relyx in windows?
Hi folks, what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has failed. Thanks, Brian Williams PS I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
Re: relyx in windows?
- Original Message - From: Brian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:57 AM Subject: relyx in windows? Hi folks, what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has failed. Thanks, Brian Williams PS I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. I don't think relyx works. Actually tex2lyx works pretty good for most Windows XP users. LyX 1.3.6_1 comes with Extended Features as a document which I can open. But I saw an update notification of extended features so I downloaded it and it would not open. I am not sure but maybe the update was created with LyX 1.4 and 1.3.6_1 doesn't read it. There is a slight problem reported by some people with directories which contain spaces. So I have tex2lyx.exe and tex2lyx.bat harbored in C:\lyx\lyx\bin and it works good, and there are few complaints about it so it is likely you have overlooked some detail. Did you follow this tip? http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/Tex2LyxInvokedFromLyx This can be done another way, but this well-tested method works. Regards, Stephen
Re: relyx in windows?
Thanks, but I can't upgrade to 1.3.6 for some weeks. Tex2Lyx seems to expect 1.3.6 files, so maybe that's why I got errors. This question is really about whether anyone has succeeded in making relyx work under windows. I found that if I created a null lyx file, I could take the relyx output and edit the mid section into the lyx file and that would work, but it is a real hassle. Therefore the problem has got to be something to do with the preamble, but I'm not well versed enough to figure it out. Thanks anyway, Brian Stephen P. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Williams To: Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:57 AM Subject: relyx in windows? Hi folks, what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has failed. Thanks, Brian Williams PS I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. I don't think relyx works. Actually tex2lyx works pretty good for most Windows XP users. LyX 1.3.6_1 comes with Extended Features as a document which I can open. But I saw an update notification of extended features so I downloaded it and it would not open. I am not sure but maybe the update was created with LyX 1.4 and 1.3.6_1 doesn't read it. There is a slight problem reported by some people with directories which contain spaces. So I have tex2lyx.exe and tex2lyx.bat harbored in C:\lyx\lyx\bin and it works good, and there are few complaints about it so it is likely you have overlooked some detail. Did you follow this tip? http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/Tex2LyxInvokedFromLyx This can be done another way, but this well-tested method works. Regards, Stephen - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
relyx in windows?
Hi folks, what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has failed. Thanks, Brian Williams PS I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
Re: relyx in windows?
- Original Message - From: Brian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:57 AM Subject: relyx in windows? Hi folks, what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has failed. Thanks, Brian Williams PS I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. I don't think relyx works. Actually tex2lyx works pretty good for most Windows XP users. LyX 1.3.6_1 comes with Extended Features as a document which I can open. But I saw an update notification of extended features so I downloaded it and it would not open. I am not sure but maybe the update was created with LyX 1.4 and 1.3.6_1 doesn't read it. There is a slight problem reported by some people with directories which contain spaces. So I have tex2lyx.exe and tex2lyx.bat harbored in C:\lyx\lyx\bin and it works good, and there are few complaints about it so it is likely you have overlooked some detail. Did you follow this tip? http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/Tex2LyxInvokedFromLyx This can be done another way, but this well-tested method works. Regards, Stephen
Re: relyx in windows?
Thanks, but I can't upgrade to 1.3.6 for some weeks. Tex2Lyx seems to expect 1.3.6 files, so maybe that's why I got errors. This question is really about whether anyone has succeeded in making relyx work under windows. I found that if I created a null lyx file, I could take the relyx output and edit the mid section into the lyx file and that would work, but it is a real hassle. Therefore the problem has got to be something to do with the preamble, but I'm not well versed enough to figure it out. Thanks anyway, Brian Stephen P. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Williams To: Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:57 AM Subject: relyx in windows? Hi folks, what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has failed. Thanks, Brian Williams PS I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. I don't think relyx works. Actually tex2lyx works pretty good for most Windows XP users. LyX 1.3.6_1 comes with Extended Features as a document which I can open. But I saw an update notification of extended features so I downloaded it and it would not open. I am not sure but maybe the update was created with LyX 1.4 and 1.3.6_1 doesn't read it. There is a slight problem reported by some people with directories which contain spaces. So I have tex2lyx.exe and tex2lyx.bat harbored in C:\lyx\lyx\bin and it works good, and there are few complaints about it so it is likely you have overlooked some detail. Did you follow this tip? http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/Tex2LyxInvokedFromLyx This can be done another way, but this well-tested method works. Regards, Stephen - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
relyx in windows?
Hi folks, what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has failed. Thanks, Brian Williams PS I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
Re: relyx in windows?
- Original Message - From: "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:57 AM Subject: relyx in windows? Hi folks, what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has failed. Thanks, Brian Williams PS I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. I don't think relyx works. Actually tex2lyx works pretty good for most Windows XP users. LyX 1.3.6_1 comes with "Extended Features" as a document which I can open. But I saw an update notification of "extended features" so I downloaded it and it would not open. I am not sure but maybe the update was created with LyX 1.4 and 1.3.6_1 doesn't read it. There is a slight problem reported by some people with directories which contain spaces. So I have tex2lyx.exe and tex2lyx.bat harbored in C:\lyx\lyx\bin and it works good, and there are few complaints about it so it is likely you have overlooked some detail. Did you follow this tip? http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/Tex2LyxInvokedFromLyx This can be done another way, but this well-tested method works. Regards, Stephen
Re: relyx in windows?
Thanks, but I can't upgrade to 1.3.6 for some weeks. Tex2Lyx seems to expect 1.3.6 files, so maybe that's why I got errors. This question is really about whether anyone has succeeded in making relyx work under windows. I found that if I created a "null" lyx file, I could take the relyx output and edit the mid section into the lyx file and that would work, but it is a real hassle. Therefore the problem has got to be something to do with the preamble, but I'm not well versed enough to figure it out. Thanks anyway, Brian "Stephen P. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Brian Williams" To: Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:57 AM Subject: relyx in windows? > > Hi folks, > > what is the trick to make relyx work in windows? I've found that I need to > put the .tex file in the bin directory where relyx.bat is so that it can > find it, but after that, the system complains that the conversion has > failed. > > Thanks, > > Brian Williams > > PS > > I tried tex2lyx, but got lots of complaints about running an earlier > version of lyx, and loads of error boxes. > > I don't think relyx works. Actually tex2lyx works pretty good for most Windows XP users. LyX 1.3.6_1 comes with "Extended Features" as a document which I can open. But I saw an update notification of "extended features" so I downloaded it and it would not open. I am not sure but maybe the update was created with LyX 1.4 and 1.3.6_1 doesn't read it. There is a slight problem reported by some people with directories which contain spaces. So I have tex2lyx.exe and tex2lyx.bat harbored in C:\lyx\lyx\bin and it works good, and there are few complaints about it so it is likely you have overlooked some detail. Did you follow this tip? http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/Tex2LyxInvokedFromLyx This can be done another way, but this well-tested method works. Regards, Stephen - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
reLyX on Windows
Found yet another quirk while importing LaTeX: in \lyx\bin\reLyX.bat you really need to change all ~p0 to ~dp0 again, like in the old 1.3.3 configure.bat; it might not be absolutely necessary, but it's better to be safe if you're running across different partitions? With the addition of \lyx\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx.cmd as per the Wiki, the importing works mostly OK on Windows (the *.relyx1 file doesn't get cleaned up though, but the others do?!) Regards, Milos
reLyX on Windows
Found yet another quirk while importing LaTeX: in \lyx\bin\reLyX.bat you really need to change all ~p0 to ~dp0 again, like in the old 1.3.3 configure.bat; it might not be absolutely necessary, but it's better to be safe if you're running across different partitions? With the addition of \lyx\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx.cmd as per the Wiki, the importing works mostly OK on Windows (the *.relyx1 file doesn't get cleaned up though, but the others do?!) Regards, Milos
reLyX on Windows
Found yet another quirk while importing LaTeX: in \lyx\bin\reLyX.bat you really need to change all ~p0 to ~dp0 again, like in the old 1.3.3 configure.bat; it might not be absolutely necessary, but it's better to be safe if you're running across different partitions? With the addition of \lyx\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx.cmd as per the Wiki, the importing works mostly OK on Windows (the *.relyx1 file doesn't get cleaned up though, but the others do?!) Regards, Milos
Re: relyx problem - Windows XP
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:10:13 -0400 From: Colin J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX User List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: relyx problem - Windows XP Using relyx to convert a tex file to lyx gives an error message: Use of uninitialized value at C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. and produces a lyx script which cannot be opened by LyX. It's a warning, not an error (otherwise perl wouln't run after the parsing step). reLyX is shipped with the warning option enabled, here: $^W = 1; # same as 'perl -w' Just comment the line to get rid of warnings: #$^W = 1; # same as 'perl -w' -- Jean-Pierre
Re: relyx problem - Windows XP
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:10:13 -0400 From: Colin J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX User List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: relyx problem - Windows XP Using relyx to convert a tex file to lyx gives an error message: Use of uninitialized value at C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. and produces a lyx script which cannot be opened by LyX. It's a warning, not an error (otherwise perl wouln't run after the parsing step). reLyX is shipped with the warning option enabled, here: $^W = 1; # same as 'perl -w' Just comment the line to get rid of warnings: #$^W = 1; # same as 'perl -w' -- Jean-Pierre
Re: relyx problem - Windows XP
>>Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:10:13 -0400 >>From: "Colin J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: LyX User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: relyx problem - Windows XP >> >>Using relyx to convert a tex file to lyx gives an error message: >> Use of uninitialized value at >>C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. >>and produces a lyx script which cannot be opened by LyX. It's a warning, not an error (otherwise perl wouln't run after the parsing step). reLyX is shipped with the warning option enabled, here: $^W = 1; # same as 'perl -w' Just comment the line to get rid of warnings: #$^W = 1; # same as 'perl -w' -- Jean-Pierre
Re: relyx problem - Windows XP
Colin J. Williams wrote: Using relyx to convert a tex file to lyx gives an error message: Use of uninitialized value at C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. and produces a lyx script which cannot be opened by LyX. The output is: C:\LyX\TexC:\LyX\lyx\bin\perl.exe C:\LyX\lyx\bin\reLyx -o m2 m2.tex Use of uninitialized value at C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. reLyX, the LaTeX to LyX translator. Revision date 2003/01/20 Reading LaTeX command syntax (m2.tex: Splitting Preamble Creating LyX preamble Reading layout file Cleaning... Translating... Writing... ) Deleting temp files Finished successfully! reLyX directory is: C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX I would appreciate advice. Colin W. I think the uninitialized value message is a 'false positive'. I tried exporting a LyX doc to TeX, then importing it back into LyX from the LyX File - Import menu (which calls ReLyX). I got the same message regarding line 58, but the document did open in LyX. Line 58 of the script refers to an environment variable named HOME that does not exist in XP. XP has HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, HOMESHARE but not HOME, and LyX does not export the HOME variable (I just checked). Somehow, though, reLyX muddles through without it. IIRC, there are documented instances when reLyX fails due to the content of the TeX file (not due to the vagaries of Windows, just for a change). You might check some of the archived postings here. I'm afraid I don't recall the details. -- Paul ** Paul A. RubinPhone: (517) 432-3509 Department of ManagementFax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ** Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: relyx problem - Windows XP
Colin J. Williams wrote: Using relyx to convert a tex file to lyx gives an error message: Use of uninitialized value at C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. and produces a lyx script which cannot be opened by LyX. The output is: C:\LyX\TexC:\LyX\lyx\bin\perl.exe C:\LyX\lyx\bin\reLyx -o m2 m2.tex Use of uninitialized value at C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. reLyX, the LaTeX to LyX translator. Revision date 2003/01/20 Reading LaTeX command syntax (m2.tex: Splitting Preamble Creating LyX preamble Reading layout file Cleaning... Translating... Writing... ) Deleting temp files Finished successfully! reLyX directory is: C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX I would appreciate advice. Colin W. I think the uninitialized value message is a 'false positive'. I tried exporting a LyX doc to TeX, then importing it back into LyX from the LyX File - Import menu (which calls ReLyX). I got the same message regarding line 58, but the document did open in LyX. Line 58 of the script refers to an environment variable named HOME that does not exist in XP. XP has HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, HOMESHARE but not HOME, and LyX does not export the HOME variable (I just checked). Somehow, though, reLyX muddles through without it. IIRC, there are documented instances when reLyX fails due to the content of the TeX file (not due to the vagaries of Windows, just for a change). You might check some of the archived postings here. I'm afraid I don't recall the details. -- Paul ** Paul A. RubinPhone: (517) 432-3509 Department of ManagementFax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ** Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: relyx problem - Windows XP
Colin J. Williams wrote: Using relyx to convert a tex file to lyx gives an error message: Use of uninitialized value at C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. and produces a lyx script which cannot be opened by LyX. The output is: C:\LyX\Tex>C:\LyX\lyx\bin\perl.exe C:\LyX\lyx\bin\reLyx -o m2 m2.tex Use of uninitialized value at C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX/reLyXmain.pl line 58. reLyX, the LaTeX to LyX translator. Revision date 2003/01/20 Reading LaTeX command syntax (m2.tex: Splitting Preamble Creating LyX preamble Reading layout file Cleaning... Translating... Writing... ) Deleting temp files Finished successfully! reLyX directory is: C:/LyX/lyx/share/lyx/reLyX I would appreciate advice. Colin W. I think the uninitialized value message is a 'false positive'. I tried exporting a LyX doc to TeX, then importing it back into LyX from the LyX File -> Import menu (which calls ReLyX). I got the same message regarding line 58, but the document did open in LyX. Line 58 of the script refers to an environment variable named HOME that does not exist in XP. XP has HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, HOMESHARE but not HOME, and LyX does not export the HOME variable (I just checked). Somehow, though, reLyX muddles through without it. IIRC, there are documented instances when reLyX fails due to the content of the TeX file (not due to the vagaries of Windows, just for a change). You might check some of the archived postings here. I'm afraid I don't recall the details. -- Paul ** Paul A. RubinPhone: (517) 432-3509 Department of ManagementFax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ** Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
