Postscript availability

Has Postscript been omitted (inadvertently?) from the View (Other Formats) list in LyX 2.1.4 (at least on Windows)? It is still in the list of Export formats. Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: New problems with copy and paste?

On 22/08/2015 11:47 p.m., Guillaume Munch wrote: Le 14/08/2015 21:28, aparsloe a écrit : Given an enumerated list, say, ... 29. foo food footling 30. bar bard barking selecting a word in an item, say "bard" in the example, and pasting it into a new paragraph elsewhere starts

New problems with copy and paste?

Given an enumerated list, say, ... 29. foo food footling 30. bar bard barking selecting a word in an item, say "bard" in the example, and pasting it into a new paragraph elsewhere starts a new list, so one gets "1. bard". Is this expected behaviour -- an internal word or character from an

\jobname again

Around six weeks ago I enquired about making the document-wide \jobname available to preview insets. This is difficult, presumably because previews are needed /before/ LyX invokes latex for whole-document compilation. At present in a preview inset \jobname gives the name of the preview, which i

Re: Tutorial first step - creating PDF

On 1/08/2015 6:36 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:48 PM, aparsloe wrote: On 31/07/2015 4:51 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Brian Bulger wrote: Sumatra doesn't appear as an option even after selecting Tools>Reconfigure and re

Re: Tutorial first step - creating PDF

On 31/07/2015 4:51 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Brian Bulger wrote: Sumatra doesn't appear as an option even after selecting Tools>Reconfigure and restarting. Do I need to select "custom" and type something in? Yes. If you choose"custom" the slot beside it beco

Re: Onscreen depiction of negative spaces

On 29/07/2015 7:16 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:05 PM, aparsloe wrote: On 29/07/2015 9:24 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:29 AM, aparsloe wrote: When using a negative thin space (\!) in a math inset, LyX depicts it onscreen with the same

Re: Onscreen depiction of negative spaces

On 29/07/2015 9:24 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:29 AM, aparsloe wrote: When using a negative thin space (\!) in a math inset, LyX depicts it onscreen with the same character that it uses for a positive thin space. Once preview has done its thing the difference

Onscreen depiction of negative spaces

When using a negative thin space (\!) in a math inset, LyX depicts it onscreen with the same character that it uses for a positive thin space. Once preview has done its thing the difference becomes clear but I think it would be helpful while writing a formula if there was some visual distinctio

Re: What should $\delta$ be exported as for plain text?

On 23/06/2015 8:38 p.m., Guenter Milde wrote: On 2015-06-21, Georg Baum wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 2015-06-19, Scott Kostyshak wrote: We have all of the information/patches needed to resolve the following ticket: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2342 What should we export for plain text for

Can double quotes be used to delimit arguments?

I would like to use straight double quotes to delimit an argument in a flex inset, but viewing the source pane shows LyX treats the argument as if it were an ordinary optional argument, placing it in square brackets. Is there some trick to using quotes as delimiters? If not, I feel these would

Re: #9627: Make the document name available to preview insets

On 17/06/2015 7:52 p.m., LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: #9627: Make the document name available to preview insets ---+- Reporter: aparsloe | Owner: lasgouttes Type: enhancement| Status: new Priority: normal

Re: \jobname in previews

On 15/06/2015 10:03 a.m., aparsloe wrote: On 15/06/2015 6:18 a.m., Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 08:44:19PM +1200, aparsloe wrote: I realise \jobname is highly unlikely to feature in math macros, but the problem arises more generally in preview insets where it may well

Re: \jobname in previews

On 15/06/2015 6:18 a.m., Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 08:44:19PM +1200, aparsloe wrote: With all the work done on preview for 2.2, I wonder if the following case has been considered? Open a document, myfile.lyx. Define a math macro using \jobname, e.g. so that the source

\jobname in previews

With all the work done on preview for 2.2, I wonder if the following case has been considered? Open a document, myfile.lyx. Define a math macro using \jobname, e.g. so that the source pane shows \global\long\def\test{\jobname}. Now in a math inset write \test. In 2.1.3 this previews to somethi

A better ordering of the Insert menu

Dear LyX devs, With the standard Insert menu, if you want to insert arguments into a custom inset by menu you have to hunt among a lot of miscellaneous items down in the "nether region" of the Insert menu, unhelpfully distant from the Custom Inset entry that gives rise to them, as in the attac

Re: #9371: Math Preview doesn’t work in LuaTeX and XeTeX output modes by default

On 27/04/2015 9:17 a.m., Enrico Forestieri wrote: In principle, I would agree if there is a problem that cannot be (easily) solved otherwise, but still I have to see this problem. I prefer having good quality previews in a short time. They are previews, so the way they are obtained is irrelevan

Re: [patch] PassThruChars

On 21/04/2015 12:43 a.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: In order to implement a linguistic feature properly (support for the forest package to generate structure trees), I need a way to pass only selected chars verbatim (here, [ and ], since these are active characters in the package and thus must

Re: [patch idea] TeX code inset for math

On 28/02/2015 10:25 a.m., Georg Baum wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: OTOH, beware that e.g. $\sum_i$ is valid math inptu for a sum over index i! Thanks, this is the problem. I new I did forgot something, so we still need something which is no valid LaTeX to recognize the inset start. Georg And i

Re: [patches] Improve error reporting and log parsing

On 28/02/2015 6:22 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: as somewhat often I get errors but a PDF does output (sometimes with useful clues on what really went wrong, and pointers on how to fix it). LaTeX errors? Strange, for me if my document has L

Re: [patches] Improve error reporting and log parsing

On 23/02/2015 9:45 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: Attached are a sequence of patches addressing issues related to LyX's error reporting and log parsing. Dear Scott, Not strictly on topic, but for one giddy moment I thought there might have been some attention paid to #9211. Alas no. (Instant pr

Re: Bug with Outline pane hierarchy depth buttons

On 3/01/2015 10:34 a.m., Pavel Sanda wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: aparsloe wrote: The buttons at the bottom of the Outline pane which increase or decrease the depth of the heading containing the cursor don't work as they should on my system for chapters and parts. If the cursor is in a ch

Bug with Outline pane hierarchy depth buttons

The buttons at the bottom of the Outline pane which increase or decrease the depth of the heading containing the cursor don't work as they should on my system for chapters and parts. If the cursor is in a chapter heading, clicking the decrease-depth button to make the chapter a part has no effe

Re: Is the extra file saving still functioning ...

On 16/12/2014 3:36 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: I use PSTricks in an ERT inset in LyX. The View other formats and Update other formats buttons provide a convenient way of updating a drawing, which inevitably involves a succession of iterations as elements of the the diagram are nudged into positi

Is the extra file saving still functioning ...

... and is it still necessary? I'm referring to the file saving introduced with LyX 2.1.1 to cope with the "tabular" bug which hadn't been diagnosed at that stage. I use PSTricks in an ERT inset in LyX. The View other formats and Update other formats buttons provide a convenient way of updatin

Re: Using instant preview for math formulas

On 25/11/2014 2:23 a.m., Kornel Benko wrote: Sometimes one needs to have some input in preamble to be able to preview. As it is now, the preamble is not used. It would be nice to have some marker in the preamble text indicating that following code is needed for instant preview too. Korn

Re: #9322: The COPYING file is not included with the Windows installer

On 5/11/2014 11:50 a.m., LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: #9322: The COPYING file is not included with the Windows installer ---+ Reporter: aparsloe | Owner: uwestoehr Type: defect | Status: new Priority

Re: Is the COPYING file still part of the LyX distribution?

On 5/11/2014 8:53 a.m., Georg Baum wrote: aparsloe wrote: OK, thank you Stephan. Mine is just a standard Windows 'small' install (35 MB) and the file is definitely not included. Could you forward it to me? Please file this as a bug of the windows installer at http://www.lyx.org

Re: Is the COPYING file still part of the LyX distribution?

On 3/11/2014 7:08 p.m., Stephan Witt wrote: Am 03.11.2014 um 05:01 schrieb aparsloe : The scripts in LyX 2.1/Resources/scripts all refer to a file COPYING, presumably about licence details. I can't find such a file in my LyX distribution (2.1.2) but would like to know what the war

Is the COPYING file still part of the LyX distribution?

The scripts in LyX 2.1/Resources/scripts all refer to a file COPYING, presumably about licence details. I can't find such a file in my LyX distribution (2.1.2) but would like to know what the warnings/admonishments are. Is it still distributed with LyX? Andrew (I've hacked ext_copy.py so that

Change in treatment of \jobname in LyX2.1.2 from 2.1.0

The treatment of \jobname in LyX 2.1.2 has changed compared with 2.1.0 -- although I'm having to rely on memory for that claim since I've uninstalled 2.1.0. But some latex code that worked with 2.1.0 no longer works with 2.1.2. If you create a LyX document, call it test.lyx, and in it in ERT

Re: "Insert > Float > Figure Wrap Float" does not float by default

On 14/10/2014 9:58 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:32 PM, aparsloe wrote: On 13/10/2014 11:00 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: 1. Change "Figure Wrap Float" to "Figure Wrap" and "Table Wrap Float" to "Table Wrap". 2. Change the

Re: "Insert > Float > Figure Wrap Float" does not float by default

On 13/10/2014 11:00 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: 1. Change "Figure Wrap Float" to "Figure Wrap" and "Table Wrap Float" to "Table Wrap". 2. Change the wraps to float by default. 3. The other float items should be shown (as greyed out) when no document is open. Thanks for the thoughts, Alfredo.

Re: Bug where undefined control sequence errors are ignored if they appear after certain math formulas

On 2/10/2014 10:36 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 10/01/2014 05:28 PM, Yoni wrote: Hi LyX developers, I've encountered this bug in LyX 2.0.6 (on Windows 8.1), and it still exists as of LyX 2.1.2. After playing around with macros a little bit, I noticed that sometimes I would rename a macro (

Making the preview log more accessible

At present if you want to consult the preview log -- for instance, if you open a document and equations etc. are not snapping into their preview appearance -- you need to navigate to the temporary directory where LyX does its work and locate the log there. The log will generally pinpoint where

Re: Copier enquiry/enhancement

On 9/07/2014 12:36 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 07/08/2014 02:09 AM, aparsloe wrote: Is there a reason why the copier ext_copy.py in the LyX 2.1.0/Resources/scripts folder does NOT have an option for copying to the same directory as the LyX file? At present the copied files end up in a

Copier enquiry/enhancement

Is there a reason why the copier ext_copy.py in the LyX 2.1.0/Resources/scripts folder does NOT have an option for copying to the same directory as the LyX file? At present the copied files end up in a subdirectory of the directory containing the LyX file. I have a use case where copying to t

Enhancement request: parent-child relations among preview insets

Suppose you have a preview inset wrapped around some latex that gives a value to a control sequence, call it \foo. If you put \foo in ERT later in the text and wrap a preview inset around that, the value of \foo is not shown until the buffer is reloaded (when *every* preview inset is re-evaluat

Off topic: Re: LyX cannot compile any document after babel update

On 13/06/2014 9:06 p.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: So, what is your choice? Every time I do this kind of proposal, it looks like my message falls into a black hole :) JMrac What did we do before we had black holes? They crop up everywhere these days, discs of fragmented messages swirling

Re: [GSOC/Lyx<-->Word]

On 21/05/2014 10:14 a.m., stefano franchi wrote: Dear all, Prannoy is delving into tex4ht to tweak it to our purposes (quite successfully so far). In the process, he is also trying to understand better tex4ht's rather complex LaTeX code and grasp the logic of the XML constructions it carries

Re: Default values for inset arguments

On 19/05/2014 7:07 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2014-05-18 23:14 GMT+02:00 aparsloe <mailto:apars...@clear.net.nz>>: Hullo Jürgen, I have come across an inconsistency/oversight in the treatment of inset arguments. I have a custom inset that inserts a LaTeX command

Default values for inset arguments

Hullo Jürgen, I have come across an inconsistency/oversight in the treatment of inset arguments. I have a custom inset that inserts a LaTeX command (call it \blah) which has two optional arguments preceding the main argument. It makes sense for the *second* optional argument to have a default

Re: Instant preview & auto loading of AMS package

On 14/05/2014 12:10 p.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/13/2014 05:55 PM, aparsloe wrote: Perhaps the choice of a note inset was a distraction. The problem arises for any inset (as far as I can see) that can contain a math inset, e.g. a float, a table, a custom inset. That would be a *much

Re: Instant preview & auto loading of AMS package

On 14/05/2014 3:01 a.m., Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:32:35AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/13/2014 04:08 AM, aparsloe wrote: In a new document, place a math inset inside another inset, say a (yellow) note (although I discovered this with a math inset inside a

Instant preview & auto loading of AMS package

In a new document, place a math inset inside another inset, say a (yellow) note (although I discovered this with a math inset inside a custom inset) and insert a formula that needs a symbol from another package, say amssymb. In the attachments I've entered "1+1 \thickapprox 2". LyX displays th

Re: Shortcuts for 'post' arguments

On 26/04/2014 8:15 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2014-04-26 2:50 GMT+02:00 aparsloe: The Alt+A 1, etc. shortcuts for custom inset arguments are a real boon. However, I note that a 'post' argument, following the main argument, doesn't get a shortcut, which is

Re: Is it possible to get the old behavior of Flex insets (before the fix for #8442)?

On 1/05/2014 7:33 a.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2014-04-30 21:02 GMT+02:00 Scott Kostyshak: This came up here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/174447/lyx-how-to-hide-text-style-labels-by-default/174543#174543 I wrote that it's not possible in LyX 2.1, but since I know lit

Re: Feature request

On 29/04/2014 10:10 a.m., stefano franchi wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta > wrote: On 28/04/14 19:37, Patrick O'Keeffe wrote: I don't personally see any advantage to composing emails in Lyx. OP suggested it because of the beauti

Re: Selecting a label in the cross-reference dialog with the keyboard

On 28/04/2014 9:31 p.m., Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:17 AM, aparsloe <mailto:apars...@clear.net.nz>> wrote: I notice that when the cross-reference dialog with its list of labels opens, the focus is on a label but it is not selected. Using

Selecting a label in the cross-reference dialog with the keyboard

I notice that when the cross-reference dialog with its list of labels opens, the focus is on a label but it is not selected. Using the up or down arrow key selects the preceding or succeeding entry. To select the initial entry you have to do up followed by down (or down followed by up) -- two k

Shortcuts for 'post' arguments

The Alt+A 1, etc. shortcuts for custom inset arguments are a real boon. However, I note that a 'post' argument, following the main argument, doesn't get a shortcut, which is a pity. Is this oversight or are there technical reasons preventing the extension of shortcuts to 'post' arguments? And

Double quotes in flex inset names

The Customisation manual (downloaded with LyX 2.1.0 an hour ago) says in Section 5.3.9: The layout for a Flex inset is being defined. In this case, || must be of the form "|Flex:|", where |name| may be be any valid identifier not used by a pre-existing Flex inset. The identifier may include s

Re: Cursor movement bug in math insets with split views

On 11/04/2014 7:11 p.m., Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: As a matter of interest, is Instant Preview on in Tools > Preferences > Display? If I turn it off, the problem vanishes. Andrew I will need to have a look. I have did quite some work in this area to check whether the instant preview is sh

Re: Cursor movement bug in math insets with split views

On 7/04/2014 2:21 p.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 04/06/2014 08:55 PM, aparsloe wrote: On 7/04/2014 12:47 p.m., aparsloe wrote: In a new document open a math inset and enter e=mc^2. Split the view into left and right views. In the right view ensure the cursor lies *outside* the math inset. Now

Re: Cursor movement bug in math insets with split views

On 7/04/2014 2:21 p.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 04/06/2014 08:55 PM, aparsloe wrote: On 7/04/2014 12:47 p.m., aparsloe wrote: In a new document open a math inset and enter e=mc^2. Split the view into left and right views. In the right view ensure the cursor lies *outside* the math inset. Now

Re: Cursor movement bug in math insets with split views

On 7/04/2014 12:47 p.m., aparsloe wrote: In a new document open a math inset and enter e=mc^2. Split the view into left and right views. In the right view ensure the cursor lies *outside* the math inset. Now in the left view try to put the cursor *with the mouse* between, say, "m"

Cursor movement bug in math insets with split views

In a new document open a math inset and enter e=mc^2. Split the view into left and right views. In the right view ensure the cursor lies *outside* the math inset. Now in the left view try to put the cursor *with the mouse* between, say, "m" and "c". I find the cursor remains stuck at the start

Re: Regression: macro display issues with 2.1 RC1 (Mac)

On 1/04/2014 10:52 a.m., aparsloe wrote: On 29/03/2014 6:02 a.m., Marcus Kriele wrote: I have partially repeatable display issues concerning macros. In old documentssome formulas display (some) macros as an empty boxes with blue frames. For instance, I head defined \varexp to be \mathrm{e

Re: Regression: macro display issues with 2.1 RC1 (Mac)

On 29/03/2014 6:02 a.m., Marcus Kriele wrote: I have partially repeatable display issues concerning macros. In old documentssome formulas display (some) macros as an empty boxes with blue frames. For instance, I head defined \varexp to be \mathrm{e}. This macro is sometimes displayed as a n

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

On 30/03/2014 3:27 p.m., Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 30.03.2014 03:02, schrieb aparsloe: Have you considered to upgrade to Ghostscript 9.10? If you do this, you need to update your path accordingly. In fact I've updated to 64 bit 9.14 (so that Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.05 in the path has b

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

On 27/03/2014 1:15 p.m., Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 27.03.2014 00:49, schrieb aparsloe: Installed without problems on Windows 7 with MiKTeX 2.9. I've started to use it on the document I was working on in 2.1.0beta2 just before installation. Hi Andrew, good to hear the installer works fo

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

Installed without problems on Windows 7 with MiKTeX 2.9. I've started to use it on the document I was working on in 2.1.0beta2 just before installation. The path is $LyXDir\bin;$LyXDir\Python;$LyXDir\Python\Lib;$LyXDir\imagemagick;C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin;C:\Program Files

Re: Thread Safety

On 22/03/2014 10:28 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: I've pushed a large audit of static variables, trying to identify where there might be threading conflicts. Perhaps the most serious I found is in output_latex.cpp, where we use static variables to track the current encoding. That could lead to p

Re: PATCH: automatic copying and migration of elder user config directories Was: LyX user directory path on Mac contains PACKAGE

On 21/03/2014 9:25 p.m., Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 18.03.2014 09:17, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: Uwe, have you though about this in your installer ? I haven't yet got what the problem is. The Win installer is designed that one c

Re: Making empty instant preview insets visible

On 18/03/2014 8:48 p.m., Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/17/2014 06:51 PM, aparsloe wrote: On 18/03/2014 11:07 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:30 PM, aparsloe wrote: If an instant preview inset is wrapped

Re: Making empty instant preview insets visible

On 18/03/2014 11:07 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:30 PM, aparsloe wrote: If an instant preview inset is wrapped around something that produces empty LaTeX output, the preview inset becomes invisible in the LyX work-area window, and can sometimes be quite hard to re

Making empty instant preview insets visible

If an instant preview inset is wrapped around something that produces empty LaTeX output, the preview inset becomes invisible in the LyX work-area window, and can sometimes be quite hard to re-locate. It would be helpful if a preview inset with *empty* LaTeX output were made visible -- perhaps

Re: 2.1 release status

On 14/03/2014 10:20 a.m., Georg Baum wrote: aparsloe wrote: For instance, under the format LyX in the Viewer slots I have put Custom and notepad++ (a Windows text editor). Clicking on the View other formats > View LyX button displays the LyX file in its native format in the text editor

Re: 2.1 release status

On 13/03/2014 10:01 a.m., Georg Baum wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: - Windows-specific: when you view a PDF a console window pops up and does not disappear. This a super annoying regression to LyX 2.0 It can't be super annoying. This is known for several months, and there is no bug entry targeted to 2.

Re: Advance find and replace GSOC project

On 8/03/2014 8:14 a.m., Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: On 07/03/14 05:11, aparsloe wrote: This is belated but I find myself intrigued by your description of the underlying process involving latex export and searching the strings resulting from that. Did you consider exporting to LyX's own n

Re: Advance find and replace GSOC project

On 26/02/2014 10:42 p.m., Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi, the advanced find and replace is a feature that is already integrated within the widely distributed LyX. Only, it is realized as a proof of concept, having started from a basic minimally invasive approach in which plain-text and latex expor