Re: Fwd: Help with Lyx

[Christopher Menzel]

Trisha Lawrence wrote:

Hi Scott

I've currently uninstalled Lyx from my laptop. I've noticed on the 
lyx-users platform a suggestion to do that as well as downloading the 
following link below

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
Should this work? Would I still need to make any changes after 
downloading Lyx from the link above, like coping the layout packages 
from MiKTeX to LyX?

Trisha,

The link above takes you to an installer for a very old version (2.0.5) 
of LyX. You shouldn't use it.


In your email to me this morning you told me that LyX (well, more 
exactly, the LaTeX engine that it was calling) wasn't even finding 
article.cls, which is the most basic class file, which suggests to me 
that your problem (or, at least, one very basic problem) doesn't have 
anything to do with the problem of finding missing layouts discussed in 
the link in your original message. I think your best bet, short of a 
complete reinstall of Windows, is to reinstall the latest versions of 
MikTeX and LyX. MikTeX is found here <http://miktex.org/download>. You 
can download the latest version (2.1.2) of LyX for Windows by clicking 
here <ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.1.2/LyX-2.1.2-Installer-1.exe>.


You noted that you did some sort of "migration" from your old laptop to 
your new one, and those are notorious (on both Macs and Windows 
machines) for screwing things up. If you have the time and the patience, 
I suspect doing a fresh install of Windows on a clean drive, followed by 
fresh installs of MikTeX and LyX would solve your problems. If that 
isn't possible, once again, give the latest versions of MikTeX and LyX a 
shot.


> Also I can't seem to post any questions on Lyx-users platform.

You seem able to now. :-)

-chris


-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Kostyshak mailto:skost...@lyx.org>>
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Help with Lyx
To: Trisha Lawrence <mailto:trishalaw...@gmail.com>>
Cc: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>" 
mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>>, LyX 
Documentation Team <mailto:lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org>>



On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Trisha Lawrence 
mailto:trishalaw...@gmail.com>> wrote:

> HI
>
> I have recently obtained a new laptop and I am unable to obtain the 
document
> classes that were available in the Lyx docment processor of my old 
Laptop.
> I've followed the steps included in the link below which suggested 
copying
> the layout types to users then reconfiguring Lyx, however it still 
doesn't

> seem to work.
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts#toc1
>
> I remember getting tremendous help from someone@ Lyx-doc upon 
completing my

> thesis for my MSc. I am currently pursuing my PhD and this will help me
> immensely. Can anyone help in anyway?

Hi Trisha,

I think you meant to send this email to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
<mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> . I

will forward it to there. All future responses to this email should
not reply to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org>.

Best of luck,

Scott

Fwd: Help with Lyx

[Trisha Lawrence]

Hi Scott

I've currently uninstalled Lyx from my laptop. I've noticed on the
lyx-users platform a suggestion to do that as well as downloading the
following link below

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller

Should this work? Would I still need to make any changes after
downloading Lyx from the link above,

like coping the layout packages from MiKTeX to LyX?

Also I can't seem to post any questions on Lyx-users platform. I'd
really appreciate your help Scott.

Kindest Regards,
Trisha Lawrence


-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Kostyshak 
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Help with Lyx
To: Trisha Lawrence 
Cc: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" , LyX Documentation
Team 


On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Trisha Lawrence 
wrote:
> HI
>
> I have recently obtained a new laptop and I am unable to obtain the
document
> classes that were available in the Lyx docment processor of my old Laptop.
> I've followed the steps included in the link below which suggested copying
> the layout types to users then reconfiguring Lyx, however it still doesn't
> seem to work.
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts#toc1
>
> I remember getting tremendous help from someone@ Lyx-doc upon completing
my
> thesis for my MSc. I am currently pursuing my PhD and this will help me
> immensely. Can anyone help in anyway?

Hi Trisha,

I think you meant to send this email to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org . I
will forward it to there. All future responses to this email should
not reply to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org.

Best of luck,

Scott

Re: Help with Lyx

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Trisha Lawrence  wrote:
> HI
>
> I have recently obtained a new laptop and I am unable to obtain the document
> classes that were available in the Lyx docment processor of my old Laptop.
> I've followed the steps included in the link below which suggested copying
> the layout types to users then reconfiguring Lyx, however it still doesn't
> seem to work.
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts#toc1
>
> I remember getting tremendous help from someone@ Lyx-doc upon completing my
> thesis for my MSc. I am currently pursuing my PhD and this will help me
> immensely. Can anyone help in anyway?

Hi Trisha,

I think you meant to send this email to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org . I
will forward it to there. All future responses to this email should
not reply to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org.

Best of luck,

Scott

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

[phgrosjean]

I am currently away from my office. Not much time to work on this. Next
week will be very busy too. I'll save some times after that looking what
could be contributed to LyX 2.0.

To answer a question from David, there is little connection between this
and the rest of SciViews, except the default R code editor is configured
to be Komodo Edit/SciViews-K.

All the best,

Philippe

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

[David Hewitt]

Man, this will be awesome. To clarify, Prof. Grosjean, can you
indicate what specific connection this will require with SciViews? I
use Tinn-R for code editing, but my workflow with LyX-R-Sweave
requires no editor. Would the same be true for what you are
developing?

Lastly, I think I may have discovered part of the problem. Perhaps
someone on this list is familiar enough with LaTeX config in MiKTeX in
Windows to sort it out for me. It might be related to having some
MiKTeX packages as "All Users" that are installed and updated with
Admin privileges and others that are specific to my own account. I get
a Windows API Error if I run texify.exe on a file:

Windows API error 14001: This application has failed to start because the
application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application
may fix this problem.
texify: Data: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application
Data\MiKTeX\2.8\miktex\bin\pdflatex.EXE

But if I run pdflatex.exe (which I believe calls the EXE in C:\Program
Files\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin) on the same file, it all works.

In general, I don't understand the details of pdflatex, texify,
texi2dvi, etc. that are used in the processing, and how they relate to
each other. If I did, I could probably troubleshoot this more easily.

- Dave


On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:45 AM,   wrote:
> It's a couple of months that I prepare an alternate, complete LyX/R/Sweave
> solution (for SciViews). It provides more than just the possibility to
> weaving/tangling LyX documents (new styles, menu entries and toolbar
> buttons to easily create various R chunks, a weaving/tangling log or
> errors or warnings, Sweave features contaibned in a LyX module, etc.)
>
> It is not completely finished, but pretty usable for now. If you like, I
> have put everything in a zip file you can get from here:
> http://www.sciviews.org/LyX/SciViewsLyX16.zip. Then, follow the ReadMe.txt
> file included in it.
>
> Take care: it completely replaces your whole LyX configuration! You have
> to backup it first (as explained in the ReadMe.txt file).
>
> With this version, R only converts the LyX file to .tex and LyX does the
> rest like producing a DVI, PDF or PS. Also, you can produce the .Rnw file
> to compile it outside of LyX (useful for packages vignettes, for
> instance).
>
> I have it also running on Mac OS X and Linux, but the files and
> instructions in the link provided above are for Windows only (tested on
> Windows XP sp3). Please, ask me later on for the other configs... but for
> today, I don't have time to compile them.
>
> Best,
>
> Philippe Grosjean
>
> On 09/04/10 00:41, David Hewitt wrote:
 I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the
 background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and
 finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in
 the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the
 PDF because the PDF does not exist. Indeed, if I check the temp
 directory
 for LyX, all files are present but the PDF. I get no other warnings or
 errors from texi2dvi and cannot figure out why this happens.

>>> Did you look at Document>  LaTeX log? Sometimes it will display errors
>>> that are not popped-up by LyX.
>>
>> That menu item is greyed out, presumably because I used a converter
>> through the batch file to make the PDF, so LyX wasn't really doing the
>> work (and thus does not have record of the transaction?).
>>
 Can someone help me figure out why texi2dvi fails to produce a PDF?
 Does anyone know if it is perhaps something about MiKTeX and the way
 the texi2dvi.exe works? Might it be possible to bypass that program
 and do the conversion via LyX more directly after R finishes the
 Sweaving and Stangling?

>>> Did you try pdflatex, or ps2pdf?
>>
>> Yeah, pdflatex works a charm when called on the tex file resulting
>> from Sweaving directly from the command line. That's what I was
>> getting at here. It seems like the issue is in R's function texi2dvi
>> (which calls MiKTeX's texi2dvi.exe to do the work), so I was hoping
>> there was some way to let the converter in LyX run the batch file,
>> pass the Sweaving/Stangling and TeX file production off to R, then
>> come back and run pdflatex out of LyX to get the PDF from the TeX
>> file. Surely this is possible?

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

[Pavel Sanda]

phgrosj...@sciviews.org wrote:
> I have it also running on Mac OS X and Linux, but the files and
> instructions in the link provided above are for Windows only (tested on
> Windows XP sp3). Please, ask me later on for the other configs... but for
> today, I don't have time to compile them.

fyi there should better support in lyx 2.0 and in case you want something
to contribute directly into lyx distribution, its just the right time to
check out lyx 2.0 alpha and discuss things on devel list so 2.0 is compatible...

pavel

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

[phgrosjean]

It's a couple of months that I prepare an alternate, complete LyX/R/Sweave
solution (for SciViews). It provides more than just the possibility to
weaving/tangling LyX documents (new styles, menu entries and toolbar
buttons to easily create various R chunks, a weaving/tangling log or
errors or warnings, Sweave features contaibned in a LyX module, etc.)

It is not completely finished, but pretty usable for now. If you like, I
have put everything in a zip file you can get from here:
http://www.sciviews.org/LyX/SciViewsLyX16.zip. Then, follow the ReadMe.txt
file included in it.

Take care: it completely replaces your whole LyX configuration! You have
to backup it first (as explained in the ReadMe.txt file).

With this version, R only converts the LyX file to .tex and LyX does the
rest like producing a DVI, PDF or PS. Also, you can produce the .Rnw file
to compile it outside of LyX (useful for packages vignettes, for
instance).

I have it also running on Mac OS X and Linux, but the files and
instructions in the link provided above are for Windows only (tested on
Windows XP sp3). Please, ask me later on for the other configs... but for
today, I don't have time to compile them.

Best,

Philippe Grosjean

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( ( ( ( (Prof. Philippe Grosjean
 ) ) ) ) )
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 ) ) ) ) )   Mons University, Belgium
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..

On 09/04/10 00:41, David Hewitt wrote:
>>> I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the
>>> background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and
>>> finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in
>>> the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the
>>> PDF because the PDF does not exist. Indeed, if I check the temp
>>> directory
>>> for LyX, all files are present but the PDF. I get no other warnings or
>>> errors from texi2dvi and cannot figure out why this happens.
>>>
>> Did you look at Document>  LaTeX log? Sometimes it will display errors
>> that are not popped-up by LyX.
>
> That menu item is greyed out, presumably because I used a converter
> through the batch file to make the PDF, so LyX wasn't really doing the
> work (and thus does not have record of the transaction?).
>
>>> Can someone help me figure out why texi2dvi fails to produce a PDF?
>>> Does anyone know if it is perhaps something about MiKTeX and the way
>>> the texi2dvi.exe works? Might it be possible to bypass that program
>>> and do the conversion via LyX more directly after R finishes the
>>> Sweaving and Stangling?
>>>
>> Did you try pdflatex, or ps2pdf?
>
> Yeah, pdflatex works a charm when called on the tex file resulting
> from Sweaving directly from the command line. That's what I was
> getting at here. It seems like the issue is in R's function texi2dvi
> (which calls MiKTeX's texi2dvi.exe to do the work), so I was hoping
> there was some way to let the converter in LyX run the batch file,
> pass the Sweaving/Stangling and TeX file production off to R, then
> come back and run pdflatex out of LyX to get the PDF from the TeX
> file. Surely this is possible?
>
>
> Thanks a million for the help!
>
>

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

[David Hewitt]

>> I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the
>> background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and
>> finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in
>> the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the
>> PDF because the PDF does not exist. Indeed, if I check the temp
>> directory
>> for LyX, all files are present but the PDF. I get no other warnings or
>> errors from texi2dvi and cannot figure out why this happens.
>>
> Did you look at Document > LaTeX log? Sometimes it will display errors
> that are not popped-up by LyX.

That menu item is greyed out, presumably because I used a converter
through the batch file to make the PDF, so LyX wasn't really doing the
work (and thus does not have record of the transaction?).

>> Can someone help me figure out why texi2dvi fails to produce a PDF?
>> Does anyone know if it is perhaps something about MiKTeX and the way
>> the texi2dvi.exe works? Might it be possible to bypass that program
>> and do the conversion via LyX more directly after R finishes the
>> Sweaving and Stangling?
>>
> Did you try pdflatex, or ps2pdf?

Yeah, pdflatex works a charm when called on the tex file resulting
from Sweaving directly from the command line. That's what I was
getting at here. It seems like the issue is in R's function texi2dvi
(which calls MiKTeX's texi2dvi.exe to do the work), so I was hoping
there was some way to let the converter in LyX run the batch file,
pass the Sweaving/Stangling and TeX file production off to R, then
come back and run pdflatex out of LyX to get the PDF from the TeX
file. Surely this is possible?


Thanks a million for the help!

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello
I am not sure that I can help in this case, but I will still throw some ideas.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:28 PM, David Hewitt  wrote:
> This is a bit of a tangent from true LyX issues, but it is related and
> I suspect the expertise exists on this list to solve my problem. I
> appreciate any help. For those also on the R-Help mailing list, I
> apologize for the duplication.
>
> I use LyX on a Windows XP machine with R 2.10.1 and a recent
> installation of MiKTeX 2.8. I followed Jeff Laake's instructions on
> the LyX Wiki (which I recently posted! --
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave) and had things all set
> up to run Sweave and Stangle and then make the PDF through R (though a
> batch script called from LyX then on to a MakeSweave.R file that does
> the work through R). All of this system worked just fine until I ran
> some MiKTeX updates yesterday.
>
> After the updates yesterday, which I noticed included the miktex core
> stuff, everything goes smoothly except that the code in the
> MakeSweave.R file that runs texi2dvi (an R function that calls the
> MiKTeX-distributed texi2dvi.exe to do the work) seems not to produce a
> PDF but gives no warnings or errors.
>
> The contents of the batch file are:
>
> Rterm --no-site-file --no-save -f "C:/Program Files/LyX
> 1.6.5/bin/MakeSweave.R" --args %1
>
> The batch file is called in the temporary directory where LyX does its work,
>
> The MakeSweave.R contents are:
>
> library(tools)
> args <- commandArgs()
> filename <- args[length(args)]
> Sweave(filename)
> Stangle(filename)
> basename <- sub("\\.(Rnw|Rtex|nw)$", "", filename)
> texi2dvi(paste(basename, ".tex", sep=""), pdf=TRUE)
>
> I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the
> background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and
> finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in
> the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the
> PDF because the PDF does not exist. Indeed, if I check the temp
> directory
> for LyX, all files are present but the PDF. I get no other warnings or
> errors from texi2dvi and cannot figure out why this happens.
>
Did you look at Document > LaTeX log? Sometimes it will display errors
that are not popped-up by LyX.


> Can someone help me figure out why texi2dvi fails to produce a PDF?
> Does anyone know if it is perhaps something about MiKTeX and the way
> the texi2dvi.exe works? Might it be possible to bypass that program
> and do the conversion via LyX more directly after R finishes the
> Sweaving and Stangling?
>
Did you try pdflatex, or ps2pdf?
Liviu


> A potential complication (as always) is that I am working in a
> non-Admin account on the machine. I can invoke Admin permissions to
> change things and had managed to get everything working before.
> Permissions may be an issue, but I have set full access to all the
> folders involved in this process (R, LyX, MiKTeX bins for example),
> and this got it working prior to updates. I am hoping that is not it.
> It seems like an issue with texi2dvi.
>
> Dave Hewitt
> Research Fishery Biologist
> USGS Western Fisheries Research Center
> Klamath Falls Field Station, Oregon
> http://profile.usgs.gov/dhewitt
>



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A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

[David Hewitt]

This is a bit of a tangent from true LyX issues, but it is related and
I suspect the expertise exists on this list to solve my problem. I
appreciate any help. For those also on the R-Help mailing list, I
apologize for the duplication.

I use LyX on a Windows XP machine with R 2.10.1 and a recent
installation of MiKTeX 2.8. I followed Jeff Laake's instructions on
the LyX Wiki (which I recently posted! --
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave) and had things all set
up to run Sweave and Stangle and then make the PDF through R (though a
batch script called from LyX then on to a MakeSweave.R file that does
the work through R). All of this system worked just fine until I ran
some MiKTeX updates yesterday.

After the updates yesterday, which I noticed included the miktex core
stuff, everything goes smoothly except that the code in the
MakeSweave.R file that runs texi2dvi (an R function that calls the
MiKTeX-distributed texi2dvi.exe to do the work) seems not to produce a
PDF but gives no warnings or errors.

The contents of the batch file are:

Rterm --no-site-file --no-save -f "C:/Program Files/LyX
1.6.5/bin/MakeSweave.R" --args %1

The batch file is called in the temporary directory where LyX does its work,

The MakeSweave.R contents are:

library(tools)
args <- commandArgs()
filename <- args[length(args)]
Sweave(filename)
Stangle(filename)
basename <- sub("\\.(Rnw|Rtex|nw)$", "", filename)
texi2dvi(paste(basename, ".tex", sep=""), pdf=TRUE)

I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the
background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and
finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in
the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the
PDF because the PDF does not exist. Indeed, if I check the temp
directory
for LyX, all files are present but the PDF. I get no other warnings or
errors from texi2dvi and cannot figure out why this happens.

Can someone help me figure out why texi2dvi fails to produce a PDF?
Does anyone know if it is perhaps something about MiKTeX and the way
the texi2dvi.exe works? Might it be possible to bypass that program
and do the conversion via LyX more directly after R finishes the
Sweaving and Stangling?

A potential complication (as always) is that I am working in a
non-Admin account on the machine. I can invoke Admin permissions to
change things and had managed to get everything working before.
Permissions may be an issue, but I have set full access to all the
folders involved in this process (R, LyX, MiKTeX bins for example),
and this got it working prior to updates. I am hoping that is not it.
It seems like an issue with texi2dvi.

Dave Hewitt
Research Fishery Biologist
USGS Western Fisheries Research Center
Klamath Falls Field Station, Oregon
http://profile.usgs.gov/dhewitt

Re: help with lyx

[James C. Sutherland]

On Jun 15, 2009, at 6:09 AM, esrone noel wrote:


Good day,
Is there a way to write your name in the background using lyx or an  
option to write your name on every page
without manually inserting your name on every page..I am trying  
to do

this to prevent plagiarism of my documentPlease help


Try using the fancy headers.  Document -> Settings -> Page Layout ->  
Headings style -> fancy


Then add to your preamble:
\lhead{left header text}
\rhead{right header text}

See also the docs on the fancyhdr package:
http://tug.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf

help with lyx

[esrone noel]

Good day,
Is there a way to write your name in the background using lyx or an option to 
write your name on every page
without manually inserting your name on every page..I am trying to do
this to prevent plagiarism of my documentPlease help


  

Re: Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Uwe Stöhr]

Andrew Thomson schrieb:


I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.


This was a bug in the Windows installer we fixed in the meantime. The next LyX version will be 
released about this weekend. So I suggest to wait until it is released, then uninstall Aspell _and_ 
all of its installed dictionaries you find in the installed software list in Windows system 
settings. Afterwards install LyX 1.6.2 using the alternative LyX for Windows installer.

(You can leave LyX 1.5.6 installed.)

regards Uwe

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Andrew Thomson]

Hi all

I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.

I am using the LyXWinInstaller version of LyX 1.5.6, and the Preferences
box shows that I am using the aspell ('library') version. I have
specified a file path for my personal dictionary, but the file remains
empty.

I have installed the aspell6-en-6.0-0 and aspell6-uk-1.4.0-0 dictionary
files,
and these have sent files to ApplicationData in my profile. I am set up
using
a roaming profile, but I have set LyX to save documents and my personal
dictionary to a folder in my (out-of-profile) C:\ directory.

Any tips on how to debug this problem? Can I do something to make LyX tell
me when it's failed to save my personal dictionary, and why it might have
failed?

Regrads,


Andy

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Re: Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Paul A. Rubin]

Andrew Thomson wrote:

Hi all

I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.

I am using the LyXWinInstaller version of LyX 1.5.6, and the Preferences
box shows that I am using the aspell ('library') version. I have
specified a file path for my personal dictionary, but the file remains
empty.

I have installed the aspell6-en-6.0-0 and aspell6-uk-1.4.0-0 dictionary
files,
and these have sent files to ApplicationData in my profile. I am set up
using
a roaming profile, but I have set LyX to save documents and my personal
dictionary to a folder in my (out-of-profile) C:\ directory.

Any tips on how to debug this problem? Can I do something to make LyX tell
me when it's failed to save my personal dictionary, and why it might have
failed?



I had this problem with LyX 1.5.6 (without the roaming profile issue), 
and I can't recall what the cause was, because there were a couple of 
Aspell issues going on concurrently.  One was whether Aspell (the copy 
used by LyX) and its dictionaries were both installed the same way -- 
sometimes one is installed for a single user and the other for "all 
users", which is a different directory tree -- and the other was that I 
had a full installation of Aspell left over from an earlier version of 
LyX, and earlier versions required that it be installed in C:\Aspell. 
What worked for me was to leave the full version in C:\Aspell alone, add 
a subdirectory C:\Aspell\Personal, and in Tools > Preferences... > 
Language Settings > Spellchecker set the path to the personal dictionary 
to C:\Aspell\Personal\en.pws.


HTH,
Paul

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Andrew Thomson]

Hi all

I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.

I am using the LyXWinInstaller version of LyX 1.5.6, and the Preferences
box shows that I am using the aspell ('library') version. I have
specified a file path for my personal dictionary, but the file remains
empty.

I have installed the aspell6-en-6.0-0 and aspell6-uk-1.4.0-0 dictionary
files,
and these have sent files to ApplicationData in my profile. I am set up
using
a roaming profile, but I have set LyX to save documents and my personal
dictionary to a folder in my (out-of-profile) C:\ directory.

Any tips on how to debug this problem? Can I do something to make LyX tell
me when it's failed to save my personal dictionary, and why it might have
failed?

Regrads,


Andy

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Re: help with LyX-Code (or verbatim in ERT) and wrapping

[Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL]

You can use the listings LaTeX package : it has automatic breaking of 
long lines, and it is fully integrated in LyX.


Siegfried.

help with LyX-Code (or verbatim in ERT) and wrapping

[Stacia Hartleben]

Hi guys. I am finishing up a paper for my algorithms class and I ran
into a little snag when it comes to displaying code and wrapping.

1. Sometimes very long lines are simply cut off (!) Take for example
this long output of a sorting algorithm: (100   100   100   98   96
95   95   92   91   91   83   83   80   79   78   78   75   73   73
66   64   62   60   57   56   55   53   52   44   43   43   40   39
38   37   36   34   32   28   28   27   26   5   4   4   4   4   3   1
  1). That goes way off the screen never to be seen again.
2. I was having some problems with things hyphenating, rendering the
actual code displayed useless. I seem to have fixed them by making the
font really small but I suspect they would pop up again if I made the
font big again, so sorry I don't have an example.

Any pointers?

Re: help with lyx headings

[Nicolás]

Hi!

This might be of help:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg13569.html

Nicolás

Valentina Tancini wrote:
Hi 
I hope this is the right way to ask help with lyx.

I'm writing my thesis with lyx and I have the following problem:
Since I don't want that the introduction is considered as a Chapter I use
Chapter*, and to have this in the Table of Contents I write il Latex Mode

addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}
\chaptermark{INTRODUCTION}

just before the introduction.

The problem is that the heading of the page is "Chapter 0 : INTRODUCTION"
instad of simply "INTRODUCTION".
Furthermore this heading appear in the last page of the table of contents
instead of "CONTENTS"...

Any idea to solve this?

Cheers

Valentina

help with lyx headings

[Valentina Tancini]

Hi 
I hope this is the right way to ask help with lyx.
I'm writing my thesis with lyx and I have the following problem:
Since I don't want that the introduction is considered as a Chapter I use
Chapter*, and to have this in the Table of Contents I write il Latex Mode

addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}
\chaptermark{INTRODUCTION}

just before the introduction.

The problem is that the heading of the page is "Chapter 0 : INTRODUCTION"
instad of simply "INTRODUCTION".
Furthermore this heading appear in the last page of the table of contents
instead of "CONTENTS"...

Any idea to solve this?

Cheers

Valentina

Re: help with lyx-qt and fonts

[Ronald Florence]

Khurom Kiyani wrote:

I have a problem with the screen fonts on my LyX-Qt 1.3.3. I installed 
it on my Mac OS X using Fink. All the greek letters, integrals and near 
abouts all math symbols turn out funny i.e. gobbledy gook. If i switch 
to the old xforms version everything is back to normal again. 
LyX/Mac is based on the Qt/Mac library and gets the math symbols right. 
 Try .
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Re: help with lyx-qt and fonts

[Christian Ridderström]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Khurom Kiyani wrote:

> Hello fellow LyX users & gurus,
> 
> I have a problem with the screen fonts on my LyX-Qt 1.3.3. I installed 
> it on my Mac OS X using Fink. All the greek letters, integrals and near 
> abouts all math symbols turn out funny i.e. gobbledy gook. If i switch 
> to the old xforms version everything is back to normal again. But i 
> would like to be able to use the qt version if i can.
> 
> Can someone help me out with this please. Thanks

Try the FAQ pages, e.g.
http://wiki.lyx.org/beta/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Qt

/Christian

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help with lyx-qt and fonts

[Khurom Kiyani]

Hello fellow LyX users & gurus,

I have a problem with the screen fonts on my LyX-Qt 1.3.3. I installed 
it on my Mac OS X using Fink. All the greek letters, integrals and near 
abouts all math symbols turn out funny i.e. gobbledy gook. If i switch 
to the old xforms version everything is back to normal again. But i 
would like to be able to use the qt version if i can.

Can someone help me out with this please. Thanks

Khurom

Re: Help with lyx for windows

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Fabrizio Giammatteo wrote:

> When I try to start lyx it says: "Unable to access X display - exiting"

See your X-server documentation how you can change the access
control. Usually X servers accept connections originating from the same
machine you're running it (localhost) but not from anywhere else.
On Unix you could try
xhost +
command to disable access control and allow connections from everywhere.
Try something similar -- as a test -- with your X server.

HOWEVER! Do not leave access control disabled for your normal
use. Otherwise anyone could connect your X server and give any commands,
maybe opening a terminal window and sending d, e, l, , c, :, \, *, ., *
keypresses.

Re: Help with lyx for windows

[Amer Abufadel]

Here is what your lyxprofile should look like:


# Set up your home directory (in Cygwin syntax)
export HOME="//d/LyxDocs"

# Set up your Language (if you do not want English)
#export LANG=DE

# 
# Below this line you should not change anything if you're
# not familiar with configuration of an unix application!
# 
export PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:$PATH"
export USER="`id -un`"
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
export MAKE_MODE=unix

unset DOSDRIVE
unset DOSDIR
unset TMPDIR
unset TMP

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
  if [ -f $i ]; then
. $i
  fi
done

cd "$HOME"

test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc
*
and your runlyx.bat in your cygwin directory should look like:

*
@echo off
:: START YOUR X-SERVER HERE

:: First change into its directory (The path should
:: be quoted if there is any space character in it!)
:: Then call the executable, i.e. xwin32 here!
:: 
echo "Starting X-Win32 ..."
cd "F:\Program Files\StarNet\X-Win32"
start .\xwin32.exe

:: Change your geometry settings in the last line so
:: the LyX window will fit on your screen!
:: 
cd F:\cygwin\bin
start .\lyxwin32.exe -geometry 900x800+100+5
*
When you start lyx, this is the file that you run, not any other.  It starts
your X server then Lyx.
Hope this helps,
Amer


- Original Message -
From: "Fabrizio Giammatteo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: Help with lyx for windows


> Hi,
> This is my second mail on topic, but I don't know how to solve my problem
> in other ways.
>
> I've installed lyx for windows (1.1.6 fixc) in this environment:
>
> - Pc Laptop Pentium III (Acer 524TE)
> - Windows Millenium Edition
> - cygwin
> - X-win32 or Exceed
> - MikTex
>
> When I try to start lyx it says: "Unable to access X display - exiting"
>
> Someone told me to modify the DISPLAY variable in the file /etc/lyxprofile
> in order to change the value localhost to the true IP address of my
> machine, but nothing seems to change.
>
> I have no firewall or other protections.
>
> Someone could help me ???
> Thanks a lot
>
> Fabrizio
>
> Fabrizio Giammatteo
> Information Engineering
>
> Web: www.fgiamma.org
> Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 47901548
>
>
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>

Help with lyx for windows

[Fabrizio Giammatteo]

Hi,
This is my second mail on topic, but I don't know how to solve my problem 
in other ways.

I've installed lyx for windows (1.1.6 fixc) in this environment:

- Pc Laptop Pentium III (Acer 524TE)
- Windows Millenium Edition
- cygwin
- X-win32 or Exceed
- MikTex

When I try to start lyx it says: "Unable to access X display - exiting"

Someone told me to modify the DISPLAY variable in the file /etc/lyxprofile 
in order to change the value localhost to the true IP address of my 
machine, but nothing seems to change.

I have no firewall or other protections.

Someone could help me ???
Thanks a lot

Fabrizio

Fabrizio Giammatteo
Information Engineering

Web: www.fgiamma.org
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 47901548


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Re: Help with Lyx for windows

[Claus Hentschel]

> Hi,
> My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word
> instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two
x-servers:
>
> Exceed
> Xwin32
>
> When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display -
Exiting,
> with all the x-servers above.
>
> Anyone can help me ??

Just for information what I have been answered to that topic some days ago:


There may be two reasons for that:

1. Edit C:\Cygwin\lyxprofile and set the correct IP address, followed by an
':0' for DISPLAY. If you have an Ethernet card installed on your system
please use it's IP address instead of 127.0.0.1! Most X-Servers
automatically serve the default IP address of your system. 127.0.0.1 (or
localhost, i.e. the corresponding net name) is only valifd if you do have a
DUN on your system.

2. If you have installed a firewall on your system (like me) than you have
to create a new rule so that LyX can connect to the X-server. (Take a look
at your firewall distributor, to learn how this has to be made!)

> I use the x-server Exceed from Hummingbird which worked correctly in the
> previous release.

Because it was running I expect that editing lyxprofile could fix the
problem!


Claus

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Fabrizio Giammatteo wrote:

> When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, 
> with all the x-servers above.

You could try setting environment variables like
set DISPLAY=localhost:0
and replace localhost with your computer's name if the above doesn't work.
Or try running lyx with argument "-display localhost:0"

Can you run remotely X programs from real unix computers?

Help with Lyx for windows

[Fabrizio Giammatteo]

Hi,
My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word 
instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers:

Exceed
Xwin32

When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, 
with all the x-servers above.

Anyone can help me ??

Thanks
Fabrizio