Re: MikTeX 2.7 update warning

2008-07-11 Thread Tom Schlangen
Dear Dominik, > You just have to rebuild the formats[1], since some > language specific definitions have changed. Then > everything should be working fine again. > [1] Button 'Update Formats' in 'Miktex Settings' dialog. This works - thank you! Regards,

MikTeX 2.7 update warning

2008-07-11 Thread Tom Schlangen
output will be: Undefined contro sequence. LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-07-06 Thread Tom Schlangen
patience, suggestions and help, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-29 Thread Tom Schlangen
Dear LyX users, I would like to thank all of you who helped to partly solve the problem. For now, I will use one of the workarounds that will produce correctly printable ps or pdf output (after all, that´s most most important) and just ignore the ugly view in the LyX GUI/Editor. I don´t know w

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-29 Thread Tom Schlangen
ing: > http://wiki.ljackson.us/EPS_Optimization#Convert_.26_CleanUp_EPS I will have a look, thank you for the link! Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-28 Thread Tom Schlangen
ws machine anyway. > I will try some younger Windows versions of ghostscript tomorrow and report > back. This morning I tried the GPL GS V8.61 windows binary using your suggested method too, sadly also giving bad quality/resolution results. Any suggestion to improve the output quality? Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-28 Thread Tom Schlangen
rsions of ghostscript tomorrow and report back. Maybe there are additional parameters that could be passed to gswin32c.exe to improve the picture quality? Thank you again, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Schlangen
e workaround regarding the old ghostscript version and let´s hope the LyX GUI display problem will be solved soon. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Schlangen
at is not a problem of LyX", but on the other hand, the LyX image import dialogue is left pretty useless if there is only some certain script/program combination being able to generate bounding boxes that LyX is able to deal with? Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Schlangen
t work correctly anymore: While the bbox values can be read from the file by Lyx, the picture doesn´t get clipped to the tile but the whole page is shown. I am really stuck with this problem Tom Schlangen --

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
uot; around ghostscript to make it somewhat user friendly. Actually, the "bbget" utility I used so far and pointed to in my first article on this problem is just such "wrapper", depending on a not-broken ghostscript to do its work. Kind regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
s around the actual picture tile within a page - that is what I am looking for. Thank you very much, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
in an .eps file to be imported to LyX? Regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
box", means, having the bbget script functionality integrated (and working) in the LyX GUI somehow? Regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
ethod to replace the bbget/ghostscript stuff, also getting correct bounding boxes again. The second choice would be to get the bbget script working again with current GPL ghostscript version. Any ideas/help appreciated, and sorry again for being only slightly LyX-related ... Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Hyphenation across pages

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Schlangen
William, thank you for your extensive explanation. I´ll try your suggestions over the weekend and report back. Regards, Tom -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hyphenation across pages

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Schlangen
t the auto-hyphenation actually is done by Latex (in my case: MikTex, Windows version, at current patchlevel) according to language rules (which I did set accordingly). Is there a chance to influence/forbid cross-page hyphenation by means of the LyX frontend, or is this just a MikTeX bug? Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Horizontal positioning of floating objects

2007-05-21 Thread Tom Schlangen
rizontally centered. How can I center floating objects in the generated output by means of using the Lyx frontend menus correctly? Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: eps images not displayed

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Schlangen
rt of time-stamp related effect (I am generating the .eps files to be included in the LyX document on another machine) but I will check this when the problem occurs here the next time. Regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inline math and Umlaute

2007-03-12 Thread Tom Schlangen
Helge, tnx2u4 the advice, works perfectly the way you suggested! Tom Schlangen --

Inline math and Umlaute

2007-03-12 Thread Tom Schlangen
t in std face. It is missing altogether in the DVI-output. - using Linux version 1.4.3, in the LyX frontend, the umlaut "ä" is shown in italics, but also is missing altogether in the DVI-output. Do I have to use ERT or something to get umlauts within inline math printed? Regards, Tom Schlangen --

MikTeX update servers out of synch?

2007-03-07 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hello LyX List, regarding the Windows installer versions of LyX, somebody else also noticed that the MikTeX update servers seem to be out of synch since a few days? Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: 2nd bugfix to: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.4.4

2007-03-01 Thread Tom Schlangen
ficial 1.44-4 yet.) Meanwhile I checked the current "official" Win-installer (1.44-4), and that spell checker problem is gone there, too. Tnx2 the maintainer(s)! Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: 2nd bugfix to: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.4.4

2007-03-01 Thread Tom Schlangen
ters language" (German) dictionaries, which is fine to me and certainly for completely new users, too. Great job, Uwe, thank you again. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Trouble with spellchecker with lyx 1.4.4 on windows XP

2007-03-01 Thread Tom Schlangen
X (but leave ImageMagick and MikTeX as is) - reboot - run the installer again, but now chose "for current user only" on all occurences where you are given the choice Hope it helps, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Windows Installer Aspell prob

2007-02-25 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hi Joost, > I think you have had both an Aspell installation for the > current user as well as a system-wide installation. Sorry I don´t think so, since this problem is reproducible with a virgin and clean XPPro image - only installation of LyX chosing "for current user" right from the start le

Re: Windows Installer Aspell prob

2007-02-25 Thread Tom Schlangen
this is not caused by a rights problem during installation. Regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Windows Installer Aspell prob

2007-02-25 Thread Tom Schlangen
ker... BTW, for some reason I am positive that this is no access rights problem during installation. Regards Tom Schlangen --

Re: bounding box

2007-02-22 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hi Wolfgang, I forgot to mention that after preparation of the .EPS by the script I mentioned before, you just can use the click to box / read from file options of the relevant LyX graphics inclusion dialogue. Tom -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bounding box

2007-02-22 Thread Tom Schlangen
it gives a vast number of excellent tips to convert graphics as good as possible to be included in LaTeX (or LyX, for that matter). Really a "must read" for anyone who needs inclusion of graphics :-) Regards Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2nd bugfix to: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.4.4

2007-02-22 Thread Tom Schlangen
tc\ImageMagick, right? Can't look this up at the moment, I would have to re-apply the HD image, install the alternate installer, and then have a look again. Hope it helps, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LyX 1.4.4, current Windows versions

2007-02-21 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hi Joost, > Did you try the lyxc.exe I mailed you today? Meanwhile yes; I mailed its log output to you directly. Please feel free to send me further/other versions if it would be of help to trace down that bug. Regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

LyX 1.4.4, current Windows versions

2007-02-21 Thread Tom Schlangen
man version, MS registered, only network card plus MS networking client plus TCP/IP protocol drivers plus about >70 official MS service packs as were available per today) installed for further trials of upcoming v1.44 Windows version installers. I will report on the outcome, as time permits

Re: Lyx 1.4.4 for windows crashes

2007-02-21 Thread Tom Schlangen
is running in place... no", followed by that the application requested the runtime to terminate in an unusual way. This is followed by the usual "report this problem to MS" popup, which just contains the reference to the exception in msvcr80.dll, as shown in a screenshot recently. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: 2nd bugfix to: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.4.4

2007-02-20 Thread Tom Schlangen
d *not* install the new ImageMagick, although it correctly stated (at the beginning of the installation process) that this package will be installed. Maybe this is a follow-up error to the first one, but I don´t know. Regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lyx 1.4.4 for windows crashes

2007-02-20 Thread Tom Schlangen
.mynetcologne.de/misc/lyx_crash_win_v144-2.gif (about 13kB) This seems to confirm another report (by you, IIRC?) that a certain msvcr80.dll module version is involved somehow. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Lyx 1.4.4 for windows crashes

2007-02-20 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hi Sophie, just to clarify, what you are describing and give a suggested cure for is a different bug than, and very likely not related to, the "crash after installation" bug experienced and reported by Paul A. Rubin, John Brown and myself. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Small language buglet in German language Windows frontend

2007-02-20 Thread Tom Schlangen
The "help bubble" appearing when the cursor is positioned over the third (bullet) enumeration style button says "Auflisting" but should say "Auflistung", I suppose. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: LyX 1.4.4.2 crashes on Win XP

2007-02-19 Thread Tom Schlangen
nguage as described in another article I posted, but besides this LyX seems to work as expected. Both XP installations may be slightly different from each other due to a slightly different mix of few other programs installed before LyX. Regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

LyX 1.4.4-2 (full) installer language problem on W2K and XP

2007-02-19 Thread Tom Schlangen
chosing the frontend language during installation, is there any option / method to change the frontend language afterwards w/o re-installation? Regards, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ping Sven Hoexter

2007-02-18 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hi Sven, > If you've some further questions feel free to move this > thread over to [] No need to, since I got and understood your point of view. Thank you for explaining! Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Ping Sven Hoexter

2007-02-18 Thread Tom Schlangen
certainly more than a hundred packets a week. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Ping Sven Hoexter

2007-02-18 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hi Sven, since you are listed as one of the Debian paket maintainers of LyX, do you expect V1.4.4 will make it into Etch? Current version there is 1.4.3-2 Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Re: Spurious DVIPS rendering errors

2007-02-18 Thread Tom Schlangen
Paul, > Eventually, I surrendered and set Yap to use DVIPS by default. Good idea, thank you for this hint. Regards, Tom Schlangen --

Spurious DVIPS rendering errors

2007-02-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
converter used for/by YAP. I didn´t check with recent LyX V1.4.3-x yet, because I would have to reinstall it. If of high interest to solve the problem, I could downgrade one machine to LyX 1.4.3-x and report back. Tom Schlangen --

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.4.4

2007-02-16 Thread Tom Schlangen
tch would not be generally accessible somewhere from the LyX frontend menue, but maybe in a configuation file. Or even by a command line parameter switch. Tnx2u, Tom Schlangen --

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.4.4

2007-02-15 Thread Tom Schlangen
on two different machines (W2k and WinXP). Is this behaviour/appearance of a permanent (unless one closes it deliberately) additional DosBox/Cmd window intentional? Tnx2u again, Tom Schlangen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hello!

2007-01-20 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hello, I would like to give a short introduction on myself and why I joined this mailing list about a week ago (only lurking so far). My name is Tom Schlangen and I am from Germany. My hobby is audio amplifiers using old electron valve technology, and some weeks ago I started writing a book