Re: 1.3.6 for Win

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > I am about to install Lyx 1.3.6 on WinXP box. I just wondered what, > with the exception of reLyx, the Perl package was required for. I am > going to use tex2lyx and so won't need to install Perl if it is not > used by any other part of the Lyx package. > > If anyone knows

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Since lyx-1.3.6 reads tex2lyx output, the wiki page could be > simplified and suggest to replace reLyX by tex2lyx $$i >$$o in > Edit->Preference->Conversion->Converters->LaTeX -> LyX menu > > I guess the tex2lyx.cmd scipt is not needed any more. Indeed. And the tex2l

Removing pages from a .pdf file?

I've just generated a pdf file using pdflatex that runs from page -8 to page 11. Is there a tool that I can use to remove pages -8 to 0 (inclusive) from the pdf file? Or is there a way of getting pdflatex to output only pages 1 to 11? No, I don't want to hack my lyx file ;-) Angus

Re: Removing pages from a .pdf file?

Paul Smith wrote: > The pdf toolkit may help you: > http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ Pufect! $ pdftk A=structure3D.pdf cat A10-end output figures.pdf Angus

How to "undefine" a \newtheorem ?

elsart.cls contains this definition: \newtheorem{rem}[thm]{Remark} Unfortunately, it clashes with the SIUnits package \documentclass{elsart} \usepackage{SIunits} \begin{document} \end{document} $latex trial (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/SIunits/SIunits.sty ! LaTeX Error: Command \rem already defi

Re: How to "undefine" a \newtheorem ?

Herbert Voss wrote: Given that I'd like to use both elsart.cls and SIunits.sty and that commenting out the "rem" theorem definition in elsart.cls isn't really an option, how do I "undefine" it in my document? \documentclass{elsart} \let\rem\relax \let\remend\relax \usepackage{SIunits} \begin{d

Re: How to "undefine" a \newtheorem ?

Herbert Voss wrote: \documentclass{elsart} \let\rem\relax \let\remend\relax \let\endrem\relax ;-) It worked anyway. Angus

Re: Windows Screen Fonts

Peter Rockett wrote: > Just installed Lyx 1.3.6 on two WinXP machines (one at work, one at > home). The work machine, maths displays perfectly. On the home machine, > the program is clearly picking up the wrong screen font - for example, > \theta displays as lower case mu, etc. Although the equati

Re: 1.3.6 for Win Fix

Stephen P. Harris wrote: > Long version: > Whilst having a stimulating chat with Paul Smith about > the merits of viewing files, I decided to upgrade to the > new 1.3.6 lyx-1.3.6_win32_setup_v1.exe since Angus > claimed it was functioning flawlessly. :-) I certainly did not. However, I do think

Re: 1.3.6 on mac troubles

David Green wrote: > I do get a "Mutex destroy failure: Resource busy" when exiting LyX > (when starting it from command line so I can see the output). Really? This is with LyX 1.3.6? I thought I'd squashed that one :( -- Angus

Re: Strange menu behaviour on resize

Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: >> Hi >> >> A strange thing happens whenever I minimise my Lyx window to the tool >> bar in Windows. When I bring it back up (regardless of whether it is >> full screen or user defined size) only the first 4 menu options are >> available (FIle, Edit, I

Re: first impressions of 1.3.6

Olivier Ripoll wrote: Hi, Olivier. > 2a- LyXPreview > I noticed no simple "per document" way to disable the preview of > equations. As I said earlier, my computer is quite old, and I prefer not > to see the preview of the equations. You're right that there is no "per document" way to do this, bu

Re: Strange menu behaviour on resize

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Another unusual behaviour: when a popup appears (e.g tex2lyx warning) it > is iconified if you get the focus on the lyx window (instead of going > behind as usual. It may take a while (and a few task killings) to > understand that you have to deiv]conify it to get the

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >>>However, screen resolution seems quite bad, never noticed before. >>>Any clue ? > Solved, Lyx on Windows opens with 18th Century screenfonts both for serif > and sans. Setting to Times New Roman ands Arial is all right. > Should not this be the default on the Win por

Re: first impressions of 1.3.6

Olivier Ripoll wrote: >> Add a line to your .lyx/preferences file: >> \\preview_scale_factor 2.0 >> (or whatever). The default value is 0.9. > definitely something for the docs ;) http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview#changing_preview_size -- Angus

Re: How do I install a new layout/class?... Again

Peter Rockett wrote: > I have: > > 1) Copied the svmult.cls file to c:\localtexmf\tex (although I had to > create this \tex directory) > > 2) Copied the layout files which I downloaded from > http://www.otaru-uc.ac.jp/~yokota/ > > 3) Ran "Refresh" from the MikTex Options tool > > 4) Ran "Edit

Re: first impressions of 1.3.6

Olivier Ripoll wrote: > The only one that I had (re)defined in the preamble was oiint. So > shouldn't the wasy package/fonts be used only if AMSmath is unselected ? I think that the wasysym documentation http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wasysym/wasysym.pdf explains what we ne

Re: /dev/null

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html For those of you (like me) reading this throught the gmane news interface which annoyingly encrypts stuff that it thinks are email addresses: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg3543

Re: Heretical question?

Peter Rockett wrote: > tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file Then post your sample so that tex2lyx can be improved. > Why isn't LyX (or something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ -- Angus

Re: tex2lyx for MAC

Giorgio Zavarise wrote: Dear Lyx People, I have to import in lyx a latex file that contains a lot of user commands, and it seems that there is no way to do it. I would like to ask a couple of suggestions: 1) how to explain to Relyx that there is a command file to read and to use 2) I read abo

Re: multiple (extra) sub-menus in document's Navigate drop-down menu (1.3.5)

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Under the Navigate menu one can see all six chapters of the book. > Choosing one opens a sub-menu which lists the chapter title and all the > sections it contains (which are all "Subsubsections"*). This works > fine... except for two chapters. > * - Why Subsubsection? Becau

Re: tex2lyx for MAC

Bennett Helm wrote: > I've placed a version on the wiki. As Angus said, the wiki page on > tex2lyx is: , from which you can > find a link to the Mac version. (The direct link to the Mac version is: > .) > > B

Re: tex2lyx for MAC

Bennett Helm wrote: >> If you grab the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh script from >> http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/tex2lyx then everything should be >> done automatically. > > Fixed ... and the wiki updated. Good man! -- Angus

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

Georg Baum wrote: > Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >> Maybe the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh could reflect this by bundling in LyX-1.4 >> instead of LyX ? > > Good idea. Are you volunteering to do so? Sure he is ;-) It's just a case of changing the line INSTALLDIR=LyX after all... -- Angus

Re: 1.3.6 problem on windows

Martin Richtarsky wrote: > Hello, > > first I'm happy that there is an 'official' LyX for Windows now, > especially as I have no Unix box here at the moment :) > > But I'm having trouble rather early. The installer depacks the files and > then gives me the message "Failed attempting to execute c

Re: 1.3.6 problem on windows

On Friday 22 July 2005 13:56, you wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > H. You have installed a Unix shell (Eg MinSYS), right? > > Not yet; the installer tries to download and install all the > components, starting with MinSys. No, it doesn't try to download or install a

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > I copied the 1.4 *.py files in my 1.3.6 installation. > I get one minor error: > Warning: Malformed lyx file: Missing '\paperpackage'. > Conversion seems successful however. This is a warning, not an error. Moreover, it's a bogus warning that José is going to remove

Re: Ant: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.6 is released, with native Windows support

Udo Müller wrote: > Thank you for the advise. :) > I tryed to build it at FreeBSD 4.11, works fine. > But, I found still two things what are not repaired. > > 1st at previous versions (maybe 1.2.x) if I did use > Ctrl+F to find something, it was possible to replace > spaces, for instance if I wan

Re: Strange message on the console

Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am using LyX 1.3.6 on Mandriva LE2005. In spite of the fact that LyX > works perfectly, I always get the following on the console, at the > startup: > > MenuItem(): LyX command `show-forks' does not exist. > > I thought it would be worthy of reporting this. >

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

Gilles Mioni wrote: > I'm very interested to have a deb file for lyx-1.3.6. > What does it means apply lyx_1.3.4-2.diff.gz to > unpacked source lyx 1.3.6 ? > I tried to patch source with lyx_1.3.4-2.diff.gz but failed. > Thanks for further information about how to build an > adapted source of 1.3.6

Re: Strange message on the console

Paul Smith wrote: > Indeed, Angus, I am using my previous $HOME/.lyx/ directory. The command > > grep -r 'show-forks' > > is running since one hour ago, but with no result yet. It's waiting for you to specify the directory it should be looking in. grep -r 'show-forks' $HOME/.lyx -- Angus

Re: Strange message on the console

Paul Smith wrote: > $ grep -r 'show-forks' /home/psmith/.lyx > /home/psmith/.lyx/ui/default.ui:Item "Child Processes|C" > "show-forks" $ > > What shall I do now? One of two things: 1. You really do have a different menu layout to the default one shipped by LyX. In that case, simply remov

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > unfortunately change bars did not make it into the lyx 1.3.6 release. No, that would require a file format change, something that we will not countenance for a bug fix release. > i am looking forward for the change bars to move into an official > release because otherwis

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > well angus > > i have no idea how to make such a patch. one could of cause carefully > read the diff man page, but then what? > > anyhows, id like to contribute in some way beyond documentation and > bugreports. alas, i only know perl and my second language is going to

Re: Windows port of 1.3.6 fails to process pstricks code

Jeremy Daily wrote: Hi, Jeremy. > If I have any pstricks code in a document, the processing stalls during > the execution of the clean_dvi.py script H. There is a "Draft DVI" option in the View menu which will produce the .dvi file without further processing by clean_dvi.py. Could you post

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > its been discussed at the list previously, but i never found the > solution: > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg40165.html So did you follow Paul Rubin's final suggestion through? http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40178.html

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i am getting closer at a solution. > > i tried to manually insert the suggested \convert lines in my > ~/.lyx/lyxrc.default Don't use this; it is regenerated automatically by Edit->Reconfigure. You'll lose your additions. Create a new file ~/.lyx/preferences for your own

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

Paul Smith wrote: > Have you latex-xft-fonts installed? If not, you should install them > and then the problem should disappear. Just for info. The latex-xft fonts are equivalent to but "less high quality" than the BaKoMa fonts: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip The BaKoMa fonts

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > ok - after setting up a ~/.lyx/preferences file with the missing line > \converter dvi ps "dvips -o $$o $$i" "" > then i am able to View->PDF Great! I'd suggest trying to find out why the configure script is failing to find dvips. To see what's going on, I'd add some "ec

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

Paul Smith wrote: >> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip > Not working the link above, Angus! So ftp.lyx.org is dead Jean-Marc? -- Angus

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > strangely enuf, change bars doesnt seem to be very stable. Why is it strange? The stuff is essentially untested. > redoing the view->pdf a couple of times in a row suddenly may give > warnings: > xdvi: Warning: /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/ps2pk.map: entry for font > "cm

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

Paul Smith wrote: > On 7/26/05, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip >> >> Not working the link above, Angus! >> >> Until ftp.lyx.org lives again, try: >> http://lyx.mirror.fr/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip > > The mirror works fine! T

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

JORGE A. HERNANDO wrote: > I downloaded the rpm file for latex-xft-fonts, installed it, > reconfigured lyx and the bug is still kicking and alive. But, > by the way, in the about rpm page it is said that the latex-xft-fonts > are for the Qt version of lkyx and I'm running the xforms version. > Is

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >>>No. XForms knows nothing about TrueType fonts. >>>Anyway, I see the same with the attached doc. lyx-xforms does not render >>>\Gamma. Could you file this as a bug on bugzilla please. > > Not true on Solaris 8... > lyx-1.3.6, TexLive-2004 Smart arse. ;-) So, that m

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

Paul Smith wrote: > I am writing the Wiki page and I would like to know whether it is > necessary that latex-xft-fonts are installed before installing BaKoMa > fonts. Thanks in advance. Nope. THey're exactly equivalent. -- Angus

Re: debug and command line stuff

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Hi > > On many occasions when people have had problems with a Lyx setup the > gurus have suggested running lyx from the command line using -dbg > and then certain strings. > > I have had a poke about on the wiki but I can't find a list of > possible commands. Is there any

Re: relative paths & beamer & temp directory: possible?

Georg Baum wrote: >> \batchmode >> \makeatletter >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Svens/testlyxtemp//}} >> \makeatother >> (Are the double slashes at the end ok?) > I don't know. Does it work when you remove one slash by hand and run > latex by hand? The double slash has particular significance to the kpse

Re: change bars and 1.3.6

Jane McKean wrote: > Hi there: > I've managed to upload both files and the patch description to the Wiki: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2 > > Scroll down to "Change bars and 1.3.6" for a look. Thanks a million, Jane. However, whilst the patch is fantastic, I thought that the wik

Re: LyX 1.3.6 uninstaller wipes out everything

shokie Q R dookie R wrote: > I have just installed the new LyX 1.3.6 on WinXP. Due to my playing > around with it, i had to reinstall it. I have a habbit to uninstall > the old version first. The thing is, when I installed Perl, Image > Magick and the rest, I put everything under C:/LyX/ so that ea

Re: [Alexander Crössmann] Lyx and aspell

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Alexander, please do not post on lyx-announce. > I forward your message where it belongs. > JMarc Alexander> I am using Lyx 1.3.6 but either ispell nor Alexander> aspell work. Both are installed and the command Alexander> \spell_command "aspell" in lyxcr.default is Al

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong again

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Note that we have sarge debs on ftp.lyx.org now (as well as Ubuntu). I quite like the .deb way of calling stuff lyx-FRONTEND_VERSION-FIXLEVEL.DIST_ARCH.deb although the '-', '_' and '.' still appear rather ad hoc. Anyway, ATM we have a rather eclectic collection

Re: Forcing references not appearing in the document with bibtex

Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to force some references that do not appear in the > document on bibtex so they will appear in the bibliography? > > I tried putting the references in a comment paragraph but that > didn't work. Add a TeX inset containing \nocite{KEY1,KEY2,KEY3} where KEYX ar

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong again

Micha Feigin wrote: > I am testing the 1.3.6 version on debian and I get consistent crashes > with one document that contains a lot of math (mostly math) and the text > is in hebrew. > > The problem seems to be in scrolling when preview is active and something > speciffic to the document, possibl

Re: Tex Information

Stephen P. Harris wrote: > I am not an expert and only wish to address this one issue: > >> The problem is I am not able to assign the .sh files to open >> with sh.exe which in the minsys folder. > > Did you follow these Wiki instructions? > >> From the Wiki: >> "LyX can only find programs if t

Re: File format extension

Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Is the extension field in Edit->Preferences->File formats documented > anywhere? I tried changing the extension for a clone of the PDF > (pdflatex) format to 'pdf4' (because I was trying to open it in a > non-Acrobat viewer, and the files were opening in Acrobat Reader > re

Re: Compiling in the Background

Roy Schestowitz wrote: > If there any safe and simple way of continuating document edits while a > preview is generated in the background? No. This is the number one item on my wish list too. -- Angus

Re: suppressing the use of amsmath package with kyx 1.3.6

Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to suppress the use of the amsmath package with lyx 1.3.6 > even when relevant commands such as split are used? It is possible, but it's a total hack ;-) What I would do is define a new LaTeX->DVI converter, my_latex.sh, containing something like: #! /bin/sh

Re: File format extension

Stephen P. Harris wrote: > In my case I wanted a new .ps viewer. I changed the format to ps2. > I set the extension field to ps the GUI name to Gscript and the viewer > executable to flps. It worked just like you said it would. Thank you. Incidentally, if you're interested in just changing the Vie

Re: File format extension

Stephen P. Harris wrote: > Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your > advice to change the Path statement in the preference file rather > than run a reconfigure. Since the location of the preference file > is somewhat out of the way, I usually Search for it, starting > from C:\

Re: File format extension

Stephen P. Harris wrote: > I provided the tip because a Windows user already complained > about not being able to "find" the file and using the Search engine. > It is also more efficient than navigating to the file in order to > edit it. Search, double-click on file, and it opens with the default >

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about: I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. In case 1, everything is pe

Re: Version 1.3.6 for windows

Jose Capco wrote: Is there already a stable binary. Last time I download the binaries (it was stated "In a few days we will have the binaries.. and funnily there was a link to the binary).. there were a few problems and so lyx wasn't able to run.. so I swtiched back to 1.3.5 .. I was wondering if

Re: Version 1.3.6 for windows

Jose Capco wrote: > I read the report. I have the problem similar to the > report. That it won't run in Win98.. Is this being > worked on? Yes. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/47504 > *sigh* I guess its not yet time to switch. I guess not. But once we've resolved the problem,

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

Sven Schreiber wrote: >> Sigh. Windows and all its different flavours... > I see. Is there anything I can do in terms of research, like what > function needs to be called on 2000 as opposed to xp, or similar? No, I think I know what to do. > I'm far from being an expert or windows developer, but

Re: Version 1.3.6 for windows

Jose Capco wrote: >> I guess not. But once we've resolved the problem, >> I'll post lyx_1.3.6-2. > Thanks. If it takes to copy a certain dll file (I just > get the impression that it has to do with windows > dlls) then you could just tell us.. but maybe its not > just that. You may have to instal

Re: Tex Information

ng revision 1.273.2.24 diff -u -p -r1.273.2.24 ChangeLog --- src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog 4 Jul 2005 13:24:41 - 1.273.2.24 +++ src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog 10 Aug 2005 08:38:43 - @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-08-10 Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + * tex_helpers.C (resc

Re: Converting from Word into Lyx

José Luis Gómez Dans wrote: > Hi! > I know this has been asked many times before, but I have found some > particularities in converting Word 2k files into Lyx. Unfortunately, > the documents have been produced first in Word, and need to be > translated now. The problems are as follows: > > 1.- Ac

Re: Palatino font

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Ok this is becoming more of a mystery. > > I think this is no longer a Lyx/Latex issue so I am sorry for bugging the > list with it but maybe someone has a solution. > > I downloaded another free windows pdf viewer and it the font looks great. > However I also tried it on

Re: Palatino font

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: >> You're discovering that Acroread makes a mess of displaying bitmap >> fonts. Have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF > But palatino isn't a bitmapped font as far as I am aware. It uses proper > font descriptions. Herman Zapf designed the glyphs and called the result pa

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Ok, I think I see the problem, though not the solution. The first time > you view the document, LyX copies the graphics files into the temp > directory (which also houses any transformations of them done by > ImageMagick). When you perform step 2, I assume that you're perfo

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Can do, but first let me clarify two things. You said LyX does check > for a changed graphic file _when it generates the LaTeX source_. > However, if the only thing you've done since the last LaTeX run is muck > around with the graphics file (not change the name of the file

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | LyX stores a CRC checksum of all dependent files that it knows about. > | It's just that the controlling logic doesn't know about the graphics > | files. try > > So we parse the latex log wrong? Is that what you are saying? No, we don't run latex. I get somewhat los

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: It performs a checksum of the contents of the file. >>> It also look at the timestamp... so if you have a timestamp that >>> does not change the crc will not be checked. >> Whatever. > What does that ("whatever") mean? It means that Lars and I are proving to each othe

Re: Problems importing tex into lyx

Mike Reeks wrote: > I've recently installed lyx. Everything seesm to wotk OK except > importing a tex document - always get the message > Error while executing reLyx -f "filename.tex". Can anyone help or advise > apoor beginner? reLyX is a perl script. Do you have perl installed on your machine.

Re: Best image format

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the best image format for work with lyx? I actually use png but > I don't know if this is the best practice. If you're using the latex compiler then use .eps format images. That's all that the latex compiler understands. Moreover, it's a vector format, so your i

Re: export in txt format

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i am not sure this is simple - at least not for me. > > if ones does: > > 1) export lyx to latex. > 2) run latex and bibtex in order to generate the .bbl file containing > the bibliographic data. > 3) convert the latex file to txt file (is that groff's doing?). > 4) con

Re: lyx 1.3.6 win32 install missing textclass.lst

James Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > I installed LyX 1.3.6 on Windows XP Pro, following the > installation script and accepting the default > directories. When I try to run LyX I get the following > message: > > "LyX wasn't able to find its layout description! > > check

Re: Extra lyx layouts missing from Windows distribution of Lyx 1.3.6?

Mark Engelberg wrote: > I just installed the Windows version of 1.3.6. I'm excited to fianlly be > able to use this program easily under Windows. > > One thing I noticed is that even after installing, I can't seem to select > the hollywood style (among others), from the "New from template" optio

Re: Windows spellchecker for LyX?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Mark Engelberg wrote: >> Thanks for all the help, everyone. I was able to get the hollywood >> class in the right place, and it works fine. But now, the spellchecker >> is telling me it can't find an en_US wordlist. How do I get hold of >> that, and set it up properly wit

Re: copying LaTeX text into a LyX document from clipboard

David Soukal wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering whether it is possible to paste a well-formated fragment > of LaTeX code from clipboard into an open document in such a way that > LyX interprets the LaTeX code being inserted? The standard "paste" > command will, of course, treat the content as a

Re: Broadway example wanted

Mark Engelberg wrote: > Anyone have a good example of the brodway style in action? > Thanks, > Mark You might try and contact the author, Garst Reese, directly. See http://www.lyx.org/about/credits.php for his contact details. -- Angus

Re: dvips option added by LyX

Mael Hilléreau wrote: >Hi, > >I would like to know why LyX adds a '-t letter' option to dvips > command when converting from DVI to PostScript and if there's a way to > avoïd that. > > This is a problem for me since it has the undesirable effect of changing > paper orientation from lands

Re: Latex2html

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Hi > > Just wondered if anyone had any success using/installing this with WinXp > and Lyx?? > > I tried to do an Export->Html and got an error saying it couldn't find > Latex2html - I assume it doesn't come with Lyx (is this correct??) That is correct. > If this is the

Re: problem with hyphenation of underlined text

Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > But might there be a way that LyX (1.3.5) can take advantage of soul.sty > automatically (without any ERT on my part)? Nope. -- Angus

Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

David Soukal wrote: > You mentioned MinSYS being required for LyX 1.3.6. What does it mean? > Does it mean that LyX will understand shortcuts in Windows? No. We use MinSYS only to run various shell scripts. Some people have reported success using Cygwin's shell environment instead, but I haven't b

Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 20:44, David Soukal wrote: > But then, how can the MinSYS's "ln -s" command work with LyX? I don't > know about MinSYS but Cygwin really creates only a shortcut which is not > being interpreted by LyX... so the trick does not work... > > I'm so confused right now... :)

Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

David Soukal wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm very confused about how to properly create an interword space. In > LaTeX the standard way is to use "\ " for an interword space and \@ for > the end-of-sentence spacing after punctuation. I was used to typing > > bla, e.g.\ bla > > to get the proper spa

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

Mark Engelberg wrote: > When I set LyX to tell it the path and file name of my Acrobat Reader, > it doesn't stick. > When I quit, and restart it, and loses that info. > > --Mark Are you pressing "Save" or "Apply"? Is the data present in you preferences file? On Windows C:\Documents and Setti

Re: Building 1.3.6 on SuSE 9 and SLES 8

Jane McKean wrote: > Hi there: > > We're working on building all of our LyX docs with the daily compiler > builds, which we do for a number of Linux platforms. The engineer who is > helping me with LyX here at PathScale tells me that the LyX part of > build failed on the SuSE 9 and SLES 8 platfor

Re: Building 1.3.6 64-bit with change tracking patch...

built-in memcpy() is broken on egcs and gcc 2.95 for alpha architecture, we provide our own. It is used unconditionnally, but I do not think this is a performance problem. Thanks to Angus Leeming for the code (and again to Michal Jaegermann for finding it the f

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

Stephen P. Harris wrote: > My viewer has this path, C:\reader7\Reader\AcroRd32.exe > Yours is probably in F:\program files\adobe etc > So try using the full path name including the drive letter. You should consider using the "path_prefix" variable to modify the PATH environment variable used by Ly

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

Vaclav Smidl wrote: > I have seen similar problem on my colleagues computer, we resolved it > using the workaround with PATH as described by Angus. > To my understanding, the trouble is, that saving the full path > "F:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe" > in the preferences, add

Re: CVS access down?

David Soukal wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been trying to download LyX from the CVS without any success for > several day now. Can somebody, please, confirm that the server is > unaccessible? Or is the problem on our side? Are you using the anoncvs.us.lyx.org mirror of the cvs repository? I

Re: CVS access down?

David Soukal wrote: > I've read the thread but I still cannot figure out the whole cvs > command. Could you, please, write it down for me? I'm sorry, I don't > have that much experience with CVS so it's hard for me to derive the > command + paths... CVSROOT=pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/lyx

Re: CVS access down?

Angus Leeming wrote: > David Soukal wrote: >> I've read the thread but I still cannot figure out the whole cvs >> command. Could you, please, write it down for me? I'm sorry, I don't >> have that much experience with CVS so it's hard for me to derive the &

Re: CVS access down?

David Soukal wrote: >> CVSROOT=pserver:anoncvs AT anoncvs.us.lyx.org:/var/cvs/lyx >> export CVSROOT >> cvs login >> (the password is lyx) >> cvs checkout -d your_dir_name lyx-devel > Thank you Angus, this works perfect! I have the sources now! > However, later I ran into the following two pro

Re: Simple questions.

Mike Meyer wrote: > 2) I know this has to have been discussed to death - probably >repeatedly - but I couldn't seem to find the right query to tickle >google or the list archives into kicking it up. Could someone >provide a pointer to a rational for going with a single window >inste

Re: drag-and-drop with non-ascii characters

Roy Schestowitz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was not able to copy a file by drag and drop from konqueror into >> the lyx editor, since the non-ascii character in the file name (an >> accented letter, in my case) is erased during the procedure. >> Is it possible to fix that? >> >> I do not know if it is a

Re: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

Stephen P. Harris wrote: > SH: You've certainly done a good job in establishing your unique > qualifications for your sweeping pronouncements. Stephen, cool it please. -- Angus

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

Stephen P. Harris wrote: > Peter Flynn is an arrogant, ignorant blowhard. I think my expression > of dissatisfaction was rather moderate. I think your moral intervention > was a day late and a dollar short and not directed at the instigator. My apologies. I hadn't realised I was expected to read a

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