Re: Print symbol \triangleq

2025-02-22 Thread Paul Rubin
using the symbol \equiv (which is a "=" with three dashes instead of two). Best regards, Cesare First question: do you have the amssymb LaTeX package (amssymb.sty) installed? Second question: assuming so, does your document preamble contain "\usepackage{amssymb}"? Paul-- ly

Re: Column width

2025-01-31 Thread Paul Rubin
gs" tab, change the "Width:" select control to "Custom", pick your preferred method of expressing the width in the right-hand select control, and fill in the desired width in the middle box. I've attached a modified version in which I set the width of the right

Re: Column width

2025-01-31 Thread Paul Rubin
> Best regards. > > A-Imam > -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users I just opened the attachment and did not find a table in it. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Show compiled document under /tmp

2024-12-03 Thread Paul Rubin
On 12/2/24 15:26, Eckhard Höffner wrote: Am 02.12.24 um 21:13 schrieb Paul Rubin: On 12/2/24 11:35, Eckhard Höffner wrote: I don't have problems with the pdf file located in /tmp. It is just the button with the two eyes (Ctrl + R). It used to open the pdf file in /tmp in okular (

Re: Show compiled document under /tmp

2024-12-02 Thread Paul Rubin
On 12/2/24 11:35, Eckhard Höffner wrote: I don't have problems with the pdf file located in /tmp. It is just the button with the two eyes (Ctrl + R). It used to open the pdf file in /tmp in okular (in my case). This does currently not work.  I assume this is related to changes to KDE (debian

Re: Show compiled document under /tmp

2024-12-02 Thread Paul Rubin
in the "Format:" select box ("PDF (pdflatex)" for me), is the "Viewer:" field set correctly? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Show compiled document under /tmp

2024-12-02 Thread Paul Rubin
e PDF viewer won't open. It's not a serious problem, just an inconvenience, because the file under /tmp is there. If you run your PDF viewer of choice in a terminal and attempt to open the PDF file compiled by LyX, does it open, does it emit error messages, or does it just silently fail?

Re: greek characters

2024-10-06 Thread Paul Rubin
lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users Works for me as well. I wonder if this has anything to do with the TeX installation. I'm using TeXLive (2023.20240207-1). Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Install from source, ouch

2024-09-20 Thread Paul Rubin
writing my papers... Maria Before running apt-get build-dep, open the Software Sources application, go to Official Repositories > Optional Sources and make sure that "Source code repositories" is turned on. On my (Mint) system, it was off by default, and I had to turn

Re: Background color

2024-09-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Hall Terry College of Business The University of Georgia https://sites.google.com/view/genelu/home Try going to Tools > Preferences... > Look & Feel > Colors, click on "background", then click "Alter...", choose your p

Re: Compose keys don't work in LyX anymore

2024-08-26 Thread Paul Rubin
combo (right ALT + " + a to get ä) continues to work. It displays the accent character (", ~, `) until I hit the letter key, at which point the accented character appears. This is with both "traditional" encoding (my default) and UTF-8. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Cannot compile Customization document

2024-06-18 Thread Paul Rubin
quot;, do you get a path to the file (in which case it is present and LyX is struggling to find it) or nothing (in which case the file is not present and needs to be installed)? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Lyx 2.4 - strange rendering problem in Windows

2024-06-08 Thread Dr Paul Verschueren
Le 05/06/2024 à 17:09, Dr Paul Verschueren a écrit : > Thanks to all for making 2.4 a reality😊. > > I’ve just installed on Win11 and have a strange issue: when a document > is scrolled or moved up or down, a ghost image is left behind (see > screenshot below). > > This

FW: LyX 2.4.0 -- annoying bug (?) in Windows with multiple documents open

2024-06-06 Thread Dr Paul Verschueren
@gmail.com] This message shows up irrespective of whether I have made any changes, or not. Has anyone else seen this? Are you using a Dropbox folder, or something of the sort? Riki I’m getting the same using OneDrive (also on Win11). Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: LyX 2.4 & MikTeX problem

2024-06-01 Thread Paul Rubin
going on? -B Looks like a known issue (https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/1489) with, apparently, a known workaround (at least for some people). Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: upright text in Alternative Proof String

2024-05-27 Thread Paul Rubin
set it there it just immediately changes back to "Default". Is there a way around this? thanks and best, Alex Inside the Alternative Proof String, after "Theorem", click Insert > TeX Code (or use the shortcut, usually Ctrl+L but your mileage may vary), then type "\textup

Re: LyX-3.2.7.1 not finding biber

2024-03-29 Thread Paul Rubin
onfirm that biber is on your system path. If not, you may need to modify your system path (or change how biber is installed). FWIW, on my system the texlive tree is under /usr/share rather than /usr/local (and kpsewhich finds biblatex.sty) and biber is in /usr/bin (which is of course on my s

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Rubin
On 3/16/24 15:38, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: In order to try to compile the doc, LyX has to write a .tex file someplace, and that someplace has to be the "tempbuf" directory. As long as you don't close LyX (and barring a rift in the space-time c

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Rubin
On 3/16/24 13:33, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: I trust you are leaving LyX open while you look for the temp directory. If you go to Tools > Preferences... > Paths, what do you have filled in for "Temporary directory:"? Paul, /tmp, and that&#x

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Rubin
directory in /tmp. All new issues for me. Suggestions needed. TIA, Rich I trust you are leaving LyX open while you look for the temp directory. If you go to Tools > Preferences... > Paths, what do you have filled in for "Temporary directory:"? Paul -- lyx-users mailin

Re: Upgraded TeXLive; pdflatex throws an error

2024-03-15 Thread Paul Rubin
tart spelunking in /tmp, but if you set up the temp directory to be somewhere else you can find out where in Tools > Preferences > Paths > Temporary directory. The full path to the log file will be something like /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.characters>/lyx_tmpbuf/mwe.log. Paul -- lyx-u

Re: Inline math: one ERT compiles, the other doesn't

2024-03-15 Thread Paul Rubin
on in the box do you just cursor out of the box and type the comma? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Inline math: one ERT compiles, the other doesn't (fwd)

2024-03-15 Thread Paul Rubin
n typed the ERT box and content (and trailing comma) back in. The document compiled without problem. So the question is, how did you create the second part of the example file? Most likely something you did inadvertently inserted the problem character. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-user

Re: Table in table

2024-03-09 Thread Paul Rubin
possible work-arounds to try. One is to build the inner table outside the outer table, adjust borders etc. to taste, then copy it and paste it into the outer table. The other is to insert a frameless box in the cell where the inner table will go and then put the inner table in the box. Paul -- lyx

Re: Representing mu in bibliography source file

2024-03-06 Thread Paul Rubin
#x27;s appreciated. Regards, Rich You can put "$\mu$g" in a BibTeX entry and it should display properly in the document. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Problematik: fehlender Eintrag \begin{document} stört output der Datei als Pdf

2024-02-18 Thread Paul Rubin
rigger the error, please attach those as well. Cheers, Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Which manual has appendix details?

2024-01-19 Thread Paul Rubin
brief, so I don't know if it will answer your question(s). Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: File -> Import -> Plain text (join lines) opens new file

2024-01-16 Thread Paul Rubin
at might I be doing incorrectly and not seeing? TIA, Rich Are you using Insert > File > Plain Text ... ? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Error while exporting format: \converter

2024-01-06 Thread Paul Rubin
.7.10. Thanks, Hal What format are you using to view the document, and do you have a converter set up for that format? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: String including \rightarrow works unless with other text

2024-01-02 Thread Paul Rubin
n and end math mode, and it does not guess correctly. (Quoth the LaTeX log: "I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.") The simple fix is to insert the arrows using math model (ctrl-M), as in the attache

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Paul Rubin
or right-alt, ~, n to get ñ, etc. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Trying to get a straight single quote

2023-12-31 Thread Paul Rubin
t "\textquotesingle{}" in ERT where you want the straight quote. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Setting default document class

2023-10-27 Thread Paul Rubin
references" and make sure that your template directory is correctly set (~/.lyx/templates). If LyX is looking for templates in the wrong place, that might explain why it's defaulting to the wrong class. You sure know how to have fun! Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@list

Re: Setting default document class

2023-10-26 Thread Paul Rubin
On 10/26/23 11:54, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Paul Rubin wrote: Create a new document, select the document class you want as default, and make any other customizations that you want applied to new documents (fonts, paper size, whatever). Then go to Document > Setti

Re: Setting default document class

2023-10-26 Thread Paul Rubin
make any other customizations that you want applied to new documents (fonts, paper size, whatever). Then go to Document > Settings... > Document Class and click "Save as Document Defaults". Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: KOMA-Script Report Class: cannot select biblatex

2023-10-24 Thread Paul Rubin
to fix this so I can select BibLaTeX as the style format (and related style choices?) TIA, Rich The Natbibapa module may be the culprit. If I remove it, I can change the bibliography style. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Header does not appear

2023-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
It works for me (after I substitute an image from my computer, since your image was not included). Did you check the LaTeX log for a possible error message? Paul On 10/11/23 05:44, Harold Mouras via lyx-users wrote: Hello, I set up a Lyx document to be able to control the header and footpage

Re: How to increase contrast of scrollbar

2023-09-04 Thread Paul Stansell
> As far as I understand the culprit here is the Application Style, what > happens if you change that to, say, "Breeze Dark"? > Thanks for that advice. You're right that the Application Style is what controls the scroll bar colour, but I like Fusion because the horizontal icon bars take up less v

Re: How to increase contrast of scrollbar

2023-09-03 Thread Paul Stansell
> LyX follows the global theme. > Which theme are you using? The default in KDE plasma is "Breeze" and > the scrollbar is visible. > I'm using the following: - Global Theme: Breeze Twilight - Application Style: Fusion - Plasma Style: Breeze Dark - Colours: Breeze Light - Window Decorations: Plast

How to increase contrast of scrollbar

2023-09-02 Thread Paul Stansell
Hello, How can I increase the contrast of the scrollbar in LyX? In the image below the left scroll bar is from Brave and the right from LyX. The LyX scroll bar is barely visible against the background. [image: image.png] Thanks, Paul I'm using the following versions: LyX Version

Re: In outline, filter only by branch *name*

2023-08-03 Thread Paul Rubin
"bTrivia" (the "b" being applied routinely to branch names) or "@Trivia" (assuming Elon Musk has no objection) or "*Trivia*". Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: pdflatex build error: Mismatched LaTeX support files detected

2023-06-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
be an installation or update of TeXLive got bollixed up? At any rate, it's unrelated to LyX. Somebody reported this <https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/662487/expl3-sty-date-mismatch-after-tl-update> with an earlier version of TeXLive and posted what looks like a fix. Paul -- l

Re: centering frame titles in beamer

2023-04-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/24/23 21:04, Tom Goldring wrote: My apologies, somehow I missed seeing your answer. Could you please resend? Thanks, Tom Try adding the following to the preamble (Document > Settings... > LaTeX Preamble): \setbeamertemplate{frametitle}[default][center]. Paul -- lyx-users m

Re: centering frame titles in beamer

2023-04-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
last week. Assuming my answer did not solve the problem, can you supply more information (why it didn't work, any special concerns, ...). Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Screen font question-inline

2023-04-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
d you still can't see the buttons, try grabbing the upper edge or top left corner with the mouse and resizing it. On my system, you can stretch or shrink the dialog window up to a point, but there is a minimum size below which you cannot go. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-use

RE: Bulk changing environments in Lyx

2023-04-20 Thread Dr Paul Verschueren
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 2:10 AM Steve Litt wrote: > > Dr Paul Verschueren said on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:12:10 + > > >Dear all - > >I just had to change the AMS document type for a long paper. > > Does long paper really require a change of doctype? I think you can do

Re: Screen font question

2023-04-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/18/23 12:19, John White wrote: Thanks Paul, I don't see a  "Apply to current session only" warning. However I can write to the preferences file. However, I learned that while the lyx doc is open, ALT + or Alt - works great, so I will just do that until I figure

Bulk changing environments in Lyx

2023-04-18 Thread Dr Paul Verschueren
does anyone foresee any gotchas with this approach? (I'll obviously take a backup first). Many thanks Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Screen font question

2023-04-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I suspect it's the same on Debian, but if in doubt check Help > About LyX for the user directory. If LyX can't write to that file due to a permissions issue, the changes would not get saved. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: centering frame titles in beamer

2023-04-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
following to the preamble (Document > Settings... > LaTeX Preamble): \setbeamertemplate{frametitle}[default][center]. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Success of LyX to dvi depends on file paths

2023-03-24 Thread Paul Stansell
> >Yes, I tried that already. This is what it shows: > > > >This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live > >2022/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=latex) > > Can pdfTeX even make a .dvi? I thought pdfTeX skips the .dvi step and > goes right to PDF. > Yes, it can. I can produce a pdf fil

Re: Success of LyX to dvi depends on file paths

2023-03-23 Thread Paul Stansell
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 01:58, Paul Stansell wrote: > Is there a way to have LyX report exactly what commands it's executing as > it processes the .lyx file? > I ran with lyx -dbg debug but it didn't give any useful information on LyX's attempt to convert the

Re: Success of LyX to dvi depends on file paths

2023-03-23 Thread Paul Stansell
Is there a way to have LyX report exactly what commands it's executing as it processes the .lyx file? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Success of LyX to dvi depends on file paths

2023-03-23 Thread Paul Stansell
> > Have you tried launching LyX from a terminal? You might get some useful > error messages that way. > Yes, I tried that already. This is what it shows: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=latex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering ext

Re: Success of LyX to dvi depends on file paths

2023-03-23 Thread Paul Stansell
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 01:29, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 3/23/23 21:21, Paul Stansell wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a very strange problem in which the successful processing of a > > simple LyX file to a dvi file depends on the location of the LyX file >

Success of LyX to dvi depends on file paths

2023-03-23 Thread Paul Stansell
mpdir.../lyx_tmpbuf0 directory I can run convert long_file_name.png long_file_file.eps to successfully create an eps file from the png file, so I've no idea why convert seems to be failing when it's run by LyX. Can anyone suggest how I might be able to find the root of the problem. Th

Re: preview of tikz pictures

2023-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
n the accented symbol, despite it being in a comment. One solution is to go into Document > Settings... > Language and switch the encoding from "Language default" to Unicode (UTF-8). Save the changed document, close it and reload it, and the image is previewed. Paul -- lyx-users m

Re: Create a shortcut to insert the frames separator for beamer documents

2023-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
pose. I have the attached default.def file parked in ~/.lyx/commands (on my Linux Mint system). If you already have a customized default.def file under your home directory, you can just add the lines in mine to your file. Paul \define "newframe" "command-sequence paragraph-break inve

Re: Create a shortcut to insert the frames separator for beamer documents

2023-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
e lyx file this red line is called "Separator plain". If you really think of it, I don't know the function name because I also don't know how to insert it from the menus, so you are welcome to tell me how to do that as well. I bound Ctrl+Alt+Return to "call newframe&qu

Re: Shell-escape enabled but not working

2023-02-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
legitimacy of a download, so I can't imagine why LyX or pdflatex would be trying to write it. As for an MWE, yes, you can attach a file to an email to the list. It would help to sort things out. Paul-- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Lyx 2.3.7 on Linux Mint

2023-02-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
show 2.3.6 as the latest for Jammy, but 2.3.7 for Lunar. That makes me wonder if there is some installation problem with 2.3.7 on Jammy. We may have to wait for Mint 22 (sigh). Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Translate LyX document to another language

2023-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Dr Eberhard W Lisse. The idea is to get a LyX file as the result, but I understand it is something very difficult to achieve. Paul On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 8:19 PM Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > > And the result must be a LyX file? I doubt that this is possible. > > You can a

Re: Translate LyX document to another language

2023-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
s, Pavel, for the ideas you have suggested. As soon as I have some spare time, I will try to implement them in Python. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Translate LyX document to another language

2023-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
translator that works with > that and can skip LyX's keywords it should work fine. Thanks, Lorenzo. The difficulty is really to skip LyX's keywords! Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Translate LyX document to another language

2023-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
quality of the result. Thanks in advance, Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

2023-02-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
ttings change the width to the desired one. Udi, That's what I did. The cursor is in the top row of the column and Column settings changes only that one cell. Thanks, Rich I'm with Udi on this. Maybe you should post a MWE? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.o

Re: Setting default language to British English

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Stansell
a4paper]{article} \usepackage[british, english]{babel} it exports it with \documentclass[10pt,english]{article} \usepackage[british, english]{babel} which causes this LaTeX error: LaTeX Error: Option clash for package babel. The exported TeX file is also missing the a4paper option. Pa

Re: Setting default language to British English

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Stansell
English (UK)"? I realise that I can fix it on the TeX side by adding the following line to the TeX file I'm importing: \usepackage[british]{babel} but I'd like to fix it on the LyX side if possible. Thanks, Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Setting default language to British English

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Stansell
ument as Default" button writes a file to ~/.lyx/templates/defaults.lyx and that file includes the line "\language british". Thanks, Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Setting default language to British English

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Stansell
evant, but I noticed that I can choose "English (UK)" once I open a document here Document > Settings > Language > Language: English (UK) but not before I open a new document here Tools > Preferences > Language Settings > User interface language: English as t

Re: Has LyX Been Hacked?

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Kiwi
> > Can you at least give us your sumcheck of the file you downloaded? > MD5 checksum: c05861976d18d29b0a04792c8b2e844d SHA256 checksum: 091cd793c21cb24a87a52c6622f7dfe0a6921f0912847ae06eea33a367ff92da > > I just check that the file at the url above is properly signed > (that mean at least no

Re: Has LyX Been Hacked?

2023-01-30 Thread Paul Kiwi
One of the LyX translators told me the text I saw was "Mojibake" (garbled text decoded using an unintended character encoding). On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 6:24 PM Paul Kiwi wrote: > The file I downloaded had a sha256 hash of > > 091cd793c21cb24a87a52c6622f7dfe0a6921f0912847

Re: Has LyX Been Hacked?

2023-01-30 Thread Paul Kiwi
/091cd793c21cb24a87a52c6622f7dfe0a6921f0912847ae06eea33a367ff92da/behavior On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 6:06 PM Paul Kiwi wrote: > I downloaded: > > https://lyx.mirror.garr.it/bin/2.3.7/LyX-237-Installer-1-x64.exe > > After installing and launching LyX, I got a very strange error mess

Has LyX Been Hacked?

2023-01-30 Thread Paul Kiwi
I downloaded: https://lyx.mirror.garr.it/bin/2.3.7/LyX-237-Installer-1-x64.exe After installing and launching LyX, I got a very strange error message. It was a large amount of text in Chinese characters. Using a translation tool, the text seemed to be random badly translated proverbs such as "You

Re: Why does lyx not find an installed .sty?

2023-01-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
ng forward to learning, Help! I need to use the KOMA-Script letter2 class. How do I rebuild the database to fix the problem? Rich Try "sudo mktexlsr" in a terminal and see if it helps. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Why does lyx not find an installed .sty?

2023-01-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
ell of the track. The log reports that letter class option 'DIN' is loaded on input line 6, but I don't see that anywhere in the Settings. Helps appreciated. Regards, Rich If you run "kpsewhich scrpage2.sty" in a terminal, is it found? If not, you may need to update th

Re: More space for document

2023-01-18 Thread Paul Stansell
te new > toolbars. You can also do this with menus (stdmenus.inc) and context menus > (stdcontext.inc). > > Riki > Riki, Just to say that I finally got around to creating a custom toolbar. I was very straightforward. Thanks for explaining it. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: QT configuring troubles

2023-01-13 Thread Paul Stansell
Also, in Tools > Preferences > Language Settings > Spellchecker, set the "Spellcheck engine" to "Enchant". Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: More space for document

2023-01-13 Thread Paul Stansell
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 18:44, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: FYI, Paul, there's also a full screen mode in LyX (which I think Pavel > implemented), if you really want more space. > I didn't know about that either (I'm learning so much from the answers to my simple question).

Re: More space for document

2023-01-13 Thread Paul Stansell
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 15:47, Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 07:47:49PM +0000, Paul Stansell wrote: > > Thanks for that info. After a little reading, I can't find a simple way > to > > slightly edit the theme I'm using. > > One way how to s

Re: More space for document

2023-01-11 Thread Paul Stansell
> > Hello, > > I suspect that the difference is the theme that Ubuntu and CentOS7 use. > Normally, Qt (and thus LyX) respect this. > > JMarc > Thanks for that info. After a little reading, I can't find a simple way to slightly edit the theme I'm using. There are a number of theme and style confi

Re: top tool bar not available

2022-12-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/22/22 16:34, John White wrote: Paul, I hope this bottom posted email goes.  If not perhaps I am somehow maxing out memory. alt+T gives nothing, but perhaps something here might give you a clue as to my problem: johwhi@whitelaw:~$ cd /usr/share/lyx/ui johwhi@whitelaw:/usr/share

Re: top tool bar not available

2022-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/21/22 15:29, John White wrote: On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 12:16:22 PM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 12/21/22 14:29, John White wrote: > > Thank you Paul very much for the suggestion.  It caused me to think > > that something might be wrong with permissions.  So

Re: top tool bar not available

2022-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/21/22 14:29, John White wrote: Thank you Paul very much for the suggestion.  It caused me to think that something might be wrong with permissions.  So I opened lyx in root and the top tool bar shows.  It only doesn't show when I open it on a regular, non-root command line or fro

Re: top tool bar not available

2022-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
terminal or from the system menu. If the menu, try editing the system menu entry. I would not be surprised if it somehow ended up using the command "lyx /usr/share/.../lyx.desktop", which would launch LyX and try to open the desktop file as a document. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list

Re: Method for Not Input \tag Everytime

2022-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
. For the tag issue, you can bind an unused key combination to "math-insert \tag{}", which will automatically insert an empty tag at the current cursor location. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: closing a named buffer?

2022-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
a.lyx is necessary. It may depend on whether there are more than two buffers open when you execute the command sequence. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: which texlive uses my lyx?

2022-12-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
on to see which version is in use. * Repeat for other formats you use as needed. My output pretty much matches what you got from "tex --version". Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Can you reproduce this bug?

2022-12-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
whether I use Alt V to get the menu or F11 to exit full screen mode. 2. Linux Mint 21 (MATE). 3. From Help > About: LyX Version 2.3.6 (Friday, November 27, 2020) Library directory: /usr/share/lyx/ User directory: ~/.lyx/ Qt Version (run-time): 5.15.3 Qt Version (compile-time): 5.15.2 P

Re: Wrong subscript size in small text

2022-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
script text gets bigger in the GUI but appears subscript size in the PDF output. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Restoring display

2022-10-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
ere for you? If not, maybe attach a screenshot? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
nts you would like listed among the options in the select boxes? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

2022-10-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
same Python installation. Thanks, Anders Host-Madsen. Regarding the equations, in Tools > Preferences... > Look & Feel > Display do you have "Instant preview" set to "On"? Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: TikZ

2022-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
You have to activate instant preview beforehand, going to Tools -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Display. Paul On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 4:12 PM Daniel CLEMENT via lyx-users wrote: > > Le mardi 27 septembre 2022 à 09:29 +0100, José Matos a écrit : > > On Fri, 2022-09-2

Re: old lyx document in lyx 2.3.6 doesn't compile

2022-09-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
, I used Insert > Enumerate Options to add back the "nosep" option, then put the cursor after the inset and hit delete to bring the original text back to item 1. HTH, Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: old lyx document in lyx 2.3.6 doesn't compile

2022-09-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
rude. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Adjust contents page text area height

2022-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
\widowpenalty to the GDP (in pennies) in the TOC, if that's legal? It's mentioned in section 3.9.8 of the user guide. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Finding source of pdflatex build error

2022-09-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
e but not the other). If differences are found, I'd try to figure out which one(s) cause the problem and then what caused LyX to insert/delete/alter/reorder the critical lines. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Importing multipage table from .csv

2022-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
just click the first table toolbar button and add a new last row. Put the cursor in the first cell and type "This table is way to effing long", then right click your way to the Multi-page table tab and click the "on" checkbox next to "Caption:". HTH, Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: I don't see my error

2022-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 9/9/22 13:23, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Paul A. Rubin wrote: What is the error? All three work for me with pdflatex. For \degree, I need to load the gensymb package in the preamble and put it in ERT. For \circ and \textdegree, I just put them in math insets and LyX takes care

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