Re: Help with Lyx

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Trisha Lawrence  wrote:
> HI
>
> I have recently obtained a new laptop and I am unable to obtain the document
> classes that were available in the Lyx docment processor of my old Laptop.
> I've followed the steps included in the link below which suggested copying
> the layout types to users then reconfiguring Lyx, however it still doesn't
> seem to work.
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts#toc1
>
> I remember getting tremendous help from someone@ Lyx-doc upon completing my
> thesis for my MSc. I am currently pursuing my PhD and this will help me
> immensely. Can anyone help in anyway?

Hi Trisha,

I think you meant to send this email to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org . I
will forward it to there. All future responses to this email should
not reply to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org.

Best of luck,

Scott

Re: help with lyx

[James C. Sutherland]

On Jun 15, 2009, at 6:09 AM, esrone noel wrote:


Good day,
Is there a way to write your name in the background using lyx or an  
option to write your name on every page
without manually inserting your name on every page..I am trying  
to do

this to prevent plagiarism of my documentPlease help


Try using the fancy headers.  Document -> Settings -> Page Layout ->  
Headings style -> fancy


Then add to your preamble:
\lhead{left header text}
\rhead{right header text}

See also the docs on the fancyhdr package:
http://tug.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf

Re: Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Uwe Stöhr]

Andrew Thomson schrieb:


I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.


This was a bug in the Windows installer we fixed in the meantime. The next LyX version will be 
released about this weekend. So I suggest to wait until it is released, then uninstall Aspell _and_ 
all of its installed dictionaries you find in the installed software list in Windows system 
settings. Afterwards install LyX 1.6.2 using the alternative LyX for Windows installer.

(You can leave LyX 1.5.6 installed.)

regards Uwe

Re: Help with lyx personal dictionaries

[Paul A. Rubin]

Andrew Thomson wrote:

Hi all

I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal
dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new
word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that
spellcheck,
but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary file, so the
word never gets remembered later.

I am using the LyXWinInstaller version of LyX 1.5.6, and the Preferences
box shows that I am using the aspell ('library') version. I have
specified a file path for my personal dictionary, but the file remains
empty.

I have installed the aspell6-en-6.0-0 and aspell6-uk-1.4.0-0 dictionary
files,
and these have sent files to ApplicationData in my profile. I am set up
using
a roaming profile, but I have set LyX to save documents and my personal
dictionary to a folder in my (out-of-profile) C:\ directory.

Any tips on how to debug this problem? Can I do something to make LyX tell
me when it's failed to save my personal dictionary, and why it might have
failed?



I had this problem with LyX 1.5.6 (without the roaming profile issue), 
and I can't recall what the cause was, because there were a couple of 
Aspell issues going on concurrently.  One was whether Aspell (the copy 
used by LyX) and its dictionaries were both installed the same way -- 
sometimes one is installed for a single user and the other for "all 
users", which is a different directory tree -- and the other was that I 
had a full installation of Aspell left over from an earlier version of 
LyX, and earlier versions required that it be installed in C:\Aspell. 
What worked for me was to leave the full version in C:\Aspell alone, add 
a subdirectory C:\Aspell\Personal, and in Tools > Preferences... > 
Language Settings > Spellchecker set the path to the personal dictionary 
to C:\Aspell\Personal\en.pws.


HTH,
Paul

Re: help with LyX-Code (or verbatim in ERT) and wrapping

[Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL]

You can use the listings LaTeX package : it has automatic breaking of 
long lines, and it is fully integrated in LyX.


Siegfried.

Re: help with lyx headings

[Nicolás]

Hi!

This might be of help:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg13569.html

Nicolás

Valentina Tancini wrote:
Hi 
I hope this is the right way to ask help with lyx.

I'm writing my thesis with lyx and I have the following problem:
Since I don't want that the introduction is considered as a Chapter I use
Chapter*, and to have this in the Table of Contents I write il Latex Mode

addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}
\chaptermark{INTRODUCTION}

just before the introduction.

The problem is that the heading of the page is "Chapter 0 : INTRODUCTION"
instad of simply "INTRODUCTION".
Furthermore this heading appear in the last page of the table of contents
instead of "CONTENTS"...

Any idea to solve this?

Cheers

Valentina

Re: help with lyx-qt and fonts

[Ronald Florence]

Khurom Kiyani wrote:

I have a problem with the screen fonts on my LyX-Qt 1.3.3. I installed 
it on my Mac OS X using Fink. All the greek letters, integrals and near 
abouts all math symbols turn out funny i.e. gobbledy gook. If i switch 
to the old xforms version everything is back to normal again. 
LyX/Mac is based on the Qt/Mac library and gets the math symbols right. 
 Try .
--

Ronald Florencewww.18james.com

Re: help with lyx-qt and fonts

[Christian Ridderström]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Khurom Kiyani wrote:

> Hello fellow LyX users & gurus,
> 
> I have a problem with the screen fonts on my LyX-Qt 1.3.3. I installed 
> it on my Mac OS X using Fink. All the greek letters, integrals and near 
> abouts all math symbols turn out funny i.e. gobbledy gook. If i switch 
> to the old xforms version everything is back to normal again. But i 
> would like to be able to use the qt version if i can.
> 
> Can someone help me out with this please. Thanks

Try the FAQ pages, e.g.
http://wiki.lyx.org/beta/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Qt

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderström   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Help with lyx for windows

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Fabrizio Giammatteo wrote:

> When I try to start lyx it says: "Unable to access X display - exiting"

See your X-server documentation how you can change the access
control. Usually X servers accept connections originating from the same
machine you're running it (localhost) but not from anywhere else.
On Unix you could try
xhost +
command to disable access control and allow connections from everywhere.
Try something similar -- as a test -- with your X server.

HOWEVER! Do not leave access control disabled for your normal
use. Otherwise anyone could connect your X server and give any commands,
maybe opening a terminal window and sending d, e, l, , c, :, \, *, ., *
keypresses.

Re: Help with lyx for windows

[Amer Abufadel]

Here is what your lyxprofile should look like:


# Set up your home directory (in Cygwin syntax)
export HOME="//d/LyxDocs"

# Set up your Language (if you do not want English)
#export LANG=DE

# 
# Below this line you should not change anything if you're
# not familiar with configuration of an unix application!
# 
export PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:$PATH"
export USER="`id -un`"
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
export MAKE_MODE=unix

unset DOSDRIVE
unset DOSDIR
unset TMPDIR
unset TMP

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
  if [ -f $i ]; then
. $i
  fi
done

cd "$HOME"

test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc
*
and your runlyx.bat in your cygwin directory should look like:

*
@echo off
:: START YOUR X-SERVER HERE

:: First change into its directory (The path should
:: be quoted if there is any space character in it!)
:: Then call the executable, i.e. xwin32 here!
:: 
echo "Starting X-Win32 ..."
cd "F:\Program Files\StarNet\X-Win32"
start .\xwin32.exe

:: Change your geometry settings in the last line so
:: the LyX window will fit on your screen!
:: 
cd F:\cygwin\bin
start .\lyxwin32.exe -geometry 900x800+100+5
*
When you start lyx, this is the file that you run, not any other.  It starts
your X server then Lyx.
Hope this helps,
Amer


- Original Message -
From: "Fabrizio Giammatteo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: Help with lyx for windows


> Hi,
> This is my second mail on topic, but I don't know how to solve my problem
> in other ways.
>
> I've installed lyx for windows (1.1.6 fixc) in this environment:
>
> - Pc Laptop Pentium III (Acer 524TE)
> - Windows Millenium Edition
> - cygwin
> - X-win32 or Exceed
> - MikTex
>
> When I try to start lyx it says: "Unable to access X display - exiting"
>
> Someone told me to modify the DISPLAY variable in the file /etc/lyxprofile
> in order to change the value localhost to the true IP address of my
> machine, but nothing seems to change.
>
> I have no firewall or other protections.
>
> Someone could help me ???
> Thanks a lot
>
> Fabrizio
>
> Fabrizio Giammatteo
> Information Engineering
>
> Web: www.fgiamma.org
> Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 47901548
>
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Re: Help with Lyx for windows

[Claus Hentschel]

> Hi,
> My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word
> instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two
x-servers:
>
> Exceed
> Xwin32
>
> When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display -
Exiting,
> with all the x-servers above.
>
> Anyone can help me ??

Just for information what I have been answered to that topic some days ago:


There may be two reasons for that:

1. Edit C:\Cygwin\lyxprofile and set the correct IP address, followed by an
':0' for DISPLAY. If you have an Ethernet card installed on your system
please use it's IP address instead of 127.0.0.1! Most X-Servers
automatically serve the default IP address of your system. 127.0.0.1 (or
localhost, i.e. the corresponding net name) is only valifd if you do have a
DUN on your system.

2. If you have installed a firewall on your system (like me) than you have
to create a new rule so that LyX can connect to the X-server. (Take a look
at your firewall distributor, to learn how this has to be made!)

> I use the x-server Exceed from Hummingbird which worked correctly in the
> previous release.

Because it was running I expect that editing lyxprofile could fix the
problem!


Claus

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Fabrizio Giammatteo wrote:

> When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, 
> with all the x-servers above.

You could try setting environment variables like
set DISPLAY=localhost:0
and replace localhost with your computer's name if the above doesn't work.
Or try running lyx with argument "-display localhost:0"

Can you run remotely X programs from real unix computers?