from:"Nicolás"


Hi!

Sometimes I get some errors for which I do not exactly know where is the source. I use then a pragmatic approach to the problem: divide 
and conquer. That is, I remove part of the document (e.g. put it inside a Note) and compile. If everything is ok, I know the problem is 
within the removed part. I gradually remove less and less text, until I find the source of the error.


Good luck!

Nicolás

NinaNutz wrote:

Hello all,

I have been working with lyx 1.4.4 in windows for more than a year and I always
have been able to solve the mistakes that the program presents.

But now, I have written more than 150 pages (in pdf) and I dont know what it's
happening. The window shows a mistake that I've captured to show you...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2262086269_a7e9cfc1b1_o.png

The mistake is in the middle of the text and are exactly the same words that I
used in the previous document that in fact works.

¿Any idea? please... 


I have been trying different things for more than three days. Maybe do I have
too much images... too much text or something similar?

Thank you in advance

Re: Memory use

I am working with 3 documents, 2 of which have plenty of formulae. 
When I open the three of them, LyX uses 40Mb of RAM. If I close them, 
the memory consumption reduces to about 25Mb-33Mb. When LyX has been 
running for a while (and several hibernations have happened), LyX 
reaches 60Mb of more. At that moment, even if I close the documents or 
minimize LyX, no RAM is released.


Are you sure that this is 60MB of RAM? Maybe part of it is virtual and 
was "forgotten" by Windows...




I cannot say for sure, but I think it is RAM. I have 1Gb of RAM and, if I interpret correctly the info provided by the Task Manager, 
only half of it is being used. So no virtual memory should be necessary.

Re: Memory use


Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


When a file is closed the memory the file was using is released and
when LyX is minimized, the memory used is reduced to a minimum. That's
great! However, this is no longer true when LyX is running and I go
into and come back from hibernation. I am using v1.5.2 on Windows XP.


What do you observe after hibernation?



I am working with 3 documents, 2 of which have plenty of formulae. When I open the three of them, LyX uses 40Mb of RAM. If I close 
them, the memory consumption reduces to about 25Mb-33Mb. When LyX has been running for a while (and several hibernations have 
happened), LyX reaches 60Mb of more. At that moment, even if I close the documents or minimize LyX, no RAM is released.

Memory use


Hi!

LyX seems to make a good use of RAM just after it has been started up. When a file is closed the memory the file was using is released 
and when LyX is minimized, the memory used is reduced to a minimum. That's great! However, this is no longer true when LyX is running 
and I go into and come back from hibernation. I am using v1.5.2 on Windows XP. I wonder if this is a problem of LyX that could be 
solved, or whether it is a problem with hibernation that is out of the scope of LyX.


Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-13 Thread Nicolás

Hi!

I would say that the "de facto" language (if not the official one) of the list is English. So if you can speak English, I would advise
you to use it. But if you can not speak English, you may ask in Spanish, add an automatic translation, and kindly ask someone to help
you correct the translation if not clear. I am pretty sure you will find some Spanish-speaking person willing to help you (maybe myself
:-) ).

And now in Spanish, in case you do not understand English:

Hola!

Me atrevería a decir que el idioma de hecho (si no el oficial) de la lista es el inglés, así que te recomendaría preguntar en inglés si
es que puedes. Si no hablas inglés, pregunta en español, añade una traducción automática y pide por favor a yuda a alguna persona de
habla hispana para que te ayude a corregir la traducción, en caso de que ésta no sea del todo correcta. Estoy seguro de que encontrarás
a alguien, quizás yo mismo :-), dispuesto a ayudarte.

Nicolás

Todd Denniston wrote:

Jorge Mario wrote, On 12/12/2007 10:32 AM:

Hola compañeros

Comapñeros de habal hispana. podemos preguntar en español?

atte Ken

from http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
we get
Automatically translated text:
Comapñeros of habal Hispanic. We ask in Spanish?

From an email thread a few months ago[1], I would suspect you can, but
it might be better to ask in both Spanish, and _attempt_ to put an
english translation in the email too, in case those who can answer your
question don't read Spanish.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg58916.html

passed through:
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=en|es
Texto traducido de forma automática:
Desde un subproceso de correo electrónico hace unos meses [1], yo
sospecho que puede, pero tal vez sería mejor preguntar en español, y el
intento de poner Inglés traducción en el mensaje de correo electrónico
también, en caso de los que pueden hacer responder a su pregunta No
saben leer español.

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-12 Thread Nicolás


bigblop wrote:

Is there any chance that LyX in the future will support spell check on fly,
where each misspelled word is underlined with a red line in the editor if
its incorrectly spelled?


I HOPE NOT! :-)

This, in my modest opinion, is not helpul at all and just contributes to 
disturb your writing.

Nicolás

Re: Possible to cross-reference labels inside Notes (Bug?)

2007-11-29 Thread Nicolás


G. Milde wrote:

On 28.11.07, Nicolás wrote:

Now I have found that if you have a label inside a LyX Note, it appears in 
the cross-reference dialog. 

...
For me this is again a bug. Would like to hear opinions from other 
users before I file a bug report. Thanks


For me, this is a nice loophole:

  If I include some raw latex (e.g. a latex file) in my doucment that
  contains a label, I can put a dummy label in a note and then use it "the
  normal way" to create cross-references with the GUI.
  

Although this is not necessary. You can just write yourself the name of the 
label in the cross-reference dialog.



This means that if you place some text that 
includes a label inside a LyX Note, and then you continue using that the 
same label in the document body, two labels with the same name will appear 
in the cross-reference dialog. I will never want to make a reference to a 
label inside a LyX Note, but if a want to make a reference to the label in 
the document body, how can I differentiate it from the one inside the LyX 
Note?  


The "label inside the LyX note" will be invisible for LaTeX and therefore
not influence the cross references in the final output.

So, no problem with identically named labels should appear.
The danger is rather with cross references to labels that only exist in a
note: they will generate a latex error.



You are right! I did not think about this. So there is no problem at all. 
Forget everything! :-)


Günter

Possible to cross-reference labels inside Notes (Bug?)

2007-11-28 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

Some time ago I discovered that section headings inside a LyX Note where considered when the outline is built. That is, imagine that 
you have written some text that include (sub)section headings and then you decide to modify it. Before editing it, you copy the whole 
text and place it inside a LyX Note, just in case you want to come back to or check the original text. Then, the (sub)sections from 
that text will appear twice in the outline, since (sub)sections inside a LyX Note appear in the outline. I reported this as a bug, 
because in my opinion it creates confusion. It was however rejected.


Now I have found that if you have a label inside a LyX Note, it appears in the cross-reference dialog. This means that if you place 
some text that includes a label inside a LyX Note, and then you continue using that the same label in the document body, two labels 
with the same name will appear in the cross-reference dialog. I will never want to make a reference to a label inside a LyX Note, but 
if a want to make a reference to the label in the document body, how can I differentiate it from the one inside the LyX Note?  For me 
this is again a bug. Would like to hear opinions from other users before I file a bug report. Thanks



Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: Bug or feature? Find and Replace

2007-11-28 Thread Nicolás


This is definitely a bug, in my opinion

Nicolás

Tobias Krause wrote:

Hi,

is the following behavior a bug of feature?

While using "Find and Replace" "Replace" usually replaces the current 
text and jumps to the next hit - this way in hitting replace several 
times I can replace several hits but if "Replace with" contains the text 
specified in "Find" this does not work.


Just an dumb example: assume the following:
The text is "Hello Tom, hello Tim, who are you?"

The text specified in "Find" is "Hello"
The text specified in "Replace with" is "Hello World"

Hitting Replace twice ends up with
"Hello World World Tom, hello Tim, who are you?" instead of "Hello World 
Tom, hello World Tim, how are you?"


This means the after replacing the text the search for the next hit 
starts at the start of the just replaced text.
I myself would prefer, that the second search starts at the end of the 
replaced text - not at the start of it...

Are there any reasons for the current behavior?

Regards
 Toby

Re: font embedding

2007-11-26 Thread Nicolás

Don't know if the following is of any help, but just in case.

I had recently a problem with embedding fonts in the pdf generated by LyX. In my case, all fonts in the document body where correctly
embedded. However, fonts inside EPS files where not embedded. I did not managed to configure LyX in such a way that the generated pdf
contained all fonts embedded. Since embedding fonts will be normally desired only for the final version of a document (while working on
the document I do not mind), my solution was an easy one: genarate a .ps file from LyX for the final version and use GSView to convert
into pdf. For the ps to pdf conversion I used -dSubsetFonts=true and -dEmbedAllFonts=true. I also found necessary to set
-pdfsettings=/prepress

Cheers,
Nicolás

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Alexander Sklar wrote:

How do I make sure all the fonts in my pdf generated by LyX has all the
necessary fonts embedded and subset?

Good idea. I was at a conference a couple of weeks ago where close to
1/3 of the presenters used Beamer (I had no idea it was that popular
here in the States), and at least one of them ran into a problem with
missing fonts that caused his math formulas to evaporate. (Consolation:
a similar problem afflicted close to half the people using
Powerpoint.) I suspect this was due to borrowing the first presenter's
laptop.

(I guess the trick would be to pass -dSubsetFonts=true
-dEmbedAllFonts=true

to ps2pdf but how do I do that from LyX?)

DISCLAIMER: I have not tried this myself (I use pdflatex, and seem to
get lucky with the fonts).

Go to Tools -> Preferences -> Converters, highlight "Postscript -> PDF
(ps2pdf)", type the options you want into the "Extra flag" field, then
click Modify and Save. You may have to exit and restart LyX to have it
take effect (I'm not sure).

HTH,
Paul

Re: Aspell broken

2007-11-22 Thread Nicolás

I got this message once. My problem was that, despite I had a running installation of Aspell on my computer, when I installed LyX 1.5.2 
Aspell was installed again, but without the dictionaries (I think I cancelled their installation, since I already had them).
You will probably have an Aspell directory under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ or C:\Documents and 
Settings\<>\Application Data\Aspell. That directory should have a Dictionaries sub.directory that will probably be empty. If 
this is the case, download and install the dictionaries you need from: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6


Good luck!

Nicolás


M. Zapukhlyak wrote:

exactly the same problem and I have no solution for it

christiaan pauw wrote:

Hi everybody

I use to have a working Aspell on LyX 1.5.1 of Win XP but I seem to 
have broken it. When I try F7 get the message:


The spellchecker could not be started
No word list could be found for language "en_US".

Does anyone know what to do bar re-installing LyX?

thanks
Christiaan

Re: Command disable

2007-11-17 Thread Nicolás


Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I get a "command disabled" message when I press Crtl-TAB, which is
bound to buffer-next in the cua.bind file. However, If I press
Ctrl-PgUp or execute the command directly from the mini-buffer, I
obtain the desired result. Thie means that it is not the buffer-next
command taht is disbaled, but its invocation via Ctrl-TAB. Any clue
about this?


Actually, C-Tab is not really bound to buffer-next, because in
math.bind there is 
\bind "C-Tab"  "cell-split"


So it is the cell-split function that is disabled, not buffer-next. I
do not know whether this cell-split function is useful though. Andre'?


Right. I did not think it might be re-bound in other files. I have changed the binding of "cell-split", which I do not use much, and 
now C-Tab works for switching among documents. Great! Thanks very much for your help.


Nicolás

Re: Command disable

2007-11-12 Thread Nicolás


Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


When I press certain combinations of keys I can see the message
"command disable" in the lower bar. Could someone explain me what can
cause this message to appear? In other words, how/why is a command
disabled, and how can be enabled? Thanks!


A command is disabled when it does not make sense at a given position
(for example try to collapse an inset when there is no inset around
cursor position). There is not much that needs to be done about it.



I get a "command disabled" message when I press Crtl-TAB, which is bound to buffer-next in the cua.bind file. However, If I press 
Ctrl-PgUp or execute the command directly from the mini-buffer, I obtain the desired result. Thie means that it is not the buffer-next 
command taht is disbaled, but its invocation via Ctrl-TAB. Any clue about this?

Command disable

2007-11-12 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

When I press certain combinations of keys I can see the message "command disable" in the lower bar. Could someone explain me what can 
cause this message to appear? In other words, how/why is a command disabled, and how can be enabled? Thanks!


Nicolás

Re: Issues with LyX

2007-11-08 Thread Nicolás


Salim Namik wrote:

Hi,

I have recently started using LyX 1.5.2 and have few questions regarding
formatting figures (especially in IEEEtrans class document):

1. How can I change the the style of the caption HEADER? e.g. make the caption
at the center of the page, or make the word "Figure" italic?

I am not sure, but maybe you cannot modify the format of a Figure caption without modifying the latex class or style you are using. If 
a journal releases a layout, it is normally because they want all papers to look the same, so it has no sense you to do what you want.



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?


Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/WinGraphics

I personally use the OLETeX program (can be downloaded from www.sourceforge.net/projects/oletex) to make the conversion of Visio 
diagrams or any other Microsoft/OLE-based diagram into EPS figures. It works great! The program is rather simple to install and to use. 
Assuming that you have this program installed, this are the steps to make the conversion:


1- Select and copy the diagram in Visio, Powerpoint, Word, etc
2- Copy it into the OTEditor
3- Choose "EPS properties" and select the size of the figure (this is optional)
4- Choose "Convert.." and that's it!

The generated EPS has a correct bounding box.



3. When cross-referencing figures, how can I make LyX automatically put "Figure
2" instead of "2" or "Figure 2 on page 3"?

Your help is most appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Salim Namik

--
Salim Namik
PhD Candidate
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
The University of Auckland

Re: list of figures

2007-11-04 Thread Nicolás


Morgan Silverman wrote:

Hello,
I have figured out how to add the word Figure before the figure number 
that is automatically displayed in the list of figures. I would like to 
put a space between Figure and the number, so it looks like Figure 1.2. 
Right now it looks like Figure1.2 with no space. Does anyone know how to 
add this space? Thanks.

-Morgan Silverman



I guess you can add a protected space (Insert->Formatting) after "Figure"

Re: IEICE transaction

2007-10-30 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

You have to install the latex class in your Latex distribution (e.g. MikTex). Then you have to install in LyX an associated layout, 
which tells LyX how to deal with that class. You can find in the Help how to construct your own layout file.


You might be lucky, since in one of the mailinglist's messages, Allan Rae says 
he is writing a layout for this class:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07496.html

It seems he is a LyX developer (http://www.elec.uq.edu.au/~rae/index.html), so you may contact him and possibly obtain the layout you 
need. Good luck!


Cheers,
Humberto


Horacio Sanson wrote:

Can someone tell me how to add the ieice.cls document class to LyX? This
class is needed to submit to the IEICE transactions that is a pretty large
association in Japan.

The latex related files can be found here:

http://www.ieice.org/ftp/tex/ieice/LaTeX2e/


regards,

[Fwd: Re: 2 Bugs]

2007-10-26 Thread Nicolás

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: 2 Bugs
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:30:36 +0200
From: Patrick De Visschere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Nicolás wrote:

Hi!

I confirm both bugs with LyX 1.5.2 on Windows (official installer)
Recipes here:

1st Bug- Open Latex Preamble window. Write whatever in the  
preamble. Click with the mouse on themain LyX window. As a result  
the little window with the document settings goes to second plane.  
Go back to that window. MAGIC! What you wrote has disappeared.

I can confirm this on OS X

2nd Bug- Open a new document. Create an ERT box. Execute Navigate- 
>Bookmarks->Save bookmark 1. Try to open a new document and LyX  
crashes.

No problem on OS X

Nicolás

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

Tobias Krause wrote:

@ Juergen: detailded recipe is here:
With recipe, I mean: what actions do you exactly perform in order  
to trigger

the crash? I'm unable to reproduce the crash.
Most of your console output is unrelated, the related part is this:
Assertion triggered in void __thiscall lyx::Text::setCurrentFont 
(class lyx::Cursor &) by failing check "this == cur.text()" in  
file D:\LyX\lyx-1.5.2\src\Text2.cpp:757
Which installer did you use? I think assertions should be really  
disabled in

stable releases.
Jürgen

Re: 2 Bugs

2007-10-25 Thread Nicolás


Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

Nicolás wrote:


You mean a debugging trace? If so, which debug option you want me to use?


No, a backtrace with a debugger like GDB. I don't know what's the best way
to get this on windows, though.



Neither myself :-)
Maybe someone else can do it?


Jürgen

Re: 2 Bugs

2007-10-25 Thread Nicolás


Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

Nicolás wrote:


2nd Bug- Open a new document. Create an ERT box. Execute
Navigate->Bookmarks->Save bookmark 1. Try to open a new document and LyX
crashes.


I cannot reproduce on Linux. Could you provide a backtrace?



You mean a debugging trace? If so, which debug option you want me to use?


Jürgen

Re: 2 Bugs

2007-10-25 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

I confirm both bugs with LyX 1.5.2 on Windows (official installer)
Recipes here:

1st Bug- Open Latex Preamble window. Write whatever in the preamble. Click with the mouse on themain LyX window. As a result the little 
window with the document settings goes to second plane. Go back to that window. MAGIC! What you wrote has disappeared.


2nd Bug- Open a new document. Create an ERT box. Execute 
Navigate->Bookmarks->Save bookmark 1. Try to open a new document and LyX 
crashes.

Nicolás

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

Tobias Krause wrote:


@ Juergen: detailded recipe is here:


With recipe, I mean: what actions do you exactly perform in order to trigger
the crash? I'm unable to reproduce the crash.

Most of your console output is unrelated, the related part is this:

Assertion triggered in void __thiscall lyx::Text::setCurrentFont(class 
lyx::Cursor &) by failing check "this == cur.text()" in file 
D:\LyX\lyx-1.5.2\src\Text2.cpp:757


Which installer did you use? I think assertions should be really disabled in
stable releases.

Jürgen

Re: Bug LyX1.5.2: Keyboard problem

2007-10-17 Thread Nicolás


Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Now to the point. Your suggestion did not work, but allowed me to
realise I have found a bug (I think). The behavior I experience is the
following. With LyX just started, the first time I type ALTgr + "´"
followed by "o", I get "ó" (with independence of whether I have
"Right-to-left language support" checked or not). However, the next
time I type ALTgr + "´" followed by "o", I just get a normal "o".


FWIW I also encounter in linux cases where composition stops to work
at time. It is not sufficiently reproducible to be a useful report,
though.



Right! It is not sifficientlt reproducible because it is totally random! Here it is the sequence of characters I get when typing 
multiple times the composition (ALTgr+´)+e or (Ctrl+Alt+´)+e:


eeeé´€€´€´€ééeeéeeéééeeé

And this is what I get when typing (Shift+`)+e:

èeeeèèèeèÈÈÈÈÈÈEEÈee

Nice, isn't it?

Can someone reproduce this behavior?

Nicolás

Bug LyX1.5.2: Keyboard problem

2007-10-17 Thread Nicolás

In previous versions of LyX I could use (in Windows) (Alt gr + "´") + 
"o" in order to get an accented o: "ó". In LyX 1.5.2 (and I think also 
in 1.5.1) this does not work. Is this a bug or do I have to configure 
something? Thanks!




I have no idea how the mechanism you describe used to work, but here's a
long shot: try turning off the "Right-to-left language support" option
in the preferences, and see if that makes a difference.

If it does, please let us know!



Well, I use a norwegian keyboard. As I said, if I want to obtain "ó", I type the acute accent while keeping ALTgr pressed (ALTgr + 
"´"). Then I release ALTgr and type "o".


Now to the point. Your suggestion did not work, but allowed me to realise I have found a bug (I think). The behavior I experience is 
the following. With LyX just started, the first time I type ALTgr + "´" followed by "o", I get "ó" (with independence of whether I have 
"Right-to-left language support" checked or not). However, the next time I type ALTgr + "´" followed by "o", I just get a normal "o".


Nicolás

Re: itemize and enumerate in Spanish language

2007-10-16 Thread Nicolás


You should put this on the Wiki, although I do not know the user and password 
:-(

Ignacio García wrote:

The style 'spanish' for babel sets up certain values overwriting the
defaults and
preventing customized bullets.
The behavior of the lists itemize and enumerate is special to labeling
the items.

With the last version of 'spanish' is possible to change all that (and
more) using
options and commands.

I have writed a small document describing the options and commands availables in
'spanish' for customizing the label bullets, with some examples.

The LyX document is in Spanish, obviously, and is attached.

Regards
Ignacio

Re: Toggle between documents

2007-10-16 Thread Nicolás


Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Thanks a lot for the answer. Now I have a second quetion. Could I replace 
Ctrl-PageUp/Down with Alt-TAB?


Well, Alt-tab is hijacked by windows already.

JMarc



Sorry, I meant Ctrl-Tab.

I have seen now that I may configure switching between documents by modifying the 
"bind" file.
I have tried to assign "C-Tab" to "buffer-next", but it does not work. Actually, by default, if I press "C-Tab" I get a "command 
disabled" message. Could someone explain me what this means?


By the way, I have seen that the standard cua.bind file includes three different bindings 
for "buffer-next"!

Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: Toggle between documents

2007-10-15 Thread Nicolás


Thanks a lot for the answer. Now I have a second quetion. Could I replace 
Ctrl-PageUp/Down with Alt-TAB?

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Hi!

In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is 
there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX?


Ctrl-PageUp/Down.

JMarc

LyX1.5.2: Keyboard problem

2007-10-15 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

In previous versions of LyX I could use (in Windows) (Alt gr + "´") + "o" in order to get an accented o: "ó". In LyX 1.5.2 (and I think 
also in 1.5.1) this does not work. Is this a bug or do I have to configure something? Thanks!


Cheers,
Nicolás

Toggle between documents

2007-10-12 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is 
there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX?

Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: llncs class

2007-10-09 Thread Nicolás


I am not completely sure, but I would say llncs has not support for keywords.

Nicolás

Myriam Abramson wrote:

Hello,

How can I specify keywords in a document of the Article(LNCS) class? 


TIA

PDFView

2007-10-09 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

Could anyone explain me what are the steps that LyX follows in Windows in order to preview a PDF document? This feature does not work 
as I would like in my system, and I would like to see if I can do something about it.
More specifically, I would like to try using an script with some combinations of pdfclose and pdfopen. I guess I should specify this 
script in Preferences->File Formats-> PDF->Viewer. Should I pass any parameter?

If I want different behavior for first time view and for update view, what do I 
have to do?

Thanks!

Nicolás

Re: Some formatting questions

2007-10-02 Thread Nicolás


Rayne wrote:

Hi all, I'm new to Lyx, and and some questions
regarding how the layout looks after conversion to
PDF.



The way your document looks like depends on the latex class that you use to format it. Such class is (indirectly) chosen when you 
select the LyX layout for your document. Some layouts come by default with no page numbering, for example. You can choose the layout 
you want via Document->Settings->Document class



I realize that a page number is added to the PDF file.
How do I remove that?



There are several ways (look here: 
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nopageno)
If you want absolutely no page numbering and no headers, you may install the nopageno.sty latex package (using MikTex) and use it in 
your document by adding in the preamble (Document->Settings->Latex Preamble) the following line:


\usepackage{nopageno}

Alternatively, you can add these two lines to the preamble:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]@empty
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Is there a way to reduce the margins in the PDF file?
I'm forced to write some of my expressions on the
second line because the left and right margins are too
narrow.


Document->Settings->Page Margins



Lastly, is there a way to increase the font size of
the text/symbols in the PDF file?


To change the font size all over the document, you may try to specify the font size (e.g. 12pt)you want in Document->Settings->Document 
class->Options


To change the size of a piece of text, select it and choose the size via 
Edit->Text Style->Customized

Cheers,
Nicolás



Thank you!

Regards,
Rayne




  

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Re: LyX 1.5.1 crashes

2007-09-27 Thread Nicolás


Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

Nicolás wrote:

It is the fourth or fifth time that LyX (on Windows) crashes when I insert
a Note (Alt+i+n+n). Unfortunately the crashes happen randomly, and I
cannot reproduce them. Is this a known problem?


For 1.5.2, some bugs in this area have been fixed, so the issue might be
cured. For further debugging, we's need a backtrace or a crash recipe. Can
you try out 1.5svn? If not, 1.5.2 will be released soon, so we'll see then.



I would be more than ready to try out 1.5svn, if I would not be in the middle of finishing my PhD thesis right now. What I could do is 
to run LyX in debug mode, if this could help. What debugging option should I use?


Nicolás

LyX 1.5.1 crashes

2007-09-26 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

It is the fourth or fifth time that LyX (on Windows) crashes when I insert a Note (Alt+i+n+n). Unfortunately the crashes happen 
randomly, and I cannot reproduce them. Is this a known problem?


After the last crash I got this debug message, although I think it is probably 
not related:

NoRepeatedApplyReadOnlyPolicy: No transition for input SMI_OKAY from state 
INVALID Completed

Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: [LyX] Unsubscribing...

2007-09-24 Thread Nicolás


I would say you are unsubscribed from the announcement list. To unsubscribe 
from the user's list, you should send an email to

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Check here:
http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php

Nicolás


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I've sent an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: one a
several days ago and one today.  Though, I have not received any
confirmation that I indeed have been unsubscribed.

What's going on here?  Should I expect a confirmation or should I assume
(I really hate to assume) I have been unsubscribed?  Is the supplied
e-mail address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] not correct? 
If not, where do I find the correct address?  <...insert other questions

here if you so desire...>

Mr DPD

A question on latex/bibtex

2007-09-21 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

I have just read a paper containing an interesting feature. Each citation in 
the bibliography section contains a list of links to the
pages where such citation appears. For example, if citation [1] appears in 
pages 5 and 7, in the bibliography section we have:

[1] Me and you, "The book of our lives", in Kindly Publication, 2007 5 7

Does someone know how to achieve that?

Thanks,
Nicolás

Embedding Fonts (was EPS to PDF conversion)

2007-09-16 Thread Nicolás


Thanks Paul! I had already tried doing that, but it seems ImageMagick does not 
read delegates.xml.

Now I have decided to broaden my question. I would like to know if there is a way to configure LyX (or the auxiliary applications it 
uses) so that all fonts are embedded in a generated PDF.


With my current configuration, the fonts for the body text of the document are embedded, no matter which of the three pdf generation 
options I use. However, fonts inside eps figures are not embedded.


My installation uses pdfview.exe to handle the generation of pdf. How can it be configured so that pdflatex, ps2pdf and dvipdfm embedd 
figure fonts?


Thanks!

Cheers,
Nicolás

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Nicolás wrote:


I am using  LyX 1.5.1 on Windows and I wonder if there is any way I 
can configure the conversion from EPS to PDF (when I run pdflatex). 
The point is that the fonts of my figures (which are in EPS format) 
are not embedded on the PDF. If am not wrong, LyX uses Imagemagick, 
and the latter uses Ghostscript. I know the proper parameter I have to 
pass to Ghostscript, but I do not know how the latter is invoked.




Look at /config/delegates.xml.  There should be a line like

 



I think maybe you want to add the parameter there.

/Paul

Re: How to add a figure

2007-09-15 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

I do not know if the beamer style is special, but if not, this should work:
1-Insert->float->figure
2- Inside the float, do Insert->Graphics and select your file

If this does not work you may have a problem with the conversion from EPS to 
PDF (not sure of this)

Cheers,
Nicolás


Lucas Amorim wrote:

Hello,

I am making a beamer presentation using lyx. I am trying to add a figure
to a frame, a graph for example. I have converted it to eps. Then I
tryied adding via the option Insert>Float>Figure and typinf the adress
to the figure which is in my /home/lucas directory. Then I generated the
pdf via pdflatex and the figure isn't shown in the pdf. I also tryied
Insert>Graphics  option and I got the same result.

I really need this help because if I can't add this figure I will have
redo everything I have already done (20 slides) to oo.org impress and
that will be a total waste of time.

Please help me!
Thank you!

EPS to PDF conversion

2007-09-15 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

I am using  LyX 1.5.1 on Windows and I wonder if there is any way I can configure the conversion from EPS to PDF (when I run pdflatex). 
The point is that the fonts of my figures (which are in EPS format) are not embedded on the PDF. If am not wrong, LyX uses Imagemagick, 
and the latter uses Ghostscript. I know the proper parameter I have to pass to Ghostscript, but I do not know how the latter is invoked.


Thanks!

Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: Screen not refreshed when opening/closing document

2007-09-08 Thread Nicolás

After re-starting LyX I cannot reproduce the problem any longer. After reading Richard's comment, it seems to me there is still some
buggy behavior somewhere there, but it is difficult to reproduce. Not a big deal, anyway. :-)

Cheers,
Humberto

Richard Heck wrote:

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Nicolás wrote:

Hi!

My screen is not properly refreshed when opening/closing a document,
if there are other documents already opened. I am using Lyx v1.5.1 on
Windows. More specifically, this is what happens.

Imagine I have at least 2 documents opened (with only one document
opened the behavior is as expected). If I press Ctrl+N to create a
new document, a new tab appears, but the screen still shows the last
document I was viewing. If I write something, the screen is still not
refreshed. Only when I press 'return' the screen is refreshed.

Imagine now I have at least 3 documents opened. I select the first
document (i.e. the first tab) and go to its end, so that the screen
is only partially covered with the document's text. Now I go to the
second document, and make it cover the whole screen. Done this, I
close the document clicking on the on the cross on the right-top
corner. LyX highlights the tab of the first document and shows its
content mixed with the content of the just closed document. It is,
the screen has not been refreshed.

Can anyone confirm this behavior?
I cannot. I followed the instructions above, but all tabs refreshed
properly. I'm also on LyX 1.5.1-1, Win XP.
There were bugs like this prior to the release of 1.5.0, so it's
possible that there is still something that will trigger it. If we can
get a recipe for it, I'm guessing Abdel can fix it pretty quickly.

Richard

Screen not refreshed when opening/closing document

2007-09-08 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

My screen is not properly refreshed when opening/closing a document, if there are other documents already opened. I am using Lyx v1.5.1 
on Windows. More specifically, this is what happens.


Imagine I have at least 2 documents opened (with only one document opened the behavior is as expected). If I press Ctrl+N to create a 
new document, a new tab appears, but the screen still shows the last document I was viewing. If I write something, the screen is still 
not refreshed. Only when I press 'return' the screen is refreshed.


Imagine now I have at least 3 documents opened. I select the first document (i.e. the first tab) and go to its end, so that the screen 
is only partially covered with the document's text. Now I go to the second document, and make it cover the whole screen. Done this, I 
close the document clicking on the on the cross on the right-top corner. LyX highlights the tab of the first document and shows its 
content mixed with the content of the just closed document. It is, the screen has not been refreshed.


Can anyone confirm this behavior?

Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: other LyX books at lulu (Re: Self-publishing with LyX)

2007-09-08 Thread Nicolás


I have not taken a look at these books, so I do not know if they are good or 
not. I just found funny the review for this book:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1165817

It smells a little bit fake to me, do not you agree? According to the review, the son installed LyX, learnt to use it, and converted 
his MS-Word-based PhD thesis into a LyX document in one night! Impressive!


Cheers,
Nicolás

Graham Smith wrote:
I bought the copy on publishing for LULU (I didn't realise there were 
two other options)


The style is very different to Alan's book, with detailed hand holding 
instructions on installing Lyx, Gimp etc.more screen grabs, and step by 
step menu paths


The focus on Windows is appropriate because the feel of the book is that 
it is written to encourage people who have never used anything other 
than Windows/Word to have a go AND take you by the hand every step of 
the way.


Graham



Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
Today, I search lulu for Alan's book (so I could send the 
http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 link to a list I am on).


And I found a few other books too:

http://www.lulu.com/content/1165817
http://www.lulu.com/content/1097620
http://www.lulu.com/content/983754

Has anyone here read any of those?

I don't recall them mentioned on this list.


  Jeremy C. Reed

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Re: Lyx 1.5.1 failed to start on Windows XP

2007-08-17 Thread Nicolás


Are you using MikTex and, if so, have you the latest version? If I am not 
wrong, the problem you mention disappeared with the last version.

You may also want to take a look at this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg53308.html

Cheers,
Nicolás

Paul A. Rubin wrote:

Steven Truong wrote:

I downloaded both installers and after enough uninstallation of one
version and trying another version, I am about to give up.

I also followed this discussion in
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg58077.html

and run this

c:\program files\lyx15\resources> ..\python\python.exe configure.py

After executing this command, a small window popped up and said "the
required file blah blah blah is missing ...", I then clicked OK to
install the missing pieces.  After that, the whole thing hung or
refused to continue and the last thing I could see on the terminal
was:

+  checking for ec support in Latex format ... yes

I had waited for roughly 1/2 hour on a laptop 1.8 GHz with 512 MB of
RAM (currently firefox is running with 2 tabs).

This same problems also happened on my other 2 PCs (very new and even
dual core), so I do not think my computers are slow or anything.

Please help because this is really frustrating.
Thank you.



Ignore what follows if you're not using MikTeX.

I'm not sure if this is your problem, but there have been installation 
failures relating to MikTeX's attempts to install packages.  During the 
installation script, LyX looks for a variety of common (?) LaTeX 
packages.  Very few of these packages are actually essential, and as far 
as I know the essential ones are all part of the base MikTeX installation.


When a package is not installed, MikTeX will react in one of three ways, 
depending on how a particular MikTeX option is set:  it may 
automatically attempt to download and install the package; it may ask 
for permission to download and install; or it may ignore the missing 
package.  LyX will interpret the third option as the package not being 
installed, which is correct and causes no problem.  The difficulty 
occurs with the first option (automatic download), or possibly with the 
second option if permission to download is granted.  If the selected 
MikTeX repository is offline or possibly out of synch, or if the user's 
Internet connection is slow (or worse yet turned off), the download can 
fail (or take forever), and the installation script in turn fails.  It 
may also fail if MikTeX is set to install from a local disk drive and 
the drive is unready (empty CD drive, for instance).


If this is the problem, the resolution is straightforward.  Run MikTeX's 
"Settings" application, go to the package installation section of the 
general tab, and select 'no' for installation on the fly.  Then run the 
LyX configuration script again.  If it runs successfully and LyX starts, 
feel free to change the MikTeX setting back to 'yes' or 'ask me'.


/Paul

Re: Installer improvement (was Lyx 1.5.1Spellchecker error)

I am not criticizing the installer. The first time I install LyX was a pain in
the a%s#s. Now it is wonderful!
In my case it is only me who uses my machine, but I am a mess, and sometimes I choose all users, other times the current user (it
depends on the weather! ;-))

What I was trying to say is that the installer could include a warning about the potential problem. That is, once the installer
proceeds to the installation of Aspell and/or the dictionaries, a dialog could be shown saying something like: "If you have a previous
installation of Aspell, be aware of bla, bla, bla. If you experience this, please check the wiki at ..."

It would then be much easier for the user to solve the problem.

Cheers,
Nicolás

Joost Verburg wrote:

Nicolás wrote:
I experienced exactly the same problem. In my case LyX was using the
version installed for all users (I guess it depends on the option you
choose when installing LyX).

I think the installer should warn about this situation. Ideally, the
installer should be able to install the dictionaries in the right
directory.

The installer installs the dictionaries for all users if LyX is
installed for all users and for the current user if LyX is only
installed for the current user.

If you install LyX for all users but have an additional copy of Aspell
for the current user, LyX will use the current user version of Aspell.
This allows you to use install dictionaries that have not been installed
by the system administrator.

So the installer does the right thing. The only problem is that some
users were not aware of a previously installed current user version of
Aspell. I think this is likely the case because installation of Aspell
used to be quite problematic before the current system was created, so
users often tried a few things before it worked right.

Joost

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

Using the PDFViewWin.exe (and related files) that come with Uwe's 
installer (v1.5.1) I experience the following:


- Acrobat Standard 7.0: PDF-View works fine. To update the view, I run 
again PDF-View. The document is updated in Acrobat and sometimes, but 
only sometimes, the updated document is shown from the page I was 
previously visualizing.
- Acrobat Reader 8.1: The same as before, but when updating the 
document is always shown from the first page.


Concerning Acrobat 8.x, due to a bug in these Acrobat versions you can't 
show the updated file at the last visited page. I contacted Adobe about 
this and you can find posts in mailing lists where people also complain 
about this. But I cannot do much about this. Try to go back to Acrobat 
7.x and it works as expected.




As I said, your solution does not work always fine with Acrobat Standard 7.0. If the LyX document is the only one opened in Acrobat, 
everything is ok. However, if there are other documents opened in Acrobat, the LyX document is updated, but it is shown from the first 
page.


Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

The PDFViewWin.exe is there to be able to update PDFs that are open in 
Acrobat. Unfortunately there is a bug in Acroread 8.0.x that opened 
files could not be closed. We therefore built in a workaround. It 
seems that this workaraound doesn't work with Adobe Reader 8.1. I'll 
check this.


You can remove all workarounds, the bugs are fixed in Adobe Reader 8.1. 
The tools from the official installer work fine with 8.1.




Can someone tell me what can I expect from the PDFLatex View and Update View 
functionalities?

Using the pdfview.exe (and related files) that come with the official installer (v1.5.1) I experience the following with both Acrobat 
Standard 7.0 and Acrobat Reader 8.1:


-PDFLatex-View works fine
-PDFLatex-View-Update does NOT work. The document is recompiled, but the buffer-update command does nothing! That is, the document is 
not update in Acrobat.


Using the PDFViewWin.exe (and related files) that come with Uwe's installer 
(v1.5.1) I experience the following:

- Acrobat Standard 7.0: PDF-View works fine. To update the view, I run again PDF-View. The document is updated in Acrobat and 
sometimes, but only sometimes, the updated document is shown from the page I was previously visualizing.

- Acrobat Reader 8.1: The same as before, but when updating the document is 
always shown from the first page.


Are the behaviours I describe the expected ones?

Thanks

Cheers,
Nicolás

Installer improvement (was Lyx 1.5.1Spellchecker error)

I experienced exactly the same problem. In my case LyX was using the version installed for all users (I guess it depends on the option 
you choose when installing LyX).


I think the installer should warn about this situation. Ideally, the installer should be able to install the dictionaries in the right 
directory.


Cheers,
Nicolás

Vaibhav wrote:

Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


You may have two copies of Aspell on your system, one for your own user 
account and one for all users. LyX will then use the version that has 
been installed for your own account, but you may not have installed the 
dictionaries for this version.



Thank you very much for your suggestion, Joost. I actually had two instances of
Aspell on my system. I uninstalled both of them and ran the Lyx installer again.
This time too it downloaded the dictionaries and installed it. 


And this time it worked. Thanks again for your help.

-Vaibhav

Re: Same footnote referred more than once

2007-08-03 Thread Nicolás


In the text styles menu, "SaveFN" appears twice.


I also noticed this weird thing. It may be a bug (see attached file). Anyone can
confirm?


Yes, it happens also to me.



Mael.

Re: Same footnote referred more than once

2007-08-03 Thread Nicolás


The package savefnmark provides a simple ERT solution. Can developers
implement a solution without ERT?


When I use savefnmark and hyperref I get both footnore-references as hyperlinks. However, while the first one (defined normally) works 
fine (i.e. it really points to the footnote), the second one (defined with useFN) does not work :-(

Maybe the best is to forget about hyperlinks?



You can use character styles:
Put them into a file e.g. named "savefnmark.inc" and then use an "Input
savefnmark.inc" into your document class layout (you should have to make a copy
of "article.layout" for an article). Don't forget to reconfigure. Character
styles are available from "Edit>TextStyle".


This is nice!

Nicolás

Shortcut for View->pdflatex

2007-08-02 Thread Nicolás


Hi!

Is there or can I create a shortcut for View->pdflatex? Thanks!

Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: Same footnote referred more than once

2007-08-02 Thread Nicolás

Hi!

I have the same problem. The solution suggested by Helge does not produce a completely good result, since the generated reference is
not in superscript format.

I have been investigating and have found these pages:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=repfootnote
http://anthony.liekens.net/index.php/LaTeX/MultipleFootnoteReferences

Using \footnotemark[\value{footnote}] I get one footnote with two proper references (both as superscript). However, in the PDF
generated by pdflatex, the second reference (the one with footnotemark) does not appear as an hyperlink.

Using \footref from the package footmisc, I get two proper references in DVI. However, with pdflatex I get an unresolved reference for
the second reference, although this time it appears as an hyperlink.

Any idea of how to obtain proper references as hyperlinks?

Cheers,
Nicolás

Paul Smith wrote:

On 8/2/07, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Is there some way of having the same footnote referred more than once?

This seems so obvious that maybe I misunderstand your question?

You can refer to one particular footnote as much as you want.
There is no limitiation at all.
Inside your footnote, "Insert->Label."
Whenever you want to refer to that footnote, "Insert->Cross Reference",
then select that particular footnote.

I admit that I was not clear enough. What I mean is the following.

Suppose that one has two footnotes with the same contents. Then, one
would prefer using twice the same footnote mark (directing the reader
to the same footnote text) instead of having two footnotes with
exactly the same contents. This is particularly important when one is
writing a paper with two authors with the same affiliation, and the
affiliations being given in footnotes.

A small example of what I mean follows. Maybe the LyX team could
consider the direct implementation of this feature (without ERT) in
LyX.

Paul

Re: PDF view update problem


Joost Verburg wrote:

Nicolás wrote:
If a PDF preview is already open and I run View->Update->PDFlatex to 
update it, nothing happens (LyX executes some commands, but the pdf 
document is not updated).


Are you using the official installer? It includes support for PDF updating.


No, I used Uwe's installer. Anyway, as I said, the updating of the pdf file works ok, although not via View->Update->PDFlatex, but 
using View->PDFlatex again.




Joost

Aspell dictionary not found


Hi!

When I try to run the spellchecker I get an error message saying no en_US 
dictionary could be found.
I had Aspell already installed on C:\Aspell before I installed LyXv1.5.0rc2, 
and spellchecking used to work fine in v1.4.4.

I have re-installed the english dictionary  (on C:\Aspell), but it did not 
solve the problem.

Any help is welcome!

Cheers,
Nicolás

PDF view update problem


Hi!

If a PDF preview is already open and I run View->Update->PDFlatex to update it, nothing happens (LyX executes some commands, but the 
pdf document is not updated). However, if I just run View->PDFlatex, the document is updated. Is this a problem with my configuration 
(on Windows XP) or a tiny bug? If View->PDFlatex updates the document, why is View->Update->PDFlatex needed?


And.. by the way... is there a shorcut or can I create a shortcut to invoke 
View->PDFlatex? Thanks

Cheers,
Nicolás

Re: lyx 1.5 new window bug?