Re: lyx svg file handling

Neal Becker wrote: Nils Becker wrote: Hi all, thanks for the hints so far. Nothing worked yet. I checked: when I do not define any converters, lyx calls "convert". This gives the same pixel graphics I get when I define only the svg->pdf2 converter. The .lyx/lyxrc.defaults file contains no svg

Re: lyx svg file handling

Neal Becker wrote: Nils Becker wrote: Hi all, thanks for the hints so far. Nothing worked yet. I checked: when I do not define any converters, lyx calls "convert". This gives the same pixel graphics I get when I define only the svg->pdf2 converter. The .lyx/lyxrc.defaults file contains no svg

Re: CJK seems to be partially working in 1.5.0

Marc Flerackers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However I can only render my document > manually by exporting to latex and running latex and bibtex, as lyx > seems to crash on an exception when pressing the render button: Hi, Marc. Could you repost this to the lyx-devel list. Given that you're ru

Re: please consolidate the documentation

<[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

Re: PortableLyX?

Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Now, having experienced the latest version of LyX, >> I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there >> wouldn't be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled >> against libaspell.a and expects to find aspell >> dictionaries and data files in a pr

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

Micha feigin wrote: > Either tex understands escape sequences (which includes escaping spaces) > or it has a method of defining what a string is, including the spaces > which is different on windows and linux, or it has different spaces for > string delimiting and path spaces under linux. Guys, I

LyX 1.3.7pre6 available

Dear all, I've just uploaded LyX 1.3.7pre6 to the wiki. Grab it from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre Improvements over LyX 1.3.7pre5: * Many changes to qt-mt3.dll. * Update of Danish, Hungarian and Spanish translations. * Add a Polish Translation to the Windows Installer.

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

Stephen Harris wrote: >> Right. And since I install at C:\Program Files\LyX and the bloody thing >> works for me, I'm going to put on my grumpy old man hat and say it's a >> "user error" to try and use a .bst file in a path with spaces. > And to think, just last night it was a party hat. The mood

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

Michael Gerz wrote: > Bo Peng wrote: > >>>The mistake is making C:\Program files the default for LyX and >>>friends. >>> >>> >>I totally agree. I think it is a good idea to install Lyx to c:\lyx by >>default. >> >> > No, the directory must be configurable. On my (German) machine, the > appr

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

Bo Peng wrote: >> _TeX_ cannot handle spaces. I suppose that you do not really >> know the difference of TeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, pdfLaTeX, bibTeX, MiKTeX > > I do not. My understanding is that miktex is another implementation of > latex standard ( if there is such a standard). If miktex aims at > win

Re: 100% CPU usage for LyX 1.3.5 and questions on LyX 1.4

Jose Capco wrote: > Dear List, > > First off.. a happy new year! > > I don't look much at this mailing list, I filtered it > so I could only view at specific topics, so I do not > know if this has been discussed before. Since the > release of 1.3.6, I wasn't able to upgrade due to > issues with

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

Stephen Harris wrote: > Bo > > The Miktex installation doc recommends installing Miktex into paths > and/or directories without spaces. LyX has a history of problems > with paths having spaces some passed on from Miktex. > > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Windows/LyX136pre > 13 July 2005 > Axel R

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Bo Peng wrote: >>>If you View->LaTeX info->BibTeX styles, can you see the .bst file? >> No. The .bst file is under the same directory as the .lyx file. I use >> 'browse' in the bib tex dialog to use it. Under linux, this is enough. > I can reproduce the problem (Win XP, LyX

Re: Windows port of 1.3.6 fails to process pstricks code

Abel Fernández Fernández wrote: > Jeremy Daily escribió: > >> LyX users: >> >> I've run into a small problem. I've started a manuscript full of >> pstricks code on the unofficial windows port (version 1.3.3). Since I >> was delighted to see an official LyX port for windows, I tried version >> 1.3

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

Bo Peng wrote: >> I just published the version 0.6 of the LyX installer for Windows. > > Just tried the complete version of the installer on a fresh winXP VM: > installation goes fine and everything works as expected. Thank you for > the great work! > > I think this installer is ready to go publ

Re: TeX version is 3.141592. pi?

John E. Harbold wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone noticed that the current > version of TeX is 3.141592. I'm having > adversed reaction to this because I > can't access the aastex macros. Has TeX > been hacked yet? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. If you're asking is the above TeX version numb

Re: changing preferences-paths in lyx 1.3.6 (windows) doesn't work

Robert Neumann wrote: > hello, > I tried to change the preferences for the temp directory and the > backup directory in preferences-paths. When I restart it, all changes are > gone. What might be the reason?? > thanks > Robert Are your saved paths in C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\Applicati

Re: LyX 1.3.7pre5 some more progress in diagnosis

Stephen Harris wrote: > Addendum: I find that C:\Msys\1.0\bin or C:\texmf\miktex\bin > or C:\Python23 will work individually; but combinations like > Msys and Python, Msys and texmf, or Python and texmf, will > fail to run the configure script, requiring sh.exe configure. > I have installed to C:\L

Re: Writing in Japanese?

Stacia Hartleben wrote: > Can you use the current LyX program to write in Japanese? I heard > something about a CJK version but I was wondering if there was any > easy way to change the encoding in the window and turn it into unicode > or something. Nope, not yet. The Big Plan (TM) for the next d

Re: How to verify links on wiki.lyx? (Was: ...)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Todd Denniston wrote: > >> Oh, and it would be a good idea for someone to make sure all the links >> work correctly now... > > Does anyone know of a tool which would be useful to traverse a web site > and check which links doesn't work? (In this c

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

Stephen Harris wrote: > No, he did not. I'll get back to that. I appreciate your calm response. ;-) > This is what Angus initially said to me: > > "The installer searches the Registry in various ways in order to find the > whereabouts of sh.exe, gswinc.exe, python.exe, etc. It's blindingly > obv

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

Stephen Harris wrote: >> The installer searches the Registry in various ways in order to find the >> whereabouts of sh.exe, gswinc.exe, python.exe, etc. It's blindingly >> obvious that it should first ascertain whether these things are already >> in the PATH. Never mind ;-) By which I meant that I

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

Stephen Harris wrote: > On my computer, the contents of \path_prefix are a subset of the > Windows PATH environment variable because I've manually added > them. Checking the contents of PATH and comparing it to LyX's > \path_prefix to determine accuracy seems awfully smart, like AI. The installer

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Formally, that's the PATH environment variable. To be honest, I don't >> think that I check the contents of this variable when generating the >> contents of \path_prefix. Cle

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

Stephen Harris wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Enrico Forestieri" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: > Sent: Monday, > December 12, 2005 5:17 PM Subject: Re: There's Something About > Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into] > > >>> because I think it is very li

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Angus, what about a configure.bat script? Y'know, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ;-) However, don't we need admin privileges to generate files in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx ? -- Angus

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

Tariq Kamal wrote: > Hello! > > I'm a relatively new user to LyX (installed it a couple of months ago > in my laptop, and I've barely scratched the surface of its > functionality). As it was, I figured that installing LyX into my work > system would be a good idea. So I downloaded the > LyXWin137

Re: Prerelease of LyX 1.3.7_5 for Windows

Stephen Harris wrote: > The installation fails, saying it can't run the configure script. You *did* uninstall LyX 1.3.6 before trying to install the new version? Anyway, you can always fix the breakage by hand by typing cd "C:/Program Files/LyX/Resources/lyx" sh.exe configure In an MSYS te

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: >>> The file in question is a Python script that is processed by python.exe >>> on the fly. No compilation necessary. >> Ok sorry for my ignorance of how to use the diff. No need to apologise. Thanks for testing it out. >> I have now made the changes and it does indeed solv

Re: Forget Windows

Helge Hafting wrote: >>| $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-frontend=qt --with-gnu-ld >>| --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3 --disable-debug >>| --disable-concept-checks --enable-optimization=-O2 >>You should use '--disable-stdlib-debug' as well. that is a real time >>consumer, nice when de

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: >> If this is a problem with Ghostscript, rather than paths with spaces, or >> LyX, why did "gswin32.exe 0lsypreview.ps" work? Was Ghostscript >> used to create 0lsypreview.ps? > Hmmm good point. Wherever Lyx is the temp directory still has paths with

Re: [announce] fifth release of the LyXWinInstaller

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 22:05, Stephen Harris wrote: > > Stephen, just to clear up any confusion: LyX/Win doesn't use aspell.exe > > at all. It is linked statically against libaspell.a > Now I am confused. I have a Aspell053Setup.exe and a en dictionary > .exe. I thought these were requi

Re: [announce] fifth release of the LyXWinInstaller

Stephen Harris wrote: > http://aspell.net/ > * Latest Version: GNU Aspell 0.60.4 (Released October, 2005) > I belong to the Aspell mailing list and heard about .60 awhile ago. > There was a reference to contacting someone for a .exe copy rather > than general repository availability. So I download

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another message I do seem to get is this- > Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're > irritated by windows appearing briefly > I am not sure whether this is important This is a message produced by the preview generation script itse

Re: LyX wiki has been upgraded

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seriously speaking though, you're approaching the limit of what's > currently feasible now. I don't think this can be enabled, pmwiki isn't > "recursive" enough. Greedy ol' me, huh? ;-) > A third solution is to simply not use footnote markup.. If you only have >

Re: LyX wiki has been upgraded

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Also in "Note for users of Windows 98", how do I make the footnote? >> Indeed, is there a clean and elegant way to make a footnote >> spanning several paragraphs? > I've enabled footnotes now, see > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Test/Footnote > for an illustr

Re: LyX wiki has been upgraded

Angus Leeming wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi >> >> This is a warning^H^H^H^H^H^H^H blurb that I just finally upgraded the >> wiki to the new wiki engine. I've eventually realised that I'm unable to >> guarantee a perfectly smooth transiti

Re: LyX wiki has been upgraded

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > This is a warning^H^H^H^H^H^H^H blurb that I just finally upgraded the > wiki to the new wiki engine. I've eventually realised that I'm unable to > guarantee a perfectly smooth transition, so instead I'll just plunge in > and deal with any problems as they occur

Re: increase size of figure and table captions

Roy Schestowitz wrote: > _/ On Mon 05 Dec 2005 03:41:04 GMT, [Matthew.Kelly] wrote : \_ > >> Hi all, >> >> I apologise that this is a trivial question that would probably be >> answered with just a little digging. >> >> One of the examiners of my thesis decided that the figure and table >

Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

Micha Feigin wrote: > I think this should be possible somehow. lyxpreview2ppm.py takes as a > second argument a scale factor. I also seem to remember a menu entry or > settings file option that controls the scale factor but I can't seem to > find it now. Add a line \preview_scale_factor 1.8 to

Re: change tracking

David M Hunter wrote: > Angus, as a windows newbie I have managed to create a new windows Lyx > with the tracking changes. Well now, that's an amazing accomplishment. I'm truly impressed. > Compilation was very lengthy Indeed. > and I used the > MinWG platform and method you outlined in your

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

Stephen Harris wrote: >> Have a look at development/Win32/packaging/build_lyxwin.sh to see what >> needs to be done to build LyX using the MinGW/MSYS environment. In >> truth, I haven't used this with 1.4 for ages because I tend to use the >> MSVS.Net 2003 compiler (there's a .sln file in developme

Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> instant preview still does not work. >> What is missing ? > You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your > system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus > recommends the Win32all extensions for Python as well. See > http://wik

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

Stephen Harris wrote: > I am not sure of the command line for the frontend for Windows. > It is supposed to use Qt but I don't know if Qt3 is used for > Windows and all I saw in the cvs was Qt2. That's just a directory name thing. CVS isn't very smart when it comes to renaming things or adding dir

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

YOUNES Abdelrazak wrote: > Hello, > > My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full > package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path > (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the > installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key o

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Hä? "Run" a program is not just starting it. If I run LyX I want to be > able to get a result. Your definition of "result" is different to mine then. I want to write a paper on my laptop. I don't need to see the thing typeset. > This is the reason why I build the new installer!

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a "check that the file is installed correctly" error instead of the "check the content" one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking a

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

Uwe Stöhr wrote: It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. I tried it but there were too many problems to cover all specialities of the third-party programs. If the user has admin privileges I can assure t

Re: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)

Andrei Popov wrote: However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? A. The penny drops. (I start to understand.) We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: You can modify the registry without admin priviliges as HKCU rather than HKLM. There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we&#

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> >> and before anything else (ex specifying directory), it says that i >> need administrator privileges. > Yes it requires admin privileges. This is described in the Readme-files > and on the startpage of the i

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i just tried again running > LyXWin136Complete-0-4.exeand > before anything else (ex specifying directory), it says that i need > administrator privileges. Not my installer. Bug reports to Uwe Stöhr plea

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > argh!! LyXWinInstaller requires admin privileges :/ No it doesn't. I regularly install at J:\Program Files\LyX without problems. Installing to C:\Program Files on WinXP certainly *does* require admin privileges. > i managed to install it using the LyX 1.3.6 insta

Re: orientation of .eps figures

Herbert Voss wrote: > Richard Sherman wrote: >> Thanks for this, but it didn't do the trick. I changed the >> preferences >> as you suggested, reconfigured, quit and restarted LyX, but I'm >> still getting rotated figures. > > try > > ps2pdf -dPrePress=/None $$i Also note that if you're runni

Re: Re[2]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)

Andrei Popov wrote: >> I suspect that this problem comes down to a question of >> what encoding is seen by the GUI toolkit (ru_RU.cp1251 I >> suppose) > The locale is ru_RU.cp1251, and the keyboard layouts work via > XKB, which, yes, allows to input in cp1251. >> and what encod

Re: Label font -- wrong encoding

Andrei Popov wrote: > Hello All. > > I'm writing a document in Russian using LyX and have > the following problem: My labels that contain Russian > characters are shown not with cp1251 like they're supposed > to, but with iso-8859-1 (aka latin1). This is both > with QT and Xforms frontends. Hi, A

Re: Help Math on screen Symbols are shown incorrect

Alexander Gahr wrote: Please i ask this question now a second time, because nobody replayed to my first mail. Everything seemed to work fine but after installing a new latex package, everytime i write a math symbol they all appear wrong. If i try to write a Sum Sign with \sum there appears a

Re: Lyx and language depended characters / A Unicode Problem?

. wrote: can you give me a hint, how can I make that X-windows send the key-events in latin-charset to lyx? (And not in utf-8 like now) Start LyX as $ LANG=de_DE lyx LyX 1.4 will do the necessary magic for you. I have the latest lyx-version I can find: 1.3.6. Also the website (lyx.org) say

Re: printing with notes

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: notes seem like a nice feature but can you print them? Note in LyX 1.3.x. You will be able to in LyX 1.4. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14 Angus

Re: bug: bizarre thing happened after editing prefs.

Martin A. Hansen wrote: I edited prefs to alter print->latex->papersize to a4. then I saved the prefs - and now look what my _english_ document looks like! http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/2005-11-26-145603_1280x1024_scrot.png Try resetting the screen fonts (also from the preferences doc

Re: Lyx and language depended characters / A Unicode Problem?

. wrote: Thanks for the first answers, Correct, but this shouldn't be necessary as lyx usually have no problems with ö or most of the other latin non-ascii characters. [..] Lyx works with various latin encodings such as iso8859-1, unicode support is planned for version 1.5. can you give me

Re: change tracking

David M Hunter wrote: Hi, Yesterday I applied the tracking changes patch to my Lyx on my Linux box and the tracking works ok with a few caveats. However I work with a colleague who uses word to write documents and he might be convinced to use lyx if tracking were implemented. Is it possibl

Re: Quality of figures

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > INKSCAPE!!! > > www.inkscape.org > > i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next > to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs > (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). Oh, xfig is good for

Re: Quality of figures

Bonhôte, André wrote: > I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I > set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, > everything looks fine, seen from far. But zooming in, the background > image looks like a badly compressed jpeg, like 60% quality. I have > te

Re: Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

Roy Schestowitz wrote: > On Tue 22 Nov 2005 00:30:59 GMT, [Brian Lunergan] wrote: >> Evening all: >> I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over >> one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use >> Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my down

Re: align left and hyphenation

Jose' Matos wrote: > On Monday 21 November 2005 17:26, Helge Hafting wrote: >> Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting. >> I can write justified email in html, but html is usually very >> unpopular on open-source lists due to all the people using >> non-html capable mailreade

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

Stefano Franchi wrote: >> However, in the main LyX window, we need to interpret each and every >> key press and so must generate the std::string from these key presses. >> We can't leave things to Qt. Our own, home grown key handling code is >> less sophisticated than Qt's, but crucially for us, w

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

Stefano Franchi wrote: > I still don't understand why > I can get ß in the minibuffer (with, on my Mac, option-s) and not in > the main window, but I can live in blissful ignorance for now. Because we leave it to the Qt toolkit to interpret your key presses when in the minibuffer and then deal wi

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

Stefano Franchi wrote: > My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer > to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the > function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. > > Stefano Hi, Stefano. The latex command is \ss{}, no? T

Re: Forget Windows

Andre Poenitz wrote: > GUII had its time when it came to separating kernel and GUI, and when > there were enough people actually working on LyX. Nowadays it's more > of a hindrance than a help and I'd really appreciate a move to select > a single prefered toolkit. Hear hear! -- Angus

Re: Forget Windows

Helge Hafting wrote: > Still, I really liked the way lyx 1.3 starts in less than a second. > Lyx 1.4 needs 5 seconds to start, even with no document and > debugging turned off. You are probably compiling with g++'s debug iterators. Try recompiling having configured with --disable-stdlib-debug and

Re: use lyxserver to set branch active

Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: > I have a .lyxpipe.in and .lyxpipe.out but how can I now set a branch > to active from the unix command prompt? Are there any examples on > how to do this? > > If not, is it possible to use an external file to "use" to set the > status of the branches in an opened

Re: Forget Windows

Gour wrote: > I pulled from the cvs yesterday and it does not compile. > What is preferred method to report things: dev-list or bugzilla? Bugzilla, but discuss it first on lyx-devel. It's probably something trivial on your side. > (I had negative experience with bugzilla reporting a dead-keys bug

Re: Forget Windows

William F. Adams wrote: >> For those interested in such stats, the whole LyX source tree >> (neglecting non-Qt frontend code) comprises 970 files and 170,000 >> lines of code. The thing is *big* and doesn't need to get any bigger. > > I thought that the whole point to GUI-Independence was that it

Re: Re[2]: Forget Windows

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > Ingar>> As a translator I have to say that the number of toolkits > Ingar>> increase the amount of work for the translators as well. > Ingar>> Different toolsets have different ways to specify shortcuts and > Ingar>> each have to be translated manually. >

Re: Forget Windows

William F. Adams wrote: >> I think we'd all like to see improved core functionality in future >> releases. The last three or four years have seen increased >> prettiness and stability and *much* nicer code but little real >> increase in what LyX can actually do. Now that we have something >> that's

Re: Forget Windows

Stephen Harris wrote: > Yes, I looked at fltk and it is intended to be cross-platform. > I've also seen some great screenshots and fltk was used for > (and a variation is used for making special effects in movies) > porting flpsed using Minsys rather than Cygwin on Windows. > The result was as good

Re: Forget Windows

John Coppens wrote: >> | I'd also like to see more focus (especially) on GTK+. >> >> The only way to make that happen is to get someone to do it, or do >> it yourself. There is not really much developer attention on gtk. > > I subscribed to this list to get LyX info for Linux, not Windoze. > Late

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

Stephen Harris wrote: >> Stephen Harris wrote: >>> Next I installed winlyx 1.3.6 made by Angus. It was necessary >>> to change from default of Miktex to C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32 >> >> Stephen, can you find out if TeXlive has an entry in the registry so >> that the Windows installer can check for i

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

Stephen Harris wrote: > Next I installed winlyx 1.3.6 made by Angus. It was necessary > to change from default of Miktex to C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32 Stephen, can you find out if TeXlive has an entry in the registry so that the Windows installer can check for its existence? -- Angus

Re: Left \cases

Hannan Sadar wrote: > I read it, thanks but this is TeX solution. Is there also a LyX short > cut? No. > On 11/6/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hannan Sadar wrote: >> > Is there a command that do the same like \cases but to the other side?

Re: Lyx on Windows and layout error

Banibrata Dutta wrote: > Hi, > I am Lyx newbie, but I am posting this query after a google search > (failed). > When I start a new document ("New from Template"), with all templates > (layouts) I tried, I get the same warning, i.e. the TeX class is missing. > For e.g. on selecting "docbook_articl

Re: Left \cases

Hannan Sadar wrote: > Is there a command that do the same like \cases but to the other side? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general:25485 -- Angus

Re: Upcoming LyX versions

Steve Litt wrote: > I seem to remember that an upcoming LyX version will have a > different native format. What will that native format be? Will it > still be a front end to LaTeX, or will it go in a different > direction? LyX will always be a frontend to LaTeX. However, now and in the future, it'

Re: User-defined macros outside of math mode

Rex Eastbourne wrote: > The math macros are great. I'm wondering if I can similarly define > macros with arguments outside of math mode. When I TeX I often > define macros with or without arguments. Are these possible? Sorry, no. You could cheat though and define a math macro to insert, say, $\te

Re: Emacs keybindings on Windows?

Rex Eastbourne wrote: > Are Emacs keybindings included in the Windows version? I looked but > couldn't find them. If not, is there anywhere I could get them? > > Thanks for the great program! I knew there had to be a better way > than conventional TeX. The emacs.bind file should be at C:\Progr

Re: Windows Lyx-1.3.6: Font problems in headings

YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: > Hello, > > I've tried to google for that but no success, maybe someone could > help me here :-). > > I have some font problems with either dvi, ps, or pdf generated by > lyx. With Yap (dvi) there is an error message (see below) and the > font for chapters an

Re: textclass.lst

Stephen Harris wrote: > From: "Angus Leeming" >>> I decided to test LyX 1.3.7pre2 (25 October 2005, 6.6MB) (for >>> Windows XP) and so uninstalled LyX 1.3.6 >>> and there was an error message during the install that the >>> configure script fai

Re: How to set latex path on windows?

Scott Otterson wrote: > Lyx 1.3.6 has worked well on my WinXP machine until today, when I > loaded a copy of my resume and got the error message: > > 'Textclass error > The document uses a missing Tex class "cv". Lyx will not be able to > produce output.' > > I've got a couple of cv.* things in

Re: textclass.lst

Stephen Harris wrote: > I decided to test LyX 1.3.7pre2 (25 October 2005, 6.6MB) (for > Windows XP) and so uninstalled LyX 1.3.6 > > and there was an error message during the install that the > configure script failed to finish. I also had the "start LyX" > box ticked. So after ok'ing the configur

Re: LyX and xypic

H. Peter Gumm wrote: Hi, is there anyone working with LyX and xypic. If memory serves me right, André added some preliminary commutative diagram support at some sage. Certainly, mathed contains math_xyarrowinset.{C,h} and math_xymatrixinset.{C,h}. Is there any support, or are there any wo

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

Paul wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm >> explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A >> standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these >> fonts even if they are not embedded in th

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

Paul wrote: > What I need to be sure is that users on different machines running > Windows or Mac, with different fonts installed, will still be able > to read the PDF document. For example, if they don't have Times or > New Century Schoolbook installed, will they still be able to view > them? Does

Re: Clever quotes

Mike Meyer wrote: >>> Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to >>> cover most areas that could be problematic? >> sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g. >> I didn't look at my sed book, but that reads, "substitute two single >> backqotes w

Re: Clever quotes

Paul wrote: > Suppose I have some text that has a lot of quoted speech in it, but it's > supplied using standard (") straight single and double quotes. > > Is there some pre-processing tool that will try to convert them to > proper curly quotes suitable for LaTeX (``) and ('')? > > I know it can

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using > | whitespace... > > find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \; > then (ha!) Thanks. I've just learnt something. Don't you have to quote the args passed to convert? Bet you s

Re: Lyx command line question

Paul Smith wrote: >> I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and >> then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list >> via gmane). For example, I press L in kmail when I want to answer to the >> list. > > I ignored all those details (discussed at t

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming writes: > | find foo -name '*.gif' | while read file > | do > | pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png > | convert "$file" "pngfile" > | done > Hmm... I thought thiw was usually writ

RE: Lyx command line question: summarized

Mike Meyer wrote: >> 2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like >> for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE | >> sed 's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done > > basename is safer: > > for file in $(find . -name *.gif) > do > convert $file $(basename $file .gif).png > done

Re: Lyx command line question

Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: > I try to use lyx from the command line. > > In lyx 1.4pre2 preview pdflatex goes fine. > > On the commandline I get: > > $ lyx --export latex myfile.lyx > ... lot of messages but OK > $ pdflatex myfile.tex > ... goes fine except for an gif image. I can

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