pdfpages LyX on Windows

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Zollars
Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document. This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows. I have in my preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages} Then in the document ERT: \includepdf{testfile.pdf} When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the included file. Any advice or working l

Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)

2006-05-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Vaclav Smidl wrote: > > > I can confirm similar behaviour. > > In my case, lyx is trying to rewrite .tex files which are included into the > > document using Include_file... > > Please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org. It is already there: http://bugzi

Re: WG: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Hi Stephen Well, I think it is because the cygwin sh.exe and the msys sh.exe are not the same. I probably mentioned that earlier when I suggested taking Cygwin out of the windows Path. sed.exe can be a problem. But this way can work but takes more effort. To start with something easy, let us tr

chapter header

2006-05-12 Thread M. Helena Schlueter
Hi There is this nice add bibliography in lyx which I did but now the space between the chapter header 'References' and the reference text is too large compared to the other headers. Does anyone know how to set it right, which command and where to put? Thank you very much Helena

Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)

2006-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Vaclav Smidl wrote: I can confirm similar behaviour. In my case, lyx is trying to rewrite .tex files which are included into the document using Include_file... Please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org. Uwe

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lyx Problem]

2006-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
- Forwarded message from "Oh, Seung T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I've used float:figure to create a page of 6 subfigures. Didn't use any minipages with in the float. Problem 1) After inserting the graphics, if you click on the image the graphics window pops out. On the first page, you can

Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)

2006-05-12 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Pol wrote: > >> As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to >> overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' >> lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? > > LyX shouldn't overwrite existing images, please re

Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)

2006-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Pol wrote: As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? LyX shouldn't overwrite existing images, please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org.

Re: accent in jabref

2006-05-12 Thread K. Elo
Hi, 2006-05-11 14:34 +0200, Wolfgang Engelmann: > Offtopic: > How do I create in Jabref > Más (M´as) so that it is accepted by Lyx? > > I tired M{\´a}s > and the like, but without success. I have a finnish keyboard layout and use iso8859-1 encoding for my Jabref bibliography. I just enter M-`-a-

Re: crash recipe (semi-exact)

2006-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sven Schreiber schrieb: just wanted to let everybody concerned know about a crash I've experienced and was (partly) able to reproduce. This is with Lyx 1.4.1 on winxp. 1. open my lyx document, edit something in a note in a multicolumn cell of a table, don't save the change (more on that below)

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lyx Problem]

2006-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
- Forwarded message from "Oh, Seung T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I've used float:figure to create a page of 6 subfigures. Didn't use any minipages with in the float. Problem 1) After inserting the graphics, if you click on the image the graphics window pops out. On the first page, you ca

Re: Error: Could not read configuration file

2006-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello Paul! Great, it worked. Problem was in fact the not installed path variable. (C:\Programme\LyX141\bin on my system) Maybe it wasn't installed, because my Wind2k is configured in German?! So "PATH" is "PFAD" on your Win2K system? I don'

Re: lyx 1.4.1 user interface problem

2006-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Do you know what font the Qt interface uses for the menus? No, I don't know. Uwe

Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases

2006-05-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Look Tellico. -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Removing the date timestamp from a Title class

2006-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Patton, Eric write: How do I create a title at the beginning of my document without a date getting pasted in every time? Add this line to your document preamble: \date{} regards Uwe

Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases

2006-05-12 Thread Sam Lewis
Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple > of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality > workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are > distinctly differe

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: > >> > - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx >> > package? >> >> Yes, I'd be willing to sponsor the package. > > What is a DD? > Debian Developper. Debian has a full American-oriented lingo,

Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases

2006-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: My first reaction comes from a "database theory" perspective: avoid redundant entries (same entry in two or more files). If you edit one and not the others, things will get out of synch. Paul, I'm quite familiar with that after building database app

Re: Error: Could not read configuration file

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello Paul! Great, it worked. Problem was in fact the not installed path variable. (C:\Programme\LyX141\bin on my system) Maybe it wasn't installed, because my Wind2k is configured in German?! So "PATH" is "PFAD" on your Win2K system? I don't know how Uwe's install

Removing the date timestamp from a Title class

2006-05-12 Thread Patton, Eric
This one is probably pretty easy for you guys: How do I create a title at the beginning of my document without a date getting pasted in every time? ~~~ Eric Patton Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) Bedford Institute of Oc

Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are distinctly different from those of the former, a

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
SCHAFFER Gerhard wrote: But now I have a problem to export the document to dvi or pdf format and it is not posible to get a dvi preview in yap. Trying do to so, I get an error dialog (I think from python) concerning the script directory :-( What is the error message? Also, what happens if you

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Georg> Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> Could you check and update status.14x? >> Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Georg> Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was Georg> already fixed in 1.4.

Re: lyx 1.4.1 user interface problem

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the installer you suggested with no success. Are there any tricks I can configure with the Q../Free framework? As I believe that is responsible for the drawing of the menu toolbar. Not that I know. The Qtwin version that is built in the inst

Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sadat Chowdhury wrote: Windows XP Professional. I installed LyX 1.4.1 as instructed. Everything works great...exceptexport to HTML just hangs forever. Anyone experience anything similar? Your messages are showing up in unrelated threads. If you want to initiate a new topic, please do s

crash recipe (semi-exact)

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hello, just wanted to let everybody concerned know about a crash I've experienced and was (partly) able to reproduce. This is with Lyx 1.4.1 on winxp. 1. open my lyx document, edit something in a note in a multicolumn cell of a table, don't save the change (more on that below) 2. open the user gui

Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.

2006-05-12 Thread Sadat Chowdhury
Thanks to both Stephen and Abdel. Yes, space seems to be the main culprit in the command line parameter that gets passed to htlatex. I got it to work eventually from the command line based on what you guys have suggested. There is a bug in htlatex with path containing space. There is a work aro

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Georg Baum
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > I'll do so. But I wonder why the OP still gets the crash with 1.4.1 I don't know. Pol, is that really 1.4.1 or some prereleae? Can you give a detailed recipe to reproduce the crash? Georg

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: > > - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx > > package? > > Yes, I'd be willing to sponsor the package. What is a DD? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lyx Problem]

2006-05-12 Thread lyx
Here is a question that was sent to me by accident. Mate - Forwarded message from "Oh, Seung T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Subject: Lyx Problem Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 00:15:06 +

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Georg Baum wrote: > > Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. > > Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was already fixed in > 1.4.1, and also documented in status.14x. I'll do so. But I wonder why the OP still gets the crash with 1.4.1 Jürgen

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Georg Baum
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Could you check and update status.14x? > > Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Can you please revert the status.14x change? The bug was already fixed in 1.4.1, and also documented in status.14x. Georg

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Could you check and update status.14x? Juergen> Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Thanks for checking. JMarc

Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases

2006-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are distinctly different from those of the former, and I'm considering how

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Could you check and update status.14x? Done. I cannot reproduce the crash. Jürgen

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> This is a known bug, and I think it is fixed in 1.4.2svn, although >> status.14x does not say so. Juergen? Juergen> Yes, it should be (that's bug 2380, fixed collobaratively by Juergen> Geo

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > This is a known bug, and I think it is fixed in 1.4.2svn, although > status.14x does not say so. Juergen? Yes, it should be (that's bug 2380, fixed collobaratively by Georg and, well, you). Jürgen

Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)

2006-05-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Friday 12 May 2006 15:19, Pol wrote: > As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to > overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' > lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? > > When the 'document->settings' panel is open, the

Re: cv - another try

2006-05-12 Thread Richard Heck
These kinds of custom-formatting issues always concern LaTeX, not LyX. But that said, yes, it's feasible, which is not to say that it is easy to do. One option (maybe a bit of a hack) would be to use a minipage for the contact details, creating the separation line with a \rule. Getting the rule in

Re: paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Pol" == Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pol> Pasting text from a character terminal into lyx TABLES crashes Pol> the editor (using lyx 1.4.1 - that is the same as in my previous Pol> message on popups) Pol> Anybody can confirm? This is a known bug, and I think it is fixed in 1.4.2svn, al

paste & crash

2006-05-12 Thread Pol
Pasting text from a character terminal into lyx TABLES crashes the editor (using lyx 1.4.1 - that is the same as in my previous message on popups) Anybody can confirm? thank you --pol

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > > Hi, > >> I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in >> debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you >> should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the

popups stopping lyx (latex export)

2006-05-12 Thread Pol
As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? When the 'document->settings' panel is open, the above popup cannot be started. As a result, no l

Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem

2006-05-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Subir Singh Lamba wrote: > I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. Or use the RPMS from kde-redhat, http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/redhat/9/RPMS.stable/ See http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ for details on apt/yum configuration. You'll want to fetch install lyx and one of lyx-qt, lyx-

Re: lyx-1.4.1 install problem

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Subir" == Subir Singh Lamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Subir> Hi, Subir> I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed Subir> rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release Could we see the config.log file? JMarc

lyx-1.4.1 install problem

2006-05-12 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
Hi, I am trying to install lyx-1.4.1 on Redhat9. I have installed rpm's of libforms-1.0-release libforms-devel-1.0-release then used /sbin/ldconfig then on using ./configure --with-frontend=xforms I get the following error message:- -

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Georg Baum
Sven Hoexter wrote: > I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to > compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? I believe that this is the default compiler in unstable. > Regarding g++ 4.1 I found this FTBFS bug in the Debian BTS > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357119 I

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hi, > I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in > debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you > should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also > and mad

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Georg Baum
Charles de Miramon wrote: > I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in > debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you > should do it properly in Debian. I've updated the dependence fields also > and made some little changes. I'll have a look at tge

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Georg Baum wrote : > > I'll upload an updated diff for 1.4.2svn to the wiki tonight. > I've got 1.4.1 packages for sid (amd64, i386) and for sarge (i386) for the qt frontend apt-gettable from http://lyxondebian.free.fr I can try to upload the source package tonight. I've started from Georg Bau

Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.

2006-05-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Sadat Chowdhury a écrit : Windows XP Professional. I installed LyX 1.4.1 as instructed. Everything works great...exceptexport to HTML just hangs forever. Anyone experience anything similar? There is a bug in htlatex with path containing space. There is a work around that that should work

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Georg Baum
Sven Hoexter wrote: > Wow that's a fast reply :) I was waiting for a simulation to finish when your message came in. I am not always that fast. > Ok so I count that as not relevant for the moment so that the debian > package will stay with the qt and xforms frontend. Or is xforms finaly > deprec

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Sven" == Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Ah ok. How far is 1.4.2 from beeing released? I would like to Sven> stay with the final releases. I am not sure yet. We have two or three bad bugs to fix, we are waiting for a brand new windows installer and we have two larger patches

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:24:06AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: Hello Georg, Wow that's a fast reply :) > > I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project > > on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned > > state but just

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Georg Baum
Sven Hoexter wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to see the Debian package in the archive back in sync with the > upstream version. That would be very nice indeed. > I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project > on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an

Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
Hello, I'd like to see the Debian package in the archive back in sync with the upstream version. I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned state but just not marked beeing O. The other former ma

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread SCHAFFER Gerhard
Hi To be able to configure lyx, I've installed cygwin now. Then I deleted all the msys stuff from the lyx141\bin directory and added cygwin/bin to the PATH After this 'sh configure' worked fine I can start lyx now with a modified lyx.bat (again, I added cygwin\bin to the PATH EnvVar) Thus I'm abl