Re: Installing on Mac--MacTex vs. BasicTex

2011-06-17 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 27.05.11 05:14, schrieb Bob Alvarez: I am installing Lyx 1.6.9 on a Macbook Air OSX 10.6 . Quite interesting for me. I'm thinking over a change to Macbook Air for having a lightweight and smaller computing possibility when travelling. The Wiki suggests BasicTex but this thread suggests

defaults.lyx, lyx2lyx error in LyX 1.6

2009-03-03 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Yesterday, I still produced lyx letters with my own templates. Today - whyever - I wanted to start with File => New and got the error message: _ /Users/joachim/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/templates/defaults.lyx stammt von einer anderen LyX-Version, ab

Re: defaults.lyx, lyx2lyx error in LyX 1.6

2009-03-03 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Konrad Hofbauer schrieb: Have you changed something in your python installation (e.g., installed python3)? Months ago, I installed MacPorts, because I wanted to use rtf2latex2e (with LaTeX and LyX). I did some other install and uninstall with MacPorts meanwhile, the uninstalls I did careful

Re: defaults.lyx, lyx2lyx error in LyX 1.6 - resolved

2009-03-03 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Konrad Hofbauer schrieb: But probably an incomplete python25 installed by macports, i.e., you are missing some modules (the py25- stuff in macports). You can either 1) run lyx2lyx from terminal, try to find out which modules it is missing and install those from macports or I tried that

Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter

2009-03-12 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 11.03.2009, 02:08 Uhr, schrieb Alex Fernandez : eLyXer is very much a work in progress, since it only supports a pretty small subset of LyX features Being very impressed of the quality of the example http://vecinos-productions.com/rayleigh/book.html I suppose that margin notes in LyX (or

Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter

2009-03-12 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 12.03.2009, 16:43 Uhr, schrieb Alex Fernandez : Version 0.4 (20090312) is uploaded: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/ELyXer OK, I dared to download and uncompress it. And proceeded to the first step, with the response: joachim$ ../elyxer userguide.lyx userguide2.html File "../elyxer", line 2

Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter

2009-03-13 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 13.03.2009, 03:18 Uhr, schrieb Alex Fernandez: It seems that your Python is not understanding the decorator syntax for classmethods, which were introduced in Python 2.4: http://pyref.infogami.com/classmethod I believe, but I'm not the one to understand these things. The following command

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-07 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 05.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Steve Litt : If it's longer than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor). Sorry, Steve, do you mean »kompozer« http://www.kompozer.net/ or Nvu - HTML-Editor (for Windows) or Nvu Composer (for several OSs) or something else? joachim -- MacTeXLive

alt+a/d/e/o/t to get å, ∂, €, ø, † e tc.

2009-07-19 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
With my German keyboard on Mac-OSX normaly I can get with alt+a | d | e | o | t | p | + | x | c | m | l | ö | ä etc. the following special letters/symbols: å | ∂ | € | ø | † | π | ± | ≈ | ç | µ | @ | œ | æ etc. which I find very practical. But because of the key-bindings in LyX (ma

shortcuts: LyX & OSX side by side?

2009-07-21 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
sorry, again with changed subject (still hoping for help): Hi LyXers, especially on Mac-OSX: With my German keyboard on Mac-OSX normally I can get with alt+a | d | e | o | t | p | + | x | c | m | l | ö | ä etc. the following special letters/symbols: å | ∂ | € | ø | † | π | ± | ≈ |

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

2009-08-24 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 24.08.2009, 13:28 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: NOTE that no Mac OS X binaries will be provided for this release, due to a regression on this platform that was detected after 1.6.4 was released. Expect a minor update that addresses this problem to be released soon. OK, that means patienc

aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

2009-08-27 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Could it be that the spellchecking possibility in LyX with Aspell or CocoAspell is a big piss take, at least on Mac-OSX? I have worked till today without spellchecker in LyX, but I should install one for my convenience. Now I worked about 8 hours to install and configure (Coco)Aspell for Ly

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

2009-08-28 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Thank you very much, Richard, for your kindly and detailed help! First I uninstalled the aspell installed with MacPorts and tried to follow your instructions. Am 28.08.2009, 14:25 Uhr, schrieb Richard Talley: First, install cocoAspell and make sure it's working properly with LyX as an Engl

Re: Converting paragraph breaks to newlines in a .layout file

2009-10-14 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 05.10.2009, 22:03 Uhr, schrieb Jack M. Lyon : Jack M. Lyon wrote: --I need a command that will convert paragraph breaks to newlines in the LaTeX text inside the paragraph environment verse1. So the text in LyX will look like this (styled as Poem): My name is Ozymandias, king of k

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

2009-10-26 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 18.10.2009, 21:59 Uhr, schrieb Jason Waskiewicz : I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class. Very commendable undertaking! I would be very glad, if we got a well performing layout file for that! (After my extensive use of Spitzmüller's layout for the Tufte-handout class.

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

2009-10-27 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 27.10.2009, 21:42 Uhr, schrieb Jason Waskiewicz: My best idea is that there could be a conflict with the \lipsum package. I have a similar computer setup to yours (Mac with Leopard -- though mine is a PPC). I've had no trouble on that machine or on my Linux box. Thank you for your endeav

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

2009-10-28 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 28.10.2009, 02:15 Uhr, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Before you proceed please first try out the recent version of the layout file and the example document, see my previous email. Sorry, Uwe, for unknown reasons - insufficiency of my newsreader? - I hadn't had your e-mails in the gmane.editors.lyx.

tufte-handout.layout outdated

2009-10-29 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Big problem for me, but also for the next release of LyX: tufte-book.layout - works well, tufte-handout.layout doesn't work with actual release of Tufte (2009 May 17) Please watch, Uwe, Jürgen & all Tufte-interested LyX-Developer & User: While the new tufte-book.layout, created by Uwe Stöhr

Re: BigFoot Package

2009-10-29 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 29.10.2009, 23:17 Uhr, schrieb rgheck:> Further to comments the other day, attached is a package that implements some simple functionality of the bigfoot package. It seems to work for my purposes. Unfortunately, in developing it, I realized that we do not yet have counters for custom insets. S

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

2009-10-29 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 29.10.2009, 17:31 Uhr, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: The next version doesn't use this layout file version but this one: http://www.lyx.org/trac/export/31790/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X/lib/layouts/tufte-handout.layout very fine! Can you please test it out? (To get it work you need to have my tu

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

2009-10-30 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 30.10.2009, 02:40 Uhr, schrieb Uwe Stöhr : To make LyX files created with the old layout work, you need to open the LyX file with a text editor and replace - "CharStyle:SmallCaps" with "SmallCaps" - "CharStyle:AllCaps" with AllCaps - "CharStyle:NewThought" with "NewThought" Very good, I'll

Re: Old/new problem with Tufte layouts

2009-11-28 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 28.11.2009, 15:07 Uhr, schrieb John Kane: I wonder if anyone can help me with Tufte layouts? Helo, John, I have the Tufte layouts running - with the newest svn-version of the tufte-latex package and the new LyX layout files, but on MacOSX. I'm hesitating to answer you because I'm not eno

Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 on Mac

2009-12-15 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Has anyone tried some BasicTeX version for MacOS with LyX with succes? This time, for reasons of disc space economy, I prefered not to migrate to full MacTeX 2009, but rather installing the BacicTeX.dmg (2009) from http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/morepackages.html for then, whenever necess

Re: Bad experience with BasicTeX-2009 - solved f. t. moment

2009-12-16 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 15.12.2009, 21:36 Uhr, schrieb Rob Oakes : However, I would actually recommend that you use MacTeX. While it is a bit of a hard drive pig (3 GB), I've had troubles with other LaTeX distributions on Mac (including BasicTeX). … Manually trying to sort this out is tremendously frustrating.

tufte-latex 3.5 problem with LyX

2009-12-16 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Admirable LyX Layouter, in the framework of actualization of my MacTeX installation I installed the brand actual version 3.5.0 of the tufte-latex classes from http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/ Running the actual LyX example files (with the actual LyX layouts from Uwe Stöhr) I get the LaTeX e

"doc class xy can't be loaded"

2009-12-17 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Since sometime, when in LyX I choose File => new and then with within the standard new document class (article), I choose Document => Options and within the Options window, section document class, choose "Handout (Tufte)", I get the LyX error: Die Dokumentklasse tufte-handout konnte nicht g

Re: "doc class xy can't be loaded"

2009-12-18 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Thank you, Rob & Uwe, for your hints! In fact I had a very confusing situation, yesterday: first the problem described, then, after trying to heal it, none of the existing files of that doc class could be run properly. I'm not able to describe exactly all what I tried and have done. Now, w

pro culture of margin notes

2009-12-18 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Dear LyX-users, With the help of my last talks here and elsewhere I have my LyX and LaTeX installation (see footer) imbedding tufte-latex now spruced up again on Mac. I breathe a sigh of relief… just before the highdays of the turn of sun and year! Thanks to Uwe Stöhr and all contributers! For n

.lyx~ backup-files: to delete?

2009-12-19 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
The files with the filename-extension ».lyx~« which LyX creates each time you begin a new document are obviously the »LyX backups« for which one may assign a special directory where they go. Otherwise they are saved in the same directory as the .lyx file itself. As far I suppose these .ly

Re: .lyx~ backup-files: to delete?

2009-12-19 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 20.12.2009, 00:25 Uhr, schrieb Diego Queiroz: If you don't want the backups, just uncheck the proper boxes in "Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > User interface". Gracias, but only I'm still uncertain, what the "proper boxes" there are. The mines are in German, but "Sichere Originaldokumen

Re: .lyx~ backup-files: to delete? OK, but …

2009-12-20 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
I regard it necessary that the LyX user must be enlightened about the possible functions of the .lyx~ backup files and how to handle with it in the "Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > User interface" pane! (This to developers and documentalists)Am 20.12.2009, 06:07 Uhr, schrieb Diego Queiroz:Th

Re: Tufte layout?

2009-12-20 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 20.12.2009, 16:06 Uhr, schrieb John Kane: You should not have to but as I mentioned above I am not sure that it is automatically included in a Latex installation so you may have to install tufte-book there. I don't think that is is shure that the newest version is already within the CTAN

Re: Tufte layout?

2009-12-20 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
quot; An: "Uwe Stöhr", "Joachim Osnabryg" Betreff: Re: tufte-latex 3.5 problems with LyX Datum: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:39:12 +0100 Hello again, gentlemen. I've attached a patched tufte-common.def file that you can try it. It should allow you to use \title and \author in ei

Re: Tufte layout?

2009-12-20 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 20.12.2009, 22:10 Uhr, schrieb John Kane : No attachment :( not yet, but soon I'll give notice where/how to get the patch. Thanks for the help though. as a matter of course… by, joachim -- Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 / TeXworks 0.2.3 LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: Tufte layout? Here the patched tufte-common.def!

2009-12-20 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
get it. I'll give notice, when I know. --- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --- Von: "Kevin Godby" An: "Uwe Stöhr", "Joachim Osnabryg" Betreff: Re: tufte-latex 3.5 problems with LyX Datum: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:39:12 +0100 Hello again, gentlemen. … I'm using a

Re: pro culture of margin notes

2009-12-20 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
necessary information to run the tufte-latex classes in LyX, I repeat here from my answer there: Weitergeleitete Usenet-Nachricht ---- Von: "Joachim Osnabryg" Betreff: Re: Tufte layout? Here the patched tufte-common.def! Datum: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:47:48 +0100 Hello LyXers, as promis

Re: Tufte layout?

2009-12-21 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
tion). So far my final hint within this thread, joachim Weitergeleitete Usenet-Nachricht Von: "Joachim Osnabryg" Betreff: Re: Tufte layout? Here the patched tufte-common.def! Datum: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:47:48 +0100 URL: news:// as promised, here you get the information, ho

"python -m elyxer" question

2009-12-29 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Today I installed elyxer (again), I choose the "elegant way" as described in the user-guide, see file:///Users/joachim/RunnerLaae/La_TeX&LyX/elyxer2009-12/docs/userguide-frameset.html at the end of subsection 1.2. The last Terminal command which I did on my Mac-OSX was: sudo python setup.py inst

Re: "python -m elyxer" question

2009-12-29 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 29.12.2009, 18:46 Uhr, schrieb Alex Fernandez : If you followed the elegant procedure you just have to click on Tools > Reconfigure and it will find eLyXer automatically (LyX version > 1.6.5). That is why it was elegant I agree! After the first run I'm really impressed! A rather challanging

LyX-doc "EmbeddedObjects" not compiling

2010-01-16 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Dear Helpers, Today I tried to make a pdf or dvi from the LyX Help doc/de "EmbeddedObjects", but it stops with LaTeX errors at the floating table 22 before the section head 2.12.3. I report the first LaTeX errors below. I am completely at a loss with this fact. I wanted to have the Embed

Re: LyX-doc "EmbeddedObjects" not compiling

2010-01-16 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 17.01.2010, 00:51 Uhr, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: I replaced the ~ now with a +, please check if this version: http://www.lyx.org/trac/export/33063/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx works now for you. Here not, sorry. Still the same errors. (See below) joachim - Mac B

Re: LyX-doc "EmbeddedObjects" not compiling

2010-01-17 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 17.01.2010, 01:56 Uhr, schrieb Uwe Stöhr : You haven#t used the new version, but the old one. Can you please recheck this? You are right, I didn't realize that you had made the correction in the English version, not the German. Your corrected version, put on right place within LyX.app d

Re: LyX-doc "EmbeddedObjects" not compiling

2010-01-17 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 17.01.2010, 16:53 Uhr, schrieb Joachim Osnabryg, => me: Remaining problem: => The pdf output of this table is flawed and misarranged in column 2 and 3, i. e. not usable for real purposes. - With your corrected English version the output is correct - I couldn't figure out,

bblmemoir.cls - What and where?

2010-02-13 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Informing me on http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex I downloaded and opened the or other .lyx example file. Trying to pdf them resulted in the LaTeX error: bblmemoir.cls not found. From TeXLive manager I didn't found such class or package, in the ctan base I didn't found neither. Can someone

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-25 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 25.02.2010, 11:17 Uhr, schrieb Julio Rojas: Get the trunk from: svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel Configure with: ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release And the the usual: make sudo make install Hi, friends, I enter here hoping t

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-25 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 25.02.2010, 13:27 Uhr, schrieb BH : Follow the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX. (It's somewhat more involved than the above.) Thank you Wilhelm, good tip (perhaps I overlooked it last time). But I have 2 additional questions: 1. INSTALL.MacOSX says: (after the preconditions and) after havin

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-25 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 25.02.2010, 17:00 Uhr, schrieb BH : Mac is not Linux and so requires different procedures. Follow the INSTALL.MacOSX instructions here. Ay, Ay BH bewihelm, so according to INSTALL.MacOSX: ./configure --prefix=/path/to/LyX.app --with-version-suffix=-1.6 --with-qt4-dir=/path/to/QT4 --w

LyX 2-dev on MacOSX compiled

2010-02-26 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Happy to announce that I compiled successfully the LyX 2.0 svn version on MacOSX 10.4 Tiger today. Thanks to the hints from Julio Rojas and Guenter Milde, and the especially the kindly helping of "BH" , all on gmane.editors.lyx.general (ML lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) within the thread "Lyx

Re: LyX 2-dev on MacOSX compiled

2010-02-27 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 27.02.2010, 05:08 Uhr, schrieb BH : I'm not sure what you think is unclear in INSTALL.MacOSX. Do you have proposed changes? Not yet, I'm going to make a proposal here: In the INSTALL.MacOSX, rows 91-96 it reads: 91 Then, cd to the top of the LyX source hierarchy, and enter: 92 93 ./aut