Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  21:28,  Typhoon wrote:
 Install the package tex4ht
 

that got it - many thanks
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Pavel Sanda]

William Seager wrote:
 I wasn't suggesting you switch to gentoo !! :) Please do stay away.

:))

btw one can look directly into lyx ebuild for dependencies to get an idea
what is possible to install on the top of lyx itself...

pavel

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  21:28,  Typhoon wrote:
 Install the package tex4ht
 

that got it - many thanks
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Pavel Sanda]

William Seager wrote:
 I wasn't suggesting you switch to gentoo !! :) Please do stay away.

:))

btw one can look directly into lyx ebuild for dependencies to get an idea
what is possible to install on the top of lyx itself...

pavel

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  21:28,  Typhoon wrote:
> Install the package tex4ht
> 

that got it - many thanks
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Pavel Sanda]

William Seager wrote:
> I wasn't suggesting you switch to gentoo !! :) Please do stay away.

:))

btw one can look directly into lyx ebuild for dependencies to get an idea
what is possible to install on the top of lyx itself...

pavel

LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[0]

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft..nl 
wrote:

 From: Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl
 Subject: Re: help!
 To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 9:41 AM
 
  Will I have to start using Linux to have this View -
 OpenDocument command work? Then, why don't LyX developers
 throw this command away from LyX Windows installation...
    
 
 We can't help that the third-party utilities are not
 correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the
 websites of these utilities and find out how you can
 properly install them.
 
 
 Vincent
 


I installed LyX this week. I liked the document processing paradigm of LyX. The 
formatting it does is fascinating. Simply adorable... LyX is a comfortable 
formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of 
thoughts... 

I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... Then, 
I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I see that 
opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for expert users. 

Then, I have to (I unfortunately have no other choice) uninstall LyX and to 
continue using Open Office Org Writer to insert formulas. That one is really 
very uncomfortable. You have to type the TeX code in  manually.

I had been doing it for several months when I found LyX this week. I thought it 
was the solution to my plenty of math. It turned out that it isn't... I am 
really very sorry.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

 

 We can't help that the third-party utilities are not
 correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the
 websites of these utilities and find out how you can
 properly install them.


 I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... 
 Then, I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I 
 see that opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for 
 expert users.


I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
OpenDocument easily  (from FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
*,odt. When I open this file using OpenOffice and if I double click
the equations created by LyX it will be in OpenOffice equation, all
equations can be edited and continued in OpenOffice without any
problems.

Regards
Waluyo

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[0]

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. 
 Math  inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX 
 sorry  unfortunately I have no other choice
 To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:19 AM
  
 
  We can't help that the third-party utilities are
 not
  correctly installed on your system. Please turn to
 the
  websites of these utilities and find out how you
 can
  properly install them.
 
 
  I thought I could export to opendocument, where
 formulas are editable... Then, I could send it to anybody -
 and anybody could edit the math Now I see that
 opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even
 for expert users.
 
 
 I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can
 export to
 OpenDocument easily  (from
 FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
 *,odt. When I open this file using OpenOffice and if I
 double click
 the equations created by LyX it will be in OpenOffice
 equation, all
 equations can be edited and continued in OpenOffice without
 any
 problems.
 
 Regards
 Waluyo
 

You tell me to try to install LyX at Ubuntu 8.10. This CAN most probably BE a 
solution. Thank you, Waluyo.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
 I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
 OpenDocument easily  (from FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
 *,odt.
 

I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to OpenDocument
option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo linux).

Is there some package I need to install that will
add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ... but
no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

cheers,
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[0]

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, William Seager sea...@utsc.utoronto.ca wrote:

 From: William Seager sea...@utsc.utoronto.ca
 Subject: Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. 
 Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry 
 unfortunately I have no other choice
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:51 AM
 On  Tuesday 02 February
 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
  I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can
 export to
  OpenDocument easily  (from
 FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
  *,odt.
  
 
 I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export
 to OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
 linux).


Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning me against 
it. As you can see from previous replies to my original request, this is a 
problem of MikTeX external tools and somebody said that this list can't do 
anything with this problem...

 
 Is there some package I need to install that will
 add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and
 html ... but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.
 
 cheers,
 -- 
 William Seager
 University of Toronto Scarborough
 www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Tommaso Cucinotta]

0 wrote:
I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... Then, I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I see that opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for expert users. 


Then, I have to (I unfortunately have no other choice) uninstall LyX and to 
continue using Open Office Org Writer to insert formulas.
Well, there's always another choice. You can still send it to others -- 
just tell them to install LyX, it's cross-platform :-) and open-source, 
so anybody can edit those maths . . .
Or, just try digging a little bit more in that odt conversion, and if 
you succeed please tell us how to improve the documentation.


   T.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:51:18 -0500
William Seager sea...@utsc.utoronto.ca wrote:

 On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
  I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
  OpenDocument easily  (from FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
  *,odt.
  
 
 I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to
 OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
 linux).
 
 Is there some package I need to install that will
 add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ...
 but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

Install the package tex4ht and then use the script oolatex. I don't
know about other systems, but oolatex is not on the excecution path of
Debian - you need to use the full path or put in a symbolic link
somewhere on your execution path.

The other problem is that there is (was?) a bug in tex4ht that requires
you to use the actual Sun Java JRE. The substitute that comes with most
Linux distributions leaves an empty .odt document.

I have converted quite large documents using this package: 600+ page
books with multiple indexes and a zillion cross-references.

HTH,
Alan

 
 cheers,
 -- 
 William Seager
 University of Toronto Scarborough
 www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

SNIP

tex4ht is availablel for Windows. I have no idea how well it works or
what it takes to install it. One set of instructions are here:

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn-mswin.html

As Vincent said, installation of some of these programs is not the
responsibility of LyX developers.

Alan

   
 
 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  21:09,  0 wrote:
 Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning me
  against it. As you can see from previous replies to my original request,
  this is a problem of MikTeX external tools and somebody said that this
  list can't do anything with this problem...
 

I wasn't suggesting you switch to gentoo !! :) Please do stay away.

And the option to save as OpenDocument was from somebody
running linux (ubuntu). So my confusion is growing.
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:51:18 -0500
William Seager sea...@utsc.utoronto.ca wrote:

 On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
  I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
  OpenDocument easily  (from FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
  *,odt.
  
 
 I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to
 OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
 linux).
 
 Is there some package I need to install that will
 add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ...
 but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

I just checked the installation on a Ubuntu Koala Karmic machine:
oolatex is found at /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex which is not on the
execution path.

The easiest solution is to make a symbolic link:

a...@windy:~/ sudo ln
-s /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex /usr/local/bin/oolatex

(all on one line - Sylpheed seems to insist on wrapping).


 
 cheers,
 -- 
 William Seager
 University of Toronto Scarborough
 www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
 

LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[0]

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft..nl 
wrote:

 From: Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl
 Subject: Re: help!
 To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 9:41 AM
 
  Will I have to start using Linux to have this View -
 OpenDocument command work? Then, why don't LyX developers
 throw this command away from LyX Windows installation...
    
 
 We can't help that the third-party utilities are not
 correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the
 websites of these utilities and find out how you can
 properly install them.
 
 
 Vincent
 


I installed LyX this week. I liked the document processing paradigm of LyX. The 
formatting it does is fascinating. Simply adorable... LyX is a comfortable 
formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of 
thoughts... 

I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... Then, 
I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I see that 
opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for expert users. 

Then, I have to (I unfortunately have no other choice) uninstall LyX and to 
continue using Open Office Org Writer to insert formulas. That one is really 
very uncomfortable. You have to type the TeX code in  manually.

I had been doing it for several months when I found LyX this week. I thought it 
was the solution to my plenty of math. It turned out that it isn't... I am 
really very sorry.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

 

 We can't help that the third-party utilities are not
 correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the
 websites of these utilities and find out how you can
 properly install them.


 I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... 
 Then, I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I 
 see that opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for 
 expert users.


I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
OpenDocument easily  (from FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
*,odt. When I open this file using OpenOffice and if I double click
the equations created by LyX it will be in OpenOffice equation, all
equations can be edited and continued in OpenOffice without any
problems.

Regards
Waluyo

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[0]

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. 
 Math  inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX 
 sorry  unfortunately I have no other choice
 To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:19 AM
  
 
  We can't help that the third-party utilities are
 not
  correctly installed on your system. Please turn to
 the
  websites of these utilities and find out how you
 can
  properly install them.
 
 
  I thought I could export to opendocument, where
 formulas are editable... Then, I could send it to anybody -
 and anybody could edit the math Now I see that
 opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even
 for expert users.
 
 
 I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can
 export to
 OpenDocument easily  (from
 FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
 *,odt. When I open this file using OpenOffice and if I
 double click
 the equations created by LyX it will be in OpenOffice
 equation, all
 equations can be edited and continued in OpenOffice without
 any
 problems.
 
 Regards
 Waluyo
 

You tell me to try to install LyX at Ubuntu 8.10. This CAN most probably BE a 
solution. Thank you, Waluyo.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
 I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
 OpenDocument easily  (from FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
 *,odt.
 

I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to OpenDocument
option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo linux).

Is there some package I need to install that will
add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ... but
no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

cheers,
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[0]

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, William Seager sea...@utsc.utoronto.ca wrote:

 From: William Seager sea...@utsc.utoronto.ca
 Subject: Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. 
 Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry 
 unfortunately I have no other choice
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:51 AM
 On  Tuesday 02 February
 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
  I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can
 export to
  OpenDocument easily  (from
 FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
  *,odt.
  
 
 I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export
 to OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
 linux).


Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning me against 
it. As you can see from previous replies to my original request, this is a 
problem of MikTeX external tools and somebody said that this list can't do 
anything with this problem...

 
 Is there some package I need to install that will
 add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and
 html ... but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.
 
 cheers,
 -- 
 William Seager
 University of Toronto Scarborough
 www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Tommaso Cucinotta]

0 wrote:
I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... Then, I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I see that opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for expert users. 


Then, I have to (I unfortunately have no other choice) uninstall LyX and to 
continue using Open Office Org Writer to insert formulas.
Well, there's always another choice. You can still send it to others -- 
just tell them to install LyX, it's cross-platform :-) and open-source, 
so anybody can edit those maths . . .
Or, just try digging a little bit more in that odt conversion, and if 
you succeed please tell us how to improve the documentation.


   T.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:51:18 -0500
William Seager sea...@utsc.utoronto.ca wrote:

 On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
  I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
  OpenDocument easily  (from FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
  *,odt.
  
 
 I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to
 OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
 linux).
 
 Is there some package I need to install that will
 add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ...
 but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

Install the package tex4ht and then use the script oolatex. I don't
know about other systems, but oolatex is not on the excecution path of
Debian - you need to use the full path or put in a symbolic link
somewhere on your execution path.

The other problem is that there is (was?) a bug in tex4ht that requires
you to use the actual Sun Java JRE. The substitute that comes with most
Linux distributions leaves an empty .odt document.

I have converted quite large documents using this package: 600+ page
books with multiple indexes and a zillion cross-references.

HTH,
Alan

 
 cheers,
 -- 
 William Seager
 University of Toronto Scarborough
 www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

SNIP

tex4ht is availablel for Windows. I have no idea how well it works or
what it takes to install it. One set of instructions are here:

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn-mswin.html

As Vincent said, installation of some of these programs is not the
responsibility of LyX developers.

Alan

   
 
 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  21:09,  0 wrote:
 Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning me
  against it. As you can see from previous replies to my original request,
  this is a problem of MikTeX external tools and somebody said that this
  list can't do anything with this problem...
 

I wasn't suggesting you switch to gentoo !! :) Please do stay away.

And the option to save as OpenDocument was from somebody
running linux (ubuntu). So my confusion is growing.
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:51:18 -0500
William Seager sea...@utsc.utoronto.ca wrote:

 On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
  I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
  OpenDocument easily  (from FileExportOpenDocument) and it creates
  *,odt.
  
 
 I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to
 OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
 linux).
 
 Is there some package I need to install that will
 add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ...
 but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

I just checked the installation on a Ubuntu Koala Karmic machine:
oolatex is found at /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex which is not on the
execution path.

The easiest solution is to make a symbolic link:

a...@windy:~/ sudo ln
-s /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex /usr/local/bin/oolatex

(all on one line - Sylpheed seems to insist on wrapping).


 
 cheers,
 -- 
 William Seager
 University of Toronto Scarborough
 www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
 

LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[0]

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Vincent van Ravesteijn  
wrote:

> From: Vincent van Ravesteijn 
> Subject: Re: help!
> To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com
> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 9:41 AM
> 
> > Will I have to start using Linux to have this "View -
> OpenDocument" command work? Then, why don't LyX developers
> throw this command away from LyX Windows installation...
> >   
> 
> We can't help that the third-party utilities are not
> correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the
> websites of these utilities and find out how you can
> properly install them.
> 
> 
> Vincent
> 


I installed LyX this week. I liked the document processing paradigm of LyX. The 
formatting it does is fascinating. Simply adorable... LyX is a comfortable 
formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of 
thoughts... 

I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... Then, 
I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I see that 
opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for expert users. 

Then, I have to (I unfortunately have no other choice) uninstall LyX and to 
continue using Open Office Org Writer to insert formulas. That one is really 
very uncomfortable. You have to type the TeX code in  manually.

I had been doing it for several months when I found LyX this week. I thought it 
was the solution to my plenty of math. It turned out that it isn't... I am 
really very sorry.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

>> >
>>
>> We can't help that the third-party utilities are not
>> correctly installed on your system. Please turn to the
>> websites of these utilities and find out how you can
>> properly install them.
>>
>
> I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... 
> Then, I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I 
> see that opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for 
> expert users.
>

I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
OpenDocument easily  (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates
*,odt. When I open this file using OpenOffice and if I double click
the equations created by LyX it will be in OpenOffice equation, all
equations can be edited and continued in OpenOffice without any
problems.

Regards
Waluyo

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[0]

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Waluyo Adi Siswanto  wrote:

> From: Waluyo Adi Siswanto 
> Subject: Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. 
> Math  inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX 
> sorry  unfortunately I have no other choice
> To: the_herd_of_the_hor...@yahoo.com
> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:19 AM
> >> >
> >>
> >> We can't help that the third-party utilities are
> not
> >> correctly installed on your system. Please turn to
> the
> >> websites of these utilities and find out how you
> can
> >> properly install them.
> >>
> >
> > I thought I could export to opendocument, where
> formulas are editable... Then, I could send it to anybody -
> and anybody could edit the math Now I see that
> opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even
> for expert users.
> >
> 
> I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can
> export to
> OpenDocument easily  (from
> File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates
> *,odt. When I open this file using OpenOffice and if I
> double click
> the equations created by LyX it will be in OpenOffice
> equation, all
> equations can be edited and continued in OpenOffice without
> any
> problems.
> 
> Regards
> Waluyo
> 

You tell me to try to install LyX at Ubuntu 8.10. This CAN most probably BE a 
solution. Thank you, Waluyo.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
> OpenDocument easily  (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates
> *,odt.
> 

I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to OpenDocument
option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo linux).

Is there some package I need to install that will
add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ... but
no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

cheers,
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

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--- On Wed, 2/3/10, William Seager  wrote:

> From: William Seager 
> Subject: Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. 
> Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry 
> unfortunately I have no other choice
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:51 AM
> On  Tuesday 02 February
> 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
> > I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can
> export to
> > OpenDocument easily  (from
> File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates
> > *,odt.
> > 
> 
> I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export
> to OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
> linux).


Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning me against 
it. As you can see from previous replies to my original request, this is a 
problem of MikTeX "external tools" and somebody said that this list can't do 
anything with this problem...

> 
> Is there some package I need to install that will
> add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and
> html ... but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.
> 
> cheers,
> -- 
> William Seager
> University of Toronto Scarborough
> www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
> 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Tommaso Cucinotta]

0 wrote:
I thought I could export to opendocument, where formulas are editable... Then, I could send it to anybody - and anybody could edit the math Now I see that opendocument export is unavailable in LyX. Unavailable even for expert users. 


Then, I have to (I unfortunately have no other choice) uninstall LyX and to 
continue using Open Office Org Writer to insert formulas.
Well, there's always another choice. You can still send it to others -- 
just tell them to install LyX, it's cross-platform :-) and open-source, 
so anybody can edit those maths . . .
Or, just try digging a little bit more in that odt conversion, and if 
you succeed please tell us how to improve the documentation.


   T.

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:51:18 -0500
William Seager  wrote:

> On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
> > I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
> > OpenDocument easily  (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates
> > *,odt.
> > 
> 
> I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to
> OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
> linux).
> 
> Is there some package I need to install that will
> add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ...
> but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

Install the package tex4ht and then use the script oolatex. I don't
know about other systems, but oolatex is not on the excecution path of
Debian - you need to use the full path or put in a symbolic link
somewhere on your execution path.

The other problem is that there is (was?) a bug in tex4ht that requires
you to use the actual Sun Java JRE. The substitute that comes with most
Linux distributions leaves an empty .odt document.

I have converted quite large documents using this package: 600+ page
books with multiple indexes and a zillion cross-references.

HTH,
Alan

> 
> cheers,
> -- 
> William Seager
> University of Toronto Scarborough
> www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
> 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

tex4ht is availablel for Windows. I have no idea how well it works or
what it takes to install it. One set of instructions are here:

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn-mswin.html

As Vincent said, installation of some of these programs is not the
responsibility of LyX developers.

Alan

>   
> 
> 

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[William Seager]

On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  21:09,  0 wrote:
> Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning me
>  against it. As you can see from previous replies to my original request,
>  this is a problem of MikTeX "external tools" and somebody said that this
>  list can't do anything with this problem...
> 

I wasn't suggesting you switch to gentoo !! :) Please do stay away.

And the option to save as OpenDocument was from somebody
running linux (ubuntu). So my confusion is growing.
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: LyX is a comfortable formula editor. a VERY comfortable one. Math inserts just on the fly of thoughts... But I have to uninstall LyX sorry unfortunately I have no other choice

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:51:18 -0500
William Seager  wrote:

> On  Tuesday 02 February 2010  at  20:19,  Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
> > I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
> > OpenDocument easily  (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates
> > *,odt.
> > 
> 
> I apologize but I'm getting confused here. I have no export to
> OpenDocument option in *File-Export* (using lyx 1.6.5 with gentoo
> linux).
> 
> Is there some package I need to install that will
> add this option to my Lyx menu? I do have export to rtf and html ...
> but no OpenDocument. I agree this would be very useful.

I just checked the installation on a Ubuntu Koala Karmic machine:
oolatex is found at /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex which is not on the
execution path.

The easiest solution is to make a symbolic link:

a...@windy:~/ sudo ln
-s /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex /usr/local/bin/oolatex

(all on one line - Sylpheed seems to insist on wrapping).


> 
> cheers,
> -- 
> William Seager
> University of Toronto Scarborough
> www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
>