Re: The tortured release of 2.3.0 Windows binaries

2018-05-15 Thread Walter van Holst
On 2018-05-14 19:22, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: refused, and has refused again in the last couple days. His view is that this kind of warning will confuse some users and that those same users are at risk of having broken installations if we do not do the upgrade for them. So his view is that

Re: Google Analytics (or other)

2017-06-20 Thread Walter van Holst
On 2017-06-20 12:54, Trevor Jenkins wrote: Link to Google Analytics and this user will delete all traces of LyX from their systems never to re-install. Same here. Massive violation of user trust. Just put up a Piwik install on a VPS someplace and you can achieve the same. Besides, you'll be

Re: Koma-script letter error

2016-05-29 Thread Walter van Holst
On 29/05/2016 15:25, Michael Berger wrote: > Ron, the information you provide is too general; that Latex Error may > also be generated in hundreds of other cases. > Please, be more specific. The name is Walter. Anyway, as a user this is the error that gets presented to you. If that is not specifi

Koma-script letter error

2016-05-29 Thread Walter van Holst
Hi all, When trying to use the Koma-script Letter template I get this error:\ ! LaTeX Error: \begin{letter} on input line 27 ended by \end{document}. \end{document} Your command was ignored. Type Ito replace it with another command, orto continue without it. Suggestions on how to dea

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-24 Thread Walter van Holst
On 24/10/2013 07:32, Richard Talley wrote: > I've read good things about Scrivener. It's more a 'book project > management' program than a word processor. I know some people use it for > everything until it's time to print, then they export to LaTeX. Good > luck with it. A somewhat close analog to

Re: Disable copy and paste

2013-08-08 Thread Walter van Holst
On 8 aug. 2013, at 10:17, Rilke Rainer Michael wrote: > Hi List, > > I want to export a lyx document to a pdf. However, I want also that once > reading the document it is impossible to copy and paste text from this pdf. > Do you have any idea, whether there is a workaround for lyx? > Basic

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-05 Thread Walter van Holst
On 2013-04-05 16:49, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: As I said this is my personal opinion so I migth be wrong, but I haven´t received any useful opinion (besides M$ patent) of why not doing such a thing just a few user complaining they will affect some how what they feel is comfortable. Regarding the p

Re: Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Walter van Holst
On 7/20/11 6:24 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Has anyone tried LyX (2.0) under Mac OSX Lion? Has anyone encountered any problems? I will wait with upgrading until I know LyX can run under Lion. Lyx 2.0.0 beta 2 runs fine on Lion. However, lots of other applications behave wonky on Lion, so I w

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Walter van Holst
On Thu, April 14, 2011 10:43, Stephan Witt wrote: > Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search > your files, e. g. by content. > Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it should give you > quick answer to > arbitrary questions. Proposing a filename is not such

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 (alpha 6)

2010-09-16 Thread Walter van Holst
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:33:08 -0700 (PDT), Marcelo Acuña wrote: >> Tarballs can be found at >> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.0/ > > What is LyX-2.0.0alpha6+qt4.dmg? That is for those among us who sacrifice loads of money on their translucent white altars of Steve, the demi-god with the Re

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Walter van Holst
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:15:08 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote: > Yup, this is what I think, but when you have several coworkers working > on collaborative papers in several different LaTeX classes, they > finally have the last laugh. This is why a layout editor would do > wonders to convert our main targ

Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Walter van Holst
Original Message Subject: Re: things that I miss in lyx Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:51:24 +0100 From: Walter van Holst To: Jose Quesada On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:23:34 +0100, Jose Quesada wrote: > Hi all, > > In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... > >

Re: Unavailable document classes [OSX]

2009-06-07 Thread Walter van Holst
BH schreef: I really have no idea. We check all the standard locations for LaTeX installations, and I don't remember other reports of such problems. (Does anyone else experience this? If so, please give some details about your system and LaTeX installation ... and anything unusual you might have

Unavailable document classes

2009-06-05 Thread Walter van Holst
Hello, I'm a somewhat infrequent user of LyX on Mac OS X. About every other update (my current version is 1.6.1), most of the document classes become unavailable. That is LyX can edit documents in them, but not produce output. How do I prevent this from happening? This is an exceedingly anno

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-31 Thread Walter van Holst
Typhoon wrote: I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier. Could you, and others with problems, download it from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results? It now looks much better on my system. Thanks! Regards, Walter

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread Walter van Holst
Typhoon wrote: Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf Thanks for that. The bad news is that Apple Preview doesn't render it too nicely. I guess it suffers from the same font problem that others have mentioned. Regards, Walter

Re: lyx 1.3.6 on mac os tiger

2005-09-07 Thread Walter van Holst
Bennett Helm wrote: The installer has been fixed; the trouble is that those who used the 1st version of the installer have to implement the fix manually. (Sorry.) Well, it works now, so never mind. Putting a message on the Wiki regarding this particular issue might be helpful though. What

Re: lyx 1.3.6 on mac os tiger

2005-09-07 Thread Walter van Holst
Bennett Helm wrote: This was a bug in the 1st version of the installer file. The fix for those who have already run the installer is: In Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix, enter "/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin- current:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/opt/local/te