Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 20.05.2010 19:01, schrieb Hal Kierstead: > >> Actually, I think the problem may be that it fails to check the next word >> after it finds a misspelled word. > > As said, I cannot reproduce that with LyX 1.6.6 on Windows. Here every > misspelled word is correctly recognized. And I cannot reproduce it on Mac. BH
Re: update doesn't work
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:39 AM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. wrote: > Hi! > > I've seen this before with LyX 1.6.5 on Mac OS X but never reported it. Now, > working with LyX 2.0.0 alpha3, I have the same problem: View works fine, but > I've never got Update working. I've to close the current view (whatever PDF > viewer I am using, Adobe or Skim, for instance), to get an updated view. > > Please, am I missing something obvious? Thanks! The distinction between View and Update doesn't make much difference on Mac. What you need to do is set up your pdf viewer to pay attention to changes in the .pdf file. In Skim, you can do that via Skim > Preferences > Sync > Check for file changes. BH
Re: Writing a syllabus using BibTex
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Johann Jaeckel wrote: > Now the problem that I am running into is to find a command that shows > the complete information for a BibTex reference given particular style. > For instance: > > Marx, Karl (1867): Capital - A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I. > London. Peguin. You probably want to use BibLaTeX, though it takes a bit of work to get it set up to work with LyX. See: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex BH
Re: Writing a syllabus using BibTex
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Johann Jaeckel wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 21:31 -0400, BH wrote: >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Johann Jaeckel >> wrote: >> > Now the problem that I am running into is to find a command that shows >> > the complete information for a BibTex reference given particular style. >> > For instance: >> > >> > Marx, Karl (1867): Capital - A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I. >> > London. Peguin. >> >> You probably want to use BibLaTeX, though it takes a bit of work to >> get it set up to work with LyX. See: >> >> http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex >> >> BH > > Sorry for the empty mail, and thanks for your reply. However, reading > through the BibLaTex wiki, I don't see how this is going to solve my > problem. Could you please clarify? Look at the variety of BibLaTeX styles that are described on that webpage. You probably want to use something like the verbose style, which will print out complete citations in the text. See http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#toc9 For complete information, look at the BibLaTeX manual here: http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf BH
Re: Figure Number bug perhaps?
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Artimess wrote: > I am using Lyx 1.6.6 on Mac, in Lyx the Figure numbers are correctly > identifed as Figure 1.1, Figure 1.2, etc. But when I reference them in the > text, the references get the section numbers instead. For example if I > reference figure 1.2 in section 1.6.2, in the printout it appears as "in > Figure 1.6.2" instead of "in Figure 1.2...". I am selecting as > the reference stye. > Could someone tell me what am I doing wrong? When you insert the label, make sure the cursor is inside the figure caption inset. (The label should then start with "fig:".) Then your cross reference should refer to the figure number. BH
Re: path to .lyx on MAC
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Artimess wrote: > I am using Lyx 1.6.6 on Mac, I noticed I do not have $HOME/.lyx/layouts/, > so I am wondering where I put a custom made module? > I created one in my home directory and reconfigured Lyx, but it does not see > the module that I added. ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts BH
Re: keeping PDF output files
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: >> I was also hoping to control other files. Can I have LyX keep other output >> and aux files, so that latex and bibtex can run fewer times and produce the >> output faster (example, references and bibs). My understanding is that >> everything is wiped out if I close and reopen. This can waste time, > > > I am very well acquainted with this particular complaint. I've been working > on a book draft that has several thousand pictures (screenshots, example > mockups, etc). Building the entire draft can take on the order of 15 - 20 > minutes. If there was a way not to have to start over every time I run > xelatex, that would be marvelous. Did you miss this one? -- Preferences > File Handling > Converters > Converter File Cache (enable the check box) BH
Re: keeping PDF output files
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Ivan Werning wrote: > On Jun 3, 2010, at 11:12 AM, BH wrote: > >> Did you miss this one? -- >> >> Preferences > File Handling > Converters > Converter File Cache >> (enable the check box) >> >> BH > > Thanks. Yes, I had missed that one. I looked now and I have that checked. > Does this mean it is saving all the bib aux log etc. files between sessions? > Based entirely on observed speed patterns I had assumed it wasn't, but I may > have been wrong. (Please make sure you reply to the list so that others can benefit from the conversation.) It will keep all converted files, such as .eps or .jpg figures that need to be converted to .pdf when you typeset with pdflatex. It won't save .bib, .aux, etc.; all of that gets trashed when you close the .lyx document. BH
Re: How to de-install CocoAspell on OSX…
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:16 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello, > > as cocoaspell doesn´t work for me i now want to install aspell und to > de-install cocoaspell – but i have no clue how. > could somebody please tell me how achieve that? http://people.ict.usc.edu/~leuski/cocoaspell/faq.php
Re: Getting cocoaSpell to work with lyx on a Mac | Or Alternative
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:05 PM, iustifico wrote: > Hello altogether, > I have a copy of lyx (1.6.6.1) running on a mac (Snow Leopard). Everything > works fine. > Now I want some sort of spellchecking. I went for the recommendation of this > page > http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling > and installed cocoAspell. The installation was self-explanatory. Now I > wanted to tell lyx, to use this tool, so I put this line > /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias > into the "Alternative Language" field. When I hit the Spellchecker-Button, > the one with ABC on it, nothing happens. I even tried some misspelling, to > see if lyx finds them. Is there more things to tell Lyx, so it can use > cocaspell? Did you try reconfiguring LyX? (LyX > Reconfigure, then restarting LyX) Also check LyX > Preferences > Language Settings > Spelling; does aspell show up for the spellchecker engine? If one or the other of these is needed, please modify the wiki to add this instruction. > By the way, there is a great spell-checker on board with OS-X. Isn't it > possible to just use this one? That's on tap for LyX-2.0 (currently in development). BH
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.7 is released!
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:12 AM, James C. Sutherland wrote: > Another regression on Mac: some of the dialogue boxes (e.g. the spell check > dialogue box) is not rendered properly. See the attached image. Resizing > it does not help. This was also a problem that I noticed in 2.0 alpha on > the Mac. I believe the screenshot is from the LyX-2.0 alpha, where it is indeed a problem. However, are you sure there's a problem with 1.6.7? (I don't see it.) BH
Re: Max Keyboard
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 07/17/2010 10:53 AM, Hal Kierstead wrote:
>>
>> I am using LyX 1.6.7 on a Mac. There are several things that I can do
>> easily in tex that I cannot figure out how to do from the keyboard in LyX:
>>
>> 1) Accents: Erd\H{o}s, P\'{o}a, etc.
>>
>>
>
> These can be entered as unicode, actually, and there must be some way to do
> that on a Mac. That said, since I do this rarely, I usually just use the
> mini-buffer. E.g., for the latter, I enter:
> accent-acute o
> and voila. Since the mini-buffer has history, I then can just use that most
> of the time.
On Mac, the standard way to enter "ó" is: e o. This works in LyX
as well: you can basically type special characters using Mac
standards.
I don't know how to get the equivalent of \H{o}, but that's just my
ignorance. (How would you do it in TextEdit.app? Doesn't that work in
LyX?)
BH
Re: Spellchecking on LyX/Mac
2010/7/21 Richard Heck : > On 07/21/2010 12:41 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> >> After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to take >> the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki made me >> nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's unclear how >> recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good spellchecking >> experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not a Terminal guy, so >> installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going to screw it up. I would >> just love some simple, step-by-step help. >> > I believe 1.6.7 includes much better spelling support for Mac. But this may > only be in a version that Stephen Witt did. Trying asking on lyx-devel about > it. To my knowledge, the instructions on the wiki for getting cocoAspell to work with LyX are not out of date, and you can follow them without using the Terminal at all. It should work. So try it, and report back any troubles you might have. Stephen has native spellchecking support for the upcoming LyX-2.0 (for which the 5th alpha was recently released). You might try that to see if it works for you (and report back to the list with any positive or negative experiences), but be aware that this alpha release is not something I'd recommend using for serious work. BH
Re: how to save PDF file?
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Zachary Uram wrote: > I am running Lyx 1.6.7 and used the pdflatex command to show the Math > guide in PDF but I do not see any way to save the PDF file! I wish to > save it on my Desktop. The PDF viewer has no save file option and the > Save As in Lyx only lets me save the Math.tex file. Please help! To create a copy of the .pdf in the same directory as the .lyx file, do: File > Export > PDF BH
Re: Command + S + D = crash
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Benjamin Deschamps wrote: > While I'm on the list... I've been crashing Lyx 1.6.5 by accidentally > pressing Command + S + D instead of just Command + S to save... This > highlights the "View" menu then hangs until I need to force quit. (Mac OS > 10.6.4) I can't reproduce this with 1.6.7. BH
Re: Can't sync LyX with Skim
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Nat Jacobs wrote: > > Hello all, > I'm on a Mac. I'm trying to edit a lengthy thesis and I can't for the > life of me figure out how to get LyX to sync with Skim. That is, I > want to be able to view a pdf or dvi in Skim, and then > command-shift-click and be taken to the corresponding part of my LyX > file. Doesn't work. I've been spending hours looking for different > instructions on how to do this. I can't get it to work with either > PdfSync or SyncTeX. I put the pdfsync package in my latex preamble. I > set the file format in the preferences for LyX and I set the > preferences of Skim. I even tried carefully setting the command path > for PdfSync. When I was trying to use SyncTeX, I set teh converter. I > hope I'm just missing one extra step. Anyone able to get this work ? I > hope I'm just missing one simple step. I believe Skim thinks that LyX will be in your /Applications folder. If you have LyX somewhere else, you'll need to enter the appropriate path in Skim's preferences -- something like this: /path/to/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor Is that the issue? BH
Re: Can't sync LyX with Skim
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Nat Jacobs wrote: >> Thanks for the help, but I'm not quite sure how to even check that. Do I >> have to run lyx -dbg in the terminal? > > run "lyx -dbg action" in terminal, lyx window will be launched and on that > terminal you will see the debug messages. More specifically (on Mac), open Terminal.app (in /Applications/Utilities/), and type: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx -dbg action (assuming you have LyX.app in your /Applications directory, which it should be for Skim to work). A new instance of LyX will open, so make sure you've quit LyX before doing this. BH
Re: \cite, \ref
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Hal Kierstead wrote:
> All -
>
> I find the pop-up windows for Insert-Citation and Insert-Cross-Reference
> quite annoying. It is nice to have a list of choices, and to be able to use
> the mouse to choose among them, but this should not be required. Most of the
> time I already know what I want. It would be really nice if I could just
> type the tex command \cite{E} or \ref{d} or \eqref{w}, or something similar.
>
> Is there is already a way to do something similar? Embedding tex does not
> seem a good alternative.
>
> Currently it does not seem possible to make a shortcut for
> Insert-Cross-Reference from within LyX. I am using a Mac, and made a menu
> shortcut in OSX. This works fine, except that the first time I use I must
> open it from the menu by hand. Is this an OSX flaw or a LyX flaw?
Neither, actually. I have, for example, -I R mapped to
dialog-show-new-inset ref in my custom shortcuts, and I can then
insert cross-references using only the keyboard. Look at LyX >
Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts (and see §C.2.2.2 of the User's
Guide).
BH
Re: \cite, \ref
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Hal Kierstead wrote: > This certainly is progress---thanks. Also dialog-show-new-inset citation > opens the citation dialog. Is there a way to jump directly to the OK button > after choosing a cross-reference from the list in the dialog instead of > pushing tab 6 times? How about ? BH
Re: \cite, \ref
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Hal Kierstead wrote: > The other dialogs in LyX work properly on Macs. It is just this one. The OK > button should be highlighted so that hitting return accepts, but it is not. > Moreover, even if you navigate to it so that it is highlighted, hitting > return does not accept. > > I guess this is a bug. Do you all agree? What dialog are we talking about? The insert cross-reference dialog works (mostly) fine for me. If I have a document with at least 2 labels, I can tab to the label list, type the initial letters of the label name I'm interested in (or use the arrow keys), and once it's selected hit return for . The keyboard works fine here. The only problem is in a document with only one label: then, the keyboard does not work for selecting the label name. That is a bug. ... Or are we talking about a different dialog? BH
Re: lyx/mac cursor off by 1 character
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 9/30/10 5:52 PM, Derek Lamb wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've been using LyX on Linux for a long time (wrote several papers and my >> thesis with it), but this is the first time I've tried to use it on a Mac. >> I'm running OS X 10.6.4, and installed LyX 1.6.7 via MacPorts (I'm >> regretting not just using the binary, but that's another thread). I have a >> slightly annoying problem in that the text cursor seems to be off by one >> character on occasion. I can't get a screenshot with the cursor in it, so >> I'll try to describe it in more detail. >> >> I have a line that contains the following text: 'word1, word2'. If I >> press the back arrow 6 times, the cursor should be right after the comma.. >> But it appears to be halfway between the comma and the 'w'. We all know you >> can't have two spaces in a row in LyX, and there aren't: when I hit the >> mac's delete key (i.e., backwards delete), the comma goes away. If I >> reinsert the comma, then press the back arrow one time, the cursor is just >> to the right of the comma, but backwards-deleting gets rid of the '1'. >> >> > > I've also seen this problem. It may be a Qt/Mac issue. I don't know. I believe it is Qt/Mac. Qt-4.4 seems to work fine; all versions since exhibit this problem with some fonts. How did you obtain LyX/Mac? ... Do you know which version of Qt it was compiled with? > But > what I'd try to do is experiment with different screen fonts and, in > particular, different zoom settings. That's the only workaround I've found. BH
Re: An error has ocurred when I was installing LyX on Mac OS
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Eduardo Ruiz wrote: > Good morning, > > I was installing Lyx. I have no problem moving LyX application icon to > Applications. But when I ran LyX-Installer an error ocurred. > > The message of error was: > > "Cannot run texhash command to updateTeX Installation. Please run manually." > > I don't know what happens but I don't know what I have to do! Have you installed TeX first? (It's a requirement for LyX to produce output.) If not, you need to. I'd recommend MacTeX: http://www.tug.org/mactex/ BH
Re: An error has occurred when I was installing LyX on Mac OS
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Eduardo Ruiz wrote: > I've executed which command and not found the file texhash. > In folder only appears this: >From the info you've provided, it looks like you've installed the MacTeXtras package, and not MacTeX itself. (Otherwise, you'd have a /usr/texbin folder.) If that's right, install MacTeX, and then rerun the LyX installer. BH
Re: Spell checker on Mac not working
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:26 AM, dextasupreme wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry for posting in this old thread. I've had the very same issue that > Graham reported. After having followed Bennett's instructions, I now get the > following error message: > The file "/Library/Application Support/aspell6-en-6.0-02/en-common.rws" can > not be opened for reading. > > Any ideas how to solve this would be greatly appreciated. Do you actually have en-common.rws in that location? If so, do you have permission to read it? BH
Re: installation problems on OS X 10.6
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Rangel wrote: > 5. Installing LyX's special LaTeX files > > • Found TeX installation at . This line is suspicious. It should return a path to, e.g., /usr/texbin. Do you actually have a working TeX installation? (How did you install it? -- MacTeX, e.g.?) If TeX is installed and you run LyX's installer again, do you get the same result? BH
Re: LyX 2.0.0beta2 - Two question on the Mac Version
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Peter Baumgartner wrote: > Hello, > > 1.) I couldn't find the menu entry "Compare" under the "Tools" menu as I > have seen it on a Windows installation of a friend of mine and as it is > described under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#document-compare. > > 2.) I couldn't bring to work the new spell-checking on the fly feature as it > is described under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#toc2. There is no red > underline as I have seen on a windows machine. If I'm using the menu entry > "SpellcheckerŠ F7" under the "Tools" menu then appears no window for > spellchecking, even if there wrongs words. Instead LyX opens a window saying > how many words were checked. > > Is there something wrong with my installation or are these features in the > beta2 version still not available on the Mac? These features definitely are there on Mac. Tools > Compare... exists for me, and you can find continuous spellchecking as a preference option: LyX > Preferences > Language Settings > Spellchecker > Spellcheck continuously. Are you sure you're looking at a LyX-2.0 beta? BH
Re: installation problems on OS X 10.6
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:19 AM, David Rangel wrote: > Hello, > I am using TeXLive (the MacTeX TeX installation, with tex commands placed in > /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin/). I tried running the > installer again and did get the same result (I even tried running the > LyX-installer.app from the command line to authenticate). At any rate, I > can run LyX and produce LyX files. My concern is that I cannot then create > LaTeX files or import LaTeX files correctly. > Thank you for the help. I'm not sure why the installer isn't working for you. But that should not affect at all your ability to create LyX files, import LaTeX files, or typeset documents. (Can you typeset LyX documents you create from scratch, without importing?) The error message you report when you try to import .tex documents indicates either that you don't have a proper LaTeX installation or that LyX can't find it. So, first, check that LyX > Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix is set (with /usr/texbin: at the beginning). If that's correct, then run LyX > Reconfigure, and restart LyX as instructed. Does that enable you to typeset and/or import .tex files? BH
Re: Enumerate is the same
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Charles wrote: > Hello, > > I have three enumerations: 1,2,3. The problem is when I try and type the > word “OR” between the enumerations, they begin renumbering at 1, instead of > 2 and 3. Basically, I have three #1’s. How can I keep enumerate in > descending order, while having a standard word in between? Two ways, depending on what you want: 1. Look at the User's Guide, §3.4.5, especially the example in §3.4.5.4. In short, you can nest a standard paragraph in between the enumerations. 2. Use the "Customizable Lists (enumitem)" module, and then select the "Enumerate-Resume" environment instead of "Enumerate". In this case, no nesting of intervening paragraphs is needed. Information on this module (and enumitem) can be found here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem BH
Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Mathias GIREL wrote: > Dear Listers > I have trouble using the RTF converter in Lyx (1.6 and 2.0beta3) on OSX Snow > Leopard. I have a MacTex/Texlive2010 distribution. > I have not been able to find an effective and up to date way to install > latex2rtf on my system > Older messages on Forums referred to I-installer or Darwin ports but I have > also not been able to use this. > I'd be very grateful for any help. What exactly is the problem? latex2rtf is included in MacTex 2010. Moreover, a latex to rtf file converter preference is already set by default. So it should just work to select (in LyX-1.6) View > Rich Text Format. If that's not true, try quitting LyX, moving aside your user's directory (at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) and restarting LyX to see if any preference settings you have made are interfering. BH
Re: Problem with the RTF export on Lyx for OSX (need help on installing Latex2rtf or equivalent)
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Mathias GIREL wrote: > Dear all > I think I have found something. It is a dmg that installs latex2rtf (I think > it was missing from my distribution). You will find it here. > http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2010-April/043664.html > I have to experiment on complex files, with bibtex entries and the like, but > this seems to work smoothly now. > Am I the only one to have experimented such problems? If it is frequent, > I'll be glad to contribute to the wiki and point to this workaround. > Best > MG Checking again, I was wrong about latex2rtf being a part of MacTeX, so you do need to install it some other way. I'm glad it works for you now. (By the way, you can check if latex2rtf is installed by opening Terminal.app and typing "which latex2rtf". If it returns a path, then you have it; if you get nothing back, then you don't.) BH
Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi wrote: > Dear all, > > I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a > way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically > reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac > environment, I am afraid. Two questions: > > 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both) > support auto-reload? > > 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their > respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File > Viewer, I mean)? Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it on previously. I have no real experience with Adobe Reader. An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an external editor). BH
Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of > the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you > want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load > without asking this question). Skim.app > Preferences > Sync ... and check the "Check for file changes" box. BH
Re: LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Kerensa McElroy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get LyX up and running on my system (Mac OS X 10.6.2) for the > first time. I've installed MacTeX2010 without a problem. Then when I try and > install Lyx, I get the following problem: > > 1. Removing obsolete files > ... Done removing obsolete files. > > 2. Testing to see if old LyX user's folder should be moved to new location > > ... Done moving LyX user's directory to new location. > > 3. (No preferences file found at ~/Library/'Application Support'/LyX-1.6/.) > > 4. Installing default LyX templates > ... Done installing default LyX templates. > > 5. Installing LyX's special LaTeX files > • Found TeX installation at . > • Local TeX directory set to ~/Library/texmf. > • Installed LyX's additional LaTeX .cls and .sty files. > > *** ERROR: Cannot run texhash command. Please run manually. > > ... Done. > > > After, all my classes are 'unavailable'. Also, when i try and run sudo > texhash from terminal, it simply says 'command not found'. > > I've trawled the web for a solution to this problem. It looks like a lot of > other people have come across this. However, none of the > suggested solutions are working for me. > > Does anyone have any ideas? Did you see this thread? -- http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg84463.html My suspicion is that you really don't have MacTeX installed (at least not properly); otherwise, you wouldn't have a problem running texhash from the Terminal. You need to find where your MacTeX binaries are (default is /usr/texbin) and make sure that path is one of the entries in LyX > Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix. BH
Re: SOLVED: LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Kerensa McElroy wrote: > Hi everyone, > yes, I did see this > thread,http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg84463.html, to > no avail originally, > however it jogged me into working out a solution now that I've read it > again! > Here is the complete instructions to solving this problem, for anyone who > needs them: > 1. change into directory /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin > 2. type sudo ./texhash (and enter password) > 3. open lyx, go to LyX>Preferences>Paths> PATH Prefix. Remove whatever else > is there and replace with /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin. > Save. > 4. Go to LyX >Reconfigure. > 5. Close LyX and open it again. > Kerensa. This looks to me like a workaround for a botched MacTeX installation. Take a look at: http://www.tug.org/mactex/2010/What_Is_Installed.pdf You should have a softlink at /usr/texbin that points to /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin. If not, then something went wrong, and I'd wonder whether you might encounter other problems down the road. I'd suggest checking to see that everything was installed where that document says it should be, and then opening System Preferences, clicking on the TeX Distribution button at the bottom, and ensuring that TeXLive-2010 is selected. If that creates the /usr/texbin softlink, then you should use that in LyX -- restoring the original list for PATH Prefix in LyX's preferences. If not, when you upgrade to MacTeX-2011, LyX won't know how to find it. BH
Re: SOLVED: LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Kerensa McElroy wrote: > hmm. No /usr/texbin softlink. And no tex installations at all listed in > system preferences. > > So, I repeated the installation for MacTeX2010, exactly as it says to. Same > problem. > > Any suggestions? I'd try the MacTeX people; their support page is here: http://www.tug.org/mactex/2010/support/emailform/# (Make sure you click on the "read this note" link just above the form.) BH
Re: Replacing Lost .sty
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Five years ago I wrote an article that used the breaksites package (with > natbib). I'm revising that article and discovered that breaksites.sty is no > longer on my system. A Google search found nothing and my searches of CTAN > turned up empty. > > Please point me to a source for this package or an alternative one. Did you mean breakcites.sty? http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/breakcites/breakcites.sty BH
Re: Outline mode won't open for me.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > Sounds broken, yes. Try moving (renaming) your local configuration > directory, wherever that is ... On Mac that would be ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6. BH
Re: Outline mode won't open for me.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Pete Crite wrote: > Hmm… still doesn't work. Nothing happens when I click the book icon. I had > already tried with another user account, so I guess it's unsurprising that > this didn't work. Is there anything else I could try? Are you sure nothing happens? It should bring up a small window that stays on top of other windows. If you're using 2 monitors, it's conceivable that that window is on a different monitor. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. BH
Re: LyX 2.0 RC2 keeps crashing on Mac OS X 10.6.4
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 01.04.2011 um 23:10 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: > >> On 1-4-2011 23:03, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: >>> I have been able to reproduce this problem: I have tried to resize Lyx's >>> screen using Divvy and Lyx crashed. >>> >>> I give below the beginning of the crash report. It seems that >>> com.apple.HIToolbox get very excited ;-) >> >> It seems that the problem might have to do with Qt as well (seeing QtGui). >> >> Can you try other Qt apps as well ? > > And if possible on a Mac with OS X 10.6.7 - the latest patch release? > As I said, until I upgraded from 10.6.6 I got the crashes with LyX + divvy > too and now - with 10.6.7 - it doesn't happen anymore. > > When trying to resize LyX instead of the crash on 10.6.7 > the position is changed and the size is not. Another not-so-helpful datapoint here: I don't have any special extra applications running that I'd expect would interact with LyX in a way that would cause these crashes. Nonetheless, sometime between RC1 and RC2, my own builds of LyX was crashing on me fairly regularly, though I wasn't able to find any clear pattern to it. Starting just before RC2 until R38178 (the most recent I've compiled), things have been getting better, and things now seem pretty good. But RC2 was crashing all too frequently. BH
Re: finding citations
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jack Tanner wrote: > Is there a way to ask "where is this paper already cited in my document"? How > about "is anything by author X already cited in my document"? Document > Outline ... and then use the dropdown list to select "List of Citations". Note that it normally comes in order of citation, but if you select the "Sort" option at the bottom, it will be sorted by author's last name. BH
Re: Linux 2.0.0RC2 -> Mac 2.0.0RC3 = Issues
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Walter wrote: > Due to a recent change in hardware, I have just tried to load my book > on to LyX for Mac. > > Upon opening the file I get two errors about missing elements: > - document.cls This suggests to me that you haven't installed LaTeX. The easiest way on Mac is to install MacTeX (http://www.tug.org/mactex/). Then reconfigure LyX, restart, and it should recognize document.cls and allow you to generate .pdfs. > - languages module This may be in your user's directory on your Linux machine (~/.lyx) and if so should be moved to the appropriate location on Mac (~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0). BH > Is this expected, and how do I remedy? > > I'm pretty inexperienced with macs, but believe I should have copied > all of the resources that went along with the original document to the > new machine's filesystem, at the same relative locations (ie: parent > directory and all within). > > Right now I am able to edit, but not generate PDF output. In addition > to the above errors on opening the file, an attempt to render gives > me: > "No information on how to convert SVG files to PNG". > > The imagmagick installation seems to require MacPorts which > seems to require XCode which is opening a whole can of worms. > > Thanks for any pointers! > > - Walter >
Re: Lyx2.0.0RC3: OSX Keyboard Shortcuts Missing
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Walter wrote: > This may be my own stupid lack of OSX knowledge, but none of: > - +i > - +i > - +i > - +i > > ... seem to actually trigger the 'insert' menu, one of the most common > shortcuts I would use on the Linux platform, usually to insert notes > or citations mid-text. > > Is this a real/known bug? If unknown I am hereby reporting it! If not > the case then please advise how I can get my non-mousing input back. It's a Mac feature. (Translation: Macs don't work that way.) You can define your own shortcuts using LyX > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts, and you can use multiple keys like "+I+N" to insert notes. BH
Re: How to install Lyx 2.0 side by side with 1.6 on a MAC?
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: > Be aware that files saved normally from LyX 2 won't be readable by LyX 1.6, > so after some time you'll probably be happier working with the new version. Once LyX-1.6.10 comes out (which won't be long), it will be able to read LyX-2.0 files. So even this won't be a problem. BH
Re: Fixme (package/module)
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Ken wrote: > In case this is of any use to others it may be best/easiest to change > the status in the fixme.module file (and to close the document and > re-open it in order for the change to occur next time the pdf is > generated). An alternative would be to create two modules: fixme.module and fixme-draft.module, only the latter of which has the status=draft option in the preamble. Then you could simply switch from one module to the other using Document > Settings. This is a bit clunky, but far easier than manually editing the fixme.module each time, and it would only affect the current document rather than all documents that use that module. BH
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Diego Queiroz > wrote: >> >> LyX 2.0 supports \subref command without ERT? (I want to cross-reference a >> subfigure inside the figure environment) >> If so, how do I insert it? >> Thanks, >> --- >> Diego Queiroz >> > > No answers? :-( > Currently I am using ERT and it solved my problem. > But can someone confirm if lyX really doesn't support this feature at all? It's not hard. See attached example (for which you won't, of course, have access to my images, but that doesn't matter). BH subfigure.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Subfigures: \subref support?
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: > Thanks for the answers. > But I think I wasn't clear. > I want to use the \subref command not the \ref one (supported by default on > LyX). > The difference between them is that \ref produces "1a" while \subref > produces only "a". > I need to cite subfigures in the caption of the main float. > Example.: > Fig(a) --- Fig(b) > Figure 1: Here you see some figure (a) and another figure (b). > Got it? > But now I'm almost sure LyX really doesn't really support it. > If so, this is another good (and simple) improvement for LyX 2.1. :-) Isn't this precisely what I gave you in the sample file? (I didn't put the cross-reference in the figure caption, but that's trivial.) In short, LyX supports it and makes it easy. BH
Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server > machine. The executable runs fine. I can create simple documents (as in > testing someone else's issue with 10.6.7) but when I try "New from Template" > the various folders are empty. Those in the LyX package are there (Finder > can open the package and show me the various files) but LyX itself cannot > find anything. Can you be more specific? -- Which folders are empty? > The Mac section of the Wiki hasn't been updated yet to cover 2.0.0 so I'm > flying solo. Not much has changed with 2.0, so there's not much to update on the wiki specifically for 2.0. One thing that has changed, which may be relevant, is the installation procedure. Previously, we supplied a LyX-Installer.app, which would do things like copy your LyX user's folder to its new location. Now you're supposed to do that manually. (This is detailed in the ReadMe that came with the application.) I'm guessing you didn't follow those instructions and so aren't seeing templates that are in your LyX-1.6 user's folder but not your LyX-2.0 user's folder. BH
Re: Borked 2.0.0 on Mac OS X?
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins >> wrote: >> > I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server >> > machine. The executable runs fine. I can create simple documents (as in >> > testing someone else's issue with 10.6.7) but when I try "New from >> > Template" >> > the various folders are empty. Those in the LyX package are there >> > (Finder >> > can open the package and show me the various files) but LyX itself >> > cannot >> > find anything. >> >> Can you be more specific? -- Which folders are empty? > > Can't be more specific than "all o them" that is all of them offered in the > dialog box displayed by New from Template. You're not helping me help you here. What folders are displayed depends on your setup. >> > The Mac section of the Wiki hasn't been updated yet to cover 2.0.0 so >> > I'm >> > flying solo. >> >> Not much has changed with 2.0, so there's not much to update on the >> wiki specifically for 2.0. >> >> One thing that has changed, which may be relevant, is the installation >> procedure. Previously, we supplied a LyX-Installer.app, which would do >> things like copy your LyX user's folder to its new location. Now >> you're supposed to do that manually. (This is detailed in the ReadMe >> that came with the application.) I'm guessing you didn't follow those >> instructions and so aren't seeing templates that are in your LyX-1.6 >> user's folder but not your LyX-2.0 user's folder. > > Ye gods! You're kidding. The 1.4 instructons on the Wiki are opaque. Notice that the wiki has instructions for 1.4 *or later*. They apply to 2.0 as well. > I worked out that there wasn't an installer app because ... well there isn't > an installer app to be executed. > > This manualised step is retrogressive surely?Regards, Trevor. And that wiki > page needs some serious work to make it comprehensible to the average user. It would help if you could again be more specific: what aren't you understanding? Indeed, you should feel free to edit the wiki page yourself so as to improve it. (If you're interested, ask to have the password sent to you.) LyX depends on the efforts of volunteers -- volunteers whose patience is sorely tested by sarcasm and vague demands for help or improvement. BH
Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?
> Err, sorry I don't understand how does "CleanMyMac" have any effect upon the > content of the LyX wiki? The wiki entry for Mac points direct to an FTP > directory for MacTeX (the package is 1.2Gb) others have suggested that there > are smaller (streamlined) packages available but anyone looking at the LyX > wiki isn't going to know that. We don't all have perfect knowledge. > > And if one wants to boast LyX is installed here on a MacMini Server with 8Gb > and 1Tb of disk storage. And on a 120Gb Macbook Pro. The suggestion to link to the MacTeX homepage is a good one. (We had that link before, I believe; I'm not sure why it was changed.) At any rate, I've made some modifications. Feel free to edit some more if you like. (If you don't have it already, you can ask on the list for the password.) By the way, please bottom-post in this list. It makes it easier for others to follow the conversation. BH
Re: LyX for Mac OSX 10.6.7?
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: >> Feel free to edit some more if you >> like. (If you don't have it already, you can ask on the list for the >> password.) > > Already did; already haven't got. Sent privately. BH
Re: shortcut
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/26/2011 06:06 PM, Hal Kierstead wrote: >> I am trying to get my shortcuts uniform across three machines. Can >> you tell me where shortcuts are stored on a Max? I already know to >> use the same bind folder and layout file. >> > The difference is in what .bind file is used. You can change this under > Tools>Preferences. OSX uses mac.bind by default. Except on a Mac, the preferences dialog can be found at LyX > Preferences (as is common for Mac apps). BH
Re: Installing on Mac--MacTex vs. BasicTex
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Bob Alvarez wrote: > I am installing Lyx 1.6.9 on a Macbook Air OSX 10.6 . Looking through the > instructions I was dismayed to see that I may have to install the 1.6 GB > MacTex package. This machine only has a 64 GB drive so this is quite a lot > of overhead not to mention that the download will take many hours on my > basic DSL connection. > > The Wiki suggests BasicTex but this thread suggests that is a bad idea > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg78404.html > > Questions: > 1. Has anyone had success installing and using Lyx with BasicTex (I am > mainly interested in koma-script article document class)? > > 2. Any ideas on using an external USB drive to hold the installation package > and then selecting the components I need for Lyx? > > 3. Any other ideas on how to reduce the drive space requirement? I haven't used BasicTeX myself, but I believe it will work together with TeX Live Utility.app, which will allow you selectively to add other LaTeX packages that BasicTeX itself does not include. It may be a pain to track down packages you need but don't have and then to install them, but if you're willing to put in that effort, BasicTeX may be for you. I believe (2) will not work: when installing the full MacTeX package, it's pretty much all or nothing. (But I'm going from memory of something I didn't pay attention to when installing MacTeX a long time ago.) BH
Re: shortcut
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Hal Kierstead wrote: > I understand this part. What I need to know is where the shortcuts defined > using the preferences dialog are stored. (Please reply to the list so that others can follow the thread.) Default .bind files on Mac are stored in LyX.app/Contents/Resources/bind/. As Richard says, however, you can change them via LyX's preferences. At LyX > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts, there's a "Browse" button that allows you to select from among the default .bind files. Clicking it will take you to the appropriate directory. If you use the dialog to change keybindings, the modifications you make are stored (on Mac) in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0/bind/user.bind. BH
Re: Implementing a new environment in a LyX .layout
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: > Final plea: I have been unable to find a formal list of all the keywords for > a .layout file, with their syntax and application. Does such a list exist > yet? Try section 5 of the Customization.lyx help file (in the Help menu). BH
Re: Chapter Numbers have become blank
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote: > Working on 100+ page book, using LyX 1.6.7 on Mint Linux (Ubuntu). > All my Chapter Numbers have become blank. They are setup as Chapters, > not Chapters*. Chapter Numbers have vanished entirely in this document. > They correctly show in LyX, but when printing or making a pdf, there are > no chapter numbers. All sections print as 0.x, regardless of what > chapter # they live in; section 4.3 is printed as 0.3 etc. > > Any idea what the heck is going-on here? What settings do you have in the "Numbering and TOC" section of Document Settings? BH
Re: Just getting started
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Eric Weir bellsouth.net> writes: > >> The tutorial mentions a >> document, example_raw.lyx, to which I am to make corrections as I >> progress through the tutorial, but it >> doesn't say where it is and I can't find it. > > On Linux, look in /usr/share/lyx/examples. On Windows, look for the examples > folder under the LyX installation directory (usually C:\Program Files\lyx, I > think). On a Mac, try the Finder or ask Steve Jobs. :-) On Mac, there's no easy way to get to the default examples folder. It can be found at .../LyX.app/Contents/Resources/examples, which you can get to through the or the Open file dialog by hitting -g and then entering the path. (We need a better solution for that and the default templates folder.) BH
Re: Just getting started
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2011, at 8:50 PM, BH wrote: > >> On Mac, there's no easy way to get to the default examples folder. It >> can be found at .../LyX.app/Contents/Resources/examples, which you can >> get to through the or the Open file dialog by hitting -g and then >> entering the path. > > Thanks BH -- and to Paul and Waluyo was well. > > I can get to the examples folder through Finder, but not through the LyX file > browser. Now that I've found it, is there some standardd place i should move > or copy it to so it's available from within LyX itself? Sorry -- I should have said to use -G in the File > Open dialog within LyX. You should be able to access it from within LyX. If you'd prefer to copy them somewhere else, a standard place might be: ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0/examples BH
Re: Upgrading to LyX-2.0 and MacTeX-2010 broke moderncv
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Does it compile if you are using TeXLive instead of MacTeX? (MacTeX *is* TeXLive on Mac.) BH
Re: MacTeX/XeTeX pdf setting problems
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
>> Dear LyX users,
>>
>> I just upgraded MacTeX to the newest version (2011), and now I am
>> having some problems making pdf documents. First of all, if I use
>> XeTeX and non-TeX fonts, I get the following error on trying to view
>> the PDF:
>>
>> LaTeX Error: Command \B already defined.
>> LaTeX Error: Command \T already defined.
>>
>>
>> \newcommand{\B}[2][0]{\Bk{#1}{0}{#2}}
>>
>> Your command was ignored.
>> Type I to replace it with another command,
>> or to continue without it.
>>
>> Turning XeTeX off resolves this in a short test file, but I am also
>> unable to compile a longer document that has a bit more complicated
>> stuff in it at all--LyX basically freezes. Anyone else having problems
>> with new MacTeX? All of my LaTeX purist colleagues seem to be doing
>> okay, so I wonder if this is LyX-specific...
>>
>> Maria
>
>
> P.S.--I reverted to MacTeX 2008, my previous installation, and the
> error no longer appears. So problem solved for the time
> being--although I would still be curious to know why this is
> happening.
If you haven't already done so, you might try switching back to MacTeX
2011 and using TeX LIve Utility.app to update it to the most recent
version.
BH
Re: LyX-Produced Book
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/29/2011 05:42 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: >> Congratulations on finishing your book. It's beautifully produced and >> looks very interesting. While I was looking through it, I found myself >> with a couple of "craft" questions: >> >> Did you write the document class from scratch, or is it based on one of >> the larger classes (e.g., Koma-Script, Memoir, Standard Book)? >> > It's based on book. I'll attach it, along with the LyX layout for it. > >> How did you end up working with the references? Was BibLaTeX somehow >> involved? >> > I'm also attaching the bst, which is perhaps the most involved thing. > > Someone else asked about OUP and LaTeX. My experience, with the > philosophy people there, has been very, very good. In this case, they > just printed the book from a PDF I sent them, but they are also happy to > work with LaTeX submissions, if you don't want to get into the typesetting. Congratulations, indeed. My last book was also philosophy at OUP, and my experience was very good as well. After sending them the manuscript in PDF, they were impressed enough with its appearance that they asked me if I wanted to typeset the book. I declined (not wanting to go to the trouble of all the tweaking you did); they did accept a LaTeX version, which I believe they tweaked in order to typeset it. In any case, another testament to LyX/LaTeX. Thanks again to the developers, to whom I'm grateful every day. BH
Re: LyX-Produced Book
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 01/12/11 05:44, BH a écrit : >> >> In any case, another testament to LyX/LaTeX. Thanks again to the >> developers, to whom I'm >> grateful every day. > > > Hmm, you are one of them, aren't you? You mean philosophers writing books with LyX? Yes. ;) (Congratulations, Stefano!) BH
Re: how to instal tex fonts on OS X?
[Sending this time to the list] On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:14 PM, BH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:29 PM, malte köster wrote: >> dear all, >> I recently installed LyX 2.0 and MacTeX TeXLive-2011-Basic on a Mac OS X >> 10.7 system. >> >> I noticed that by default fonts look pixelated in pdf output because bitmap >> fonts are used (http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF). >> The FAQ suggests to use the font Latin Modern instead of the default >> Computer Modern. >> >> How do I install the font for LaTex on OS X? I found the font >> on http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/ but could not >> find any straight forward instructions on how to install it on my system. >> Can anybody point me to a simple explanation how to install fonts? > > Use TeX Live Utility (/Applications/TeX/) to install it. Launch it, > click on the "Packages" tab, and do a search for the "lm" package. > Select it and choose Actions > Install Selected Packages. > > After doing this (which may take a while, especially with a slow > internet connection), you'll probably want to reconfigure LyX (LyX > > Reconfigure) and restart. > > BH
Re: Mac-specific: tex2lyx won't run
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > Just correcting a typo in the subject heading. > > -- > > I'm attempting to use the workaround suggested by Stefano to get LyX to > recognize a Unicoded document as Unicoded. The workaround involves use of > the tex2lyx command. > > I'm on a Mac. When I run the command I get a command not found message. When > I do locate tex2lyx, however, the file shows up in two > locations: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS > and /Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS > > How do I get the command to run? I'm guessing the problem is that tex2lyx isn't in your PATH, which means you must provide it yourself. So from the Terminal, you should type, for example, /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/tex2lyx to invoke it. (Or use the path to the version of LyX in your /Applications/TeX folder -- whichever one you want to use.) BH
Re: Mac-specific: tex2lyx won't run
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, BH wrote: > >> I'm guessing the problem is that tex2lyx isn't in your PATH, which >> means you must provide it yourself. So from the Terminal, you should >> type, for example, >> >> /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/tex2lyx > > Thanks, Will do. But while I'm at it, is there a way to get it in my path. It > appears I may be needing to use the command a fair bit. Here's one explanation: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2621/os_x_change_path_environment_variable/ BH
Re: word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear Users and Developers, > > First off, thank you to everyone who sent me documents over the weekend. > I was able to make a lot of tweaks to word2lyx based on what you sent me. > > With that hurdle out of the way, I think it's ready to release it into > the wild. If you'd like to download a copy of it, you can download the > code from: > > http://oak-tree.us/stuff/LyX/word2lyx-01.zip > > A brief write-up of the features and usage can be found at: > > http://www.oak-tree.us/2012/03/07/word2lyx01-2/ > > If you download it and find it useful, please let me know. If you > download it and have problems, also please let me know. (Mostly so I can > fix the problems.) I'm very interested in this -- thanks for undertaking the project. However, I can't even get it started. On Mac (10.6.8), calling word2lyx from the Terminal, I get the following: > ./word2lyx.py ./Example-Word2LyX.docx test.lyx Traceback (most recent call last): File "./word2lyx.py", line 13, in from docx import read as docxread File "/Users/bennett/Downloads/word2lyx/docx/read.py", line 10, in from parser import ElementTree as etree File "/Users/bennett/Downloads/word2lyx/docx/parser.py", line 13, in class etree_element(ElementTree.Element): TypeError: Error when calling the metaclass bases function() argument 1 must be code, not str Am I doing anything wrong? BH
Re: Smart single quotes in LyX (1.6.1, Mac OS X 10.5.6)
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Grant Jacobs wrote: > > Is there a means to make "smart" *single* quotes the default in the same way > as is done for double quotes? LyX > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts 1. Enter "quote" in the "Show key-bindings containing" field 2. select "quote-insert single" 3. click the "Modify button" 4. click the "Clear" button on the dialog that pops up 5. type the key you want to bind smart single quotes to 6. click "OK" 7. click "Save" Bennett
Re: ReadMe-162.pdf for Mac OS X is in terrible shape
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Grant Jacobs wrote: > > re: ReadMe-162.pdf for Mac OS X is in terrible shape > > This is, I believe, output from LyX, and in present form a very poor > advertisement for the product. > > All digits seem to be missing from the file, e.g. what I believe is 'LyX > 1.6.2.1' is rendered as 'LyX . . . ' > > Some words have the first couple of letters missing. > > Aside from the poor advertising it makes it rather hard to read! Looks just fine to me on every .pdf viewer I have, including up-to-date versions of Skim, Preview, and Adobe Reader. What .pdf viewer (and version) are you using? Bennett
Re: Installing biblatex on OSX
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:52 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with installing bibtext on a second OSX-Computer. I put the > biblatex.module-file directly into the …/library/Lyx-1.6-Folder. Maybe this > is the problem, but I think this is what the wiki prompts me to do. I > reconfigured Lyx various times without succes – it does not find the module. Did you put it in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layout folder? (That's where it belongs.) > Running texhas I get error-messages for every file in the texmf-folder, for > example: >> >> texhash: /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var: directory not writable. >> Skipping... This indicates you need to run texhash as root: sudo texhash. > This also seems strange to me. On my other computer I have a texmf-folder > directly in the library, where the biblatex.module is saved, and everything > works fine. But on the other computer this folder does not exist… It won't exist unless you create it. Bennett
Re: Installing biblatex on OSX
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with installing bibtext on a second OSX-Computer. I put >> the >> > biblatex.module-file directly into the …/library/Lyx-1.6-Folder. Maybe >> this >> > is the problem, but I think this is what the wiki prompts me to do. I >> > reconfigured Lyx various times without succes – it does not find the >> module. >> >> Did you put it in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layout folder? >> (That's where it belongs.) > > > Yes, that´s where I have put it… Then it should be recognized -- but only after you reconfigure LyX (LyX > Reconfigure). >> > Running texhas I get error-messages for every file in the texmf-folder, >> for >> > example: >> >> >> >> texhash: /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var: directory not writable. >> >> Skipping... >> >> This indicates you need to run texhash as root: sudo texhash. > > > I did that now, but Lyx still does not find the biblatex-module. texhash is relevant for updating your TeX installation when you add new .sty or .cls packages. It is distinct from reconfiguring LyX, which needs to be done when you add new .layout or .module files. >> On my other computer I have a texmf-folder >> > directly in the library, where the biblatex.module is saved, and >> everything >> > works fine. But on the other computer this folder does not exist… >> >> It won't exist unless you create it. > > > Do I need that folder or is it okay, that biblatex-module is in > …/library/applicationsupport/lyx 1.6 ? Where do all the other files lie on > my computer, on which I don´t have that texmf-folfer directly in the > library? > > Could I just copy that folder from one computer to the other? .layout/.module files are OS agnostic: there is no special Linux or Mac or Windows version of them. So you can copy them from one computer to another so long as you put them in the right place. But your texmf folder is *not* the right place for .layout/.module files; those belong in your LyX User's directory (which on Mac is ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) in the layout subdir. Please make sure when you're reporting your problems that you are accurately describing what folders you are putting files in. There is no .../library/applicationsupport/lyx 1.6 folder; it's .../Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6 (note capitalization, spacing, and hypthen). If you don't accurately describe it here, we're unsure whether you're actually putting in in the right place or not, and so unsure whether the problem is user error or a bug. Bennett
Re: Installing biblatex on OSX
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: >> texhash is relevant for updating your TeX installation when you add >> new .sty or .cls packages. It is distinct from reconfiguring LyX, >> which needs to be done when you add new .layout or .module files. > > Thank you for that explanation! > >> .layout/.module files are OS agnostic: there is no special Linux or >> Mac or Windows version of them. So you can copy them from one computer >> to another so long as you put them in the right place. But your texmf >> folder is *not* the right place for .layout/.module files; > > YES, that was it! I put it directly into the …/ly 1.6-folder! now it works! > > On my other computer it really have this folder, which I do not have here. > Is this folder used for LaTex? That´s the way it looks like: Yes -- everything under texmf is for TeX/BibTeX/LaTeX. I suspect what confused you was the presence of the "lyx" folder in ~/Library/texmf/latex. That is not your lyx user's directory (which is at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6) but is rather a directory the LyX Installer creates for its own latex styles and classes. You should not put anything in that directory, as it may get overwritten by future versions of the installer. Bennett
Re: child document not working as advertised?
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> Well, the master is opened. It is just that it is not _viewed_. > > This is irrelevant, from a user POV. You're right in principle, but in fact it's not given a bug in the implementation of tabs. Let's say I have 3 child documents open in a single window. If I'm in child1 and select buffer-next, I go to child2. But if I'm in child3 and select buffer-next, I expect to cycle around to child1, but instead LyX opens the master document in a new tab in the same window. That should not happen, partly because it makes visible to the user what *should* be irrelevant. Of course, the bug is more general than just this. If I have multiple windows open, each with 2 tabs, when in one window I select buffer-next, I expect to cycle between the tabs *of that window*, but in fact I start getting new tabs opening up in that window of documents already open in other windows. Again, that should not happen. Bennett
Re: LyX to HTML?
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Typhoon writes: > > >> I use tex4ht or hevea. I find that either one of them does a reasonable >> job if you then apply a custom CSS. But my work is always plain text, >> no images. I'm using Debian Lenny. > > Thanks, hevea does look interesting. But it seems to be a unix thing. > How can I use it on a Mac? Hevea can be installed via macports, and it's easy then to define a converter in LyX that will go from latex to html. I haven't used hevea, but I have used tex4ht, which is a part of TeXLive; LyX should already recognize it. Bennett
Re: interface questions: navigator and view source
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Richard Talley wrote: > Thanks, Vincent. > >> >>>1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window >>>was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the >>>button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd >>>like the view source window to move back into the main LyX >>>window, but I can't find a way to do that. >> >> It should dock automatically when you move it close to a border of the >> LyX window. > > That doesn't work, at least not in my installation on OS X. Hmm It works for me (OS X 10.5, Intel). Are you sure? What about toolbars: you should be able to grab them and move them around the window -- to the top, bottom, left, and right sides, or drag them off the window to be a floating palette. Does that work? Bennett
Re: Mac bug: default save path for creating docs from template
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: > Dear lyx users, > > The Lyx Bugzilla server seems to be down, so I am posting this here. > There seems to be a minor bug in Mac OS Lyx 1.6.1. The steps: > > Go to File>New From Template, which opens /User/Library/Application > Support/Lyx-1.6/templates/ and prompts for a lyx template to be > opened. > > Choose a template from /User/Library/Application > Support/Lyx-1.6/templates/default/ and create a document from it. > > When prompted to "Save As", LyX points to the > /User/Library/Application Support/Lyx-1.6/templates/ directory instead > of the directory specified as Working Directory in Preferences (for > me, the Desktop). I cannot confirm with 1.6.2. Are you sure you have properly specified the path to the working directory? What happens if you move your LyX User's directory aside and relaunch LyX? Bennett
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Niko Schwarz wrote: > >> need to tar/untar anything. What was REALLY difficult was the .module I >> had written for the document. It cannot be accessed by a relative path; it >> needs to be inserted directly into the lyx tree. On OSX, I have to redo the >> module installation procedure on every update. > > Have you reported this? At the very least it sounds like a feature request > that you don't want to have to use absolute paths to .module. Niko - Are you putting modules in the right place? If you put them in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts, then you should have no problems with updates. Bennett
Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:50 PM, James Sutherland wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > >> On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:24:38 James Sutherland wrote: >>> >>> I think that I may have found a bug in LyX. >>> >>> 1. Create a footnote. >>> 2. In the footnote, insert a hyperlink >>> 3. In the "target" field of the hyperlink, insert a URL with a "#" >>> sign in it, i.e. www.example.com/#1 >>> >>> Latex fails to compile this document. >>> >>> A hyperlink with a "#" in the target works as long as it is NOT in a >>> footnote. >>> >>> I have attached a trivially simple file that exposes this problem. >>> >>> This worked in 1.6.0. (Actually, I have a file that used this in >>> 1.6.0rc3 - I haven't tried recompiling that particular file since >>> then... >>> >>> Can anyone verify that this is a bug? >> >> Your example works fine here, actually: Lyx 1.6.2 with TexLive 2007 on >> Kubuntu >> Intrepid. > > Hmm.. Good to know. I am on Mac OSX 10.5.6 LyX 1.6.2 with TexLive 2008. > Can anyone else on a Mac duplicate this? I can confirm the problem on Mac OS X 10.5.6 with TeXLive 2008. Here's the error message (repeated 3 times): Illegal parameter number in definition of \...@tempa. } You meant to type ## instead of #, right? Or maybe a } was forgotten somewhere earlier, and things are all screwed up? I'm going to assume that you meant ##. Bennett
Re: Want to show URLs in printed version
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Drew Kime wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Florian Rubach wrote:
>
>>
>> If I get you right, you want two different outputs, number one for printing
>> with both title and URL and number two as electronic version with just the
>> clickable title and nothing more.
>> There is a workaround for that... It's not quite beautiful, but it works.
>> You have to make a distinction between your two cases "printed" and "pdf".
>> For that, you can define your own latex-command, say \myprintversion, by
>> \def\myprintversion{} in Latex-Code.
>> In front of every hyperlink, you can check whether \myprintversion is
>> defined or not and use that to decide what output to generate. To stick with
>> your example, you could write \ifdefined\myprintversion (in Latex-Code),
>> then add the hyperlink in the way you want it in the printversion. After
>> that in Latex-Code \else, then add the hyperlink in the way you want it in
>> the electronic version. To finalize the if-clause, you need to add the
>> statement \fi in Latex-Code.
>> Now all you have to do to switch between print-version and electronic
>> version is to keep the definition of \myprintversion or delete/comment it.
>>
>> If you need an example-file, I'll send you one.
>> Regards,
>>
>> Florian
>>
> Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for. But it sounds like I'd need to
> manually add the "if - else" code before every URL. If that's the case, I'm
> more comfortable writing macros in vim, so I'll handle it in the lyx code
> directly, not through the GUI. Thanks for the help.
>
> Drew
>
Perhaps you should take a look at the Branch feature: section 6.8 of
the User's Guide.
Bennett
Re: Can I please have an example of conditional ERT in LyX
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Can I please have an example of how to use the ifelse package for
> LaTeX with LyX? I want to manage a NoWeb/Literate programming
> document so that some commands are included in the document only
> sometimes. (I'm sending LyX documents to R through Sweave:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave.
>
> This ERT makes sure that R- Sweave drops the images in a folder "foo"
> and prefixes all with "bar".
>
> \SweaveOpts{prefix.string=foo/bar}
>
> This is a NoWeb "code chunk" that will create an image in foo called
> bar-testfn.eps.
>
> <>=
> curve(sin, from = 1, to = 5)
> @
>
>
> Then the image can be used later with some LaTeX:
>
> \includegraphics{foo/bar-testfn}
>
> I would like to conditionalize the figure creation, so that only when
> I really want new figures will the code chunk be executed.
>
> In the r-help list I asked about ways to avoid re-doing calculations,
> but the answers were focused on ways in which R calculations can be
> cached, rather than avoiding asking R for calculations in the first
> place. Since I am doing this work within LyX, and LyX has its own way
> of handling the temporary LaTeX files, it is not immediately apparent
> that the caching strategies proposed from within R are going to help
> (the LyX "current working directory" is an unpredictable directory
> inside /tmp while the R working directory is inside there, and the R
> stuff disappears once LyX exits.
>
> I'm sorry, this is hard to explain. If you can just give me a
> concrete ifthen example in ERT, I think I can make it work. I just
> don't understand the ifelse package instructions because they assume a
> person is fluent in LaTeX.
Perhaps you should take a look at the Branch feature: section 6.8 of
the User's Guide.
Clearly this feature should be better publicized
Bennett
Re: hyperref conflicts with cite package?
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:10 AM, James C. Sutherland
wrote:
> If I turn on hyperref support, then the cite package breaks. Specifically,
> citations that would normally appear as [5-9] now appear as [5,6,7,8,9]. If
> I turn off hyperref then it works again.
>
> Is this a package conflict, or a bug in LyX?
>
> LyX 1.6.2, Mac OSX 10.5.6
>From the hyperref documentation:
cite
This is from Mike Shell:
> cite.sty cannot currently be used with hyperref.
> However, I can do a workaround via:
>
> \makeatletter
> \def\...@parse{\typeout{this is a fake Natbib command to fool Hyperref.}}
> \makeatother
>
> \usepackage[hypertex]{hyperref}
>
> so that hyperref will not redefine any of the biblabel stuff - so cite.sty
> will work as normal - although the citations will not be hyperlinked, of
> course (But this may not be an issue for many people).
Bennett
Re: Is SyncTex (going to be) supported in LyX?
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > Dear all, > > I read that the release of SyncTeX in the latest version of pdflatex (i.e. in > TeXLive 2008) makes possible back and forth navigation between pdf output and > Latex sources in a fairly painless and rather accurate way. Is anything like > that possible between pdf and LyX? Or is it perhaps a planned feature? > > I seem to remember a developer saying that pdf-->lyx navigation shuold work > out ot the box thanks to Lyx's server technology, whereas lyx-->pdf needs some > coding efforts. But I could not find any detail on how to make the former > (and, > to me, most important) navigation work. On Mac at least: <http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.Mac#toc13> BH
Re: How to use thesaurus in Mac OS X
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Xie Chao wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using LyX 1.6.2 on Mac OS X Leopard. How can I get the thesaurus >> function work? I installed Aiksaurus, and it is working fine from command >> line terminal. However, there is no "thesaurus" option under "Tools" menu >> (LyX was reconfigured and reinstalled). > > There is a Thesaurus edit box in the LyX 'Path' preferences. You must put in > the path of your thesaurus file. Thesaurus support was disabled when compiling LyX/Mac because of problems we had previously with incompatible versions of aiksaurus preventing LyX from launching. Besides, the thesaurus in Dictionary.app is much better than that in aiksaurus. Bennett
Re: How to use thesaurus in Mac OS X
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Xie Chao wrote: > Thank you very much Abdelrazak and Bennett. > > Is there any shortcut to use Dictionary.app in LyX? I know in coca > applications such as Safari Ctrl+Apple+D works; how can I configure > equivalent shortcut in LyX. > Thank you very much! No, sorry. In System Preferences you can define a hotkey to launch Dictionary.app, but then you'd have to cut and paste into LyX. As Abdel indicated, thesaurus support will be improved in LyX-2.0. (However, Dictionary.app will still be more comprehensive and useful because it provides some help concerning the nuances in word meanings rather than just providing a list of "synonyms".) Bennett
Re: Opening files: multiple tabs or multiple windows?
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Adam Treverrow wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been using LyX (1.3.7) happily for many years now . I've recently > received a newer computer and took the opportunity to upgrade to Tex Live > 2008 and LyX 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11. The new version is quite a change from > what I'm used to, with plenty of great features. Thanks to all the > developers! > > My problem is that when I open a new or existing file in 1.6.2 I seem to get > a new instance of LyX for each file, instead of multiple tabs in the one > window, as one might expect. Expectations are different on different platforms. For Mac, the expectation is normally one document per window, so we follow that expectation with LyX/Mac. (And no, it's not a new instance of LyX for each document.) > How can I - > > 1. Force new files to open as tabs within a single instance of LyX? LyX > Preferences > Look & Feel > User interface: check the "Open documents in tabs" option. > 2. Toggle the default behaviour between opening files in a new or existing > LyX window (if it's possible)? Not possible automatically when opening a file, AFAIK. But you can select File > New Window before opening a document, and it should open in that new window instead of as a tab of an existing window. (Alternatively, if you have documents automatically opening in new windows, you can open the document first, then select the window of which you want it to be a tab, and select View > [document name]; at this point, you can close the old window containing the document. BH
Re: Installyng BibLatex in Mac
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:40 PM, monicreque wrote: > > Hi all: > > About the Biblatex package: > > I'm trying to install it into my computer --macosx 10.4.11--, but It doesn't > works. I want to manage Bibliographys for Phd works in phylosophy, and I > need to cite the whole reference in the footnotes and use ibid when a > reference repeats. Something like this: > > http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2995961/inlinebib1.gif > > I've found two options: > > > A. Inline style > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/inlinebib/inlinebib.htm > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/inlinebib/inlinebib.htm > > > it's supose that the unse is simply, but i can't do it works. > > B. Biblatex Package > > This is what I want to use. The manual in lyx is here: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex > > > with the packet and documentation in CTAN: > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html > > > but it doesn't works... > > This is what I did: > > > 1. Like in the README of the CTAN page o biblatex ( > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/README > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/README ) I have > install the archives in the local directory texmf: > > Copy all files found in the 'latex' directory of this package to > >/tex/latex/biblatex/ > > and the file in the 'biblatex' directory to > >/bibtex/bst/biblatex/ > > where denotes the root of the local TeX installation tree > > > Later, sudo rehash in terminal and reconfigure in LyX. > > 2. The next step, follow the Biblatex manual in the LyX page: > > [url]http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex[/url] > > Where the first step is: > > Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder in your user directory > (Help→About LyX tells you where you can find this directory). > > Run Edit→Reconfigure, restart LyX and select the module > "Biblatex-citation-styles" from Document→Settings→Modules. > > OK, here is the first problem, it doesn't appears the cited module in > Document→Settings→Modules. > > What can I do? It would help if you'd specify exactly where you put things, as the correct locations differ from platform to platform. On Mac, BibLaTeX should go in ~/Library/texmf/ (Make sure you put the biblatex.bst file in the bibtex/bst/ directory, and everything else in the tex/latex/ directory.) Make sure you do texhash (not "rehash" as you say above); sudo texhash is not necessary to update files placed in this directory. On Mac, Modules should go in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts. After that, reconfigure LyX, restart, and the module should appear in Document > Settings > Modules. If you've done all this and the module still doesn't appear within LyX, try downloading the module again and reinstalling (perhaps it got corrupted somehow). Bennett
Re: Lyx 1.6.2 and letter (Koma v.2), language german : some lines are not shown in pdf…
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:12 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: > There it is, thank you! > > Best regards* > Jessika > > > Am 04.06.2009 um 12:57 schrieb Anders Ekberg: > >> If you use TeXLive it is probably in: >> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/doc/latex/koma-script/ >> >> /Anders As a general rule, you can type in the terminal: texdoc [package name] and TeXLive will open the documentation for you. So in your case it would be: texdoc komascr It doesn't always work, but it's extremely handy when it does. BH
Re: Unavailable document classes [OSX]
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:44 AM, rgheck wrote: > James C. Sutherland wrote: >> >> On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:08 AM, Walter van Holst wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm a somewhat infrequent user of LyX on Mac OS X. About every other >>> update (my current version is 1.6.1), most of the document classes become >>> unavailable. That is LyX can edit documents in them, but not produce output. >>> >>> How do I prevent this from happening? This is an exceedingly annoying >>> 'feature' of LyX. >> >> This sounds like a problem with your LaTeX installation more than your LyX >> installation. You might try reinstalling/updating both. >> > It's a matter of LyX's not having found the LaTeX classes. For what it's > worth, I think this is a problem with how software works on the Mac, but > Bennett (who packages LyX for the Mac) might have a better idea. I really have no idea. We check all the standard locations for LaTeX installations, and I don't remember other reports of such problems. (Does anyone else experience this? If so, please give some details about your system and LaTeX installation ... and anything unusual you might have done.) BH
Re: Change a document class slightly?
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, rgheck wrote: > You can definitely copy theorems-sec.module into your local layout directory > (wherever that is on Mac) That would be ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/ BH
Re: Change a document class slightly?
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Lars Bergemann wrote: > Mh, ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/ is empty ... any ideas? > Thanks a lot though! (Please make sure you reply to the list so that others can learn from the conversation.) ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/ is the user's directory for layouts and modules. So if you modify something or create something new, this is where it should go. LyX's default layouts and modules can be found elsewhere; on Mac, they're in the LyX.app bundle: LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts/ BH
Re: Unavailable document classes [OSX]
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Walter van Holst wrote: > BH schreef: > >> I really have no idea. We check all the standard locations for LaTeX >> installations, and I don't remember other reports of such problems. >> (Does anyone else experience this? If so, please give some details >> about your system and LaTeX installation ... and anything unusual you >> might have done.) > > It turns out to be a somewhat outdated LaTeX installation. And me > overlooking the red tick in the LyX installer. :-( OK -- thanks for letting us know. BH
Re: Cannot display document pdf but dvi works
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Christiaan Pauw wrote: > Hallo everybody > > I use LyX 1.6.1 on Mac OS X Leopard > > Since yesterday I coundn't generate a pdf for a report that I am working on. > The error message reads: > > /var/folders/ub/ubvWLUkKHf8WAywv5rmtcE+++TI/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.xJL136/lyx_tmpbuf1/bsadan-090615-baselinreport-e.pdf > > "bsadan-090615-baselinreport-e" is the name of my document. > > I can generate a pdf form a new document and i can still generate dvi > (although that doesn't seem to update correctly). The document is in > report(noweb) class and contains some R (Sweave) scraps - but all that works > fine > > I would appreciate any advice This really isn't enough to go on. The "error message" you give is simply the path to the generated .pdf file. When you typeset, does LyX give you any error messages? If so, what are they? (If not, does LyX generate a .pdf file, which you cannot open?) Can you provide a minimal sample file that fails to typeset? BH
Re: LyX, Songbird, and Mac OS X
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Liz Cademy wrote: > I am trying to install Songbird. I am following the instructions on this > wiki page: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook#toc4 > > I downloaded SongbookRelease 4.0, unpacked it, and put it in my > ~/application Support/Lyx folder. Though it isn't stated in the wiki, this > seems like the logical place for the files. Songbook is a LaTeX package, and so it belongs in your LaTeX tree. On Mac, that would be at: ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex (You can use the Finder to put it there.) > I downloaded Songbook_lyx, unpacked it, and also put it in the same folder. LyX's layout files need to be in the layout folder of your LyX user's directory. That would be (on Mac): ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts Put it there, then reconfigure and restart LyX. That should solve your problems. BH
Re: Endnotes that Contains the References
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Fellow LyXers, > > In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of > "Notes" in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first > time, it gives the full bibliographic information (what would normally be > given in the list of references). Ibid and loc cit are then used for later > citations of that reference in the notes. There is no separate list of > references, as all the bibliographic information is contained in the notes. > > How does LyX/LaTeX handle this reference style? Do I have to type in the > full bibliographic information for every work cited, at least the initial > time it's cited, or is there there some automagic may of handling this? I > use BibDesk to store the reference information. It looks like you should be using biblatex, which you can find here: http://dante.ctan.org/indexes/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ The biblatex documentation is extensive and will explain what you need to do to get full citations, ibid, and loc cit. (It comes with a collection of styles, which may be all you need. Others have contributed biblatex styles; you can find many of these here: http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/ Although LyX doesn't natively support biblatex, you can get it working by following instructions on this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex The only caution with all of this is that biblatex is a work in progress, but many (including myself) have used it successfully. Bennett
Re: What are System Requirements for LyX Mac OS X?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Pierfranco
Minsenti wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to replace my LyX 1.5.4 version on my iBook with MAC OS X
> 10.3.9 ("Panther") with the new 1.6.3 version of LyX but I have two
> questions:
>
> 1) compatibility between LyX 1.6.3 and my version of the MAC OS X: I am
> unable to find on http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac or at
> http://www.lyx.org/Download information about the system requirements for
> version 1.6.3. Is this version compatible with MAC OS X 10.3.9 or not?
> Apple downloads at
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/lyx.html says it
> requires at least MAC OS X 10.4 ("Tiger"); VersionTracker at
> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/47551 says it is
> compatible with MAC OS X 10.3.9; softt32
> http://www.soft32.com/download_226661.html says it requires Tiger.
> So what is the truth about compatibility with the OS?
Actually, I'm not sure. I know it's compatible with 10.4; 10.3.9 might
work, though I don't have any such machine around to test with. Try it
and report back!
> 2) what is the compatibility with documents written with the old version.
> Are there any problem?
Short answer is that there is no problem. Every version of LyX can
read file formats of any earlier version. The latest bug fix release
of the 1.x series can also read the 1.(x+1) file format. For example,
1.5.7 can read the 1.6.x file format. (1.5.4 was released before the
file format for 1.6 was finalized.)
BH
The latest bug fix version of 1.5 is able to
Re: LyX 1.6.3 on Intel Mac consumes a lot of cpu
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Alexander Barcza wrote: > Hi > > I use LyX 1.6.3 (installed the mac version, so no fink or other port) on an > Intel Mac 10.5.7 and experience a rather high cup usage by LyX even when > it's doing nothing. I just have the LyX window open and watch 'top' next to > it. The cpu shoots up to 50% and more for LyX with it doing nothing. > > There seemed to be a bug with a blinking cursor a while ago (LyX 1.4) and > I'm wondering whether this issue is related. Or is it me doing something > wrong? I agree that LyX uses more resources than it should on Mac -- but only when it's actively doing something. (Typing and opening files are the two big culprits as far as I can tell.) However, in my experience it does not use much when sitting idle. Are you sure it's LyX consuming CPU power in your case? -- Try running Activity Monitor.app (/Applications/Utilities/) to see what's responsible for the CPU usage in your case. BH
Re: Mac: Refresh of pdf-view?
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Jannick Asmus wrote: > Hi, > > hitting the dvi or pdf button a second time the TexShop previewer does > not refresh. I need to close the pdf window and hit the dvi button > again. How can this be amended? Is this because I have some weird > configuration? It's a TeXShop issue. In TeXShop, select Preferences > Preview > Automatic Preview Update. BH
Re: Mac: Refresh of pdf-view?
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Jannick Asmus wrote: > BH wrote: > >> It's a TeXShop issue. In TeXShop, select Preferences > Preview > Automatic > Preview Update. > > I have just checked. It was already configured as you suggested. Perhaps > there is some other nasty config error? Have you tried View > PDF instead of View > Update > PDF? BH
Re: Keyboard Shortcut Crashed
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Marcelo Reis wrote: > Guys, I was trying to configure the shortcut key CTRL+I to automatically > changes my text to Italic in LYX but when I tried to do it LYX crashed and > now seems like it ERASED all the DEFAULT shortcut list that there was > configured. > Now when I try to use like CTRL + B to bold, the only symbom that appears in > the screen is a little square. > CTRL+Z do not work anymore to UNDO, in other words..NONE of the shortcuts is > working. > > What do I have to do to restore it to defaults??? Remove user.bind in the bind folder of your LyX user's folder. BH
Re: One bibliography each chapter with biblatex (verbose-trad2 style)
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Antonio Díaz wrote: > Aaargh! > > I'm sorry. When I make > > *ordenador-de-monicreque:/Applications monicreque$ open Lyx.app * > > —I'm working in a mac— the terminal open the program. I open > *Text(2).lyx*in LyX and try a pdflatex. But the console say nothing! On Mac, the solution is to enter the following in the Terminal: /path/to/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx So, if you have LyX in the /Applications folder, you'd type: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx Then LyX should launch, and its console output will appear in the Terminal window. BH
Re: shortcuts: LyX & OSX side by side?
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > sorry, again with changed subject (still hoping for help): > > Hi LyXers, especially on Mac-OSX: > > With my German keyboard on Mac-OSX normally I can get with > > alt+a | d | e | o | t | p | + | x | c | m | l | ö | ä etc. > the following special letters/symbols: > å | ∂ | € | ø | † | π | ± | ≈ | ç | µ | @ | œ | æ etc. > > which I find very practical. > > But because of the key-bindings in LyX (mac-bindings in this case, see > Help=>Keybord-Shortcuts or similar) these > usual key combinations for special characters are disabled in LyX. > > Of course one can disable any key-binding in LyX (so they are not usable > at all and the system key-combinations will be in effect in LyX, too) or > create another one, which seems rather laborious and time-consuming. > > I hoped I could vary the keybinding of LyX or of Mac-OSX with one ore few > steps, e. g. change from alt+x > to command+alt+x or similar to avoid this problem, but I didn't find out, > how. > > Can anybody show a way to get the wanted result, i. e. holding the LyX > keybindings and > ==> create other key-combinations for the special letters/symbols which in > other programs are got with alt+x? I don't know much about German keyboards, but the easiest way I know to change keybindings in LyX is to go through LyX > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts and do each one manually. (You can manually edit the keybindings file, which is at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/bind/user.bind. Just make sure you have a backup to revert any changes that don't work.) So it looks like you'll have to do each one separately. Fortunately, it's a once-and-done thing. BH
Re: Help! How do I get the thesaurus function working? I saw it on an Ubuntu machine and now want it on my Mac!
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:39 PM, James Washburn wrote: > Help! How do I get the thesaurus function working? I saw it on an Ubuntu > machine and now want it on my Mac! In LyX 1.6, you'd need first to compile and install aiksaurus and then compile and install LyX. (It's not something that will happen for the standard install of LyX/Mac-1.6.x.) Frankly, I find Dictionary.app to be much more useful as a thesaurus than aiksaurus is. BH
