Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-07-31 Thread Roberto
Oh my god, finally somebody with a Keyboard and a Heart showed up! I have to say that is often the case that I find this kind of resistance in open-source developers communities - sometimes I wonder what is really "open" there!? It may also mean "people without spare time trying to move

Re: cannot produce PDF of classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber in Mageia6

2017-07-31 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2017-07-31, Michael Berger wrote: > I found that classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-bibtex8 compiles to PDF in > Mageia6 whereas classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber does not. > 'Documents > Settings > Bibliography > Bibliography Generation > > Processor' is expected to show > * Default >

Re: cannot produce PDF of classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber in Mageia6

2017-07-31 Thread Michael Berger
Thanks Günter, I did 'Reconfigure' several times. And for sure, the complete texlive (as offered under Mageia6) is installed. I will further check if biber is missing/installed on my system. Michael Am 31.07.2017 um 10:07 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2017-07-31, Michael Berger wrote: I

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-07-31 Thread Roberto
On 29/07/2017 13:39, Annaert Jan wrote: Despite my pleas, some of my colleagues have already shied away from using LyX because of these unnecessary hurdles, In 13 years of using LyX and after tens of scientific papers written I have never managed to convince collaborators to use LyX, why?

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-07-31 Thread Roberto
On 30/07/2017 19:13, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: If you use dropbox, can't you just put ALL the files there and edit from there? The feature I am talking about does the work for you. When the machine works for you, you win. The machine is your friend. Look at the following scenario. Alice and

Re: cannot produce PDF from classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber in Mageia6

2017-07-31 Thread Michael Berger
Hi Günter, let me recall: with 'Tools > Reconfigure' done I still see in 'Documents > Settings > Bibliography > Bibliography Generation > > Processor' * Default * bibtex * bibtex8 wheras I should have * Default * biber * bibtex * bibtex8 Is 'biber'

Re: cannot produce PDF from classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber in Mageia6

2017-07-31 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2017 um 17:43:46, schrieb Michael Berger > > Is 'biber' installed or not: see the screenshot > Your screenshot does not show if biber is installed. And, if it is, we cannot see if your PATH setting is correct. Kornel signature.asc Description:

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-07-31 Thread Helge Hafting
Den 27. juli 2017 19:48, skrev Richard Heck: On 07/27/2017 11:52 AM, Roberto wrote: Hi Richard, thanks for bringing in your experience. If the tar.gz was something you can "mount" like a read-write DMG it would make sense to say that the archive does what I have in mind. As far as I know one

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-07-31 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/31/2017 08:31 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > Den 27. juli 2017 19:48, skrev Richard Heck: >> On 07/27/2017 11:52 AM, Roberto wrote: >>> Hi Richard, thanks for bringing in your experience. >>> >>> If the tar.gz was something you can "mount" like a read-write DMG it >>> would make sense to say

Re: cannot produce PDF from classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber in Mageia6

2017-07-31 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2017-07-31, Michael Berger wrote: > Hi Günter, > let me recall: with 'Tools > Reconfigure' done I still see > in 'Documents > Settings > Bibliography > Bibliography Generation > > > Processor' > * Default > * bibtex > * bibtex8 > wheras I should have > * Default >

LyX native format stuck in the middle

2017-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I just commented, in another post, about how difficult it would make it on people to change the LyX native format. And yet it *does* change. Must have been about 10 years ago, the developers started transitioning the LyX native format to XML, and began by making it much more XML like,

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:52:55 +0200 Roberto wrote: > Hi Scott, thanks for your suggestion. > The archive does not really do the job because you cannot edit it > directly. My goal is to get something like a MS Word document that > contains all the pictures you add in it

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-07-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
Roberto wrote: > On 30/07/2017 19:13, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> If you use dropbox, can't you just put ALL the files there and edit >> from there? > > The feature I am talking about does the work for you. When the machine > works for you, you win. The machine is your friend. To wrap it up

Re: cannot produce PDF from classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber in Mageia6

2017-07-31 Thread Michael Berger
Günter, thanks for your comment and tips, I'm not giving up yet. I experienced exactly the same in openSUSE Leap, first neither the bibtex-version nor the biber-version worked until all in a sudden both did out of the blue. Obviously there are few people using Miede's thesis. It produces

cannot produce PDF of classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber in Mageia6

2017-07-31 Thread Michael Berger
Hello, I found that classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-bibtex8 compiles to PDF in Mageia6 whereas classicthesis-Lyx-v4.2_biblatex-biber does not. 'Documents > Settings > Bibliography > Bibliography Generation > Processor' is expected to show * Default * biber * bibtex * bibtex8 This is