Re: Minor issue with \implies

2008-02-18 Thread G. Milde
On 18.02.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > > > I just discovered (the hard way) that LyX understands to map \implies > > to \Longrightarrow in the GUI (or at least displays the same glyph for > > both), but LaTeX does not recognize \impli

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JOHN CULLETON wrote: > > on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of > > Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack > > (12) then I may give it a try again. 1.3.7? Being able to

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on reco

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: It shouldn't be this difficult to compile LyX. It wasn't this difficult a couple years ago. actually this should be the job of your distro maintainers, not lyx. I've been hearing a lot of that type of comment lately, and

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Qt itself does not provide > such an architecture Qt itself does not provide such a plugin Jürgen

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul Johnson wrote: > This is not explaining how LyX depends on kdebase.  That's the part > i'm puzzled over.  Is it kdvi that is the trouble? Read it again. LyX uses the Qt 4 toolkit. The Qt4 toolkit has a plugin architecture and uses plugins for several tasks (plugins can be shipped with Qt it

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 12:20 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. > > Here's the explanation from a kdelibs developer: > > [...] > > Qt uses the QImageIO Plugins for rendering images. Since KDE installs > such a pl

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Nobody cautioned you yet in this thread. Delete the source tree and untar a fresh copy before re-setting the environment and re-running configure. Otherwise, same old mistakes just happen again and again. I did this recompile myself a few weeks ago on Scientific Linux and I ended up setting QTDI

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul Johnson wrote: > I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. Here's the explanation from a kdelibs developer: [...] Qt uses the QImageIO Plugins for rendering images. Since KDE installs such a plugin for the EPS format, every Qt application picks that plugin as well. Unfortuna

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul Johnson wrote: > Is there any news on this trouble?  I'm a little puzzled by it. Yes, the problem has been fixed in KDE 4.0.1, which was released some days ago. So try to grab a KDE 4 update. Jürgen

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 25, 2008 7:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Hewitt wrote: > > Responding to myself... I had reason to just now try an EPS figure in LyX > > and it worked fine. Is this known problem restricted to Linux, or > > specifically Kubuntu? > > Well, you need to have KDE 4

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 19:54, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating > > system. I don't think that's too much to ask. > > > > One could counter that if I used Debian I could just apt-get install the > > whole thing. Well I don't use Debian --

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating system. I > don't think that's too much to ask. > > One could counter that if I used Debian I could just apt-get install the > whole > thing. Well I don't use Debian -- I like Mandriva and have been using it > since 2000, and

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Monday 18 February 2008 18:26, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 but change the path accordingly. > > > > > > I don't understand what you mean. > > > > where do you have libraries of qt4 now ? > > Depending on the meaning of the question, either /usr/lib/qt4 > or /u

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > It shouldn't be this difficult to compile LyX. It wasn't this difficult a > > couple years ago. > > actually this should be the job of your distro maintainers, not lyx. I've been hearing a lot of that type of comment lately, and I think it'

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:26, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 but change the path accordingly. > > > > I don't understand what you mean. > > where do you have libraries of qt4 now ? Depending on the meaning of the question, either /usr/lib/qt4 or /usr/lib/qt4/lib. S

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread cmiramon
JOHN CULLETON wrote: > While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 > system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled > on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am > giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Richard heck
JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. If so, then it wouldn't seem Qt4 (or any of these other things) are responsible. Yo

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
>If someone can cite a version of Lyx that runs without tears on the latest >stable version of Slack (12) then I may give it a try again. i see some slackware package for 1.4.4 in wiki. pavel

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread JOHN CULLETON
While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on recommending Lyx to TEX

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 but change the path accordingly. > I don't understand what you mean. where do you have libraries of qt4 now ? pavel

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: Hi Pavel, > if you havent install it globally you cant use I don't understand what you mean. What do I need to install globally to use it? How does one install it globally? > --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 but change the path accordingly.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> And it errors out like this: > > deps/Dialogs.Tpo -c Dialogs.cpp -o Dialogs.o > QAbout.h:24: error: ???Ui??? has not been declared > QAbout.h:24: error: expected `{' before ???QAboutUi??? > QAbout.h:24: error: invalid function declaration > make[7]: *** [Dialogs.lo] Error 1 > make[7]: Leaving di

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

2008-02-18 Thread Richard heck
Bob Alvarez wrote: "If you do not find a suitable style file, you can easily create your own. Type "latex makbst" in a console window, and answer the questions. Jürgen" I tried this on my Windows XP installation and got the following message. I also searched for files named makbst on my system

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 16:58, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > To answer your Subject line: > > xforms has not been maintained in around four years. > > Qt4 gives more possibility to use on non-Unix and even non-X11 systems. > > Qt4 has better support for internationalization and many other user > inter

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 17:07, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > To answer your Subject line: > > > > xforms has not been maintained in around four years. > >And, it was plain ugly. :-) Better ugly than uncompileable. SteveT

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:39:20PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Well, after 2 hours I got libqt4-devel loaded, and a 30 minute make ended > like > this: > > make all-recursive > make[6]: Entering directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4' > Making all in ui > make[7]: E

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Qt4 has better support for internationalization and many other user > interface features. This lets LyX developers work on LyX specific > features. most notably, it had no support for unicode. The important and overdue switch to unicode in 1.5 would not have been possible

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: To answer your Subject line: xforms has not been maintained in around four years. And, it was plain ugly. :-) Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
To answer your Subject line: xforms has not been maintained in around four years. Qt4 gives more possibility to use on non-Unix and even non-X11 systems. Qt4 has better support for internationalization and many other user interface features. This lets LyX developers work on LyX specific featur

Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Well, after 2 hours I got libqt4-devel loaded, and a 30 minute make ended like this: make all-recursive make[6]: Entering directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4' Making all in ui make[7]: Entering directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4/ui' /usr/lib/qt3/

Re: Problems with Lyx in connection to JabRef

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Bob Alvarez wrote: > > ! I can't find file `makbst'. Try "latex makebst" instead. (the package is called "custom-bib") Jürgen

Re: qt 4 library not found

2008-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * The Qt4 library, version 4.2.0 or newer. > > So: Not sure that 4.1.4 will suffice. Should be OK for 1.5, but not for 1.6 JMarc

Re: Problems with Lyx in connection to JabRef

2008-02-18 Thread Bob Alvarez
Whoops, wrong Subject for email "If you do not find a suitable style file, you can easily create your own. > > Type "latex makbst" in a console window, and answer the questions. > > Jürgen" > > I tried this on my Windows XP installation and got the following message. > > I also searched for files

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

2008-02-18 Thread Bob Alvarez
"If you do not find a suitable style file, you can easily create your own. Type "latex makbst" in a console window, and answer the questions. Jürgen" I tried this on my Windows XP installation and got the following message. I also searched for files named makbst on my system and with google on t

Re: qt 4 library not found

2008-02-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:12:19PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 18 February 2008 13:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > > > I wish the error message would tell me exactly why it believes I don't > > > have QT4 installed. Then I could fix the problem. Perha

Re: Problem with \includepdf (pdfpages)

2008-02-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
bigblop wrote: In this post: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-pdfpages-td15235086.html#a15236616 a problem with includepdf is posted. I currently have the same problem. If I change the current tmp dir in Tools->Preferences->Path to eg /home/user/tmp and place my pdf file in that dir I still g

Re: Minor issue with \implies

2008-02-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi all, I just discovered (the hard way) that LyX understands to map \implies to \Longrightarrow in the GUI (or at least displays the same glyph for both), but LaTeX does not recognize \implies. I suspect that there's som

Re: moderncv class & usage?

2008-02-18 Thread Filippo Zangheri
Yoav Felberbaum wrote: > Hullo, > > A bit of a newbie to this (Used LyX in the distant past, & trying to > relearn the ropes!). (...) > *) if I have a row of List Item, they end up looking really spaced out, > with an extra line feed. Is there a way to have a 'normal-looking' list? > *) I have a "

Re: qt 4 library not found

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 13:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > > I wish the error message would tell me exactly why it believes I don't > > have QT4 installed. Then I could fix the problem. Perhaps it's nothing > > but a missing symlink, but with an error message

Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

2008-02-18 Thread Dov Feldstern
Peleg Michaeli wrote: Hey... First of all - thanks for your reply. Before I do all of your suggested tests (which I will do) I just have to say: it seems like the pdf you've sent me has fuzzy Hebrew as well! Perhaps the problem is with the pdf *viewer* that you're using? Some files I use look

Re: Cannot put templates to work

2008-02-18 Thread Richard heck
Manfred Mertens wrote: Hello friends from the lyx-list! I'm new to Lyx and to this kind of program. I have Lyx 1.5.3 under Ubuntu. When I select a template (f. i. "docbook_article.lyx" I get that the class or style archive from Latex is missing. What have I to do in order to get templates wor

Cannot put templates to work

2008-02-18 Thread Manfred Mertens
Hello friends from the lyx-list! I'm new to Lyx and to this kind of program. I have Lyx 1.5.3 under Ubuntu. When I select a template (f. i. "docbook_article.lyx" I get that the class or style archive from Latex is missing. What have I to do in order to get templates working? Where get I know ho

Re: qt 4 library not found

2008-02-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > I wish the error message would tell me exactly why it believes I don't have > QT4 installed. Then I could fix the problem. Perhaps it's nothing but a > missing symlink, but with an error message like that, I can't tell. The error messages should be in th

qt 4 library not found

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
Boy I wish LyX still supported Xforms. That ALWAYS compiled! I'm trying to perform the ./configure step on my Mandriva 2007 32 bit OS, Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM. When I run ./configure, it does this: qt 4 library not found ! Reading INSTALL, I set $QTDIR to /usr/lib/qt4, which looks like t

Re: moderncv class & usage?

2008-02-18 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
On 18 Feb 2008, at 15:40, David Hewitt wrote: I'm trying to use the moderncv document class on LyX 1.5.3 on OS X 10.5.2, but keep running into issues left and right even though it doesn't seem that I'm doing anything unusual... *) if I have a row of List Item, they end up looking really sp

Re: Filmstück

2008-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 12:22 schrieb Chris Menzel: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Ich möchte gern aus einem Film im .VOB Format ein Stück > > herauskopieren, um es in einem Vortrag zu zeigen (Beamer, Latex, aber > > muß nicht eingebunden sein). Ist das eine komplizierte

Re: Minor issue with \implies

2008-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I just discovered (the hard way) that LyX understands to map \implies > to \Longrightarrow in the GUI (or at least displays the same glyph for > both), but LaTeX does not recognize \implies. I suspect that there's > some package, not loade

Minor issue with \implies

2008-02-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, I just discovered (the hard way) that LyX understands to map \implies to \Longrightarrow in the GUI (or at least displays the same glyph for both), but LaTeX does not recognize \implies. I suspect that there's some package, not loaded by my document, that maps \implies to \Longrighta

Re: URIs and "retreived on..." of Bibliography not shown

2008-02-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Leandro Doctors wrote: All else failing, you can try generating your own style using the custom-bib package. That's what I'm trying to avoid :-) Good luck! :-) It supports URLs (I assume this is what you have in mind by a URI?). According to the W3C, the new name for URL is now URI (uni

Problem with \includepdf (pdfpages)

2008-02-18 Thread bigblop
In this post: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-pdfpages-td15235086.html#a15236616 a problem with includepdf is posted. I currently have the same problem. If I change the current tmp dir in Tools->Preferences->Path to eg /home/user/tmp and place my pdf file in that dir I still get an error when

Re: Input files in LyX

2008-02-18 Thread David Hewitt
> How do I split files in LyX when writing a larger project? > > I have made a main.lyx file and a test.lyx file. In the main.lyx file I > use insert-->file-->Lyx document...to insert test.lyx. > > But when making a change to test.lyx it does not appear when I compile > main.lyx. I have also

Re: moderncv class & usage?

2008-02-18 Thread David Hewitt
> I'm trying to use the moderncv document class on LyX 1.5.3 on OS X > 10.5.2, but keep running into issues left and right even though it > doesn't seem that I'm doing anything unusual... > > *) if I have a row of List Item, they end up looking really spaced > out, with an extra line feed

Re: footnote in a figure

2008-02-18 Thread David Hewitt
> I have to use footnotes in floats for my thesis as well and wrote a > package which helps to handle footnotes in floats. Unfortunately due to > the work on my thesis I'll not be able to finish the documentation before > mid of march. > People who really need to use footnotes in floats may writ

Re: Problems with Lyx in connection to JabRef

2008-02-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
Gudrun Meyer wrote: > I use Lyx 1.5 in connection with JabRef 2.2 as a bibliography data-base. > Now, no matter which style I use, Lyx isn’t able to show the bibliography > in a proper way. It either leaves out important fields, such as location, > adds fields, which I do not want to be shown, su

Re: Problems with Lyx in connection to JabRef

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Gudrun Meyer wrote: > I use Lyx 1.5 in connection with JabRef 2.2 as a bibliography data-base. > Now, no matter which style I use, Lyx isn’t able to show the bibliography > in a proper way. It either leaves out important fields, such as location, > adds fields, which I do not want to be shown, such

Problems with Lyx in connection to JabRef

2008-02-18 Thread Gudrun Meyer
Hi there, I use Lyx 1.5 in connection with JabRef 2.2 as a bibliography data-base. Now, no matter which style I use, Lyx isn’t able to show the bibliography in a proper way. It either leaves out important fields, such as location, adds fields, which I do not want to be shown, such as notes, an

Re: Nomenclature in Table of Contens

2008-02-18 Thread Fritz Bein
Am 09.02.2008, 17:30 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Fritz Bein wrote: \def\nompreamble{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\nomname}\markboth{\nomname }{\nomname} results in a double entry in the TOC: one on chapter level and one on   section level. How can I remove the ent

Input files in LyX

2008-02-18 Thread bigblop
How do I split files in LyX when writing a larger project? I have made a main.lyx file and a test.lyx file. In the main.lyx file I use insert-->file-->Lyx document...to insert test.lyx. But when making a change to test.lyx it does not appear when I compile main.lyx. I have also tried to compile

Re: Filmstück

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Menzel
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Ich möchte gern aus einem Film im .VOB Format ein Stück herauskopieren, um es in einem Vortrag zu zeigen (Beamer, Latex, aber muß nicht eingebunden sein). Ist das eine komplizierte Sache? You can use hyperref to embed a link in your presentation f

Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-18 Thread G. Milde
On 12.02.08, Helge Hafting wrote: > G. Milde wrote: >> On 5.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >>> rgheck wrote: In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind "~S-M-quotedbl""quote-insert single" \bind "~S-C-quotedbl""self-insert \"" to \bind "M-quotedbl""quote

Re: URIs and "retreived on..." of Bibliography not shown

2008-02-18 Thread Leandro Doctors
Am So 17 Feb 2008 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: > I don't know any. There's a page on the wiki > (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Links) with links to various web pages that > list or compare BibTeX styles. I've checked out the LyX wiki (all BibTex-related pages), but it hasn't got what I need. > All else f

Re: referencing of websites/URLs in bibliography problem

2008-02-18 Thread Hans J. Prueller
Hey G. and Leandro! Thank to both of you - your tips helped. At least I already new about the bibtex styles that can be set, but it didn't work out. The problem obvisouly was that the bibtex style that I have set via the LyX properties dialog (e.g. abbrvnat) was overwritten by an "ERT" command th

Re: Problem with psfrag

2008-02-18 Thread G. Milde
On 15.02.08, Susanne Gütter wrote: > When I use it, the following Latex error occurs > "Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined > ...fiken_Add_Rauschen_Loglog_loglog-3107-01} > You need to provide a definition with \DeclareInputText > or \DeclareInputMath before using this

Re: referencing of websites/URLs in bibliography problem

2008-02-18 Thread G. Milde
On 18.02.08, Hans J. Prueller wrote: > ... The problem is that I have to hold a submission deadline, i.e. the > problem gets more and more urgent ;-) > A exemplary bibtex entry looks like this: > @OTHER{SJWTK, > title = {Sun Java Wireless Toolkit}, > owner = {hansp}, > timestamp = {2007.12

Filmstück

2008-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Ich möchte gern aus einem Film im .VOB Format ein Stück herauskopieren, um es in einem Vortrag zu zeigen (Beamer, Latex, aber muß nicht eingebunden sein). Ist das eine komplizierte Sache? Wolfgang

Re: referencing of websites/URLs in bibliography problem

2008-02-18 Thread Leandro Doctors
Am Mo 18 Feb 2008 schrieb Hans J. Prueller: > Are there any ways to make LyX also printing the URL's of bibtex > entries??? Partially resolved: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg61943.html Cheers, L