Interface language

2007-10-29 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, After upgrading to 1.5.2, the interface language has changed from English to Norwegian. It is because I use a Norwegian locale. But I would like to have the English interface back. Do I have to run "LANG=en lyx" every time now, or is there some nicer way to do it, e.g. in the configurati

Slowness

2007-12-10 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, Does anybody else experience that LyX1.5.2 sometimes becomes extremely slow? So slow that after pressing a key I must wait 1sec to see the character appear in the document. I have not yet been able to detect any underlying pattern behind this behaviour, but it is always fixed immediately

LyX / pdflatex / paper size

2010-05-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! When choosing "Page Layout -> Paper format = a5" in LyX, is it to expected that the paper size is still a4? This is the case when I use the pdfpatex , but not with ps or dvi output. Including \usepackage{geometry} in the preamble fixes the problem. I'm using Debian Sid/TexLive and LyX 1.

Two Lemmas in a row

2010-08-30 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I'm using the "article (AMS)" document class and want to have two Lemmas in a row with no additional text between them. However, Lyx seems to combine the Lemmas into just one if I don't include any text between them in standard format. Do I have to put some sort of invisible character b

Re: Two Lemmas in a row

2010-08-30 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 30/08/10 20:00, Julien Rioux wrote: On 30/08/2010 1:53 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! I'm using the "article (AMS)" document class and want to have two Lemmas in a row with no additional text between them. However, Lyx seems to combine the Lemmas into just one if

LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I figured out a way to preprocess LaTeX files in order to eliminate dependency on \newcommands, using Python and plasTeX. My goal was to import a LaTeX file into LyX, but LyX was not able to understand all the \newcommands in the document, and therefore I wanted to preprocess the LaTeX f

Re: LyX and Lilypond

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 31/08/10 14:47, Etienne Snyman wrote: Dear LyX-people This is my first time posting on the list as a new LyX user, so please excuse any stupid mistakes I might make or stupid questions I might ask! :-) For the record, I am using LyX 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to write music theory c

Re: LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 31/08/10 19:35, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 31.08.2010 18:35, schrieb Torquil Macdonald Sørensen: > >> My goal was to import a LaTeX file into LyX, but LyX was not able to >> understand all the \newcommands in the document, and therefore I wanted >> to preprocess the LaTeX

Re: LyX and Lilypond

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 31/08/10 20:03, Etienne Snyman wrote: Hi Torquil! Thanks for the reply. Please find my replies to your comments in-line: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 19:08 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Do you want to write Lilypond code directly in LyX, and have LyX automatically run the necessary

Re: LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 31/08/10 20:52, Hal Kierstead wrote: I agree that this would be very pleasing, especially when working with collaborators who do not use LyX and who use many new commands. Hal This is the simple python code which takes a filename as an argument, and creates the file PlastexProcessed.tex

Re: LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-09-01 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 01/09/10 01:47, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 31.08.2010 20:35, schrieb Torquil Macdonald Sørensen: Let me try to explain better what I meant. I don't want those grey boxes of tex code for each instance where a user-defined command is executed in the latex document. I want my LyX file to look as

Re: LyX and Lilypond

2010-09-02 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 01/09/10 19:51, Etienne Snyman wrote: Dear friendly LyX-users... @Julien: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:11 -0400, Julien Rioux wrote: These are default (I checked for LyX 1.6.5 specifically), but you do need a recent version of lilypond installed, as mentioned by the previous useful message. Once

Horizontal space popup

2010-09-03 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi LyXers! Is it possible to disable the "Horizontal space" popup that appears every time I left-click on such a space in a document? If find that it often appears when I try to click between a spacer and a character, and can be quite disruptive since it happens often. -Torquil

Re: Horizontal space popup

2010-09-05 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 05/09/10 09:23, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 03/09/2010 21:54, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/03/2010 12:47 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi LyXers! Is it possible to disable the "Horizontal space" popup that appears every time I left-click on such a space in a document? If fi

Bibliography without bibtex file

2011-06-16 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! What is the simplest way of working with a LyX document involving citations, without using a bibtex file for each LyX file? I want to be able to use the LyX frontend to select citations from a list. Can this be done in a way that does not involve a separate bibtex file? Will LyX have a "

Re: Bibliography without bibtex file

2011-06-16 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 16/06/11 13:49, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Macdonald Sørensen wrote: What is the simplest way of working with a LyX document involving citations, without using a bibtex file for each LyX file? I want to be able to use the LyX frontend to select citations from a list. Can this be done in a way

Cross ref for subfigures using only subfigure letter

2011-07-02 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! Is it possible to cross-reference a subfigure from the main figure caption, and only get the subfigure letter (instead of the figure number + subfigure letter) in the text where the cross-reference was made? I have included a LyX document using a figure containing two subfigures. In the

Re: Cross ref for subfigures using only subfigure letter

2011-07-03 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 03/07/11 02:37, Richard Heck wrote: On 07/02/2011 08:57 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! Is it possible to cross-reference a subfigure from the main figure caption, and only get the subfigure letter (instead of the figure number + subfigure letter) in the text where the cross

Re: Cross ref for subfigures using only subfigure letter

2011-07-03 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 03/07/11 02:37, Richard Heck wrote: On 07/02/2011 08:57 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! Is it possible to cross-reference a subfigure from the main figure caption, and only get the subfigure letter (instead of the figure number + subfigure letter) in the text where the cross

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 13/07/11 16:38, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: My ability to make documents look the way I want them to is limited. In my personal opinion, this is the weakness of LaTeX/LyX. LaTeX is great when you write for a medium with a defined formatting, e.g., a journal, and they give you a style file to u

Re: submitting paper in latex (tex) format

2011-08-24 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 24/08/11 05:26, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Thanks Eisa , also Ernesto Yes, all citation links are now shown with the correct list of references. It means nothings wrong with the tex file generated by lyx. I can submit it with other figures and bib file. Best regards waluyo Actually, I beli

Re: submitting paper in latex (tex) format

2011-08-24 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 24/08/11 13:08, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Actually, I believe they prefer to have the *.tex and *.bbl (not the *.bib), as well as files containing figures etc. But you'll see all that in the detailed instructions. I think you are correct. My files could been processed by elsevier electroni

Lyx 2.4.1 on Windows 11 doesn't find python

2024-07-25 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I previously used Lyx 2.3.7, which worked fine. After uninstalling that and installing 2.4.1, it doesn't work anymore. I have tried both the options "For everyone" and "Only for me" in the Lyx installer. The Python directory should be correctly included in the system PATH, because I can run p

Problem with LyX installation on Windows 11

2024-07-25 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
When installing LyX on my Windows 11 system, the LyX installer claims to have found a LaTeX installation at the following location: C:\Users\TorquilSorensen\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64 However, this is incorrect. The correct path should be: C:\Users\TorquilSørensen\AppData\Local

Lyx, arXiv.org and \pdfoutput=1

2011-10-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! In order to successfully submit an article that uses PDF figures to the arXiv.org preprint server, it is necessary to have \pdfoutput=1 within the top five lines of the document. This is necessary in order to tell arXiv.org not to attempt any processing for generation of DVI and PS, whic

Re: Lyx, arXiv.org and \pdfoutput=1

2011-10-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 11/10/11 16:20, Richard Heck wrote: On 10/11/2011 09:41 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! In order to successfully submit an article that uses PDF figures to the arXiv.org preprint server, it is necessary to have \pdfoutput=1 within the top five lines of the document. This is

Branches and document class

2011-10-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! Is it possible to have two branches of the same lyx document, with different document classes? This would be useful in the following scenario (which I'm in right now): I have a paper that is to be submitted both to the arxiv.org preprint server and to 'journal x'. Thus I want one version

Re: Branches and document class

2011-10-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 12/10/11 15:19, Richard Heck wrote: On 10/12/2011 08:39 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! Is it possible to have two branches of the same lyx document, with different document classes? I don't think so. Document class is a global setting. This would be useful in the foll

LyX slowness

2011-10-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! While LyX is fantastic in almost every way, it is slow... My LyX is slow at pretty much everything. Typing, scrolling, moving the cursor around using arrow keys, highlighting sections of texts, etc. Even for small documents. This is strange, since my computer is quite fast. It is slow bot

Re: LyX slowness

2011-10-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 12/10/11 18:50, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! While LyX is fantastic in almost every way, it is slow... My LyX is slow at pretty much everything. Typing, scrolling, moving the cursor around using arrow keys, highlighting

Re: Branches and document class

2011-10-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 12/10/11 17:07, Richard Heck wrote: On 10/12/2011 09:33 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: On 12/10/11 15:19, Richard Heck wrote: On 10/12/2011 08:39 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! Is it possible to have two branches of the same lyx document, with different document classes

Per-chapter appendices for LyX book

2011-10-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! Does LyX support the Appendix package? My hunch is that lyx does not support this natively. Am I right? I'm writing something (documentclass "book") that needs to have per-chapter appendices. So the last few sections in each chapter would be appendices. I've found that this can be done i

Re: Triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx

2011-10-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 13/10/11 11:32, Rubén Jiménez wrote: Hi Will you show me how I can draw the triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx? If it indeed is the same as Pascal's triangle, you can use tikz and copy the code from here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/pascals-triangle-and-sierpinski-triangle/ Just

Locating broken bibtex references

2011-10-15 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi all! How do I locate broken references in a LyX document? I'm talking about bibtex references to other articles, not cross-references to labelled items within the document. I have a master document containing several child documents. The master document contains the bibliography and almos

Re: Locating broken bibtex references

2011-10-15 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
I now see that latex provides page number and line number for the warnings, so I'm able to locate the error in the PDF output file, and then use this to find the corresponding place in the LyX file. But it would be nice if LyX itself could point me to the error in a more direct manner, without g

Re: Spellchecking problem

2011-11-09 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 09/11/11 07:56, Stephan Witt wrote: However, it seems to me to have a deficiency, and I'm hoping it is just a configuration issue: If my document contains e.g. the mathematical term "d-dimensional", the LyX spellchecker will treat this as a single word and complain, instead of considering i

Re: Spellchecking not working in Arch

2011-11-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 11/11/11 08:30, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Hunspell: Hi, I am using Debian Squeeze and Lyx 2.0.1 and have hunspell in /usr/share/. But in Tools> Preferences> Language> Spellchecker> Engine> only enchant is shown, not Hunspell Furthermore, in Tools> Preferences>

Re: Problem (?) with adjacent theorems, lemmas, etc

2011-11-18 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 18/11/11 11:33, Christopher Menzel wrote: LyX folk, I am attempting to list two simple lemmas, one after the other, without proofs or any other intervening text. LyX appears not to allow this. If I attempt to insert the second lemma immediately after the first, no matter what I've tried th

Impressed

2011-11-18 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
, somebody had already thought of it! It can show me a list of all my notes! And it even shows the content of the note in the Outline dialogue... LyX impresses again! Best regards Torquil Macdonald Sørensen

Part* and \addcontentsline

2011-11-20 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I'm having some trouble with customising the entry of a Part in the TOC. My document has two Parts. The entries in the TOC are by default (in the PDF output): I Name of first part 1 Name of ch.1 2 Name of ch.2 . . . II Name of second part . . . However, for reasons I don't need to menti

Re: Part* and \addcontentsline

2011-11-20 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 20/11/11 16:53, Richard Heck wrote: On 11/20/2011 10:48 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! I'm having some trouble with customising the entry of a Part in the TOC. My document has two Parts. The entries in the TOC are by default (in the PDF output): I Name of first part 1 Na

xetex and theorem

2012-01-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I cannot get "PDF (xetex)" output from the attached document which uses the Theorems module. I'm using LyX 2.0.2 and Debian Sid with texlive-xetex. It works fine when not using Theorems. The error I get is: "! Undefined control sequence. \definitionname ->\inputencoding

Re: xetex and theorem

2012-01-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 11/01/12 15:41, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: I cannot get "PDF (xetex)" output from the attached document which uses the Theorems module. I'm using LyX 2.0.2 and Debian Sid with texlive-xetex. It works fine when not using Theorems. The

Default output format and non-tex fonts

2012-01-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! My default output format is "PDF (xetex)" in the LyX preferences, and this appears on the View menu with the keyboard shortcut "CTRL-R". However, if I select "Use non-Tex fonts (via xetex/luatex)" in the "Fonts" section of the Document properties, the View menu changes to have HTML as the

Re: Default output format and non-tex fonts

2012-03-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 11 January 2012 17:29, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: >> My default output format is "PDF (xetex)" in the LyX preferences, and this >> appears on the View menu with the keyboard shortcut "CTRL-R". >> >> However, i

LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file, but I will explain the two issues first: 1) I don't understand how to insert an "EndFrame" at the bottom of the document, after

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 11:09, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file, but I will ex

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 11:09, Liviu Andronic wrote: If you have trouble with building a Beamer presentation from scratch, I would suggest starting with the beamer*.lyx template (File> New from Template) and trimming it down till it fits your needs. At each step make sure that the document compiles. Liviu

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 12:30, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: That's the thing, I did just that because that is what I normally do, but it didn't work in this situation. The vertical line corresponding to the Block environment expanded

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 15:22, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have decided that there are several problems with the lyx+beamer combination that I cannot live As I suggested earlier, you should try to build from an existing _compilable_ example (such as the templates shipped by LyX) and remove/add elements as you

Problem with LaTeX import and svjour3

2012-11-30 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I seem to be unable to import a "\documentclass{svjour3}" LaTeX document into LyX. The tex2lyx command tells me that: Cannot read layout file `'. Error reading `' (Check `svjour3') Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure... Error: Could not read layout file for textclass "svjou

Enabling cropped PDF support

2014-03-29 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I'm using LyX 2.1.0rc1 on Debian Linux. In the File -> Export submenu I'm seeing "EPS (cropped)", but no "PDF (cropped)", even though this feature is mentioned for PDF in the "New in LyX 2.1" document at wiki.lyx.org. If I select "File -> Export -> Export as..", I can select "PDF (cropped)",

Re: Enabling cropped PDF support

2014-03-29 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 29/03/14 11:42, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2014-03-29 11:34 GMT+01:00 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen > mailto:torq...@gmail.com>>: > > If I select "File -> Export -> Export as..", I can select "PDF > (cropped)", but using it results in the po