Compiling a preview ("teaser") document

2016-02-21 Thread James
Is there a way to compile a document that has particular pages selectively devoid of legible content? e.g. blurred and turned into a raster image or simply blanked out with nothing visible and no way to recover the missing content (i.e. not simply using white text). Something equivalent to a previ

Re: Math Palettes are ineffective (MAC OS EL CAPITAN - LyX 2.1.4)

2015-11-16 Thread James Sutherland
I can confirm this problem. My suggestion is to type out the latex form for characters rather than using the palettes. This is faster, but does require that you know the latex form. James On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Pierre Bessière wrote: > Hi all, > > I just updated Lyx to 2

Re: Does LyX work with MBP Retina screen?

2015-10-05 Thread James Sutherland
Scott, LyX works fine with MBP Retina displays. However, it doesn't look very good on those screens (it looks slightly pixelated). It is a matter of appearance, not functionality. James On Oct 4, 2015 4:43 PM, "Scott Kostyshak" wrote: > I have read that LyX 2.1.4 does w

Re: graphical float placements

2015-03-26 Thread James Sutherland
Try using Inset -> Formatting -> Clear Page, which will dump all floats and get LaTeX out of its confused state. ​James ​ On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:57 PM, fmsal...@virginmedia.com < fmsal...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Stephan Buonopane wrote: > > | If you want full ma

Re: paste problem (on Win 7 and 8)

2015-03-04 Thread James
in my case it was associated with using remote desktop applications. The remote desktop applications have to do strange things to get the Windows virtual clipboard to function between the host and remote PC. I have nothing conclusive to offer though. James

Re: Cannot adjust bounds of .png figures

2015-02-20 Thread James
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > This is one I've not before encountered in my years of using LyX. I have > a > set of screenshots saved in .png format. One was inserted in a figure float > a while ago, and I can change the clipping values to fit. The newer ones > will no

Advanced find and replace user defined expressions

2015-02-18 Thread James
ression) followed by \endregexp{}. Cheers James

Installing maintenance release update and patches on Windows 7

2015-02-15 Thread James
Or is the process simply to run LyX-2.1.3-Installer-1.exe <ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.1.3/LyX-2.1.3-Installer-1.exe> and install LyX 2.1.3 on top of the existing 2.1 install (i.e. in the same LyX2.1 folder as the 2.1.2 install)? Cheers James

Re: LyX on Retina display

2015-01-13 Thread James Sutherland
n. I have been using LyX on a Retina-MBP since these were first released a few years back, and use LyX frequently. While I would love to see native retina support in LyX, a lack of support would certainly not dissuade me from purchasing a retina MBP and using LyX on it daily. James On Tue, Jan 1

Re: Center All Graphics

2014-10-02 Thread James Sutherland
Better yet, why doesn't LyX center graphics (at least in floats) by default? It centers captions by default, so why not graphics? This inconsistency has long annoyed me... ​James ​ On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Chris Rackauckas wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to create a modifi

cannot select local bst file?

2014-08-01 Thread James Sutherland
his issue? Thanks, James

Re: Image Format Conversion on OS X with Transmute

2014-06-13 Thread James Dean Palmer
quot; "" and now it uses transmute for the eps to pdf conversion (for pdflatex, etc.) and not epstopdf which depends on ghostscript. This has only been tested on the book I'm working on so I would appreciate testing/feedback by any other Mac users interested in going ghostscript

Image Format Conversion on OS X with Transmute

2014-05-28 Thread James Dean Palmer
"png" "transmute $$i $$o" "" \converter "eps" "png" "transmute $$i $$o" "" \converter "pdf" "png" "transmute $$i $$o" "" And then there's no more dependency on ghostscript or XQuartz for EPS, PS, and PDF image previews. Best, James

knitr package not available or converter not installed

2014-04-26 Thread James Saracco
l of the default installer options. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Thanks! Jim -- James F. Saracco The Institute for Bird Populations 907-957-4790 jsara...@birdpop.org

Re: Lyx installation in Mint16

2014-04-01 Thread James A.R. Koehler
working on, I got another error about a missing .sty file so I used the same procedure and successfully also installed that missing .sty file. My .pdf file was then generated correctly. Thanks again!! Jim On 14-04-01 01:10 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:56 PM, James

Re: Lyx installation in Mint16

2014-04-01 Thread James A.R. Koehler
about a missing .sty file so I used the same procedure and successfully also installed that missing .sty file. My .pdf file was then generated correctly. Thanks again!! Jim On 14-04-01 01:10 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:56 PM, James A.R. Koehler mailto:jim.koeh

Re: Lyx installation in Mint16

2014-04-01 Thread James A.R. Koehler
notice that all the sub-directories under the .lyx directory my home directory are still all empty. Surely this is not normal? Jim On 14-04-01 10:39 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:00 PM, James A.R. Koehler mailto:jim.koeh...@usask.ca>> wrote: I have installe

Re: Lyx installation in Mint16

2014-03-27 Thread James A.R. Koehler
No, that has 192 files in it. On 14-03-27 09:02 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Please use Reply All to keep the discussion on the list. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:50 PM, James A.R. Koehler wrote: Hi, I did that and it just recreates all those same empty directories. Actually the layouts

Lyx installation in Mint16

2014-03-26 Thread James A.R. Koehler
I have installed Lyx (several times!) on two Mint16 machines; one a 32-bit version and the other 64-bit. Mint is based on Ubuntu 13. In both cases, when installing either from a download from the Lyx site or via the .deb repository, it installs without any classes or layouts; i.e., it is not v

Re: Installing Lyx/Mac w/out MacTeX. Is it possible?

2014-01-29 Thread James Sutherland
Note that some things won't work as nice - like the "preview" option available for some ERT or equations which get typeset in place by running latex in the background. Other than that, it should work as a text editor just fine. James <http://meetme.so/sutherland> On We

Re: Anyone used Lyx on Mac OS X Mavericks

2013-10-31 Thread James Sutherland
I just started testing with Mavericks and haven't seen any trouble with LyX. James On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Murat Yildizoglu < murat.yildizo...@u-bordeaux4.fr> wrote: > This probably depends on your keyboard configuration too. I use a > customized French configu

Re: Lyx on Retina - works!

2013-07-01 Thread James Sutherland
Before I switch to a macports installation of LyX, can someone confirm that the fonts show up properly (not blurred) as they do in the binary installation? Thanks, James On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi > > I wasn't aware that this is working now, but I

Re: Caption-Figure Alignment

2013-03-08 Thread James Sutherland
o me. It seems like the default behavior should be for the paragraph style in a float to be centered. This should be for tables and figures. Is there any reason why the current behavior is favored over centering? James

LyX has been featured on fruux's blog!

2012-10-24 Thread James Cull
ndows/ If you've got any questions at all then I'd be happy to answer them. Regards, James --- James Cull M +44 7833 252 606 E ja...@fruux.com T @james_cull fruux GmbH www.fruux.com @fruux

Re: Lyx on MacBook Pro retina

2012-10-01 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 30.09.2012 um 01:22 schrieb James Sutherland >: > > > Here is a way to get it working (for the displayed text at least - icons > are another matter): > > > > 1. Edit /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Info.plis

Re: Lyx on MacBook Pro retina

2012-09-29 Thread James Sutherland
! James On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Jacques Le Bourlot < jacques.lebour...@obspm.fr> wrote: > > Bonjour, > > I just got a new MacBook Pro 15" with retina screen (which nobody care, I > guess). However, LyX is one of the very few applications which does NOT >

Re: Layout for changing font within a paragraph?

2012-05-04 Thread James Sutherland
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:06 AM, James Sutherland wrote: > LyX users, > > I am trying to create a "local layout" that allows me to change the font. > This is what I have so far: > >> Format 35 >> >> Style Revision >> >> CopyStyle Standard

Layout for changing font within a paragraph?

2012-05-04 Thread James Sutherland
> EndFont > > End > The problem is that this applies to an entire paragraph. How do I apply this to only a few words/sentences within a paragraph? Thanks, James

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread James Sutherland
Rob, This sounds very nice! Any ideas about whether you will be able to support cross references and translate that into LyX/LaTeX labels/references? James On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear Users and Developers, > > I wanted to give everyone a quick status

Re: Slow scrolling

2012-01-04 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > Strange indeed, > On my MBP(*), there is no visible lag. Using my touchpad's scroll down > (two finger gesture), I can go from start of the Guide de l'utilisateur to > its end in 14 seconds. Lyx 2.0.2, standard binary downloaded from Lyx.o

Re: Slow scrolling

2012-01-04 Thread James Sutherland
d Mac OSX 10.7.2. It has occurred for me with small documents as well as large ones. Mouse-scrolling lags substantially. I just tried it on another Mac system running OSX 10.6.8 and LyX 2.0.0. No problems there. I then updated to LyX 2.0.2 on 10.6.8 and there were no problems with that either. So it appears that this issue is unique to LyX on OSX 10.7.x? James

Re: Lyx 2.0.1 not working on Lion

2011-10-01 Thread James Sutherland
indicates that it should work: http://roaringapps.com/app:1049 Is it crashing on LyX launch or when you compile a document? James On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Mark wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading to Lion I checked that my Lyx installation worked - > no problem. Now when I try to r

Re: 1.1999

2011-08-31 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Charles Reichert wrote: > If I have a number: 1.19... How can I get the bar (I forget the name) > over the 9 so it just reads 1.199 > > In math mode: 1.1\bar{99}

lyx and acmsmall

2011-08-04 Thread James Jeffry Howbert
Hello lyx users - Does anyone have experience using the ACM class acmsmall.cls? It is required for quite a few of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals. I seem to have everything working except that I can't place labels before the Section headings. If I do, I get the followi

small feature request - center graphics

2011-08-04 Thread James Sutherland
he default behavior in LyX? Thanks! James

Re: passing options to bibtopic

2011-06-22 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > ** > On 06/22/2011 05:40 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote: > > When using the "sectioned bibliography" option, LyX automatically adds: > \usepackage[dot]{bibtopic} > to the preamble. > > Is there a wa

passing options to bibtopic

2011-06-22 Thread James C. Sutherland
When using the "sectioned bibliography" option, LyX automatically adds: \usepackage[dot]{bibtopic} to the preamble. Is there a way to add additional options to the bibtopic package, e.g. \usepackage[dot,sectcntreset]{bibtopic} James

multicolumn across multiple rows

2011-05-27 Thread Maas James Dr (MED)
Lyx 2.0.0rc3 on Ubuntu Linux, I have several big tables that I've imported data from a spreadsheet. I have to join two columns across multiple rows down, i.e. I need to join columns 2and3, 4and5, 6and7 but all the way down the table for multiple rows. I can do it using multicolumn, but

table truncated off page

2011-05-26 Thread Maas James Dr (MED)
I'm using Lyx 2.0.0rc3 on Ubuntu Linux. When I create a table, and set the document orientation to landscape, it shows the table on the screen but it is truncated on the right side of the screen and I can not get to it to see or correct that part of the table. It compiles to pdf correctly but

A few suggestions for fixes in LyX 2.0

2011-04-13 Thread James C. Sutherland
supplied with LyX for forward search with Skim). It opens a file, but does not position itself anywhere near the requested line. Can anyone duplicate this? Best wishes, James

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread James C. Sutherland
oxygen

cls file problem, error previewing format

2011-03-19 Thread Maas James Dr (MED)
I've tried to install a new document class, using latex macro files supplied by a journal called "Bayesian Analysis". I'm not sure they work right, my installation of Lyx 2.0 RC1 on ubuntu 64 linux seems to work ok for other formats. When I try to use this document class I get an error such a

Re: using "import" package within LyX?

2011-03-01 Thread James C. Sutherland
nother machine. Can't LyX sort through this issue in the same manner as it does with graphics paths, i.e. by transforming relative paths to absolute paths when the LaTeX is exported to the temporary directory? So behind the scenes, LyX could change: \subimport{ relative path } to \import{ absolute path } when it exports the temporary files... James

using "import" package within LyX?

2011-02-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
dir}{trythis.tex}" 3. create "trythis.tex" in subdir 4. Compile. This will fail. If you export your "master.lyx" file to a LaTeX file, it will work. Is there a way to get this working in LyX? James

bug with brackets in subfloat?

2011-02-01 Thread James C. Sutherland
has to due with the right-bracket. If you remove it, things compile just fine. I have attached a very brief LyX file (2.0beta3 format) that illustrates this problem. Is there a known work-around for this problem? Thanks, James subfloat_bug.lyx Description: Binary data

referencing from bibus on linux

2011-02-01 Thread Maas James Dr (MED)
If this is possible, I'm sure it's been covered somewhere! If so could someone please point me in the correct direction? How can I link lyx 1.6.7 on linux to a bibus database for referencing? Thanks Jim === Dr. Jim Maas University of East Anglia

extract all equations in a document?

2010-12-30 Thread James C. Sutherland
Fellow LyX enthusiasts, Does anyone know if there is a way to extract all of the equations from a document into a single file? Along the same lines, is there a way to do this for tables and figures as well? James

Elsevier Appendix numbering problem

2010-12-18 Thread James Lake
nts.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/66279). Any help would be appreciated. James

British Medical Journal Document Class

2010-10-11 Thread Maas James Dr (MED)
Does anyone know of a British Medical Journal Document Class for Latex/Lyx? It might the same, or very similar to another one? Thanks J === Dr. Jim Maas University of East Anglia

LaTeX import only imports first section

2010-09-17 Thread James Lawrie
onal/CV.txt - can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, James Lawrie

Re: opening two tabs with outline on and closing one, crashes lyx.

2010-09-02 Thread James C. Sutherland
FWIW, I cannot duplicate this on Mac running LyX 1.6.7. Also, step 6 creates "newfile1" for me, not "newfile2" James On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Todd Denniston < todd.dennis...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil> wrote: > OS: Centos 5.5 up to date (equivalent to RHEL 5.5)

Error: lyx binary not found

2010-08-28 Thread James Mahon
Hello, I'm on a Windows 7 platform and I'm using LyX 1.6.7. I'm attempting to run the command line below: *lyx -e pdf base.lyx * But, I receive the error: *Error: LyX binary not found Unable to determine the path to the LyX binary from the command line ly

Re: Pure Promotion - LyX Talk at University of Utah

2010-08-18 Thread James C. Sutherland
Rob, You didn't mention a DATE for the event... By the way, if you are mentioning Mendeley, I know that they have promotional event support (e.g. handouts, free pizza, etc). It may be worth contacting them if you are interested in pursuing that. James On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.7 is released!

2010-07-15 Thread James C. Sutherland
Sorry all - false alarm. For whatever reason, when I installed 1.6.7, the default LyX switched to 2.0alpha4 on my system, and I did not notice this. So it turns out that scrolling and dialogue boxes work fine in 1.6.7. Again, sorry for the false alarm. James On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:46 AM

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.7 is released!

2010-07-15 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:24 AM, BH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:12 AM, James C. Sutherland > wrote: > > Another regression on Mac: some of the dialogue boxes (e.g. the spell > check > > dialogue box) is not rendered properly. See the attached image. > Resiz

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.7 is released!

2010-07-15 Thread James C. Sutherland
? James On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Public release of LyX version 1.6.7 > === > > We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.7. This is the eighth > maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. > > From

Re: LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

2010-07-01 Thread James C. Sutherland
Hmm - it is working again. Must be some gremlins on my machine. James On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, James C. Sutherland < james.sutherl...@utah.edu> wrote: > I have found another bug in 2.0 alpha for Mac. Right-clicking a text > selection does not work properly. No context m

LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

2010-07-01 Thread James C. Sutherland
succeeded in getting a fully functional spell checker with previous LyX versions, and this works out of the box! Thanks to all of the developers for their hard work - 2.0 will surely be a major step forward once the kinks are worked out! James

Re: LyX 2.0 GUI Issue on Mac

2010-06-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > James C. Sutherland wrote: > > I just started looking at the 2.0 alpha 4 version of LyX. > > > > This issue may already be well-known, but there are several parts of the > GUI > > that appear improperly on my Mac

No Mouse scrolling in LyX 2.0 - Mac?

2010-06-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
I just discovered that mouse scrolling does not work in 2.0 alpha 4 on Mac. Can anyone else confirm? James

Re: inserting line numbers in lyx document

2010-02-22 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Willis Gwenzi wrote: > I am using Lyx 1.6.3 for my thesis. For ease of editing I would like to > insert line numbers throughout the document. Any suggestions on how to do > it? The enumerate function cannot do it because it inserts the number only > at the sart of the

Re: Good layout for note taking for class?

2010-02-11 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Chris Rackauckas wrote: > > What's a good layout for this? > I've looked through many but they were all a bit odd. I don't know if there is any "great" layout for this, but one thing that will help a lot is if you create math macros (see the LyX user manual). This

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-01 Thread James C. Sutherland
ing at the code, > it doesn't look like you'd have to do much to make it editable. I > might have a go some time. > > Cheers. Note that another option to see the LaTeX code is to copy the math environment into a text editor. That will give you the raw LaTeX. James

rotated multirow cells with line wrapping

2009-12-24 Thread James C. Sutherland
? Essentially I need to set the height of the multicolumn cell and force text wrapping... James table_example.lyx Description: Binary data table_example.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Problem with table format

2009-12-04 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:32 PM, wrote: > I have Lyx version 1.6.4.1 on a mac running os x version 10.5.8 and am a > new user of the Lyx application. I am having problems with the format of > a simple table when I generate a pdf file. Specifically, I get part of an > extra cell attached to the bot

Re: More equation breaking

2009-12-02 Thread James C . Sutherland
On Dec 2, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: > is there anyway to break an equation in two lines in a place > that is inside brackets? I mean something like this: > > a·(b + c + > d + e) > Look at sectoin 18.1.3 in the math manual included with LyX.

Re: Float (figure) placed in the end of the document

2009-12-01 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Dec 1, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > Hi All, > > I did something, but I don't know what. > > Now, all my figure-floats are placed at the end of the document. > > Last thing I did was to added "start appendix here", and floats were pushed > to the end. > I thought this was the p

Re: portable lyx: Lytex

2009-11-29 Thread James Mansion
vban...@gmail.com wrote: Portable lyx is available as Lytex on google code project. Works fine. For information What is the benefit of this over the normal Win32 installers? The documentation on there is sparse. James

Trouble adding Program Listing

2009-11-25 Thread James Shapiro
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this question, but I did a search for "listings.sty" in this user's list and couldn't find an answer. I am using Lyx to write a book, which I am well into (~100 pages). When I try to insert a "Program Listing" I get the following error: LaTex Error: Fi

Re: CLS file not found anymore after updating LyX and MacTeX

2009-11-16 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Dan Stark wrote: > Dear All, > > I updated to MacTeX 2009 and LyX 1.6.4.2 and now LyX cannot locate a CLS file > that I was using. > > I have it located in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex currently. > > Is there any way to get LyX to see the CLS file again? > Perh

Re: Insert \left. (xxxx) \right|

2009-11-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm entering this expression: > > \left.\frac{R_{s}}{2f_{s}}(1+\alpha)\right|_{f_{s=4R_{s}}} > > which is a common way of saying (expression) evalated substituting (value). > Is there any direct way to enter this without resorting to ERT? >

Re: layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 4, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: James C. Sutherland wrote: On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, <2450h...@gmail.com> <2450h...@gmail.com> wrote: I am defining a layout where I need to have a few LaTeX definitions made. In LaTeX, these would be: \ICSEnum{12345}

Re: layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, <2450h...@gmail.com> <2450h...@gmail.com> wrote: I am defining a layout where I need to have a few LaTeX definitions made. In LaTeX, these would be: \ICSEnum{12345} This is not displayed - it is required for the class (.cls) file I am using. In the LyX la

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-03 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Surprisingly, LaTeX does compile; with a bunch of errors in the .log, to be sure, but none of them fatal. How can I find out what the compiler was doing when it stumbled upon the things that LyX finds offending

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-03 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for

Re: Help needed

2009-11-02 Thread James C. Sutherland
worth your time to read the LyX Math user manual (Help -> Math). Specifically, look at section 19 for a discussion of numbering. James

BUG - Unable to view User Guide in PDF - UPDATE

2009-10-31 Thread James Ronback
Uwe, Installing the default MikTex via the Lyx installer fails. (A new bug?) So I updated the old MikTex from 2.5 to 2.8 and deleted and reinstalled Lyx 1.6 and referenced the tex.exe file in new MikTex . Now I get a different messages when I click on the PDF icon to obtain a PDF version of t

Re: BUG - Unable to view User Guide in PDF or PS

2009-10-31 Thread James Ronback
comes with the program is faulty. As workaround I'm using the merged 1.6.4/Manuals.pdf file from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals Thanks Jim Uwe Stöhr wrote: James Ronback schrieb: When I fetch the User's Guide from [http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals (sic)] the Help tab and attempt t

BUG - Unable to view User Guide in PDF or PS

2009-10-31 Thread James Ronback
When I download from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals and attempt to view the "The LyX User's Guide by the LyX TeamVersion 1.6.x" as a PDF file by clicking on the PDF icon (View pdflatex) I get the following error message: "tex\latex\subfig\subfig.sty is missing:" When I say install from ftp:/

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-10-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: Jan David Hauck writes: Referring to the recent discussion on LyX having problems on Snow Leopard, I can state, that the problem solved itself somehow. In fact LyX crashed "really" one time (I think when I accidentally wanted to paste a

Re: Developing

2009-10-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:35 AM, Samaneh Soleymoney wrote: Hi I need some information about the software architecture of Lyx. I am going to develop a new open source word processor. But I need some basic information about how to start it. Like software structure. I really appreciate you to give

Re: Float/figures width

2009-10-26 Thread James C. Sutherland
I suggest that you look at the user manual that comes with LyX: Help -> User's Guide Help -> Embedded Objects All of your questions should be answered there. On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:04 AM, ColMatrix wrote: Hi there, Just started dabbling with LaTex and Lyx. I understand how to

Re: Setting the width of cells

2009-10-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
works. I attach the LyX file from which I took the latex source I gave you and the PDF is the result. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:22 PM, James C. Sutherland > wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: James C. Sutherland writes: I cannot duplicate this with 1.6.4.1 on Mac OSX 10.

Re: Setting the width of cells

2009-10-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: James C. Sutherland writes: I cannot duplicate this with 1.6.4.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.1. What version of LyX are you using? What platform/OS are you on? Can you post a minimal example? I don't know how to post an attachment here. I can

Re: Setting the width of cells

2009-10-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi! I was trying to set a table so that it takes the entire column of my document. I have 4 columns, so I selected each entire column and I set the width as 20% of the text width. The problem is that, at the end, the table doesn't take 100% o

Re: Urgent: Latex error with version 1.6.4.1

2009-10-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:24 AM, Nicola Molinari wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, I'm writing my thesis with LyX (version 1.6.4.1 for Mac OS) but I have a problem when I try to compile the DVI file. The error message is: *LaTeX Error: \begin{itemize} on input line 313 ended by \end {document}.* * *

Re: Small poll about svn

2009-10-08 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, i have small question for people using lyx + subversion. i'm thinking about using some svn syntax from version >=1.5 for new lyx commands. how big is the crowd of people still using svn 1.4 or in other words could you drop me version nu

Re: Making tables 100% text width

2009-10-07 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 7, 2009, at 4:08 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi! Is it possible somehow to make the tables take the entire column of the text? I have a sequence of tables and I would like to make them all the same size, the entire column if possible. I see I can do this for figures, is is possible to d

Re: compile error

2009-10-06 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 6, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Gerard Ranke wrote: Hi, When trying to compile lyx 1.6.4 on irix 6.5.30, I get this error message: cc-1005 CC: ERROR File = ./boost/preprocessor/list/fold_left.hpp, Line = 37 The source file "boost/preprocessor/list/detail/edg/fold_left.hpp" is unav

Locating nomenclature items (outline)

2009-09-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
hanks, James

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread James C. Sutherland
Do you confirm that by disabling autosave LyX 1.6.4.1 works all right on MAC OS X 10.6? No. It seems that even by disabling autosave, LyX still attempts to perform autosaving and the "crash" still occurs. However, this is little more than an annoyance since the app doesn't actually

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi All. It seems that having a version of LyX working poperly on OS X 10.6 may require some time. Do you confirm that the only feature not working properly is autosave? That has been my observation. Do you confirm that by disabling autos

Re: Forced floats to stay in their subsection in my "Results section"?

2009-09-23 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Sep 23, 2009, at 6:42 AM, NanoPete wrote: Hello, I'm writing my masterthesis in lyx and are having problems in my results section. In this section I have a lot of figures (float figures) and I really want them to stay within their subsection here eventhough there's not much text com

Re: Help on 1.5.6 - 1.6.4 windows upgrade please

2009-09-22 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Richard Strauss wrote: I have an old working version of Lyx 1.5.6 (LyX-156-3-25- AltInstaller-Complete.exe) on windows XP. I now want to upgrade to the latest version. Which release do you recommend, without having to compile lyx manully. Thanks. Richard Th

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-22 Thread James C. Sutherland
and I have not experienced any loss of work. So I would personally not shy away from the OS upgrade due to LyX fears. Now if you are a software developer, that is another story. The 32 bit to 64 bit transition can be a bit painful! James

Re: text size in mac version

2009-09-17 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Sep 16, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Dave Garbutt wrote: HI, I have an annoying & frustrating problem- On the Mac OS - X version I was looking for a shortcut and typed crtl +- several times (don't ask me why, I was in lemming like panic at the time) this shortcut I cannot find in the Lyx doc or

Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

2009-09-16 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Josh Whitney wrote: I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM. I am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1. I've been writing some very long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long typing becomes excruciatingly slow.

Fwd: "eqref" not working properly

2009-09-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
Begin forwarded message: From: Stefano Baroni Date: September 12, 2009 8:27:06 AM MDT To: James C.Sutherland Subject: Re: "eqref" not working properly On Sep 12, 2009, at 3:47 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote: On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefano Baroni schri

Re: "eqref" not working properly

2009-09-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefano Baroni schrieb: Hi! I am editing a file imported from raw LaTeX. After adding some text, I started inserting cross-references to equations selecting the "()" style. Ti my surprise, the subsequent LaTeX compilation gives me errors beca

Re: Floating Windows for Editing

2009-09-08 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Rob wrote: Hi, I want to be able to view the open files that I'm editing as floating windows. This would be like having multiple files open for editing and being able to drag them around for optimal viewing (like in Excel, UltraEdit, WinEdit and a number of o

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