Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-19 Thread Enrico Forestieri
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > I am not subscribed to this list and the gmane interface doesn't allow > > attachments, but if you reply to this mail putting me in CC, I can, in > > turn, reply to it and can thus attach the above files for e

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: I am not subscribed to this list and the gmane interface doesn't allow attachments, but if you reply to this mail putting me in CC, I can, in turn, reply to it and can thus attach the above files for everyone interested here. Or you could describ

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ed Gatzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not > >work, > >but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls > >like > >/usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional > >shell.

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ed Gatzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right? > > > > I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough. > I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP > to 127.0.0.1:0.0 Oh... I me

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Gatzke
>My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not >work, >but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like >/usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell. I straightened out some of the path problems, adding

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Ed Gatzke wrote: > It might be nice to have an option to bundle everything into a single > tar file, all your obj, eps, bib files into a single tgz file, but it > is not much for me to do that myself when needed. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700 Georg

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Gatzke
> > But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right? > I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough. I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP to 127.0.0.1:0.0 You need X running in the background, but that is always running f

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ed Gatzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? > > Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? > > I am using the new 1.4.2 version on Windows. I am not sure how they compiled > it, but I assume they used cygwin. No

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
> Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? > Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? I am using the new 1.4.2 version on Windows. I am not sure how they compiled it, but I assume they used cygwin. I am running lyx.exe from a cygwin shell (which h

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 21:09 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? > Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? AFAIK that does not matter, since imagemagick does not know how to handle tgif files. Georg

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ed Gatzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my XP box, I get garbage. Output at console from lyx: > > convert.exe: unable to open image `tgif:c:/gatzke/test.obj': Invalid argument. > convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:c:/Documents and > Settings/gatzke/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir2724a0

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 19:40 schrieb Ed Gatzke: > On my XP box, I get garbage. Output at console from lyx: > Maybe it is due to me not reinstalling all the peripheral software with the new > version update? No. The reason is probably that tgif is not in your path. It should work if you ente

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
> > Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image > > converter. > > I have been using tgif forever, exporting to eps for use in lyx. My > > ImageMagick > > / convert does not appear to work on my new XP install for converting tgif > > .obj files to .ppm, but that is ok, I

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Ed Gatzke wrote: > I have been using tgif to do vector graphics for a few years and I have > been happy with it for simple things. > > I hacked their equation object code to call lyx for equation editing. Interesting. > Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image > con

Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
I have been using tgif to do vector graphics for a few years and I have been happy with it for simple things. I hacked their equation object code to call lyx for equation editing. You double click an equation image in tgif and it should open a lyx editor with the equation in it. You can modif