Holger Schmidt wrote:
> It works now. It was a mistake from me. It was the wrong directory witch I
> used to start with the command "rpmbuild -ba lyx.spec"
>
> I am ashamed of...
>
> How is it possible to give my RPM-Package called:
> "lyx-1.4.2-1_qt.i586.rpm" for Suse Linux 10.1 the community?
once again -> pdf files are for printing and reading - not for reading
online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book to keep under
the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx formatting is done,
using cross refereces etc. and i think that lyx is an extremely nice
"editor" to
It works now. It was a mistake from me. It was the wrong directory witch I
used to start with the command "rpmbuild -ba lyx.spec"
I am ashamed of...
How is it possible to give my RPM-Package called: "lyx-1.4.2-1_qt.i586.rpm"
for Suse Linux 10.1 the community? It haves 5,8 MB
Thank you
xhosch
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Harris wrote:
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Mukhtar Ullah wrote:
Paul wrote
No, that was Jean-Pierre.
I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped
the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View->DVI. It
worked correctly. I'm attach
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
I don't think hyphenating a URL is a good idea, since the dash character
is legal in a URL (so is that a hyphen, or a dash, asks the reader).
Paul,
I agree totally. But, I don't what the URL hanging out in the right
margin, either.
Hints/instructi
Rich Shepard wrote:
I must be missing something simple here, so please be gentle when you
clue
me in.
The mechanism for providing hyphenation hints to LaTeX is to put {\-} at
acceptable word breaks. However, when a URL is entered (\usepackage{url} in
the preamble) with \url{some/long/text/h
Steve Harris wrote:
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Mukhtar Ullah wrote:
Paul wrote
No, that was Jean-Pierre.
I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped
the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View->DVI. It
worked correctly. I'm attaching the modified docum
Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it
in the /bin directory. Could someone kindly move the file?
JMarc is on vacation, and I do not know whoelse can do this... Lars?
Bo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of
the manuals. See here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged
/Christian
The .lyx version was done by Ed Gatzke and included
the Introduction so I uploaded Intro.pdf to ~/Manuals
The
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Mukhtar Ullah wrote:
Paul wrote
No, that was Jean-Pierre.
I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped
the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View->DVI. It
worked correctly. I'm attaching the modified document (when I loaded it
I must be missing something simple here, so please be gentle when you clue
me in.
The mechanism for providing hyphenation hints to LaTeX is to put {\-} at
acceptable word breaks. However, when a URL is entered (\usepackage{url} in
the preamble) with \url{some/long/text/here.html}, the hyphena
Sven Schreiber schrieb:
Well isn't there a documentation team?
Unfortunately there is no team. At the moment the developers add new
docs sections if they implemented a new feature. Therefore the docs
aren't consistent in style and not always well verbalized.
The last time I cleaned up the do
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
I am not subscribed to this list and the gmane interface doesn't allow
attachments, but if you reply to this mail putting me in CC, I can, in
turn, reply to it and can thus attach the above files for everyone
interested here.
Or you could describ
Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of
the manuals. See here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged
/Christian
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
As far as pasting the .bbl file into the LaTeX file goes, here's
how we
do that. (I'd suggest you NOT try this with the LyX file.)
As an experiment, I did try pasting the .bbl file into an ERT inset
of a small text LyX file, and this seemed
You use one of those Mac thingies, right? Isn't there a way to rub
the machine's case and then tell the genie what you need?
I love the Mac genie, in part because she protects me from things
that I _generally_ don't need or want to see, like this /tmp folder.
A mac guru friend has taught
On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Andrea Censi wrote:
On 7/18/06, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For LyX-1.4.x, you must use Qt-3.x (latest is 3.3.6) and gcc-3.3.
I've never tried building Qt except as static, though I don't see why
that wouldn't work.
If I used a shared version, the lin
Ed Gatzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not
> >work,
> >but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls
> >like
> >/usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional
> >shell.
Ed Gatzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right?
> >
>
> I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough.
> I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP
> to 127.0.0.1:0.0
Oh... I me
Daniel Watkins ha scritto:
> Sven Schreiber wrote:
>>> So please consolidate the documentation into one file (or let me do it).
>
> I promise you, no-one here is going to hold you back, if you're
> volunteering[*]. :p
There is a problem you may have missed: in some languages (italian at
least) on
Any hidden window (perhaps iconified ? but this one has been
solved long ago) ?
You mean a hidden lyx dialog that is accepting keyboard input? Last
time this happened, I was typing without doing anything special. Also,
Alt-F etc works...
I will minimize all windows and check next time it happen
Bo Peng schrieb:
>> I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably
>> reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to
>> keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications
>> (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input.
>
> Follow up:
>
> I ca
>>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:01:40 -0500
>>From: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "LyX Developers List" ,
>>"lyx-users@lists.lyx.org"
>>Subject: Sudden lose of keyboard input.
>>
>>Dear all,
>>
>>I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably
>>reproduce this, but after a few
I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably
reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to
keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications
(cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input.
Follow up:
I can use Alt-F etc to invoke menu and
On 7/18/06, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For LyX-1.4.x, you must use Qt-3.x (latest is 3.3.6) and gcc-3.3.
I've never tried building Qt except as static, though I don't see why
that wouldn't work.
If I used a shared version, the linker complained (sorry, didn't keep
the error).
I fi
Dear all,
I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably
reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to
keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications
(cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input.
Has anyone experienced the same behavior?
On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Andrea Censi wrote:
On 7/17/06, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Andrea Censi wrote:
> Hello,
> is there a Mac binary version available somewhere?
Not yet. I was away when 1.4.2 came out, and when I got back I had a
hard disk fa
Hello LyXers,
I got a SIGSEGV while editing math, happily with an emergency save.
As lyx is talkative in the calling shell while editing math, I give
an extractt of this log, I hope it may help...
I was copy/pasting a vector of variables with indices when this happened.
wrong pos 8, max is 5 at
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
An easier solution may be to View->DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file
is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a
copy of the .bbl file there.
Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory?
You use one of those Mac thingies, right?
Mukhtar Ullah wrote:
Paul wrote
No, that was Jean-Pierre.
I loaded your sample document here (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP), cropped
the image enough to verify that it is cropped, and ran View->DVI. It
worked correctly. I'm attaching the modified document (when I loaded it
there was no croppin
Hi,
eagerly waiting for the 1.4.2 binary for Mac OS X that Bennett has
kindly compiled and put on the ftp site in the /incoming directory
(see his message in the developer list).
Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it
in the /bin directory. Could someone kin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file.
>
> Good point. To summarize:
>
> * We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some
> kind of table of contents for the whole thing.
>
>
Bo Peng wrote:
Thank you for the help Bo, but I did not need to do what you suggested.
Instead, as Steve mentioned, I deleted the python package that the LyX
installer installed and the Tex Info Rescan function works fine now.
The problem seems to be with the bundled python, which misses some
m
>My crazy tgif file that calls lyx for equation editing in figures does not
>work,
>but that is to be expected. The equaiton objects need unix flavored calls like
>/usr/bin/lyx and pstoepsi, and lyx / tgif are running in a traditional shell.
I straightened out some of the path problems, adding
Ed Gatzke wrote:
> It might be nice to have an option to bundle everything into a single
> tar file, all your obj, eps, bib files into a single tgz file, but it
> is not much for me to do that myself when needed.
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700
Georg
Thank you for the help Bo, but I did not need to do what you suggested.
Instead, as Steve mentioned, I deleted the python package that the LyX
installer installed and the Tex Info Rescan function works fine now.
The problem seems to be with the bundled python, which misses some
module to recogni
An easier solution may be to View->DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI
file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There
should be a copy of the .bbl file there.
Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory?
On Jul 17, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Bruce Pourci
>
> But you don't have tgif in the windows system PATH, right?
>
I copied tgif.exe to the windows/system32 directory, but that was not enough.
I also needed some dll files in there and to set my DISPLAY in XP
to 127.0.0.1:0.0
You need X running in the background, but that is always running f
Richard, thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.
I see you're now at Brown, my alma mater (mathematics).
Bruce
On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of
letting
LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions follow.
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: please consolidate the documentation
>>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:24:33 +0200
>>X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file.
>>
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote:
Which brings me to indexical software. I was impressed with Steve Litt's
indexing method
...
Hi Steve. Yes, it certainly seems useful. I hope Steve sees this and
responds. (Slightly confusing with two Steves here :-)
Anyway if he writes up his metho
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote:
To answer your question, I think that the Pdf FAQ is a good
place,
I added your text here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#dvipdfm-vs-pdflatex
It's certainly an improvement even if it isn't 100% complete or correct
:-)
/Christian
--
Christian R
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file.
Good point. To summarize:
* We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some
kind of table of contents for the whole thing.
* We'd like to be able to search all the hel
You may need to run the latex and bibtex commands two or three times to make
sure labels take as well.
I usually run something like:
latex file.tex
latex file.tex
latex file.tex
bibtex file
bibtex file
!!! Make modifiation to file.tex here using file.bbl
latex file.tex
latex file.tex
latex
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Angus Leeming wrote:
If the editor(s) would also take up the job of maintaining the wiki,
that would be even more valuable IMO.
The editor(s) can definitely also maintain (guide, be in charge of) the
wiki as well. However, if editor(s) prefer I think it's quite doable to
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Angus Leeming wrote:
No, you're right. The last editor was Mike Ressler and the last time that he
was actively involved was in the middle of 2002...
Just out curiosity, who were editors before him? (I thought I'd write it
down here)
http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwi
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having said that, I think there at least used to be a pretty good reason
for why the documentation was split the way it is. So I suggest you raise
this question on the development list.
best regards
/Christian
I think the
Nicolás wrote:
Hi!
I have discovered another problem with LyX142 (installed using the small
version of the windows installer).
When I run "Check TeX" the following error message is shown: "Could not
run chktex successfully" You can find the debug messages below.
I think the problem is that
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote:
Well, I made the Wiki Entry under Manuals, but the Wiki complained the
file was too large to accept = almost 4mb
Ok. (It might also fit under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation )
As for the file, could you try using YouSendIt to send it to me? (See
The issue of uploading large files to the wiki has popped up a few times
recently so I thought I'd explain what the problem is and how we work
around it. I've tried to document uploading in general on this page
http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading
The problem with using the wiki's m
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Having said that, I think that what the LyX documentation mainly needs is
> an editor - someone to guide/decide what should go into the documentation.
> As far as I know there is no editor today (please correct me if I'm
> wrong!)
No, you're right. The last editor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
> As for the problem of searching all the help documentation, couldn't we
> ask the developers for a special help menu entry that says something like:
>
> Search help documents
>
> This seems to me like it would solve the problems you are talking about.
> Are th
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
I sincerely feel that the tutorial should also be included in a single
documentation file consisting of UG, extended etc. the reason for this
is that you can then cross-link from the tutorial to the parts of the UG
explaining a feature in depth. als
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
and yes - the documentation should be a lyx document so you see for
yourself how the lyx formatting is actually done - with the help of
notes and cross-references.
Agreed
while the lyx documentation should contain all the relevant
documentation t
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
For people interested in helping with the documentation, please read the
links at the bottom of this page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc5
Especially look at this page
http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwiki.php/Devel/MiscNotes
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Helge Hafting schrieb:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote:
If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document
consisting of User's guide + extended features in one
document. Just paste one into the other,
perhaps
Holger Schmidt wrote:
> I don't no the different between xforms and the qt frontend.
xforms and qt are both so called toolkits for graphical programs. LyX is
able to use eitehr of them. xforms is older, faster and uglier than qt and
has less features (at least as far as LyX is concerned), so norm
> Paul wrote
> First, setting the width of the document to 80% of the page width shows
> that the converted pdf is not properly cropped (a small drawing at the bottom
> of the page).
>
> pdf2ps fig_chapman.pdf; ps2eps fig_chapman.ps
> creates a properly cropped eps file to be used with dvi.
>
>
Hi Detlev,
Thanks for your information, but I want to now how is the way to build a
rpm-package from lyx. Later comes another update an I get the same problem
again. I want to know the correct way for the future.
Holger
> Hi Holger,
>
> some weeks ago Gunnar Hellmund showed how to install Lyx
>>Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:57:05 +0200
>>From: Mukhtar Ullah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: LyX142 DVI
>>
>>Dear Stephen,
>>Thank you so much for your help. What I did not know was the email
>>address "ly
On 7/17/06, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Andrea Censi wrote:
> Hello,
> is there a Mac binary version available somewhere?
Not yet. I was away when 1.4.2 came out, and when I got back I had a
hard disk failure requiring complete re-installation of a whole
Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 09:14 schrieb Georg Baum:
> Holger Schmidt wrote:
> > 1. I installed the xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse Linux 9.1
> > only as a RPM-Package)
>
> Why xforms? You should build the qt frontend instead.
I don't no the different between xforms and the qt frontend. If
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:41:06PM +1000, Russell Davie wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:28:43 +0100
> Sam Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi guys,
> > In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main?
> > Somewhere? Anyone, any idea?
>
> I have made some debs for Lyx1.4.1 in Dapp
Dear Stephen,
Thank you so much for your help. What I did not know was the email
address "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org". I only check the list and post thing
there.
Dear Paul,
I have attached the two files: a LyX example and a graphic file. When I
use pdflatex, everything goes fine. The problem i
nice plan sven! crisp and simple :o)
and yes - the documentation should be a lyx document so you see for yourself
how the lyx formatting is actually done - with the help of notes and
cross-references. i myself would always read the documentation in lyx and
not as pdf or dvi - i only use those to
Hi!
I have discovered another problem with LyX142 (installed using the small
version of the windows installer).
When I run "Check TeX" the following error message is shown: "Could not
run chktex successfully" You can find the debug messages below.
I think the problem is that I do not have t
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:28:43 +0100
Sam Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main?
> Somewhere? Anyone, any idea?
>
> Cheers, Sam
>
I have made some debs for Lyx1.4.1 in Dapper which are here :
http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits
As for
Helge Hafting schrieb:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
> If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document
> consisting of User's guide + extended features in one
> document. Just paste one into the other,
> perhaps as part I and part II. Pe
Hi!
First of all, I am sorry for not having followed the discussion until
now. I did not see all your messages because they were under the
"fancyhdr" thread (my fault when sending the email reporting the problem)
Thank you for the help Bo, but I did not need to do what you suggested.
Instea
Mukhtar Ullah wrote:
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your response. I can post a minimal example,
but I don't know how
to attach a (graphic) file to this post? Can anyone give me a hint!
Mukhtar
Use you email client to attach your minimal example file.
Then use your email client to attach the gra
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your response. I can post a minimal example,
but I don't know how
to attach a (graphic) file to this post? Can anyone give me a hint!
Mukhtar
I sincerely feel that the tutorial should also be included in a single
documentation file consisting of UG, extended etc. the reason for this is
that you can then cross-link from the tutorial to the parts of the UG
explaining a feature in depth. also, you can search the entire document for
whateve
Ed Gatzke wrote:
Why can't computer people come up with pronounceable names like Windows, Word,
and Excel?
You do know that they are pronounced: Windowz, Wierd, and ExChill -
don't you?
R
Holger Schmidt wrote:
> 1. I installed the xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse Linux 9.1 only
> as a RPM-Package)
Why xforms? You should build the qt frontend instead.
> 2. The LaTeX - Package are also complete
> 3. The file "lyx.spec is in /usr/src/packages/SPECS
> 4. The file "lyx-1.4.2.
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