On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
> While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that Pavel
> hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think
> of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which
> helps prof
Hi, I would like to be able to automatically verify that mathematical
symbols and terms are not used before they are defined. One way of
doing this is to insert the math-macro in the same place in the symbol
is defined. However this has two weaknesses.
1) This means that I cannot disable the error.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Helge Hafting wrote:
> I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but
> a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed.
>
> If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal.
Another possibility, run lyx as
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
>> Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
>> implement it.
>
> :-) What is a trac, and how do I add it?
http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki
To add it, login and the click
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> you get other wise similar results, a
> sudo apt-get install libqt4
> May help.
By which I mean
sudo apt-get install libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbg
libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-he
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoel wrote:
> only another error message...
> src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol:
> _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap
>
> ok, this is definitely a qt error. even qtconfig won't launch, it
> gotta be qt related. but what exactly
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> This could turn into a viewer issue (at least partially), depending on what
> Steve has in mind. There are four "levels" of embedding I can think of:
Adding spreadsheet to Insert->File->External Material sounds like a
good start. Like how .
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn -
TNW wrote:
>
>>> While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a
>>> response from the lyx ftp server.
>>
>>I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:
>>
>> http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lg
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Anton Driesse wrote:
> While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a response
> from the lyx ftp server.
I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from:
http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl
might help
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:23 AM, E.Kaplan wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what is the latest Lyx version that is available for
> Kubuntu 64 bits? It seems that the repositories only have 1.6.2, and the
> only 1.6.3 version I found was meant for Karmic (9.10) which is not out yet.
Well, the latest *su
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the last 6 months this list has featured at least 10 reports of LyX
>> 1.6.x terminating unexpectedly. I myself had instances of this in 1.6.2 and
>> 1.6.3, and was lucky enough to find a workaround in
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:23 AM, wrote:
> It was rather surprise for me that installing LyX in Linux seems to be
> much more complecated than in Windows. In fact, I have no experience in
> Linux...
> Why there is hard to find "install. exe" file for LyX at lyx.org?
In Linux it is traditional to i
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Hi
>
> I use beamer to create a handout and would like to have the normal "
> instead of the fancy ones. The reason is that they are in computer
> code and it should be possible to copy-paste them.
You can insert " as ERT (Ctrl-L "). However f
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, humanengr wrote:
> Does anyone know what role the "#" are supposed to play?
These appear to be autosaves.
Also there is yet another type of file you can recover from. If you
have done a view DVI etc, there is also likely to be a .tex file
sitting somewhere in your
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Luca
Brandolini wrote:
> I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx
> always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes.
> The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between.
> Is there a solution for this?
Yes. Put a non-empt
2009/6/28 bsmile :
>
> I am familiar with shortcut command with scientific workplace, and thus
> incorporated those shortcut command into lyx. However, some of the shortcut
> command usable in scientific workplace, say ctrl+9 to input (), ctrl+/ to
> input fraction, ctrl+2 to input square root ...
2009/6/11 Michael Gasperl
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=jaunty
> in-Priority: 700
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=karmic
> Pin-Priority: 600
>
> Package: libqt4*
> Pin: release a=karmic
> Pin-Priority: 800
>
> Package: qt4*
> Pin: release a=karmic
> Pin-Priority: 800
>
> [perhaps it would work wi
2009/6/11 Thomas Løcke
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Michael Gasperl
> wrote:
> > Hi! I have the following Problem:
> > LyX 1.6.2 crashes regularily while i scroll down in a bigger document.
> > This only happens if showing graphics is enabled. How can I solve this
> > problem?
> > Thank you
2009/6/11 Michael Gasperl
> Hi! I have the following Problem:
> LyX 1.6.2 crashes regularily while i scroll down in a bigger document.
> This only happens if showing graphics is enabled. How can I solve this
> problem?
> Thank you very much!
I cannot reproduce the problem.
1) Are you using 32b
2009/5/13 Jürgen Spitzmüller :
> James C. Sutherland wrote:
>
>> However, I really don't want to have any notion of
>> the "language" my documents are written in.
>
> This will have the consequence that your text, even if monolingually
> English,
>
> * will not be hyphenated correctly
> * cannot be
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2009-04-21, Ehud Kaplan wrote:
>
>>1. In trying to upgrade from 1.6.1 under Kubuntu 8.10 64 bits I
>> found only packages that could not be installed since it was "the
>> wrong architecture". Is there a place where I can
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Richard Talley wrote:
> LyX automagically typesets words like TeX and LaTeX using the special
> logo for those words.
>
> How do I turn this behavior off? There are a couple of places, such as
You can press Ctrl-L to enter ERT mode and type TeX into the ERT
inset
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:25 AM, rgheck wrote:
> John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
>>
>> I am using LyX on the Eeepc 701 which has a 800x480 resolution.
>> Unfortunately a number of LyX dialogs are a bit too large to fit on
>> the screen. I used "kcmshell font" to s
I am using LyX on the Eeepc 701 which has a 800x480 resolution.
Unfortunately a number of LyX dialogs are a bit too large to fit on
the screen. I used "kcmshell font" to set the fontsize to 7 in
~/.qt/qtrc. However LyX seems to have ignored this setting.
LyX offers the ability to adjust the zoom/f
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 19 Aug 2008, at 09:16, José Matos wrote:
>> The error message suggests that the culprit is a different version
>> installed of Koma between your different systems.
> Thanks, this could well be the case,
I think bundlin
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:20 PM, shahid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using Lyx for writing a IEEE paper using IEEE template. But when I add
> more than two float figures, the DVI,PDF or PS outputs are not created.
> Also, no error message is given...can anyone help me? its urgent!
Document >
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This was discussed some time ago that plenty security rules does not allow
> LyX team and other to publish such packages. There is a team in Ubuntu which
> should be responsible for preparing secure reviewed packages for
> Ubuntu
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To the discussion about data format preference:
>
> I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data
> formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost
> nobody is remeber about. How
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:22 PM, MonAmiPierrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm going to try this solution, anyway in the debian repository I found same
> packages excepte they were related to the 1.5.5 version.
>
> 1. Is there a reason you specify an earlier version?
These packages are for a lat
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:56 PM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 30.06.08, MonAmiPierrot wrote:
>
>> As you wrote, seems to work perfectly, Michel, but it installed Lyx version
>> 1.4.3 while I used to work on my thesis file with a (Windows) Lyx 1.5.5.
> b) just update the LyX2LyX converter
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:35 PM, MonAmiPierrot
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I own a ASUS eeePC, and I wonder if anyone tried to install and use LyX on
> its Xandros OS.
> Any impression?
I don't remember the details, but I tried to install LyX from etch,
which didn't work. Then I tried to build l
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:04 AM, elswood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed lyX 1.53 from the Ubuntu 8.4 repositories. But it
> frequently crashes when accessing lyx document files on my computer. Is
> this a bug that is fixed with lyX 1.55? And how do I install it? (It
> isn't in th
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Not really, these messages can be caused by pretty much anything.
>>
>> Try cutting text until it finally compiles. Then uncut text until you
>> find where the bit that is causing trouble. (It is quite often that
>> this
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Missing $ inserted.
> Extra }, or forgotten $.
> LaTeX Error: Bad math environment delimiter.
> LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
> Missing } inserted.
...
> Anybody know what's going on? (NB: I'm a
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed the packages you mentioned, except
> libaiksaurus-dev
> as I could not find it (from synaptic)
It is probably easier just to do
apt-get build-dep lyx
on the terminal command line. This will get a
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Renaud Lacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither
> it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the
> stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Alexis Huxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The stuff in the wiki tips regarding doing your own indexes has a problem
> though, and this would still be useful for me.
It appears that it is only the stuff in the multiple indexes section on the
wiki that is incorrec
> you can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode
I can reproduce this in LyX by adding Insert -> Index Entry "BTS#3".
This may be a bug in LyX. Is there any advantage to not parsing the input to
index?
...
>
> At
> http://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/cantusehash.h
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Ankur Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem which I am facing is solved when I remove the equations from
> .lyx file. Now, I can successfully export the pdf from the .lyx file,
> without the equations. But I cannot export a pdf or dvi, when I copy t
On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> JOHN CULLETON wrote:
> > on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of
> > Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack
> > (12) then I may give it a try again.
1.3.7?
Being able to
On Nov 8, 2007 12:20 PM, Salim Namik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. I create a lot of diagrams in MS Word and I to insert them in LyX, but
> when I
> do, the quality of the figure is rubbish!! what is the best format for
> diagrams
> made by MS Word?
I'd say postscript or PDF. You print to file
On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> > On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the
On 8/29/07, Hauser Helmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the
>
> When I try it the "old" way File > Export > Custom I get a lot of
> possibilties but if I choose one I just get the Cancel Button.
> Any suggestions?
On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about
> implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think
> that this could be a much interesting feature.
I thought about it:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChe
On 7/23/07, John E. Harbold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I export my thesis to a PDF file, I only get the first eleven
pages. I
need to get the whole file exported to PDF. I've used both dvipdfm and pdflatex
and both come up short. I'm using LyX 1.5.0rc2. Does anybody have any id
On 6/22/07, Paniez Paykari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am having problems with LyX. I am using it on two different systems
and they both have the same problem.
1) using on Windows XP ServicePack 2 the version is 1.4.4 and every
time I do 'accept all changes' or view 'dvi' L
On 5/8/07, Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(1) Can we have a logo on the top instead of at the bottom as seems to
be the default with \logo?
A theme which does this is the uoregon theme:
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~peter/uotheme/
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University
On 28 Mar 2007 16:33:04 +0100, N.W. England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to export a lyx file to latex, and it seems impossible.
Weird.
I have tried file->export->latex which results in the status bar displaying
"(buffer-output latex)" but no file being created and the contents not
On 3/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I have a running 1.4.4. Lyx version on my WinXP Machine with an
up-to-date MikTex. Today I tried the beta 1 of the 1.5.0 version and
upon completed installation (seemingly without problems) I try to run
LyX 1.5 and get a little Dial
On 3/22/07, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
configure:7277: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wextra -Wallconftest.cc >&5
/tmp/ccgRmGPA.o:(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to
`__gxx_personality_v0'
According to this page:
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_54.html
On 3/20/07, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The motto for this part of the code is "if LyX wrote it LyX should read it".
If that does not happen it is a bug and should be fixed. This applies to any
development stage, not just for stable releases.
OK. Presumably I'll have to make sure th
Has the 1.5.x format has been frozen? (due to the beta release)
If so I might use 1.5.x a bit more.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia
On 2/22/07, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> "John" == John McCabe-Dansted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error
John> below. This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way.
On 2/6/06, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Apply textrm as much as possible, but not in places where it won't work.
In this particular example we had 2^Q. Both the "2" and the "Q" may be
textrm, but textrm must be off where the exponent happen. (This example
may be created m
I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error below.
This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just thought I'd
mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.
LyX: reconfiguring user directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py"
On 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How does one approach the problem of importing TeX and finding that it will not
"compile" into dvi ?
The first thing I would do would be to see if I can compile the file
by hand. If you run LaTeX on the original .tex file and get similar
On 12/8/06, Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
What can I do to make the changes (i.e. addition of words) to the
spellchecker's dictionary persistent?
While I am using the spellchecker and I add a new word to the
dictionary, that word is recognized during the rest of the checking
process. Ho
On 12/6/06, Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks a lot for your suggestion and the comprehensive explanation why
it would not be a good idea to do it.
If you decide you do want a comprehensive index, you might want to look at:
https://gna.org/projects/latex-indexbuild/
--
John C. M
On 12/6/06, Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have the problem that some references are "sticking out" of the
>> paragraph to the right. (please see attached screenshot)
>>
>> As this is obviously not nice, how can I avoid this?
> Are you using url.sty (or hyperref.sty) for the refere
On 10/31/06, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However under pdflatex the "\#" causes a pdf file to be generated that
> cannot be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux. (Although it can
> be read by xpdf, kpdf, gv and kghostview). Is there any portable way
> of referring to this url
Hi, I am trying to enter the url
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/#6
into lyx. Using dvi or ps2pdf I can use the command
\url{http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/\#6}
However under pdflatex the "\#" causes a pdf file to be generated th
I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent
argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string "#1".
How do we do this for 1.4.x?
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia
On 9/22/06, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> Wierd. I get nothing but a config directory and a development
> directory. I can't find a configure script anywhere.
Yes it was a bug in KDE Konqueror (or its plugins). Normal unix works
Wierd. I get nothing but a config directory and a development
directory. I can't find a configure script anywhere.
Anyway, gotta rush off to a conference on the east coast.b
On 8/16/06, Paul L Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there,
I cannot seem to get two images side-by-side unless I revert to non-floating
figures and without their respective
"Figure captions".
One option would be to have a single floating table that contained the
two Figures. You could l
On 8/11/06, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1.5svn is the development version that will become 1.5.0 and is only
available via svn: http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php. Don't use it for real
work yet without extra precautions, since it probably has some undiscovered
bugs.
Also, for as long a
On 5/24/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and
toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents
making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making
Lyx menus more like Word menus would accomplish su
Well, as a rough guess I'd say there are about half as many LyX users
as NetBSD users:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=LyX%2C+NetBSD&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia
When writting my thesis I found that I needed komascript to format a
Thesis correctly, but that LyX would only allow me to enter Theorems
in a AMS class. My solution to this was to have a Book(koma-script)
main document that included Book(AMS) LyX documents which contained
the theorems, lemmas etc
On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with
English language grammar checkers?
I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into
the LyX GUI:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker
I would
When using Instant Preview it works on small example files, however
when I use it on a file that has a "Input: lyxmacros.lyx" it doesn't
work, because it does not include the math-macros in lyxmacros.lyx
into the preview file. (using 1.3.7)
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Master's Student
On 3/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm... even though the disk (<1 MB) and bandwith (normal web server)
> requirements would be very small, I can't really offer anything as it's
> not my server.
Have you had a look at existing Wiki farms?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_
> Thanks, but I mean the index as produced by makeindex.
You can change the font used by makeindex in LyX simply by dragging
across the "Index" button that you inserted and change the font. This
will apply to the font change to every item in the index
For more sophisticated changes, I wrote a wra
Currently, when I update a inputted LyX subfile, and go to the main
file and go "View DVI" (Or ps or pdf...), the changes in the subfile
are not included in the main DVI.
I think this problem only started recently, and it only occurs with
the document I am working on (e.g. I does not occur with sm
On 3/14/06, Nate Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a
> double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b)
> need to enlarge the font from Default to Large.
I'm not sure, I think this is the default for
I recall that in 1.2 we could convert a ordinary letter to math font
simply by selecting it and pressing cntl-M. In 1.3 it converts it into
math mode, but leaves it in the original font.
Is there an easy way to convert letters into math font in 1.3+?
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Master's Student
Pet
On 2/21/06, Rex Eastbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Within LyX, my uppercase F's look like black blobs. Does anyone know
> of the solution to this problem? I'm using LyX 1.3.6 on Ubuntu.
>
> Rex
I had this too. Try going into
Edit->Preferences->LookandFeel->ScreenFonts and change the Roman fon
Hi, I've been using a4wide, which seems to behave reasonably with a4
paper, but now I am trying to get border correction (so that the inner
margin is wider than the outer)
Thus I tried using the line
\usepackage[a4paper,top=2cm,bottom=2cm,inner=2.5cm,outer=2cm]{geometry}
This gets the border cor
Hi, I seem to be unable to set the margins for my Thesis using koma-script.
First I ticked "Two-sided document" but it still thinks that my inner
side is always on the left. I think my university allows me to print
single sided, but I would feel more comfortable if I could change
this.
Also when
I have put up a new version (v0.3d) of a Perl script that provides Grammar
Checking support within LyX's GUI. This version now formats the errors
to make them easier to read.
If you are interested in automatically checking your documents for
various errors, see:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.
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