Re: Calibri Font

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Brian,

have you googled this?

   https://www.google.com/search?q=calibri+latex

gives 94 answers. You would put the commands into the Preamble.


Now, however, comes the obvious question: Why? :-)-O

Calibri, besides being proprietary (and not on CTAN for easy
installation into LaTeX), is a Sans-Serif font.

For a documents Serifs are usually recommended for readability, whereas
Sans Serifs are more for presentations. Obviously this is
debatable :-)-O

There is a huge number of publicly available fonts on CTAN. You can look
at the font catalogue

   https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/

or experiment with a test document containing blindtext (lorem ispum)
and use

   Document -> Settings... -> Fonts

The pulldown will offer a number of fonts and if you untick

   Use non-TeX fonts (via XeTeX/LuaTeX)

it'll offer a (limited) number of fonts and even show if they are
already installed. (You can install via the TeX Live manager).

If you tick it there is a much larger offering, which I assume are the
ones available on the OS (in my case Mac).

I myself am a NoTo fan,by the way, with Source Code Pro for Typewriter.

greetings, el

On 2024/04/29 22:13, Brian Kneller via lyx-users wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a newbie to Lyx and I am using the Manchester PhD template on
> the LyX website. Before LyX all my figures and text used Calibri
> font, it would be great if I could use this in my LyX rendering. I
> have been on the web and found several options however the solutions
> are dependant on several modules being present - what is required for
> Lyx please?
> 
> Thanks in advance ( if I am addressing the wrong groups [please let
> me know)
> 
> Brian Kneller


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Re: LyX and MacOS upgrade to M3?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I think this (Windows) is serious underkill :-)-O as this works out of
the box. I use Sonoma 14.4.1 and LyX 2.4.0 RC4 (but 2.3.7.2 workd
without any issues on my Sonoma 14.4.1 M2 MacBook Air)

Safari and Mail.app work very well, even though I use GoogleChrome and
BetterBird (improvement on Thunderbird) myself.


Turns out, that it was the external USB-C Hard Disk used for Time
Machine which caused the panic attacks :-)-O. Disconnected it and
voilà.

So went and bought a new drive and it also gives no problems.


greetings, el

On 2024/04/28 12:19, Gordon Watson via lyx-users wrote:
> Thanks all for the responses. As a temporary fix, I am clearing my
> Mac and keeping if for LyX and one special Mac-only app. Email and
> browsers etc are going to a Windows machine. This way, I can get my
> head back above water and see how the LyX M3 saga has developed. [el,
> reads like you have a nice vendor!] Lyx101
> 
>> On 26 Apr 2024, at 4:36 am, Eberhard W Lisse 
>> wrote:
[...]
>> I got me a Mini with an M2 and maximum RAM. No drama whatsoever,
>> other than that it Kernel Panics 5-6 times per day and so I am
>> awaiting the next software upgrade (ie 14.4.2 or 14.5) and if that
>> doesn't cure it'll go back to the vendor.
>> 
>> el
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Re: What controls figure numbering?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Order something from Amazon, they will deliver :-)-O

el

On 2024-01-19 04:46 , Rich Shepard wrote:
[...]
> Mea culpa! Six days stuck in the house because temps are below freezing and
> there was a half-inch of ice (under the freezing rain) everywhere and I
> blanked on that issue.
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Re: Extra space in moderncv doc [FIXED]

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

What does the LyX Compare of the two versions show you?

el

On 2024-01-18 22:39 , Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
>> Help needed.
> 
> Fixed it. I re-entered the second presentation, deleted the original,
> saved, and compiled. No more extra space. I didn't see anything at
> the begining of that flawed entry but re-entering it solved the
> problem.
> 
> Rich


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Re: Compiling causes LyX to crash [UPDATE]

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

What I do for long documents is to split it by chapter into child
documents which (may) include a .tex file where I can do a lot of things
including conditionals.

I can then compile those also individually if I have an issue which then
makes "bisecting" it down to the error (or an MWE) easier.

greetings, el

On 2024-01-19 04:47 , Rich Shepard wrote:
[...]
> I'm done futzing with it. I'm using the PDF from last July (when it 
> was last compiled) and copying text into a new document. It's 
> compiling each time I complete a secion.
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Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

We had two offers, so 99 should be no drama. And as below they might
even waive.

el

On 2024-01-17 20:54 , Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 1/17/24 13:47, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>> Was it not something like 299 USD per annum?
> 
> This page
> 
> https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/
> 
> seems to suggest that it is $99 per year, but I don't know if that's 
> accurate. One issue, of course, is that it would hardly make sense to
> do it once, and I don't know if we can commit to doing it every year,
> or whether that would be worth it.
> 
> Riki

On 2024-01-17 20:56 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> Also look at
> 
> https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/
> 
> el


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Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Also look at

https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/

el

On 2024-01-17 20:54 , Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 1/17/24 13:47, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>> Was it not something like 299 USD per annum?
> 
> This page
> 
> https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/
> 
> seems to suggest that it is $99 per year, but I don't know if that's 
> accurate. One issue, of course, is that it would hardly make sense to do 
> it once, and I don't know if we can commit to doing it every year, or 
> whether that would be worth it.
> 
> Riki
> 
> 


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Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Was it not something like 299 USD per annum?

el

On 2024-01-17 19:36 , Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 1/17/24 02:20, markhsalmon wrote:
>> How much does the Apple licence fee cost Pavel?
> 
> We don't have an official Apple license, which does sometimes causes 
> installation problems. My memory is that it is not cheap.
> 
> Riki
> 
> 


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Re: slow cursor speed

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Tim,

Does this affect all files or only certain ones?  I am
thinking about file sizes in particular?

I am using 2.3.7 on Monterey and Sonoma (both Intel and
Silicon) and don't see this (can not recall ever seeing this(

Can you try an construct a MWE?

It a file which has everything in the Documents -> Settings
turned off or to the default and consists of a single
paragraph which exhibits this behavior on your machine?

el

On 2023-11-06 19:07 , Tim Garrett wrote:
[...]

The problem is that as a paragraph gets longer, the cursor
gets slower.  The paragraph doesn’t have to be very long
(e.g. a few sentences) for this to be a significant issue.
A single paragraph of plain text could be the only thing in
the document.

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Re: How do I increase TL2023 TeX capacity?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

BTW, make sure you have configured tlmgr to keep one or two versions of
updates in case you pull a misunderimproved version of something and so
can revert.

I do the updates manually (little shell script), so that I am aware of
things.


el

On 29/06/2023 14:41, Rich Shepard wrote:
[...]
> Sunday, when /etc/cron.weekly runs, there might be an official fix. If
> not, then next week.
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Re: tex2lyx Feature Request

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Jean-Marc

Let's make it

--list-textclasses -l

that was just an example.

The request concerns tex2lyx.

I am getting the available textclasses out of it.

el

n 30/06/2023 11:30, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 30/06/2023 à 11:07, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit :
>> so I wonder if one should not implement a similar switch like
>>
>>  --list-modules
> [--list-layouts, right?]
>>
>> or similar which would do just that and return something like
>>
>>  AEA
>>  IEEEtran-CompSoc
>>  IEEEtran-TransMag
> [...]
> 
> Note that this information is available in /textclasses.lst.
> 
> Does this request concern tex2lyx or LyX itself.
> 
> I am not totally sure what information you got from it, to be honoest.
> 
> JMarc
> 
> 

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tex2lyx Feature Request

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hi,

I am doing an exercise of translating OpenOffice formatted files into
Lyx via pandoc and tex2lyx.

The LyX file is readable but when I use scrlettr it wants Koma Letter V1
which is not installed. I had to do

 find /Applications/LyX.app/ -name 'scrl*'

to find

 /Applications/LyX.app//Contents/Resources/layouts/scrlettr.layout
 /Applications/LyX.app//Contents/Resources/layouts/scrlttr2.layout

and I found

 pandoc --list-output-formats


so I wonder if one should not implement a similar switch like

 --list-modules

or similar which would do just that and return something like

 AEA
 IEEEtran-CompSoc
 IEEEtran-TransMag
 IEEEtran
 RJournal
 a0poster
 aa
 aapaper
 aastex
 aastex6
 aastex62
 achemso
 acm-sigs-alt
 acm-sigs
 acmart
 acmsiggraph-0-92
 acmsiggraph
 agu-dtd
 agums
 agutex
 amsart
 amsbook
 apa
 apa6
 apa7
 arab-article
 article-beamer
 article
 beamer
 beamerposter
 book
 broadway
 bxjsarticle
 bxjsbook
 bxjsreport
 bxjsslide
 chess
 cl2emult
 ctex-article
 ctex-book
 ctex-report
 db_sts.inc
 dinbrief
 docbook-book
 docbook-chapter
 docbook-section
 docbook
 doublecol-new
 dtk
 ectaart
 egs
 elsart
 elsarticle
 entcs
 europasscv
 europecv
 extarticle
 extbook
 extletter
 extreport
 foils
 frletter
 g-brief
 g-brief2
 heb-article
 heb-letter
 hollywood
 ijmpc
 ijmpd
 iopart
 isprs
 iucr
 jarticle
 jasatex
 jbook
 jgrga
 jreport
 jsarticle
 jsbook
 jss
 kluwer
 latex8
 letter
 lettre
 llncs
 ltugboat
 maa-monthly
 memoir
 moderncv
 mwart
 mwbk
 mwrep
 paper
 powerdot
 recipebook
 report
 revtex
 revtex4-1
 revtex4-2
 revtex4
 sciposter
 scrartcl
 scrarticle-beamer
 scrbook
 scrlettr
 scrlttr2
 scrreprt
 seminar
 siamltex
 sigplanconf
 simplecv
 singlecol-new
 singlecol
 slides
 spie
 sts.inc
 svglobal
 svglobal3
 svjog
 svmono
 svmult
 svprobth
 tarticle
 tbook
 treport
 tufte-book
 tufte-handout

which was generated by

 find /Applications/LyX.app -name  '*.layout' \
  | awk -F'/' '{print $7}' \
  | sort \
  | sed 's/.layout//g'

and so will miss the .inc and .module there.


Would that make sense?

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Re: latex vs xetex

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I use Makefiles for this, so it only does a compile when needed.

el

On 30/06/2023 01:43, Steve Litt wrote:
> Patrick Dupre said on Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:54:45 +0200
[...]
> I'm going to get a lot of static about this, but in any serious
> documents I place a compile shellscript in the directory and use that
> to compile the LyX document and display it in *my* PDF viewer. So each
> doc has its own compilation method, and when there are problems, LyX is
> almost completely ruled out as a root cause. It's either something I
> did or an unfortunate CTAN change.
> 
> Over time, as things evolve, usually for the better, I can alter my
> compile script to take advantage of the changes. With my compile
> shellscript, I can do a reconfigure every time with configure.py. I
> name my shellscript something like jj so when it's time to recompile my
> book I simply do ./jj  . After all, I'm already in the book's directory.[...]
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Re: Add Clickable Hyperlink to LyX Document

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

This would be very useful.

el

On 26/05/2023 10:29, Chen Yang wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam, 
> 
> Hope this email finds you well! 
> 
> I am a LyX user from China. I have a problem with the hyperlink in the
> LyX document. 
> 
> At present, we can add a hyperlink to the LyX document. And this
> hyperlink is clickable in the corresponding PDF file. But in fact, many
> users just use LyX documents rather than PDF files for most of their
> time. Thus, I wonder if it's possible to make the hyperlink in the LyX
> document clickable. For example, if one holds "cmd" or other keys and
> clicks the hyperlink in a LyX document, one can directly open this link.
> This would greatly increase our efficiency. 
> 
> Thank you for your time and support. I am looking forward to hearing
> from you soon! 
> 
> Best regards,
> Chen
> 

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Re: Font (detection) problems (want to use a Garamond font)

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I am wondering if texhash looks for fonts and if so if it configured to
see the path. Something for the experts...

I would NOT copy but only symlink so that an update (in /opt) will
automatically pull through.  Otherwise you have to remember to repeat
the copy.

el

On 2023-05-06 00:29 , Christian Obst wrote:

I'll try that, thank you!  I already copied the one font, I'll try the
linking option later.

Eckhard Höffner  schrieb am Fr., 5. Mai 2023, 16:57:

There are several options.  An easy way could be links from the
opentype and ttf dirs under your tex-tree to
/usr/local/share/fonts or to $HOME/.local/share/fonts/

I don't know your current situation, but it may be something like:

mkdir $HOME/.local/share/fonts/texfonts

cd $HOME/.local/share/fonts/texfonts

ln -s /opt/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype ./

ln -s /opt/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/ttf ./

I hope, this works.

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Re: Screen font question-inline

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Make the Window smaller :-)-O

BTW, I use NoTo for the Screen as well as for text.

el

On 19/04/2023 19:44, John White wrote:
> I hope Mr. Hoffner is right but I know of no way to make my screen
> larger. I can't figure that out.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, April 19, 2023 9:34:09 AM PDT Eckhard Höffner wrote:
> 
>> Actually you are missing the buttom of the window. Maybe your screen is
> 
>> to small. Mine is 1150px high (attached).
> 
> 
> 

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Re: Automize command

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

What are you trying to do/achieve?

el

On 2023-04-03 10:50 , Patrick Dupre wrote:

Hello,

I tried to automatize the commands
export Latex (plain); latex ; dvipdf -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY
but I have not been successful.

Can I get some help?

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Re: pdfcomment.sty: tlmgr says it's installed, but latex document doesn't find it

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I would in the first instance just do a

 tlmgr install --reinstall pdfcomment

and see what that does


greetings, el

On 22/02/2023 19:53, John Coppens wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:42:27 +0100
> Herbert Voss  wrote:
> 
>> texhash
>>
>> and then try again with
>>
>> kpsewhich pdfcomment.sty
> 
> No luck. texhash runs fine, kpsewich doesn't show anything.
> 
> John

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Re: WG: LyX - Privacy Policy

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

And I would like to know what ypu meann by that?

el

On 2023-02-15 14:36 , Filippou, Nikolas wrote:

Hi,

i would like to know if LyX has a Privacy Policy (I couldn´t find
anything on the website) and if so what does it include?

Thank you in advance!

Best Regards

*M.Sc. Nikolas Filippou*

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Re: URL question

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

That is a  LaTeX issue

I have this in my preamble(s)

\Urlmuskip=0mu plus 1mu
\usepackage{xurl}

el

On 2023-02-08 17:55 , Rich Shepard wrote:

I thought that after inserting a URL (either from the Insert menu or as ERT)
compiling with pdflatex would automatically break the string to fit the text
area. This one doesn't fit the line.

A MWE is attached.

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Re: Ventura graphics Mac

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Why would I try and install a VM on an M1 (ie an EMULATOR for a
different processor) and install Linux, of which most distributions do
not have the latest and greatest LyX and or TeX(live) to fix a bug that
is almost certainly going to be fixed soon and can be reasonably easily
circumvented until then?

Makes no sense to me, whatsoever.


I was talking about speed. I haven't tried out the intel only version
on the M1 but accept that this issue is there as well.


BTW, I do most of my work on the command line using iTerm and so
copy/paste of a graphics name is easy. However, I must confess that if
I do insert an image, I do (did) it with the file browser.


el

On 22/01/2023 20:21, Christopher Menzel wrote:
[...]
>> The alternative proposed here makes not sense whatsoever to me,
>> especially on an M1. The (speed) limiting factor is LaTeX (in
>> particular LuLaTeX).
> 
> I /guess/ you are talking about my suggested alternative of running
> LyX in a Linux VM under Parallels? How does it "make no sense
> whatever" to you to have a fast, fully-functional version of LyX that
> does not exhibit the bug in question? (Just to note, I’ve also had LyX
> 2.3.7 simply crash on me a couple of times under Ventura in random
> situations, so there are apparently further problems and, hence,
> reasons independent of this bug to run LyX in a VM.)
[...]
>> Universal binary in any case means that on the M1 the M1 binary runs
>> and on the Intel the Intel binary. However, even running the Intel
>> binary on the M1 under Rosetta makes no real difference, other than
>> that it loads slower. But since LyX is set up to open at login I
>> would not even care.
> 
> Are you saying that the bug doesn’t occur if you use a LyX Intel
> (i.e., non-universal) binary under Ventura via Rosetta? That is not
> the case, for either version 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7. You can’t insert a
> graphic via the file browser in either one.
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Layout question, was Re: Method for Not Input \tag Everytime

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hao,

it is better to only ask one question per email with appropriate
subject line.

Then it is helpful to produce a minimal working example (MWE)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_reproducible_example
 https://minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html

You did not mention the class you used (which failed) so it is
impossible to help, really.

It might well be that you don't need to write the layout at all.

el

On 16/12/2022 18:41, yang.hao@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp wrote:
[...]
> And, another question is how to make layout. I refered some document
> for making layout. http://www.bedko.com/download/LyxGuide.pdf But it
> does not worked for the cls I used. Cannot make PDF,and many things
> cannot display on LyX.The .cls load four classes, and Read.me said the
> .cls only support platex, uplatex. Is there a more concrete for making
> layout?
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Re: How to make LyX work with Mac OS 13.1:solved

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I don't really think so, as Apple has what it calls Framework(s).

Even homebrew (which in itself needs to install a number of packages)
needs the XCode Command Line Tools.

So, my advice, remember to install them :-)-O

el


On 14/12/2022 18:02, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 05:55:17PM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>> Hal,
>>
>> the command is
>>
>>   sudo xcode-select --install
>>
>> you will then be asked for your password.
>>
>> It is a system wide installation of the command line tools (of XCode)
>> and hence must be done as administrator (technically root).
>>
>> The complete XCode will of course also install python3 but is a few GB
>> too much.
>>
>> el
> 
> Is there a way from the command line to install only Python on macOS?
> 
> Scott
> 
> 

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Re: How to make LyX work with Mac OS 13.1:solved

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hal,

the command is

 sudo xcode-select --install

you will then be asked for your password.

It is a system wide installation of the command line tools (of XCode)
and hence must be done as administrator (technically root).

The complete XCode will of course also install python3 but is a few GB
too much.

el


On 14/12/2022 13:50, Hal Kierstead via lyx-users wrote:
>> On Dec 13, 2022, at 5:38 PM, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 05:02:30PM -0700, Hal Kierstead via lyx-users wrote:
>>> All -
>>>
>>> I just upgraded to Mac OS 13.1. I was not given a chance to install
>>> python. How do I check if I have the right version of python?
>>>
>>> I cannot reconfigure LyX. I get the message: The system
>>> reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may
>>> not be able to work properly. Please reconfigure again if needed.
>>>
>>> Reconfiguring again does not work either.
>>>
>>> Also, I have a bind file that LyX finds, but does not use. Is this
>>> because LyX needs to be reconfigured?
>>>
>>> I tried reinstalling LyX, but that did not help.
>>>
>>> What should I do next?
>>
>> I don't have any experience with macOS, but one user found that the
>> following worked:
>>
>>  xcode-select --install
>>
>> source: https://twitter.com/IvanWerning/status/1599544006962139136
>>
>> Scott --
> Thanks Scott. I forgot to reply to the list.
> 
>  For some reason this failed to install xcode, but downloading it from
>  the app store worked, and now my LyX is working. Probably I should
>  not have needed to download all of xcode, but it is simple this way.
> 
> Hal
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closing a named buffer?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hi,

I can easily close the current buffer with a command like (on the mac)

   LYXPIPE=$(find ~/Library/Application\ Support ~/.lyx \
  -name .lyxpipe.in 2>/dev/null | head -1)  
   echo "LYXCMD:P2:buffer-close" > "$LYXPIPE"

Is it possible to close a named buffer even another was "active" using
the LYXPIPE mechanism?

Let's say the file names I am editing are a.lyx and b.lyx, and a.lyx is
in front, how would I close b.lyx while keeping a.lyx in front/active?

I am willing to RTFM :-)-O

el

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Re: About upgrading to MacOS 13

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Never even thought for a second to downgrade any of the many upgrades I
have done. Even if some were not straight sailing...

el

On 2022-12-07 19:46 , Marcus Kriele via lyx-users wrote:

Hi Daniel

Please note that Time Machine may not work for going back from macOS13
to macOS12.  At least it did not work in my case.  I also realized
that macOS13 changed the format of the Photos library so that I could
not read it with macOS12 after reinstalling the old operating system
(fortunately I had a recent backup for this library).

So if you try to upgrade I would strongly suggest to make a full
backup first without using Time Machine to ensure that you still have
all your data, if it does not work out.

Best regards, Marcus


On 7 Dec 2022, at 16:21, Daniel CLEMENT via lyx-users
 wrote:

Dear list members,

I have monitored last month’s threads about LyX woes under macOS 13.
There wasn’t a definite conclusion it seems.

Would you say it’s safe to upgrade to MacOS13 now (with LyX 2.3.6.2)?

When I installed it, it complained about Python missing, but I
somehow managed to get Python installed too.

I’m rather new to Mac, and in no hurry at all to do the upgrade.
Perhaps it would be best to wait for LyX 2.4?

I’ll take your advice - 

best regards, 


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Re: Raster image format

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I would not waste too much time on that, but for speed purposes I would
select the draft button, until such time you want to see the images
proper.

el

On 2022-12-07 20:27 , Rich Shepard wrote:

My documents tend to contain many PDF vector images which appear to be
converted by LyX to a preferred (rasterized?) format. What is that format so
I can convert the .pdfs to it?

TIA,

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Re: KOMA-Script article: 'Abstract' in tiny font

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Why don't you post a proper MWE so one can have a look?

el

On 31/10/2022 19:03, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2022, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
>> What might cause the string, Abstract, to be displayed slightly indented
>> from the left margin when the environment is Abstract?
> 
> Also, the entire abstract is in a tiny font size.
> 
> Rich

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Re: Re MacOS Ventura trouble

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MacOs 12.6 and 12.6.1 both have Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin/python3
(12.6.2 is not out yet of course :-)-O

el


On 2022-10-29 13:54 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
[...]

As my two Desktop machines do not support Ventura I'll have to
software update them after the (long) weekend (at the coast :-)-O) to
12.6.2 and see what that does.  12.6.1 has /usr/bin/python3 as well
but that's 3.9.6

[...]

On 2022-10-29 17:52 , mkriele--- via lyx-users wrote:

Thanks, el!  For the record, I used LyX 2.3.6.2 both prior and after
my Ventura adventure.  After I downgraded to the previous OS-version
(12.6.1.  Monterey) and re-installed python I did not have any
trouble, even though I only seem to have python3 (and python3.11) in
my path.  But if I run in problems again, your symlink will be the
first thing I try.  And should I upgrade the OS again, I will know to
look for python before starting LyX.

Regards, Marcus

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Re: Re MacOS Ventura trouble

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MacOs 12.6 and 12.6.1 both have Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin/python3
(12.6.2 is not out yet of course :-)-O

el


On 2022-10-29 13:54 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
[...]

As my two Desktop machines do not support Ventura I'll have to
software update them after the (long) weekend (at the coast :-)-O) to
12.6.2 and see what that does.  12.6.1 has /usr/bin/python3 as well
but that's 3.9.6

[...]

On 2022-10-29 17:52 , mkriele--- via lyx-users wrote:

Thanks, el!  For the record, I used LyX 2.3.6.2 both prior and after
my Ventura adventure.  After I downgraded to the previous OS-version
(12.6.1.  Monterey) and re-installed python I did not have any
trouble, even though I only seem to have python3 (and python3.11) in
my path.  But if I run in problems again, your symlink will be the
first thing I try.  And should I upgrade the OS again, I will know to
look for python before starting LyX.

Regards, Marcus

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Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

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The easiest is to completeley uninstall TeX and then LyX (on the Mac you
can just Trash it) and then first to install TeX (MacTex in whatever
guise or form) and then LyX, which in the first run will do a Tools ->
Reconfigure which you can do manually any time.

You should be able to run

/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -o abc.lyx 
testfile.lyx

directly (ie without the python call) as well.

What do

head -1 /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx

and

which python

show?

greetings, el

On 2022-10-20 21:10 , Paul A. Rubin wrote:

On 10/20/22 14:44, ahostmadsen--- via lyx-users wrote:

And to add.  When I run the following command, which I think emulates
the converter as run from LyX:

python -tt /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx
-o abc.lyx testfile.lyx

the conversion works perfectly.  Yet, from inside lyx it doesn’t
work.

Meanwhile, trying to edit converters, my LyX installation got further
damaged.  Now the font used inside LyX is screwed up (only
sans-serif), although I didn’t change anything about fonts.  I feel
my LyX installation is damaged.  How can I uninstall completely, and
then install from scratch?


Regarding screen fonts, if you go to Tools > Preferences...  > Look &
Feel > Screen Fonts, you should see which fonts are being used in the
LyX UI (including sample text for each).  Do they indicate that any
fonts with serifs are selected?  If not, are any fonts you would like
listed among the options in the select boxes?

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Re: Bibliography filtering by type

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Perhaps an Umlaut Issue?

el

On 18/10/2022 21:04, Oliver Margraf wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have used LyX for some time and came now across the change of the
> handling of the bibliography in 2.3.6. I managed to understand the
> changes concering inserting a biblography, changes towards the preamble
> and the change of using the options, however I have the following problem:
> When I insert my bibliograpy, I separate it by the type of entry (as a
> subbibliography). In the old form (with the biblatex entry set into a
> note), I had a LaTeX box with entries like these:
> 
> \printbibliography[nottype=online,nottype=inarticle,nottype=report,nottype=book,nottype=inbook,heading=subbibliography,title={Aufsätze
>  in Journals und Tagungsbänden}]
> \printbibliography[type=inbook,heading=subbibliography,title={Artikel
> aus Sammelbänden}]
> \printbibliography[type=book,heading=subbibliography,title={Bücher}]
> \printbibliography[type=report,heading=subbibliography,title={Studien}]
> \printbibliography[type=online,heading=subbibliography,title={Onlinequellen}]
> 
> However with the change (bibliography just put in from the list menu), I
> have now the problem of getting one full, unseparated bibliography and I
> don't know how to get my "old" sorting. Because when I try to set the
> option of the printbibliography command in the option of the
> LyX-biblatex entry (obviously one entry corresponding to the former
> printbib-command), I get that section from my bib printed, however, I
> couldn't find out how to get the "main" section "Biblography" on top and
> into the toc - if I add a biblatex-bib on top, I get (of course) full
> bibliography before the "filtered" sections.
> If I try to work without the insert of the Bibliography from LyX and use
> LaTeX Code like this:
> 
> 
> \cleardoublepage
> \phantomsection
> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Literaturverzeichnis}
> \printbibheading
> \printbibliography[nottype=online,nottype=inarticle,nottype=report,nottype=book,nottype=inbook,heading=subbibliography,title={Aufsätze
>  in Journals und Tagungsbänden}]
> \printbibliography[type=inbook,heading=subbibliography,title={Artikel
> aus Sammelbänden}]
> \printbibliography[type=book,heading=subbibliography,title={Bücher}]
> \printbibliography[type=report,heading=subbibliography,title={Studien}]
> \printbibliography[type=online,heading=subbibliography,title={Onlinequellen}]
> 
> 
> I get a problem with the appendix - LyX gives me an LaTeX error like this:
> 
> LaTeX Error: Something's wrong --perhaps a missing \item
>  ...on}{\numberline {A}Anhang}{21}{appendix.A}
>   %
> Try typing    to proceed.
> If that doesn't work, type  X   to quit.
> 
> 
> So my question is: How do I get the Bibliography-section (also in the
> toc), plus the bib splitted into the specified types?
> I tried to search the archives, but couldn't find anything matching.
> 
> TIA
> Oliver

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Re: Book about LyX 2.4

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I'll be willing to try it on my handbook too :-)-O

el

On 17/10/2022 22:49, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 10:03:51PM +0200, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:
[...]
> Don't worry about it! I'll ask you again whenever we are close to
> releasing 2.4.0 if we really want lyx2lyx to get some extra testing with
> complex documents.
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Re: Book about LyX 2.4

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Ricardo,

I have an (almost) 1000 page ops handbook of 25 chapters (child
documents) and a common include.tex with 330 includes (listings and
images) and a 550 line Makefile.

It displays in 12 point font in landscape when I need to work something
(like recently reinstalling Perl from Homebrew) and I am DYING to lay my
hands on production LyX 2.4 so I can refine this to export cleanly to
DocBook and thus to Kindle so I can easily carry this around on iPad
:-)-O

Can't use dev in production (medical practice) and don't think 2.3.6.2
can read the new format yet.

I will share my experiences here :-)-O

el


On 17/10/2022 22:03, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:
[...]
> @ Eberhard Lisse
> 
>> when 2.4 final is out you should look at exporting this to DocBook
> because then it can go onto the Kindle...
> 
> I'll do!
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Re: Book about LyX 2.4

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Ricardo,

when 2.4 final is out you should look at exporting this to DocBook
because then it can go onto the Kindle...

el

On 2022-10-17 15:17 , Ricardo Berlasso wrote:

I'm a bit crazy, let's face it, so not only have I updated the book I
once wrote about LyX, I've done it in English, Spanish and Italian.

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Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

That can be a Python issue. But it's nice to see it works.


What I have done in the past is to convert all LyX files I have below my
work area with something similar to

find ~/medicine/cpd/ -name '*.lyx' -type f -exec open {} ';'

and then having to save all the files manually.

Which of course would not work for your particular situation but could
be adapted, which I might just do for myself when I am bored as I
otherwise would have to think about an Applescript to automate this when
the format changes next time :-)-O


greetings, el


On 2022-10-14 01:25 , ahostmadsen--- via lyx-users wrote:

Thanks for the instructions.  I ran lyx2lyx from the command line, and
it successfully converted the old file, and Lyx can open the converted
file.  But if I try to open the old file from inside LyX I still get:
“...is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to
convert it.” So, lyx2lyx works, but LyX cannot run it.  And still,
instant preview does not work, although typesetting a document does.

I have been using lyx for many years now (which is why I have old
formats).  I have no problems compiling lyx documents, and otherwise
use LaTeX directly, so I don’t think it’s a LaTeX issue.



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Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

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On the Mac (deduced from the icloud address)

find /Applications/LyX.app/ -name lyx2lyx -type f

tells us

/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx

Try the complete path/file name on the old file and see what that says.


Looks a little like a TeX installation issue, just to be sure, you did
install TeX, right?


I use Homebrew, which has three versions ((annually) updated)

 brew install mactex
 brew install mactex-no-gui
 brew install basictex

I use the latter, and apply a small modification to the default

 TEXDIR=$(dirname $(kpsewhich texmf.cnf))
 TEXPARENT=$(dirname $(dirname $(kpsewhich texmf.cnf)))
 perl -i -p -e 's+\$SELFAUTOPARENT/+/$TEXPARENT/+' $TEXDIR/texmf.cnf

As I have multiple systems I can update the packages missing after an
update of basictex easily with something like

 tlmgr install $(ssh -C USER@HOST tlmgr list --only-installed \
| awk '{gsub(":","",$2);print $2}'

and so don't need to have the complete installation.


I also like long error lines and do so something like this

 brew install gsed

 for i in error_line max_print_line half_error_line
 do
 gsed -i "/$i/d" $TEXDIR/texmf.cnf
 done
 cat >> $TEXDIR/texmf.cnf < Thanks, you mean running lyx2lyx from the terminal? Then I get “command
> not found"
> 
> When I run reconfigure, I get the message:
> 
> The system reconfiguration has failed.
> Default textclass is used but LyX may
> not be able to work properly.
> Please reconfigure again if needed.
> 
> Perhaps I totally need to remove LyX from my computer, and then
> re-install?  As said in the previous email, I already have upgraded
> LyX to the latest version, with no effect.
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Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Have you tried running lyx2lyx on them and see what that says?  perhaps
with the --noisy option?

LyX will display, but can't convert.  So you need to look what image you
are trying to display and whether there is a converter for that.
Sometimes just a Tools --> Reconfigure will do the trick

el



On 06/10/2022 17:21, ahostmadsen--- via lyx-users wrote:
> Thanks, I checked. Yes, it’s on.
> 
> One further issue: LyX doesn’t display graphics: “error converting to
> loadable format."
> 
> But I just mention these issues as symptoms.  My main issue is that I
> cannot open older LyX files, which is a serious headache.
> 
> (Sorry, I’m not sure about the right way to reply to messages on the
> list)
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Re: Drawing an arc

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

No, you didn't.

Or maybe you use Windows.


el

On 11/10/2022 10:14, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 23:25 +0200, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>> So, because I can include images, questions about Photoshop should be
>> asked here?
>>
>> There are 18 Million Tikz hits on Google.
>>
>> el
> 
> That's it. Life's too short to deal with a snarky annoyance machine like 
> Doctor
> Lisse, so I've piped him to /dev/null. 
> 
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Re: Drawing an arc

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Computers can be used to type.

el

On 06/10/2022 08:41, Daniel wrote:
> On 04/10/2022 23:03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>> What does this have to do with LyX?
>>
>> el
>>
>>
> 
> LyX can be used to output LaTeX documents. TikZ can be used in LaTeX via
> a package. Or did you mean something more specific?
> 
> Daniel
> 
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Re: Running a command from within Lyx/Beamer

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

\usepackage{multimedia}

in the preamble comes to mind.

el


On 27/09/2022 14:24, UD K wrote:
> Is there a (simple) way of running a (linux) command from within a
> Lyx/Beamer presentation? 
> I have tried the href latex command but it did not do anything, although
> I included the \includepackage{hyperref} in the preamble.  I want to use
> it as a (simple) way of running a video from within a presentation.
> Thanks,
> Ehud Kaplan
> 
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Re: Missing character

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Auntie Gugel tells me via

https://unicodeplus.com/U+0098

that this (SoS) is the Tilde '~' but it probably does not matter.


I would first remove the reference

\ref{alg:Skript-zur PRC-Erzeugung}

If that does the trick, you may want to remove the space from the
Reference and corresponding Label.


If not remove everything from the (copy of the) document but the
offending line.

If that causes the error, remove that line from the original.

If that does the trick, retype the line carefully (without label and
refefrence.

If that works, put the label in.

If that works put the reference in.

If that gives you the error use my above shortcut and rename the
reference and (corresponding) label.


greetings, el


On 2022-09-01 18:04 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
[...]

 >>this is line 2612 >> \label{scilab script-1}To avoid changing the
 >>parameters for each
pulse time and the following simulations sequentially, one can use a
Scilab script, which carries this out (see the algorithm
\ref{alg:Skript-zur PRC-Erzeugung}).

As to your Google proposal:
The Internet tells me, e.g.: 'START OF STRING' (U+0098)
and:
Character U+0098 (152) is an invisible control code that is almost
never used.  The trick is that "ISO-8859-1" has a different meaning to
Java and web browsers.  For Java it really is the ISO-8859-1 standard,
which maps exactly to the first 256 code points of Unicode.  That
includes a range of little-used C1 control characters at 128-159.

What I tried was to put the surrounding of the error (was a figure +
legend) in a lyx note, run it again and check the tex file again.  The
0098 complain is now at another place, which had not been given before
as an error.

Paul recommended to run a bisection search, but its the same problem
as described above.

I was hoping to localize the 0099 character by using the editor
'best', which allows to search for decimal codes, but that did not
show it at all.  Perhaps somebody knows a better editor to check for
those characters.

FAZIT:
I gave up, since it is a warning only and it takes me too much time
(and time of those trying to help me)
Thanks anyway!

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Re: Missing character

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

C.O.M.P.I.I.L.E the TeX file with lualatex and note where it stops (on
or near the error line ).

Also what does googling for the error message show you?

Or just for "U+0098"?


el


On 31/08/2022 17:01, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 31.08.22 um 15:20 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse:
>> compile the file with lualatex and not the line the error is reported
>> on.
>>
>> el
[...]
> Thanks, El,
> 
> neither checking the lyx file nor the luatex exported file with bless
> and decimal character found the 0098
> 
> Wolfgang


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Re: Missing character

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

compile the file with lualatex and not the line the error is reported on.

el

On 25/08/2022 17:17, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> On 8/25/22 05:02, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
>> I got this warning
>> Missing character: There is no ˜ (U+0098) in font
>> [LibertinusSerif-Italic.otf]:
>>
>> and tried to localize it by exporting the lyx file (Debian, lyx-2.4.dev)
>>
>> Version 2.4.0dev (noch nicht veröffentlicht)
>> Erstellt aus Git-Revision 53ed3dc0
>> Qt-Version (Laufzeit): 5.15.2 (Plattform: xcb)
>> Qt-Version (bei Erstellung): 5.15.2
>> Python-Aufruf: python3 -tt
>>
>> to latex (LuaTeX), opened it with the text editor bless, used there
>> 'search for ' 0098 as decimal.
>> However, 'The pattern you requested was not found'
>>
>> Any idea what to do?
>>
>> Wolfgang
> It might display as a single character (possibly ~) in your text editor.
> One possibility is a bisection search. Make a copy of the LyX file,
> delete half and try to compile. If you get the error, it's in the half
> you kept; if not, it's in the half you deleted. Iterate until you have
> narrowed the target down to the point where you can spot the offending
> character.
> 
> Paul
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Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Steve

I read the subject line "Debian Bullseye" as meaning Linux.

el

On 2022-08-12 08:49 , Steve Litt wrote:
[...]

Hi Wolfgang,

What El wrote is a shellscript.  Shellscripts can't be used on Windows
unless you have Linux For Windows or Windows Posix or whatever.

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Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

apt install coreutils

or

for i in lyx lyx24[0xn]
do
sudo find / -name $i -exec rm -rf {} ';'
done

this is not difficult.

el

On 2022-08-11 18:08 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:



Am 11.08.22 um 14:28 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse:

for i in lyx lyx240 lyx24n lyx24x
do
 rm -rf $(realpath $(which $i))
done

el

[...]

Thanks, El,

but I do not know how to apply this script.  How do I find the
realpath of my installed lyx's?

I checked the help files of lyx, but couldn't find a description of
how to uninstall a lyx file and all the stuff going with it.

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Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

for i in lyx lyx240 lyx24n lyx24x
do
 rm -rf $(realpath $(which $i))
done

el

On 11/08/2022 00:08, Alan Tyree wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> I can't help you with your immediate problem, but if you again wish to
> install multiple versions of a program, I suggest using GNU Stow.  It
> allows multiple versions to be installed and easily managed.
>
> Good luck with the more immediate problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Alan
>
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 at 00:56, Wolfgang Engelmann
> mailto:engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>> wrote:
>
> I have several lyx 2.4.0 dev installed (which I named lyx; lyx240;
> lyx24n; lyx24x).  They should be removed, before I install a lyx
> 2.3.6.1 for debian.
>
> sudo apt-get remove lyx
>  > Paket lyx240 not found (kann nicht gefunden werden)
>
> How to remove these lyx's?
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Re: Voice Recognition Accessibility

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I purchased a Dragon Dictate license for the Mac exactly 4 weeks before
they discontinued the Mac Support.

I was never able to dictate into the Mac LyX, so I went through a small
detour dictating MarkDown which is much easier to dictate than LaTeX,
and worked extremely well for me.  I spent some time on a PanDoc
Template, and so the translation into LyX works perfectly.  Use a
Makefile and include files for example.

That said, from what I read, maths in MarkDown are LaTeX anyway, so if
you can dictate (normal text) into LyX the solution below (ERT) should
do quite well.

greetings, el

On 04/08/2022 05:27, t...@wescottdesign.com wrote:

I can't help you directly -- but consider instead setting up Nuance
Dragon Dictate to put LyX into LaTeX insertion mode, then translate
LaTeX directly.

This will give you everything that LyX can give you, with the benefit
-- to other users if not immediately to you -- of being useful for any
tool that supports LaTeX, not least being folks who might light to
author documents in LaTeX directly.

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Re: no document classes available

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Buy a Mac, install Homebrew and then install MacTeX and LyX from Homebrew :-)-O

el


On 28/07/2022 17:06, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I just found that my lyx document does not have the Document class
KOMA-script-book available

In fact, all the document classes are greyed out.

What should I do?

Wolfgang



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Re: check the logs

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

This is because you don't read (the manuals) :-)-O

el

On 28/07/2022 16:43, Steve Litt wrote:
[...]

I had no idea you could install tlmgr as anything BUT root. Thanks for the
information.

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Re: check the logs

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This is of course a LaTeX and not a LyX issue and



https://www.google.com/search?q=I+can%27t+find+the+format+file+%60lualatex.fmt


shows 63 hits.

el

On 28/07/2022 07:34, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:



Am 27.07.22 um 22:38 schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse:

Wolfgang,

this is not what what I suggested, try this:


 lyx24x -f -e luatex A-SP-Jul26.lyx
 lualatex A-SP-Jul26.tex

el



lualatex A-SP-Jul26.tex
This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.15.0 (TeX Live 2022)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt lualatex.fmt
/usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexfmt: kpsewhich 
-var-value=TEXMFROOT failed, aborting early.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexfmt line 25.
I can't find the format file `lualatex.fmt'!

Wolfgang



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Re: Syncing skim with LyX

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Not all do.

On 20/07/2022 07:01, Stephan Witt wrote:
[...]

PS: the readers on this list prefer the use of inline citation or
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Re: Bug tracker accounts

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

While deliberation on email lists are very helpful that just will not
work for software development, not even in closed shops, but most
certainly not in Open Source projects and large ones such as this.

el

On 15/07/2022 23:16, Steve Litt wrote:
[...]

Or, how's this for a novel idea: How about discussing bugs on the
mailing list so that many eyes can effortlessly and immediately peruse
it and many voices can effortlessly narrow it down.  This will weed
out the "defective user" caused bugs, and will produce a pinpoint
accurate symptom description for the overworked developer.

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Re: Syncing skim with LyX

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Ehud,

Search in Help -> Customization for Copiers (or Converters) :-)-O

Some variables are there defined and $$i is the input file name.

greetings, el


On 20/07/2022 00:43, tush via lyx-users wrote:
[...]

By the way, what does the $$i option that you added to "open -a
Skim.app" do?

With the help of the other members my LyX is set to the first way you
described.  Thanks very much.

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Re: Conversion failure for older format

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

He did address it by complete path prefixed by python2.

I would think the scrip itself uses python3 and therefor works.

el

On 2022-06-21 12:06 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Le 20/06/2022 à 15:28, Rudi Gaelzer a écrit :

That successfully converted the original to format 544, which the
frontend was able to render.  Is it possible that there's a bug in
the automagic process?
I'm running the installation from the rpm packages distributed for
Fedora core 35/36.


Could it be that you have another version of lyx2lyx on your path?

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Re: Settings file for lyx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

You are not listening.

Don't do this, there is no need to and it'll confuse your colleagues.

Split the document into chapters and have each "owned" by a particular
colleague and then use GIT or CVS source control.  That's much more
productive with messing with the site installation, which has nothing to
do with the document you are working on.

el

On 02/06/2022 15:03, tush via lyx-users wrote:

Thank you very much once again, Riki.

I found the file and I can see it being updated after I apply changes
in the preferences menu inside LyX.

Where can I choose which preferences file to use?  I want to save a
copy of such a file and save it in the project's directory.  How do I
tell lyx to use that new file?  I can't see anything related to it in
the menus.

Screen shot: https://i.ibb.co/cYyJdpk/screenshot.png   
  >


Ehud

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Re: Formatting Python code

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

STOP. USING. ERT! :-)-O

In Settings -> Document -> Listings you can set things into the window
which wind up in the generated tex file as \lstset{}

greetings, el


On 2022-05-27 23:20 , Rich Shepard wrote:

On Fri, 27 May 2022, Rich Shepard wrote:


Thanks for the pointer.


Paul,

Since all the code in the document is the same language I searched the
web for setting defaults.  Found a list archive thread from 10 years
ago and your response was to add the language and other attributes to
the preamble; here
I entered
\lset{language=Python, Tabulator size=4}

This makes no difference.  I closed and re-opened lyx; this had no
effect.

Each block of program code still defaults to Language=None and
Tabulator size=8.

Has anything changed in the past decade?

Regards,

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Re: Acrobat pdf

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Assuming this is on the Mac:

Click on any PDF and then issue CMD-I. Then change the "Open-With"
Pulldown do whatever viewer you want but click on "Change-All"

Then in Lyx you can use "open" as the viewer.

PDF Expert is very nice and powerful but I like Skim for day-to-day by
the way.

greetings, el

On 2022-05-19 14:24 , Kornel Benko wrote:

Am Thu, 19 May 2022 12:33:49 +0100
schrieb mark salmon :


Thank you Kornel- when I get to Viewer ( for pdflatex) it gives me
only 2 options- None or Custom- alongside Custom in another box it
also has " auto".  No mention of PDF Expert or in fact Adobe
Acrobat--what do I haver to do now to make lyx use PDF Expert??
Cheers,
Mark



Use custom and fill the box with the path to your favourite pdf
viewer.  You may not need the full path, if your pdf-viewer is
directly accessible.


On 19/05/2022 12:04, Kornel Benko wrote:

Am Thu, 19 May 2022 11:50:20 +0100
schrieb mark salmon:
  

I have moved away from Adobe Acrobat for PDFs as there are many
alternatives that are substantially cheaper and in fact in many
cases better.  However as my Adobe licence has just run out it
seems I can no longer generate PDF documents- I get the pdf in
acrobat but I can't access it as an adobe page comes up asking me
to re-licence Acrobat but I want to continue using PDFexpert
instead- How do I change the preferences with Lyx to stop it
assuming I am using Adobe Acrobat for PDFs and instead use
PDFExpert for pdf output?
Many thanks,
Mark

Select
Tools->Preferences->File Handling->File Formats->Format
Select there the relevant PDF output, e.g. 'PDF (pdflatex)'
and select the Viewer to what you desire.

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Re: Suggestions for custom layouts/templates creation

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I have recreated a number of forms required by the local Medical
Industrial Complex :-)-O using tables, judicious spacing and other
trickery to achieve reasonable similarity which has been accepted in
each case.

I usually use Komascript but have a few legacy forms that I created in
Memoir and they are not broken.

It's a lot of manual labor, even only once:-)-O and you can template
(variables like $$SURNAME$$) with Perl (or for the younglings Python
:-)-O) if you want.

The really complicated and colorful forms I do in LaTeX with the PDF as
the background and then use something like \usepackage{lpic} so I can
place the variables right where I need them, usually incorporating
them into Perl scripts.

Using Pashua for simple forms and Platypus to create (simple) Apps on
the Mac makes this quite powerful.

Usually these forms change over time but in particular the lab I use has
overlooked the outdatedness of my forms (probably because they are happy
not to have to try to read my handwriting :-)-O)

el

On 2022-05-19 23:19 , Rich Shepard wrote:

I use the KOMA-Script classes and assume the KOMA-Script Article
class would be the most appropriate.  But, not before creating any
LyX templates I would appreciate suggestions how to go about making
this first one.


Thinking I'm on the right track, I'm copying text from the PDF form
with questions emphasized (to visually separate them from the filled
in answers).  I'm using sections* and subsctions* to follow the
agency's formatting.

Will save in ~/.lyx/templates when finished.

Recommendations still welcome!

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Re: Top toolbar missing after switching from debian 10 to debian 11 (bullseye)

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

John,

what happens if you right-click on one of the toolbars?

"Standard" should be ticked.

el


On 12/05/2022 18:56, John White wrote:

The main lyx tool bar is gone, the one with


File, Edit, View, Insert, Navigate, Document, Tools, Help.


Any thoughts on how I might get it back?


Thanks,


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Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Neither statement is helpful.

This most likely boilerplate that they send to everybody and
as we want to push Open Source use we should politely point them
towards the GLP2 license.

greetings, el


On 2022-05-05 00:09 , Alan Tyree wrote:

"Can you please confirm that your license terms and conditions will
allow the University to deliver LyX using this new model?  Otherwise,
if this does not comply with your current terms, can you please advise
what changes are required to allow us to deliver LyX"

On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 05:58, Dr Eberhard Lisse  wrote:

Neither statement is helpful.

This most likely boilerplate that they send to everybody and
as we want to push Open Source use we should politely point them
towards the GLP2 license.

greetings, el

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Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Neither statement is helpful.

This most likely boilerplate that they send to everybody and
as we want to push Open Source use we should politely point them
towards the GLP2 license.

greetings, el


On 2022-05-05 00:09 , Alan Tyree wrote:

"Can you please confirm that your license terms and conditions will
allow the University to deliver LyX using this new model?  Otherwise,
if this does not comply with your current terms, can you please advise
what changes are required to allow us to deliver LyX"

On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 05:58, Dr Eberhard Lisse  wrote:

Neither statement is helpful.

This most likely boilerplate that they send to everybody and
as we want to push Open Source use we should politely point them
towards the GLP2 license.

greetings, el

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Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Neither statement is helpful.

This most likely boilerplate that they send to everybody and
as we want to push Open Source use we should politely point them
towards the GLP2 license.

greetings, el

On 2022-05-03 08:50 , Alan Tyree wrote:

I agree with Steve on this.  It's no part of the LyX team's business
to be interpreting the GPL2 or any other licence.

Cheers,
Alan

On Tue, 3 May 2022 at 15:33, Steve Litt  wrote:

I wouldn't suggest replying to these guys.  They're trying to put
the LyX project in the role of their lawyer, without payment.
Personally, I think the GPL2 is clear enough for me to stake my
business on, but if they have questions, they can hire a lawyer.

Or, if they don't like the project not acting as their lawyer,
they can start using a proprietary substitute, and REALLY start
paying lawyers.

SteveT


Service Centre Licensing said on Mon, 2 May 2022 04:45:07 +

 >Dear LyX Team,
 >
 >
 >
 >We are writing to you in relation to the licensing for LyX.

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Re: Tufte Handout class handling of citations broken by LyX v2.3.6.2

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

This is a LaTeX issue, not a LyX one as far as I can see.

And perhaps one between chair and screen (lack of RTFM perhaps) :-)-O


el

On 29/04/2022 01:18, Trevor Jenkins wrote:

I have a number of (old) LyX files that use the Tufte Handout class
(tufte-handout.cls).  In LyX version 2.0 these were formatted
correctly that is the citation of a reference appears in marginalia;
numbered in sequence with formal sidenotes.  However, for new and
modified files the most recent LyX version 2.3.6.2 breaks this
behaviour!  A reference is placed in the text and the citation only
appears in the bibliography at the end of the final document.
Depending on exactly which style of reference is selected via Insert >
Citation the reference may also be incorrect and appear as {author?}.
But none of the styles available via Insert > Citation give the
documented result that Tufte Handout is supposed to produce.

This breakage makes LyX useless for me as I only use Tufte Handout
(and have no interest or desire to use a different LaTeX class in its
place).

Regards, Trevor.

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Re: SOLVED >: nomenclature error

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

I don't think LyX can ever fix LaTeX errors :-)-O

el


On 19/04/2022 10:24, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
[...]

It took some time to find out, and I wonder whether there could be a
better error or warning handling.


[...]

Am 14.04.22 um 17:30 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users:

[...]

! LaTeX Error: Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list environment

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Re: What Am I Doing Wrong … bibliography entries not being included

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Create an MWE, please, ie a minimal working example, by reducing
everything but what triggers the issue, and paste this here, including
the BIB file which should contain a single reference.

Often that will lead you to the solution and if not we can have a look
at it :-)-O

el



On 2022-04-18 10:39 , Trevor Jenkins wrote:

When I View my document ⌘-R pdflatex shouts that there are no
citations!  I have added the relevant BibTeX file using Insert >
List/TOC > Bib(la)Tex Bibliography picking a local .bib file and then
added a citation using Insert > Citation followed by Adding a specific
citation.  (It appears in a sidenote entry as I have tuftepaper as my
document class.)

Pdflatex’s error message is

BibTeX error: I found no \citation commands---while reading file Statins.aux

It makes no difference what Citation Style I select when adding the
citation.  I have had this working before (on a now dead machine) but
cannot for the life me work out what I am doing wrong.

Operating System: macOS 12.3.1 (Monterey)
Processor: M1
LyX version: 2.3.6.2
Python: 3.10.4 (freshly (re)installed)
Document class: tuftepaper
  with custom options:
  justified,a4paper,sidenote=raggedright,marginnote=raggedright,nobib
  that latter because I want to suppress the final bibliography
  listing and was fine in my previous not that it suppressed the
  bibliography


Regards, Trevor.

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Re: After my latest MacOS/Microsoft updates

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

This is a "security" feature of the Mac. See

https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/

I usually enter from a terminal window (iTerm2)

sudo spctl --master-disable

and then you still get a warning when you open an app for the first
time but can go ahead at your discretion.

el



On 2022-04-14 01:11 , Chris Menzel via lyx-users wrote:

Go into System Preferences and click on the "Security & Privacy" icon.
In the bottom half of the window you should see an option for allowing
LyX to install once you click on the lock at the bottom of the screen
and enter your password.

-cm

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:19 PM Herbert Clemens via lyx-users
 wrote:

Dear JMarc.  Thanks very much for your quick reply!  I apologize
for my carelessness.  I wrote Microsoft by mistake.  I meant
Apple.  Here’s the screen shot


Regards,
Herb C.


On Apr 13, 2022, at 4:40 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 wrote:

Le 13/04/2022 à 19:45, Herbert Clemens a écrit :

Hi.  My MacOS won’t let me open my lyx files because Microsoft
'can’t check them for malware.’ The previous workaround no
longer works.  Is there anything I can do or do I finally have
to learn to TeX?
Thanks for any help!
Herb Clemens
Columbus OH USA


Dear Herbert,

We need more details to be able to help you.

I suspect that you would have more useful help if you asked on
the lyx-users@lists.lyx.org list.  You could maybe include
screenshots and details on your settings, because at this point I
do not know why Microsoft would have anything to say about
programs running on your mac.

And describe precisely what you do.

Regards,
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Re: MacOS 12.3.1 (Monterey) lyx2lyx script fails to convert

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

On the Mac I STRONGLY recommend using homebrew's python as it will
be updated any time you do a 'brew update'.

el


On 2022-04-17 10:21 , Stephan Witt wrote:

Am 16.04.2022 um 01:52 schrieb gelfand :


Just upgraded (from Mohave!) and when attempt to open any LyX 2.2 and earlier 
get lyx2lyx script failed to convert. Also when attempt to reconfigure get 
system reconfiguration failed.

Did see the warning message when first launching LyX that in future OS versions 
the application will no longer run and should be updated.

Running LyX 2.3.6.2 on Intel Mac with OS 12.3.1


Apple finally removed Python 2 in macOS 12.3 - sorry for LyX not being 
prepared. At the time LyX 2.3.6.2 was built it was announced already but not 
sure when it happens.

Now you have to install Python yourself. You may download it from python.org 
(https://www.python.org/downloads/macos/). Alternatively you may run python in 
a terminal window and choose to install it from Apple. I recommend the first 
option.

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Re: How to include a bunch of tex commands globally

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

That will not survive LyX Updates.  Local Layouts should go into the
local layout difrectory (which on the Mac is below ~/Library/Application
Support/LyX-2.3).

Never mind that "must be located" is incorrect.  LaTeX finds documents
in many places (find out what texhash does :-)-O)

I don't understand the issue, however. Why do you need (look at) the
TeX files generated by LyX? And even if so, why the concern about the
"clutter"?

That's what the Preamble is for (put in ton's of LaTeX and never look
at it again :-)-O)

I have a large include.tex for my handbook whih is included by the
master document and all child documents, so I have the same
"environment" for all and even setting up conditionals so font changes
depending on Landscape vs Portrait and similar.

greetings, el

On 2022-04-17 20:00 , tush via lyx-users wrote:

I have a big block of tex commands (about 80 lines in length) that set
up theorem environments using the |amsthm| and |thmtools| packages.

To this bunch of tex commands there is also a corresponding LyX module
that defines the theorems in the editor (paragraph styles, section
5.3.7 in the customization manual).

I want to avoid this 80 lines code block in my document preamble.  It
clutters the document structure.

Of course, one can insert the code block as it is inside this:

Preamble
⟨80 lines of code go here⟩
EndPreamble

But this adds the big code block right into my preamble, which, as I
said, I want to avoid.

The other option is to save the code block in a tex file
(`myPreable.tex` for example) and to load it into my document:
Preamble
\input{myPreamble}
EndPreamble

But this means that the file `myPreamble.tex` must be located in the
root directory of the LyX project.

Is there any way to load the code block while it is located in the
"Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts/" directory?  I am
about to send this module file and all its accompanying files to a
colleague, and I want to spare him from the task of taking care which
files go where.

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Re: Making first paragraphs not indented in exported HTML

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

If you think other people have the time you don't maybe you
also not waste their time by posting this.

el

On 2022-04-11 09:22 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:

Daniel via lyx-users said on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:13:43 +0200


On 2022-04-11 03:44, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:

Hi all,

In the past, some exporters have implemented the custom of not
indenting the first of several successive paragraphs by using a
different class of paragraph for the first of a series of paragraphs.
This way of doing things makes more work for the person writing the
export, and more work for the person converting the export to
acceptable ePub, because those special classes will need to be backed
out or otherwise specially handled.

Not indenting the first of a series of paragraphs is easily
accomplished by the following two lines of CSS:

p::first-letter{margin-left: 3em;}
:not(p) + p::first-letter{margin-left:0.0001em;}

Let CSS decide which is the first of several consecutive paragraphs,
and let CSS define what to do with that paragraph. Make it easy on
everybody.

I took an hour to figure this out. Could somebody please take 3
minutes to forward it to the developer's list and also the person
who is writing the HTML export?

Thanks,

SteveT

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http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm


I'd suggest that you file a bug/enhancement report at
https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome (including the LyX
version you are using and exact steps to reproduce the problem).


Like I said, I spent an hour getting that code just right. I did the
hard part, I did my part. In the time you took to respond to me, you
could have forwarded my email.

I don't have time to learn the quirks of every project's bugtracker,
type in information that's not relevant, and hope somebody looks at it.
At a lot of projects, the bugtracker is where requests go to die
(Bluefish, you listening?).

If I could change one thing about FOSS it would be to get rid of
bugtrackers and work directly with the user. That's what we did at
VimOutliner, and bugs got solved and requests got implemented very
quickly.

SteveT

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Re: lyx not a readable Lyx document

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Yes and no,

LyX 2.4 uses a different format from 2.3 and hence the (2.3) lyx2lyx
does not know the new (2.4) format (yet).

That happens during (almost) every major upgrade and the developers
then usually "backport" that so I would think the eventual 2.3.6.3 (or
2.3.7) will be able to read the 2.4 format.

el

On 2022-04-08 08:18 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote:



Am 08.04.22 um 07:21 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users:

An older version of lyx2lyx can't know about newer formats?

el


On 2022-04-07 09:55 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote:
[...]

I remember, that one does not need a lyx2lyx in the same version, here
2.4.x
Has this changed?

Wolfgang




are you saying, the lyx2lyx is changing in the 2.4.x?
Wolfgang


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Re: lyx not a readable Lyx document

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

An older version of lyx2lyx can't know about newer formats?

el


On 2022-04-07 09:55 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote:
[...]

I remember, that one does not need a lyx2lyx in the same version, here
2.4.x
Has this changed?

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Re: [Important] New behavior for spam handling on this list

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

To me it is as much  or little of an inconvenience as reading the manual ;-0-O

el


On 07/04/2022 10:12, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users said on Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:01:16
+0200


Dear all,

Until now, the handling of the list was like: messages from
subscribers go through, other messages get discarded.

There is actually a way to filter e-mails marked as spam, and I have
already changed all our other lists to take advantage of this
information.

Today it is lyx-users' turn. The new behavior is:
* spams are automatically discarded; please notify the list if a
message of yours just disappears. It seems to work correctly on the
other lists that we have;
* members posts not qualified as spam go through as usual;
* remaining non-member posts are held for moderation.

The big advantage is that now non-subscribers will be able to post
messages (with a low amount of manual moderation from my side).

Comments welcome.


I'd suggest you put it back the way it was. I'm on 30+ FOSS mailing
lists, and can't police everything to see that it goes through. If some
AI algorithm somewhere decides I'm spam because of my email provider
or whatever, I'm just writing into the wind, wasting a lot of time.

And what's the supposed upside? So non-subscribers can post. Look at
any netiquette guide and they'll roundly catcall the clowns who begin
or end their message with "please CC me because I'm not on the list."

Let's not inconvenience valuable list members to accommodate those so
lazy they can't take 5 minutes to join the mailing list.

SteveT

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Re: Setting up LyX on a new computer

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

After installation (I do that from from Homebrew) I would do

ln -fs $HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/preferences \
 $HOME/lyxrc

and run unison with a force from the old to the new, but installing
unison is currently not advisable for casual users as the stable mac
version suffers from a SSH issue introduced by Monterey and the
developers are working on a rewrite anyway.

rsync is too complicated so I would probably just do something like this
on the old box

tar cvfz ~/Downloads/lyxdir.tgz ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-2.3
scp ~/Downloads/lyxdir.tgz newbook.local:~/Downloads/

and on the new one

cd
tar xvfz ~/Downloads/lyxdir.tgz

I run unison regularly on all my systems in a star formation
synchronizing with each other, which I offer as the answer to below
question.

As it is scriptable it was a nice exercise to script it so that it knows
where it runs and what to to exactly, but that's another story :-)-O.



el

On 16/03/2022 22:27, Hal Kierstead via lyx-users wrote:

All -

I have many preference settings that I would like to transfer to a new
MacBook Pro.  What is the approved way to do this?  Can I just copy
the preference file and bind file in Application Support/LyX-2.3 from
one computer to the other or what?  Maybe I could copy the whole
LyX-2.3 folder?  Along the same lines, what is the best way to keep my
LyX setup consistent across several computers.  I use dropbox to sync
files.

Thanks,

Hal


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Re: Continuation of lists across beamer frames

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

enumerate-resume?

el

On 15/03/2022 16:22, markhsalmon via lyx-users wrote:

Hi,
  I have tried everything I know without success and asked tis question on 
other fora without a result- simple question how do I continue an existing say 
numbered list onto a new Beamer frame/slide please? Thanks

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Re: EPUB converter

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Perl is your friend :-)-O or Python, Lua or whatever language you prefer.

el

On 2022-03-09 06:41 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote:

Is there a substitute for \thinspace that will not generate an error in elxyer?



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Re: EPUB converter

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Ken

there is a mailing list/news group for elyxer (last traffic 2017)

elyxer-us...@nongnu.org
gmane.editors.lyx.elyxer

el


On 2022-03-07 04:35 , Ken Kopelson via lyx-users wrote:
[...]

Speaking of which, I did run into a problem with the LyXHTML export
from LyX. The other HTML exports from LyX all include the output
contained in Tex Code insets, while the LyXHTML export does not.  This
creates a problem for using any kind of /lettrine or "initials"
functionality in your book, which is quite a problem.

What I did to fix the problem is include a configurable table in the
converter that automatically includes the starting text for each
paragraph.  Anytime I would change the first words of a paragraph, I
would have to make a change in the converter's configuration file,
changing the text there also.  This is obviously extremely hacky, but
it does get the job done.  If only the LyX team would fix the LyXHTML
export so it includes any text in a Tex Code block, ideally executing
the Tex Code so it properly adjusts the text size, that would be
ideal.  The regular HTML export does this, so it should be easy to
just port that code over to the LyXHTML export.  At least, one would
hope so.

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Re: EPUB converter

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Steve,

Since it such a schlepp, why don't you participate in the development or
support the developers?

Never mind that LyX seems to predate the Kindle, this is a LaTeX issue
rather than a LyX one (which, after all, just a front end).

As written numerous times I am very keen on on the new DocBook format
but since I use LyX in production in my practice, I can't use two
different formats, and my staff can't cope with alpha software.

So patience is a virtue on the one hand but trying out stuff like this
is interesting.

el

On 2022-03-06 04:09 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:

Hi Ken,

I suggest you put it out.  The LyX project has a 15 year history of
outputting pidgeon HTML incapable of building a *semantic* ePub,
claiming what they've done is good enough, and treating with hostility
my observations that they're prematurely converting style to
appearance.

The LyX project is the wrong project to do LyX=>ePub; ePub isn't in
their DNA, and until I'm shown otherwise, I'm treating any LyX=>ePub
capabilities from the LyX project as vaporware.

Where can I download your converter with instructions?

Thanks,

SteveT

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Re: EPUB converter

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Ken,

where is the missing link :-)-O?


This is great news.

I am actually waiting for 2.4 and DocBook to convert my 859
page "handbook" to EPUB so my staff and I can carry it around on our
Kindles (App on iPad actually).

But, I would be very keen to see how your package works.

My little handbook doesn't really need anything fancier than a few
images (JPG, PNG and PDF).

I also use (in one (common) "include.tex") something like

 \usepackage{etoolbox}
 \newbool{business}
 \boolfalse{business}
 \newbool{private}
 \booltrue{private}

but if that (see your below remark) were not to work I can address that
via a Makefile and different include (front matter) files as you seem to
be doing.

Maybe you can look into that, because then you can have a single include
file by putting something like this into a Makefile

bus:
 @perl -i -p \
  -e 's/\\boolfalse\{business\}/\\booltrue\{business\}/g;' \
  -e 's/\\booltrue\{private\}/\\boolfalse\{private\}/g;' \
  include.tex
 @lyx -f -e pdf5 handbook.lyx

priv:
 @perl -i -p \
  -e 's/\\booltrue\{business\}/\\boolfalse\{business\}/g;' \
  -e 's/\\boolfalse\{private\}/\\booltrue\{private\}/g;' \
  include.tex
 @lyx -f -e pdf5 handbook.lyx

and then use something like

 \ifbool{business}{}{\include{business.tex}}
 \ifbool{private}{\include{private.tex}}{}

as ERT.

Looks complicated, is complicated, but once it works no further
touching required.



In the meantime I have pulled

 http://www.editorium.com/ftp/LyXBookSampler.zip

from

 https://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts

and will start some RTFM :-)-O

greetings, el


On 03/03/2022 00:58, Ken Kopelson via lyx-users wrote:

Hello LyX users,

I am sending this email to let people know that I have produced a
converter for LyX that produces an excellent quality EPUB/Kindle file.

[...]

I love using LyX with the LyXBook theme (as it has the greatest number
of paragraph formats), and I am able to set up a system of files,
having different Front Matter versions.

[...]

I know that the next version of LyX is supposed to produce EPUB,

[...]

As one final problem, the LyXHTML export fails to include anything in
the LaTeK code blocks,

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Re: LyX for Mac

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

I stand corrected, my cursor does blink :-)-O but I seem to be so used
to it that I didn't even notice :-)-O.

I copy and paste all my mail messages into an AlphaX window (I keep a
file on the Desktop to double click) because that one can format format
even indented text properly and then copy and paste it back into TBird.

TBird used to allow the firing up of an external editor, but no more
:-)-O. So I got used to this (workflow) as well.

el

 On 2022-02-19 15:17 , Stephan Witt via lyx-users wrote:

Am 19.02.2022 um 04:11 schrieb Tom Goldring via lyx-users
:


I don't know how to adjust the cursor blink rate in Apple Mail,
Thunderbird, Safari, etc.  (if anyone does, please tell me!)  but
since I'm not spending a lot of time typing text into a window when I
use a web browser, it isn't that much of an issue.  When composing
email, I usually type my text into an emacs buffer (which does allow
me to turn off the blink) and then paste it into the mail client.


That seems to be weary.

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Re: LyX for Mac

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

My cursor does not blink and my background is an ugly beige (default)
:-)-O

The background is most certainly configurable.

What are hotkeys?

el

On 2022-02-18 21:46 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote:

I have version 2.3.6.2 on my MacBook Pro.  I consider it a poor
substitute for the Windows version.  I can't turn off the blinking
cursor (extremely annoying!), I can't change the background color
(white background gives me a headache), hotkeys don't work, etc.  Is
there an alternative binary that I could download?

Thanks,
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Re: Single space TOC

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Have a look at the tocloft package.

el

On 26/01/2022 08:35, Joseph Hesse via lyx-users wrote:

I am writing a book with separate chapters in a master document.  My
TOC prints double spaced and I want to make it single spaced.

I have the package setspace and I have \usepackage{setspace} in the
preamble.

In the master document I surrounded the Table of Contents entry with
the tex code \begin{singlespace} and \end{singlespace}.  This causes
no errors but it doesn't work, the TOC is still double spaced.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you in advance,
Joe



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Re: Remove textquotedblplain from preamble

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

This is not an MWE.

It requires several files not provided and has a ton of
entries in the Preamble.

el

On 2022-01-16 21:34 , tush via lyx-users wrote:

I want to remove it because I don't have any idea what it add or
alters in the shape of my output file.  I want to have control over
what is inserted and what is absent in my project.

The MWE is attached.

Thanks a lot!

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Re: Program Listings

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Joe,

When you open the Insert -> File -> Child Document -> Program Listing
there should be a window looking something like the enclosed, where you
can either type the path to the file (complete or relative as in this
example) or click the Browse button, find the file and double click it
after the path will appear there.

Please note the Caption, Label and the parameters.  If you enter
something on the right the left will show you "completions" and/or
choices. Color is mentioned in the LaTeX Listings manual.

greetings, el

On 2022-01-14 05:32 , Joseph Hesse via lyx-users wrote:

On 1/13/22 21:11, Herbert Voss wrote:

Joseph Hesse via lyx-users schrieb:

On 1/12/22 15:00, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote:

Use /Insert -> Program Listing/ option.


I tried what you suggested.  I right clicked on the inset and could
not find an option where I could specify where my code listing are
located.


What do you mean with "listing are located"?  If you do not define it
as a float it will appear at the place where you defined it.

Attached the screenshot of the output of the demo file.

Herbert

I am sorry that I did not state my problem more clearly.
Before even using lyx, I have program code in folders in my computer.
I want to have this code appear in my lyx document.  What I meant was
that when I use "Insert -> Program Listing" I do no see a way to
choose the folders on my computer to import these already written
programs into my lyx document.  The only option that gave me that
choice was "Insert -> File -> Child Document" and this seems to work
for me except for the color.
Thank you,
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Re: Program Listings

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

RTFM of the LaTeX Listings package

I would use a single word for the label or separate ords with ':' ie
something like first:program. If that's the culprit, we should file an
improvement request (ie checking for spaces from within LyX).

Generally speaking attaching a MWE is very helpful, ie the document
without ANY changes to the default and ONLY the code required to
trigger the issue.

Often constructing this lets me find the issue myself :-)-O

On huge documents this is of course very difficult, but then halving
the document successively until one finds the area causing the issue
helps.

el

On 12/01/2022 14:22, Joseph Hesse via lyx-users wrote:

I am writing a programing book and want to have programs that have
been prepared with a text editor included in the book.  This is what I
have done so far.

Insert->File->Child Document

File: CodeListings/Test.cpp
Include Type: Program Listing
Caption: My Caption
Label: First Program

More Parameters: numbers=left, frame=tb, caption=b, float

It sort of works but I need assistance.
The caption I have set above does not appear on the bottom as
"caption=b" would suggest.
The label I have set above does not appear anywhere.

I would like the text of the inserted program to have "typewriter"
font and be colored green.  How do I do this.

Am I on the right track, is the above the correct way of doing what I
want?

Thank you,
Joe Hesse



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Re: LyX on Apple Silicon (in a VM)

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Chris,

I have a development version which I run both on arm64 and x86_64.

LyX does not "run" faster. The graphical front end on the M1 feels
zippier, indeed, but while typing and enditing it does not make that
much aof a differnece.

The limiting factor is the (Lua)LaTeX running in the background.  I use
the MacTexBasic 2021 which has universal binaries and they are indeed
(much) faster on the arm64.

greetings, el

On 2021-12-21 01:50 , Christopher Menzel via lyx-users wrote:

LyX folk,

I haven’t seen any reports about running LyX on Apple Silicon so I
thought I’d post a datapoint.  I compiled LyX (with QT 5) from the
latest source under Kubuntu 20.04 for ARM in a Parallels VM running on
a 14” MacBook Pro with a 10-core M1 Pro chip.  The compile ran
flawlessly (once I got the package dependencies and configure flags
right).  Unsurprisingly, even though running in a VM, the Linux
version is much faster than the current MacOS version which, because
it is an Intel app, requires Rosetta 2 to run on the M1.  Compiling a
technical 135 page document with a large associated BiBTeX file as a
PDF with the Mac version takes about 50 seconds; the Linux version
takes 15 (most of that being biber processing the bibliography info).
And updating a change with the Mac version takes about 10 seconds,
whereas it takes about 4 seconds with the Linux version.

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Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

And 20 seconds is a drama? Come on.

And my understanding is that you can pass parameters from the command
line to make, so this can become part of an automatable workflow.

el


On 2021-12-20 22:49 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:

Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:49:24 +0200



PDFLaTeX is much faster that LuaLaTeX but to be hoest, nowadays the
day to day stuff is so fast anyway that that doesn't matter.


I noticed that my new book, which is much shorter than most, took
about triple the time, like about 20 seconds on a very fast machine,
to compile that books with LaTeX, XeTeX, and PDFTeX took.  Because I
personalize every book, I need to recompile for every order, so I
might research using PDFTeX. Thanks for the tip.

SteveT

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Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Stve,

I like the Noto fonts, but my understanding is that all TeX Gyre
fonts also work under PDFLaTeX.

But, LUA is really cool.

You can put simple stuff into the preamble like

\usepackage{luacode}
\begin{luacode*}
   socket = require "socket"
   function hostname()
  local hname = socket.dns.gethostname():gsub('.local','' )
  return hname
   end
\end{luacode*}
\newcommand\hostname{\directlua{tex.sprint(hostname())}}

which then makes the name of the box you are compiling to PDF on (which
I like in my little handbook) available to ERT (or footers defined in
the preamble).

And more complicated stuff, from calculating Expected Date of Delivery
from Last Menstrual Period, Body Mass Index from weight and height, or
even calculating the nearest Friday of a calculated date (thanks
Herbert :-)-O), access to the differend SQL databases and whatnot.

Of course one can do most of that also in R with knitR but that has
a lot of overhead.

PDFLaTeX is much faster that LuaLaTeX but to be hoest, nowadays the
day to day stuff is so fast anyway that that doesn't matter.



On 2021-12-18 00:58 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:

Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:31:15 +0100



- no more fiddling around with the encoding, everything is UTF-8
- no more restrictions in using fonts, all current types are
supported, like pfb, ttf, utf, ttc, ...
- easy integration of the script language Lua into a document


That's what brought me to LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX: The ability to use TeX
Gyre Schola font, which looks better than everything except its
lookalike Century Schoolbook, but somehow, about 6 years ago, Century
Schoolbook stopped working for me.

Since beginning to use LuaTeX, I've enjoyed that it does everything
the others do, and by using it all the time, I gain expertise and
everything's easier.


SteveT

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Re: Fwd: "Lyx must be updated"

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Murat,

2.40 is on the verge of going from Alpha to Beta, and patience is a
virtue :-)-O

el


On 2021-12-16 10:56 , Murat Yildizoglu via lyx-users wrote:

I have tried to send this to lyx-devel but I am not a member.


Begin forwarded message:

[...]

This is what OSX 12.1 tells me now with Lyx  LyX-2.3.6.2.

""LyX" needs to be updated This app will not work with future
versions of macOS and needs to be updated to improve compatibility.
Contact the developer for more information.”

I imagine that the next version will be good with future versions of
OSX.

I have just wanted to inform.

Best regards,
Murat

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Re: I think we need a better name than "MWE"

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

And

https://texfaq.org/FAQ-minxampl

el


On 15/12/2021 14:37, Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users wrote:

https://ctan.org/pkg/mwe

el

On 14/12/2021 22:05, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:

Hi all,

Here on the LyX list we use the word MWE to mean the simplest example
that still exhibits the symptom. But MWE stands for Minimum *Working*
Example, and by definition, the file that exhibits the symptom does not
"work". Also, I think I've seen MWE used on various LaTeX venues to
mean the smallest file that works, for a specific feature you want to
incorporate.

Can anyone think of a better name for the tiniest file that exhibits a
symptom?

Thanks,

SteveT

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Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Rich, Steve,

that was a rhetorical question of course  :-)-O

I do however find that whenever I find myself using ERT I always try and
look for a LyX way to do it, because I don't like ERT :-)-O

I just found out myself, that on the Mac I can just do Option-0 :-)-O

BTW, it should be \textdegree{}

el

On 14/12/2021 22:22, Rich Shepard via lyx-users wrote:

On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:


Maybe because he didn't know about Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts.
I didn't know it either, but now I do, and will use it.  Thanks for
the information!


I frequently use Insert -> Formatting -> Superscripts (or Subscripts,
but just type ctrl-l and insert \textdegree because a) I don't need to
move my hands from the keyboard and use the trackball, and b) I've
used it many times over the past decades.

When there are multiple ways of doing things all work while each of us
prefers one way.  Same with OSes, text editors, etc.

Rich


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Re: I think we need a better name than "MWE"

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

https://ctan.org/pkg/mwe

el

On 14/12/2021 22:05, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:

Hi all,

Here on the LyX list we use the word MWE to mean the simplest example
that still exhibits the symptom. But MWE stands for Minimum *Working*
Example, and by definition, the file that exhibits the symptom does not
"work". Also, I think I've seen MWE used on various LaTeX venues to
mean the smallest file that works, for a specific feature you want to
incorporate.

Can anyone think of a better name for the tiniest file that exhibits a
symptom?

Thanks,

SteveT

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Re: A big Christmas wish

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

That may be so, but MacTeX Basic does not have it, and I still believe
it's very easy to enclose BIB files with MWEs. Especially for us
(experienced but( casual users.

el

On 14/12/2021 13:59, Kornel Benko via lyx-users wrote:

Am Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:36:52 +0200
schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users :


Maybe, but it would be helpful not to have to look for it.

el


What is wrong with this bibfile? It is included in texlive. (Package
'texlive-bibtex-extra' in debian)


On 14/12/2021 12:21, Daniel via lyx-users wrote:

On 13/12/2021 19:20, Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users wrote:

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Attaching the BIB file would help...

el


Sorry. The attached file uses the standard biblatex example BIB file.

Daniel
   


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Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Or use curly braces.

But why would you do this with ERT in the first place?

Instead of \textdegree{} I just used the first character from

Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts

and Subscripts and get ⁰C.

Never mind that this not only was not an MWE. as you not only don't need
the graphic, it also had an absolute path so wasn't found until manually
changed and a number of lines in the Preamble, some of which are even
superfluous during the non MWE run (like the graphicx one)

greetings, el

On 10/12/2021 00:08, Rich Shepard via lyx-users wrote:

On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users wrote:


"For want of a nail the shoe was lost.  ..."  Here, substitute space
for nail.  You need to put a space between the ERT and the letter C.
The error message is because LaTeX thinks you are invoking the
nonexistent command \textdegreeC.


Paul,

Well, shame on me for not seeing that!  I've used a space elsewhere in
the document and missed the lack of a space in the figure caption.

Thanks for successfully applying the fresh eyes solution.

Regards,

Rich


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Re: A big Christmas wish

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Maybe, but it would be helpful not to have to look for it.

el

On 14/12/2021 12:21, Daniel via lyx-users wrote:

On 13/12/2021 19:20, Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users wrote:

[...]

Attaching the BIB file would help...

el


Sorry. The attached file uses the standard biblatex example BIB file.

Daniel




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Re: A big Christmas wish

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Attaching the BIB file would help...

el

On 2021-12-13 09:18 , Daniel via lyx-users wrote:

On 2021-12-11 10:39, Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote:

After having spent numerous hours/days in trying to get a
Koma script book to work under luatex/biblatex my biggest Christmas
wish is to get a user file template for it which works.

It should tell me,
what to put in the Document settings
the LaTeX Preamble
the Bibliography (e.g. biblatex-spbasic)
and the preferences in Tools

Wolfgang


I haven't worked with LuaTeX before, so forgive my ignorance.  But I
am curious what the issue is.  I have just created a KOMA-script book
with a reference using biblatex-spbasic (attached) and compiled it
with LuaTeX and it just worked.  No need for preamble or preferences
to set.  Maybe I am missing some feature that you were using?  Or what
is it in particular that was tricky to accomplish?

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Re: LyX document corrupted [RESOLVED]

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Rich,

buy a Windoze box and you can do that daily :)-O

el


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Every few years something constipates the computer and it requires a
reboot to clear the clog.

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Re: How to find LyX' compile strategy?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Steve,

from my ~/.latemkrc

 #
 # set default to luatex (ie '4')
 #
 $pdf_mode = 4;
 #

greetings, el

On 08/12/2021 19:16, Steve Litt wrote:

Dr Eberhard Lisse said on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 17:22:34 +0200

[...]

Aside from the fact that latexmk needed a -lualatex arg, nothing was
wrong with them.

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Re: Graphic file formatsx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users]

Steve,

On the Mac I do

brew install --cask pdf-squeezer

works well, and so I bought the license.  Comes even with a command line
utility so it went straight into the Makefile :-)-O

I must confess, I have a 3.9 MB accounting software of which I only need
the installation part which is 6 pages, so I use qpdf to pull out those,
making 75K.

 brew install qpdf

Besides not having answered (timed) how long it takes, I would
personally, besides looking at shrinkers, int he first instance look at
how the sucker is generated and work on that.

I save my images on R with ggplot2::ggsave and the help page shows:

device  Device to use. Can either be a device function (e.g. png),
or one of "eps", "ps", "tex" (pictex), "pdf", "jpeg",
"tiff", "png", "bmp", "svg" or "wmf" (windows only).

I however, put the R chunks into my LyX files so that the images are
generated on the fly (knitR).

You asked in another message how many words my handbook has.  It has 25
child documents and I don't know how to run the stats from the comand
line, but the result has 950 pages. As I wrote elsewhere when working
on a chapter I can compile that child document separately which takes
5-10 seconds and look at that before running the Makefile. Works for me.

greetings, el

On 08/12/2021 19:37, Steve Litt wrote:

Rich Shepard said on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 07:51:56 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 8 Dec 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:



For my big handbook (which takes 110 seconds to compile (70 on the
M1)) I have split this into child documents which compile
individually within 10 to 15 seconds.


How about loading a PDF image that's 3,704,503 bytes in size while
reading your big handbook?


OK, 3,704,503 bytes got my attention. No wonder it's slow.

There are ways to shrink PDF size:

Web search: linux shrink pdf size

SteveT

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Re: How to find LyX' compile strategy?

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

What's wrong with

lyx -f -e pdf5 lawnmower.lyx

or if you must, with

lyx -f -e luatex lawnmower.lyx && latexmk lawnmower.tex

el

On 08/12/2021 03:20, Steve Litt wrote:
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The following is my shellscript:

==
#!/bin/sh

namee="lawnmower"

zap_files(){
dot="."
for f in aux idx ilg ind log out pdf tex toc; do
   fname=$namee$dot$f
   rm $fname && echo "Deleted $fname."
done
}

while /bin/true; do
   cd /d/at/books/mm_create
   zap_files
   /bin/texhash
   /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py
   lyx --export luatex $namee.lyx
   lualatex  $namee.tex
   makeindex $namee.idx
   #texindy $namee.idx
   lualatex $namee.tex
   mupdf $namee.pdf &  #no box
   echo -n "Press Enter to do it again: "
   read junk
done
==

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