RE: Abstract and some formats

2008-10-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
It seems to be very difficult to use any kind of formatation (like a heading or a item-list) inside a Abstract (KOMA-report). Yes because an abtract is gemerally not designed to have items and headings. It normally only contains plain text. The text layout is defined by the document class

RE: problem including un-numbered introduction with fancy heading

2008-10-29 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I want my introduction in my thesis to be not numbered. I am also using semi-fancy headings so that the chapter name is printed on the top left of all pages within the chapter. My introduction covers a couple of pages but the heading above the second page is inherited from the previous chapter

RE: enumerate list, text interruption, continued enumereted list with continue number

2008-10-29 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Jon Bendtsen wrote: Hi I want to make an enumerated list, interrupt it by some text and continue the enumerated list with the approprate number 1 one 2 two interrupt text 3 three 4 four There's a LaTeX package that does this, but I can't remember what it is called. Anyone? You can

Re: Displaymath at the bottom (LyX1.6RC5)

2008-10-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:57 +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Your reply suggests that I have been unable to explain properly. When you start a new document, type Hi there, and start display math, LyX can accomodate the new stuff you write on the screen. Try to type some more text until

RE: lyx 1.6.0 compilation failure, error: forward declaration

2008-11-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
C++ Compiler: g++ (3.3.4) You've a fairly old version of g++. Maybe upgrading gcc might solve the problem ? Vincent

Re: table vertical alignment

2011-02-21 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 21-2-2011 18:26, Uzair Baig schreef: I still need help with the table, please (any1) help me. What do you want to align ? Vincent

Re: Export to pdf in 1.6.5 does

2011-03-14 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 14-3-2011 19:15, Lars Olesen schreef: I have written a document in Lyx, but when I export it it seems as if it does not know how long the pages are, and some of the content stretches all the way to the bottom. I have checked the margins, and they seem to be allright. See the exported file

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 22-3-2011 17:59, Steve Litt schreef: The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint. You would have loved the new LyX Presentation Mode:

Re: Cursor Size in RC1?

2011-03-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 23-3-2011 23:16, Greg Kise wrote: Hi LyXers, There was some discussion of making it possible to change cursor size in LyX2.0RC1 (especially needed for Mac). Was this done? And if so, how do I do it? I have 300+ pages to edit and the one pixel cursor is making me bug-eyed ;-). Thanks!

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-24 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 24-3-2011 10:20, Ben Lincoln wrote: Hi, I work in the IT arena at Deutsche Bank, a user has come to me requesting LYX on his work PC Please could you give me some information on the following: Lyx being free, is this something that can also be installed within a Corporate environment

Re: LyX 2.0 RC2 keeps crashing on Mac OS X 10.6.4

2011-04-01 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 1-4-2011 23:03, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: I have been able to reproduce this problem: I have tried to resize Lyx's screen using Divvy and Lyx crashed. I give below the beginning of the crash report. It seems that com.apple.HIToolbox get very excited ;-) It seems that the problem might have

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

2011-04-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 31-3-2011 10:07, Pavel Sanda wrote: Dear Pavel, I've translated the Dutch list. I'm not sure if they are all correct since I'm no mathematician, and the math that I do do is usually in English, but I hope it helps. I believe Vincent have seen some Dutch math text and can check it? I'm

Re: Crash in rc_2

2011-04-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 5-4-2011 22:22, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: Hi I got a crash when trying to Save As. Save seems to work fine... I have made a small sample file that crashes every time for me with save as. The error is many:: lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION contains(fmt, from_ascii(%1$s)) VIOLATED IN

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Hey LyX developers! As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file should be saved as. In principle, I could live with proposing the title as the file name. That sort of makes sense if you are

Re: Lyx open buffered copy

2011-04-18 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 18-1-2011 11:17, Christian Wilhelmsen wrote: I juse LyX and Dropbox in collaboration with my team mates, and the problem is that when you have opened a file, another user edits it and sync it through dropbox, LyX wont open the new version, it opens a buffered copy or something. We have

Re: How?

2011-04-19 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 19-4-2011 21:30, gordon cooper wrote: What is the correct way to pronounce 'Lyx' in a country speaking English? Liks. Vincent

Re: How?

2011-04-19 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
We dont pronounce it as the final X in latex or tex.

Re: ERROR: file is from a newer version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.

2011-04-22 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 22-4-2011 11:27, Stefan Janse van Rensburg wrote: Dear List, I'm using Fedora 14 (32 bit version), LyX 2.0.0-0.11.beta3.fc14. Upgrading to LyX 2.0.0-0.21.rc3.fc14, I encountered several problems which forced me to downgrade back to LyX 2.0.0-0.11.beta3.fc14. Which problems did you

Re: Self-contained lyx documents

2011-04-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Please, can't you encapsulate all of the hassle into lyx modules, and allow lyx modules that are in the same directory as the lyx file? Or better yet: inside the lyx file? Yes, we have been working on this. Hopefully, this will be implemented in LyX 2.1. Vincent

Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker user interface Eeeeeek!

2011-06-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
2) pop up vs sidebar: I think this was probably the solution to the issue that the old pop up wasn't smart enough not to hide the hi-lighted word and it's immediate context when it opened. And I'll admit that as much as I totally loath all sidebars «I like my entire window width to always

Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker user interface Eeeeeek!

2011-06-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 5-6-2011 16:23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Jun 5, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say: 2) pop up vs sidebar: I think this was probably the solution to the issue that the old pop up wasn't smart enough not to hide the hi-lighted word

Re: LyX2: suggestions

2011-06-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On 11-6-2011 12:47, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote: - I'd like to get a busy pointer (like in previous versions) while compiling, as a feedback; I don't know if that's possible. Note, though, that there's a spinning icon in the taskbar (bottom right) indicating

Re: Cannot run LyX - lyx: symbol lookup error: lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN9QListData11detach_growEPii

2011-09-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 11-9-2011 22:06, Richard Heck schreef: On 09/11/2011 03:38 PM, alexandre.depou...@ulg.ac.be wrote: Hi all, I have tried to install LyX 2.0.0 2.0.1 several times on my Ubuntu-run laptop ... without success. After apparently successfully compiling, LyX spits out the following error when

Re: How to see console output of LyX 2.0.0 in Windows?

2011-09-21 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 20-9-2011 18:53, Manveru schreef: I need to configure batik as SVG converter for LyX 2.0.0 as I have in 1.6.x - I know how, but I have some issue in the method. And I CANNOT debug that, because there is no enabler for console output of LyX in windows - it even does not accept command line

Re: lyx 2.0.1 export docbook-dvi error element DUMMY undefined

2011-10-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Are the dummy tags supposed to come over from the lyx doc? Is this a docbook toolchain misconfig on Fedora's part? TIA Phil This is: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7004. I already proposed a patch to fix this last year, but no-one has been around to verify the validity of the fix and to

Re: pros cons of using LyX's version control

2011-11-09 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 9-11-2011 2:22, Xu Wang schreef: I'm considering using LyX's built-in version control support. Are there any drawbacks to using it? Do most people use it? What is the most popular alternative? There is no built-in version control in LyX. We just offer easy interaction with the version

Re: pros cons of using LyX's version control

2011-11-09 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 9-11-2011 13:51, Stephan Witt schreef: Am 09.11.2011 um 11:52 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: Op 9-11-2011 2:22, Xu Wang schreef: I'm considering using LyX's built-in version control support. Are there any drawbacks to using it? Do most people use it? What is the most popular alternative

Re: LyX-Produced Book

2011-11-29 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 29-11-2011 22:23, Richard Heck schreef: On 11/29/2011 04:17 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.11.2011 um 22:07 schrieb Richard Heck: My book, /Frege's Theorem/, which was both written with and typeset from LyX, has just recently been published by Oxford University Press. You can have a look at

Re: problem control version windows, lyx-2.0.3

2012-02-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
So.. how can we prepare a collaborative document in LyX in windows system. Please.. Do you have any suggestion, the system that we have to use. What is the software svn client and the server, that perfectly match with LyX. As Stephan said, LyX can't handle yet Subversion 1.7. Your only option

Re: Gtk-warning

2012-03-03 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 2-3-2012 18:04, Graham Smith schreef: I have just updated Lyx by adding the new the Ubuntu ppa to Ubuntu 11.10 and I am getting the following warning: (lyx:2997): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: pixmap, Is this something to be worried about, and if so can

Re: Need a Lyx User familiar with formulas

2012-03-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 9-3-2012 18:02, Barger, Carla schreef: Hi Lyx Users! I hope I'm not committing a major faux pas by posting this to the board, but I'm desperate. I have a 40 page word doc with many formulas that I need to put into Lyx for a professor. I am actually not familiar enough with Lyx at this

Re: Chinese Characters in Lyx 2.02

2012-03-24 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 24-3-2012 11:02, Nicholas Martin schreef: Dear Lyx Community I'm currently using Lyx version 2.02 and am trying to create a text document (mainly in English) that also contains a few Chinese characters. However, having written my text, whenever I clicked on pdf viewer, the program said it

Re: AW: LyX on Windows with UNC home directories

2012-03-24 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Dear LyX users and developers, LyX has a problem with Windows users that have their home directory on a UNC path. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Troubleshooting mentions these problems for Lyx 1.5 already. (Recent versions do start, but have no classes available.) I have been struggling with this

Re: Chinese Characters in Lyx 2.02

2012-03-25 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
the following command [replacing the characters below with whatever Chinese you want to write]. \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{}\begin{SChinese}整治\end{SChinese}\end{CJK} Nicholas On Mar 24, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Op 24-3-2012 11:02, Nicholas Martin schreef: Dear Lyx Community I'm currently

Re: Lyx 2.0.3 Proxy Authentication

2012-03-26 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 26-3-2012 12:26, Kunal Saha schreef: Hi , I just installed Lyx 2.0.3 on Windows 7 x64 (the installation file included MiKtex, Jabref et al). When I try to run the appplication, I get a window for Proxy Authentication. I fill in the username and password, then nothing happens .. I see that

Re: Stop Lyx compiling

2012-05-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 4-5-2012 13:42, Mike Bonhoff schreef: Hi, Lyx-Users, is there a possibility to stop Lyx when it is compiling. Today I had several times the problem that I wanted to make a picture with tikz and made some mistake in the Lyx-Code (forgot the semicolon in the end of a command). Unfortunately

Re: play sound when (lengthy) compilation finishes?

2012-05-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 3-5-2012 16:05, Liviu Andronic schreef: I would like to have a sound notification when the compilation finishes. Can LyX do that? Would others find such a feature useful so as to file an enhancement request? I think I can easily make a time counter, which you can press and which shows the

Re: Lyx on Windows: ps2eps missing?

2012-05-10 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 7-5-2012 15:29, Klaus-Dieter Bauer schreef: Hello! I stumbled into problems previewing PDF graphics inside LyX. It would give me the error Unable to Convert to Loadable Format. You didn't mention which version of LyX you have installed. There was a bug in the version of ImageMagick that

Re: Lyx on Windows: ps2eps missing?

2012-05-10 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Ah sorry, that LyX Version number was lost during editing the email. LyX was installed using the installer LyX-2.0.3-1-Installer.exe, which should be the latest one. There is a newer installer which fixes a security issue in the same ImageMagick library. Anyway, the problem did not seem

Re: Windows7 64bit Lyx Install

2012-05-20 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Braam Daniels wrote: Hi Guys I'm am struggling to get LyX and Python Running. Im a little new to LyX or at least i haven't used it in over 4 years. So I started the process with the LyX 2.0.3 bundle. LyX installed but none of the document classes could be

Re: Font error

2012-06-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 2-6-2012 13:55, Junqing Liu schreef: Hi everybody! i have got a error:!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ecrm1728): Font ecrm1728 at 600 not found! How can I fix it? Yours Liu Junqing Can you post a small file that shows the problem ? Do you have the LaTeX package ec installed ? Vincent

Re: Colouring depth markers - Feature suggestion?

2012-06-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 27-6-2012 14:26, Rainer M Krug schreef: Hi I am working on a beamer presentation and having trouble with seeing the depth of the environments clearly. Is there a way of colouring these brackets on the left hand side in different colours, so that it is easier to see in which level I am?

Re: Colouring depth markers - Feature suggestion?

2012-06-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 28-6-2012 11:01, Rainer M Krug schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/12 10:59, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Op 27-6-2012 14:26, Rainer M Krug schreef: Hi I am working on a beamer presentation and having trouble with seeing the depth of the environments clearly

Re: dots in screen

2012-06-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 30-6-2012 14:58, Sergio Celani schreef: Dear developers I install the latest version of LyX 2.0.4 in Windows seven, but the $\ldots$, or $\cdots$ do not appear on the screen. Sergio Try to zoom in or out. Vincent

RE: Re: [bug report] Lyx 1.6.4 crashes while editing formula

2009-10-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Falk Sticken wrote: Hi I have found a bug in LyX 1.6.4 on Linux (openSUSE 11.1) which is not reported in the bug tracker. When I start editing an inline math formula (ALT+M M) and type \mathc SPACE BACKSPACE al SPACE LyX crashes. A backtrace follows below. bye, Falk But both

RE: a footnote in a footnote

2009-10-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I tried \footnotemark and \footnotetext, that doesn't work. Is there a LyX or LaTeX solution to that problem? I'm pretty sure my old friend will be sorry not to be able to switch to LyX, which doesn't let you have footnotes in footnotes... Is this what you mean ? Vincent footnotes.lyx

RE: Select all part/chapter/section

2009-10-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
In a long document, is there any way to select a whole part, chapter or section without having to drag the cursor through it? Not yet. But please open an enhancement request at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome so that such a feature can be implemented. No need for an

Re: Problems when I try to insert a graph into Lyx

2009-10-31 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Daniele_P schreef: Hi everyone! I'm using the last version of Lyx for Mac (OS: Snow Leopard).. I have a graph in jpeg format (but I also tried with a gif format and many many others) and I want to insert it into Lyx.. I go in Insert--Graphics and browse the file. Then, Lyx displays the graph

RE: command syntax

2009-11-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I am trying to define shortcuts in lyx, and the only command i know is math-insert What are the other possibilities? How can i for example combine two commands, like math-insert \{\] and then go backward one character, ? Thank you very much Have a look at the Help-LyX Functions document

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Is the problem on screen only, or for the output. It is about the screen display. I don't know whether it's a bug. If you select a left alignment of a paragraph in LyX, LyX and LaTeX both don't indent the paragraph and thus ParIndent should also be ignored when it is defined in a

Re: Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
phillip burns schreef: Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks Did you refresh the file name database. MikTeX options - General - Refresh FNDB ? Vincent

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? I like the idea of replacing the bitmap fonts (even though they seem quite good to me) with T1 vector fonts, but am not sure where to specify latin modern. On my lyx, 1.6.2, there is no Layout→Document menu

RE: greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
For example, the document source initially contains $\Delta$x which displays as upper case delta followed by x. If I select the displayed delta and x and click on Lyx'x Insert index entry button, the document source changes to \index{\Deltax}$\Delta$x but when I try to generate an index I get an

RE: XeLaTeX in LyX 1.7/2.0

2009-11-20 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I wonder if the file format used in trunk (or rather the lyx2lyx converter that deals with it) is still unable to revert back to previous versions' file formats. What do you mean by unable to revert back ? LyX trunk uses a new file format (of course) and the older LyXes don't know about the new

RE: XeLaTeX in LyX 1.7/2.0

2009-11-20 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I wonder if the file format used in trunk (or rather the lyx2lyx converter that deals with it) is still unable to revert back to previous versions' file formats. What do you mean by unable to revert back ? LyX trunk uses a new file format (of course) and the older LyXes don't know about

RE: XeLaTeX in LyX 1.7/2.0

2009-11-20 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I wonder if the file format used in trunk (or rather the lyx2lyx converter that deals with it) is still unable to revert back to previous versions' file formats. What do you mean by unable to revert back ? LyX trunk uses a new file format (of course) and the older LyXes don't know about

RE: How to import into lyx.

2009-11-29 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Hello: I have been using lyx to creation documentation. Now, I would like to include a section which is generated programatically. I see that latex has the /input{file} construct, but I do not find an equivalent in lyx. Try Insert-File-Child document... And select Input as the Include Type.

Re: How to remove the path prefix before image files?

2009-12-08 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Yihui Xie schreef: Hi, When we insert a graph into a Lyx document, say, test.pdf, and compile the lyx document using pdfLaTeX, Lyx will first copy the graph to a temporary directory and change the file name by adding a path prefix before the original file name, e.g. 0E_user_document_test.pdf

Re: LyX Server on XP?

2009-12-08 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
rgheck schreef: On 12/08/2009 02:26 PM, Ken wrote: Still no luck :( I created the folder: C:\pipes and added Full Permissions to this folder to myself (a limited Windows XP user). In the preferences I set the LyXServer pipe to: C:\pipes\lyxpipe Again, when I restarted LyX I had no luck:

Re: problem opening lyx file

2009-12-10 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Martin Sladeczek schreef: I hope your are able to help me, i attached the document, Did you ? Vincent

Re: The layout file requested by this document is not usable.

2009-12-10 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I've just discovered this problem myself after an update from LyX 1.6.4 to 1.6.5 But what I can't fathom is this. The .layout files are quite clearly part of the default installation and quite clearly belong to the great swathe of unavailable classes seen on the documents settings. A lot

RE: eLyXer status update

2009-12-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
[...] Thanks for a fantastic tool! I use it to generate my book's output (see here: http://www.erlangforskeptics.com/book/). [...] Little off topic, but your URL does not work with www. prefix... It works with the www prefix, but it is the skeptics that should read sceptics. (ok enough

Re: Lyx 1.6.5 Installer

2009-12-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Uwe Stöhr schreef: Murat Yildizoglu schrieb: I can see two console windows opening each time I launch Lyx using the bat file that has been installed by the alternative installer. They disappear very quickly (I do not have time to read their contents). This is how it should be. LyX is

Re: Lyx 1.6.5 Installer

2009-12-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Uwe Stöhr schreef: Am 13.12.2009 14:10, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: LyX is programmed in a way that a console is always started. My and also the standard installer hides it immediately. The standard installer doesn't open this console window. Ok, I see some extra movement in the task

Re: \day, \month, \year and \today

2009-12-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Liviu Andronic schreef: Dear all Out of these four, only \today seems to be working here in ERT (LyX 1.6.5, Debian testing, amd64). I get errors for any of \day, \month or \year, commands that I found mentioned in this document [1]. Should I expect these commands to work with LyX?

RE: Cutting and pasting in tables

2009-12-17 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Second, when I use any sort of font formatting inside a table, say underlining or italics, and then move the cursor to another cell in the table, LyX assumes that the formatting for the text in next cell will be the same as the last formatting I used. I think this is fixed in

Re: math-insert with 1.6.5

2009-12-19 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
camus.phili...@free.fr schreef: Hi, with the 1.6.5, I observe that the math-insert doesn't work as sooner : as an example, when I insert a fraction, the cursor doesn't blink in the upper part but after the fraction. Is it a new feature ? Phil No, it was a bug. See:

Re: .lyx~ backup-files: to delete? OK, but …

2009-12-20 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Joachim Osnabryg schreef: I regard it necessary that the LyX user must be enlightened about the possible functions of the .lyx~ backup files and how to handle with it in the Tools Preferences Look Feel User interface pane! (This to developers and documentalists) Am 20.12.2009, 06:07 Uhr,

Re: Cutting and pasting in tables

2009-12-21 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I think this is fixed in http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/32570. Sorry, but I am not a developer, so I cannot really decipher the content of that page. Do you mean that the bug is fixed in 1.6.5? I mean that it is fixed yes, but I'm afraid that my time-travelling capabilities are

RE: Keybindings: Buffer-view pdf for XeLaTex.

2009-12-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Hello, I have tried to add a key-binding to the compiling-function (hope this is the right word...I mean to complile my text to a pdf). I have added the key-command in the preferences (buffer-viev pdf XeLateX). When I enter the keybinding I get an error-message, in german: You should have

RE: Keybindings: Buffer-view pdf for XeLaTex.

2009-12-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I have tried to add a key-binding to the compiling-function (hope this is the right word...I mean to complile my text to a pdf). I have added the key-command in the preferences (buffer-viev pdf XeLateX). When I enter the keybinding I get an error-message, in german: You should have

RE: Re: invisible dialog box text - OSX 10.6.2 Lyx 1.6.5

2009-12-31 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Sebastian Rockel sebastianroc...@... writes: I had this once with the same configuration. Since I figured out that Lyx version 1.6.5 is not recommended for OSX 10.6 (right at the download page). I am not sure whether that's the correct info. There were problems with LyX 1.6.4(.0) and OSX

Re: Enumeration inside a Definition environment

2010-01-01 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
iustifico schreef: Hello, I have a question about the theoreme environment Definition and the environment Enumeration in Lyx. How can I produce something like this (Latex) in Lyx? \begin{Definition} Text and formula \begin{enumerate} \item Some text and formula

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say one

RE: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I suggested many months ago that spell checking should be available not in dialog window, but in floating pane on probably right side. But there was no response about that. The spellchecking is already in a floating pane. http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/29322 (for 9 months now) I do not

RE: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
The spellchecking is already in a floating pane. http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/29322 (for 9 months now) I do not have time to try modifying code myself. We don't have time either. This is in trunk as I understand... any plan to merge into 1.6.x line? No. Vincent

RE: TikZ in LyX

2010-01-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Hello to all, 5. I still get errors when compiling: A few of them are like 'Missing } or \cr' inserted. The others go like 'Package error: No shape named base is known'. Sometimes, it says 'M' instead of 'shape'. What can i do to solve these problems? Can you send us your file, then we can

RE: TikZ in LyX

2010-01-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Hello to all, 5. I still get errors when compiling: A few of them are like 'Missing } or \cr' inserted. The others go like 'Package error: No shape named base is known'. Sometimes, it says 'M' instead of 'shape'. What can i do to solve these problems? Can you send us your file, then we can

Re: LyX version control with git

2010-01-16 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Christoph Pospiech schreef: Hi, as of version 1.6.4, LyX has a pull down menu File - Version control, which apparently supports CVS and SVN. Any plans to support git as well ? Thanks ! Christoph Pospiech Not really I think, but you can define your own commands by using the vc-command

Re: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-17 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook schreef: Am I expected to do anything to mark this as resolved??? (I'm still not used to wiki methods) Or do the developers expect to do that themselves? We will take care of it. It will remain fixedintrunk until the next release with the fix is released. Vincent

RE: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
This way, you can convert an equation to the source text (which might be desirable for copying as well). The other way round is already implemented: Mark a valid math expression (like \sin(x)) and press Ctrl-M. If you select the math contents and paste it in text, you'll see the LaTeX code. I

RE: View - OpenDocument command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
[examples/splash.lyx] is the document which automatically opens when user runs LyX first time after installation. The problem is that the View - OpenDocument command produces empty output for me. Please help! Don't use OpenDocument. Use dvi or pdf to preview. Vincent

RE: View - OpenDocument command produces empty output - help!

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Yes, dvi and pdf work fine for me. But I want OpenDocument because I'm sending the file to another person and want him to be able to edit the file. I k now, but don't send your answer SEVEN times ?!? Vincent The 1st email you could have received came to you only,while I wanted it come

Re: help!

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Will I have to start using Linux to have this View - OpenDocument command work? Then, why don't LyX developers throw this command away from LyX Windows installation... We can't help that the third-party utilities are not correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the websites of

RE: inserting child file verbatim causes SIGSEGV in epel version (1.6.4) of LyX

2010-02-03 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
If not then I guess I'll have to figure out how to get my RH BZ account working again so I can bug Rex into updating those of us on epel. :| I don't know any of the words you're using here :S.. Epel ? Rex ? RH BZ ? ### back trace #0 0x07afcf23 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #1

RE: switching between two open lyx files

2010-02-08 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Is there a way to switch between two open lyx files, without using the mouse? Thx John Ctrl + Tab, Ctrl + PgUp, Ctrl + Shift + F6.. Pick your choice. If this does not work, type in the command buffer (View-Toolbars-Command Buffer) buffer-previous and see what appears in the statusbar

RE: Shortcut to Insert - Note - Comment

2010-02-16 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Hi everybody, anyone knows the LFUN name of the insert comment function accessed via Insert - Note - Comment. Open Help-LyX Functions and search for Comment. Vincent

RE: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-24 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
The problem arouse when I needed to insert some obsolete Russian characters that were used before the 20th century. Namely, the letters yat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yat), fita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fita) or izhitsa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izhitsa): if I insert them to LyX via

RE: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-24 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
When is Lyx 2 coming out? EK We don't know yet. Vincent

RE: What are custom insets?

2010-02-25 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I see the Insert-Custom insets in LyX but the submenu is always empty? Why is this so? What are custom insets and how are they meant to be used (if they can be created)? From the User Guide sec. A.4.8: Custom Insets: The section Flex insets and InsetLayout of the Customization manual explains

RE: Is this a bug?? \underbar{\alpha} crashes...

2010-02-25 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Am I missing something I guess you should use \underline instead of \underbar (which is used when pressing Ctrl+U). Vincent

RE: Mystified by \selectlanguage [modified]

2010-02-25 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
How does the british language enter my document - the default is probably just English on my system. Even my \documentclass command (on latex export) shows the british option! Document-Settings-Language is set to English (UK) ? Vincent

Re: LyX can't find CLS it has already found.

2010-02-25 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
B. Bogart schreef: Hello all, I've posted the following bug against ubuntu, in LyX 1.6.4. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/515804 The bug report includes screenshots that illustrate the problem. Anyone have any ideas what could be going on here? Thanks, B. Bogart There is

RE: [help] Lyx with miktex 2.8 on Windows XP FR, Layout said not available but recognized in the config!

2010-02-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Hi All, I think it's really a Lyx bug in fact. It says that article, book,... are not available but in the LaTeXConfig.lyx these layouts are well recognized! See attached file..., In what directory path did you install LyX ? Vincent

RE: lyx 1.6.5 will not open lyx 2 docs

2010-03-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Now I cannot open that document in 1.6.5 - I just get an error message about lyx2lyx failure: the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it The option to export to lyx-1.6.5 does nothing that I can discern (is it supposed to work?) Yes, it works. There should be a .lyx16 file next to the original

RE: LyX 2 over Mac OS X Snow Leopard make error

2010-03-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
/opt/local/bin/msgmerge: `ar.po': No such file or directory someone (Manveru) said : Someone puts language file in makefiles but miss committing the file on repository? That's not true. Does ar.po exist on your system ? Does msgmerge exist ? What happens if you run the command manually ?

Re: Titlecase macro

2010-03-07 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Steve Litt schreef: Is there currently something like this in LyX? I could write one at the native language level, but the problem with that is the native LyX language keeps changing. It would probably be better to write it at the LyXFun level, but I haven't a clue how to do it. This

Re: Latex 2 lyx problems

2010-03-09 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Stefano Franchi schreef: A colleague sent me a latex file that (on my system)compiles perfectly to pdf. Importing into lyx mangles it up in such a way that it doesn't compile any to pdf anymore (from lyx). Here is what I see: 1. In the preamble, tex2lyx gobbles up whitespace in (what seems to

RE: Repeated crashes in lyx 1.6.5 and 1.6.6SVN

2010-03-12 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I have been experiencing a lot of crashes in the last couple of weeks. Did you upgrade qt to 4.6 ? Vincent

RE: Repeated crashes in lyx 1.6.5 and 1.6.6SVN

2010-03-12 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
But it should have been fixed in branch 2 days ago, if I read the log correctly. And I downloaded the source yesterday night (3/11). No, it has only been fixed in trunk, not yet in branch. With a text editor, you can change the source yourself (but only if it is trivial to backport the

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