Re: lyx2lyx became destructive?

2025-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Murat, did you try the Time Machine? I don't use XeTeX. For the developers: If I run /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/tex2lyx without any parameters it crashes tex2lyx error: Not enough arguments. support/lassert.cpp (52): ASSERTION i < argc_ VIOLATED IN /Users/Shared/LyX/lyx

Re: lyx2lyx fails on document

2025-01-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On 2025/01/21 10:36, José Matos wrote: > On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 21:16 -0800, Lars wrote: [...] >> I created a lyx document a week or two ago with the then newest >> version of Lyx in the current stable distribution. Today, I tried to >> open the same document, and I receive this error: >> >> file.l

Re: Displaying PDF image in a Beamer frame [FIXED]

2024-10-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I would also cut away some of the white space on the top and bottom so you can use more of the screen real estate. el On 2024/10/17 23:59, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Help's needed. > > Mea culpa! It's been so long since I prepared a Beamer presentation >

Re: LyX usage and Tricks

2024-10-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
A-Imam I seem to recallat some stage there was an option ozipping up all required files into one archive from within LyX, but can't find it any longer or am mistaken. Thank you, I'll play with it. el On 2024/10/09 15:34, A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote: > Dear Eberhard > Thank you for your comment. >

Re: LyX and newpax

2024-09-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Stef, I do my PDFs with Insert -> File -> External Material. If necessary I put a little ERT in front to it fits on the page (Portrait vs Landscape), but that is not relevant here. All links in the PDF continue to work. However, I would start looking at translating the Powerpoints with Pandoc

Re: preview after updates

2024-09-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Phillipe has bee so kind as to forward me an MWE. On my Mac M2 Sequoia 15.0 and LyX 2.4.2 (hot off the press :-)-O) it fails to preview the PDFTricks example too, and shows the TiKZ one. It compiles with LuaLaTeX to PDF but not with PDFLaTeX. Can that have anything to do with the Preview? el On

Re: preview after updates

2024-09-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Make a Minimal Working Example, ie a LyX file showing ONLY the graph and turn everything else off in LyX. If you can't figure it out by the post that here... el On 2024/09/01 12:06, camus.phili...@free.fr wrote: > Hello > Since I have installed Lyx2.4, the instant preview doesn't work fine : >

Re: Printing customer list

2024-09-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Wrong Group? el On 2024/09/10 20:19, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm using 3.11 on Slackware64-14.2 because it does all I need. > Except, I cannot find how to print display produced by Business -> > Customers -> Customers Overview. > > In Reports -> Business -> Customer or Customer Summary only a sing

Re: end of line space (removed by mistake)

2024-09-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Thanks, doesn't work, so I'll make a MWE :-)-O el On 2024/09/04 19:57, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 9/4/24 05:18, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> I have accessed lyx files with the Subline Text editor which I had >> misconfigured to remove all spaces trailing at end

end of line space (removed by mistake)

2024-09-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I have accessed lyx files with the Subline Text editor which I had misconfigured to remove all spaces trailing at end of lines. This has lead to a number concatenations of the last word from the previous line to the first word in the following line, visible in the GUI and in the PDF. Is there a w

Re: LyX 2.4.1 Released

2024-07-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I do notice now, that when putting a cursor on a word in the text I don't see on the bottom toolbar which size/type the word is displayed in (if for example in Smaller). Is that a Feature? If so where can I turn that on again? greetings, el On 2024/07/05 06:13, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: [...

Re: Headline is massively indented

2024-06-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ditch them. I am a native German Speaker and recently had to make use of DeepL to translate a large (legal) document from Swedish to English. Works VERY well, so maybe someone with a license should run the pages through Google Translate and DeepL to "preheat the engine" as it were? el On 2024/06

Re: Export chapter to .txt file

2024-05-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
The easiest would be in my view to create child documents for every charter and then export the document to TXT. In large documents this makes things easier in the first place. And faster, especially since I laid my hands on an M2 mini :-)-O I seem to recall that mark, copy and past will include s

Re: Calibri Font

2024-04-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Brian, have you googled this? https://www.google.com/search?q=calibri+latex gives 94 answers. You would put the commands into the Preamble. Now, however, comes the obvious question: Why? :-)-O Calibri, besides being proprietary (and not on CTAN for easy installation into LaTeX), is a Sans-

Re: LyX and MacOS upgrade to M3?

2024-04-28 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I think this (Windows) is serious underkill :-)-O as this works out of the box. I use Sonoma 14.4.1 and LyX 2.4.0 RC4 (but 2.3.7.2 workd without any issues on my Sonoma 14.4.1 M2 MacBook Air) Safari and Mail.app work very well, even though I use GoogleChrome and BetterBird (improvement on Thunderb

Re: What controls figure numbering?

2024-01-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Order something from Amazon, they will deliver :-)-O el On 2024-01-19 04:46 , Rich Shepard wrote: [...] > Mea culpa! Six days stuck in the house because temps are below freezing and > there was a half-inch of ice (under the freezing rain) everywhere and I > blanked on that issue. [...] -- lyx-u

Re: Extra space in moderncv doc [FIXED]

2024-01-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
What does the LyX Compare of the two versions show you? el On 2024-01-18 22:39 , Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Help needed. > > Fixed it. I re-entered the second presentation, deleted the original, > saved, and compiled. No more extra space. I didn't see an

Re: Compiling causes LyX to crash [UPDATE]

2024-01-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
What I do for long documents is to split it by chapter into child documents which (may) include a .tex file where I can do a lot of things including conditionals. I can then compile those also individually if I have an issue which then makes "bisecting" it down to the error (or an MWE) easier. gr

Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

2024-01-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
We had two offers, so 99 should be no drama. And as below they might even waive. el On 2024-01-17 20:54 , Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 1/17/24 13:47, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Was it not something like 299 USD per annum? > > This page > > https://developer.appl

Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

2024-01-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Also look at https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/ el On 2024-01-17 20:54 , Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 1/17/24 13:47, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Was it not something like 299 USD per annum? > > This page > > https://developer.apple.com/suppor

Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

2024-01-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Was it not something like 299 USD per annum? el On 2024-01-17 19:36 , Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 1/17/24 02:20, markhsalmon wrote: >> How much does the Apple licence fee cost Pavel? > > We don't have an official Apple license, which does sometimes causes > installation problems. My memor

Re: slow cursor speed

2023-12-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Tim, Does this affect all files or only certain ones? I am thinking about file sizes in particular? I am using 2.3.7 on Monterey and Sonoma (both Intel and Silicon) and don't see this (can not recall ever seeing this( Can you try an construct a MWE? It a file which has everything in the Docum

Re: How do I increase TL2023 TeX capacity?

2023-07-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
BTW, make sure you have configured tlmgr to keep one or two versions of updates in case you pull a misunderimproved version of something and so can revert. I do the updates manually (little shell script), so that I am aware of things. el On 29/06/2023 14:41, Rich Shepard wrote: [...] > Sunday,

Re: tex2lyx Feature Request

2023-06-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Jean-Marc Let's make it --list-textclasses -l that was just an example. The request concerns tex2lyx. I am getting the available textclasses out of it. el n 30/06/2023 11:30, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 30/06/2023 à 11:07, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : >> so I

tex2lyx Feature Request

2023-06-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I am doing an exercise of translating OpenOffice formatted files into Lyx via pandoc and tex2lyx. The LyX file is readable but when I use scrlettr it wants Koma Letter V1 which is not installed. I had to do find /Applications/LyX.app/ -name 'scrl*' to find /Applications/L

Re: latex vs xetex

2023-06-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I use Makefiles for this, so it only does a compile when needed. el On 30/06/2023 01:43, Steve Litt wrote: > Patrick Dupre said on Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:54:45 +0200 [...] > I'm going to get a lot of static about this, but in any serious > documents I place a compile shellscript in the directory and

Re: Add Clickable Hyperlink to LyX Document

2023-05-26 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This would be very useful. el On 26/05/2023 10:29, Chen Yang wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam,  > > Hope this email finds you well!  > > I am a LyX user from China. I have a problem with the hyperlink in the > LyX document.  > > At present, we can add a hyperlink to the LyX document. And this > hype

Re: Font (detection) problems (want to use a Garamond font)

2023-05-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I am wondering if texhash looks for fonts and if so if it configured to see the path. Something for the experts... I would NOT copy but only symlink so that an update (in /opt) will automatically pull through. Otherwise you have to remember to repeat the copy. el On 2023-05-06 00:29 , Christia

Re: Screen font question-inline

2023-04-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Make the Window smaller :-)-O BTW, I use NoTo for the Screen as well as for text. el On 19/04/2023 19:44, John White wrote: > I hope Mr. Hoffner is right but I know of no way to make my screen > larger. I can't figure that out. > > > On Wednesday, April 19, 2023 9:34:09 AM PDT Eckhard Höffner

Re: Automize command

2023-04-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
What are you trying to do/achieve? el On 2023-04-03 10:50 , Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I tried to automatize the commands export Latex (plain); latex ; dvipdf -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY but I have not been successful. Can I get some help? Thank. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.o

Re: pdfcomment.sty: tlmgr says it's installed, but latex document doesn't find it

2023-02-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I would in the first instance just do a tlmgr install --reinstall pdfcomment and see what that does greetings, el On 22/02/2023 19:53, John Coppens wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:42:27 +0100 > Herbert Voss wrote: > >> texhash >> >> and then try again with >> >> kpsewhich pdfcomment

Re: WG: LyX - Privacy Policy

2023-02-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
And I would like to know what ypu meann by that? el On 2023-02-15 14:36 , Filippou, Nikolas wrote: Hi, i would like to know if LyX has a Privacy Policy (I couldn´t find anything on the website) and if so what does it include? Thank you in advance! Best Regards *M.Sc. Nikolas Filippou* [...

Re: URL question

2023-02-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That is a LaTeX issue I have this in my preamble(s) \Urlmuskip=0mu plus 1mu \usepackage{xurl} el On 2023-02-08 17:55 , Rich Shepard wrote: I thought that after inserting a URL (either from the Insert menu or as ERT) compiling with pdflatex would automatically break the string to fit the text

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Why would I try and install a VM on an M1 (ie an EMULATOR for a different processor) and install Linux, of which most distributions do not have the latest and greatest LyX and or TeX(live) to fix a bug that is almost certainly going to be fixed soon and can be reasonably easily circumvented until t

Layout question, was Re: Method for Not Input \tag Everytime

2022-12-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hao, it is better to only ask one question per email with appropriate subject line. Then it is helpful to produce a minimal working example (MWE) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_reproducible_example https://minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html You did not mention the class yo

Re: How to make LyX work with Mac OS 13.1:solved

2022-12-15 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
22 at 05:55:17PM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Hal, >> >> the command is >> >> sudo xcode-select --install >> >> you will then be asked for your password. >> >> It is a system wide installation of the command line tools (of XCode

Re: How to make LyX work with Mac OS 13.1:solved

2022-12-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hal, the command is sudo xcode-select --install you will then be asked for your password. It is a system wide installation of the command line tools (of XCode) and hence must be done as administrator (technically root). The complete XCode will of course also install python3 but is a f

closing a named buffer?

2022-12-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, I can easily close the current buffer with a command like (on the mac) LYXPIPE=$(find ~/Library/Application\ Support ~/.lyx \ -name .lyxpipe.in 2>/dev/null | head -1) echo "LYXCMD:P2:buffer-close" > "$LYXPIPE" Is it possible to close a named buffer even another was "active" usi

Re: About upgrading to MacOS 13

2022-12-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Never even thought for a second to downgrade any of the many upgrades I have done. Even if some were not straight sailing... el On 2022-12-07 19:46 , Marcus Kriele via lyx-users wrote: Hi Daniel Please note that Time Machine may not work for going back from macOS13 to macOS12. At least it did

Re: Raster image format

2022-12-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I would not waste too much time on that, but for speed purposes I would select the draft button, until such time you want to see the images proper. el On 2022-12-07 20:27 , Rich Shepard wrote: My documents tend to contain many PDF vector images which appear to be converted by LyX to a preferred

Re: KOMA-Script article: 'Abstract' in tiny font

2022-11-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Why don't you post a proper MWE so one can have a look? el On 31/10/2022 19:03, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> What might cause the string, Abstract, to be displayed slightly indented >> from the left margin when the environment is Abstract? > > Also, the en

Re: Re MacOS Ventura trouble

2022-10-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
MacOs 12.6 and 12.6.1 both have Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin/python3 (12.6.2 is not out yet of course :-)-O el On 2022-10-29 13:54 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: [...] As my two Desktop machines do not support Ventura I'll have to software update them after the (long) weekend (at the coast :-)-O) to

Re: Re MacOS Ventura trouble

2022-10-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
MacOs 12.6 and 12.6.1 both have Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin/python3 (12.6.2 is not out yet of course :-)-O el On 2022-10-29 13:54 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: [...] As my two Desktop machines do not support Ventura I'll have to software update them after the (long) weekend (at the coast :-)-O) to

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
The easiest is to completeley uninstall TeX and then LyX (on the Mac you can just Trash it) and then first to install TeX (MacTex in whatever guise or form) and then LyX, which in the first run will do a Tools -> Reconfigure which you can do manually any time. You should be able to run /

Re: Bibliography filtering by type

2022-10-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Perhaps an Umlaut Issue? el On 18/10/2022 21:04, Oliver Margraf wrote: > Dear list, > > I have used LyX for some time and came now across the change of the > handling of the bibliography in 2.3.6. I managed to understand the > changes concering inserting a biblography, changes towards the preamb

Re: Book about LyX 2.4

2022-10-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I'll be willing to try it on my handbook too :-)-O el On 17/10/2022 22:49, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 10:03:51PM +0200, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: [...] > Don't worry about it! I'll ask you again whenever we are close to > releasing 2.4.0 if we really want lyx2lyx to get some e

Re: Book about LyX 2.4

2022-10-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
xperiences here :-)-O el On 17/10/2022 22:03, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: [...] > @ Eberhard Lisse > >> when 2.4 final is out you should look at exporting this to DocBook > because then it can go onto the Kindle... > > I'll do! [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam&#

Re: Book about LyX 2.4

2022-10-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ricardo, when 2.4 final is out you should look at exporting this to DocBook because then it can go onto the Kindle... el On 2022-10-17 15:17 , Ricardo Berlasso wrote: I'm a bit crazy, let's face it, so not only have I updated the book I once wrote about LyX, I've done it in English, Spanish an

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That can be a Python issue. But it's nice to see it works. What I have done in the past is to convert all LyX files I have below my work area with something similar to find ~/medicine/cpd/ -name '*.lyx' -type f -exec open {} ';' and then having to save all the files manually. Which of

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On the Mac (deduced from the icloud address) find /Applications/LyX.app/ -name lyx2lyx -type f tells us /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx Try the complete path/file name on the old file and see what that says. Looks a little like a TeX installation issue

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Have you tried running lyx2lyx on them and see what that says? perhaps with the --noisy option? LyX will display, but can't convert. So you need to look what image you are trying to display and whether there is a converter for that. Sometimes just a Tools --> Reconfigure will do the trick el

Re: Drawing an arc

2022-10-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
No, you didn't. Or maybe you use Windows. el On 11/10/2022 10:14, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 23:25 +0200, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> So, because I can include images, questions about Photoshop should be >> asked here? >> >> There are 18 Million Tikz hits on Google. >> >> el >

Re: Drawing an arc

2022-10-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Computers can be used to type. el On 06/10/2022 08:41, Daniel wrote: > On 04/10/2022 23:03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> What does this have to do with LyX? >> >> el >> >> > > LyX can be used to output LaTeX documents. TikZ can be used in LaTeX via > a package. Or did you mean something more sp

Re: Running a command from within Lyx/Beamer

2022-09-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
\usepackage{multimedia} in the preamble comes to mind. el On 27/09/2022 14:24, UD K wrote: > Is there a (simple) way of running a (linux) command from within a > Lyx/Beamer presentation?  > I have tried the href latex command but it did not do anything, although > I included the \includepackage

Re: Missing character

2022-09-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Auntie Gugel tells me via https://unicodeplus.com/U+0098 that this (SoS) is the Tilde '~' but it probably does not matter. I would first remove the reference \ref{alg:Skript-zur PRC-Erzeugung} If that does the trick, you may want to remove the space from the Reference and cor

Re: Missing character

2022-09-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
C.O.M.P.I.I.L.E the TeX file with lualatex and note where it stops (on or near the error line ). Also what does googling for the error message show you? Or just for "U+0098"? el On 31/08/2022 17:01, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Am 31.08.22 um 15:20 schrieb Dr Eberhar

Re: Missing character

2022-08-31 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
compile the file with lualatex and not the line the error is reported on. el On 25/08/2022 17:17, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 8/25/22 05:02, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> I got this warning >> Missing character: There is no ˜ (U+0098) in font >> [LibertinusSerif-Italic.otf]: >> >> and tried to local

Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

2022-08-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Steve I read the subject line "Debian Bullseye" as meaning Linux. el On 2022-08-12 08:49 , Steve Litt wrote: [...] Hi Wolfgang, What El wrote is a shellscript. Shellscripts can't be used on Windows unless you have Linux For Windows or Windows Posix or whatever. [...] -- lyx-users mailing

Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

2022-08-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
apt install coreutils or for i in lyx lyx24[0xn] do sudo find / -name $i -exec rm -rf {} ';' done this is not difficult. el On 2022-08-11 18:08 , Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am 11.08.22 um 14:28 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse: for i in

Re: lyx remove in Debian bullseye

2022-08-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
for i in lyx lyx240 lyx24n lyx24x do rm -rf $(realpath $(which $i)) done el On 11/08/2022 00:08, Alan Tyree wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > I can't help you with your immediate problem, but if you again wish to > install multiple versions of a program, I suggest using GNU Stow. It > allows mult

Re: Voice Recognition Accessibility

2022-08-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I purchased a Dragon Dictate license for the Mac exactly 4 weeks before they discontinued the Mac Support. I was never able to dictate into the Mac LyX, so I went through a small detour dictating MarkDown which is much easier to dictate than LaTeX, and worked extremely well for me. I spent som

Re: no document classes available

2022-07-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Buy a Mac, install Homebrew and then install MacTeX and LyX from Homebrew :-)-O el On 28/07/2022 17:06, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I just found that my lyx document does not have the Document class KOMA-script-book available In fact, all the document classes are greyed out. What should I do?

Re: check the logs

2022-07-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This is because you don't read (the manuals) :-)-O el On 28/07/2022 16:43, Steve Litt wrote: [...] I had no idea you could install tlmgr as anything BUT root. Thanks for the information. [...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://

Re: check the logs

2022-07-28 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This is of course a LaTeX and not a LyX issue and https://www.google.com/search?q=I+can%27t+find+the+format+file+%60lualatex.fmt shows 63 hits. el On 28/07/2022 07:34, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am 27.07.22 um 22:38 schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse: Wolfgang, this is not what what I

Re: Syncing skim with LyX

2022-07-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Not all do. On 20/07/2022 07:01, Stephan Witt wrote: [...] PS: the readers on this list prefer the use of inline citation or bottom post in mails.[...] -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Bug tracker accounts

2022-07-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
While deliberation on email lists are very helpful that just will not work for software development, not even in closed shops, but most certainly not in Open Source projects and large ones such as this. el On 15/07/2022 23:16, Steve Litt wrote: [...] Or, how's this for a novel idea: How about

Re: Syncing skim with LyX

2022-07-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ehud, Search in Help -> Customization for Copiers (or Converters) :-)-O Some variables are there defined and $$i is the input file name. greetings, el On 20/07/2022 00:43, tush via lyx-users wrote: [...] By the way, what does the $$i option that you added to "open -a Skim.app" do? With th

Re: Conversion failure for older format

2022-06-23 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
He did address it by complete path prefixed by python2. I would think the scrip itself uses python3 and therefor works. el On 2022-06-21 12:06 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 20/06/2022 à 15:28, Rudi Gaelzer a écrit : That successfully converted the original to format 544, which the frontend

Re: Settings file for lyx

2022-06-02 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
You are not listening. Don't do this, there is no need to and it'll confuse your colleagues. Split the document into chapters and have each "owned" by a particular colleague and then use GIT or CVS source control. That's much more productive with messing with the site installation, which has no

Re: Formatting Python code

2022-05-30 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
STOP. USING. ERT! :-)-O In Settings -> Document -> Listings you can set things into the window which wind up in the generated tex file as \lstset{} greetings, el On 2022-05-27 23:20 , Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: Thanks for the pointer. Paul, Since all the

Re: Acrobat pdf

2022-05-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Assuming this is on the Mac: Click on any PDF and then issue CMD-I. Then change the "Open-With" Pulldown do whatever viewer you want but click on "Change-All" Then in Lyx you can use "open" as the viewer. PDF Expert is very nice and powerful but I like Skim for day-to-day by the way. greetings

Re: Suggestions for custom layouts/templates creation

2022-05-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I have recreated a number of forms required by the local Medical Industrial Complex :-)-O using tables, judicious spacing and other trickery to achieve reasonable similarity which has been accepted in each case. I usually use Komascript but have a few legacy forms that I created in Memoir and the

Re: Top toolbar missing after switching from debian 10 to debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-05-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
John, what happens if you right-click on one of the toolbars? "Standard" should be ticked. el On 12/05/2022 18:56, John White wrote: The main lyx tool bar is gone, the one with File, Edit, View, Insert, Navigate, Document, Tools, Help. Any thoughts on how I might get it back? Thanks,

Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

2022-05-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
s and conditions will allow the University to deliver LyX using this new model? Otherwise, if this does not comply with your current terms, can you please advise what changes are required to allow us to deliver LyX" On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 05:58, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Neither statement

Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

2022-05-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
s and conditions will allow the University to deliver LyX using this new model? Otherwise, if this does not comply with your current terms, can you please advise what changes are required to allow us to deliver LyX" On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 05:58, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Neither statement

Re: License Agreement Entitlement Query

2022-05-04 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Neither statement is helpful. This most likely boilerplate that they send to everybody and as we want to push Open Source use we should politely point them towards the GLP2 license. greetings, el On 2022-05-03 08:50 , Alan Tyree wrote: I agree with Steve on this. It's no part of the LyX team'

Re: Tufte Handout class handling of citations broken by LyX v2.3.6.2

2022-04-29 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This is a LaTeX issue, not a LyX one as far as I can see. And perhaps one between chair and screen (lack of RTFM perhaps) :-)-O el On 29/04/2022 01:18, Trevor Jenkins wrote: I have a number of (old) LyX files that use the Tufte Handout class (tufte-handout.cls). In LyX version 2.0 these were

Re: SOLVED >: nomenclature error

2022-04-28 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I don't think LyX can ever fix LaTeX errors :-)-O el On 19/04/2022 10:24, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: [...] It took some time to find out, and I wonder whether there could be a better error or warning handling. [...] Am 14.04.22 um 17:30 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users: [...] ! LaT

Re: What Am I Doing Wrong … bibliography entries not being included

2022-04-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Create an MWE, please, ie a minimal working example, by reducing everything but what triggers the issue, and paste this here, including the BIB file which should contain a single reference. Often that will lead you to the solution and if not we can have a look at it :-)-O el On 2022-04-18 10:

Re: After my latest MacOS/Microsoft updates

2022-04-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
This is a "security" feature of the Mac. See https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/ I usually enter from a terminal window (iTerm2) sudo spctl --master-disable and then you still get a warning when you open an app for the first time but can go ahead at your discretion. el

Re: MacOS 12.3.1 (Monterey) lyx2lyx script fails to convert

2022-04-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
On the Mac I STRONGLY recommend using homebrew's python as it will be updated any time you do a 'brew update'. el On 2022-04-17 10:21 , Stephan Witt wrote: Am 16.04.2022 um 01:52 schrieb gelfand : Just upgraded (from Mohave!) and when attempt to open any LyX 2.2 and earlier get lyx2lyx scri

Re: How to include a bunch of tex commands globally

2022-04-18 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
That will not survive LyX Updates. Local Layouts should go into the local layout difrectory (which on the Mac is below ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3). Never mind that "must be located" is incorrect. LaTeX finds documents in many places (find out what texhash does :-)-O) I don't underst

Re: Making first paragraphs not indented in exported HTML

2022-04-11 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
If you think other people have the time you don't maybe you also not waste their time by posting this. el On 2022-04-11 09:22 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Daniel via lyx-users said on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:13:43 +0200 On 2022-04-11 03:44, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Hi all, In the pa

Re: lyx not a readable Lyx document

2022-04-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
o read the 2.4 format. el On 2022-04-08 08:18 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote: Am 08.04.22 um 07:21 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users: An older version of lyx2lyx can't know about newer formats? el On 2022-04-07 09:55 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote: [...] I rem

Re: lyx not a readable Lyx document

2022-04-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
An older version of lyx2lyx can't know about newer formats? el On 2022-04-07 09:55 , Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users wrote: [...] I remember, that one does not need a lyx2lyx in the same version, here 2.4.x Has this changed? Wolfgang -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http:/

Re: [Important] New behavior for spam handling on this list

2022-04-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
To me it is as much or little of an inconvenience as reading the manual ;-0-O el On 07/04/2022 10:12, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users said on Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:01:16 +0200 Dear all, Until now, the handling of the list was like: messages from subscribers

Re: Setting up LyX on a new computer

2022-03-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
After installation (I do that from from Homebrew) I would do ln -fs $HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/preferences \ $HOME/lyxrc and run unison with a force from the old to the new, but installing unison is currently not advisable for casual users as the stable ma

Re: Continuation of lists across beamer frames

2022-03-16 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
enumerate-resume? el On 15/03/2022 16:22, markhsalmon via lyx-users wrote: Hi,  I have tried everything I know without success and asked tis question on other fora without a result- simple question how do I continue an existing say numbered list onto a new Beamer frame/slide please? Thanks

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Perl is your friend :-)-O or Python, Lua or whatever language you prefer. el On 2022-03-09 06:41 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote: Is there a substitute for \thinspace that will not generate an error in elxyer? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Ken there is a mailing list/news group for elyxer (last traffic 2017) elyxer-us...@nongnu.org gmane.editors.lyx.elyxer el On 2022-03-07 04:35 , Ken Kopelson via lyx-users wrote: [...] Speaking of which, I did run into a problem with the LyXHTML export from LyX. The other HT

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Steve, Since it such a schlepp, why don't you participate in the development or support the developers? Never mind that LyX seems to predate the Kindle, this is a LaTeX issue rather than a LyX one (which, after all, just a front end). As written numerous times I am very keen on on the new Doc

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Ken, where is the missing link :-)-O? This is great news. I am actually waiting for 2.4 and DocBook to convert my 859 page "handbook" to EPUB so my staff and I can carry it around on our Kindles (App on iPad actually). But, I would be very keen to see how your package works. My little handbo

Re: LyX for Mac

2022-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
I stand corrected, my cursor does blink :-)-O but I seem to be so used to it that I didn't even notice :-)-O. I copy and paste all my mail messages into an AlphaX window (I keep a file on the Desktop to double click) because that one can format format even indented text properly and then copy and

Re: LyX for Mac

2022-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
My cursor does not blink and my background is an ugly beige (default) :-)-O The background is most certainly configurable. What are hotkeys? el On 2022-02-18 21:46 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote: I have version 2.3.6.2 on my MacBook Pro. I consider it a poor substitute for the Windows ve

Re: Single space TOC

2022-01-26 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Have a look at the tocloft package. el On 26/01/2022 08:35, Joseph Hesse via lyx-users wrote: I am writing a book with separate chapters in a master document. My TOC prints double spaced and I want to make it single spaced. I have the package setspace and I have \usepackage{setspace} in the p

Re: Remove textquotedblplain from preamble

2022-01-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
This is not an MWE. It requires several files not provided and has a ton of entries in the Preamble. el On 2022-01-16 21:34 , tush via lyx-users wrote: I want to remove it because I don't have any idea what it add or alters in the shape of my output file. I want to have control over what is

Re: Program Listings

2022-01-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Joe, When you open the Insert -> File -> Child Document -> Program Listing there should be a window looking something like the enclosed, where you can either type the path to the file (complete or relative as in this example) or click the Browse button, find the file and double click it after the

Re: Program Listings

2022-01-13 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
RTFM of the LaTeX Listings package I would use a single word for the label or separate ords with ':' ie something like first:program. If that's the culprit, we should file an improvement request (ie checking for spaces from within LyX). Generally speaking attaching a MWE is very helpful, ie the

Re: LyX on Apple Silicon (in a VM)

2021-12-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Chris, I have a development version which I run both on arm64 and x86_64. LyX does not "run" faster. The graphical front end on the M1 feels zippier, indeed, but while typing and enditing it does not make that much aof a differnece. The limiting factor is the (Lua)LaTeX running in the backgroun

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
And 20 seconds is a drama? Come on. And my understanding is that you can pass parameters from the command line to make, so this can become part of an automatable workflow. el On 2021-12-20 22:49 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08

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