end, LyX started, but with the error message "This is not a LyX document", in a tiny, non-resizable window, and the error "bddraw = 0" in the dos box, seemingly repeating itself whenever the mouse moves

Re: Trouble with eps inclusions in lyx-1.4.1

Paul Johnson wrote: Well, this seems like a serious problem, not one where we should say "there's nothing to do". I'd suggest that LyX SHOULD NOT offer to export documents to pdf when they have eps files in them, or at least users need a VERY BIG warning because a lot of users will get in troubl

Re: PortableLyX?

Angus Leeming wrote: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Now, having experienced the latest version of LyX, I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there wouldn't be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled against libaspell.a and expects to find aspell dictionaries and data fil

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - no appropriate help found

Nico wrote: At the end, LyX started, but with the error message "This is not a LyX document", in a tiny, non-resizable window, and the error "bddraw = 0" in the dos box, seemingly repeating itself whenever the mouse moves over the LyX window. --

Re: Trouble with eps inclusions in lyx-1.4.1

Paul Johnson wrote: I just ran into a really weird lyx problem on Fedora Core 5 and tetex-3.0-19. It is so interesting I want to share and ask for help: http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/weirdRotations-lyx.tar.gz I tried this on FC4 which has evince installed by default as the pdf and ps viewe

Re: Trouble with eps inclusions in lyx-1.4.1

Paul Johnson wrote: I just ran into a really weird lyx problem on Fedora Core 5 and tetex-3.0-19. It is so interesting I want to share and ask for help: http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/weirdRotations-lyx.tar.gz That tarball has a lyx file and 3 eps files that I generated with R. Two of the eps

Re: can't find lyxrc.defaults

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As 1.3.7 installed fine, I use the following workaround: - copy 1.3.7 lyxrc.default to 1.4.1 system tree (in C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources) - run sh configure from there in a Msys window. I guess Uwe will investigate, any

Re: Suppressing URLs in jurabib

Charles de Miramon wrote: Anders Dahnielson wrote: Anyone who know some way to suppress printing of URLs in citations when using jurabib? I put the following in the LaTeX preamble: \renewcommand{\biburlprefix}{} \renewcommand{\biburlsuffix}{} \renewcommand{\jburldef}{} However, it leaves an

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

Helge Hafting wrote: David Neeley wrote: Personally, I did not respond to the idea that the menus should be "Word-like"--what I was focused on was the idea of having a bit more ability to create layout adjustments from controls in the menu system. That, I continue to believe, is a worthwhile goa

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

David Neeley wrote: Stephen, First, I should say that using terms such as "what silly nonsense" does *not* impress others as having any sort of open or constructive attitude. Instead, it comes across as condescending, to put it mildly. The statement I criticized was: "But I think the creators

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto wrote: As a new user, to me clearly the most important feature missing from LyX is the ability to create new document classes with custom enviroments using the LyX GUI. I know adding such a feature must be quite a large undertaking, but

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto wrote: Citando a Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making Lyx menu

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto wrote: As a new user, to me clearly the most important feature missing from LyX is the ability to create new document classes with custom enviroments using the LyX GUI. I know adding such a feature must be quite a large undertaking, but writing .layout files or e

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 14:13:51 -0500 "David Neeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rich, I read nothing in Mr. Gonzalez' suggestion that would require that you or anyone else "come down to that level." Adding the ability to create a layout from the LyX GUI does not mean that you

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 5/24/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making Lyx menu

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

David Neeley wrote: Rich, I read nothing in Mr. Gonzalez' suggestion that would require that you or anyone else "come down to that level." Adding the ability to create a layout from the LyX GUI does not mean that you would lose any ability for you to "roll your own." It might, though, encourage

Re: How to reset page number in a lyx generated pdf?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: If anyone else would like to try it, you're more than welcome. I'm happy to oblige, but I'm also confused. I downloaded the four files you posted, and the PDF file has pages numbered i, 1, 2, just like the DVI and PS files. Where's the problem?

Re: how many lyx users?

Jose' Matos wrote: On Sunday 21 May 2006 16:21, Bo Peng wrote: This is unlikely the case, but I would not be surprised either, considering the dominance of the windows system. We have then to consider what is the usage of windows by the lyx target users. It is not an easy computation at all

Re: reLyx

Jan Peters wrote: I tried to import several different latex documents. I always get the error: "An error occurred whilst running 'reLyx -f filename.tex'" Any clues? -Jan === Jan Peters, web: www.jan-peters.net ==

Re: spellchecker problem

Liu Feng wrote: Dir Sir when I want to activate the spellchecker via TOOL-Preference, but 'Spellchecker executable' is grey out. No chance do it. Could you please tell me to fix this problem. Thanks BTW I am using lyx-1.4 English version in Win XP Feng I assume you meant lyx1.4.1 since 1.

Re: mixing portrait and landscape in one document - solved!

preamble solved the problem! (the sara package is just some homemade latex macros, I should have removed it from the sample file, but it slipped my mind...) /Sara Stephen Harris wrote: #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass scrartcl

Re: mixing portrait and landscape in one document

Sara Stymne wrote: That's what i would need, but I can't get it to work. I get loads of errors when I try. I attach a non-working sample file. I tried it both with LyX 1.3.6 on Linux (Ubuntu) and LyX 1.4.1 on Solaris. /Sara I tried it on Windows and it said file sara.sty not found. And ano

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?-MORE

Stephen Harris wrote: Eric Zollars wrote: I discovered that the problem is that the DVI is not displaying the rotated caption correctly. This is Yap 2.4.1803 on Windows. pdflatex displays the rotated caption correctly (and the figure once I convert it to pdf). So the problem appears to be

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?-MORE

Eric Zollars wrote: I discovered that the problem is that the DVI is not displaying the rotated caption correctly. This is Yap 2.4.1803 on Windows. pdflatex displays the rotated caption correctly (and the figure once I convert it to pdf). So the problem appears to be DVI. (I already had this

Re: rotated figure, unrotated caption?

Eric Zollars wrote: I have a figure that is imported and rotated 90 degrees (so it reads down to up), but the caption remains left to right. Is there a way to make a caption (in a float) read down to up? Eric http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~tex/manual/node37.html "If a figure or table is too wide

slightly OT: windows email/news client workaround misc. urls

I used to use Outlook Express for composing emails for the LyX user group. I got some complaints about the formatting of messages. I switched to Thunderbird which goes with Firefox and it worked well except for one problem. When I read news next, the Subject: would get opened fully expanded for th

Re: Typing Copyright (C) and Trademark (tm) symbols

Patton, Eric wrote: Can anyone tell me how to do this? Is there some special key combination that must be typed? Using Lyx 1.4.1 binary on Windows PC. Thanks, ~~~ Eric Patton Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) Bedfo

Re: PortableLyX?

Michael Wojcik wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: So my nonadmin user was able to use linkd and it does not appear that linkd requires admin rights like some of the dos commands. This worked on XP pro, I am not sure about XP home. Your idea appears cleaner/easier. linkd, if it's avai

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. -- Enrico Forestieri suggested fo

Re: absolute paths in Windows LyX

Eric Zollars wrote: pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric Yes, iirc it is done with forward slashes, {C:/lyxtemp/foo.pdf} I think this applies from the user list thread "Paths in pdfpage

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and reconfigure

Re: English Language Grammar Checker Solution?

John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into the LyX GUI: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools

Re: PortableLyX?

Michael Wojcik wrote: [This is a rather late followup - I'm catching up on personal email - but may still be of interest.] Stephen Harris wrote: Regarding the C:\Aspell limitation to portability, perhaps the dos subst or label command would serve as a workaround. Suppose your USB driv

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn'

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Enrico Forestieri writes: I am sorry, but this is simply FUD. If he cannot even start sh, there is a problem with his cygwin installation. But you don't need cygwin. If cygwin was only installed to use it for LyX I recommend to deinstall it to avoid problems like this. reg

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

Gerhard Schaffer wrote: I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error

Re: LyX png and eps

Maria Gouskova wrote: Well, I am no pro at this, but it appears that ImageMagick was in fact installed on my machine, because deleting the preferences file (as per Bennett Helm's suggestion) fixed the problem. That was all I had to do. My guess is that the installer script somehow messed up in

Re: LyX png and eps

Maria Gouskova wrote: I have the same exact problem, also on Mac OS 10.4.6--upgrading from 1.3x to 1.4 broke image support. I used JPEG images, and LyX says it cannot find a converter. Reconfiguring LyX didn't fix it. What is the converter for JPEG images, just so I can manually define it in

Re: LyX png and eps

Angus Wallace wrote: Howdy all, Sorry to join the list with a question.. I've just upgraded LyX from 1.3.4 to 1.4.1. I ran the installer script, and all appeared well. However, I seem to have lost support for my figures. I have a document with a mixture of eps and png figures, that render

Re: Mistake

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Carlos Knauer schrieb: There is amistake in LyX 1.3.7. I use it on WinXP. I'll send three files. A LyX file, a tex file and a PDF file. LyX converts wrong the code to TeX. This tex file is correct. But try to compile the LyX file. You will see the mistake. Could you describ

Re: pdfpages \includepdf not working

Marc Vinyals wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Error: pdflatex (file Questionnaire.pdf): cannot find image file ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! My LyX document and the PDF are saved in the same folder, and I'm using the following in an ERT:

Re: [Windows] Installation: Failed attempting to execute the configure script

Andreas Nauerz wrote: During installation I receive the above mentioned error message. This happens if I use the Lxy installer which expects that all other stuff has already been installed (Miktex, GS, etc.), as well as if I use the installer that installs the whole bunch of dependencies. I a

Re: AW: lys installation on Windows Xp

Augustin, Joerg (J.W.) wrote: Thanks for your answer! OK, so I will go through the procedure as described by you. Another question: Do I need ghostscript even if I am planning to view the documents in a PDF-viewer. I thought ghostscript is required to view postscript files. I still could pri

Re: lys installation on Windows Xp

Augustin, Joerg (J.W.) wrote: Hello, is it possible to install LyX on my Notebook wihout having administrator rights? I would like to install it within my My-Documents Folder - if possible with the complete functionality. At home I have it installed on my Mac which runs fine but at work I have a

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

Michael Abshoff wrote: Hello, It works fine under LyX on Linux. Great, actually. The problem here is that there are no "named pipes" under Windows, I disagree with you on that one. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/named_pipes.asp "Windows Me/98

Re: PortableLyX?

Sam Lewis wrote: > I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there wouldn't > be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled against libaspell.a > and expects to find aspell dictionaries and data files in a > predefined location portability has been lost. ... Are there considerations about

Re: poor resolution for svg

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: I would like to add something that isn't obvious. When you add this converter, it only works if the PATH variable is updated so that the executable is recognized from the command line. So, if you add a converter, make sure to update your PATH environment variable

Re: poor resolution for svg

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: Because svg is not defined as a format yet. Do that, and then it will also be available for converters. How could I do this? If this needs a change in LyX's source code I would ask you if you could do this please (and also apply this to the 1.4.x tree

Re: poor resolution for svg

Georg Baum wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: You can define your own converter, but only when you a have a converter program that can handle svg. This is the problem. I don't know any converter that can convert SVG to good quality EPS or PDF. If anybody knows such a beast, please tell. Georg I've

Re: Win2003 - LyX1.3.7 crashes/LyX1.4.1 language problem

Mike wrote: locales are availible in C:\Programme\LyX141\Resources\locale, so that should be fine. I searched in the mailing list archive, but I couldn't find an answer or a tip how to fix that problem. Maybe one of you know the solution. Best regards Mike If you mean the menus are in Engli

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick. ??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this problem, so setting a global PATH is no

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: No, you don't need admin privileges to _read_ registry entries, we need to _write_ some, for example the global PATH variable for Imagemagick. ??? I thought that the path_prefix rc value was invented to overcome this problem, so setting a global PATH is no

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stephen Harris schrieb: Next, the Win1.4.x installer is still beta and there is a list of potential problems at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x so it is prudent/competent to install the LyX1.3.7 version. It's not beta! LyXWIninstaller is now very stable: I

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