Re: Problem with emf to eps convertor metafile2eps

2011-06-02 Thread Joost Verburg
"a nedunuri" wrote in message news:loom.20110601t085330-...@post.gmane.org... > I need to scale it down in Lyx to about 20% of the original size to get it > to > fit, and even then reader will labor for a very long time beofre > displaying > the page (and sometimes omits the figure entirely).

Re: PDF will not reload

2011-05-18 Thread Joost Verburg
"Uwe Stöhr" wrote in message news:4dd31d27.1010...@web.de... > Yes, that's why we created a program to close/reopen Adobe Reader > automatically. > > Joost, do you have an idea why this doesn't work for Hafney? It works fine for me with the same setup, Windows 7 + Adobe Reader 10.0.1. Do I und

Re: RC3 installers for windows available on ftp (Re: Lyx 2 binary installer)

2011-04-21 Thread Joost Verburg
"Jim Oldfield" wrote in message news:597324.81876...@web29209.mail.ird.yahoo.com... One (open) question: why is it so big? RC2 was 20ish MB, and this one is 70ish MB. Is it just the addition of dictionaries? Correct. Dictionaries + thesaurus lists. Joost

Re: spellchecker for lyx 2.0 rc2

2011-04-16 Thread Joost Verburg
"Julien Rioux" wrote in message news:iod00u$hei$1...@dough.gmane.org... You would need to make aspell visible to the configure script by putting the path to aspell.exe in your PATH environment variable or alternatively in the PATH in LyX preferences. Then reconfigure LyX, close and start LyX a

Re: ANNOUNCE: Windows installer for RC1

2011-03-22 Thread Joost Verburg
"Wolfgang Keller" wrote in message news:20110322160249.b3332054.felip...@gmx.net... This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the viewer window when I hit the "view" button. The PDF code should be identical to 1.6.9. I'll have a look. Joost

Re: Is LyX 1.6.8 the last version for Windows 2000? (1.6.9 installs, wont run)

2011-03-21 Thread Joost Verburg
"Vilis I. Lietuvietis" wrote in message news:oieglijhlndkddgmplfpiehncpaa.vi...@neti.ee... I used LyX extensively on both my Windows 2000 and XP systems until a year ago. I just returned to my LyX project after 12 months today, to discover that LyX 1.6.9 installed on Windows 2000 without incid

Re: Adobe Reader X and Lyx

2011-02-22 Thread Joost Verburg
"Julio Rojas" wrote in message news:AANLkTinJK1T-> As Andres says here, after Adobe Reader X installation, a PDF generated by Lyx is not direcly open (ARX opens, but Lyx document is nowhere to be found). One has to export it into some folder and then manually open it. I don't know what version o

Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread Joost Verburg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: >>> I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. >>> One works ( a borrowed laptop) . But it does not work on my own laptop. I >>> used the same downloaded sw on both. As discussed on the webpage, looks like >>>

Re: MikTeX 2.9 w/ LyX 1.6.8

2010-12-19 Thread Joost Verburg
On 12/19/2010 5:41 PM, Ken wrote: How can I force LyX to use the new 2.9 installation? You can set the MiKTeX path in: Tools > Preferences > Paths > PATH prefix Re-running the installer will also allow you to change the MiKTeX location. Joost

Re: AW: Acrobat X problem

2010-12-13 Thread Joost Verburg
On 12/12/2010 9:45 AM, Andreas Rieger wrote: Thanks, using " C:\Progra~2\Adobe\Acroba~1.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe" in field "viewer" respectively "Anzeigeprogramm" worked. Because of a bug in Adobe Reader X the LyX mechanism to reload PDF files in an open Adobe Reader window doesn't work. If you

Re: LyX 1.6.8 / 2.0beta without admin rights

2010-12-12 Thread Joost Verburg
On 12/12/2010 5:24 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: someone == joost at lyx.org (the only one who is mastering this installer). you can try to contact him. The 1.6.8 Windows release was delayed because of an external library which suddenly disappeared from SourceForge (project + git repository was comp

Re: query

2010-09-20 Thread Joost Verburg
On 9/20/2010 4:00 AM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: I am not able to download any version of the lyx. please guide me to download it. i have already opened the site www.lyx.org/download but as soon as i click on the link it is not working. please help me to download Try an alternative download

Re: Converted EPS figures from MS Visio are not exactly the same

2010-08-05 Thread Joost Verburg
On 8/5/2010 3:47 PM, Özgün Yılmaz wrote: Is this because of MS Word doesn’t show EPS files correctly or Is there another reason for this? Indeed. Word doesn't render EPS correctly. Then I inserted eps files to a Lyx file and viewed them in a PDF file. The text labels were fine. Straight verti

Re: Lyx 1.6.7-3 and 1.6.7-4 don't run in Windows 2000 (aka win 2K)

2010-08-05 Thread Joost Verburg
On 8/5/2010 3:34 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: It is not our responsibility to tell people what OS to use... Sure. I'm just saying that at some point it doesn't make sense to support an OS anymore. Windows 2000 is more than 10 years old and no longer supported by Microsoft. It's market shar

Re: Lyx 1.6.7-3 and 1.6.7-4 don't run in Windows 2000 (aka win 2K)

2010-08-05 Thread Joost Verburg
On 8/5/2010 2:17 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Do we gain something by compiling with the latest toolchain? Aren't we shuttig down windows 2000 arbitrarily? Not arbitrarily. Windows 2000 support has already been discontinued by Microsoft so it's highly unsafe to use. Security issues are not

Re: Lyx 1.6.7-3 and 1.6.7-4 don't run in Windows 2000 (aka win 2K)

2010-08-05 Thread Joost Verburg
On 8/4/2010 1:43 PM, Jose Augusto wrote: This is an update and answer to myself :-) : I was able to install>> and RUN on Win 2K<< the last version of the Lyx alt-installer which can be retrieved at the link: http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyX-167-4-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe The

Re: Using hunspell under Windows 7 with LyX 1.6

2010-07-06 Thread Joost Verburg
On 7/6/2010 8:56 AM, Falk Sticken wrote: I would like to use hunspell as a spellchecker with LyX 1.6 under Windows 7. I know it is supported by LyX 1.7, but this release is still in alpha status. I have hunspell installed as part of MikTex 2.8. You'll have to wait for LyX 2.0. Joost

Re: Windows 7 compatibility

2010-06-10 Thread Joost Verburg
On 6/10/2010 9:13 AM, George Christodoulatos wrote: Can anyone tell me if the 1.6.6.1 works ok with 64-bit Windows 7? Yes, Windows 7 is fully supported. Joost

Re: using of aspell libraries on windows

2009-11-04 Thread Joost Verburg
Sergey wrote: (ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-mingw.zip), compiled Psi This is an old file which is no longer maintained, we currently use the msvc version. Joost

Re: Lyx 1.6.4 Spellchecker on Windows XP

2009-08-27 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem might be that there is only an Aspell dictionary available for en_US and not for en_GB. But the spellchecker should nevertheless start at least. The English Aspell dictionary includes both an American and British version. Joost

Re: Screen font display issue (cleartype?)

2009-07-21 Thread Joost Verburg
James Oldfield wrote: Both my home and college computers are running LyX 1.6.3 (3 June 2009) on Windows XP, installed with the default installer. I see the following problem only on my college computer [but I have mentioned my home PC in a couple of places for comparison, you can ignore if you li

Re: Windows: Graphics preview doesn't work using Lyxlauncher.exe

2009-07-21 Thread Joost Verburg
Nick Bell wrote: Apologies if this has been said before, but I have only ever been able to get graphics preview to work if I start LyX by running lyx.exe. If I use the default LyXlauncher.exe, I can't preview .eps, .pdf (although .png works). For the new 1.6.3-2 installers I've updated the gr

Re: Problem with LyxLauncher

2009-06-10 Thread Joost Verburg
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: When starting with "LyXLauncher -dbg files", I get the attached log. And the images are not shown. When running lyx.exe from the command prompt, the output is the same up to and silent afterwards. Then the images are correctly shown on screen. Thanks. It looks l

Re: Problem with LyxLauncher

2009-06-10 Thread Joost Verburg
Robert Betz wrote: However, I seem to have one problem. If I open my files using the standard double click technique the figures will not open. I get the error: Error converting to loadable format. I can't reproduce it. Did you change any path preferences? Could you post the contents of the

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Christian Ridderström wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it. O

Re: [correction] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.0

2008-12-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: But when I install the Lyx (both the standard version or the alternative installer), the installer will *automatically* change this option to "Yes". (it seems very strange) I hope that the installer informs you before doing this change and that the old config is resto

Re: [correction] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.0

2008-11-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: So you have to with the time until the downloading and installation is done. The Alternative installer therefore displays the current download and installation state in a console Window. The standard installer shows the configuration status in the installer window (not a sepa

Re: PDF Update fails, LyX 1.5.7 (WinXP)

2008-11-25 Thread Joost Verburg
David Hewitt wrote: (2) I have always used Adobe Reader in many past versions and never had this issue. AND, even with the format viewer changed to 'pdfview', Adobe Reader is the viewer that is started, but DOES allow me to update. Huh?? Basically everything just operates the way it used to, so I

Re: Steps towards a portable LyX installation on Windows

2008-11-18 Thread Joost Verburg
Thomas Steffen wrote: 1. configure fails because it cannot find python 2. LyX fails to convert an EPS to a bitmap, so there is no preview This is because the directories in Resources\lyxrc.dist are wrong. Joost

Re: Steps towards a portable LyX installation on Windows

2008-11-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Thomas Steffen wrote: The other issue was that convert would not recognise ghostscript. I read that @PSdelegate@ in delegates.xml relies on registry keys, and indeed replacing it with gswin32c.exe solved the issue. This was necessary to get previews working for eps files. The build-in ImageMagi

Re: Steps towards a portable LyX installation on Windows

2008-11-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Thomas Steffen wrote: I used texlive 2008 as my tex installation, which already provides some portability. I follow the same basic approach as tl-portable.bat, but add the necessary environment variables for LyX, convert and ghostscript. Apart from one problem between the bundled convert and the

Re: Problem with spellcheck

2008-10-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Enrique Saint Pierre wrote: I moved all files in "C:\Aspell" to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\Aspell" and now it works! Good. But your dictionary from the Aspell Windows site is probably outdated. I'd recommend you to download the latest one from http://wiki.lyx.org/W

Re: ChkTex in Windows

2008-10-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I think you should bundle it in he installer. This should be delivered by the LaTeX distribution. It turned out that ChkTeX is available in TeXLive but not MiKTeX. The MiKTeX maintainer reported me once that he had problems to compile it on Windows, but this was long ago. I

Re: Problem with spellcheck

2008-10-27 Thread Joost Verburg
Enrique Saint Pierre wrote: In fact, in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\Aspell" there is not a "Data" directory nor a *.kbd file. This means that Aspell is not properly installed. Can you try to download LyX 1.5.6 and reinstall? Joost

Re: Problem with spellcheck

2008-10-27 Thread Joost Verburg
Enrique Saint-Pierre wrote: Hi: I have LyX 1.5.5 running in Windows XP, but the spellchecker doesn't work. I get the message The spellchecker could not be started. no word list can be found for the Language "es_ES" I reinstalled Aspell-0.50.3 and aspell-es-0.50-2-3. Now it is under C:\Aspell, but

Re: .wmf graphics cannot be seen in lyx

2008-10-16 Thread Joost Verburg
Julio Rojas wrote: I guess WMF is not a supported file type. Try using PDF or EPS plots. LyX 1.5.5 and later (when installed using the standard installer) support WMF and EMF. Most Windows applications such as PowerPoint can export to EMF. Joost

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Joost Verburg
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various pictures on MS PowerPoint, convert to jpg, and finally import to my LyX document. For vector images you'll get much better quality when you export to emf instead of jpg. Joost

Re: Spellchecker

2008-10-14 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Maybe we should use this convention [i.e. "Language (variety)"] in general. Even though it doesn't solve any political issues, it's at least easier to find. Definitely. That is indeed more common, most other applications use this convention as well. Joost

Re: Spellchecker

2008-10-13 Thread Joost Verburg
TheOldFellow wrote: How do I set the spellchecker to English-English (i.e. as written in England) instead of American-English? You should set the document language to British. Joost

Re: metafile2eps clips images

2008-09-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Mike Brookes wrote: I can send you some small example image files if you want (around 25kB each). Please send me an example file so I can verify whether the solution works. Thanks. Joost

Re: metafile2eps clips images

2008-09-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Mike Brookes wrote: It clips part of the image so you can only see the top left quarter of the original image content (definitely a bug by your definintion). The effect is fully reversible by setting the Printing_Preferences->Advanced->Paper_Size to either A4 (bad) or to "Postscript Custom Page

Re: LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2) is released

2008-09-01 Thread Joost Verburg
José Matos wrote: Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ I've uploaded Windows installers to http://www.lyx.org/~joost/ Joost

Re: Brand new install on xp-pro fails to contact miktex

2008-07-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Richard Strauss wrote: 7- Downloading MikTex failed. Would you like to try again? )redirection 302) repeated attempts return same message. The MiKTeX download did not work for some reason. You can download and install MiKTeX from http://www.miktex.org/2.7/Setup.aspx and reconfigure LyX (Tool

Re: LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 4) is released

2008-07-17 Thread Joost Verburg
José Matos wrote: Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ I have uploaded Windows installers to http://www.lyx.org/~joost/ Joost

Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt

2008-05-14 Thread Joost Verburg
D.Zorig wrote: Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. I think a mirror server contains an outdated version. Try this one: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-13 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: - reinstall LyX 1.5.5 using the obove mentioned installer that delivers the latest ImageMagick The official installer of LyX 1.5.5 also includes the latest ImageMagick (6.4.1-1) and Ghostscript (8.62). Joost

Re: Aspell setup problem

2008-05-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Máté Salát wrote: The most recent Windows installer of LyX always breaks down during the downloading the Hungarian Aspell at this point: http://www.screencast.com/users/salatmate/folders/Jing/media/ead56eaa-d47a-46e3-a2b1-5fd51a2be18a Somehow, certain dictionaries on the server have become cor

Re: Added words in Aspell

2008-04-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: Where does Aspell store the list of the added words? Usually in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Aspell\Personal When Aspell is installed for the your own user account only, replace "All Users" with the name of your account. Joost

Re: Added words in Aspell

2008-04-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: On the page http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 the "Magyar" file is corrupted, it gives the error message http://screencast.com/t/PU4E9gWl. Thanks for your report. I will upload all dictionaries again because there seem to be some corrupted files. Joost

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is this _not_ true of most LyX installers? In other words, is it generally the case that a LyX installer or LyX itself will complain and even not allow a LyX document to be opened and typed into when LaTeX is not installed? The official installer also allows you to insta

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something, but if there's no LaTeX installed, won't the LyX configuration script decide that none of the layouts are usable, making it impossible to start (or I assume open) a document? You can still open the document. Joost

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: can anybody confirm on some other tex install that attached dvi fails too? i dont have any idea what went wrong. Try dvipost-1.1.patch in development\Win32\patches. Joost

Re: Menu language

2008-04-03 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: When you have installed LyX using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller you can open the file "lyx.bat" with a text editor and set the menu language to e.g. "hu_HU". The official installer stores the language in the registry key Software\LyX\Settings\Lan

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-02 Thread Joost Verburg
William R. Buckley wrote: I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be browsed), it happens that LyX copi

Re: Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Just run the installer again. Joost

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
AK wrote: Generally speaking Joost' design is excellent, the only thing I'd like to add is that strong shadows on the sides seem to be overused, I'd either considerably tone them down or maybe try how it looks without them. I've made the shadows lighter and smaller. Joost

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? maybe incorporate it into intro picture? i like it too. Or maybe for the Features page? Joost

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
G. Milde wrote: There was a suggestion to report the bug to "where it belongs", i.e. the QT library. QT is actively supported, tries to do the "operating system universality" in a clean and sensible way. Maybe this bug is even fixed in a current version of QT (or labelled as wontfix even there if

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
William R. Buckley wrote: I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be browsed), it happens that LyX copi

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: On my XP Home box, every program I've tested that uses the Windows file open dialog can follow a shortcut (.lnk) to a directory. So either something is amiss with your system, or maybe you have some registry setting mucking things up. If I remember correctly, there is in

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows shortcut in its browsing function. So, your position is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other open source tools have no problem with a simple if arcane function. On my system

Re: Output track changes in pdf with latex error

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Peter Sutovsky wrote: I get error message when I try to get output in pdf with "show changes in output " is on. Output to dvi and ps works well. Is it way to make it work with pdf? Thanks. Do you have the xcolor package installed? Joost

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that users can choose their own skin by simply appending ?skin=... to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. However, in practie we'll

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. I agree. Because of the type

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. For the new official website it's we'll continue improving the curren

Re: question about lyx

2008-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
rgheck wrote: Other people will answer this question. But let me say: LaTeX is generally print-oriented, and in that world, justified is the standard. Note that LaTeX microspaces, etc, so this looks proper. If you're going to convert to HTML, it probably doesn't matter, since HTML doesn't do j

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't think so. Contrast the behavior of the Insert -> Graphics dialog with the File -> Open dialog. With both dialogs I get exactly the same behavior (the .lnk file is opened). File -> Open hides shortcuts by default because it's looking for .lyx files while Insert -

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Rich Shepard wrote: However, if you want to use open source applications built to open standards, then understand that almost all of these were originally build for linux or one of the *BSDs, those are the platforms the developers use, and making them available to the Windows world is a courtesy,

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-29 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could work, but maybe the logotype should be there as well, making the connection stronger. In my opinion we should stick to one logotype, not a platypus combined with a mascot. Even with an additional photo people won't understand the connection anyway. The mascot

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: What I meant was the word "version" in the current banner. I have not really a strong opinion about the splash screen, other projects creates a new one for every release, e.g. Inkscape. The version string can of course also be prefixed with the word "version". Joost

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's neat how the platypus is sort of sitting on the blue bar on #4. Number #1 is neat since the stack of papers to me is related to LyX being a document processor. And #3 is clean and elegant. And #2 is growing on me, so I'll refrain from voting, they're all good. Th

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Personally, I like the new logos but prefer for the splash screen the current banner because it includes the version number. Of course the version number will be included. LyX prints the version number on the splash screen image, so the image doesn't need to be changed for ev

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
rgheck wrote: For what it's worth, I really like the most recent one. I've uploaded some more designs to compare (including the current splash screen) at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen Joost

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The copyright notice is less obvious now, I think that's good. OK. The version number is gone now, do we need it? (A drawback with having it there is that we'd have to remember to change it in every release). Without the version text, there's no clash with the simila

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I think that if you did some more tweaking on that splash screen it'd get quite good. I hope you'll do so! What about this one? Joost <>

Re: Path problem

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I only have one toolbar button to view PDFs. When it is pressed the program checks if the file exists or not and do then the needed things. That there is then only one toolbar button needed has often been discussed in the past. I proposed to do the same also for DVI and EPS, b

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: That this prevents computers from beeing able to go to sleep mode and save battery energy. Weh discussed this some time ago and you said that this is not the case. I can't test this and don't have a strong opinion. Right. I have never been able to reproduce that. Hopefully And

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Andre Poenitz wrote: Checking a file on harddisk every 0.5s will e.g. a laptop never go to rest... I cannot reproduce that. All screen/harddisk/system standby timers on the laptops I know are based on user inactivity, not applications accessing the hard drive. Do you have some more informatio

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some people complained about this. A user contacted me and we developed together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is changed. Unfortunaltely file handles seem to be handled differently in Vista,

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown reason the program that handles PDFs when they are open fails on Vista. I will provide a workaround, but me was told I first should wait if the Vista Service Pack 1 fixes this. Have you installed the Service Pack 1 for Vista

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. My girlfriend had a suggestion, could we get some design student to do a project related to this? Sounds like a great idea. She gives the old splash screen a grade of 1 (out of 5), and yours get a grade of 3. So it's certainly an improvement! I agree with t

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: If the bird is combined with the word LyX I would prefer the typeface to be more simple instead of the rotated/colorful letters of the banner. Just as an example, I attached a splash screen design with the logo that I think looks more professional. While the banner i

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Andre Poenitz wrote: I'd like to have "the bird" in one way or the other. Smoothing edges, adding something in the background or similar I can live with... A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the "L

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you probably have a point here. I wrote that page in... oh, say around 2003, and at that time wikis weren't that common. Now I suspect that it's not really necessary to explain the concept of the wiki any more. What kind of information do people think should be

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? Personally, I'm opposed, yes (which does not mean that much). You can of course set your own color in the preferences. you too ;-) You're right about that. For both

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have something like that? In my opinion a color set sh

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is used to these colors. FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Dominik Böhm wrote: To be honest with you, I first also thought that the main canvas looked old-fashioned, particularly the background color looked somehow like dirty old parchment to me. But it is very gentle to my eyes as the contrast between text and background isn't as high as in MS Word. I

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Rich Shepard wrote: Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I fully agree. The main text should be black-on-white instead of

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though. I agree that the current wiki looks a bit bet

Re: Problems installing LyX 1.5.4

2008-03-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: If LyX then still doesn't start, copy the attached file to the same folder where the lyx.exe is. Then it should definitively work. Are you still using the previous version of Visual C++? The current CRT version is 9.0.21022.8. Joost

Re: Problems installing LyX

2008-03-17 Thread Joost Verburg
Juha Meriluoto wrote: I've been experiencing some problems while trying to upgrade my LyX installation. I'm currently using version 1.5.3 (alternate installer 3.21). When I try to update to, or install, either version 1.5.4 (alt. installer 3.22) or 1.6svn (alt. installer 4.10) the installatio

Re: 1.5.4 very little problems

2008-02-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Marcelo Acuña wrote: 1) lyx 1.5.4 not remember size of main window. 2) when I put a large doc to compile for a long time not appears a cursor that announce that latex/lyx is working. Thanks. Both of this problems are known. Is 1) a known problem? I cannot reprodu

Re: Where is the Lyx 1.54 for Windows

2008-02-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Jorge Mario Garcia wrote: Where is the Lyx 1.54 for Windows? The installers are currently being uploaded. Joost

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-10 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I decided to use "pdfview.exe" instead of "pdfviewwin.exe". It works fine, Yes, but this checks in the background every 20 Milliseconds of the PDF was updated. So with this program your notebokk can never go to sleep mode to save battery power. It only checks once every 500

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Max Bian wrote: I am using 1.53 on Windows Vista. I found pdflatex easiest to get what I need. However I have two problems with it: 1. When I do view->PDF(PDFLATEX), it will ask me if I want to create the directory for the output files. Is there a way to remove this unnecessary user input?

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12973 The Italian dictionary on ftp.lyx.org is indeed corrupt. You can downlo

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

2008-01-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: When you install LyX using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller all LaTeX-packages needed by LyX are automatically installed. All you need to do, is to have an open internet connection before you start to install LyX. The standard installer does the sa

Re: [announce] new LyX manual about math

2008-01-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Antonio José Guirao Sánchez wrote: The first thing I have told induces me to suspect that the problem is that something with the preamble make my acrobat become crazy (Acrobat reader 5.0). Maybe that in the preamble the file use ifpdf package (but, of course, I am not sure). That's a very old

Re: EPS image displayed rotated by 90 degrees and cropped in Lyx and also in pdf output

2008-01-29 Thread Joost Verburg
Peter Sutovsky wrote: Do you have some method how to create good quality eps from MS Visio drawings? Thank you. http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/MetafileToEPSConverter You can either copy the drawing to the clipboard or save it as EMF, then use this tool for the conversion. Joost

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