Re: text styles

2009-04-27 Thread rgheck
tedc wrote: I'm thinking of using LyX to write the 2nd edition of a book. The 1st edition was done with OpenOffice, but production was a nightmare because OO didn't fit with the publisher's workflow. The publisher had the whole thing retyped, which introduced countless errors and generally broke

Re: Cross-References doubts

2009-04-27 Thread rgheck
Adrian Diaz wrote: Uwe Thanks for the advice. I have upgraded to 1.6.2 and the problem with cross reference is ok. i have set Theorems (AMS) and Theorems (by section) and it woks well. However i need that the of theorem, lemma etc appears is spanish when i export the file to pdf. On Lyx e

Re: is the theorem (AMS) numbering inside LyX (on the screen) customizable ?

2009-04-27 Thread rgheck
Pierrick Mellerin wrote: I would like to know if there is a solution to customize the theorem AMS numbering inside LyX (by default, LyX displays (on the screen): Theorem 1, Lemma 2, Corolary 3 etc) for having the same numbering than in the LaTeX output? I'm not sure I understand. The LyX num

Re: Cross-References doubts

2009-04-26 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Adrian Diaz schrieb: Sometimes i need to define lemma, proposition, theorem or simply some definitions. I think it is very easy to use them cos i can set by *description* or *list*. However, i have problems when i want to work with cross-references. The problem is that every t

Re: Citation and creation of bibliography

2009-04-24 Thread rgheck
Jason Jerr wrote: Hello everybody, at the moment I am working at my first larger Lyx-project. So far I was really impressed but I got stuck with the creation of my bibliography. Unfortunately, I could not find the answers to my problems in the mail archive. Maybe one of you could give me a hint

Re: Automating Index Entry Removal

2009-04-21 Thread rgheck
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, rgheck wrote: Open the LyX file in a text editor and you'll see the format of these. You can then write a simple script that will remove them: sed, perl, python, whatever. That's what I thought the default would be. :-) I was wondering if t

Re: Automating Index Entry Removal

2009-04-21 Thread rgheck
Rich Shepard wrote: I'm using text from one document (which has an index) in another document (which will not have an index). Is there a way I can bulk delete all the [Idx] insertions in the copied text? The standard search-and-replace dialog box doesn't recognize the three-character string as

Re: crash when scrolling quickly down

2009-04-18 Thread rgheck
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi All, Since I've started using lyx1.62 on windows XP, I've had quite a few crashes. I think it is when I quickly scroll down with the down arrow. Here is the output of the crash. Any ideas? You may be a having a known problem that involves hitting an arrow key whe

Re: environment

2009-04-16 Thread rgheck
organized and the beer identifiers. jc On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, rgheck <mailto:rgh...@bobjweil.com>> wrote: Justin Carrera wrote: Yes a browser based version , so users can just edit on the web and allow access to other user for collaboration.

Re: how to set path for bibtex

2009-04-16 Thread rgheck
Anders Host-Madsen wrote: This is mostly a LaTex question. How do I set a path for bibtex so that my bibtex files are found by both LaTeX and LyX? Currently, I give an absolute path to my bibtex files, which works poorly when I send the file to collaborators. How do I set a bibtex path in Mac

Re: Bibliography error

2009-04-16 Thread rgheck
L. Toumpouris wrote: Thanks for that. I am using a pc on my university's network and other pc's seem to give me the same result. Is there anything I can do about this? It's hard to know without knowing more about those computers. What kinds of machines are they? What version of LyX is install

Re: VERY fustrating problem with the LyX and Child documents!

2009-04-14 Thread rgheck
bigblop wrote: Having located the area where the error occurs I have found two ways of solving the problem. In the LyX master file the content comes in the following order: 1) -> a (possibly corrupted) .tiff image inserted in a figure. 2) -> page break 3) -> section 4) -> Input: child.lyx

Re: environment

2009-04-14 Thread rgheck
Justin Carrera wrote: Yes a browser based version , so users can just edit on the web and allow access to other user for collaboration. I am very interested; Is anyone else interested ? I have some ideas and I am a programmer; if anyone wants to contribute to a web bases version just pass me

Re: environment

2009-04-14 Thread rgheck
Justin Carrera wrote: Hi LyX users, My name is Justin; I just got directed to LaTeX and found you guys... I would like to know if there is a web version of LyX? If you mean a version that runs in a browser or something, no. rh

Re: pdflatex impossible, no error message

2009-04-14 Thread rgheck
Markus Brandstetter wrote: Thanks a lot for your reply and the advice! The footnote has long been deleted anyway; now I also changed all the other lists within the document to standard format, and so got rid of the lyxlist environment command. However, export still doesn't work... But isn't it s

Re: Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Ian S. Worthington wrote: If I understand correctly I have to choose a target language for Lyx from the start: I can't start off with Latex and then later decide to I want to target DocBook, for example. No, you can switch the documents. There may be some issues about how different bits of

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Just my two cents: Scientific Word was used to come with a utility called Document Manager. It was able to pack everything in a .msg file. The utility has a GUI that gives you options for choosing the elements to include for the packing and other options during unpacking.

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, that's a major drawback ! But the .zlyx could be used as an "export" file format to share with others, then one could just merge back the .lyx embedded into the .zlyx : I see this as a way one can use this feature, b

Re: okular dvi viewer failed in lyx

2009-04-12 Thread rgheck
Russell Davie wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:01:54 -0400 rgheck wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Hi All I just installed Lyx 1.6.1 and tested out the dvi viewer on intro.lyx. The default dvi viewer, okular, came up and then crashed. A Fatal Error Occurred The application Okular (okular

Re: Terminology Change Request for Next Release

2009-04-10 Thread rgheck
Kornel Benko wrote: Am Freitag 10 April 2009 schrieb Steve Litt: Perhaps I'm too sensitive to those who claim that LaTeX is much too difficult so they won't try LyX or learn LaTeX as they need it. I don't think that's why it was called "evil". The evilness comes from the fact that

Re: okular dvi viewer failed in lyx

2009-04-10 Thread rgheck
Russell Davie wrote: Hi All I just installed Lyx 1.6.1 and tested out the dvi viewer on intro.lyx. The default dvi viewer, okular, came up and then crashed. A Fatal Error Occurred The application Okular (okular) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV). Lyx stayed open. OS: Ubuntu 8.10 defau

Spellchecker Chokes on Language "Latex"

2009-04-10 Thread rgheck
Rich Shepard wrote: In all the years I've used LyX I've never seen this before: while checking the spelling of my document, a message box popped up reading, "The spellchecker has failed. No word lists can be found for the language 'latex'." The last word checked (which I had added to my persona

Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

2009-04-08 Thread rgheck
Lasse Laakso wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to instructions, but the program won't start now. My earlier version 1.5.6. worked without any trouble. Where can I look for the flaw? Should I try some other way to install the software? I even tried to

Re: Document Class

2009-04-08 Thread rgheck
Edwin Davis wrote: Hello, I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having a hard time figuring out how to change the document class for a single page. Please email me back at your earliest convenience. You can't do that. It's the DOCUMENT class. That said, what do you want to do on th

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread rgheck
Niko Schwarz wrote: alright, i know what happened. I was adding page numbers to a citation, the page numbers were "pp.485–488", where the hyphen is some strange uni-code uber-thing that kills lyx it comes within 3 miles of lyx. once you do that, you need to delete it and restart lyx. Do not use f

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread rgheck
Niko Schwarz wrote: I'm going nuts. If I add the ERT \end{document} right as the first thing all at the top of the document, it still does not compile, with no error message. It doesn't even take time. It simply doesn't react. However, if I cut everything and write "hi" into the document, it

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread rgheck
Niko Schwarz wrote: ! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ... l.326 ...ing"combinatorical explosion\string".eps} The error is right there, but why you're getting it I don't know. It looks as

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread rgheck
Vito De Tullio wrote: I don't know how "clean" this solution is, but I think I find a way... http://github.com/ZeeD/frontespizio basically I use the "OutputType" directive (no documentation about, I just found this in some .layout files) to tell lyx that I'm *not* gonna create a simple .tex file.

Re: BibTeX citations won't load in 1.6.2 on XP

2009-04-05 Thread rgheck
Yury Davidouski wrote: Hi there, I have created a BibTeX file using BibEdt for Windows but I cannot seem to be able to insert citations into LyX projects. The citations database seems to be loading fine yet when "Insert/Citation..." is pressed there are no citations available in the list. I

Re: Prevent printing of footnotes

2009-04-03 Thread rgheck
Louis A. Turk wrote: In a document with many footnotes, is there any easy way to turn off (prevent) the printing of the footnotes so that there is no trace of them in the printed document? I'd think something like: \def\footnote#1{} would do. But I've not tested this. rh

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-04-02 Thread rgheck
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? I just did thi

Re: Wiki: module exchange

2009-03-31 Thread rgheck
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Christian Ridderström schreef: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > I noticed a hint in one of the messages here that led me to discover a > user-supplied module on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/En

Re: LyX -> rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-03-31 Thread rgheck
Piero Faustini wrote: Some more details if this can help you helping me! I tried different exports: - Latex always works perfect (Alleluja!) - HTML works - HTML (Word) crashes LyX (And doesn't work): a bunch of seconds after "execute command htlatex..." the graphics of GUI disappear and the LyX

[BUG] 1.6.2 handling of graphics paths

2009-03-31 Thread rgheck
Jason K Howlett wrote: Hello, I have a LyX document that includes graphics in the header, i.e., ERT:\lhead{\includegraphics{mypic.eps}}. In LyX 1.6.1 this worked perfectly when producing DVI. I recently upgraded to 1.6.2 (on Windows) and the graphic no longer is displayed in the DVI. I used t

Re: How to mark text for operations in 1.6.2?

2009-03-31 Thread rgheck
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-03-31, Anthony Campbell wrote: In earlier versions of lyx I could mark lines or longer sections of text using Shift+Right-arrow. This no longer works in 1.6.2 and I have to use the mouse, which is less satisfactory. Is there any way to recapture the earlier behavi

Re: Search for Environment?

2009-03-31 Thread rgheck
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, For years, Microsoft Word has had something that would be cool in LyX --- search for environment (or charstyle). I just found myself wondering if I had redundant copies of a story in my book, and so wanted to search for all text in Story env

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread rgheck
Rich Shepard wrote: Books for adults (well, most adults who don't read comic books, anyway) don't have all the enhancements of a GUI; neither do newspapers. Which, I'm sad to say, may explain why newspapers all around the US are shutting their doors. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the several

Re: new paragraph after enum or list environment

2009-03-27 Thread rgheck
James C. Sutherland wrote: Does anyone know how to tell LyX to make a new paragraph after a list? For example, if I have new paragraphs indented, then one immediately following an enum or list will not be indented. How to I change that? Have you tried to put the Separator environment in betwe

Re: LyX to HTML?

2009-03-26 Thread rgheck
Anders Host-Madsen wrote: rgheck writes: The other possibility is plastex, which I haven't used but keep meaning to investigate. It's pure python, so should run anywhere LyX does. Now I tried out Plastex. The concept is a little different. It makes the latex document into

Re: LyX to HTML?

2009-03-26 Thread rgheck
Anders Host-Madsen wrote: john writes: But looking at the web site, it looks like latex2html was not updated since 2001. That makes me somewhat reluctant to rely on it. As the old saying goes: If it ain't broke, why fix it? LaTeX itself hasn't really changed since then, has it? rh

Re: changing fontsize of quotation environment

2009-03-26 Thread rgheck
Leo Gürtler wrote: Dear alltogether, how can I change in the preambel the fontsize of the 'quotation environment' (koma script type 'book') permanently so that it is always one font size smaller than ordinary text? This should work not only for ordinary standard text environment but also within

Re: LyX to HTML?

2009-03-26 Thread rgheck
BH wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Typhoon writes: I use tex4ht or hevea. I find that either one of them does a reasonable job if you then apply a custom CSS. But my work is always plain text, no images. I'm using Debian Lenny. Thanks, hevea

Re: Named Theorems

2009-03-25 Thread rgheck
Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Using the AMS document class, how do you get, say, Equivalence Theorem, rather than just Theorem, as the title in the Theorem environment? Between the word "Theorem"

Re: LyX with 800 or 640x480 resolution.

2009-03-25 Thread rgheck
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: I am using LyX on the Eeepc 701 which has a 800x480 resolution. Unfortunately a number of LyX dialogs are a bit too large to fit on the screen. I used "kcmshell font" to set the fontsize to 7 in ~/.qt/qtrc. However LyX seems to have ignored this setting. You need to

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-03-25 Thread rgheck
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 24 Mar 2009, rgheck wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Since there seems to be no deb package of lyx 1.6.2 yet for debian, I wonder whether somebody has used the alien prg for the SuSe rpm package. Is it recommendable or better to use the source code

Re: child document not working as advertised?

2009-03-25 Thread rgheck
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-03-24, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Still the master and all brothers and sisters are available in the View menu. BTW: Would it be possible to put all hidden buffers in a sub-menu? Yes. Should I file a bug

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 import problem.

2009-03-24 Thread rgheck
Kurt Bilinski wrote: Hello, I just installed Lyx 1.6.2 and attempted to import a .tex document but get the following error: "LyX: Cannot convert file. An error occurred while running tex2lyx -f 'main.tex' 'main.lyx". (The error message is my recollection and may not be exact.)

LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-03-24 Thread rgheck
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Since there seems to be no deb package of lyx 1.6.2 yet for debian, I wonder whether somebody has used the alien prg for the SuSe rpm package. Is it recommendable or better to use the source code? Once you get used to it, using the source is very easy. In fact, eve

Re: child document not working as advertised?

2009-03-24 Thread rgheck
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This is irrelevant, from a user POV. To most user, yes, you're right. Still the master and all brothers and sisters are available in the View menu. Of course, yes. What I meant is: the user do not have to *bother

Re: how to use xelibertine?

2009-03-21 Thread rgheck
Tao Cumplido wrote: Hello, I just updated to 1.6.2 and replaced MikTex with TexLive because I want to use xelibertine but I don't know how to do it. All this Latex-stuff is really complicated and I don't get how everything works together, also the part in the manual where it's explained how to

Re: entry type for URL

2009-03-20 Thread rgheck
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: How would the Bibtex entry for the following URL be and what kind of entry type should I use (I am using Jabref for producing bib-files) Author: Engelmann, W. Year: 2009 Title: Bio-Calendar - The year in the life of plants and animals http://tobias-lib.ub.uni-tueb

Re: Lyx and Jabref

2009-03-20 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: If you're thinking about the alleged ability to push references from JabRef into LyX, that only works on Linux (or Linux-like) systems. There's a problem with the use of named pipes on Windows that keeps it from working there. So far as we know, the only problem is that n

Re: Lyx and Jabref

2009-03-19 Thread rgheck
Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:43 -0400, rgheck wrote: Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hello, I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref on my system for now. Where should I

Re: Slowness Question

2009-03-19 Thread rgheck
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: El 19/03/2009, a las 22:14, Liviu Andronic escribió: There's one behaviour I wanted to report (for either 1.5.7 or 1.6.1). Generally LyX is quite OK on speed, but one specific instance where it gets slow---regarding the responsiveness of the UI---is when tables

Re: Lyx and Jabref

2009-03-19 Thread rgheck
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hello, I use LyX on Windows XP and I have also Jabref that I have been using for some years, before I have discovered LyX. LyX can not see Jabref on my system for now. Where should I place the jar file to make it visible to LyX 1.6.1 installed under C:\Program Files\LyX16

Re: Bibtex?

2009-03-19 Thread rgheck
in case someone else is having similar issues. 2009/3/19 rgheck mailto:rgh...@bobjweil.com>> Adrian Diaz wrote: Friends I have a problem with Bibtex, cos when i want to check my thesis by Adobe Acrobat R/W editor all references to bibliogr

Re: Bibtex?

2009-03-19 Thread rgheck
Adrian Diaz wrote: Friends I have a problem with Bibtex, cos when i want to check my thesis by Adobe Acrobat R/W editor all references to bibliography ( made by BibTex in lyx editor ) do not appear and the bibligraphy section is not generated. However during the process of making a copy in PDF

Re: Reporting bugs of macosx binary builds

2009-03-19 Thread rgheck
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: I've started working with lyx 1.6.2 under macosx, and sometimes the application crashes randomly. I've been unable to reproduce these crashes, but when I open macosx' bug report window there is a stack trace with the C++ code calls that happened before the crash.

Slowness Question

2009-03-19 Thread rgheck
Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people who are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do they? rh

Re: Linguistics Module: Changing the "example" spacing

2009-03-15 Thread rgheck
David Terhart wrote: I put a screenshot of the output here: http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/7360/1popishkiwor.png For our taste, there's too much space between "popish kiwor" and the beginning of the glosse. The same holds for the space between "eine Schlange" and "DC-081114L". Does anybody

Re: Weird problem with bibtex from LyX (but not from Latex)

2009-03-15 Thread rgheck
Stefano Franchi wrote: Dear Lyxers, I am encountering a strange problem with bibtex when operated automatically from within LyX which does not exist when the LyX files are exported to latex and then compiled from the command line. [snip] Now I have run out of options. Since I can get the prop

Re: how to change the headline

2009-03-15 Thread rgheck
Maurice Viehweger wrote: as i already got nice help here some days ago, i will try my luck again. ;) as i have almost finished writing a term paper i still got one problem left. i use the "article (book)" class and this one got the chapter names in the headline + page numbers. everything is fin

Re: importing Word-docs

2009-03-13 Thread rgheck
Hartmut Haase wrote: Hi, can someone help me please. I cannot view, print or export the attached file. It was impoted from Word. I get the following error messages: \setlength{\wvtextpercent}{0.009\textwidth} The control sequence at the end of

Re: Lyx and Git under Windows XP

2009-03-13 Thread rgheck
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hello, Following a recent discussion about version control and Git, I am trying to install such a system on my Windows XP laptop. I have the last stable version of LyX and the last version of Git pulled from the following address : http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ I have

Re: Black box over image when printing pdf

2009-03-12 Thread rgheck
rettie wrote: Another quick question: the default margins for the article class are large, but I've always liked them because I hate crowded pages. Are there any real benefits of the margins this size? I remember someone told me it's something to do with the average number of words on a line, tho

Re: several questions from a lyx-newbie. bear with me, pls ;)

2009-03-12 Thread rgheck
Maurice Viehweger wrote: first problem: my citation looks awful. at the moment the style is "plain", but i want it to have more apa-like. i know theres also a predefined style with that name, but it doesn't work properly (at least it seems so). my preamble says: \usepackage{natbib} \bibpunc

Re: BIBINPUTS under Windows??

2009-03-12 Thread rgheck
David Bickel wrote: Thanks, Richard. It works now. In summary, this changes the default path to .bib files: 1 Start > Control Panel > System > Adanced > Environment Variables (as Siegfried instructed); 2 add a BIBINPUTS variable with the path to the bib files (as you instructed); 3 reboot.

Re: BIBINPUTS under Windows??

2009-03-12 Thread rgheck
David Bickel wrote: Thank you very much, Siegfried. I added my .bib location to the Path variable, but that did not enable LyX to find the .bib file when I compiled. No, not to the PATH variable. That finds executables. You need to add a BIBINPUTS variable, with the path to where you're stor

Re: Formatted ref for Propositions broken?

2009-03-11 Thread rgheck
Ernesto Posse wrote: It looks like the formatted reference for Propositions is not working properly. While other math environments like "Theorem" and "Lemma" correctly put the word "Theorem" (resp. Lemma, etc.) in the reference, in the case of propositions, only the number appears. Is this normal

Re: old document corrupted

2009-03-10 Thread rgheck
Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I don't mean take-your-vitamins-stay-in-school advice! I have a bunch of documents written in version 1.4.3, and 1.3.7 and lower, and they won't open. Have you tried running lyx2lyx from a terminal? Then at least you'll get error messages. rh

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-10 Thread rgheck
Thanks. ALdo Il giorno 10/mar/09, alle ore 20:05, rgheck ha scritto: Gesualdo Scutari wrote: Thanks for your answer. I exported the lyx doc in tex and the only proble I see in the .log file is that there are undefined references. It seems that latex cannot find the bib file, which is in the

Re: Specifying a Style Guild?

2009-03-10 Thread rgheck
09 at 7:06 PM, rgheck <mailto:rgh...@bobjweil.com>> wrote: charles reid wrote: Hi there - I've applied a class file I downloaded to a document, and I can apply it OK. However, when I click the "Make PDF" button, I get two e

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-10 Thread rgheck
re of the problem. rh Many thanks for your assistance. Regards, Aldo Il giorno 09/mar/09, alle ore 20:04, rgheck ha scritto: Gesualdo Scutari wrote: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to wri

Re: Specifying a Style Guild?

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
charles reid wrote: Hi there - I've applied a class file I downloaded to a document, and I can apply it OK. However, when I click the "Make PDF" button, I get two errors: 1) LaTeX Error: You must specify a style guild 2) LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document} In the .cls file, I see this part:

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Guenter Milde schrieb: As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser (save-file dialogue) with export. I propose to export to "name-lyx15.lyx" instead to "name.lyx15" Y

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
M-L wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 rgheck wrote: As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. Thank you for that. I will have to look for the right file in windows. It seems that was the problem and I

Re: Hungarian

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: rgheck schreef: Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Dr. Gyorgy Pota schreef: Dear Users, The splash page of the Hungarian homepage of Lyx contains a basically correct translation of the original English text. However, the translated Hungarian text is not polished

Re: Hungarian

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Dr. Gyorgy Pota schreef: Dear Users, The splash page of the Hungarian homepage of Lyx contains a basically correct translation of the original English text. However, the translated Hungarian text is not polished at all, and in its present state it is more appro

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Gesualdo Scutari wrote: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography. I s

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The method proposed by Siegfried works if (and only if) you do not use a new feature of LyX 1.6 and if you do not use a feature whose semantics was changed (which is the case for many features). Let me just clarify what Jurgen means by this by giving an example. In

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread rgheck
Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James I've never used valgrind, but it

Re: convert a .sty to .layout

2009-03-05 Thread rgheck
Raphael Schär wrote: Hi I'm just writing my master thesis using lyx. Really awesome. I would though like to use a differnt documentclass file (a local one). The problem is, I can only use .layout. Is there a way to convert a .sty to .layout?? Yes, there is, but it's a manual process. See cha

Re: Page Headings

2009-03-04 Thread rgheck
Paulina Restrepo wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas? Use the "fancy" heading, and see

LyX in Linux Format

2009-03-03 Thread rgheck
This month's British magazine _Linux Format_ has an article on LyX in the "Tutorial" section. It's a quick intro to how to use LyX, with info on basic editing, math, citations, and a few other things. It's not so much a review, so there's not much by way of evaluation. But it's overall very p

Re: LyX 1.6.1 crash when pasting a branch inset

2009-02-27 Thread rgheck
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: As Guenter mentioned, he has a master with childs. Doing a cut and paste in a child document does crash LyX 1.6.1. I have no current branch or svn to test with. OK, now I have it. Note that you get an infinite loop through emergencyWriteAll() when this hap

Re: Endnotes - two questions

2009-02-27 Thread rgheck
Doug Laidlaw wrote: I am writing a book. 1. Can I have endnotes for each chapter? That seems to have been recommended. IMO, endnotes make the book more readable. In my case, that is important. For a true reference work, I would certainly opt for footnotes, because they are closer to the

Re: LyX 1.6.1 crash when pasting a branch inset

2009-02-27 Thread rgheck
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Whenever I copy/kill and past a branch inset LyX dies with the error message ../../../src/support/lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION false VIOLATED IN ../../src/insets/Inset.cpp:137 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'lyx::support::ExceptionMessage'

Re: Compiling lyx-1.6.1 on a Linux-machine

2009-02-26 Thread rgheck
pascal.voll...@nexgo.de wrote: Hello, After having installed 1.6.1 successfully on a Windows machine and being very happy with the result I wanted to do the same for my Linux-machine at home. Now, I get a compiler error and I do not yet understand what is going wrong. These are basically the

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread rgheck
Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 09:10 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Yes, I have installed the tex4ht package long ago. And never had luck nor for odt export neither for html export. Nikos I am in Ubuntu 8.04, I just know from this forum that LyX can export to OpenD

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread rgheck
Typhoon wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:59:23 -0500 Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:52:32PM +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Thank you for your time Andrew. Unfortunately it does not work for me. Cheers, Nikos Hrm. I wonder what's different about the environment

Re: Cross-reference + name of chapter/section

2009-02-23 Thread rgheck
Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi! Thank you for your replies. I still can't see the name of the section when I make a cross-reference. I have LyX 1.6.1 on Windows 2000 Document class: book I made a label on section 2 in chapter 2. The formats that I have available <=> result: <=> "2.2" () <=> (

Re: serious problems with LyX (semi-fatal crashes)

2009-02-21 Thread rgheck
Stefano Franchi wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2009 09:46:36 rgheck wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: So what's the best way to have both a debug-enabled and a plain vanilla lyx installed? Don't install the debug version. You can run it from where you compiled it. I

Re: serious problems with LyX (semi-fatal crashes)

2009-02-21 Thread rgheck
Stefano Franchi wrote: So what's the best way to have both a debug-enabled and a plain vanilla lyx installed? Don't install the debug version. You can run it from where you compiled it. I just use a little script: #!/bin/bash USERDIR=/home/rgheck/dev/lyxdirs/lyxbranch/ if [ -

Re: simple diff between two versions?

2009-02-19 Thread rgheck
Cameron Stone wrote: I have a multi-file document (about 10 child documents), and I was wondering if there is any way to generate an output document that highlights the changes made. I know about the excellent "track changes" feature, but I was not enabled when I made the changes. I'm using vers

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-19 Thread rgheck
Lance Simmons wrote: I'm sure there are much better ways to do this, and plenty of pitfalls to the way I did it, but it converted about 600 LyX files to the 1.5.x format, without any apparent problems, and in about 5 seconds. I checked many files in different directories at random, and haven't f

Re: highlight spelling errors

2009-02-19 Thread rgheck
James C. Sutherland wrote: i would prefer it if speling errors could be highlighted/underlined like in other edititors. is this possible? Not currently possible. It has been discussed here as a possible future feature. If you really want it, consider donating: http://www.lyx.org/Donate. rh

Re: AMS article and sequential numbering

2009-02-17 Thread rgheck
A S wrote: I've recently started using LyX 1.6.1 and discovered that my AMS article documents now all have sequential numbering of theorems and lemmas. In previous version one could choose between standard AMS article, and sequentially numbered, but now there is only one option. I searched the ma

Re: Where do Modules go again?

2009-02-12 Thread rgheck
Niko Schwarz wrote: Ok, I wrote this module file. It's called nikos thesis.module. I have it. But Lyx won't find it, because I am on another computer now and I don't know how to do this. How do I load modules again? Put the module into your local LyX layout directory, then reconfigure. I do

Re: Table, autosplitting in multipages!

2009-02-12 Thread rgheck
Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 06:49 -0800, boggio wrote: Is possible for a big table (with a lot of rows) auto splitting on multipage? Now i show table in only one page and it's cutted at the end of the page. I think this is what longtable does. rh

Re: Question on managing templates and features

2009-02-12 Thread rgheck
Jay Austad wrote: Can LyX provide the functionality that I need? I installed it, but the version control menu is empty. How do I go about setting up LyX to work with SVN? I couldn't find documentation on that. The file you're editing has already be registered with version control. So you have

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