"Dead" lyx lives again!
On 09/15/2018 12:21 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 09:29:54AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 15/09/2018 2:26 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:17:53PM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: In his opening post Ehud mentioned TeXworks: "Now Latex works fine (through Texworks) but Lyx does not". In windows systems using MiKTeX, a version of TeXworks is provided which has its own pdf viewer which LyX can find if, under Tools > Preferences > File Formats for PDF (pdflatex), Custom is entered beside Viewer and TeXworks in the neighbouring slot. Interesting and good to know. Thanks, Andrew. Do you find the PDF viewer better than others? No. It's a "toy" pdf viewer -- you can't print from it for instance (at least the version supplied with MiKTeX). I still use Sumatra as my main pdf viewer (and reluctantly turn to Adobe reader for printing odd and even pages separately for two-sided printing). Ah I see. Good to know. Scott Case solved-- I installed Evince, told Lyx to use it as the pdf viewer, changed the default output to pdf, and all is well now. Now all I have to do is remove the pesky FoxitReader. Thanks for all your help. -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Visiting professor Dept. of Philosophy of Science Charles University, Prague & the National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, Klecany Czechia --- Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor Director, Center of Excellence for Computational & System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology Icahn school of medicine at Mount Sinai One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029 USA
Re: Dead lyx
On 09/14/2018 04:22 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:55:37PM +0200, udi wrote: I suspected initially that the problem is a pdf viewer that Lyx fails to see, and this suspicion was supported by some of you. So, even though other programs (like Texworks) could show pdf documents, I installed the Foxit Reader (which I use under Windows). That did not solve the problem. In addition, I still get: Command Disabled when I type Cntrl-R to compile a lyx file for pdf, although compiling for DVI works fine. Furthermore, I did not find in the Lyx preferences where or how to specify the pdf viewer that Lyx should be using. If in Tools > Preferences you search for "viewer", one result is File Handling > File Formats. Select the PDF format from the dropdown box at the top, and then put in the binary name of your PDF viewer. Unfortunately, if you have to use multiple PDF formats, you must change it for all. I made Foxit the default pdf viewer, but Lyx still seems to ignore it. Do you mean at the OS level? indeed, I think someday we will add support for xdg-open or something like that, but right now we don't have it. Incidentally, I tried to find in the Texworks preferences where the pdf viewer is specified, but I was unable to find it. So, sadly, Lyx is still dead (for me). LyX seems to be alive on your system! It is just not able to communicate. What is the binary name of Foxit Reader? Did Lubuntu install a PDF reader and you removed it or it really does not install a PDF reader in the base installation? Scott I believe that the binary name is FoxitReader-- when I type in terminal "FoxitReader foo" the pdf file named foo.pdf is shown by FoxitReader. I tried to give Lyx the full path of FoxitReader, but no dice. Right now, when I type Cntrl-R in Lyx the output is displayed by a (terrible) viewer called xdvik, which is not pdf. I suspect that this is the viewer that comes with LXDE. Ehud Kaplan
Re: Dead lyx
On 09/14/2018 11:17 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 14/09/2018 8:38 p.m., Kornel Benko wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2018 19:00:39 CEST schrieb Scott Kostyshak : On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:15:03PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: OK, but we are still missing the requested log-file (as suggested by Scott). He sent it to me privately. I won't repost it here, since perhaps there is something that he does not want to share. I will share part of it that I don't think has any private information, and that has suggestions for the problem. No problem here: checking for the pdflatex program... +checking for "pdflatex"... yes checking for XeTeX... +checking for "xelatex"... yes checking for LuaTeX... +checking for "lualatex"... yes checking for LuaTeX (DVI)... +checking for "dvilualatex"... yes But: checking for a PDF previewer... ... So that would mean that he _can_ compile but cannot preview. This is neither lyx nor texlive. Installing e.g. package 'okular' should help. Kornel In his opening post Ehud mentioned TeXworks: "Now Latex works fine (through Texworks) but Lyx does not". In windows systems using MiKTeX, a version of TeXworks is provided which has its own pdf viewer which LyX can find if, under Tools > Preferences > File Formats for PDF (pdflatex), Custom is entered beside Viewer and TeXworks in the neighbouring slot. The first time viewing a document it takes ages to display the pdf since TeXworks needs to load, but after that it works fine. Presumably in Lubuntu and with TeXLive something similar is possible? Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus I suspected initially that the problem is a pdf viewer that Lyx fails to see, and this suspicion was supported by some of you. So, even though other programs (like Texworks) could show pdf documents, I installed the Foxit Reader (which I use under Windows). That did not solve the problem. In addition, I still get: Command Disabled when I type Cntrl-R to compile a lyx file for pdf, although compiling for DVI works fine. Furthermore, I did not find in the Lyx preferences where or how to specify the pdf viewer that Lyx should be using. I made Foxit the default pdf viewer, but Lyx still seems to ignore it. Incidentally, I tried to find in the Texworks preferences where the pdf viewer is specified, but I was unable to find it. So, sadly, Lyx is still dead (for me). Thanks-- Ehud Kaplan
Re: Dead lyx
On 09/13/2018 06:12 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2018 16:32:37 CEST schrieb udi : Sorry-- I made a mistake: it was Lubuntu 18.04, not 18.10. Yes, as I mentioned in the original post, pdflatex compiles tex files just tine, but Lyx cannot compile its old files. I tried to run Lyx from the terminal, as Scott suggested, but that did not help-- there were no illuminating error messages. However, when I try to click Cntrl-R to compile a Lyx file, I see a message: "Command disabled" at the bottom of the Lyx window. Perhaps that is a clue to Lyx Mavens? Did you really reconfigured lyx after starting from the terminal? And have you restarted lyx afterwards? Kornel Yes-- I installed Lyx from the PPA, and reconfigured it. I tried it several times after that, to no avail. -- Yours, Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Visiting professor Dept. of Philosophy of Science Charles University, Prague & the National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, Klecany Czechia --- Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor Director, Center of Excellence for Computational & System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology Icahn school of medicine at Mount Sinai One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029 USA
Re: Dead lyx
Sorry-- I made a mistake: it was Lubuntu 18.04, not 18.10. Yes, as I mentioned in the original post, pdflatex compiles tex files just tine, but Lyx cannot compile its old files. I tried to run Lyx from the terminal, as Scott suggested, but that did not help-- there were no illuminating error messages. However, when I try to click Cntrl-R to compile a Lyx file, I see a message: "Command disabled" at the bottom of the Lyx window. Perhaps that is a clue to Lyx Mavens? Thanks-- Ehud Kaplan On 09/13/2018 03:09 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2018 12:01:34 CEST schrieb udi : Due to my stupidity I've been there before many times. I had to re-install Texlive 2017 on my Lubuntu 18.10 system. Is Lubuntu 18.10 in alpha? Now Latex works fine (through Texworks) but Lyx does not. I reinstalled and reconfigured lyx, but cannot compile anything. I am sure similar panicky complaints have been seen here before-- can someone tell me what to do? I clicked on Check latex but got back: cannot run chcktex, or some such useless response. I can run pdflatex from the terminal and it works fine. Somehow, Lyx has to find out about my Texdead. Thanks, Ehud Kaplan Have you tried running lyx from the terminal? It may be, that the used PATH from the desktop is not set to the (probably) new texlive path. Also, can you compile a simple .tex file on the command line with pdflatex? Scott -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Visiting professor Dept. of Philosophy of Science Charles University, Prague & the National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, Klecany Czechia --- Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor Director, Center of Excellence for Computational & System neuroscience, The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology Icahn school of medicine at Mount Sinai One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029 USA
Dead lyx
Due to my stupidity I had to re-install Texlive 2017 on my Lubuntu 18.10 system. Now Latex works fine (through Texworks) but Lyx does not. I reinstalled and reconfigured lyx, but cannot compile anything. I am sure similar panicky complaints have been seen here before-- can someone tell me what to do? I clicked on Check latex but got back: cannot run chcktex, or some such useless response. I can run pdflatex from the terminal and it works fine. Somehow, Lyx has to find out about my Texdead. Thanks, Ehud Kaplan --
Re: texlive or miktech
Like others, I have been using TexLive for years now (since it replaced EmTex), because it runs the same under Windows (which I still use sometime) and Linux (which I use most of the time). I also find that maintaining and updating using TexLive is easier than using MikTeX. EK On 03/02/2018 04:40 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Windows. (I ask for somebody else. I am on Linux) Wolfgang, Oh. Then I have no idea. Regards, Rich -- Ehud Kaplan Prague
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
Thanks, Paul, for the update. I guess I was totally wrong. Good to know about the Debian release, too. I suppose that will cover Ubuntu. Ehud Kaplan On 05/31/2017 08:57 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 05/31/2017 11:49 AM, udi wrote: I was under the impression that the Miktex developer has abandoned it in favor of TexLive, which works well on both Windows and Linux. Is that information inaccurate? Ehud Kaplan The most recent release came out three days ago, and the "roadmap" page shows plans through this coming winter. Christian seems to be planning a (first ever?) Debian installer, which would be odd for someone planning to yield the Windows platform to TeXLive. Paul
Re: Lyx/Latex Beamer Compatibility
I was under the impression that the Miktex developer has abandoned it in favor of TexLive, which works well on both Windows and Linux. Is that information inaccurate? Ehud Kaplan On 05/30/2017 03:03 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 05/29/2017 11:03 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: Hey Richard, I am pretty sure it is Windows, and it's the most recent version from miktex. I can ask her for the specifics though if you think it might help? -- We also need to know which LyX installer she used. There are two versions for Windows, the "installer" (52 MB) and the "bundle" (261 MB). The former relies on an existing MiKTeX installation; the latter installs a version of MiKTeX. If you use the bigger installer and you already have MiKTeX, you end up with two MiKTeX installations (the original is not replaced). So I wonder if she used the larger installer and, after uninstalling LyX, some trace of the LyX-installed MiKTeX distribution persisted? Paul -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Re: Why no new para after enumeration? (1.3.4)
Hello everyone. This solution (stdlist.inc) did not work for me.. I just tried it. The PDF file still have no indentation after enumerated lists. Has anyone found another way to solve this bug? Udi
Thanks
Thanks-- I installed 1.5.6, and although it complained of a conflict with lyx-common 1.5.5, after removing lyx-common and reinstalling lyx 1.5.6, everything seems to work. thanks for the help!
