Re: Minutes typeseting
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Re: Subject: LyX 2.0beta3: Spell Checking + Multilingualism
Am 26.01.2011 um 15:00 schrieb Walter:
I'll try to answer this - although I surely don't have so much time you had to
write this.
> Whilst using LyX 2.0beta1 [since verified on LyX 2.0beta3] I recently ran
> a spell check for the first time.
>
> The interface is good and no doubt an improvement on previous eras, however
> the following struck me as possible to improve.
>
> Those items marked with "[*]" I consider a bug in LyX. Those items marked
> with "[X]" I consider a bug elsewhere.
>
>
> 1. Preferences|Language Settings|Spellchecker [*]
> --
> Fields lack a description. Faced with having used non-US spelling
> in my document ("for shame!"), I do not want to manually set hundreds
> of individual words to be 'English (UK)', which using the inbuilt right
> sidebar interface appears to be the default way forward. (For some
> reason, 'English (AU)' is not even an option on my system, though that's
> probably my fault.)
The following refers to the field "Alternative language" I'd guess.
> Thus driven to the preferences dialog, I was unsure of which mystical
> value to enter in to the great LyX machine. Assuming 'man aspell' would
> clear it up, indeed some text was located that made the expected format
> for the entry of a single language value probable:
>
>"It follows the same format of the LANG environmental variable on
> most systems. It consists of the two letter ISO 639 language code and
> an optional two letter ISO 3166 country code after a dash or underscore."
>
> I tried this ("en_AU"), and it did work. However, there are two problems:
>- Even the first step would be a challenge for some users
>- I would like to add multiple values to the field, since otherwise even
> at this early stage of my document still hundreds of words and place
> names in French, German, Greek (+romanised Greek), Chinese (+romanised
> Chinese), etc. trip up the spell checker. (Use of these languages
> is frequent and scattered right throughout the document.)
Ok, with this use case - mixed language documents - you are requested to
mark the text appropriately. Here LyX does no guessing and there are no
plans to change that.
> The method to do this (eg: separate multiple values with a space or comma),
> or indeed whether entering multiple values in to this field is at all
> possible remains unclear.
>
> Whilst the ideal route would be to add (relatively) complex integration
> code that auto-detected available spellcheckers, their dictionaries,
> and provided a sexy GUI for end user language selection instead of a
> mystical text field, I realise this is not going to happen overnight or
> perhaps ever.
Alternative language is a - as I would rate it - cul-de-sac and shouldn't be
there.
If any LyX should have a mapping of available languages to alternate languages.
As it is now the single value here is used for all text having the documents
language
as a replacement to pass on to the spell checker.
So if you want to use English (UK) you don't need to change it here -
simply set your document language to English (UK).
The alternate language is used for all (!) languages regardless of making
any sense. If you edit a french LyX-document and the alternate language
is set to "en_GB" e. g. you'll have no fun.
This is what I would rate as a bug.
So this field is of very limited "use" and should be replaced by something else.
Of course "something else" may have an more user friendly interface too...
But it can be tricky to make it right. It heavily depends on the spell checker -
aspell e. g. accepts completely different "alternative" language settings as
hunspell or apples spell checker do. And it depends on the runtime-environment -
what dictionaries are available for the user on the current machine.
And we have the feature to switch between the spell checker back ends at
runtime.
> Thus, as a relatively easy half-way fix, could we please have some
> increased on-screen documentation? Something like "eg: 'en_GB' for
> aspell." may suffice for 95% of users.
Until the field gets replaced or removed a tooltip may help.
> 2. Right click to set spellchecker language on a highlighted word fails [*]
>
> It appears that when 'Tools|Preferences|Language Settings|Spellchecker|
> Spellcheck continuously' is set, and red-wavy (Note: LyX 2.0.0beta1 was
> wavy, LyX 2.0.0beta3 is straight and thicker) underlined words are right
> clicked, there is an option to set their language for spellchecking
> purposes. However, this does not appear to actually do anything!
> This makes it necessary for the user to select the word then use 'Edit|
> Language|Whatever language' to actually perform the change - pointless
> tedium.
You propose to auto extend the selection to word boundaries when setting
the languag
Re: Subject: LyX 2.0beta3: Spell Checking + Multilingualism
> I'll try to answer this - although I surely don't have so much time you had
> to write this.
Relativity...
>> Whilst using LyX 2.0beta1 [since verified on LyX 2.0beta3] I recently ran
>> a spell check for the first time.
>>
>> The interface is good and no doubt an improvement on previous eras, however
>> the following struck me as possible to improve.
>>
>> Those items marked with "[*]" I consider a bug in LyX. Those items marked
>> with "[X]" I consider a bug elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> 1. Preferences|Language Settings|Spellchecker [*]
>> --
>> Fields lack a description. Faced with having used non-US spelling
>> in my document ("for shame!"), I do not want to manually set hundreds
>> of individual words to be 'English (UK)', which using the inbuilt right
>> sidebar interface appears to be the default way forward. (For some
>> reason, 'English (AU)' is not even an option on my system, though that's
>> probably my fault.)
>
> The following refers to the field "Alternative language" I'd guess.
Correct!
>> Thus driven to the preferences dialog, I was unsure of which mystical
>> value to enter in to the great LyX machine. Assuming 'man aspell' would
>> clear it up, indeed some text was located that made the expected format
>> for the entry of a single language value probable:
>>
>> "It follows the same format of the LANG environmental variable on
>> most systems. It consists of the two letter ISO 639 language code and
>> an optional two letter ISO 3166 country code after a dash or underscore."
>>
>> I tried this ("en_AU"), and it did work. However, there are two problems:
>> - Even the first step would be a challenge for some users
>> - I would like to add multiple values to the field, since otherwise even
>> at this early stage of my document still hundreds of words and place
>> names in French, German, Greek (+romanised Greek), Chinese (+romanised
>> Chinese), etc. trip up the spell checker. (Use of these languages
>> is frequent and scattered right throughout the document.)
>
> Ok, with this use case - mixed language documents - you are requested to
> mark the text appropriately. Here LyX does no guessing and there are no
> plans to change that.
On the contrary, dear fellow: the opposite has already come to pass!
Demand hath begat a plan! One man, I understand, begat that plan: a
module fan, Michiel Kamermans!
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg83713.html
Re: Subject: LyX 2.0beta3: Spell Checking + Multilingualism
Hello
This is a long document indeed and, unfortunately, I couldn't find the
will to go through it all. But I should have a couple of interesting
references regarding multilingual documents.
This has been discussed previously on the list, in the context of XeTeX
support in LyX 2.0 SVN:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg83713.html
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/66485
Especially Daron's comments:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/66547
Hope this is of help
Liviu
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:00:56 +0100, Walter
wrote:
(Note: Mostly this email dates from pre-Christmas December - took me
awhile
to post!)
(This is a bit more verbose than it should be, as I am presently stuck in
an historic colonial hill station of Tunisia, by the Algerian border, and
being winter the weather is bitter and I am therefore locked in my hotel
room with time, but no internet connection!)
Whilst using LyX 2.0beta1 [since verified on LyX 2.0beta3] I recently ran
a spell check for the first time.
The interface is good and no doubt an improvement on previous eras,
however
the following struck me as possible to improve.
Those items marked with "[*]" I consider a bug in LyX. Those items marked
with "[X]" I consider a bug elsewhere.
1. Preferences|Language Settings|Spellchecker [*]
--
Fields lack a description. Faced with having used non-US spelling
in my document ("for shame!"), I do not want to manually set hundreds
of individual words to be 'English (UK)', which using the inbuilt
right
sidebar interface appears to be the default way forward. (For some
reason, 'English (AU)' is not even an option on my system, though
that's
probably my fault.)
Thus driven to the preferences dialog, I was unsure of which mystical
value to enter in to the great LyX machine. Assuming 'man aspell'
would
clear it up, indeed some text was located that made the expected
format
for the entry of a single language value probable:
"It follows the same format of the LANG environmental variable on
most systems. It consists of the two letter ISO 639 language code
and
an optional two letter ISO 3166 country code after a dash or
underscore."
I tried this ("en_AU"), and it did work. However, there are two
problems:
- Even the first step would be a challenge for some users
- I would like to add multiple values to the field, since otherwise
even
at this early stage of my document still hundreds of words and
place
names in French, German, Greek (+romanised Greek), Chinese
(+romanised
Chinese), etc. trip up the spell checker. (Use of these languages
is frequent and scattered right throughout the document.)
The method to do this (eg: separate multiple values with a space or
comma),
or indeed whether entering multiple values in to this field is at all
possible remains unclear.
Whilst the ideal route would be to add (relatively) complex
integration
code that auto-detected available spellcheckers, their dictionaries,
and provided a sexy GUI for end user language selection instead of a
mystical text field, I realise this is not going to happen overnight
or
perhaps ever.
Thus, as a relatively easy half-way fix, could we please have some
increased on-screen documentation? Something like "eg: 'en_GB' for
aspell." may suffice for 95% of users.
2. Right click to set spellchecker language on a highlighted word fails
[*]
It appears that when 'Tools|Preferences|Language
Settings|Spellchecker|
Spellcheck continuously' is set, and red-wavy (Note: LyX 2.0.0beta1
was
wavy, LyX 2.0.0beta3 is straight and thicker) underlined words are
right
clicked, there is an option to set their language for spellchecking
purposes. However, this does not appear to actually do anything!
This makes it necessary for the user to select the word then use
'Edit|
Language|Whatever language' to actually perform the change - pointless
tedium.
3. Wider problem of spellchecking and multilingual support
---
Regarding points 1 and 2, really there is a wider problem of
multilingual
support being a little 'all over the place', with a bunch of different
"solutions" in use. In terms of LyX, none of these are really
"solutions"
as even with LyX 2.0beta1 it appears to be demonstrably impossible to
link
the manual language markup made in conjunction with a font-linked
solution
to the manual language markup required for spellchecking purposes.
The TeX-world's colourful background to all this is understandable,
and of
course I would not suggest to fly in the face of either
configurability
nor tradition nor the existing user b
Export image to PDF as JPG, not as EPS
Hi. I am writing a Beamer presentation. One of my slides has a very large EPS graphic. When I get to this slide in the presentation the computer takes a few moments to draw this image to screen. Is there a way for me to instead ask LyX to export this image to the PDF slideshow under a different format? One that will render more instantly, such as a high-quality JPEG? Thanks, Ken
Re: Subject: LyX 2.0beta3: Spell Checking + Multilingualism
> This sounds ugly. Is there any similarity between spell checking APIs? Is > there a cross platform, spell checking library unification / abstraction layer > available? Would it be worth developing one? How difficult is it to detect > known dictionaries and spell checkers on a cross-platform basis? Possible answer: http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/ - Walter
Re: Subject: LyX 2.0beta3: Spell Checking + Multilingualism
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Walter wrote: >> This sounds ugly. Is there any similarity between spell checking APIs? Is >> there a cross platform, spell checking library unification / abstraction >> layer >> available? Would it be worth developing one? How difficult is it to detect >> known dictionaries and spell checkers on a cross-platform basis? > > Possible answer: http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/ > LyX supports enchant. [1] [2] Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#toc28 [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-announce@lists.lyx.org/msg00124.html > - Walter > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: Can anyone help?
On 01/25/2011 03:15 PM, Lars Adiels wrote: Hello I wonder if any one can help with one or morre of those questions, please. I want to procuce dokuments in the line of Te.pdf (attached). My lyx file is Te.lyx and the layoutfile myTe_layout.local. Q1. the mechanism I used is insets. I would like to make those boxes as styles. But if I do that I cant color them in the lyx window? You can color the foreground, but not the background. Perhaps this is a missing feature. Of course, they will look the same onscreen. Q2 if I have to use insets I also have too specify the correct style in each box. Can this be automatic. There is a possibility to not force plain but one can not force a given style? Within the inset, there's no reason to do anything other than force plain layout, if you do not want to be able to change it. Whatever the style would do, you can just include in your environment definition. But I'd suggest you just use styles and not worry about the background in the LyX window. Q3 I net a protected space in the beginning of each box if not the text splits.?? Can't you write that into the environment definition? Q4 The boxes are not pure rectangels. Can this be fixed? It can definitely be fixed, but I am not sure what the problem is. Perhaps you should try reposting a note about that problem only, to attract the attention of the LaTeX experts. Richard
How Do You Run LyX on Mac from a Terminal?
On 01/24/2011 09:07 AM, Michelle Bottorff wrote: I think my personal preference would be to run Lyx or even just rtf2latex2e from the terminal, so I could get the better error messages and maybe have a chance of finding out what is going wrong. Fixing the problems that I'm having with Lyx seems like a better long-time solution than merely working around them. (Especially if all that is wrong is that I need to alter a few configuration files, or reinstall a package or two.) But someone would need to do a little hand-holding for me, because, this is entirely out of my area of expertise. (Although, FWIW, I am good at following directions. I have successfully installed php and mysql and done a number of other command line tasks, using instructions found online.) Can someone on Mac help Michelle here? I guess in lieu of that, I will be hunting down a copy of NeoOffice. LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ is probably a better choice at this point. Like LyX, it's free. It can do an excellent job converting Word and RTF type documents to LaTeX. Richard
RE: user-defined functions (yet again)
Thank you Günter and Julien, you have helped me understand LyX better and suggested good workarounds.
Re: problem with a bibtex style
On 24/01/2011 9:54 AM, Harold Mouras wrote: Would you have any idea about a corresponding bibtex style ? The various styles available are documented in many places. One such place is here: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html See if you can find a style that matches your need. Alternatively you can create your own style by answering questions using a command-line tool (custom-bib, bib-it) If you are adventurous you can learn bibtex's stack language syntax and modify an existing style to your liking or write your own. Good luck, Julien
Re: Subject: LyX 2.0beta3: Spell Checking + Multilingualism
Am 27.01.2011 um 15:16 schrieb Walter: >> This sounds ugly. Is there any similarity between spell checking APIs? Is >> there a cross platform, spell checking library unification / abstraction >> layer >> available? Would it be worth developing one? How difficult is it to detect >> known dictionaries and spell checkers on a cross-platform basis? > > Possible answer: http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/ Unfortunately enchant has big drawbacks: * missing language variety support * not available for LyX on mac And in fact it is only a wrapper around existing spell checkers - just as LyX is :-) Stephan
Re: [LyX] How Do You Run LyX on Mac from a Terminal?
On Jan 27, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 01/24/2011 09:07 AM, Michelle Bottorff wrote: >> >> I think my personal preference would be to run Lyx or even just rtf2latex2e >> from the terminal, so I could get the better error messages and maybe have a >> chance of finding out what is going wrong. Fixing the problems that I'm >> having with Lyx seems like a better long-time solution than merely working >> around them. (Especially if all that is wrong is that I need to alter a few >> configuration files, or reinstall a package or two.) >> >> But someone would need to do a little hand-holding for me, because, this is >> entirely out of my area of expertise. (Although, FWIW, I am good at >> following directions. I have successfully installed php and mysql and done >> a number of other command line tasks, using instructions found online.) >> > Can someone on Mac help Michelle here? From the terminal, /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx should launch LyX. Error messages will show up in the terminal. Kevin > >> I guess in lieu of that, I will be hunting down a copy of NeoOffice. >> > LibreOffice >http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ > is probably a better choice at this point. Like LyX, it's free. It can do an > excellent job converting Word and RTF type documents to LaTeX. > > Richard >
Lyx 1.6.2 on Win7, PDF won't update
Up until recently making an edit to a document in Lyx and then clicking View PDF in the toolbar caused it to regenerate the PDF and display it; if the file was still open in the viewer, then it would throw an error and you'd have to close the file first... As of this morning, though, it simply redisplays the last generated pdf from the temp dir. Closing Lyx and restarting it fixes it (because it deletes the temp files), but only for that first time generating the pdf. Deleting the pdf by hand from the temp dir, without touching any of the other files in the temp dir, also works. It doesn't matter whether the viewer is closed or not, just whether the pdf in the temp dir is gone. I've tried various things, including running reconfigure, and uninstalling and re-installing Lyx 1.6.2, running it as an Administrator (in case it was a permissions problem), but no luck. Looking at the archive, it seems that there were similar problems a long time ago, but nothing for recent versions of Lyx, Any thoughts? -- - Joshua
Re: Export image to PDF as JPG, not as EPS
Ken gmail.com> writes: > > Hi. I am writing a Beamer presentation. One of my slides has a very > large EPS graphic. When I get to this slide in the presentation the > computer takes a few moments to draw this image to screen. > > Is there a way for me to instead ask LyX to export this image to the > PDF slideshow under a different format? One that will render more > instantly, such as a high-quality JPEG? > Whether a different image format will render faster is an empirical question, but why not just convert the image to a PDF file in a terminal/DOS windows (for instance, using the epstopdf script) and then link the PDF rather than the EPS in your document? /Paul
Re: Lyx 1.6.2 on Win7, PDF won't update
Am 27.01.2011 um 17:23 schrieb Joshua Macy: > Up until recently making an edit to a document in Lyx and then clicking View > PDF in the toolbar caused it to regenerate the PDF and display it; if the > file was still open in the viewer, then it would throw an error and you'd > have to close the file first... > > As of this morning, though, it simply redisplays the last generated pdf from > the temp dir. Closing Lyx and restarting it fixes it (because it deletes the > temp files), but only for that first time generating the pdf. Deleting the > pdf by hand from the temp dir, without touching any of the other files in the > temp dir, also works. It doesn't matter whether the viewer is closed or not, > just whether the pdf in the temp dir is gone. > > I've tried various things, including running reconfigure, and uninstalling > and re-installing Lyx 1.6.2, running it as an Administrator (in case it was a > permissions problem), but no luck. Looking at the archive, it seems that > there were similar problems a long time ago, but nothing for recent versions > of Lyx, I guess you've upgraded acrobat reader... I remember some problem reports on this list for the (currently) latest version. Stephan
Re: Lyx 1.6.2 on Win7, PDF won't update
Joshua Macy gmail.com> writes: > > I've tried various things, including running reconfigure, and uninstalling > and re-installing Lyx 1.6.2 Oops, I meant Lyx 1.6.8 (the latest) *not* 1.6.2 Joshua
Re: Lyx 1.6.2 on Win7, PDF won't update
Stephan Witt gmx.net> writes: > > I guess you've upgraded acrobat reader... > I remember some problem reports on this list for the (currently) latest version. > > Stephan > I'm using PDF-XChange Viewer, not Acro X, so I don't think that's the problem. Also the symptom isn't that it won't open the temp file (which is what the other folks seem to be experiencing), but that Lyx won't overwrite the temp file if it exists... the unchanged temp file pops up in the PDF-XChange viewer, no problem opening it. Joshua
Problemas con instalación de MikText 2.9 (LyX-168-4-26-AltInstaller-Complete.exe)
Estimados amigos espero me puedan ayudar:
1.- Problema con MikText 2.9
Intenté instalar LyX mediante LyX-168-4-26-AltInstaller-Complete.exe (Win
XP) durante la instalación del programa, al momento de instalar MikText 2.9
me apareció el siguiente error:
La operación falló por alguna razón
C:\Archivos de Programa\MikText 2.9\miktext/bin\*initexmf.exe *
2.- Ejecución de LyX 1.6
Como me falló la instalación de lo anterior, instalé LyX 1.6. Del menú de
ayuda cargué el archivo *Objetos Insertados*. Al ejecutar visualizar pdf. me
apareció el error:
Metric (TFM) file not found.
{\Pifont{psy}
}
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\font='.
Al final he tenido problemas con la versión 1.6.8 y la versión 1.6
Agradeceré vuestra ayuda con lo indicado, ya que estoy dando mis primeras
pasos con Latex.
Ernesto.,
SOLVED: LyX startup is slow on Windows
Earlier I posted about slow startup (up to five minutes) with LyX 2.0 beta 3 on Windows 7 Pro 32 bit. After some experimentation, I discovered that the problem was that there was a corrupted DVD in the drive. This caused very LyX to start very slowly and freeze for several minutes every time a change was made to the preferences (presumably because of an interaction with Windows explorer). Interestingly, it didn't cause problems with other applications. Removing the DVD solved the problem, but I thought it might be useful to note what the solution was -- maybe it suggests a change that can be made to prevent similar problems. John
Re: Export image to PDF as JPG, not as EPS
On Thursday, January 27, 2011 07:56:06 Ken wrote: > Hi. I am writing a Beamer presentation. One of my slides has a very > large EPS graphic. When I get to this slide in the presentation the > computer takes a few moments to draw this image to screen. > > Is there a way for me to instead ask LyX to export this image to the > PDF slideshow under a different format? One that will render more > instantly, such as a high-quality JPEG? > Your EPS graphic almost certainly has too much detail for the screen resolution of the projector used in the presentation. Depending on the content of the graphic there might be better approaches, but I'd suggest using an image editor such as Gimp to produce a raster image with no more than about 1600 pixels in the largest dimension, and save it as a PNG file. If the result does not have detail you need for the presentation, you will have to reconsider what you're presenting, perhaps using an overview with additional slides to show detail. -- Les Denham
Re: Lyx 1.6.2 on Win7, PDF won't update
I interpret what you said about closing the viewer to mean that it's not just Update PDF that balks, but that View PDF will also balk (meaning that if you View PDF, close the viewer, edit the document and click View PDF again you'll get the unedited version). Charitably assuming I go that right, you might try the following experiment: View PDF, close the viewer, edit, View PDF again, verify you're still seeing the old version, then close the viewer (but leave LyX open). Open the temp directory in an Explorer window and use Notepad or whatever to check the .tex file, looking for whether LyX wrote the change to the .tex file. If yes, run pdflatex against the .tex file in a command shell and see if it succeeds in updating the PDF file. If one or the other of those steps breaks, maybe that will shed a little light. /Paul
Re: problem with a bibtex style
> > Alternatively you can create your own style by answering questions using a > command-line tool (custom-bib, bib-it) > Another alternative is by using makebst an example how to use makebst is documented here: http://sites.google.com/site/lyxthesistemplate/5-bibliography/4-custumize-style-bst Regards waluyo
Can't insert BibTeX Bibliography; TeXFiles.py fails.
Hello, I'm running LyX 1.6.8 on Windows 7 and I can't seem to insert my BibTeX bibliography into my LyX document. 'Insert > List / TOC > BibTeX Bibliography...' causes an error window to open that says "The script '/LyX/bin/../Resources/scripts/TeXFiles.py' failed". When I click "OK" the error window opens again a few more times before an empty 'LyX: BibTeX Bibliography' window opens up. I'm also using JabRef (2.6) to push BibTeX entries to LyX which seems to work except I get a [?] in the resulting .pdf wherever I have a citation. My understanding is that I need to insert a BibTeX bibliography in the LyX document to fix this and actually have the bibliography included in the .pdf, is this correct? Thanks!
Re: Subject: LyX 2.0beta3: Spell Checking + Multilingualism
Am 27.01.2011 um 14:05 schrieb Walter:
>>> Whilst using LyX 2.0beta1 [since verified on LyX 2.0beta3] I recently ran
>>> a spell check for the first time.
>>>
>>> The interface is good and no doubt an improvement on previous eras, however
>>> the following struck me as possible to improve.
>>>
>>> Those items marked with "[*]" I consider a bug in LyX. Those items marked
>>> with "[X]" I consider a bug elsewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Preferences|Language Settings|Spellchecker [*]
>>> --
>>> Fields lack a description. Faced with having used non-US spelling
>>> in my document ("for shame!"), I do not want to manually set hundreds
>>> of individual words to be 'English (UK)', which using the inbuilt right
>>> sidebar interface appears to be the default way forward. (For some
>>> reason, 'English (AU)' is not even an option on my system, though that's
>>> probably my fault.)
>>
>> The following refers to the field "Alternative language" I'd guess.
>
> Correct!
>
>>> Thus driven to the preferences dialog, I was unsure of which mystical
>>> value to enter in to the great LyX machine. Assuming 'man aspell' would
>>> clear it up, indeed some text was located that made the expected format
>>> for the entry of a single language value probable:
>>>
>>>"It follows the same format of the LANG environmental variable on
>>> most systems. It consists of the two letter ISO 639 language code and
>>> an optional two letter ISO 3166 country code after a dash or
>>> underscore."
>>>
>>> I tried this ("en_AU"), and it did work. However, there are two problems:
>>>- Even the first step would be a challenge for some users
>>>- I would like to add multiple values to the field, since otherwise even
>>> at this early stage of my document still hundreds of words and place
>>> names in French, German, Greek (+romanised Greek), Chinese (+romanised
>>> Chinese), etc. trip up the spell checker. (Use of these languages
>>> is frequent and scattered right throughout the document.)
>>
>> Ok, with this use case - mixed language documents - you are requested to
>> mark the text appropriately. Here LyX does no guessing and there are no
>> plans to change that.
>
> On the contrary, dear fellow: the opposite has already come to pass!
> Demand hath begat a plan! One man, I understand, begat that plan: a
> module fan, Michiel Kamermans!
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg83713.html
Ok, AFAIU this refers to the XeLaTeX engine and not to LyX.
Of course, if someone wants to develop a solid algorithm for language
guessing and can convince the LyX developer community of it and has the
resources to implement and test it - it may happen. Another option
would be to have a spell checker backend including this feature.
>
Re: Subject: LyX 2.0beta3: Spell Checking + Multilingualism
Stephan Witt wrote: > Of course, if someone wants to develop a solid algorithm for language > guessing and can convince the LyX developer community of it and has the > resources to implement and test it - it may happen. Another option > would be to have a spell checker backend including this feature. Note that language settings are not only needed for the spellchecker, but ultimately also for LaTeX (babel). If you do not mark the language properly, you will get wrong hyphenation, which is much more crucial than the spellchecker. Jürgen
section numbering
Hello forum, I am writing a small report and the document settings has been set to Report. When i change the environment to section the numbering style starts with 0.1. I would like to have it started as 1 instead. How do i change this setting? Thanks Sajjad
