Re: Install spellchecker in LyX 1.4.4-4

2007-06-12 Thread Joost Verburg
Bo Peng wrote: 2. lyx can not detect manually installed dictionaries. That's impossible. The LyX installer just runs the dictionary installer. No other setup is required. Joost

Re: Install spellchecker in LyX 1.4.4-4

2007-06-12 Thread Joost Verburg
Ricardo Bessa wrote: A try to install but Lyx doesn´t detect aspell 0.6. You don't need to install Aspell, only the dictionaries. Joost

Re: No Text Class Found?

2007-06-18 Thread Joost Verburg
Paniez Paykari wrote: I have tried to download lyx on my windows. After going through all the steps, it does not open lyx and the error message is 'No TextClass Found'. How can I fix this? The LyX configuration probably failed. Remove C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\lyx1.4.x and

Re: 1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

2007-06-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Jim Rockford wrote: For version 1.5.0 release candidate 2: When I use the Windoze installer I get the mysterious message InetLoad plug-in "Your internet connection seems to have dropped out! Please reconnect and clock Retry to resume downloading..." ftp.lyx.org is down. If you ignore this mess

Re: 1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

2007-06-29 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp.lyx.org is down. If you ignore this message it will download the dictionaries from a backup server. Maybe we should add some informative text before or after this part of the installation? The download plug-in seems to have some difficulties to handle a broken f

Re: RC2 is a total catastrophe

2007-07-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Good. Now the question is: can we do something about that from the LyX side? Joost? Uwe? The official installer does not install the BaKoMa in the Windows fonts directory. The fonts are located in Resources\fonts. Joost

Re: RC2 is a total catastrophe

2007-07-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Good. Now the question is: can we do something about that from the LyX side? Joost? Uwe? It looks like Scientific Workplace installs different fonts with the same name in the Windows fonts directory. These seem to override the local fonts in the LyX resources directo

Re: Strange problem in file-open dialog (1.5RC2, WinXP)

2007-07-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Persio Barros wrote: Now the subfolders in "My Documents" are all showing here. But the problem remains in other directories. And I have not changed anything in that folder, nor in the LyX installation. One thing I noted when opening a folder with lots of subfolders is that all the folder names

Re: Acrobat/pdflatex Problems w/ LyX 1.5.0

2007-07-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Medon Decker wrote: I suspect that openpdf's logic is not compatible to my Acrobat's settings (v7, btw). Try to upgrade to Adobe Reader 8.1. Joost

Re: Session Management and Outliner Functionality

2007-07-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Fritz Bein wrote: I very much appreciate the new session management as well as the outliner functionality. As I like to work with the Table-of-Contents window open on the left side, I wonder if I can keep it switched-on. Either always switched-on or 'remembered' by Lyx in the context of the sa

Re: PDF view update problem

2007-07-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Nicolás wrote: If a PDF preview is already open and I run View->Update->PDFlatex to update it, nothing happens (LyX executes some commands, but the pdf document is not updated). Are you using the official installer? It includes support for PDF updating. Joost

Re: PDF view update problem

2007-07-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Nicolás wrote: No, I used Uwe's installer. Anyway, as I said, the updating of the pdf file works ok, although not via View->Update->PDFlatex, but using View->PDFlatex again. Uwe's installer does not support PDF updating using View>Update. Joost

Re: prefered windows Installer

2007-08-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Tim Michelsen wrote: I put up a small feature comparison table at: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows#sWindows.Windows_2 I moved your page to: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/InstallerComparison and added some information. Joost

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The PDFViewWin.exe is there to be able to update PDFs that are open in Acrobat. Unfortunately there is a bug in Acroread 8.0.x that opened files could not be closed. We therefore built in a workaround. It seems that this workaraound doesn't work with Adobe Reader 8.1. I'll chec

Re: Lyx 1.5.1Spellchecker error

2007-08-08 Thread Joost Verburg
Vaibhav wrote: This time I thought it would work but I was again disappointed. Whenever I press spellchecker button, it says "spellchecker could not be started. No word lists can be found for the language "en_US"". I googled about it but got no remedy. You may have two copies of Aspell on your

Re: Installer improvement (was Lyx 1.5.1Spellchecker error)

2007-08-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Nicolás wrote: I experienced exactly the same problem. In my case LyX was using the version installed for all users (I guess it depends on the option you choose when installing LyX). I think the installer should warn about this situation. Ideally, the installer should be able to install the d

Re: Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Moschops wrote: Which was the last version to run on Win98? 'Chops It should be possible to make LyX 1.5 run on Windows 98/Me. I tried it a few weeks ago. Everything seems to work except the math mode. When you try to create an equation or open a document with mathematics, you get a crash.

Re: Great Aspell Problem Windows XP (some other points)

2007-08-18 Thread Joost Verburg
Heiko Schroeder wrote: It *must* be a problem with LyXs call of aspell. I tried everything, I can think of. Applying the correct path prefix, copying into th bin-directory of lyx (aspell is located in C:\Programs\Aspell), loading the pws-Dictionary (which is *not* in the dict-subdirectory of a

Re: Great Aspell Problem Windows XP (some other points)

2007-08-19 Thread Joost Verburg
Heiko Schroeder wrote: It looks like you have quite some old Aspell files on your computer. I do not think so. I had installed the current version of Aspell for Windows as it is said by GNU.. On the Aspell site only a very old version of Aspell for Windows is provided, which has a lot of lim

Re: Great Aspell Problem Windows XP (some other points)

2007-08-20 Thread Joost Verburg
Heiko Schroeder wrote: Yes, but the dictionaries of the LyX site do not work either, if you install it for all users. Installing LyX for *all* and afterwards installing the English dictionary and afterwards the German one does not succeed on my machine. You probably have an Aspell installatio

Re: LyX 1.5.1-3-18-AltInstaller-xxx.exe

2007-08-22 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul Schwartz wrote: Is it strictly necessary to uninstall former LyX versions ahead of installing 1.5.1 using the hereabove installer or official one's or can it be executed directly ? The official installer does not require previous version to be uninstalled. I don't know about the alternat

Re: Help for a new user

2007-08-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's a relatively easy mistake to do... How about adding some descriptions to this text? It wouldn't have to be a lot, in fact... maybe it could just refer to a web (wiki?) page where the details are explained? So why not just hide the windows and show the o

Re: Visual style of LyX 1.5.2

2007-11-03 Thread Joost Verburg
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Non recognized command are passed to Qt so it should work in principle. But we are using a patched version of the official Qt for Windows so that might be the reason. Next release will use the official Qt4.3 source. We're already using the official Qt4.3 without any pa

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Manveru wrote: For most writers such feature is more a bug that a helpful feature. Those annoying red underlines may break your way of thinking during writing, the same is about autocorrection. These Word feature is for people, who do not want to click "spell check my doc" every time they finish

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Dave Hewitt wrote: Have a look at the User's Guide as well, which explains that LyX simply implements an external program to do the spellchecking. It may happen in the future that LyX will support a program that provides inline spellchecking, but for now it's Aspell for Windows users (and proba

Re: EPS image displayed rotated by 90 degrees and cropped in Lyx and also in pdf output

2008-01-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Peter Sutovsky wrote: Do you have some method how to create good quality eps from MS Visio drawings? Thank you. http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/MetafileToEPSConverter You can either copy the drawing to the clipboard or save it as EMF, then use this tool for the conversion. Joost

Re: [announce] new LyX manual about math

2008-01-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Antonio José Guirao Sánchez wrote: The first thing I have told induces me to suspect that the problem is that something with the preamble make my acrobat become crazy (Acrobat reader 5.0). Maybe that in the preamble the file use ifpdf package (but, of course, I am not sure). That's a very old

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

2008-01-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: When you install LyX using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller all LaTeX-packages needed by LyX are automatically installed. All you need to do, is to have an open internet connection before you start to install LyX. The standard installer does the sa

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12973 The Italian dictionary on ftp.lyx.org is indeed corrupt. You can downlo

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Max Bian wrote: I am using 1.53 on Windows Vista. I found pdflatex easiest to get what I need. However I have two problems with it: 1. When I do view->PDF(PDFLATEX), it will ask me if I want to create the directory for the output files. Is there a way to remove this unnecessary user input?

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-10 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I decided to use "pdfview.exe" instead of "pdfviewwin.exe". It works fine, Yes, but this checks in the background every 20 Milliseconds of the PDF was updated. So with this program your notebokk can never go to sleep mode to save battery power. It only checks once every 500

Re: Where is the Lyx 1.54 for Windows

2008-02-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Jorge Mario Garcia wrote: Where is the Lyx 1.54 for Windows? The installers are currently being uploaded. Joost

Re: 1.5.4 very little problems

2008-02-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Marcelo Acuña wrote: 1) lyx 1.5.4 not remember size of main window. 2) when I put a large doc to compile for a long time not appears a cursor that announce that latex/lyx is working. Thanks. Both of this problems are known. Is 1) a known problem? I cannot reprodu

Re: Problems installing LyX

2008-03-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Juha Meriluoto wrote: I've been experiencing some problems while trying to upgrade my LyX installation. I'm currently using version 1.5.3 (alternate installer 3.21). When I try to update to, or install, either version 1.5.4 (alt. installer 3.22) or 1.6svn (alt. installer 4.10) the installatio

Re: Problems installing LyX 1.5.4

2008-03-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: If LyX then still doesn't start, copy the attached file to the same folder where the lyx.exe is. Then it should definitively work. Are you still using the previous version of Visual C++? The current CRT version is 9.0.21022.8. Joost

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though. I agree that the current wiki looks a bit bet

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Rich Shepard wrote: Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I fully agree. The main text should be black-on-white instead of

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Dominik Böhm wrote: To be honest with you, I first also thought that the main canvas looked old-fashioned, particularly the background color looked somehow like dirty old parchment to me. But it is very gentle to my eyes as the contrast between text and background isn't as high as in MS Word. I

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is used to these colors. FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have something like that? In my opinion a color set sh

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? Personally, I'm opposed, yes (which does not mean that much). You can of course set your own color in the preferences. you too ;-) You're right about that. For both

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you probably have a point here. I wrote that page in... oh, say around 2003, and at that time wikis weren't that common. Now I suspect that it's not really necessary to explain the concept of the wiki any more. What kind of information do people think should be

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Andre Poenitz wrote: I'd like to have "the bird" in one way or the other. Smoothing edges, adding something in the background or similar I can live with... A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the "L

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: If the bird is combined with the word LyX I would prefer the typeface to be more simple instead of the rotated/colorful letters of the banner. Just as an example, I attached a splash screen design with the logo that I think looks more professional. While the banner i

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. My girlfriend had a suggestion, could we get some design student to do a project related to this? Sounds like a great idea. She gives the old splash screen a grade of 1 (out of 5), and yours get a grade of 3. So it's certainly an improvement! I agree with t

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown reason the program that handles PDFs when they are open fails on Vista. I will provide a workaround, but me was told I first should wait if the Vista Service Pack 1 fixes this. Have you installed the Service Pack 1 for Vista

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some people complained about this. A user contacted me and we developed together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is changed. Unfortunaltely file handles seem to be handled differently in Vista,

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Andre Poenitz wrote: Checking a file on harddisk every 0.5s will e.g. a laptop never go to rest... I cannot reproduce that. All screen/harddisk/system standby timers on the laptops I know are based on user inactivity, not applications accessing the hard drive. Do you have some more informatio

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: That this prevents computers from beeing able to go to sleep mode and save battery energy. Weh discussed this some time ago and you said that this is not the case. I can't test this and don't have a strong opinion. Right. I have never been able to reproduce that. Hopefully And

Re: Path problem

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I only have one toolbar button to view PDFs. When it is pressed the program checks if the file exists or not and do then the needed things. That there is then only one toolbar button needed has often been discussed in the past. I proposed to do the same also for DVI and EPS, b

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I think that if you did some more tweaking on that splash screen it'd get quite good. I hope you'll do so! What about this one? Joost <>

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The copyright notice is less obvious now, I think that's good. OK. The version number is gone now, do we need it? (A drawback with having it there is that we'd have to remember to change it in every release). Without the version text, there's no clash with the simila

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
rgheck wrote: For what it's worth, I really like the most recent one. I've uploaded some more designs to compare (including the current splash screen) at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen Joost

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Personally, I like the new logos but prefer for the splash screen the current banner because it includes the version number. Of course the version number will be included. LyX prints the version number on the splash screen image, so the image doesn't need to be changed for ev

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's neat how the platypus is sort of sitting on the blue bar on #4. Number #1 is neat since the stack of papers to me is related to LyX being a document processor. And #3 is clean and elegant. And #2 is growing on me, so I'll refrain from voting, they're all good. Th

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: What I meant was the word "version" in the current banner. I have not really a strong opinion about the splash screen, other projects creates a new one for every release, e.g. Inkscape. The version string can of course also be prefixed with the word "version". Joost

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-29 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could work, but maybe the logotype should be there as well, making the connection stronger. In my opinion we should stick to one logotype, not a platypus combined with a mascot. Even with an additional photo people won't understand the connection anyway. The mascot

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Rich Shepard wrote: However, if you want to use open source applications built to open standards, then understand that almost all of these were originally build for linux or one of the *BSDs, those are the platforms the developers use, and making them available to the Windows world is a courtesy,

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't think so. Contrast the behavior of the Insert -> Graphics dialog with the File -> Open dialog. With both dialogs I get exactly the same behavior (the .lnk file is opened). File -> Open hides shortcuts by default because it's looking for .lyx files while Insert -

Re: question about lyx

2008-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
rgheck wrote: Other people will answer this question. But let me say: LaTeX is generally print-oriented, and in that world, justified is the standard. Note that LaTeX microspaces, etc, so this looks proper. If you're going to convert to HTML, it probably doesn't matter, since HTML doesn't do j

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. For the new official website it's we'll continue improving the curren

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. I agree. Because of the type

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that users can choose their own skin by simply appending ?skin=... to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. However, in practie we'll

Re: Output track changes in pdf with latex error

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Peter Sutovsky wrote: I get error message when I try to get output in pdf with "show changes in output " is on. Output to dvi and ps works well. Is it way to make it work with pdf? Thanks. Do you have the xcolor package installed? Joost

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows shortcut in its browsing function. So, your position is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other open source tools have no problem with a simple if arcane function. On my system

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: On my XP Home box, every program I've tested that uses the Windows file open dialog can follow a shortcut (.lnk) to a directory. So either something is amiss with your system, or maybe you have some registry setting mucking things up. If I remember correctly, there is in

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
William R. Buckley wrote: I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be browsed), it happens that LyX copi

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
G. Milde wrote: There was a suggestion to report the bug to "where it belongs", i.e. the QT library. QT is actively supported, tries to do the "operating system universality" in a clean and sensible way. Maybe this bug is even fixed in a current version of QT (or labelled as wontfix even there if

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? maybe incorporate it into intro picture? i like it too. Or maybe for the Features page? Joost

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
AK wrote: Generally speaking Joost' design is excellent, the only thing I'd like to add is that strong shadows on the sides seem to be overused, I'd either considerably tone them down or maybe try how it looks without them. I've made the shadows lighter and smaller. Joost

Re: Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Just run the installer again. Joost

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-02 Thread Joost Verburg
William R. Buckley wrote: I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be browsed), it happens that LyX copi

Re: Menu language

2008-04-03 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: When you have installed LyX using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller you can open the file "lyx.bat" with a text editor and set the menu language to e.g. "hu_HU". The official installer stores the language in the registry key Software\LyX\Settings\Lan

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: can anybody confirm on some other tex install that attached dvi fails too? i dont have any idea what went wrong. Try dvipost-1.1.patch in development\Win32\patches. Joost

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something, but if there's no LaTeX installed, won't the LyX configuration script decide that none of the layouts are usable, making it impossible to start (or I assume open) a document? You can still open the document. Joost

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is this _not_ true of most LyX installers? In other words, is it generally the case that a LyX installer or LyX itself will complain and even not allow a LyX document to be opened and typed into when LaTeX is not installed? The official installer also allows you to insta

Re: Added words in Aspell

2008-04-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: On the page http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 the "Magyar" file is corrupted, it gives the error message http://screencast.com/t/PU4E9gWl. Thanks for your report. I will upload all dictionaries again because there seem to be some corrupted files. Joost

Re: Added words in Aspell

2008-04-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: Where does Aspell store the list of the added words? Usually in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Aspell\Personal When Aspell is installed for the your own user account only, replace "All Users" with the name of your account. Joost

Re: Aspell setup problem

2008-05-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Máté Salát wrote: The most recent Windows installer of LyX always breaks down during the downloading the Hungarian Aspell at this point: http://www.screencast.com/users/salatmate/folders/Jing/media/ead56eaa-d47a-46e3-a2b1-5fd51a2be18a Somehow, certain dictionaries on the server have become cor

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-13 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: - reinstall LyX 1.5.5 using the obove mentioned installer that delivers the latest ImageMagick The official installer of LyX 1.5.5 also includes the latest ImageMagick (6.4.1-1) and Ghostscript (8.62). Joost

Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt

2008-05-14 Thread Joost Verburg
D.Zorig wrote: Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. I think a mirror server contains an outdated version. Try this one: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/

Re: LyX 1.4.4-2 (full) installer language problem on W2K and XP

2007-02-19 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: By the way, besides chosing the frontend language during installation, is there any option / method to change the frontend language afterwards w/o re-installation? You have to go to the registry and change the value of the environment variable "Lang" to "de_DE". In contrary t

Re: Lyx 1.4.4 for windows crashes

2007-02-20 Thread Joost Verburg
Tom Schlangen wrote: We can add Dr. Gyorgy Pota to the list of people who have had the "official" LyX 1.4.4.2 crash on open. He contacted me off-list. Maybe this screen shot might be of help to the Windows 1.4.4.2 installer version maintainers somehow: http://www.tubes.mynetcologne.de/misc/l

Re: Lyx 1.4.4 for windows crashes

2007-02-21 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I can't compile anything, but if you can compile a debug version and send it to me, I'd be happy to test it. Can you run LyX with the following command line: lyx.exe -dbg any and send the log to me (right click > copy to clipboard). Thanks. Joost

Re: Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work

2007-02-21 Thread Joost Verburg
Jim Rockford wrote: Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer 'lyx-144-2.exe' failed for me as well as the previous one. So you have crash problems with both 1.4.4-1 and 1.4.4-2 that are unrelated to MiKTeX? C

Re: LyX 1.4.4, current Windows versions

2007-02-21 Thread Joost Verburg
Tom Schlangen wrote: after another afternoon of fruitless experimenting with both official and alternate installers to fight several bugs I reported here, I just decided to downgrade all W2K and XP machines to the official 1.4.3-5 setup (but leaving all newer-than-installer-version MikTex and Ima

Re: Bibliography and Python

2007-02-22 Thread Joost Verburg
Julio Rojas wrote: I'm working with LyX 1.4.4 on Vista. On a document I have already worked on, I tried to open the bibliography and the following message is presented: The Script "c:\program files\LyX1.4.4\Resources\scripts\TexFiles.py" failed This is fixed in version 1.4.4-3, which will b

Re: LyX 1.4.4-3 on Win XP: runs but hangs

2007-02-22 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: So the good news is that LyX now starts, and processes some documents (those without graphics) correctly. The bad news is that if a document contains graphics, LyX hangs as soon as I scroll into the vicinity of the first image. (This includes the User guide.) This occurs

Re: probmel

2007-02-22 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: This doesn't use this file but the lyx.exe directly. The lyxc.exe is a wrapper program to hide the console window that is usually opened together with LyX. No, lyxc.exe is LyX itself. The crash problem is fixed in 1.4.4-3. Joost

Re: 2nd bugfix to: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.4.4

2007-02-22 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: At one of the last steps, a crash occured, complaining about a missing msvcr71.dll: Wow! This file should be present on your system by default. You are the first one since 1.5 years now having not having this file. What Win system are you using? But anyway, I'll include this

Re: LyX crashes. Windows, 1.4.3

2007-02-23 Thread Joost Verburg
André Bonhôte wrote: Actually, I stepped back to 1.4.3 from 1.4.4 because the latest version crashed when I wanted to go to Document -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble in one of my existing documents. I didn't track this further, just installed 1.4.3 :-/ This is fixed in 1.4.4-4. Thanks for your r

Re: Windows Installer Aspell prob

2007-02-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Tom Schlangen wrote: although "install for all users" was chosen, looking at the System/Installed Software list of Windows, all the dictionaries obviously are only registered for "current user", while "Aspell Data" is registered for everyone. I think you have had both an Aspell installation for

Re: Windows Installer Aspell prob

2007-02-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Tom Schlangen wrote: Sorry I don´t think so, since this problem is reproducible with a virgin and clean XPPro image - only installation of LyX chosing "for current user" right from the start leaves a working spell checker here. Did you reinstall the dictionaries after installing for all users?

Re: Windows Installer Aspell prob

2007-02-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't think that's it. Besides what Tom said about a clean installation, I have both a system-wide Aspell (C:\Aspell) and a single-user installation (C:\Documents and Settings\what a handsome guy I am\Application Data\Aspell). Both have iso-8859-1.cset installed in ...

Re: Spellchecker für Lyx 1.5 rc1

2007-06-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Robert Poser wrote: Hoffe ich bin hier richtig... nachdem ich meine Studienarbeit mit WinEdt geschrieben habe, möchte ich nun den Lyx Editor in Windows nutzen. Bei der Installation der Version 1.5 rc1 kam jedoch ein Hinweis, das der Link zu dem Wörterbuch nicht funktioniert. Kann mir jemand konkr

Re: Install spellchecker in LyX 1.4.4-4

2007-06-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Ricardo Bessa wrote: I can´t install spellchecker with aspell in LyX 1.4.4-4, how a can do this mannualy? A try to install but Lyx doesn´t detect aspell 0.6. Dictionaries are available here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 Automatic dictionary downloading will be fixed in 1.4.4-5. Joost

Re: Windows 7 compatibility

2010-06-10 Thread Joost Verburg
On 6/10/2010 9:13 AM, George Christodoulatos wrote: Can anyone tell me if the 1.6.6.1 works ok with 64-bit Windows 7? Yes, Windows 7 is fully supported. Joost

Re: Using hunspell under Windows 7 with LyX 1.6

2010-07-06 Thread Joost Verburg
On 7/6/2010 8:56 AM, Falk Sticken wrote: I would like to use hunspell as a spellchecker with LyX 1.6 under Windows 7. I know it is supported by LyX 1.7, but this release is still in alpha status. I have hunspell installed as part of MikTex 2.8. You'll have to wait for LyX 2.0. Joost

Re: Lyx 1.6.7-3 and 1.6.7-4 don't run in Windows 2000 (aka win 2K)

2010-08-05 Thread Joost Verburg
On 8/4/2010 1:43 PM, Jose Augusto wrote: This is an update and answer to myself :-) : I was able to install>> and RUN on Win 2K<< the last version of the Lyx alt-installer which can be retrieved at the link: http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyX-167-4-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe The

Re: Lyx 1.6.7-3 and 1.6.7-4 don't run in Windows 2000 (aka win 2K)

2010-08-05 Thread Joost Verburg
On 8/5/2010 2:17 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Do we gain something by compiling with the latest toolchain? Aren't we shuttig down windows 2000 arbitrarily? Not arbitrarily. Windows 2000 support has already been discontinued by Microsoft so it's highly unsafe to use. Security issues are not

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