I remain a fan of LyX, if not a hardcore user, so rather than having
to check your web site it would be great if you'd announce all
releases, not just stable ones, on Freshmeat.
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Sorry for a somewhat immodest email; I noticed that I'm in the LyX
credits, with a somewhat enigmatic note:
"encts document class lots of useful bug reports"
Can I ask this be changed to:
"ENTCS document class and lots of useful bug reports"
? Explanation: "encts" is a misspelling (should refer
[Angus bemoans legal tedium]
In light of all this, I'm asking whether I can have your permission to
add your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt:
Certainly. Did I really contribute anything?
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I have a document which uses French and English. The language selected for
the document is French; some passages are in English. However, in the DVI
file, all the headings are in English.
Looking at the LaTeX file, I see that in the \documentclass command,
french and english are listed, with fr
"you have to resolve to magic codes"
resolve --> resort
Having just installed a new Fedora Core 2 system, I'm reminded of a
problem I think I had with Fedora Core 1 too, and LyX 1.3.4:
When trying to spell-check in French, I get the error:
"Cannot open /usr/lib/aspell/frenchb"
This is fair enough, there's no such file. Copying the existing
"french.al
This entry is rather confusing:
lyx
This is the unstable development branch, and is not in use anymore. Use
this only if you know want to see in what direction LyX is going (e.g. the
new LyX kernel). Expect this to crash frequently.
The second and third sentences should be deleted (if I understa
The link to CVS would perhaps be better to the official home site for CVS
www.cvshome.org, which also has rather more obvious links to binary
distributions &c.
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Could you add one?
Visiting http://lists.lyx.org gives an unhelpful error message; perhaps it
could redirect to
http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php3
Also, on the page above, "user's list", "developer's list" &c. should be
"users' list", "developers' list" &c. unless LyX is much less popular than
I thought.
The
Since SubSection is called that and not Subsection, it doesn't get converted
when changing the document class. It would seem to make sense to use the
same name as in other classes.
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A couple of small things:
could you change "R.R.T." in the header to "Reuben Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED])";
also, ENTCS only has one font size, 11pt, so I guess it needs a new FontSize
line. The other standard sizes are accepted, but ignored, so to save users
wondering why
> I will also need a small snippet for LaTeXConfig.lyx.
OK. How about:
The document class entcs is Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
Theoretical Computer Science article style, used for the ENTCS series, and
many conference proceedings. See http://math.tulane.edu/~entcs/ for more
details.
I thought you might be interested: I asked Kevin Atkinson about per-document
dictionaries, and he replied:
> Aspell doesn't have a per document dictionary mainly because there is no
> real good way to store them and also because it will add more complexity
> to the user interface. However, if yo
First, a general point: it'd be nice if exporting LaTeX and reimporting it
gave you the same LyX document as you started with. I know that's impossible
at the moment, because LyX can't in some cases recognise which commands it
put there itself (e.g. commands that express user preferences) and whic
When I recently wrote about FAQ 17 being spurious, I meant Known bug 17
(where it says that LaTeX doesn't reset the subsubsection counter at each
new section; I'm certain that it does!). Take this opportunity to reduce the
length of the list of known bugs!
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It's a pity that LyX defaults to ispell rather than aspell when both are
present, as aspell provides an ispell binary anyway, so even if you don't
install proper ispell, LyX will still default to using the ispell
compatibility mode of aspell.
Better still, now that pspell seems to have taken off,
Thanks to your hints at how to make this layout; now I'm submitting it to
you for inclusion in LyX. It uses the entcs.cls style file.
At the moment because of the hack required to put \author, \title &c. in the
frontmatter environment, it only works with a single author and address
line; however,
It'd be nice to be able to specify a per-document word list for
spell-checking: I use lots of "words" that I don't want to add to my
personal dictionary (e.g. function names, assembly language instructions)
but don't want to have to click "allow for this session" every time I spell
check.
aspell
I recently tried to copy (as in highlight and then copy to the clipboard) a
region of a LyX document that contained some xfig diagrams imported as
"external material". I got some odd errors: first, convert couldn't find
/usr/bin/gs (this is an RPM bug: I have Ghostscript 7 RPMs installed, which
go
>From time to time I get the following message on my console:
LyXAction::funcHasFlag: No info about kb_action: 171
I've no idea what's causing it, and don't seem to be experiencing any
problems; I presume it's caused by some keypress, but I haven't been quick
enough to spot which it is yet.
I'm
I'm using LyX 1.1.6fix2. I just added some External material (xfig diagrams)
to a figure float.
Everything seems to work, but when I load the file into LyX again, I get the
following errors on the console:
Solitary \end_inset. Missing \begin_inset?.
Last inset read was: External
Solitary \end_in
A confusing thing: if you insert a URL in a document, LyX automatically
includes url.sty, but if you have a URL in an included file, or in my case,
a bibliography entry, this doesn't happen.
I'm sure this problem exists with other commands too.
Is there any way around it? I'm thinking of LyX bei
When I put multiple keys in a citation, LyX 1.1.6fix2 generates
\cite{foo, bar}
and the space causes an error message; it should be
\cite{foo,bar}
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This question says that LaTeX doesn't reset the subsubsection counter at the
start of a new section, whereas LyX does.
In which class does LaTeX not do this?! It certainly has always done it for
me!
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I'm using LyX 1.1.6fix2, in which math-mode is bound to "C-c asciitilde" in
xemacs.bind. This is an impossible binding on my keyboard, where I can only
get a tilde by pressing shift, and I had to change it to "C-c S-asciitilde"
to get it to work.
Also, what does "~S" mean in a binding? It seems t
When these are viewed in Full Screen Preview in 1.1.4fix1, the rotation
(if any) is not passed to the previewer. This is more of a limitation than
a bug, but it'd be nice if it was passed (where possible).
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In 1.1.4fix1 (installed from the i386 glibc RPMs) C-S-T doesn't seem to
work (selecting buffer-typeset-ps from the File menu works fine).
I haven't rebound it myself in my lyxrc.
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http://sc3d.org/rrt/ | certain, a. insufficiently analysed
Thanks for the fix, which is making my life (yet) easier. There's one
small thing: in lyxrc.example, the text commenting the last entry, about
date formats, is still really nasty. I suggest:
# Default format string for the date-insert command
#
# This accepts the normal strftime formats; see man
I suggest that the default date format not have a period after the date,
e.g.
Tuesday, 8 February 2000
not
Tuesday, 8. February 2000
because this will be acceptable to more people (although I'm sure most
people will want to customise the format anyway).
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Subject says it: I get an error from lyx 1.1.4:
LyX: Unknown tag `\date_insert_format' [around line 564 of file
~/.lyx/lyxrc]
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http://sc3d.org/rrt/ | certain, a. insufficiently analysed
These are both old bugs, so I thought I'd re-report the one I've reported
before and draw your attention to the one I haven't:
1. Pressing "Meta-p l" in a Koma-script document SIGSEGVs LyX (presumably
because there is no "List" style. If there were some way of aliasing List
to Labeling for Koma-s
Nice to see the new date insertion command, but the comment in
lyxrc.example is a bit weird; how about:
# Default format string for the date-insert command
#
# This accepts the normal strftime formats; see man strftime for full
# details of the format.
#
(in any case, "nowing" should be "knowing
: Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: segfault on Reformat
> I've experienced this also but only once and haven't been able to repeat
> it. Are you able to repeat the crash consistently? If so can you try to
> provide u
If I load two documents and then repeatedly press Ctrl+R for
"Reformat" then LyX segfaults after a few goes. It doesn't seem to happen
if I only have one document loaded.
This is with LyX 1.1.4pre2.
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In 1.1.4pre2, installed from the RPMs on a RedHat 6 system, I performed
the following:
1. Open a new document.
2. Change its class to Book (komascript) and allow LyX to change the
settings to the default for the class.
3. Press Meta-p l.
LyX segfaults for me. If I select the labelling layout f
I don't know if anyone's thought of this before, but I was just wrestling
with yet another file include problem when I thought "Why doesn't LyX just
define all its commands in a package called lyx"?
Is there a good reason why not? It simplifies the logic of the LyX program
(which need not work ou
The typos first:
1. The explanation of upper- and lowertitleback in the Komascript section
of the Extended features guide seems to be the wrong way around: it says
uppertitleback puts a para at the bottom of the page, and lowertitleback
at the top. Or perhaps I'm just missing something.
2. "soll
The ??_splash.lyx files seem to have disappeared.
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I just tried to save a file when I'd moved the directory that used to
contain it, so LyX said
"directory not found"
or somesuch. Then, to my delight, it offered to save it renamed.
Excellent. I clicked on "Save" and it then brought up the first error box
again. Oops. However, when I clicked "OK"
In the 1.0.3 example lyxrc, it doesn't give "ascii" as a possible value
for "\custom_export_format". Also, in the credits, "litterate programming"
should be "literate programming". I found that amusing!
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Pressing Delete over a footnote marks the document as "changed" even
though nothing happens (except the cursor moves).
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Since a lot of people ask for RPMs of LyX, and since several people have
been able to contribute one to each request, could there not be an
"official" RPM? It could be kept on the LyX site, uploaded to RedHat
contrib, and deal with a few small configuration issues (such as putting
the files under
I noticed when importing a document (ASCII paragraphs in this case) that
the scrollbar was positioned at the top of the window when the import
finished, though the bottom of the document was shown.
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I've just noticed that while deleting characters in a multi-line Title
environment (I was changing a text file into LyX, and the "Title"
currently included the author's name and formatting commands) the cursor
was pointing to several characters away from where it should have been.
However, the nex
After I inserted a footnote at the end of the line on which I was typing,
I found that clicking with the mouse pointer further along the line opened
the footnote, rather than positioning the caret after the footnote, as I
would expect.
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As the current version of xdvi(k) accepts SIGUSR1 to tell it to reread the
DVI file, wouldn't it be good if LyX could send this signal having
completed a LaTeX run triggered by "Update DVI"? Probably a non-default
option until more distributions come with new enough versions of xdvi
(tetex 0.9 doe
(using 1.0.2pre3): In the middle of using LyX, I found that "Ctrl+S"
stopped working for save. Indeed, Ctrl seemed to have stopped working
totally. I checked that Scroll Lock, Num Lock or Caps Lock were off (as
these sometimes mess up keyboard shortcuts).
Eventually, I switched to another window
For use with LaTeX2HTML, it would be very good if paragraph environments
(e.g. enumerate) were followed by a blank line, as otherwise LaTeX2HTML
only sees one paragraph.
When I export a LaTeX file from 1.0.2-pre3, I get something like:
\begin{enumerate}
...
\end{enumerate}
Next paragraph
and so
The bug is still there in 1.0.1 when you have several error boxes in a
row: all but the right-most only respond to clicks on the left-hand end of
the box.
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LyX 1.0.0 running on Linux (installed from the RPM) just SIGSEVed on me. I
had just started a "buffer-export-dvi" command. I've done this lots of
times without any problems before. I just reloaded LyX and ran the command
again and it worked fine. The only help that I can give is that this LyX
proc
With regard to the recent discussion of problems processing LyX documents
with old LaTeX2e installations:
As the official policy of the LaTeX maintainers is that you should upgrade
regularly (for example, trying to build a format from a latex.ltx file
more than a year old gives a warning message)
Since about v1.0.0pre8, I've found it very hard to open error boxes by
double-clicking on them: I can't seem to find the place to click. I have
to keep clicking over them madly until they open!
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If I enter "priorit" to find, and then find an instance so that it is
highlighted, then change the find entry to "priorities", it will not be
found when the only occurrence of "priorities" in the document is the same
as the occurrence of "priorit" that has just been highlighted. Whether I
click ba
for fools
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:45:40 + (GMT)
From: Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Correction
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I've made a few small cor
You should advertise the availability of RPMs on the main LyX page, it'd
encourage people to download and install it who don't fancy compiling it!
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There's a problem here in version 1.0.0. Two main problems in fact:
1. The COPYING file is now *extremely* confusing. "Patching" the GNU
license means that LyX is now distributed under an unfamiliar license, and
one of dubious value.
2. The "Copyright and Warranty" box in the program just says t
I don't know whether this is particular to 1.0.0pre8, but I just replaced
a space with a hard space, and this caused a word to be pulled back from
the next line to the current one. I then went down to the next line, and
came back up by moving the cursor left; when I had moved a little way
along th
As well as (or perhaps instead of) specifying page ranges, it should be
possible to give section ranges.
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Is it possible to place user files such as keymaps, layout classes &c. in
a different directory tree from that in which LyX is installed? Now that
RPMs are becoming available, and assuming that 1.0 will be made available
this way (which is an excellent thing for users who don't want to/don't
know
I had just started entering some LaTeX text, and had entered "\conc{}"
then went back to just after the open bracket and starting typing
"autoconf" when LyX vanished (just after it got to the "c"). I presume it
segfaulted, but since I started it directly from a window manager menu, I
can't tell. T
I use the following small script, calling it "dvilj.lyx" and setting the
printing program in lyxrc to "dvilj.lyx", with all the other options as
for dvilj:
#!/bin/sh
# dvilj.lyx
# dvilj wrapper for LyX
# RRT 18/1/98
prog=dvilj4
for i; do
if [ "$i" = "-e" ]; then
parms="$p
I have successfully configured dvilj instead of dvips for printing, but
there's a problem: the -e flag (used to give the output file) *doesn't*
like a space after it before the filename (at least, if the filename is
absolute). LyX insists on putting a space in. Is there a way around this?
--
htt
The description paragraph style line
[S] a truth value
where "[S]" is the heading and "a truth value" the description, generates
the following LaTeX:
\item [\( [S] \}]a truth value
which doesn't work, because the first ] is taken to close the heading of
the item. It needs to be:
\item [{\( [S
If I "export as DVI" and then "view DVI" the DVI file never appears. I
have to cause the LyX file to be reprocessed by LaTeX before I can make
view DVI work again.
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I'm sure many people have made similar points before, but just to make
sure:
1. It's most annoying not being able to print just a selection of pages.
2. It's a bit irritating that when I print double sided (even then odd
pages or vice versa) I have to remember to miss out a sheet when I turn
the
If you enter \mathit{xyz} in mathed, it is displayed as "mathit{xyz}", yet
if you save and reload the document the command and braces disappear, and
you get just "xyz". This is rather confusing.
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools
It seems to me that there should be a choice between \newpage and
\pagebreak for a page break, and dare I suggest that \pagebreak should
probably be the default (as is implied in LaTeX by its name)?
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools
Since these are synonyms in LaTeX, it seems reasonable that typing
\gets in mathed should produce a left-pointing arrow (and perhaps it
should even be represented by \leftarrow in the document; I'm not sure
whether it's preferable to map two commands to one symbol or turn one
command into another)
It would be most helpful if the text caret did not flash when the LyX
window doesn't have the focus; sometimes I assume the window does have the
focus because the cursor is flashing, and only when I start typing do I
discover my error.
This would be like the way in which xterm cursors become holl
In 1.0.0pre4 putting a command in TeX text in a section heading causes
every character to be preceded with \protect in the LaTeX output, which
does not achieve the desired effect (presumably the whole command is
supposed to be \protected)?
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