Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The question is to know what happens when there is a faulty reference in the file. We cannot run latex until there is n more error. This is why the package should output a message like what normal references do. We only rerun LaTeX once, then we proceed with

Re: Using movie15 with LyX to insert movies in PDF output

2008-01-17 Thread Bruno C.
Hello, Sorry i deleted the first mail so maybe I will not give a proper reply. My opinion is that you cannot generate a pdf file from a latex file containing movie15 commands using lyx. You can use lyx to export the latex code and then you will have to use the technique specified in the movie15

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The question is to know what happens when there is a faulty reference in the file. We cannot run latex until there is n more error. This is why the package should output a message like what normal references do. We

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: OK then. Committed. Tobias, LyX 1.5.4 is supposed to handle the clefval case correctly. Jürgen

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread Guido Milanese
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 05:17:48 Raymond Ouellette wrote: p.s. If necessary, I can upload my deb package of LyX 1.5.3 for the ftp site. I have a question partially related to your post. I am using Ubuntu 7.10, and I cannot install LyX using Synaptic (the package installation system of

Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Hi, Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb lyx_1.5.3_i386_dapper.README lyx_1.5.3_i386_etch.README Could someone please move them to the appropriate place. Many thanks! Cheers,

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Charles de Miramon wrote: rgheck wrote: Debian Etch. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion. I've thought about Debian, and it has a great reputation for stability. That said, while I don't want to be absolutely bleeding edge, I do like to be near it, and Debian at least has a

Re: (latex question) Repeated footnote?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Also possible : Place the cross-reference to the labeled footnote in a superscript, so that it will appear as a note too. Thus you get twice the same reference to the same footnote, they look alike, and the numbering si preserved. Be careful if your footnotes are set

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Hm it seems that I cannot include a pdf file even though it get shown in the pdfpreview. I get the error: Error converting to loadable format in LyX. When I press the edit button after clicking on the float I get: No information for editing PDF (ps2pdf) Is it not possible to

Re: Using movie15 with LyX to insert movies in PDF output

2008-01-17 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Hi Bruno, It turns out it is possible to use LyX with movie15 (see earlier responses by Lorenzo and JMarc), with the caveat that the full path to the movie file must be provided. One must also use a PDF viewer that can display movies (such as Acrobat Reader 8) as the default viewer in

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Sven Hoexter wrote: Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning apply for Ubuntu so you might

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:41:42AM +, Sam Lewis wrote: Hi Sam, hi all, Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for

BibTex force Lyx to crash :-(

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
Hello everybody, this is not a bug... is a problem concerning my bibtex file... or installation but I can't understand how to fix it :-( Ok, let's start from beginning. I use lyx for creating my documents on Linux (OpenSuse 10.2) and I use a bib file for my references. All goes ok. Some day

lyx wiki problems

2008-01-17 Thread Neal Becker
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/ConvTex.zip doesn't exist. Is there a working ConvTex and if so where can I find it?

Re: lyx wiki problems

2008-01-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/ConvTex.zip doesn't exist. Is there a working ConvTex and if so where can I find it? Try http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/Previous%20Version/ConvTex.zip. Looks like a bunch of files were moved to a

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread rgheck
Questions: (1) is compilation on Ubuntu difficult? I thinks that compiling and installing manually should avoid the problem I mentioned; It shouldn't be. You just need to make sure you have the qt-devel packages, I think. but you'll see when you run ./configure if you have problems.

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread rgheck
In fact, I think that if I pass my lyx document to a my friend ... without the .bib.. lyx will crash :-( :-( If I create a file with a missing .bib file, I don't get a crash. So it must be more than that. rh

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning apply for Ubuntu so you might want to read on as an Ubuntu user aswell. Hi Sven, Thank you for your concern! To

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
The problem is regarding the /home/gianluca access. In fact... if you create a simple document and you add a bibtex database... and after you edit the .lyx file outside lyx with a texteditor... and change the line bibfiles /Users/gianluca/tmp/Articoli/databaseAll with a line that try to access

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
Ok... I understand where was the problem. In my linux machine the database was in home/gianluca/Documents/database.bib ... but when I moved my Documents data... now on Mac the position is Users/gianluca/Documents/dtatabase.bib !!! I click on the bibtex field on Lyx... I removed the database

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just uploaded them to ftp.lyx.org. Thanks! Cheers, Sam

generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread George De Bruin
Christopher Menzel wrote: On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: ftp Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb Are we to assume negation as failure here or are there

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: ftp Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb Are we to assume negation as failure here or are there already packages available

Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Barr
Hi, I am using lyx 1.5.2 for windows XP, MiKTeX 2.5. When using pdflatex to produce output, everything works great until I enter any math characters, when I get the following LaTeX error Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found Can anybody help me solve

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:24:39PM +, Sam Lewis wrote: Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning apply for Ubuntu so you might want to read on as

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread David Hewitt
Andrew Barr wrote: I am using lyx 1.5.2 for windows XP, MiKTeX 2.5. When using pdflatex to produce output, everything works great until I enter any math characters, when I get the following LaTeX error Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To be clear there are two sides of the story to consider: Thank you for your comprehensive account, trying to shed light on the situation! a) The social/trust problem There's someone providing binarys build on an unknown system with under unknown

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 08:20:09 +0100 Guido Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : Questions: (1) is compilation on Ubuntu difficult? I thinks that compiling and installing manually should avoid the problem I mentioned; (2) if (1) is not practical, can anyone suggest all the symlink that I

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread wabarr
David, Sorry I didn't include that information. I was using Times Roman font. I changed the font settings to default, and all the math comes through fine. So...I guess that problem is solved for the moment. Sorry for the dumb question. Thanks

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-01-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.01.08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The question is to know what happens when there is a faulty reference in the file. We cannot run latex until there is n more error. This is why the package should output a message like what normal references do. We only rerun LaTeX once, then we proceed with

Re: Using movie15 with LyX to insert movies in PDF output

2008-01-17 Thread Bruno C.
Hello, Sorry i deleted the first mail so maybe I will not give a proper reply. My opinion is that you cannot generate a pdf file from a latex file containing movie15 commands using lyx. You can use lyx to export the latex code and then you will have to use the technique specified in the movie15

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The question is to know what happens when there is a faulty reference in the file. We cannot run latex until there is n more error. This is why the package should output a message like what normal references do. We

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: OK then. Committed. Tobias, LyX 1.5.4 is supposed to handle the clefval case correctly. Jürgen

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread Guido Milanese
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 05:17:48 Raymond Ouellette wrote: p.s. If necessary, I can upload my deb package of LyX 1.5.3 for the ftp site. I have a question partially related to your post. I am using Ubuntu 7.10, and I cannot install LyX using Synaptic (the package installation system of

Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Hi, Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb lyx_1.5.3_i386_dapper.README lyx_1.5.3_i386_etch.README Could someone please move them to the appropriate place. Many thanks! Cheers,

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Charles de Miramon wrote: rgheck wrote: Debian Etch. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion. I've thought about Debian, and it has a great reputation for stability. That said, while I don't want to be absolutely bleeding edge, I do like to be near it, and Debian at least has a

Re: (latex question) Repeated footnote?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Also possible : Place the cross-reference to the labeled footnote in a superscript, so that it will appear as a note too. Thus you get twice the same reference to the same footnote, they look alike, and the numbering si preserved. Be careful if your footnotes are set

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Hm it seems that I cannot include a pdf file even though it get shown in the pdfpreview. I get the error: Error converting to loadable format in LyX. When I press the edit button after clicking on the float I get: No information for editing PDF (ps2pdf) Is it not possible to

Re: Using movie15 with LyX to insert movies in PDF output

2008-01-17 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Hi Bruno, It turns out it is possible to use LyX with movie15 (see earlier responses by Lorenzo and JMarc), with the caveat that the full path to the movie file must be provided. One must also use a PDF viewer that can display movies (such as Acrobat Reader 8) as the default viewer in

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Sven Hoexter wrote: Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning apply for Ubuntu so you might

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:41:42AM +, Sam Lewis wrote: Hi Sam, hi all, Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for

BibTex force Lyx to crash :-(

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
Hello everybody, this is not a bug... is a problem concerning my bibtex file... or installation but I can't understand how to fix it :-( Ok, let's start from beginning. I use lyx for creating my documents on Linux (OpenSuse 10.2) and I use a bib file for my references. All goes ok. Some day

lyx wiki problems

2008-01-17 Thread Neal Becker
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/ConvTex.zip doesn't exist. Is there a working ConvTex and if so where can I find it?

Re: lyx wiki problems

2008-01-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/ConvTex.zip doesn't exist. Is there a working ConvTex and if so where can I find it? Try http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/Previous%20Version/ConvTex.zip. Looks like a bunch of files were moved to a

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread rgheck
Questions: (1) is compilation on Ubuntu difficult? I thinks that compiling and installing manually should avoid the problem I mentioned; It shouldn't be. You just need to make sure you have the qt-devel packages, I think. but you'll see when you run ./configure if you have problems.

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread rgheck
In fact, I think that if I pass my lyx document to a my friend ... without the .bib.. lyx will crash :-( :-( If I create a file with a missing .bib file, I don't get a crash. So it must be more than that. rh

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning apply for Ubuntu so you might want to read on as an Ubuntu user aswell. Hi Sven, Thank you for your concern! To

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
The problem is regarding the /home/gianluca access. In fact... if you create a simple document and you add a bibtex database... and after you edit the .lyx file outside lyx with a texteditor... and change the line bibfiles /Users/gianluca/tmp/Articoli/databaseAll with a line that try to access

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
Ok... I understand where was the problem. In my linux machine the database was in home/gianluca/Documents/database.bib ... but when I moved my Documents data... now on Mac the position is Users/gianluca/Documents/dtatabase.bib !!! I click on the bibtex field on Lyx... I removed the database

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just uploaded them to ftp.lyx.org. Thanks! Cheers, Sam

generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread George De Bruin
Christopher Menzel wrote: On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: ftp Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb Are we to assume negation as failure here or are there

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: ftp Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb Are we to assume negation as failure here or are there already packages available

Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Barr
Hi, I am using lyx 1.5.2 for windows XP, MiKTeX 2.5. When using pdflatex to produce output, everything works great until I enter any math characters, when I get the following LaTeX error Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found Can anybody help me solve

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:24:39PM +, Sam Lewis wrote: Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning apply for Ubuntu so you might want to read on as

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread David Hewitt
Andrew Barr wrote: I am using lyx 1.5.2 for windows XP, MiKTeX 2.5. When using pdflatex to produce output, everything works great until I enter any math characters, when I get the following LaTeX error Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To be clear there are two sides of the story to consider: Thank you for your comprehensive account, trying to shed light on the situation! a) The social/trust problem There's someone providing binarys build on an unknown system with under unknown

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 08:20:09 +0100 Guido Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : Questions: (1) is compilation on Ubuntu difficult? I thinks that compiling and installing manually should avoid the problem I mentioned; (2) if (1) is not practical, can anyone suggest all the symlink that I

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread wabarr
David, Sorry I didn't include that information. I was using Times Roman font. I changed the font settings to default, and all the math comes through fine. So...I guess that problem is solved for the moment. Sorry for the dumb question. Thanks

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-01-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.01.08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The question is to know what happens when there is a faulty reference > in the file. We cannot run latex until there is n more error. This is > why the package should output a message like what normal references > do. We only rerun LaTeX once, then we proceed with

Re: Using movie15 with LyX to insert movies in PDF output

2008-01-17 Thread Bruno C.
Hello, Sorry i deleted the first mail so maybe I will not give a proper reply. My opinion is that you cannot generate a pdf file from a latex file containing movie15 commands using lyx. You can use lyx to export the latex code and then you will have to use the technique specified in the movie15

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> The question is to know what happens when there is a faulty reference >> in the file. We cannot run latex until there is n more error. This is >> why the package should output a message like what normal references >>

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > OK then. Committed. Tobias, LyX 1.5.4 is supposed to handle the clefval case correctly. Jürgen

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread Guido Milanese
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 05:17:48 Raymond Ouellette wrote: > p.s. If necessary, I can upload my deb package of LyX 1.5.3 for the ftp >site. I have a question partially related to your post. I am using Ubuntu 7.10, and I cannot install LyX using Synaptic (the package installation system of

Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Hi, Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb lyx_1.5.3_i386_dapper.README lyx_1.5.3_i386_etch.README Could someone please move them to the appropriate place. Many thanks! Cheers,

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Charles de Miramon wrote: rgheck wrote: Debian Etch. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion. I've thought about Debian, and it has a great reputation for stability. That said, while I don't want to be absolutely bleeding edge, I do like to be near it, and Debian at least has a

Re: (latex question) Repeated footnote?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Also possible : Place the cross-reference to the labeled footnote in a superscript, so that it will appear as a note too. Thus you get twice the same reference to the same footnote, they look alike, and the numbering si preserved. Be careful if your footnotes are set

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Hm it seems that I cannot include a pdf file even though it get shown in the pdfpreview. I get the error: "Error converting to loadable format" in LyX. When I press the edit button after clicking on the float I get: No information for editing PDF (ps2pdf) Is it not possible to

Re: Using movie15 with LyX to insert movies in PDF output

2008-01-17 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Hi Bruno, It turns out it is possible to use LyX with movie15 (see earlier responses by Lorenzo and JMarc), with the caveat that the full path to the movie file must be provided. One must also use a PDF viewer that can display movies (such as Acrobat Reader 8) as the default viewer in

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Sven Hoexter wrote: > > Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on > > ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ > > Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not > use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning > apply for Ubuntu so

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:41:42AM +, Sam Lewis wrote: Hi Sam, hi all, > Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on > ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not use those checkinstall packages for

BibTex force Lyx to crash :-(

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
Hello everybody, this is not a bug... is a problem concerning my bibtex file... or installation but I can't understand how to fix it :-( Ok, let's start from beginning. I use lyx for creating my documents on Linux (OpenSuse 10.2) and I use a bib file for my references. All goes ok. Some day

lyx wiki problems

2008-01-17 Thread Neal Becker
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/ConvTex.zip doesn't exist. Is there a working ConvTex and if so where can I find it?

Re: lyx wiki problems

2008-01-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/ConvTex.zip doesn't exist. Is there a working ConvTex and if so where can I find it? Try http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice/Previous%20Version/ConvTex.zip. Looks like a bunch of files were moved to a

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread rgheck
Questions: (1) is compilation on Ubuntu difficult? I thinks that compiling and installing manually should avoid the problem I mentioned; It shouldn't be. You just need to make sure you have the qt-devel packages, I think. but you'll see when you run ./configure if you have problems.

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread rgheck
In fact, I think that if I pass my lyx document to a my friend ... without the .bib.. lyx will crash :-( :-( If I create a file with a missing .bib file, I don't get a crash. So it must be more than that. rh

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not > use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning > apply for Ubuntu so you might want to read on as an Ubuntu user > aswell. Hi Sven, Thank you for your

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
The problem is regarding the "/home/gianluca" access. In fact... if you create a simple document and you add a bibtex database... and after you edit the .lyx file outside lyx with a texteditor... and change the line bibfiles "/Users/gianluca/tmp/Articoli/databaseAll" with a line that try to

Re: BibTex force Lyx to crash :-( [SOLVED]

2008-01-17 Thread G. Massera
Ok... I understand where was the problem. In my linux machine the database was in "home/gianluca/Documents/database.bib" ... but when I moved my Documents data... now on Mac the position is "Users/gianluca/Documents/dtatabase.bib" !!! I click on the bibtex field on Lyx... I removed the database

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just uploaded them to ftp.lyx.org. Thanks! Cheers, Sam

generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit -> Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I am not

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread George De Bruin
Christopher Menzel wrote: On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: ftp Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb Are we to assume negation as failure here or are there

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: ftp Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb Are we to assume negation as failure here or are there already packages available

Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Barr
Hi, I am using lyx 1.5.2 for windows XP, MiKTeX 2.5. When using pdflatex to produce output, everything works great until I enter any math characters, when I get the following LaTeX error Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found Can anybody help me solve

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:24:39PM +, Sam Lewis wrote: > Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > > Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not > > use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning > > apply for Ubuntu so you might want to

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread David Hewitt
Andrew Barr wrote: > > I am using lyx 1.5.2 for windows XP, MiKTeX 2.5. > > When using pdflatex to produce output, everything works great until I > enter > any math characters, when I get the following LaTeX error > > Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not >

Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions

2008-01-17 Thread Sam Lewis
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To be clear there are two sides of the story to consider: Thank you for your comprehensive account, trying to shed light on the situation! > a) The social/trust problem > There's someone providing binarys build on an unknown system with under >

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 08:20:09 +0100 Guido Milanese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : Questions: > (1) is compilation on Ubuntu difficult? I thinks that compiling and > installing manually should avoid the problem I mentioned; > (2) if (1) is not practical, can anyone suggest all the symlink that

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread wabarr
David, Sorry I didn't include that information. I was using Times Roman font. I changed the font settings to default, and all the math comes through fine. So...I guess that problem is solved for the moment. Sorry for the dumb question. Thanks

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-01-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.01.08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a > middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit -> Paste Special. > (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) > In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable.