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 2.3.7 Q

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
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 and the location of the png image file it contains. If I move either the LyX file or the png file to different directories the files process correctly

Re: Setting default language to British English

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Stansell
> > 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. > Actually, that doesn't work either. The import seems to set the languages as I want them, but

Re: Setting default language to British English

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Stansell
Hello again, Richaro's suggestion hasn't completely fixed my problem after all. If I import a TeX file that has no language specified, the document language set in the LyX file is set to "English". Is there a way I can have the document language automatically set to "English (UK)"? I realise th

Re: Setting default language to British English

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Stansell
Hello Ricardo, In the lower part of the document settings window there is a "Save as > default" button. Any change you made to the Document → Settings will be set > as default for any new document. > That fixed the problem. I can see that clicking on that "Save Document as Default" button write

Setting default language to British English

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Stansell
Hello, I'm struggling to have LyX start with the default language set to British English. I can set the language of an already-open document to British English by setting the following: Document > Settings > Language > Language: English (UK) but I can't work out how to make British English b

Re: More space for document

2023-01-18 Thread Paul Stansell
> On 1/13/23 15:04, Stephen Buonopane wrote: > > Yes, you can fully customize the toolbars > https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserInterface > > It’s been a long time since I have done it, but I recall it was just > editing some text files. > > Yes, that's right. It's all text files. > > Short version: Copy

Re: QT configuring troubles

2023-01-13 Thread Paul Stansell
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 22:02, Гаража Илья wrote: > Hello! > I tried to compile a new 2.3.7 version of the Lyx on Ubuntu 22.04. But i > have no idea why this error message appear. There is config.log. > > My main reason why I try to compiling, but not using apt-get install, is > that Lyx doesn't e

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). It would be nice is t

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: colour of \textrm{}

2003-03-25 Thread Paul Stansell
d them elsewhere, I could send you a copy of mine. Again yes, but there is no option to change \textrm{} in math environment, it's just always black. Paul Stansell

Re: colour of \textrm{}

2003-03-25 Thread Paul Stansell
xtrm{} being LColor::foreground because the colour I have used for my text foreground would also stand out against the colour I have chosen for maths background. I guess this highlights a certain inconstancy in the way foreground and background colours can be chosen separately. Paul Stansell

Re: colour of \textrm{}

2003-03-25 Thread Paul Stansell
inh_series,LyXFont::UP_SHAPE,LColor::math}, --- > > >{"textrm", LyXFont::ROMAN_FAMILY, > > >inh_series,LyXFont::UP_SHAPE,LColor::black}, > > Actually, shouldn't that be LColor::foreground... I'm not sure. I just wanted the \textrm{} to have the same colour as my other maths characters, and making the above change caused the required effect. Paul Stansell

Re: colour of \textrm{}

2003-03-25 Thread Paul Stansell
;textrm", LyXFont::ROMAN_FAMILY, inh_series,LyXFont::UP_SHAPE,LColor::black}, Regards, Paul Stansell

colour of \textrm{}

2003-03-25 Thread Paul Stansell
; Colors > math background). Thanks for your help, Paul Stansell

reverse video eps figures etc.

2001-05-22 Thread Paul Stansell
white background when most others have the same colour background as the text. So, can anyone please tell me how I can have a black text background and see the eps figures as either white on black or black on white when using v1.1.6fix2? Thanks for your help, Paul Stansell PS. I submitted a similar

reverse video eps figures etc.

2001-02-14 Thread Paul Stansell
using v1.1.6fix1? Thanks for you help, Paul Stansell P.S. Another, unrelated, problem is that there are different behaviours between v1.1.2 and v1.1.6fix1 when issuing, for the first time after loading a document, the command to view document as a dvi file. v1.1.2 gets it correct by doing: